A computer programming student in Ireland has launched a new High Court action to try to stop the construction of the controversial M3 highway near the Hill of Tara, and prevent the demolition of the 2,000-year-old Lismullin national monument. “Work should cease immediately within the Tara archaeological complex, until this matter is resolved once and for all,” said Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch.

Scottish archaeologists think they are close to locating Kenneth MacAlpine’s Palace of Forteviot, where he died in 858. The wooden building had been home to the first king of a united Scotland. 

The not-for-profit group Recovering Overseas Australia’s Missing (ROAM) objects to the Australian Army’s hiring of British archaeologist Tony Pollard of the Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) to conduct exploratory excavations at the possible mass grave of World War I Diggers in northern France. “I’m astonished that public money should be spent when a team of experienced Australian and British forensic archaeologists was available for nothing,” said Sydney University emeritus professor Richard Wright. 

A device used to examine the space shuttle’s fuel tanks beneath layers of foam has been adapted to reveal preliminary drawings beneath paint, and artworks that have been plastered over.

Scholars have been talking about a black stone seal thought to be 2,000 years old that was found just outside of Jerusalem’s Old City walls, near the Dung Gate.

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