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News Archive

Ancient priests list revealed

December, 28 2010

Ahram Online

More treasures from the Roman era have been unearthed at the Dime Al Sebaa archaeological site, two kilometres north of Qarun Lake near Fayoum

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Mosaics found in SE Turkey lead to unearthing of ancient Roman city

December, 28 2010

Hurriyet Daily News

The accidentally found mosaics led to the unearthing of the Roman-era city of Germenicia in the southeastern province of Kahramanmara_. When the work is complete, the area will become an open-air museum. The ancient city of Germenicia, which has been underground for 1,500 years, is being unearthed thanks to mosaics found during an illegal excavation in 2007 under a house in Southeast Turkey.

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First known in egg Pterodactyl embryo discovered

December, 28 2010

Examiner

Gnathosaurus (Pterodactylus micronyx), Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The world's only known in egg Pterodactyl embryo has been confirmed according to a report by Larissa Graham published on the Lufkin Daily News website on December 26, 2010

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Unearthing Prehistoric Tumors, and Debate

December, 28 2010

New York Times

Alena Sefcakova, Slovak National Museum When they excavated a Scythian burial mound in the Russian region of Tuva about 10 years ago, archaeologists literally struck gold.

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Celtic tomb hailed as great archaeological find

December, 28 2010

The Local

Celtic tomb hailed as great archaeological find In a discovery described as a "milestone of archaeology," scientists have found a 2,600 year old aristocratic burial site at the Celtic hill fort at Heuneburg in Baden Württemberg.

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Archaeologists ponder southwestern Ill. mystery

December, 28 2010

St Louis Post

Archaeologists who have uncovered the remains of a prehistoric city beneath what is now East St. Louis are trying to unravel why that ancient city was abandoned while another one just to the east managed to survive two more centuries.

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Did the Scots visit Iceland?

December, 26 2010

Unreported Heritage News

Kverkarhellir cave is a deep artificial cave that was dug out of soft rock. New research indicates that construction on it began in ca. AD 800, nearly 70 years before the Vikings are believed to have settled Iceland. New research reveals island inhabited 70 years before Vikings thought to have arrived

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Colonial Williamsburg acquires historic Spanish letters describing threat at Jamestown

December, 26 2010

Daily Press

This July 1608 letter from Spanish King Philip III to the Duke of Medina Sidonia expresses his increasing concern about the threat of the new English settlement at Jamestown to Spanish shipping. (Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg, Handout / December 23, 2010) Two rare early 1600s letters expressing Spanish King Phillip III's fears about the new English settlement at Jamestown have been given to Colonial Williamsburg by a best selling crime writer.

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BLM deal to fund northeast Nevada archaeology site

December, 26 2010

Las Vegas Sun

Rodeo Creek Gold Inc. and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Elko District have reached a $1.5 million settlement that creates a special fund focused on the Tosawihi Quarries.

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Persepolis will collapse with a small tremor

December, 26 2010

The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies

Persepolis could collapse as the result of a small tremor if necessary measures are not taken immediately, warned an Iranian geotechnical and modelling engineer.

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