http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/artifacts/ en-us Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036470/posts Jordan handed over nearly 2,500 stolen ancient artifacts to Iraq in a ceremony in Amman on Sunday. The repatriation is latest step in recovering about 15,000 priceless artifacts that were smuggled out of the country by looters during the chaos following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and have been turning up at art auctions around the world. Many were taken from the national museum in Baghdad, and thousands more were looted from archeolgoical sites. At the ceremony, Maha Khatib, Jordan's minister of tourism, presented the pieces to her Iraqi counterpart, Mohammed Abbas Oreibi. Oreibi told reporters that the... CBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036470/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033416/posts Ancient stone tools discovered in South Carolina Finds at Savannah River site could rewrite America's history By LIZ MITCHELL McClatchy NewspapersPublished on: 06/17/08 HILTON HEAD, S.C. — A local man has unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, S.C., a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived. And if more evidence proves the artifact is a new type of tool and one archaeologists haven't found before, it could be named after Matthew Carey of Hilton Head Island. The 22-year-old University of South Carolina anthropology major volunteered at the Topper Site... Atlanta Journal Consitiution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033416/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030213/posts Historic ‘name trees’ bore thousands of carvingsThe names “Thomas and Dorothy” were carved in the bark of one trunk. Another said “Bob and Carma”. Other trees were marked with soldiers’ home states - Iowa, Maine or Alabama - and several bore hearts and the names or initials of a wife or girlfriend. The beech trees of Saint Pierre de Varengeville-Duclair forest bore a poignant testimony to the D-Day landings for more than six decades. Thousands of American soldiers stationed there after the liberation of Normandy spent their spare hours with a knife or bayonet creating a lasting reminder of their... The Times (London) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030213/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:48:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009895/posts Tse-whit-zen artifacts languish in storage By Jonathan MartinSeattle Times staff reporter An arrowhead created by a Lower Elwha Klallam tribal member. One of the Pacific Northwest's most astonishing archaeological finds in a generation has languished for more than a year, lingering on metal shelves in a Seattle warehouse, unseen by the public and unexamined by scientists. No one questions the discoveries — artifacts from a 2,700-year-old Native American village excavated from the Port Angeles waterfront amid great public interest — should be exhibited, analyzed and celebrated. But the 900 boxes of artifacts — such things as spindle whorls carved from... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009895/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 20:42:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007725/posts BAGHDAD - The Iraqi National Museum is welcoming home 701 artifacts stolen during the looting after Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003. Syrian authorities turned over items ranging from golden necklaces to clay pots that were seized by traffickers in the neighboring country. The antiquities were displayed in a ceremony Sunday at the Baghdad museum. Iraqi officials say Syria is the first country to hand over a large quantity of stolen antiquities. They hope others will follow its lead as Iraq struggles to restore its rich cultural heritage after five years of war. Museums were pillaged of treasures in the chaos... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007725/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:30:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994921/posts This elegant gold necklace looks as if it was only made yesterday. In fact the nine inch necklace is four thousand years old and marks the oldest known worked gold artifact ever uncovered in the Americas, also representing the earliest evidence of an elite emerging among the simple people who lived there. Is this gold necklace the first evidence of elite society in the Americas In short, it marks the very early steps towards the appearance of royalty in the region, along with politics and luxury. The nine bead necklace, found near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru, is described by... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994921/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959702/posts Authorities Raid California Museums By GREG RISLING LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal agents raided several Southern California museums on Thursday in search of Southeast Asian antiquities believed to have been illegally obtained, smuggled into the U.S. and donated so collectors could claim fraudulent tax deductions. Agents also investigated American Indian artifacts at one museum. Search warrants were executed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Authorities said no arrests... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959702/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925451/posts Tablets that may reveal El Niño secrets are feared lost in Iraq By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent 09 June 2003 The secrets of El Niño, one of the most mysterious and destructive weather systems, could be unlocked by hundreds of thousands of ancient clay tablets now feared lost or damaged in the chaos of Iraq. Researchers believe the tablets, written using a cuneiform text, one of the earliest types of writing, form the world's oldest records of climate change and could give vital clues to understanding El Niño and global warming. Academics are demanding that ministers act to protect the... Independent (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925451/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1897015/posts RALEIGH - Harlan “Carolina” Jones was commissioned by Biblical Archeology Review in 1977 to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. Three decades of frustration could have been avoided had Craig Newmark, then a 24-year-old fratboy at Wofford College, hurried up and started his nifty Web site for classified ads—Craigslist.org. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited and all,” Jones said. “But I feel like a dang fool.” Jones was searching on Raleigh Craigslist for a new Husky toolbox for his pickup truck when he clicked on the following ad: “Funky storage box. Used. Free jar, stick and a couple of... The Holy Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1897015/posts#comment Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:15:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890534/posts JERUSALEM – Islamic authorities using heavy machinery to dig on the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – have been caught red-handed destroying Temple-era antiquities and what's believed to be a section of an outer wall of the Second Jewish Temple. WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890534/posts#comment Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:31:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886511/posts It's one of Minnesota's greatest mysteries. It's something that puts settlers in America well before Columbus. A Minnesota geologist thinks the controversial Kensington Runestone is the real thing and there is evidence that he says backs up the theory. The Kensington Runestone is a rock found near Alexandria a century ago. It's inscription speaking of Norwegians here in 1362. It begs the question. Were Vikings exploring our land more than 100 years before Columbus? Or is it just an elaborate hoax? New research shows that the stone is genuine and there's hidden code that may prove it. It contains carved... WCCO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886511/posts#comment Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:21:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1874619/posts Ooparts ? What are Ooparts? That stands for Out of Place Artifacts. Things that show up where they shouldn't, a piece of gold chain found in a coal seam, what appears to be a sparkplug embedded in rock that is thousands of years old and what appears to be a bullet hole in the skull of a mastodon. These things are ooparts. A Gold Thread Workmen quarrying stone near the River Tweed below Rutherford, Scotland in 1844, found a piece of gold thread embedded in the rock of the quarry eight feet below ground level. A small piece of the... What If? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1874619/posts#comment Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:28:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1792189/posts Artifacts could be from early galleon Mon Feb 26, 11:42 PM ET MEXICO CITY - Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago. Seals and other markings on some of the estimated 1,000 fragments of porcelain plates found at the site indicate they were made in China in the late 1500s, said archaeologist Luz Maria Mejia of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. The site, near the port of Ensenada about 50... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1792189/posts#comment Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776317/posts Some of the artefacts confiscated may be up to one million years old French customs officials say they have seized more than 650 ancient artefacts smuggled from Mali in one of the largest such finds at a Paris airport. Described as an "archaeological treasure", the objects were thought to be on their way to private US buyers. Experts say most of the items are from the Neolithic period, but some may be up to one million years old. The artefacts are thought to have been taken from archaeological sites on the edge of the Sahara desert. The 669 items... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776317/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1773442/posts Shortly before Christmas, electrician Pio DiPofi pried open a 114-year-old box kneeler that ran for 200 feet along the balcony rail of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in the Strip District. In the hollow where he planned to run wiring for the church's ongoing renovation he saw dirt, soot and something more colorful. He reached in and carefully pulled out two very old holy cards -- images of Jesus and the saints that are often used in Catholic prayer. "When I looked at them, I was amazed," he said. Items found inside the 114-year-old box kneeler include a torn prayer card... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1773442/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:12:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771741/posts Railway construction unearths ancient artifacts in Germany By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff | January 21, 2007 COLOGNE, Germany -- Genialinius Gennatus was one fine duck hunter. Alerts In the third century , he recorded his prowess in high Latin on a stone tablet that he dedicated to Jupiter. That and a hefty donation probably ensured that the tablet won display in the temple to the Roman god in the settlement then called Colonia. Five or six centuries later, Cologne's early Christians, perhaps offended by the tablet dedicated to a pantheist god, chucked it into the silting channel between the Rhine... Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771741/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1762168/posts COLUMBIA, Mo. - A man hunting for American Indian artifacts with his sons along a gravel bar on the Missouri River has uncovered an ancient fishhook that is making collectors envious. "The first thing I thought is, 'I hope this isn't metal,'" said Eric Henley, who found the hook last month near McBaine. "When I picked it up, there was a pretty good jump for joy and a couple of 'whoops' and yells. It's the cream of the crop." The hook is made of bone and covers his entire palm, making it much larger than most bone hooks. Joe Harl,... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1762168/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:23:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753102/posts Field Museum scientists solve riddle of mysterious faces on South Pacific artifactsDecipher their hidden meaning and religious significance John Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at the Field Museum, and Esther M. Schechter, a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the Field Museum, have pieced together... CHICAGO—The strange faces drawn on the first pottery made in the South Pacific more than 3,000 years ago have always been a mystery to scientists. Now their riddle may have been solved by new research done by two Field Museum scientists to be published in the February 2007 issue of the Cambridge... Eureka Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753102/posts#comment Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:34:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722223/posts Last update - 09:31 19/10/2006 First Temple artifacts found in dirt removed from Temple Mount By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent The project of sifting layers of Temple Mount dirt has yielded thousands of new artifacts dating from the First Temple period to today. The dirt was removed in 1999 by the Islamic Religious Trust (Waqf) from the Solomon's Stables area to the Kidron Stream Valley. The sifting itself is taking place at Tzurim Valley National Park, at the foot of Mount Scopus, and being funded by the Ir David Foundation. Dr. Gabriel Barkai and Tzachi Zweig, the archaeologists directing the... www.haaretz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722223/posts#comment Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:29:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689229/posts BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient village, possibly dating back to the time of Christ, that once thrived along the shores of this Gulf Coast community. The artifacts were unearthed during recent efforts to rebuild a thoroughfare and major bridge heavily damaged last year by Hurricane Katrina. Marco Giardino, an archaeologist acting as the city's liaison on a dig to preserve the ancient remains, said as many as 400 people may have lived in the village. "That area was very strategic and would have allowed them to travel, fish and hunt," he... McClatchy Newspapers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689229/posts#comment Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685628/posts < img src = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/uk_enl_1155824432/html/1.stm> An ancient Peruvian headdress which was looted from an archaeological site almost 20 years ago has been found by police in London. It is considered a national treasure and disappeared in 1988 after a tomb in northern Peru was raided and its contents sold on the black market. It was handed to a firm of solicitors in central London by one of its clients who did not know it was stolen. The headdress, depicting a sea god, dates back to 700AD. It is an example of ancient Peruvian Mochica civilisation art and is regarded by... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685628/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:19:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678104/posts SAN FRANCISCO – Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers. Over the past week, researchers at Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park have been using X-rays to decipher a fragile 10th century manuscript that contains the only copies of some of Archimedes' most important works. The X-rays, generated by a particle accelerator, cause tiny amounts of iron left by the original ink to glow without harming the delicate goatskin parchment. “We are... ap on San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678104/posts#comment Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:39:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672514/posts RICHMOND, Va. - Sometime around 1610, archaeologists figure, a thirsty colonist in Jamestown set his brass pistol on the side of a well as he pulled up some water and accidentally knocked the weapon in. Associated Press/Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672514/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1666491/posts A fire in a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple in a remote valley of Himachal Pradesh has reduced the pinewood-structure to ashes and also destroyed a number of scriptures, artefacts and murals, officials said. The fire at the temple in Ribba in Kinnaur valley, about 200 km from Shimla, started late on Friday and caused losses of nearly Rs 125 million, they said. Besides, 170 Buddhist scriptures written over centuries by monks on birch paper rolls, many murals of Lord Buddha, antique jewellery and other artefacts have been reduced to ashes. Himalayan pinewood planks that were used to construct the temple only... Hindustan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1666491/posts#comment Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:22:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658766/posts Diver Dennis O'Neil of Plattsburgh, N.Y., poses with a piece of a cannon muzzle which he discovered during a dive Friday, June 30, 2006, in Peru, N.Y. Divers have spent the last seven years combing the bottom of Lake Champlain in search of 'battlefield scatter' from the crucial 1776 Battle of Valcour near Peru. O'Neil has made about 100 dives during the project. PERU, N.Y. - Gen. Benedict Arnold led a "wretched, motley" crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here on Oct. 11, 1776. The rebels lost. But their dogged fight delayed... YAHOO NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658766/posts#comment Sat, 1 Jul 2006 02:03:46 GMT