Archaeologists unearth landing point of legions – only now it's two miles from the coast
By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent
Friday, 3 October 2008
Two metres beneath the Kent countryside, archaeologists have found the beginning of British history. Excavations at Richborough in east Kent have uncovered the original beach – now two and a half miles from the sea – where the Roman legions started their conquest of Britain almost 2,000 years ago. The site represents the moment Britain's prehistory ended and its history began.
'The Algarve Archaeological Association begins its 2008/9 season of talks on Tuesday, October 7, with a presentation by Professor Nuno Bicho, of the University of Faro.
BODRUM – Turkish Daily News
The Temple of Athens, along with the 3,000 year old sacred road (measuring four and a half meters in with and two kilometers in length) of the ancient city of Padesa have been found in Bodrum, Muğla, reported Doğan news agency.
HYDERABAD: Modern history tells us that Hyderabad is 419 years old but the discovery of an Iron Age burial site and Stone Age implements by archaeologists indicate that the city and surrounding areas could actually be over 2,500 years old.
A model of a wind-powered furnace newly set up in the Martin Wickramasinghe museum in Koggala brings to life an ancient iron smelting industry.
By Renuka Sadanandan, Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara
Centuries ago, Arab writer Al Kindi referred to Sarandibi steel. Now comes the evidence that there had been in ancient Sri Lanka a large scale and highly successful metal producing industry which was based on a smelting and furnace design driven by the wind that only died out after the Chola invasion.
In the quiet of a museum room in Koggala, visitors are transported to a wind-swept hillside in Sabaragamuwa, circa 9th century AD, where flourished this ancient iron smelting industry. The unlikely link in uncovering the amazing skills of the Sabaragamuwa ironsmiths of yore and revealing their prowess, long buried, to the world is a British archaeologist from Exeter University Dr. Gill Juleff.
