August 22nd News

Yikes! I just realized how badly I've been letting this slide. I've got an excuse for yesterday, but not the other days: I was watching Canada win Gold in the Individual Show Jumping. It's another quiet day today. I think its because most people and news outlets are focused on the Olympics.

New stories as of 10:34 AM:

'Hadrian: Empire And Conflict'
International Herald Tribune
Few political commentators ask what lies behind the thinking of those expressing boundless admiration for the Roman Empire in almost every quarter of present-day Western society...
http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2008/08/20/arts/melik23.php
The article is a slide show from the British Museum exhibit on Hadrian. There are twelve photos.

Bronze Ring Unearthed In West Durrington
The Argus
Artefacts not seen for about 3,000 years have been discovered at the site of a new hospice...
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3614661.Bronze_ring_unearthed_in_West_Durrington/

Archaeologists Unearth Roman Period Mosaic And Iron Furnace In Turkey
Fresh News
Istanbul, August 22 (ANI): Archeologists have unearthed a mosaic and an iron furnace from the Roman period, as well as a marketplace, through excavations of the ancient city of Pompeipolis, located in the western Black Sea city of Kastamonu in Turkey...
http://www.freshnews.in/archaeologists-unearth-roman-period-mosaic-and-iron-furnace-in-turkey-56803