January 12th News

With tomorrow being the last day for the exhibition of the Euphronios Krater, there's bound to be a lot of museum stories today.

New stories as of 8:8 AM:

Metropolitan Museum To Return Greek Vase After Final Exhibit
USA Today
NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient Greek vase that has long been a highlight of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection will be displayed there for the last time Sunday before being returned to Italy, which maintains it was stolen from a site near Rome...
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-01-11-metropolitan-museum-vase_N.htm

Italy Lends Vessels To Met Museum As 'Krater' Returns (Update1)
Bloomberg
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- As the Metropolitan Museum of Art prepares to relinquish a prized, 2,500-year-old bowl, Italy's Culture Ministry has agreed to lend the institution three ancient Greek vessels for four years...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aoMnCedvDxOQ&refer=muse

Roman Bridge Put Back Together Again
Journal Live
REMAINS of what was one of the biggest Roman bridges to be built in Britain have been reassembled on the banks of the River Tyne...
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/01/12/roman-bridge-put-back-together-again-61634-20341790/

City's Own Indiana Unearths Treasures
Express & Echo
His real name is Derek Dugdale but all his mates call him Indiana Jones.
He's the man who visited Exeter's very own Temple of Doom and emerged with a treasure beyond the dreams of avarice...
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136993&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231418&home=yes&more_nodeId1=137002&contentPK=19526650

Ciao To A Met Prize Returning To Italy
International Herald Tribune
In the coda to a long tug of war, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is bidding goodbye to the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vessel that has been a showpiece of its collection for more than three decades. Sunday is the last viewing day...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/11/arts/11voge.php

January 11th News

Today's news seems to be nothing but museum exhibits.

New stories as of 6:44 AM:

Famous Greek Vase In Its Last Days At NYC's Metropolitan Museum
Newsday.com
NEW YORK - An ancient Greek vase that has long been a highlight of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection will be displayed there for the last time Sunday before being returned to Italy, which maintains it was stolen from a site near Rome...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--italy-lootedantiq0111jan11,0,7030909.story

Italy Lends Ancient Vessels To Met Museum As 'Krater' Returns
Bloomberg
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- As the Metropolitan Museum of Art prepares to relinquish a prized, 2,500-year-old bowl, Italy's Culture Ministry has agreed to lend the institution three ancient Greek vessels for four years...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=alqf9OfDp81M&refer=muse

An Outing For Hadrian At The British Museum
Telegraph.co.uk
An exhibition on the Roman emperor Hadrian - the first staged anywhere in the world - is to be mounted at the British Museum this summer, replacing the First Emperor terracotta warriors show which closes in April...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/11/nart111.xml

Hadrian The Gay Emperor
Independent
His attempt to fortify the Roman Empire is well known. But an exhibition focuses on another side of the man...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3328406.ece

British Museum Examines Rome's Premier Gay Couple
Pinknews.co.uk
He is best-known in the UK for building a defensive wall as protection against the fierce Scots.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-6533.html

The Met Makes A Swap
The New York Sun
The Euphronios krater, an ancient Greek bowl that was the subject of a several-year dispute between Italy and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be on view at the Met for the last time this Sunday...
http://www.nysun.com/article/69386

Ciao To A Met Prize Returning To Italy
The New York Times
In the coda to a long tug of war, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is bidding goodbye to the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vessel that has been a showpiece of its collection for more than three decades. Sunday is the last viewing day...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11voge.html?ref=design

January 10th News

Definitely a slow day this morning with only the two stories.

New stories as of 10:44 AM:

The Mummy's Curse: Having A Journalist Drop By Your Site
About.com
In Harper's magazine for January 2008 is a 100,000 word essay from Gregory Jaynes on his March 2006 visit to the excavations of the Egyptian tomb KV63/KV10, called The Mummy's Curse: An Archaeological Dispute...
http://archaeology.about.com/b/2008/01/09/the-mummys-curse-having-a-journalist-drop-by-your-site.htm
This is a blog entry.

Google Archaeology: How Satellite Imagery Is Helping Us Locate The Past
CFP
History is a passion of many, myself included, and the natural friend to history is archaeology. Archaeology can shed so much light on the past, that it informs us of not just who lived there, but how they lived...
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1291

January 9th News

There's a number of new stories as well as more information on several of yesterday's stories as well.

New stories as of 6:38 AM:

Buffalo's Artemis Now At The Metropolitan Museum
The New York Sun
"Artemis and the Stag," an ancient Roman bronze sculpture that was sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in a controversial auction at Sotheby's last June, is now on exhibit in the Greek and Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
http://www.nysun.com/article/69142

Gaziantep Aims For 1 Million Tourists
Turkish Daily News
Gaziantep, the largest city in Turkey's southeastern Anatolia region with a rich history and culture, is expected to become a magnet for foreign tourists. Gaziantep Mayor Süleyman Kamçı says the goal is to bring one million tourists to the city annually...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=92539

Seventy Years Of Second Chances
The Scotsman
NOT long after she took over as principal of Newbattle Abbey College in 2000, Ann Southwood faced a tricky issue. What exactly should be done with the 135 mediaeval skeletons that sewer workers had unearthed in the college grounds?...
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Seventy-years-of-second-chances.3652134.jp

The Rediscovery of Rome
Financial Times
Italian archaeologists relish a good argument and they are being kept busy by some startling discoveries that could shed more light on the origins of Rome. These include the lost “lupercal”, the cave where, as legend tells it, the she-wolf suckled the city’s founders Romulus and Remus...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a96040a-be10-11dc-8bc9-0000779fd2ac.html

Ancient Roman Road Gets Virtual Life
Associated Press
All roads lead to Rome, even virtual ones. A museum on Tuesday unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAVehmVnYXDelGSIDUKimvuE3SGwD8U1RRR00

Farming Family 'Dug Up Ancient Artifacts'
Kathimerini
A family of farmers yesterday faced a Larissa prosecutor for allegedly using their bulldozer to dig antiquities out of an archaeological site in central Greece over the New Year holiday...
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_09/01/2008_91905

Ancient Volcanic Ash From Mount Vesuvius Discovered In Greece
Monsters And Critics
Athens - A thick layer of ancient solidified volcanic ash, caused by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius some 18,000 years ago, has been discovered in northern Greece, newspaper reports said Tuesday...
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1385295.php/Ancient_volcanic_ash_from_Mount_Vesuvius_discovered_in_Greece

January 8th News

A range of new and interesting stories today. It certainly makes up for the slow days of yesterday and the day before.

New stories as of 10:21 AM:

Ancient Volcanic Ash From Mount Vesuvius Discovered In Greece
Earthtimes.org
Athens - A thick layer of ancient solidified volcanic ash, caused by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius some 18,000 years ago, has been discovered in northern Greece, newspaper reports said Tuesday. Scientists from Thessaloniki's Artistole University conducting research in the region of Lake Volvi, in northern Greece, said deposits landed in the area after the volcano erupted, spraying hot ash across Italy and into Albania and Greece, according to a report in the Greek daily Kathimerini...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/170723.html

Virtual Reconstruction Of Roman Road Revives Ruined Monuments And Ancient Leaders
PR-Inside
ROME (AP) - All roads lead to Rome, even virtual ones.
A museum on Tuesday unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite...
http://www.pr-inside.com/virtual-reconstruction-of-roman-road-r376540.htm
Also published in:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/08/news/Italy-Virtual-Roads-to-Rome.php

Unearthing City's Vibrant Past One Tiny Piece At A Time
Edinburgh Evening News
THE air was thick with the stench of animals, the din of horses braying and traders raising the volume as they yelled to attract custom...
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features/Unearthing-citys-vibrant-past-.3648931.jp

Bone Ice Skates Invented By Ancient Finns, Study Says
Kazinform
NEW YORK. January 8. KAZINFORM. Ice-skating—the oldest human-powered means of transportation—was invented in Finland not for fun but for survival, according to a new study...
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=159021

Rare Roman Coins Found
This Is Bath.co.uk
A rare hoard of Roman coins has been found in Bath at the site of a new city centre hotel.
Around 150 coins have so far been unearthed in the run-up to work on the new Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa...
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163490&command=displayContent&sourceNode=163316&contentPK=19476235&folderPk=89126&pNodeId=163047

Czech Egyptologists Uncover Intact 4,500 Year-Old Tomb
Radia Praha
It’s not everyday that archaeologists can boast a discovery such as this one: the finding of a fully-intact archaeological site dating back 4,500 years. That is exactly what happened in the pyramid fields of Abusir, Egypt, where Czech experts recently opened a tomb belonging to an Egyptian dignitary. Czech experts revealed the news just a few days ago, having first thoroughly documented the state of the chamber back in November. According to experts, such a find has not been seen in 50 years...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99324

Did A Tsunami Wipe Out A Cradle Of Western Civilization?
Discover Magazine
The effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 are only too well known: It knocked the hell out of Aceh Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, leveling buildings, scattering palm trees, and wiping out entire villages. It killed more than 160,000 people in Aceh alone and displaced millions more. Similar scenes of destruction were repeated along the coasts of Southeast Asia, India, and as far west as Africa. The magnitude of the disaster shocked the world...
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/did-a-tsunami-wipe-out-a-cradle-of-western-civilization

January 7th News

Another quiet day today with only the one story so far.

New stories as of 6:14 AM:

Bronze Age Treasures
24dash.com
Some of the earliest metal objects ever found in Britain have gone on display at Charnwood Museum.
Neolithic and Bronze Age jewellery, Roman glass, and Anglo-Saxon garnets are among the archaeological treasures on show in a makeover of the displays...
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-01-07-Bronze-Age-Treasures

It's really quiet this morning. Only the one story.

New stories as of 7:52 AM:

Archaeologists Dig At Cathedral
BBC News
An archaeological dig is under way at Salisbury Cathedral to prepare for a new font to be installed as part of the 750th anniversary celebrations...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7173889.stm