September 4th News

There's a lot of stories today, ranging from more on yesterday's stories to some entirely new stories. Some of them throw out new details on stories from previous posts, and some of them are entirely new, about new discoveries.

New stories as of 9:01 AM:

National Archaeological Museum...
Kathimerini
Culture Minister Michalis Liapis gestures before the upper section of a marble tomb, one of two ancient artifacts returned to Greece by US collector Shelby White, at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens yesterday...
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100005_04/09/2008_100118

Science Brings Back Ancient Instrument
Dallas Morning News
You know that harp-like instrument you always see nymphs and satyrs playing when you look at the illustrations in a book of Greek myths? It's not actually a harp. It's called an epigonion...
http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/science-brings-back-ancient-in.html

Archaeologists Shed Light On Ancient Caananite Burial Rituals
The Daily Star
SIDON: The British Museum's excavation team in Sidon on Wednesday declared the end of its mission for 2008 at the "Freres" excavation site near the southern port city's fortress...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=95699

Astra Revives Forgotten Sounds
The Inquirer
SOUNDS THAT HAVE been dead for years are being revived electronically thanks to a new computer modelling project...
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/03/astra-revives-forgotten-sounds

Roman Fort Is Found In The Lake District
The Whitehaven News
A Roman camp, said to be of national significance, has been discovered on the outskirts of Keswick...
http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/1.232739

Found: Ancient Capital Of 'Jewish' Khazar Kingdom
Arutz Sheva
A team of archaeologists claims to have discovered remnants of the legendary Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, according to a recent report. If the findings by the Russian team, reported by the French agency AFP, prove to be indeed the long-lost capital of the reputed Jewish state, they would represent one of the largest breakthroughs in Jewish archaeology...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127483

Hereford's Ribbon Has Backing Of Government
Hereford Times
HEREFORD’S Rotherwas Ribbon is worth preserving – and that’s official...
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3645073.Hereford_s_Ribbon_has_backing_of_government/
I linked a lot of stories about this site last year. It's interesting to see what's being said about it now. So often a story is picked up briefly, and nothing more comes of it.

Israeli Diggers Uncover Ancient Jerusalem Wall, Continuing Work Begun A Century Ago
Chicago Tribune
JERUSALEM (AP) _ Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered new sections of Jerusalem's ancient walls, continuing a project started more than a century ago...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-israel-archaeology,0,1403276.story
Also published at:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hULCIa_wLA2b2BkhgMpPKtJn3rvgD92VFC0G0

Greece Welcomes Return Of Antiquities
The New York Times
On Wednesday Greece celebrated the return of two rare antiquities, Reuters reported. The items, a bronze vase from the fourth-century B.C. and the upper part of a marble tombstone, have been put on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/04arts-GREECEWELCOM_BRF.html?ref=arts

Vladimir Monomakh Seal Discovered In Novogrod
Russia InfoCentre
A lead seal has been recently found during archeological excavation in Veliki Novgorod. It belonged to legendary Prince Vladimir Monomakh, scientists presume...
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7005/

Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest
ScienceDaily
Two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified remains of the young King in the 1960s...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080902143322.htm

March 5th News

Another day where there's lots of news.

New stories as of 6:36 AM:

Greece Hopes New Museum Will Help Win Back Elgin Marbles
USA Today
ATHENS (AP) — A long-delayed new museum in Athens where Greece hopes to reunite its ancient Acropolis masterpieces with Britain's Elgin Marbles will open in September, officials said...
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-03-05-new-athens-museum_N.htm

Rare Roman Statue Is Extraordinary Highlight Of Christie's Antiquities Spring Sale
Artdaily.org
NEW YORK.- On June 4, Christie’s New York is pleased to offer an exquisite Roman statue of the goddess Tyche. Standing 31 ½ inches high, and executed in the rarest of materials: porphyry. The statue was formerly in the private collection of Dr. Elie Borowski, collector and connoisseur of ancient art, who acquired it in 1967. It was on loan to the sculpture museum Liebighaus in Frankfurt, Germany from 1980-1986, and later exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto from 1986-1991...
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23457
The article has an incredible photo which takes up the entire browser, more or less, at the top of the page.

Skeleton Could Hod Secret To Stonehenge
Salisbury Journal
A SKELETON, which has been on prominent display in Salisbury Museum for nearly a decade, could hold the secret to Stonehenge's mysterious past and show the site to be an arena of gladiatorial combat, an archaeological expert has claimed...
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/display.var.2093945.0.skeleton_could_hold_secret_to_stonehenge.php

Remains Of 1600 Year Old Roman Shopping Parade Are Found In Cirencester
Mirror.co.uk
Remains of an ancient Roman shopping parade have been dug up in the middle of Cirencester...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/05/remains-of-1-600-year-old-roman-shopping-parade-are-found-in-cirencester-89520-20340651/

Fordham Dedicates New Antiquities Museum
Fordham University
The official opening of the Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art was celebrated Dec. 6 in the Campbell Atrium of the William D. Walsh Family Library...
http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/public_affairs/inside_fordham/january_28_2008/news/fordham_dedicates_ne_29109.asp

Evidence Of Commerce Between Ancient Israel And China
ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily (Mar. 4, 2008) — Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries - during the time of the Crusades --ceramic vessels reached Acre from: Mediterranean regions, the Levant, Europe, North Africa, and even China -- reveals new research, which examined trade of ceramic vessels, conducted at the University of Haifa...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304100410.htm

Archaeologists From Japan Restore Roman Tombs

The Daily Star
TYRE: Japanese archaeologists of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon have completed the rehabilitation of Roman tombs in the Ramali region, east of the Southern coastal city of Tyre, Nader Siqlawi, representative of the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities, told The Daily Star Tuesday...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=89552

November 9th News

There's some interesting new stories today, as well as updates on older ones.

New stories as of 6:24 AM:

Two Ancient Maps Stolen From Spain Returned By FBI
Earthtimes.org
Washington, Nov 9 - FBI has turned over to Spain two of the world maps from Ptolemy's 'Geographia' that were stolen from Madrid's National Library in August, the Spanish news agency EFE said...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/139162.html

Lebanon Through The Ages Part II: Medieval Lebanon
Bits Of News
Gone were the days of the mighty Phoenician city-states; by the end of the 600s CE, Lebanon lay shattered by natural disasters and neglected at the outer edges of the slowly-crumbling Byzantine Empire...
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6422/

Tron Revamp Unearths 'Treasure Chest'
The Scotsman
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed centuries-old remains of shops, tenements and cobblestones under the Royal Mile...
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1781842007

<> - New Book Tells The Untold Secret Of Egyptian Mummies
Exduco.net
A new book due to be launched tonight (Thursday) tells the untold secrets of Manchester's answer to Tutankhamen: the "Two Brothers" - a pair of 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian mummies at The Manchester Museum...
http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2567

Iraq Asks Britain To Return Hundreds Of Missing Artifacts
Azzaman In English
The government has asked British authorities to hand over to the Iraq Museum 654 priceless archaeological pieces that went missing shortly after U.S. invasion troops landed in Baghdad in 2003...
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-11-8%5Ckurd.htm

Royal Seal Indicates Biblical Queen Jezebel's Power
Fox News
Jezebel, the queen whose name became synonymous with all things lewd and wicked, probably wielded a fair bit of power in ancient Israel, suggests a stone document seal newly traced to the Biblical "bad girl."...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,309761,00.html

October 23 News

New stories as of 10:57 AM:

Lebanon Through The Ages Part One: Ancient Lebanon
Bits Of News
In Part I of his guided tour through the history of Lebanon, R. Scott Peoples tells the story of the ancient Phoenicians, the snails that made their fortune, and the many armies and conquerors who wanted to claim this narrow, but wealthy, strip of land...
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6334/

Claim: Israel Covering Up Temple Mount Destruction
WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – Prominent Temple archeologists here accused the Israeli government today of attempting to cover up its alleged failure to properly supervise a dig in which Islamic Authorities were accused of destroying Temple Mount antiquities...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58273

Ancient Rome Revitalized Via Virtual Reality
C-Ville
Bernard Frischer spends most of his life living in—to borrow a line from Stevie Wonder—a pastime paradise. As I sit across from him at the foot of a 20' projection screen, I can't help but think that he's a spittin' image of the Motown recording artist, wearing dark virtual reality glasses, bathed in colored lights and smiling with glee...
http://c-ville.com/index.php?cat=141404064432695&ShowArticle_ID=11431910071084403

Portable Antiquities Scheme Logs It's 300,000th Archaeological Find
24 Hour Museum
The Portable Antiquities Scheme, which records and logs archaeological items found by members of the public in England and Wales, passed an important milestone yesterday, when it recorded its 300,000th object...
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51586.html

Tomb Raider: Police Find Illegal Artifacts
ABC News
Italian police have discovered a huge stash of archaeological artefacts that a pensioner had dug up to create his own private -- and illegal -- museum, they said on Monday...
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3760863&page=1