January 5th News

Much of the news today is made up of older stories, whether new articles on a story from several months ago, or more information on yesterday's stories.

New stories as of 11:13 AM:

Treasure Has A Tale To Tell
Journal Live
AN ancient pan which may have been a souvenir from Hadrian’s Wall will go on show on Tyneside today ...
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/01/05/treasure-has-a-tale-to-tell-61634-20315570/

Probing Ancient Shipwrecks With DNA
Bend Weekly
Stud­y­ing an an­cient Greek ship­wreck, sci­en­tists say, they’ve found they can de­code an­cient DNA to learn about the orig­i­nal con­tents of jars sunk­en for over 2,000 years...
http://www.bendweekly.com/Science/11868.html

Greek Love: 'As If One Has Been Beamed Down Into A Painting By Watteau'
Telegraph.co.uk
Duncan Followell reveiws The Greeks and Greek Love: a Radical Reappraisal of HOmosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/05/bodav105.xml

Boy, Oh Boy
Guardian Unlimited
Oliver Taplin enjoys James Davidson's unpredictable, over-the-top, erudite and lengthy look at 'homobesottedness', The Greeks and Greek Love...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2235425,00.html

University of Va. To Return Greek Statues
United Press International
CHARLOTTESVILLE , Va., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The University of Virginia plans to return to Italy two ancient Greek sculptures taken from Sicily by tomb raiders and donated to the university's museum...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/01/04/university_of_va_to_return_greek_statues/8827/

Looted Sculptures To Be Sent Home
BBC News
Two ancient sculptures of Greek goddesses dug up by looters in Sicily in 1978 are to be returned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7172152.stm

The World's A Stage: Whitman Professor Documents Ancient Theaters
Collegenews.org
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 3, 2008 - Last year, Associate Professor of Theatre Thomas Hines received a gratifying and fairly astonishing e-mail from an excited Argentine businessman who’d decided to restore an old mas, a traditional house in Provence. He wanted Hines to know that the Whitman College professor’s online archive of ancient theaters had inspired him to build a Roman theater in the backyard of the property...
http://www.collegenews.org/x7724.xml

Scottish Water-Plant Dig Reveals Ancient Roman Fort
WaterTechOnline.com
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — Scottish Water is moving the site of its soon-to-be-built treatment works building after preparations for its new Glencorse drinking water treatment plant revealed the remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman fort, according to a January 4 Edinburgh Evening News article...
http://www.watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=68917

Bone Ice Skates Invented By Ancient Finns, Study Says
National Geographic News
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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080104-first-skates.html

January 4th News

There's lots of stories today on a wide range of topics. They range from new discoveries to new information on older discoveries as well as some new museum exhibits.

New stories as of 8:35 AM:

U. Va. To Return Looted Greek Statues To Italy
WAVY.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia plans to return two ancient Greek sculptures to Italy nearly three decades after tomb raiders looted them from Sicily...
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7577082&nav=menu45_2

UVa To Return Looted Greek Statues
Daily Progress
The University of Virginia announced Thursday that it will return to Italy two ancient Greek sculptures of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone - nearly three decades after they were looted from Sicily by tomb raiders...
http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354081201&path=!news

Ancient Lives Uncensored
The Courier-Mail
ANYONE looking for lessons in the history of censorship and propaganda need look no further than Pompeii...
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23001599-5003424,00.html

Ancient Roman Pan Offers Valuable Insights At Arbeia Roman Fort
24 Hour Museum
An ancient Roman pan, which was made sometime after AD 122 but was only uncovered in 2003, is to go on display at Arbeia Roman Fort on Saturday January 5 2007...
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART52903.html
The photo at the beginning of the article is really something. The colours are incredible.

Italy: Remains Of Ancient Luxury Villas Open To Visitors In Rome
Post Gazette
ROME -- The restored ruins of two opulent Roman villas and private thermal baths have opened to the public here, equipped with a 3-D reconstruction that offers a virtual tour of the luxurious residences found in downtown Rome...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08004/845070-37.stm

Water Plant Work Digs Up Evidence Of Roman Fort
The Scotsman
A 2000-YEAR-OLD Roman fort has been uncovered on the site of a new £60 million treatment plant for the Capital's drinking water...
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Water-plant-work-digs-up.3641122.jp

Dwarf Gene Discovery: Explanation For Hobbit Species?
ABC News
In a discovery that could help boost understanding of a rare type of dwarfism, researchers announced today that they have found a genetic culprit for the condition...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4080802&page=1

Archaeological Dig At Cathedral
Salisbury Journal
PREPARATIONS for this year's celebrations of Salisbury Cathedral's 750th anniversary have continued apace, with an archaeological dig taking place inside the cathedral to allow a new specially-designed font to be installed...
http://www.thisissalisbury.co.uk/display.var.1944053.0.archaeological_dig_at_cathedral.php

Climate Change Put Big Chill On Neandertals, Study Says
National Geographic News
Neandertals in western Europe were ravaged by an increasingly hostile climate rather than an invasion of modern humans, according to new research...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080103-neanderthals.html

Neanderthals Stitched Too Little Too Late
Discovery News
Jan. 3, 2008 -- Neanderthals probably froze to death in the last ice age because rapid climate change caught them by surprise without the tools needed to make warm clothes, finds new research...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/03/neanderthal-clothes.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
A second take on the new information.

Roman Camp Found At Glencorse
MidLothian Today
AN unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water's site at Glencorse, near Penicuik — a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old...
http://www.midlothianadvertiser.co.uk/news/Roman-camp-is-found-at.3626108.jp

New Pharahonic Mummy Found
Egypt State Information Service
Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities has stated that the mummy which had been unearthed at farms in the governorate of Al-Fayoum is Pharohnic and priceless...
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000912.htm
Not much information here at all.

Grisly Discovery Of Headless Bodies Gives Insight Into Justice Saxon Style
Yorkshire Post

ONCE they were spectacular resting places to honour the dead.

But with pagan Britain's conversion to Christianity, the Bronze Age burial mounds came to be regarded with suspicion as places where devils and dragons lurked...
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Grisly-discovery-of-headless-bodies.3629080.jp

Ice Skating Born Of Necessity?
Discovery News
Jan. 2, 2008 -- Ice skating, now a winter tradition around the world, may have been invented in Scandinavia 5,000 years ago, new research suggests...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/02/finland-ice-skating.html

August 21st News

People are still chewing over yesterdays finds.

New stories as of 1:04 PM:

Medieval Program Receives Funding
The Daily Tar Heel
UNC's medieval and modern studies program has received a $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to hire new professors, fund research and host conferences and lectures...
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/08/21/University/Medieval.Program.Receives.Funding-2932989.shtml

Ancient Chewing Gum Found In Finland
Press TV
An archaeology student from the University of Derby has found a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum during an excavation in western Finland...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=20216&sectionid=3510212

British Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum In Finland
Mathaba News Agency
HELSINKI, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- British archaeology student Sarah Pickin has found a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum in western Finland, local media reported Monday...
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=561572

British Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum In Northern Finland
Helsingin Sanomat
What is believed to be a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been found in Finland by a British archaeology student, Sarah Pickin, the BBC reported on Monday...
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/British+student+finds+Neolithic+chewing+gum+in+Northern+Finland/1135229681112

Tuscan Hills Are Alive With Amateur Archaeologists
The New York Times
CASENOVOLE, Italy, Aug. 16 — The Etruscan tomb was hidden in such a remote corner of Tuscany that Andrea Marcocci, the archaeology student who found and identified it about a decade ago, was not very worried that anyone else would stumble upon it...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/design/21tomb.html?ref=arts

Stone Age Chewing Gum Found In Finland
Fox News
HELSINKI, Finland — Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293933,00.html

Scientists Find Ancient Gum In Finland
Sci-Tech Today
A piece of Neolithic gum was found among artifacts, like dishes and jewelry, in a Stone Age village at the Kierikki Stone Age Center. "It's somewhere between 5,500 and 6,000 years old," said Sami Viljamaa, an archaeologist who led the dig near Oulu, some 380 miles north of the Finland capital, Helsinki...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100B0MB6IR

Tara Ruins Must Be Preserved - Report
Ireland.com
Newly discovered 2000-year-old ruins at the Hill of Tara must be fully preserved because of their unique size and character, a US academic today said...
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0821/breaking46.htm

Egypt Footprint 'Could Be Oldest'
BBC News
Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered what might be the oldest human footprint ever found...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6956902.stm

August 20th News

People have been gumming up the works for at least five thousand years now. However, there's other news to chew on today as well. Lots of it.

New stories as of 4:47 PM:

Scientists Find Ancient Chewing Gum In Finland
CTV.ca
HELSINKI, Finland -- Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years. Last month, students in western Finland found a piece of Stone Age birch-bark tar, believed to have been used for chewing and to fix broken arrowheads or clay dishes, archaeologists said Monday...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070820/ancient_gum_070820/20070820?hub=SciTech
Also published at:
http://www.newsone.ca/piercelandherald/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=39718
http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP08202007news186071.cfm
http://www.onelocalnews.com/akronfarmreport/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=154796
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Science/2007/8/20/scientists_find_ancient_gum_in_finland.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FINLAND_ANCIENT_GUM?SITE=TNCHA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-20-16-03-30
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Finland_Ancient_Gum.html

Egyptian Archaeologists Discover 'Oldest Human Footprint'
The Courier Mail
EGYPTIAN archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said overnight...
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22280917-954,00.html
Also published at:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22280917-663,00.html

New stories as of 1:14 PM:

Ancient Human Footprint Found
IOL
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said on Monday...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20070820183015779C298328

Illuminating A Dark Period Of History
The Australian
BETWEEN the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and the epics of Homer lay centuries of mystery known as the Greek Dark Ages...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22277026-16947,00.html

Ancient Hide-Out Uncovered In Albania
USA Today
Looking to get it away from it all? Consider Albania. An archaeology team reports that the mountains of northern Albania, perhaps the most remote place left in Europe, have been a hide-out for a surprisingly long time...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-08-19-albania_N.htm

Medieval Treasures Travel To Getty
HULIQ
Rare examples of decorative works of gold and silver, armor, carved ivories, enamels, sculpture, paintings and illuminated manuscripts from the 3rd through the 16th centuries will be on view in Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, October 30, 2007 - January 20, 2008, providing an unprecedented opportunity for West Coast audiences to view these extraordinary objects outside of Cleveland...
http://www.huliq.com/30960/medieval-treasures-travel-to-getty


Student Discovers Stone Age Chewing Gum
IOL
London - People in the New Stone Age chewed gum, British scientists have told the BBC...
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20070820161019577C913233

Student Finds 5000-Year-Old Chewing-Gum
Functionpix.com
Early Stone-Age man chewed gum, say British archaeologists. The discovery is based on a find by an archaeology student of a lump of 5000-year-old birch-resin gum, with teeth-marks still preserved, at a dig in western Finland...
http://functionpix.com/index.php/article/Student_finds_5000-year-old_chewing-gum/1579/
Also published at:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95704.html

5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Discovered By Archaeology Student
EUX.TV
London (dpa) - People in the New Stone Age were already chewing gum, British scientists told the BBC on Monday...
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=13007
Also published at:
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1345266.php/5000-year-old_chewing_gum_discovered_by_archaeology_student

Student Unearths Neolithic Chewing Gum
ABC News
A British archaeology student has discovered what has being described as one of the oldest pieces of chewing gum ever found...
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/21/2010370.htm?section=justin

Neolithic Humans Also Had Chewie On Their Boots
The Age
A 5000-year-old piece of chewing gum — one of the oldest ever discovered — has been found by a British archaeology student...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/neolithic-humans-also-had-chewie-on-their-boots/2007/08/20/1187462172982.html
Also published at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/20/archaeology
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/ancient-chewie-leaves-experts-gobsmacked/2007/08/20/1187462176038.html

Student Unearths World's Oldest Chewing Gum
Medindia.com
A Scottish archaeology student had lady luck shining down on her during a dig in Europe when she discovered a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum...
http://www.medindia.net/news/Student-Unearths-Worlds-Oldest-Chewing-Gum-25237-1.htm
Also published at:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/166996.php/Student-discovers-Neolithic-chewing-gum
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/275017/cs/1/

Student Dig Unearths Ancient Gum
BBC News
A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been discovered by an archaeology student from the University of Derby...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954562.stm

Why Stone Age Man Was A Far Craftier Chap Than We Thought
The Daily Mail
A burrowing lobster has given scientists a brand new insight into the lives of our Stone Age ancestors...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476457&in_page_id=1770

The 5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum
The Scotsman
A SCOTTISH archaeology student has discovered a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum while on a dig in Europe...
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1316032007

World's Oldest Chewing Gum Found
Metro.co.uk
Spitting out chewing gum on the street is a widely despised habit that can land you with a fine...
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62207&in_page_id=34

5,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Found (Used)
Discovery News
Aug. 20, 2007 — A Stone Age piece of chewing gum, one of the oldest ever to be discovered, has been found by a Scottish archaeology student in Finland...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/20/ancientgum_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070820151500&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

Archaeologists Find Stone Age Chewing Gum In Finland
PR-Inside
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years.
Last month, students in western Finland found a piece of Stone Age birch-bark tar, believed to have been used for chewing and to fix broken arrowheads or clay dishes, archaeologists said Monday.
http://www.pr-inside.com/archaeologists-find-stone-age-chewing-gum-r202745.htm

Discovery Channel Shooting Stirs Up Scandal In Bulgaria
Sofia News Agency
A Bulgarian top archaeologist has reacted strongly to the concept a Discovery Channel team has picked for a film about the ancient Thracian culture...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84399

Scandal With Discovery Channel: Enough With This Thracian Gold
News.bg
We should not allow to be treated as aborigines. This claimed the archaeologist prof. Nicolay Ovcharov in relation to the film about the Thracians that Discovery Channel is shooting...
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1859499258

Excavation Planned For Phoenician City
Physorg
A Phoenician settlement on the Italian island of Sardinia may soon yield some of its secrets to archaeologists...
http://www.physorg.com/news106809371.html