August 25th News

Some new and interesting stories today.

New stories as of 10:19 AM:

Roman Soldier's Sandal Print Uncovered Near Sea of Galilee
ScienceDaily
Science Daily — Archaeologists have discovered a footprint made by the sandal of a Roman soldier in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Hippos (Sussita), east of the Sea of Galilee...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070824184336.htm

Greece Is The Word For Volcanoes
The Star Bulletin
Floyd McCoy, Windward Community College professor of geology and oceanography, hopes during a year and a half in Greece to resolve the "hugely controversial" question of when the Thera volcano erupted...
exhttp://starbulletin.com/2007/08/25/news/story06.html

Excavations Reveal Yorks Folk's Changing Skulls
The Press
YORKSHIRE folk's skulls dramatically and inexplicably changed shape a few centuries ago, archaeologists have discovered...
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1643681.0.excavations_reveal_yorks_folks_changing_skulls.php

Prehistoric Greek Waterworks Found
Guardian Unlimited
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to have supplied the site with water in times of danger...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6874950,00.html

Village Skull Finds Deepen Mystery Of Roundheads
Guardian Unlimited
A long-standing mystery over the way men's skulls changed from long to round in medieval Europe has been deepened by discoveries at a Yorkshire village...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/25/1

August 24th News

With two day's worth of news, there should be lots today.

New stories as of 11:46 AM:

Lost City Found At Stonehenge
This is Wiltshire.co.uk
A RENOWNED archaeologist, who shot to national prominence last year with his amazing discovery of Stonehenge's lost alter stone by a roadside in Berwick St James, now claims to have found the famed lost city of Apollo in the land around Stonehenge...
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1638952.mostviewed.lost_city_found_at_stonehenge.php

"Cyclopean" Walls Discovered In Northern Albania
Southeast European Times
Archaeologists searching the mountains of northern Albania for traces of Ottoman-era fugitives were surprised to find something much older: the ruins of a Bronze Age fortress, dating from around 800 BC. The walls were made of boulders assembled without cement, using the "Cyclopean" technique found in the ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae...
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/blogreview/2007/08/24/blog-03

A Roman Soldier Walked Where Jesus Walked?
xinuanet
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- No footprint of Jesus Christ has ever been found, but archaeologists have uncovered a Roman soldier's sandal print in a cement wall encircling an ancient city in Israel that Jesus might have visited...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/24/content_6597779.htm

Ancient Footprint Uncovered At Hippos (Sussita) Dig
Newswise
Newswise — Archaeologists have discovered a footprint made by the sandal of a Roman soldier in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Hippos (Sussita), east of the Sea of Galilee. The footprint was discovered during this eighth season of excavation, led by Prof. Arthur Segal from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa in conjunction with archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota...
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/532736/

Ancient Roman City's Temple Discovered In Romania
Mathaba News Agency
BUCHAREST, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Romanian archeologists have found the Capitol of Sarmizegetusa, a temple in the ancient Roman province of Dacia, Rompres news agency reported Thursday...
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=561919

Roman Remains Found At Golf Club
Wiltshire Times
ROMAN remains have been found at a golf club in west Wiltshire. Shards of pottery and roof tiles were found at Cumberwell Park Golf Club near Bradford on Avon during work to build three new holes on the course...
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1635130.mostviewed.roman_remains_found_at_golf_club.php

Greece: Archaeologists Unearth Secrets Of Prehistoric Citadel's Water Supply
International Herald Tribune
ATHENS, Greece: Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to have supplied the site with water in times of danger...
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/24/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Prehistoric-Water-System.php

Seahenge 10 Years On
Fortean Times
It's almost 10 years since this upturned oak stump and circle of timbers was spotted emerging from the sands of Holme Beach, on the coast of Norfolk, UK. The discovery, soon named Seahenge, was estimated to be 4000 years old...
http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/952669/seahenge-10-years-on.thtml

Archaeologists Find Fragments Of Ancient Tomb Near Bulgaria's Sliven
Sofia Echo
Bulgarian archaeologists led by famous archaeologist Georgi Kitov found fragments of an ancient tomb near the village of Kaloyanovo in the region of Sliven.
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/archaeologists-find-fragments-of-ancient-tomb-near-bulgarias-sliven/id_24532/catid_70

August 22nd News

Tomorrow's post will likely be quite late, or perhaps just rolled over to the next day if it gets too late.

New stories as of 12: PM (give or take, that's about when I remember doing this this morning):

Egyptians' Ancient Tax Burden Revealed
The Guardian Unlimited
A dusty crate of broken bits of pottery discovered at a stately home in Dorset has given a fresh insight into the life of the ancient Egyptians - and it turns out that concerns over mortgages, taxes and simply making ends meet were as important then as they are now...
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2153479,00.html

Man Returns 'Cursed' Pharaoh Piece
CNN
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) -- A German has handed in a package containing part of a Pharaonic carving to Egypt's embassy in Berlin, with a note saying his stepfather had suffered a "curse of the Pharaohs" for stealing it, Egypt said on Wednesday...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/22/pharaoh.curse.reut/
Also published at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070822/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_egypt_carving_curse;_ylt=Amj91Wmu1dq069_YZ2XwrHCs0NUE

28 Parthian And Sassinad Sites Identified In Golestan
CHN
Tehran 22 August 2007 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- Archeologists of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Department of Golestan province have succeeded in identifying 28 historical sites belonging to Parthian (248 BC- 224 AD) and Sassanian (224-651 AD) dynastic eras which must have a relation with Gorgan’s big wall...
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7267

Archaeologists Unearth New Finds At Arbeia Roman Fort
24 Hour Museum
Two new names can be added to the roll of Romans who were stationed at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields. Inscriptions found at the site in the last two seasons of excavation were recently deciphered by Dr Roger Tomlin, an expert on Roman inscriptions based at Oxford University...
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART49979.html

Italian Village Demands Return Of Ancient Chariot
NPR
Italy has been at the forefront in securing the return of looted antiquities from major museums in Boston, Los Angeles and New York...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12738928
This article also has an option to listen to it instead of reading it.

Bulgaria's Indiana Jones: Discovery Channel Deserves Pulitzer
Sofia News Agency
Top archaeologist Georgi Kitov has jumped to the defence of a controversial film that Discovery Channel is shooting in Bulgaria on Thracian culture...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84458

August 21st News

People are still chewing over yesterdays finds.

New stories as of 1:04 PM:

Medieval Program Receives Funding
The Daily Tar Heel
UNC's medieval and modern studies program has received a $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to hire new professors, fund research and host conferences and lectures...
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/08/21/University/Medieval.Program.Receives.Funding-2932989.shtml

Ancient Chewing Gum Found In Finland
Press TV
An archaeology student from the University of Derby has found a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum during an excavation in western Finland...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=20216&sectionid=3510212

British Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum In Finland
Mathaba News Agency
HELSINKI, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- British archaeology student Sarah Pickin has found a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum in western Finland, local media reported Monday...
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=561572

British Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum In Northern Finland
Helsingin Sanomat
What is believed to be a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been found in Finland by a British archaeology student, Sarah Pickin, the BBC reported on Monday...
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/British+student+finds+Neolithic+chewing+gum+in+Northern+Finland/1135229681112

Tuscan Hills Are Alive With Amateur Archaeologists
The New York Times
CASENOVOLE, Italy, Aug. 16 — The Etruscan tomb was hidden in such a remote corner of Tuscany that Andrea Marcocci, the archaeology student who found and identified it about a decade ago, was not very worried that anyone else would stumble upon it...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/design/21tomb.html?ref=arts

Stone Age Chewing Gum Found In Finland
Fox News
HELSINKI, Finland — Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293933,00.html

Scientists Find Ancient Gum In Finland
Sci-Tech Today
A piece of Neolithic gum was found among artifacts, like dishes and jewelry, in a Stone Age village at the Kierikki Stone Age Center. "It's somewhere between 5,500 and 6,000 years old," said Sami Viljamaa, an archaeologist who led the dig near Oulu, some 380 miles north of the Finland capital, Helsinki...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100B0MB6IR

Tara Ruins Must Be Preserved - Report
Ireland.com
Newly discovered 2000-year-old ruins at the Hill of Tara must be fully preserved because of their unique size and character, a US academic today said...
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0821/breaking46.htm

Egypt Footprint 'Could Be Oldest'
BBC News
Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered what might be the oldest human footprint ever found...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6956902.stm

August 20th News

People have been gumming up the works for at least five thousand years now. However, there's other news to chew on today as well. Lots of it.

New stories as of 4:47 PM:

Scientists Find Ancient Chewing Gum In Finland
CTV.ca
HELSINKI, Finland -- Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years. Last month, students in western Finland found a piece of Stone Age birch-bark tar, believed to have been used for chewing and to fix broken arrowheads or clay dishes, archaeologists said Monday...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070820/ancient_gum_070820/20070820?hub=SciTech
Also published at:
http://www.newsone.ca/piercelandherald/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=39718
http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP08202007news186071.cfm
http://www.onelocalnews.com/akronfarmreport/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=154796
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Science/2007/8/20/scientists_find_ancient_gum_in_finland.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FINLAND_ANCIENT_GUM?SITE=TNCHA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-20-16-03-30
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Finland_Ancient_Gum.html

Egyptian Archaeologists Discover 'Oldest Human Footprint'
The Courier Mail
EGYPTIAN archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said overnight...
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22280917-954,00.html
Also published at:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22280917-663,00.html

New stories as of 1:14 PM:

Ancient Human Footprint Found
IOL
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said on Monday...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20070820183015779C298328

Illuminating A Dark Period Of History
The Australian
BETWEEN the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and the epics of Homer lay centuries of mystery known as the Greek Dark Ages...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22277026-16947,00.html

Ancient Hide-Out Uncovered In Albania
USA Today
Looking to get it away from it all? Consider Albania. An archaeology team reports that the mountains of northern Albania, perhaps the most remote place left in Europe, have been a hide-out for a surprisingly long time...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-08-19-albania_N.htm

Medieval Treasures Travel To Getty
HULIQ
Rare examples of decorative works of gold and silver, armor, carved ivories, enamels, sculpture, paintings and illuminated manuscripts from the 3rd through the 16th centuries will be on view in Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, October 30, 2007 - January 20, 2008, providing an unprecedented opportunity for West Coast audiences to view these extraordinary objects outside of Cleveland...
http://www.huliq.com/30960/medieval-treasures-travel-to-getty


Student Discovers Stone Age Chewing Gum
IOL
London - People in the New Stone Age chewed gum, British scientists have told the BBC...
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20070820161019577C913233

Student Finds 5000-Year-Old Chewing-Gum
Functionpix.com
Early Stone-Age man chewed gum, say British archaeologists. The discovery is based on a find by an archaeology student of a lump of 5000-year-old birch-resin gum, with teeth-marks still preserved, at a dig in western Finland...
http://functionpix.com/index.php/article/Student_finds_5000-year-old_chewing-gum/1579/
Also published at:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95704.html

5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Discovered By Archaeology Student
EUX.TV
London (dpa) - People in the New Stone Age were already chewing gum, British scientists told the BBC on Monday...
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=13007
Also published at:
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1345266.php/5000-year-old_chewing_gum_discovered_by_archaeology_student

Student Unearths Neolithic Chewing Gum
ABC News
A British archaeology student has discovered what has being described as one of the oldest pieces of chewing gum ever found...
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/21/2010370.htm?section=justin

Neolithic Humans Also Had Chewie On Their Boots
The Age
A 5000-year-old piece of chewing gum — one of the oldest ever discovered — has been found by a British archaeology student...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/neolithic-humans-also-had-chewie-on-their-boots/2007/08/20/1187462172982.html
Also published at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/20/archaeology
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/ancient-chewie-leaves-experts-gobsmacked/2007/08/20/1187462176038.html

Student Unearths World's Oldest Chewing Gum
Medindia.com
A Scottish archaeology student had lady luck shining down on her during a dig in Europe when she discovered a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum...
http://www.medindia.net/news/Student-Unearths-Worlds-Oldest-Chewing-Gum-25237-1.htm
Also published at:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/166996.php/Student-discovers-Neolithic-chewing-gum
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/275017/cs/1/

Student Dig Unearths Ancient Gum
BBC News
A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been discovered by an archaeology student from the University of Derby...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954562.stm

Why Stone Age Man Was A Far Craftier Chap Than We Thought
The Daily Mail
A burrowing lobster has given scientists a brand new insight into the lives of our Stone Age ancestors...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476457&in_page_id=1770

The 5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum
The Scotsman
A SCOTTISH archaeology student has discovered a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum while on a dig in Europe...
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1316032007

World's Oldest Chewing Gum Found
Metro.co.uk
Spitting out chewing gum on the street is a widely despised habit that can land you with a fine...
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62207&in_page_id=34

5,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Found (Used)
Discovery News
Aug. 20, 2007 — A Stone Age piece of chewing gum, one of the oldest ever to be discovered, has been found by a Scottish archaeology student in Finland...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/20/ancientgum_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070820151500&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

Archaeologists Find Stone Age Chewing Gum In Finland
PR-Inside
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years.
Last month, students in western Finland found a piece of Stone Age birch-bark tar, believed to have been used for chewing and to fix broken arrowheads or clay dishes, archaeologists said Monday.
http://www.pr-inside.com/archaeologists-find-stone-age-chewing-gum-r202745.htm

Discovery Channel Shooting Stirs Up Scandal In Bulgaria
Sofia News Agency
A Bulgarian top archaeologist has reacted strongly to the concept a Discovery Channel team has picked for a film about the ancient Thracian culture...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84399

Scandal With Discovery Channel: Enough With This Thracian Gold
News.bg
We should not allow to be treated as aborigines. This claimed the archaeologist prof. Nicolay Ovcharov in relation to the film about the Thracians that Discovery Channel is shooting...
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1859499258

Excavation Planned For Phoenician City
Physorg
A Phoenician settlement on the Italian island of Sardinia may soon yield some of its secrets to archaeologists...
http://www.physorg.com/news106809371.html

August 19th News

Some older stories today, and also some new ones. Not too bad for a day which is usually slow for news.

New stories as of 11:54 AM:

Classical Greek Sculpture Shown In Athens
Spero News
Following a debut at the Louvre, the marvelous works of 4th C. BC sculptor Praxiteles is on exhibit in Athens until October 31. Works collected from the British Museum, the Vatican and Capitolium museums are displayed...
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=133&id=10739&t=Classical+Greek+sculpture+shown+in+Athens

Excavation Planned For Phoenician City
Science Daily
SANTA GIUSTA, Italy, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Phoenician settlement on the Italian island of Sardinia may soon yield some of its secrets to archaeologists...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070818-18453200-bc-italy-phoenicians.xml
Also published at:
http://www.themoneytimes.com/news/20070819/Excavation_planned_for_Phoenician_city-id-108263.html
http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/58775
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_21298366.shtml
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1344808.php/Excavation_planned_for_Phoenician_city
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/08/18/excavation_planned_for_phoenician_city/4609/

Historical Sites Threat From The Rising Tides
Telegraph.co.uk
Hundreds of historical sites will be lost forever as a result of coastal erosion and rising sea levels, heritage experts have warned...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/19/narchae219.xml

The Oldest Beads In The World
50 Connect
The discovery of small perforated sea shells in the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt, eastern Morocco, shows that the use of bead adornments in North Africa is older than previously thought...
http://50connect.co.uk/index.asp?main=http%3A//50connect.co.uk/50c/articlepages/genealogy_index.asp%3Fsc%3Dhist%26aID%3D16289