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News From Monday, July 26, 2010
9:00:38 PM King Tut chariot to be exhibited in New York
NatGeo News Watch (blog)

.... Pharaohs exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition," Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said on his blog. ... [more]

7:21:27 PM Experts set to unravel puzzle of a Chinese ship that sank near Lamu
Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya

National Museums of Kenya assistant director in charge of Coast region Athman Hussein said archaeologists from the two countries expected to get the wrecks ... [more]

6:01:47 PM Digging up fun on Archaeology Day
Western News - London,Ontario,Canada

By Communications Staff The Museum of Ontario Archaeology, an affiliate of The University of Western Ontario, is letting the public be an archaeologist for ... [more]

5:59:38 PM Archaeologists Discover Ancient Hammurabi-Like Law Code in Northern Israel
Bloomberg

By Alisa Odenheimer - Jul 26, 2010 Archaeologists have uncovered for the first time in Israel fragments of a law code that resemble portions of the famous ... [more]

4:25:57 PM Russia's archaeological sites can expect better protection
The Voice of Russia

The Russian government is considering measures to improve the protection and funding of high-profile archaeological sites. Prime Minister Putin told this to ... [more]

4:13:42 PM Guédelon Castle - Reverse Engineering Medieval Archaeology in the 21st
Geeks are Sexy Technology News

Geeks are Sexy Technology News If you've noticed, I've got a thing for swords and castles and whatnot. My love of all things medieval is, as far as I can tell, the springboard for geekery ... [more]

4:05:52 PM Archaeologists Discover Biggest Rat That Ever Lived: Weight of About 6 ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA

ScienceDaily (July 25, 2010) — The cave excavations also yielded a total of 13 species of rodents, 11 of which are new to science. Eight of the rats ... [more]

3:05:14 PM Archaeology: 7000 year-old village found near Bulgarian town of Shoumen
Sofia Echo - Sofia,Bulgaria

A settlement dating back about 7000 years has been discovered by a hill near the village of Ivanovo, in Shoumen municipality, in eastern Bulgaria, .... [more]

2:46:12 PM Archaeological Site Restoration at Gran Quivira
About - News & Issues (blog)

Most of the archaeological sites owned by national governments have undergone some level of restoration. We don't call 'em ruins for nothin', .... [more]

2:20:17 PM Rare Crusader fresco unveiled at Israeli museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Archaeologists say all others were destroyed by Saladin when his troops captured Jerusalem in the name of Islam in 1187. [more]

12:22:20 PM Stone Tools Prompted Human-Animal Connection
Laboratory Equipment - Rockaway,USA

.... forthcoming book, paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Pennslvania State Univ. argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection. ... [more]

11:28:55 AM Archaeologists Discover Wealthy, 8000-Year-Old Prehistoric Settlement in ...
Balkan Travellers - Sofia,Bulgaria

26 July 2010 | A team of Bulgarian archaeologists discovered a “wealthy” town dating back 8000 years near the city of Ruse, located on the Danube River in ... [more]

11:11:12 AM Tutankhamun's chariot to travel to New York
Monsters and Critics.com

During recent CT scans and DNA tests, Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass and his team discovered that Tutankhamen suffered a fracture in his left leg ... [more]

9:20:06 AM Digging Roman culture in Brecon
BBC News - E,UK

It is part of the annual Festival of British Archaeology. The festival is a chance for people to get involved with history and archaeology through a variety ... [more]

9:05:04 AM Another ancient monument found near Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Valletta Times - Valletta,Malta

An artist's impression of a structure discovered by archaeologists studying the land surrounding Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Photo: University of Birmingham/PA ... [more]

8:37:31 AM King Tutankhamun's Chariot to Travel From Egypt to New York for ...
Bloomberg

... chariot is an important piece of the puzzle that we're been working for decades to solve,” said council Secretary-General Zahi Hawass in the statement. ... [more]

8:31:40 AM King Tut's chariot headed to Discovery exhibition
Daily Caller

Zahi Hawass says the chariot will leave Egypt on Wednesday accompanied by an Egyptian conservator. The chariot was supposed to join the exhibition of King ... [more]

7:56:28 AM King Tut's chariot heads to New York
France24 - Paris,France

"This is the first time that the chariot will travel outside Egypt," antiquities chief Zahi Hawass was quoted as saying. "It is a once in a lifetime ... [more]

7:51:39 AM Archaeologists investigate Alderton Mount site
BBC News - E,UK

Archaeologists are there until 6 August to investigate more about its history and use. Tim Upson-Smith from Northamptonshire Archaeology led a dig at the ... [more]

7:17:05 AM Oral history project focuses on Mon Valley's steamboat era
Leader Times - Kittanning,PA,USA

A doctoral candidate in industrial archaeology and heritage at Michigan Technological University, Henshaw, 34, owns the cultural resource management firm ... [more]

7:16:47 AM New Lifetime boss hopes History repeats itself
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA

Dubuc describes the new series “Chasing Mummies,” which debuts July 14, as a “docu-soap” that follows the famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass as he tries to find ... [more]

4:55:03 AM Soil sciences: The business of buried treaure
Virginian Pilot - Hampton Roads,VA,USA

Old Point chose the Williamsburg firm because of its expertise and previous archaeological work in Hampton, said Robert F. Shuford Jr., the bank's executive ... [more]

4:01:07 AM Guatemala tomb may hold founder of a Maya dynasty
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Archaeologist Stephen Houston of Brown University said the tomb was so tightly sealed that the team found remains of textiles, wood carvings and other ... [more]

4:01:04 AM SCIENCE NEWS Discovery adds to the mystery of Stonehenge
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

The University of Birmingham and the Austria-based Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology are leading the survey, ... [more]

12:48:55 AM Finally, it's time for Ravens to dump distractions
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

But when we last left the great Ravens safety, he was giving interviews to everyone but the Home Shopping Network and Archaeology Today magazine. ... [more]



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