Thursday, June 30, 2005

Greek treasures easy prey for antiquities traffickers

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Authorities in 2005 have so far retrieved 253 ancient objects, two icons and 12 extremely valuable ecclesiastical items. The net profits tha...

Archeologists Seek BGN 200,000 to Resume Thracian Works

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Archeologists digging in the excavations of ancient Thracian tombs in Bulgaria will need some BGN 200,000 to carry out their work this year....

Pompei: scavi portano alla luce nuovi reperti

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POMPEI (Napoli) - Nuovi reperti scoperti a Pompei nel corso di alcuni scavi. Sono stati portati alla luce un ampio cortile colonnato, tre te...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Puzzling over the very British pastime of shovelling old trash

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Time Team Special Channel 4, 9.00pm 'Well, it's a late Bronze Age socketed hammer," said Man with Beard. Damn. I could have swo...
Monday, June 27, 2005

THE BIG DIG

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The biggest archaeological dig in Exeter for a generation gets under way today to investigate the secrets held on a site to be covered by th...

Revealed: our friends the Romans did not invade Britain after all

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Astonishing new archaeological finds reveal they were already our countrymen 50 years before Claudius spun his way into the history books. S...

Major excavation at Roman forts

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Three weeks of digging to excavate what could be the largest Roman garrison fort in Wales start on Monday. The site, which dates from the fi...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

IS STONEHENGE TUNNEL PROJECT TURNING INTO THE NEXT BATH SPA FIASCO?

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The controversial tunnel under Stonehenge was dubbed "the new Bath Spa" by campaigners yesterday after the cost of the project soa...

Archaeological wonders are under the sea

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Athens - The recent discovery of the remains of a shipwrecked 4th century BC vessel, nicknamed Kythnos I after the Greek island near which i...

Ancient Thermal City to Be Flooded in Turkey

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Archeologists, environmentalists and international NGOs are joining together to try to find a way to save an 1,800-year-old archeologica...

FLAG FEN LATEST - CAMPAIGNERS SAY DON'T CREATE A NEW THORNBOROUGH

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A visitor centre was established at Flag Fen in 2002, but experts are concerned a proposed developed will put people off. Courtesy Toby Fox....

Anglo Saxon find 'worth £100,000'

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A metal-detecting fan who unearthed a rare seventh-century sword hilt could have earned £100,000 as a result. Christopher Baker's find, ...

EVIDENCE FOR ROMAN ROAD IS UNEARTHED

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NEW evidence that appears to confirm the existence of another Roman road in Tynedale has rekindled the fires of controversy. Historians and ...
Friday, June 24, 2005

Archaeologists start digging for Hun settlements in Russia

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LIPETSK, June 22 (RIA Novosti) - Major archaeological excavation work has started in the Lipetsk region's Zadonsk and Khlevnoye distric...

Sleuths join ancient dig

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MERSEYSIDE and Cheshire police have joined diggers at an archaeological site to learn how to identify burial plots and handle skeletons. Tea...

Underwater archaeology expedition in River Arade

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PORTIMÃO’S RIO ARADE estuary is the location for an underwater archaeological campaign entitled ‘Missão ProArade 2005’, taking place now unt...

A rich Greek archaeology frontier lying underwater

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ATHENS - The recent discovery of the remains of a shipwrecked 4th-century BC vessel, nicknamed Kythnos I after the Greek island near which i...

Iron Age settlement found at farm

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Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age settlement near Cheltenham. The dig, at Deans Farm, Bishops Cleeve, has revealed two round houses,...

Italy rediscovers Greek heritage

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A world-class archaeological exhibition opened this week in Calabria, in the toe of Italy. Its subject is Magna Graecia, or Greater Greece -...

35-Century-Old Gold Unearthed in Bulgaria

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A ritual gold plastic was discovered by a team of Bulgarian archaeologists, it was announced. The team, headed by Nikolay Ovcharov discovere...