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Satellite pictures taken last summer of Mount Ararat in Turkey may reveal the final resting place of Noah's ark, according to Daniel McGivern, the businessman and Christian activist behind a planned summer 2004 expedition to investigate the site. "We're telling people we're 98 percent sure," said McGivern, a member of the Hawaii Christian Coalition. "In one image we saw the beams, saw the wood. I'm convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will prove that it is Noah's ark. " full article at Turks.Us

It was an idyllic life for the Roman rich and famous, who basked in the sun in villas overlooking the sea until a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79 buried their homes in ash. Four of those grand villas are recalled, and partly resurrected, at a new Smithsonian exhibit. "In Stabiano" opens Tuesday at the National Museum of Natural History, inviting visitors to peer into the daily life of the Roman wealthy. via Washington Times

Historians in Reigate have been entrenched in a major dig in the town after uncovering a Roman tileworks. The discovery has been made in Doods Way and is thought to date from the second or third centuries. But the archaeologists have been battling against the clock, for they had only until last weekend to complete their excavation before demolition gangs move in and demolish the house, Rosehill, on the site. full article at SurreyOnline

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weekend is over kama! cheers viggen

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Nice list that you got here!

Egypt said Sunday new mummies in wooden coffins dating back to the 7th Century B.C. have been unearthed at the Giza Pyramids near Cairo. Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni told reporters an archeological team discovered a few ancient coffins with gold artifacts next to them - all believed to be of Pharaonic religious value. full article at Washington Times

Here are all the books we listed in the fourth week of April; Handbook of Ancient Greek and Roman Coins by Zander H. Klawans, Ken Bressett Christianity and the Roman Empire: Background Texts by Ralph Martin Novak Roman Art (3rd Edition) by Nancy H. Ramage, Andrew Ramage Music in Ancient Greece and Rome by John G. Landels Diocletian and the Roman Recovery by Stephen Williams The Rise of the Roman Empire by Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator), Obye Polybius Livy: The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) by Aubrey De Selincourt feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anoyne read one of those already? cheers viggen

hello caine and welcome to unrv, thanks for the extra info on the herods

A spring-propelled car conceived by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries ago could have paved the way for the Mars rovers, an eight-month study of a drawing by the Renaissance genius has revealed. Drawn on sheet number 812r of the Atlantic Codex in 1478, when Leonardo was 24 years old, the sketch has been translated into a one-third scale model at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence. via Discovery

Gold and silver jewellery dating from 2,500BC has been discovered in a storeroom at the British Museum among relics first excavated in the 1920s. The adornments were part of the elaborate head-dresses worn by female attendants who had been buried alive in a royal tomb at the ancient Sumerian city of Ur in what is now southern Iraq. Some of the material excavated from the site more than 70 years ago had been hurriedly preserved in blocks of paraffin wax before being shipped back to London. full article at the Independent

French archeologists have unearthed a perfectly preserved head of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra south of Jordan, the head of the mission told AFP Thursday. "A monumental white marble head, in excellent condition, belonging to a statue the emperor Marcus Aurelius was found in Petra by French archeologists," Christian Auge said. full article at Expatica

A team of U.S. and Guatemalan archeologists says it has discovered important Mayan monuments covered with texts from the ceremonial ball court at the Cancuen palace in northern Guatemala. The researchers said the discovery is providing new information about the final years before the collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization. full article at IOL

A rather sad story about ancient roman mines are going to be lost for ever! For more than 2,000 years, strangers have invaded this place, seeking the gold that's beneath the villagers' feet. They've come with swords and arrows, guns and tanks - Romans, Austro-Hungarians, Nazis and Soviets. But the village always survived. Until now. full article at TheState

Here are all the books we listed in the third week of April; The Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World by Simon Anglim,, Phyllis G. Jestice, Rob S. Rice The Gods of Ancient Rome by Robert Turcan, Antonia Nevill Gladiators and Caesars by Eckart Kohne, Cornelia Ewigleben, Eckart K

I actually never heared about the romans were good in archaeology, I may be wrong though. cheers viggen

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Artefact 90920 is wending its way from the British Museum to Tehran, where it has fired debate between those who see it as a national icon and others who say it represents all that is worst about Iran's pre-Islamic past. The controversial relic is an unassuming 23-centimetre-long (9-inch) cylinder of baked clay covered in densely packed lines of Babylonian cuneiform script. It is generally agreed to be the world's first human rights charter

A historical mystery surrounding Indo-Roman trade routes may have been solved, says a report by Southampton University archaeology research fellow Roberta Tomber. Armed with an Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) grant to investigate Indo-Roman trade, and with the guidance of David Peacock who heads Archaeology at the University of Southampton, Tomber worked with local archaeologists in Kerala where she identified the first fragments of Roman wine amphorae found on the south-west coast of India. full article at Indolink

and kama? any new pics to share? cheers viggen

The fabled kingdom of the Etruscan king Lars Porsena is coming to light in the Tuscan hills near Florence, according to an Italian University professor. Known as Chamars, where the lucumo (king) Porsena reigned in the 6th century B.C., this was the leading city-state of the Etruscan civilization that dominated much of Italy before the emergence of Rome. via Discovery

Archaeologists have made a sensational discovery in Turkmenistan -- a temple of water dating back to the third millennium B.C. The Margianskaya expedition has been digging on the site of an ancient settlement called Gonur in the delta of the Murgab River in the eastern Mary region, some 200 miles east of the country's capital, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.ru reported Tuesday. full article at the WashingtonTimes

A team of German and Egyptian archaeologists working in the Nile Delta has unearthed "quite a remarkable" stele dating back 2 200 years to Ptolemaic Egypt which bears an identical inscription in three written languages - like the famed Rosetta Stone. Announcing the find on Monday, University of Potsdam chief Egyptologist Christian Tietze said the stone fragment was "quite remarkable and the most significant of its kind to be found in Egypt in 120 years". full article at IOL

The final link of what is believed to be a necklet owned by Queen Boadicea has been discovered in Norfolk. The 2,000-year-old treasure is part of a gold torc, a type of Iron Age necklet, and was found by archaeologists in a field in Sedgeford. The Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project believe it is the end of an Iceni tribe gold torc. The torc, unearthed 40 years ago, is displayed at the British Museum. full article at the BBC