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

Posted on 07/16/2004 11:27:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv


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To: SunkenCiv
Ancient Egypt was pretty dead this week.

LOL.

Punny. Very punny.

301 posted on 10/22/2005 11:17:02 AM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: fanfan

;') It's cleo to me that most people don't read everything. ;'D


302 posted on 10/22/2005 12:03:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv

mmmmmm, treasure...........

I always wanted to be a treasure hunter......


303 posted on 10/23/2005 7:20:04 AM PDT by bitt (THE PRESIDENT: "Ask the pollsters. My job is to lead and to solve problems. ")
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #67
Saturday, October 29, 2005


Asia
Eastern Zhou Grave Pit Unearthed In Luoyang
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 4:27:29 PM PDT · 9 replies · 199+ views


China View/Xinhuanet | 10-26-2005
Eastern Zhou grave pit unearthed in Luoyang www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-26 13:51:52Two worker clear up the relics in the newly unearthed pit. [newsphoto] The horse-and-vehicle pit excavated in this cultural relics discovery [newsphoto] Archaeologists and workers excavate cultural relics from an Eastern Zhou Dynasty grave that was found in Luoyang of Central China's Henan Province on October 25, 2005. Bronzeware, jade, and horse pit unearthed from the burial site are in good shape, which is peculiar in this ancient city of Luoyang, as usually 90 percent of the graves are empty upon discovery. [newsphoto]According to the experts, it is a a scholar-bureaucrat's...
 

Underwater Archaeology
Divers Unveil Exquisite Treasure Pulled From The Depths Of Java Sea
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 3:53:43 PM PDT · 14 replies · 785+ views


Yahoo News | 10-26-2005
Divers unveil exquisite treasure pulled from depths of Java Sea Wed Oct 26,12:01 AM ET JAKARTA (AFP) - In a nondescript warehouse in Jakarta, treasure-hunter Luc Heymans dips into plastic boxes and pulls out jewels and ornaments that lay hidden at the bottom of the Java Sea for 1,000 years. An ornately sculpted mirror of polished bronze is one masterpiece among the 250,000 artefacts recovered over the last 18 months from a boat that sank off Indonesia's shores in the 10th century. On a small mould is written the word "Allah" in beautiful Arabic script, on top of a lid...
 

Biology and Cryptobiology
Y Chromosomes Reveal Founding Father (Giocangga)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/25/2005 11:02:09 AM PDT · 25 replies · 911+ views


Nature | 10-24-2005 | Charlotte Shubert
Published online: 24 October 2005Charlotte SchubertY chromosomes reveal founding fatherDid conquest and concubines spread one man's genes across Asia? The Manchu warriors took control of China in 1644. © Punchstock About 1.5 million men in northern China and Mongolia may be descended from a single man, according to a study based on Y chromosome genetics1. Historical records suggest that this man may be Giocangga, who lived in the mid-1500s and whose grandson founded the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. The analysis is similar to a controversial study in 2003, which suggested that approximately 16 million men...
 

Giant Crabs Colonize Rome's Ancient Ruins
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/28/2005 3:29:13 PM PDT · 33 replies · 989+ views


Italy Magazine/ANSA | 10-28-2005
Giant crabs colonise Rome's ancient ruins By Web Editor. Filed under Generalon October 28th, 2005 (ANSA) - A rare species of crab has taken up residence in one of the city's most important archaeological sites and is not only thriving but also growing to abnormal proportions. The freshwater crab 'Potamon fluviatile' was already known to survive in small numbers in rivers and waterways from Sicily to Tuscany, where it generally grows to a length of about 4 cm. But according to three zoologists at the Roma 3 university, an isolated colony of the crabs is also doing very well in...
 

Ancient Rome
Anyone watching ROME on HBO? (HBO HD showing episodes 4 and 5 tonight)
  Posted by DCBryan1
On General/Chat 10/25/2005 4:36:38 PM PDT · 67 replies · 445+ views


HBO | 25 OCT 05 | DCBRYAN1
Episode 4 and 5 tonight in HD! Episode 4: Stealing from Saturn: Here we are, refugees in our own land," Cicero says to Pompey and his supporters, anxiously settling into their makeshift camp south of Rome. "We are not refugees, we are maneuvering," Pompey responds sharply, before explaining his strategy to the men: without gold, Caesar will have to resort to violence, and once the blood starts to spill, the people will turn on him with a vengeance. "While he is fighting mobs in the forum, I will be gathering an army the like of which he has never seen!"...
 

HBO-HD shows "ROME", Episodes 6, 7, 8 tonight in prelude to new episode "UTICA" 30 OCT.
  Posted by DCBryan1
On General/Chat 10/28/2005 6:35:34 PM PDT · 7 replies · 90+ views


HBO | 28 OCT 05 | DCBRYAN1
Tonight, HBO-HD (HBO 1) shows Rome Episodes 6, 7, 8 in a run up to the new episode "Utica". Episode 6: Egeria Synopsis With Caesar chasing Pompey in Greece, Mark Antony is in Rome pushing through laws on his behalf - insisting that the few remaining senators agree to anoint the general "co-Consul," free more slaves and create more jobs for the populace. The senior senator protests, arguing that such efforts would be too expensive. "Only to those few rich men that own all the land," Antony replies, "and they will have the consolation of doing something eminently patriotic." Niobe...
 

Ancient Roman Navy Soldier Surfaces
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2005 4:42:46 PM PDT · 29 replies · 1,036+ views


Archeobo | 10-23-2005
Ancient roman navy soldier surfacesRavenna Classe site yields his first-ever image of imperial officer The first-ever image of a soldier in the Ancient Roman navy has surfaced on 17th September 2005 at the major imperial naval base at Ravenna Classe. The armour-clad, weapon-bearing soldier was carved on a funeral stone, or stele, in a waterlogged necropolis at Classe ('Classis' in Latin means Fleet), the now silted-up Ravenna port area where Rome's Adriatic fleet was stationed. Previous finds at the site have only shown people in civilian garb (toga). An inscription on the soldier's funeral slab says he was an officer...
 

Cremona Digs Confirm Tacitus Story
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2005 4:30:34 PM PDT · 32 replies · 748+ views


Ansa | 10-23-2005
Cremona digs confirm Tacitus storyNew evidence comes to light of ancient city's destruction (ANSA) - Milan, October 19 - Excavations in Cremona have confirmed a legendary description of the city's destruction in December 69 AD by the Latin historian Tacitus . Archaeologists working in the area of Piazza Marconi believe they have found evidence of the northern Italian city's brutal pillage following a clash between the forces of Emperor Aulus Vitellius and his challenger, Vespasian . Tacitus's graphic description of the rampage by Vespasian's troops is famous among scholars but there was no way to prove it actually happened ....
 

Ancient Greece
Tests of Fabled Archimedes Death Ray Fail
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 10/22/2005 9:14:50 PM PDT · 34 replies · 374+ views


ap on Yahoo | 10/22/05 | RON HARRIS
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't exactly the ancient siege of Syracuse, but rather a curious quest for scientific validation. According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze. More than 2,000 years later, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set out to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray Saturday in an experiment sponsored by the Discovery Channel program "MythBusters." Their attempts to set fire to an 80-year-old fishing boat using their own versions...
 

Ancient Europe
Experts Excavate Oldest Worked Metal In Europe
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/24/2005 5:02:52 PM PDT · 12 replies · 387+ views


BNN | 10-24-2005
Experts excavate oldest worked metal in Europe SOFIA (bnn)- Archaeologists found the oldest worked metal in Europe while excavating an early Neolithic village near the village of Dzhulyunitza in central Bulgaria, state TV reported Sunday. The 3 metal finds are 8,000 years old. The experts found signs of cold treatment during which the metal pieces were transformed into beads. The extraordinary find gives a new direction in the research of the prehistoric people who lived on Bulgarian territory. Only the worked metal pieces found in Anatolia, which is the Asian part of Turkey, is older (11,000 years) than the find...
 

NBC 4 - Irresistible Headlines - Researcher Says Balkan Hill Is Pyramid
  Posted by Buddy B
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 8:35:54 PM PDT · 27 replies · 838+ views


NBC4.tv - Los Angeles, CA | October 26, 2005 | n/a
Researcher Says Balkan Hill Is Pyramid Visocica Hill Is 2,300 Feet High SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- A Sarajevo-born researcher said he has discovered an ancient pyramid in the hills of central Bosnia.
 

Stone-age colony discovered at Lake Bracciano (9,000 Year Old Canoe)
  Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 10/24/2005 3:34:36 PM PDT · 31 replies · 724+ views


Archaeo News | 22 October 2005
In early August, underwater archaeologists excavating at Lake Bracciano, north of Rome (Italy), brought up a nine meter-long dugout canoe hewn from a massive oak trunk. Some 9,000 years old, buried under three meters of mud and eight meters of water, this was the fourth canoe excavated at a Neolithic colony discovered near the shores of Anguillara in 1989. Unique in Neolithic archaeology, no other sites have been discovered in central Italy, and never at the bottom of a lake. It is located in La Marmotta Bay, at the foot of Anguillara's promontory. Discovered under unusual circumstances in 1989, when...
 

Ancient Egypt
King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 3:39:02 PM PDT · 54 replies · 678+ views


ap on Yahoo | 10/26/05 | JENN WIANT - ap
LONDON - King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb. Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane told reporters Wednesday at the British Museum that she made her discovery after inventing a process that gave archaeologists a tool to discover the color of ancient wine. "This is the first time someone has found an ancient red wine," she said. Wine bottles from King Tut's time were labeled with the name of the product, the year of harvest, the source and the vine grower, Guasch-Jane said, but did not include the color...
 

Africa
Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Un Earthed In Sahara
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2005 4:56:10 PM PDT · 13 replies · 655+ views


National Geographic | Brian Hanwerk
Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Unearthed in Sahara Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News October 21, 2005Archaeologists have excavated a trove of Stone Age human skeletons and artifacts on the shores of an ancient lake in the Sahara. The seven nearby sites include an extensive cemetery and represent one of the largest and best preserved concentrations of ancient skeletons and artifacts ever found in the region, researchers say. Harpoons, fishhooks, pottery, jewelry, stone tools, and other artifacts pepper the ancient lakeside settlement. The objects were left by early communities that once thrived on the former lake's abundant fish and shellfish. "They...
 

Climate
Global warming and Vikings
  Posted by MrPiper
On News/Activism 10/28/2005 2:41:42 PM PDT · 25 replies · 653+ views


Archaeological Institute of America | February 28, 2000 | Dale Mackenzie Brown
"An ice core drilled from the island's massive icecap between 1992 and 1993 shows a decided cooling off in the Western Settlement during the mid-fourteenth century."
 

Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
The End of the Assassins
  Posted by RippleFire
On News/Activism 09/12/2001 8:07:41 PM PDT · 4 replies · 315+ views


Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan | 1993 | Robert Marshall
The Assassins "had emerged because of a schism in the Shia Muslim sect and established themselves in northern and eastern Persia by taking and controlling a series of mountain fortifications. Behind their walls they lived a contemplative life, producing beautifully wrought paintings and metalwork, but beyond their retreats they terrorized those civilizations they deemed heretical and so earned the enmity not just of the rest of the Islamic world but eventually of Europe. The local Ismaili leader had done little to enhance their reputation. Rather than confront his enemies in open combat he preferred to sponsor a campaign of ...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Raiders Of The Lost Pool (New finds bolster the historicity of John's gospel)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2005 5:26:15 PM PDT · 12 replies · 592+ views


Christianity Today | 10-26-2005 | Gordon Govier
Christianity Today, October 2005 Raiders of the Lost PoolNew finds bolster the historicity of John's Gospel. by Gordon Govier | posted 10/26/2005 09:00 a.m. The Pool of Siloam, considered a metaphor in John's Gospel by some New Testament scholars, was in fact a huge basin at the lowest point in the city of Jerusalem. Recent excavations have uncovered two corners and one side of the pool that stretched for half the length of a football field. "It's very exciting," James Charlesworth, a professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, told CT. "It's very important for the study of the...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Clovis Speakers Discuss Man's Origins In The United States
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/28/2005 11:53:56 AM PDT · 48 replies · 735+ views


The State/AP | 10-27-2005 | Meg Kinnard
Posted on Thu, Oct. 27, 2005 Clovis speakers discuss man's origins in the United States MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. - A University of Texas archaeologist opened the highly anticipated "Clovis in the Southeast" conference at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Thursday by rejecting the premise on which many experts once based their theories on man's North American origins. At the meeting, sponsored in part by the University of South Carolina, Michael Collins called the idea that the first inhabitants traveled by way of a land bridge from Asia "primal racism." Instead, Collins said, they arrived by water, because...
 

Ancient Indian Burial Site Found In Riverhead Park (NY)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2005 5:03:01 PM PDT · 11 replies · 242+ views


Newsday | 10-26-2005 | Bill Bleyer
Ancient Indian burial site found in Riverhead parkBones and artifacts, believed to be from an early American Indian burial site, are discovered in Riverhead county park, near eroded river bank Oct 26, 2005 BY BILL BLEYER STAFF WRITER; Staff writer Mitchell Freedman contributed to this story. October 27, 2005 Last week's stormy weather uncovered what experts said may be an important early American Indian burial site at Indian Island County Park in Riverhead. The site was spotted by a park supervisor after the Peconic River bank was eroded early last week by heavy rains and high wave action, said Suffolk...
 

Mammoth site hearing set
  Posted by ValerieUSA
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 6:11:43 PM PDT · 30 replies · 352+ views


Waco Tribune-Herald | October 26, 2005 | J.B. Smith
The public will get a chance tomorrow to weigh in on a proposal to add the Waco Mammoth Site to the national park system. A team of National Park Service officials is kicking off its study of the mammoth park idea with a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Baylor University's Mayborn Museum. Officials with Baylor and the city of Waco are trying to rally community support for the project. ìIt's important for us to have a good turnout,î said Mayborn director Ellie Caston. ìWe need to be able to show the team that the community is concerned about...
 

New Digs Decoding Mexico's "Pyramids Of Fire"
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/25/2005 11:14:52 AM PDT · 37 replies · 965+ views


National Geographic | 10-21-2005 | John Roach
New Digs Decoding Mexico's "Pyramids of Fire" John Roach for National Geographic News October 21, 2005On TV: Watch National Geographic Explorer: Pyramids of Fire, Sunday, October 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Using picks, shovels, and high-tech forensic sleuthing, scientists are beginning to cobble together the grisly ancient history and fiery demise of Teotihuac·n, the first major metropolis of the Americas. The size of Shakespeare's London, Teotihuac·n was built by an unknown people almost 2,000 years ago. The site sits about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of present-day Mexico City. Temples, palaces, and some of the...
 

Prehistory and Origins
On Human Diversity: Why has the genetics community discarded so many phenotypes?
  Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 10/25/2005 8:03:25 PM PDT · 43 replies · 784+ views


The Scientist | 10-24-05 | Armand M. Leroi
HEAD CASES: The physical phenotypic differences between this Sudanese skull (right) and this European skull (left) are apparent. (From J.L.A. de Quatrefages, E.T. Hamy, Crania ethnica: les Cranes des races humaines, Baillere et fils: Paris, 1882.) Henry Flower became director of the British Museum of Natural History in 1884, and promptly set about rearranging exhibits. He set a display of human skulls to show their diversity of shape across the globe. A century later, the skulls had gone, and in their place was a large photograph of soccer fans standing in their terraces bearing the legend: "We are all...
 

Generosity Is No Monkey Business, Study
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2005 5:45:09 PM PDT · 9 replies · 197+ views


Physorg. Com | 10-27-2005
Generosity Is No Monkey Business, Study General Science | October 27, 2005 Given the opportunity to spread random acts of kindness, chimps would just as soon pass, finds a new UCLA-led study. The study, published in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, suggests at least one way in which humans differ from their closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. "Because chimps participate in collective activities such as cooperative hunting and food sharing and they console injured group members and human caregivers, their capacity for empathy and altruism has been an object of considerable curiosity," said UCLA anthropologist...
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Cold case comes to court - after 5,300 years
  Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 10/22/2005 11:24:04 PM PDT · 21 replies · 539+ views


Telegraph (U.K.) | 23/10/2005 | Nick Pisa
Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old ice mummy discovered in the Italian Alps, is at the centre of a bitter court battle as three different people try to claim the Ä50,000 (£33,000) reward for discovering him. Credit for finding the prehistoric hunter, whose remains were perfectly preserved in the Oztal glacer on the Italian-Austrian border, originally went to two German hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon. But Mrs Simon, whose husband died last year, now faces rival claims from two other women who say they were part of the same mountaineering party that came across him in 1991. Their claims are being heard in...
 

Composer cracks Rosslyn's musical code
  Posted by uglybiker
On News/Activism 10/24/2005 12:29:16 PM PDT · 60 replies · 2,009+ views


The Scotsman | Sat 1 Oct 2005 | ANGIE BROWN
A MUSICAL code hidden in mystical symbols carved into the stone ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel has been unravelled for the first time in more than 500 years. Scottish composer Stuart Mitchell took 20 years to crack a complex series of codes, which have mystified historians for generations. His feat was hailed by experts as a stroke of genius. The codes were hidden in 213 cubes in the ceiling of the chapel, where parts of the film of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code were shot this week. Each cube contained different patterns to form an unusual 6?-minute piece of...
 

end of digest #67 20051029

304 posted on 10/29/2005 7:15:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm; 75thOVI; Adder; Androcles; albertp; asgardshill; bitt; BradyLS; Carolinamom; ...
Welcome to Digest number 67. I thought it was a pretty busy week, but there are only 25 topics. I'm looking into it.

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305 posted on 10/29/2005 7:17:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #68
Saturday, November 5, 2005


Climate
Global warming and Vikings
  Posted by MrPiper
On News/Activism 10/28/2005 2:41:42 PM PDT · 40 replies · 828+ views


Archaeological Institute of America | February 28, 2000 | Dale Mackenzie Brown
"An ice core drilled from the island's massive icecap between 1992 and 1993 shows a decided cooling off in the Western Settlement during the mid-fourteenth century."
 

Global warming [8000 years old]
  Posted by mathprof
On News/Activism 10/31/2005 9:22:23 PM PST · 22 replies · 520+ views


CBC News | October 25, 2005 | SUMITRA RAJAGOPALAN
Forget Kyoto. By the time Christ appeared on Earth, the planet was already belching enough gas to cause global warming. And we have our ancestors to blame. Or thank. William Ruddiman, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, is behind a controversial theory suggesting that humans had a hand in warming the planet nearly 8,000 years ago, and in doing so, might have prevented another ice age. In his new book titled Plows, Plagues, Petroleum: How Humans took Control of the Climate, Ruddiman delves further into the theory that first made waves in the winter of 2003....
 

Greenhouse Effect Occurred 5,000 Years Ago: Archaeologists
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/31/2005 3:59:50 PM PST · 32 replies · 736+ views


China View/Xinhuanet | 10-31-2005
Greenhouse effect occurred 5,000 years ago: archaeologists www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-31 19:10:24 JINAN, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- It is common sense nowadays that excessive carbon dioxide in the air caused by excessive lumbering leads to global greenhouse effects. But a team of archaeologists from China and the United States is saying that the greenhouse effect started about 5,000 years ago, much earlier than people might expect. This is the conclusion reached by a group of Chinese and US archaeologists based on research on the relics excavated from the ruins of a Neolithic site in Rizhao City, east China's Shandong Province, over the...
 

Catastrophism and Astronomy
Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 10/28/2005 6:33:11 PM PDT · 38 replies · 908+ views


ap on Yahoo | 10/28/05 | Meg Kinnard - ap
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A supernova could be the "quick and dirty" explanation for what may have happened to an early North American culture, a nuclear scientist here said Thursday. Richard Firestone said at the "Clovis in the Southeast" conference that he thinks "impact regions" on mammoth tusks found in Gainey, Mich., were caused by magnetic particles rich in elements like titanium and uranium. This composition, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist said, resembles rocks that were discovered on the moon and have also been found in lunar meteorites that fell to Earth about 10,000 years ago. Firestone said that, based...
 

Chinese Archaeologists Find One Of The World's Oldest Observatories
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/30/2005 12:16:38 PM PST · 5 replies · 221+ views


Yahoo/AFP | 10-30-2005
Chinese archaeologists find one of world's oldest observatories Sun Oct 30, 8:45 AM ET BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese archaeologists claim to have found one of the world's oldest observatories, dating back 4,100 years ago. The observatory was uncovered at the Taosi relics site in Shanxi province, He Nu, a research follow with the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency on Sunday. The observatory "was not only used for observing astronomical phenomena but also for sacrificial rites", said He. The remains, in the shape of a semi-circle 40 meters...
 

Copernicus' Grave Found in Polish Church
  Posted by lizol
On News/Activism 11/03/2005 11:46:26 AM PST · 76 replies · 1,482+ views


AP via Yahoo! News | 03.11.2005
Copernicus' Grave Found in Polish Church WARSAW, Poland - Polish archeologists believe they have located the grave of 16th-century astronomer and solar-system proponent Nicolaus Copernicus in a Polish church, one of the scientists announced Thursday. Copernicus, who died in 1543 at 70 after challenging the ancient belief that the sun revolved around the earth, was buried at the Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Frombork, 180 miles north of the capital, Warsaw. Jerzy Gassowski, head of an archaeology and anthropology institute in Pultusk, central Poland, said his four-member team found what appears to be the skull of the Polish...
 

Underwater Archaeology
Divers Unveil Exquisite Treasure Pulled From The Depths Of Java Sea
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 3:53:43 PM PDT · 14 replies · 785+ views


Yahoo News | 10-26-2005
Divers unveil exquisite treasure pulled from depths of Java Sea Wed Oct 26,12:01 AM ET JAKARTA (AFP) - In a nondescript warehouse in Jakarta, treasure-hunter Luc Heymans dips into plastic boxes and pulls out jewels and ornaments that lay hidden at the bottom of the Java Sea for 1,000 years. An ornately sculpted mirror of polished bronze is one masterpiece among the 250,000 artefacts recovered over the last 18 months from a boat that sank off Indonesia's shores in the 10th century. On a small mould is written the word "Allah" in beautiful Arabic script, on top of a lid...
 

Asia
Archaeologists Find Oldest Chinese Dragon Totem
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/31/2005 4:41:39 PM PST · 6 replies · 194+ views


China View/Xinhuanet | 10-31-2005
Archaeologists find oldest Chinese dragon totem www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-31 18:43:01 ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- A 3,700-year-old antique in the shape of a dragon, made up of over 2,000 pieces of turquoise, is believed by many Chinese scholars as the oldest Chinese dragon totem. The antique was discovered in the Erlitou relics site in YanshiCity of central China's Henan Province. Many Chinese scholars believe that Erlitou is the site of the capital of the Xia Dynasty(2,100 BC-1,600 BC), China's first dynasty. "Although some dragon-shaped relics older than the antique in Erlitou have been uncovered in other places, such as the 7,000-year-old...
 

Eastern Zhou Grave Pit Unearthed In Luoyang
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 4:27:29 PM PDT · 13 replies · 236+ views


China View/Xinhuanet | 10-26-2005
Eastern Zhou grave pit unearthed in Luoyang www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-26 13:51:52Two worker clear up the relics in the newly unearthed pit. [newsphoto] The horse-and-vehicle pit excavated in this cultural relics discovery [newsphoto] Archaeologists and workers excavate cultural relics from an Eastern Zhou Dynasty grave that was found in Luoyang of Central China's Henan Province on October 25, 2005. Bronzeware, jade, and horse pit unearthed from the burial site are in good shape, which is peculiar in this ancient city of Luoyang, as usually 90 percent of the graves are empty upon discovery. [newsphoto]According to the experts, it is a a scholar-bureaucrat's...
 

Central Asia
Russians claim discovery of ancient "Shangri-La" in Tibet
  Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 10/01/2004 1:23:19 AM PDT · 12 replies · 607+ views


AFP via Babelfish translation | October 1, 2004 | Antoine Fettback
Did Russian explorers discover Khyunglung Nulkhar? Russian explorers announced this week to have discovered mid-September of the ruins of Khyunglung Nulkhar (Tibet), mythical capital of the State de Shangshung disappeared in VIIIe century, but the authenticity of this discovery is questioned by a travel agency which affirms y to have organized a trekking last June. "We are the first Europeans to have put the foot" at Khyunglung Nulkhar (money Palate of Garuda), declared Iouri Zakharov, the head of forwarding, at the time of the press conference in Moscow. This member of the Russian Academy of the natural science estimates...
 

Biology and Cryptobiology
Y Chromosomes Reveal Founding Father (Giocangga)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/25/2005 11:02:09 AM PDT · 26 replies · 937+ views


Nature | 10-24-2005 | Charlotte Shubert
Published online: 24 October 2005Charlotte SchubertY chromosomes reveal founding fatherDid conquest and concubines spread one man's genes across Asia? The Manchu warriors took control of China in 1644. © Punchstock About 1.5 million men in northern China and Mongolia may be descended from a single man, according to a study based on Y chromosome genetics1. Historical records suggest that this man may be Giocangga, who lived in the mid-1500s and whose grandson founded the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. The analysis is similar to a controversial study in 2003, which suggested that approximately 16 million men...
 

Mammoth site hearing set
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On News/Activism 10/26/2005 6:11:43 PM PDT · 30 replies · 352+ views


Waco Tribune-Herald | October 26, 2005 | J.B. Smith
The public will get a chance tomorrow to weigh in on a proposal to add the Waco Mammoth Site to the national park system. A team of National Park Service officials is kicking off its study of the mammoth park idea with a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Baylor University's Mayborn Museum. Officials with Baylor and the city of Waco are trying to rally community support for the project. “It's important for us to have a good turnout,” said Mayborn director Ellie Caston. “We need to be able to show the team that the community is concerned about...
 

On Human Diversity: Why has the genetics community discarded so many phenotypes?
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On News/Activism 10/25/2005 8:03:25 PM PDT · 59 replies · 950+ views


The Scientist | 10-24-05 | Armand M. Leroi
HEAD CASES: The physical phenotypic differences between this Sudanese skull (right) and this European skull (left) are apparent. (From J.L.A. de Quatrefages, E.T. Hamy, Crania ethnica: les Cranes des races humaines, Baillere et fils: Paris, 1882.) Henry Flower became director of the British Museum of Natural History in 1884, and promptly set about rearranging exhibits. He set a display of human skulls to show their diversity of shape across the globe. A century later, the skulls had gone, and in their place was a large photograph of soccer fans standing in their terraces bearing the legend: "We are all...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Clovis Speakers Discuss Man's Origins In The United States
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On News/Activism 10/28/2005 11:53:56 AM PDT · 68 replies · 878+ views


The State/AP | 10-27-2005 | Meg Kinnard
Posted on Thu, Oct. 27, 2005 Clovis speakers discuss man's origins in the United States MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. - A University of Texas archaeologist opened the highly anticipated "Clovis in the Southeast" conference at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Thursday by rejecting the premise on which many experts once based their theories on man's North American origins. At the meeting, sponsored in part by the University of South Carolina, Michael Collins called the idea that the first inhabitants traveled by way of a land bridge from Asia "primal racism." Instead, Collins said, they arrived by water, because...
 

Recent Landslides In La Conchita, California Belong To Much Larger Prehistoric Slide
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On News/Activism 10/31/2005 4:20:42 PM PST · 9 replies · 221+ views


Science Daily | 10-31-2005 | UCSB
Recent Landslides In La Conchita, California Belong To Much Larger Prehistoric Slide The deadly landslide that killed 10 people and destroyed approximately 30 homes in La Conchita, California last January is but a tiny part of a much larger slide, called the Rincon Mountain slide, discovered by Larry D. Gurrola, geologist and graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The slide started many thousands of years ago and will continue generating slides in the future, reported Gurrola at the national meeting of the Geological Society of America today in Salt Lake City. Mudslides at La Conchita. (Image courtesy...
 

Ancient Indian Burial Site Found In Riverhead Park (NY)
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On News/Activism 10/27/2005 5:03:01 PM PDT · 11 replies · 242+ views


Newsday | 10-26-2005 | Bill Bleyer
Ancient Indian burial site found in Riverhead parkBones and artifacts, believed to be from an early American Indian burial site, are discovered in Riverhead county park, near eroded river bank Oct 26, 2005 BY BILL BLEYER STAFF WRITER; Staff writer Mitchell Freedman contributed to this story. October 27, 2005 Last week's stormy weather uncovered what experts said may be an important early American Indian burial site at Indian Island County Park in Riverhead. The site was spotted by a park supervisor after the Peconic River bank was eroded early last week by heavy rains and high wave action, said Suffolk...
 

New Digs Decoding Mexico's "Pyramids Of Fire"
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On News/Activism 10/25/2005 11:14:52 AM PDT · 37 replies · 965+ views


National Geographic | 10-21-2005 | John Roach
New Digs Decoding Mexico's "Pyramids of Fire" John Roach for National Geographic News October 21, 2005On TV: Watch National Geographic Explorer: Pyramids of Fire, Sunday, October 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Using picks, shovels, and high-tech forensic sleuthing, scientists are beginning to cobble together the grisly ancient history and fiery demise of Teotihuacán, the first major metropolis of the Americas. The size of Shakespeare's London, Teotihuacán was built by an unknown people almost 2,000 years ago. The site sits about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of present-day Mexico City. Temples, palaces, and some of the...
 

The Pacific
Hawaiian skull taken by California man returned to the islands
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On News/Activism 11/03/2005 11:18:50 PM PST · 32 replies · 428+ views


KESQ | 11/04/05
HONOLULU A 200-year-old Hawaiian skull found on Maui decades ago and later advertised on eBay was returned to the islands this week. The skull of a Native Hawaiian warrior was taken from a construction site on Kaanapali in 1969 by a California teenager, who then tried to sell it on the Internet. Jerry Hasson of Huntington Beach, now in his 50s, said he had sneaked onto the beach with friends and found an entire skeleton _ but took only the skull. An undercover agent with the U-S Bureau of Indian Affairs contacted Hasson and bought the skull for 25-hundred dollars....
 

Polynesian Cemetery Unlocks Ancient Burial Secrets (Lapita)
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On News/Activism 10/31/2005 4:06:20 PM PST · 5 replies · 167+ views


ABC Science Online | 10-31-2005 | Anna Salleh
Last Update: Monday, October 31, 2005. 6:03pm (AEDT) Polynesian cemetery unlocks ancient burial secrets By Anna Salleh, ABC Science Online The first people to settle Polynesia went to surprising lengths to honour their dead, archaeologists show. Remains from the oldest cemetery in the Pacific suggest the Lapita people buried their dead in many different ways, some in "weird yoga positions", and removed their skulls for ceremonial purposes. Dr Stuart Bedford and Professor Matthew Spriggs of the Australian National University reported their finds on the Lapita culture in Vanuatu at a recent seminar in Canberra. "We found for the first time...
 

Ancient Egypt
King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says
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On News/Activism 10/26/2005 3:39:02 PM PDT · 54 replies · 678+ views


ap on Yahoo | 10/26/05 | JENN WIANT - ap
LONDON - King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb. Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane told reporters Wednesday at the British Museum that she made her discovery after inventing a process that gave archaeologists a tool to discover the color of ancient wine. "This is the first time someone has found an ancient red wine," she said. Wine bottles from King Tut's time were labeled with the name of the product, the year of harvest, the source and the vine grower, Guasch-Jane said, but did not include the color...
 

King Tut liked Red Wine Best
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On News/Activism 10/30/2005 2:38:20 AM PST · 16 replies · 294+ views


Middle East Times
LONDON -- A University of Barcelona research team has discovered Egypt's King Tutankhamen was partial to wine, preferring red over white. The mystery of exactly what was kept inside jars found in the tomb of the Egyptian king (1336-1327 BC) was solved by the Spanish scientists who analyzed scrapings from eight jars found in Tutankhamen's tomb. They presented their findings on Wednesday at the British Museum in London, The Times of London reported. "Wine jars were placed in tombs as funerary meals," Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane, a master in Egyptology at the university, told The Independent. "The ... wine jars were...
 

Africa
Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Un Earthed In Sahara
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On News/Activism 10/23/2005 4:56:10 PM PDT · 13 replies · 661+ views


National Geographic | Brian Hanwerk
Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Unearthed in Sahara Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News October 21, 2005Archaeologists have excavated a trove of Stone Age human skeletons and artifacts on the shores of an ancient lake in the Sahara. The seven nearby sites include an extensive cemetery and represent one of the largest and best preserved concentrations of ancient skeletons and artifacts ever found in the region, researchers say. Harpoons, fishhooks, pottery, jewelry, stone tools, and other artifacts pepper the ancient lakeside settlement. The objects were left by early communities that once thrived on the former lake's abundant fish and shellfish. "They...
 

Ancient Europe
Experts Excavate Oldest Worked Metal In Europe
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On News/Activism 10/24/2005 5:02:52 PM PDT · 12 replies · 387+ views


BNN | 10-24-2005
Experts excavate oldest worked metal in Europe SOFIA (bnn)- Archaeologists found the oldest worked metal in Europe while excavating an early Neolithic village near the village of Dzhulyunitza in central Bulgaria, state TV reported Sunday. The 3 metal finds are 8,000 years old. The experts found signs of cold treatment during which the metal pieces were transformed into beads. The extraordinary find gives a new direction in the research of the prehistoric people who lived on Bulgarian territory. Only the worked metal pieces found in Anatolia, which is the Asian part of Turkey, is older (11,000 years) than the find...
 
Excitement At Neolithic Site Find
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On News/Activism 11/02/2005 3:19:35 PM PST · 28 replies · 577+ views


BBC | 11-2-2005
Excitement at Neolithic site find Archaeologists say it will improve understanding of the Neolithic period Archaeologists have unearthed what is thought to be one of the largest Neolithic settlements in Britain. The discovery, which includes buildings, a human burial pit, tools, pottery and ritual objects, was uncovered at a Northumberland quarry. It is hoped it will boost understanding of the period, which dates back thousands of years. The discovery was made during routine archaeological investigation of the quarry, which is run by Tarmac. The settlement, near Milfield Village, Northumberland, includes at least three buildings dating to the 4000 BC Early...
 

Huge Hoard Of Iron Age Coins Found
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On News/Activism 11/04/2005 2:47:31 PM PST · 19 replies · 772+ views


Isle Of Wight County Press | 11-4-2005 | Gavin Foster
HUGE HOARD OF IRON AGE COINS FOUNDBy Gavin Foster THE LARGEST hoard of Iron Age coins ever found on the Island has been unearthed by metal detectors. The haul of nearly 1,000 base silver coins was dug up over two weeks at a secret West Wight location by members of the IW Metal Detecting Club. But this week it also emerged the find is unlikely to be bought by the IW Museums Service for local display. County museums officer Dr Mike Bishop said his budget was empty and unless new funding was found, the service could not afford the many...
 

Stone-age colony discovered at Lake Bracciano (9,000 Year Old Canoe)
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On News/Activism 10/24/2005 3:34:36 PM PDT · 31 replies · 724+ views


Archaeo News | 22 October 2005
In early August, underwater archaeologists excavating at Lake Bracciano, north of Rome (Italy), brought up a nine meter-long dugout canoe hewn from a massive oak trunk. Some 9,000 years old, buried under three meters of mud and eight meters of water, this was the fourth canoe excavated at a Neolithic colony discovered near the shores of Anguillara in 1989. Unique in Neolithic archaeology, no other sites have been discovered in central Italy, and never at the bottom of a lake. It is located in La Marmotta Bay, at the foot of Anguillara's promontory. Discovered under unusual circumstances in 1989, when...
 

Mesopotamia
Babylonian Doctors Way Ahead of Greeks
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On News/Activism 10/30/2005 2:41:20 AM PST · 28 replies · 748+ views


Middle East Times | October 25, 2005
CHICAGO, IL, USA -- An expert on cuneiform and a doctor have teamed up to find that medicine 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia was sophisticated and effective. In fact, patients in Assyria probably got more useful treatment than anyone in Europe before the nineteenth century, JoAnn Scurlock and Burton R. Andersen told the Chicago Tribune. Scurlock, who holds a doctorate in Assyriology from the University of Chicago, and Andersen, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Illinois, examined the available medical texts in cuneiform. They found descriptions of procedures still performed, like draining pus from the lungs and chest...
 

Ancient Greece
Tests of Fabled Archimedes Death Ray Fail
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On General/Chat 10/22/2005 9:14:50 PM PDT · 34 replies · 383+ views


ap on Yahoo | 10/22/05 | RON HARRIS
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't exactly the ancient siege of Syracuse, but rather a curious quest for scientific validation. According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze. More than 2,000 years later, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set out to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray Saturday in an experiment sponsored by the Discovery Channel program "MythBusters." Their attempts to set fire to an 80-year-old fishing boat using their own versions...
 

Ancient Rome
Apart from vomitoriums and orgies, what did the Romans do for us?
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On News/Activism 10/30/2005 1:05:06 AM PDT · 94 replies · 1,715+ views


Guardian (U.K.) | Saturday October 29, 2005 | Mary Beard
Ancient Rome provides a handy non-offensive stereotype for us to define ourselves against The best way to judge a modern recreation of ancient Rome - in film or fiction - is to apply the simple "dormouse test". How long is it before the characters adopt an uncomfortably horizontal position in front of tables, usually festooned with grapes, and one says to another: "Can I pass you a dormouse?" The basic rule of thumb is this: the longer you have to wait before this tasty little morsel appears on the recreated banquet, the more subtle the reconstruction is likely to be....
 

Giant Crabs Colonize Rome's Ancient Ruins
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On News/Activism 10/28/2005 3:29:13 PM PDT · 49 replies · 1,271+ views


Italy Magazine/ANSA | 10-28-2005
Giant crabs colonise Rome’s ancient ruins By Web Editor. Filed under Generalon October 28th, 2005 (ANSA) - A rare species of crab has taken up residence in one of the city’s most important archaeological sites and is not only thriving but also growing to abnormal proportions. The freshwater crab ‘Potamon fluviatile’ was already known to survive in small numbers in rivers and waterways from Sicily to Tuscany, where it generally grows to a length of about 4 cm. But according to three zoologists at the Roma 3 university, an isolated colony of the crabs is also doing very well in...
 

Ancient Roman Navy Soldier Surfaces
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On News/Activism 10/23/2005 4:42:46 PM PDT · 29 replies · 1,036+ views


Archeobo | 10-23-2005
Ancient roman navy soldier surfacesRavenna Classe site yields his first-ever image of imperial officer The first-ever image of a soldier in the Ancient Roman navy has surfaced on 17th September 2005 at the major imperial naval base at Ravenna Classe. The armour-clad, weapon-bearing soldier was carved on a funeral stone, or stele, in a waterlogged necropolis at Classe ('Classis' in Latin means Fleet), the now silted-up Ravenna port area where Rome's Adriatic fleet was stationed. Previous finds at the site have only shown people in civilian garb (toga). An inscription on the soldier's funeral slab says he was an officer...
 

Cremona Digs Confirm Tacitus Story
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On News/Activism 10/23/2005 4:30:34 PM PDT · 32 replies · 759+ views


Ansa | 10-23-2005
Cremona digs confirm Tacitus storyNew evidence comes to light of ancient city's destruction (ANSA) - Milan, October 19 - Excavations in Cremona have confirmed a legendary description of the city's destruction in December 69 AD by the Latin historian Tacitus . Archaeologists working in the area of Piazza Marconi believe they have found evidence of the northern Italian city's brutal pillage following a clash between the forces of Emperor Aulus Vitellius and his challenger, Vespasian . Tacitus's graphic description of the rampage by Vespasian's troops is famous among scholars but there was no way to prove it actually happened ....
 

Roman Ruler's Head Found in Sewer
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On General/Chat 10/31/2005 7:36:11 AM PST · 32 replies · 1,326+ views


Seoul Times | October 31, 2005
Roman Ruler's Head Found in Sewer Lief of "Saint Constantine" Who Cristianized Rome A 1,700-year-old carved marble head of Emperor Constantine has been found in a sewer in central Rome. Archaeologists found the 60cm (2ft) head while clearing an ancient drainage system in the ruins of the Roman Forum. Eugenio La Rocca, superintendent of Rome's artefacts, described the head as a rare find and said it was possible it had been used to clear a blocked sewer. Constantine, who reigned from 306 to 337, is known for ending persecution of Christians and founding Constantinople. Although most of his subjects remained...
 

Anyone watching ROME on HBO? (HBO HD showing episodes 4 and 5 tonight)
  Posted by DCBryan1
On General/Chat 10/25/2005 4:36:38 PM PDT · 71 replies · 482+ views


HBO | 25 OCT 05 | DCBRYAN1
Episode 4 and 5 tonight in HD! Episode 4: Stealing from Saturn: Here we are, refugees in our own land," Cicero says to Pompey and his supporters, anxiously settling into their makeshift camp south of Rome. "We are not refugees, we are maneuvering," Pompey responds sharply, before explaining his strategy to the men: without gold, Caesar will have to resort to violence, and once the blood starts to spill, the people will turn on him with a vengeance. "While he is fighting mobs in the forum, I will be gathering an army the like of which he has never seen!"...
 

HBO-HD shows "ROME", Episodes 6, 7, 8 tonight in prelude to new episode "UTICA" 30 OCT.
  Posted by DCBryan1
On General/Chat 10/28/2005 6:35:34 PM PDT · 8 replies · 104+ views


HBO | 28 OCT 05 | DCBRYAN1
Tonight, HBO-HD (HBO 1) shows Rome Episodes 6, 7, 8 in a run up to the new episode "Utica". Episode 6: Egeria Synopsis With Caesar chasing Pompey in Greece, Mark Antony is in Rome pushing through laws on his behalf - insisting that the few remaining senators agree to anoint the general "co-Consul," free more slaves and create more jobs for the populace. The senior senator protests, arguing that such efforts would be too expensive. "Only to those few rich men that own all the land," Antony replies, "and they will have the consolation of doing something eminently patriotic." Niobe...
 

Vanity: New episode of "ROME" on HBO-HD tonight (Episode 9: UTICA)-GGG Ping!
  Posted by DCBryan1
On General/Chat 10/30/2005 5:31:07 PM PST · 24 replies · 242+ views


HBO | 30 OCT 05 | dcbryan1
Episode 9: Utica With Scipio and Cato defeated, Caesar returns home to a hero's welcome. Vorenus and Pullo's showdown with local thug Erastes gets an unexpected reprieve from Caesar. Servilia's plan to use Octavia to unearth a secret about Caesar backfires. Don't miss the all new episode "Utica", Sunday, October 30th at 9PM ET.
 

Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
3,000-Year-Old Warrior Still Fighting At Gohar-Tappeh
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On News/Activism 10/30/2005 12:32:37 PM PST · 12 replies · 457+ views


Mehr News | 10-30-2005
Tehran: 19:39 , 2005/10/30 3000-year-old warrior still fighting at Gohar-Tappeh TEHRAN, Oct. 30 (MNA) -- A team of archaeologists working at the 3000-year-old site of Gohar-Tappeh in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran have recently unearthed a skeleton of a warrior buried in an attacking pose with a dagger in his hands, the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported on Saturday. “He is holding a 26-centimeter dagger and appears to be making a forward thrust. The evidence shows that he was originally buried in this pose,” the director of the team, Ali Mahforuzi, said. This is the...
 

Khajeh Mountain, Biggest Unbaked Mud Architecture Of Parthian Era
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On News/Activism 11/04/2005 3:08:13 PM PST · 16 replies · 235+ views


Payvand | 11-3-2005
11/3/05 Khajeh mountain, biggest unbaked mud architecture of Parthian era Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchestan prov, Nov 2, IRNA-Khajeh Mountain Complex, the biggest model of unbaked mud architecture remaining in Sistan area, is one of the most remarkable relics of the Parthian, Sassanid and Islamic eras. It is the only natural height left behind in Sistan area, where a palace, fire temple, pilgrimage center called Khajeh Mehdi and graveyard reminiscent of the past are still in good condition. The trapezoid-shaped basalt lava, situated 609 meters from the sea level, with a diameter ranging from two to 2.5 kilometers stands 17 kms to the...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical Pool Uncovered in Jerusalem
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On News/Activism 08/09/2005 9:37:16 AM PDT · 54 replies · 1,638+ views


L.A.. Times | August 9, 2005 | Thomas H. Maugh II
Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place [a mikvah, where Jews do a ritual cleansing] for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city and the reputed site where Jesus cured a man blind from birth, according to the Gospel of John. "Scholars have said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit" to illustrate a point, said New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth of the Princeton Theological Seminary. "Now we have found...
 

Raiders Of The Lost Pool (New finds bolster the historicity of John's gospel)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2005 5:26:15 PM PDT · 12 replies · 644+ views


Christianity Today | 10-26-2005 | Gordon Govier
Christianity Today, October 2005 Raiders of the Lost PoolNew finds bolster the historicity of John's Gospel. by Gordon Govier | posted 10/26/2005 09:00 a.m. The Pool of Siloam, considered a metaphor in John's Gospel by some New Testament scholars, was in fact a huge basin at the lowest point in the city of Jerusalem. Recent excavations have uncovered two corners and one side of the pool that stretched for half the length of a football field. "It's very exciting," James Charlesworth, a professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, told CT. "It's very important for the study of the...
 

Rare Jewish artifacts remain in soggy limbo
  Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 05/02/2005 4:37:37 PM PDT · 9 replies · 240+ views


Cincinnati Post | 5-2-05
WASHINGTON - A damaged Torah, a centuries-old Bible and other rare documents important to Iraq's few remaining Jews were rescued from a flooded cellar in Baghdad, only to remain in limbo here. Their restoration, like so much else these days, awaits the emergence of a new Iraq. Historians at the National Archives, which preserves such priceless artifacts as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, are examining the treasure trove of materials found in the basement of the headquarters for Saddam Hussein's secret police. The materials are in moderate to poor condition - they remained wet for several weeks after being...
 

Searching For The Queen Of Sheba
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On News/Activism 05/19/2005 7:03:27 PM PDT · 12 replies · 483+ views


Science Daily | 2005-05-18
The queen of Sheba was once one of the most powerful leaders in the world but there are few clues left anywhere about this woman who ruled a rich and powerful nation somewhere in Africa -- perhaps, as some archeologists maintain, in what is now southwest Nigeria. Now, in what may be the site of her last home and gravesite, a University of Toronto professor is trying to unearth the queen's story -- partially told in the Old Testament -- as well as honouring her in the form of a new Nigerian museum and interpretive centre. "Each year both Muslim...
 

The End of the Assassins
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On News/Activism 09/12/2001 8:07:41 PM PDT · 4 replies · 326+ views


Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan | 1993 | Robert Marshall
The Assassins "had emerged because of a schism in the Shia Muslim sect and established themselves in northern and eastern Persia by taking and controlling a series of mountain fortifications. Behind their walls they lived a contemplative life, producing beautifully wrought paintings and metalwork, but beyond their retreats they terrorized those civilizations they deemed heretical and so earned the enmity not just of the rest of the Islamic world but eventually of Europe. The local Ismaili leader had done little to enhance their reputation. Rather than confront his enemies in open combat he preferred to sponsor a campaign of ...
 

Anatolia
Ancient Armenia gave faith an alphabet
  Posted by Lorianne
On News/Activism 10/30/2005 9:34:29 PM PST · 13 replies · 288+ views


Boston.com | 29 October 2005 | Rich Barlow
Few birthdays are cause for a global scholars' conference at Harvard, but they're raising a metaphorical glass in Cambridge to toast the Armenian alphabet. It's not just that at 1,600 years old the alphabet makes Methuselah look like a youngster. These three dozen letters gave a written language of faith to a pivotal country in Christian history. Years before the Roman emperor Constantine's famous conversion, Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its state religion, in the year 301. At the time, Armenian was a spoken tongue only, meaning worshipers relied on translators during services to interpret a...
 

Epigraphy and Language
Antique urn with writing on it - Any FReepers with expertise in deciphering (Oriental?) writing?
  Posted by HairOfTheDog
On General/Chat 11/04/2005 3:06:15 PM PST · 101 replies · 616+ views


HairOfTheDog
My mother bought this big clay pot years ago at an antique store somewhere. She said it was an urn. The top, which was once sealed, has been cut open, and she put decorative grass in it. I was dusting it off today, and became interested in finding out what the writing on it says. I don't know its origin or what it might say. I have often thought perhaps it is the name or information about it's original occupant. I don't know its age or country of origin, I only guess that it appears to be Asian lettering. Anyone...
 

Oh So Mysteriouso
3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? Even NASA is baffled)
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On News/Activism 03/04/2005 6:47:53 PM PST · 204 replies · 6,195+ views


Private Web Site
At least 200 have been found, and extracted out of deep rock at the Wonderstone Silver Mine in South Africa, averaging 1-4 inches in dia. and composed of a nickel-steel alloy that doesn't occur naturally. Some have a thin shell about a quarter inch thick, when broken open are filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust upon contact with air. A complete mystery according to Roelf Marx curator of the South African Klerksdorp Museum, as the one he has on exibit rotates on its own, locked in a display case, free of outside vibrations. The manufactured metallic...
 

NBC 4 - Irresistible Headlines - Researcher Says Balkan Hill Is Pyramid
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On News/Activism 10/26/2005 8:35:54 PM PDT · 28 replies · 913+ views


NBC4.tv - Los Angeles, CA | October 26, 2005 | n/a
Researcher Says Balkan Hill Is Pyramid Visocica Hill Is 2,300 Feet High SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- A Sarajevo-born researcher said he has discovered an ancient pyramid in the hills of central Bosnia.
 

Composer cracks Rosslyn's musical code
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On News/Activism 10/24/2005 12:29:16 PM PDT · 60 replies · 2,009+ views


The Scotsman | Sat 1 Oct 2005 | ANGIE BROWN
A MUSICAL code hidden in mystical symbols carved into the stone ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel has been unravelled for the first time in more than 500 years. Scottish composer Stuart Mitchell took 20 years to crack a complex series of codes, which have mystified historians for generations. His feat was hailed by experts as a stroke of genius. The codes were hidden in 213 cubes in the ceiling of the chapel, where parts of the film of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code were shot this week. Each cube contained different patterns to form an unusual 6?-minute piece of...
 

Templar Architecture: Practicality and Praise
  Posted by Hacksaw
On News/Activism 10/30/2005 7:43:57 AM PST · 8 replies · 311+ views


TemplarHistory.com | undated | By Alan Butler
Within a very short period of the formation of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, a new style of church architecture began to spread across Western Europe. The first examples of this are to be seen in France, where great Cathedrals such as that of Chartres sing loud the praise of what became known, much later as 'Gothic'. Whether or not the Knights Templar had any direct part in the creation of this revolution in religious building has always been something of a bone of contention, though it is clear that the fledgling organisation had...
 

Get Medieval
On This day In History: The Great Lisbon Earthquake
  Posted by Valin
On News/Activism 11/01/2005 6:26:07 AM PST · 17 replies · 384+ views


National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering | Jan T. Kozak, Charles D. James
Although not the strongest or most deadly earthquake in human history, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake's impact, not only on Portugal but on all of Europe, was profound and lasting. Depictions of the earthquake in art and literature can be found in several European countries, and these were produced and reproduced for centuries following the event, which came to be known as "The Great Lisbon Earthquake." The earthquake began at 9:30 on November 1st, 1755, and was centered in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 km WSW of Cape St. Vincent. The total duration of shaking lasted ten minutes and was comprised...
 

Prehistory and Origins
Generosity Is No Monkey Business, Study
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2005 5:45:09 PM PDT · 9 replies · 197+ views


Physorg. Com | 10-27-2005
Generosity Is No Monkey Business, Study General Science | October 27, 2005 Given the opportunity to spread random acts of kindness, chimps would just as soon pass, finds a new UCLA-led study. The study, published in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, suggests at least one way in which humans differ from their closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. "Because chimps participate in collective activities such as cooperative hunting and food sharing and they console injured group members and human caregivers, their capacity for empathy and altruism has been an object of considerable curiosity," said UCLA anthropologist...
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Art dealer sentenced to 20 months
  Posted by afraidfortherepublic
On News/Activism 11/01/2005 2:20:39 PM PST · 12 replies · 317+ views


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Nov. 1, 2005 | GRAEME ZIELINSKI
Before sentencing a Whitefish Bay art dealer on her second conviction stemming from an initial crime, a federal judge said Monday he hadn't really seen a "clear portrait" of the defendant and that what he did see was "impressionistic." But U.S. District Judge Charles N. Clevert Jr. said he had enough perspective to throw the book at Marilyn Karos, concluding that she had once more thumbed her nose at the law in the case that comprised a Libyan businessman, Renaissance-era astronomical devices, a hidden-camera videotape made at the Pfister Hotel and a Mob-style beat-down in the North Shore. Clevert sentenced...
 

The History Of Halloween
  Posted by Dallas59
On General/Chat 10/22/2005 5:32:51 AM PDT · 12 replies · 243+ views


History Channel | 10/22/2005 | History Channel
Ancient Origins Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31,...
 

Lessons From our Ancestors About the Countryside (Five Experts Ran a Welsh farm using 17th C methods)
  Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 08/20/2005 9:03:36 PM PDT · 171 replies · 2,100+ views


BBC | Friday, 19 August 2005 | Megan Lane
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. What lessons for modern living did they learn? The BBC series Tales from the Green Valley follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate farm life from the age of the Stuarts. They wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s. It was a time when daily life was a hard grind, intimately connected with the physical environment where routines were dictated by the weather and the seasons. A far cry from today's experience of the...
 

Trash found may be linked to Vikings boat party
  Posted by Rakkasan1
On News/Activism 11/04/2005 7:16:22 AM PST · 75 replies · 1,946+ views


KSTP.com | 11-4-05 | 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS
One week after several Vikings players held a lewd party on a Lake Minnetonka boat, two players were seen throwing trash in a dumpster at a construction site in Eden Prairie. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS obtained exclusive access to the trash - and the information it revealed. Bryant McKinnie and Mewelde Moore were seen throwing bags of trash in the dumpster. The eight bags contained what appeared to be remnants of a party, including aluminum tins of food, beer and champagne bottles, fireworks, disposable camera boxes, hallowed out cigars, something that looks like a marijuana bud, sexual and feminine hygiene products...
 

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306 posted on 11/05/2005 11:04:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm; 75thOVI; Adder; Androcles; albertp; asgardshill; bitt; BradyLS; Carolinamom; ...
Welcome to Digest number 68. A wide variety of topic headers this week. Make it a good weekend, all.

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307 posted on 11/05/2005 11:06:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Weekly Digest #69
Saturday, November 12, 2005


Prehistory and Origins
Potential Origins of Europeans Found
  Posted by AlaskaErik
On News/Activism 11/11/2005 1:09:32 AM PST · 91 replies · 1,384+ views


Yahoo News | November 10, 2005 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
A study of DNA from ancient farmers in Europe shows sharp differences from that of modern Europeans — results that are likely to add fuel to the debate over European origins. Researchers led by Wolfgang Haak of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, argue that their finding supports the belief that modern residents of central Europe descended from Stone Age hunter-gatherers who were present 40,000 years ago, and not the early farmers who arrived thousands of years later. But other anthropologists questioned that conclusion, arguing that the available information isn't sufficient to support it. Haak's team used DNA from 24...
 

Prehistoric skull found in dump may be missing common ancestor of apes & humans
  Posted by dead
On News/Activism 11/07/2005 8:35:20 AM PST · 186 replies · 2,560+ views


The Guardian | Monday November 7, 2005 | Dale Fuchs in Madrid
Palaeontologists excavating a dump outside Barcelona have found a skull dating back 14m years that could belong to a common ancestor of apes and humans. The nearly intact skull, which has a flat face, jaw and teeth, may belong to a previously unknown species of great ape, said Salvador Moya, the chief palaeontologist on the dig. "We could find a cradle of humanity in the Mediterranean," he said. A routine land survey for a planned expansion of the Can Mata dump in Els Hostalets de Pierola turned up the first surprise in 2002: a primate's tooth. Since then, scientists from...
 

Epigraphy and Language
A Is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem
  Posted by saquin
On News/Activism 11/08/2005 8:48:19 PM PST · 29 replies · 514+ views


New York Times | 11/9/05 | John Noble Wilford
In the 10th century B.C., in the hill country south of Jerusalem, a scribe carved his A B C's on a limestone boulder - actually, his aleph-beth-gimel's, for the string of letters appears to be an early rendering of the emergent Hebrew alphabet. Archaeologists digging in July at the site, Tel Zayit, found the inscribed stone in the wall of an ancient building. After an analysis of the layers of ruins, the discoverers concluded that this was the earliest known specimen of the Hebrew alphabet and an important benchmark in the history of writing, they said this week. If they...
 

Israelite Alphabet May Have Been Found
  Posted by anymouse
On News/Activism 11/09/2005 5:11:58 PM PST · 29 replies · 658+ views


Associated Press | 11/09/04
Two lines of an alphabet have been found inscribed in a stone in Israel, offering what some scholars say is the most solid evidence yet that the ancient Israelites were literate as early as the 10th century B.C. "This is very rare. This stone will be written about for many years to come," archaeologist Ron E. Tappy, a professor at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary who made the discovery, said Wednesday. "This makes it very historically probable there were people in the 10th century (B.C.) who could write." Christopher Rollston, a professor of Semitic studies at Emmanuel School of Religion in...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Ancient church uncovered in Megiddo Prison
  Posted by SmithL
On Religion 11/05/2005 3:38:44 PM PST · 24 replies · 487+ views


Jerusalem Post | 11/5/5 | TIDHAR OFEK
Expansion plans for Megiddo Prison, until now known only as a main facility for security prisoners in the North, have unexpectedly yielded a major find for the Christian world and Israeli tourism: a structure believed by some archeologists to be the earliest church ever found. The rare Christian religious structure, possibly the largest church ever found here according to reports, was found during an Israel Archeological Association (IAA) excavation at the site, discovered thanks to the help of, among others, 60 prisoners who worked on the dig. Found on the floor of the structure was an inscription written in Greek...
 

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Church-(heh JC and Armagedon... are we having fun?)
  Posted by Flavius
On News/Activism 11/05/2005 9:26:41 PM PST · 50 replies · 1,384+ views


ap | 11.7.05 | na
JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists on Saturday said they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. ADVERTISEMENT The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries, and include references to Jesus and images of fish, an ancient Christian symbol. "This is a very ancient structure, maybe the oldest in our area," said Yotam Tepper, the head archaeologist on the dig. The dig took place over the past 18 months at the Megiddo prison in...
 

Archaeologists Uncover 'Oldest Church' in Holy Land
  Posted by Sub-Driver
On News/Activism 11/06/2005 9:04:05 AM PST · 49 replies · 1,011+ views


VOA News
Archaeologists Uncover 'Oldest Church' in Holy Land By Robert Berger Jerusalem 06 November 2005 Berger report - Download 255k audio clip Listen to Berger report audio clip The archaeological world is buzzing with news of a major find in Israel. The discovery is being hailed by Christian leaders, who see it as an affirmation of the faith. An Israeli archaeologist points at a section of a Christian mosaic at an excavation site in the compound of the Megiddo prison in northern Israel, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005 An Israeli archaeologist points at a section of a Christian mosaic at an excavation...
 

Israeli Archaeologists Discover Roman-era Christian Building
  Posted by saquin
On News/Activism 11/06/2005 1:22:28 PM PST · 10 replies · 339+ views


Washington Post | 11/6/05 | Scott Wilson
MEGIDDO, Israel, Nov. 6 -- Israeli state archaeologists have discovered on the grounds of a high-security prison here mosaics, pottery and other remains of a Roman-era Christian building, which they say could be the oldest public place of Christian worship ever uncovered in Israel and perhaps one of the earliest such sites in the world. The mosaic floor of the structure, buried beneath rock, soil and asphalt, was discovered Oct. 30 by an Israeli prisoner working on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The agency had been excavating the compound for more than a year to ensure that nothing of...
 

Archaeologists unveil ancient church in Israel
  Posted by gobucks
On News/Activism 11/06/2005 5:54:15 PM PST · 57 replies · 1,034+ views


MSNBC | 5 Nov 05 | AP
MEGIDDO PRISON, Israel - Israeli prisoner Ramil Razilo was removing rubble from the planned site of a new prison ward when his shovel uncovered the edge of an elaborate mosaic, unveiling what Israeli archaeologists said Sunday may be the Holy Land’s oldest church. The discovery of the church in the northern Israeli town of Megiddo, near the biblical Armageddon, was hailed by experts as an important discovery that could reveal details about the development of the early church in the region. Archaeologists said the church dated from the third century, decades before Constantine legalized Christianity across the Byzantine Empire. “What’s...
 

Archaeologists unveil ancient church in Israel
  Posted by afraidfortherepublic
On News/Activism 11/07/2005 3:13:15 AM PST · 12 replies · 332+ views


MSNBC | 11-6-05
Discovery made on prison grounds near biblical site Armageddon MEGIDDO PRISON, Israel - Israeli prisoner Ramil Razilo was removing rubble from the planned site of a new prison ward when his shovel uncovered the edge of an elaborate mosaic, unveiling what Israeli archaeologists said Sunday may be the Holy Land's oldest church. The discovery of the church in the northern Israeli town of Megiddo, near the biblical Armageddon, was hailed by experts as an important discovery that could reveal details about the development of the early church in the region. Archaeologists said the church dated from the third century, decades...
 

Ancient Greece
An Unpillaged Hellenistic Tomb Found In Macedonia
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/09/2005 4:32:08 PM PST · 9 replies · 369+ views


Kathimerini | 11-8-2005
An unpillaged Hellenistic tomb found in Macedonia Grave contents are evidence of a thriving ancient settlement The newly found tomb, measuring 2.7 x 3.3 meters, had contained the intact remains of four cremation burials. The discovery of an unpillaged, Hellenistic-era chamber tomb on October 29 in Spilia Eordias, in the municipality of Aghia Paraskevi, near a monumental Macedonian masonry tomb, has cast doubts on prevailing views about the isolation of Upper and Lower Macedonia. Clay and metal The newly found tomb, measuring 2.7 x 3.30 meters, contained the intact remains of four cremation burials, dating from the second quarter of...
 

The End of the Great Century?
  Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/08/2005 1:20:31 PM PST · 3 replies · 328+ views


NRO | November 08, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson
E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 08, 2005, 8:28 a.m. The End of the Great Century? After a long, painful war. EDITOR'S NOTE: Victor Davis Hanson's latest book, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War has recently been released by Random House. This week National Review Online will be excerpting Chapter 10 of the book. Below is the second installment; the first can be read here. Check back tomorrow for part three and click on Amazon to purchase A War Like No Other here. Very early in his...
 

Ruin?
  Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/07/2005 4:37:50 PM PST · 5 replies · 472+ views


NRO | November 07, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson
E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 07, 2005, 11:15 a.m. Ruin? Was is death or renewal in Athens? EDITOR'S NOTE: Victor Davis Hanson's latest book, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War has recently been released by Random House. This week National Review Online will be excerpting Chapter 10 of the book. Below is the first part. Check back tomorrow for part two and click on Amazon to purchase A War Like No Other here. Was Athens — or Greece itself — destroyed by the war? An entire...
 

Military Lessons of the War (Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson)
  Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/10/2005 8:59:30 AM PST · 8 replies · 330+ views


NRO | November 09, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson
E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 09, 2005, 8:07 a.m. Military Lessons of the War Citizens work at their defense. EDITOR'S NOTE: Victor Davis Hanson's latest book, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War has recently been released by Random House. This week National Review Online is excerpting Chapter 10 of the book. Below is the third installment; the first can be read here and the second here. Check back tomorrow for part four and click on Amazon to purchase A War Like No Other here. Over three...
 

Thucydides and Us
  Posted by Valin
On News/Activism 10/26/2005 6:48:31 AM PDT · 20 replies · 560+ views


The American Enterprise Online | 10/26/05 | Joseph M. Knippenberg
One of the many joys of teaching is the opportunity to revisit the same text, with different groups of students, at different times in the nation’s life. Our classroom conversations—inevitably informed by the big events taking place off our tiny stage—dwell on, illuminate, clarify, exaggerate, and distort the texts we examine. In recent years, the author whose work has sparked the most spirited classroom discussion is Thucydides, whose history of the Peloponnesian War has long been a staple of international relations theorizing. When I first encountered him in the 1970s, his account of the conflict between Athens and Sparta—one a...
 

'A War Like No Other': Where Hubris Came From (Victor Davis Hanson book reviewed)
  Posted by baseball_fan
On News/Activism 10/22/2005 3:27:19 PM PDT · 17 replies · 487+ views


NYTimes | October 23, 2005 | PAUL JOHNSON
WHY should a distinguished classical scholar like Victor Davis Hanson provide us with yet another book about the Peloponnesian War? He is in no doubt: he is writing a tract for the times. "Perhaps never," he insists, "has the Peloponnesian War been more relevant to Americans than to us of the present age." This Greek civil war, between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies, lasted 27 years, from 431 to 404 B.C., and ended with the capitulation of Athens and its occupation by Sparta. Its interest for Hanson is in comparing Athens to the United States. At...
 

Central Asia
Japanese Researchers Find Buddhist Stone Caves In Afghanistan
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/09/2005 4:38:04 PM PST · 11 replies · 269+ views


Kashar News | 11-9-2005
Japanese researchers find Buddhist stone caves in Afghanistan KABUL, November 9 (SANA) – A team of Japanese researchers has found Buddhist stone caves believed to date back to the eighth century about 120 kilometers west of the Bamiyan ruins in central Afghanistan, the team said Wednesday. The team, headed by Ryukoku University professor Takashi Irisawa, confirmed in late October the discovery of a group of caves built on cliffs located 1 km west of the Keligan ruins in the upper Band-e-Amir River area. The discovery indicates the possibility that the influence of Buddhism may have extended to the area of...
 

Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
The art of wine in ancient Persia [Shiraz]
  Posted by Cyrus the Great
On News/Activism 11/10/2005 11:25:03 AM PST · 43 replies · 649+ views


Iranian | 11/10/05 | Iranian
“I could drink much wine and yet bear it well” -- Darius the Great, King of Persia (6th BCE), Athenaeus 10.45 The history of wine making and wine drinking is an old one in Persia, and today the Darioush vineyard in the Napa Valley which has become renowned in the art of wine making, is attempting to revive this tradition in the United States. Wine connoisseurs today may be familiar with the word Shiraz, the name of a town in southwest Persia famed for its grapes. Whether or not the Shiraz grape was the source of the Medieval Syrah, brought...
 

Scores Of Sassanid Seals Discovered At Takht-e Soleiman
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/08/2005 11:06:18 AM PST · 18 replies · 580+ views


Teheran Times | 11-8-2005
Scores of Sassanid seals discovered at Takht-e Soleiman Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- A team of archaeologists recently unearthed over 1300 clay seals in a storage room at the Sassanid site of Takht-e Soleiman in West Azarbaijan Province, the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported on Sunday. “The seals will shed light on the administrative, legal, trade, and economic systems of the Sassanid dynasty,” the director of the archaeological team, Yusef Moradi, said. “In addition, the seals will be helpful in the identification of Sassanid era cities, most of which are still unidentified, because the...
 

Anatolia
Archaeologists Find Ancient Burial Mounds (Armenia - 3,000BC)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/10/2005 11:55:24 AM PST · 4 replies · 263+ views


Yahoo News | 11-9-2005
Archeologists Find Ancient Burial Mounds Wed Nov 9, 9:15 PM ET YEREVAN, Armenia - Archeologists said Wednesday they have unearthed burial mounds dating back to the third millennium B.C. which they believe contain remains and trinkets from ancient Aryan nomads. Historian Hakob Simonian said Wednesday that the four mounds were among 30 discovered about 35 miles west of the Armenian capital Yerevan, containing beads made of agate, carnelian and as well as the remains of what appears to be a man, aged 50-55. Also found were remains of domesticated horses and glazed pottery appearing to show chariots, Simonian said. The...
 

Ancient Egypt
Mysterious case of death on the Nile, 4,000 years ago
  Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 11/06/2005 6:15:04 PM PST · 13 replies · 997+ views


The Guardian (U.K.) | Monday November 7, 2005 | Tim Radford
Excavations in Egypt have unearthed a grisly massacre at an ancient royal cityArchaeologists have begun to piece together the story of a mysterious massacre more than 4,000 years ago in the former royal city of Mendes, which flourished for 20 centuries on a low mound overlooking the green fields and papyrus marshes of the Nile delta north of Cairo. Donald Redford of Pennsylvania State University had begun to excavate the foundations of a huge temple linked to Rameses II, the pharaoh traditionally linked to the biblical story of Moses, when he found an earlier structure destroyed by fire, and evidence...
 

Ancient Rome
Human bones thought to be Roman (Malmesbury)
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2005 1:27:00 PM PST · 4 replies · 86+ views


BBC | Wednesday, 2 November 2005 | staff
[A]rchaeologists now say the skeletons could date back 2000 years due to the non-Christian burial style. Simon Haggarty, Director of The Old Bell, said: "The hotel dates back to 1220 so it's not surprising that these bones are even earlier than that."
 

Underwater Archaeology
Fighting over the salvage of ancient wrecks
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2005 1:24:15 PM PST · 5 replies · 41+ views


Kathimerini | November 3 2005 | Yiannis Souliotis
Sources in the ephorate, which belongs to the Culture Ministry, say the law is a scandal since it does not take into consideration an archaeology law that is enshrined in the constitution and therefore has greater force. They also note that soon Greece will no longer be of any interest to divers since its underwater treasures will be easy game for antiquities smugglers.
 

Ancient Europe
Was Arthur a king or just a battle commander?
  Posted by Hacksaw
On News/Activism 11/06/2005 7:31:28 AM PST · 43 replies · 863+ views


King Arthur: A Man for the Ages | undated | David White
Explorations in Arthurian History The figure of Arthur begins as a war hero, the praises of whom are sung in war poems by the Celts and the Welsh. Y Gododdin celebrates one particularly brave warrior, then says he "was no Arthur." The Triads are full of wonderful, courageous things Arthur did. The most important early source for Arthur's deeds is Historia Brittonum, written by the monk Nennius in the 9th century. Nennius calls Arthur dux bellorum and tells us of 12 great battles Arthur fought. Although Nennius tells us the location of each battle, those locations are hard to come...
 

Get Medieval
Ancient hall 'saved by lottery' (Boston, Lincolnshire)
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2005 1:29:44 PM PST · 2 replies · 17+ views


BBC | Thursday, 3 November 2005 | staff
A 14th century guildhall in Lincolnshire that has been used as a courtroom, museum and jail is being restored with a lottery award... The building was used during the trial and imprisonment of the Pilgrim Fathers in September 1607.
 

Sensational find in Herad (Farsund in southwest Norway)
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2005 1:40:35 PM PST · 1 reply · 4+ views


Aftenposten | November 4 2005 | staff
Archeologist Wenche Helliksen told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that the grave, which included a person in a coffin roughly 2000 years old, was very special... The special ingredient in the find is the presence of textiles. The Herad find is from the year 300 at the latest, and archeologists believe it may rewrite the history of the area. A 1500-year-old boat house has also been found during the Herad excavations, NRK reports. The boat house is so large that it is likely that it has been part of a regional effort, perhaps as part of a pre-historic naval defense.
 

Scotland's Orkneys tell ancient stories
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2005 1:36:44 PM PST · 6 replies · 73+ views


Washington Times | November 5, 2005 | Naomi Koppel
[T]he 4,000-year-old standing stones of the Ring of Brogar -- a UNESCO World Heritage Site -- are startling. Thirty-six of the original 60 stones remain, in a perfect circle, each up to 13 feet tall, surrounded by a deep ditch cut into the rock. At dawn and dusk, the stones stand dark and imposing against the light reflecting off the Loch of Stenness below. Farther along is the biggest tourist attraction on Orkney, the village of Skara Brae, protected under the sand for nearly 5,000 years until it was revealed by a huge storm in 1850. Each of the stone...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Kennewick Man, Meet Your Distant Cousins
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/07/2005 3:24:22 PM PST · 57 replies · 973+ views


Seattle Times | 11-7-2005 | Kate Riley
Kennewick Man, meet your distant cousins By Kate Riley Monday, November 7, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM COLUMBIA, S.C. — Discerning the story of America's prehistoric past is a bit like groping through an unfamiliar room in the dark. One learned scientist's tattooing tool is another's piece of rock. Ask them to agree how long it has been there and you're bound to set off an argument that makes Seattle's whether-to-monorail conflict seem like a tea party. So it goes with evolving thought in archaeology. We all know the prevailing theory. Our children's high-school textbooks talk about the...
 

Asia
2,000-Year-Old Periwig Unearthed In Sichuan
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/09/2005 4:43:26 PM PST · 11 replies · 266+ views


Xinhuanet/China View | 11-9-2005
2,000-year-old periwig unearthed in Sichuan www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-09 17:18:32 CHENGDU, Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chinese might have learned to adorn themselves with periwigs more than 2,000 years ago, said archeologists who unearthed a skeleton wearing a hairpiece from an ancient tombs in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The wig, found on the lower part of the skull, was made of hemprope, says Zhang Rong, a heritage repairs technician with a local museum in Liangshan prefecture, where the finding was reported. Zhang said she had consulted several seasoned hemp knitters in the prefecture before she came to the conclusion. The wig dates...
 

The Pacific
Saipan May Be Pacific's Oldest Archaeological Site
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/10/2005 11:46:26 AM PST · 3 replies · 104+ views


Saipan Tribune | 11-10-2005 | Marconi Calindas
'Saipan may be Pacific's oldest archaeological site' By Marconi Calindas Reporter Thursday, November 10, 2005 Sediment cores taken from Saipan's Lake Susupe in 2002 have yielded a continual record of plant pollen and other materials for the past 8,000 years that could make the island one of the oldest archaeological site in the Pacific, according to the Historic Preservation Office. HPO director Epiphanio E. Cabrera said that scientists who have been working with the CNMI recently announced new evidence that could push the date for the earliest human settlement in Micronesia back to nearly 5,000 years ago. Cabrera said researchers...
 

Climate
Study: Past global warming altered forests
  Posted by sandbar
On News/Activism 11/11/2005 10:12:25 AM PST · 14 replies · 312+ views


United Press International | 11/11/05 | United Press
Study: Past global warming altered forests GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The concept of Pennsylvania palmettos and magnolias in Minnesota may not be too far-fetched in view of research by a University of Florida paleontologist. The research by vertebrate paleontologist Jonathan Bloch and colleagues suggests land plants changed drastically during a period of sudden global warming 55 million years ago. "It indicates that should we have a period of rapid global warming on that scale today, we might expect very dramatic changes to the biota of the planet, not just the mammals and other vertebrates, but forests also completely...
 

Biology and Cryptobiology
Gigantic Apes Coexisted with Early Humans, Study Finds (Gigantopithecus blackii)
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 11/07/2005 10:19:45 PM PST · 22 replies · 582+ views


LiveScience.com on yahoo | 11/07/05 | Bjorn Carey
A gigantic ape standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds lived alongside humans for over a million years, according to a new study. Fortunately for the early humans, the huge primate's diet consisted mainly of bamboo. Scientists have known about Gigantopithecus blackii since the accidental discovery of some of its teeth on sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy about 80 years ago. While the idea of a giant ape piqued the interest of scientists – and bigfoot hunters – around the world, it was unclear how long ago this beast went extinct. Precise dating Now Jack Rink,...
 

In China, Hunt on for Loch Ness Monster
  Posted by martin_fierro
On General/Chat 11/05/2005 3:29:08 PM PST · 10 replies · 172+ views


AP/Yahoo | 11/5/05 | AUDRA ANG
In China, Hunt on for Loch Ness Monster By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 13 minutes ago LAKE KANASI, China - The moon is barely a crescent in the sky as dusk darkens the milky green surface of Lake Kanasi. Four people huddle on the edge of a floating wooden dock, eyes scanning this mountain lake near China's remote northwestern frontier with Central Asia. Small waves lap at their shoes. In a soft voice, Yuan Guoying recounts his two sightings of the creatures. The first over there, from a cliff, Yuan says. Then again, 19 years later. From...
 

Oh So Mysteriouso
Death Renews Iceman 'Curse' Claim (Oetzi)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/05/2005 3:47:36 PM PST · 28 replies · 580+ views


BBC | 11-3-2005
Death renews iceman 'curse' claim Should working with Oetzi carry a health warning? The death of a molecular biologist has fuelled renewed speculation about a "curse" connected to an ancient corpse. Tom Loy, 63, had analysed DNA found on "Oetzi", the Stone Age hunter whose remains were discovered in 1991. Dr Loy died in unclear circumstances in Australia two weeks ago, it has been announced, making him the seventh person connected with Oetzi to die. Colleagues and family of Dr Loy have rejected the notion that he was the victim of a "curse". It is not known how many people...
 

Catastrophism and Astronomy
Astronomers poised to apply novel way to look for comets beyond Neptune
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/07/2005 10:41:04 PM PST · 5 replies · 31+ views


EurekAlert | 7-Jan-2003 | Anne Stark
Rather than look for the light reflected directly by these objects (as is customary astronomy practice), this project will search for those very rare moments when one of these objects passes between the telescopes and a nearby background star. This brief "eclipse" lasts less than a second, but will allow the scientists to study objects that are much too faint to be seen in reflected sunlight, even with the largest telescopes.
 

Remains May Be That of Copernicus
  Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 11/05/2005 2:20:38 PM PST · 20 replies · 429+ views


Science Daily | November 4
FROMBORK, Poland, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A computer-generated reconstruction of a skull and partial remains discovered in Frombork, Poland, appears to resemble portraits of Nicolaus Copernicus. The remains, found in Frombork Cathedral, had been examined by specialists at the central crime laboratory in Warsaw. The examination determined the skull was of a man who had died at age 60 to 70, reported the BBC Friday. Copernicus -- who has been called the father of modern astronomy for his 16th century theory that the Earth orbited the Sun -- died in 1543 at age 70. The grave of Copernicus, a canon...
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
US to investigate Chinese looting of Tibet
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/08/2005 9:13:41 AM PST · 15 replies · 133+ views


The Art Newspaper | 2 November 2005 | probably some guy named Art
Dana Rohrabacher, a conservative Republican representative in the United States Congress and a long-standing critic of China’s human rights record, has announced he will lead an investigation into what he suspects was the systematic looting of Tibetan art and objects by Chinese authorities since the 1949 Communist revolution. The inquiry has coincided with a high profile auction in Beijing of artefacts that previously belonged to Tibetan monasteries, and which seeped out into international markets sometime last century before being bought by the leading Taiwan-based collector Wang Du.
 

end of digest #69 20051112

309 posted on 11/11/2005 9:40:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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310 posted on 11/11/2005 9:42:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Thanks for your efforts, SunkenCiv. You are a pingmeister extraordinaire.


311 posted on 11/13/2005 8:01:06 AM PST by indcons ("Not all muslims are terrorists; however, all terrorists today are muslims." - George Fernandez)
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Thanks, I wish I had a graphic to that effect. :')


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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #70
Saturday, November 19, 2005


Climate
Forests Frozen In Time 
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/15/2005 3:53:29 PM PST · 3 replies · 210+ views


Science Frontiers (#51) | May-Jun 1987 | William R. Corliss
Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian Arctic is only 700 miles south of the present North Pole. Little grows there today, but there is on these icy shores the remnant of a forest that flourished 45 million years ago, according to conventional geological dating of the strata... So excellent is the preservation of the forest that its wood cuts as if it were recent lumber and burns readily... Even if the earth was warmer 45 million years ago, could a tropical-type forest survive the nearly six months of total darkness at Axel Heiberg Island? ...Also relevant is the discovery, reported...
 

Catastrophism and Astronomy
Clare Places: Islands: Mutton Island or Enniskerry (9th century catastrophe in Ireland) 
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/18/2005 11:58:58 AM PST · 26 replies · 170+ views


Clare County Library | prior to November 19, 2005 | staff writer
According to the "Annals of the Four Masters" the island was once called Fitha Island and it formed part of the mainland until the day "the sea swelled so high that it burst its boundaries, overflowing a large tract of country, and drowning over 1,000 persons." This happened on March 16th, 804. Some reports describe it as an earthquake, others as a tidal wave when "the sea divided the island of Fitha into three parts." These three islands are Mutton Island, Inismattle (or Illanwattle) and Roanshee (or Carrig na Ron). There is a fourth island in the area called Carraig...
 

British Isles
Viking 'Town' Is Ireland's Equivalent Of Pompeii 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/13/2004 2:30:31 PM PDT · 22 replies · 274+ views


Waterford News And Star | 6-11-2004 | Marion O' Mara
Friday, June 11, 2004 By Marion OíMaraViking ëtowní is Irelandís equivalent of Pompeii ITíS likely to be some weeks yet before Minister for the Environment Martin Cullen announces recommendations for dealing with and possibly preserving what historians are now describing as Irelandís first town. The discovery of the Viking settlement, at Woodstown, five miles from the city, which is believed to date back to the mid-9th century, was made as preparatory work got underway on the cityís Ä300m by-pass. The site, located close to the River Suir, is 1.5 km long by 0.5 km wide and so far up to...
 

Ancient Europe
Archaeologists Find Western World's Oldest Map (500BC) 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/17/2005 5:42:59 PM PST · 34 replies · 1,109+ views


The Telegraph (UK) | 11-18-2005 | Hilary Clarke
Archaeologists find western world's oldest map By Hilary Clarke in Rome (Filed: 18/11/2005) The oldest map of anywhere in the western world, dating from about 500 BC, has been unearthed in southern Italy. Known as the Soleto Map, the depiction of Apulia, the heel of Italy's "boot", is on a piece of black-glazed terracotta vase about the size of a postage stamp. It was found in a dig led by the Belgian archaeologist Thierry van Compernolle, of Montpellier University, two years ago. But its existence was kept secret until more research was carried out. "The map offers, to date, for...
 

Ancient Greece
Greek Gods And Those Who Doubted Them 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/14/2005 1:54:01 PM PST · 15 replies · 520+ views


Redlands Daily Facts | 11-14-2005 | Gregory Elder
Greek gods and those who doubted them Gregory Elder For the Daily Facts It was a bad day in the year 406 B.C. Euripides, an elderly playwright, was wandering around the palace, skulking in his gloom. For decades he had dedicated himself to the theater and written and directed more than 90 plays, performed before thousands of people. Yet for all his pains, he had won prizes for only three of his dramas, a minuscule number compared to his rivals Sophocles and Aeschylus. More than once, he had been held up to public ridicule by the tart-tongued comedian Aristophanes. In...
 

Ancient Rome
Rare Seal Bearing Jesus Image Found In Tiberias 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/18/2005 12:36:58 PM PST · 34 replies · 1,449+ views


Haaretz Daily | 11-18-2005 | Eli Ashkenazi
Last update - 08:55 18/11/2005 Rare seal bearing Jesus image found in Tiberias By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent A rare seal bearing a picture of Jesus on one side was discovered at an archeological dig in the old city of Tiberias on Thursday. The other side of the seal, which dates from the sixth century, depicts a cross and bears the inscription "Christos." The seal was discovered by two volunteers, employees of the American and British embassies. Prof. Yizhar Hirschfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is directing the dig, said the seal apparently belonged to a high-ranking church...
 

Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
How did Trajan succeed in subduing Parthia where Mark Antony failed? 
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/14/2005 10:09:55 AM PST · 15 replies · 178+ views


Ancient History Bulletin (via GeoCities Italy) | 1990 | Graham Wylie
Building a stable bridge of boats across a fast-flowing mountain stream must have been no easy matter, especially under fire from an enemy army assembled on the far side. 'But Trajan had a great abundance of ships and soldiers' -- enough apparently to distract the barbarians while the bridge was flung across. Once a bridgehead was established, enemy resistance collapsed, and a large tract of territory fell into the hands of the Romans, though it is not clear whether one or two campaigns were required. The new province of Assyria included Gordiene, Adiabene and the Kirkuk region.
 

Ancient Egypt
Egypt to recover 100 stolen antiquities 
  Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 11/19/2005 1:00:38 AM PST · 4 replies · 124+ views


Middle East Times | November 18, 2005
CAIRO -- Egypt is to recover from the United States, Canada and Germany more than 100 stolen antiquities that had been smuggled out by a massive trafficking ring, the official Mena news agency reported on Thursday. Some of the antiquities were located after Egypt's largest-ever trafficking trial in August, which led to heavy prison sentences for seven people, antiquities chief Zahi Hawwas told the agency. He said that members of his Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) had found some of the missing pieces on the Websites of several auctioneers across the world. Hawwas explained that the pieces to be recovered...
 

No Pork Ban In Ancient Egypt 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/15/2005 11:30:17 AM PST · 48 replies · 641+ views


Ansa. it | 12-15-2005
No pork ban in Ancient EgyptItalians find pig bug in mummy's tummy (ANSA) - Florence, November 15 - Italian researchers have found a pig-related disease in a mummy, squashing a common belief that Ancient Egyptians had a dietary ban on pork . Until now historians have found evidence suggesting ancient high priests in Egypt prohibited pig meat, in common with many Middle Eastern peoples who still don't eat pork today . "It has hitherto been thought that there was a sort of religious-hygienic ban on eating pork in Ancient Egypt," said Pisa University historical pathologist Fabrizio Bruschi . The researchers...
 

Get Medieval
Charles Martel 
  Posted by thoughtomator
On Religion 11/05/2005 8:39:40 AM PST · 5 replies · 230+ views


Catholic Encyclopedia | 2003 | Catholic Encyclopedia
Charles Martel Born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741. He was the natural son of Pepin of Herstal and a woman named AlpaÔde or ChalpaÔde. Pepin, who died in 714, had outlived his two legitimate sons, Drogon and Grimoald, and to Theodoald, a son of the latter and then only six years old, fell the burdensome inheritance of the French monarchy. Charles, who was then twenty-six, was not excluded from the succession on account of his birth, Theodoald himself being the son of a concubine, but through the influence of Plectrude, Theodoald's grandmother, who wished...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Archeology Proves Bible History Accurate 
  Posted by Coleus
On Religion 11/13/2005 10:16:17 PM PST · 7 replies · 121+ views


The Trumpet | December 2005 | Dennis Leap
Is the Bible religious myth or accurate history? Some highly educated people say the Bibleís history cannot be trusted. What do you think? Here is an important article to help you clarify your thoughts. The Bible is the only ancient, well-organized and authentic framework in which to fit all the facts of history. The Bible does not record all history. In fact, there are huge gaps in the history contained in the Bible. Yet, without the Bible and what it reveals from prehistory, ancient history and prophecy -- which is history written in advance -- you cannot truly understand any history. No worldly source...
 

Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found? 
  Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 11/10/2005 4:37:28 AM PST · 113 replies · 2,686+ views


IMRA | November 10, 2005
CONTACT: Elana Oberlander, Office of the Spokesman, Bar-Ilan University Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found? Bar-Ilan University Archaeologists Unearth Earliest Philistine Inscription in Which Names Similar to Goliath Appear Ramat Gan - A very small ceramic sherd unearthed by Bar-Ilan University archaeologists digging at Tell es-Safi, the biblical city "Gath of the Philistines", may hold a very large clue into the history of the well-known biblical figure Goliath. The sherd, which contains the earliest known Philistine inscription ever to be discovered, mentions two names that are remarkably similar to the name "Goliath". Tell es-Safi/Gath is located in the southern coastal...
 

Epigraphy and Language
Jehoash Tablet Said Found Near Muslim Cemetery 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/14/2005 1:40:50 PM PST · 14 replies · 533+ views


Haaretz Daily | 11-14-2005 | Nadav Shragai
Jehoash tablet said found near Muslim cemetery By Nadav Shragai The inscription attributed to King Jehoash whose discovery was announced earlier this week was reportedly found near Jerusalem's Muslim cemetery, outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, not far from Golden Gate, according to information obtained by Ha'aretz. Jehoash ruled in Jerusalem at the end of the ninth century B.C.E. The inscription has been authenticated by the National Infrastructure Ministry's Geological Survey of Israel. Three different people and institutions involved in examining the stone told Ha'aretz that representatives of the collector who owns the stone told them it was...
 

Research On Ancient Writing Linked With Modern Mideast Conflict 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/14/2005 1:25:30 PM PST · 29 replies · 920+ views


The State | 11-14-2005 | Ron Grossman
Posted on Sun, Nov. 13, 2005 Research on ancient writing linked with modern Mideast conflict BY RON GROSSMAN CHICAGO - Professorial colleagues think Ron Tappy has made a landmark breakthrough in our understanding of the world of the Bible. He himself is waiting for the other shoe to drop. This week, Tappy will formally unveil his discovery at the meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Normally a presentation titled "The 2005 Excavation Season at Tel Zayit, with Special Attention to the Tenth Century BCE" would hardly be noticed beyond the scholars who will gather at the Hyatt Penn's...
 

Ancient Texts Could Unlock Persian Past 
  Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 11/14/2005 3:11:51 PM PST · 14 replies · 490+ views


Jewish Journal | 11-14-05 | Karmel Melamed
It took Iranian Jews in the United States nearly three decades in exile from the land their ancestors called home for 2,700 years to appreciate the rich history and culture preserved in their literature. Considered one of the oldest but least- studied Jewish writings in the world, Judeo-Persian writings consist of the Persian language written in Hebrew characters by Jews living in what today are Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and some parts of India during the last 1,000 years. ìIn Iran the Jewish community was not aware of the value of Judeo-Persian writings, but now that they are away from their...
 

Identity of Croations In Ancient Iran 
  Posted by Lorianne
On News/Activism 11/12/2005 10:34:05 PM PST · 7 replies · 433+ views


Iran Chamber Society | 12 November 2005
 


Greek treasures unearthed (Minoans, Linear A, Linear B) 
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/12/2005 8:42:00 PM PST · 17 replies · 241+ views


News 24 dot com | November 12, 2005 | staff writer
[T]he finds were excavated at a long-abandoned site on a hill overlooking the port of Chania in Western Crete, which has been identified with the Minoan city of Kydonia. Among the discoveries was an amphora containing an intact text written in linear B, the language of the court at Mycenae where the legendary Agamemnon ruled. Also found were two terracotta tablets containing texts in Linear A, an even older alphabet - used around 1700 years before the common era - which has not yet been deciphered. The ministry said the archaeologists found evidence of a violent fire believed to have...
 

Bretons Speak Up To Save Their Dying Language 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/30/2005 6:10:46 PM PDT · 31 replies · 485+ views


The Telegraph (UK) | 10-1-2005 | Colin Randall
Bretons speak up to save their dying language By Colin Randall in Brest (Filed: 01/10/2005) They have their own schools, bilingual road signs, vibrant festivals and dubbed Perry Mason repeats on television. But even the most passionate champions of the Breton language admit that its survival is in question. A pupil in Relecq Kerhuon reads Tintin in Breton Native speakers are ageing, their numbers falling by 15,000 a year. And among those remaining, there is anger that the French government does more for Brittany's large influx of British settlers than for those campaigning to save Breton from extinction. Along the...
 

Irish language recognised by EU 
  Posted by RWR8189
On News/Activism 06/13/2005 1:45:27 PM PDT · 85 replies · 1,027+ views


BBC News | June 13, 2005
Irish is the 21st language to be officially recognised by the EU The Irish language has been officially recognised as a working language by the European Union.Ireland's national language is the 21st to be given such recognition by the EU and previously had the status of a treaty language. Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said he was pleased by the move, which was announced on Monday. "This affirms at European level the dignity and status of our first official language," he said. "This represents a particularly significant practical step for the Irish language, and complements the government's wider policy...
 

Gaelic language gets official EU status 
  Posted by Brujo
On News/Activism 06/15/2005 8:26:05 AM PDT · 31 replies · 504+ views


ABC News | 15 June 2005 | SHAWN POGATCHNIK (AP)
Gaelic language gets official EU status DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- The European Union is saying "Failte!" -- Welcome! -- to Gaelic, Ireland's little-used native tongue. But while official status is a boost to those campaigning to save the language from extinction, the move comes with a price: It will require the hiring of an estimated 30 Gaelic speakers at a cost to EU taxpayers of about $4.15 million annually. Translation costs for the EU's 20 official languages had already been spiraling out of control. In January, officials said the amount was set to pass $1 billion following the entry in...
 

Anatolia
Armenian Archaeologists Find Large Ancient Settlement Of Early Bronze Age 
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/16/2005 9:47:26 PM PST · 11 replies · 112+ views


ArCNews - News from Artsakh | Nov 16 2005 | staff writer / translator
The monument is unique for its unprecedented scale of an ancient settlement. It occupies a territory of about 100 ha, while the Kur Araks lowland towns are known to occupy not more than 10 ha. The settlement was surrounded with cyclopean fortress. Archaeologists have excavated a 300 sq/m ancient cultural layer so far and found a unique bronze reaping-hook.// Kalantaryan said that an Armenian-American joint expedition near the village of Gegharot, on the northern slope of Aragats, found another unique monument of the Late Bronze Age - a sanctuary of the 15th-12th centuries BC... The sanctuary is unique for the...
 

Prehistory and Origins
Early Humans Settled India Before Europe, Study Suggests 
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/15/2005 11:47:13 AM PST · 42 replies · 653+ views


National Geographic | 11-14-2005 | Brian Vastag
Early Humans Settled India Before Europe, Study Suggests Brian Vastag for National Geographic News November 14, 2005 Modern humans migrated out of Africa and into India much earlier than once believed, driving older hominids in present-day India to extinction and creating some of the earliest art and architecture, a new study suggests. The research places modern humans in India tens of thousands of years before their arrival in Europe. University of Cambridge researchers Michael Petraglia and Hannah James developed the new theory after analyzing decades' worth of existing fieldwork in India. They outline their research in the journal Current Anthropology....
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Pa. May Let Hunters Use Prehistoric Weapon 
  Posted by DarkSavant
On News/Activism 11/13/2005 10:29:21 AM PST · 99 replies · 1,899+ views


Yahoo News | MARK SCOLFORO
HARRISBURG, Pa. - An ancient weapon that struck fear in the hearts of Spanish conquistadors, and that some think was used to slay wooly mammoths in Florida, may soon be added to the arsenal of Pennsylvania's hunters. The state Game Commission is currently drafting proposed regulations to allow hunters to use the atlatl, a small wooden device used to propel a six-foot dart as fast as 80 mph. The commission could vote to legalize its use as early as January. It's unclear which animals atlatlists may be allowed to hunt, but the proposal is being pushed by people who want...
 

A 1,200-Year-Old Murder Mystery in Guatemala 
  Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 11/17/2005 3:08:23 AM PST · 27 replies · 624+ views


NY Times | November 17, 2005 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Andrew L. DemarestThe remains of a Maya king, Kan Maax, who was killed about A.D. 800 in CancuÈn with dozens of his royal associates and courtiers. Despite the puzzling slaughter, the bodies were treated with respect. Archaeologists and forensic experts in Guatemala have made a grisly discovery among the ruins of an ancient Maya city, CancuÈn. In explorations during the summer, they found as many as 50 skeletons in a sacred pool and other places, victims of murder and dismemberment in a war that destroyed the city and, it seems, served as a beginning of the collapse of the...
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Emancipation Proclamation Copy Auctioned (Signed by Lincoln) 
  Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 11/15/2005 6:19:12 PM PST · 16 replies · 295+ views


NewsMax | 11/15/05 | AP
NEW YORK -- A souvenir copy of the Emancipation Proclamation autographed by Abraham Lincoln sold for $688,000 Tuesday at an auction of American artifacts collected by the late publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes. The text is believed to be one of about 15 surviving copies of an oversize printing of the proclamation made by a pair of Philadelphians in 1864 to raise money for war relief. The Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Confederate states was issued in 1863. Christie's auction house declined to identify the buyer but said it was a New York-based dealer. It had estimated that the...
 

A Brief History of the HARP Project 
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/14/2005 8:05:03 AM PST · 1 reply · 5+ views


Astronautix | Last update 28 March 2005 | Richard K Graf
On the twentieth of January 1963 the big gun roared for the first time as it fired its first test shot into the clear blue sky. This was the first time in history that a gun of this calibre had been fired at an angle of near vertical. From a cloud of flames and smoke a 315 kg test slug was hurtled into the air. With a launch velocity of 1000 m/s and a flight time of about 58 seconds the wooden slug rose to an altitude of 3000 meters before coming down a kilometre off shore. On 21 January...
 

Airman discovered in glacier identified 
  Posted by SpringheelJack
On News/Activism 11/03/2005 8:50:05 PM PST · 26 replies · 1,296+ views


Fresno Bee | November 3, 2005 | Mark Grossi
The body found last month in a glacier east of Fresno belongs to an airman killed in a 1942 plane crash at Kings Canyon National Park, military officials confirmed Wednesday. Scientists identified a name on the nearly obliterated tag attached to the uniform on the body, said the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, the military unit in charge of recovering and identifying the remains of lost soldiers. "The name on the badge matches a name they also found on the clothing," said Army Maj. Rumi Nielson-Green. The body belongs to one of four servicemen aboard an AT-7 training flight from Mather...
 

Body Believed to Be WWII Airman Recovered 
  Posted by JZelle
On News/Activism 10/20/2005 11:27:30 AM PDT · 9 replies · 769+ views


The Washington Times | 10-20-05 | JULIANA BARBASSA
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- An ice-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed in 1942 was chipped out of a Sierra Nevada glacier and taken to a laboratory for identification, a deputy coroner said Thursday. Blustery weather kept rangers at Kings Canyon National Park from reaching the frozen remains for two days after ice climbers reported last weekend they had seen a man's head, shoulder and arm protruding from the thick ice. About 80 percent of the body was buried in the glacier on 13,710-foot Mount Mendel. The area can only be reached by hiking two...
 

Body found in Sierra Nevada glacier believed to be WWII airman 
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 10/19/2005 11:30:05 AM PDT · 28 replies · 2,114+ views


ap on Monterey Herald | 10/19/05 | Juliana Barbassa - ap
FRESNO, Calif. - Park rangers were working with military officials Wednesday in a remote Sierra Nevada glacier to excavate a body believed to be that of an airman who crashed in 1942. Two unidentified climbers spotted the frozen head, shoulder and arm of body that is 80 percent encased in ice while climbing the glacier on the 13,710-foot Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon National Park, said park spokeswoman Alex Picavet. A crew of park rangers and specialists will camp on the mountain side, in below-freezing temperatures, for what promises to be long, difficult excavation, Picavet said. The crew includes an...
 

Body Frozen in Glacier May Be WWII Airman 
  Posted by MikeinIraq
On News/Activism 10/19/2005 3:08:03 PM PDT · 90 replies · 2,368+ views


FoxNews.com | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 | APee
FRESNO, Calif. -- Two climbers on a Sierra Nevada (search) glacier discovered an ice-encased body believed to be that of an airman whose plane crashed in 1942. The man was wearing a World War II-era (search) U.S. Army Corps parachute when his frozen head, shoulder and arm were spotted on 13,710-foot Mount Mendel (search) in Kings Canyon National Park, park spokeswoman Alex Picavet said Wednesday. --snip-- "We're not going to go fast," she said. "We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's the serviceman may have been part of the crew of an AT-7 navigational training plane that...
 

Body Of WWII Airman Removed From Sierra Glacier 
  Posted by MAD-AS-HELL
On News/Activism 10/21/2005 3:13:19 PM PDT · 29 replies · 1,052+ views


KTVU.com & AP | October 20, 2005 | AP
Body Of WWII Airman Removed From Sierra Glacier POSTED: 11:17 am PDT October 19, 2005 UPDATED: 10:48 am PDT October 20, 2005 FRESNO -- A glacier-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed into the Sierra Nevada in 1942 was flown off the mountain and into a Fresno laboratory for identification, the county's deputy coroner said Thursday. Blustery conditions kept rangers at Kings Canyon National Park from reaching the frozen remains for two days after two ice climbers reported last weekend they had seen a man's head, shoulder and arm protruding from the thick ice. About...
 

Frozen Airman May Have Been From St. C Area 
  Posted by leadpenny
On News/Activism 10/22/2005 11:22:41 PM PDT · 16 replies · 1,115+ views


The Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register | 051023 | JENNIFER COMPSTON-STROUGH And CHANA DIEHL
More than 60 years have passed since U.S. Army Air Forces aviation Cadet Ernest Munn disappeared along with the rest of his flight crew over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but investigators and family members believe the Belmont County man's remains may finally have been found. A pilot and three crew members died when their plane crashed into the icy peak, and their names were etched on a military gravestone even though most of their actual remains were not recovered. On Friday, a coroner was examining fresh clues revealed earlier this week by a receding glacier in the Sierra Nevada. She...
 

end of digest #70 20051119

313 posted on 11/19/2005 6:36:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Welcome to Digest number 69. A wide variety of topic headers again this week, where applicable and sensible, arranged east to west.

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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #70 20051119
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314 posted on 11/19/2005 6:37:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Okay, forget what I said, the "arranged east to west" was text from last week I carelessly left in.


315 posted on 11/19/2005 6:39:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #71
Saturday, November 26, 2005


British Isles
Ancient Man's Lost Secrets On Test
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/19/2005 6:28:55 PM PST · 35 replies · 860+ views


Yorkshire Post | 11-17-2005 | Paul Jeeves
Ancient man's lost secrets on test Paul Jeeves TECHNOLOGY from the 21st century will be used to unlock the past to one of Yorkshire's most important archaeological finds from the Bronze Age. Gristhorpe Man, one of the best preserved examples of human remains buried in a hollow oak tree trunk, will leave Scarborough's Rotunda Museum today in specially constructed boxes for Bradford University's Department of Archaeological Sciences. The latest technology will be used to try to extract samples from the remains for analysis to establish how the Bronze Age man died as well as gathering more detail about his lifestyle...
 

Prehistory and Origins
The Death of "Mitochondrial Eve"
  Posted by CalConservative
On News/Activism 01/28/2003 8:46:54 PM PST · 13 replies · 251+ views


CreationDigest.com | January 2003 | Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
The Death of "Mitochondrial Eve" By: Brad Harrub, Ph.D.*It was not forbidden fruit that caused her demise this time. ìMitochondrial Eve,î as many knew her, has been dethroned and awaits her entombment due to new facts that have recently surfaced. For decades now men have been trying to determine the geographical origin of humans: whether we all came from one specific locale, or whether there were many small pockets of people placed all around the world. It appeared that the battle was won in the late 1980s when geneticists unleashed a startling discovery. They found that DNA located in...
 

Homo Erectus Ate Crunchy Food
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/22/2005 1:16:13 PM PST · 82 replies · 1,149+ views


Discover News | 11-22-2005 | Jennifer Viegas
Homo erectus ate crunchy food Jennifer Viegas Discovery News Tuesday, 22 November 2005 Tooth marks suggest Homo erectus ate crunchy foods, like root vegetables (Image: iStockphoto) Homo erectus munched on crunchy, brittle and tough foods, while other early humans seemed to favour softer fare, according to a new analysis of teeth. All the individuals showed signs of eating a variety of foods. H. erectus lived between approximately 2 million to 400,000 years ago and is the first known primate to use significant tools and walk upright. The researchers say H. erectus is the only species they looked at that appears...
 

Scientists Show We've Been Losing Face For 10,000 Years
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/20/2005 1:21:49 PM PST · 435 replies · 5,270+ views


The Times (UK) | 11-20-2005 | Jonathan Leake
The Sunday Times November 20, 2005 Scientists show weíve been losing face for 10,000 years Jonathan Leake, Science Editor THE human face is shrinking. Research into peopleís appearance over the past 10,000 years has found that our ancestorsí heads and faces were up to 30% larger than now. Changes in diet are thought to be the main cause. The switch to softer, farmed foods means that jawbones, teeth, skulls and muscles do not need to be as strong as in the past. The shrinkage has been blamed for a surge in dental problems caused by crooked or overlapping teeth. ìOver...
 

Scientists discover remains of Hobbit-sized humans
  Posted by WestVirginiaRebel
On News/Activism 10/27/2004 4:48:25 PM PDT · 33 replies · 953+ views


Drudge Report | 10-27-04 | WestVirginiaRebel
LONDON-REUTERS Scientists in Austrailia have found a new speicies of Hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
 

Ancient Tools At High Desert Site Go Back 135,000 Years (California)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/24/2005 1:02:17 PM PST · 92 replies · 1,843+ views


San Bernardino Sun | 11-24-2005 | Chuck Mueller
Ancient tools at High Desert site go back 135,000 years Chuck Mueller, Staff Writer BARSTOW - In the multicolored hills overlooking the Mojave River Valley, the excavation of stone tools and flakes reveals human activities from the distant past. A new system of geologic dating has confirmed that an alluvial deposit bearing the stone tools and flakes at the Calico archaeological site is about 135,000 years old. But the site could even be older. Calico project director Fred Budinger Jr. said a soil sample, taken at a depth of 17 1/2 feet in one of three master pits at the...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
America Prediscovered
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/21/2005 11:40:42 AM PST · 33 replies · 1,299+ views


The Times (UK) | 11-21-2005 | Norman Hammond
America prediscovered By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent THE VEXED question of American independence has arisen once again: not, in this case, in 1776, but before Columbus came to the New World. It is generally accepted that the Amerindian population originated in Asia, probably more than 15,000 years ago, but whether there were subsequent transoceanic contacts and influences remains a matter of hot debate. Vikings from Maine to Minnesota, Romans crossing from Africa to Brazil, and Chinese and Japanese voyagers hitting the Pacific coastline have all been proposed. Now a new candidate for transpacific contact has reached a major academic journal....
 

Chile Mummies Possibly Done In By Arsenic (Chinchorro)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/24/2005 1:20:57 PM PST · 29 replies · 570+ views


CNN/Reuters | 11-24-2005
Chile mummies possibly done in by arsenic Thursday, November 24, 2005; Posted: 10:58 a.m. EST (15:58 GMT) SAN MIGUEL DE AZAPA, Chile (Reuters) -- Living in the harsh desert of northern Chile's Pacific coast more than 7,000 years ago, the Chinchorro fishing tribe mysteriously began mummifying dead babies -- removing internal organs, cleaning bones, stuffing and sewing up the skin, putting wigs and clay masks on them. The Chinchorro mummies are the oldest known artificially preserved dead, dating thousands of years before Egyptian mummies, and the life quest of the archeologists who study them is to discover why this early...
 

Mass Graves Reveal Massacre of Maya Royalty
  Posted by FairOpinion
On News/Activism 11/20/2005 9:32:12 PM PST · 19 replies · 740+ views


National Geographic | Nov. 17, 2005 | Stefan Lovgren
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe was the gruesome scene of a royal massacre in the ancient city of CancuÈn, once one of the richest cities in the Maya empire. The bones of 31 executed and dismembered Maya nobles were found in a sacred reservoir at the entrance to the royal palace in CancuÈn in the PetÈn rain forest of Guatemala. Researchers also found a shallow grave nearby containing the skeletons of two people they believe were the king and queen. The bones of more than a dozen executed upper-class Maya were found at a third burial site north of...
 

Mass Grave Yields Mayan Secrets (Cancuen - More)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/21/2005 5:51:45 PM PST · 13 replies · 576+ views


BBC | 11-21-2005 | Neil Arun
Mass grave yields Mayan secrets By Neil Arun BBC News A grisly discovery deep in the Guatemalan jungle may cast new light on one of the ancient world's most beguiling mysteries - the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Images from the Mayan massacre site. A grave containing some 50 bodies, buried in royal finery and bearing the marks of a vicious death, has been perplexing experts since it was unearthed earlier this year. These are not the victims of "random violence", says Arthur A Demarest, the US archaeologist who has spent the best part of a decade fending off drug...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Historian Says American Settlers Mistook Indians for Israelites
  Posted by SmithL
On General/Chat 11/24/2005 8:08:35 PM PST · 12 replies · 154+ views


Arutz Sheva - Israel NationalNews | 11/24/5
Israelis are known to be found in every corner of the world, but an American historian has claimed they were thought to be in America 400 years ago. Mark Miller, a history professor at the Roanoke College in Virginia, said that the first European settlers in America believed native Indians were Israelites who had lost their faith. The Indians were mistaken for a "lost Israeli tribe that had been blown off course and landed in America" and became savages, according to the historian.
 

2,000-Year-Old Seed Sprouts, Sapling Is Thriving
  Posted by Red Badger
On News/Activism 11/23/2005 9:23:40 AM PST · 40 replies · 1,034+ views


National Geographic | 11/22/2005 | John Roach
A sapling germinated earlier this year from a 2,000-year-old date palm seed is thriving, according to Israeli researchers who are cultivating the historic plant. "It's 80 centimeters [3 feet] high with nine leaves, and it looks great," said Sarah Sallon, director of the Hadassah Medical Organization's Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center (NMRC) in Jerusalem. Sallon's program is dedicated to the study of complementary and alternative medicines. The center is also interested in conserving the heritage of Middle Eastern plants that have been used for thousands of years. Sallon wants to see if the ancient tree, nicknamed Methuselah after...
 

Kings David & Solomon Were Muslims
  Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 11/21/2005 5:31:54 PM PST · 145 replies · 2,620+ views


IMRA | 11-21-05
MEMRI: Jordanian Prof/Terrorist on Saudi Al-Majd TV: Kings David & Solomon Were Muslims Special Dispatch - Saudi Arabia/Antisemitism Documentation Project November 22, 2005 No. 1030 Jordanian Professor/Terrorist on Saudi Al-Majd TV Says Kings David & Solomon Were Muslims Who Today Would Have Fought Israel, Supports Leading Holocaust Denier On November 13, 2005, Saudi Al-Majd TV aired an interview with Jordanian lecturer on religious law Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nawfal. In the interview, Nawfal discussed Armageddon and quoted Roger Garoudy. Sheikh Dr. Nawfal is a lecturer at the Shari'a Faculty of the University of Jordan, and was associated with Sheikh 'Abdallah 'Azzam,...
 

Oh So Mysteriouso
Archaeologists Find 4,500-Year-Old Fortune-Telling Instruments
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/23/2005 2:08:02 PM PST · 15 replies · 389+ views


Xinhuanet/China View | 11-23-2005
Archaeologists find 4,500-year-old fortune-telling instruments www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-23 19:09:12 BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- A Chinese archaeologist said Wednesday that a 4,500-year-old jade tortoise and an oblong jade article discovered in east China's Anhui Province were China's earliest fortune-telling instruments found so far. The two jade objects were discovered in an ancient tomb in Lingjiatan Village, Hanshan County, Anhui Province. Gu Fang, an expert with the jadeware research committee under the China Society of Cultural Relics, told Xinhua that the jade tortoise is made up of a back shell and a belly shell. Several holes can be found on the jade...
 

Anatolia
Flints give Cyprus oldest seafaring link in Med
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/22/2005 9:35:31 AM PST · 5 replies · 87+ views


Reuters Today | Tue Nov 22, 2005 | Michele Kambas
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the earliest evidence yet of long distance seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean, undermining beliefs that ancient mariners never ventured into open seas... The flints are unlike anything found in the geological make-up of Cyprus, and more than 1,000 years older than the timing of the first permanent settlers to the island. The discovery adds to a body of evidence contradicting the widespread belief that ancient mariners would never venture out of sight of land or had limited navigational capabilities... Its earliest inhabitants, dated from the 9th millennium BC, are believed to be from...
 

Ancient Rome
1,700-Year-Old 'Roman Glass' Discovered In East China
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/20/2005 1:31:32 PM PST · 42 replies · 881+ views


Xinhua/China.org | 11-20-2005
1,700-year-old 'Roman Glass' Discovered in East China Glass remains over 1,700 years old, possibly imported from ancient Rome, have been discovered in an ancient tomb located in east China's Anhui Province, local cultural relic department said on Sunday. The tomb was found during the latest road project in Zhulong Village of Dangtu County in Anhui. Archaeologists believed the tomb was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 - 420). Covered with white mantlerock, the glass remains seem to have ancient Roman shapes and craftwork. According to the local cultural relic department, the owner of the tomb was possibly from an...
 

Salvaging Caligula [Nemi Ships, Caligula, and Mussolini]
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2005 4:40:21 PM PST · 10 replies · 123+ views


Time | Feb. 4, 1929 | staff
Nineteen centuries of foundered orgy looked up at the hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* looked down from the vantage of his flying height through Nemi's waters and could see what none but groping divers theretofore had seenóthe sunken Golden Barge whereon epileptic Emperor Caligula, great-grandson of Augustus, and his minions held their carouses.
 

Claudius' Naumachia on Fucine Lake (Those About To Die, chap III)
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/24/2005 7:45:06 AM PST · 11 replies · 89+ views


Those About To Die (via Kurt Saxon) | 1950s (I believe) | Daniel P. Mannix
The greatest naumachia of all time was the naval engagement staged by Claudius. As Augustus' lake was too small, the mad emperor decided to use the Fucine Lake (now called the Lago di Fucino) some sixty miles to the east of Rome. This lake had no natural outlet and in the spring it often flooded many miles of surrounding county. To overcome this trouble, a tunnel three and a half miles long had been cut through solid rock from the lake to the Litis River to carry off the surplus water. This job had taken thirty thousand men eleven years...
 

On the outskirts of Rome, an ancient city rivals Pompeii
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/22/2005 10:48:08 PM PST · 11 replies · 173+ views


Seattle Times | November 22 2005 | Kristin Jackson
Ostia Antica, once the ancient port of Rome, has hundreds of 2,000-year-old buildings spread over hundreds of acres... Unlike Rome's grandiose ruins and the patrician villas of Pompeii, a visit to Ostia Antica gives a sense of ordinary life long ago. This was a working town, ancient Rome's port near the mouth of the Tiber River (the river's currents and shallows made it too hard for big ships to sail into the heart of Rome). Ships arrived with cargo from all around the sprawling Roman Empire; goods were barged up the Tiber or transferred on carts.
 

Villa Buried By Pompeii Eruption Is Unearthed
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/21/2005 6:30:58 PM PST · 25 replies · 865+ views


The Telegraph (UK) | 11-22-2005 | Hilary Clarke
Villa buried by Pompeii eruption is unearthed By Hilary Clarke in Rome (Filed: 22/11/2005) An archaeological dig on the Amalfi coast has revealed the first luxury villa to be built in the idyllic fishing village of Positano, a popular haunt of today's rich and famous. A frescoe on a wall of the villa found in Positano Two storeys of a first century millionaire's abode have been found under a church which was hidden for 2,000 years by the same volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii in 79AD. During renovation work on the church's crypt last summer, roof beams were found poking...
 

Ivory Emperor Emerges From Forum (Marcus Aurelius Or Septimius Severus)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/20/2005 1:50:07 PM PST · 8 replies · 335+ views


Ansa | 11-20-2005
Ivory emperor emerges from Forum 'Unique' find probably Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Severus (ANSA) - Rome, November 16 - Italian archaeologists have unveiled the latest major find to emerge from the Roman forum - an ivory statue of an emperor, probably Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Severus . The bust is unique - there are no other examples of statues like this made in ivory . Very few ancient Roman ivory objects have survived to the present day because ivory is a biodegradable material . Those that have not withered away over the last 2,000 years are mostly tomb decorations and...
 

Season Finale: Rome, Episode 12, Kalends of February 9PM EST---Legio XIII Forever!
  Posted by DCBryan1
On News/Activism 11/20/2005 3:52:19 PM PST · 216 replies · 3,402+ views


HBO | 20 NOV 2005 | dcbryan1
As a result of their arena exploits, Pullo and Vorenus have become heroes to the Roman rank and file, causing Caesar to reward those he normally would punish. Pullo's unexpected return to Vorenus' household is not appreciated by his former slave Eirene. Caesar decides to overhaul the Senate by adding some unexpected new faces, to the chagrin of the old guard. And Servilia hurdles the final obstacle in her ambitious revenge scenario, at Niobe's expense.
 

Asia
Archaeologists Look To Find Lost 1,000 Years
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/25/2005 3:07:48 PM PST · 9 replies · 371+ views


Shanghai Daily | 11-26-2005
Archaeologists look to find lost 1,000 years 2005-11-26 Beijing Time AN archaeological project is expected to outline the chronology in the prehistoric millennium from 4,500 years ago to 3,500 years ago to decode the origin of Chinese civilization. The government-backed project, called "Pre-research on the Origin of the Chinese Civilization," was launched in June 2004 with an aim to work out the chronology of the Yao, Shun, Yu periods and the Xia Dynasty, said Wang Wei, deputy director of the Archaeological Institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Yao, Shun and Yu are three leaders...
 

Australia & the Pacific
Bus Stop An Execution Site...1500 Years Ago
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/25/2005 4:07:31 PM PST · 20 replies · 624+ views


The Sydney Morning Herald | 11-26-2005 | Richard Macey
Bus stop an execution site Ö 1500 years ago By Richard Macey November 26, 2005 Allen Madden and Dr Denise Donion of the University of Sydney with Octavia Man. Photo: Edwina Pickles HIS crime will probably never be known. But "he sure trod on someone's toes", said Allen Madden, cultural and heritage officer for the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. In January, when EnergyAustralia workers laying cables in Ocean Street, Narrabeen, found human bones beneath a bus stop, they called police. The remains have since been identified as those of an Aborigine who died up to 1500 years ago. Next...
 

Epigraphy and Language
Rosetta Stone
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/25/2005 3:24:22 PM PST · 20 replies · 1,037+ views


Al-Ahram | 11-25-2005 | Nevine El-Aref
Rosetta stone By Nevine El-Aref The Rosetta stone The black basalt Rosetta stone was found in 1799, a year after the French expedition to Egypt began, in a fortress located on the outskirts of Rashid by a young French officer named Pierre-FranÁois Bouchard. It measured 113cms tall, 75.5cms long and 27cms thick, and contained three distinct bands of writing. The most incomplete was the top band containing hieroglyphics; the middle band was written in the demotic script and the bottom was in Greek. Studies carried out on the stone by scholars revealed that the stone was a royal decree which...
 

Catastrophism and Astronomy
The Great Dying 250 Million Years Ago
  Posted by RightWhale
On News/Activism 01/29/2002 8:41:57 AM PST · 35 replies · 1,069+ views


spaceref.com | 29 Jan 02 | Marshall
http://www.spaceref.com PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, January 28, 2002 Marshall Space Flight Center The Great Dying 250 Million Years Ago 250 million years ago something unknown wiped out most life on our planet. Now scientists are finding buried clues to the mystery inside tiny capsules of cosmic gas. January 28, 2002: It was almost the perfect crime. Some perpetrator -- or perpetrators -- committed murder on a scale unequaled in the history of the world. They left few clues to their identity, and they buried all the evidence under layers and layers of earth. The case has gone unsolved for ...
 

Volcanic Warming Eyed in 'Great Dying'
  Posted by LibWhacker
On News/Activism 01/20/2005 12:30:29 PM PST · 41 replies · 1,058+ views


Yahoo! News | AP | 1/20/05 | Randolph E. Schmid
WASHINGTON - An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history. In an event known as the "Great Dying," some 250 million years ago, 90 percent of all marine life and nearly three-quarters of land-based plants and animals went extinct. Scientists have long debated the cause of this calamity ó which occurred before the era of dinosaurs ó with possibilities including such disasters as meteor impacts. Researchers led by Peter Ward of the University of Washington now think the answer is global warming caused by volcanic activity. Their findings are...
 

Get Medieval
Ancient Coins Found In Iceland
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/25/2005 3:15:37 PM PST · 16 replies · 625+ views


Ice Land Review | 11-25-2005
11/25/2005 | 11:49 Ancient Coins found in Iceland Morgunbladid reports that two coins from the 11th century reign of Norwegian King Haraldur which were found in the ruins of three houses which were discovered last year at H·ls at K·rahnj?kar have now been examined. The house ruins are almost 600 metres above sea level. P·ll P·lsson, farmer at AdalbÛl, found them, and Landsvirkjun (the National Power department) decided to have them examined, a process that was only completed this year. According to Anton Holt, a coin expert at the Sedlabanki Õslands coin collection, these coins are very rare. He says...
 

Ancient Coins found in Iceland [11th century reign of Norwegian King Haraldur]
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2005 8:14:54 PM PST · 4 replies · 17+ views


Iceland Review | November 25 2005 | someone who doesn't know what ancient means
Morgunbladid reports that two coins from the 11th century reign of Norwegian King Haraldur which were found in the ruins of three houses which were discovered last year... The house ruins are almost 600 metres above sea level... According to Anton Holt... these coins are very rare. He says that today there are only 33 other known specimens of this coin.
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Proclamation about the Day of Thanksgiving by George Washington in 1789
  Posted by kristhumas
On General/Chat 11/24/2005 7:27:56 AM PST · 4 replies · 46+ views


BASEELIA
A PROCLAMATION IN 1789. General Thanksgiving by George Washington, the President of the United States Of America. WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an...
 

History Of The Turkey!
  Posted by Dallas59
On General/Chat 11/19/2005 10:25:17 AM PST · 27 replies · 228+ views


DC Pages | 11/19/2005 | DC Pages
Wild Turkey Origins There are two types of wild turkey, both of which are strong fliers (up to 55 mph for short distances) and among the fastest runners (15-30 mph). One type is originally from Yucatan and Guatemala (Agriocharis ocellata; 47 family - Phasianidae) and the other is from Mexico and the US (Meleagris gallopavo; family -Phasianidae). From the fossil record they were once much more widespread. They diverged from pheasants 11 million years ago and were likely "distributed continuously from middle latitudes of North America to northern South America during the Pleistocene". Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), or "huexolotlin" in the...
 

COSSACKS in NJ WAGING HISTORICAL BATTLE; Two enclaves fight over fate of priceless relics
  Posted by Coleus
On General/Chat 11/25/2005 4:29:43 PM PST · 4 replies · 69+ views


COSSACKS WAGING HISTORICAL BATTLE; Two aging and dwindling enclaves fight over fate of priceless relics They were Cossacks. For more than half a century, almost nobody paid attention to New Kuban, a refuge for a people with nowhere else to go. Following World War II, some 300 displaced Cossacks - targeted for extinction by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin - created the 814-acre village in western Atlantic County. There, they laid low and remembered what was. They became guardians of precious artifacts sent from other Cossacks-in-hiding from as far as Australia and China. They preserved the past. Now Russia wants it...
 

Tests: Skull Fragments May Be Beethoven's
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/19/2005 1:41:24 PM PST · 28 replies · 549+ views


Yahoo News/AP | 11-17-2005 | Lisa Leff
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 17,10:30 PM ETTests: Skull Fragments May Be Beethoven's SAN FRANCISCO - A California businessman said Thursday that skull fragments that once belonged to his great-great-uncle in 19th century Europe very likely came from German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Paul Kaufmann made the announcement at the Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, which helped coordinate forensic testing aimed at authenticating the fragments and determining what killed Beethoven at age 56. The center already has a lock of the composer's hair, which showed he suffered from lead poisoning among other ailments...
 

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316 posted on 11/26/2005 4:06:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #72
Saturday, December 3, 2005


Get Medieval
Radar Pinpoints Tomb Of King Edward The Confessor
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/01/2005 6:10:40 PM PST · 45 replies · 1,100+ views


The Telegraph (UK) | 12-2-2005 | Jonathan Petre
Radar pinpoints tomb of King Edward the Confessor By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 02/12/2005) The ancient tomb of Edward the Confessor, one of the most revered of British saints, has been discovered under Westminster Abbey 1,000 years after his birth. The original burial chamber of the Anglo-Saxon king, who died in 1066, months before the invasion of William the Conqueror, was revealed by archaeologists using the latest radar technology. The existence of a number of royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th century was also discovered beneath the abbey, the venue for nearly all coronations since 1066....
 


Oh So Mysteriouso
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
  Posted by theFIRMbss
On News/Activism 10/30/2005 2:38:07 PM PST · 51 replies · 858+ views


Amazon | May 10, 2005) | Clare Asquith
A revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays embody a hidden history of England. In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a...
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Researchers to look into Victorian historical 'truths'
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/27/2005 7:51:07 AM PST · 13 replies · 212+ views


Guardian | Friday November 25, 2005 | Polly Curtis
In 1880 when the Victorians discovered Tutankhamun's predecessor Akhenaten, they interpreted their findings to show that the Egyptians were conservative - they emphasised how they rejected the old gods and discovered one god, as well as values of truth and beauty, respectability and honour. It was some contrast to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s which led to a glamorous reinvention of Egypt as glittery and exotic and brutal, like something out of a Hollywood film.
 

British Isles
Ancient Hill's Holes To Be Filled (Silbury)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 3:09:00 PM PST · 13 replies · 323+ views


BBC | 11-29-2005
Ancient hill's holes to be filled Silbury Hill dates back to the Neolithic period Plans to stabilise the ancient Silbury Hill mound in Wiltshire have been unveiled by English Heritage. The man-made monument, believed to date to the Neolithic period, developed a hole at the top five years ago after the collapse of infilling in a shaft. There are proposals to remove an inadequate backfill from this and other cavities and replace it with chalk. English Heritage said it would preserve the long-term stability of the hill while minimising further damage. Surveys have confirmed that the overall structure is stable,...
 

Mel Gibson To Produce 'Boudicca' Film Epic
  Posted by Hal1950
On News/Activism 04/28/2004 9:29:31 AM PDT · 163 replies · 1,046+ views


NewsScotsman | 28 April 2004 | Mark Sage
Flush from the success of The Passion Of The Christ, Mel Gibson is looking back in time once again ñ to produce an epic about Boudicca, who led Britain against Roman conquerors. Dubbed "Braveheart with a bra", the film will chronicle Boudicca's rise from peasant girl to a military leader who united the Celtic tribes of Britain. Gibson's production company, Icon, appears keen to cash in on further historical tales, after The Passion netted hundreds of millions of pounds at the box office. The film will be directed by Gavin O'Connor who told the Hollywood trade paper Variety: "What drew...
 

Ancient Rome
Ancient Prison Cells Unearthed In Tiberias Dig
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/28/2005 11:27:50 AM PST · 19 replies · 684+ views


Haaretz | 11-28-2005 | Eli Ashkenazi
An Antiques Authority worker climbing out of one of the recently discovered prison cells in Tiberias. (Yaron Kaminsky) Last update - 02:16 28/11/2005 Ancient prison cells unearthed in Tiberias dig By Eli Ashkenazi A bit of what prisoners suffered in ancient times can be seen as of yesterday at the archaeological dig in the old city of Tiberias. Excavations of the basilica compound in the eastern part of the old city recently unearthed two small chambers believed to have served as holding cells for prisoners awaiting trial. If today's custody conditions at police stations elicit complaints from detainees and defense...
 

Ancient Roman Anchors Found in Israel
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 11/28/2005 6:31:14 PM PST · 31 replies · 917+ views


AP on Yahoo | 11/28/05 | AP - Jerusalem
JERUSALEM - Ancient wooden anchors preserved by natural salt for more than 2,000 years have been discovered on the receding shores of the Dead Sea, Israel TV reported Monday. Archaeologist David Mevorach told the TV station that one anchor dated back 2,500 years - the oldest ever found. Another anchor was 2,000 years old, he said. They were built from acacia wood for Roman ships, he said. The Dead Sea, with no outlet, has a high concentration of salt. "The salt and the lack of oxygen in the water preserved them in a special way, including the ropes that were...
 

Ancient Roman Anchors Found in Israel
  Posted by xcamel
On General/Chat 11/29/2005 6:14:09 PM PST · 6 replies · 33+ views


Newsday/AP | November 28, 2005, 9:23 PM EST | Associated Press
JERUSALEM -- Ancient wooden anchors preserved by natural salt for more than 2,000 years have been discovered on the receding shores of the Dead Sea, Israel TV reported Monday. Archaeologist David Mevorach told the TV station that one anchor dated back 2,500 years -- the oldest ever found. Another anchor was 2,000 years old, he said. They were built from acacia wood for Roman ships, he said. The Dead Sea, with no outlet, has a high concentration of salt. "The salt and the lack of oxygen in the water preserved them in a special way, including the ropes that were...
 

Off the beaten path in Ostia
  Posted by yonif
On News/Activism 08/08/2003 11:51:20 AM PDT · 2 replies · 78+ views


Jerusalem Post | Aug. 7, 2003 | Barbara Sofer
Visitors to the archeological remains of the ancient port town of Ostia, near Rome, purchase a map of the site. On the map key, the last two numbers, 67 and 68, correspond to a synagogue and a large private home. A shift in the Tiber left Ostia of little interest after the fourth century. Consequently, it is well-preserved. As we walk along the millennia-old stone-paved paths, it is easy to visualize the port with its sophisticated bath complexes, busy marketplaces, pagan temples, taverns, bakeries, schools and lavish homes. The talmudic report of Judah's praise for Roman ingenuity, "how becoming are...
 

Roman 'motorway' secrets unveiled
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2005 8:55:41 AM PST · 4 replies · 59+ views


icWales | Jul 28 2005 | staff
Stretching 535 miles across modern-day Albania, Macedonia and Greece, the stone-paved road made the going easy for charioteers, soldiers and other travellers. It was up to 30 feet wide in places and was dotted with safety features, inns and service stations... Built between 146 and 120 B.C. under the supervision of the top Roman official in Macedonia, proconsul Gaius Egnatius, the highway ran from the Adriatic coast in what is now Albania to modern Turkey, giving Rome quick access to the eastern provinces of its empire. Ancient engineers did such a good job that the Via Egnatia remained in use...
 

Romans Faced Head-To-Head Battle (Lice)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/30/2004 6:34:09 PM PST · 23 replies · 136+ views


BBC | 3-31-2004
Romans faced head-to-head battle Head lice were common among Roman soldiers in Cumbria A new exhibition in Cumbria has revealed that Roman foot soldiers faced a battle of a different kind against a microscopic foe. The Romans, sent to the northern front of the empire and Hadrian's Wall, came head to head with lice. A new display of items from an excavation outside Carlisle Castle includes a soldier's comb with a fully intact, three-millimetre-long louse. Archaeologists say the louse is around 2,000 years old. The dig was part of Carlisle City Council's Gateway City Millennium Project which took place between...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Seal with image of Jesus found in Tiberias
  Posted by Cecily
On News/Activism 11/28/2005 5:10:51 PM PST · 63 replies · 1,833+ views


YNet News | November 28, 2005 | David Hacohen
A lead seal from the sixth century depicting Jesus was recently discovered in excavations by the Antiquities Authority in the Old City of Tiberias. The other side of the seal has a cross with an abbreviation of the name "Christos." This is the first time a seal with the image of Jesus has been discovered in excavations in Tiberias. A number of similar seals have been found in Caesaria, which in ancient times was the capital of the province.
 

A Dig Into Jerusalem's Past Fuels Present-Day Debates [Palace of King David Found]
  Posted by West Coast Conservative
On News/Activism 12/02/2005 8:43:25 AM PST · 21 replies · 767+ views


Washington Post | December 2, 2005 | Scott Wilson
Down the slope from the Old City's Dung Gate, rows of thick stone walls, shards of pottery and other remains of an expansive ancient building are being exhumed from a dusty pit. The site is on a narrow terrace at the edge of the Kidron Valley, which sheers away from the Old City walls, in a cliffside area the Bible describes as the seat of the kings of ancient Israel. What is taking shape in the rocky earth, marked by centuries of conquest and development, is as contested as the neighborhood of Arabs and Jews encircling the excavation. But the...
 

Ancient Europe
Unearthing Bulgaria's Golden Age
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/02/2005 10:21:42 AM PST · 17 replies · 587+ views


Financial Times | 12-2-2005 | Nicholas Glass
Unearthing Bulgaria's Golden Age By Nicholas Glass Published: December 2 2005 15:09 December 2 2005 15:09 There was nothing unusual about the village shop in the depths of the countryside, 75 miles east of Sofia. What astonished the young archaeologists wanting cigarettes was the shopkeeper's jewellery. Her necklace and earrings were exquisite: the beads so small and perfectly worked that her customers assumed they were modern, the gold of a high carat. But how could a shopkeeper afford such trinkets in a country where the average monthly salary is £100? The archaeologists didn't know it but the shopkeeper's jewellery was...
 

Ancient Greece
Prehistoric (Farming) Settlements Found In Greece
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 2:50:30 PM PST · 5 replies · 152+ views


Boston.com | 11-28-2005
Prehistoric settlements found in Greece November 28, 2005 ATHENS, Greece --Archaeologists in northern Greece have uncovered traces of two prehistoric farming settlements dating back as early as 6,000 B.C., the Culture Ministry said Monday. Alerts The first site, located on a plot earmarked for coal mining by Greece's Public Power Corporation, yielded five human burials, as well as artifacts including clay figurines of humans and animals, sealstones, pottery and stone tools. The ministry said the one-acre site near Ptolemaida, some 330 miles northwest of Athens, had been inhabited for a short period during the early Neolithic era -- between 6000...
 

Prehistoric settlements found in Greece
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2005 3:42:27 PM PST · 5 replies · 79+ views


Boston Globe | November 28, 2005 | AP
Archaeologists in northern Greece have uncovered traces of two prehistoric farming settlements dating back as early as 6,000 B.C... The first site, located on a plot earmarked for coal mining by Greece's Public Power Corporation, yielded five human burials, as well as artifacts including clay figurines of humans and animals, sealstones, pottery and stone tools... [T]he one-acre site near Ptolemaida, some 330 miles northwest of Athens, had been inhabited for a short period during the early Neolithic era -- between 6000 and 5500 B.C... Some 25 Neolithic settlements have been discovered in the area... [A] second, smaller site, also dating...
 

Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
First Samples Of Prehistoric Flint Stones Discovered In Iran
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/27/2005 2:55:59 PM PST · 30 replies · 499+ views


Payvand | 11-27-2005
11/27/05 First Samples of Prehistoric Flint Stones Discovered in Iran The first samples of flint stones in Iran belonging to 9000 years ago have been identified in Yeri City historical site. Tehran, 27 November 2005 (CHN) -- The third season of archaeological excavations in the historical site of Yeri City in Ardabil province resulted in the discovery of 9000-year-old flint stones. It is the first time that traces of flint stones from pre-historic periods of Iran have been discovered. During the Neolithic epoch, due to the increase of temperature, environmental circumstances provided human beings with greater food resources. Within this...
 

Discovery Of 30 Ovens And Silos Behind Shian Dam (Iran)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/01/2005 2:21:22 PM PST · 12 replies · 524+ views


CHN | 12-1-2005
12/1/2005 1:43:00 PM Discovery of 30 Ovens and Silos behind Shian DamLatest archaeological excavations behind Shian Dam led to the discovery of 30 silos and ovens belonging to the Sassanid era. Tehran, 1 December 2005 (CHN) -- The archaeological excavations at the back of Shian Dam in Kermanshah province resulted in the finding of 30 silos and ovens dating back to the Sassanid era. Archaeologists believe that they should have belonged to the nomads of the region some 2000 years ago. Previous to this, a big fire temple, which is supposed to be one of the biggest fire temples belonging...
 

A Rush to Excavate Ancient Iranian Sites
  Posted by nuconvert
On News/Activism 11/30/2005 7:46:06 PM PST · 7 replies · 283+ views


N.Y.Times | Nov. 27, 2005
A Rush to Excavate Ancient Iranian Sites NAZILA FATHI November 27, 2005 TEHRAN, Nov. 26 - Archaeologists from around the world have been rushing to excavate scores of newly identified ancient sites in southern Iran before the area is flooded by a new dam. Iran has been planning for a decade to build the Sivand Dam in Fars Province, between the ruins of the ancient Persian cities of Persepolis and Pasargadae. But the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization knew little about the broader region until three years ago, when archaeologists identified 129 potentially important sites in the region that will be...
 

Asia
Ancient Tomb Of Exiled Korean King Found In Japan
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/02/2005 9:52:18 AM PST · 8 replies · 296+ views


Chosun.com | 12-2-2005
Ancient Tomb of Exiled Korean King Found in Japan An education board in Japan°Øs Nara Prefecture said Thursday it has discovered a luxurious tomb most likely that of a king from Korea°Øs ancient Baekje kingdom who went into exile in the island country. The tomb is in the ancient Kazumayama burial grounds, often referred to as "the kings' ravine," which house many royal tombs including Takamatsuzuka. It is a stone chamber built with flagstone-like bricks in the Baekje style, and judging from the earthenware excavated from it is likely to have built in 660-670 B.C., the Asukamura Education Board said....
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Alleged 40,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Mexico Much, Much Older Than Thought
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/30/2005 11:24:19 AM PST · 75 replies · 1,682+ views


Eureka Alert/UC-Berkeley | 11-30-2005 | Robert Sanders
Contact: Robert Sanders rsanders@berkeley.edu 510-643-6998 University of California - Berkeley Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought Berkeley -- Alleged footprints of early Americans found in volcanic rock in Mexico are either extremely old - more than 1 million years older than other evidence of human presence in the Western Hemisphere - or not footprints at all, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature. The study was conducted by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, as part of an investigative team of geologists and anthropologists from the...
 

When did the horse get to America? Did the Native Americans Really Have the Horse Before Columbus?
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2005 8:24:25 PM PST · 56 replies · 510+ views


Yuri Kuchinsky's web pages | circa 1998 | Yuri Kuchinsky
...As I mentioned before, many Native Americans believe that horse was in America many centuries before Columbus. Pony Boy gives one of such traditional narratives in his book, although, it needs to be noted, he generally tends to support the mainstream academic view of horse history in America. Here's a picture of a very unusual "Przewalski horse". This wild horse is still found in Mongolia. It is so different, it has 66 chromosomes as compared to the 64 that we find in all other horses. This is a very primitive kind of horse, the one probably quite similar to what...
 

Peru plans to sue Yale for artifacts
  Posted by xcamel
On News/Activism 12/01/2005 5:30:09 PM PST · 3 replies · 111+ views


AP/Boston Globe | December 1, 2005 | By Rick Vecchio, Associated Press
Seeks to retrieve relics taken from Machu Picchu LIMA -- Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a Peruvian cultural official said yesterday. Peru in recent years has held discussions with Yale seeking the return of nearly 5,000 artifacts, including ceramics and human bones that explorer Hiram Bingham dug up during three expeditions to Machu Picchu in 1911, 1912 and 1914.
 

Peru to Sue Yale to Regain Artifacts
  Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 12/01/2005 6:41:25 PM PST · 23 replies · 262+ views


The Ledger | 11/30/05 | RICK VECCHIO/AP
LIMA, Peru Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a government official said Wednesday. Peru has held discussions in recent years with Yale seeking the return of nearly 5,000 artifacts, including ceramics and human bones that explorer Hiram Bingham dug up during three expeditions to Machu Picchu in 1911, 1912 and 1914. "Yale considers the collection university property, given the amount of time it has been there," said Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, chief of Peru's National Institute of Culture, in an interview with The Associated...
 

Prehistory and Origins
Scientists discover Neolithic wine-making
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2005 3:38:40 PM PST · 21 replies · 144+ views


UNLV Rebel Yell | 11/28/2005 | Lora Griffin
The discovery that Stone Age humans were interested in growing fruit and developing fermentation processes provides many clues into the lifestyle of early Homo sapiens. The production of wine requires a relatively "stable base of operations," McGovern stated. His research suggests that these early Near East and Egyptian communities would have been more permanent cultures with a stable food supply and domesticated animals and plants. With this abundance of food came the need for containers that were durable and made from a material that was easily pliable-like clay. The porous structure of these clay vessels is what has made it...
 

Biology and Cryptobiology
Ancient sea spider fossils discovered in volcanic ash
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/27/2005 10:08:56 PM PST · 8 replies · 97+ views


Innovations Report | October 22, 2004 | Yale University via Janet Rettig Emanuel of EurekAlert!
Volcanic ash that encased and preserved sea life in the Silurian age 425 million years ago near Herefordshire, UK has yielded fossils of an ancient sea spider, or pycnogonid, one of the most unusual types of arthropod in the seas today... "This is the earliest adult fossil example, and it is preserved in extraordinary detail," said author Derek Briggs, professor of geology and geophysics, and Director of the Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies. "Volcanic ash that trapped ancient sea life in this location rapidly encased the creatures making a concrete-like cast of the bodies. The cavity later filled in with...
 

Archaeopteryx Fossil Had Dinosaur Feet
  Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 12/01/2005 11:43:46 AM PST · 220 replies · 2,457+ views


AP | 12-1-05 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
This image provided by the journal Science shows the skeleton, with wing and tail feather impressions, of the tenth specimen of the first known bird, Archaeopteryx, in ventral view. The new specimen provides important details on the feet and skull of these birds and strengthens the widely but not universally accepted argument that modern birds arose from theropod dinosaurs. (AP Photo/Science) A new analysis of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known birdlike animal, shows it had feet like dinosaurs - a finding that adds weight to the belief that the birds frequenting backyard feeders today are descendants of mighty ancient carnivores....
 

Catastrophism and Astronomy
Geology Picture of the Week, October 9-15, 2005: Lonar Crater, India
  Posted by cogitator
On General/Chat 10/12/2005 7:57:42 AM PDT · 17 replies · 383+ views


Karin Lydia Louzada
Connect the dots: 1) Heard about a new (small) eruption of Piton de la Fournaise. 2) Piton de la Fournaise is the current "expression" of the La Reunion mantle plume. 3) Thought about what happened when the Indian subcontinent passed over the La Reunion plume = Deccan Traps volcanism. 4) Tried to find a good picture of the Deccan Traps. 5) Discovered that one of the few places to see Deccan Trap basalt layering is Lonar Crater. 6) Lonar Crater is said to be the only impact crater on volcanic basalt. 7) Found remote sensing and surface pictures of Lonar...
 

end of digest #72 20051203

318 posted on 12/03/2005 3:27:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm; 75thOVI; Adder; Androcles; albertp; asgardshill; bitt; BradyLS; Carolinamom; ...
Here's the weekly Gods Graves Glyphs ping list digest link. Smooth sailing, as always, although there were three old style FR topics about Vikings in the Americas that I'd redone new style for inclusion here. I tried to email that to myself (before I left home to get to where I am now) and Yahoo -- where they got that name, I'll never know, should be more like "Weeping and Lamentations" -- made it's last intercourse-up for this here guy. Gmail, here I come.
Gods Graves Glyphs Digest 20051203
To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
Gods, Graves, Glyphs PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

319 posted on 12/03/2005 3:29:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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Back in November, we missed our chance to observe the Gods, Graves, Glyphs fourth birthday. Hey, I haven't even been around that long.
To: callisto
WOW!

Didn't you set up a list for these kind of articles?

22 posted on 11/21/2001 12:03:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: callisto; blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Names for the title of the bump list, anyone?

Digging the Past

Stones, Bones, Tomes and Thrones

Gods, Graves, Glyphs and Myths


82 posted on 11/22/2001 7:31:36 AM PST by Sabertooth
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Thanks to everyone who had a hand in starting it, carrying it on, joining it, and of course hosting it. We've got over 500 members (including weekly and individual ping list members) and that's pretty good sized.

This week, finally, I get to add the three old-style topics about the Vikings which I've reformatted to look like they're new-style. I've just added another, about a deepwater ancient wreck in the Mediterranean. All those oldies may someday get converted to the new format, but meanwhile, we can enjoy them as-is (other than posting to them).

Here's something that's kinda cool, that nevertheless doesn't warrant a topic of its own:
Travel in the Ancient World
by Lionel Casson
A gifted faker name Alexander founded an oracle in a backwater on the south shore of the Black Sea. Here, for stiff prices, a talking serpent he had rigged up answered questions for the local hayseeds... (p 135)



Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #73
Saturday, December 10, 2005


Epigraphy and Language
New light on old mystery (Kensington Runestone)
  Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 12/09/2005 8:22:17 PM PST · 11 replies · 538+ views


Echo Press | 12/9/05 | Celeste Beam
The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence. That is the title of a new book published by Scott Wolter and Richard Nielsen. Wolter is a geologist and petrographer from St. Paul who has been working on the mysterious stone for the past several years. Nielsen is linguistic expert who has also been studying the Kensington Runestone (KRS). Nielsen said the 574-page book is quite comprehensive and provides information about the Ohman family in detail. Olof Ohman is the Swedish farmer who reportedly found the stone wrapped in the roots of an aspen tree on his farm near Kensington in the...
 

The Vikings
Did the Vikings Stay? Vatican Files May Offer Clues
  Posted by sarcasm
On News/Activism 12/19/2000 05:26:52 PST · 270 replies · 270+ views


New York Times | December 19, 2000 | Walter Gibbs
OSLO, Dec. 18 — Excavations prove that a few score Norsemen bumped ashore in northern Newfoundland 1,000 years ago, landing in America almost 500 years before Columbus. But scholars generally dismiss the event with an asterisk because they say it did not change the course of history...
 

Did the Vikings Stay? Vatican Files May Offer Clues (THREAD II)
  Posted by sarcasm
On News/Activism 12/22/2000 16:04:39 PST · 270 replies · 270+ views


New York Times | December 19, 2000 | Walter Gibbs
OSLO, Dec. 18 — Excavations prove that a few score Norsemen bumped ashore in northern Newfoundland 1,000 years ago, landing in America almost 500 years before Columbus. But scholars generally dismiss the event with an asterisk because they say it did not change the course of history...
 

Ancient Site in Newfoundland Offers Clues to Vikings in America
  Posted by H.R. Gross
On News/Activism 05/11/2000 17:07:40 PDT · 53 replies · 53+ views


New York Times | May 9, 2000 | John Noble Wilford
L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, May 4 -- A spring snow fell all night and all day and buried the land down to water's edge. Drifts piled high against the walls of the sod houses. The mind's eye could see the place as it was 1,000 years ago when Vikings, led by Leif Ericson, first wintered here while exploring the coasts of a country they called Vinland....
 

Ancient Greece
Greece's Seas: The Looters' Next Destination
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 2:21:50 PM PST · 12 replies · 303+ views


The Guardian (UK) | 12-6-2005 | Helena Smith
Greece's seas: the looters' next destination New law opens access for traffickers to a hoard of underwater antiquities Helena Smith in Athens Tuesday December 6, 2005 The Guardian (UK) Lost and found ... a 16th century Spanish cargo ship off Zakynthos When it was first proposed, it seemed like a good idea: open up the Greek seas to divers and create a paradise for tourists underwater. Those who backed the law never thought of it as a windfall for looters, nor did it occur to them that it might put the acquisition policies of museums under further scrutiny. But the...
 

Phokaia Excavations Reveal Mystery Of Athena
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/08/2005 1:10:58 PM PST · 12 replies · 398+ views


Turkish Daily News | Izmir
Phokaia excavations reveal mystery of Athena Thursday, December 8, 2005 Griffins thought to be guarding the ancient Temple of Athena might become the symbol of FoÁa along with Mediterranean seals, says archaeologist ÷zyi?it ›ZM›R - Turkish Daily News Sculptures of horses and griffins as old as 2,600 years were discovered during excavations at the Temple of Athena located at the ancient city of Phokaia, which is today within the borders of ›zmir's FoÁa district. The finds reveal that the sculptures were used as main decorative items for terraces at the ancient city, the goddess of which was Athena, and that...
 

In an Ancient Wreck, Clues to Seafaring Lives
  Posted by Antiwar Republican
On News/Activism 03/27/2001 07:47:52 PST · 6 replies · 7+ views


New York Times | 3/27/01 | William J. Broad
...Now, the discovery of an ancient wreck in the middle of the Mediterranean is strengthening the old claims. The wreck site, some 200 miles from Cyprus and nearly two miles deep, has been tentatively dated as 2,300 years old; it lies amid a graveyard of similar hulks. Clearly Greek in origin, it is the deepest ancient ship ever discovered...
 

Anatolia
Scientists Discover Ancient Mound (4,000BC - Azerbaijan)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/04/2005 2:49:23 PM PST · 25 replies · 535+ views


Catid News | 12-3-2005
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ANCIENT MOUND [December 03, 2005, 19:00:35] As a result of the archaeological dig in the territory of Agstafa region, through which the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and South Caucasus gas pipelines pass, scientists of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences have discovered ancient mound dating back to the 4th millennium B.C. The finding considered to be the most ancient one of this kind in the Southern Caucasus testifies that the tradition of manufacturing burial stones first began in Azerbaijan, and later spread to the Northern Caucasus.
 

Let's Have Jerusalem
Amazing discovery in heart of biblical Jerusalem
  Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 12/05/2005 6:03:20 AM PST · 84 replies · 2,608+ views


Cleveland Jewish News | December 5, 2005 | DAVID HAZONY
In what many archaeologists hail as the potential find of the century, remains of a massive structure dating to the time of King David have been discovered in the heart of biblical Jerusalem. Eilat Mazar, the Israeli archaeologist leading the excavation, has suggested that it may, in fact, be the palace built by David as described in the Bible. The discovery has shaken the already contentious field of biblical archaeology to its roots: For the last few years, a number of respected archaeologists n most prominently Israel Finkelstein, chairman of Tel Aviv University's archaeology department and author of the 2001...
 

British Isles
Saint's and Royal tombs discovered in Ancient Westminster Abbey crypt (Edward the Confessor)
  Posted by churchillbuff
On News/Activism 12/03/2005 7:44:59 PM PST · 30 replies · 724+ views


Westminster Abbey | Dec 05 | Westminster Abbey
What is believed to be the original ancient burial tomb of one of our most revered British Saints, Edward the Confessor, has been discovered at Westminster Abbey ñ exactly 1,000 years after his birth. The discovery comes as part of an unprecedented archaeological study at the Abbey using radar that has also revealed a series of Royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries and historical secrets related to Royal burials. Delighted archaeologists came across the forgotten, under-floor chambers when, as part of a larger conservation programme, they were using the latest ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology to investigate...
 

The sandal? Roman Britons put a sock in it too
  Posted by Antiwar Republican
On General/Chat 08/26/2003 2:16:59 PM PDT · 29 replies · 126+ views


Times of London | August 26, 2003 | Dalya Alberge
London TimesAugust 26, 2003The sandal? Roman Britons put a sock in it tooBy Dalya Alberge, Arts CorrespondentWHAT did the Romans ever do for us? Well, they may have started us on a fashion crime for which we are mocked in the rest of Europe to this day: wearing socks with sandals. An archaeological discovery in London suggests that the sartorial solecism was afoot almost 2,000 years ago. A life-size bronze foot, unearthed last month and dated to the 2nd century AD, clearly shows that Roman Britons wore socks with their sandals. No doubt their excuse was the cold. The historian...
 

Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman Brickworks Uncovered
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/05/2005 5:16:05 PM PST · 14 replies · 587+ views


Ansa | 12-5-2005
Ancient Roman brickworks uncoveredThe factory is so well preserved it could work again (ANSA) - Cesena, December 5 - An Ancient Roman brickworks in near perfect condition has been discovered in Emilia Romagna . The complex, the largest anywhere in the region and one of the biggest in Italy, was unearthed near a canal in the central Italian town of Ronta . "This is a truly extraordinary find," said a culture ministry spokesman. "It is so well preserved that with minimal restoration it would still work perfectly today." The site is of such importance that the consortium carrying out work...
 

Untouched Roman Sarcophagi Found
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 1:06:37 PM PST · 27 replies · 1,031+ views


Ansa | 12-6-2005
Untouched Roman sarcophagi foundRare burial trove dates back to Imperial times (ANSA) - Rome, December 6 - Italian archaeologists have found a remarkable trove of five untouched Roman sarcophagi in a burial vault outside Rome . "It's really rare to find so many sarcophagi that have never been profaned or even opened - as can be seen by the intact lead clasps on their edges," said the head of the dig, Stefano Musco . He said the sarcophagi dated from the II century AD and probably contained the remains of the wealthy residents of a villa that once stood in...
 

Prehistory and Origins
Cave Paintings Reveal Ice Age Artists
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/07/2005 3:11:11 PM PST · 12 replies · 476+ views


The Times (UK) | 12-7-2005 | Norman Hammond
December 07, 2005 Cave paintings reveal Ice Age artists By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent BRITAINíS first cave art is more than 12,800 years old, scientific testing has shown. Engravings of a deer and other creatures at Creswell Crags, in Derbyshire, have proved to be genuine Ice Age creations, and not modern fakes, as some had feared. The engravings were found in 2003 at two caves, Church Hole and Robin Hoodís Cave, which lie close together in the Creswell gorge. Palaeolithic occupation deposits dating to the last Ice Age were excavated there in 1875-76, but the art remained unnoticed. Although the...
 

Climate
New Ice Cores Expand View Of Climate History
  Posted by cogitator
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 1:00:49 PM PST · 75 replies · 1,453+ views


Science Daily | November 28, 2005
Two new studies of gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores have extended the record of Earth's past climate almost 50 percent further, adding another 210,000 years of definitive data about the makeup of the Earth's atmosphere and providing more evidence of current atmospheric change. The research is being published in the journal Science by participants in the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica. It's "an amazing accomplishment we would not have thought possible" as recently as 10 years ago, said Ed Brook, a professor of geosciences at Oregon State University, who analyzed the studies in the same issue of...
 

Ancient drought 'changed history'
  Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 12/08/2005 3:58:46 AM PST · 39 replies · 910+ views


BBC | 12/07/05 | Roland Pease
Ancient drought 'changed history' By Roland Pease BBC science unit, San Francisco The sediments are an archive of past climate conditions Scientists have identified a major climate crisis that struck Africa about 70,000 years ago and which may have changed the course of human history.The evidence comes from sediments drilled up from the beds of Lake Malawi and Tanganyika in East Africa, and from Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana. It shows equatorial Africa experienced a prolonged period of drought. It is possible, scientists say, this was the reason some of the first humans left Africa to populate the globe. Certainly,...
 

Catastrophism and Astronomy
Sunken treasure [ancient forest buried under the seabed of Nantucket Sound]
  Posted by Fractal Trader
On News/Activism 12/04/2005 2:30:58 PM PST · 41 replies · 1,413+ views


Boston Globe | 4 Dec 05 | Beth Daley,
Scientists mapping the seabed under a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound were stunned by their find: evidence of a submerged forest under 6 feet of mud. It's hardly the lost city of Atlantis, but the piece of birch wood, the yellowish-green grass, soil, and insect parts appear to be part of a forest floor that lined the coastline 5,500 years ago, before being swallowed by the sea that rose after the last ice age. Nearby is evidence of a drowned kettle pond and marsh. The find has scientists abuzz because if a preserved forest rests below the sea, maybe...
 

At 30,000 feet down, where were the dinosaurs?
  Posted by ovrtaxt
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 3:26:34 AM PST · 66 replies · 2,328+ views


WorldNetDaily.com | November 29, 2005 | Jerome Corsi
At 30,000 feet down, where were the dinosaurs? Posted: November 29, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern ©†2005†WorldNetDaily.com Developments in deep-drilling for natural gas present serious challenges to those who still maintain "Fossil-Fuel" theories as to the origin of complex hydrocarbon fuels. The Western world's record for deep-well natural-gas exploration and production is held by the GHK Company in Oklahoma. From 1972 through 1974, the company engineered and drilled two Oklahoma natural-gas commercial wells at depths greater than 30,000 feet (approximately 5.7 miles) ñ the No. 1-27 Bertha Rogers well (total depth 31,441 feet) and the No. 1-28 E.R. Baden well, both located...
 

No Safe Ground For Life To Stand On During World's Largest Mass Extinction
  Posted by SuzyQue
On News/Activism 12/04/2005 7:31:06 AM PST · 49 replies · 1,210+ views


ScienceDaily | 12-02-2005 | Imperial College London
No Safe Ground For Life To Stand On During World's Largest Mass Extinction The world's largest mass extinction was probably caused by poisonous volcanic gas, according to research published today.
 

Australia & the Pacific
Hobbits May Be Earliest Australians
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/07/2005 3:01:40 PM PST · 21 replies · 398+ views


The Australian | 12-8-2005 | Carmelo Amalfi/Leigh Dayton
Hobbits may be earliest Australians Carmelo Amalfi and Leigh Dayton December 08, 2005 THE tiny hobbit-like humans of Indonesia may have lived in Australia before they became extinct about 11,000 years ago. The startling claim comes from archaeologist Mike Morwood, leader of the team that in 2003 uncovered remains of the 1m-tall hominid at Liang Bua cave on Indonesia's Flores island. They believe the pint-size person - known officially as Homo floresiensis and unofficially as the "Hobbit" - was wiped out by a volcanic eruption that spared their Homo sapiens neighbours. Speaking at a public lecture in Perth, Professor Morwood...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Jungle Discovery Opens New Chapter In Maya History
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/05/2005 11:00:51 AM PST · 46 replies · 997+ views


Eureka Alert/University Of Calgary | 12-5-2005 | Gregory Harris
Contact: Gregory Harris gharris@ucalgary.ca 403-220-3506 University of Calgary Jungle discovery opens new chapter in Maya historyUniversity of Calgary-led team discovers earliest known portrait of Maya woman A University of Calgary archaeologist and her international team of researchers have discovered the earliest known portrait of a woman that the Maya carved into stone, demonstrating that women held positions of authority very early in Maya history ñ either as queens or patron deities. The discovery was made earlier this year in Guatemala at the site of Naachtun, a Maya city located some 90 kilometres through dense jungle north of the more famous...
 

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Beethoven Died From Lead Poisoning
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/07/2005 3:22:00 PM PST · 33 replies · 777+ views


ABC Science News | 12-7-2005
Beethoven died from lead poisoning AgenÁe France-Presse Wednesday, 7 December 2005 Lead poisoning may even have caused Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness (portrait in oil by JK Stieler) (Image: US DOE) Tests on the hair and skull fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven show the legendary 19th century German composer died from lead poisoning, scientists say. Bone fragments from Beethoven's skull had high concentrations of lead, matching an earlier finding of lead in his hair, say researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. "The finding of elevated lead in Beethoven's skull, along with DNA results indicating authenticity...
 

Found: Old Wall in New York, and It's Blocking the Subway
  Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 12/08/2005 3:09:12 AM PST · 71 replies · 1,697+ views


NY Times | December 8, 2005 | PATRICK McGEEHAN
Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityThe top of an old wall was discovered by workers digging a new subway tunnel under Battery Park. Three weeks after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority started digging a subway tunnel under Battery Park, the project hit a wall. A really old wall. Possibly the oldest wall still standing in Manhattan. It was a 45-foot-long section of a stone wall that archaeologists believe is a remnant of the original battery that protected the Colonial settlement at the southern tip of the island. Depending on which archaeologist you ask, it was built in the 1760's or as long ago...
 

Killed Long Ago, These Outlaws Refuse to Die
  Posted by Antiwar Republican
On News/Activism 09/06/2001 8:18:27 AM PDT · 20 replies · 396+ views


Wall Street Journal | September 6, 2001 | KARIN WINEGAR
Wall Street Journal September 6, 2001 Killed Long Ago, These Outlaws Refuse to Die By KARIN WINEGAR Northfield, Minn. Spurs jingling, duster billowing and a desperado gleam in his eye, Chip DeMann swings back in the saddle this week for his 32d year of robbery during the 125th anniversary of the Northfield, Minn. bank raid. The James-Younger gang's foiled September 7, 1876 bank robbery took seven minutes, triggered the largest manhunt in US history up to that time and launched an enduring national industry in the enjoyment and study of outlawry. The attempt is celebrated as The Defeat of ...
 

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