The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Teachers begin long summer of work (The Natchez Democrat
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 31 May 2005VIDALIA, La.- When social studies teachers who use nationally printed textbooks have to teach geography with a Louisiana slant, more than a little textbook tinkering has to be done ...
- Greco Roman Remains in Egypt
from rogueclassicism on 31 May 2005From Egypt Election Daily News comes a somewhat vague report: Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced the discovery of grains warehouses dating back to the Greek and Romanian ages ...
- Casimiroid Culture
from About Archaeology on 31 May 2005The Casimiroid culture is an Archaic period culture of the Caribbean Sea in Central America, with the type site found on the island of Casimira in the Dominican Republic ...
- Castel del Monte Italy
from About Archaeology on 31 May 2005The World Heritage site Castel del Monte is a medieval period castle, built by Frederick II between AD 1229 and 1249....
- Voices of the Society for American Archaeology
from About Archaeology on 31 May 2005An audio and visual tour of what the Society for American Archaeology meetings are like, with commentary and slides of attendees to the 2005 Salt Lake City meetings ...
- The History of GIS
from The Map Room on 31 May 2005"Yet his search for the dark, hidden ancestors of modern mapmaking illustrates something simple and true: maps -- like technological progress itself -- are not inherently benevolent ...
- Well were back from a long weekend of, um, doing
from ArchaeoBlog on 31 May 2005Well, we're back from a long weekend of, um, doing important archaeological research-related stuff. We're not going to bother trying to catch up on all the news from the last few days, but troll for a few items of ongoing interest, and a couple of new ones:Homo hobbitus update Bones of ContentionBecause the female skeleton looked humanoid rather than human and the brain size was small, the researchers concluded she was not a Pygmy—a short but otherwise normal version of Homo sapiens you still find in equatorial Africa and pockets of Southeast Asia—but a member of an entirely new species whom its discoverers named Homo floresiensis ...
- Process es for metadata creation
from Brain Off on 31 May 2005Process-es for metadata creation I'm very impresed by the Time Graphs photo set on flickr, where "sunset" tagged photos are graphed along annual and daily axes revealing the sinusoidal shift of daylight hours in northern hemispheres, and "breakfast" "lunch" and "dinner" cover the standard social feeding times ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI WATCH: The New York Times has
from PaleoJudaica.com on 31 May 2005OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI WATCH: The New York Times has an article ("Historical Discovery? Well, Yes and No") which explicitly corrects some of the excesses of the Independent article that started the whole media discussion ...
- Imaging Technology Makes Ancient Text Readable (Washington Post
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 31 May 2005Two thousand years ago, Oxyrhynchus, "city of the sharp-nosed fish," was a provincial capital in central Egypt populated by the well-educated descendants of Greek settlers ...
- Iran blocks sale of Persian artifact in London
from Payvand Iran News on 31 May 2005Iran has started proceedings at the High Court in London to stop Christie's auction house selling an ancient limestone artifact from Persepolis, worth more than Pnds 300,000 (Dlrs 540,000) ...
- In brief: Visit ancient Babylon at Lower Valley library (El Paso Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 31 May 2005The history of ancient Babylon, located in modern Iraq, will be on display beginning Wednesday at the Lower Valley Library, 7915 San Jose ...
- Cornwall launches new environment and heritage website PublicTechnologynet
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 31 May 2005Cornwall County Councilhas launched a new website detailing Cornwall s environment and heritage including archaeology and built heritage, biodiversity, the footpath network, land management, recreational sites and trails, environmental projects, invasive plant species and the Cornwall Record Office ...
- The Stench of Ancient Cities
from rogueclassicism on 31 May 2005Over at Ralph the Sacred River, EC ponders early sanitation ...
- Relics of an ancient village (The State
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 30 May 2005A collection of dusty-rose and gray-colored artifacts act as archaeological memories of a bustling settlement from the ancient Middle East.
- Roman Port on Malta
from rogueclassicism on 30 May 2005Hopefully we'll get some more details on what's hinted at in this Times of Malta piece: The Archaeological Society of Malta has called for the appropriate legal steps to be taken against those responsible for any possible disturbance and destruction of the Roman port remains exposed during trench works in Marsa ...
- Ancient pagoda renovated (The New Light of Myanmar
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 May 2005YANGON, 30 May — Myo-wun-gyi ancient pagoda in Mottama, Paung Township, Mon State, was under renovation, and officials enshrined the Buddha statues found in renovating the pagoda ...
- Australias Megafauna Coexisted With Humans
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 30 May 2005Analyses of ancient fossils suggest that early Australian Aborigines did not wipe out the continent's megafauna in a frenzied hunting rampage ...
- Cardiff Giant USA
from About Archaeology on 30 May 2005The Cardiff Giant was a famous nineteenth century hoax, which paid off handsomely to its perpetrators....
- 17 ancient tombs found (The Star Online
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 May 2005SEVENTEEN ancient tombs believed built in the Warring States Period (403BC- 221BC) were found in a recent excavation at a highway construction site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ...
- Concept Maps Go to School (Wired News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 30 May 2005Software developed with military and NASA funding maps out what scientists know in diagram form. 'Cmaps' are proving useful tools to help school kids around the world organize info and solve problems ...
- Treasures Fit For The Kings (Time Magazine
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 30 May 2005New discoveries reveal the secret history of the legendary Thracians
- EEF News Digest
from Egyptology News on 30 May 2005http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html Just a reminder that the website edition of EEF's news posting went up yesterday on the EEF website at the above URL ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI (ETC.) WATCH: The Washington P
from PaleoJudaica.com on 30 May 2005OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI (ETC.) WATCH: The Washington Post has an article ("Imaging Technology Makes Ancient Text Readable") on the use of multispectral imaging on the Oxyrhynchus papyri and the Herculaneum scrolls, with special attention to work at BYU ...
- Featured Article on Kom Ombo
from Egyptology News on 30 May 2005http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm Tour Egypt's most recent Featured Article, by Mark Andrews in entitled "Kom Ombo and the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris" ...
- Ancient grains warehouses dating back to Greek era discovered
from Egyptology News on 30 May 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o300525e.htm "Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced the discovery of grains warehouses dating back to the Greek and Romanian ages ...
- A race against time to dig up Sudans past (International Herald Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 30 May 2005Sudan is preparing to build a giant dam at the Nile's fourth cataract, a point where rocks interrupt the river's flow, and white water swirls ...
- Flash World Map Tool
from The Map Room on 30 May 2005The flash photoblog world map "plots images and locations onto a world map using latitude and longitude information," and integrates with several blogging tools ...
- Fla Concept Mapping Idea Going Global AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 30 May 2005AP - A research institute here is taking software designed in part to preserve scientists' knowledge and giving it to schools around the world as a tool to help children learn ...
- Two thousand year old ancient city Afrodisias TurksUS
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 May 2005The two thousand year old ancient city Afrodisias' story is as impressive as the myths.
- Social Mapping and the Cartographic Modeling Lab
from The Map Room on 30 May 2005If you're interested in social mapping (see previous entry), you shouldn't miss this AP wire story about the work done by the University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Lab ...
- Visitors to glimpse life as a Neanderthal at new tourist site (Middle East Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 30 May 2005Saint-Cesaire, FRANCE -- Enduringly portrayed as muscle-bound, brainless and unfeeling, Neanderthals may at last start to turn the tide of opinion if a new venture has its way ...
- Records of ancient Sakimori soldiers found in Saga Pref. (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 May 2005_ A wooden writing tablet recovered from an excavation site in Saga Prefecture has been found to contain records of ancient "Sakimori" soldiers who were deployed to the northern Kyushu region to guard coastal areas from foreign invasion, the Saga Prefectural Board of Education said Monday ...
- A hobby thats out of the ordinary (Hickory Daily Record
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 30 May 2005NEWTON - Angela Micol, 34, sees things others do not. She takes satellite images of Earth and enhances them through sophisticated software, then identifies unusual patterns and posts them on her Web site ...
- Ruins of ancient Dian people reveal ancient fishermans life (Peoples Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 May 2005Archeologists have discovered ruins of "ancient Dian People" at the west bank of the Dianchi Lake in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, where large amount of shells, bronze fishhooks, jade bracelets and stone tools etc were excavated ...
- POxy Followup
from rogueclassicism on 29 May 2005Not a heck of a lot in the email box this a.m., but there are a couple of followup pieces related to the recent hype about the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and multispectral imaging ...
- New Research Indicates A Troubled Greenhouse Is Brewing
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 29 May 2005Climates like those of the movie "Monsoon Wedding" may extend more widely into Africa, North America and South America, according to a University of Oregon geologist's analysis of an ancient greenhouse event ...
- Imaging Technology Makes Ancient Text Readable (Washington Post
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 May 2005Two thousand years ago, Oxyrhynchus, "city of the sharp-nosed fish," was a provincial capital in central Egypt populated by the well-educated descendants of Greek settlers ...
- Scientists trace corn ancestry from ancient grass to modern crop SeedQuest
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 May 2005Researchers have identified corn genes that were preferentially selected by Native Americans during the course of the plant's domestication from its grassy relative, teosinte, (pronounced "tA-O-'sin-tE") to the single-stalked, large-eared plant we know today ...
- British Museum
from Stoa Image Gallery on 29 May 2005 - The Ruth and Louise McCollum Memorial Collection of Ancient Coins
from Stoa Image Gallery on 29 May 2005This site is dedicated to the memory of my mother and grandmother who instilled in me an enduring curiosity about and affinity for studies within the field of Classical History ...
- Athens (Various Sites & Museums
from Stoa Image Gallery on 29 May 2005 - Canaan
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005Canaan (also called Phoenicia) is the name of a Bronze Age culture and country in what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon ...
- Cairo Egypt
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The Islamic city of Cairo is, oddly enough, one of the newer cities in Egypt, founded in the 7th century AD as a military outpost....
- Cajamarca Culture
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The Cajamarca Culture was a small polity in the Peruvian highlands, ca. AD 500-1450...
- Calico Hills USA
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005Calico Hills is an area of the Mojave Desert in California and the location of the attempts by paleoanthropologists Louis Leakey and Ruth Simpson to find evidence of early humans in the New World ...
- Camels
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005There are two species of quadruped animal of the deserts of the world, both of which have implications for archaeology....
- Can Llobateres Spain
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005Can Llobateres is a Middle Miocene site in Spain, where fossilized remains of the extinct ape Dryopithecus fontani were recovered and have been to between 9-10 million years ago ...
- Castelluccio Culture
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The Castelluccio Culture is a Bronze Age (2000-1400 BC) culture of Sicily, and the name of the type site....
- Nok Art
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005Nok art describes the sculpted ceramic art of northern Nigeria between 500 BC and AD 200...
- Tarascan Culture
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The Tarascan culture or empire is the name given by the Spaniards to the Phurhépecha state of central America, dated to the Late Post Classic, between 1100 and 1530 AD ...
- Taruga Nigeria
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The archaeological site of Taruga is located in northern Nigeria, and it is one of a few iron smelting sites associated with the Nok cutlure between 500 BC and AD 200 ...
- Taung (South Africa
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The Taung site is a limestone quarry located in the Transvaal region of South Africa....
- Tautavel Cave France
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The site of Tautavel Cave (also called Caune de l'Arago) is an ancient karst cave in the Tautavel valley of France containing over 40 very old occupations ...
- Taxila Pakistan
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The World Heritage site of Taxila is located in Punjab Province of what is now Pakistan, about 30 kilometers from Islamabad....
- Tegdaoust Mauritania
from About Archaeology on 29 May 2005The archaeological site of Tegdaoust is a Berber site in Mauritania, and probably represents the historical town called Awdaghost, a site on the crucial caravan trade network in Saharan Africa during the 9th century AD ...
- Treasures Fit For The Kings (Time Magazine
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 29 May 2005They had been digging for 12 years, 4 months a year, 18 hours a day. Since 1992, Georgi Kitov and his team have been searching through Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings, a 100-km, heavily forested region in the center of the country ...
- The End of the Empire
from rogueclassicism on 29 May 2005History Today has a full text article available (free registration is required) by Bryan Ward-Perkins entitled The End of The Roman Empire: Did it Collapse or Was it Transformed? Here's the incipit: It used to be unquestioned that the Roman empire in the West fell to violent and bloody invasion that resulted in the death of a civilization, and the start of a ‘dark age’, from which it would take Europe centuries to recover ...
- Thracian Treasure
from rogueclassicism on 29 May 2005Time Magazine has an article on some of the recent finds in Bulgaria (with photos) .... here's the incipit: They had been digging for 12 years, 4 months a year, 18 hours a day ...
- Zahi Hawass Interview Corrected
from Egyptology News on 29 May 2005http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/hawassinterview.htmThe excellent Tour Egypt website has a new feature - an interview with the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr Zahi Hawass ...
- Relics of an ancient village (Miami Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 May 2005A collection of dusty-rose and gray-colored artifacts act as archaeological memories of a bustling settlement from the ancient Middle East.
- BLM offers $500 reward for info on ancient art vandalism (Provo Daily Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 May 2005SALT LAKE CITY -- The Bureau of Land Management has dangled out a $500 reward for information about vandalism this month at an ancient rock art site near St ...
- 17 ancient tombs found in N. China (Peoples Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 28 May 2005Seventeen ancient tombs believed to be built in the Warring States Period (403 BC.- 221 BC.) were found in a recent rescue excavation at an express highway construction site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ...
- LAWRENCE MYKYTIUK, who has appeared before in Pale
from PaleoJudaica.com on 28 May 2005LAWRENCE MYKYTIUK, who has appeared before in PaleoJudaica (here, here, and here), has now published his book on Israelite epigraphy ...
- Kouros Returns to Samos
from rogueclassicism on 28 May 2005From the Guardian: Still smiling after 2,600 years, one small Greek youth, probably trousered by a soldier 60 years ago, is going home to the island of Samos ...
- Elgin Marbles/Nazi Loot Ruling
from rogueclassicism on 28 May 2005Followup to that Nazi loot story from last week which could possibly have implications for the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles ...
- Roman Villa at Pesaro
from rogueclassicism on 28 May 2005A brief item in the Italian portal ByMarche relates the discovery of a Roman villa: Nel cuore del centro della cittÀ, tra via dell’Abbondanza e via Mazzolari, è emersa una villa romana di epoca imperiale ...
- With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
from NYT > Technology on 27 May 2005The rise of podcasting is now enabling museumgoers to concoct their own unofficial audio guides and tours.
- With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
from NYT > Technology on 27 May 2005The rise of podcasting is now enabling museumgoers to concoct their own unofficial audio guides and tours.
- Google Map and Satellite Tiles
from The Map Room on 27 May 2005This so-called Simple Analysis of Google Map and Satellite Tiles is anything but to my uneducated eyes: it looks at the mechanics of how each 128×128-pixel tile is rendered ...
- Britain in 3D
from About Geology on 27 May 2005A recent story from the BBC reports on a lovely initiative by the British Geological Survey that has put the geologic map of Britain into a 3D scheme, including the usual rocks but also earthquake hypocenters, the Moho and other ...
- The name Babinit
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 26 May 2005Dear List, A new early medieval (6th-7th century AD) inscription has been found
- Alexandrias Submerged Archaeology
from Egyptology News on 26 May 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/tr1.htm A travel account of diving into Alexandria's underwater archaeolgy: "Thanks to the earthquake that rocked Alexandria in 1323 the Mediterranean has preserved to divers one of the seven wonders of the world -- Alexandria's Lighthouse, the remnants of which now lie nine metres on the sea bed" ...
- Ancient Heliopolis
from Egyptology News on 26 May 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/fe1.htm "Connected to the Nile by a canal, Heliopolis (the Ancient Egyptian Iunu and Biblical On) was always a place of eminence ...
- GlyphStudy: Middle Egyptian Study Group updated
from Egyptology News on 26 May 2005http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GlyphStudy/ A new study group, an off-shoot of the excellent and long-established AEL (Ancient Egyptian Language) list has been started at the above address ...
- Athens Agora Museum
from Stoa Image Gallery on 26 May 2005 - Cyprus Produced First Mediterranean Wine
from Roman Archaeology on 26 May 2005Discovery Channel: "The Mediterranean's first wine was made in Cyprus some 5,500 years ago, according to Italian archaeologists who unearthed evidence that predates winemaking by ancient Greeks by at least 1,500 years ...
- National Archives of Japan Map Collection
from The Map Room on 26 May 2005The National Archives of Japan's Digital Gallery has a substantial online collection of old maps, scanned at high resolution ...
- Program joins archaeology, photography (Cortez Journal
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 26 May 2005For those who love to photograph interesting places and for those who have always had an interest in archaeology, an exciting opportunity awaits.
- Philip Harlands new blog
from NT Gateway Weblog on 26 May 2005I'm certainly following the many others (Paleojudaica, Biblical Theology, RogueClassicism, Hypotyposeis, Philo of Alexandria, Stuff of Earth) in welcoming Philip Harland's assimilation to the blogosphere: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean Posts on religious life among Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire and on the social history of Christianity ...
- Students learn to dig archaeology Lesson teaches about artifacts from yesterday - and today (Daily Bulletin
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 26 May 2005CHINO HILLS - Nine-year-old Raquel Arteaga was puzzled to see a pizza box and a light bulb sitting on a table, to be studied as artifacts for an archaeology project Wednesday ...
- ASSIMILATED TO THE BLOGOSPHERE: Philip Harland, a
from PaleoJudaica.com on 25 May 2005ASSIMILATED TO THE BLOGOSPHERE: Philip Harland, assistant professor at Concordia University, has started a blog on Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean ...
- Sunday Times: King Tut tut tut
from Egyptology News on 25 May 2005http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1610673,00.html Quite a long article - either select Print View or click on the next Page links at the bottom of each part of the text (4 pages in total) ...
- Media Corner We caught the last half(-ish) of a N
from ArchaeoBlog on 25 May 2005Media Corner We caught the last half(-ish) of a Nova program (PBS) on the peopling of the Americas (originally broadcast back in November) ...
- New Biblioblog: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
from Hypotyposeis on 25 May 2005Philip Harland, whom I have previously blogged about ("Uh-oh, Now I have to buy the book...," July 27, 2004; and "Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations," Dec ...
- University Presses Challenge Google
from NYT > Technology on 25 May 2005A trade group objects to Google's plans to digitize the collections of university libraries.
- MSN Virtual Earth
from The Map Room on 24 May 2005Microsoft's response to Google Maps comes in the form of MSN Virtual Earth, which was announced yesterday at the D: All Things Digital conference and will debut for real some time this summer ...
- Lewes Archaeology Festival to be Held Memorial Day Weekend (WBOC 16
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 24 May 2005LEWES - Delaware history and the Lewes maritime culture will come to life at the Zwaanendael Museum this Memorial Day weekend, May 28 and 29, as the Zwaanendael Museum hosts the seventh annual Lewes Archaeology Festival ...
- Googles books online under fire
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 24 May 2005A plan by Google, the internet search engine, to put university libraries online has come under fire from a group of US publishers.
- Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder, 138-161 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 24 May 2005 - Global Wind Map
from The Map Room on 23 May 2005Further to my previous post on wind atlases, two Stanford University researchers have compiled a global wind map that charts wind energy potential worldwide ...
- TECHNOLOGY AND ANTIQUITY WATCH: While were on th
from PaleoJudaica.com on 23 May 2005TECHNOLOGY-AND-ANTIQUITY WATCH: While we're on the subject of cool ancient manuscripts and creative technologies for reading them, there's this Yahoo News article about an important Archimedes manuscript: Using state-of-the-art circular particle accelerators called synchrotrons, the scientists shone ultra-fine light beams onto three pages of the aged texts ...
- Great heaping gobs of stuff today. . . . . Diggin
from ArchaeoBlog on 23 May 2005Great heaping gobs of stuff today. . . . .Digging in the NW Archaeology Enthusiasts In Southern Oregon Offered Rare OpportunityThe Southern Oregon Historical Society seeks volunteers (18 years of age or older) who would like to participate in the Fort Lane archaeology project scheduled for the week of July 11-15 ...
- New location for museum of antiquities
from Egyptology News on 23 May 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o220525j.htm"Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni stated that the first phase in constructing the Grand Museum of Egypt at Cairo-Alexandria desert road has already started ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI WATCH: I know that pointing ou
from PaleoJudaica.com on 23 May 2005OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI WATCH: I know that pointing out media errors regarding the Oxyrhynchus papyri story is starting to seem like shooting fish in a barrel, but I just can't let this one pass ...
- Hobbit Like Human Remains Returned to Their Finders
from National Geographic News on 23 May 2005After much dispute, rival scientists returned the remains of the newfound "hobbit" species of human to the team that found the bones.
- Update: Oxyrhynchus Papyri and The Trojan Wars
from Egyptology News on 22 May 2005http://www.newsday.com/news/health/chi-0505190301may19,0,7572249,print.story?coll=ny-leadhealthnews-headlines "In the past few weeks alone, researchers have succeeded in deciphering a 70-line fragment from a lost tragedy by Sophocles and a 30-line fragment from Archilochos, a Greek soldier-poet who chronicled the Trojan Wars ...
- PAST (Partnering Archaeology with Science and Tech
from ArchaeologyOnline on 22 May 2005PAST (Partnering Archaeology with Science and Technology) is offering a field school in July at Middle Island ...
- Unearthing Tse-whit-zen This is an almost week lo
from ArchaeoBlog on 22 May 2005Unearthing Tse-whit-zen This is an almost week-long series of articles on the Tse-whit-zen village unearthed last year in Port Townsend WA during contstruction of a dry dock ...
- Saqqara 2005 Dig Diary
from Egyptology News on 22 May 2005http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htm The Leiden Excavations, a joint expedition working in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, are ongoing and the 2005 Dig Diary is online at the above URL ...
- Djehuty 2005 Dig Diary (in Spanish
from Egyptology News on 22 May 2005http://www.excavacionegipto.com/diario/diario05.jsp I was doing my usual Sunday morning trawl through my Egyptology Portal site, checking for updates and broken links, and I noticed that the Djehuty website has been updated with the 2005 dig diary ...
- Roman conquerors had woolly socks
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 May 2005The sartorial elegance of the Italians has been shattered, with news that woolly socks helped their ancestors' conquest of northern England ...
- Italy indicts Getty curator
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 May 2005ROME --In a long-running legal battle with broad implications for museum collections worldwide, a senior curator at the J ...
- Mining hope for Bronze Age site
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 May 2005Mining for copper and zinc could return to Anglesey's Parys Mountain mine after an absence of almost 100 years ...
- ROMAN FIND BYPASS HITCH
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 May 2005AN UNDISCOVERED stretch of Hadrian’s Wall has been unearthed by archaeologists on the route of the £30 million Carlisle Northern Development by-pass ...
- First news from the EEF Press report: The Egypti
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 May 2005First, news from the EEFPress report: The Egyptian Gazette, Miscallaneous:http://www.algomhuria.net ...
- EEF News Digest
from Egyptology News on 20 May 2005http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html The latest edition of EEF's news digest will be released by A ...
- Tyndale Tech Latest -- Unicode
from NT Gateway Weblog on 20 May 2005The latest Tyndale Tech email arrived today from David Instone Brewer (not yet on the web) and it returns to the theme of Biblical language fonts and unicode ...
- Google Factory Tour: Google Earth, Map API
from The Map Room on 20 May 2005Yesterday's Google Factory Tour (via Kottke) yielded some interesting tidbits about Google's operations and future plans, including "Google Earth," a successor to Keyhole (previous entry) that will debut for real in a couple of weeks ...
- Scratching Heritage
from Egyptology News on 20 May 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/743/letters.htm A reader's letter to the online Al Ahram Weekly, which attacks official care standards in the Valley of the Kings, and objects to the CT scans of mummies both as a desecration, and as something unnecessary taking place while the much-needed precautions for preservation of the tombs from which they have been removed are not taken ...
- Faruk Wahba: presenting ancient Egypt
from Egyptology News on 20 May 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ "The retrospective exhibition of Faruk Wahba held at Horizon I Gallery displays a fine collection of the artist's work ...
- Britains Lost Colosseum - Timewatch
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 20059:00pm - 9:50pmBBC2VIDEO Plus+: 470001Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-describedBritain's Lost Colosseum Wherever the Romans conquered, they built amphitheatres ...
- Roman soldiers help new fight against windfarm
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005ANCIENT Roman legions who once marched through South Yorkshire could soon be playing a part in a new battle—this time to halt a green scheme ...
- Amphith eater fans enjoyed fast-food too
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005FOOTBALL wouldn't be the same without the obligatory burger vans and stalls selling cheap scarves outside the ground ...
- German Scientists: Europes Oldest Script Found in Bulgaria
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005Ancient tablets found in South Bulgaria are written in the oldest European script found ever, German scientists say ...
- Archaeologist tells of digs in Central Asia
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005Victor Sariyiannidis has spent his life searching for traces of GreeksFindings from the royal Bactrian graves ...
- Panonian gladiators
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005THE success of the recent movie Gladiator demonstrates continuing public interest in the ancient past ...
- Earliest European 31,000 years old
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005Fossilised human bones found in the Czech Republic have been dated back to some 31,000 years, which scientists say confirms them as the oldest known examples of Homo sapiens found in Europe ...
- Research fuels debate over die-off of prehistoric Neanderthals
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005For decades, scientists have argued over the disappearance of Neanderthals from prehistoric Europe about 30,000 years ago ...
- Cypriots took wine to the world
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 May 2005The ancient Greeks took wine to the masses, the Romans to the world. But it was the innovation of Cypriots that showed them how, say archaeologists ...
- Just a couple of items today as our network connec
from ArchaeoBlog on 19 May 2005Just a couple of items today as our network connection is kinda flaky. Archaeologists Unearth 5,000-Year-Old Jars Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old chamber believed to have been used for the burial rituals of Egypt’s first major pharaoh found a cache of 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars, Egyptian authorities said today ...
- International Institute of Anthropology
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005Dr Nikolova of the International Institute of Anthropology has just sent me details of their web site ...
- Socks . . . ? The Romans put their foot in it
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005WITH names such as Versace dominating the world's catwalks, the Italians may regard themselves as being the modern-day epitome of sartorial chic ...
- Plans for Iron Age replica
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005A REPLICA of an Iron Age house used by the first settlers in Ryedale is set to be built by young offenders in the grounds of Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole ...
- Multimedia firm scoops award for epic recreation
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005GROUND-BREAKING work on an epic project to revive an ancient city in Israel has won an accolade for a York multimedia company ...
- Aristocrats bathing room is unearthed
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005ARCHAEOLOGISTS are hoping to unearth fresh information about the lifestyle of 17th Century aristocrats after re-opening rooms at Bolsover Castle which have remained sealed for more than 100 years ...
- International alliance to unlock secrets of Egyptian mummies
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005Two world-renowned teams of experts on Egyptian mummies have joined forces in an international effort to better understand disease and its treatment in ancient Egypt ...
- EU shot in the arm for Acropolis
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005An extra 5 million euros will be provided for the Acropolis conservation works, bringing the total of European Union and national funding for the mammoth project up to 12 million euros over the next two years, the government said yesterday ...
- Second Oldest Wine in the World
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005The monk Martin Luther may have once said, "beer is made by men, wine by god", but archaeologists claim to have found the oldest wine in the Mediterranean region, and it was made by Cypriots ...
- Metal detector treasures on display at towns museum
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005AN ANGLO-Saxon pendant dating from the seventh century and a 550-year-old silver gilt ring have gone on display in North Yorkshire two years after they were discovered ...
- Loch Lomond dig finds lost national treasures
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed a "vast array of important national treasures" at a Loch Lomond site which shows signs of human settlement from four different historical periods spanning 4,000 years ...
- Scrub fire turns back the ages
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 May 2005A SCRUB fire has proved an unexpected boon for archaeologists.A Bronze Age burial site's discovery has now been confirmed by a new report after almost a year of work ...
- Ancient gods dating to 1st century uncovered in Petra
from Roman Archaeology on 18 May 2005Ancient gods uncovered: The stone heads of 22 ancient gods have been found at an excavation in Petra ...
- Thornborough Free Festival
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005Matty Jacobs came to TimeWatch less than a month ago suggesting he could setup a gig to raise funds and awareness of the TimeWatch campaign ...
- Quarry site shows historic activity
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005A QUARRY firm's own archaeologists said a site chosen for excavation should not be disturbed, according to campaigners ...
- Archaeologists Unearth Britains Own Miniature Coliseum
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005Archaeologists have discovered evidence of Britain’s own miniature Coliseum, it was revealed today.The two-tier stone built structure, in Chester, which dates back to 100AD, hosted gladiatorial contests, floggings and public executions ...
- Ägyptisches Museum der Uni Bonn zeigt "Bilder des Orients
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005Bereits seit den frühen 80er Jahren bereist die studierte Ägyptologin und Fotografin Edith Bernhauer den Orient ...
- Acropolis to be free of scaffolding by 2006, restoration experts say
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005Ongoing restoration work on the Acropolis will be completed on schedule, and all scaffolding currently encumbering the ancient citadel will be removed by 2006, Greek archaeologists supervising the project have said ...
- They came, they saw, they bought the souvenir
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005A series of finds unearthed at a previously unknown Roman amphitheatre in Chester suggest the habits of sports fans have not changed in almost two millennia, archaeologists said yesterday ...
- Piece be with you
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 May 2005The Thracian king Seutus III, whose gold mask was unearthed in 2004 by Bulgarian archaeologists, has been chopped with an axe after his death, an expert research showed ...
- Flickr Geotagging Group
from The Map Room on 18 May 2005More on geotagging, Geobloggers and Flickr: there's now a geotagging group on Flickr that discusses ways and means of incorporating location metadata into Flickr photos ...
- why is worldKit Flash
from Brain Off on 17 May 2005why is worldKit Flash? It's a question I get asked, with reason. It's proprietary, only somewhat open, and it's future is unclear ...
- Another Google Maps Roundup
from The Map Room on 17 May 2005More hacks of, and news and commentary about, Google Maps: Hey Google, Map This! Wired's Daniel Terdiman covers the various Google Maps hacks out there, some of which we've seen before here on The Map Room, some of which we ...
- CHLT summary in D Lib
from The Stoa on 16 May 2005See Jeff Rydberg-Cox, "The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium," D-Lib Magazine 11.5 (May 2005): 1 ...
- Cyprus first to make wine
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 May 2005Cyprus was the first Mediterranean country to make wine, an Italian archaeologist has claimed.Maria-Rosaria Belgiorno said she uncovered evidence, during an archaeological dig near the southern coastal town of Limassol, that Cypriots produced wine up to 6,000 years ago, AFP reports ...
- Revealed: how rowdy schoolboys knocked a leg off one of the Elgin Marbles
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 May 2005The Elgin Marbles have survived an invasion by Turkish hordes and a bombardment by the Venetian Navy - but two rowdy schoolboys were too much for them, secret papers reveal ...
- Tara M3 decision a bad day for Ireland’s heritage says Green Party
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 May 2005Today’s decision by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Dick Roche TD to give the go-ahead for the M3 Motorway in the vicinity of the Hill of Tara is an enormous mistake said the Green Party today ...
- Museum curator credited with finding oldest steel
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 May 2005Two pieces of metal unearthed at colonial ruins in Turkey have been deemed the world's oldest examples of a crude type of steel, dating back to 1800 B ...
- Gravel extraction threatens a Welsh valley rich in archaeology
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 May 2005An expert called for a halt on planned gravel extraction in a Welsh valley rich in archaeology. Professor Simon Haslett, from Bath Spa University College, said the range of finds he had unearthed told a previously unknown story of more than 7,000 years of human history in the Olway valley between Monmouth and Usk ...
- Stonerowing experiment by the Stonehengineers
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 May 2005The Stonehengineers are a group of archaeologists, scientists and antiquarians investigating how Neolithic communities may have transported and erected large stones to produce megalithic monuments ...
- Arnold
from Stoa Image Gallery on 13 May 2005Photos of Archaeological sites in Britain, Italy, Tunisia & Turkey. A small selection of Roman Coinage.Other items of passing interest.
- Sousse Museum
from Stoa Image Gallery on 13 May 2005 - Temp folder. Animals in Roman Mosaics
from Stoa Image Gallery on 13 May 2005 - Wars of the Romans as depicted on their coinage
from Stoa Image Gallery on 13 May 2005 - Bonampak Mexico
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005Bonampak is a Classic Maya site in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, occupied from about 650-800 AD....
- Bourbon Excavations
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005In 1738, Charles of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies and founder of the House of Bourbon, hired antiquarian Marcello Venuti to work at the sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii ...
- Boxgrove UK
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005The Boxgrove site is a Middle Stone Age site located in a stone quarry in West Sussex England....
- Bromme Culture
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005The Bromme culture is the name given to an early prehistoric reindeer-hunting culture of Scandinavia...
- Bronze Age
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005The Bronze Age is a fairly arbitrary technological stage invented as part of a three-part system (Stone, Bronze, and Iron)...
- Fossil Legends of the First Americans: A Book Review
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005Adrienne Mayor's Fossil Legends of the First Americans is interesting, both for its detailed descriptions of the legends and investigations of paleontological data by Native American people, but also for the visible struggles of a scientist trying to reconcile one ...
- Sandia Cave: The Elephant in the Parlor
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005Tony Baker has a personal history with Sandia Cave, not to mention a 4.5-hour oral history taken with one of the excavators ...
- Sweet Track UK
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005Sweet Track is the name given to the earliest known trackway in northern Europe, built, according to tree ring analysis of the wood, in the winter or early spring of 3807 or 3806 BC ...
- Synagogues
from About Archaeology on 13 May 2005A synagogue is, of course, a religious structure that can be identified with the Jewish faith; the earliest synagogues probably developed during the Byzantine period of the 6th century BC ...
- Philip Esler AHRC role
from NT Gateway Weblog on 13 May 2005Congratulations to Prof. Philip Esler at St Andrews University for his appointment as new chief executive for the Arts and Humanities Research Council ...
- Archaeology museum wins top award
from Archaeology in Europe on 13 May 2005A 100-year-old museum, home to one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, has won an industry award ...
- Iron Age settlement halts road in Scotland
from Archaeology in Europe on 13 May 2005An Iron Age settlement has brought work on a major road bypass in Scotland to a standstill. Contractors are twiddling their thumbs while archaeologists excavate three 2500-year-old houses that were unearthed directly in the way of the road ...
- Museum finishes first stage of renovations (Daily Pennsylvanian
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 13 May 2005After nearly two and a half years of construction, the Upper Courtyard Garden at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has reopened.
- Thai monks at frontline of battle to stop theft of ancient relics (Channel NewsAsia
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 13 May 2005AYUTTHAYA, Thailand: In an alarming clash between guardians of faith and the henchmen of wealthy art collectors, Thai monks at the Klang Klong Srabua temple found out the hard way about the fight to preserve ancient Buddhist relics ...
- GreekKeys Update
from rogueclassicism on 13 May 2005The APA site tells of a Tiger-compatible update to Greek Keys but the link is bad ... it possibly intends to point here ....
- Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ancient Pioneers Took Coastal Route, DNA Analysis Concludes (Scientific American
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 12 May 2005The path taken out of Africa by early Homo sapiens may have had a scenic ocean view, a new genetic analysis suggests.
- Thai monks at frontline of battle to stop theft of ancient relics (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 12 May 2005In an alarming clash between guardians of faith and the henchmen of wealthy art collectors, Thai monks at the Klang Klong Srabua temple found out the hard way about the fight to preserve ancient Buddhist relics ...
- DNA Study Yields Clues on First Migration of Early Humans
from NYT > Science on 12 May 2005By studying the DNA of an ancient people in Malaysia, a team of geneticists says it has illuminated many aspects of how modern humans migrated from Africa ...
- Facial reconstruction of Tutankhamun
from Egyptology News on 12 May 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/"Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the SupremeCouncil of Antiquities (SCA), announced yesterday theresults of three independent attempts to reconstructthe face of Egypt's most famous King, Tutankhamun ...
- National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation
from Egyptology News on 12 May 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/742/hr1.htm Due to open in around three years time, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization will "place on show Egypt's diverse civilisations from pre-historic to modern times ...
- Science: Tutankhamuns Face Reconstructed
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 12 May 2005The face of young Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun has come to life after teams of scientists reconstruc...
- Sofia Central Bus Station Turned into Photo Gallery
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 12 May 2005Photos from the ancient Perperikon, Pliska, Preslav, Bozhentsi, Koprivtshtitsa and some of the count...
- Irish draw battle lines over plan for road through ancient site NorthJerseycom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 12 May 2005HILL OF TARA, Ireland - This grassy, windswept hill outside Dublin was long the spiritual and political center of Ireland, an earthen fort where Celtic chieftains jockeyed for power and legend says St ...
- Hunters find skeleton, could be 2,000 years old (Scottsbluff Star Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 12 May 2005Discovery of a 2,000-year-old human skeleton through natural erosion is uncommon, but there is little scientific value associated with the American Indian remains unearthed recently in northeast Nebraska, the head of archaeology for the State Historical Society said Wednesday ...
- Clipper Cruise Lines to Offer North African Archaeological Adventure
from Roman Archaeology on 12 May 2005Travel Video Television News: I see Clipper Cruise Lines will offer a new North African cruise in March and April 2006 that combines the antiquities of the Greek Isles with the Roman ruin sites in Libya (Leptis Magna and Sabratha) and Tunisia (Carthage and Sousse) ...
- NAVTEQ Releases First Maps of the Baltic Region (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 12 May 2005NAVTEQ , a leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, is continuing to rapidly expand its map portfolio in Eastern Europe ...
- A British Museum Egyptologists View on the Return of Antiquities
from Egyptology News on 12 May 2005http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/spencer.htm I was having a look for something on the Tour Egypt website, and stumbled across this article ...
- Geograph
from The Map Room on 12 May 2005Geograph: "The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles and you can be part of it ...
- June edition National Geographic - "King Tut Revealed
from Egyptology News on 12 May 2005http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/match_vote2.tmpl?issue_id=20050501cover_index=1Having accidentally left it until May to report on NG's April item on Abydos, I though I'd give advance warning of June's edition on the reconstruction of the face of Tutankhamun: "King Tut Revealed - Egypt's boy pharaoh has fascinated the world since the first glimpse of his tomb in 1922 ...
- The Black Pharaohs - 3pm today UK Television
from Egyptology News on 12 May 2005On the UK TV History channel at 3pm today (sorry for the extra stupid short notice) there is a Horizon programme as follows: "Documentary telling the story of the Black African Kingdom of Kush and its battles with ancient Egypt for supremacy of the Nile Valley ...
- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK -- IN IRELAND. Heres an
from PaleoJudaica.com on 12 May 2005RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK -- IN IRELAND. Here's an interesting archaeology-related story: Ireland Divided Over Hill of Tara Plan Wednesday May 11, 2005 8:01 PM By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press Writer HILL OF TARA, Ireland (AP) - This grassy, windswept hill outside Dublin was long the spiritual and political center of Ireland, an earthen fort where Celtic chieftains jockeyed for power and legend says St ...
- New technology changes face of maps, geography (Cape Argus
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 12 May 2005School textbooks are updated every five to 10 years, but technology moves much faster than that. So geography pupils in their last three years of school are going to need plenty of access to computer laboratories to keep up with changes in mapping technology ...
- News Items in Brief
from Egyptology News on 12 May 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ The last item on this page of the Egyptian Gazette lists a couple of short Egyptological news items ...
- CT Scans Show What King Tut Looked Like
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 May 2005The first ever facial reconstructions based on CT scans of King Tutankhamun's mummy have produced images strikingly similar to the boy pharaoh's ancient portraits, Egypt's top archaeologist said Tuesday ...
- Ireland OKs Highway Near Hill of Tara
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 May 2005DUBLIN, Ireland - Overruling the protests of environmentalists and historians, the government on Wednesday approved construction of a highway that will pass near the Hill of Tara, an ancient site where St ...
- Resort reclaims its lost treasure
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 May 2005A rare Bronze Age sword lay for 3,000 years buried in mud in Scarborough – and then spent another 25 years buried in the basement of the British Museum ...
- Ireland Divided Over Hill of Tara Plan
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 May 2005HILL OF TARA, Ireland -- This grassy, windswept hill outside Dublin was long the spiritual and political center of Ireland, an earthen fort where Celtic chieftains jockeyed for power and legend says St ...
- Archaeology museum wins top award (BBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 12 May 2005The Petrie Museum created in 1892 gets an accolade from industry experts for its continuing success.
- Varia
from sauvage noble on 11 May 2005Perseus Philippinensis? Blogos reports that:when the Perseus project of digitizing the whole of the Greek literary canon looked around for input typists, they ended up training a squadron of Filipino women to use an ancient Greek keyboard to do the job ...
- Well we ought to just get this out of the way rig
from ArchaeoBlog on 11 May 2005Well, we ought to just get this out of the way right off the bat since it's being splashed all over the place:The boy behind the mask: how scientists built the face of TutankhamunThe face of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy king whose early death sparked an historical murder mystery, was revealed yesterday ...
- Breaking news Ireland OKs Highway Near Hill of Ta
from ArchaeoBlog on 11 May 2005Breaking news Ireland OKs Highway Near Hill of Tara Overruling the protests of environmentalists and historians, the government on Wednesday approved construction of a highway that will pass near the Hill of Tara, an ancient site where St ...
- Ireland approves highway near Hill of Tara, hallowed ground of ancient kings Canadacom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 11 May 2005DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Overruling the protests of environmentalists and historians, the government on Wednesday approved construction of a highway that will pass near the Hill of Tara, an ancient site where St ...
- Belzonis Account of The Tomb of Seti I
from Egyptology News on 11 May 2005http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/05/the_tomb_of_set.html The Travellers in Egypt website has another great crop of articles ...
- Opening the Tomb of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
from Egyptology News on 11 May 2005http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's ...
- BBC eases rules on news use
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 11 May 2005The BBC opens up its content more so that people can use news stories or headlines on their own sites via RSS.
- Tutankhamun killed by Gangrene
from Egyptology News on 11 May 2005http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/11/egypt.pharaoh/ "The discovery by Egyptian scientists puts to rest the theory that the teenage pharaoh was murdered by a blow to his head ...
- Tutankhamun: Reopening the FBI File (UK Television
from Egyptology News on 11 May 2005http://www.five.tv/tvguide/ This is short notice, but on UK television tonight, Channel 5 are showing a programme that confronts the FBI findings three years ago with the latest data ...
- The boy behind the mask: how scientists built the face of Tutankhamun
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 May 2005he face of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy king whose early death sparked an historical murder mystery, was revealed yesterday ...
- An Iron Age fashion disaster, but worth its weight in gold
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 May 2005As a fashion statement, frankly it's a disaster - no styling, no detail, not so much as a low wedge heel ...
- Ancient Astrology Online
from rogueclassicism on 10 May 2005I may have mentioned one of these before, but if not, Sacred Texts (a great site for some Classics tomes, by the way) has put up a couple of interesting works in our purview: Franz Cumont, Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (tr ...
- Tutankhamuns face revealed
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 10 May 2005Scientists use forensic techniques to reconstruct the face of Egypt's King Tutankhamun.
- Google Print: Revolution or Peep Show
from NT Gateway Weblog on 10 May 2005I blogged recently on what I called the Google Print Revolution. Others are less impressed, among them Ed Cook on Ralph the Sacred River:Google Peep ShowThe problem is, I haven't yet come across a book whose entire content is online ...
- News on the Naqada II Harrogate Vase
from Egyptology News on 10 May 2005http://www.harrogatetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=17ArticleID=1019431"In about a week, tests will reveal whether the art on an Egyptian vase on show at the Royal Pump Room Museum is of international importance or the work of a brilliant forger ...
- Archaeologists find Britains oldest shoe
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 May 2005rchaeologists excavating a quarry in Somerset claim to have found Britain's oldest shoe, believed to be 2,000 years old ...
- A Roman Legacy in the Balkans: The Vlachs
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 May 2005This year marks the 100th anniversary of an imperial decree, issued by Ottoman Sultan Abdual Hamid II, which gave Vlachs their first collective rights ...
- Ipswich men find Roman treasure trove
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 May 2005FOR nearly 2,000 years a treasure trove of Roman coins lay hidden just below the surface of an Ipswich field ...
- Iron Age shoe unearthed at quarry
from Archaeology in Europe on 10 May 2005A shoe thought to be at least 2,000 years old, and the oldest in the UK, has been dug up at an English quarry ...