Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #82
Saturday, February 11, 2006
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Ancient Egypt
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US dig uncovers King Tut's neighbours
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/08/2006 10:48:04 AM PST · 11 replies · 194+ views
The Age | February 9, 2006 - 2:26AM
AN American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities have announced. An excavation team from the University of Memphis made the find five metres from Tutankhamun's tomb, while the mission was doing routine excavation work, said Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Some three metres beneath the ground, the tomb contained five human mummies with coloured funerary masks enclosed in sarcophagi and several large storage jars. The mummies date to the 18th dynasty (circa 1539-1292 BC).
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Intact tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings
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Posted by AdmSmith
On News/Activism 02/09/2006 7:32:55 AM PST · 59 replies · 1,483+ views
reuters | February 9, 2006 | staff
CAIRO (Reuters) - An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had the time or the access to identify them, the archaeologist added. The 18th dynasty ruled Egypt from 1567 BC to 1320 BC, a period during which the country's power reached a...
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Tomb Found in Egypt's Valley of Kings
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Posted by Founding Father
On News/Activism 02/10/2006 7:21:28 AM PST · 9 replies · 448+ views
The Houston Chronicle | February 10, 2006 | TANALEE SMITH
LUXOR, Egypt -- Through a partially opened underground door, Egyptian authorities gave a peek Friday into the first new tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings since that of King Tutankhamun in 1922. U.S. archaeologists said they discovered the tomb by accident while working on a nearby site. The tomb, which has five wooden sarcophagi with painted funeral masks, probably contains members of an 18th Dynasty pharaoh's court, Edwin Brock, co-director of the University of Memphis excavating team, told The Associated Press. So far, archaeologists have not entered the tomb, having only opened part of its four-foot-high door last...
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Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt [Possibly Nefertiti ... find by American archaeologists]
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 02/10/2006 3:57:33 PM PST · 35 replies · 982+ views
BBC News on line | February 10, 2006 | Unsigned
Archaeologists have discovered an intact, ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first since King Tutankhamun's was found in 1922. A University of Memphis-led team found the previously unknown tomb complete with sarcophagi and five mummies. The archaeologists have not yet been able to identify them. But Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass says they "might be royals or nobles" moved from "original graves to protect them from grave robbers". "We don't really know what kind of people are inside but I do believe they look royal. Maybe they are kings or queens or nobles," he told Reuters...
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Part of colossus found near Luxor ( Amenhotep III statue )
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/07/2006 10:27:48 PM PST · 17 replies · 214+ views
Egypt Online | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 | some online Egyptian
A German expedition has unearthed part of a colossal statue of an XVIII dynasty pharaoh. Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said that "the red granite head and shoulders of Amenihotep III (1390-1352 BC) were unearthed in the pharaoh's temple area at Kom el-Hetan on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor." Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass said that "The one-metre, high bust is in good condition' except for a slight crack on the right side." For her part, the leader of the German team described the bust as "the best portrait of King...
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Ancient Rome
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Archaeologists Unearth Headless Sphinx (in Italy)
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Posted by NYer
On General/Chat 02/08/2006 5:49:57 AM PST · 22 replies · 603+ views
Breitbart | February 7, 2006
Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx. The findings were presented Tuesday by government officials who described the discoveries as extremely important for understanding the layout of the ruins. The staircase is believed to be the original entrance to the villa, which was built for Hadrian in the 2nd century A.D. So far, 15 steps, each 27 feet wide, have been identified and archaeologists did not rule out uncovering more....
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Ancient ashes found buried in Rome
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 02/08/2006 4:54:26 PM PST · 17 replies · 445+ views
UPI | 2/8/06 | UPI
ROME, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Archeologists have reportedly found the ashes of an ancient chief or priest who lived three centuries before the legendary founding of Rome. The remains, dating to about 1,000 B.C., were discovered last month in a funerary urn at the bottom of a deep pit, along with several bowls and jars -- all encased in a hutlike box near the center of modern Rome, National Geographic News reported. A team of archaeologists, led by Alessandro Delfino of Rome's Department of Cultural Heritage, discovered the prehistoric tomb while excavating the floor of Caesar's Forum, the remains of...
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Carausius
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/05/2006 6:21:30 PM PST · 6 replies · 53+ views
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors | Updated: 28 October 1996 | Michael DiMaio, Jr.
This one has to be reproduced in entire, and it won't fit here, so it will be below. This Carausius topic came to mind as an idea due to Blam's topic on 15,000 wrecks in Irish waters (even though Carausius probably didn't operate there; he may have, but I've seen nothing). Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the Gods, Graves, Glyphs PING list or GGG weekly digest...
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Archeologists: Caligula was 'maniac'
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Posted by LibWhacker
On News/Activism 08/11/2003 12:44:41 PM PDT · 25 replies · 135+ views
MSNBC | 8/11/03
ROME, Aug. 11 -- For centuries scholars have debated whether Caligula, the Roman empire's eccentric third ruler, was a megalomaniac who dared to defy the gods or a maligned emperor whose caprices were exaggerated after his death. NOW A GROUP of archaeologists digging up Caligula's ancient palace say they have finally found concrete evidence that he was indeed a 'maniacî who turned one of Rome's most revered temples into the front porch of his residence. 'Everyone knows this guy was a little crazy. But now we have proof that he was completely off his rocker, that he thought he was...
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Fragments of Ancient Empire
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/06/2005 1:41:43 AM PDT · 2 replies · 351+ views
The archaeological season has begun at the Roman site of Vindolanda, bringing in volunteers from all over the world. Jamie Diffley went along to ask why they dig it. Pressed down in the clay, almost completely covered by the dirt, lies an object. Could be a piece of Roman pottery, perhaps some glass. To the untrained eye it could just be a piece of ordinary rubble. "It is ordinary rubble," says archaeologist Andrew Birley, loading it into a wheelbarrow, which will then be dumped by the side. Unlike me Andrew does have a trained eye. Indeed he has two. They're trained...
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British Isles
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Britain is likely to lose magnificent Roman tombstone
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/09/2006 10:59:33 PM PST · 3 replies · 11+ views
The Times | February 09, 2006 | Dalya Alberge
Archaeologists said yesterday that the gravestone, which depicts with great clarity a mounted trooper holding a sword and the head of a man he has just killed, was a unique find. The stone has yet to be dried, conserved and studied, but its owner -- the developer on whose land it has been found -- has already sought valuation advice from Sotheby's. Christopher Tudor-Whelan, director of Tudor-Whelan Property Holdings, which specialises in commercial investment properties, hopes to sell it in New York. He confirmed yesterday that he has been told that he can expect to sell it for "up to...
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BBC History Team Solves Riddle Of Llywelyn
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/05/2006 3:21:23 PM PST · 35 replies · 1,315+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 1-31-2006 | Ben Fenton
BBC history team solves riddle of Llywelyn By Ben Fenton (Filed: 31/01/2006) One of the last great mysteries of the history of the independent Welsh nation was apparently solved yesterday by a group of English historians working for the BBC. For centuries, people living in and around the chicken farm called Pen y Bryn on top of a hill overlooking the Menai Straits in Caernarvonshire have been convinced that it is a royal place. More than that, they all firmly believed that the 36-acre farm was the last remnant of the palace of Llywelyn, the first and last prince of...
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Bronze Age man's burial site unearthed
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/04/2006 2:27:25 PM PST · 9 replies · 160+ views
BBC | Last Updated: Thursday, 2 February 2006
Human remains dating back almost 4,000 years have been uncovered on Rathlin Island off the County Antrim coast... The skeleton was found in a crouched foetal-like position, which would indicate a cist burial in about 2000 BC. The body was accompanied by a food vessel. The remains were uncovered on Monday on the north coast, close to Rathlin Island's only pub, during work... Other recent archaeological discoveries indicate the island may have been settled as early as 7000 BC, placing it among the oldest such sites in all of Ireland. A Neolithic stone axe factory uncovered on the pistol-shaped island's...
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Ancient Europe
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Infertility link in iceman's DNA
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Posted by Red Badger
On News/Activism 02/03/2006 12:16:35 PM PST · 49 replies · 946+ views
BBC | 2/3/2006 | By Rebecca Morelle BBC News science reporter
Oetzi, the prehistoric man frozen in a glacier for 5,300 years, could have been infertile, a new study suggests. Genetic research, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, also confirms that his roots probably lie in Central Europe. Oetzi's body was found in the melting ice of the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991. Examination of his remains has already revealed the Copper Age man almost certainly died as a result of a fight. The assessment is based on the presence of an arrowhead that is lodged in his back and extensive cuts to his hands. The...
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Italy's Frozen Mummy May Have Been Sterile
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 02/05/2006 10:53:53 AM PST · 10 replies · 141+ views
Yahoo | Sat Feb 4
ROME - New DNA analysis indicates that a 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps may have been sterile -- a hypothesis that would support the theory that he may have been a social outcast, officials said Friday. Franco Rollo, an anthropologist and ancient DNA specialist, also determined that the man's genetic makeup belonged to one of the eight basic groups of DNA occurring in Europe, although his particular DNA belonged to a subgroup that has been identified for the first time, officials said. The South Tyrol Archaeological Museum in Italy's northern Alto Adige region, where the remains are...
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Science Shows Cave Art Developed Early
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/03/2001 12:16:47 PM PDT · 117 replies · 1,212+ views
BBC | 10-3-2001
Wednesday, 3 October, 2001, 18:00 GMT 19:00 UK Science shows cave art developed early Chauvet cave paintings depict horses and other animals By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse A new dating of spectacular prehistoric cave paintings reveals them to be much older than previously thought. Carbon isotope analysis of charcoal used in pictures of horses at Chauvet, south-central France, show that they are 30,000 years old, a discovery that should prompt a rethink about the development of art. The remarkable Chauvet drawings were discovered in 1994 when potholers stumbled upon a narrow entrance to several underground chambers ...
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Earliest Star Chart Found (More)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/01/2003 3:27:16 PM PST · 9 replies · 106+ views
Discovery News | 2-1-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi
Earliest Star Chart Found By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Left: Man-Being on Ivory Jan. 29 -- A 32,000-year-old ivory table has revealed what might be the oldest image of a star chart, according to new research to be published by the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. Found in 1979 in a cave in the Alb-Danube region of Germany, the small rectangular mammoth ivory plate shows an anthropoid figure, and a row of 86 mysterious notches is carved on its sides and on its back. "On the front side it shows a man-like being with his leg apart and arms...
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Cave Drawings Reportedly 25,000 Years Old
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 02/05/2006 7:34:22 PM PST · 86 replies · 1,593+ views
Associated Press | February 5, 2006 | Anon
PARIS -- Cave drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France, officials from the Charente region said Sunday. A first analysis by officials from the office of cultural affairs suggests the drawings were made some 25,000 years ago, Henri de Marcellus, mayor of the town of Vilhonneur where the cave is located, told France-Info radio. He said, however, that the date could only be confirmed by further investigations. Cavers exploring a part of a grotto in the Vilhonneur forest made the discovery in December, the local...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/08/2003 7:17:12 PM PDT · 69 replies · 404+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 4-11-2001 | Robert Matthews
Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 04/11/2001) SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago. satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide impact crater caused by a meteor Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent...
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Mesopotamia
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IRAQ: Gilgamesh tomb believed found
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Posted by Constitution Day
On News/Activism 04/29/2003 6:13:45 AM PDT · 57 replies · 758+ views
BBC News Online | Tuesday, 29 April, 2003 | BBC 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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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Archaeologists discover 6000-year-old burial ground near Kiryat Gat
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/07/2006 11:42:05 AM PST · 2 replies · 62+ views
Haaretz | February 7 2006 | Itim
Archeologists uncovered dozens of ancient tombs at the Highway 6 construction site near Kiryat Gat, the Itim news agency reported Tuesday. The find yielded a trove of artifacts, including mint-condition pottery, statues, jewelry and the remains of sacrifices offered to the religious deities the inhabitants believed in. Peter Fabian, who is conducting the dig at the behest of the company building the highway, said they discovered cave drawings depicting deer that used to roam free in the Negev desert region. He added that the find was the biggest of its kind and was invaluable for historians to deepen their understanding...
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Ancient Synagogue Discovered in Ramallah Area
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Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 02/07/2006 5:15:26 AM PST · 20 replies · 683+ views
Arutz Sheva | Feb 07, '06 | Scott Shiloh
Three weeks ago, Israeli police found a mosaic floor in an Arab car. The Antiquities Authority has confirmed that the floor be belongs to a previously undiscovered synagogue in the Ramallah area. Researchers from the Israeli Antiquities Authority believe that the mosaic formed part of an ancient synagogue floor because it contained depictions of Jewish symbols, such as the base of a menorah (a seven branched candelabrum), a lulav (palm branch), and dates. Another, no less interesting feature of the mosaic, are the words 'Shalom (peace) on Israel' which are inscribed on it. At first, researchers thought the thieves had...
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After 2000 years, A Seed from Ancient Judea Sprouts
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Posted by wildbill
On News/Activism 06/12/2005 7:39:01 AM PDT · 22 replies · 826+ views
nytimes | 6/12/2005 | Steve Erlanger
Israeli doctors and scientists have succeeded in germinating a date seed nearly 2,000 years old. The seed, nicknamed Methuselah, was taken from an excavation at Masada, the cliff fortress where, in A.D. 73, 960 Jewish zealots died by their own hand, rather than surrender to a Roman assault. The point is to find out what was so exceptional about the original date palm of Judea, much praised in the Bible and the Koran for its shade, food, beauty and medicinal qualities, but long ago destroyed by the crusaders
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2,000-Year-Old Judean Date Seed Growing Successfully
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Posted by Fred Nerks
On News/Activism 02/07/2006 3:18:12 PM PST · 14 replies · 416+ views
Arutz Sheva | 11:03 Feb 06, '06 / 8 Shevat 5766 | By Ezra HaLevi
A 2,000-year-old date seed planted last Tu BíShvat has sprouted and is over a foot tall. Being grown at Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava, it is the oldest seed to ever produce a viable young sapling. The Judean date seed was found, together with a large number of other seeds, during archaeological excavations carried out close to Massada near the southern end of the Dead Sea. Massada was the last Jewish stronghold following the Roman destruction of the Holy Temple over 1,930 years ago. The age of the seeds was determined using carbon dating, but has a margin of error...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Near-Extinct 'Whistling Language' Returns (sample audio clip - very cool!)
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Posted by AM2000
On News/Activism 11/16/2003 6:33:41 PM PST · 40 replies · 190+ views
Yahoo! News | Sun Nov 16 2003, 1:22 PM ET | SARAH ANDREWS, Associated Press Writer
SAN SEBASTIAN, Canary Islands - Juan Cabello takes pride in not using a cell phone or the Internet to communicate. Instead, he puckers up and whistles. Cabello is a "silbador," until recently a dying breed on tiny, mountainous La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands off West Africa. Like his father and grandfather before him, Cabello, 50, knows "Silbo Gomero," a language that's whistled, not spoken, and can be heard more than two miles away. This chirpy brand of chatter is thought to have come over with early African settlers 2,500 years ago. Now, educators are working hard to save...
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Ancient Greece
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Papyrus Reveals Ancient Stories (Artemidorus "Geography" "Ta geographumena")
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/09/2006 11:16:44 PM PST · 6 replies · 116+ views
Discovery News | February 8, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi
Born in Ephesus around 100 B.C., Artemidorus wrote 11 books on his Mediterranean travels, which are now lost in their entirety. Indeed, his "Ta geographumena" (Geography) treatise has been known only through 1st century B.C. Greek geographer, historian, and philosopher Strabo, who mentioned it in his books. Featuring a detailed description of Spain, the papyrus is believed to be the most extensive remaining portion of Artemodorus' monumental work. "Three historical sources quote the exact text found in the papyrus as by Artemidorus... . We concluded that the roll featured the transcription of the second book of Artemidorus' lost 'Geography,'" Gallazzi...
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India
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Stone Age Tribe Kills Fishermen Who Strayed On To Island
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/07/2006 5:58:05 PM PST · 130 replies · 3,332+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 2-8-2006 | Peter Foster
Stone Age tribe kills fishermen who strayed on to island By Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 08/02/2006) One of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range. Sentinelese tribesmen prepare to fire arrows at the coastguard helicopter after the fishermen's murder They are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world to remain isolated and...
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Asia
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Ancient village found in China
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/08/2006 8:34:03 AM PST · 4 replies · 46+ views
ZeeNews | Feb 07 2006 | Bureau Report
Four well-preserved residences in an ancient village, probably submerged by a flood, have been unearthed in central China, providing an insight into rural life about 2,000 years ago, archaeologists said. The village in Neihuang county, Henan province, belongs to the late western Han dynasty (206 BC - AD25), director of the Henan provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology, Sun Xinmin said. "With the excavation, archaeologists are able to map out the layout of the ancient village and the architecture of village residences in the western Han dynasty for the first time," Sun said. Every residence, surrounded by farmland, has...
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The Secret In The Steppes Thought Safe For All Time (Genghis Khan)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/09/2006 11:00:19 AM PST · 22 replies · 1,117+ views
Washington Post | 2-9-2006 | Edward Cody
The Secret in the Steppes Thought Safe for All TimeDespite Misgivings in Mongolia, Explorers Hope to Find Site of Genghis Khan's 800-Year-Old Tomb By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, February 9, 2006; Page A20 ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- On the vast flatlands of eastern Mongolia, enclosed by a two-mile wall in the form of an oval, diggers have uncovered tantalizing clues to the solution of one of history's enduring mysteries: the site of Genghis Khan's secret grave. Finding the spot where the great Mongolian conqueror was laid to rest in 1227 by his famed horseback warriors would fill...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Researcher Seeks Secrets Of Kennewick Man
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Posted by blam
On General/Chat 02/06/2006 10:55:05 AM PST · 22 replies · 339+ views
The State | 2-6-2006 | Susanne Rust
Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006Researcher seeks secrets of Kennewick ManBY SUSANNE RUSTMilwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE - Ground to the bone, the teeth of the famous fossil skeleton, Kennewick Man, look as if they've spent a lifetime gnashing rocks. But it's from these worn choppers that Thomas Stafford Jr., a research fellow in the department of geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Stafford Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colo., plans to learn about the origins, movement and lifestyle of this highly controversial, 9,000-year-old North American. In 1996, Kennewick Man was discovered on the banks of the Columbia River...
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Austria, Mexico battle over 'symbol of power'
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Posted by Willie Green
On News/Activism 02/05/2006 9:37:39 AM PST · 58 replies · 896+ views
Houston Chronicle | Feb. 5, 2006 | MARION LLOYD
At stake is the revered headdress called the 'crown of Moctezuma' MEXICO CITY - For nearly 500 years, the jewel-encrusted, plumed headdress Mexicans revere as the "crown of Moctezuma" has been hidden away in the private collections of European royalty or behind bulletproof glass in a museum in Austria. Now Mexico wants it back. And Mexican officials said last month that they would formally petition Austria for the return of the relic, on display in the Ethnological Museum of Vienna. Many scholars think the headdress once belonged to the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, who was defeated by the Spanish in...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Trove Of Teutonic Weapons Uncovered In Krusne Hory Region
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/10/2006 11:30:11 AM PST · 11 replies · 770+ views
Radio CZ | 2-9-2006 | Jan Velinger - Martina Scheibergova
Trove of Teutonic weapons uncovered in Krusne Hory region [09-02-2006] By Jan Velinger, Martina Schneibergova Listen 16kb/s ~ 32kb/s It's not unusual in this country to come across weapons caches dating back to the Second World War. But, finding a pile of javelin tips, parts of shields and a sword dating back to the 2nd century A.D., doesn't happen every day. -- Lenka Onderkova -- According to museum officials in the north Bohemian town of Chomutov it was a find that almost "never happened": a trove of twenty-two Teutonic items, weapons or parts of shields, dating back 1,800 years, that one finder almost failed...
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Anglo-Saxon Gold Coin Leaves British Museum Out Of Pocket
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/09/2006 4:47:45 PM PST · 20 replies · 603+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 2-9-2006 | Nigel Reynolds
Anglo-Saxon gold coin leaves British Museum out of pocket By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent (Filed: 09/02/2006) A gold coin lost 1,200 years ago on a river bank in Bedfordshire became the most expensive British coin when it was bought by the British Museum for £357,832 yesterday. A little smaller than a pound coin in diameter and much thinner, the glittering mancus, the value of 30 days' wages for a skilled Anglo-Saxon worker, now ranks among the museum's most valuable artefacts. Anglo-Saxon coin depicting Coenwulf, King of Mercia Experts described the coin as "the find of the last 100 years". But...
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Lucky Coin Found In Medieval Ship
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Posted by blam
On General/Chat 02/07/2006 10:57:53 AM PST · 16 replies · 277+ views
BBC | 2-7-2006
Lucky coin found in medieval ship The coin is inscribed in Latin and has a cross on one face A French silver coin has been found embedded in the keel of a medieval ship uncovered on the banks of the river Usk in Newport three years ago. The discovery of the 15th Century coin is being interpreted as a sign that the ship came originally from France. Experts believe the coin was new and was intended to be a good luck charm. Project leader Kate Hunter said a colleague was shaking when she found the coin. She said: "We all...
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Grace O'Malley: Pirate Queen of Connacht (1530-1603)
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/07/2006 11:54:20 AM PST · 7 replies · 116+ views
Irish Clans | May 2000 | Brian Workman
Grace and her small army were captured again in 1586 by the forces of the new Governor of the area, Sir Richard Bingham. Sir Richard promptly repossessed all of the property of the captives and quickly built a gallows to hang and forever rid the area of the Pirates. In a move that saved her life, Grace's son-in-law took her place as captive. Impoverished, Grace returned to her lifestyle as a raider and pirate.
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Underwater Archaeology
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15,000 Wrecks Lie Buried On Irish Seabed
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/05/2006 3:12:21 PM PST · 56 replies · 1,396+ views
The Times (UK) | 2-5-2006 | Andrew Bushe
15,000 wrecks lie buried on Irish seabed Andrew Bushe LUSITANIA, the Cunard Line steamer sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Cork in 1915 drowning all 1,200 on board, is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Irish waters. But a new study has discovered that the seas surrounding Ireland are littered with evidence of thousands of other maritime tragedies, with as many as 15,000 wrecks resting on the seabed. Following one of the most extensive research programmes ever carried out by underwater archeologists, the number of wrecks discovered has soared from an initial examination six years ago...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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DNA Kits Aim to Link You to the Here and Then (Genetic Genealogy)
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Posted by martin_fierro
On General/Chat 02/05/2006 10:23:49 AM PST · 8 replies · 89+ views
NYT | 2/5/06 | Jennifer Alsever
DNA Kits Aim to Link You to the Here and Then By JENNIFER ALSEVER Published: February 5, 2006 THE past comes at a price for Georgia Kinney Bopp. Retired and living in Kailua, Hawaii, Ms. Bopp has spent about $800 on tests to trace her ancestry, using samples of DNA from inside her cheek and from possible relatives. She and her husband, Thomas, even plan vacations around genealogy research, seeking DNA samples from distant cousins. "If we travel, we keep a DNA kit with us, just in case we meet someone who might help identify an ancient ancestor," Ms. Bopp...
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Can Genes Unravel A Viking Mystery
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/10/2006 11:15:24 AM PST · 15 replies · 630+ views
MSNBC | 2-9-2006
Can genes unravel a Viking mystery?DNA tests could shed new light on remains found in longboat Scanpix / Reuters A1904 image shows the Oseberg Viking ship after its recovery in southern Norway. Scientists say DNA tests could yield new information about a queen and another woman whose remains were found in the ship. OSLO, Norway - The grave of a mysterious Viking queen may hold the key to a 1,200-year-old case of suspected ritual killing, and scientists are planning to unearth her bones to find out. She is one of two women whose fate has been a riddle ever since...
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Prehistory and Origins
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New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa, Replacement theory 'demolished'
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Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 02/10/2006 2:54:05 AM PST · 113 replies · 2,054+ views
Washington University in St. Louis | 02 February 2006 | Tony Fitzpatrick
A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes -- strongly -- the 'Out of Africa' replacement theory. That theory holds that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and wiped out existing populations of humans. Templeton has shown that the African populations interbred with the Eurasian populations -- thus, making love, not war. "The 'Out of Africa' replacement theory has always been a big controversy," Templeton...
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Origins of Domestic Horse Revealed
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Posted by jimtorr
On General/Chat 07/16/2002 7:03:04 PM PDT · 11 replies · 135+ views
BBC News | 16 July 2002 | Helen Briggs
The story of how wild horses were tamed by ancient people has been pieced together by gene hunters. DNA evidence shows modern horses are descended from not one but several wild populations. It suggests horses were domesticated - for meat, milk or to carry loads - in more than one place. As few as 77 wild mares passed on their genes to today's modern horse breeds, from the American mustang to the Shetland pony. "We see traces of original wild populations of horses that have been incorporated into the domestic horses of today," says co-researcher Dr Peter Forster of the...
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Humankind's family tree reshaped
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Posted by whattajoke
On News/Activism 02/21/2003 9:50:34 AM PST · 105 replies · 175+ views
msnbc.com | 2/21/03 | whattajoke
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- A 1.8-million-year-old jawbone and other fossils uncovered in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge have reignited a longstanding controversy about the family tree of humankind's earliest ancestors. At the same time, the finds offer a new look at how and where early humans lived, according to a study in the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Oldest human footprints found on volcano
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Posted by CobaltBlue
On News/Activism 03/12/2003 12:47:19 PM PST · 38 replies · 369+ views
New Scientist | March 12 2003 | Hazel Muir
Oldest human footprints found on volcano -- 19:00 12 March 03 -- NewScientist.com news service -- The trails of footprints (A and B) have as many as 27 steps (Image: Paolo Mietto and Marco Avanzini) -- Three primitive humans who scrambled down a volcano's slopes more than 325,000 years ago left their footprints fossilised in volcanic ash. If the ages of the trails are confirmed, they could be the earliest known footprints of our Homo ancestors. Paolo Mietto of Padua University and his colleagues examined three tracks of footprints on the Roccamonfina volcano in southern Italy, known to locals as...
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Oldest Human Skulls Found
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/11/2003 8:03:26 AM PDT · 375 replies · 624+ views
BBC | 6-11-2003 | Jonathan Amos
Oldest human skulls found By Jonathan Amos BBC News Online science staff Three fossilised skulls unearthed in Ethiopia are said by scientists to be among the most important discoveries ever made in the search for the origin of humans. Herto skull: Dated at between 160,000 and 154,000 years old (Image copyright: David L. Brill) The crania of two adults and a child, all dated to be around 160,000 years old, were pulled out of sediments near a village called Herto in the Afar region in the east of the country. They are described as the oldest known fossils of modern...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Human skeletons found at falls
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/08/2006 7:37:27 AM PST · 2 replies · 15+ views
Bay of Plenty Times | February 8 2006 | Rachel Tiffen
In TV2 show Sensing Murder, three psychics independently identified a spot at the falls as the burial site of Williams. The Tauranga woman disappeared without trace from her Gate Pa home on June 5, 1986. Her body has never been found. A man phoned police the day after the show screened, saying he knew of a skull at the falls. But his discovery was kilometres away from the spot the pyschics were drawn to - at the top lake end of McLaren Falls... Historic Places Trust archaeologists were able to determine that the bones were ancient, likely "pre-European" by marks...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Chatty Host Who Makes Archaeology Glamorous
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/07/2006 10:28:30 AM PST · 32 replies · 213+ views
New York Times from New York City, New York County, and New York State | February 6, 2006 | Felicia R. Lee
"The History Channel had put the word out that they wanted someone who was hands-on and who could travel around the world," Mr. Bernstein said of his decision to try out for the show. "It's been an exhilarating ride because it's who I am. I do get a lot of people reaching out now that we've done the first season. They say they learn a lot, and it makes them feel like they don't need a Ph.D. to appreciate it. Some people say it's the only family show they watch all together."
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What kind of thinker are you?
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Posted by swilhelm73
On News/Activism 06/04/2004 10:30:24 PM PDT · 324 replies · 2,458+ views
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