Saturday, January 26, 2008

January 26th News

Lots of older stories today, but also a good number of new ones. I think the BBC story on Amarna is particularly interesting.

New stories as of 11:06 AM:

Worship at Zeus's "Birthplace" Predates The Greek God
National Geographic News
Excavations at Zeus's mountaintop "birthplace" suggest the site's ash altar was in use at least 5,000 years ago—a thousand years before the earliest known versions of the myth of the Greek god...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080125-zeus-altar.html

Ancient Mummies, Among Other Relics Unearthed In Egypt
Thaindian News
Cairo, Jan 26 (ANI): Archaeologists have unearthed ancient relics like Graeco-Roman mummies, painted wooden sarcophagi, jewellery and papyri in the Deir Al-Banat cemetery in Fayoum, Egypt...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ancient-mummies-among-other-relics-unearthed-in-egypt_10014804.html

Mystery 'Mound' To Be Saved From The Sea
The Shetland News
ARCHAEOLOGISTS plan to save a fine example of a Bronze Age burnt mound from disappearing into the sea in a unique £70,000 removal operation on Shetland this coming summer...
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/news_01_2008/Mystery%20mound%20to%20be%20saved%20from%20the%20sea.htm

Hoard Of Bronze Axe Heads Found
Zee News
London, Jan 26: Britain’s largest hoard of Bronze Age axe heads was accidentally discovered by a coach driver at a Dorset farm in UK...
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=420571&sid=FTP

Grim Secrets Of Pharaoh's City
BBC News
Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7209472.stm

Cyprus Divers To Dig Out Ancient Ship
Yahoo News
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thursday...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_sc/cyprus_ancient_shipwreck_3;_ylt=AqwxlI5asrPy5y3UAZoQJmJFeQoB

Footless, If Not Quite Fancy Free
Al Ahram
Graeco-Roman mummies, painted wooden sarcophagi, jewellery and papyri have been unearthed in Deir Al-Banat necropolis in Fayoum, reports Nevine El-Aref...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/881/eg6.htm

Friday, January 25, 2008

January 25th News

It's an interesting mix of old and new today. There's new stories about old stories and some entirely new stories as well.

New stories as of 6:46 AM:

Ash Altar Of Greek God Zeus Was Used For Worship 1,000 Years Earlier Than Believed (Re- Issue)
Thaindian News
Washington, Jan 25 (ANI): New evidence from excavations made by archaeologists at the ash altar of Zeus in Arcadia, Greece, has indicated that the place of worship was in use as early as 5,000 years ago, which is at least 1,000 years before the early Greeks began to worship the god Zeus...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ash-altar-of-greek-god-zeus-was-used-for-worship-1000-years-earlier-than-believed-re-issue_10014638.html

Cyprus Divers To Dig Out Ancient Ship
Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thursday...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTD0lAkdG4FdBr1AMUKps-HeA-UQD8UCFFC00
Also Published at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325206,00.html

Italy Wins Back Some Smuggled Classical Art Treasures
The Economist
IT IS a treasure hunt with a difference: conducted not with metal detectors, but by negotiation. Italy is at last reaping the benefits of a two-year campaign to regain smuggled antiquities. Five American museums have been cajoled into returning works that they claim to have acquired in good faith...
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566754

Archaeologists Reconstruct Life In the Bronze Age Through The Site Of La Motilla

Physorg,com
Researchers of the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) of the University of Granada, from the department of Prehistory and Archaeology, have taken an important step to determine how life was in the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age...
http://www.physorg.com/news120393952.html

New Discoveries At the Ash Altar Of Zeus - Mount Lykaion
Physorg.com
The Greek traveler, Pausanias, living in the second century, CE, would probably recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and particularly the altar of Zeus. At 4,500 feet above sea level, atop the altar provides a breathtaking, panoramic vista of Arcadia...
http://www.physorg.com/news120401525.html

Worship Site Predates Zeus
LiveScience
Ancient pottery found at an altar used by ancient Greeks to worship Zeus was actually in use at least a millennium earlier, new archeological data suggest...
http://www.livescience.com/history/080123-zeus-altar.html

Earliest Shoe-Wearers Revealed By Toe Bones
Discovery News
Jan. 25, 2008 -- People started wearing shoes around 40,000 years ago, according to a study on recently excavated small toe bones that belonged to an individual from China who apparently loved shoes...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/25/shoe-wearing-toe.html

Thursday, January 24, 2008

January 24th News

It's all fresh and exciting news this morning.

New stories as of 8:04 AM:

Wine-Carrying Ship Dating Back 2,300 Years Discovered On Seabed Off Cyprus
PR-Inside
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300 year-old cargo ship thought to have been ferrying wine from the Aegean island of Chios before it sank off Cyprus' southern coast, researchers said Thursday...
http://www.pr-inside.com/wine-carrying-ship-dating-back-2-300-years-r402945.htm

Ash Altar Of Greek God Zeus Was Used For Worship 1,000 Years Earlier Than Believed

Thaindian News
Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): New evidence from excavations made by archaeologists at the ash altar of Zeus in Arcadia, Greece, has indicated that the place of worship was in use as early as 5,000 years ago, which is at least 1,000 years before the early Greeks began to worship the god Zeus...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ash-altar-of-greek-god-zeus-was-used-for-worship-1000-years-earlier-than-believed_10014333.html

Zeus Worship Site Millennium Older Than Thought
China View
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Findings of potter at an ancient Greek altar to worship Zeus reveals the site was in use at least a millennium earlier than previously thought, new archeological data suggest...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/24/content_7488327.htm

Museum Of Cycladic Art Reopens Ancient Greek Art Collection
About.com
This month, the Museum of Cycladic Art, sometimes known as the Goulandris Museum after its founders, is reopening its extensive 350-item collection of ancient Greek art...
http://gogreece.about.com/b/2008/01/23/museum-of-cycladic-art-reopens-ancient-greek-art-collection.htm

New Discoveries At The Ash Altar Of Zeus Offer Insights Into Origins Of Ancient Greece's Most Powerful God
Science Daily
The Greek traveler, Pausanias, living in the second century, CE, would probably recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and particularly the altar of Zeus. At 4,500 feet above sea level, atop the altar provides a breathtaking, panoramic vista of Arcadia...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123114601.htm

Ancient Cemetery Unearthed In Syria
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Archaeologists in northeast Syria have unearthed a 3rd century cemetery in the shape of a cross, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcqC6lHr-qFgEzzwzjtgGiLWKl8AD8UBS1R02

Video: "Epic" Vase Returned To Italy
National Geographic News
January 23, 2008—A 2,500-year-old vase featuring scenes from a Homer poem is among several antiquities returned to Italy after lengthy negotiations with the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080123-vase-video-ap.html

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

January 23rd News

The stories today are mostly either repeats of older stories or articles with new information on a story from some time ago. Not all of them however. There are some new stories mixed in as well.

New stories as of 9:51 AM:

Mummies from Graeco Roman period in Fayyoum
Egypt State Information Service
The Egyptian antiquities mission has discovered several well preserved mummies covered with cartonage in Fayyoum that date back to the Greco-Roman period.
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000929.htm

New stories as of 6:24 AM:

Collector Returns Antiquities Italy Says Were Looted
PNN
After eighteen months of negotiations, New York City philanthropist and art collector Shelby White has agreed to return ten classical antiquities from her private collection that Italy says were looted, the New York Times reports...
http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=7940&mode=thread&order=0

Italy Hails Return Of Ancient Vase From New York
Times Of Malta
Italy proudly celebrated the return of a prized 2,500-year-old vase it says was looted and sold illegally to New York's Metropolitan Museum more than 30 years ago...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080123/world-news/italy-hails-return-of-ancient-vase-from-new-york

Culture: Italy's Lost Treasures Return
Wanted In Rome
Thanks to government efforts antiquities excavated illegally and smuggled out of the country for sale to complaisant foreign museums are now making their return...
http://www.wantedinrome.com/articles/complete_articles.php?id_art=804

Britain's Atlantis: The Search For Our Lost Capital
The Independent
Around midnight, at certain tides, church bells can still be heard tolling from the lost city of Dunwich. Or so local legend has it. The sound comes from beneath the waves of the North Sea, for Dunwich – one of England's most prosperous medieval centres, a place some consider a rival to 14th-century London – has been sunk beneath the waters for 500 years and more...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/britains-atlantis-the-search-for-our-lost-capital-771709.html

Archaeologists Unearth 3rd Century Cemetery In Northeastern Syria
PR-Inside
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Archeologists in northeast Syria have unearthed a 3rd century cemetery in the shape of a cross, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday...
http://www.pr-inside.com/archaeologists-unearth-3rd-century-cemetery-r400309.htm

Anglo-Saxon Treasures Will Stay In Region - Vow
The Northern Echo
STUNNING Anglo-Saxon jewellery discovered on a North-East farm will not be lost to the British Museum, in London, it was pledged yesterday...
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.1986102.0.anglosaxon_treasures_will_stay_in_region_vow.php

MP In Plea Over Ancient Treasure
BBC News
Rare Anglo-Saxon treasures discovered in a Teesside field will almost certainly be allowed to remain in the area, the government has said...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7203050.stm

Video: Treasure Wars: Who Owns The Past?
National Geographic News
January 22, 2008—For centuries, treasures have been taken from their homelands. Should the artifacts go back? Who should decide? Part one of nine.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080122-overview-video-vin.html

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

January 22nd News

There's a lot of new and interesting stories today, as well as continuations and reprints of older stories such as the Egyptian tomb or the underwater search in the second story.

New stories as of 7:59

Archaeologists Discover Mummies From Greco Roman Period In Egypt
Thainidan News
Cairo, Jan 22 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered several well preserved mummies, covered with cartonage, from the Greco Roman period in Fayyoum, Egypt...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/archaeologists-discover-mummies-from-greco-roman-period-in-egypt_10013888.html

Britain's Atlantis: The Search For Our Lost Capital

The Independent
In medieval times, Dunwich was a thriving rival to London. Then it was swallowed by the sea. Now, thanks to technological advances, the ancient settlement may soon be visible once more...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3359078.ece

Rare Middle-Class Tomb Found From Ancient Egypt
Kazinform
NEW YORK. January 22. KAZINFORM. Archaeologists have unsealed the intact burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian official, providing a rare glimpse into the burial customs of the Old Kingdom's middle class...
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=159573

Treasure Hunters Find Bronze Age Axes
Telegraph.co.uk
An amateur treasure hunter has unearthed a hoard of bronze age axe heads thought to be worth about £80,000...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/22/nartefacts122.xml

'Scrap Metal' Was Bronze Age Hoard
Times Online
A coach driver discovered Britain’s largest hoard of Bronze Age axeheads while waiting for a party of school-children at a Dorset farm...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3227395.ece

Bus Driver Unearths £80,000 Hoard Of Bronze Age Axe Heads With Metal Detector
Daily Mail
Bus driver and metal detector fanatic Tom Peirce is in for a bumper pay day after unearthing 500 Bronze Age artefacts - one of the largest ever ancient finds...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=509542&in_page_id=1770

Unearthing Whitlingham's Amazing Past

Norwich Evening News 24
Thousands of years ago it was where man toiled to make the tools they needed to survive...
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED21%20Jan%202008%2014%3A26%3A28%3A307

Monday, January 21, 2008

January 21st News

Another quiet morning. Hopefully there will be more stories later on.

New stories as of 6:24 AM:

4,500-Year-Old Tomb Sheds Light on Burial Customs Of Ancient Egypts Middle Class (Re-Issue)
Thaindian News
Washington, Jan 21 (ANI): Archaeologists have unsealed the burial chamber of a 4,500 year old tomb of an Egyptian official, thus providing a rare insight into the burial customs prevalent among the middle class in ancient Egypt...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/4500-year-old-tomb-sheds-light-on-burial-customs-of-ancient-egypts-middle-class-re-issue_10013628.html

Griff Rhys Jones Unveils Mosaic

EADT
HUNDREDS of people braved wet and windy weather in Britain's oldest recorded town to see television celebrity Griff Rhys Jones unveil a mosaic which celebrates a stunning historical find...
http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED20%20Jan%202008%2023%3A32%3A06%3A770

Sunday, January 20, 2008

January 20th News

A slow Sunday morning today in terms of news. The Macedonian article however, looks quite interesting.

New stories as of 7:46 AM:

Promising Projects For Macedonian Archaeology In 2008
Balkanalysis.com
Both tourists and academic experts will want to take note of some intriguing developments in the upper Mediterranean this year. According to Pasko Kuzman, archaeologist and Director of Cultural Heritage Protection in the Macedonian Ministry of Culture, 2008 will be an exciting year for the continued unearthing of unknown treasures from several sites around the country...
http://www.balkanalysis.com/2008/01/20/promising-projects-for-macedonian-archaeology-in-2008/

Hadrian's Wall Gets Huge London Showcase Boost

Hexham Courant
TYNEDALE could be in line for its biggest boost in tourism for decades.
For an exhibition on the Roman emperor Hadrian is to follow the hugely successful Chinese Terracotta Army display at the British Museum in London...
http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=587755