The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Just a couple of quickie items for one of our rare
from ArchaeoBlog on 30 April 2005Just a couple of quickie items for one of our rare weekend appearances. But it's raining so there's little to do except sit around and do stuff on the computer ...
- GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM UPDATE: Construction h
from PaleoJudaica.com on 30 April 2005GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM UPDATE:Construction halted on Highway 6By JPOST.COM STAFFConstruction work on Road 6 in the north will be stopped for the duration of next week after the Orthodox community protested the route of a section they claim will damage an ancient gravesite ...
- Are we loving our heritage to death
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 April 2005Fake statues in Florence. A rope around Stonehenge. Is this the only way we'll get to see the world's great sights in the future? Oliver Bennett investigates There seems to be an awful lot of interest in the world's cultural monuments ...
- Christies withdraws ancient Iranian artifact from sale
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 April 2005LONDON -- Christie's auction house said on Wednesday that it had withdrawn from sale a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from ancient Persepolis to allow a British court to evaluate an Iranian demand to recover the artifact ...
- Sponsors may be invited to pay for Acropolis works
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 April 2005Government says project will take another 16 years, 70 million eurosDismayed by spiraling costs and a seemingly open-ended completion schedule for conservation works on Greece's most iconic archaeological site, the government is thinking of seeking private sponsorship to expedite the Acropolis project ...
- Paying for the Parthenon
from rogueclassicism on 30 April 2005From Kathimerini: Dismayed by spiraling costs and a seemingly open-ended completion schedule for conservation works on Greece's most iconic archaeological site, the government is thinking of seeking private sponsorship to expedite the Acropolis project ...
- 160000 grant funds new African curriculum
from geography News feed on 30 April 2005Oregon Daily Emerald, OR -... Dennis Galvan, associate professor of international studies and political science, said ...
- Archaeologists unearth rare Pharaonic seals Egypt
from ArchaeoBlog on 29 April 2005Archaeologists unearth rare Pharaonic sealsEgyptian archaeologists have discovered a number of rare Pharaonic seals of soldiers sent out on desert missions in search of red paint to decorate the pyramids, Egypt's culture minister said Thursday ...
- Roman fort at Brougham
from Archaeology in Europe on 29 April 2005Everyone who lived at the Roman fort at Brougham, Cumbria, was buried in a cemetery close by. Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs ...
- Small box to end digital divide
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 29 April 2005A cheap, small box to replace bulky, grey desktop computers, could help close global digital divides.
- Google Print Revolution
from NT Gateway Weblog on 29 April 2005From time to time, I have blogged on the growth of Google Print (e.g. Print Google Search on 23 September 2004) ...
- Waffen und Rüstung im Wandel der Zeit
from Archaeology in Europe on 29 April 2005"Waffen und Rüstung im Wandel der Zeit" (von der Bronzezeit bis Spätantike) lautet das Thema der Tagung zu der der Lehrstuhl für klassische Archäologie der Trnava-Universität (Slowakei) im November einlädt ...
- Just a few items today. We havent gotten tha late
from ArchaeoBlog on 28 April 2005Just a few items today. We haven't gotten tha latest installment of the EEF news, so that will probably be posted tomorrow ...
- Mycenaean port of Athens found
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005Archaeologists in the capital’s southern coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens’s first port before the city’s naval and shipping center was moved to Piraeus, a report said yesterday ...
- Shippam site set to give up its secrets
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005Archaeologists are poised for the biggest and most exciting Roman excavation ever carried out in Chichester city centre – after demolition plans for the former Shippams factory site were approved by district councillors yesterday ...
- In the desert, a flood of purple and gold
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 28 April 2005A Monitor photographer surveys the desert in bloom.
- Mixed roots: Science looks at family trees
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 28 April 2005Welcome to the 'ancestry industry,' where DNA tests produce family history hints, and profits.
- FRANCIS DEBLAUWES 2003-IRAQ WAR & ARCHAEOLOGY SIT
from PaleoJudaica.com on 28 April 2005FRANCIS DEBLAUWE'S 2003-IRAQ WAR & ARCHAEOLOGY SITE has a new home in Austria. The new URL is:http://iwa.univie.ac.atBe sure to update your bookmark.
- Former Stone uncovers new book
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005A 68-year-old man signed books about archaeology in a Norwich bookshop today. But there were no jokes about old fossils in rock – because the author in question was Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman ...
- New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated ...
- Roman Bath House
from rogueclassicism on 28 April 2005From EADT: THE rich Roman heritage of Britain's oldest recorded town has been enhanced by the discovery of a “beautifully preserved” room from a bathhouse ...
- Thoughts on Google Print
from rogueclassicism on 27 April 2005The lists and blogosphere appear to be abuzz with news of Google Print ... this is the project hailed as making Google into a sort of Alexandrian Library for the 21st century ...
- Google Print
from The Stoa on 27 April 2005Google's effort to digitize scholarly libraries is starting to bear fruit. Try "Melian Dialogue," for instance, or "Erechtheum." More here.
- New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins (Peoples Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 April 2005Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated ...
- 276 282 A.D. Probus
from Stoa Image Gallery on 27 April 2005 - Basketmaker Culture
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The Basketmaker culture is the name archaeologists have given to a southwestern United States cultural group, ancestral to the Anasazi....
- Battlefield Archaeology
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005Battlefield archaeology is the archaeological investigations of the sites of military battles....
- Beaker Folk
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The Beaker folk is the name given to a cultural group widespread throughout western Europe, from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze age (4000-2000 BC) ...
- Denisova Cave Siberia
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The archaeological site of Denisova Cave is located on the Anui River, in the Altai region of Siberia and cut into the face of a steep limestone cliff ...
- Harris Matrix
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The Harris Matrix is a tool developed by British archaeologist Edward Cecil Harris in 1973 to assist in the examination and interpretation of the stratigraphy of archaeological sites ...
- Stonehenge (United Kingdom
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005Stonehenge is a megalithic rock monument of 150 enormous stones set in a purposeful circular pattern, located on the Salisbury Plain of southern England, the main portion of it built about 2000 BC ...
- Stratigraphy
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005In archaeology, the study of stratigraphy involves looking at the geological and archaeological layers that make up an archaeological deposit to better understand the processes that created the site ...
- Couple more items for today. . . . Oxyrhynchus pa
from ArchaeoBlog on 27 April 2005Couple more items for today. . . . Oxyrhynchus papyri update II We've just learned that way back in 2001, Virginia Postrel posted a link to a story in Reason Express on this very development: see "NEXT RENAISSANCE" here ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS WATCH: National Geographic has an art
from PaleoJudaica.com on 27 April 2005OXYRHYNCHUS WATCH: National Geographic has an article (via Bible and Interpretation News) on the use of the imaging techniques reported by the Independent : Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World James Owenfor National Geographic NewsApril 25, 2005 Classical Greek and Roman literature is being read for the first time in 2,000 years thanks to new technology ...
- Attila the Hun
from About Ancient/Classical History on 27 April 2005Attila was the king of the Scythian hordes known as the Huns from A.D. 433 to 453. For devastating much of Europe, Attila the Hun is also known by the Romans as the Scourge of God ...
- Tourism And Archaeology
from Egyptology News on 27 April 2005http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2005/04/27/editorial/editorial2 Zahi Hawass talking about the impacts of tourism on archaeology.
- 5th Dynasty Relief Returned to Egypt
from Egyptology News on 27 April 2005http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10article_id=14606"A Brussels museum will hand over to Egypt a limestone relief that had been smuggled out of the country more than 30 years ago, an Egyptian antiquities official said Monday ...
- First . .the news from Mehr" Archaeologists tryi
from ArchaeoBlog on 27 April 2005First. . .the news from Mehr" Archaeologists trying to unravel mystery of camouflaged Median monumentA team of Iranian archaeologists is trying to solve the riddle of why a newly discovered Median monument had been deliberately concealed with material such as stones, bricks, and mud, the director of the team working at the site announced on Tuesday ...
- Gardener unearths Bronze Age tools, weapons CNNcom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 April 2005LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A man landscaping his garden in eastern England has unearthed a major hoard of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3,000 years, an archaeologist revealed on Tuesday ...
- Las Animas celebrates Archaeology and Historic Preservation month May 7 (Lamar Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 April 2005Las Animas will be celebrating Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month (AHPM), sponsored by the Colorado Historical Society ...
- The Number of the Beast: 616 and Oxyrhynchus
from NT Gateway Weblog on 27 April 2005On Ralph the Sacred River, Ed Cook draws attention to the National Geographic article on the Oxyrhynchus Papyri also discussed in Paleojudaica (and I really share their annoyance at Revelations) ...
- York County stroll
from geography News feed on 27 April 2005Portsmouth Herald News, NH -... Along the route, theyA ll learn about local history, geography, architecture and ...
- Journal of Maps: No Ordnance Survey Data
from The Map Room on 27 April 2005Another unfortunate result of the Ordnance Survey's copyright on its mapping data: the Journal of Maps announced last week that, because of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive licencing, "we are currently unable to accept any maps based upon OS data ...
- More on Open Geodata and the Ordnance Survey
from The Map Room on 27 April 2005Mapping Hacks has a report on the Forum on Open Geodata that took place earlier this month (see previous entry), where the argument was put forth that the Ordnance Survey should open up its data for the economic spinoff benefits ...
- A ROLLING STONE GATHERS TREASURE: BILL WYMAN AT THE HANCOCK
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 April 2005As a former member of the Rolling Stones Bill Wyman may seem to be an unlikely archaeologist, but his latest book ‘Bill Wyman’s Treasure Islands’ explores his love of metal detecting and uncovering lost treasures ...
- British Gardener Unearths Major Bronze Age Hoard
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 April 2005A man landscaping his garden in eastern England has unearthed a major hoard of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3,000 years, an archaeologist revealed on Tuesday ...
- Remains of Roman bathhouse unearthed
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 April 2005THE rich Roman heritage of Britain's oldest recorded town has been enhanced by the discovery of a “beautifully preserved” room from a bathhouse ...
- Prehistoric Tomb Discovered
from Egyptology News on 27 April 2005http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7575547/ Prehistoric Egyptian tomb discoveredScientists believe site goes back to 3600 B ...
- MORE ON THE GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM: Haredim s
from PaleoJudaica.com on 27 April 2005MORE ON THE GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM:Haredim scuffle with J'lem police in grave protestBy ETGAR LEFKOVITS (Jerusalem Post)Several hundred haredi demonstrators blocked a central Jerusalem thoroughfare Tuesday evening in the city's Mea Shearim neighborhood and then clashed with police in protest over what they believe is the desecration of ancient graves during the construction of a national highway, police said ...
- Probably the Last Word on the Papyri
from rogueclassicism on 26 April 2005Just the incipit of this one, from the New York Sun (which was posted to the Classics list yesterday ...
- Apollonia Threatened
from rogueclassicism on 26 April 2005From the Times: ALBANIA’S forthcoming elections are proving perilous for the great Classical city of Apollonia, which lies near the country’s Adriatic coastline not far from the city of Fier ...
- Jawbone hints at earliest Britons
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 26 April 2005A piece of jawbone that has lain in a museum for nearly 80 years could be the oldest example of a modern human yet found in Europe.
- Ancient tomb network discovered under carpark (ABC News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005Archaeologists preparing for the return of Ethiopia's ancient Axum obelisk have discovered an even more ancient network of royal tombs under a carpark ...
- Bust of Tutankhamum Created from Scans
from Egyptology News on 26 April 2005http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109EDATE="On Sunday, May 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the National Geographic Channel premieres "King Tut's Final Secrets," a high-tech forensic investigationunveiling new findings related to his death and the first-ever reconstructionof his face and head using revolutionary 3-D CT scan imaging -- revealing whathe looked like on the day he died ...
- More on the Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
from Egyptology News on 26 April 2005http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html "Salvaged from an ancient garbage dump in Egypt, the collection is kept at Oxford University in England ...
- Intergraph Boosts Open Spatial Enterprises with GeoMedia Version 6.0 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 26 April 2005Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions today announced version 6.0 of its suite of GeoMedia desktop and Web products for maintaining, integrating, analyzing and presenting geospatial data to enable an open spatial enterprise ...
- Ancient gold unearthed in Iran (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005Archaeologists digging in the ruins of an ancient palace in southern Iran have unearthed three kilos (6 ...
- Ruling goes against archeology museum backers Sun Sentinel
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 26 April 2005A judge on Monday threw out objections from several members of the Broward County Archaeology Society who oppose the dissolution of the Graves Museum.
- Bronze Age artefact found in garden
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005One of the biggest hauls of Bronze Age artefacts ever found in Norfolk has been uncovered in a garden - but it very nearly ended up in a skip ...
- Treasure hunters go for gold
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project's (SHARP) annual six-week summer dig regularly unearths vital clues about the village over the centuries ...
- Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005Classical Greek and Roman literature is being read for the first time in 2,000 years thanks to new technology ...
- Roman relics spark village dig
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005Archaeologists are to excavate what they think could be the site of a Roman lead mine dating back at least 1,600 years ...
- Ancient tombs found under parking lot in Ethiopia (Mail and Guardian
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005Experts have discovered a major network of underground funerary chambers and arches near the original site of the ancient Axum obelisk in Ethiopia, Unesco said on Monday ...
- Barrow
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005A barrow is the archaeological term for a specific type of burial mound belonging to the Neolithic period structures in western Europe....
- Bashidang China
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005Bashidang is an early walled settlement belonging to the Pengtoushan culture, dated between 5540 and 5100 BC near Wufu village in the Yangtse River basin, Hunan province in China ...
- Bat Cave US
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005Bat Cave is an archaeological site consisting of a complex of rockshelters in New Mexico, in the American southwest, with early evidence for maize agriculture ...
- Beer Sheva Israel
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005Be'er Sheva is a modern town in the Negev Desert of Israel, and also the name of a Chalcolithic settlement dated to the 4th millennium BC....
- Ancient tombs found near obelisk
from BBC News | World | UK Edition on 26 April 2005Archaeologists find a vast network of royal tombs in Ethiopia, near the site where the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk is to be re-erected.
- Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler (Reuters via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005American archaeologists working in southern Egypt have found what they think is the tomb of a prehistoric ruler from the middle of the 4th millennium BC, the government's antiquities service said on Wednesday ...
- Roman Lead Mine
from rogueclassicism on 25 April 2005The BBC reports on some clumsy archaeologists: Archaeologists are to excavate what they think could be the site of a Roman lead mine dating back more than 1,000 years ...
- World Geography Tutor
from geography News feed on 25 April 2005ConsoleWire.com -Unfortunately, years of schooling have left many of us with only a hazy knowledge of the nations of the world ...
- Ancient tomb network found in Ethiopia (Sydney Morning Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Experts have discovered a major network of underground funerary chambers and arches near the original site of an ancient obelisk in Ethiopia, UNESCO said ...
- Ancient Egyptian art reappears online (News 14 Charlotte
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005The Senusret collection of ancient Egyptian art was gathered from private collections and shown briefly in the 1970s ...
- Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World (National Geographic
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Digital imaging is shedding new light on ancient papyrus manuscripts, allowing researchers to piece together "lost" plays, poetry, Christian gospels, and even steamy novels ...
- The Papyri ... Again
from rogueclassicism on 25 April 2005National Geographic has come up with what is probably the most balanced coverage of this one, so I'll reproduce it here: Classical Greek and Roman literature is being read for the first time in 2,000 years thanks to new technology ...
- Experts put date to UK rock art
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 25 April 2005Experts date the UK's oldest rock art, at Creswell Crags in the English midlands, to more than 12,800 years ago.
- Roman relics spark Ceredigion dig (BBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 April 2005Archaeologists are to excavate what may be the site of a Roman mine in mid Wales dating back more than 1,000 years.
- Italians urged to reprieve Apollonia
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 April 2005ALBANIA’S forthcoming elections are proving perilous for the great Classical city of Apollonia, which lies near the country’s Adriatic coastline not far from the city of Fier ...
- Neolithic burial site unearthed in Slovak Republic
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 April 2005An ancient burial ground has been discovered at a building site near Levice city centre (Slovak Republic), where a new shopping centre will be built ...
- Round barrow unearthed in Leeds
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 April 2005Last summer East Leeds History and Archaeology Society (ELHAS), worked on an archaeological dig in the grounds of Austhorpe Hall, near Crossgates (Leeds, England) ...
- History lost in dust of war-torn Iraq (BBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 April 2005Archaeologist Joanne Farchakh tells how Iraq's past was looted and crushed in the chaos of war.
- Ancient byway threat to fairway (The Journal
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Golfers at an internationally renowned club in the North could be driven off-course if an age-old byway - as wide as a motorway - is found to cut through the fairways ...
- Joy in Ethiopia as last piece of ancient obelisk returns from Rome (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Ethiopia's long and frustrating wait for the return of the ancient Axum obelisk came to end as the third and final piece of the ancient massive monument arrived from Rome nearly 70 years after it was stolen by Italian fascist troops ...
- Monday April 25, 9:36 AM By Indo-Asian News Service (Yahoo! India News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 April 2005Changchun (China), April 25 (IANS) Remarkably well-preserved mummies have been discovered at an ancient burial site in China, Xinhua reports ...
- That B.C./A.D. Thing
from rogueclassicism on 25 April 2005From the Hindustan Times: In a world encouraged to embrace differences, BC and AD are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong end of the religious sensitivity metre ...
- Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World
from National Geographic News on 25 April 2005Digital imaging is shedding new light on ancient papyrus manuscripts, allowing researchers to piece together "lost" plays, poetry, Christian gospels, and even steamy novels ...
- Prehistoric Pompeii
from rogueclassicism on 24 April 2005I mentioned this one in yesterday's Explorator, but I think I forgot ever to post it here ... it's an AFP piece from the Local which relates the discovery of a prehistoric level of occupation at Pompeii: Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption ...
- Behistun Inscription
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005The Behistun inscription is a "rosetta stone" for Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian language....
- Beixin Culture
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005A precursor to Dawenkou Culture, the Beixin Culture has recently re-dated between 4300-4100 BC...
- Henge or Stone Circle
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005A henge is the term given to a large prehistoric earthwork, usually but not always circular, whether of stones, wood, or earth....
- Stone Age
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005The Stone Age is the name first given by Danish museum director Christian Jurgensen Thomsen to the earliest period of artifacts in his museum (the others were Bronze and Iron Ages) ...
- E Texta
from sauvage noble on 24 April 2005Some Classical works are available in e-book form on Letturelibere.net under collate some of the more interesting and less well represented materials floating around out (t)here and add linguistic commentary ...
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 April 2005The Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes, a World Heritage site, are the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines in Europe ...
- STONE MINES MAY BE CAUSING PARKS DIPS
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 April 2005An Investigation is under way to work out why mysterious dips have been appearing in the ground in front of a Bath landmark ...
- Stone Age Cutups
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 April 2005Deathly rituals emerge at Neandertal siteAfter excavating a cache of Neandertal fossils about 100 years ago at Krapina Cave in what's now Croatia, researchers concluded that incisions on the ancient individuals' bones showed that they had been butchered and presumably eaten by their comrades ...
- Frank DeLoache column: Jordans ancient city of Petra features magnificent ruins (Salisbury Post
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 April 2005PETRA, Jordan — Every year when Christmas arrives and you hear the story of the wise men coming to Bethlehem, do you wonder where they came from? Yousef Hilo would tell you they were Nabataeans who rode their camels from the ancient city of Petra ...
- Yingpan Man
from rogueclassicism on 24 April 2005This a.m.'s Explorator links to an article in the Khaleej Times about DNA testing having been done on some of China's Tarim Basin mummies ...
- Classical Dictionary
from rogueclassicism on 24 April 2005I'm sure most of you are aware of this already, but I came across it for the first time t'other day ...
- Ancient mystery provides modern tale of persistence (Nashua Telegraph
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 April 2005In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas ...
- Egyptian Sea Vessel Artifacts Discovered At Pharaonic Port Of Mersa Gawasis Along Red Sea Coast (Science Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 23 April 2005In December, an archaeology team led by Kathryn Bard of Boston University and Rudolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" discovered two man-made caves at Wadi Gawasis along the Red Sea coast ...
- Egyptian Sea Vessel Artifacts Discovered At Pharaonic Port Of Mersa Gawasis Along Red Sea Coast
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 23 April 2005In December, an archaeology team led by Kathryn Bard of Boston University and Rudolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" discovered two man-made caves at Wadi Gawasis along the Red Sea coast ...
- Reflections on the TEI
from The Stoa on 23 April 2005Peter Robinson: Several digital scholarly editions have indeed used these [TEI] guidelines profitably, so it must be said that in terms of their immediate aim—to provide encodings which would support such editions—the guidelines were and are successful ...
- Kentucky human remains update Archaeologist find
from ArchaeoBlog on 23 April 2005Kentucky human remains update Archaeologist find possible American Indian remainsBone fragments unearthed at a planned development site turned up what archaeologists believe are the five-thousand-year-old remains of two American Indians ...
- 7 Corpses Discovered in Ancient Tomb (Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 April 2005CAIRO — Archeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint ...
- Greek City from Sicily
from rogueclassicism on 23 April 2005From the Italian press comes news of the discovery of a 'buried Greek city' near Monte Vecchio/San Fratello (Messina, Sicily) ...
- Italy returns second piece of ancient Axum obelisk to Ethiopia (Houston Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 April 2005ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The second of three giant parts of Ethiopia's 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk looted by Benito Mussolini's troops was welcomed home Friday ...
- Mini 3D Bulgaria Set on European Tour
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 22 April 2005A set of ten 3D models of various sites, historic events and traditions of Bulgaria gets ready to se...
- Papyri Update II
from rogueclassicism on 22 April 2005If you visited rogueclassicism this a.m., you'll want to scroll down to see Dr. Obbink's letter which is making the rounds and which he has kindly given permission to be posted here ...
- Sorry for the delay in posting anything since Wedn
from ArchaeoBlog on 22 April 2005Sorry for the delay in posting anything since Wednesday. We were otherwise disposed yesterday morning and then Blogger was down in the afternoon ...
- Recent issue of Archaeology Magazine
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html The main contents are listed at this link - see below for links to specific features ...
- Red Sea Sea Vessel - Update
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/bu-esv042105.php More about Kathryn Bard's Mersa Gawasis (Red Sea) sea vessel find ...
- The Infinite Library
from The Stoa on 22 April 2005A long and involved article on digitizing the world's libraries here.
- Sterkfontein (South Africa
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The ancient early man site of Sterkfontein is a cave in a dolomite hill of the Blaaubank River Valley, about 10 kilometers northwest of Krugersdorp, South Africa ...
- THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION is in the news, in an emerg
from PaleoJudaica.com on 22 April 2005THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION is in the news, in an emerging controversy involving Aramaic incantation bowls: Museum inquiry into 'smuggling' of ancient bowls By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent (London Times) ONE of the world’s leading buyers of antiquities is at the heart of an inquiry to establish whether part of his multimillion-pound collection was illegally exported from the Middle East ...
- Newsround Service Launched
from GEsource News on 22 April 2005Want to search 1000s of current geography news and job items from across the Net? Now you can, courtesy of the brand new Newsround service from GEsource ...
- Ancient history layered in concrete (International Herald Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 22 April 2005Military dictators who run Myanmar country are adding their own structures, constructed from poured concrete, to an area the UN has attempted to protect ...
- 7 Corpses Found in Ancient Egyptian Tomb AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 22 April 2005AP - Archaeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint ...
- More Google Maps Hacks
from The Map Room on 22 April 2005When third parties started riffing on Google Maps -- whether through hacks or by posting screenshots of its satellite images -- I wondered what Google thought about it ...
- Archaeology of Latvia
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005A comprehensive, academic bibliography in English, German, Russian and Latvian on environmental archaeology, ancient materials and technology, physical anthropology and dendrochronology in Latvia ...
- Basilique de St-Denis France
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The Basilique de St-Denis is the most recent structure of several churches built on the top of a Gallo-Roman cemetery where St ...
- Bibliographies in Archaeology by Topic
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Several excellent bibliographies are available on the Internet, some of which were created especially for Archaeology@About.com....
- Flotation Method
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Archaeological flotation involves using water to process soil or feature fill to recover tiny artifacts....
- Fourknocks Ireland
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Fourknocks is a Mesolithic settlement in Brugh na Bóinne or Boyne Valley or Ireland...
- Indians of North America oops
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005I deeply apologize, the link for this great new online course was broken in today's newsletter. Thanks to reader Greg J for pointing this out ...
- Lakota Winter Counts
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005This wonderful on-line exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution is an introduction to the historical records of the Lakota (or Teton) Sioux, who maintained a record of past events in pictures and text on buffalo hide called 'winter counts' ...
- Latino Resources
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005From Indiana University at Bloomington, a wide range information, most of it original, on archaeological, historical and modern-day Central American cultures ...
- Ostraca
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The term ostraca (singular ostracon) is from a Greek word 'ostrakon' meaning 'shell.'...
- Statistics
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Statistics are used in archaeology to help us see patterns in the data we might not otherwise identify....
- Stentinello culture
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Stentinello culture is the name given to a Neolithic site and related sites in the Calabria region of Italy, Sicily and Malta, dated to the 5th and 4th millennia BC ...
- Step Pyramid of Djoser
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The Step Pyramid of Djoser was one of the earliest of the pyramids built in Egypt, during the Old Kingdom's 3rd Dynasty about 2800 BC....
- the World as a Blog
from Brain Off on 22 April 2005the World as a Blog Two years ago World as a Blog was let out onto the net. Geography has since infiltrated a big part of my life and thoughts ...
- Oldest rock art in Britain: 12,800 years
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 April 2005Hard evidence that the engravings of women and extinct creatures at Creswell Crags are more than 12,800 years old is published today, making them Britain's oldest rock art ...
- Hunt on for vanished Saxon bowl
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 April 2005Archaeologists hunting an Anglo-Saxon bowl missing for nearly 140 years are calling on the public to check their attics for the silver treasure ...
- Hierakonpolis Necropolis - Update
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/20/international/i181449D63.DTL Nothing new, but probably the best summary of the finds, to date ...
- Portrait painting through the ages
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/1.asp "This season the Alexandrina Bibliotheca, one of the major cultural edifices in Egypt, held an exhibition entitled " Faces from Egypt", following which it released a book under the same title written by Mustafa Al Razaz and Ahmed Abdul Ghani ...
- Do you have ancient relics in the attic? (Independent Online
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 22 April 2005British antiquarians have launched an Internet search to find an ancient pre-Norman relic last seen in 1868.
- Lifestyles of Ancient Aristocrats from Western Civilizations Come Alive at Jewelry Exhibit in Geneva, April 20 - June 3 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 22 April 2005Phoenix Ancient Art, one of the world's leading dealers in rare and exquisite antiquities from Western civilizations, today announced that its latest exhibit, "6000 Years of Jewels: Fine Metalwork and Jewelry from Antiquity" was unveiled at its Geneva gallery on April 20, 2005, and will remain on view until June 3 ...
- Oxyrhynchus
from The Coding Humanist on 21 April 2005Some anonymous commenter left a link to Slashdot. As any of you who read the biblioblogs probably know, some news has been announced recently about researchers having the ability to read some of the papyri at Oxyrhynchus that they could not read before ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: David Meadows collects all th
from PaleoJudaica.com on 21 April 2005OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: David Meadows collects all the latest news over at Rogue Classicism. Curiouser and curiouser ...
- Windows Mobile GPS Thingies
from The Map Room on 21 April 2005A couple of links about GPS-equipped PDAs -- those gadgets I covet but cannot possibly ever afford. Brighthand's got a review of the Garmin iQue M5, which runs Windows Mobile instead of Palm OS like Garmin's other PDAs (see previous ...
- Buying Maps from the Survey of India
from The Map Room on 21 April 2005When you're used to the idea that the map you're looking for is frequently only a click away, it's disconcerting to read about Shobhit Mahajan's attempts to buy maps from the Survey of India, where it seems that "the idea ...
- Science: Egypts Largest Necropolis Uncovered
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 21 April 2005Archaeologist in Egypt say that they have uncovered the country's largest funerary complex, in the K...
- Papyri Update ... the Rest of the Story
from rogueclassicism on 21 April 2005There's an email message from Dr. Dirk Obbink making the rounds of assorted lists. He wouldn't give me permission to post it here directly (I guess my reputation precedes me), but it is available in the Classics list archives for those who want to track it down (scroll down a little) ...
- Digital Medievalist
from The Stoa on 21 April 2005In the inaugural issue of DM (The Digital Medievalist), a new peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies at http://www ...
- Showcasing Giza
from Egyptology News on 21 April 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/739/eg10.htm "As one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, one of the most unique monuments on the globe -- and one that must be protected -- the Giza Pyramids are listed on UNESCO's World Heritage list ...
- Egyptian sea vessel artifacts discovered at pharaonic port of Mersa Gawasis along Red Sea coast EurekAlert
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 21 April 2005(Boston) -- When Kathryn Bard reached through the small hole that opened in a hillside along Egypt's Red Sea coast, her hand touched nearly 4,000 years of history ...
- Concrete overlay for an ancient landscape (International Herald Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 21 April 2005Military dictators who run this country are following in the footsteps of ancient kings, celebrating their faith and power by building tall and lavish monuments ...
- Hierakonpolis tombs - Update
from Egyptology News on 21 April 2005http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4467253.stm A little more on yesterday's announcement of ...
- App Crit. glossary
from CAMPVS MAWRTIVS on 21 April 2005Reader dave just recommended this quick and dirty glossary of abbreviations and signs used in classical texts ...
- Ancient necropolis found in Egypt
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 April 2005Archaeologists say they have found the largest funerary complex yet dating from the earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years ago ...
- Infra Red Brings Ancient Papyri to Light
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 April 2005Oxyrhynchus, situated on a tributary of the Nile 100 miles south of Cairo, was a prosperous regional capital and the third city of Egypt, with 35,000 people ...
- Glyphdoctors - new website
from Egyptology News on 21 April 2005http://www.glyphdoctors.com/ This is a new website (went live on 1th April 2005) dedicated exclusively to the Ancient Egyptian Language ...
- Ancient necropolis found in Egypt
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 20 April 2005Archaeologists say they have discovered the largest funerary complex yet from pre-Pharaonic Egypt.
- Breaking news Pre-dynastic graveyard has experts
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 April 2005Breaking news Pre-dynastic graveyard has experts buzzing A joint American-Egyptian archaeological team has excavated what is believed to be the largest ever discovered pre-dynastic funerary complex near the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu, antiquities officials said on Wednesday ...
- Sorry about no blogging yesterday; we were indispo
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 April 2005Sorry about no blogging yesterday; we were indisposed at the museum and talking to various and sundry faculty members ...
- Excavation of Predynastic Burial Complex Near Edfu
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1art_id=qw1114007940732B221"A joint American-Egyptian archaeological team has excavated what is believed to be the largest ever discovered pre-dynastic funerary complex near the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu, antiquities officials said on Wednesday ...
- A number of news items . .
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ A number of news itesm have appeared on the Egyptian Gazette today ...
- Culture fair celebrates Egypts past
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200425t.htm A fair dedicated to Egypt's heritage, focusing on "Giza Treasures through Ages" has been organized by the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the Egyptian Museum, to coincide with International Heritage Day ...
- More on the Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Infra-Red-Brings-Ancient-Papyri-to-Lightcategory=discNot much more following on from the Independent article, but some more comments re this important find ...
- Political intrigue in China Genetic testing revea
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 April 2005Political intrigue in China Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang’s famous mummiesAfter years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived ...
- Secrets of Ancient Papyrus Fragments Revealed
from NPR Topics: Health & Science on 20 April 2005NPR's Noah Adams speaks with Dirk Obbink, professor of classics at Oxford University in England, about recent technological breakthroughs that allow researchers to read more of the university's collection of ancient papyrus texts ...
- Still More on the Papyri
from rogueclassicism on 20 April 2005This 'new papyrus' thing is just getting strange and I don't understand why things have been spun they way they have been ...
- Marathon
from About Ancient/Classical History on 20 April 2005David Meadows' Rogue Classicism blog is the place to go for updates on the newly discovered ancient texts from the Oxyrhynchus papyri and news about the Latin-speaking pontiff ...
- Christies withdraws ancient Iranian artefact from sale (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 20 April 2005Christie's auction house said it had withdrawn from sale a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from ancient Persepolis to allow a British court to evaluate an Iranian demand to recover the artefect ...
- TECHNOLOGY WATCH: According to the Independent, n
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 April 2005TECHNOLOGY WATCH: According to the Independent, new imagining techniques are allowing the recovery of a vast amount of new information from the Oxyrhynchus papyri ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: On the Ars Technica forum an
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 April 2005OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: On the Ars Technica forum an anonymous papyrology student at the University of Chicago is expressing serious skepticism about Sunday's Independent article on the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ...
- TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: For some reason this Arutz Sh
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 April 2005TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: For some reason this Arutz Sheva article from 14 April did not show up on Google ...
- Dig brings Common’s history to the surface
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 April 2005AN investigation of a village common has unearthed the remains of an ancient past which had been previously unknown ...
- Nouveau blogue: lAntiquité tardive et paléochrétienne
from Hypotyposeis on 19 April 2005J'ai trouvé un blogue francophone, qui s'agit de "l'histoire, archéologie, art, iconographie de l'Antiquité tardive et paléochrétienne": l'Antiquité tardive et paléochrétienne ...
- Archaeologists and Related Scientists: Biographies
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Archaeologists come from all walks of life and make all kinds of career choices. These are mini-biographies of some of the archaeologists throughout history who have contributed significantly to the profession ...
- Ballana Culture
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The Ballana (or X-Culture) is the name given to a pre-Christian, post-meroitic culture of Egypt and Nubia, dominant in Lower Egypt and Nubia between about A ...
- Balma de lAbeurador France
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Balma de l'Abeurador is a rockshelter that contains a Mesolithic period site, located fifty kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea in France....
- Ban Chiang Thailand
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The archaeological site of Ban Chiang is a Bronze Age village and cemetery site in Udon Thani province of Thailand....
- Ban Na Di Thailand
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Ban Na Di is a Copper Age settlement and cemetery in Thailand (1313-903 BC), including sixty burials....
- Banpo China
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The archaeological site of Banpo is a Neolithic village and cemetery on the Wei River in Shaanxi Province, China, belonging to the early Yangshao culture, dated 5000-4000 BC ...
- Banyan Valley Cave Thailand
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Banyan Valley Cave is located in Pang Ma Pha province of upland Thailand, with occupations dated beginning in the Hoabinhian period of the late stone age, up into the metal ages (3,500-900 BC) ...
- Hochschild on True Science: Archaeology Quotation
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Political scientist Jennifer Hochschild muses on what makes a science, even a social science, a real gain in knowledge and insight....
- Lachish Israel
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The archaeological site of Lachish (also called Tel el-Duweir) is located approximately 40 kilometers south of Jerusalem....
- Masterpiece or Forgery
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005According to this story in the NYT (free log in needed), scholar Lynn Catterson argues that the sculpture called Laocoon, unearthed in 1506 was actually sculpted by Michelangelo: Arts > Art & Design > An Ancient Masterpiece or a Master's ...
- Ancient pottery goes on display at museum (The Oklahoman
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005Apr 19, 2005: NORMAN - Pottery from ancient Greece and Rome go on display today at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
- Two open source object-relational projects afoot in Eclipse InfoWorld
from Yahoo! News: Technology News on 19 April 2005InfoWorld - A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle ...
- Mine campaigner wins award
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 19 April 2005A 34-year-old woman wins an environment prize for fighting plans to open a giant goldmine in Romania.
- Ethiopians Welcome Back Ancient Obelisk (ABC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005Ethiopians Welcome Return of Ancient Obelisk Italian Troops Stole 70 Years Ago
- ANCIENT SITES TORN UP BY OFF-ROAD VANDALS
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005Picturesque Westcountry sites dating back 2,000 years are being "deliberately damaged" by illegal off-road drivers, conservationists have claimed ...
- lbanian Temple Unearthed By UC Archeologists
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005Working on a hunch and intuition, a team from the University of Cincinnati has discovered a monumental temple in Albania that may be one of the earliest ever found in the region ...
- Archaeologists unearth Celtic burial site
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005A CELTIC burial ground has been discovered at a building site near Levice city centre, where a new shopping centre will be built ...
- Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang’s famous mummies
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005URUMQI, China - After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived ...
- Google launchs UK maps and info service (Macworld UK
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 19 April 2005Google today announced two new services for UK users - Google Local UK and Google Maps UK. Google Local UK aims to provide "comprehensive local information including business listings and related Web sites," the company said ...
- New Xinjiang museum to highlight ancient mummies (Hindustan Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005The Xinjiang ancient mummies found along the legendary Silk Road are to go on permanent display at a new museum scheduled to open this year to mark China's annexation of the restive Uighur Muslim region ...
- THE WIKIPEDIA "ARAMAIC LANGUAGE" ARTICLE is today
from PaleoJudaica.com on 19 April 2005THE WIKIPEDIA "ARAMAIC LANGUAGE" ARTICLE is today's featured article on the Wikipedia main page. That's all to the good, but the current version of the article includes this unfortunate sentence: Biblical Aramaic was originally written in Achaemenid Aramaic, but heavily influenced by later forms of Aramaic and Hebrew due to the work of the Masoretes in the first century CE ...
- Ancient literary texts resurrected Kathimerini
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005Classical scholars itching to read through a vast collection of what were hitherto illegible scraps of ancient manuscripts now have the means to do so, thanks to cutting-edge photographic technology used last week by scientists in England ...
- OpenTextorg adds Blog / RSS feed
from NT Gateway Weblog on 19 April 2005OpenText.org now has an RSS feed from their site for the latest updates. If you go to their main page (previous link), the RSS feed URL is hidden, but I sniffed it out at: Welcome to OpenText ...
- Anthropologist to speak at library newsobservercom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005PITTSBORO -- Anthropologist Vin Steponaitis will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Pittsboro Memorial Library, 158 West St ...
- Project hopes to map out 10,000 years of ancestry (Detroit News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005Pay $99.95 and scientists will evaluate your DNA to provide you with a glimpse of your genetic history.
- Remains identified as Native American (The Democrat
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005Human remains that were found at Arkabutla Lake two weeks ago have been deemed to be pre-historic Native American, according to Tate County Deputy Coroner Ernie Lentz ...
- Project to open internet to blind
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 19 April 2005A three-year project to improve blind access to the internet is due to get under way at Queen's University.
- Silver coins dating back to Abbasid dynasty found (Gulf News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005Muscat: A middle-aged Omani woman stumbled on a 'silver pot' in Yankul wilayat but sensing the historical value of her find, she handed it over to the state ...
- More on the Papyri
from rogueclassicism on 18 April 2005The conclusion of a piece at Salon on the 'discoveries', potential and otherwise (hey GL! they mangled your name! ...
- Peruvian plan to save Inca city
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 18 April 2005Peru hands a $130m plan to the UN's cultural arm, Unesco, to preserve the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
- Infra red light on ancient scripts CNET
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 April 2005Blog: Want to time travel to ancient civilations? Lost manuscripts from Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod might create the illusion....
- Ethiopia Welcomes Back Ancient Obelisk
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 18 April 2005The first section of a 1,700-year-old stone obelisk grabbed by Italy nearly 70 years ago has arrived...
- New images in the Gallery
from The Stoa on 18 April 2005Brent Seales had me tag along with him to Oxford and London last week (so we could discuss this process with various people), and we took a few pictures, which I've now posted for anyone's arbitrary use in icon ...
- Harcourt Assessment develops online test for Oklahoma students BizJournals
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 18 April 2005Harcourt Assessment Inc. formed a new partnership agreement with the state of Oklahoma to develop and implement an online testing program for seventh grade geography ...
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri Decoded - Important Breakthrough
from Egyptology News on 18 April 2005http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165 "For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation ...
- Bill Manley and an Unidentified Coffin
from Egyptology News on 18 April 2005http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=399002005 Bill Manley, hieroglyph expert has been trying to find the identify of the skeletal remains of a woman and child found by Sir Flinders Petrie at Qurneh nearly 100 years ago ...
- Amazing News
from About Ancient/Classical History on 18 April 2005Forum poster CCamfield called attention to the fact that modern technology has been used to make major breakthroughs in decoding the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ...
- Iran bids to thwart auction of ancient relief (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 April 2005Iran has filed a complaint in a London court against British auctioneers Christie's to stop the sale of a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from the ancient Persepolis site, officials said ...
- Oh mummy - what an interesting exhibit
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 April 2005VISITORS can sample life in ancient Egypt at a new museum exhibition.A decorated mummy case is just one of many exhibits now on show at the Royal Pump Room Museum, in Harrogate ...
- Decoded at last: the classical holy grail that may rewrite the history of the world
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 April 2005Scientists begin to unlock the secrets of papyrus scraps bearing long-lost words by the literary giants of Greece and RomeFor more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation ...
- Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 April 2005Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption ...
- A GRAVE CONTROVERSY: Highway engineer receives thr
from PaleoJudaica.com on 18 April 2005A GRAVE CONTROVERSY:Highway engineer receives threat note warning road damages gravesBy Roni Singer, Haaretz CorrespondentThe chief engineer of the Trans-Israel Highway received a threatening letter on Sunday, apparently part of a stand-off over extending the road into an area some ultra-Orthodox Jews say contains ancient graves ...
- An Ancient Masterpiece or a Masters Forgery? (New York Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 April 2005An Ancient Masterpiece or a Master's Forgery? A scholar has suggested that "Laocoön," a fabled sculpture whose unearthing in 1506 has deeply influenced thinking about the ancient Greeks and the nature of the visual arts, may well be a Renaissance forgery - possibly by Michelangelo himself ...
- Making Archaeology A Fascinating Academic Discipline? Bernama
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 18 April 2005KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) -- Unearthing secret of the past through scientific discipline known as archaeology is not a cup of tea for many in the country or even elsewhere in the world ...