The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Clay lamps shed new light on daily life in antiquity
from Roman Archaeology on 22 December 2004The Daily Star: "Clay lamps help archaeologists reconstruct daily activities inside the otherwise empty shell of a room or corridor of a ruin ...
- Cumbrian Excavation Reveals Women Once Served in the Roman Army
from Roman Archaeology on 22 December 2004Times Online - Britain: "Women soldiers were previously unknown in the Roman army in Britain and the find at Brougham in Cumbria will force a reappraisal of their role in 3rd-century society ...
- 8 Ancient Dams Discovered in Iranian Plain
from Payvand Iran News on 18 December 2004A team of experts from Iran, France and Belgium have unearthed the relics of 8 Achaemenid dams in the Morghab plain, in southern Iran
- Click On Libraries
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 18 December 2004Expect other search engines to follow Google's lead in digitizing the world's information.
- Iran France to cooperate in archaeology
from Payvand Iran News on 18 December 2004Iran and France signed an agreement in Paris on Wednesday night to cooperate in archaeology.
- Iran Urges UNESCO to Lift its Heritage Ceiling
from Payvand Iran News on 18 December 2004UNESCO adopted a resolution last year stipulating that each member state is allowed to register just one heritage site on the World Heritage List ...
- Irans Pasargadae to Finally Get its Museum
from Payvand Iran News on 18 December 2004Iran at last plans to construct the Pasargadae Museum near the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great in early 2005, after a quarter of century break
- IRON AGE FORT IN LEICESTERSHIRE DEFENDED FROM RA
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 December 2004IRON AGE FORT IN LEICESTERSHIRE DEFENDED FROM RAIDING RABBITS During the Iron Age it stood up to marauders, protecting the people of ancient Leicestershire against anyone that might do them harm ...
- A 3,500 year old crossing recreated online Th
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 December 2004A 3,500 year old crossing recreated online The thrill of archaeologists’ discovery of the oldest bridge ever found in England can now be relived through a series of web pages ...
- Alexandrian Library Anachronism
from rogueclassicism on 18 December 2004A comment on Google's plans to make piles of works available online has prompted comparisons -- such as they are -- with the Library at Alexandria ...
- Calgula, Claudius, Nero
from rogueclassicism on 18 December 2004An excerpt from a column in the MetroWest Daily ... I'm thought much of this was tongue-in-cheek, but the conclusion makes me wonder: ...
- Dr. J @ the Stoa
from rogueclassicism on 18 December 2004Good to see Dr. J. (Janice Siegel) is beginning to move her vast collection of photos of various ancient sites to the Stoa Image Gallery ...
- MCOT : TNA English News : MCOTorg
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 December 2004SRI SA KET, Dec 18, (TNA) Villagers in the eastern border province of Sri Sa Ket have uncovered an ancient religious monument, or ku , thought to be over 2,000 years old ...
- The ark of knowledge Kathimerini
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 December 2004Those who still lament the destruction of the library of Alexandria, with its treasure of ancient Greek knowledge, were in for good news this past week when Google, the search engine, announced an agreement with some of the world’s greatest libraries to digitize their contents and make them available online ...
- Age old ice yields its secrets (Toronto Star
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 December 2004SAN FRANCISCO—Simply retrieving an ice core recording the ancient climate of the Pacific Northwest is itself an outstanding feat, the glaciological equivalent of running a marathon ...
- American Indian graves have Wash. officials ready to leave site (San Diego Union Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 December 2004PORT ANGELES, Wash. – The ancient remains of hundreds of American Indians unearthed at a massive bridge construction site have state officials ready to cut their losses, millions of dollars and months of delays, and find another site ...
- MSU archaeologist to head national group (Starkville Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 18 December 2004A Mississippi State authority in Southeastern prehistoric archaeology will head a national professional group that focuses on archaeology of the region ...
- Questions and Praise for Google Web Library
from NYT > Technology on 17 December 2004Initially skeptical, many scholars have recently applauded the Internet search service's project to digitize some of the world's best library collections ...
- Janice Siegel
from Stoa Image Gallery on 17 December 2004so far...Germany: Berlin environs...Italy: Herculaneum, Pompeii, Ostia, Rome (Vatican Museum, Fora, Cemetery, Villa Giulia)please bear with us as my student worker Katie Eickhoff thins out the offerings, organizes them further, and puts in captions ...
- Ancient Village Remains May Force Relocation Of Bridge Project KIRO
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 17 December 2004PORT ANGELES, Wash. -- A majority of state Transportation Commission members say they would not contest the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's demand to permanently halt work at the Hood Canal bridge construction site where the remains of hundreds of the tribe's ancestors have been found ...
- New in the Stoa Image Gallery
from The Stoa on 17 December 2004Janice Siegel has begun to create several albums of her photographs from various places of interest ...
- Curious Software Introduces Enterprise Mapping Workflow New products for the broadcast map graphics industry slated for (Broadcast Newsroom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 17 December 2004Curious Software, developer of the industry standard Curious World Maps software, is delighted to introduce their next generation products and vision for the broadcast map graphics industry ...
- Ex USM professor to appear on TV (Hattiesburg American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 17 December 2004Many people don't recognize the significance of geography aside from the need for a road atlas; however, one Hattiesburg resident views geography as a testament to history ...
- Archaeological Books for Beginners
from About Archaeology on 17 December 2004Whether you're interested in getting your feet wet about the science of archaeology or longing to take an amateur passion to the next level? Here's a collection of great introductions to the field of archaeology with you in mind ...
- Chaco Canyon: Ancient Observatories
from About Archaeology on 17 December 2004From the Exploratorium, a teaching resource about climate and astronomy based on Chaco Canyon. Well worth a trip; takes Macromedia Flash....
- 2005 Field School at Tell es-Safi, Israel
from About Archaeology on 17 December 2004July 10-August 5, 2005. Bar Ilan University. Tell es-Safi (Hebrew Tel Tsafit) is a commanding mound located on the border between the Judean foothills (the Shephelah) and the coastal plain, approximately halfway between Jerusalem and Ashkelon ...
- Roche says he has no power to alter Tara motorwa
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 December 2004Roche says he has no power to alter Tara motorway Environment Minister Dick Roche has reportedly stated that he does not have the power to significantly alter the proposed route of the M3 motorway through Co Meath ...
- Roche cannot change M3 route Campaigners ar
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 December 2004Roche 'cannot change M3 route' Campaigners are demanding the protection of archaeological sites and want the road re-routed away from the Hill of Tara ...
- ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCITED BY 500,000-YEAR-OLD AXE F
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 December 2004ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCITED BY 500,000-YEAR-OLD AXE FIND IN QUARRY A Stone Age hand axe dating back 500,000 years has been discovered at a quarry in Warwickshire ...
- Roman graves threat to homes plan ANCIENT rem
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 December 2004Roman graves threat to homes plan ANCIENT remains could force changes to a controversial multi-million pound Chichester redevelopment scheme ...
- Ancient treasure trove on Thasos Two gold ri
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 December 2004Ancient treasure trove on Thasos Two gold rings and a pair of earrings decorated with floral and marine motifs, as well as the goddess Nike (l) were among the rich finds from an ancient cemetery on Thasos made public yesterday ...
- QUMRAN EXCAVATION UPDATE - The Jerusalem Post has
from PaleoJudaica.com on 17 December 2004QUMRAN EXCAVATION UPDATE - The Jerusalem Post has a long and detailed article ("A Crack in the Theory") on the recent excavation of Qumran by Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg and the controversial theories they have formulated around it ...
- More on Live Excavation, Bahariya
from Egyptology News on 17 December 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/721/eg10.htm The excavation of burials of middle ranking officials and professional people were excavated live on Channel 5, by Zahi Hawass ...
- Generating Cash for the SCA
from Egyptology News on 17 December 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/721/eg11.htm A new company has been established in Egypt to combat Egypt's inability to pay for conservation, restoration and excavation programmes: "The company is designed to generate revenue for the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to enable it to better invest in archaeological excavation and restoration, promoting archaeological and cultural awareness among the public, diversifying archaeology-related professional services, and producing high-quality commercial products" ...
- Photographer records ancient civilizations By Xu Weiwei (Shanghai Star
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 17 December 2004If you were saved from the God of the Dead, what would you do in your second life? The choice of Chinese photographer Zhou Jiansheng, after being freed from a life-threatening condition, was to capture the beauty of the world's ancient civilizations ...
- Mexican archaeologists dig up ancient mummy (Independent Online World News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 17 December 2004Mexico City - Mexican archaeologists reported on Thursday the discovery of a 2 300-year-old mummy of a female child along with some fabric, hair, feathers and plant remains in a dry, cold, high-altitude cave in the central state of Queretaro ...
- Augustus 27 B.C. - 14 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 17 December 2004 - Roman Republic
from Stoa Image Gallery on 17 December 2004 - Bush Prepares for Possible GPS Shutdown AP
from Yahoo! News: Technology News on 16 December 2004AP - President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday ...
- More on how to read a scholarly paper
from NT Gateway Weblog on 16 December 2004A couple of weeks ago, I offered some further reflections on the topic How to read a scholarly paper in dialogue with some of the other biblioblogs ...
- ANTIQUITIES LOOTING in Israel and the West Bank.
from PaleoJudaica.com on 16 December 2004ANTIQUITIES LOOTING in Israel and the West Bank. It just goes on and on: Grave robbers ransack Holy Land history Hundreds of archaeological sites raided every year By Megan Goldin Reuters Updated: 3:38 p ...
- Experts say coins unearthed at Islamabad priceless (Greater Kashmir
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 16 December 2004Islamabad, Dec 16: An earthen urn containing ancient coins weighing 16.3 kgs unearthed by some labourers during a construction work at Watnar Kokernag in Islamabad Wednesday, have been described as priceless by Department of Archaeology, Archives and Museums (AAM) ...
- Not much to blog today. EEF news ought to be comin
from ArchaeoBlog on 16 December 2004Not much to blog today. EEF news ought to be coming in sometime this afternoon though. Settled life speeds social and religious evolution The shift from nomadic life to settled village life can lead to a rapid development of religious and social complexity and hierarchy, according to a detailed chronology of the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico ...
- Ancient treasure trove on Thasos Kathimerini
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 16 December 2004Two gold rings and a pair of earrings decorated with floral and marine motifs, as well as the goddess Nike (l) were among the rich finds from an ancient cemetery on Thasos made public yesterday ...
- China holds seminar to commemorate ancient seafaring hero AngolaPress
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 16 December 2004FUZHOU, 12/16 - China held a seminar Thursday to commemorate its ancient seafaring hero Zheng He in Fuzhou, capital city of Fujian province.
- The Digger issue 34 The latest issue of "The
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 December 2004The Digger issue 34 The latest issue of "The Digger", the on-line magazine for archaeologists is now online at: http://www ...
- Roman remains found by busy road THE remains
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 December 2004Roman remains found by busy road THE remains of a “waterfront” settlement dating from Roman times have been discovered in a Suffolk village ...
- English Heritage warns of dire consequences of c
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 December 2004English Heritage warns of dire consequences of cuts Badly eroded structures of national significance face a bleak future, it became clear yesterday ...
- RSS Feeds for Academic Journals
from Hypotyposeis on 16 December 2004I've noticed that some academic journals are publishing RSS feeds of their tables of contents and articles ...
- Three ancient pieces seized in Menia
from Egyptology News on 15 December 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o151224q.htm "Monuments and tourism police seized in Menia governorate three rare ancient pieces dating back to the pharaoh era including a human head made of alabaster, from a farmer and a grocer before they sold to monuments merchants ...
- Achaemenid Royal Cooks Used 1 kg Saffron Each Day
from Payvand Iran News on 15 December 2004A tin inscription, apparently a kitchen menu of the Achaemenid monarchy, revealed cooks used about 1 ...
- 5 Japanese Cities to Host Iranian Artifacts Exhibit
from Payvand Iran News on 15 December 2004Iranian and Japanese heritage officials inked an agreement to hold an exhibition of 180 Persian artifacts in the museums of five Japanese cities
- Ancient secrets unearthed in Egypt (Independent Online World News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 15 December 2004Cairo - The tomb of a member of a powerful family in Bahariya, Egypt, who governed a swath of western Egypt about 2 500 years ago, was unveiled on Sunday, along with a dozen recently discovered mummies from Roman times ...
- Airports will kill heritage British High Co
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 December 2004Airports 'will kill heritage' British High Court heard that ancient monuments, woodlands and hundreds of homes will be lost if expansion at three airports goes ahead ...
- 8300 year old grave unearthed in Bulgaria A
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 December 20048,300-year-old grave unearthed in Bulgaria A grave dug some 8,300 years ago was disclosed during excavation works near the Veliko Tarnovo village Dhzulyunitsa, in Bulgaria ...
- Replica of Bronze Age boat ready to set sail o
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 December 2004Replica of Bronze Age boat ready to set sail on a 4,000-year-old journey A REPLICA of a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age boat found near Hull will set sail on the Humber in the new year – close to where the original was discovered ...
- Tribe wants all digging, including archaeological, to end at graving yard site (Peninsula Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 15 December 2004No digging means no digging at the Port Angeles graving yard, the Lower Elwha Klallam say -- no matter whether the excavation is for archaeology or a big concrete dry dock ...
- Archaeologists Unearth 8, 300 Year-old Settlemen
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 December 2004Archaeologists Unearth 8, 300 Year-old Settlement in Central Bulgaria Archaeologists in central Bulgaria discovered remains of an 8, 300 year-old New Stone Age settlement, a report said Monday ...
- Theft at ANU Update
from rogueclassicism on 15 December 2004Some details from the Australian about what was stolen from ANU last week, inter alia: Missing are a 2000-year-old bronze portrait head, "an actual reproduction of a visage of a person", believed to be that of Livia, wife of the emperor Augustus, or his sister Octavia ...
- Europe to Launch GPS Satellites
from About Geography on 15 December 2004Around 2008, Europe will have its own global satellite navigation system, which will be interoperable with the United States' Department of Defense Global Positioning System ...
- Geography Classroom Game
from About Geography on 15 December 2004Looking for a great way to teach latitude in the classroom or at home? Try this proven and fantastic kinesthetic activity to teach the poles, circles, tropics, and equator ...
- Libraries Online
from rogueclassicism on 15 December 2004Not really Classical, but of great potential impact to folks like me who simply cannot get to academic libraries as often as they'd like, is the announcement by Google that they plan to put the public domain holdings of a pile of libraries online (including UMich!) ...
- By Stephen Beachy (San Francisco Bay Guardian
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 14 December 2004"Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya" and an exhibit of works by Sue Coe summon violent hallucinations, past, present, and future.
- Ancient Beauty Had a Million Dollar Smile (Media Drome
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 14 December 2004Researchers excavating a site near the village of Ohoden in northwestern Bulgaria discovered an ancient female skeleton and named her Prehistoic Todorka ...
- Google Move Could Commercialize Libraries AP
from Yahoo! News: Technology News on 14 December 2004AP - The Internet company that famously promised to "do no evil" is on a new mission to digitize the collections of some of the nation's leading research institutions and establish a massive online reading room ...
- Google to Digitize Major Library Resources
from NPR Programs: All Things Considered on 14 December 2004Google plans to scan five vast library collections into its Internet search engine. The project will make available online the libraries of four universities -- Oxford, Harvard, Michigan, and Stanford -- as well as the books of the New York City Library no longer covered by copyright ...
- The Future of Libraries in the Digital Age
from NPR Programs: All Things Considered on 14 December 2004NPR's Michele Norris talks with Carol Brey-Casiano, president of the American Library Association, about the impact of Google's plan to digitize the resources of five major libraries ...
- Egyptian Officials Charged with Smuggling
from Egyptology News on 14 December 2004http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4670995,00.html This disturbing article concerns the theft of 57,000 artifacts from antiquity warehouses ...
- Hierakonpolis Online
from Egyptology News on 14 December 2004http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/fort.html Archeology Online's Interactive Dig has been updated with the latest from the important site of Hierakonpolis ...
- Google pens agreement with libraries
from NT Gateway Weblog on 14 December 2004In addition to the earlier story, thanks to Jeff Peterson for this one: Google pens agreement with libraries New York: Popular internet search engine Google has reached an agreement with four universities and one public library to scan their books and make them available the digitised contents of the same, aiming to challenge competitors Yahoo and Microsoft ...
- 270 273 A.D. Tetricus I & II and Barbarous Radiates
from Stoa Image Gallery on 14 December 2004 - Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism
from NT Gateway Weblog on 14 December 2004Thanks to Matthew Brook O'Donnell for alerting me to updates in the following journal: Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism I've added this to my Journals page ...
- MSU archaeologist to head national group (Starkville Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 14 December 2004A Mississippi State authority in Southeastern prehistoric archaeology will head a national professional group that focuses on archaeology of the region ...
- Antiquities Market update Ten Egyptians, incl
from ArchaeoBlog on 14 December 2004Antiquities Market update Ten Egyptians, including three top archaeologists, will stand trial on charges of stealing and smuggling tens of thousands of antiquities, the nation's chief prosecutor said Monday ...
- 259 268 A.D. Postumus, Marius & Victorinus
from Stoa Image Gallery on 14 December 2004 - Winged Words
from The Stoa on 14 December 2004Lots of sources today on Google's plan to digitize hundreds of terabytes of scholarship in several of ...
- CHRONO Centre
from About Archaeology on 14 December 2004The CHRONO Centre at Queen's University, Belfast, conducts radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and stable isotope dating....
- GIS with a View
from About Archaeology on 14 December 2004Volume 16 of the online journal Internet Archaeology is themed GIS with a View, edited by Ulla Rajala and Doortje Van Hove and dedicated to the intersection between GIS and social theory ...
- Google Announces Plans to Digitize Public Library Holdings
from NPR Programs: Morning Edition on 14 December 2004Google announces a plan to make the collections of some of the world's leading libraries available on the Web ...
- Skull May Be From Ancient American Indian (WCCO 4
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 14 December 2004Minneapolis (AP) Authorities say a human skull unearthed during excavation at a Minneapolis building site appears to be that of an ancient American Indian ...
- Authorities say building site skull may be from ancient Indian (Duluth News Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 14 December 2004MINNEAPOLIS - Authorities say a human skull unearthed during excavation at a Minneapolis building site appears to be that of an ancient American Indian ...
- The past is just under our feet A LEAFLET wit
from Archaeology in Europe on 14 December 2004The past is just under our feet A LEAFLET with the words Introducing: Vale of Clwyd - Historic Landscape by Jonathan Neale, Feature Writer, Countryside Council for Wales caught my eye recently and, as I enjoy history and walking in the countryside, I decided to visit the Vale to find out more ...
- Rock Art event in England Archaeology enthusi
from Archaeology in Europe on 14 December 2004Rock Art event in England Archaeology enthusiasts from across the north rolled up for a sell-out conference to experience recording rock and the Lake District’s (England) rich history ...
- OSU Investigating Plagiarism Allegations Against Professor (KOTV Tulsa
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 14 December 2004STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) _ Oklahoma State University officials have launched an investigation into whether an award-winning geography professor plagiarized several publications ...
- Lacus Curtius Maps
from NT Gateway Weblog on 14 December 2004I've adjusted a URL on my Maps page, Some Maps of the Roman Empire, Part of Lacus Curtius, Bill Thayer's fine web site on Roman antiquity.
- I have solved riddle of the Sphinx, says Frenchman Telegraphcouk
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 13 December 2004A French Egyptologist claims to have proved that the largest single stone statue on Earth is the work of a forgotten pharaoh.
- Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database
from NYT > Technology on 13 December 2004Google plans to begin converting the holdings of leading research libraries into digital files that would be searchable online.
- More on the Bahariya Mummies
from Egyptology News on 13 December 2004http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=592527 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20041213/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummies_3 As well as other mummies dating to the late periods in Egypt, the tomb of a Governor of the oasis Bahariya has been found, dating to around 500BC ...
- Indian Civilization Preceding Harappa
from About Ancient/Classical History on 13 December 2004Dating back to 3700 years B.C., the Sorath civilization of the Indus Valley, according to A civilisation parallel to Harappa? Experts wonder in Express India, may be independent of and earlier than Harappa ...
- Google Print
from Christian Origins Blog on 13 December 2004Google Print is a new service in Beta that aims to present books in electronic form (and with a high quality too, I might add) ...
- The Cumberland News
from Roman Archaeology on 13 December 2004The Cumberland News BIRDOSWALD Roman Fort is now in the hands of English Heritage after an official hand-over ceremony this week ...
- Answer found to riddle of Sphinx
from Egyptology News on 13 December 2004http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=592003 "After researching the pyramids of the Giza Plateau and their imposing half-human, half-animal guardian for 20 years, Vassil Dobrev of the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo has concluded that the Sphinx was the work of a forgotten pharaoh ...
- Egypt Unveils 2,500-Year-Old Tomb, Mummies AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 13 December 2004AP - Archaeologists unveiled Sunday the tomb of a member of a powerful family that governed a swath of western Egypt about 2,500 years ago, along with a dozen recently discovered mummies from Roman times ...
- New technology aids archaeologists (Peoria Journal Star
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 13 December 2004SPRINGFIELD - Advances in technology are opening up new possibilities of discovery at a southern Illinois archaeological site where a prehistoric culture thrived 1,000 years ago ...
- DECOUVERTE à Tintignac Naves en Corrèze Vue g
from Archaeology in Europe on 13 December 2004DECOUVERTE à Tintignac Naves en Corrèze Vue générale des structures de l'Age de Fer, avec au premier plan les trous de poteaux du bâtiment circulaire au centre du sanctuaire protohistorique ; les murs appartiennent à la galerie du temple gallo-romain des 1er et 2ème siècles ...
- McMaster Researchers Seek To Unlock The Mysteries Of Ancient Potters (Science Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 13 December 2004In a remote village in southwestern Italy, Kostalena Michelaki stands over an open flame firing pots as would have been done more than seven thousand years ago ...
- Rescue of Giza Solar Barques
from Egyptology News on 12 December 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o111224l.htm "The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will embark within few days on carrying out an emergency project to rescue the ancient sun boats, dubbed "Cheops" in the Giza pyramids area ...
- Clay lamps shed new light on daily life in antiq
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 December 2004Clay lamps shed new light on daily life in antiquity Artificial light permeates many aspects of our daily lives ...
- Ancient Apollo sanctuary found on uninhabited Gr
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 December 2004Ancient Apollo sanctuary found on uninhabited Greek islet Hundreds of ancient objects from as far apart as Asia Minor (in modern-day Turkey), Greece, Egypt and Cyprus were discovered among the remains of a previously unreported, pre-Christian sanctuary on an uninhabited Greek islet in the Aegean Sea ...
- Tatoulis balks at Acropolis costs Confirming
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 December 2004Tatoulis balks at Acropolis costs Confirming reports of funding cuts for the Acropolis conservation and restoration work, the Culture Ministry said yesterday that budgeting for the marathon project had to be “rationalized” and rendered “credible ...
- Lake Mareotis in Ancient Egypt
from Egyptology News on 12 December 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/heritage.htm "In ancient times Lake Mareotis was a pleasure resort and watering spot surrounded by market gardens ...
- The Giza Archives Project
from About Archaeology on 12 December 2004The Giza Archives Project provides historical documents from excavations directed by George Reisner in the Giza Pyramid area between 1905 and 1942 ...
- Acropolis Restoration Fallout
from rogueclassicism on 12 December 2004From Kathimerini: Confirming reports of funding cuts for the Acropolis conservation and restoration work, the Culture Ministry said yesterday that budgeting for the marathon project had to be rationalized and rendered credible ...
- The rape of history (Chicago Sun Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 12 December 2004The billion-dollar question in Roger Atwood's riveting report on the voracious pilfering of international ...
- Greek farmer finds ancient battle marker (Billings Gazette
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 12 December 2004ORCHOMENOS, Greece - A farmer tending a cotton field in central Greece has uncovered a stone monument marking the spot where the Roman army stopped a major westward offensive more than 2,000 years ago, a Greek archaeological official said Wednesday ...
- ITS NOT JUST INSCRIPTIONS: According to this col
from PaleoJudaica.com on 12 December 2004IT'S NOT JUST INSCRIPTIONS: According to this columnist in the West Virginia Huntington Herald Dispatch, forgeries are a problem for Jewish antiques in general, not just Jewish antiquities ...
- Search the Web: (Team India
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 12 December 2004Kochi, Dec 12 : Ancient Churches in Kerala are either being renovated or pulled down to give way to modern, more spacious churches, causing concern to Archaeologists ...
- Farmer finds Roman victory column (Houston Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 12 December 2004ORCHOMENOS, GREECE - A farmer tending a cotton field in central Greece has uncovered a stone monument marking the spot where the Roman army stopped a major westward offensive more than 2,000 years ago, a Greek archaeological official said last week ...
- Claudius Gothicus and Quintillus, 268-270 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 11 December 2004 - Saxon find brings clues to history A NUMBER o
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 December 2004Saxon find brings clues to history A NUMBER of ancient artefacts discovered by a metal detecting enthusiast have given vital clues to Suffolk's history ...
- Ice age ivory flute found in German cave A 3
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 December 2004Ice-age ivory flute found in German cave A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, says the University of Tuebingen ...
- Guatemala plans new university based on ancient Mayan knowledge CNews
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Guatemalan academics will create a university dedicated to rescuing and developing the ancient knowledge of the country's Mayan cultures, Guatemala's president said Friday ...
- Firefox Search Plugins for Classics
from The Stoa on 10 December 2004Classic end-of-term displacement activity: I've created a bunch of Firefox search plugins for open content sites (Perseus, the Stoa, the Suda on Line, and the Latin Library), to accompany one for Perseus I found ready-made at the Firefox site ...
- Chinas Fermented Past: Pottery yields signs of oldest known wine (Science News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 10 December 2004Here's a discovery worth toasting: Chemical analyses of pottery fragments from a prehistoric village in northern China indicate that people living there between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago concocted a fermented, winelike drink from rice, honey, and fruit ...
- High tech analyses of ancient textiles yield clues to cultures (Science News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 10 December 2004In a museum lab, Irene Good is studying pieces of silk from long-lost cloth found at archaeological sites in western Europe and central and south Asia ...
- Valerian I, Mariniana, Valerian II,and Saloninus, 253-260 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 10 December 2004 - Ancient Gold Mask to Be Returned to Peru Reuters
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 10 December 2004Reuters - A gold mask dating back more than 1,000 years to a pre-Inca civilization in northern Peru will be returned home next year after being turned in to police by a collector in Italy, a museum official said on Friday ...
- Ice Age Ivory Flute Found in German Cave Reuters
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 10 December 2004Reuters - A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, the University of Tuebingen said on Friday ...
- Roman Artifacts stolen in Australia
from Roman Archaeology on 10 December 2004IOL: Discovery: "Roman artifacts dating back more than 2 000 years have been stolen from one of Australia's top universities, police said on Thursday ...
- Well have the weekly spate of EEF news up later t
from ArchaeoBlog on 10 December 2004We'll have the weekly spate of EEF news up later today. The what? History haunts the Plain of Jars Deep in the mountains of northern Laos is one of the most dangerous archaeological sites ever ...
- Add the latest archaeological news to your My Ya
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 December 2004Add the latest archaeological news to your My Yahoo page! Do you have a My Yahoo Page? If so, you can now add the latest headlines from the Archaeology in Europe weblog to your page ...
- Biskupin Poland
from About Archaeology on 10 December 2004Papers and documents relating to Biskupin, known as the 'Polish Pompeii," a Bronze and Early Iron Age settlement, from Archaeological Records of Europe ...
- Dipilio Greece
from About Archaeology on 10 December 2004Excavations at this Neolithic lake side village near Kastoria Lake in Greece have been undertaken since 1992 by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ...
- Tom Kings CRM Plus
from About Archaeology on 10 December 2004Surely the best known practioner of the witchccraft of Cultural Resource Management, Tom King now has a weblog ...
- Its a small world after all (Sydney Morning Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 10 December 2004Deborah Smith enters a lost world of little people that is about to make its mark on the international map ...
- Call For More Bibliobloggers
from The Coding Humanist on 10 December 2004I want to say something about my last two posts. It is making me think about the great concept that is blogging ...
- A BETH SHEAN VENUS is to go on display in Israel
from PaleoJudaica.com on 10 December 2004A BETH SHEAN VENUS is to go on display in Israel (NYT): A Venus Rescued From Ruins Beth Shean has been one of Israel's richest archaeological sites since the 1920's ...
- ACHAEMENID PERIOD SITE DISCOVERED IN IRAN. The Pe
from PaleoJudaica.com on 10 December 2004ACHAEMENID PERIOD SITE DISCOVERED IN IRAN. The Persian Journal reports: "While demarking the boundaries of the Dar Castle in Naein just a few weeks ago, archeologists stumbled upon an Achaemenid settlement," said Mohsen Javery, an archeologist in Isfahan ...
- Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Burial Find Doubles Age of Human Bond with Fluffy (Scientific American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004Though not quite man’s best friend, the cat has a long history with humans. Ancient Egyptians demonstrated a particular fondness for felines, creating elaborate engravings and drawings featuring them ...
- Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ancient Shells May Be Earliest Jewels (Scientific American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004These days, diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But more than 70,000 years ago it seems that tick shells were the jewelry of choice ...
- Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Scorched Remains Suggest Ancient Humans Were Firestarters (Scientific American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004Today, the prevalence of matches and pocket lighters makes starting a fire a simple task. Determining just when humans first gained control over fire, however, is far from easy ...
- Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ancient African Skull Fills Gap, Fuels Debate (Scientific American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004Remains of the hominids that lived in Africa between a million and half a million years ago are frustratingly rare in the fossil record.
- Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Case for Ancient Upright-Walking Ancestor Gets Legs (Scientific American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004A new fossil analysis bolsters the theory that a chimp-size primate that lived in Kenya's Tugen Hills some six million years ago walked on two legs, researchers say ...
- TD raises fears over Tara motorway The Gove
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 December 2004TD raises fears over 'Tara motorway' The Government was urged today to seek advice from independent archaeologists before deciding the destiny of the ancient seat of the Kings of Ireland ...
- Heritage group starts running Roman Fort BIRD
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 December 2004Heritage group starts running Roman Fort BIRDOSWALD Roman Fort is now in the hands of English Heritage after an official hand-over ceremony this week ...
- AWOTV: On TV Today
from rogueclassicism on 10 December 20048.00 p.m. |DISCC| Cleopatra's Lost City Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, was named after one of history's greatest warriors, Alexander the Great; archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur tells the story of this beautiful ancient city and its most famous inhabitant ...
- School Board passes social studies standards
from geography News feed on 10 December 2004Eden Prairie Sun Current, MN -... of 3.5 credits for high school graduation requiring US history, geography, world history ...
- Cities of Paul
from NT Gateway Weblog on 10 December 2004Another press release from Fortress: --------------- Fortress Press Releases Monumental Resource on the Cities of Paul MINNEAPOLIS (Dec 9, 2004)— Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project is now available from Fortress Press ...
- Pei exhibit opens at Museum of Asian Art (Bradenton Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 December 2004SARASOTA - Artifacts from the ancient to the avant-garde are on exhibit in the Museum of Asian Art Dec. 15 through Feb. 25.
- Greek and Roman Provincial Asia Minor
from Stoa Image Gallery on 10 December 2004 - Greek cotton farmer uncovers monument to 2,000-year-old battle (The Californian
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 10 December 2004ORCHOMENOS, Greece -- A farmer tending a cotton field in central Greece has uncovered a stone monument marking the spot where the Roman army stopped a major westward offensive more than 2,000 years ago, a Greek archaeological official said Wednesday ...
- How to Use the Greek Polytonic System in Windows XP
from Hypotyposeis on 9 December 2004Randy Buth's post on B-Greek ("Re: Unicode for typing Greek," Dec. 9, 2004) mentions that Microsoft has provided some support for a polytonic Greek keyboard ...
- Ancient War Monument Discovered
from About Ancient/Classical History on 9 December 2004An AP article explains the significance of a find by a farmer in a cotton field in Orchomenos, Greece ...
- Homo hobbitus update Plan to foil future hobbit
from ArchaeoBlog on 9 December 2004Homo hobbitus update Plan to foil future 'hobbit' heist ALTHOUGH their "hobbit" fossils were snatched by a powerful critic, Indonesian and Australian scientists will continue their quest for humanity's Southeast Asian roots next year, with new safeguards to prevent further filching ...
- Urban Cartography
from The Map Room on 9 December 2004A new blog, Urban Cartography, "dedicated to covering cartography and related subjects: urban planning, land use, imaging, GIS technology, urban studies and anything else that fits under the umbrella," is now up and running ...
- Sullan monument celebrating victory over Mithradates uncovered in Greece
from Roman Archaeology on 9 December 2004ABC News Online: "A farmer ploughing his field in central Greece hit on an ancient Roman trophy dating from 86 BC, the culture ministry announced ...
- Macedonian Relics Depict Real Alexander (AP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 9 December 2004Don't expect titillating revelations about Alexander the Great from a collection of ancient relics showing life and times in his Macedonian kingdom.
- Gordian III, 238 - 244 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Hadrian Sabina, Antinous and Aelius, 117-138 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Lucius Verus and Lucilla, 161 - 169 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, 161-180 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Maximinus & Maximus 235-238 A.D. - also - Balbinus, Pupienus and Gordian III Caesar, 238 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Nerva 96-98 A.D. - and - Trajan, 98-177 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Roman Empire - The Adoptive Emperors - Relative Peace and Prosperity - 96 - 193 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - The Later Severans - Elagabalus and Alexander - and Their Many Female Relatives, 216-235 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - Trebonianus Gallus, Volusian and Aemilian, 251-253 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 9 December 2004 - The 3G Portal - Daily 3G News | Niche and Prosper says Tomi Ahonen, 3G Guru (The 3G Portal
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 9 December 2004Mobile marketing guru Tomi T. Ahonen on sub-segmentation, the limitations of demographics and the power of self-organizing maps ...
- Rescue Plan for Tel Basta
from Egyptology News on 9 December 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o091224i.htm The site of Tel Basta in the Shakira area has been scheduled for rescue activity ...
- ATLAS OF LITHOLOGIC, PALEOGEOGRAPHIC MAPS OF AZERBAIJAN DEVELOPED AzerTag
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 9 December 2004The atlas of lithologic, paleogeographic maps of Azerbaijan /Devon era, 417 A.D. up to present) developed ...
- ATLAS OF LITHOLOGIC, PALEOGEOGRAPHIC MAPS OF AZERBAIJAN DEVELOPED AzerTag
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 9 December 2004The atlas of lithologic, paleogeographic maps of Azerbaijan /Devon era, 417 A.D. up to present) developed ...
- A mystery deepens. . . .quack quack Duck pond t
from ArchaeoBlog on 9 December 2004A mystery deepens. . . .quack quack 'Duck pond' turns out to be a moat It appeared to be nothing more than a duck pond, but a chance comment and some research have revealed otherwise ...
- Bahariya - 20 More Golden Mummies
from Egyptology News on 9 December 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o081224d.htm An Egyptian team working in Bahariya has found more golden mummies, similar to those found in the widely publicised "Valley of the Golden Mummies" found previously in the same Western Desert oasis ...
- 8000 Yr Old Western Desert Site
from Egyptology News on 9 December 2004http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/041207/2004120731.html This extremely short article suggests that new material has been found to support the idea that the Western Desert was occupied 8000 years ago - at a place called Toshka ...
- Greek farmer stumbles upon ancient battle monument (San Diego Union Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 9 December 2004ORCHOMENOS, Greece – A farmer tending a cotton field in central Greece has uncovered a stone monument marking the spot where the Roman army stopped a major westward offensive more than 2,000 years ago, a Greek archaeological official said yesterday ...
- Discovery and study of ancient fabrics provide c
from Archaeology in Europe on 9 December 2004Discovery and study of ancient fabrics provide clues to life in ages past In 1993, Russian archaeologist Natalia Polosmak discovered an undisturbed kurgan, or tomb, in the rugged Ukok Plateau of Siberia, just inside a strip of no-man's land between Russia and China ...
- Greek farmer uncovers Roman monument A farmer
from Archaeology in Europe on 9 December 2004Greek farmer uncovers Roman monument A farmer ploughing his field in central Greece hit on an ancient Roman trophy dating from 86 BC, the culture ministry announced ...
- Sacrificial Burial Deepens Mystery At Teotihuacan, But Confirms The Citys Militarism
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 8 December 2004A spectacular new discovery from an ongoing excavation at the Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon is revealing a grisly sacrificial burial from a period when the ancient metropolis was at its peak, with artwork unlike any seen before in Mesoamerica ...
- Late Antiquity Conference
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 8 December 2004THE SOCIETY FOR LATE ANTIQUITY presents SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VI
- Interesting series of papers alert Dont ask w
from ArchaeoBlog on 8 December 2004Interesting series of papers alert Don't ask why, but in our ongoing research on many topics of interest (to us) we came across this short series of papers from the Marine Ecology Progress Series (spec ...
- Intergraphs Geospatial World 2005 Focuses on Technology and Solutions for Enabling the Spatial Enterprise (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 8 December 2004Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions today announced an array of in-depth training seminars, site tours and an Education Symposium for its fifth annual GeoSpatial World conference ...
- Ancient Apollo sanctuary found on uninhabited Greek islet (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 8 December 2004Hundreds of ancient objects from as far apart as Asia Minor (in modern-day Turkey), Greece, Egypt and Cyprus were discovered among the remains of a previously unreported, pre-Christian sanctuary on an uninhabited Greek islet in the Aegean Sea ...
- Lost city. . .found! Ancient Uruguay farm village
from ArchaeoBlog on 8 December 2004Lost city. . .found! Ancient Uruguay farm village found The discovery of a 4,800-year-old farming community on the plains of Uruguay's La Plata Basin indicates that agriculture was much more widely dispersed in the early history of South America than researchers previously had believed ...
- Historical fort begins a new era A new era be
from Archaeology in Europe on 8 December 2004Historical fort begins a new era A new era begins for an historical landmark which moves into the care of English Heritage after transfer was approved by Cumbria County Council ...
- Duck pond turns out to be a moat It appeare
from Archaeology in Europe on 8 December 2004'Duck pond' turns out to be a moat It appeared to be nothing more than a duck pond, but a chance comment and some research have revealed otherwise ...
- LATE NIGHT TREASURE HUNT ENDS IN COURT A Poli
from Archaeology in Europe on 8 December 2004LATE-NIGHT TREASURE HUNT ENDS IN COURT A Police helicopter was used to track down two treasure hunters on a nocturnal foray at a protected historical site ...
- worldKit MapProxy Update: Urban Area and Tiger Line
from Brain Off on 8 December 2004worldKit MapProxy Update: Urban Area and Tiger Line MapProxy has been updated with these new features ...
- Taking a wrong turn at the APA
from The Stoa on 8 December 2004An earlier post to this blog summarizes new NEH-funded work on the problems of digitizing Latin incunabula ...
- CHS summer workshops for graduate students
from The Stoa on 8 December 2004The Center for Hellenic Studies invites applications to two upcoming summer seminars on Greek scholarship and electronic publication ...
- Eleutherna Exhibition
from rogueclassicism on 8 December 2004A reviewish sort of thing from Kathimerini begins thusly: On a narrow spur under the shadow of Mount Ida in central Crete, archaeologists for the past 20 years have been excavating a town that flourished from the Dark Ages of Greeces early history until Medieval times ...
- LYCHNOLOGY IN THE NEWS: that is, the study of anc
from PaleoJudaica.com on 8 December 2004LYCHNOLOGY IN THE NEWS: that is, the study of ancient lighting. Here's a timely article in the Lebanon Daily Star on lamps and lighting in antiquity ...
- Roman Trophy Found
from rogueclassicism on 8 December 2004This strikes me as major news ... from ABC: A farmer ploughing his field in central Greece hit on an ancient Roman trophy dating from 86 BC, the culture ministry announced ...
- Hands on geography lessons (Hampton Roads Daily Press
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 8 December 2004Local students use futuristic mapping technology as they learn more about days gone by. HAMPTON -- The carefully dug holes and uneven soil at the corner of King Street and Settlers Landing Road contain clues to how life existed centuries ago ...
- Cretan excavation sheds light on Dark Ages of Gr
from Archaeology in Europe on 8 December 2004Cretan excavation sheds light on Dark Ages of Greek history On a narrow spur under the shadow of Mount Ida in central Crete, archaeologists for the past 20 years have been excavating a town that flourished from the Dark Ages of Greece’s early history until Medieval times ...
- Excavators Discover 20 Mummies in Egypt AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 7 December 2004AP - Excavators discovered 20 gilded mummies in the Bahariya oasis in western Egypt, the government's council of antiquities said Tuesday.
- King Tut On Tour Again
from About Ancient/Classical History on 7 December 2004The King Tut exhibit will be back on tour in the U.S. according to a New York Times article in which Zahi Hawass explains that Egypt needs money to maintain its ancient treasures and hopes to raise ten million dollars ...
- Ancient Chinese Pigment Gives Color to Quantum Research (The Epoch Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 December 2004An ancient Chinese pigment called Han Purple is helping a team of international scientists explore the mysteries of the atomic world.
- Ancient Chinese Consumed Fermented Drinks AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 7 December 2004AP - The Chinese were consuming fermented beverages possibly wine as long as 9,000 years ago, according to scientists who used modern techniques to peer back through the mists of time ...
- Common Sense from Tim Wu
from The Stoa on 7 December 2004The Future of Digital Media is "a two-month series, sponsored by Orb, that explores how the empowerment of the consumer over his or her media experience, coupled with technological innovation that's broadly democratizing media creation, is leading to a revolution in the way people access, consume, share and remake content ...
- Ancient Egyptian man lived in Toshka eight thousand years ago ArabicNewscom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 December 2004The U.S- Egyptian excavation committee unearthed an archaeological monument in the western desert. The committee asserted that the ancient Egyptians in the pre-history lived in Toshka ...
- Roman Empire - 12 (Well, 11 really) Caesars - 27 B.C - 96 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 7 December 2004 - Worlds earliest tipple discovered in China (New Scientist via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 7 December 2004The Neolithic villagers brewed alcohol as far back as 7000 BC, tests reveal, beating Iran's world record by about 1600 years
- Earliest signs of winemaking found in China
from IOL: SciTech on 7 December 2004Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7 000 BC in northern China ...
- Reza Pahlavi of Iran discusses the Persian Gulf with the National Geographic
from Payvand Iran News on 7 December 2004Reza Pahlavi of Iran was received, on Friday, December 3rd, by John M. Fahey, Jr., President and CEO, of the National Geographic Society for the purpose of bringing clarity to the issue of National Geographic's recent usage of a secondary name (Arabian Gulf) for the Persian Gulf ...
- HERITAGE OF CITY TO GO ONLINE Modern-day Indi
from Archaeology in Europe on 7 December 2004HERITAGE OF CITY TO GO ONLINE Modern-day Indiana Joneses will no longer have to rummage through dusty museums to find information on Bath's hidden heritage treasures ...
- New date put on first wine (The Scotsman
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 December 2004RICE wine may have been making people merry in ancient China as long as 9000 years ago, scientists revealed today.
- Cretan excavation sheds light on Dark Ages of Greek history Kathimerini
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 7 December 2004A marble statue of Aphrodite, from a second- to first-century-BC bathhouse in Eleutherna.
- Wine was made in China 9,000 years ago! (New Kerala
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 December 2004Wine was made in China 9,000 years ago!: [World News]: Washington, Dec.7 : A chemical analysis of ancient organics preserved in pottery jars has revealed the existence of wine in China 9000 years ago ...
- EOGEO Brainstorming Session on Geo Blogging and RSS Mapping
from Brain Off on 7 December 2004EOGEO Brainstorming Session on Geo Blogging and RSS Mapping EOGEO is a forward thinking group, and this session focuses on some of my favorite ideas ...
- THE JOURNAL HENOCH, published by the Department of
from PaleoJudaica.com on 7 December 2004THE JOURNAL HENOCH, published by the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Turin, now has a web page ...
- A fine Chinese vintage — 7000 B.C. (Kansas City Star
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 7 December 2004The shapes of these jars, which date to 7000-6600 B.C., make them suitable for serving a fermented beverage ...
- 9000 year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed (Science Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 December 2004Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey, and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago, approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East ...
- Oldest bell mold from Yayoi period excavated in Aichi (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 6 December 2004_ A fragment of a mold believed to have been used to make the most ancient type of Japanese bronze bells more than 2,000 years ago has been excavated at the Asahi ruins in Aichi Prefecture, the Nagoya City Board of Education said Tuesday ...
- 9000 year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 6 December 2004Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey, and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago, approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East ...
- Cave of Letters
from About Archaeology on 6 December 2004From the American Public Broadcasting Service's NOVA website, a report on the 2000 year old scrolls of a Jewish woman who hid her public documents from the Romans ...
- Valley of the Golden Mummies
from About Archaeology on 6 December 2004Looking for more information on the Discovery Channel special? Check out Zahi Hawass's home page at the Guardian website: Valley of the Golden Mummies - Dr ...
- China was drinking wine 9,000 years ago Telegraphcouk
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 December 2004A mixed fermented wine of rice, honey and fruit was being drunk in the Neolithic village of Jiahu in northern China 9,000 years ago, more than a thousand years before the previously oldest known fermented drinks ...
- Earliest Signs of Winemaking Found in China Reuters
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 6 December 2004Reuters - Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China ...
- Chinese Pottery Yields Leftovers of Stone Age Happy Hour (New York Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 December 2004Archaeologists have discovered the dregs of Chinese happy hours in jars up to 9,000 years old.
- Update on Ramesses on Discovery Review by Mar
from ArchaeoBlog on 6 December 2004Update on Ramesses on Discovery Review by Mark Rose at Archaeology.com: Bones from Egypt's Valley of the Kings are a sure-fire attention getter, but a big budget and lots of computer-generated images are not guarantees of a great program as the Discovery Channel's heavily promoted Rameses: Wrath of God or Man shows ...
- Hints of 9,000-year-old wine found in China MSNBC
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 December 2004An ancient lidded jar from the Anyang region of China is thought to have contained wine 3,000 years ago ...
- Dymaxion Map Projection
from The Map Room on 6 December 2004Mark writes to tell us about the Dymaxion Projection Animation site: "The site is dedicated to showcasing Buckminster Fuller's 'Dymaxion Projection' map ...
- How face cream revealed the past (USA Today
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 December 2004When a woman lost a small tin of face cream in 2nd-century London, she probably didn't think of posterity ...
- Few more items: At least its not space aliens
from ArchaeoBlog on 6 December 2004Few more items: At least it's not space aliens New theory on Stonehenge mystery A fresh theory on how Stonehenge was built has been tested out by a group of experts and enthusiasts ...
- Autopsy Showcases Scientists Research AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 6 December 2004AP - Two University of New Mexico doctoral students will star in the Discovery Channel's new show "Mummy Autopsy."
- An ancient bust with a tragic story of treachery ABS CBNNEWScom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 6 December 2004In its sale of antiquities on Thursday, December 9, Sotheby’s New York is auctioning a fine bronze Roman portrait bust of Ptolemy at about age 15 ...
- Update from the Shire Professor fuels row over Ho
from ArchaeoBlog on 6 December 2004Update from the Shire Professor fuels row over Hobbit man fossils A find heralded as the greatest discovery in anthropology for a century has degenerated into one of its greatest rows ...
- Kay County OAS Chapter To Hear About Ancient Pueblo (Ponca City News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 6 December 2004On Wednesday, Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m., The Kay County Chapter of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society will hold its monthly meeting at the Ponca City Library ...
- Evidence of human sacrifice discovered in ancient city (Guardian Unlimited
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 6 December 2004The ancient city-state of Teotihuacan was long thought a relatively gentle place because its art lacked the glorification of sacrifice and war so common in other Mesoamerican civilisations ...
- Excavations at Deansway, Worcester and 100 other stories
from blogographos: blogging for the demos on 6 December 2004Excavations at Deansway, Worcester, 1988-89: Romano-British small town to late medieval city By Hal Dalwood and Rachel Edwards has just gone online free of charge at the ADS ...
- Grisly find casts doubt on peaceful pyramid theory (Guardian Unlimited
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 6 December 2004The ancient city-state of Teotihuacan was long thought a relatively gentle place because its art lacked the glorification of sacrifice and war so common in other Mesoamerican civilisations ...
- New theory: Early Indians killed witches (Arizona Daily Star
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 December 2004Anthropologists drew the ire of American Indian tribes in the late 1960s when they began to advance the theory that the maimed remains of bodies from A ...
- Bulgaria Unearthed Yet Another Ancient Gold T
from Archaeology in Europe on 6 December 2004Bulgaria Unearthed Yet Another Ancient Gold Two gold earrings were found during excavation works near the Black Sea city of Nessebar ...
- After Angkor Wat, India helping save Ta Prohm (Yahoo! India News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 6 December 2004Angkor Wat (Cambodia), Dec 6 (IANS) Around a decade after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) helped clean up and conserve the ancient Angkor Wat monuments, India is helping Cambodia save the Ta Prohm temples here ...
- IRON AGE HOARD IN SHORWELL FIELD A HOARD of g
from Archaeology in Europe on 6 December 2004IRON AGE HOARD IN SHORWELL FIELD A HOARD of gold and silver coins, ingots and pottery dating to the Iron Age has been hailed the largest and most significant find of its kind on the Island ...
- How to Give a Paper
from Hypotyposeis on 5 December 2004Edward Cook of Ralph the Sacred River gives some good advice on how to read a scholarly paper at SBL ...
- SAHLAN HAYES/Sydney Morning Herald Stuff
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 5 December 2004HOBBITS STILL EXIST? Flores Island chief Epiradus Dhoi Lewa has described capturing a woman similar to a new species of human 'hobbit' recently discovered by researchers ...
- Grisly find casts doubt on peaceful pyramid theory (Guardian Unlimited
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 5 December 2004Evidence of human sacrifice discovered in ancient city.
- Roman Republic and Imperium
from Stoa Image Gallery on 5 December 2004 - The Imperatorial Period, c. 40-27 BC
from Stoa Image Gallery on 5 December 2004 - Exhibit highlights ancient tribal art (Omaha World Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 5 December 2004CHICAGO - A translucent, larger-than-life hand with long, tapering fingers lends an air of mystery to an exhibit of ancient and little-known tribal art at the Art Institute of Chicago ...
- Is the Bible Fact or Fiction
from About Archaeology on 5 December 2004In honor of the new Discovery Channel program on Rameses II, the Pharaoh mentioned in the Bible, here's a little bit of the History of Archaeology, on how there are interesting, and answerable, questions about the "truth" of the bible ...
- The Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe
from About Archaeology on 5 December 2004The edited volume Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe presents data from over 100 sites throughout eastern Europe and Asia on the transition period of 50,000 to 35,000 years ago, which saw the evolution of modern human behavior ...
- Addressing the Problems of Digitizing Latin Incunables
from The Stoa on 5 December 2004Congratulations to Jeff Rydberg-Cox and others at the University of Missouri at Kansas-City for winning a substantial new grant from NEH Preservation and Access ...
- Janet Fullwood: Terrific new atlases hold a world of exploring -- Janet Fullwood -- The Sacramento Bee (The Sacramento Bee
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 5 December 2004Does your home library include an up-to-date atlas delineating all the "-stans" of Asia and newly fledged ...
- Hawass on Champollion and Relations with the French
from Egyptology News on 5 December 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/he2.htm Zahi Hawass uses his occasional column in Al Ahram to talk about visiting the house of Champollion in Grenoble, the value of his translation of the Rosetta Stone, and the good relationship between Egypt and France in spite of the current fracas re two french architects requesting access to the Great Pyramid for investigation of a potential new chamber ...
- An African-American considers Oburoni & other matters in Ghana Ghanawebcom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 5 December 2004Study abroad has long been an important part of global education, and one distinctive chapter in its history has been the presence, notably since World War II, of U ...
- Radiologists help to restore mummy mask
from Egyptology News on 5 December 2004http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/rson-rhp112204.php "Using computed tomography (CT)and 3-D modeling, radiologists are assisting in the restoration and display of a 5,300-year-old Egyptian mummy mask ...
- An update on KV5
from Egyptology News on 5 December 2004http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-11-29-pharoah-usat_x.htm An article about Kent Weeks's most recent research at KV5, the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and the skeletal remains of some of those interred there ...
- Last of the Ptolemies
from Egyptology News on 5 December 2004http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/arts/design/03anti.html?oref=login A bronze bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania, grandson of Anthony and Cleopatra and last of the Ptolemies is going on sale at auction ...
- Tutankhamun Treasure to US in 2005
from Egyptology News on 5 December 2004http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1201_041201_king_tut.html Over 130 items from the Tutankhamun collection will be touring the US, beginning in May 2005 ...
- Paleobotanist reads fossil leaves to determine ancient geology (The Daily Item
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 5 December 2004CHICAGO — Jennifer McElwain is a paleobotanist, but geologists everywhere may soon be cheering her for giving them a tool to solve long-baffling puzzles ...
- Man aims to teach geography: Former engineer pushes puzzle and online competition (Billings Gazette
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 5 December 2004ATLANTA - Roger Andresen wants to make sure you know that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, Minsk is the capital of Belarus and the hottest place on earth is in Ethiopia ...
- Iraqi archaeology subject of talk (Pittsburgh Post Gazette
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 5 December 2004Archaeology in Iraq will be the topic of a free lecture Thursday at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in East Liberty ...
- Rogue Suggestions
from blogographos: blogging for the demos on 4 December 2004Over at rogueclassicism the other day David Meadows suggested that classical conference-goers might blog about their experiences, and he suggested that they could--assuming they don't blog themselves--either submit information for him to post or post it themselves here at blogographos ...
- THE MACABEES AND JERUSALEM: More seasonal theorie
from PaleoJudaica.com on 4 December 2004THE MACABEES AND JERUSALEM: More seasonal theories, but based on serious archaeology in this case. How the Maccabees Reshaped Jerusalem (Jewish Journal) by Bill Gladstone, Jewish Telegraphic Agency [ ...
- Bones Suggest Women Went to War in Ancient Iran Reuters
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 4 December 2004Reuters - These days Iranian women are not even allowed to watch men compete on the football field, but 2,000 years ago they could have been carving the boys to pieces on the battlefield ...
- Ancient Roman Rest Stop Discovered Underneath
from Archaeology in Europe on 4 December 2004Ancient Roman Rest Stop Discovered Underneath a German bus terminal, archaeologists have found the remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman roadside rest stop that included a chariot service station, gourmet restaurant and hotel with central heating ...
- New theory on Stonehenge mystery A fresh theo
from Archaeology in Europe on 4 December 2004New theory on Stonehenge mystery A fresh theory on how Stonehenge was built has been tested out by a group of experts and enthusiasts ...
- Showing of King Tut artifacts to start in L.A. (San Jose Mercury News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 4 December 2004Showing of King Tut artifacts to start in L.A. LOS ANGELES - The treasures of King Tut will go on display in this country for the first time in a quarter century in an exhibit featuring the ancient ruler's gold crown, carved dagger and a massive gold and cloisonne necklace ...
- High tech conferencing comes to students of class at Clarksburg Elementary School (North Adams Transcript
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 4 December 2004CLARKSBURG -- Welcome to the future of education. On Friday, John Estes' seventh grade social studies class at Clarksburg Elementary School buzzed about a big TV screen, talking to it, showing it an elaborate geography presentation and even getting responses ...
- Native seeds hold clues (The Arizona Republic
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 4 December 2004Ancient crops may hold the key to revitalizing the roots of desert agriculture. A group called Native Seeds/ SEARCH works to preserve varieties of plants that have grown in Native communities for centuries ...
- Art (New York Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 4 December 2004This was the year of art and archaeology, when scholars went down like Dante to the underworld, and emerged with dazzling objects and insights.
- The Year of Art and Archaeology (New York Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 4 December 2004This was the year of art and archaeology, when scholars went down like Dante to the underworld, and emerged with dazzling objects and insights.
- Find stirs Sleeping Buddha talk (The Washington Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 4 December 2004BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — French archeologists searching for the colossal Sleeping Buddha in Bamiyan province have uncovered what could be the long-missing statue's foot, raising hopes of a major new discovery from Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist past ...
- tut story (South Coast Today
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 4 December 2004Treasures of King Tut returning to U.S. The treasures of King Tut will go on display in this country for the first time in a quarter century in an exhibit featuring the ancient ruler's gold crown, carved dagger and a massive gold and cloisonne necklace ...
- Roman Times
from About Ancient/Classical History on 3 December 2004In her Roman Times blog, Mary Harrsch comments on historically relevant video games and articles in the news ...
- Burglar alarm for ancient tombs (The Star Online
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 3 December 2004NORTH-WEST China's Shaanxi Province has developed a high-tech alarm to protect ancient tombs and other underground cultural sites from burglars.
- Ancient tombs and temples (International Herald Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 3 December 2004ROME Rural populations in the Near and Middle East usually assume that whatever archeologists say they are up to, in reality they are searching for treasure ...
- Kephallenia
from About Archaeology on 3 December 2004The island of Kephallenia has the ruins of four Greek cities, Pale (near Lixouri), Krane (at Argostoli, the modern capital), Same (today's Sami), and Pronnoi, an inland city (supported by coastal Poros) ...
- The Caves of Benin
from About Archaeology on 3 December 2004A joint Danish-Beninoise project in Benin, where nearly a thousand subterranean caves have been identified, seventy of which contain archaeological sites ...
- How to read a scholarly paper
from NT Gateway Weblog on 3 December 2004On new blog Ralph the Sacred River, Edward Cook has some interesting comments on "How to read a scholarly paper", following on from Torrey Seland's comments and mine, and see now also Stephen Carlson in Hyptoposeis ...
- Hobbit Fossil Stirs Controversy
from NPR Topics: Health & Science on 3 December 2004The discovery last month of a tiny skeleton dubbed "Hobbit" was proclaimed by its discoverers as part of a newly discovered human species ...
- Museum of Science (Science News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 3 December 2004Interested in ancient Egypt, how your body ages, electron microscope images, or fractal patterns in nature? The Museum of Science in Boston offers a wide variety of online exhibits ...
- Treasures of King Tut to tour in U.S. MSNBC
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 3 December 2004In this photo released by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tutankhamen's visceral coffin is seen from the front ...
- Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) and exhibits in Reading Museum. Berkshire
from Stoa Image Gallery on 3 December 2004 - Maiden Castle & Dorchester (Durnovaria) County Museum, Dorset
from Stoa Image Gallery on 3 December 2004 - Following news courtest of the EEF CSI: Alexan
from ArchaeoBlog on 3 December 2004Following news courtest of the EEF CSI: Alexandria "Cleopatra and the asp" (a Sunday Times Magazine feature of 4 pages): http://www ...
- ARCHAEOLOGISTS WELCOME LEICESTERSHIRE IRON AGE S
from Archaeology in Europe on 3 December 2004ARCHAEOLOGISTS WELCOME LEICESTERSHIRE IRON AGE SITE CONVICTION Archaeologists have welcomed news that a man has been convicted of going onto an important excavation site in Leicestershire equipped to steal ...
- Archeological looting: here, there, and everywhe
from Archaeology in Europe on 3 December 2004Archeological looting: here, there, and everywhere Archaeologists have welcomed news that a man has been convicted of going onto an important excavation site in Leicestershire equipped to steal ...
- THOUGHTS ON UNICODE AND THE MACINTOSH: Over on De
from PaleoJudaica.com on 3 December 2004THOUGHTS ON UNICODE AND THE MACINTOSH: Over on Deinde, Danny Zacharias has some thoughts on Unicode and the Mac, precipitated by Mark Goodacre's lament that more biblical scholars are not using the Unicode fonts and my e-mail to him (update here) asking for more information on Unicode for the Mac ...
- A hands-on with shipwrecks and divers (Cook County News Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 3 December 2004Fourth graders in Deb Waage and Jana Larson s classes explored the mysteries of underwater archaeology recently and in the process discovered something about Grand Marais history as well as developed new detective skills ...
- Treasures of King Tut to Tour in U.S. (Miami Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 3 December 2004Treasures of King Tut to Tour in U.S. LOS ANGELES - The treasures of King Tut will go on display in this country for the first time in a quarter century in an exhibit featuring the ancient ruler's gold crown, carved dagger and a massive gold and cloisonne necklace ...
- SEMITIC PHILOLOGIST EDWARD COOK has been assimilat
from PaleoJudaica.com on 3 December 2004SEMITIC PHILOLOGIST EDWARD COOK has been assimilated to the Blogosphere. His new blog is entitled "Ralph the Sacred River ...
- THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION has been mentioned before o
from PaleoJudaica.com on 3 December 2004THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION has been mentioned before on this blog, with reference to its Qumran fragments and early biblical manuscripts ...
- Paleobotanist reads fossil leaves to determine ancient geology (Pioneer Press
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 3 December 2004CHICAGO - (KRT) - Jennifer McElwain is a paleobotanist, but geologists everywhere may soon be cheering her for giving them a tool to solve long-baffling puzzles ...
- Mahlon Smiths sites
from NT Gateway Weblog on 3 December 2004Mahlon Smith has moved his websites to a new permanent URL at http://virtualreligion.net. I have now completed the process of updating my links ...
- Ptolemy and Claudius up for Auction
from rogueclassicism on 3 December 2004Interesting item in the New York Times about some items coming up for auction: You may think the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra ended with their suicides in 30 B ...
- Pompeii @ the Archaeology Channel
from rogueclassicism on 3 December 2004Nice little ten-minute film (online) at the Archaeology Channel about the Pompeii Trust (where'd their website go?) and its efforts to save a chunk of Pompeii ...
- Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program at the University of Cincinnat
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 3 December 2004UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MARGO TYTUS VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM The Universi
- Mans passion for geography has no bounds
from geography News feed on 3 December 2004Columbia Daily Tribune, MO -... assumed it was normal to have intimate knowledge and appreciation of the world and that most Americans were armed with a basic education in world geography ...
- Persian Gulf 101" for"National Misinformation Geographic"(note
from geography News feed on 3 December 2004Persian Journal, Iran -... concluded with the Iranian government or in any other political event everywhere ...
- Proficiency Based Exams being scheduled
from geography News feed on 3 December 2004Claremore Daily Progress, OK -... II, geometry, physical science, earth science, biology, chemistry I, physics, Oklahoma history, US history, world history, government, world geography, English ...
- A noble find reveals the life in the past
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 3 December 2004Chicken fighting, women dancing with long silk sleeves and other colourful mural portrayals of the ancient Chinese captivated archaeologists when they entered an ancient tomb in Shaanxi Province ...
- An Ancient Bronze Bust With a Tragic Story of Jealous Treachery (New York Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 2 December 2004In its sale of antiquities on Thursday, Sotheby's New York is auctioning a fine portrait bust of Ptolemy, grandson of Antony and Cleopatra, at about age 15 ...
- Big row over tiny humans MSNBC
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 2 December 2004The remains of Homo floresiensis were found in a cave on the remote island of Flores in 2003 by Australian and Indonesian scientists ...
- Pluralism in the Classical Blogosphere
from blogographos: blogging for the demos on 2 December 2004Michael Hendry has brought to my attention a new classics blog, A Little Urbanity, by David Wharton of the University of North Carolina ...
- Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid Reuters
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 2 December 2004Reuters - The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday ...
- Berners Lee Maps Vision of a Web Without Walls (Ziff Davis via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 2 December 2004Comparing tomorrow's Semantic Web to a huge data bus, Web founder Tim Berners-Lee says it will change the way people handle data by providing a common framework for it to be shared and reused across applications, enterprises and community boundaries ...
- Ancient Curse, Modern War Hide Arabian Desert Tombs (Reuters via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 2 December 2004Sheltered from the world by an ancient religious curse and modern Middle East conflict, a spectacular ruined city lies almost hidden in the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia ...
- The Seven Ancient Wonders- The Times of India (The Times of India
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 2 December 2004Historically, the number seven has been considered lucky or magical. Seven appears repeatedly throughout various cultures: ancient Egyptians believed there were seven sacred planets and Muslims believe in seven heavens ...
- Pan European project maps the Internet of the future Cordis
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 2 December 2004The Internet will be a very different creature in 2025. For a start, it will have grown. Between 2000 and 2004, Internet usage grew by 124 per cent in Europe alone, and 125 ...
- UK to invest long-term in science
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 2 December 2004Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced a long-term plan for investment in science education and hi-tech industry in his pre-budget report.
- Indonesian scientist borrows Flores man bones (Australian Broadcasting Corporation
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 2 December 2004A row is brewing over the bones of hobbit-sized humans unearthed in Indonesia after a prominent researcher borrowed the remains, upsetting local and Australian scientists who found them ...
- Fort Lauderdale museum snags blockbuster King Tut exhibit Sun Sentinel
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 2 December 2004Prepare yourself: King Tut is coming. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," a blockbuster exhibition of more than 130 treasures from the tomb of the celebrated boy pharaoh, will come to the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in December of 2005 ...
- APA Members Only
from rogueclassicism on 2 December 2004Latest at the APA site: they're setting up a section which will be available only to members. According to the official announcement, the 'members only' section will provide access to the online version of TAPA (from Project Muse), a members directory, and a 30% discount on some Oxford Press titles ...
- Etruscan Forgeries
from rogueclassicism on 2 December 2004This is one of the more interesting items to come out of the International Herald Tribune in a long time (it's actually a book 'preview'): Over-priced now and over-ripe, the Tuscan countryside conceals the harsher world of the Etruscans, who reigned from 900 B ...
- Reviews from BMCR
from rogueclassicism on 2 December 2004Marina Belozerskaya, Kenneth Lapatin, Ancient Greece: art, architecture, and history. Simonetta Nannini, Analogia e polaritÀ in similitudine ...
- Another Blog by a Classicist
from rogueclassicism on 2 December 2004Michael Hendry (thanks!) of Curculio fame and a rogueclassicism reader (thanks GK!) both alert us to the existence of another blog written by a Classicist: A Little Urbanity is the webchild of David Wharton, who teaches matters Classical at UNC Greensboro ...
- archaeology and the origins of war
from Michael Shanks on 2 December 2004My colleague and friend Walter (Scheidel), ancient historian at Stanford, took me to task over a blog comment last week about democracy and warfare ...
- Braunkohlengesellschaft Mibrag vergibt erstmals Archäologie Preis
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 2 December 2004Die Stiftung "Pro Archaeologia Saxoniae" der Mitteldeutschen Braunkohlengesellschaft Mibrag hat am Dienstag in Dresden erstmals den mit 5000 Euro dotierten Werner-Coblenz-Preis sowie das Gerhard-Bersu-Stipendium vergeben ...
- Mad scientist hijacks disputed hobbit bones
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 2 December 2004She may have only been a midget but her bones have generated a monumental row in palaeontology. All the experts who have studied her tiny skull and diminutive skeleton believe that the "hobbit woman" found on Flores, a remote Indonesian island, represents a new species of human they've called Homo floresiensis, some 1m tall and living just 13 000 years ago ...
- KING TUT ARTIFACTS COMING TO S. FLORIDA (Miami Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 2 December 2004For the first time in 26 years, ancient artifacts from the tomb of King Tut, the storied boy pharaoh, are coming to the United States with a stop in Fort Lauderdale ...
- What lies beneath (Sacramento News & Review
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 2 December 2004From prehistoric cultures to pioneer artifacts, there’s a lot of history buried below the surface of Rancho Murieta ...
- Treasures of King Tut returning to LA, other U.S. sites (San Jose Mercury News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 1 December 2004LOS ANGELES - The treasures of King Tut will go on display in this country for the first time in a quarter century in an exhibit featuring the ancient ruler's gold crown, carved dagger and a massive gold and cloisonne necklace, museum officials announced Wednesday ...
- archaeology and the origins of war
from Michael Shanks on 1 December 2004My colleague and friend Walter (Scheidel), ancient historian at Stanford, took me to task over a blog comment last week about democracy and warfare ...
- Ancient Irans ceramics make fascinating exhibit (The Arizona Republic
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 1 December 2004The people of ancient Persia demonstrated their wit and creativity for about 5,000 years, until about 100 B.C.
- At Museums, Computers Get Creative
from NYT > Technology on 1 December 2004Interactive exhibits have been a mainstay in museums for more than three decades. In recent years museums have become more creative about the way they introduce technology into their exhibits ...
- How face cream revealed the past (The Christian Science Monitor
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 1 December 2004Research on a tin of face cream from the 2nd-century exemplifies the new science of archaeochemistry.
- Archaeology Looking to Future, Says Visiting Professor (Red Nova
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 1 December 2004WHILE archaeology is the study of the past, today it is the future that is challenging those in the field ...
- Breaking News! "King Tut" Treasure to Return to U
from ArchaeoBlog on 1 December 2004Breaking News! "King Tut" Treasure to Return to U.S. in 2005 After almost three decades the ancient Egyptian tomb treasures of King Tutankhamun will be making a return visit to U ...
- teaching orienteering (Rensselaer Polytechnic
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 1 December 2004BROTHERS OF ALPHA PHI OMEGA PLAN lessons to teach area boy scouts looking to earn their Orienteering badges ...
- stonehenge heritagehikes A carpenters new t
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004stonehenge heritagehikes A carpenter's new theory on how Stonehenge came about could roll away old theories on Britain's megalithic monument, finds Patrick Weir ...
- 27 archaeological sites unearthed in past year
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 200427 archaeological sites unearthed in past year No fewer than 27 new archaeological sites, 13 of them in Rabat, were unearthed over the past year, following close scrutiny by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority ...
- Bronze age boat to be recreated Archaeologis
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004Bronze age boat to be recreated Archaeologists are planning to build a copy of an ancient boat found in Dover and sail it from Britain to France ...
- BILL WYMAN KICKS OFF PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES ROADSH
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004BILL WYMAN KICKS OFF PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES ROADSHOW IN COLCHESTER He might be better known for wielding a bass guitar than a metal detector, but former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has been an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist for many years ...
- Allison Einspahr wins Geography Bee (Arapahoe Public Mirror Elwood Bulletin
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 1 December 2004Allison Einspahr wins Elwood Geography Bee and moves one step closer to $25,000 College Scholarship ...
- France trumpets discovery of Gallic war trophies
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004France trumpets discovery of Gallic war trophies French archaeologists said this week they had discovered an exceptional Gallic war treasure in the south of the country, including rare war trumpets and ornate helmets ...
- Welcome to the Little Chef of the
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004Welcome to the Little Chef of the ancient world Their dried-out food, cheerless service and overpriced petrol have made motorway service stations the bane of modern travel ...
- Curiouser and curiouser The battle for the Hobbit
from ArchaeoBlog on 1 December 2004Curiouser and curiouser The battle for the Hobbit: professor stuns world of science by locking it up She may have only been a midget but her bones have generated a huge row in the world of human palaeontology, already reeling from the dramatic implications of her discovery ...
- Neanderthal N-E-A-N-D-E-R-T-H-A-L. Neanderthal
from ArchaeoBlog on 1 December 2004"Neanderthal. N-E-A-N-D-E-R-T-H-A-L. Neanderthal." Neandertals Beaten by Rivals' Word Skills, Study Says Ever since evidence of Neandertals was discovered in Germany in 1856, the question of what happened to them has captured the popular imagination ...
- December Events
from About Ancient/Classical History on 1 December 2004In antiquity, the month of December was an important one. There were festivals like the Saturnalia and others for other gods, solstice celebrations, the traditional dates of the birth of Jesus and Mithras, and the start of the tribunician year ...
- Mystery of Great Zimbabwe
from About Archaeology on 1 December 2004From the American Public Broadcasting Service, a special website on the great Iron Age site of Great Zimbabwe....
- media archaeology meets theatrearchaeology
from Michael Shanks on 1 December 2004Media archaeology - working on the traces of a medium. Theatre/archaeology - the (re)articulation of traces of the past as real-time event ...
- Topic Maps: Searching Smarter, Not Harder
from The Stoa on 1 December 2004Wired has a short article about topic maps; here's an excerpt: Databases and search engines provide instantaneous access to endless information about anyone or anything, but the search results often include as many misses as hits ...
- Borders: Shatt al Arab
from Brain Off on 1 December 2004Borders: Shatt al-Arab The border that had me thinking about borders somehow missed out on the last weblog post ...
- Unearthed painting fragments point to ancient fire in Nara (Mainichi Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 1 December 2004IKARUGA, Nara -- Numerous fragments of burned wall paintings have been unearthed at Nara Prefecture's Horyuji Temple, underscoring descriptions in ancient literature of a fire that broke out in 670 ...
- Most Popular Sites November 2004
from GEsource News on 1 December 2004The GEsource list of most popular sites for November 2004 includes resources about the weather, mapping, national parks and countries
- Scientists squabble over hobbit bones
from IOL: SciTech on 1 December 2004The tiny skeleton of a "hobbit woman", which was found on a remote Indonesian island, has sparked a scientific debate on whether or not it represents a new species ...
- Stakes high for EU science plans
from BBC News | World | UK Edition on 1 December 2004Europe must make good on plans to set up an independent funding body for science or risk an unprecedented brain drain, a leading scientist has warned.
- Man devoting life to improving Americas geography I-Q (KRON 4 Bay Area
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 1 December 2004ATLANTA A former fiber optics engineer is taking it upon himself to improve America's geography I-Q ...
- Troys ruins evoke era of Alexander (The Globe and Mail
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 1 December 2004TROY, TURKEY -- Because of a truck piled high with crates of tomatoes on the narrow road, making it dangerous to pass, the tour bus almost arrived too late at the ancient city of Troy ...
- Scientists squabble over hobbit bones (Independent Online World News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 1 December 2004London - She may have only been a midget but her bones have generated a monumental row in palaeontology.
- New Web Site for London Archaeology An excell
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004New Web Site for London Archaeology An excellent new web site for London Archaeology can be found at http://www ...
- Early 7th century battlefield site found For
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004Early 7th century battlefield site found For the last three summers the Chester Archaeological Society has been excavating at the multi-period site known as Heronbridge which lies 2km south of Chester city centre ...
- Intensive fishing was an ancient practice Inten
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004Intensive fishing was an ancient practice Intensive fishing by humans may be more ancient than previously thought, suggests a new archaeological study, which shows that significant marine fishing may have started in the UK in the 9th century ...
- Malta participants in ANSER project Over the
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004Malta participants in ANSER project Over the past two and a half years the University of Malta, through the Foundation of International Studies, participated in the EU project Anciennes Routes Maritimes Méditerranéennes (ANSER), financed under the Interreg IIIB Medocc programme ...
- Prehistoric Julia Roberts Found Bulgarian arc
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 December 2004Prehistoric Julia Roberts Found Bulgarian archaeologists have found what they claim is Europe's oldest skeleton, which they have named "Julia Roberts" because the woman was a "rare beauty" with a nearly flawless set of teeth ...
- Radiologists Help Provide Worldwide Access To Ancient Art (Science Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 1 December 2004Using computed tomography (CT) and 3-D modeling, radiologists are assisting in the restoration and display of a 5,300-year-old Egyptian mummy mask ...
- GPS Technology Drives Global Treasure Hunt
from National Geographic News on 1 December 2004The key to hidden treasure lies in your handheld GPS unit. GPS-based "geocaching" is a high-tech sport being played by thousands of people across the globe ...
- King Tut" Treasure to Return to U.S. in 2005
from National Geographic News on 1 December 2004After 26 years, treasures of Pharaoh Tutankhamun are returning to America. The boy king's artifacts anchor a new museum tour of objects from ancient Egypt's "golden age ...
