Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Fundraising for political campaign - Campaign to Save Tara

›
The Campaign to Save Tara intends to mount a political campaign for the upcoming General Election in Ireland that is due in May/June 2007. W...

Castell Aberlleiniog

›
Following the article " New life for castle that has kept its secrets for 900 years " published on this weblog on Saturday, March ...

CAVE SURVEY SHOWS WHAT MADE DES-RES DWELLINGS FOR PREHISTORIC MAN

›
Modern house hunters might be looking for on-street parking or easy access to the shops, but a new survey of caves in the Peak District and ...

THE HOME-HUNTING HABITS OF CAVEMEN

›
Pre-historic cave-dwellers may have placed the same emphasis on finding the right location for their homes as modern house-hunters, a new s...

Archaeology study on site of possible reservoir

›
Teams of archaeological experts will be scouring part of the countryside near Lewes for evidence of historic finds. Archaeologists are to ca...

Man's earliest direct ancestors looked more apelike than previously believed

›
First humans retained surprisingly apelike features, NYU study reveals Modern man"s earliest known close ancestor was significantly mor...

Viking woman had roots near the Black Sea

›
The bones of one of the women found in one of Norway's most famous Viking graves suggest her ancestors came from the area around the Bla...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Fundraising for archaeological report on Tara / M3

›
TaraWatch group started a fundraising towards the cost of generating a professional archaeological assessment of the M3 motorway at the Hill...

Shipwreck mystery uncovered on beach

›
Have the shifting sands of Montrose beach revealed the other half of a 19th century shipwreck uncovered last year? It was about this time la...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Save Tara float wins prize in Trim parade

›
The Campaign to save Tara participated in three festival parades in County Meath on Saturday in Athboy, Trim and Navan. The Campaign is a cu...

Spain and Britain to dive for treasure on 1694 wreck

›
Three hundred years after the British warship Sussex sank in a storm off southern Spain, researchers are preparing to dive to the site to se...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

New life for castle that has kept its secrets for 900 years

›
AN ancient castle which has been off limits to the public since it was built in 1088 is about to reveal its secrets for the first time. Aber...

Delving into past of Roman village sites

›
ARCHAEOLOGISTS who have unearthed six former Roman villa estates in the west of the county will unveil their latest findings at the end of t...

Why the Greeks could hear plays from the back row

›
An ancient theatre filters out low-frequency background noise. The wonderful acoustics for which the ancient Greek theatre of Epidaurus is r...

Norman House find

›
Contractors working on the £12 million revamp of Shrewsbury’s Music Hall have made a startling discovery after uncovering a Norman house wit...

Turning back time to York 1300

›
RESEARCHERS from York Archaeological Trust have identified a remarkable artefact which shows that in 1300, York was at the forefront of scie...

Contested Getty antiquities arrive in Greece

›
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned two ancient masterpieces long claimed by Greece on grounds of illegal provenance, the G...

Italy recovers hundreds of artifacts

›
Italian police said Thursday they have recovered about 300 ancient artifacts and thousands of fragments believed to have been illegally exca...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Archaeology may delay flats plan

›
Archaeologists could be called in to search for the remains of a medieval hospital on the site of a former nightclub in Shropshire. The Hosp...

Archaeologists sniff out world's oldest perfumes

›
Archaeologists have unearthed the world's oldest perfumes on the island of Cyprus - 4,000-year-old sweet smelling concoctions brewed fro...