May 1st News

The mass grave is the big story of the day today. Personally, I'd like to hear more about the wooden coffin found in Hereford.

New stories as of 8:56 AM:

Rome Mayor Aims To Tear Down Richard Meier Museum
Reuters UK
ROME (Reuters) - Rome's new mayor announced his intention on Wednesday to tear down a museum designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier that critics decried as a modernist eyesore when it was unveiled in the historic centre in 2006...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL3079925520080430

Stunning Finds On Archaeological Dig
Hereford Times
A ROMAN cemetery containing items of national importance has been uncovered in Herefordshire...
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3121083.Stunning_finds_on_archaeological_dig/

Robert Fisk: It Is The Death Of History
Belfast Telegraph
2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth...
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article3660419.ece

90 Roman Empire Skeletons Found In Mass Grave In Gloucester
Thaindian News
London, May 1 (ANI): Over 90 skeletons have been found in a mass grave in Gloucester, which archaeologists say could be the remains of victims of the Antonine plague, an outbreak of smallpox that swept across the Roman empire between 165 A.D. and 189 A.D...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/90-roman-empire-skeletons-found-in-mass-grave-in-gloucester_10043910.html

Mass Grave May Have Been Plague Pit
Times Online
Gloucester More than 90 skeletons found in a mass grave could be the remains of victims of the Antonine plague, an outbreak of smallpox that swept across the Roman empire between 165AD and 189AD, archaeologists now believe...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3850936.ece

Mass Roman Grave Discovered In Gloucester
The Telegraph
Archaeologists have unveiled the first ever discovery of a one of the rarest finds in British history – a mass Roman grave...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1915073/Mass-Roman-grave-discovered-in-Gloucester.html

Archaeologists Hail 'Unparalleled' Discovery Of Mass Roman Grave
24dash.com
The uncovering of a Roman mass grave was hailed by a research team today as an "almost unparalleled" discovery in British archaeology...
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-04-30-Archaeologists-hail-unparalleled-discovery-of-mass-Roman-grave

Historic Italian Cave May Collapse
UPI
RIGNANO GARGANICO, Italy, May 1 (UPI) -- Archaeologists are warning a signature Stone Age cavern in southern Italy, called the Paglicci Cave, is in imminent danger of collapse...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/01/historic_italian_cave_may_collapse/7572/