May 3rd News

Most of the articles today are from the UK.

New stories as of 9:25 AM:

Correcting A Colorblind View Of The Treasures Of Antiquity
The Washington Post
The statues of ancient Greece and Rome are masterpieces.Here's an idea for making them better: We should equip every gallery of ancient art with paints, in red and green and even gold, then set museum-goers loose on all their sculptures...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/02/ST2008050203083.html

Stonehenge Mystery Hinges On Unusual Stones
Los Angeles Times
A new excavation at Stonehenge seeks to prove that it was not a shrine of the dead but a temple of healing utilizing unique bluestones from a site 250 miles away in Wales...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-stonehenge4-2008may04,0,4585446.story

Vandal Yobs Target Ancient City Priory
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
Vandals have damaged the ruins of a Saxon priory in Gloucester, which was founded in 900AD.St Oswald's Priory, in Priory Road, was badly damaged when the wreckers removed bricks from the top of the ruin, possibly by climbing on them...
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=231771&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231754&home=yes&more_nodeId1=231776&contentPK=20535881

Ground Yields Wealth Of Treasures
EDP24
They are rare artefacts that shed light on those who lived in the Norfolk landscape of the past...
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED03%20May%202008%2010%3A54%3A59%3A687

May 2nd News

It's been almost a year since I started this blog. The official anniversary is May 7th.

New stories as of 10:54 AM:

Chester's Historic Roman Walls - City Council Update
Chester Chronicle
CHESTER City Council has issued an update on the situation concerning the historic Roman Walls...
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-news/chester-breaking-news/2008/05/02/chester-s-historic-roman-walls-city-council-update-59067-20853028/

Macedonia Speeds Up Archaeological Excavations At Skupi Site
Balkan Travellers
2 May 2008 | Work on the archaeological excavations at Skupi, one of Macedonia’s most important sites, is to intensify next week, national media reported...
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/534

The Androgynous Pharaoh? Akhenaten Had Feminine Physique
Yahoo News
BALTIMORE - Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_sc/feminine_pharaoh;_ylt=AoCxl6Cl_CYTiOxFHP4quxes0NUE
Also published at:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/02/androgynous-pharaoh.html

More Unique Findings Unearthed In Cybele Temple In Bulgaria's Balchik
Novinite
A total of four antique statues were unearthed in the temple of the Phrygian Goddess Cybele in Bulgaria's coastal town of Balchik on Wednesday...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=92523

May 1st News

The mass grave is the big story of the day today. Personally, I'd like to hear more about the wooden coffin found in Hereford.

New stories as of 8:56 AM:

Rome Mayor Aims To Tear Down Richard Meier Museum
Reuters UK
ROME (Reuters) - Rome's new mayor announced his intention on Wednesday to tear down a museum designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier that critics decried as a modernist eyesore when it was unveiled in the historic centre in 2006...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL3079925520080430

Stunning Finds On Archaeological Dig
Hereford Times
A ROMAN cemetery containing items of national importance has been uncovered in Herefordshire...
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3121083.Stunning_finds_on_archaeological_dig/

Robert Fisk: It Is The Death Of History
Belfast Telegraph
2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth...
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article3660419.ece

90 Roman Empire Skeletons Found In Mass Grave In Gloucester
Thaindian News
London, May 1 (ANI): Over 90 skeletons have been found in a mass grave in Gloucester, which archaeologists say could be the remains of victims of the Antonine plague, an outbreak of smallpox that swept across the Roman empire between 165 A.D. and 189 A.D...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/90-roman-empire-skeletons-found-in-mass-grave-in-gloucester_10043910.html

Mass Grave May Have Been Plague Pit
Times Online
Gloucester More than 90 skeletons found in a mass grave could be the remains of victims of the Antonine plague, an outbreak of smallpox that swept across the Roman empire between 165AD and 189AD, archaeologists now believe...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3850936.ece

Mass Roman Grave Discovered In Gloucester
The Telegraph
Archaeologists have unveiled the first ever discovery of a one of the rarest finds in British history – a mass Roman grave...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1915073/Mass-Roman-grave-discovered-in-Gloucester.html

Archaeologists Hail 'Unparalleled' Discovery Of Mass Roman Grave
24dash.com
The uncovering of a Roman mass grave was hailed by a research team today as an "almost unparalleled" discovery in British archaeology...
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-04-30-Archaeologists-hail-unparalleled-discovery-of-mass-Roman-grave

Historic Italian Cave May Collapse
UPI
RIGNANO GARGANICO, Italy, May 1 (UPI) -- Archaeologists are warning a signature Stone Age cavern in southern Italy, called the Paglicci Cave, is in imminent danger of collapse...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/01/historic_italian_cave_may_collapse/7572/

April 30th News

It's been a while, but I should be able to search out the news articles regularly again now. Thank you for your patience.

New stories as of 8:25 AM:

Intensive Archaeological Excavations At Skupi Site
MINA Breaking News
Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski visited Tuesday the Skupi site, where systematic research of the former ancient Roman city kicked off a month ago with financial support provided by the Government.
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/1190/2/

Ancient Burial Site Found At Kent's HQ
Your Canterbury News
A HOUSING development on the site of Kent Cricket Club’s St Lawrence Ground headquarters has unearthed body parts from a medieval leper cemetery...
http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/kent-news/Ancient-burial-site-found-at-Kent_s-HQ-newsinkent12435.aspx?news=local

Roman Ruins Reveal City's Historic Secrets
This Is Gloucestershire
A Roman mass grave discovered in Gloucester has been hailed as one of the rarest finds ever in Britain. Analysis released today of the grave which contained some 91 people - skeletons of men, women and children dumped in what looks like a hurried fashion - reveals that they could have been victims of a mass outbreak of a disease...
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=231771&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231754&home=yes&more_nodeId1=231776&contentPK=20507372

Plague Killed Roman Grave Dead
BBC News
A study into a mass Roman grave excavated in Gloucester appears to show the dead had been killed by smallpox...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7374836.stm

Gloucester's Roman Mass Grave Skeletons Were Plague Victims
24 Hour Museum
A mass Roman grave, discovered in Gloucester in 2005, may have contained the victims of an acute disease of epidemic proportions, possibly plague.
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART56936.html

Archaeologists To Take Rest Salty Men Out Of Iran's Cherabad Mine
ISNA
TEHRAN, April. 30 (ISNA)-Cultural heritage and tourism institution chief of Zanjan, Iran's central city, declared cooperation between Iranian and foreign archaeologists will pave the way for the institution to find a way to take rest of salty men out of Chehrabad mine located in this province...
http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1123188&Lang=E

Nine-Year-Old Boy Finds Buried Treasure
The Local
Nine-year-old Alexander Granhof and his grandfather Jens have made what is believed to be the largest ever find in southern Sweden of silver coins from the Middle Ages...
http://www.thelocal.se/11410/20080428/

April 20th News

I've been busy the last few days and so missed updating. Its final exam season, so its likely to happen again.

New stories as of 8:06 AM:

Archaeologists Uncover Remains Of Medieval Castle
Thaindian News
London, April 20 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has uncovered what seem to be the remains of a medieval castle in Maenclochog, UK...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/archaeologists-uncover-remains-of-medieval-castle_10039960.html

Pharaoh Seti I's Tomb Is Bigger Than Thought
National Geographic News
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered that the tomb of the powerful pharaoh Seti I—the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings—is bigger than originally believed...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080417-seti-tomb.html

Some Drowned, Some Buried
Al Ahram Weekly Online
Artefacts immersed in the Nile at Aswan and a 19th-Dynasty funerary collection in Luxor are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, as Nevine El-Aref reports...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/893/he1.htm

Egypt's Colossi Of Memnon To Be Reunited With Their Twins
AFP
LUXOR, Egypt (AFP) — Towering like sentries above the necropolis of Ancient Thebes in southern Egypt, the world-famous Colossi of Memnon will see their number double from two to four from next year...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NkGDWMD6uksLCFwvgG--6-PPPg

April 15th News

Only a few stories today, but they're interesting ones.

New stories as of 10:05 AM:

Photo In The News: Bust Of "Hidden" Roman Emperor Found
National Geographic News
April 14, 2008—He supposedly preferred to remain behind the scenes, but after 1,800 years one of Rome's most reclusive emperors has been thrust into the limelight...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-emperor-picture.html

Egypt Finds Coins Dating To Roman Emperor Valens
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered two gold coins in the Sinai peninsula dating to the era of Eastern Roman Emperor Valens that are the first of their kind to be found in Egypt, its antiquities council said on Sunday...
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN355007.html

Egypt Announces New Archaeological Discovery In Luxor's Valley Of Kings
Egypt State Information Service
Egypt announced Thursday 10/4/2008 the discovery of a quartzite Ushabti figure and the cartouche of King Seti I, second king of the 19th Dynasty (1314-1304 BC).They were found inside the corridor of the tomb of Seti I (KV 17) in the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank...
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000979.htm

April 13th News

Another quiet morning.

New stories as of 6:14 AM:

Last Parthenon Marbles Threatened By Pollution: Archaeologist
AFP
ATHENS (AFP) — A senior Greek archaeologist warned this week that the last original sculptures still adorning the Parthenon, Athens' iconic ancient temple, face a major pollution threat and must be removed to a museum...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5nnOnhHQxEPwxOgJ22WqjrkmNCw

Call For Urgent Repairs To Greece's Ancient Theatres
CBC.ca
Archeologists, architects and dignitaries in Greece have formed a lobby group calling for urgent government action to rescue the country's ancient open-air theatres...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2008/04/12/greece-theatres.html

Warning Of Sat-Nav Threat To Ancient Sites
redOrbit
Satellite navigation systems are posing a threat to ancient bridges, roads and buildings in the Westcountry as increasing numbers of drivers are directed to use lanes and country roads not designed for heavy vehicles...
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1338899/warning_on_satnav_threat_to_ancient_sites__satellite_navigation/