Sunday, March 07, 2004
Experts work to save Easter Island statues
A TEAM of conservationists is working on a ‘miracle cure’ to save the famous giant heads of Easter Island from crumbling away.
Experts from Germany are investigating the use of a chemical to stabilise the stone monoliths, which have become severely eroded.
Scotland on Sunday
The 1,000-year-old abbey of S. Nilo in Grottaferrata is unique in Italy for its Catholic monks who follow a Greek-Byzantine rite
On a hill overlooking Rome in the Castelli Romani, 15 ageing monks are about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the foundation of an unusual abbey.
It is the abbey of S. Nilo, which dominates the tiny village of Grottaferrata, three km downhill from Frascati and 20 km from Rome. The main road swishes by it, which is perhaps why few people have heard of it.
Wanted in Rome
Viking harbour remains found
Archaeologists today said they found the remains of a harbour complex built by the Vikings 1000 years ago, the first of its kind discovered in Norway.
"This is very special," said district archaeologist Lars Forseth. "Archaeologically, it is a sensation."
Mirabilis
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Remains of Viking Harbor Complex Found
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Archaeologists in western Norway found the remains of a harbor complex built by the Vikings 1,000 years ago - the first of its kind discovered in the country.
Guardian
Castle revamp scheme on display
Plans for the conservation of Whittington Castle near Oswestry are on show in the village.
BBC News
Remains of Viking Harbor Complex Found
Archaeologists in western Norway found the remains of a harbor complex built by the Vikings 1,000 years ago - the first of its kind discovered in the country.
The Ledger
Fire guts medieval monastery
The 800-year-old Serbian monastery of Helandari on Mount Athos was ravaged by a fire that broke out early yesterday morning and destroyed a large section of the complex, including 17th and 18th century frescoes.
Kathimerini
Fire hits 12th-Century monastery
A 12th-Century Serbian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in north-eastern Greece has been badly damaged in a fire.
The fire at the Hilandariou monastery is thought to have destroyed parts of the monks' living quarters, which date back to 1188.
BBC News
Fire guts Mt. Athos' Helandariou monastery
The 800-year-old Serbian monastery of Helandari on Mount Athos was ravaged by a fire that broke out early yesterday morning and destroyed a large section of the complex, including 17th and 18th century frescoes.
Cronaca
Archeologists uncover Maritime Spice Route between India and Egypt
Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Delaware have unearthed the most extensive remains to date from sea trade between India and Egypt during the Roman Empire, adding to mounting evidence that spices and other exotic cargo traveled into Europe over sea as well as land.
TravelVideo.TV
Friday, March 05, 2004
Archaeological Study Tour to Berry - Limousin
29 May - 4 June 2004
Further details, including a detailed itinerary, cost and contact details can be obtained from Archaeology in Europe
St Osyth: TV team to spend a time in village
Historical detectives from television's top archaeology programme are to visit St Osyth.
Time Team plans to film for three days in the spring.
This is Essex
POMPEII: LIST OF VULNERABLE ARTEFACTS DRAWN UP
Dozens of archaeological artefacts in Pompeii have been catalogued by the Naples Heritage Superintendence. The list was compiled based on how much time it would require a team of dedicated thieves to remove the item from the archaeological precinct.
AGI On-Line
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Ancient monastic manuscripts gain digital life
Inside the sixth-century Monastery of St. Catherine, with its small stone church, its rickety buildings covered in centuries' worth of white paint, where bearded monks wear black robes, the modern world seems terabytes away.
But here at St. Catherine's, in the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastic community, a Greek Orthodox monk from Texas is working with some of the world's highest-resolution digital technology to help preserve the monastery's 3,300 priceless and impressively intact ancient manuscripts.
Mirabilis
EXCAVATION: A home fit for an ancient king
A RESIDENT could hardly believe it when she discovered that she lived in a house that was once the stronghold of one of the first kings of England.
Jane Baile, who lives in the 800-year-old, Prebendal Manor House, in Nassington, near Peterborough, invited presenter Tony Robinson and archaeologists from top TV show, Time Team, into the Grade I listed building.
Peterborough Now
Fresh Bronze Age treasure find
An "exceptional" hoard of buried treasure has been found in Wrexham just two years after another major find of Bronze Age treasure there.
BBC News
Treasure hunters give find to experts
A HORDE of 13th-century coins has been handed to the British Museum after their discovery by treasure hunters in Creslow.
Aylesbury Today
BRUNEL'S 'LOST' BRIDGE DISMANTLED TO MAKE WAY FOR ROAD DEVELOPMENT
Work began yesterday in west London on dismantling an iron bridge built by the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but only 'discovered' 10 months ago.
As the first iron plates were lifted away Dr Steven Brindle, the English Heritage Inspector of Ancient Monuments who 'found' it, described his elation at having unearthed an engineering treasure.
24 Hour Museum News
Historians preserve Govan’s 1000-year-old stones
HISTORIANS have taken unprecedented steps to preserve some of Scotland's most important early medieval sculptures which marked a major ceremonial and administrative capital of the kings of Strathclyde.
The Herald
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