Thursday, November 30, 2006

Ancient Greek computer reveals its secrets

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A bronze calculating machine salvaged from a shipwreck a century ago is finally yielding up its secrets, revealing a Greek computer of remar...

Ancient Moon 'computer' revisited

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The delicate workings at the heart of a 2,000-year-old analogue computer have been revealed by scientists. The Antikythera Mechanism, discov...

Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved

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A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how...

Skeleton find

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THE remains of skeletons dating back hundreds of years have been unearthed at a Weston church. Diggers moved into the grounds of St John the...

Man held for 'pharaoh relic' sale

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A man has been arrested in France after advertising what he said was a lock of hair from Egypt's Pharaoh Ramses II for sale on the inter...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Skeletons preserved to aid study of forensic science

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A UNIQUE Scottish collection of the skeletal remains of babies and young children is to be preserved to help forensic anthropologists. The c...

Stolen Dacian bracelet to be brought back to Romania

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The golden Dacian bracelet found in September at one of the Grand Palais Biennial Exhibition stands in Paris will be brought back to Romania...

Hungarian archaeologist discovers tablet mentioning Masada's destroyer

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In 73 CE, the Roman governor of Judea, Flavius Silva, laid siege to Masada with Legion X Fretensis. When the walls were broken down by a bat...

Volunteers peel back Pan’s past

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For the past 9 weeks, enthusiastic amateur archaeologists and metal detectorists have gathered at Pan, Newport to join in the investigation ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Ancient Egyptian Drama on TAC

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TRIAL OF A MUMMY Location: Egypt Length: 23 min. This is the fictional story of Khonso-Imhep, Head Musician of the Pharaoh's court ...

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...