Thursday, March 20, 2008

March 20th News

I'm sorry for missing yesterday's update, but here are the stories for both days.

New stories as of 8:17 AM:

Archaeologists Discovered Ancient Mycenaean Harbor Town In Greece
Balkan Travellers
20 March 2008 | Archaeologists recently announced what they call a “remarkable find” – the discovery of a relatively intact Mycenaean settlement, dating from 3,500 years ago, in the southern part of Greece...
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/456

Archaeologists Discover Part Of Colchester's Ancient Roman Wall
Thaindian News
London, March 20 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered a part of the ancient Roman wall of Colchester, the oldest recorded Roman town in Britain...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/archaeologists-discover-part-of-colchesters-ancient-roman-wall_10029490.html

Ancient Artifacts Seized Near Rome
The Guardian
ROME (AP) - Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man's country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor Trajan's villas, prosecutors said Wednesday...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7398344

Medieval Leicestershire
Loughborough News
On April 5th and 6th a conference at County Hall will shed light on the archaeology of medieval Leicestershire...
http://www.inloughborough.com/news/2008/03/10620_medieval.php

Israeli Archaeologists Discover Rare Second Temple Coin

Thaindian News
Washington, March 20 (ANI): A rare silver coin that the Jews used to pay the half-shekel head tax to the Temple has been discovered in what was the main drainage channel of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period - a phase in Jewish history that extends from the return of the first of the exiles in 539 BCE following the declaration of Cyrus, or with the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 516 BCE, until the Temples destruction in 70 CE...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/israeli-archaeologists-discover-rare-second-temple-coin_10029491.html

Israeli Archaeologists Find Second Temple Coin
Ynet
Coin dating back to days of biblical Second Temple found in 2,000-year-old drainage ditch in Jerusalem...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3521334,00.html

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