Rare 15th century Valencian tiles unearthed at Surrey palace

October 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Syrian-Japanese archaeological mission has unearthed a number of individual tombs with skeletons of children inside, and the hole of the grave inside the tomb, in Palmyra, Syria, which is the first of its kind to be discovered in the region. The mission also unearthed an earthenware jar with a skeleton of an infant inside.

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists digging up a car park in Staffordshire, UK, have unearthed a 17th century bottle used to scare off witches. According to a report in the Telegraph, the witch bottle was discovered in a pit beneath a back room on the site of the Turk's Head Inn at Tipping Street car park in Stafford.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 1st century A.D. colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey.

August 28th, 2009 SEOUL - Archaeologists have unearthed the largest "ondol" heating system, dating back to the 10th century from the Balhae Kingdom, in a nearly intact state in Russia's Maritime Province, confirming the kingdom to have been a Korean settlement. Ondol, literally meaning "warm stone", is an under-floor heating system where flues carry hot gases below the living space.

August 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Four frisky frillies galloped naked on horsebacks around a racetrack to promote an upcoming Ladies Day. They recreated Lady Godiva's epic ride at Kempton Park in Surrey.

August 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Archaeologists, carrying out excavations at an historic landmark in Woking, Surrey, UK, have unearthed rare Valencian pottery, which date back to between 1450 and 1490. According to a report in getsurrey, teams from Surrey County Council Heritage Enterprise have led the dig at Woking Palace along with Surrey Archaeological Society.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A joint Austrian-Mongolian treasure hunt team has unearthed rare Buddhist treasures, not seen for more than 70 years, in the Gobi Desert. The relics, which include statues, artwork, manuscripts and personal belongings of a famous 19th Century Buddhist master, were buried in the 1930s during Mongolia's Communist purge, when hundreds of monasteries were looted and destroyed.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Archaeologists have recently discovered the site of a Five Dynasties palace in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. As the seat of the Western Han Nanyue Kingdom and the Five Dynasties South Han Kingdom, the site has been the center of Guangzhou for some 2000 years.

July 16th, 2009 CARACAS - Archaeologists have found evidence that a woman from the Chimu culture was buried alive in the 15th century at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in Peru to ameliorate the various effects of what we today call the El Nino weather phenomenon. "This is the first time that evidence has been found that some people from the epoch were buried alive to prevent, in this case, the actions of El Nino from having effects on the city of mud," said Cristobal Campana from Peru's National Institute of Culture (INC).

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - A man, who committed a series of drunk and disorderly offences, has been banned from getting drunk anywhere in England and Wales for the next seven years. Unemployed David Peers has also been ordered by Justices at South East Surrey Magistrates' Court not to act abusively, enter public houses or social clubs in Reigate, Redhill or Merstham or carry open bottles of alcohol until 2016.

July 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Archaeologists have recently unearthed a pottery jar with a length of 115 cm and a small pottery furnace and some clay fractions at a residential ground in Syria at a depth of 1 meter from the surface of the ground, dating back to the Byzantine era. According to SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency), Fared Jabbur, head of Homs Antiquities and Museums Department, said that the location where these discoveries were unearthed is part of an industrial establishment.

June 17th, 2009 ROME - Archaeologists have unearthed a number of ancient Roman treasures during excavation outside the southern Italian city of Naples. Twelve ancient statues, columns and fragments bearing inscriptions from what appear to be monuments from the Republican and Imperial periods of ancient Roman history have been uncovered.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe is shooting in Surrey and is avoiding the food from the fancy Pennyhill Park hotel. Instead he is making trips to the local curry house for chicken tikka masala.

March 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Cricket quintessentially is considered an English passtime, but a recent Australian research has revealed that the game was imported to the British Isles by immigrants from North Europe. The Daily Telegraph reported that Australian professor Paul Campbell, in the department of English and theatre at the Australian National University, in Canberra, discovered a reference to cricket in a 1533 poem, written by John Skelton, a popular poet and playwright of the day.

February 26th, 2009 LONDON - Sheila Gupta, widow of former acting Chief Justice of India and Maruti Inquiry Commission head Alak Chandra Gupta, died in Britain at the age of 74. Sheila Gupta died at the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford Tuesday night after a protracted battle with cancer.