Lost city. . .soon-to-be-Found? Lots of challenges ahead
Any expedition in search of the lost city that is reportedly located in Johor can expect to meet a variety of challenges, some of which might include predators, booby traps and thick forests that have reclaimed the land.
According to Prof Datuk Abdul Latiff Mohamad of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), an abandoned settlement located in the jungle could be reclaimed by forest in just 80 years.
“Weeds would creep in first, then pioneer tree species would come in leading to a secondary forest in about 80 to 100 years.
And just to prove a day can't go by without news from Mehr. . . Researchers to document ancient Iranian architecture
A project to more systematically document ancient Iranian historical structures and architecture is to be implemented during the next Iranian calendar year (begins March 21, 2005), the director of the Research Center of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (CHTO) announced on Monday.
Mohammad-Hassan Mohebali said that the documentation project will collect comprehensive information about various styles of architecture over the course of Iran’s history.
We do this a lot Archaeologists eye prehistoric village
Five thousand years ago, a band of ancient people built homes on the edge of a stream in what is now the Denver suburb of Parker.
It was not a temporary camp, like so many of the archaeological discoveries made from that period. People here made large houses, some of them 24 feet across, with wood posts and walls of brush or hide. They probably spent months in the area and may have returned, again and again, over centuries.
The experts at a construction site here have about a month or two to make sense of butchered bison bones, spear points, grinding stones and pit houses. After that, the site will probably be demolished to make way for Parker's new reservoir complex.
City of fables unearths real heroes from Roman era
It is the home of Humpty Dumpty, old King Cole and Camelot � or so legend has it.
But archaeologists raking over the past can now go one better for the English city of Colchester.
After painstaking excavation work they have proof of real heroes from the ancient world. Last month they revealed the remains of a Roman circus, or chariot racing track.
We think this is a story we've reported on a few times, but it has apparently made it to India. You know, need to keep the old colonialists up to date. . .
Ruins Support Myth of Rome's Founding
Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, who were suckled as infants by a she-wolf in the woods.
Now, archaeologists believe they have found evidence that at least part of that tale may be true: Traces of a royal palace discovered in the Roman Forum have been dated to roughly the period of the eternal city's legendary foundation.
Andrea Carandini, a professor of archaeology at Rome's Sapienza University who has been conducting excavations at the Forum for more than 20 years, said he made the discovery over the past month at the spot where the Temple of Romulus stands today.
New Clovis site? Ancient campsite find is one of oldest on record
Among ancient animal bones eroding out of a dry western Kansas creek bank, archaeologists say they have found one of the oldest human campsites in North America.
They found mammoth bone and stone-tool flint lying next to each other, in soil dating from 11,000 years ago.
Below that, they found something even more tantalizing: mammoth and camel bone, fractured in a way that the archaeologists say can be caused only when people shatter bone with stone to make flaked bone tools, or to get at the nutritious marrow.
It's true, most probably won't accept it as genuine based only on spiral fracturing of bones, in the absence of anything else (undoubted stone tools for example).
That's a relief No remains found in old graveyard
Nathan Williams still remembers the old graveyard and the fright it gave him as a child.
Sometimes he walked past on his way to school. More often he ran to evade the ghosts that might have haunted the field.
"My older brother would say, `Old Mr. So and So' is going to get you,'" said Williams, 46, of Deerfield Beach.