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News From Monday, July 24, 2006
11:32:13 PM Egypt to Move Famous Ramses Statue in Cairo
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

.... "We have to move that statue," antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said. Contractors plan to transport a replica next week, as a test. ... [more]

8:27:13 PM Scientists study Ariz. Hohokam era site
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

.... Archaeologists have done exploratory work in the area of the Queen Creek location, called the Germann site, since the 1930s, but the dating that showed it may ... [more]

6:42:13 PM Archaeology students seek 19th-century well
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA

.... it was out there," Doug Wilson said last week, He is an archaeologist for the National Park Service and assistant professor of archaeology at Portland State ... [more]

5:17:13 PM Bulgaria uncovers 2,000-year-old temple
United Press International - USA

SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 24 (UPI) -- Archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age temple thousands of years old in southern Bulgaria, news reports said Monday. ... [more]

2:17:13 PM Archaeologists unearth 'treasure' at Dunbar Castle
Scotsman - United Kingdom

ANIMAL bones, a whale bone and some medieval pottery have been unearthed by volunteer archaeologists searching a Lothians castle. ... [more]

2:17:13 PM Engineers Discover 1,500-year-old Byzantine Port
All Headline News - USA

.... the ancient port. However, archaeologists knew from ancient documents that the port was somewhere around Yenikapi. Dubbed the "Port ... [more]

12:42:14 PM Archaeology: Dig it
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA

.... hours each Monday and Wednesday, he spends time in a classroom learning how to identify findings from his digs as a participant in a summer archaeology camp. ... [more]

12:42:14 PM Students digging for artifacts at the Alamo
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA

SAN ANTONIO - Archaeology students are sifting through dirt at the Alamo in search of artifacts that could shed light on the history of the Texas Revolution ... [more]

11:17:13 AM Late-period Hohokam site explored
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Archaeologists have done exploratory work in the Power Ranch area since the 1930s, but recent dating has put the Germann site complex, as it's known, toward ... [more]

10:47:13 AM HMS York rescues Yorkshire archaeologist from shelling
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK

Archaeologist Guy Hopkinson, safely back home in North Yorkshire after fleeing the crisis in the Middle East, is experiencing the mixed emotions of a survivor. ... [more]

9:22:13 AM Residents go about life on Israeli kibbutz
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA

Editor’s note: Phillip Taylor, a 22-year-old Kalamazoo College student from Fort Wayne, wrote this while working on an archaeological dig in Galilee, in ... [more]

8:17:13 AM Fire leads to American Indian find
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA

.... One of two CDF archaeologists assigned to the 60,000-plus-acre Sawtooth fire, Fenenga and partner Linda Pollack helped fire crews protect the sites and record ... [more]

4:47:13 AM 7 mummies removed from 1st intact tomb since Pharaoh Tutankhamen's
Zee News - Noida,India

Luxor, July 24: Top Egyptian archaeologist and Head of Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, unveiled on Wednesday the last and largest ... [more]

3:42:13 AM Leave our glimpse of Stonehenge alone
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

.... The officers of the all-party Parliamentary Archaeology Group wrote to The Daily Telegraph recently in support of a short-bored tunnel "as the only realistic ... [more]



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