Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

Gods, Graves, Glyphs ^ | 7/17/2004 | various

[SunkenCiv]

• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan  ^ 6 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#6]
• Achaemenid, Worldís First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:45:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)  ^ 27 posted on 07/06/2004 7:23:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#27]
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane  ^ 21 posted on 05/31/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by farmfriend [#21]
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements  ^ 22 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#22]
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Archaeologists tackle China mystery  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:43:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 16 posted on 07/11/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#16]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 2 posted on 07/11/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#2]
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway  ^ 5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)  ^ 32 posted on 05/31/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by farmfriend [#32]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 17 posted on 07/14/2004 12:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#17]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 11 posted on 07/11/2004 9:53:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#11]
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered  ^ 24 posted on 05/26/2004 9:32:54 AM PDT by farmfriend [#24]
• Catapult-Makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 3:22:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares  ^ 25 posted on 07/03/2004 4:45:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#25]
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins  ^ 8 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• China: Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago(more on Western Zhou Dynasty)  ^ 9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:10:43 AM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting  ^ 5 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises  ^ 6 posted on 06/02/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Forgotten culture  ^ 21 posted on 07/04/2004 12:32:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#21]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)  ^ 18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#18]
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages  ^ 8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found  ^ 22 posted on 05/31/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by farmfriend [#22]
• Humanity's Strange Face  ^ 19 posted on 05/25/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.) [#19]
• Keeping Up With The Empire (Romans In Netherlands)  ^ 4 posted on 05/26/2004 9:28:27 AM PDT by farmfriend [#4]
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?  ^ 6 posted on 05/28/2004 1:08:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Plan to Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory  ^ 64 posted on 07/14/2004 10:51:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#64]
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older  ^ 3 posted on 06/29/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by NukeMan [#3]
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d tour Capital of Persian Empire]  ^ 5 posted on 07/11/2004 10:11:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites  ^ 3 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• The Poop On Ancient Man  ^ 4 posted on 07/02/2004 7:51:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Quarries Providing Stone for Persepolis Discovered  ^ 3 posted on 07/11/2004 10:13:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration  ^ 5 posted on 06/08/2004 2:09:28 PM PDT by farmfriend [#5]
• Remains Of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'  ^ 35 posted on 07/14/2004 10:53:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#35]
• Replica Of Roman Murder Victim (1,700 Years Old)  ^ 9 posted on 05/26/2004 10:37:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains  ^ 4 posted on 07/14/2004 10:49:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Signs of 8,000-year-old culture found near Bedford  ^ 34 posted on 06/08/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by farmfriend [#34]
• Silk painting, brassiere unearthed from ancient tombs in N. China(1,000 year-old golden brassiere)  ^ 27 posted on 06/08/2004 12:18:58 PM PDT by farmfriend [#27]
• Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed  ^ 15 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#15]
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)  ^ 5 posted on 07/14/2004 10:45:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 154 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#154]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 163 posted on 07/09/2004 11:08:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#163]
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 6:40:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #30 Saturday, February 12, 2005
Asia
Chinese Used Diamonds To Polish Sapphire-Rich Stone In 2500 BC
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/11/2005 1:50:32 PM PST · 6 replies · 290+ views Eureka Alert/Harvard University ^ | 2-11-2005 | Steve Bradt Public Release: 11-Feb-2005 ArchaeometryChinese used diamonds to polish sapphire-rich stone in 2500 BC Researchers have uncovered strong evidence that the ancient Chinese used diamonds to grind and polish ceremonial stone burial axes as long as 6,000 years ago -ñ and incredibly, did so with a level of skill difficult to achieve even with modern polishing techniques. The finding, reported in the February issue of the journal Archaeometry, places this earliest known use of diamond worldwide thousands of years earlier than the gem is known to have been used elsewhere. Harvard University's Asia Center, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Princeton...
Road builders plunder Great Wall
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism  02/10/2005 4:09:28 PM PST · 10 replies · 405+ views News.com.au ^ | 2/10/05 | AFP ROAD builders demolished a large section of China's World Heritage-listed Great Wall last month in an indication of the perilous state of one of the world's best known landmarks, state media said today. Almost 100m of the wall in northern Ningxia autonomous region was levelled in two overnight raids by construction workers who used the material to pave a road, the Ningxia Daily said. The destroyed area near Zhongwei city was constructed during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in an region known as "the Great Wall Museum" because of the profusion of rammed earth sections of the wall. Less than 2500km...
Tsunami throws up India relics
	Posted by CarrotAndStick On News/Activism  02/11/2005 8:30:44 AM PST · 21 replies · 1,006+ views BBC News ^ | Friday, 11 February, 2005, 13:31 GMT | BBC News The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city off the coast in southern India. Archaeologists say they have discovered some stone remains from the coast close to India's famous beachfront Mahabalipuram temple in Tamil Nadu state following the 26 December tsunami. They believe that the "structures" could be the remains of an ancient and once-flourishing port city in the area housing the famous 1200-year-old rock-hewn temple. Three pieces of remains, which include a granite lion, were found buried in the sand after the coastline receded in the area after the tsunami struck. Undersea remains "They...
Ancient and Medieval Europe
Ancient Engravings Found In Somerset Cave
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/08/2005 5:29:13 PM PST · 11 replies · 407+ views University Of Bristol ^ | 2-7-2005 Ancient engravings found in Somerset cave [07 February 2005] Two members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society have discovered an engraving in a cave in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, which may be at least 10,000 years old. Graham Mullan and Linda Wilson, who have spent much of the last ten years studying Palaeolithic cave art, recently began a systematic search of caves in southern Britain in the belief that such works in this country would not simply be confined to those found at Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire. The first results of this study are a series of inscribed crosses found...
Maximus Factor AKA Ancient Avon
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/07/2005 5:00:55 PM PST · 8 replies · 253+ views Discover ^ | 2-7-2005 | Jocelyn Selim Maximus Factor aka Ancient Avon By Jocelyn Selim February 07, 2005 | Anthropology Courtesy of the Museum of London A Roman-era container of white cosmetic cream, found during an archaeological dig in London, offers a glimpse at vanity 2,000 years ago, when a pale, even complexion apparently was the rage. Richard Evershed, a chemist at the University of Bristol, analyzed the creamís ingredients and recreated the ancient recipe, which consisted mainly of rendered animal fat and starch that was probably obtained from boiling grains. ìIt shows a surprising degree of technological sophistication,î he says, noting that the color came from...
Ancient Egypt
Mummy Tar In Ancient Egypt
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/06/2005 2:35:27 PM PST · 11 replies · 358+ views Geo Times ^ | 2-6-2005 Mummy tar in ancient Egypt For millennia, ancient Egyptians used oil tar to preserve bodies. New geologic research shows that the tar came from several sources, shedding light on how trade routes of old compare to those of today. New research suggests that ancient Egyptians used oil tar from Gebel Zeit in Egypt, shown here, and from the Dead Sea to preserve mummies. Image courtesy of James Harrell. All tar sands -- crude oils, asphalts and bitumen -- contain source-specific compounds, known as biomarkers, which have unique chemical signatures that are closely related to the biological precursors of the oil....
Ancient Greece
Science To Test (Jason) Argonaut Myth
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/09/2005 11:40:18 AM PST · 44 replies · 964+ views Kathimerini ^ | 2-9-2005 Science to test Argonaut myth Gold jewelry found last year in an unplundered Mycenaean royal tomb on the outskirts of Volos will be tested for links with one of the most enduring ancient Greek myths, the Argonautsí expedition, an archaeologist said yesterday. The 14th century BC treasure -- gold beads from necklaces and jewelry made of gold and semiprecious stones -- was found with vases and other offerings in four pits inside the tholos tomb, a beehive-like subterranean structure usually associated with Late Bronze Age royal burials. According to local antiquities director Vassiliki Adrimi-Sismani, the Culture Ministry has approved tests,...
Ancient Rome
Scavenging the Empire [how Medieval Christians viewed Roman ruins and used them to make monasteries]
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On General/Chat  02/11/2005 6:42:45 AM PST · 2 replies · 52+ views The Rhine River blog [Landscape, Region and History.] ^ | Feb 6, 2005 | Nathanael This passage, from Vito Fumagalli's Landscapes of Fear: Perceptions of Nature and the City in the Middle Ages, looks at how Medieval Christians looked at the ruins of the Roman Empire, both physical and spiritual, and used them to make monasteries.. Everywhere towns had decayed and had lost their central position. The ancient world had created a highly sophisticated and essentially urban civilization: the Romans, like the Etruscans before them, had been city builders and the vast and complex network of their towns had had a profound influence on the landscape. ... Over time, however, the vast reaches of...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Excavation Unearths Oldest Archaeological Site In UAE
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/08/2005 4:40:08 PM PST · 11 replies · 400+ views Khaleej Times ^ | 2-8-2005 | Prerna Suri Excavation unearths oldest archaeological site in UAE By Prerna Suri 8 February 2005 DUBAI -- The oldest archaeological site in the UAE dating back to 7,000 years, has been discovered on the island of Marawah, located about 100km west of Abu Dhabi, according to Dr Mark Beech, Senior Resident Archaeologist for the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey (ADIAS). Dr Beech disclosed the findings at a lecture organised by the Dubai Natural History Group which was attended by a large crowd. The lecture covered important findings and discoveries by ADIAS during their excavation in 2004 including a skeleton of what is...
Origins and Prehistory
Newly Found (Human) Species Goes Missing Again (Floresiensis)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  02/09/2005 11:31:13 AM PST · 17 replies · 717+ views The Age ^ | 2-10-2005 | Stephen Cauchi Newly found species goes missing again By Stephen Cauchi Science reporter February 10, 2005 The disputed Homo Floresiensis. Photo: Robert Pearce The remains of an extinct metre-high human species have become virtually as hidden as they were before their discovery last year rocked the world of palaeontology. One of Indonesia's leading palaeontologists is refusing to hand back the remains to the team that found them on the Indonesian island of Flores. As reported last year, Professor Teuku Jacob, of Gadjah Mada University, grabbed the remains of the seven creatures - dubbed "hobbits" - and locked them in his safe, refusing...
Salt of the Early Earth
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism  02/06/2005 8:17:25 PM PST · 25 replies · 596+ views Astrobiology Magazine ^ | 2/6/05 | Leslie Mullen Scientists have long assumed that life originated in the sea. If life did spring from salt water, that could explain why all organisms use salt. But Paul Knauth, an astrobiologist with Arizona State University, says while we always assume that life came from the ocean, this theory has never been proven. He suggests we need to consider the possibility that life originated in fresh water.The next time you reach for that bag of salty chips, think for a moment about salt and life. Humans need a certain amount of salt; it is necessary for the delivery of nutrients, the transmission...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Italy faces wartime communist killings
	Posted by Tailgunner Joe On News/Activism  02/08/2005 12:19:20 PM PST · 18 replies · 648+ views Herald Sun ^ | 09feb05 ITALIAN state television has exhumed old hatreds between the political Right and Left in Italy with the dramatisation of a World War II massacre that was banished from the history books. RAI this week broadcast Il Cuore nel Pozzo (The Heart in a Pit) about the slaughter in the 1940s of about 15,000 Italians living in disputed territory in the mountains of modern-day Slovenia and Croatia. The film portrays screaming children ripped from their mothers' arms and families set before firing squads - not by Benito Mussolini's Fascists, but by Italian communists and Yugoslav partisans. "This tragedy was hidden to...
Jewish settlers left strong imprint in the Rio Grande Valley
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism  02/06/2005 6:34:55 AM PST · 45 replies · 590+ views Brownsville Herald ^ | 12-7-05 | Travis M. Whitehead ROMA, February 6, 2005 -- Stone offerings in cemeteries and candles on Friday nights have been a tradition for some local families for generations. Some of those traditions bear a lingering memory of the Sefardim -- Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th and 16th centuries. Many settled in northern Mexico, practicing their religion in secret and changing their names to hide their heritage. Some even converted to Catholicism. ìEventually, the Inquisition got all the way up here,î said Noel Benavides, a local historian. ìSome of them didnít relinquish their religion; some were executed if they didnít accept...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #31 Saturday, February 19, 2005
Ancient Europe
For Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, Was It De-Lovely?[Did they shtup?]
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 02/15/2005 7:42:02 PM PST · 41 replies · 844+ views NY Times | February 15, 2005 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Frank Franklin II/Associated Press A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right, stands next to a modern human version The scientists did not get around to the nitty-gritty question until the fourth hour of a two-and-a-half-day symposium on Neanderthals, held recently at New York University. A strong consensus was emerging, they agreed, that the now-extinct Neanderthals were a distinct evolutionary entity from modern humans, presumably a different species. They were archaic members of the human family, robust with heavy brow ridges and forward-projecting faces, who lived in Europe and western Asia from at least 250,000 years ago until they vanished from the...
Alpine Iceman (Oetzi) Reveals Stone Age Secrets
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/17/2005 11:46:50 AM PST · 49 replies · 1,384+ views Swissinfo.org | 2-17-2005 | Sophie Hardach February 17, 2005 4:30 AM Alpine iceman reveals Stone Age secrets By Sophie Hardach BOLZANO, Italy (Reuters) - Some 5,300 years after his violent death, a Stone Age man found frozen in the Alps is slowly revealing his secrets to a global team of scientists. But despite more than a decade of high-tech efforts by geneticists, botanists and engineers many questions about his life and death remain unsolved. And rumours of a deadly curse on those who found him continue to swirl. German amateur mountaineer Helmut Simon and his wife spotted Oetzi, as he became known, in the mountains between...
Ancient Rome
City of Fables Unearths Real Heroes from Roman Era
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/12/2005 8:48:49 PM PST · 29 replies · 692+ views Reuters | 2/11/05 | Jeremy Laurence COLCHESTER, England (Reuters) - It is the home of Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole and Camelot -- or so legend has it. But archeologists raking over the past can now go one better for the English city of Colchester. After painstaking excavation work they have proof of real heroes from the ancient world. Last month they revealed the remains of a Roman Circus or chariot racing track. In the past 30 years archeologists in the city have unearthed evidence dating back to Roman rule over 2,000 years ago, rewriting British history along the way. The circus underlines the city's importance...
The Dead Peoples Society ("Europe still languishes in nostalgia for the mud and stink Ö")
	Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism 02/14/2005 2:12:42 PM PST · 16 replies · 647+ views The Asia Times | February 15, 2005 | Spengler After the revival of the Welsh language, can Faliscan be far behind? Europe's interest in its 50 or so "minority languages" is growing, in inverse proportion to its birthrate. One or two of the 6,700 languages spoken on the planet go extinct every fortnight, but not all of them will go down without a fight. Peeking through the perforations in the veneer of European civilization are cultures that pre-date Rome. With apologies to comedian Robin Williams, a more fitting name for "Western civilization" might be the "Dead Peoples Society". The 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrongly qualified the pope as "the...
Millionaire to fund dig for lost Roman library [Villa of the Papyri]
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On News/Activism 02/14/2005 7:42:21 AM PST · 29 replies · 497+ views The Times [London, UK] | Feb 13, 2005 | Nick Fielding A PHILANTHROPIST has stepped forward to fund excavations at the ancient city of Herculaneum in Italy, where scholars believe a Roman library lies buried beneath 90ft of lava from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. David W Packard, whose family helped to found the Hewlett-Packard computer company, is concerned that the site may be poorly conserved or that excavation of the library may not continue unless he underwrites the work. Herculaneum, south of present-day Naples, was buried by the same eruption that destroyed nearby Pompeii. ìIt is hard to imagine anything more exciting than excavating at Herculaneum,î said Packard,...
Ruins Support Myth of Rome's Founding
	Posted by Unam Sanctam On News/Activism 02/15/2005 5:44:26 AM PST · 41 replies · 1,025+ views AP | Feb. 14, 2005 | Sarah Barden ROME - Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, who were suckled as infants by a she-wolf in the woods. Now, archaeologists believe they have found evidence that at least part of that tale may be true: Traces of a royal palace discovered in the Roman Forum have been dated to roughly the period of the eternal city's legendary foundation. Andrea Carandini, a professor of archaeology at Rome's Sapienza University who has been conducting excavations at the Forum for more than 20 years, said...
Asia
Mysterious city of black stone
	Posted by K4Harty On News/Activism 02/13/2005 8:19:20 PM PST · 19 replies · 1,138+ views The Star Online | 02/12/05 | AUDREY EDWARDS AND ZUHRIN AZAM AHMAD KOTA TINGGI: Villagers and orang asli in this part of Johor have grown up with stories about a mysterious lost city made of black stone.
The sea claimed an ancient capital of India. Now it has given it back
	Posted by CarrotAndStick On News/Activism 02/13/2005 8:05:17 PM PST · 21 replies · 1,097+ views The Independent | 14 February 2005 | Jan McGirk Two granite lions placed as guardians of an ancient city proved impotent before the power of the sea. But that same force has brought them to light centuries later. The Boxing Day tsunami has revealed what archaeologists believe to be the lost ruins of an ancient city off Tamil Nadu in Southern India. The 30-metre waves, which reshaped the Bay of Bengal and swept more than 16,000 Indians to their deaths, shifted thousands of tons of sand to unearth the pair of elaborately carved stone lions near the 7th-century Dravidian Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram. Indian archaeologists believe these granite beasts...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archeologists discover St. Paul's tomb
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On News/Activism 02/17/2005 12:58:57 PM PST · 203 replies · 4,085+ views Catholic World News | Feb 17, 2005 | unknown Rome, Feb. 17 (CWNews.com) - Vatican archeologists believe that they have identified the tomb of St. Paul in the Roman basilica that bears his name. A sarcophagus which may contain the remains of St. Paul was identified in the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, reports Giorgio Filippi, a archeology specialist with the Vatican Museums. The sarcophagus was discovered during the excavations carried out in 2002 and 2003 around the basilica, which is located in the south of Rome. Having reached what they believe is a positive identification of the tomb, Vatican experts will soon make a public...
Coptic Trove
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/18/2005 6:35:39 PM PST · 3 replies · 230+ views Ahram | 2-18-2005 | Nevine El-Aref Coptic trove Luxor's west bank was the site of a significant find, reports Nevine El-Aref In Al-Gurna where several excavation missions are probing for more Ancient Egyptian treasures under the sand, a team from the Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology has stumbled on a major Coptic trove buried under the remains of a sixth-century monastery located in front of a Middle Kingdom tomb. Excavators unearthed two papyri books with Coptic text along with a set of parchments placed between two wooden labels as well as Coptic ostraca, pottery fragments and textiles. The head of the team, Tomaz Gorecki, said the...
Vatican to announce St. Paul's tomb found
	Posted by wolfman On News/Activism 02/18/2005 9:09:38 PM PST · 45 replies · 609+ views WorldNetDaily.com MUCH ABOUT HISTORY Vatican to announce St. Paul's tomb found Sarcophagus could contain remains of apostle Posted: February 18, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Vatican archeologists are preparing to announced they have positively identified the tomb of St. Paul the apostle. Basilica in Rome where Vatican says it found remains of St. Paul Giorgio Filippi, a specialist with the Vatican Museums, said a sarcophagus that might still contain the apostle's remains was identified in the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, reported Catholic World News. The independent Catholic news service said the sarcophagus was discovered...
Origins and Prehistory
Oldest fossil 'rabbit' unearthed (55 million years ago)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 02/17/2005 7:46:34 PM PST · 40 replies · 468+ views BBC | Thursday, 17 February, 2005 Gomphos had long hindlimbs, just like a modern rabbit The fossilised skeleton of a rabbit-like creature that lived 55 million years ago has been found in Mongolia, Science magazine reports. Gomphos elkema, as it is known, is the oldest member of the rabbit family ever to be found. Gomphos was surprisingly similar to modern rabbits - and probably hopped around on its elongated hindlimbs. The fossil adds weight to the idea that rabbit-like creatures first evolved no earlier than 65 million years ago. "This skeleton is very complete," co-author Robert Asher, of Humboldt Universit‰t, Berlin, Germany, told the BBC News...
PreColumbian
12,000-Year-Old Bones Found in Kansas
	Posted by Mr. Mojo On News/Activism 02/15/2005 4:44:02 PM PST · 44 replies · 1,036+ views AP (via Yahoo) | Feb 15, 2002 GOODLAND, Kan. - Scientists say mammoth and camel bones unearthed in northwest Kansas that date back 12,200 years could be part of "one of the most important archaeological sites in North America." The bones, found last June in Sherman County near the Colorado border, were alongside a piece of stone that archaeologists say was the kind used in tools that humans once used to butcher animals. Archaeological geologist Rolfe Mandel of the Kansas Geological Survey said carbon-14 dating completed last week shows the bones are between 12,200 and 12,300 years old, which could mean humans lived on the Great Plains...
Discovery Could Change Dates For Human Arrival On The Great Plains
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/15/2005 12:14:05 PM PST · 20 replies · 647+ views News Wise | 2-15-2005 | University Of Kansas Source: University of Kansas Released: Sat 12-Feb-2005, 09:00 ET Embargo expired: Tue 15-Feb-2005, 00:00 ET Discovery Could Change Dates for Human Arrival on the Great Plains Dated by carbon-14 methods at 12,200 years old, recently discovered bones could be the oldest evidence of human occupation in Kansas, and they may be the oldest evidence of humans on the Great Plains. For photos related to the story, go to http://www.kgs.ku.edu Newswise ó Bones of now-extinct animals and a rock fragment discovered last summer in northwestern Kansas could rewrite the history of humans on the Great Plains. The bones, which appear to...
Field Between Tecate, Ensenada Yields Tools (Ancient Hunters In Baja)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/16/2005 10:26:20 AM PST · 7 replies · 159+ views SignonSandiego.com | 2-16-2005 | Sandra Dribble Field between Tecate, Ensenada yields tools By Sandra Dibble UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 16, 2005 TIJUANA ñ For the first time in Baja California, archaeologists have found significant evidence of hunters who settled the region between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, known as INAH, announced the recent recovery of more than 150 stone knives, spearheads, cutting utensils and other carved items from an open field between Tecate and Ensenada. The items are being linked to the San Dieguito people acknowledged as the earliest settlers of the region. San Dieguito sites have been amply...
Tribes Appeal Kennewick Man Ruling, Seek Role In Future Finds
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/16/2005 10:58:59 AM PST · 21 replies · 350+ views Seattlepi.com | 2-16-2005 | AP Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Last updated 8:04 a.m. PT Tribes appeal Kennewick Man ruling, seek role in future finds THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Indian tribes that failed to block the scientific examination of the 9,400-year-old remains known as Kennewick Man are appealing a court ruling in hopes of gaining a role in future discoveries. The appeal of a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was brought Monday by the Nez Perce Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and Yakama Indian Nation, which claim Kennewick Man as an aboriginal ancestor. "It's a fundamental...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
New FBI Art Unit Recovers Looted Seals from Iraq
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/16/2005 7:39:15 PM PST · 23 replies · 530+ views Reuters | 2/16/05 | Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation unveiled a new unit on Wednesday to tackle the multi-billion dollar market in stolen art and announced the FBI's first recovery of artifacts looted from Iraq after the U.S. invasion. The objects, eight Mesopotamian stone seals about 5,000 years old, were purchased in Iraq by a U.S. marine as a souvenir of his tour of duty. He handed them to the FBI in Philadelphia after an archeologist confirmed their authenticity and said they had been stolen from one of Iraq's many archeological sites. The soldier paid a trinket salesman about $300 for...
Searching for the truth - Mystery of the Melungeons takes a very interesting turn
	Posted by Engraved-on-His-hands On News/Activism 02/12/2005 9:52:39 AM PST · 54 replies · 1,340+ views Citizen Tribune (Morristown, TN) | 02/11/2005 | Kim Lobrillo For more than 200 hundred years the mysterious origins of the Melungeons has mystified many who were searching for facts. Recent research compiled by the Melungeon Research Committee (MRS) reveals the most probable theory thus far.
Shoppers rush to pyramid Wal-Mart
	Posted by traumer On News/Activism 11/07/2004 4:06:24 PM PST · 82 replies · 1,947+ views BBC | 5 November, 2004 Bargain-hungry Mexican shoppers have flocked to a new Wal-Mart supermarket that environmentalists claim will threaten one of the nation's treasures. Around 200 shoppers queued for hours to be the first to enter the store, which is half a mile from the ancient Mexican pyramids at Teotihuacan. "People need the well-being of their families more than culture," said one. Environmental groups had argued that the store was too close to the ruins and would erode the local way of life. While the Wal-Mart store was overflowing with shoppers on its opening day, a handful of local opponents kept a vigil...
Oh So Mysterioso
SHROUD OF TURIN - SKEPTICAL INQUIRER - NO BULL FACTS
	Posted by Swordmaker On General/Chat 02/08/2005 10:03:05 AM PST · 96 replies · 857+ views skepticalspectacle.com | February 2005 | Daniel Porter The true skeptical inquirer knows no certainty: that is his misfortune; he is aware of it, and that is his gift. Imagine slicing a human hair lengthwise, from end to end, into 100 long thin slices, each slice one-tenth the width of a single red blood cell. The images on the Shroud, at their thickest, are this thin. The faint images, golden-brownish, formed by a caramel-like substance, are wholly part of a super-thin film of starch fractions and sugars. Where this film is not brown, it is clear.† Knowing the way certain ancient linen was made, the film covering just...
Plato Treasure Map Leads Atlantis Hunter to Cyprus
	Posted by Junior On News/Activism 10/30/2003 1:44:23 PM PST · 14 replies · 167+ views Science - Reuters | 2003-10-29 | Michele Kambas and Jean Christou An image from Robert Sarmast's book ' Discovery of Atlantis: The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus' claims to show the location of the legendary land Atlantis as part of a land mass that connected Cyprus and the Middle East. Drawn from accounts by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Solon, Plato's description of a powerful civilization destroyed by the wrath of God has fired the dreams of explorers for centuries. Using deep-sea imagery, simulations of the sea bed, and following some 50 clues found in Plato's Critias and Timaeus Dialogues, Sarmast said he has discovered a sunken rectangular land mass...
Recent News! They discover proof that Atlantis did not submerge complete but only one part...
	Posted by Maria Fdez-Valmayor On Bloggers & Personal 01/06/2005 11:36:29 AM PST · 62 replies · 1,040+ views Atlantis News Agency. APP. EFE. AFP. Madrid. Spain. | 01-06-2005 | Antonio Beltr·n Martinez Recent News! They discover proof that Atlantis did not submerge complete but only one part...By Salvador Morales. Atlantis News Agency. Madrid, Spain. 01-06-2005. The Spanish investigator and scriptologist, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, has discovered paleographical proofs that in fact the island or peninsula (NÍsos) denominated like Atlantis or Atlantic, it was divided in two parts below the sea. To date all atlantologists and students of the Timaeus and the Critias de Plato had thought that in texts of the Greek philosophist narrated the collapse of the all island or Atlantis peninsula, nevertheless, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano has reviewed the oldest texts known writings in...
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Origins and Prehistory
Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'
	Posted by ovrtaxt On News/Activism 02/19/2005 4:36:58 AM PST · 38 replies · 815+ views worldnetdaily.com | February 19, 2005 | WorldNetDaily A flamboyant anthropology professor, whose work had been cited as evidence Neanderthal man once lived in Northern Europe, has resigned after a German university panel ruled he fabricated data and plagiarized the works of his colleagues. Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a Frankfurt university panel ruled, lied about the age of human skulls, dating them tens of thousands of years old, even though they were much younger, reports Deutsche Welle. "The commission finds that Prof. Protsch has forged and manipulated scientific facts over the past 30 years," the university said of the widely recognized expert in carbon data in a prepared...
Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'
	Posted by Woodworker On News/Activism 02/19/2005 7:36:30 AM PST · 809 replies · 7,521+ views Worlnetdaily | February 19, 2005 | unattributed Panel says professor of human origins made up data, plagiarized works A flamboyant anthropology professor, whose work had been cited as evidence Neanderthal man once lived in Northern Europe, has resigned after a German university panel ruled he fabricated data and plagiarized the works of his colleagues. Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a Frankfurt university panel ruled, lied about the age of human skulls, dating them tens of thousands of years old, even though they were much younger, reports Deutsche Welle. "The commission finds that Prof. Protsch has forged and manipulated scientific facts over the past 30 years," the university said...
Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk (Humerus break)
	Posted by InvisibleChurch On News/Activism 02/19/2005 7:28:21 AM PST · 26 replies · 708+ views www.scrappleface.com Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk by Scott Ott (2005-02-19) -- A disgraced German anthropology professor, who pretended to use carbon dating to establish a link between Neanderthals and modern man, told reporters today that he regularly drinks 40,000-year-old milk and drives a Porsche Carrera made in 736 BC. Frankfurt Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten resigned this week from a 30-year career as one of the world's leading anthropologists, when a panel concluded his carbon dating of human bones was incorrect by thousands of years. The inquiry found that one skull, which Mr. Protsch claimed came from a 27,400-year-old human fossil,...
History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud
	Posted by FNU LNU On News/Activism 02/21/2005 9:44:35 AM PST · 106 replies · 1,425+ views The Guardian | February 19, 2005 | Luke Harding History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries Luke Harding in Berlin Saturday February 19, 2005 The Guardian It appeared to be one of archaeology's most sensational finds. The skull fragment discovered in a peat bog near Hamburg was more than 36,000 years old - and was the vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals. This, at least, is what Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten - a distinguished, cigar-smoking German anthropologist - told his scientific colleagues, to global acclaim, after being invited to date the extremely rare skull....
Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago
	Posted by tricky_k_1972 On News/Activism 02/19/2005 8:44:08 AM PST · 46 replies · 665+ views TERRADAILY | Feb 17, 2005 | Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago Omo I skeletal parts (National Museum of Ethiopia) The bones of an early member of our species, Homo sapiens, known as Omo I, excavated from Ethiopia's Kibish rock formation. The bones are kept in the National Museum of Ethiopia. When the first bones from Omo I were found in 1967, they were thought to be 130,000 years old. Later, 160,000-year-old bones of our species were found elsewhere. Now, scientists from the University of Utah, Australian National University and Stony Brook University have determined that Omo I lived about 195,000 years ago...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Ancient Crocodile Found in Australia
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 02/23/2005 11:38:15 PM PST · 89 replies · 1,315+ views Yahoo News | Feb. 23, 2005 | Reuters SYDNEY (Reuters) - A new species of crocodile which lived 40 million years ago has been discovered in tropical Australia, filling a gap in the evolution of the prehistoric-looking crocodile, researchers said on Thursday. Two nearly complete skulls and a lower jaw of a new species of crocodile that belonged to a group called Mekosuchinae were unearthed by miners in the northern state of Queensland, said Australia's Monash University researcher Lucas Buchanan. "There is a big gap from about 30 to 60 million years ago of which we have no clue, except for these guys," Buchanan told Reuters on Thursday....
Ice age bacteria brought back to life
	Posted by aimhigh On News/Activism 02/25/2005 12:57:59 PM PST · 89 replies · 1,234+ views www.NewScientist.com | 2/25/2005 | Kelly Young A bacterium that sat dormant in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years has been revived by NASA scientists. Once scientists thawed the ice, the previously undiscovered bacteria started swimming around on the microscope slide. The researchers say it is the first new species of microbe found alive in ancient ice. Now named Carnobacterium pleistocenium, it is thought to have lived in the Pleistocene epoch, a time when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover, who led the team, said the find bolsters the case for finding life elsewhere in the universe, particularly given this week's...
Life on the Scales - Simple Mathematical Relationships Underpin Much of Biology and Ecology
	Posted by furball4paws On News/Activism 02/20/2005 10:36:58 AM PST · 61 replies · 736+ views Science News | 2/23/2005 | Erica Klarreich An article purporting to show simple mathematical relationships in Biology and Ecology.
Prehistoric 'Bear-Dog' Fossil Unearthed
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 02/24/2005 4:22:48 PM PST · 77 replies · 1,199+ views Wired (AP) | February 23, 2005 | AP BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Scientists are marveling at a fossil find in California's San Joaquin Valley that has produced the remains of a never-before-seen badger-like creature and a monstrous predator that looks like a cross between a bear and a pit bull. Among the discoveries was the skull of an animal that appears to be an entirely new genus within the same family as otters, skunks and weasels. "It just blew me out of my mind," Xiaoming Wang, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, said after seeing the fossil of the badger-like...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Cosmic Rays To Solve Ancient Mexican (Pyramid) Mystery
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/21/2005 12:26:52 PM PST · 11 replies · 455+ views Scotsman | 2-21-2005 | John von Radowitz Cosmic Rays to Solve Ancient Mexican Mystery By John von Radowitz, PA Science Correspondent Sub-atomic particles created by cosmic rays from space are to be used to probe a giant Mexican pyramid and solve one of the worldís greatest archaeological mysteries. Investigators are to install detectors beneath the Pyramid of the Sun that look for muons ñ charged particles generated when cosmic rays hit the atmosphere which continuously shower the Earth. They hope the rate at which muons pass through the pyramid will reveal any hidden burial chambers inside. The step pyramid, about 30 miles north-east of Mexico city, is...
Cosmic rays may reveal pre-Aztec tomb secrets
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/21/2005 6:26:33 PM PST · 30 replies · 542+ views UK Telegraph | 2/21/05 | Nic Fleming Scientists are using cosmic ray detectors to uncover the secrets of the earliest large metropolis of the Americas. Archaeologists and nuclear physicists are working together to measure the passage of muons, subatomic particles from deep space, through the 2,000-year-old Pyramid of the Sun to discover whether it was a mausoleum or a ceremonial monument. They believe the experiment will lead them to burial chambers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference was told. Many experts believe that the pyramid, the third largest in the world, holds the mysteries of the pre-Aztec Teotihuacan civilisation. Arturo Menchaca-Rocha, the director of...
Study: Native Americans Weren't The First
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/25/2005 6:08:54 PM PST · 75 replies · 1,138+ views The Discovery Channel | 9-6-2004 | Jennifer Viegas Study: Native Americans Weren't the First By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Sept. 6, 2004 ó DNA analysis of skulls found in Baja California that belonged to an extinct tribe called the Pericues reveal that the Pericues likely were not related to Native Americans and that they probably predated Native Americans in settling the Americas, according to an announcement Monday. The finding, released at the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) Festival of Science in Exeter, England, adds support to the theory that a number of groups arrived in the Americas via different routes and at varying times, possibly...
Underwater Arrowheads, Tools Dazzle Maritime Historians (Mi'kmaq - 8,000 YO)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/20/2005 11:24:20 AM PST · 37 replies · 744+ views CBC | 2-17-2005 Underwater arrowheads, tools dazzle Maritime historians Last Updated Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:28:09 EST CBC News HALIFAX - Archaeologists are showing off a treasure trove they call one of the most significant discoveries of Mi'kmaq artifacts in Nova Scotia. Hundreds of arrowheads and tools, some 8,000 years old, were discovered last summer along the Mersey River, near Kejimkujik National Park in the southwest region of the province. Workers from Nova Scotia Power were doing repairs to generating stations on the river. As water levels dropped in some areas, the riverbed was exposed for the first time since dams were built...
Ancient Greece
Digs at Archontiko, Pella uncover more gold-clad warriors
	Posted by afraidfortherepublic On News/Activism 02/23/2005 10:30:15 AM PST · 15 replies · 510+ views KATHIMERINI English Edition | 2-23-05 | Iota Myrtsioti Finds in 141 tombs add to picture of ancient Macedonia Bronze helmet with gold decoration from a mid-sixth-century-BC warriorís grave. Many Macedonian officers were buried in full armor, together with swords, spears and knives. By Iota Myrtsioti - Kathimerini The gold of the ancient Macedonians still gleams on the soldiersí uniforms being unearthed by excavations in the ancient necropolis of Archontiko in Pella. Fully armed Macedonian aristocrats, gold-bedecked women in elaborate jewelry, faience idols and clay vases of exceptional beauty had lain concealed for centuries in 141 simple rectangular trench graves that were discovered recently in the ancient settlement. For...
In Search of the Real Troy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/20/2005 2:33:23 PM PST · 17 replies · 163+ views Saudi Aramco World | January/February 2005 Volume 56, Number 1 | Graham Chandler, Photographed by Ergun Cagata It was then that Swiss scholar Emil Forrer deciphered newly discovered writings from the Hittite Empire to the east, finding two place-namesóWilusa and Taruisaóthat sounded convincingly like the Hittite way of writing "Wilios" (the Greek name for the site was "Ilion") and "Troia" (Troy). He also found a treaty, from the early 13th century BC, between the Hittite king Muwatalli and a king of "Wilusa" named Alaksandu. The kingís name, Forrer added, recalls the name of the Trojan prince Alexanderócalled Paris in Homerís Iliad. Critics pooh-poohed, conceding that a place named Wilusa may have existed, but where was it on...
Ancient Rome
Ruins may support tale of Rome's origin (Romulus & Remus Given Boost)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 02/19/2005 11:00:06 PM PST · 22 replies · 901+ views Washington Times | 2/19/05 | Rachel Sanderson Italian archaeologists digging in the Forum have unearthed the ruins of a palace they say confirms the legend of Rome's birth -- a discovery that may force the rewriting of Western history. Most contemporary historians dismiss as fable the tale that Romulus founded Rome in 753 B.C. and built a walled city on the slopes of the Palatine hill where he and his twin brother, Remus, were suckled by a wolf in their infancy. Andrea Carandini of Rome's La Sapienza University has spent 20 years trying to prove the skeptics wrong and last month he and his team hit on...
Paleoclimatology new header
Global Warming and Global Cooling are as Old as the Black Plague
	Posted by Brian_Baldwin On News/Activism 02/22/2005 8:25:26 PM PST · 34 replies · 718+ views 2/22/05 | various In the 1200ís in Europe something began to change. Most of the wealth of Europe came from the produce of land. Pollen evidence, as well as glacial evidence, prove that from 750 AD to 800 AD, and again two hundred years later from 1150 AD to 1200 AD, Europeís weather suddenly starting warming, known as the ìMedieval Warmî. Pollen studies of the beech forests along the Fernau glacier and in the Ardenes region of Northern France prove that these forests started to expand their borders during the late Eight Century from their A.D. 200 borders, and we discover that Alpine...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Researchers have found 9,000-year-old mangrove forests.
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism 02/22/2005 7:19:40 PM PST · 45 replies · 851+ views Australian Broadcasting | February 23, 2005 | Reuters Ancient mangrove forests found under reef North Queensland marine researchers have opened a window into the past by exposing ancient mangrove forests entombed beneath the Great Barrier Reef. Dr Dan Alongi from the Australian Institute of Marine Science says they have unearthed 9,000-year-old mangroves in old river channels that were swamped when sea levels rose after the last ice age. He says the relic mangroves show an abrupt rise in the sea level, 20 times faster than previously thought. "Material was very much intact, it didn't even have time to fully decompose when it was buried, so it does tell...
Tsunami Uncovers Ancient City in India
	Posted by Unam Sanctam On News/Activism 02/18/2005 6:12:00 AM PST · 16 replies · 677+ views AP/Red Nova | Feb. 18, 2005 MAHABALIPURAM, India (AP) -- Archaeologists have begun underwater excavations of what is believed to be an ancient city and parts of a temple uncovered by the tsunami off the coast of a centuries-old pilgrimage town. Three rocky structures with elaborate carvings of animals have emerged near the coastal town of Mahabalipuram, which was battered by the Dec. 26 tsunami. As the waves receded, the force of the water removed sand deposits that had covered the structures, which appear to belong to a port city built in the seventh century, said T. Satyamurthy, a senior archaeologist with the Archaeological Survey of...
Were the dinosaurs done in by fungus?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/22/2005 11:40:37 PM PST · 16 replies · 164+ views Boston Globe | February 22, 2005 | Carolyn Y. Johnson "The forests went out. The fungi proliferated, and the Earth became a giant compost pile. An enormous number of spores were released," said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, an infectious disease researcher who proposed last month that air thick with fungal spores after the meteor hit could have overwhelmed animals' immune systems, causing sickness and death... "It's just a beautifully creative suggestion," said Nicholas Money, a mycologist, or mold expert, from Miami University of Ohio and author of "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold." ...Casadevall, of Albert Einstein College of New York... has long been troubled by...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Carbon Dating Backs Bible on Edom
	Posted by Pendragon_6 On News/Activism 02/18/2005 7:19:50 AM PST · 25 replies · 682+ views South Bend Tribune | 17 Feb 2005 | Richard N. Ostling February 17, 2005 Carbon dating backs Bible on Edom By RICHARD N. OSTLING Associated Press Writer Evidence of biblical kingdom of Edom Some archaeologists are convinced that pottery remains and radiocarbon work in Jordan were from a site that was part of the Edomite state. The Mideast's latest archaeological sensation is all about Edom. The Bible says Edom's kings interacted with ancient Israel, but some scholars have confidently declared that no Edomite state could have existed that early. The latest archaeological work indicates the Bible got it right, those experts got it wrong and some write-ups need rewriting. The findings...
Coptic manuscripts unearthed in Pharaonic tomb in Egypt
	Posted by xzins On Religion 02/25/2005 7:30:48 PM PST · 9 replies · 97+ views Middle East Times Coptic manuscripts unearthed in Pharaonic tomb in Egypt Published February 21, 2005 CAIRO -- Polish experts excavating in the southern city of Luxor have discovered three ancient Coptic manuscripts in a Pharaonic tomb, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Saturday. The find was the single most important Coptic discovery since 1945 when a pair of bedouins stumbled onto the Coptic codices in Nag Hammadi in Egypt's western desert, it said. The manuscripts date to the sixth century and were concealed in a Middle Kingdom (2000 to 1800 BC) tomb in Luxor, about 710 kilometers (440 miles) south of Cairo,...
Medieval Europe
VIking ship cracking up (Norway)
	Posted by franksolich On News/Activism 02/25/2005 12:31:47 PM PST · 94 replies · 1,297+ views Aftenposten | February 25, 2005 | tr. Nina Berglund Viking ship cracking upEperts are worried about one of Norway's national treasures. Archaeologists have discovered cracks in the hull of he famed Oseberg Viking ship, which may halt plans to move the vessel to a new museum.The archaeologists have been carefully going over the nearly 1,200-year-old ship, and are concerned about what they see, reports newspaper Aftenposten.Removal of the vessel's top deck has revealed some exciting new details, like graffiti from the Viking age and details of the ship's rigging. But it's also exposed cracks that make archaeologists worry the ship won't tolerate any move to new quarters.There have been...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Lincoln: Tyrant, Hypocrite or Consumate Statesman? (Dinesh defends our 2d Greatest Prez)
	Posted by churchillbuff On News/Activism 02/18/2005 11:27:18 PM PST · 381 replies · 2,849+ views thehistorynet. | Feb 12, 05 | D'Souza The key to understanding Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. By Dinesh D'Souza Most Americans -- including most historians -- regard Abraham Lincoln as the nation's greatest president. But in recent years powerful movements have gathered, both on the political right and the left, to condemn Lincoln as a flawed and even wicked man. For both camps, the debunking of Lincoln usually begins with an exposÈ of the "Lincoln myth," which is well described in William Lee Miller's 2002 book Lincoln's...
Question about steam locomotives
	Posted by franksolich On General/Chat 02/10/2005 4:02:38 PM PST · 6 replies · 169+ views blatant shameless vanity | February 10, 2005 | self Okay, so I am sitting around after work, at peace with the world and seeking argument from no one, when I learn that the famous 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotives of the Union Pacific were NOT the largest in the world. I am confused, because every book I have about railways insists the "Big Boys" were the largest steam locomotives, ever, in the world. But the the Guiness Book of World Records throws a loop, insisting that in 1916 the Virginian Railway had a 2-8-8-8-4-6 locomotive, and that between 1914 and 1929, the Erie Railroad ran a freight train using...
Warren G. Harding Was Black (my head hurts)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/23/2005 12:21:00 AM PST · 28 replies · 270+ views Stewart Synopsis | 2002 (Revised: 02/20/05) | M. Stewart NORAD encryption uses fractalization from the oil at Teapot Dome Scandal. The US was using the oil at Teapot Dome for early attempts at "Artificial Intelligence" even in Harding's time. The basis for all US Codes and radio encryption started in WW1 at Teapot Dome Scandal. It was this early work that would eventually lead to the Breaking of Enigma's Code and Japan's "Purple" Machine. There are indications that Harding was not aware of the significance of Teapot Dome when he allowed the drilling rights to be transferred.
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Ancient Egypt
ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Alexandria Emerges, By Land and By Sea
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism 02/26/2005 2:26:57 PM PST · 5 replies · 632+ views Science Magazine | 2005-02-25 | Andrew Lawler Excavators are finding surprisingly late signs of intellectual life in the ancient capital of Hellenistic Egypt and discovering that geology played a dramatic role in the city's fall OXFORD, U.K.--For centuries the massive Pharos lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, guided sailors to the busy wharves that made Alexandria a prosperous center of Mediterranean culture and home to the greatest library of ancient times. Yet while rivals Rome and Constantinople survived the chaotic period following the collapse of the Roman Empire, Alexandria faded from the historical record. By the 8th century C.E. the famed metropolis had...
Ancient Greece
Archaeological dig sniffs out world's oldest perfumery
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/26/2005 3:25:39 PM PST · 7 replies · 369+ views The Scotsman | 2/25/05 | MICHAEL THEODOULOU MUSKY, with a woody tone and spicy hints of cinnamon - the perfect fragrance for a Bronze Age date. Italian archaeologists have discovered the worldís oldest perfumery and have identified the smells popular with the people of the time. The perfumery was found at a sprawling archaeological site on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean at Pyrgos-Mavroraki, 55 miles south-west of Nicosia. "This is 4,000 years old. Without a doubt, it is the oldest production site for perfume in the world," said Maria Rosario Belgiorno, the excavation team leader. The site was destroyed by an earthquake in antiquity but the calamity...
New Colossus of Rhodes will keep watch on drunken Britons
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/27/2005 1:47:12 PM PST · 11 replies · 493+ views UK Telegraph | 2/27/05 | Harry de Quetteville More than two millennia after it was toppled by an earthquake, the Colossus of Rhodes - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world - is to rise again. Instead of standing astride the venerable port of Rhodes town, however, the 100ft bronze figure will tower over the island's downmarket resort of Faliraki, infamous for the drunken antics of thousands of British tourists who go there every year. Faliraki, about five miles south of Rhodes town, boasts a strip of bars and clubs a third of a mile long, where cut-price alcohol lures hordes of tourists on drinking binges...
Ancient Rome
Diggers find oven at Roman hotspot
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/04/2005 12:49:03 AM PST · 8 replies · 264+ views Manchester Online | Monday, 28th February 2005 | Clarissa Satchell A ROMAN oven and pieces of pottery have been uncovered beneath the site of a new shopping arcade. Developers are building a £120 million centre, the Grand Arcade, in Wigan but because of the town's rich Roman heritage they have asked a team of archaeologists to carry out a dig on the site. As a result the team of experts has uncovered the first Roman remains to be found in the town for more than 20 years. In addition to the Roman oven and pottery, remains of Westerwold German stoneware have been uncovered at the shopping centre site off Station...
Mesopotamia
Why Had Mesopotamians Built Mari (3,000BC)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 03/02/2005 2:42:48 PM PST · 13 replies · 211+ views Middle-East Online | 3-2-2005 | Annick Benoist Why had Mesopotamians built Mari? French archeologist solves mystery of ancient Mesopotamian city purpose-built in desert for metallurgical industry. By Annick Benoist - PARIS The mystery of an ancient Mesopotamian city has finally been lifted after 25 years of meticulous work by a French archaeologist who has revealed it was one of the first "modern cities", purpose-built in the desert for the manufacture of copper arms and tools. In a new book entitled "Mari, the Metropolis of the Euphrates", Jean-Claude Margueron said the third millennium BC city, in modern day Syria, was "one of the first modern cities of humanity....
Elam Persia, Parthia, Iran
Ancient Zoroastrians forbade begging but encouraged people to help the poor
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 03/03/2005 7:03:48 PM PST · 25 replies · 323+ views Tehran Times | 4/3/05 | Tehran Times TEHRAN ñ- Although some lived in poverty in ancient Iran, beggars were looked down upon because people helped the poor and needy voluntarily due to their religious beliefs. A law that prohibited begging was established in ancient times in Iran, but that does not mean that there was no sign of poverty in those years. In ancient times, those who lacked the daily necessities were usually supported by a close relative, since Zoroaster said that helping the poor was a good deed. The poor lived in houses made of low-quality mud bricks which were much smaller compared to the homes...
India
India finds more 'tsunami gifts'
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/03/2005 12:52:31 AM PST · 10 replies · 528+ views BBC | Sunday, 27 February, 2005 Indian divers have found more evidence of an ancient port city, apparently revealed by December's tsunami. Stone structures that are "clearly man-made" were seen on the seabed off the south coast, archaeologists say. They could be part of the mythical city of Mahabalipuram, which legend says was so beautiful that the gods sent a flood that engulfed six of its seven temples. Other relics were revealed when the powerful waves washed away sand as they smashed into the Tamil Nadu coast. 'Clear pattern' The Archaeological Survey of India launched the diving expedition after residents reported seeing a temple and other...
Asia
Test Shows Sticky Porridge Used To Cement Ancient Chinese Wall
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/27/2005 10:59:51 AM PST · 37 replies · 568+ views China View/Xinhuanet | 2-27-2005 | China View Test shows sticky porridge used to cement ancient Chinese wall www.chinaview.cn 2005-02-27 20:56:07 XI'AN, Feb. 27 (Xinhuanet)-- The legend that ancient Chinese craftsmen used glutinous rice porridge in the mortar while building ramparts has been verified by archaeological research in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. In a recent maintenance to the ancient city wall of Xi'an, the provincial capital, workers discovered that the plaster remnants on the ancient bricks were quite hard to remove, said Qin Jianming,a researcher with the Xi'an Preservation and Restoration Center ofCultural Relics. A chemical test showed that the mortar reacted the same as glutinous rice to...
Oh So Mysterioso
Shadow Shroud
	Posted by Swordmaker On General/Chat 02/27/2005 1:45:05 AM PST · 34 replies · 326+ views ShadowShroud.com | N.D.Wilson The Shroud of Turin has long confused, amazed, and befuddled both its critics and proponents. There are many issues surrounding the Shroud and the debate over its authenticity. This site will avoid most of those issues. This site contains the results of a crude experiment that could potentially explain how the Shroud was produced. For centuries no one has been able to explain how a photonegative image of a man could be three-dimensionally encrypted onto linen by medieval forgers unable even to appreciate the completeness of their own art. The Shadow Theory postulates that such an image could be created...
Epigraphy and Language
Semerano, The Scholar Feared By The Academy, Awarded (2001)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/27/2005 9:36:15 PM PST · 3 replies · 88+ views ADN - Italy Global Nation - Cultura e Scuola | 2001 | staff writer Giovanni Semerano had to wait 90 years before receiving his first institutional acknowledgement for his important discoveries concerning ancient languages, in particular, the Etruscan language. Semerano has revolutionized the theories tied to the Indo-European languages as the root of the current Mediterranean and European languages. He was defined a "heretic" scholar because he erased centuries of philosophical studies that saw in the Greek-Latin philosophies the origins of European culture. Thanks to his etymological studies the 90-year-old philosopher instead sustains that Western culture derives from the Shiites and the Assyrians.
Origins and Prehistory
Hobbit was 'not a diseased human'
	Posted by Willie Green On General/Chat 03/03/2005 12:51:29 PM PST · 10 replies · 150+ views BBC News | Thursday, 3 March, 2005 | Paul Rincon For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The famous skeleton from Indonesia nicknamed the "Hobbit" does not belong to a modern human pygmy with a brain disease, as some scientists argue. That is the main finding of a detailed examination of the creature's braincase, published in Science. The authors say their study of the Hobbit's brain supports the idea it is a new, dwarf species of human. However, others contend the report does little to quash their theory it was actually a small, diseased person. The remains of the small hominid from the Indonesian island of Flores were...
Theory: Iceman Oetzi Wore High-Tech Shoes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/02/2005 9:53:42 AM PST · 29 replies · 831+ views Discovery | 2-23-2005 | Jennifer Viegas Theory: Iceman Oetzi Wore High-Tech Shoes By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Feb. 23, 2005 ó ÷tzi, the copper ax-wielding iceman found frozen in the Alps where he had trekked over 5,300 years ago, wore high-tech snowshoes, according to a closer look at artifacts found with his remains. If the new theory holds, ÷tzi's footwear would become the world's first known snowshoes, and in a landslide victory. The current likely record-holders are not even actual shoes, but rather carvings of what look to be snowshoes found within Iron Age petroglyphs that date to approximately 500 B.C. ÷tzi's Moccasin? The Shoe from...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Ancient Earth Drawings Found In Peru (Older Than Nazca Lines)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/28/2005 12:30:36 PM PST · 40 replies · 1,332+ views Sun Sentinel/AP | 2-28-2005 Ancient Earth Drawings Found in Peru By Associated Press Posted February 28 2005, 7:25 AM EST LIMA, Peru -- Archaeologists have discovered a group of giant figures scraped into the hills of Peru's southern coastal desert that are believed to predate the country's famed Nazca lines. About 50 figures were etched into the earth over an area roughly 90 square miles near the city of Palpa, 220 miles southeast of Lima, El Comercio newspaper reported. The drawings -- which include human figures as well as animals such as birds, monkeys, and felines -- are believed to be created by members...
Lost Society Tore Itself Apart (Moche)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/03/2005 11:54:49 AM PST · 22 replies · 651+ views BBC | 3-3-2005 | Nick Davidson Lost society tore itself apart By Nick Davidson BBC Horizon The largest pyramid constructed by the Moche, the Huaca del Sol Two thousand years ago, a mysterious and little known civilisation ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche. They built huge and bizarre pyramids that still dominate the surrounding landscape; some well over 30m (100ft) tall. They are so heavily eroded, they look like natural features; only close up can you see they are made up of millions of adobe mud bricks. These pyramids are known as "huacas", meaning "sacred site" in the local Indian...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Afghanistan reels over extent of pillage
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 04/20/2002 8:25:43 AM PDT · 16 replies · 186+ views International Herald tribune | 4-02 | Celestine Bohlen NEW YORK Shortly before the Taliban in Afghanistan issued orders to blow up the giant, 1,500-year-old Buddhas of Bamian, which they destroyed in March 2001, a squad of Islamic fundamentalists systematically ransacked a storeroom of artwork from the National Museum in Kabul. They went through boxes of ancient Buddhist and Gandharan statuary, smashing anything with a human or animal image that they deemed idolatrous. . The rubble - all that is left of an unknown number of priceless antiquities - remained hidden until January, when Paul Bucherer, director of a small museum in Switzerland dedicated to Afghan culture, was ushered...
Japanese Daily's Report On Discovery Of Buddha Statues In Iran Denied
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 05/16/2002 3:12:39 PM PDT · 7 replies · 79+ views Tehran Times | 5-15-2002 Japanese Daily's Report on Discovery of Buddha Statues in Iran Denied TEHRAN TIMES CITY DESK TEHRAN -- Director General of Cultural Heritage Department of Fars Province denied reports on discovery of Buddha statues in the province. A Japanese daily *******Asahi******* in its Monday issue said 19 statues of Buddha have been unearthed in the central Iranian province. However, the Iranian official said, "In no historical period, Iran has been under the influence of Buddha culture." Since the 1979 victory of Islamic Revolution no expert group from Japan has conducted excavation operations in Fars Province, he said adding therefore the report...
Scientists Map Out Destroyed Afghan Buddha in Preparation for Reconstruction
	Posted by kattracks On News/Activism 11/13/2003 1:39:55 AM PST · 9 replies · 150+ views TBO.com | 11/13/03 | Naomi Koppel GENEVA (AP) - Swiss-based scientists have created a model of a huge Buddha statue destroyed by the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and said they hope it will be used to rebuild the ancient figure. The team used 30-year-old photographs and special software to build the three-dimensional model, which represents the larger of two standing Buddhas the hardline Islamic group blew up with dynamite in March 2001. International outcry followed the destruction of the giant Buddhas, which were chiseled into the cliff more than 1,500 years ago in Bamiyan Valley on the ancient Silk Route linking Europe and Central Asia....
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Ancient Egypt
King Tut Not Murdered, but Leg Fracture May Have Caused Infection, Tests Show
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism  03/08/2005 5:29:13 AM PST · 48 replies · 888+ views AP | Mar 8, 2005 | Paul Garwood CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The results of a CT scan done on King Tut's mummy indicate the boy king was not murdered, but may have suffered a badly broken leg shortly before his death at age 19 - a wound that could have become infected, Egypt's top archaeologist said Tuesday. Zahi Hawass, secretary general if the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced the results of the CT scan about two months after it was performed on Tut's mummy. Hawass said the remains of Tutankhamun, who ruled about 3,300 years ago, showed no signs that he had been murdered - dispelling a...
British Isles
Chariot find is a victory for Scots
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  03/10/2005 8:55:45 PM PST · 35 replies · 745+ views The Guardian | March 10, 2005 | Martin Wainwright The centuries-long tussle for prestige between England and Scotland may be about to end in victory for the clans, with new archaeological evidence suggesting that the first national leader of the British Isles was a Scot. The remains of a mysterious figure found in an Iron Age chariot burial under the A1M motorway was of "exceptional significance" according to academics, who have also unearthed the leftovers of one of Britain's biggest feasts at his funeral site in Yorkshire. Decorated with jewellery and finely wrought harness and chariot gear, the 2,400-year-old grave is thought to have been a rallying-point for Britain's...
Devon Divers Find 3,000 Year Old Bronze Age Artefacts On Shipwreck Site
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/08/2005 3:32:45 PM PST · 11 replies · 415+ views GNN (Government News Network) | 3-8-2005 Tuesday 8 March 2005 12:40 Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National) DEVON DIVERS FIND 3,000 YEAR OLD BRONZE AGE ARTEFACTS ON SHIPWRECK SITE A group of divers have discovered a submerged hoard of Bronze Age artefacts off Salcombe, Devon. The find includes swords and rapiers, palstave axe heads, an adze, a cauldron handle, and a gold bracelet. The artefacts have been reported to English Heritage and declared to the Receiver of Wreck at the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, as it is believed that these relics come from an ancient shipwreck. The artefacts are currently being studied at the British Museum, which...
Elam Persia, Parthia, Iran
Ancient Earrings Discovered At Burnt City Disprove Ornament Theory
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/09/2005 5:46:51 PM PST · 28 replies · 503+ views Tehran Times | 3-9-2005 Ancient earrings discovered at Burnt City disprove ornament theory Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- Archaeologists have found a pair of silver earrings in a grave of a woman in the 5200-year-old Burnt City which disproves the theory that the inhabitants of the city never used earrings, the director of the Iranian archaeological team working in the region said on Tuesday. A skeleton of a woman with one circular silver earring on each side of her skull was unearthed during the last days of the excavations at the cemetery of the Burnt City, Mansur Sajjadi added. The Burnt City is...
Discovery Of 3,000-Year-Old Artist In Espidej (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/07/2005 4:23:24 PM PST · 13 replies · 298+ views CHN Iran | 3-7-2005 Discovery of 3000-year-old Artist in Espidej Tehran, Mar. 7 (CHN) ñ The skeleton of a 3000-year-old artist buried alongside the tools used for his metalwork has been found in Espidej of Sistan-Baluchistan. Excavations in the 3000-year-old site of Espidej led the archaeologists to the discovery of a tomb belonging to an artist, buried with his tools which include an awl, a bronze scoop, a grindstone, and a water container used for freezing copper and bronze. The tools are evidence that metal arts were blooming in the area, and even sent from Espidej to other regions inside and outside Iran. The...
Epigraphy and Language
Coin Discovery Sheds Light On Turkic Civilization
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/11/2005 12:03:58 PM PST · 8 replies · 269+ views Turkish Daily News | 3-10-2005 Coin discovery sheds light on Turkic civilization Thursday, March 10, 2005 Gˆkt¸rk find refutes claims that the Turkic peoples were merely plunderers and barbarians ANKARA - Turkish Daily News Ancient coins from the first known Turkic culture, the Gˆkt¸rks, have been discovered during archeological excavations in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, reported the Do?an News Agency. Associate Professor Yavuz Dalo?lu, an instructor at Dokuz Eyl¸l University who presented the findings of historian Dr. Babayar Gaybullah to the public, stated that claims asserting that the Gˆkt¸rk people did not have any structure of governance have been proven wrong by this discovery. He...
Mesopotamia
French archaeologist solves mystery of Mesopotamian city
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism  03/05/2005 10:04:47 AM PST · 12 replies · 521+ views The Daily Star | Thursday, March 03, 2005 | By Annick Benoist Existence of major metallurgy center explains why Mari had been built PARIS, France: The mystery of an ancient Mesopotamian city has finally been lifted after 25 years of meticulous work by a French archaeologist who has revealed it was one of the first "modern cities," purpose-built in the desert for the manufacture of copper arms and tools. In a new book entitled "Mari, the Metropolis of the Euphrates," Jean-Claude Margueron said the third millennium B.C. city, in modern-day Syria, was "one of the first modern cities of humanity. Created from scratch in one phase of construction with the specific goal...
Climate
How Prehistoric Farmers Saved Us From A New Ice Age
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/06/2005 3:02:28 PM PST · 59 replies · 1,004+ views The Guardian (UK) | 3-6-2005 | Robin McKie How prehistoric farmers saved us from new Ice Age Robin McKie, science editor Sunday March 6, 2005 The Observer Ancient man saved the world from a new Ice Age. That is the startling conclusion of climate researchers who say man-made global warming is not a modern phenomenon and has been going on for thousands of years. Prehistoric farmers who slashed down trees and laid out the first rice paddies and wheatfields triggered major alterations to levels of greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, they say. As a result, global temperatures - which were slowly falling...
Viking sagas read through the lens of climate change
	Posted by Squawk 8888 On News/Activism  03/10/2005 8:19:28 AM PST · 28 replies · 795+ views EurekAlert | March 9, 2005 Ancient Icelandic sagas may be full of treachery, death and destruction, but the real villain behind all the foment could well have been climate change. According to a Canadian scientist, there's a direct link between changes in regional temperatures and the thematic content of the sagas. The research is based on newly reconstructed temperature records gained from ocean sediment cores collected off the coast of Vestfirdir, the northwest peninsula of Iceland by scientists from the University of Colorado. Analysis of mollusc shells within these cores has provided an astounding, almost weekly, record of temperature changes in the region. "The difficult...
Origins and Prehistory
Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication
	Posted by Lessismore On Bloggers & Personal  03/11/2005 1:07:29 PM PST · 11 replies · 236+ views Science Magazine | 2005-03-11 | See Below Greger Larson,1* Keith Dobney,2 Umberto Albarella,3 Meiying Fang,4 Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith,5 Judith Robins,5 Stewart Lowden,6 Heather Finlayson,7 Tina Brand,8 Eske Willerslev,1 Peter Rowley-Conwy,2 Leif Andersson,4 Alan Cooper1* Abstract Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 686 wild and domestic pig specimens place the origin of wild boar in island Southeast Asia (ISEA), where they dispersed across Eurasia. Previous morphological and genetic evidence suggested pig domestication took place in a limited number of locations (principally the Near East and Far East). In contrast, new genetic data reveal multiple centers of domestication across Eurasia and that European, rather than Near Eastern, wild boar are the...
HUMANS EVOLVED FROM PIGS - not from monkeys, new theory states!
	Posted by MRMEAN On General/Chat  02/24/2005 8:48:44 AM PST · 53 replies · 649+ views The Weekly World News | 04/19/2004 HUMANS EVOLVED FROM PIGS - not from monkeys, new theory states! Charles Darwin was wrong -- humans evolved from pigs, not apes. And that explains the Biblical prohibition against consuming the flesh of our oinking relatives, according to a startling new theory. "It's hard to believe, but you and Porky Pig are kissing cousins," says genetic scientist Dr. Basil Hainwright of London."Dim recollections of a time when we trotted on all fours and rolled in the mud with our family members probably survived into Neolithic times."And so it is hardly surprising that dietary laws making taboo the eating of...
Were Cavemen Painting For Their Gods?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/06/2005 3:20:58 PM PST · 42 replies · 726+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 2-23-2005 Were cavemen painting for their gods? (Filed: 23/02/2005) The meaning of Ice Age art has been endlessly debated, but evidence is increasing that some was religiously motivated, says Paul Bahn At least 70,000 years ago, our ancestors began to adorn their bodies with beads, pendants and perhaps tattoos; by 35,000 years ago, they had begun to paint and engrave animals, people and abstract motifs on cave walls, like those in Lascaux, France, and Altamira in Spain. They sculpted voluptuous figurines in ivory or stone, such as the Venus of Willendorf. Underestimating art: 35,000 years ago, our ancestors began painting representations...
Ethiopia Archaeologists Make Important Fossil Find
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/05/2005 4:31:47 PM PST · 24 replies · 555+ views Reuters - UK | 3-5-2005 Ethiopia Archaeologists Make Important Fossil Find Sat Mar 5, 2005 12:03 PM GMT ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Archaeologists studying human origins in eastern Ethiopia have discovered 12 fossils that appear to be older than the famous fossil "Lucy," the team leader said on Saturday. "The discovery of 12 early hominid foss?øil specimens estimated to be between 3.8 to 4 million years old will be important in terms of understanding the early phases of human evolution before Lucy," Ethiopian archeologist Yohannes Haile Selassie told a news conference. "It is hoped that the new discoveries will allow scientists to connect the dots,...
Scientists unearth world's oldest biped skeleton in Ethiopia
	Posted by Toddsterpatriot On News/Activism  03/05/2005 6:39:43 PM PST · 19 replies · 432+ views Yahoo News | Saturday March 5, 2005 | AFP ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - A joint Ethiopian-US team of paleontologists announced they had discovered the world's oldest biped skeleton to be unearthed so far, dating it to between 3.8 and four million years old. "This is the world's oldest biped," Bruce Latimer, director of the natural history museum in Cleveland, Ohio, told a news conference in the Ethiopian capital, adding that "it will revolutionize the way we see human evolution." The bones were found three weeks ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, at a site some 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Hadar where Lucy, one of the first hominids, was discovered...
Health
Caveman Diet to Stay Healthy
	Posted by Coleus On General/Chat  03/02/2005 9:44:56 PM PST · 20 replies · 314+ views AJCN | February 2005 Diet-related chronic diseases represent the single largest cause of death and sickness in the United States and most Western countries. Yet while these diseases are epidemic in contemporary Westernized populations and typically afflict two-thirds of the adult population, they are rare or nonexistent in hunter-gatherers and other less Westernized cultures.Why? There is an increasing awareness that the profound environmental changes, such as diet and other lifestyle conditions that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry (the care and breeding of domestic animals), occurred too recently for the human genome to adapt to.Thus, universal characteristics of preagricultural human diets...
Medieval Plague May Explain Resistance to HIV
	Posted by Pyro7480 On News/Activism  03/10/2005 3:11:16 PM PST · 47 replies · 1,526+ views Yahoo! News (Reuters) | 3/10/2005 | n/a Medieval Plague May Explain Resistance to HIV LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - The persistent epidemics of hemorrhagic fever that struck Europe during the Middle Ages provided the selection pressures that have made 10 percent of Europeans resistant to HIV infection, according to a UK study. A mutation called delta-32 in the cellular receptor dubbed CCR5 protects against HIV infection, and is found more often in Europeans than other populations. Scientists have previously suggested that the genetic mutation became common because it protected people against the Black Death or smallpox epidemics, while those with normal CCR5 were wiped out. But...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Ancient Artifacts Found On North Carolina Campus
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/08/2005 3:15:39 PM PST · 29 replies · 663+ views National Geographic News | 3-7-2005 | Willie Drye Ancient Artifacts Found on North Carolina Campus Willie Drye for National Geographic News March 7, 2005 The discovery of 2,000-year-old artifacts on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is prompting archaeologists to rethink their theories about the early presence of Native Americans in North Carolina. The artifacts include spear points and pottery fragments. Their location indicate that small bands of roaming Indians made a seasonal home on ground that later became the site of the nation's first state university, said Steve Davis, associate director of UNC's Research Laboratories of Archeology. "They were living as bands...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Super Volcano Will Challenge Civilization, Geologists Warn
	Posted by AntiGuv On News/Activism  03/08/2005 4:16:02 AM PST · 134 replies · 2,931+ views SPACE.com | March 8, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt The eruption of a super volcano "sooner or later" will chill the planet and threaten human civilization, British scientists warned Tuesday. And now the bad news: There's not much anyone can do about it. Several volcanoes around the world are capable of gigantic eruptions unlike anything witnessed in recorded history, based on geologic evidence of past events, the scientists said. Such eruptions would dwarf those of Mount St. Helens, Krakatoa, Pinatubo and anything else going back dozens of millennia. "Super-eruptions are up to hundreds of times larger than these," said Stephen Self of the United Kingdomís (U.K.) Open University. "An...
Faith and Philosophy
Triumphalism in Science (re The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  11/25/2004 6:04:55 PM PST · 6 replies · 124+ views American Scientist | September-October 2001 | reviewed by Jon Beckwith [Alcock] uncritically accepts the conclusions from highly contested studies of the genetics of human behavior, such as the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart of Thomas J. Bouchard and his colleagues. In fact, the field of human behavior genetics is in a crisis stage, as the great hope of finding behavioral genes with the new DNA technologies has disappointed. Many of the concerns about this field of research parallel those offered by the critics of sociobiology -- that researchers have paid too little attention to nongenetic factors in collecting and analyzing their data. Alcock is at his worst when describing...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Report: Malaria, Not Murder, Killed Medicis
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/11/2005 11:37:11 AM PST · 9 replies · 263+ views NY Newsday | 3-9-2005 | Bryn Nelson Report: Malaria, not murder, killed Medicis BY BRYN NELSON STAFF WRITER March 9, 2005 Two brothers in the Medici dynasty of Renaissance Italy likely were not the long-rumored victims of murder, a new analysis of their centuries-old bones has concluded. Despite the tremendous wealth and power of the Florence-based family, one that produced popes and intellectuals, commissioned art by Michelangelo and protected Galileo from persecution, the two teenagers and their mother instead may have succumbed to a disease that killed without regard to fame or fortune: malaria. "We found no signs of violence at all, none at all," said Long...
Riddle of a lost Chinese city on the Atlantic coast
	Posted by Destro On General/Chat  03/08/2005 12:42:07 PM PST · 86 replies · 651+ views asianpacificpost.com | Feb 24, 2005 | asianpacificpost.com Riddle of a lost Chinese city on the Atlantic coast Feb 24, 2005 On May 16, a Canadian architect will tell the United Nations of a lost Chinese city on the Atlantic coast of North America, lending weight to the theory that the Chinese arrived in the New World some 70 years before Christopher Columbus. A Canadian architect has discovered what is believed to be the lost naval base of Chinaës foremost explorer on the Atlantic coast of North America, lending weight to the theory the Chinese arrived in the New World some 70 years before Christopher Columbus. The revelation...
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Africa
Iron Age Pops Out Of KZN Sewer (50-100K Years Old, South Africa)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/07/2002 7:49:11 AM PDT · 14 replies · 216+ views IOL | 9-6-2002 Iron Age pops out of KZN sewer September 06 2002 at 11:42AM Iron Age artefacts between 50,000 and 100,000 years old were unearthed while workers were digging to lay a new sewerage pipe near Amanzimtoti on Thursday. Pieces of iron smelting furnaces, slag and iron ore, arrowheads and bits of human bone had so far been found, said Gavin Anderson of the Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg. Once the area had been fully excavated, the artefacts would be displayed in the museum, he said. - Sapa
Ancient Egypt
Archaeologist Discovers Ancient Ships In Egypt
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/18/2005 11:32:08 AM PST · 9 replies · 521+ views B U Bridge | 3-18-2005 | Tim Stoddard Archaeologist discovers ancient ships in Egypt By Tim Stoddard Kathryn Bard had 'the best Christmas ever' this past December when she discovered the well-preserved timbers and riggings of pharaonic seafaring ships inside two man-made caves on Egypt's Red Sea coast. They are the first pieces ever recovered from Egyptian seagoing vessels, and along with hieroglyphic inscriptions found near one of the caves, they promise to shed light on an elaborate network of ancient Red Sea trade. Bard, a CAS associate professor of archaeology, and her former student Chen Sian Lim (CAS'01) had been shoveling sand for scarcely an hour on...
Supplicants Send Their Mail To Unseen Powers That Be (Anthropology)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/16/2005 3:32:48 PM PST · 4 replies · 118+ views Egypt Today | 3-16-2005 | Fayza Hassan Supplicants send their mail to the unseen powers that be By Fayza Hassan Egypt Today ArchivesMany believe Bab Zuweila to be a mystical site CUSTOMS DIE HARD, nowhere more than in Egypt. Archaeological documents show that from as early as the Old Kingdom up to modern times, an endemic and persistent distrust in medicine and justice, as practiced in the land, often led the Egyptians to address their requests for health and legal redress directly to their dead relatives and the gods. Later, when monotheistic religions prevailed, they were addressed to saints whose extraordinary powers had become firmly rooted in...
British Isles
Divers Suprised By Iron Age Port (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/17/2002 9:22:11 AM PDT · 16 replies · 96+ views The Guardian (UK) | 9-17-2002 | Marv Kennedy Divers surprised by iron age port Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent Tuesday September 17, 2002 The Guardian Archaeologists diving deep beneath the ferries and yachts criss-crossing Poole harbour have found startling evidence of the oldest working harbour in Britain, built centuries before the Roman invasion. Timber pilings excavated from a deep layer of silt on the sea bed have been radio-carbon dated at 250BC, the oldest substantial port structures by several centuries anywhere on the British coast. They suggest an iron age trading complex, with massive stone and timber jetties reaching out into the deep water channel, providing berths...
Searching for the Welsh-Hindi link
	Posted by CarrotAndStick On News/Activism 03/15/2005 2:58:17 AM PST · 41 replies · 675+ views BBC | Monday, 14 March, 2005, 10:31 GMT | BBC A BBC journalist is urging helpful linguists to come forward to help solve a mystery - why the Hindi (India's official language, along with English) accent has so much in common with Welsh. Sonia Mathur, a native Hindi speaker, had her interest sparked when she moved from India to work for the BBC in Wales - and found that two accents from countries 5,000 miles apart seemed to have something in common. It has long been known that the two languages stem from Indo-European, the "mother of all languages" - but the peculiar similarities between the two accents when spoken...
Elam Persia, Parthia, Iran
Nowruz: Persian New Year
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 03/18/2005 9:32:35 AM PST · 7 replies · 91+ views Payvand | 3/18/05 | Payvand Once again Persian homes prepare for the New Year or Nowruz celebrations. All Persian households follow the practices of this, the oldest of Persian celebrations, which heralds the end of winter and cold and the coming of spring. The house goes through a spring cleaning preparing it for new events in the New Year. Fish bowls containing gold fishes, green wheat or lentil sprouts that have bloomed in decorative plates and shapes, hyacinths and tulips, red apples, mirrors and colored eggs adorn tables on decorative Persian fabrics. In the folds of the Koran fresh money notes are placed to bless...
Origins and Prehistory
Neanderthals Sang Like Sopranos
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/15/2005 5:34:39 PM PST · 55 replies · 858+ views ABC Science News | 3-15-2005 | Jennifer Viegas Neanderthals sang like sopranos Jennifer Viegas Discovery News Tuesday, 15 March 2005 Neanderthals spoke in a high-pitched, sing-song voice, says one researcher. But not everyone is convinced (Image: iStockphoto) Neanderthals had strong, yet high-pitched, voices that the stocky hominins used for both singing and speaking, says a UK researcher. The theory suggests that Neanderthals, who once lived in Europe from around 200,000 to 35,000 BC, were intelligent and socially complex. It also indicates that although Neanderthals were likely to have represented a unique species, they had more in common with modern humans than previously thought. Stephen Mithen, a professor of...
A Family Tree in Every Gene [Races DO Exist: NYT]
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 03/14/2005 3:10:30 AM PST · 73 replies · 1,124+ views NY Times Op-Ed Page | March 14, 2005 | ARMAND MARIE LEROI London ó Shortly after last year's tsunami devastated the lands on the Indian Ocean, The Times of India ran an article with this headline: "Tsunami May Have Rendered Threatened Tribes Extinct." The tribes in question were the Onge, Jarawa, Great Andamanese and Sentinelese - all living on the Andaman Islands - and they numbered some 400 people in all. The article, noting that several of the archipelago's islands were low-lying, in the direct path of the wave, and that casualties were expected to be high, said, "Some beads may have just gone missing from the Emerald Necklace of India." The...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Experts Uncover Ancient Mayan Remains
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/15/2005 11:49:58 PM PST · 10 replies · 387+ views Yahoo News! | Sun Mar 6 | FREDDY CUEVAS TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Scientists working at the Copan archaeological site in western Honduras said Sunday they have unearthed the 1,450-year-old remains of 69 people, as well as 30 previously undiscovered ancient Mayan buildings. Copan, about 200 miles west of Tegucigalpa, the capital, flourished between A.D. 250 and 900, part of a vast Mayan empire which stretched across parts of modern-day Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The site was eventually abandoned, due at least in part to overpopulation, historians believe. Seiichi Nakamura, one of a team of Japanese scientists working alongside Honduran counterparts, said the human remains likely belong...
Mother Of Us All, Or Sister? Olmecs A Puzzle
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/15/2005 5:42:09 PM PST · 54 replies · 777+ views Times Union | 3-15-2005 | John Noble Wilford Mother of us all, or sister? Olmecs a puzzle By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, New York Times First published: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 On a coastal flood plain etched by rivers flowing through swamps and alongside fields of maize and beans, the people archaeologists call the Olmecs lived in a society of emergent complexity. It was more than 3,000 years ago, along the Gulf of Mexico around Veracruz. The Olmecs moved a veritable mountain of earth to create a plateau above the plain, and there planted a city, the ruins of which are known today as San Lorenzo. The Olmecs are...
Roots of Mesoamerican Writing
	Posted by jimtorr On News/Activism 12/07/2002 4:54:13 AM PST · 20 replies · 128+ views Science Magazine, Academic Press Daily "Inscight" | Posted 5 December 2002, 5 pm PST | ERIK STOKSTAD Roots of Mesoamerican Writing For 7 centuries, the Maya recorded their history in elaborate stone carvings. Archaeologists have deciphered these hieroglyphs, but haven't been certain about their origins. Now a team describes what is potentially the oldest evidence of writing in the Americas. For many archaeologists, the two artifacts suggest that Maya script originated in an earlier culture known as the Olmec. Several clues have long suggested that the Olmec civilization, which flourished from 1200 B.C. to 400 B.C., was the first to develop cultural traditions, including writing, later adopted by the Maya, who reigned from about A.D. 300 to...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Genetic evidence links Jews to their ancient tribe
	Posted by Sabramerican On News/Activism 11/19/2001 3:41:35 PM PST · 125 replies · 752+ views JP | 11/20/2001 | By Judy Siegel Genetic evidence links Jews to their ancient tribe By Judy Siegel JERUSALEM (November 20) - Genetic evidence continues to provide additional proof to the claims that the Jewish people are descended from a common ancient Israelite father: Despite being separated for over 1,000 years, Sephardi Jews of North African origin are genetically indistinguishable from their brethren from Iraq, according to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They also proved that Sephardi Jews are very close genetically to the Jews of Kurdistan, and only slight differences exist between these two groups and Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. These conclusions are reached in an ...
The Lemba (The Black Jews Of Southern Africa)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/14/2005 6:53:09 PM PST · 50 replies · 703+ views The Free Man Institute | 3-14-2005 T h e L e m b a The Black Jews of Southern Africa Historical Introduction Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and he carried them away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of Medes." In the years 722-721 BC (over 2700 years ago), the Ten Tribes who comprised the northern Kingdom of Israel disappeared. Conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser V, they were exiled to...
Archaeoastronomy
Ancient Knife Proves Longer Astronomical History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/12/2005 11:40:38 AM PST · 45 replies · 901+ views Xinhuanet/China View. | 3-12-2005 Ancient knife proves longer astronomical history www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-12 09:51:05 XINING, March 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Archaeologists in northwest China's Qinghai province claimed that a 5,000-year-old stone knife with designs of constellations will extend China's history of astronomical observation by 1,000 years. The finely-polished stone knife, six centimeters long and threecentimeters wide, was unearthed at the Laomao Ruins, a New Stone Age site nine kilometers west of Lamao Village in Qinghai. Archaeologists also unearthed many other relics from the site including pottery pieces, stone and bone tools. Liu Baoshan, head of the Qinghai Provincial Cultural Relics andArchaeology Research Institute, said seven holes...
O So Mysteriouso
Mystery Of Delhi's Iron Pillar Unraveled
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/13/2005 1:55:06 PM PST · 43 replies · 1,264+ views India Express | 7-18-2002 Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar unraveled Press Trust Of India Thursday, July 18, 2002 New Delhi, July 18: Experts at the Indian Instituteof Technology have resolved the mystery behind the 1,600-year-old iron pillar in Delhi, which has never corroded despite the capital's harsh weather. Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of "misawite", a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen, has protected the cast iron pillar from rust. The protective film took form within three years after erection of the pillar and has been growing ever so slowly since then. After 1,600 years, the film has grown...
Old balls still scorch
	Posted by Registered On News/Activism 05/06/2002 1:04:11 PM PDT · 28 replies · 309+ views Nature | 05.06.02 | David Adam Old balls still scorch Pores made shipwrecked cannon balls glow spontaneously. 6 May 2002 DAVID ADAM Cannonball run: iron may heat rapidly in air after years in the ocean. © AP Goodness gracious! Two British chemists believe they have solved the 26-year-old mystery of how shipwrecked cannonballs that were rescued from the deep spontaneously erupted into great balls of fire."They were glowing bright red and you could feel the heat coming off them as the desk began to smoke," recalls Bob Child, now a chemist at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales in Cardiff.It all happened in 1976,...
Is Iron Causing All the Flares?
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 11/19/2003 9:15:52 AM PST · 174 replies · 811+ views Universe Today | 11/18/03 Dr. Oliver Manuel, a professor of nuclear chemistry, believes that iron, not hydrogen, is the sun's most abundant element. In a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Fusion Energy, Manuel asserts that the 'standard solar model' -- which assumes that the sun's core is made of hydrogen -- has led to misunderstandings of how such solar flares occur, as well as inaccurate views on the nature of global climate change. Recent solar flares erupting on the sun's surface have unleashed powerful geomagnetic storms -- gigantic clouds of highly charged particles that pose a threat to electric utilities, high-frequency...
A Mission to the Earth's Core
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/10/2005 10:59:13 AM PST · 106 replies · 1,863+ views Published in the December-2003 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine | 06/22/2003 | by John G. Cramer Adventure stories involving the exploration of the interior of Planet Earth have a long and distinguished history in science fiction. Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) was perhaps the first such tale. Despite the title, the story involves explorers following the instructions of a 17th century runic message on a trip that descends into the crater of an Icelandic volcano and into a long tunnel connecting to a vast cave containing a conveniently phosphorescent ceiling, an ocean, islands, dinosaurs, and mastodons, all in the interior of the Earth some miles beneath the surface. Following Verne's...
Climate
Moss Landing researchers reveal iron as key to climate change
	Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism 04/16/2004 5:29:53 AM PDT · 29 replies · 122+ views Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) | APRIL 15, 2004 | PRESS RELEASE Moss Landing researchers reveal iron as key to climate change PRESS RELEASE APRIL 15, 2004 EMBARGOED: Not for release until Thursday, 15 April 2004 at 14:00 Eastern Time MOSS LANDING RESEARCHERS REVEAL IRON AS KEY TO CLIMATE CHANGE MOSS LANDING, California - A remarkable expedition to the waters of Antarctica reveals that iron supply to the Southern Ocean may have controlled Earth's climate during past ice ages. A multi-institutional group of scientists, led by Dr. Kenneth Coale of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) and Dr. Ken Johnson of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), fertilized two key areas...
Deep freeze dealt death knell to bison (Ice Age)
	Posted by Fatalis On News/Activism 11/25/2004 7:25:47 PM PST · 32 replies · 702+ views CBC News Online | 11/25/2004 WASHINGTON - Hunters may not be to blame for the decline in bison populations, according to a new study that points the finger at climate change. Scientists had thought bison were hunted to the brink of extinction when people first crossed an ice-free bridge between what's now Alaska and Siberia. Two subspecies of bison now live in North America. Now researchers say bison DNA shows their genetic diversity began to decline more than 20,000 years before humans reached eastern Beringia in what is now North America, according to archeological evidence.Scientists at Oxford University analysed DNA samples from 442 fossils from...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mystery object lights up Northwest sky
	Posted by Mr.Atos On News/Activism 03/12/2005 9:33:14 PM PST · 135 replies · 5,994+ views FOX 12 OREGON | 03.12.05 | NA PORTLAND - A flaming object was spotted streaking through the Saturday night sky across Western Oregon and the impact was heard all the way from Salem to Medford, according to various reports. Newspapers across the western half of the state and KPTV were getting phone calls from people who saw the object. Summer Jensen of Portland said she was sitting in her living room with her father when they saw the flash of light outside and rushed to see what it was. "I've never seen anything like that," Jensen said, adding that the object appeared to be moving slowly compared...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Medieval Norwegian church found in deepest Poland
	Posted by franksolich On General/Chat 03/14/2005 1:54:29 AM PST · 21 replies · 369+ views Eastern European ping list | not specified | not specified While waiting for the morning edition of that excellent newspaper in Oslo, the Aftenposten, to pop up on the computer screen, I checked out a "lead" given me by twinself of the Eastern European ping list.There is apparently an ancient Norwegian, a Viking, church right smack in the middle of the Carpathian Mountains of Poland.I have been all over the place, and so am used to finding unusual things in unusual places, but this one seems a gem, a jewel.This church was originally built around 1180, on the shores of Lake Vang in southern Norway (Vangsmjosi), near Mount Grindafjellet. It...
Tiny wasps save Cranach altar from woodworm
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 03/13/2005 5:05:15 PM PST · 16 replies · 664+ views UK Telegraph | 3/13/05 | Katy Duke A sixteenth-century altar in one of Germany's most historically important cathedrals has been saved from woodworm not by the application of chemicals, but by a swarm of wasps. The Cranach altar in the Erfurt Cathedral was being destroyed by the wood-eating insects, but officials delayed taking action because they feared that chemical treatments might damage its 11 painted panels. Instead they adopted a pioneering technique which may now be emulated in historic buildings across Europe: releasing 3,000 parasitic wasps, which feed on woodworm larvae. The towering wooden altar, riddled with holes, and the large painting above it which also showed...
The Brass Monkey: Myth or Fact?
	Posted by WaterDragon On News/Activism 08/04/2002 5:13:20 AM PDT · 65 replies · 663+ views Oregon Magazine | August 4, 2002 | Larry Leonard (Our pal, Camber, the old son-of-a-gun, found this one in his email box. It's been circulating on the net. Is it myth?) In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. But how to keep them from rolling about the deck....?(snip) Click here to read complete article.
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Ancient Egypt
Archaeologists discover beautiful coffins in ancient Egyptian cave
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/24/2005 2:02:28 AM PST · 6 replies · 563+ views Hindustan Times | March | Jamie Tarabay Archaeologists uncovered three coffins and a remarkably well-preserved mummy in a 2,500-year-old tomb that they found by accident, opening a secret door hidden behind a statue, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Wednesday. The Australian team was exploring a much older tomb -- dating back 4,200 years -- belonging to a man believed to have been a tutor to the 6th Dynasty King Pepi II, when they moved a pair of statues and discovered the door, said Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top antiquities official. Inside, they found a 26th Dynasty tomb with "three beautiful coffins," each with a mummy, and "inside one...
Cleopatra seduced the Romans with her irresistible . . . mind
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/15/2005 8:10:16 PM PST · 99 replies · 1,556+ views The Times (U.K.) | March 14, 2005 | Ben Hoyle LONG before Shakespeare portrayed her as history's most exotic femme fatale, Cleopatra was revered throughout the Arab world -- for her brain. Medieval Arab scholars never referred to the Egyptian queen's appearance, and they made no mention of the dangerous sensuality which supposedly corrupted Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Instead they marvelled at her intellectual accomplishments: from alchemy and medicine to philosophy, mathematics and town planning, a new book has claimed. Even Elizabeth Taylor, who famously played the title role in the 1963 epic Cleopatra, would have struggled to inject sex appeal into this queen. Arab writers depict Cleopatra's court...
Colossal find (Ramses II statue at Akhmim)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/22/2005 11:28:52 PM PST · 22 replies · 256+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 12 - 18 August 2004, issue #703 | staff writer The remains of a colossal seated statue of Ramses II, thought to be about 13 metres tall and weighing 700 tons, have been discovered in a shanty area of the Upper Egyptian city of Akhmim, adjacent to the open-air museum. The lower part of the limestone statue is seated on a throne, to the right and left of which are figures of two of the pharaoh's daughters and princess- queens, Merit-Amun and Bint-Anath. The statue and the throne are carved from a single block and stand on a huge limestone base covered with carved hieroglyphic texts.
Mohammed Abdel Maqsoud :Pharaonic fortress found inside turquoise mines in Sinai
	Posted by nickcarraway On Bloggers & Personal 03/22/2005 7:06:28 PM PST · 2 replies · 39+ views Egypt Online | March 21,2005 An Egyptian-Canadian mission unearthed a Fort from the Old Kingdom in Fairuz area in South Sinai. The mission, which is represented by experts from Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities and Toronto University, was conducting digging operations in Sahl El Markha site, 160 kilometers south of Suez, on the Western Coast of Sinai. Dr. Mohamad Abdel Maqsoud, director-general of the Lower Egypt and Sinai monuments, said the unearthed stone fort rose three to Four metres high. "The Fort was discovered inside turquoise and copper mines in the area.
Remains of ancient Egyptian seafaring ships discovered
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/24/2005 11:37:24 PM PST · 4 replies · 75+ views New Scientist | March 23 2005 | Emma Young The pottery finds include items the Italian researchers think could be from Yemen... "The Yemeni pottery is very interesting because it was suspected that there were contacts across the Red Sea - and this proves that there were," Baines says. The naval artefacts included two curved cedar planks which might have been parts of steering oars... It is not clear exactly why the artefacts were sealed up inside the caves. But it is possible that they were offerings to the Egyptian gods. "That sounds very plausible to me, not least because previous excavations found a structure made of stone anchors...
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat03/25/2005 8:28:56 PM PST · 10 replies· 63+ views lime.weeg.uiowa.edu ^| 8 September 1996 | EQUINOX - Channel 4 - UK For in Manchester, the mummies under the care of Rosalie David, the Egyptologist [Keeper of Egyptology, Manchester Museum] once so sure that Balabanova had made a mistake, produced some odd results of their own... "We've received results back from the tests on our mummy tissue samples and two of the samples and the one hair sample both have evidence of nicotine in them. I'm really very surprised at this."
Ancient Navigation
Ancient Navigators Could Have Measured Longitude -- in Egypt in 232 B.C. !
	Posted by ex-Texan On News/Activism01/12/2003 11:19:24 AM PST · 86 replies· 338+ views 21st Century: Science and Technology Magazine ^| Fall 2001 | Rick Sanders Ancient Navigators Could Have Measured Longitude -- in Egypt in 232 B.C. !by Rick Sanders Around the year 232 B.C., Captain Rata and Navigator Maui set out with a flotilla of ships from Egypt in an attempt to circumnavigate the Earth. On the night of August 6-7, 2001, between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM, this writer, and fellow amateur astronomer Bert Cooper, proved in principle that Captain Rata and Navigator Maui could have known and charted their location, by longitude, most of the time during that voyage. The Maui expedition was under the guidance of Eratosthenes, the...
Study Says Medieval New World Map Is Real
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism11/25/2003 6:25:37 PM PST · 52 replies· 351+ views Associated Press ^| Nov 25, 2003 | DIANE SCARPONI This is a copy of the 'Vinland Map' as seen at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in this Feb. 13, 1996 file photo. Experts dispute its authenticity. Two new studies add fresh fuel to a decades-old debate about whether the parchment map of the Vikings' travels to the New World, purportedly drawn by a 15th century scribe, is authentic or a clever 20th century forgery. Both studies were published independently in scholarly journals, the researchers announced Monday, Nov. 24, 2003. (AP Photo/Ho) NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The latest scientific analysis of a disputed map of the medieval New World...
Asia
Dr. Cameron of Tura finds a 2300-year-old shroud
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/17/2005 12:23:06 AM PST · 6 replies · 302+ views merimbula.yourguide.com | Wednesday, 16 March 2005 A team coordinated by Tura Beach archaeologist Dr Judith Cameron has discovered and preserved the oldest complete shroud found in Southeast Asia, dating back some 2,300 years to the Bronze Age Dongson culture. The cloth was found in a wooden boat-shaped coffin covered by thick black mud in a canal in the Red River plains area of Vietnam in December last year. In what has been hailed as a major find, team leader Professor Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University said that the boat coffin - unearthed at Dong Xa, 50km southeast of Hanoi - was possibly also the...
N.E. Asia: The Ancient Yan and the Ye-maek Chosun(spread of Iron Culture)
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 03/20/2005 6:27:41 AM PST · 11 replies · 176+ views Upkorea | 03/20/05 | Wontack Hong The Ancient Yan and the Ye-maek Chosun † wthong@wontockhong.pe.kr † The Ancient Yan and the Ye-maek Chosun Yan Initiating the Korean Iron Age Wontack Hong Professor, Seoul University The proto-Turko-Mongol populations, who had first settled around Transbaikalia across the Great Altai, dispersed further across the Greater Xing°Øan Range to become the proto-Xianbei-Tungus in Manchuria, and an offshoot of them tracked a warmer and moister climate down through the Korean peninsula to become the rice-cultivating farmers. The Korean peninsula is an extension of central Manchuria towards the sea, having a long strip of plains in the west flanked by high...
The Sand Dune Forgotten By Time (Caucasian Mummies In China - More )
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/19/2005 3:48:39 PM PST · 60 replies · 1,238+ views China.Org | 3-19-2005 The Sand Dune Forgotten by Time Archaeologists working in the extreme desert terrain of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have moved a step closer to unraveling the mystery of a 40-century-old civilization. They unearthed 163 tombs containing mummies during their ongoing and long excavation at the mysterious Xiaohe tomb complex. And it's all thanks to the translation of a diary kept by a Swedish explorer more than 70 years ago. "We have found more than 30 coffins containing mummies," said Idelisi Abuduresule, head of the Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute and the excavation team. The complex is believed to...
British Isles
Ancient coin worth a pretty penny
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/21/2005 11:34:22 PM PST · 8 replies · 198+ views CNN | Thursday, October 7, 2004 | Spinks American collector Allan Davisson purchased the coin, which was found by an amateur searcher using a metal detector near the River Ivel in Bedfordshire, north of London, in 2001. It is the only known coin to bear the name of King Coenwulf of Mercia, who ruled a region of southern England from 796 to 821.
Townhouse reveals real skeletons in closet
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/17/2005 12:53:55 AM PST · 11 replies · 837+ views icWales SKELETONS in the closet were a real-life problem for Ashford Price when he opened a cupboard in his late aunt's bedroom to be confronted with dozens of human remains. The grand Georgian townhouse in the stately sweep of Swansea's leafy St James's Crescent had hidden a secret for decades until its owner, Brenda Morgan, 84, passed away. Police were immediately called after the discovery, but suspicions were dampened when it was noticed all the bones had been carefully cleaned and numbered. The remains were in fact 42 human skeletons dating back over 3,000 years to the Bronze Age. They had...
Ancient Rome
Bernheze Roman Bronze Hoard from the Netherlands
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/23/2005 11:56:02 PM PST · 4 replies · 76+ views Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology | Last Updated: Friday, 9 July, 2004 at 3:10:29pm | Ruurd B. Halbertsma Until now no traces of a sanctuary or riverine context have been found, which might indicate a religious deposition for the wine-set. It is possible that the valuable bronzes were hidden underground during the period of the hostile Germanic incursions in the second half of the 3rd century AD.
New hope in hunt for Roman library
	Posted by Engraved-on-His-hands On News/Activism 02/13/2005 6:10:07 PM PST · 15 replies · 520+ views The Australian | 02/14/2005 | Nick Fielding A PHILANTHROPIST has stepped forward to fund excavations at the ancient city of Herculaneum in Italy, where scholars believe a Roman library lies buried beneath 3m of lava from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
India
'Bhimbetka Paintings Over 25,000 Years Old' (India)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/23/2005 7:25:51 PM PST · 17 replies · 466+ views Hindustan Times | 3-21-2005 | Sravani Sarkar ëBhimbetka paintings over 25,000 years old' Sravani SarkarBhopal, March 21,2005 CONTESTING THE claim of the Western scientific community that Indian rock paintings are comparatively quite modern than those found in their part of world, eminent city archaeologist Dr Narayan Vyas has come up with a path-breaking research work that seeks to prove that Bhimbetka rock paintings are as old as the oldest rock paintings known in the world -- i.e around 25,000 years. The post-doctoral research work titled ëA comparative study of rock paintings of Raisen District, with special emphasis on Bhimbetka' has earned Dr Narayan Vyas -- presently superintending...
Tsunami reveals a town's ancient ruins
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/19/2005 2:41:25 PM PST · 6 replies · 980+ views CNN | Thursday, March 17, 2005 MAHABALIPURAM, India (AP) -- For a few minutes, after the water had receded far from the shore and before it came raging back as a tsunami, the fishermen stood along the beach and stared at the reality of generations of legends. Or so they say. Spread across nearly a mile, the site was encrusted with barnacles and covered in mud. But the fishermen insist they saw the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again. "You could see the destroyed walls covered in coral, and the broken-down temple in...
Elam Persia, Parthia, Iran
archaeologist Says Central Asia Was Cradle Of Ancient Persian Religion
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/19/2005 8:59:31 PM PST · 16 replies · 471+ views AFP/Yahoo | 3-18-2005 Archeologist says Central Asia was cradle of ancient Persian religion Fri Mar 18, 6:24 PM ET Science - AFP ATHENS (AFP) - The mysterious Margianan civilisation which flowered in the desert of what is now Turkmenistan some 4,000 years ago was the cradle of the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, Greco-Russian archeologist Victor Sarigiannidis claimed here. He said the theory would provoke controversy amongst his fellow archeologists, but said his excavations around the site of Gonur Tepe have uncovered temples and evidence of sacrifices that would consistent with a Zoroastrian cult. The religion was founded by Zarathustra, a Persian prophet...
Esther's Iranian tomb draws pilgrims of all religious stripes
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 03/22/2005 9:48:58 AM PST · 22 replies · 432+ views Haaretz | 3/22/05 | Helen Eliassian Though the holiday of Purim is celebrated by Jews worldwide, the story, based as it is in Persia, has special resonance for the Jews of Iran. Recent decades have proved difficult for Persian Jews, many of whom fled the country after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. From a community of about 100,000, an estimated 25,000 to 35,000 now remain. This month, Jews from across Iran will pray at a shrine in Hamadan, in northwestern Iran, dedicated to the heroes of the Purim story. They will likely be met upon arrival by Muslims and Christians, who pray year-round at the unusual shrine....
Origins and Prehistory
Did Use of Free Trade Cause Neanderthal Extinction?
	Posted by Woodworker On News/Activism 03/25/2005 3:54:29 AM PST · 31 replies · 593+ views Newswise | 24-Mar-2005 | Mr. James Kearns Economics-free trade may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals 30,000-40,000 years ago, according to a paper published in the "Journal of Economic Organization and Behavior." "After at least 200,000 years of eking out an existence in glacial Eurasia, the Neanderthal suddenly went extinct," writes University of Wyoming economist Jason Shogren, along with colleagues Richard Horan of Michigan State University and Erwin Bulte from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. "Early modern humans arriving on the scene shortly before are suspected to have been the perpetrator, but exactly how they caused Neanderthal extinction is unknown." Creating a new kind of caveman...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Frozen Woolly Mammoth Arrives in Japan
	Posted by satchmodog9 On News/Activism 11/19/2004 7:35:37 PM PST · 64 replies · 980+ views yahoo news | 11/18/04 | some fool from AP TOKYO - World fairs have typically focused on the wonders of the future, highlighting new technologies from glass and steel construction in the 19th century to satellites and computers today. But next year's fair is different. The Japanese organizers of the 2005 world's fair have shipped a 18,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth from Siberia to become the centerpiece attraction. Naoki Suzuki, the Japanese scientist overseeing the Aichi Expo exhibit, said Friday the preserved head, tusks and front leg of the mammoth have arrived in Nagoya near the fair site, about 170 miles west of Tokyo.
Tissue Find Offers New Look Into Dinosaurs' Lives
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 03/24/2005 5:31:46 PM PST · 24 replies · 551+ views New York Times | 3/24/05 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Alive as dinosaurs may seem to children, knowledge of them as living creatures is limited almost entirely to what can be learned from bones that have long since turned to stony fossils. Their soft tissues, when rarely recovered, have lost their original revealing form. A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex recently discovered in Montana, scientists reported today, has apparently yielded the improbable: soft tissues, including blood vessels and possibly cells, that "retain some of their original flexibility, elasticity and resilience." In a paper being published on Friday in the journal Science, the discovery team said that the remarkable preservation of the tissue...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Amazonian find stuns researchers
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism09/20/2003 6:15:45 PM PDT · 41 replies· 393+ views The Seattle Times ^| 9-20-03 | By Thomas H. Maugh II Amazonian find stuns researchers Deep in the Amazon forest of Brazil, archaeologists have found a network of 1,000-year-old towns and villages that refutes two long-held notions: that the pre-Columbian tropical rain forest was a pristine environment that had not been altered by humans, and that the rain forest could not support a complex, sophisticated society. A 15-mile-square region at the headwaters of the Xingu River contains at least 19 villages that are sited at regular intervals and share the same circular design. The villages are connected by a system of broad, parallel highways, Florida researchers reported in yesterday's issue of...
Peruvian Family Claims Machu Picchu
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/23/2005 7:10:23 PM PST · 13 replies · 420+ views UK News Yahoo | 3-22-2005 Peruvian family claims Machu Picchu LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peru's poor Zavaleta family has only one thing to say to the thousands of tourists who trek along the Inca trail to the renowned citadel Machu Picchu every year: "Hey you, get off our land!" The family says it is the lawful owner of a large part of the Machu Picchu sanctuary, Peru's most famous national treasure, and will start proceedings next week to sue the state for recognition of its ownership rights. "The Zavaletas bought the land in 1944 and have title deeds that date from 1898," their lawyer Fausto...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Music heard again after 400 years
	Posted by nickcarraway On General/Chat 03/17/2005 12:40:09 AM PST · 5 replies · 122+ views BBC | Wednesday, 16 March, 2005 Music written especially for the chapel at a north Wales castle will be performed for the first time in nearly 400 years on Wednesday.The 17th Century pieces lay undiscovered in the library of Chirk Castle until 1969 when they were sold at auction to an anonymous bidder. It has taken experts at the University of Wales in Bangor five years to transcribe and edit the collection. The music will be sung at chapel concert by the university's choir. The concert will include works by William Deane, who was the organist at Wrexham parish church. The collection also includes music by...
Rapper gives Chaucer new life
	Posted by SmithL On General/Chat 03/20/2005 7:30:57 AM PST · 13 replies · 144+ views Contra Costa Times | 3/20/5 | Quynh Tran More than 500 students from English and performing arts classes at Oakland's Skyline High School were treated to a performance by hip-hop Chaucer rapper Dirk "Baba" Brinkman this week. Brinkman, 26, put to music literary classics "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and rhymed along. Rappers aren't looking at classical work like Chaucer's for their material, Brinkman said, but the similarities are there. Ancient Anglo-Saxon forms and today's rap rhythms both use verses and couplets that end in rhyme, he said, and create poetry intended for oral expression. "Baba's taking 14th century Chaucer and making it accessible...
Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" translated into Latin
	Posted by Constitution Day On News/Activism 10/15/2003 11:54:03 AM PDT · 113 replies · 5,123+ views Livejournal.com | 10/08/2003 | Quislibet [Livejournal] Yes, you read the thread title correctly. - CD De clunibus magnis amandis oratioMixaloti equitis mehercle!(By Hercules!)Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt! (Rebecca, behold! Such large buttocks she has!)amica esse videtur istorum hominum rhythmicorum.(She appears to be a girlfriend of one of those rhythmic-oration people.)sed, ut scis,(But, as you know)quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?(Who can understand persons of this sort?) colloquuntur equidem cum ista eo tantum, quod scortum perfectum esse videtur.(Verily, they converse with her for this reason only, namely, that she appears to be a complete whore.) clunes, aio, maiores esse! (Her buttocks, I say, are rather large!)nec possum...
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