Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Stone Age artists are getting older

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RECENT discoveries in Italy and Germany have pushed back the age of Stone Age art in Europe by several millennia. Cave painting from near Ve...

In Schleswig-Holstein und Dänemark entsteht ein virtuelles Geschichtsmuseum

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Dänische und norddeutsche Institutionen planen in den nächsten drei Jahren ein „Virtuelles Museum“ und eine Informationsplattform zur gemein...
Monday, February 13, 2006

Massive Eight-Chamber Tomb Found In Greece

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Archaeologists have unearthed a massive tomb in the northern Greek town of Pella, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia and birthplace...

Greeks find tomb from era of Alexander

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GREEK archaeologists said yesterday they had discovered the largest underground tomb in Greek antiquity in the ancient city of Pella in nort...

Vast ancient tomb found

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS say they have found the largest underground tomb of Greek antiquity in the ancient city of Pella, northern Greece, birthplace...

'Monumental' tomb find in Greece

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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed a massive tomb in the northern Greek town of Pella, capital of the ancient kingdo...

CHANCE TO SEE KIRK DIG

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An Archaeological dig being undertaken in Aberdeen city centre opens to the public this week. The Kirk of St Nicholas has been the site of ...

Digging into town's past

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POTTERY relics thought to date from the 13th to 18th centuries have been uncovered in Wednesbury during a housing development project. The d...

Monumental Ancient Tomb Unearthed

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Archaeologists in northern Greece have unearthed a monumental ancient tomb, believed to be the largest of its kind ever found in Greece, in ...
Sunday, February 12, 2006

Irish Bronze Age settlement will not halt road

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An ancient Bronze-Age settlement believed to be 4,000 years old has been uncovered in the direct path of the Carlow bypass (Ireland). The di...

Grundpfeiler des Glaubens

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Ihr Name ist verloren, ihre Mythen sind lange verschollen. Niemand wird je ihre Sprache enträtseln, Herkunft und Schicksal der Jäger und Sam...

On a Qing and a prayer

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THE set of late-17th Century Qing dynasty porcelain vases which once graced the Fitzwilliam Museum is now lying in hundreds of pieces. The i...

Abbey shows historic discoveries

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Visitors are being given the chance to look around Torquay's Torre Abbey for free on Sunday. The Abbey got nearly £5m in 2004 from the H...

A tiny paradise slips away

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Rome's tiny Non-Catholic Cemetery possibly contains the highest density of famous and important bones anywhere in the world, the cramped...

Fortified settlements discovered

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Part of the peribolos of an ancient settlement found at Nea Karvali, near Kavala in northern Greece, during a cleanup by the 18th Ephorate o...

Lucky find reveals biggest ancient cave

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A farmer in northern Greece has stumbled across a 2,300-year-old chiseled cave with eight chambers and measuring some 63 square meters — the...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

QUARRYING AT THORNBOROUGH - PLANNING DECISION APPROACHES

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The application to increase quarrying operations near the Thornborough Henges Neolithic site in North Yorkshire will be determined at a plan...

Medieval Diaries Aid Scientists Ascertain Increase In Hot Spots Due To Global Warming

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The temperature of the northern hemisphere has increased over a larger area in the last century than at any time in the past millennium a re...

Chief of Getty arts trust resigns in dispute over perks

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Barry Munitz, the chief executive of the Getty Trust, the world's richest arts institution, resigned yesterday under a cloud of allegati...

Axe head excites experts

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AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Angus have stumbled across what is thought to be a burial ground dating back thousands of years. What they first b...