Today, my top three headlines take us from Archaeosoup Towers’ base of ops to my home region in North Wales:
1) Hadrian’s Wall borders connected through light:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19320015
2) Chamber of secrets: Historic Scotland launches virtual tour of Maeshowe:
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/chamber-of-secrets-historic-scotla…
3) Project Eliseg continues to fascinate:
http://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/115663/archaeologists-in-quest-to…
Stone Age Animal Figurines Unearthed Outside Jerusalem:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/stone-age-animal-figurines-unearthed…
Have archaeologists found church where Richard III was buried?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9505737/Have-archaeologists-found-church-w…
Archaeology Day at the San Antonio Spanish Missions:
http://www.archaeological.org/events/10010
Call to protect WWI poet’s home:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-19398403
Bulgarian archaeologist discover necropolis of ancient Apollonia in Sozopol:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n286121
Pictures: Mass Sacrifice Found Near Aztec Temple:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/pictures/120829-aztec-sacrifi…
Groundbreaking Exhibit of Chinese Temple Sculpture Artifacts Opens:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2012/article/groundbreaking-exhibit…
Extinct Human Genome reveals Brown-Eyed Girl:
http://news.discovery.com/human/mysterious-extinct-human-fossil-120830.html
Berlin marks 100 years of discovering Nefertiti:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/berlin-marks-100-years-of-discovering-nefert…
Raj Bhavan status doomed palace:
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-17/ahmedabad/33248044_1_c…
Hi-tech record of stone mines under Bath:
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Hi-tech-record-city-stone-mines/story-16791430-de…
Scientists sequence the genome of Neanderthal relatives, the Denisovans:
https://archaeosoup.com/scientists_sequence_the_genome_of_neanderthal_relative…