January 9th News

There's a number of new stories as well as more information on several of yesterday's stories as well.

New stories as of 6:38 AM:

Buffalo's Artemis Now At The Metropolitan Museum
The New York Sun
"Artemis and the Stag," an ancient Roman bronze sculpture that was sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in a controversial auction at Sotheby's last June, is now on exhibit in the Greek and Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
http://www.nysun.com/article/69142

Gaziantep Aims For 1 Million Tourists
Turkish Daily News
Gaziantep, the largest city in Turkey's southeastern Anatolia region with a rich history and culture, is expected to become a magnet for foreign tourists. Gaziantep Mayor Süleyman Kamçı says the goal is to bring one million tourists to the city annually...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=92539

Seventy Years Of Second Chances
The Scotsman
NOT long after she took over as principal of Newbattle Abbey College in 2000, Ann Southwood faced a tricky issue. What exactly should be done with the 135 mediaeval skeletons that sewer workers had unearthed in the college grounds?...
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Seventy-years-of-second-chances.3652134.jp

The Rediscovery of Rome
Financial Times
Italian archaeologists relish a good argument and they are being kept busy by some startling discoveries that could shed more light on the origins of Rome. These include the lost “lupercal”, the cave where, as legend tells it, the she-wolf suckled the city’s founders Romulus and Remus...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a96040a-be10-11dc-8bc9-0000779fd2ac.html

Ancient Roman Road Gets Virtual Life
Associated Press
All roads lead to Rome, even virtual ones. A museum on Tuesday unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAVehmVnYXDelGSIDUKimvuE3SGwD8U1RRR00

Farming Family 'Dug Up Ancient Artifacts'
Kathimerini
A family of farmers yesterday faced a Larissa prosecutor for allegedly using their bulldozer to dig antiquities out of an archaeological site in central Greece over the New Year holiday...
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_09/01/2008_91905

Ancient Volcanic Ash From Mount Vesuvius Discovered In Greece
Monsters And Critics
Athens - A thick layer of ancient solidified volcanic ash, caused by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius some 18,000 years ago, has been discovered in northern Greece, newspaper reports said Tuesday...
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1385295.php/Ancient_volcanic_ash_from_Mount_Vesuvius_discovered_in_Greece