Archaeology Watch Update
I'll have a news update for you folks tomorrow. In the interim, here's an Archaeology Watch update.
A device known as the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered more than a century ago in a Roman shipwreck. Scientists now believe that the device is an analog computer used to calculate and display astronomical cycles. This information has been published in the science journal Nature.
Archaeologists in Egypt will be excavating and preserving pharaonic tombs in Luxor. Unfortunately, this will require the demolition of the existing village of Qurna and the relocation of several thousand families to a new site several kilometers away.
And finally, crews have discovered a Roman sarcophagus beneath a church near Trafalgar square. (BBC) The sarcophagus and its headless occupant date back to around 410 AD; researchers speculate that the head may have been removed by Victorian-era workers who were installing a swer system adjacent to the burial site. The sarcophagus is being moved to the Museum of London.
More news tomorrow morning.
A device known as the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered more than a century ago in a Roman shipwreck. Scientists now believe that the device is an analog computer used to calculate and display astronomical cycles. This information has been published in the science journal Nature.
Archaeologists in Egypt will be excavating and preserving pharaonic tombs in Luxor. Unfortunately, this will require the demolition of the existing village of Qurna and the relocation of several thousand families to a new site several kilometers away.
And finally, crews have discovered a Roman sarcophagus beneath a church near Trafalgar square. (BBC) The sarcophagus and its headless occupant date back to around 410 AD; researchers speculate that the head may have been removed by Victorian-era workers who were installing a swer system adjacent to the burial site. The sarcophagus is being moved to the Museum of London.
More news tomorrow morning.
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