Liverpool Museum unveils child mummy as the part of it’s newest items of the exhibited online.
The mummy of a young boy of the about two years old, elaborately wrapped in a series of the narrow linen bandages. When excavated by Professor Flinders Petrie in he described this as the most perfect example of the complex system of the diagonal winding, it is an completely regular over the entire body.

The colours of the bandages have faded but the thirteen layers were once red, white, gilt, blue and brown, no studs were required to hold them in to the place.
There is a portrait of the child inserted into the bandages, unfortunately badly damaged but originally fine, it is the probable that is damage occurred during the time between preparation of the mummy and the actual burial.
X-rays revealed the presence of an amulet, probably metallic, lying on the tongue, another amulet laying over the genitalia.
Excavated at Hawara cemetery ancient Crocodilopolis and presented to the museum in 1911 by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt.

Cambodia to a mantle in a New York penthouse, the path of anantiquity is the profitable for some, but leaves behind a wide swath of economic, environmental and cultural degradation. Despite increased awareness and global attempts at enforcement, the growth of the illicit antiquities trade into a $4 billion market is a clear sign that there are more rewards than actual risks. However, according to this report from the Milken Institute, an overhaul of incentives could change the market to create significant cultural and economic value. According to Financial Innovations for Developing Archaeological Discovery and Conservation, there are market-based solutions that can promote legal discovery and conservation, while at the same time stop or at least mitigate the effects of looting. The report offers three possible solutions to explore: long-term leases for museums and exhibitions, museum/collector partnership sponsored digs and the design and development of archaeological development bonds.
Petroglyph National Monument Preserves Ancient Art in a Suburban Context: Suburbia is on one side of the street, traces of an ancient people on the other. But it’s easy to forget the 21st century within Petroglyph National Monument, which is home to more than 20,000 images pecked into dark boulders by the ancient ancestors of today’s American Indians, Spanish settlers and later visitors.

A 2,000-YEAR-OLD Roman fort has been uncovered on the site of the new 160 million water treatment plants.
The remains of the camp were found during work on the Glencorse plant on the edge of the Pentland Hill’s Regional Park in Midlothian.

It is the hoped they find will yield clues on how the Romans organised their occupation of the area in the first century AD.

The site is the thought to be the Roman marching camp and It is a part of a network of bases, watchtowers and camps across lowland Scotland.

A 2,000-YEAR-OLD Roman fort has been uncovered on the site of the new 160 million water treatment plants.
The remains of the camp were found during work on the Glencorse plant on the edge of the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Midlothian.
It is the hoped they find will yield clues on how the Romans organised their occupation of the area in the first century AD.
The site is the thought to be the Roman marching camp and It is a part of a network of bases, watchtowers and camps across lowland Scotland.
Historians had suspected there were Roman remains at Glencorse from studying aerial photographs, but this is the first evidence to be found.

No artefacts have been discovered but David Connolly, an archaeologist, described the find as an important piece of the jigsaw.

He added in to the Understanding the Romans in Scotland is a complex matter, as Scotland was not subjected to a single phase of occupation or conquest. Every new discoveryleads in to the further understanding of Roman Scotland.
The Scottish Water project is to be completed by 2010.

An unknown prehistoric settlement has been revealed during archaeological work in East Taunton, Somerset.
7,000-year-old archaeological site in Dresden (Maine, USA) has emerged as one of the most significant finds in New England, and is shaping the way historians view the lifestyles of Archaic period Native Americans. The state historic preservation commission is hoping to purchase the 14.2-acre waterfront site, using grant money obtained through the Land for Maine’s Future Program.
“Since they’ve done some digging, they found that there was a village there, which changes their whole thought process on the early people of this area,” said Richard Lang. “They used to think (Native Americans) were just passing through, and now they think there was a settlement here,” he added. “There are only two other places in New England with village-sized sites from this time period,” said Arthur Spiess, a senior archaeologist with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. “We thought (Native Americans) lived in small groups moving around the landscape, but it turns out that there’s probably at least a seasonal large group.”
According to documentation filed with Land for Maine’s Future, the site in Dresden is the largest and most intensively occupied site of its age known in Maine. The site also offered a different vantage point to 7,000 years ago. Since the end of the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago, water levels have risen to conceal what was a distinct elevation drop on this Kennebec River location. When this site was home to a native village, experts suspect a major falls bridged what is now Dresden with Swan Island.

The dig was commissioned by Somerset County Council before construction begins on the Park and Ride scheme for the Cambria Farm site.
The remains of a prehistoric farm and surrounding fields reveal human occupation from the late Bronze Age to the Roman period (1000 BC to 400 AD).
Construction for the Park and Ride Scheme is set to begin in early 2009.
Councillor Justin Robinson said: “This is a fascinating piece of Taunton’s prehistoric heritage that provides us with a glimpse of everyday life during the Iron Age and helps to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of Somerset’s rural past.”

Under the 1988 National Marine Sanctuaries Act, anyone who damages or destroys resources in marine sanctuaries is liable for damages. Court documents showed that from January through March, 1992, three vessels working for Fisher’s company, and directed by his son Kane, conducted exploratory treasure-hunting operations in the Florida Keys sanctuary.
The ships employed prop-wash deflectors,
large pipes placed over the propellers that direct the thrust of the ship’s engines toward the sea bottom in order to displace sediment and expose artifacts. The three ships made more than 600 holes, averaging 20 to 30 feet across and three to five feet deep, in a mile-long area. The test pitting destroyed a total of 1.63 acres of sea grass, a fragile wildlife habitat and an important element of the marine environment. Damaged or destroyed sea-grass meadows may take 50 to 100 years to regrow.
The $589,311 fine was the amount prosecutors sought to recover the costs of damage assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which manages the marine sanctuaries, and for sea-grass restoration.
Kane Fisher testified during the trial that the treasure hunters failed to employ even minimal standards of archaeological recording. He admitted that the operation was carried out without a research plan and that he had not mapped and recorded the precise locations of artifacts that were removed.
The only setback for the government was the judge’s refusal to fine the treasure hunters for loss of contextual archaeological information and for artifact conservation. The prosecutors had requested an additional $74,830 to cover these costs, but the judge ruled that the loss of contextual data was negligible since the artifacts came from dispersed scatters rather than discrete shipwreck sites. He also ruled that the Sanctuary Act did not entitle the government to curation costs for the artifacts.