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News From Thursday, July 01, 2010
10:29:10 PM DAM's new exhibit: Not just Tut
The Aurora Sentinel Daily Sun - Aurora,CO,USA

At that time, Egyptian antiquities were falling apart,” said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. ... [more]

10:11:54 PM Pinoy Kasi Callao Man
Olivares-Cunanan

The report's main author is Armand Mijares of the Archaeology Studies Program at UP Diliman who worked with a multinational team from our National Museum, ... [more]

7:47:30 PM Scientists Cite Fastest Instance of Human Evolution Yet
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

But archaeologists say that the Tibetan plateau was inhabited much earlier than 3000 years ago and that the geneticists' date is incorrect. ... [more]

4:39:08 PM Egypt Completes Ancient-Tunnel Excavation
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

By ARTINFO CAIRO—The indefatigable head of Egypt's Supreme Council on Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced his latest archaeological achievement: the ... [more]

3:35:43 PM Archaeologists Discover Whale Eating Whale Fossil In Peru
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand

July 1, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The archaeologists in Peru have discovered a huge whale eating whale fossil. Although the specimen has 14-inch teeth in its ... [more]

3:27:31 PM Hawass uncovers secret tunnel in tomb of Seti I
Al-Masry Al-Youm

Yesterday, a team of archaeologists led by Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass, discovered the full extent of a ... [more]

3:24:33 PM Local Flavor: Oatlands Bank Barn Restoration Begins
Loudoun Independent - Leesburg,VA,USA

Principal Archaeologist Benjamin Ford, Ph.D. describes his involvement in the process as part detective work, using period photographs, historical maps, ... [more]

12:53:59 PM Archaeological Zombies
ScienceBlogs - USA

Archaeology is a famously ghoulish pursuit whose practitioners are always on the look-out for dead bodies to gloat over. If we can't find a grave, .... [more]

11:04:40 AM Temple University archaeologists unearth African American historical site
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

AP WESTAMPTOM &mdash A group of Temple University archaeology students and volunteers is excavating what they believe is an important African-American .... [more]

10:42:25 AM Archaeologists fail to find secret burial site at Seti I tunnel's end
dinosaur

London, July 1 (ANI): The four decade long wait finally ended as archaeologists reached the end of the mysterious tunnel in the tomb of Seti I. But hopes ... [more]

9:29:12 AM Bottle found during Viaduct replacement archaeological dig
Crosscut

by WSDOT Bottle found during a May 25, 2010, archaeological excavation on the site of the SR 99 - S Holgate Street to S King Street Viaduct Replacement ... [more]

9:13:56 AM 'Rock Drawings were Prehistoric Movies' - Most Obvious Archaeology Ever?
Heritage Key (blog)

My award for archaeology's equivalent of an Ig Noble prize goes to boffins at Cambridge University and Austria's Sankt Poelten University, ... [more]

7:50:48 AM African American historical site excavated in New Jersey
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

As an archaeological site, in my experience, I have never seen anything like this - only because nobody has excavated one." The site of the Timbuctoo ... [more]

5:32:55 AM Archaeologists' gold mine marked in Shawnee
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA

Dom Kline, the local amateur archaeologist who discovered the site, near the confluence of Brodhead Creek and the Delaware River, spent nearly a decade ... [more]

3:45:46 AM horses found in 400-year-old mass grave
Horsetalk - Canterbury,New Zealand

The tomb was unearthed several weeks ago during archaeological research commissioned and funded by the Consortium Grensmaas, an agency responsible for river ... [more]

2:53:56 AM Burial site for horses stuns archaeologists
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Amsterdam - Archaeologists have reported uncovering a mass grave with the complete skeletons of 51 horses buried side-by-side, probably the long-forgotten ... [more]

12:51:34 AM Unfinished Tomb Found
OverTheLimit.info - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada

The discovery of his tomb, which is in an area known as the Valley of the Kings, is the largest archaeological tomb unearthed of its kind. ... [more]

12:24:59 AM Tel Aviv, Antiquities Authority join forcesto display archaeological
Ha{;}aretz - Israel

Ha'aretz By Noah Kosharek The Tel Aviv municipality may soon launch a broad initiative to restore and display archaeological artifacts across the city, deputy-mayor ... [more]



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