Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 1-10-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!

• 1,000-year-old vineyards discovered in Spain.
• Bronze trove unearthed in Western Zhou Dynasty tomb.
• An Israeli researcher believes they have found a sample of a blue dye described in the Bible.
• Archaeologists announced that an unusual Aztec offering was discovered during excavations for a Mexico City subway.
• Evidence from ancient skeletons suggests that some Paleolithic communities had a diet rich in sweets and carbs thousands of years before the cultivation of grain.
• Recently developed century-old images are providing a unique glimpse at the last expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
• Routine cleaning revealed the tomb of a chief beer-maker.
• A newly translated Hebrew text claims to reveal the fate of the Ark of the Covenant.
• Archaeologists are now using Google Earth to recreate maps of ancient civilizations.
• Archaeologists are starting to find evidence of towns in the Amazon rainforest dating before Columbus’s arrival.
• Egyptian police seized more than 1,500 illegally excavated ancient artifacts.
• The recent bad weather has unearthed some long forgotten items on the beaches of England. Now researchers are wondering what else might turn up.
• Archaeologists have uncovered human remains buried inside the walls of a pre-Inca archaeological site in northern Peru.
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science is set to give 30 vigango totems to the Kenyan Museum.
• For the first time, the National Archives has published the wills of historic figures online.
• Archaeologists have discovered 19 sites, dating back 11,000 years, on a California Island.
• Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found five 6,000-year-old skeletons, one of which appears to have been pregnant at the time of burial.

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