Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Keeping up with the empire
The Roman Empire has been well documented. Over the years written history and archaeology have brought to the surface, sometimes literally unearthed, a whole society. Thus Roman architecture, religion, military strategy and legal structures hold little mystery. Compared to this depth of knowledge, many of those living outside the boundaries of the Empire are lost in time. But now an archaeological excavation in the north of the Netherlands had begun to tell the story of the Roman's neighbours.
Radio Nederland
Perthshire Archaeology Week
Perthshire Archaeology Week (29 May - 6 June) is packed with nine days of events for everyone to enjoy, including excavations, activities, exhibitions, guided tours and walks, lectures and talks. Many are suitable for all the family including those run by Historic Scotland, who are also offering discounted admissions to all their properties in the area throughout the week.
Come to Perthshire this summer and be taken on a journey of discovery. All you need is your imagination - Perthshire Archaeology Week will do the rest.
Further Details
Pioneering archaeological research charts African links with the Roman world
University of Southampton archaeologists Professor David Peacock and Dr Lucy Blue have just returned from a pioneering expedition investigating Roman sites in the East African country of Eritrea alongside colleagues from the University of Asmara. The University group is the first from the UK to work in the country since it won its independence more than a decade ago. They are already planning to return to this remote area on the shores of the Red Sea, previously part of Ethiopia.
innovations-report.com
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
ARA Modus Operandi
Peter Williams has recently started a very nice blog for the Association for Roman Archaeology.
To quote from Peter’s own decription of the site:
“Peter Williams logs some ideas that might enhance the web presence of the Association for Roman Archaeology. Readers are always encouraged to contribute their own creativity, comment, and critique.”
Try it! http://aramodusoperandi.blogspot.com/
Archaeological Research in Progress 2004: North East Scotland
Saturday, May 29th 9.30-5.00
Organised by the Council for Scottish Archaeology, and staged jointly with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, this day long conference in Aberdeen will focus on the many exciting projects that are currently taking place in the north east of Scotland. Topics include recent excavations of recumbent stone circles (Richard Bradley, University of Reading), "privies and other filthiness" "the Environment of Medieval Aberdeen" (Christopher Croly, Aberdeen City Council) and some archaeological "tales of the unexpected" (Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland). The conference is aimed at members of the public, amateur and professional archaeologists and will include a mixture of sites and types of research as well as display stalls by local and national groups.
For further information please contact:
Council for Scottish Archaeology, c/o National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
telephone 0131 247 4119
e-mail a.daly@nms.ac.uk
or look at our website www.britarch.ac.uk/csa/
MGM 2004 - A TRIP ALONG THE SILK ROAD AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
'The Kingdom of Miran where the Lop desert meets the Altun Mountains.' This could easily be a description lifted clean from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetic imagination.
Yet for 800 years from the first century AD Miran, sandwiched between Kroraina and Dunhuang on the eastern Silk Road, existed as the bastion of a highly militarised Tibetan Buddhist empire.
The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith at The British Library until September 12 exhibits many of the rare treasures found by Hungarian-born archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who spent much of his life excavating sites along the complex, loose network of trade routes known as the Silk Road.
24 Hour Museum News
Monday, May 24, 2004
Road workmen find Norman causeway
Builders working on an Oxfordshire highway have uncovered 1,000-year-old ruins built by a Norman adventurer.
Workmen found part of a Norman causeway and arches under Abingdon Road and archaeologists were called in.
BBC News
New strategy to `reunite' Elgin marbles
Greece requests a loan for Olympics British Museum thinks it's a ruse
Toronto Star
Archaeologists go hi-tech in Balkans
In search of clues they believe could cast light on 10,000 years of Balkans history, archaeologists working in a key wetland along the Cetina river in southern Croatia have modernized their approach, switching shovels for a georadar.
Children ran in awe around the cart with the georadar as it circled around a village playground pulled by a small four-wheeler. Several meters (feet) beneath the concrete the radar found remains of a medieval church.
"This is the first time that we have access to such sophisticated peace of equipment. It will revolutionize how we can do this sort of work, as we can now do in days what used to take us months before," Vincent Gaffney, director of the University of Birmingham Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, said.
Middle East Times
Derby housing to go ahead despite Bronze Age finds
Derby residents who have campaigned for more than a year against a proposal to build housing on a former hotel site look set to lose their battle. Burton-based developer Michael Goodall Homes wants to build 79 homes on the corner of Chain Lane and Pastures Hill, in Littleover, where a Forte Posthouse hotel once stood.
Megalithic Portal
Castle may be dug up create bus lane
THE last remaining part of Northampton Castle could be dug up to make way for a bus lane.
A small earth mound close to the town's railway station is the only piece of the 12th Century castle which remains intact.
But plans being drawn up by Northamptonshire County Council and Network Rail could see part of the earth mound, which has Government protection as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, cut away to give buses an easier route into the station.
Northampton Today
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Roman remains found at an airport
The remains of five Roman bodies have been uncovered during redevelopment work at Humberside airport.
The bodies of four adults and one child were found when archaeologists carried out excavation work.
BBC News
Unearthing Troy's truth
For plenty of cinema-goers, the prospect of seeing Brad Pitt as a loincloth-clad hero is enough to encourage them to see the film, which opens in the UK on Friday. But many others will want to know whether there is any truth in it all. Did Troy exist?
BBC News
Time to get digging for Archaeology Week
A series of events celebrating the rich and varied archaeology of Strathearn and beyond is set to take place from May 29 until June 6. Perthshire Archaeology Week has been organised by a consortium of local and national organisations, and receives funding from Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust and the Perthshire Tourist Board.
Megalithic Portal
Schoolboy digs up medieval ring
A 10-year-old boy could soon have a boost to his pocket money - after finding a medieval ring in a field in Pembrokeshire.
Nathan Duffield, from Milford Haven, was out metal detecting with his father when he unearthed the ring, thought to be 600 years old.
BBC News
Friday, May 21, 2004
Cathedral's medieval tunnel opens
A 15th Century tunnel at Canterbury Cathedral which allows pilgrims to visit the site of the murder of Thomas Becket has been reopened to the public.
BBC News
Survey of commons maps buried history
One of the last great mysteries of Britain's past is being unravelled by archaeologists in the first ever survey of the "people's land" - urban commons that have been protected from development for up to 1,000 years.
Guardian
Innovative software offers clues to age-old puzzle
It's the world's oldest and largest jigsaw puzzle -- an ancient map of Rome in 1,200 fragments of marble. Archaeologists for centuries have tried to painstakingly piece together the sculpture, fragment by fragment. Now, computer wizards at Stanford University say they have created a software program that holds the key to the puzzle and the ancient city.
The Battalion
Lasers tackle Roman puzzle
It's the world's largest jigsaw puzzle -- an ancient map of Rome in 1,200 fragments of marble.
Charleoot Observer
Software helps put together ancient Roman map
It's the world's oldest and largest jigsaw puzzle, an ancient map of Rome in 1,200 fragments of marble. Archaeologists for centuries have tried to painstakingly piece together the sculpture, fragment by fragment. Now, computer wizards at Stanford University say they have created a software program that holds the key to the puzzle and the ancient city.
Bradenton.com
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