Archaeologists are beginning to dig into Teesside's Iron Age past at an excavation at a farm in Redcar.
The work at Foxrush Farm is being organised by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and Tees Archaeology.
It will last for two weeks before dozens of local schoolchildren will be given the chance to explore the site and surrounding woodland.
Fight! Fight! Archaeologists hit out over 'savage threat' to landmark
PLANS to expand a quarry near an ancient monument have been likened to dropping Stonehenge into the River Avon.
The comment comes from archaeologists backing protestors fighting the expansion of Nosterfield Quarry, close to Thornborough Henges, near Bedale, North Yorkshire.
George Lambrick, director of the Council for British Archaeology, is one of several senior archaeologists who have spoken out against the plans by owners Tarmac Northern.
He said: "The proposals are contrary to national and local policy.
Yet another scanned mummy
MDCT 'unwraps' Egyptian mummy, clearly revealing face of 3,000 year old man
Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) was used for the first time to produce a detailed 3D model of the face of an Egyptian man who lived nearly 3,000 years ago--without having to unwrap his mummified corpse, say a multidisciplinary group of Italian researchers that included physicians, anthropologists and forensic scientists.
MDCT was used to image the completely wrapped mummy of an artisan named Harwa, which had been on display at the Egyptian Museum in Torino, Italy. MDCT created 3D images, which were then reconstructed to create all the features of the mummy's face. A physical plasticine and nylon model was sculpted based on the 3D image. The facial reconstruction revealed Harwa to be 45 years old at the time of his death and was detailed enough to reveal a mole on his left temple. "The only other way to have gotten the information we got from MDCT would have been to unwrap, destroy and otherwise alter the conservation of the bandages and the mummy," said Federico Cesarani, MD, of the Struttura Operativa Complessa di Radiodiagnostica in Asti, Italy, and lead author of the study.
No cool orange glowey pictures though. Dang Italians. . . . .