Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #40
Saturday, April 23, 2005
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Africa
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Stolen Obelisk is Returned to Sheba's Capital
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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...
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Anatolia
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Layers of clustered apartments hide artifacts of ancient urban life
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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...
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Was Troy a Metropolis? Homer Isn't Talking
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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....
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Ancient Egypt
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7 corpses found in ancient Egyptian tomb
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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...
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Ancient Necropolis Found in Egypt (From earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years Old)
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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...
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Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler
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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...
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Treasures of Tanis
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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...
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Uncovering secret buried deep in past (Research into only Egyptian royal burial found outside Egypt)
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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...
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Ancient Greece
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Albanian Temple Unearthed By UC Archeologists
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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.
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Ancient Rome
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`Impressive' villa mosaic unearthed near Caesarea
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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...
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Roman villas found under playing field
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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...
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Skeleton find could tell us more about the Roman way of death
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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...
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Asia
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Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang's famous mummies (Caucasian)
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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...
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The Mysterious Tribe of Tuwa
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Posted by vannrox
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...
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Nevada Scientists Are Working to Preserve Ancient Terra Cotta Warriors
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Posted by nickcarraway
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...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed...
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Posted by demlosers
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...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Arizona Meteorite Crater Mystery Solved
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Posted by ZGuy
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...
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Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites
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Posted by uglybiker
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...
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'Rogue waves' reported by mariners get scientific backing
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Posted by Rebelbase
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...
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SHIP-SINKING MONSTER WAVES REVEALED BY ESA SATELLITES
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Posted by Yosemitest
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...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Pompei Discovery For Swedish Archaeologists
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Posted by blam
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...
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WOW (Breakthrough in interpreting Oxyrhynchus Papyri)
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Posted by bitt
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...
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Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history of the world
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Posted by illbill
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.
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Infra-Red Brings Ancient Papyri to Light
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Posted by nickcarraway
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...
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India
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Archaeological Gold Mine Unearthed In UP (Uttar Pradesh)
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Posted by blam
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...
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Archeological gold mine unearthed in UP
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Posted by nickcarraway
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...
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Let's Have Jerusalem!
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Squeezed Between Burma And Bangladesh, 'Descendents' Of Lost Tribe Of Israel Convert To Judaism
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Posted by blam
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...
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Mesopotamia
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Gilgamesh tomb believed found!
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Posted by vannrox
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...
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Origins and Prehistory
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Stone Age Cutups (Deathly Rituals Emerge at Neandertal Site)
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Posted by nickcarraway
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...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Clue To Earliest American May Lay In Suffolk Grave
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Posted by blam
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...
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Fig Island has remarkable examples of shell rings
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Posted by SunkenCiv
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...
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Ancient Europe
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Archaeologists unearth Celtic burial site
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Posted by SunkenCiv
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.
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The Goths and Later Germanic[CELTIC] Invaders
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Posted by LostTribe
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...
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Neolithic France
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Posted by SunkenCiv
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...
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Stonehenge 'King' Came from Central Europe
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Posted by CobaltBlue
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...
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Who Were The Celts?
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Posted by blam
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...
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Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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Searching for Abbey's Hidden History
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Posted by nickcarraway
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...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Digging uncovers Shaker history(Archaeologists explore site of famous religious group's house in NY)
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Posted by nickcarraway
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...
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The Nobel for Neolithic Politics
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Posted by swilhelm73
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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