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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #39 Saturday, April 16, 2005
Let's Have Jerusalem!
Did Nefertiti have 'love affair' with Moses?
	Posted by wagglebee On Religion 04/09/2005 3:15:38 PM PDT · 21 replies · 263+ views Middle East Online \| 4/8/05 \| Sophie Claudet A Hollywood flick on an alleged love affair between pharaonic Queen Nefertiti and the Biblical Prophet Moses is soon to begin shooting in Egypt, renowned British producer John Heyman has revealed. "Nefertiti married perhaps one of the first monotheists in history and the film will tell their story, which logically enough should be set in Egypt" said Heyman on a brief visit to Cairo. "One can find in the Old Testament that Moses and Nefertiti had a relationship," he added. The movie will also deal "with the return to the worship of the sun god," said Heyman. He was referring...

The Temple Mount's Jewish History: More Than a Matter of Faith
	Posted by familyop On News/Activism 04/11/2005 8:27:52 AM PDT · 34 replies · 570+ views Camera \| 11APR05 \| Tamar Sternthal The Temple Mount is the site of the first and second Jewish Temples, destroyed in 586 BCE and 70 CE, respectively--a historic fact accepted even by Muslim authorities. Nevertheless, that fact has not stopped some journalists from reporting on the Temple Mount’s significance in Jewish history cautiously, as if its status is a matter of Jewish faith, or “belief,” and not archeologic evidence. Thus, in the context of anticipated demonstrations by right-wing Israeli Jews, Reuters’ Jonathan Saul reported on April 7: The ancient mosque compound is Islam’s third holiest site. It is Judaism’s most sacred site, the place were...

Key Finds In Temple Mount Trash Heap
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/16/2005 3:21:20 PM PDT · 8 replies · 417+ views Washington Times \| 4-16-2005 Key finds in Temple Mount trash heap Jerusalem, Israel, Apr. 15 (UPI) -- Archaeologists sifting through piles of rubble discarded by Islamic officials from the Temple Mount have found rare artifacts dating to 3,000 years ago. The artifacts were found in the last five months in a city garbage dump used by Islamic officials six years ago when they built a mosque at an underground area of the Temple Mount, the Jerusalem Post said Friday.
Africa
Obelisk Points to Ancient Ethiopian Glory
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/13/2005 1:21:40 AM PDT · 9 replies · 284+ views BBC \| Verity Murphy In northern Ethiopia, in the once-great city of Axum, final preparations are under way for the return of one of Africa's most remarkable archaeological treasures. The Axum obelisk, a 1,700-year-old stone monolith, measuring 24-metres (78 feet) high and weighing 180 tons, is returning home after more than six decades adorning a square in the Italian capital, Rome. It was looted by Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1937 during Italy's brief occupation of Ethiopia and has been a bone of contention between the two countries ever since. The Ethiopian authorities accused Italy of foot-dragging over the issue, while Rome blamed...
Kissin' Wears Out, Cookin' Don't
Importance of alcohol production in the ancient world, study
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/09/2005 12:01:37 AM PDT · 32 replies · 602+ views Medical News Today \| 07 Apr 2005 While the modern era has a fondness for the business lunch, the ancient world viewed the feast as an important arena of political action. Yet, new research in the April 2005 issue of Current Anthropology suggests that the story of how the food and drink arrived to the table is just as critical to our understanding of the past as the social behaviors at the table. Since alcoholic beverages were liberally consumed at many of these feasts (often occurring over several days), a sponsor often faced the daunting problem of assembling prodigious amounts of alcohol in the weeks preceding a...

Remains Of Roman Rabbit Uncovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/14/2005 2:50:19 PM PDT · 50 replies · 838+ views BBC \| 4-13-2005 Remains of Roman rabbit uncovered The remains of a 2,000-year-old rabbit - found at an early Roman settlement at Lynford, Norfolk - may be the earliest example of rabbit remains in Britain. The bones - which show evidence the animal had been butchered and buried - are similar to those of a small Spanish rabbit, common in Roman times. It is thought rabbits were introduced to Britain following the Roman invasion in AD43.The remains will be officially dated at the Natural History Museum in London. The bones themselves had been butchered, possibly the rabbit was to be eaten by a...
Epigraphy and Language
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY UNLOCKS SECRETS OF THE ANCIENTS
	Posted by tricky_k_1972 On News/Activism 04/16/2005 5:01:00 PM PDT · 36 replies · 774+ views The Scotsman \| Sat 16 Apr 2005 \| (Drudgereport.com) Scotsman.com EUREKA! EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY UNLOCKS SECRETS OF THE ANCIENTS Thousands of previously illegible manuscripts containing work by some of the greats of classical literature are being read for the first time using technology which experts believe will unlock the secrets of the ancient world.
Asia
Ancient Tablet Stirs Authenticity Dispute (Korea)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/13/2005 10:03:19 PM PDT · 7 replies · 228+ views The Korea Times \| Kim Ki-tae A newly found ancient tablet, alleged to be the nation's oldest written historic record, is stirring controversy in academia over its authenticity. The Korea Land Corporation's museum on Monday announced that it had found a clay tablet, estimated to date to the third century during the Koguryo Kingdom (37 B.C. A.D. 668). The museum claimed that the tablet, with 290 Chinese characters on historic accounts, was made around 150 years earlier than the Kwanggaetodaewangbi Monument , believed to be Korea 's oldest historical record. The monument was built in 414. ``Around 20 experts have studied and analyzed the material, calligraphic...
India
More research needed on Delhi Iron Pillar: Experts
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/09/2005 1:26:50 AM PDT · 17 replies · 578+ views Press Trust of India \| March 13, 2005 The Delhi Iron Pillar, which has withstood corrosion for over 1,600 years, continues to attract the attention of archaeologists and scientists who want to undertake a systematic study to unfold the secret behind its strength. A panel of scientists from across the country has recommended that the Government allow research on the pillar, a symbol of Indian metallurgical excellence, to ascertain its age, as well as for conservation of its underground part and the passive film that has preserved it through the ages. "The Archaeological Survey of India has agreed to allow the use of well-established non-invasive techniques to ascertain...

New Pallava temple complex discovered in Mahabalipuram
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/13/2005 11:01:12 PM PDT · 3 replies · 167+ views Newz \| 4/12/05 In a major success, archaeologists in Mahabalipuram district have discovered remains of a 4th century Hindu temple built by the kings of the majestic Pallava dynasty. Archaeologists say the uncovering is the result of the December 26 tsunami that destroyed the beaches of various South Asian countries and claimed thousands of lives. The archaeologists inform that the newly discovered temple is a complex by itself. "We carried out extensive diving offshore and there we found certain remains which suggested some human activity in the region. To confirm and correlate that, we carried out excavation on this land and during the...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Darius Ancient Inscription Found in Boushehr Deciphered
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/13/2005 1:51:24 AM PDT · 47 replies · 1,235+ views Persian Journal \| Apr 9, 2005 Archaeologists have succeeded to decipher the text of an old stone tablet found recently in Boushehr, south of Iran. The tablet belongs to Darius the Great, King of Achaemenids. Excavation in the old palace of Bardak-e Siah in Boushehr, in the southern province of Boushehr, at the end of March led to the discovery of a stone tablet, with a written text in New Babylonian and a relief of Darius the Great. Experts of ancient languages succeeded to read and decipher the text, which is evidently part of a larger one. It says: "... I put ... on top of...

Female population predominant in 5000-year-old Burnt City (Iran)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/08/2005 4:10:12 PM PDT · 6 replies · 277+ views Tehran Times \| April 5, 2005 \| Tehran Times TEHRAN -- Anthropological studies indicate that females constituted about sixty percent of the population of the 5000-year-old Burnt City, director of a team of anthropologists working on the ancient Iranian city said on Monday. “We have excavated 208 graves in the cemetery of the Burnt City within seven phases carried out over the past years. 113 of the graves belonged to the female,” Farzad Foruzanfar added. The Burnt City is located 57 kilometers from the city of Zabol in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province and covers an area of 150 hectares. It was one of the world’s largest cities at the dawn...

The scourge from nowhere
	Posted by CarrotAndStick On News/Activism 04/08/2005 9:17:07 PM PDT · 77 replies · 1,184+ views Dawn \| 9 April, 2005 \| Dawn Nearly a thousand years after his death, the name of Genghis Khan still reverberates down the ages. Scourge of the known world, he sprang out of nowhere to bring death and destruction. For the world of Islam in particular, the Mongol onslaught was a veritable holocaust. From Bukhara to Baghdad, Genghis laid waste to flowering cities and prosperous countries. Operating on the principle of "surrender and live; or resist and die", he and his generals led his ravening hordes in unceasing campaigns from Beijing to Budapest. Even after his death, his successors carried on his mission to bring all mankind...
Ancient Egypt
Case closed on the end of King Tut (Scan Suggests No Murder)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/10/2005 10:53:30 PM PST · 8 replies · 276+ views The Guardian \| Wednesday March 9, 2005 \| Tim Radford, science editor Scan suggests pharaoh was not murdered - but may have been roughly handled by embalmersTutankhamun, the world's most charismatic boy king, probably died of natural causes. A sophisticated scan of the mummy, discovered by British archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, reveals a badly broken leg but no sign of foul play. In a statement calculated to end decades of feverish speculation about royal intrigue, religious repression, palace revolution and cold-blooded assassination in the ancient Nile kingdom, Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities, told Reuters yesterday: "We don't know how the king died, but...

Mummies Undergo CT Scans at Calif. Museum
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/10/2005 2:37:28 AM PDT · 11 replies · 258+ views Yahoo \| Thu Apr 7 \| BEN FOX SANTA ANA, Calif. - This much experts know: One was a priest from a wealthy family. Another was a young girl who sang during religious rituals. A third was a child, buried in a finely carved wooden coffin. But there is much more to learn about the six Egyptian mummies that were wrapped and buried in strips of resin-encrusted linen thousands of years ago to protect them from the elements. Using 21st century medical technology, curators and radiologists in Southern California are examining the relics of the ancient world on loan from the British Museum to learn more of their...

Team Find Secret Of Mummies' Preservation
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/23/2003 5:30:08 PM PDT · 19 replies · 179+ views IOL \| 10-22-2003 \| Chris Slocombe Team finds secret of mummies' preservation October 22 2003 at 05:18PM By Chris Slocombe London - A German research team has unravelled the mystery of how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead, using sophisticated science to track the preservative to an extract of the cedar tree. Chemists from Tuebingen University and the Munich-based Doerner-Institut replicated an ancient treatment of cedar wood and found it contained a preservative chemical called guaiacol. "Modern science has finally found the secret of why some mummies can last for thousands of years," Ulrich Weser of Tuebingen University told Reuters on Wednesday. The team extracted the...
Ancient Rome
Research team recreates ancient underwater concrete technology
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On General/Chat 04/09/2005 4:19:02 AM PDT · 18 replies · 197+ views PhysOrg.com \| Apr 7, 2005 \| unknown Research team recreates ancient underwater concrete technology A University of Colorado at Boulder professor and his colleagues have taken a page from the writings of an ancient Roman architect and built an underwater concrete pier in the manner of those set in the Mediterranean Sea 2,000 years ago. CU-Boulder history Professor Robert Hohlfelder, an internationally known underwater archaeologist, said scholars have long been in awe of the engineering feats of the early Romans. A former co-director of the international Caesarea Ancient Harbor Excavation Project, he said the research effort was spurred by the stunning hydraulic concrete efforts undertaken at...
Prehistoric and Ancient Europe
Pornography in Clay
	Posted by tbird5 On News/Activism 04/15/2005 8:42:19 PM PDT · 65 replies · 1,698+ views DER SPIEGEL \| 14/2005 - April 4, 2005 \| Matthias Schulz New pornographic figurines from the Stone Age have been discovered in Germany. But researchers can't agree on what the 7,000-year-old sculptures mean. Were our ancestors uninhibited sex fiends, or was reproduction strictly controlled to improve mobility? An increasing number of finds seem to indicate the Stone Age was an orgy of sexual imagination. The project itself was far from extraordinary. Workers near the Eastern German city of Leipzig were digging a ditch for a new gas line. Hum drum. But what they discovered was far from routine. A backhoe unearthed a 7,200-year-old, Stone Age garbage pit -- and it was...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Bones of Contention: A bad bill would throttle American archaeology.
	Posted by The Great Yazoo On News/Activism 04/14/2005 1:24:33 PM PDT · 10 replies · 343+ views NRO.com \| April 14, 2005 \| John J. Miller If a lucky paleoanthropologist ever unearths hobbit bones on federal land, scientists won’t get to study them — at least not if Sen. John McCain and his allies have their way. I’m not joking about hobbits. Really. You may recall the astonishing reports last year about the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a previously unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago — more recently than the Neanderthals. And unlike the Neanderthals, who are usually described as nasty and brutish, the Flores people were short. A fully grown adult would have been about the same size as...

Oldest printed map of New World goes on display [Waldseemüller's, 1507: first to use name 'America']
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On General/Chat 04/13/2005 9:14:23 AM PDT · 8 replies · 221+ views Daily Telegraph [UK] \| Apr 13, 2005 \| unknown A "groundbreaking" 16th century map credited with giving America its name has gone on display at Christie's.The map, the oldest printed map of the New World, is one of only four surviving examples and is expected to raise up to £800,000 at auction.As well as using the word America for the first time, after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who argued that the land discovered by Columbus in 1492 was a new continent, the map is also the first printed portrayal of the Earth as a globe.It was discovered by chance two years ago when a newspaper picture caught...
Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Search For Lost Ring Leads To Hoard Of Ancient Treasure
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/12/2005 3:53:47 PM PDT · 19 replies · 1,000+ views IC Liverpool/Daily Post \| 4-12-2005 \| Gary Skentelbery Search for lost ring leads to hoard of ancient treasure Apr 12 2005 By Gary Skentelbery Daily Post Correspondent A QUEST for a missing wedding ring has helped uncover a collection of ancient treasures dating back up to 4,000 years. Thought to be from tombs on the holiday island of Cyprus, the pricesless collection had been collecting dust in a Cheshire attic for nearly 40 years, with the belief they were old holiday trinkets. Their historic value was discovered when Neville Davies enlisted the help of archaeologist and metal detecting enthusiast James Balme, to help track down his son-in-law's missing...
Origins and Prehistory
Geographic Society Is Seeking a Genealogy of Humankind
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 04/13/2005 3:33:59 AM PDT · 60 replies · 736+ views NY Times \| April 13, 2005 \| NICHOLAS WADE A five-year project to reconstruct a genealogy of the world's populations and the migration paths of early humans from their ancestral homeland in Africa will be started today by the National Geographic Society and I.B.M., the society said in a statement. The goal of the program is to collect 100,000 blood samples from indigenous populations around the world and analyze them genetically. Researchers at 10 local centers and at the National Geographic Society in Washington will then assign the people who give blood to lineages that trace the routes traveled by their early ancestors. The program is an effort to...

Genes To Help Tell 'Story Of Everybody'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/13/2005 4:49:43 PM PDT · 18 replies · 346+ views ABC.net \| 4-13-2005 Genes to help tell 'story of everybody' Last Update: Wednesday, April 13, 2005. 7:33pm (AEST) The Genographic Project will search for clues about how humans spread around the globe.Indigenous people around the world will be asked to supply a cheek swab to help geneticists answer the question of how humanity spread from Africa. The National Geographic Society and IBM hope to sample 100,000 people or more and look for ancient clues buried in living DNA to calculate who came from where and when. For $US100, anyone who wants to can supply his or her own cheek swab for a personalised...

Prehistoric Jawbone Reveals Evolution Repeating Itself
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/16/2005 3:27:42 PM PDT · 9 replies · 257+ views University Of Chicago Chronicle \| 4-16-2005 \| Catherine Gianaro Prehistoric jawbone reveals evolution repeating itself By Catherine Gianaro Medical Center Public Affairs A 115-million-year-old fossil of a tiny monotreme, an egg-laying mammal related to the platypus, provides compelling evidence of multiple origins of acute hearing in humans and other mammals. The discovery of a prehistoric jawbone, reported in February in the journal Science, suggests that the transformation of bones from the jaw into the small bones of the middle ear occurred at least twice in the evolutionary lines of living mammals after their split from a common ancestor some 200 million years ago. “The earbones are still attached to...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mammoth's remains found at homes' construction site(12Ft Fossil far too ancient for carbon dating)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/11/2005 11:51:17 PM PDT · 27 replies · 759+ views Michael Owen Baker \| April 10, 2005 \| Michael Owen Baker Fossil that stood 12 feet tall is far too ancient for carbon datingMOORPARK, CALIF. - The remarkably well-preserved remnants of an estimated half-million-year-old mammoth — including both tusks — were discovered at a new housing development in Southern California. An onsite paleontologist found the remains, which include 50 percent to 70 percent of the Ice Age creature, as crews cleared away hillsides to prepare for building, Mayor Pro Tem Clint Harper said. Paleontologist Mark Roeder estimated the mammoth was about 12 feet tall, Harper said. Roeder believed it was not a pygmy or imperial mammoth, but he had not yet...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
New method for dating ancient earthquakes through cave evidence developed by Israeli researchers
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On General/Chat 04/11/2005 9:44:41 PM PDT · 8 replies · 78+ views Hebrew University of Jerusalem \| Apr 11, 2005 \| Jerry Barach [?] Photo in the stalactite cave near Beit Shemesh, Israel, shows a collapsed ceiling, evidence of an ancient destructive earthquake. Note the stalactites that were growing prior to the collapse, as well as the stalagmites on top of the ceiling that began to grow only after the collapse. (Photo by Elisa Kagan) Full size image available here A new method for dating destructive past earthquakes, based on evidence remaining in caves has been developed by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Geological Survey of Israel. Using this method, they discovered for the first time evidence of earthquakes...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Archaeologist Reveals Passion for America's Origin (Uncovered the Lost Remains Jamestown)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/13/2005 1:36:54 AM PDT · 24 replies · 554+ views Daily Press \| April 11, 2005 \| MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON Nearly 10 years after leading the pioneering dig that unearthed the lost remains of Jamestown, archaeologist William M. Kelso was named 2005 Virginian of the Year by the VPA. With the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement just two years away, the former Williamsburg high school history teacher, who lives on the island, says the full impact of the celebrated excavation has yet to be felt. Q: You first came to Jamestown Island at 21, intent on standing on the exact spot where America began. You returned repeatedly over the next three decades. What's behind this lifelong interest?...

Bodies of Brits From 1798 Battle Found in Egypt (Nelson vs. Napoleon)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/14/2005 5:32:58 PM PDT · 15 replies · 643+ views Reuters \| Wed Apr 13, 2005 CAIRO (Reuters) - An Italian archaeologist has discovered the remains of 30 British troops dating as far back as a decisive naval battle in 1798 between France and Britain off Egypt's north coast, the British Embassy said on Wednesday. Archaeologist Paolo Gallo discovered the bodies on an island in Abu Qir bay, east of Alexandria, where British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's French fleet in the Battle of the Nile. Gallo had been excavating the island for Greek-Roman artefacts when he discovered the remains of the 30 British sailors and soldiers, some dating to the 1798 battle and others...

Clean-up starts on famed Minster window [York, England, Great East Window]
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On General/Chat 04/11/2005 9:54:17 PM PDT · 4 replies · 101+ views Yorkshire Post \| Apr 9, 2005 \| Brian Dooks Painstaking work: Senior conservator Nick Teed examines glass taken from the Son of Man panel at the centre of the Great East Window of York Minster, which is to be cleaned and restored in a project that could take 10 years. Picture: Gary Longbottom Stained glass experts have up to 10 years work ahead of them restoring the Great East Window at York Minster – but first they have a great deal of thinking to do. Brian Dooks The York Glaziers Trust has assembled a team of specialists who are meeting monthly to decide how to tackle the multi-million-pound project...

Some Question Discovery Of Blackbeard's Flagship Off N.C. Coast
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 04/09/2005 3:09:07 PM PDT · 22 replies · 482+ views WRAL.com \| 4/8/05 \| Scott Mason RALEIGH, N.C. -- Nine years ago, researchers believe they found Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard the pirate's flagship. Now, some Archaeologists at East Carolina University are not so sure. Researchers found a major shipwreck at Beaufort Inlet nearly a decade ago. They later located 23 cannons resting on the ocean floor. Archaeologists have recovered some of them, along with other 18th century artifacts, which they say all point to the famous vessel. "I am, from my point of view, personally 1,000 percent sure it is Queen Anne's Revenge. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever," researcher Phil Masters said.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #40
Saturday, April 23, 2005

Africa

Stolen Obelisk is Returned to Sheba's Capital

Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/20/2005 1:00:23 AM PDT· 6 replies · 207+ views

Times of London | April 20, 2005 | Andrew Heavens
AYALEW ASRESE was 14 when he heard that Benito Mussolini's invading Fascist troops had stolen an ancient granite obelisk from his homeland. Yesterday the 82-year-old Ethiopian watched a new generation of Italians bring home the first part of the 160-tonne monument, which dates from the 3rd century and is thought to be a grave marker for a king from the Axumite Empire. The bemedalled war veteran was one of hundreds of Ethiopians who crowded on to the tiny runway at Axum to greet the 1,700-year-old national symbol. They cheered, wept, chanted prayers and waved banners as a huge Antonov 124...

Anatolia

Layers of clustered apartments hide artifacts of ancient urban life

Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 04/20/2005 9:26:57 AM PDT· 8 replies · 105+ views

San Francisco Chronicle | Monday, April 18, 2005 | David Perlman
But because of the spectacular female clay figures that the archaeologists have found in the excavated layers over the years, «atalhˆy¸k has become a draw for modern believers who hold to the idea that the neolithic people were ruled by a matriarchy whose central figure was a mother goddess... But to Ian Hodder of Stanford and Ruth Tringham of Berkeley, who will lead the expedition's 11th season at «atalhˆy¸k this summer, the evidence questions the notion of a mother goddess and a matriarchal society... Mellaart's mother goddess was found in a grain bin, and the Hodder team's 3-inch figurine was...

Was Troy a Metropolis? Homer Isn't Talking

Posted by LostTribe
On News/Activism 10/21/2002 10:13:37 PM PDT· 17 replies · 89+ views

New York Times | October 22, 2002 | John Noble Wilford
Was Troy a Metropolis? Homer Isn't Talking By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD new Trojan War has broken out. In the warrior roles of Achilles and Hector are two respected professors on the same German university faculty who could not differ more fully and vehemently over what to make of the ruins at the presumed site in western Turkey of the legendary siege in the 13th century B.C. immortalized by Homer. One adversary, an archaeologist who has directed excavations there since 1988, contends that he has found telling evidence of Troy as a much larger and more important city than previously thought....

Ancient Egypt

7 corpses found in ancient Egyptian tomb

Posted by SmithL
On News/Activism 04/21/2005 10:36:05 AM PDT· 25 replies · 594+ views

AP | 4/21/5
CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint. The American-Egyptian excavation team made the discoveries in what they described as the largest funerary complex ever found that dates to the elusive 5-millenia-old Predynastic era, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Wednesday. "This is a major discovery, and will add greatly to our knowledge of the period when Egypt was first becoming a nation," said Zahi Hawass, Egypt's chief archaeologist. The team working for...

Ancient Necropolis Found in Egypt (From earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years Old)

Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/21/2005 11:07:37 PM PDT· 6 replies · 280+ views

BBC | Thursday, 21 April, 2005
Archaeologists say they have found the largest funerary complex yet dating from the earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years ago. The necropolis was discovered by a joint US and Egyptian team in the Kom al-Ahmar region, around 600 km (370 miles) south of the capital, Cairo. Inside the tombs, the archaeologists found a cow's head carved from flint and the remains of seven people. They believe four of them were buried alive as human sacrifices. The remains survived despite the fact that the tombs were plundered in ancient times. Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the discovery...

Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler

Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/20/2005 1:31:59 PM PDT· 16 replies · 597+ views

Reuters | Wed Apr 20, 2005
CAIRO (Reuters) - American archaeologists working in southern Egypt have found what they think is the tomb of a prehistoric ruler from the middle of the 4th millennium BC, the government's antiquities service said on Wednesday. A team led by Egyptologist Renee Friedman found the tomb at the site of ancient Hierakonpolis or Nekhen, close to the modern town of Edfu and one of the first places in the world identifiable as the capital of a significant political entity. The government's Supreme Council for Antiquities said in a statement that the rectangular tomb contained a wooden offering table and four...

Treasures of Tanis

Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 04/22/2005 10:52:45 AM PDT· 9 replies · 115+ views

Archaeology | May/June 2005 | Bob Brier
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, an entire complex of royal tombs was found intact at Tanis, yielding four gold masks, solid silver coffins, and spectacular jewelry... The treasures are one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time... And while everyone knows Howard Carter's name, that of the excavator of Tanis is Egyptological trivia. It's Pierre Montet... Today, as Tutankhamun once again begins a royal procession through the United States, it is good to remember Tanis and its discoverer, Pierre Montet. The treasure of Tutankhamun may be more extensive, but Montet found three intact royal burials, an achievement...

Uncovering secret buried deep in past (Research into only Egyptian royal burial found outside Egypt)

Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/19/2005 1:21:38 AM PDT· 5 replies · 356+ views

Scotsman | JULIA HORTON
'Offering which the King gives to Osiris [God of the Dead]. He may give an offering of bread and beer, ox and fowl, for the soul of the estate manager Khnumhotep, son of Nebut." Dr Bill Manley reads out the mass of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics on the front of one of the ornate coffins on display at the Royal Museum as if he were reading words written in English. Peering at the jumble of symbols, it is possible to spot a bird for the fowl or buns for the bread and fool yourself that you too could translate hieroglyphics. But...

Ancient Greece

Albanian Temple Unearthed By UC Archeologists

Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 04/19/2005 11:19:12 PM PDT· 7 replies · 89+ views

University of Cincinnati | April 12, 2005 | Carey Hoffman
A sculptural relief from Apollonia of the goddess Artemis.

Ancient Rome

`Impressive' villa mosaic unearthed near Caesarea

Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/18/2005 6:35:32 PM PDT· 26 replies · 569+ views

Haaretz | April 17, 2005 | Amiram Barkat
A 500-square-meter mosaic depicting an intricate design of flamingos, peacocks, ducks and other animals that adorned the floor of a fifth-century C.E. villa, was unearthed recently on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean near Caesarea. Parts of the floor were first discovered in the 1950s by archaeologist Shmuel Yeivin. However, it was not fully excavated at the time due to budgetary constraints. This time, after an initial week-long excavation by Dr. Yosef Porat and Peter Gendelman of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the authority refused to continue the dig, citing a lack of funds. The Caesarea Development Corporation has agreed to pay...

Roman villas found under playing field

Posted by LostTribe
On News/Activism 08/17/2002 10:13:48 PM PDT· 49 replies · 354+ views

Roman villas found under playing field By Catherine Milner, Arts Correspondent (Filed: 18/08/2002) The remains of two Roman villas have been found under a football pitch in Wiltshire in what is believed to be one of the most significant archaeological discoveries since the early 1960s. The houses, which were built for Roman aristocrats in about 350AD, have 40 rooms each and feature an extensive mosaic which is thought to be one of the biggest and best-preserved Roman examples ever found in Britain. Archaeologists from Bristol and Cardiff universities, who are carrying out the excavation, have also exhumed the body of...

Skeleton find could tell us more about the Roman way of death

Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/16/2005 5:11:11 PM PDT· 19 replies · 903+ views

Yorkshire Post | 15 April 2005 | Paul Jeeves
ANOTHER headless skeleton discovered in York is among a series of gruesome archaeological finds which could hold the key to unlocking secrets behind Roman burial rituals. The latest discovery of human remains by archaeologists follows in the wake of another headless skeleton found shackled in a grave and a Roman mummy which was also unearthed in The Mount area of the city. A total of 57 bodies ñ 50 adults and seven children ñ and 14 sets of cremated remains have been found during excavations, most by the York Archaeological Trust at a site in Driffield Terrace. Archaeologists are now...

Asia

Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang's famous mummies (Caucasian)

Posted by blam
On News/Activism 04/19/2005 9:08:48 PM PDT· 20 replies · 830+ views

Khaleej Times | 4-19-2005
Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang's famous mummiesM (AFP) 19 April 2005 URUMQI, China - After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China's Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived. The research, which the Chinese government has appeared to have delayed making public out of concerns of fueling Uighur Muslim separatism in its western-most Xinjiang region, is based on a cache of ancient dried-out corpses that have been found around the Tarim Basin in recent decades. ìIt is unfortunate that the issue has been so politicized because it...

The Mysterious Tribe of Tuwa

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On News/Activism 01/30/2004 6:35:04 AM PST· 11 replies · 252+ views

China Times | January 27, 2004 | by Chen Lin
The Mysterious Tribe of Tuwa-It's said that they originated from the old or wounded soldiers abandoned by Genghis Khan The Mysterious Tribe of Tuwa On the banks of the Kanas Lake, there live 2,000 Tuwas, a Mongolian tribe that have existed in this remote area of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for generations. They mainly inhabit the areas of Kanas, Hemu and Baihaba. Their primitive nomadic lifestyle seems to have been isolated from the modern civilization of the 21st century. They believe in Shamanism and Lamaism and keep the primitive worship of fire and other natural forces as their...

Nevada Scientists Are Working to Preserve Ancient Terra Cotta Warriors

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On News/Activism 04/18/2005 6:51:11 PM PDT· 15 replies · 454+ views

KLAS-TV | April 15, 2005 | George Knapp
One of the world's greatest archeological treasures is in serious trouble because of air pollution and scientists from Nevada are coming to the rescue. The terra cotta warriors were built on orders from the first emperor of China but were buried for more than 2,000 years. Scientists from Nevada's Desert Research Institute have been asked to join an international team looking for ways to keep the warriors from wasting away. The ruthless conqueror who became the first emperor of china wasn't a guy who thought small. Emperor Chin not only started the Great Wall of China, but also used hundreds...

Biology and Cryptobiology

Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed...

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On News/Activism 04/22/2005 12:50:39 PM PDT· 91 replies · 2,136+ views

Albuquerque Tribune | April 14, 2005 | Sue Vorenberg
Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed some of its fossils Think mosquitoes and millipedes are nasty? Then don't look too deeply into New Mexico's past. Today, you can squish the tiny bugs, but 300 million years ago, 8-foot-long millipedes were in control of the landscape, and humans weren't even a gleam in evolution's eye. New Mexico is now a world record holder of such "exquisitely grotesque creatures," as one worker at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science calls them. Evidence of the largest arthropleura - its...

Catastrophism and Astronomy

Arizona Meteorite Crater Mystery Solved

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On News/Activism 03/09/2005 10:19:19 AM PST· 181 replies · 4,234+ views

AP via Yahoo | 3/9/05
It's a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years but researchers said Wednesday they have discovered why there isn't much melted rock at the famous Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. An iron meteorite traveling up to 12 miles per second was thought to have blasted out the huge hole measuring three-quarters of a mile across in the desert. The impact of an object at that speed should have left large volumes of melted rock at the site. But British and American scientists said the reason it didn't was because the meteorite was traveling slower than previously estimated. "We conclude that...

Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites

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On News/Activism 07/22/2004 10:25:27 PM PDT· 57 replies · 2,660+ views

European Space Agency | 7/21/04
Rare photo of a rogue wave Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites†21 July 2004Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins. † Severe weather has sunk more than 200 supertankers and container ships exceeding 200 metres in length during the last two decades. Rogue waves are believed to be the major cause in many such...

'Rogue waves' reported by mariners get scientific backing

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On News/Activism 07/23/2004 1:25:25 AM PDT· 18 replies · 753+ views

yahoo news | 7/21/04 | unknown
PARIS (AFP) - European satellites have given confirmation to terrified mariners who describe seeing freak waves as tall as 10-storey buildings, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. "Rogue waves" have been the anecdotal cause behind scores of sinkings of vessels as large as container ships and supertankers over the past two decades. But evidence to support this has been sketchy, and many marine scientists have clung to statistical models that say monstrous deviations from the normal sea state only occur once every thousand years. Testing this promise, ESA tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2, to monitor the...

SHIP-SINKING MONSTER WAVES REVEALED BY ESA SATELLITES

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On News/Activism 07/25/2004 12:36:29 AM PDT· 36 replies · 3,224+ views

European Space Agency.

| 21 July 2004
Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites † Rare photo of a rogue wave † † 21 July 2004 †Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins. †Severe weather has sunk more than 200 supertankers and container ships exceeding 200 metres in length during the last two decades. Rogue waves are believed to be the major...

Epigraphy and Language

Pompei Discovery For Swedish Archaeologists

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On News/Activism 04/17/2005 1:36:52 PM PDT· 46 replies · 870+ views

The Local | 4-17-2005
Published: 17th April 2005 11:48 BST+1 Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists (AFP) Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption. The archeologists recently found burnt wood and grains of corn in the earth under Pompei, Anne-Marie Leander Touati, a professor of archeology at Stockholm University who led the team, told AFP. "Carbon dating shows that the finds are from prehistoric times, that is, from 3,500 years BC," Leander...

WOW (Breakthrough in interpreting Oxyrhynchus Papyri)

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On Bloggers & Personal 04/17/2005 6:14:39 AM PDT· 47 replies · 1,784+ views

the Light of Reason | 4/17/05 | Arthur Silber?
For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure ñ a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation. If only it was legible. Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed. In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it to make...

Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history of the world

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On Bloggers & Personal 04/17/2005 11:04:21 PM PDT· 9 replies · 234+ views

RealOpinion.com
For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation. If only it was legible. Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.

Infra-Red Brings Ancient Papyri to Light

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On News/Activism 04/20/2005 9:14:51 PM PDT· 9 replies · 322+ views

Sci-Tech Today | April 19, 2005
Oxyrhynchus, situated on a tributary of the Nile 100 miles south of Cairo, was a prosperous regional capital and the third city of Egypt, with 35,000 people. It was populated mainly by Greek immigrants, who left behind tons of papyri upon which slaves trained in Greek had documented the community's arts and goings-on. A vast array of previously unintelligible manuscripts from ancient Greece and Rome are being read for the first time thanks to infra-red light, in a breakthrough hailed as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail. The technique could see the number of accounted-for ancient manuscripts increase...

India

Archaeological Gold Mine Unearthed In UP (Uttar Pradesh)

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On News/Activism 04/20/2005 1:54:12 PM PDT· 28 replies · 552+ views

NDTV | 4-19-2005 | Aradhana Sharma
Archeological gold mine unearthed in UP Aradhana Sharma Tuesday, April 19, 2005 (Sanchankot): The residents of Sanchankot village in Uttar Pradesh on the banks on Sai river never knew they were sitting on an archeological goldmine. Excavations in the mounds here have revealed proof of civilizations of four different periods. The oldest being the Painted Grey Ware period dating from 1400 to 800 BC and the latest the Gupta period of the 4-6th century AD. A 10th century temple of the Pratihar dynasty has also been found during the excavations. ExcavationsThe archeological significance of the site has been known for...

Archeological gold mine unearthed in UP

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On News/Activism 04/20/2005 9:04:35 PM PDT· 9 replies · 326+ views

NDTV | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 | Aradhana Sharma
The residents of Sanchankot village in Uttar Pradesh on the banks on Sai river never knew they were sitting on an archeological goldmine. Excavations in the mounds here have revealed proof of civilizations of four different periods. The oldest being the Painted Grey Ware period dating from 1400 to 800 BC and the latest the Gupta period of the 4-6th century AD. A 10th century temple of the Pratihar dynasty has also been found during the excavations. Excavations on The archeological significance of the site has been known for almost 150 years now. And almost every one who has come...

Let's Have Jerusalem!

Squeezed Between Burma And Bangladesh, 'Descendents' Of Lost Tribe Of Israel Convert To Judaism

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On News/Activism 04/16/2005 9:11:40 PM PDT· 3 replies · 190+ views

The Telegraph (UK) | 4-17-2005 | David Orr
Squeezed between Burma and Bangladesh, 'descendants' of the Lost Tribes of Israel convert to Judaism By David Orr in Aizawl, Mizoram, NE India (Filed: 17/04/2005) Passover is around the corner and Arbi Khiangte is helping her aunt, Dovi, clean and redecorate her home for one of the most important feasts in the Jewish calendar. The house is next door to the Shalom Zion synagogue where Arbi's uncle, Eliezer, is the cantor. Like most buildings in Aizawl, the synagogue - a large, corrugated-iron structure - is perched precariously on a hillside with nothing but wooden stilts to stop it tumbling into...

Mesopotamia

Gilgamesh tomb believed found!

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On News/Activism 04/29/2003 6:57:56 PM PDT· 60 replies · 633+ views

BBC | Published: 2003/04/29 07:57:11 | Editorial Staff
Gilgamesh tomb believed found Archaeologists in Iraq believe they may have found the lost tomb of King Gilgamesh - the subject of the oldest "book" in history. The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a German-led expedition has discovered what is thought to be the entire city of Uruk - including, where the Euphrates once flowed, the last resting place of its famous King. "I don't want to say...

Origins and Prehistory

Stone Age Cutups (Deathly Rituals Emerge at Neandertal Site)

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On News/Activism 04/22/2005 11:36:48 PM PDT· 2 replies · 18+ views

RedNova News | Friday, 22 April 2005
After excavating a cache of Neandertal fossils about 100 years ago at Krapina Cave in what's now Croatia, researchers concluded that incisions on the ancient individuals' bones showed that they had been butchered and presumably eaten by their comrades. That claim has proved difficult to confirm. A new, high-tech analysis indicates that the Krapina Neandertals ritually dismembered corpses in ways that must have held symbolic meaning for the group-whether or not Neandertals ate those remains. Neandertals apparently possessed a facility for abstract thought that has often been regarded as unique to modern Homo sapiens, says study director Jill Cook of...

PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis

Clue To Earliest American May Lay In Suffolk Grave

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On News/Activism 04/21/2005 11:21:53 AM PDT· 14 replies · 449+ views

The Times (London) | 4-21-2005
April 21, 2005 Clue to earliest American may lie in Suffolk grave By David Sanderson A SAMPLE from the bones of a Suffolk woman buried 400 years ago is to be exhumed by scientists seeking to discover more about an English explorer who is the unsung founding father of America. Archaeologists are to crosscheck DNA from remains they believe belong to the explorer Bartholomew Gosnold with samples from his sister, who was thought to have been buried in a Suffolk churchyard in the 1600s. Church officials have given their backing to the project, which is thought to be the first...

Fig Island has remarkable examples of shell rings

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On General/Chat 04/19/2005 11:13:05 PM PDT· 3 replies · 119+ views

Associated Press | Sun, Apr. 17, 2005 | Joey Holleman
[V]egetation disguises one of the most important, and least appreciated, cultural history sites in the country, archaeologists say. Much of Fig Island was built by man, not nature. Three of the four separate pieces of high ground that make up the 40-acre island were constructed about 4,000 years ago. Oyster shells - with some conch-type shells, broken pottery and a few animal bones mixed in - were crafted into stadium-like rings and crescents for reasons that remain a mystery... The Fig Island complex features one ring with the largest open interior plaza (slightly more than an acre), another ring with...

Ancient Europe

Archaeologists unearth Celtic burial site

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On General/Chat 04/19/2005 10:54:50 PM PDT· 4 replies · 104+ views

Slovakia's English language newspaper | April 18 - April 24, 2005 | staff writer
Mari·n Samuel from the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, told the SITA news agency that the most precious find on the early stone age, Neolithic settlement is a skeleton of what they believe was a 40-year-old woman buried in a squatting position. The site is believed to date back to between the 5th and 4th millennium BC.

The Goths and Later Germanic[CELTIC] Invaders

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On General/Chat 09/27/2002 7:07:12 PM PDT· 44 replies · 532+ views

University Web Site | Unk | Unknown
The Goths and Later Germanic Invaders Little is known about the early history of the Goths before they came into contact with the Romans. What little evidence we have indicates that they probably came from Scandinavia. In the first millennium B. C., they crossed the Baltic Sea and migrated into Northeastern Europe in the area occupied by Poland today. Later, they moved again and made their home in the area north of the Black Sea. Nobody knows for sure what caused these migrations but they became known as the Wanderings of the Peoples. Anthropologists speculate that changes in climate caused...

Neolithic France

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On General/Chat 04/21/2005 10:03:22 AM PDT· 5 replies · 119+ views

Archaeology | May/June 2005 | Jennifer Pinkowski
Recently, in one called PrissÈ-la-CharriËre (after the village it is near), archaeologists Roger Joussaume, Luc Laporte, and Chris Scarre found a communal sepulcher that no one had entered for 6,000 years, giving them a view of the burial practices of a people about whom little is known except that they were early farmers... Inside were the disarticulated remains of at least seven people, as well as two intact ceramic vessels. It was the third burial chamber they had found in the 300-foot-long mound. The other two held the partial remains of at least 11 more people... For the past 10...

Stonehenge 'King' Came from Central Europe

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On News/Activism 02/10/2003 12:47:31 PM PST· 26 replies · 81+ views

Science - Reuters | 2/10/03
LONDON (Reuters) - The construction of one of Britain's most famous ancient landmarks, the towering megaliths at Stonehenge in southern England, might have been supervised by the Swiss, or maybe even the Germans. Archaeologists studying the remains of a wealthy archer found in a 4,000-year-old grave exhumed near Stonehenge last year said Monday he was originally from the Alps region, probably modern-day Switzerland, Austria or Germany. "He would have been a very important person in the Stonehenge area and it is fascinating to think that someone from abroad -- probably modern-day Switzerland -- could have played an important part in...

Who Were The Celts?

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On General/Chat 09/26/2002 8:29:44 AM PDT· 119 replies · 585+ views

Ibiblio.org | unknown
Who were the Celts? The Celts were a group of peoples that occupied lands stretching from the British Isles to Gallatia. The Celts had many dealings with other cultures that bordered the lands occupied by these peoples, and even though there is no written record of the Celts stemming from their own documents, we can piece together a fair picture of them from archeological evidence as well as historical accounts from other cultures. The first historical recorded encounter of a people displaying the cultural traits associated with the Celts comes from northern Italy around 400 BC, when a previously unkown...

Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Searching for Abbey's Hidden History

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On News/Activism 04/21/2005 11:20:16 PM PDT· 4 replies · 214+ views

This is Local ondon | Nic Brunetti
ARCHAEOLOGISTS are awaiting results of a geophysical survey carried out around Bisham Abbey last weekend which could reveal the long-lost history of the site. Bisham Abbey, off the A404 Marlow Bypass, is believed to date as far back as 1337, and a special survey hopes to reveal the original foundations of the ancient building. The modern abbey is currently the home of Sport England's National Sports Centre, and six volunteers took to the lawns of the tennis courts to try and detect the foundations. Using a resistivity meter, which sends an electrical current through the ground, the team searched for...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

Digging uncovers Shaker history(Archaeologists explore site of famous religious group's house in NY)

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On News/Activism 04/18/2005 11:51:04 PM PDT· 8 replies · 222+ views

Albany Times Union | Monday, April 18, 2005 | JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST
Archaeologists explore site of famous religious group's old seed house in Colonie COLONIE -- A team of archaeologists methodically sifted through clumps of dirt Sunday in an attempt to quickly document newly discovered artifacts on the old Shaker settlement just off Route 155. The find could further reveal the industriousness of the 18th-century religious sect at their first known American settlement, but it also lies directly in the path of a new sewer line serving Albany International Airport. A work crew digging a trench for the line on the county-owned land struck the foundation wall Friday of what experts say...

The Nobel for Neolithic Politics

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On News/Activism 10/11/2004 3:05:01 PM PDT· 1 reply · 133+ views

TAS | 10/11/2004 | Christopher Orlet
In the late 1940s, the Swedish Academy finally got around to honoring the founders of the modernist literary movement. James Joyce was dead, so the Academy turned to the movement's other founder: Ezra Pound. But there were difficulties. Pound had been a supporter of Mussolini. Worse, he was an anti-Semite. True, he had been the intellectual force behind the greatest literary movement in the 20th century, but he was also an unabashed and unrepentant supporter of fascism. In the end the Nobel Prize Committee gave the award to T.S. Eliot, and asked him to share it with Joyce's ghost. But...

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