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This Saturday sees Stonehenge's inner circle opened to the public on one of only four occasions a year, at the Spring Equinox. Around four thousand people are expected to turn up, braving the bitter British weather to celebrate at Britain's best-known ancient landmark.

Hadrian's Wall snakes its way through 84 miles of barren British countryside, the frostbitten tip of the Roman empire. Yet you needn't leave your PC to get a feel for this weekend's illuminations event, which promises to be a spectacular celebration of Roman prowess.

Nicole, Sam and myself will be heading up to the wall to watch the illuminations for an Ancient World in London video about the bits of Britain even Rome dared not tinker with. We'll be visiting some of the wall's best-known sites, and speaking to experts about its glorious past.

Mix two parts legend to one part myth, sprinkle some facts and grill for a few decades: the London Stone is London's enigmatic emblem, tightrope-walking over a sea of mystery and romance from its ersatz home on one of the city's busiest commercial streets.

Ever thought you'd been speaking to a brick wall day? Well now's your chance to try it out for real, as we hook up with the London Stone on Twitter on Monday for what promises to be the masonry equivalent to Frost vs Nixon. And though you can get a huge dose of the stone's history in our inaugural Ancient World in London video, this is a web event not to be missed.

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As arbiters of ancient info, Heritage Key has managed to bypass the artefact's hefty entourage for an exclusive chat. And we've got no intention of letting up on our subject, poised as we are to give it an even bigger grilling than the City of London did many decades ago - resulting in its relative anonymity today.

It's one of the highlights of the Egyptological year, and Heritage Key will be right there in the field a comfortable conference room, getting the latest news, views and highlights from the British Museum's Egyptological Colloquium 2009 next Tuesday and Wednesday (21-22 July).

Last week the Brooklyn Museum took four of their ancient Egyptian mummies to the North Shore University Hospital in Long Island, as they were in dying need of a CT-scan. Pure Archaeology 2.0, not only because of the use of modern technology, but because the museum staff used 'the web 2.0' to document their trip and the scanning of the mummies as it was happening on Twitter - #mummyCT - and Flickr. Over at pyramidofman.com there's an elaborate report on the mummies' journey, but here are some of the highlights of this episode of CSI: Mummy:

Mummy 'Lady Hor' is in fact a man

Tweet by the Brooklyn Museum: