Found while doing my daily search for "Early History NewsArchaeologists Recreate Ancient Irish Beer ( Read more... )

News in archaeology and history in the last few days seems to be coming mostly from Bulgaria.

The big story of the day appears to be the discovery of the gold mask. There are several stories linked from Early History News. In my opinion the mask strongly resembles the famed mask found in Mycenae, the Mask of Agamemnon ( Read more... )

It's a mixed bag of time periods and regions today:
- Another article on Queen Hatshepsut
- Archaeological site in Scotland rebuilt
- A replica Viking Warship to sail
- More discoveries in Bulgaria
- Orpheus's Tomb?

And more at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Well, all but two or so articles this morning are on the discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut. The other three articles were: a new discovery in Bulgaria, the discovery of the oldest ivory carving, and the possibility of the fossil "Lucy" going on a tour of the U.S.. Links can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Quite a lot today.
- At least five, if not more stories on the discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut
- More information about gladiators
- A video on the volcano of Santorini (Thera)

Links to these stories can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Lots of stories about the gold processing site found on the Nile. In other news, there was a Roman city wall discovered in Britain, and Neanderthal man was an innovator. Links to all of these stories can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Only three stories today:
- the discovery of a Roman road in Wales
- The Etruscans came from Turkey
- An exhibit on ancient jewelry

Links to all these stories can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

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Lots of news today ( Read more... )

I'm putting together the morning post to Early History News. It looks like the big story of the day concerns this website: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/rome_reborn/test/RomeReborn1.0.html. There's not much there yet, but it looks like something worth keeping an eye on for the future.