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www.azzaman.com - Iraqi archaeologists have discovered a new Babylonian town 180 kilometers south of Baghdad.
filed under: babylonia
Mon 24th Mar 1:09AM by daniel
US death toll in Iraq hits 4000
www.news.com.au - The death toll of US military in Iraq has hit 4000.
Mon 24th Mar 1:08AM by daniel
Clemson team proposes Luxor restoration
www.thestate.com - Two Clemson University professors could play a role in landscaping paths where pharaohs once trod.
Mon 24th Mar 1:06AM by daniel
Babylon treasures shown at Louvre
www.brantfordexpositor.ca - The ancient city of Babylon, in what is now Iraq, gets a thorough exploration in a new show at the Louvre, with treasures borrowed from galleries around the world. All that's missing is the obvious: artifacts on loan from Baghdad's museum.
Mon 24th Mar 1:05AM by daniel
Ancient Artifacts Seized Near Rome
ap.google.com - Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man's country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor Trajan's villas, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Mon 24th Mar 1:04AM by daniel
Aerial scanning reveals details of ancient sites
www.dispatch.com - New technologies seem to make almost everyone's job easier, and archaeology is no exception.
Mon 24th Mar 1:04AM by danielwww.fpif.org - While the majority of Iraqis know that the current Sunni-Shiites tension did not exist before 2003, no one can deny that after five years of U.S. occupation, sectarian tension is now a reality. Sectarianism is another disaster that was brought to Iraq by the war and occupation of Iraq.
The Sword In The Stone Yields New Evidence In The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great
www.emediawire.com - Corpse identified as St Mark the Evangelist, which was shipped to Venice from Alexandria in the early ninth century, might actually be the remains of Alexander the Great.
Mon 24th Mar 1:02AM by daniel
Iraq: Archaeological Expedition Mapping Ancient City Of Uruk
probedeep.blogspot.com - German archaeologists working in Iraq have made a partial map of the ancient site of Uruk and discovered that some of its features are just as described in a famous Sumerian epic poem -- "The Song of Gilgamesh." The findings come as archaeological work has virtually stopped in Iraq over the past decade due to the crisis between Baghdad and the international community.
filed under: assyria
Mon 17th Mar 4:06AM by daniel
Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate
www.nytimes.com - When President Bush convened a meeting of his National Security Council on May 22, 2003, his special envoy in Iraq made a statement that caught many of the participants by surprise. In a video presentation from Baghdad, L. Paul Bremer III informed the president and his aides that he was about to issue an order formally dissolving Iraq’s Army.
filed under: babylonia
Mon 17th Mar 4:05AM by daniel
Human rights in Iraq disastrous - Amnesty
www.news.com.au - AMNESTY International said the rights situation in Iraq five years after the US-led invasion was "disastrous" and that the country had turned into one of the world's most dangerous zones.
filed under: babylonia
Mon 17th Mar 4:04AM by daniel
Visualizing Egypt's Elephantine with Vienna University of Technologys gePublish
www.ogleearth.com - In the run-up to the talk about Google Earth and Egypt, Peter Ferschin at the Institute of Architectural Sciences, Digital Architecture and Planning at the Vienna University of Technology got in touch to show what he and his colleagues have been working on in association with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Cairo: A KML and COLLADA content management system called gePublish that really pushes the envelope in helping archaeologists visualize how ancient settlements evolved over time.
filed under: egypt
Mon 17th Mar 4:04AM by daniel
Archaeological Discoveries from the First Temple Period
www.claudemariottini.com - The Israel Antiquities Authority has released a press release in which they report that several items from the First Temple period have been discovered in salvage excavation in the northwestern part of the Western Wall plaza, c. 100 meters west of the Temple Mount. Because of the importance of the findings, I am reproducing below the press release in its entirety.
filed under: Archaeology
Mon 17th Mar 4:03AM by daniel
Archaeologists discover ruins of Inca temple in Peru
www.guardian.co.uk - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, road and irrigation systems at a fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco. The lead archaeologist, Oscar Rodriguez, said the temple, on the periphery of the Sacsayhuaman fortress, included 11 rooms thought to have held mummies and idols.
filed under: inca
Mon 17th Mar 4:03AM by daniel
Structures older than Pala Era found at Paharpur site
www.thedailystar.net - Archaeologists recently found two ancient brick-built structures at the Paharpur world heritage site which they believe belonged to a period even earlier than the site's known time, the Pala Era.
filed under: Archaeology
Mon 17th Mar 4:02AM by daniel
5,000-year-old skeletons found in Iran
www.presstv.ir - Archeologists have discovered ancient architecture and two burial chambers belonging to the Bronze Age in a northern Iranian province.
filed under: Archaeology
Mon 17th Mar 4:01AM by daniel
Archaeologists find ancient temple in Iran
www.physorg.com - Press-TV said the temple, which was found during excavation of the historical Tal-e-Sepid mound, likely belonged to Inshoshinak --a compassionate god known as "Father of the Weak." The archaeology team has unearthed Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid relics, as well as an Elamite terrace, the report said. Elam was one of the oldest civilizations in Iran.
filed under: persia
Thu 13th Mar 2:14AM by danielwww.cais-soas.com - The Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) announced on Monday that it has recently completed the production of a documentary about the ancient Iranian earthenware bowl bearing the world's oldest example of animation.
filed under: persia
Thu 13th Mar 2:13AM by daniel
Archaeologists Find Evidence Of Brain Surgery In Ancient Greece
www.allheadlinenews.com - Brain surgery was performed nearly 1,800 years ago in Greece, archaeologists said Tuesday after they unearthed the skeleton of a young woman from the 3rd Century CE.
filed under: greece
Thu 13th Mar 2:13AM by daniel
The Italian Archaoelogcal Mission in the Sudan (Torino University - Centro Scavi). Report for 2008
www.archaeogate.org - The present research - being the continuation of the historical mission carried on till 2005 under the auspices of Rome University "LaSapienza" - has resumed the excavations in the archaeological site of Jebel Barkal, ancient Napata, near modern Karima. Its working period covered the span between February 11th and 29th, having as main goal the complete clearing of the building labeled B2400.
Thu 13th Mar 2:12AM by daniel