May 20th News

The long weekend is over now, so back to work. It's been a quiet time in terms of archaeological/classical history news as well.

New stories as of 8:46 AM:

Time Team - Swords, Skulls And Strongholds
My Park Magazine
The Iron Age is the period of about 800 years before the Romans arrived to turn this nation of disparate tribes into a single state...
http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/television/time-team-swords-skulls-and-strongholds.html

Springs Prof Revives Shroud Riddle

Denver Post
COLORADO SPRINGS — A physics professor here has resurrected the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, the fabled burial cloth of Christ that 20 years ago scientists declared a fake...
http://origin.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9315745

Old Cobbled Street Opens New Path To Templar History
East London Advertiser
AN EARLY Victorian cobbled street more than 150 years old has been unearthed by archaeologists investigating the site of a 12th Century Knights Templar mill at the 2012 London Olympics park...
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED19%20May%202008%2016%3A04%3A52%3A360

Photos: Spain Drought Reveals Submerged Medieval Church
National Geographic News
May 19, 2008—Visitors walk near the newly exposed ruins of an 11th-century church, which had been the only visual evidence of the village of Sant Roma, Spain, on April 6 (top)...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080519-church-photo.html