Win Scutt's 'This Week in Archaeology' [audio 15min]

Archaeologist Win Scutt has been visiting an underwater excavation in Israel as part of a two-part series for BBC World Service, to be broadcast in August. A team led by the Leon Racanati Institute from the University of Haifa are excavating a Napoleonic period shipwreck. He also reports that the man who located the wreck of the Titanic has been asked by Egypt's head of archaeology if he can find the wreck of a merchant ship containing important Egyptian artefacts; that a replica of the ship that, according to legend, carried Jason and the Argonauts, set sail on Saturday; that a Royal Navy warship has been found in Lake Ontario; and that a court case has begun in America over who owns the massive treasure from a wreck that Spain says is of the Mercedes. Scutt's"This Week in the World of Archaeology" news feature is part of BBC Radio 5 Live's popular"Up All Night" programme, where he offers 15 minutes of archaeology each Tuesday, reaching over 1 million visitors who are mad enough to stay up to 3.30am GMT to listen. In 2006 Scutt's Radio 5 Live reports scooped a prize at the British Archaeological Awards, the most prestigious awards in British Archaeology, where the judges were impressed by the wide-ranging nature of the archaeology that Scutt presents.