April 30th News

It's been a while, but I should be able to search out the news articles regularly again now. Thank you for your patience.

New stories as of 8:25 AM:

Intensive Archaeological Excavations At Skupi Site
MINA Breaking News
Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski visited Tuesday the Skupi site, where systematic research of the former ancient Roman city kicked off a month ago with financial support provided by the Government.
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/1190/2/

Ancient Burial Site Found At Kent's HQ
Your Canterbury News
A HOUSING development on the site of Kent Cricket Club’s St Lawrence Ground headquarters has unearthed body parts from a medieval leper cemetery...
http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/kent-news/Ancient-burial-site-found-at-Kent_s-HQ-newsinkent12435.aspx?news=local

Roman Ruins Reveal City's Historic Secrets
This Is Gloucestershire
A Roman mass grave discovered in Gloucester has been hailed as one of the rarest finds ever in Britain. Analysis released today of the grave which contained some 91 people - skeletons of men, women and children dumped in what looks like a hurried fashion - reveals that they could have been victims of a mass outbreak of a disease...
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=231771&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231754&home=yes&more_nodeId1=231776&contentPK=20507372

Plague Killed Roman Grave Dead
BBC News
A study into a mass Roman grave excavated in Gloucester appears to show the dead had been killed by smallpox...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7374836.stm

Gloucester's Roman Mass Grave Skeletons Were Plague Victims
24 Hour Museum
A mass Roman grave, discovered in Gloucester in 2005, may have contained the victims of an acute disease of epidemic proportions, possibly plague.
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART56936.html

Archaeologists To Take Rest Salty Men Out Of Iran's Cherabad Mine
ISNA
TEHRAN, April. 30 (ISNA)-Cultural heritage and tourism institution chief of Zanjan, Iran's central city, declared cooperation between Iranian and foreign archaeologists will pave the way for the institution to find a way to take rest of salty men out of Chehrabad mine located in this province...
http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1123188&Lang=E

Nine-Year-Old Boy Finds Buried Treasure
The Local
Nine-year-old Alexander Granhof and his grandfather Jens have made what is believed to be the largest ever find in southern Sweden of silver coins from the Middle Ages...
http://www.thelocal.se/11410/20080428/