Committee receives 2,000 submissions against Tara motorway
Heritage campaigners have delivered 2,000 submissions to the Oireachtas Transport Committee opposing plans to build a motorway through the historic landscape surrounding the Hill of Tara in Co Meath.
The submissions were collected by the Save Tara-Skryne Valley group at various locations throughout Ireland over the weekend.
Not much info here, mostly about the building of a road.
This is cool Neolithic stone tool workshop spotted
Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be China's largest stone tool processing workshop of the Neolithic Age, reports Xinhua.
The workshop, with an area of 1,200 sq metres, was spotted in some ruins dating back about 7,000 years ago in the Guangxi Zhuang region, said Lin Qiang, a deputy researcher fellow with the autonomous regional cultural heritage research team.
Tens of thousands of stone tools and instruments such as stones in the shape of hammers and chopping blocks, whetstone and semi-finished stoneware were unearthed from the site of the workshop.
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit opens Jan. 20 in Mobile, Ala.
Seven of the oldest surviving biblical scrolls are coming to Mobile, Ala., this month. After successful runs in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Houston, the traveling Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit opens in Mobile’s Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center on Jan. 20.
With 12 authentic Dead Sea Scrolls on loan from the Israeli Antiquities Authority, the exhibit will not disappoint its many visitors. The Exploreum will host the traveling exhibit through April 24. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is a sponsoring institution for the event.
“The highlight [of the exhibit] will be the Deuteronomy scroll that has the entire text of the Ten Commandments,” said Ellen Herron curator for the exhibit. “This is such a rare opportunity.”