Found while doing my daily search for "Early History News":

Archaeologists Recreate Ancient Irish Beer
IndiPRWire
Billy Quinn and Declan Moore, two archaeologists with Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services (Moore Group) in Galway, believe that an extensive brewing tradition existed in Ireland as far back as 2500 BC. In an article to be published in Archaeology Ireland next month, they detail their experiments and research into the enigmatic site that is the fulacht fiadh...
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/environmental-services/200708104056.htm

I couldn't help but think of Methos when I read it.

News in archaeology and history in the last few days seems to be coming mostly from Bulgaria.

The big story of the day appears to be the discovery of the gold mask. There are several stories linked from Early History News. In my opinion the mask strongly resembles the famed mask found in Mycenae, the Mask of Agamemnon.

The other story of the day is the discovery of a new set of ruins dating to the Old Kingdom period in Egypt.

Links to all of these can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

It's a mixed bag of time periods and regions today:
- Another article on Queen Hatshepsut
- Archaeological site in Scotland rebuilt
- A replica Viking Warship to sail
- More discoveries in Bulgaria
- Orpheus's Tomb?

And more at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Well, all but two or so articles this morning are on the discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut. The other three articles were: a new discovery in Bulgaria, the discovery of the oldest ivory carving, and the possibility of the fossil "Lucy" going on a tour of the U.S.. Links can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Quite a lot today.
- At least five, if not more stories on the discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut
- More information about gladiators
- A video on the volcano of Santorini (Thera)

Links to these stories can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Lots of stories about the gold processing site found on the Nile. In other news, there was a Roman city wall discovered in Britain, and Neanderthal man was an innovator. Links to all of these stories can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Only three stories today:
- the discovery of a Roman road in Wales
- The Etruscans came from Turkey
- An exhibit on ancient jewelry

Links to all these stories can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

There's a lot of stories today.

- The virtual Rome story is still going strong. There's so many of this one that I can't link them all.
- Italian developer caught trying to build over an unreported Greek temple.
- Mycenaean Sword Cap found in Bulgaria
- Recap of the 26.6 million dollar sale of a bronze statue
- Ancient human sacrifice
- and other stories too.

Links to all of these can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Lots of news today:
- The discovery of a new set of Greek tombs.
- The release (of sorts) of a virtual simulation of Ancient Rome. This is the biggest story so far. I've lost count of how many articles I found about it.
- Another story about Otzi, the Iceman
- The discovery of Thracian royal items in Bulgaria
- and other stories

Links to all of these can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

I'm putting together the morning post to Early History News. It looks like the big story of the day concerns this website: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/rome_reborn/test/RomeReborn1.0.html. There's not much there yet, but it looks like something worth keeping an eye on for the future.

Only three stories this morning:
- One sort of travelish story about a medieval city in Cyprus
- One about a reconstruction of a viking ship
- One concerning the Salt Man found in Iran.

Links to all three, and any other stories found today can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

There seems to be no news today, so instead I have posted a website review. http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Well, there are a few different stories today:
- Bronze statue of Aphrodite sells for 28 Million +
- Global warming/Climate Change a threat to archaeological sites. This one seems to be the big story, getting all the attention today.
- Viking graves to be re-opened
- discovery of a Viking cloak pin which resembles Mickey Mouse

Links to all of these can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

The stories seem to be clumped a bit today:
- A couple concerning the Bronze Age in the Iberian peninsula of Spain
- Two on the Iceman
- The Hill of Tara is on the 100 most endangered sites list
- and others.

All of these stories can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Quite a number of stories posted to Early History News today:
- The crabs of the past few days have yet another story, which seems to have more information
- discovery of an Egyptian tomb
- Egyptian archaeological site visible from satellites over Egypt
- Pembroke's Medieval Walls to get protection
- Worlds Oldest Beads
- Thousand Year Old copy of Homer's works to be scanned by computer
- and other stories as well.

Links to all of these can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

There are a lot of different stories today:
- Calls for Stonehenge to be taken off of the list of World Heritage Sites
- Another posting of the story about freshwater crabs in Trajan's Forum
- Possibly the oldest piece of human adornment found
- Romans in the Mendip Hills Mines
- Greece calls for the US to return smuggled artworks
- and several others
Links to all of these stories can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Only two news stories since yesterday: One on freshwater crabs living in Trojan's Forum, and the other is a book review of the book: Rome & Jerusalem: The Clash of Civilizations. Links to both stories can be found at: http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

It's an interesting mix this morning:

Some different articles on manuscripts: Black Book of Carmarthen and the Book of Kells. Another warning of the dangers facing the Scottish archaeological sites, and possibly a new temple discovered in Rome. Links to all of these stories (and later in the day, more stories) can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

There aren't too many stories this morning. Personally, I think the one on Pompeii looks the most interesting. Another article on human sacrifice, and also one on the erosion of archaeological sites in Scotland. Links to all three can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.

Well, for sheer quantity of stories, the biggest story today has to be the move of the Acropolis Sculptures to the new museum. King Herod's tomb makes a reappearance in the news with an article on the Israelis and the Palestinians. The discovery of the tomb of an 11th century child in Sweden also made the news. There are other stories as well. Links to each of these stories can be found at http://earlyhistorynews.blogspot.com/.