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News From Thursday, July 29, 2010
11:15:20 PM Maryland lab to conserve World Trade Center ship remains
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun A conservation team from Maryland's archaeology lab is in lower Manhattan this week, working to recover the remains ... [more]

10:08:44 PM The original Sinbad?
BBC Sport - UK

Next month, archaeologists will begin work off the coast of Kenya to identify a wreck believed to have belonged to the man some historians believe inspired ... [more]

9:36:16 PM Continued Afro-Chinese History Manipulation
ScienceBlogs - USA

A well-funded group of Chinese maritime archaeologists plans to spend three years searching for the wreck of one of Zheng He's ships off the Kenyan coast. ... [more]

8:03:18 PM A Brigantine Beneath Washington Street
New York Times (blog)

The forensic work will then shift to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. AKRF The bowl of a clay pipe was found under the floor planking of ... [more]

6:42:11 PM Tree felling at St Michael's Hill
BBC News - E,UK

The National Trust, which owns the land, says the work needs to be carried out in order to protect the archaeology and increase biodiversity on the land. ... [more]

5:21:21 PM Exploring China-Kenya Relations -- From 600 Years Ago and Today
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense ...

Even its interest in the Kenyan coastline extends beyond archaeology. The country is also the primary funder of a new port to be built off Lamu, ... [more]

4:02:48 PM Feature: History - The archaeology team who uncovered the remains of ...
Islington Tribune newspaper website

Archaeologist Heather Knight has led the dig and her work has uncovered evidence of where the stage once was, and the cheap stalls where punters paid a ... [more]

3:35:17 PM Ask the TH: Any archaeological digs by Mines of Spain?
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA

Question: Have archaeological digs been done down by the Mines of Spain State Recreation Area? If not, why? If yes, what was found? ... [more]

3:17:21 PM Feast of finds at Marden
Swindon Evening Advertiser - Swindon,England,UK

The discovery at Hatfield Farm, never before investigated, has excited the world of archaeology and is more impressive than the recent finds at Stonehenge. ... [more]

2:22:46 PM Archaeologists Do Emergency Excavations on Border between Bulgaria and
Balkan Travellers - Sofia,Bulgaria

Balkan Travellers 29 July 2010 | Four teams of Bulgarian archaeologists are carrying out “rescue excavations” of an area in the Rodopi Mounatains where a road across the ... [more]

1:46:51 PM Bowdoin Student Recounts Field Work in Israel
Bowdoin News - Brunswick,ME,USA

I'm a classical archaeology major at Bowdoin and I've just now returned stateside from working at the Tel Kedesh project in Israel's Upper Galilee for ... [more]

11:32:32 AM Workmen May Have Accidentally Cut World Trade Center Boat in Half
DNAinfo

“It's always better to have the entire artifact,” agreed Amanda Sutphin, director of archaeology at the city Landmarks Preservation Commission. ... [more]

11:09:07 AM China's Biggest Archaeological Exhibition Opens to Public
CRIENGLISH.com - Beijing,China

China's biggest ever archaeological exhibition is held at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Thursday, July 29, 2010. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com/Zhang Xu] "The ... [more]

9:19:34 AM Sask. Archaeological Soc. looking for help in Fort Walsh
mysask.com (press release)

The Saskatchewan Archaeological Society (SAS) is looking for help in early August at Fort Walsh National Historic Site, southeast of Maple Creek. ... [more]

8:54:08 AM Atomic Sketch Two Year Anniversary Group Show
Chicago Reader - USA

Add it to our database The Funk Archaeologist How Dante Carfagna's record collection became a Rosetta Stone for funk fanatics around the world. by Peter ... [more]

4:14:17 AM Gol Gumbad encroachments demolished
Times of India - India

NEW DELHI: Weeks after conservation work on Lodi-period Gol Gumbad commenced, the state archaeology department alongwith Delhi Development Authority (DDA) ... [more]

3:04:53 AM Archaeologists Discover 2400-Year-Old Weapons and Tools in Valencia
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

The hilt of an eagle-shaped sword dated from 4th Century BC and made of iron is pointed at by one one of the archaeologists working at an excavation in the ... [more]

12:44:54 AM HMS Investigator is familiar weckage
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Ryan Harris, a senior marine archaeologist with Parks Canada, suggested that “in anthropological terms, this is the most important shipwreck in history . ... [more]



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