Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Roman Amphitheatres & spectacula - a 21st Century Perspective

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16th - 18th February 2007, The Grosvenor Museum, Chester This unique conference will range across all aspects of study of the Roman Amphithe...

Broken leg may have killed Tutankhamun

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A medical scan of King Tutankhamun's mummified corpse may have finally nailed the cause of the Egyptian pharaoh's premature death. ...

A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts

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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eye...

Brushing up on Neanderthal tooth fossils

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Skulls and teeth are so important to fossil scholars that they regularly label every other kind of bone they dig up as "post-cranial....
Monday, November 27, 2006

CyArk: Digital Heritage Archaeology

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The CyArk project is an ambitious plan to place digital images--maps, plans, three-dimensional views--of world heritage sites in one place. ...

Stonehenge was a site for sore eyes in 2300BC

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Stonehenge was the Lourdes of its day, to which diseased and injured ancient Britons flocked seeking cures for their ailments, according to ...

IRON AGE SCOTS FUR FARM CLUE

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IRON Age man reared foxes to make fur-trimmed clothes, archaeologists believe. Experts say the pelts were used to make sought-after fur-trim...

New clues about Ptolemaic past

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AN inscription has been found by archeologists conducting excavations in the Lower City of Amathus that provides new information about Cypri...

Ancient settlements discovered in Anatolia

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Researchers working on the Archaeological Settlements in Turkey (TAY) project have discovered 120 previously unknown ancient settlement area...

Authenticity of Ilkley rock carvings challenged

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Elaborate rock art which for years is believed to have been created by prehistoric Ilkley man (West Yorkshire, England) was probably only cr...

Sky disc of Nebra shines in Basel

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The oldest representation of the cosmos – the sky disc of Nebra – has gone on show in Basel's history museum. Basel (Swiss) has a specia...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Mining Ancient Molars

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For the first time, researchers have been allowed to slice through Neandertal teeth. This coup is providing the best evidence yet that these...

History centre 'to open in 2007'

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Work on an £11.6m history centre in Swindon has been completed, with the building due to open next October. The centre will have seven miles...

Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction

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The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than el...

Die 8 als Grabanlage

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Seit Mai untersuchen Archäologen eine 10.000 Quadratmeter große Fläche in Ense-Bremen (Kreis Soest) und haben bisher über 80 Gräber entdeckt...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Getty museum walks out of talks over looted antiquities

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The battle between the world's richest museum and the Italian state took a turn for the worse yesterday when the Getty museum in Califo...

Creation vs. Darwin takes Muslim twist in Turkey

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A lavishly illustrated "Atlas of Creation" is mysteriously turning up at schools and libraries in Turkey, pro...

21st century technology cracks alchemists' secret recipe

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A 500-year old mystery surrounding the centre-piece of the alchemists' lab kit has been solved by UCL (University College London) and Ca...

Rome's She-Wolf Younger Than Its City

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The icon of Rome's foundation, the Capitoline she-wolf, was crafted in the Middle Ages, not the Antiquities, according to a research int...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Former Getty curator charged with Greek art theft

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A Greek prosecutor on Tuesday charged a former curator of the American J. Paul Getty Museum with knowingly buying an ancient artifact which ...