Roman Archeology News

The Malta Independent Daily Website
The anchor, thought to be around 2,000 years old, was lifted off the sea bed in an operation carried out by the Museums Department and Carmelo Pace, one of the divers who made the discovery.
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Ancient amphoras unearthed
Yugoslavia - Three amphoras dating to the first century BC were found at the Adriatic sea off the Montenegro coast, local media reported on Monday.
The amphoras, in an excellent state despite their age, were found near the village Risan, in the Boka Kotorska bay, during the excavations led by the Kotor museum and the Belgrade-based Bureau for protection of monuments, the daily Vijesti reported.
The waters of Boka Kotorska bay, as well as the Montenegrin part of the Adriatic sea, have yet to be fully surveyed for archaeological remains. - Sapa/AFP
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East Anglian Daily Times news
The skeletal remains of "a couple of dozen" bodies have been exhumed from a Roman cemetery.
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Islamic Republic News Agency ( I R N A )HeadLines News
A mystery which has baffled generations of local fishermen on the Tuscan island of Elba was finally resolved this week, when a 2,000-year old perfectly preserved Roman shipwreck was discovered on the seabed.
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NEWS.scotsman.com - Scotland - Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows
Roman soldiers went to war on egg and pizza according to archaeological analysis of Roman army toilets in Scotland.
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WorldNews: Ancient Statue Found in Albania
Archaeologists excavating a part of the ancient town of Butrinti found what they said may be a 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Jordan Times (Home News Section)
When a massive earthquake in 363 AD broke apart and buried at least half of the city of Petra under rubble, remnants of the Nabataean civilisation disappeared, but others froze in time to be uncovered centuries later.
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news.telegraph.co.uk - Roman villas found under playing fieldThe remains of two Roman villas have been found under a football pitch in Wiltshire in what is believed to be one of the most significant archaeological discoveries since the early 1960s.
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Ananova - Excavation of Roman homes under football pitch begins Archaeologists have started excavating the remains of two Roman villas found a foot beneath a school football pitch in Wiltshire.
The houses built for aristocrats in about 350AD have 40 rooms each and a large mosaic in mint condition.
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Yahoo! News - Italian Exhibits to Stay Open Late With Italian cities full of summer tourists, dozens of museums and archaeological sites will remain open late into the night this week, the government announced.
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Archaeology Magazine On Monday morning, Loscha and I head out to Sevastopol, on the southwestern tip of the peninsula. This trip would have been impossible for me only five years ago. As the base for the Soviet Black Sea fleet, Sevastopol was off-limits to all foreigners and most nonresident citizens. The "closed city" was not opened to outsiders until 1996, when Russia and Ukraine finally reached an agreement that allowed Russia to maintain its fleet in the city's harbors. After five hours of successive sweltering bus rides, we arrive in town and head first to the site of Chersonesos, established by Greek colonists in the sixth century B.C.
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Archaeology Magazine Ruins of the palace that was the seat of government for the eastern Roman and Byzantine empires for more than a millennium have been found beneath Istanbul's streets, according to Alpay Pasinli, director of the Istanbul Museum of Archaeology, who oversaw the excavations.
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Archaeology Magazine In March, snakes and rats fled to higher ground on the banks of the Euphrates. Water rose in wells that had been dry for decades. The villagers of Belkis in southeastern Turkey abandoned their homes, removing the bones of their fathers and mothers from their graves before moving to neighboring towns.
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Archaeology Magazine Construction of a massive waterway across Egypt's northern Sinai Desert threatens numerous archaeological sites. Known as the Peace Canal, the project aims to bring fresh water from the Nile to the city of El Arish, 40 miles west of the Israeli border, making the region fertile.
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Archaeology Magazine The world wide web abounds with sites on archaeology in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Near East. Many dealing with Africa and Asia are in English. Web sites on European archaeology are often written in the language of that country, but a few offer English translations. The exceptions are those maintained by university or museum projects run by English speakers.
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Archaeology Magazine A triumphal gate to Asia in Roman times; the garden of Constantinople in the Middle Ages; a bastion of Ottoman imperialism in the modern era; and the scene of much hardship for Greeks, Turks, and Bulgarians caused by European political maneuvering from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, Thrace has always been a contested land.
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Archaeology Magazine We glided past Uluburun, a rocky cape on Turkey's southern shore. Below us, 150 feet beneath the surface of the dark blue water, were the remains of a merchant vessel that sank here ca. 1400 B.C.
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Archaeology Magazine The year we now know as A.D.1 was actually 753 in the Roman calendar, which began with the legendary founding of the city by Romulus and Remus.
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Archaeology Magazine Paul's epistles, written in the mid-first century A.D., bristle with complex, passionate arguments that offer insights into the heart and mind of a remarkable person and his times.
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Archaeology Magazine It is now five years since I first visited Butrint, the Greek and Roman port of Buthrotum in southern Albania, and realized that it offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
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Archaeology Magazine On September 13, 1995, Swiss police raided four bonded warehouses in Geneva, seizing a large number of artifacts allegedly smuggled from Italy. The premises were registered to a Swiss company called Editions Services, which police traced to a Roman named Giacomo Medici.
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Archaeology Magazine In order to deal with the historical Jesus, we need to recognize the transformative impact of Roman conquest and the new world order the Roman Empire imposed on subject people, and how those such as the Judeans and Galileans responded to their transformed life.
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ABCNEWS.com : Scientists Find Oldest Chess Piece In an elaborate palace, more than 1,300 years ago, members of an elite Roman family may have played some of the earliest chess games in Europe.
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Under Centuries of Sand, a Trading Hub South of Suez, the Egyptian shore of the Red Sea used to be sprinkled with ports that throbbed with life and commerce in antiquity, especially the heyday of the Roman Empire. But long ago, the relentless desert buried their remains so completely that it was almost beyond imagination that these places once were pivotal links in a maritime trade route that rivaled the better-known overland Silk Road.
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NYTimes.com Review ARTS ABROAD; Roman Music Center Rises From the RuinsFour years after winning his first commission to design a building in Rome, Renzo Piano watches as three concert halls, known collectively as the Rome Auditorium, arise on the northern outskirts of the city, and hopes that they will be ready by 1999, the eve of the new millennium.
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THE ART NEWSPAPER - NEWS The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) has returned to Italy an ancient Roman sculptural relief it bought in 1985 but which a curator discovered had left Italy without an export permit.
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Mail and Guardian Online Just a short drive outside Gaza City, through lush vineyards, Palestinian and French archeologists are excavating a remarkable Byzantine monastery which they hope will draw tourists once the violence is over.
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Yahoo! News - Syrian and Japanese archeologists uncover a first century cemetery in Palmyra A first century cemetery comprising four limestone chambers housing funerary beds bearing carvings of the faces of those who died has been uncovered in Syria, an official said Friday.
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-- Discovery Channel -- gladiator, armor Archaeologists working in northern England have excavated one of the most important finds in Britain from the Roman period- an armor workshop containing rare gladiator-era garb and other Roman military equipment.
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Yahoo - Economy And Empire All great empires come to a point of accelerating inflation, rising interest rates and a sharp depreciation of their currency. The U.S. empire may be facing this now.
According to several articles that have appeared in the international press, some notable U.S. commentators and scholars believe that America is no mere superpower but a full-blown empire in the Roman and British sense. Great news if you consider the alternatives, such as a Chinese or Russian empire, no longer communist but still totalitarian in nature.
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Yahoo! News - History Holds Clues to AIDS Impact on Africa Infectious diseases shaped the course of European history, shaking the foundations of imperial Rome and bringing the medieval world to its knees.
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Yorkshire Post : News : Rare Roman tool dug up in Wolds A GROUP of archaeologists is celebrating after unearthing an incredibly rare 2000-year-old relic near Goodmanham on the Yorkshire Wolds following a long and painstaking dig. Aug02w2

Troubled Tyre sees hatching of preservation plan Tyre is threatened by troubles as deep as the purple dye that made its name.
The city that gave Europe its name, the Greeks the basis of the alphabet and Roman emperors their sartorial savoir-faire has been going through a distinctly shabby phase of late. aug02w1