January 25th News

It's an interesting mix of old and new today. There's new stories about old stories and some entirely new stories as well.

New stories as of 6:46 AM:

Ash Altar Of Greek God Zeus Was Used For Worship 1,000 Years Earlier Than Believed (Re- Issue)
Thaindian News
Washington, Jan 25 (ANI): New evidence from excavations made by archaeologists at the ash altar of Zeus in Arcadia, Greece, has indicated that the place of worship was in use as early as 5,000 years ago, which is at least 1,000 years before the early Greeks began to worship the god Zeus...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ash-altar-of-greek-god-zeus-was-used-for-worship-1000-years-earlier-than-believed-re-issue_10014638.html

Cyprus Divers To Dig Out Ancient Ship
Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thursday...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTD0lAkdG4FdBr1AMUKps-HeA-UQD8UCFFC00
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325206,00.html

Italy Wins Back Some Smuggled Classical Art Treasures
The Economist
IT IS a treasure hunt with a difference: conducted not with metal detectors, but by negotiation. Italy is at last reaping the benefits of a two-year campaign to regain smuggled antiquities. Five American museums have been cajoled into returning works that they claim to have acquired in good faith...
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566754

Archaeologists Reconstruct Life In the Bronze Age Through The Site Of La Motilla
Physorg,com
Researchers of the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) of the University of Granada, from the department of Prehistory and Archaeology, have taken an important step to determine how life was in the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age...
http://www.physorg.com/news120393952.html

New Discoveries At the Ash Altar Of Zeus - Mount Lykaion
Physorg.com
The Greek traveler, Pausanias, living in the second century, CE, would probably recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and particularly the altar of Zeus. At 4,500 feet above sea level, atop the altar provides a breathtaking, panoramic vista of Arcadia...
http://www.physorg.com/news120401525.html

Worship Site Predates Zeus
LiveScience
Ancient pottery found at an altar used by ancient Greeks to worship Zeus was actually in use at least a millennium earlier, new archeological data suggest...
http://www.livescience.com/history/080123-zeus-altar.html

Earliest Shoe-Wearers Revealed By Toe Bones
Discovery News
Jan. 25, 2008 -- People started wearing shoes around 40,000 years ago, according to a study on recently excavated small toe bones that belonged to an individual from China who apparently loved shoes...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/25/shoe-wearing-toe.html