Read more archeology stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2088/archeology.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:11:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70895/archeologists-find-mini-stonehenge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagArcheologists have found what amounts to Stonehenge-lite located about a mile from the larger monument. This one—dubbed Bluehenge—probably won't be as much of a tourist draw for one important reason: all the rocks are gone. But based on holes in the earth, scientists say 27 enormous rocks once...http://www.newser.com/story/70895/archeologists-find-mini-stonehenge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 03 Oct 2009 12:17:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70156/record-stash-of-ancient-gold-found-in-farmers-field.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe biggest stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found has been unearthed in a farmer's field in Staffordshire, England, by an amateur treasure hunter using a metal detector. The hoard, estimated to date back to the 7th century, includes weapons, helmets, and gold coins. Archaeologists are stunned both by...http://www.newser.com/story/70156/record-stash-of-ancient-gold-found-in-farmers-field.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 2:38:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50573/egypt-unveils-ancient-mummy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIlluminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing—for the first time since it was sealed in antiquity—a perfectly preserved mummy. Wrapped in dark-stained canvas, the mummy is part of Egypt's discovery of...http://www.newser.com/story/50573/egypt-unveils-ancient-mummy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Feb 2009 19:01:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/34433/team-digs-up-ancient-chariot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagArchaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old chariot in good condition at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria. The team found the four-wheel chariot during excavations near the village of Borisovo, around 180 miles east of the capital, Sofia. It's rare to find a chariot of this age in one...http://www.newser.com/story/34433/team-digs-up-ancient-chariot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 07 Aug 2008 20:51:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34329/early-shakespeare-theater-discovered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagArcheologists think they have found the theater where Romeo and Juliet debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards. The possible foundations of what is known as simply "the Theatre" were unearthed by builders excavating the London site—a vacant garage—for another structure. Museum archaeologists were...http://www.newser.com/story/34329/early-shakespeare-theater-discovered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 06 Aug 2008 20:37:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32923/archeologists-uncover-treasures-via-google-earth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoogle Earth has made detailed satellite imagery readily accessible to planetary voyeurs—but academics are also using it to get things done in ways never before possible. A team of university archeologists are uncovering hundreds of sites in the Afghan desert that might never have been discovered on foot, reports...http://www.newser.com/story/32923/archeologists-uncover-treasures-via-google-earth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Jul 2008 3:34:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23366/fossil-feces-revise-history.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFossilized feces found in an Oregon cave have scientists rethinking how and when humans first came to North America. At 14,300 years old, the ancient poop was deposited at least 1,000 years before humans were thought to roam the area, National Geographic reports. Discoveries like this "help us...http://www.newser.com/story/23366/fossil-feces-revise-history.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Apr 2008 21:43:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/4630/amateur-prospectors-find-rare-viking-treasure-in-uk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA pot filled with mostly silver coins, buried for 1,000 years, was found recently by a father and son wielding a metal detector on a farm in Yorkshire, England. Archeologosists theorize that the find by Dave and Andrew Whelan was booty from a Viking raid on a monastery. The...http://www.newser.com/story/4630/amateur-prospectors-find-rare-viking-treasure-in-uk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Jul 2007 7:13:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2342/first-computer-may-be-2100-years-old.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn unknown scientist in the first century B.C. may have invented the world’s first computer. Discovered by Greek divers in 1900 on the bottom of the Aegean Sea near the island of Antikythera, the so called Antikythera Mechanism lay in the National Museum in Athens mistaken for an astrolabe...http://www.newser.com/story/2342/first-computer-may-be-2100-years-old.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 May 2007 21:02:23 CDT