October 1999 index:
23 October 1999
- Bronze-Age site found in Lebanon
- An archeological site from 2000 BC was accidentally unearthed in Wadi Khaled, Lebanon.
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- Pagans protest against a Christian burial
- Pagans have protested against a decision to give the bones of a Bronze Age man a Christian burial.
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- Britain's stalest bread unearthed
- Two pieces of Stone Age bread baked more than 5,000 years ago have been found at an archaeological dig at Yarnton in Oxfordshire.
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- The Iceman found in Canada isn't very old
- Initial testing indicates artifacts found with an iceman frozen in a Canadian glacier are about 550 year old, not thousands as many people had originally speculated.
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- English Iron Age fort discovered
- An Iron Age fort has been discovered in the heart of a huge housing estate in Valley Park at Chandler's Ford (England).
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- The unlucky barber comes back to Avebury
- One of Britain's best known archaeological finds, thought destroyed in the Second World War, has been rediscovered tucked away in a museum storeroom. The barber-surgeon skeleton dates from more than 500 years ago and was found during an excavation of the giant stone circle at Avebury, Wiltshire, in 1938.
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- Ancient face carved on Stonehenge
- Has the face of the creator of Stonehenge been staring at us unrecognised for over 4000 years? Terence Meaden, a British archaeologist with a fascination for the ancient megalithic monuments of Britain, claims to have recognized a face carved into the side of one of the mighty stones at Stonehenge.
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- A London bridge 3000 year old
- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive 3000-year-old oak bridge on the Thames foreshore at Vauxhall.
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- News from the Miami stone circle
- In July of 1998, Florida archeologists began a routine excavation after being notified that a developer wanted to build a $126 million apartment complex on a potentially important archeological site....
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- 5,500 year old tomb discovered in Ireland
- Archaeological excavations on the south-eastern edge of the Burren in Co Clare (Ireland) have revealed one of the most extensive and well-preserved prehistoric landscapes in Europe.
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