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News Archive

Rare Lead Bars Discovered Off The Coast Of Ibiza

December, 15 2008

Science Daily

Dr. Marcus Heinrich Hermanns from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cologne has recovered three lead bars which may originate from the third century before Christ, 39 meters under the sea off the north coast of Ibiza. One of the bars has Iberian characters on it. According to the German Mining Museum in Bochum, the lead originates from the mines of Sierra Morena in southern Spain.

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Rain shuts down Nero's palace in Rome

December, 15 2008

The Associated Press

Authorities in Rome have closed Nero's Golden Palace to the public after days of heavy rain filled the monument with mud and damaged the electrical system.

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Roman battlefield discovered in northern Germany

December, 15 2008

The Associated Press

Photo of a roman bronze cart attachment made available by the office of preservation of ancient monuments of German state Lower Saxony on Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 Archaeologists say they have uncovered a third-century battlefield in northern Germany which could prove that Roman legions were fighting in the region much later than historians have long believed.

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The first true image of Cleopatra

December, 15 2008

Daily Mail

Realism: The result is a strikingly beautiful young woman of mixed ethnicity From Elizabeth Taylor to Sophia Loren, there have been many faces of Cleopatra. But this might be the most realistic of them all.

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Neolithic earthenware found in Iran

December, 14 2008

Tehran Times

Kelardasht archeological site, Mazandaran Province, Iran An archaeological team working on the Kelar Tepe believes that they have found a Neolithic residential area on the prehistoric mound located in the Kelaradsht region in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran.

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Forgotten for 400 years: Angkor

December, 14 2008

Detroit Free Press

Angkor For something so ancient, the rock face looked as content as a man who's just eaten a big slice of peach pie.

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Mystery shrouds the ancient Oshoro circle

December, 14 2008

The Japan Times

In 1861 at Oshoro, southwestern Hokkaido, a party of herring fishermen, migrants from Honshu, were laying the foundation for a fishing port when they saw taking shape beneath their shovels a mysterious spectacle — a broad circular arrangement of large rocks, strikingly symmetrical, evidently man-made. What could it be? An Ainu fortress?

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Saddam Hussein's Babylon palace is opened to Iraqis

December, 14 2008

Los Angeles Times

The palace overlooks the ancient city of Babylon. Officials want to make the area a tourist destination Visitors take in the splendor and a panoramic view of the Euphrates and the ruins of the hanging gardens of Babylon. And they remember.

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Iran's Joobji Relics, Rare Artifacts

December, 14 2008

Fars News Agency

Joobji Relics Iranian archeologists say relics found at the country's Joobji archeological site are among the rarest of their kind in the world.

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T. Rex, Other Dinosaurs Had Heads Full of Air

December, 14 2008

National Geographic

Tyrannosaurus rex's skull (top) was filled with empty cavities, while the armored dinosaur Euoplocephalus (right) had a nasal passage that looked like a "crazy straw," Dinosaurs were airheads—and that's not just because they had tiny brains, a new study says. New 3-D scans of the skulls of Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs reveal the creatures had more empty space inside their heads than previously thought.