March 29th News

Either there's nothing, or there's a lot of new stories. Today it's the latter.

New stories as of 8:11 AM:

Robert Fagles, Esteemed Translator Of Ancient Classics, Dies At 74
Mercury News
NEW YORK—Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, flowing translations of Homer and Virgil made him an esteemed and best-selling classical scholar, has died. He was 74...
http://origin.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_8732365

Custody Battle Rages Over Ancient Artifacts
Providence Journal
On the first floor of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, in the early Greek art galleries, there is a long display case filled with Athenian ceramics. In one corner, partway up the linen backing, are two holes, a couple of inches apart, where a shelf holding a small, 2,500-year-old oil flask was once attached...
http://www.projo.com/art/content/artsun_stolen_artifacts_03-30-08_1E8VLOA_v23.2010833.html

Robert Fagles, Celebrated Translator Of Ancient Epics, Dies At Age 74
Princeton University
Robert Fagles, renowned translator of Greek classics, died March 26 in Princeton of prostate cancer. He was 74...
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/67/18E36/index.xml?section=topstories

Time Team Unearths King Harold's Welsh Links
icWales
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from TV’s Time Team believe they have unearthed an important Welsh link with King Harold, dating from a year before his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066...
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/03/29/time-team-unearths-king-harold-s-welsh-links-91466-20690102/

Robert Fagles, Esteemed Translator Of Ancient Classics, Dies At 74
International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK: Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, poetic translations of Homer and Virgil made him the most popular and esteemed classical scholar of his time, has died. He was 74.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/28/arts/Obit-Fagles.php

Study Shows Life Was Tough For Ancient Egyptians
Yahoo News
CAIRO (Reuters) - New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the art records of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc_1;_ylt=AqyqI91zdff8TNHB9aP6R.9FeQoB