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Posted on 07/16/2004 11:27:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #312 Saturday, July 10, 2010 |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| Book presents evidence of human connections across Bering Strait land bridge |
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· 07/05/2010 4:38:01 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 28 replies · · Daily News-Miner · · 05 July 2010 · · Mary Beth Smetzer · |
Research illuminating an ancient language connection between Asia and North America supports archeological and genetic evidence that a Bering Strait land bridge once connected North America with Asia, and the discovery is being endorsed by a growing list of scholars in the field of linguistics and other sciences. The work of Western Washington University linguistics professor Edward Vajda with the isolated Ket people of Central Siberia is revealing more and more examples of an ancient language connection with the language family of Na-Dene, which includes Tlingit, Gwich'in, Dena'ina, Koyukon, Navajo, Carrier, Hupa, Apache and about 45 other languages. In 2008,... |
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| Cherokees Spoke Greek and Came from East Mediterranean |
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· 07/07/2010 6:22:09 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 88 replies · · DNA Consultants · · 17 June 2010 · · Donald N. Yates · |
Possum Creek Stone and Anomalous Cherokee DNA Point to Eastern Mediterranean Origins In memoriam Gloria Farley Donald N. Yates DNA Consultants Keynote address for Ancient American History and Archeology Conference, Sandy, Utah, April 2, 2010 SUMMARY†Three examples of North American rock art are discussed and placed in the context of ancient Greek and Hebrew civilization. The Red Bird Petroglyphs are compared with Greek and Hebrew coins and the Bat Creek Stone. The Possum Creek Stone discovered by Gloria Farley is identified as a Greek athlete's victory pedestal. The Thruston Stone is interpreted as a record of the blending of... |
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| An Ancient Hebrew Inscription in New Mexico - Fact or Fraud? |
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· 10/08/2002 11:51:51 PM PDT · · Posted by pistola · · 120 replies · 3,259+ views · · www.unitedisrael.org · · James D. Tabor · |
An Ancient Hebrew Inscription in New Mexico Fact or Fraud? by James D. Tabor The standard textbook wisdom that we all learned from grade school on up is that the Americas were discovered by the Europeans either in 1492 by Columbus, or perhaps even a few hundred years earlier by the Vikings. There seems to be an aversion among the establishment historians to even consider the idea that ancient Mediterranean peoples might have traveled to the Americas in the centuries before our era. Except for certain "fringe" scholarship, particularly promoted by Mormon historians, the standard view is considered indisputable. The... |
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| India | |
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| Peshawar: 'Oldest Living City' in South Asia |
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· 07/05/2010 2:43:52 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · Dawn · · Saturday, July 3, 2010 · · APP Feature Service · |
Archaeologists are resuming excavation at historic Gor Khatri monument to discover the exact archaeological profile of ancient Peshawar, presently enjoying the distinction of oldest living city in South Asia. A recent archaeology excavation at Gor Khatri has established the city's historical profile and now Peshawar is officially claimed by Archaeology Department to be the 'Oldest Living City' in South Asia, boasting a recorded history that goes back as far as at least 539 BC... Dr. Ihsan Ali said presently exact profile of Peshawar city does not exist and it is not clear that exactly how old Peshawar city is... The... |
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| Fertile Crescent | |
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| Sassanid fire temple discovered in central Iran |
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· 07/08/2010 6:51:13 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · Payvand News · · Monday, July 5, 2010 · · Mehr News Agency · |
Ruins of a fire temple dating back to the Sassanid era have recently been discovered during a series of archaeological excavations in the Vigol region near Kashan in central Iran. The discovery was made during the latest season of excavations, which are being carried out by a team of archaeologists led by Mohsen Javeri and began in mid-June, the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization announced in a press release on Monday. The cruciform temple has four entrances leading to the ruins of a fireplace embellished with unique stucco designs, Javeri said. The team has also unearthed pieces of ornate... |
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| Fertile Crescent | |
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| Mesopotamia's civilization originated in Armenia [ uh-boy... ] |
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· 07/09/2010 11:16:39 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · PanARMENIAN · · July 2, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Unique discoveries revealed as a result of excavations at Shengavit (4000-3000 B.C.) confirm that Armenia is the motherland of metallurgy, jeweler's art, wine-making and horse breeding. A group of archaeologists studying the ancient city concluded that 4000-3000 B.C. Armenia was a highly developed state with exclusive culture. The excavations are carried out by an Armenian-American archaeological expedition. Director of the Scientific and Research Institute of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the RA Ministry of Culture Simonyan said that for example, the glass beads discovered at the territory of Shengavit are of a higher quality than the Egypt samples. "Meanwhile, the... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Egypt: Colourful ancient tombs unearthed [ 6th dynasty, Saqqara ] |
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· 07/09/2010 10:37:43 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 7 replies · · Adnkronos International · · July 7, 2010 · · unattributed · |
A team of archaeologists has discovered two colourful tombs, believed to be around 4,300 years old, at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egyptian culture minister Farouq Hosni said on Wednesday. Both tombs, found west of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in the Giza area, are carved into rocks and and date from the 6th Dynasty (2,374-2,191 BC), the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass said. The tombs belong to Shendwa, a top government official and head of the royal scribes, and his son, Khonsu, who inherited the same titles as his father, according to... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Syria: Scholar Composes Music from Archaeological Ugaritic Cuneiform Tablet |
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· 07/09/2010 9:34:22 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · Global Arab Network · · Thursday, July 8, 2010 · · H. Sabbagh · |
Musical scholar Ziad Ajjan composed eight poetry and musical pieces from the musical archaeological cuneiform tablet known as "Hymn of Supplication" H6 discovered in Ugarit in the early 20th century. Ajjan composed three musical pieces based on the musical notes in the tablet which dates back to 1400 BC, naming the pieces "Sunrise," "Sunset" and "Holiday in Ugarit." This marks the recording of the oldest music notation in the history of the world. Ajjan said he is still working on the tablet based on information he reached after extensive study and previous experiment, making use of previous research by fellow... |
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| Afro-Asiatic languages -- U of MT -- Mansfield Library Language Finger |
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· 07/06/2010 9:22:24 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library · · December 7, 2003 · · Library Webmaster · |
The Afro-Asiatic language family was formerly called Semitic-Hamitic, or, occasionally, Hamito-Semitic. It consists of languages spoken in north Africa and in the Near East, both in the past and presently. Afro-Asiatic is comprised of the Hamitic and Semitic branches. Hamitic consists of four sub-branches, all found in north Africa: Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic; it includes such languages as Coptic, Tamazight, Tuareg, and Hausa. The Semitic branch is divided into East and West sub-branches, and is found in both the Near East and in north Africa. East Semitic includes Akkadian and Chaldean. West Semitic is further divided into Northern and... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Ancient site near Nablus 'too problematic' to open [ Mount Gerizim ] |
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· 07/04/2010 4:25:02 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · Ha'aretz · · Friday, July 2, 2010 · · Chaim Levinson · |
Mount Gerizim is sacred to the Samaritans who regard it, rather than Jerusalem's Temple Mount, as the location chosen by God for a holy temple... the Civil Administration is keeping the compound closed despite its huge tourism potential. It says planning at the site near Nablus in the West Bank is "too problematic." Over more than two decades, Yitzhak Magen, the administration's chief archaeology officer, dug up a 2,000-year-old city, once home to 10,000 people. It was preserved in its entirety. The site consists of streets lined with houses, a marketplace and town center. Thousands of bones of sacrificial animals... |
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| Faith and Philosophy | |
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| Archeologists Explore Rural Galilee and Find Ancient Synagogue |
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· 07/09/2010 10:31:50 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 5 replies · · ScienceDaily · · July 7, 2010 · · Universitaet Mainz · |
Among various important discoveries, the 2010 Kinneret Regional Project discovered an ancient synagogue, in use at around 400 AD. This year's archeological focus is the first systematic excavation on Horvat Kur, a village inhabited from the Early Roman through the Early Medieval periods located on a gentle hill two kilometers west of the Lake of Galilee. Thirty volunteers -- mostly students of theology, religious studies, and archeology -- and staff from the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, Spain, Israel, and Germany explore the material remains of the village life in Galilee, a region that features very prominently in Early Christian... |
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| Roman Empire | |
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| Rare coin bears good tidings for UNOs Israeli excavations |
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· 07/05/2010 1:00:12 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · · Archaeology Daily · · Saturday, July 3, 2010 · · Omaha World Herald · |
Dr. Rami Arav... is director of excavation and research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Bethsaida Excavations Project, a 24-year effort to uncover the archaeological mysteries of the biblical-era city. The coin, which weighs 7 grams, is 97.6 percent gold, Arav said. The find was unexpected because Bethsaida primarily was home to humble fishermen, he said. Arav said somebody must have been doing good business a little more than 100 years after the birth of Christ. The gold coin, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, carries the image of Antoninus Pius, the 15th Roman emperor, who reigned between... |
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| Britain | |
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| Huge Roman coin find for hobbyist |
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· 07/08/2010 5:15:35 AM PDT · · Posted by csvset · · 33 replies · · BBC · · 8 July 2010 · · Staff · |
One of the largest ever finds of Roman coins in Britain has been made by a man using a metal detector. The hoard of more than 52,000 coins dating from the 3rd Century AD was found buried in a field near Frome in Somerset. The coins were found in a huge jar just over a foot (30cm) below the surface by Dave Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire. "I have made many finds over the years, but this is my first major coin hoard," he said. After his metal detector gave a "funny signal", Mr Crisp says he dug down 14in... |
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| UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 ancient Roman coins |
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· 07/08/2010 11:14:24 AM PDT · · Posted by GeronL · · 45 replies · · Yahoo · · July 6, 2010 · · Robert Barr · |
LONDON ñ A treasure hunter has found about 52,500 Roman coins, one of the largest such discoveries ever in Britain, officials said Thursday. The hoard, which was valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor. |
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| Africa | |
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| Oldest Illustrated Christian Manuscript in Ethiopia? |
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· 07/05/2010 7:06:30 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 23 replies · · Hotair · · 07/05/2010 · · Anchoress · |
Exciting news from one of Christianity's earliest seats, and the UK Daily Mail: The world's earliest illustrated Christian book has been saved by a British charity which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery.The incredible Garima Gospels are named after a monk who arrived in the African country in the fifth century and is said to have copied them out in just one day.Beautifully illustrated, the colours are still vivid and thanks to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund have been conserved. The survival of the Gospels is incredible considering the country has been under Muslim invasion, Italian invasion and a fire... |
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| But for Wales | |
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| Pillar of Eliseg: Archaeologists dig beneath 9th Century monument |
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· 07/04/2010 4:09:02 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · BBC · · Friday, July 2, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Archaeologists are to start excavations on a suspected ancient burial site to try to understand the significance of a Llangollen landmark. But the team will have to work carefully because the 9th Century Pillar of Eliseg, a CADW-protected ancient monument, stands directly on top of the barrow - burial mound - and the archaeologists can't disturb it. Medieval archaeology Professor, Nancy Edwards, from Bangor University says it is the first time the site has been dug since 1773 when, it is believed, a skeleton was unearthed... The history behind the monument and why it was erected on the mound in... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| Mojoceratops: New Dinosaur Species Named for Flamboyant Frill |
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· 07/08/2010 5:58:53 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · · Yale University · · July 8, 2010 · · Unknown · |
New Haven, Conn. -- When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur's appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops. "It was just a joke, but then everyone stopped and looked at each other and said, "Wait -- that actually sounds cool,' " said Longrich, a postdoctoral associate at Yale University. "I tried to come up with serious names after that, but Mojoceratops just sort of... |
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| Biology and Cryptobiology | |
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| Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered |
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· 07/06/2010 2:59:07 AM PDT · · Posted by jerry557 · · 67 replies · · Sciencedaily.com · · 07/01/10 · |
The discovery in Gabon of more than 250 fossils in an excellent state of conservation has provided proof, for the first time, of the existence of multicellular organisms 2.1 billion years ago. This finding represents a major breakthrough: until now, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) dated from around 600 million years ago. ---snip--- By studying the sedimentary structures of this site, the scientists have shown that these organisms lived in a shallow marine environment (20 to 30 meters), often calm but periodically subjected to the combined influence of tides, waves and storms. In order to... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Wallabies and Bats Harbor "Fossil" Genes from the Most Deadly Family of Human Viruses |
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· 07/05/2010 5:25:21 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · · State University of New York, Buffalo · · June 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Research reveals potential reservoir species, new mechanism for how mammals acquire genesBUFFALO, N.Y. -- Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, which cause Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers and are the most lethal viruses known to humans. Published this week in the online journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, the paper ("Filoviruses are ancient and integrated into mammalian genomes") demonstrates for the first time that mammals have harbored filoviruses for at least tens of... |
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| Zoo to bring dead animals back to life, 'Jurassic Park'-style |
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· 07/05/2010 2:10:21 AM PDT · · Posted by shibumi · · 17 replies · · Telegraph.co.uk · · July 1, 2010 · · Tom Chivers · |
A drill monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Photo: Grendelkhan, Wikimedia Commons Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and San Diego Zoo have collaborated to create stem cells from the skin cells of a dead drill monkey, an endangered monkey native to Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Cameroon. The scientists, speaking at the International Society for Stem Cell Research in San Francisco, hope that the "induced pluripotent stem" (iPS) cells thus created can then be biochemically persuaded into becoming sperm and egg cells. They can then be implanted into the womb of another... |
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| Upchuck Darwin | |
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| 'Magical Thinking' About Islands an Illusion? Biologist Refutes Conventional Thinking on Evolution |
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· 07/08/2010 8:14:36 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 11 replies · · Science Daily · · 07/08/2010 · |
Long before TV's campy Fantasy Island, the isolation of island communities has touched an exotic and magical core in us. Darwin's fascination with the Galapagos island chain and the evolution of its plant and animal life is just one example. Think of the extensive lore surrounding island-bred creatures like Komodo dragons, dwarf elephants, and Hobbit-sized humans. Conventional wisdom has it that they -- and a horde of monster-sized insects -- are all products of island evolution. But are they? Dr. Shai Meiri of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology says "yes," they are a product of evolution, but nothing more... |
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| A Mathematician's View of Evolution |
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· 09/20/2006 9:51:34 AM PDT · · Posted by SirLinksalot · · 695 replies · 6,776+ views · · The Mathematical Intelligencer · · Granville Sewell · |
A Mathematician's View of Evolution Granville Sewell Mathematics Dept. University of Texas El Paso The Mathematical Intelligencer 22, no. 4 (2000), pp5-7 Copyright held by Springer Verlag, NY, LLC In 1996, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe published a book entitled "Darwin's Black Box" [Free Press], whose central theme is that every living cell is loaded with features and biochemical processes which are "irreducibly complex"--that is, they require the existence of numerous complex components, each essential for function. Thus, these features and processes cannot be explained by gradual Darwinian improvements, because until all the components are in place, these assemblages are... |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Hips Don't Lie: Researchers Find More Accurate Technique To Determine Sex Of Skeletal Remains |
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· 07/07/2010 10:03:03 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 33 replies · · North Carolina State University · · July 6, 2010 · · Matt Shipman · |
Research from North Carolina State University offers a new means of determining the sex of skeletal human remains -- an advance that may have significant impacts in the wake of disasters, the studying of ancient remains and the criminal justice system. Historically, forensic scientists have been able to determine the sex of skeletal remains by visually evaluating the size and shape of the pelvis, or os coxa... Ross and her colleague Dr. Joan Bytheway have now used three-dimensional imaging technology to effectively quantify the specific characteristics of the os coxa that differentiate males from females. Bytheway is an assistant professor... |
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| Neandertals / Neanderthals | |
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| Neanderthal Males Had Popeye-Like Arms |
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· 07/07/2010 7:19:56 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 93 replies · · Discovery News · · Tuesday, July 6, 2010 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
Remains of an early Neanderthal with a super strong arm suggest that Neanderthal fellows were heavily pumped up on male hormones, possessing a hormonal status unlike anything that exists in humans today... Neanderthal males probably evolved their ultra macho ways due to lifestyle, genes, climate and diet factors... Project leader Maria Mednikova told Discovery News that Neanderthal males hunted in the "extreme," helping to beef up one arm. "The common method for killing animals was direct contact with the victim," said Mednikova, a professor in the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Instead of shooting prey, such... |
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| Diet and Cuisine | |
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| Skeleton Blodwen, aged 5,500, comes home to Llandudno |
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· 07/05/2010 2:28:28 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · BBC · · Saturday, July 3, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Blodwen is the nickname given to a Neolithic skeleton found on Little Orme in Llandudno, Conwy county, in 1891... The skeleton was discovered in a fissure by an engineer excavating quarry works, who then donated her to the museum in his home town of Bacup. Carbon dating tests carried out at Oxford University have revealed that Blodwen died around 3510 BC, aged somewhere between her late fifties and early sixties. Orthopaedic examinations show that she was about 5ft (1.52m), powerfully built, and her bone structure suggests she was accustomed to carrying heavy loads, both on her head and in her... |
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| Ancient Warfare | |
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| Study: Archimedes Set Roman Ships Afire with Cannons |
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· 07/07/2010 8:20:04 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 40 replies · · LiveScience · · June 28, 2010 · · Jeremy Hsu · |
Greek inventor Archimedes is said to have used mirrors to burn ships of an attacking Roman fleet. But new research suggests he may have used steam cannons and fiery cannonballs instead. A legend begun in the Medieval Ages tells of how Archimedes used mirrors to concentrate sunlight as a defensive weapon during the siege of Syracuse, then a Greek colony on the island of Sicily, from 214 to 212 B.C. No contemporary Roman or Greek accounts tell of such a mirror device, however. Both engineering calculations and historical evidence support use of steam cannons as "much more reasonable than the... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| How Europeans Invented the Modern World |
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· 07/05/2010 8:38:13 AM PDT · · Posted by ventanax5 · · 48 replies · · American Thinker · · David Deming · |
Both Greece and Rome made significant contributions to Western Civilization. Greek knowledge was ascendant in philosophy, physics, chemistry, medicine, and mathematics for nearly two thousand years. The Romans did not have the Greek temperament for philosophy and science, but they had a genius for law and civil administration. The Romans were also great engineers and builders. They invented concrete, perfected the arch, and constructed roads and bridges that remain in use today. But neither the Greeks nor the Romans had much appreciation for technology. As documented in my book, Science and Technology in World History, Vol. 2, the technological society... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| First American Revolution - The Worcester Revolution of 1774 |
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· 07/04/2010 8:25:52 PM PDT · · Posted by smokingfrog · · 17 replies · · worcesterma.gov · · unknown · · David J. Rushford · |
The American Revolution did not start on the morning of April 19, 1775. When the British fired upon a small group of hastily assembled patriots on the Lexington Green, they were attempting to regain control of a colony they had already lost. The real Revolution, the transfer of political authority to the American patriots, occurred more than half a year before, when thousands upon thousands of farmers and artisans deposed every Crown-appointed official in Massachusetts outside of Boston. During the late summer of 1774, each time a court was slated to meet under British authority in some Massachusetts town, great... |
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| Standing Up for a Hero of Saratoga |
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· 07/06/2010 7:23:40 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 24 replies · · NY Times · · July 5, 2010 · · Clyde Haberman · |
For a 14th straight year, James S. Kaplan spent the Fourth of July walking in the middle of the night among ghosts of the American Revolution. ... What Mr. Kaplan does every Independence Day, in recent years under the aegis of the Fraunces Tavern Museum, is guide several dozen people to sites in Lower Manhattan that have Revolutionary War significance. Only his tour begins at 2 a.m..snip... Perhaps another distinction is that Mr. Kaplan makes a point of stopping outside Trinity Church to note an injustice that he believes has been done to Horatio Gates, a Revolution-era general who commanded... |
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| A House With a Role in the Revolution Is Now Left Unprotected |
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· 07/05/2010 6:15:30 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 42 replies · · NY Times · · July 5, 2010 · · Peter Applebome · |
There's always been a forlorn tale about history slipping away in the Miller House, a farmhouse where George Washington slept and plotted strategy during the Battle of White Plains in 1776.</p> <p>Elijah Miller and two of his sons died in the war. Anne Miller died in 1819. The house was restored and opened to the public in 1918. snip...Ms. Hohl doubts it will last another winter. The county's plan was to raise $1.2 million to fix and restore the building and $600,000 or so more in private money to move it to a more accessible spot on county parkland near the Kensico Dam.</p> |
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| The Framers | |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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· 07/04/2010 8:13:55 AM PDT · · Posted by Biggirl · · 4 replies · · wordpress.com · · July 4, 2010 · · annem040359 · |
"IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| the Republican Party's first-ever state convention |
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· 07/07/2010 8:29:04 AM PDT · · Posted by Mobile Vulgus · · 3 replies · · Grand Old Partisan · · 07/07/10 · · Michael Zak · |
Under the OaksIn 1854, the Democrats in control of the 33rd Congress were moving toward passage of their Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing slavery to expand into the western territories. Championing the bill was Stephen Douglas, the senator who would be the Democratic Party's 1860 presidential nominee. The Democrat President at the time, Franklin Pierce, said he would sign the bill into law. The Democratic Party had chosen to promote slavery. Amid the intense reaction, a grassroots movement similar to the Tea Parties sprang up to oppose the extension of slavery. At town meetings and demonstrations, anti-slavery activists voiced their opposition to... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| This Day in Civil War History July 3rd, 1863 Third Day of the batle of Gettysburg |
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· 07/03/2010 5:16:46 AM PDT · · Posted by mainepatsfan · · 118 replies · · History.com · |
July 3rd, 1863 Pickett leads his infamous charge at Gettysburg Troops under Confederate General George Pickett begin a massive attack against the center of the Union lines at Gettysburg on the climactic third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the largest engagement of the war. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia encountered George Meade's Army of the Potomac in Pennsylvania and battered the Yankees for two days. The day before Pickett's charge, the Confederates had hammered each flank of the Union line but could not break through. Now, on July 3, Lee decided to attack the Union center,... |
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| The Great War | |
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| Sedition Acts and Woodrow Wilson: Part 1 [freep-notes] |
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· 07/04/2010 10:53:10 AM PDT · · Posted by Arthur Wildfire! March · · 17 replies · |
Free Speech and the Constitution are under attack. These research notes will help us gain historic perspective. The Sedition Act of 1798. A. The Philosophical Difference Hamilton and John Adams were the driving force behind the philosophy of power. They wanted strong military, powerful industry, and strong central government -- the Federalist Party. Thomas Jefferson led the opposing view -- lean military budget, weak central government, and an agricultural society that was considered to be more virtuous. [For the most part, I like America to be strong. But how much power should one political party have?] Democrats claim that Thomas... |
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| Conservancy releases more details of SS United States rescue plan |
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· 07/06/2010 7:21:00 AM PDT · · Posted by lack-of-trust · · 18 replies · · Marine Log · · 5 July 2010 · · staff · |
Conservancy releases more details of SS United States rescue plan The SS United States Conservancy has announced more details of its plan to buy the SS United States from its current owner. Here's the statement: In a major development in the effort to save the legendary American ocean liner SS United States from destruction, the SS United States Conservancy announces a donation by Philadelphia philanthropist H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest of up to $5.8 million. The funds will be used to purchase the vessel from its current owner, Norwegian Cruise Line/Genting Hong Kong (Norwegian/Genting), and maintain the ship in its current berth... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Encounters with Gnomes |
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· 07/05/2010 8:08:12 PM PDT · · Posted by shibumi · · 31 replies · · From the Shadows · · June 30, 2010 · · Jason Offutt · |
Author's note: A June 2009 "From The Shadows" installment told the tale of "Tammy" whose family was terrorized by an evil, little gnome-like man on their property near the Tule River in Porterville, Calif. Her case is not as isolated as we may hope. Dan Bortko's family moved from Wyandotte County, Kan., to Liberty, Mo., in 1948 when he was about nine months old. His family didn't know it, but something already lived in the house on High Street. The house, a stucco bungalow built atop a hill in the 1920s, wasn't the only structure on that site. "There was... |
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Microwave oven @ Wal-Mart $39.99.
(Ya cheap bastard)
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I’d been having some 503 (?) errors when I’ve pinged everyone, these past few months, and it had been two years (as it turned out) since the last inspection, so I’ve just cleaned up the GGG list. The Digest group was fine, but I’m going to send out a test ping to the slightly reduced regular ping list.
This is only a test.
Do I pass? What do I win???
:’D I cleaned it up, and that horrible burned smell subsided (I’ve had the old kitchen fan going, and turned up one of the ceiling fans). I dried out the inside using the power level zero, and the next thing I cooked in it worked fine. :’)
Since you failed to notice the error number was wrong, you’re disqualified. And no one else even gets a chance at the error thing, your fault. ;’)
Earlier today, you *might* have won my old microwave, but it seems to be back to working.
Figures.
Answer...1...2...3...I am signed in and fully Beebered. This only an answer. REPEAT: This is only an answer!
;’)
I’m getting a 404 error on every single article I try to click into this week.
Power level zero?
Isn’t that well, nothing?
Yeah, really, why did they even call it “power level”? ;’)
It’s just the GGG articles this week. I could get into everything else.
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| Ancient Chronography, Eratosthenes and the Dating of the Fall of Troy |
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· 07/14/2010 5:28:39 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 22 replies · · Centuries of Darkness website · · April 2009 · · Nikos Kokkinos · |
Through close scrutiny of the surviving fragments of ancient chronography, it is possible to work out the way Eratosthenes, in his lost Chronographiai (ca. 220 BC), arrived at his date for the Fall of Troy (1183 BC) -- a 'universal' reference point in antiquity. By combining new information from Manetho, with Timaeus, Ctesias, Herodotus and other sources, he devised a compromise chronology for the Greek past: 'high' enough to satisfy Hellenistic cultural interests, and 'low' enough to satisfy Alexandrian critical scholarship.What was reckoned originally to be an event of the 10th century BC, and later raised as far as the... |
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· 07/16/2010 4:28:01 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Sify.com · · June 30, 2010 · · ANI · |
Archeologists have found an ancient underground town in Kyparissia in Greece during a local construction work. According to Katerina Nikolas, a columnist for helium.com, recently some local road works were being carried out near a swimming pool in the city and something unusual caused them to stop their work immediately. It appeared that an ancient underground town had been discovered on the site, which archeologists are now excavating. Interestingly some parts of the ancient town are higher than the depths of the swimming pool nearby, meaning that when the land was purchased and the swimming pool built, the owner must... |
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· 07/16/2010 4:20:31 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · · Biblical Archaeology Review · · Friday, July 16, 2010 · · editors · |
Archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Parion in northwest Turkey have revealed the sarcophagus of an ancient warrior. The sarcophagus contains an inscription of a warrior pictured saying goodbye to his family as he leaves for war. It is believed that the sarcophagus could belong to Paris, the prince of Troy who triggered the Trojan War. Excavators made this discovery in the necropolis of the ancient city located in the Turkish province of Canakkale, located close to Troy. After the initial discovery of Parion in 2005, archaeologists have uncovered many artifacts such as gold crowns and sarcophagi that shed... |
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· 07/13/2010 6:00:28 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 5 replies · · Cyprus Mail · · Sunday, July 4, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Excavations of the late Bronze Age settlement at Dromolaxia Vizatzia (Hala Sultan Tekke) have unearthed a rich array of imported and local bronze and pottery artefacts... The ancient city was inhabited during the Late Bronze Age, which dates roughly to 1600-1100 BC. The city was once as large as 25 hectares making it one of the largest ancient cities of the period on the island. This year's excavations exposed only 10m times 10m of the site, with nine rooms exposed so far. The city was built in two phases: one in the 13th/12th century BC and the other some hundreds... |
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· 07/13/2010 5:48:28 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 24 replies · · Novinite.com · · June 9, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski together with "Hristo", the 8000-skeleton before its transfer to the Vratsa Museum. Photo by Darik Radio The 8000-year-old skeleton of a young man found near the village of Ohoden has been taken to the Regional History Museum in Vratsa. The skeleton, already dubbed by the Bulgarian media as "the first European", was discovered recently by archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski who specializes in paleolithic settlements. It belonged to a 35-year-old man with a height of 165 cm. This is the fourth 800-year-old skeleton found in the Valoga region near Ohoden, and the first one belonging to a man.... |
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· 07/16/2010 6:32:35 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · · YLE · · Thursday, July 15, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Archaeologists from the University of Helsinki are carrying out excavations of what they say is a unique Stone Age site at Järvenkylä in Virolahti in the far south-eastern part of the country. The most striking feature of the site is the remains of an exceptionally large dwelling that the scientists describe as a "terraced house", in some ways like those found in many modern suburbs. The original find was made three years ago while archaeologists were carrying out a field inventory of medieval period remains in the area . The house now being excavated was built and occupied some 2000... |
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· 07/15/2010 5:17:18 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 50 replies · · The Star · · 07/15/2010 · · Lesley Ciarula Taylor · |
Scientists wielding a powerful supercomputer have cracked the mystery of which came first, the chicken or the egg. The short answer: the chicken. The long answer is contained in the analysis called Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by Eggshell Protein by British scientists Colin Freeman and John Harding of the University of Sheffield and David Quigley and P. Mark Rodger of the University of Warwick, published in the current journal Angewandte Chemie. "It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows in fact the chicken came first," said Freeman. Sort... |
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· 07/13/2010 1:33:43 AM PDT · · Posted by RightCenter · · 44 replies · · Cracked.com · · Jul 06, 2010 · · Alexander L. Hoffman · |
It's a running theme here at Cracked that a lot of what we think we know about history has been filtered through many centuries of utter bullshit. Our image of the past is largely made up of Hollywood inventions, propaganda and uneducated guesses.So you will probably be surprised to find that... #6. The Pyramids Were Smooth, White and Shiny The Perception:We get so busy being amazed by the Pyramids, with their massive, meticulously layered sandy golden bricks, that we forget that what we're seeing are the broken-down remnants. If you could see them new, you'd barely recognize them. They were... |
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· 07/16/2010 7:09:40 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · Adnkronos International · · Thursday, July 15, 2010 · · AKI · |
Beni Suef -- Excavations in Upper Egypt's Ehnasia archaeological area in Beni-Sueif recently uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old temple dating from the reign of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II. "Inside the remains of this temple, excavators uncovered ten cartouches of Ramesses II and beneath them a relief saying that the ruler had built this temple for himself in Ehnasia," said the head of Egypt's Supreme Archaeology's Pharaonic Section, Sabri Abdel Aziz in a statement on Thursday. Ramesses II ruled Egypt from 1279-1213 BC and was the son of Seti I, whose secret 'tomb within a tomb' was... |
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· 07/14/2010 5:43:49 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 29 replies · · Telegraph UK · · Sunday, July 11, 2010 · · Nick Squires in Rome · |
Scholars discovered the 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide) canal at Portus, the ancient maritime port through which goods from all over the Empire were shipped to Rome for more than 400 years. The archaeologists... believe the canal connected Portus, on the coast at the mouth of the Tiber, with the nearby river port of Ostia, two miles away. It would have enabled cargo to be transferred from big ocean-going ships to smaller river vessels and taken up the River Tiber to the docks and warehouses of the imperial capital. Until now, it was thought that goods took a more circuitous overland route along... |
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| Ancient 'mansio' unearthed in Tuscany: Pliny mentioned the once bustling trading post in his writings |
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· 07/16/2010 6:38:02 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · ANSA · · Thursday, July 15, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a complex in Tuscany they believe was once a bustling staging post on a major trade route mentioned by the ancient Roman writer Pliny. The building, which runs parallel to the River Ombrone in the Maremma Natural Park, was probably built in around 200 AD and functioned for at least a couple of centuries. The size and layout of the building, as well as its location next to a river and a major Roman road, has led archaeologists to conclude they have probably discovered a well-known 'mansio', or staging post. Pliny and another Roman... |
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· 07/10/2010 5:45:29 PM PDT · · Posted by James C. Bennett · · 30 replies · · Gizmodo · · July 10, 2010 · · Gizmodo · |
Considering how thrilled I was just to find this story, I can only imagine the delirious, all-consuming excitement felt by Dave Crisp, a British hospital chef, when his metal detector uncovered this pot of 52,000 Roman coins.Crisp was lolling with his detector in a field in southwestern England when he made the discovery, eventually unearthing some 50,000 silver and bronze coins dating from 253 to 293 AD. Over 700 of them bear the face of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, a Roman general who ruled Britain and was the first to make coins in the region. Crisp, a self-described "metal detectorist," explained that... |
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· 07/16/2010 6:56:24 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 18 replies · · Discovery News · · Wednesday, July 14, 2010 · · Marlowe Hood, AFP · |
Two millennia of foreign invasions and internal wars in China were driven more by cooling climate than by feudalism, class struggle or bad government... Food shortages severe enough to spark civil turmoil or force hordes of starving nomads to swoop down from the Mongolian steppes were consistently linked to long periods of colder weather, the study found. In contrast, the Central Kingdom's periods of stability and prosperity occurred during sustained warm spells, the researchers said... Chinese and European scientists led by Zhibin Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing decided to compare two sets of data over 1,900... |
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| Life on Earth wiped out every 27 million years (16 million years until the next one) |
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· 07/13/2010 2:25:11 PM PDT · · Posted by sodpoodle · · 52 replies · · Daily Mail UK · · 7/13/2010 · · Niall Firth · |
The last extinction event, 11 million years ago, saw 10 per cent of the Earth's inhabitants wiped out. This means there is around 16million years until the next event takes place, although the graph shows that it occasionally the event takes place up to 10 million years early. Asteroids crashing into the Earth are commonly believed to be one of the main reasons behind mass extinctions like that suffered by the dinosaurs - the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction. The extinction wiped out more than half of all species on the planet clearing the way for mammals to become the dominant species... |
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| Archaeologists Uncover Goliath's Hometown |
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· 07/14/2010 6:05:30 PM PDT · · Posted by Nachum · · 25 replies · · inn · · 7/14/10 · · Maayana Miskin · |
An ongoing archaeological excavation in Tel Tzafit continues to unearth the ruins of what was once the city of Gath described in the Bible as the hometown of Goliath. Professor Aren Maeir, who is directing the dig, spoke to Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service to discuss the latest finds. Recent finds from the Tel Tzafit excavation are "fascinating," Maeir said. The site, inhabited at times by Canaanites and at other times by Philistines, has remnants from many periods of history. "We are focusing on the Canaanite period, the Philistine period, and the Israelite period, and for now we're primarily... |
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· 07/12/2010 10:40:47 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 17 replies · · The Hebrew University of Jerusalem · · July 12, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Jerusalem, July 11, 2010 -- A tiny clay fragment -- dating from the 14th century B.C.E. -- that was found in excavations outside Jerusalem's Old City walls contains the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem, say researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The find, believed to be part of a tablet from a royal archives, further testifies to the importance of Jerusalem as a major city in the Late Bronze Age, long before its conquest by King David, they say. The clay fragment was uncovered recently during sifting of fill excavated from beneath a 10th century B.C.E. tower... |
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| Discovery in Jerusalem: Oldest Writing Ever Found There Unearthed |
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· 07/14/2010 4:55:00 PM PDT · · Posted by Salvation · · 33 replies · · A Sacred Page · · 07-11-10 · · Jerusalem Post · |
Sunday, July 11, 2010 Discovery in Jerusalem: Oldest Writing Ever Found There Unearthed From the Jerusalem Post: Hebrew University excavations recently unearthed a clay fragment dating back to the 14th century BCE, said to be the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem. The tiny fragment is only 2 cm. by 2.8 cm. in surface area and 1 cm. thick and appears to have once been part of a larger tablet. Researchers say the ancient fragment testifies to Jerusalem's importance as a major city late in the Bronze Age, long before it was conquered by King David. The minuscule... |
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· 07/16/2010 4:46:23 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 2 replies · · Ufficio Comunicazione Infn · · Friday, July 2, 2010 · · INFN · |
...The analyses, which were conducted by INFN physicists in collaboration with researchers from IBAM-CNR, have revealed that one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in particular, the Temple Scroll (which is not part of the biblical narration and instead describes the construction and life of a temple and dictates how laws are to be communicated to the people), may have been made near the Dead Sea, in the area of Qumran, where the scrolls were found. In other words, the scrolls may have been created locally... At the LANDIS laboratory (one of the INFN laboratories in Catania), non-destructive analyses were performed... |
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| Two halves of a whole: Raphael's designs, tapestries reunite |
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· 07/16/2010 3:41:57 PM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 4 replies · · cns · · July 16, 2010 · · Carol Glatz · |
People view one of Raphael's tapestries hanging from a wall of the Sistine Chapel July 14. (CNS photo) By Carol GlatzCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Like long-lost twins, two halves of an artistic masterpiece conceived by the Renaissance master Raphael will be reunited for the first time. The Vatican Museums and London's Victoria and Albert Museum will exhibit side-by-side some of Raphael's enormous tapestries for the Sistine Chapel and his preparatory paintings. The joint initiative is meant to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the United Kingdom in September. Since the Renaissance, "the cartoons and... |
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· 07/11/2010 11:31:24 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 6 replies · · Discovery · · Tue Jul 6, 2010 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
A sandstone sculpture of a kneeling man sharpening a knife could be a long forgotten work by Michelangelo, according to an Italian scholar who has rediscovered the statue in a private collection. Measuring 111 centimeters (3.65 feet), the statue is now on display for the first time after more than 120 years at the exhibition, "And There Was Light. The Masters of the Renaissance," in Gˆteborg, Sweden. The powerful sculpture is a copy of a marble statue known as the "Arrotino" (the Blade-Sharpener) on display at the Uffizi gallery in Florence. Representing the Scythian slave who served Apollo and flayed... |
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· 07/11/2010 7:20:19 AM PDT · · Posted by DeaconBenjamin · · 35 replies · · Telegraph (UK) · · 11 Jul 2010 · · By Martin Evans · |
Historians claim to have finally located the site of King Arthur's Round Table -- and believe it could have seated 1,000 people. Researchers exploring the legend of Britain's most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester. Legend has it that his Knights would gather before battle at a round table where they would receive instructions from their King. But rather than it being a piece of furniture, historians believe it would have been a vast wood and stone structure which would have allowed more than 1,000 of... |
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· 07/16/2010 5:43:31 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 5 replies · · The New York Times · · 02 July 2010 · · Adrian Tinniswood · |
Bath, England Picture the scene: Out of the dawn mist, a fleet of longboats glides across the water, packed full of musket-wielding patriots and weather-beaten Massachusetts militiamen. Standing in the prow of the lead boat, like Washington crossing the Delaware, is a man with long flowing hair and a blood-red banner emblazoned with two words: Vincit veritas. Truth Conquers. But it's not Washington, and it's not the American Revolution. In fact, it's not even America. This daring amphibious assault by Col. Thomas Rainborowe and his regiment of New Englanders took place 3,000 miles away, in old England, and in 1644,... |
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· 07/15/2010 11:11:04 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 10 replies · · CNN · · July 15th, 2010 · |
Australian scientists have discovered never-seen-before prehistoric marine life in the depths of the ocean below the Great Barrier Reef, the University of Queensland said Wednesday. Ancient "six-gilled" sharks, giant oil fish, swarms of crustaceans and many unidentified fish -- all of which look worthy of a science-fiction film -- were among the astounding marine life caught on camera some 1,400 meters (4,593 feet) below sea level. The team, led by Justin Marshall, also collected footage of the Nautilius, a relative of the octopus that still lives in a shell as they have done for millions of years. Team members used... |
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· 07/12/2010 5:50:34 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · PhysOrg · · July 9, 2010 · · U of Cal Berkeley · |
Ancient Polynesians went from building small-scale temples to constructing monumental, pyramid-shaped temples in just 140 years, not in four or five centuries as previously calculated, according to research led by a University of California, Berkeley, anthropologist and published this week in the print edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Patrick V. Kirch, a UC Berkeley professor of anthropology and of integrative biology and a Pacific Islands expert, said his research team applied a high-precision thorium/uranium dating process to samples of decorative veneers, large blocks and religious offerings -- all of them made of coral... |
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· 07/09/2010 7:49:08 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 84 replies · · EurekAlert · · 28-Jun-2010 · · NA · |
Contact: Peggy Calicchia calicchi@cshl.edu 516-422-4012 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Mitochondrial genome analysis revises view of the initial peopling of North America June 29, 2010 -- The initial peopling of North America from Asia occurred approximately 15,000-18,000 years ago, however estimations of the genetic diversity of the first settlers have remained inaccurate. In a report published online today in Genome Research (www.genome.org), researchers have found that the diversity of the first Americans has been significantly underestimated, underscoring the importance of comprehensive sampling for accurate analysis of human migrations. Substantial evidence suggests that humans first crossed into North America from Asia over... |
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· 07/15/2010 8:33:39 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 48 replies · · Examiner.com · · July 9, 2010 · · Deborah J. Nelson · |
It is said that the first structure was built around A.D. 1000, by an ancient culture known as the Sinagua, also known as the Anasazi. The Sinagua's were obviously aware of its greatness, as this is where they built their homes and thrived off of the land. They were agriculturalists with trade connections that spanned hundreds of miles. They hunted game and gathered seeds and nuts to sustain themselves. By studying petroglyphs, artifacts, and comparatives of indigenous and Hopi groups, Archaeologists and anthropologists describe Sinagua rituals as being closely related to the flora and fauna of the area. They utilized... |
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· 07/16/2010 1:57:59 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 16 replies · · Brown University · · July 16, 2010 · · Unknown · |
A team of archaeologists led by Stephen Houston has discovered a royal tomb in Guatemala, filled with materials that have been preserved for approximately 1,600 years. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala by a team of archaeologists led by Brown University's Stephen Houston. The tomb is packed with of carvings, ceramics, textiles, and the bones of six children, who may have been sacrificed at the time of the king's death. The team uncovered the tomb, which dates from about 350 to 400 A.D., beneath the El Diablo pyramid... |
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· 07/12/2010 10:23:12 AM PDT · · Posted by jfd1776 · · 11 replies · · Illinois Review · · July 12, 2010 A.D. · · John F. Di Leo · |
As dawn was breaking over the heights of Weehawken, New Jersey on July 11, two boats rowed across from Manhattan Island (such interviews as they planned were illegal in New York). The first to arrive was the Vice President and his second; twenty minutes later, the other boat brought the former Secretary of the Treasury and his second. Once they had dispensed with the formalities, two of the most prominent men in America faced each other and fired. Struck in the abdomen, General Alexander Hamilton lay on the ground, to die in agony the following day. This indispensable founding father... |
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· 07/15/2010 2:38:37 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 16 replies · · hosted · · Jul 15 · |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River..... |
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· 07/15/2010 10:07:56 PM PDT · · Posted by AngieGal · · 12 replies · · AOLNews · · 7/15/2010 · · AP · |
The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago - landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the mud near ground zero. A 32-foot piece of the vessel was found in soil 20 feet under street level, amid noisy bulldozers excavating a parking garage for the future World Trade Center. Near the site of so many grim finds - Sept. 11 victims' remains, twisted steel - this discovery was as unexpected as it was thrilling. Historians say the ship,... |
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· 07/16/2010 7:14:19 PM PDT · · Posted by csvset · · 6 replies · · Spiegel Online · · 07/16/2010 · · Frank Thadeusz · |
While environmentalists are sharply opposed to the construction of the new Baltic Sea pipeline, archaeologists are delighted. The massive Nord Stream project to bring natural gas from Russia to Germany has uncovered dozens of shipwrecks and other historic artifacts. In the early 1940s, engineers of the Third Reich conducted a series of tests that involving firing Henschel HS 293 glider bombs into the Baltic Sea. They were disheartened when the tests failed, because the steering systems of the massive projectile didn't work properly. Now, almost 70 years later, one of the bombs -- weighing in at about 1,000 kilograms (2,200... |
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· 07/22/2010 6:51:12 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · Guardian UK · · Thursday, July 22, 2010 · · Maev Kennedy · |
New wooden henge, a circular ditch that aligns with world-famous monument, deemed site's most exciting find in a lifetime -- Without a sod of earth being dug up, a new henge, a circular ditch which probably enclosed a ring of timber posts and may have been used for feasting, has been discovered...only 900 metres away and apparently contemporary to the 5,000-year-old stone circle, as the most exciting find at Stonehenge in a lifetime... The henge was revealed within a fortnight of an international team beginning fieldwork on the three-year Stonehenge Hidden Landscape project, which aims to survey and map 14... |
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| Wooden "Stonehenge" Emerges From Prehistoric Ohio |
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· 07/21/2010 7:25:26 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 22 replies · · National Geographic News · · July 20, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Just northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2,000-year-old ceremonial site... Like Stonehenge, the Ohio timber circles were likely used to mark astronomical events such as the summer solstice. Formally called Moorehead Circle but nicknamed "Woodhenge" by non-archaeologists, the site was once a leafless forest of wooden posts. Laid out in a peculiar pattern of concentric, but incomplete, rings, the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide. Today only rock-filled postholes remain, surrounded by the enigmatic earthworks of Fort Ancient State Memorial (map). Some are thousands of... |
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| Vestiges of a Prehispanic Oven to Melt Copper Found in Zacatecas |
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· 07/22/2010 5:50:08 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · Art Daily · · Tuesday, July 20, 2010 · · staff · |
...As part of this work, during the first field season was... the excavation of 2 pyramids and a part of a ballgame court, as well as several human burials that reveal changes in funerary patterns of ancient dwellers... Archaeologist Peter Jimenez, co director of El Teul Archaeological Project[:] "Finding the rests of the oven to melt copper is very important because it is the earliest found in Mexico and was used during Early Post Classic period, between 900 and 1200 of the Common Age", added the researcher at his lecture "Advances of the archaeological rescue at El Teul". He described... |
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| Not Exactly Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Pre-Columbian burial ground unearthed in Costa Rica |
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· 07/20/2010 6:45:06 PM PDT · · Posted by csvset · · 13 replies · · France24 · · 21 July 2010 · · AFP · |
An 800-year-old, pre-Columbian burial ground with baskets full of human remains was unearthed at a building site outside San Jose, National Museum archaeologists said Tuesday. "It's a funeral complex made from river stones and slabs," Maritza Gutierrez, who heads the digs at the Tres Rios district 10 kilometers (six miles) from the capital, told reporters. The burial ground, dating from about the year 1200, yielded 26 sets of human bones from children to adults, contained in baskets made of plant fiber, an unusual material for native groups predating the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. Archaeologists also found... |
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| Extreme archaeology: Divers plumb the mysteries of sacred Maya pools (Belize) |
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· 07/22/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · · University of Illinois · · July 21, 2010 · · Diana Yates · |
CHAMPAIGN, lll. -- Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya. In three weeks this May, the divers found fossilized animal remains, bits of pottery and -- in the largest pool explored -- an enormous underwater cave. |
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| Los Angeles oil history runs deep |
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· 07/17/2010 11:49:47 PM PDT · · Posted by thecodont · · 10 replies · · Los Angeles Times · · July 18, 2010 · · Christopher Reynolds · |
As those doomed fiberglass mammoths in the bubbling ooze at La Brea Tar Pits attest, oil in Los Angeles is an old story. But how much of that story do you know? Have you seen the Echo Park parking lot where two desperate prospectors dug Southern California's first oil well? The tiki-tinged oil well islands of Long Beach? The derrick in disguise at Beverly Hills High School? When you're awash in dire news about the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it's easy to forget that Los Angeles is a major petroleum producer. That may be because much of... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| Mexico: Ancient woman suggests diverse migration |
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· 07/23/2010 2:38:06 PM PDT · · Posted by BenLurkin · · 15 replies · · Associated Press · · 1 hr 57 mins ago · · Mark Stevenson, · |
A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought, researchers say. Anthropologists had long believed humans migrated to the Americas in a relatively short period from a limited area in northeast Asia across a temporary land corridor that opened across the Bering Strait during an ice age. But government archaeologist Alejandro Terrazas says the picture has now become more complicated, because the reconstruction more resembles people from southeastern Asian areas like Indonesia.... |
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| Egypt scours bed of Lake Qarun in search of antiquities |
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· 07/21/2010 7:47:15 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · PhysOrg · · July 21, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Egyptian experts have begun to explore the depths of Lake Qarun south of Cairo using remote sensing radars in search of sunken artefacts... Khaled Saeed, who heads the department of pre-historic affairs at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the team under his supervision hopes to pinpoint "huge basalt rocks" at the bottom of Lake Qarun. According to Saeed, the discovery of the rocks was first made by Egyptian-American scientist Faruq al-Baz, a veteran of NASA's Apollo programme, five years ago. Baz, who now runs the Centre for Space Studies at Boston University, was carrying out a satellite survey of... |
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| Computers to translate world's 'lost' languages after program deciphers ancient text |
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· 07/21/2010 12:27:41 PM PDT · · Posted by Red Badger · · 45 replies · · Daily Mail UK · · 7/20/2010 · · Niall Firth · |
Scientists have used a computer program to decipher a written language that is more than three thousand years old. The program automatically translated the ancient written language of Ugaritic within just a few hours. Scientists hope the breakthrough could help them decipher the few ancient languages that they have been unable to translate so far. Ugaritic was last used around 1200 B.C. in western Syria and consists of dots on clay tablets. It was first discovered in 1920 but was not deciphered until 1932. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the program that the language was related to... |
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| Archaeologists Uncover 'Bulgarian Machu Picchu' |
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· 07/22/2010 6:58:21 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · Novinite · · Wednesday, July 21, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Bulgarian archaeologists have uncovered a unique residence of the rulers of the Odrysian Kingdom, the state of the most powerful tribe of Ancient Thrace. The residence is located on the Kozi Gramadi mount in the Sredna Gora mountain, close to the resort town of Hissar in central Bulgaria, at about 1 200 m above sea level... The construction of the residence near Hissar is believed to have been started by the Thracian ruler Cotys I (384 BC - 359 BC). The team led by Dr. Hristov has uncovered the remains of the palace of the Odrysian kings Amatokos II (359... |
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| Alexander the Great | |
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| Alexander the Great Killed by Toxic Bacteria? |
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· 07/19/2010 6:39:05 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 30 replies · · Discovery News · · Friday, July 16, 2010 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
The Styx River, the legendary portal to the underworld, harbors a deadly bacteria that may have ended Alexander's life. An extraordinarily toxic bacterium harbored by the "infernal" Styx River might have been the fabled poison rumored to have killed Alexander the Great (356 - 323 B.C.) more than 2,000 years ago, according to a scientific-meets-mythic detective study... reviews ancient literary evidence on the Styx poison in light of modern geology and toxicology. According to the study, calicheamicin, a secondary metabolite of Micromonospora echinospora, is what gave the river its toxic reputation... Another account by the Greek geographer Pausanias (110 -... |
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| Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City of Soloi Pompeiopolis in southern Turkey |
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· 07/23/2010 6:00:41 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 5 replies · · Balkan Travellers · · Thursday, July 22, 2010 · · unattributed · |
For a twelfth season in a row, archaeologists have begun this year's excavations of the ancient city of Soloi Pompeiopolis, located in the present-day south-central Turkish province of Mersin, with view to making the area an open-air museum. This season's excavations, carried out with the cooperation of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Dokuz Eylul University, will focus on the Road with Pillars and the Soli Hill Town, the World Bulletin reported today. The twelfth excavation at the site began on July 15 and it is aimed at making new discoveries in the ancient city, Dr. Remzi Yagci,... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Choir to sing the 'code of life' |
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· 07/18/2010 9:15:04 AM PDT · · Posted by annie laurie · · 6 replies · · BBC · · 10 July 2010 · · Pallab Ghosh · |
Scientists and composers have produced a new choral work in which performers sing parts of their own genetic code. Human DNA is made up of just four different chemical compounds, which gave musician Andrew Morley the idea of assigning a note to each of them. The new piece, Allele, will be performed by the New London Chamber Choir at the Royal Society of Medicine on 13 July. Each of the 40-strong choir has also had his or her own DNA decoded. "I'd sung quite a lot with choirs in my youth and I've written stuff myself, and so I was... |
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| Sperm in all animals originated 600 mil. years ago |
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· 07/16/2010 6:19:00 PM PDT · · Posted by swatbuznik · · 51 replies · · MSNBC · · July 15, 2010 · · Live Science Staff · |
A gene responsible for sperm production is so vital that its function has remained unaltered throughout evolution and is found in almost all animals, according to a new study. The results suggest the ability to produce sperm originated 600 million years ago. |
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| Animal Connection: New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature |
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· 07/23/2010 3:11:21 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 22 replies · · ScienceDaily · · July 20, 2010 · · Kevin Stacey et al · · adapted from Penn State material · |
It's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals.... paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn State University argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection. Shipman proposes that the interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species... played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million years... "Having sharp tools transformed wimpy human ancestors into effective predators who left many cut marks on the fossilized bones of their prey," Shipman said. Becoming a predator also put our ancestors into direct competition with other carnivores for carcasses and... |
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| Jerusalem: Remembering the Destruction |
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· 07/20/2010 3:00:25 AM PDT · · Posted by jerusalemjudy · · 3 replies · · Jerusalem Diaries · · July 21, 2010 · · Judy Lash Balint · |
I've never been in Tel Aviv or Haifa for Tisha B'Av, but my guess is that it probably doesn't feel too much different than Tisha B'Av in Seattle--a few hardy souls sitting on the floor of their synagogues in the evening and then spending the day itself struggling to keep awake through some talks and appropriate films, while the rest of the city goes about its usual business oblivious to the significance of the day. That's not how Tisha B'Av is observed in Jerusalem--the focal point of much of the mourning. Here,as restaurants and places of entertainment close down, thousands... |
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| 175 years To Muslims attack on Jews in Hebron Israel "Palestine" -- July 1835 |
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· 07/23/2010 1:02:10 PM PDT · · Posted by PRePublic · · 3 replies · · |
Tammuz - This Day in Jewish History - OU.ORG Druse Arabs attacked the Jews of Tzfat, 1838. [16 Tammuz] ... Jews of Hebron were attacked by Arabs, 1835. Palestine 1913 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine ... 1835 Event - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine ... Today in Palestine History 1835-07-25 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine... In 5594 (1834), Hebron met with a heavy calamity, since it was taken by storm on the 28th day of Tamuz... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Is Holy Land Archaeology Being Hyped by Politics? |
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· 07/18/2010 5:53:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · AOL "News" · · July 16, 2010 · · Matthew Kalman · |
..."exaggeration and speculation the likes of which haven't been seen since pieces of the 'true cross' were found all across Europe in the Middle Ages," said Jim West, adjunct professor of biblical studies at the Quartz Hill School of Theology... Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University announced that she had unearthed "the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem" after sifting debris from a site between the Temple Mount and the City of David, in Jerusalem... Mazar said the discovery provides "solid evidence of the importance of Jerusalem during the Late Bronze Age" and "lends weight to the importance that... |
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| 6,000-year-old statue discovered in Jordanian desert |
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· 07/22/2010 6:40:28 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 18 replies · · Monsters & Critics · · Jul 21, 2010 · · Deutsch Presse-Agentur · |
A joint Jordanian-German archaeological team has discovered a statue in Jordan's eastern desert that dates back 6,000 years, media reports said Wednesday. The discovery shed new light on a little-known ancient Bedouin civilization that once thrived in the desert connecting Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the Department of Antiquities was quoted as saying. The 35-centimetre-high statue, nicknamed 'Dalish,' was found near the Jordanian-Saudi border by the team, which is co-led by Hans Georg Gebel of the Free University in Berlin and Hamzeh Mahasneh of the Jordanian Mutah University. The statue, which has a long nose and a bearded, abstract face,... |
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| Long Live Rock | |
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| World's oldest doodle found on rock |
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· 07/17/2010 11:49:26 PM PDT · · Posted by shibumi · · 38 replies · · Telegraph.co.uk · · July 17, 2010 · · Staff · |
Scientists have discovered what is believed to be one of the world's oldest doodles - an ancient scrawl carved onto a rock by a caveman 4,500 years ago. Cambridge University experts believe the crudely etched circles are the Neolithic version of a modern office worker's scribbles on a post-it note. The 6.6in (17cm) chunk of sandstone was discovered by an amateur archaeologist from the bottom of a deep quarry in Over, Cambs., during a university fun day. |
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| Shocking Blue | |
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| A second Venus found in Orkney as archeologists create history |
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· 07/19/2010 6:45:03 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · The Scotsman · · Monday, July 19, 2010 · · Jenny Fyall · |
It is believed both date back to 2,600 BC, when a Neolithic village existed at the dig site at the Links of Noltland in Westray... Without its head it stands just one and a half inches tall. A thumb-shaped indentation at the top of the body shows where the head had been attached. Clay balls found near the spot could have been used as heads for the figurines, archaeologists believe... A square carving on the front, possibly depicting a tunic, is divided into triangles. A centrally punched hole could represent the figure's belly button... Peter Yeoman, head of cultural resources... |
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| Relic of Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence, found at Silchester |
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· 07/19/2010 6:34:52 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · Guardian UK · · Friday 16 July 2010 · · Maev Kennedy · |
Archaeological dig at abandoned Roman city in Hampshire yields earliest representation of an Egyptian deity found in Britain... A battered and corroded thumb -- sized piece of bronze has turned out to be a unique find, the earliest representation of an Egyptian deity from any site in Britain -- and appropriately, after almost 2,000 years hidden in the ground, it is Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence. The little figure was found at Silchester, site of an abandoned Roman city in Hampshire, in last summer's excavation, but his identity was only revealed in months of careful conservation work. His... |
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| Archeologists found sculpture of Diana, Goddess of hunt |
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· 07/22/2010 5:58:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Blic · · July 21, 2010 · · S. Bolinovic · |
At the site of the 'Felix Romuliana', an imperial palace near the Town of Zajecar, German experts of the Archeology Institute in Frankfurt, together with the colleagues of the Archeology Institute in Belgrade have discovered a sensational sculpture, unique in this area of the Balkans. This marble statue originates from the first half of the third century. As 'Blic' learns unofficially, it is most likely a sculpture of Diana, the Goddess of the hunt. At the National Museum in Zajecar we were told that this discovery has been the most significant one since finding of archvault in 1984 with the... |
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| Kazakh Archeologists Discover Ancient Scythian "Sun Lord" |
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· 07/19/2010 6:51:35 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · · Eurasia Net · · Monday, July 19, 2010 · · Joanna Lillis · |
Archeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the grave of a gold-clad ancient Scythian warrior who has already earned himself a nickname: "The Sun Lord." Researchers uncovered the find in a Scythian grave consisting of seven burial mounds in Karaganda Region east of the capital, Astana. The opulence of the warrior's burial indicates that he was a leader as well as a fighter, expedition leader Arman Beysenov explained. "He was probably a ruler and a warrior simultaneously," Beysenov said in remarks quoted by the Kazinform news agency on July 16. "The person's torso was entirely covered with gold. The figure of a... |
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| The life of an Anglo-Saxon princess |
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· 07/17/2010 2:40:51 PM PDT · · Posted by Lorianne · · 3 replies · · Guardian UK · · 17 June 2010 · · Michael Wood · |
The unearthing of Eadgyth, the Anglo-Saxon princess, was an emotional moment for historian Michael Wood. She was the Diana of the dark ages -- charismatic, with the common touch. For anyone interested in the kings and queens of England it was a touching moment last year to see the heavy tomb cover lifted in Magdeburg Cathedral. The inscription said the occupant was Eadgyth, queen of the Germans, the Anglo-Saxon granddaughter of Alfred the Great, sister of Athelstan the first king of a united England. But was it really her? Now the results of the scientific examination are through: isotopes... |
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| "World's oldest champagne" found on Baltic seabed |
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· 07/19/2010 9:10:14 PM PDT · · Posted by ConservativeStatement · · 14 replies · · NBC 2 · · July 19, 2010 · |
A group of Finnish and Swedish divers made a rare find on the Baltic seabed. If verified, the discovery could be the world's oldest drinkable champagne. Divers exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea found 30 bottles of the champagne, believed to date back to the 18th-century. One of the bottles of Veuve-Cliquot has been shipped to France for analysis by champagne experts. Dark, cold conditions on the seabed are believed to have kept the champagne in excellent condition. Experts say one bottle may be worth nearly $65,000. If confirmed, the bottles would beat the previous title of the world's... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Battle at Scary Creek - July 17, 1861 |
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· 07/17/2010 6:32:09 AM PDT · · Posted by dware · · 8 replies · · Free Republic Exclusive · · 07/17/2010 · · dware · |
Three months into the Civil War, Union forces under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan began a campaign to drive the rebel Confederate forces out of what was then Western Virginia. Due to his extensive political connections, and experiences at West Point and during the Mexican-American war, McClellan was commissioned as Major General in the regular army. It quickly became apparent that McClellan and his forces were formidable. After victories in Barboursville, Ripley, Summersville, Rich Mountain and several others in the region, he ordered regiments under the command of General Jacob D. Cox to move into the Kanawha Valley and reopen... |
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| This Day in Civil War History July 18th, 1863 Assault of Battery Wagner |
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· 07/18/2010 4:38:07 AM PDT · · Posted by mainepatsfan · · 14 replies · · History.com · |
Jul 18, 1863: Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw On this day, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 272 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina. Shaw was commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, perhaps the most famous regiment of African-American troops during the war. Fort Wagner stood on Morris Island, guarding the approach to Charleston harbor. It was a massive earthwork, 600 feet wide and made from sand piled 30 feet high. The only approach to the fort was across a narrow stretch of beach bounded by the... |
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| This Day in Civil War History July 21st, 1861 First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) |
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· 07/21/2010 4:34:35 AM PDT · · Posted by mainepatsfan · · 12 replies · · History.com · |
Jul 21, 1861: First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) The war erupts on a large scale in the east when Confederate forces under P. T. Beauregard turn back Union General Irvin McDowell's troops along Bull Run in Virginia. The inexperienced soldiers on both sides slugged it out in a chaotic battle that resulted in a humiliating retreat by the Yankees and signaled, for many, the true start of the war. At the insistence of President Lincoln, McDowell set out to make a quick offensive against Manassas Junction, a key rail center 30 miles from Washington. On July 18, the Yankee... |
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| History: The First Blacks in Congress Were All Republicans (photos, bios) |
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· 07/23/2010 10:57:05 AM PDT · · Posted by FactReal · · 43 replies · · FactReal · · 7/23/2010 · · FactReal · |
U.S. House Of Representatives -- First Blacks Were All Republicans Republicans -- the racists? In 1868, Republicans elected the first black person to represent them in Congress. There were no black Democrats in Congress until 1935. For almost seven decades Republicans were the ONLY ONES electing blacks to Congress. Here are the historical facts: John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Republican - Louisiana; Term: 1868 Joseph Rainey (1832-1887); Republican - South Carolina; Term:1870-1879 Jefferson F. Long (1836-1901); Republican - Georgia; Term: 1870-1871 Robert C. De Large (1842-1874); Republican - South Carolina; Term: 1871-1873 Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884); Republican - South Carolina;... |
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· 07/18/2010 5:40:23 PM PDT · · Posted by csvset · · 7 replies · · Virginian-Pilot · · July 18, 2010 · · Jeff Hampton · |
Unearthed photos a gift to historians on OBX Manteo. N.C. A collection of old photos, some not seen before by local historians, shows wreckage in Hatteras after the big hurricane of 1899. Carol Cronk Cole, granddaughter of an employee of the Virginia Beach weather bureau office in the 1890s, has given copies of 20 photographs to the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo. Many of them depict the aftermath of the August 1899 hurricane known as San Ciriaco that killed hundreds of people along the coast and in Puerto Rico and wrecked at least 13 ships along the North Carolina... |
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| Thousands of WWII pictures from 1944 / Normandy period |
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· 07/23/2010 9:00:18 AM PDT · · Posted by Stolly · · 35 replies · · Stolly.org · |
I've had these pictures sat on my PC for years so i've finally got around to hosting them. I'm slowly captioning them too, based on translations from a French Flickr account. I think he copied them from somewhere else so i don't feel too bad about using them. I'm not copying word for word anyway. Anyway, hope some of you enjoy them ! |
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| The Racetrack in Death Valley |
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· 07/23/2010 6:14:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · · Smith College · · Lena Fletcher and Anne Nester · |
Actively studied for 50 years, the rocks that mysteriously move around the dried lake bed playa in Death Valley, called the Racetrack, are yet to have an unquestionable explanation for their movement. ... In 1976 Robert Sharp and Dwight Carey diputed the ice-sheet theory. They analyzed the tracks and concluded because of track characteristics and the geometries of the tracks relative to each other that ice sheets could not have been involved in forming the tracks and moving the rocks. Sharp and Carey concluded due to the non-parallel nature and the crossing of some trails that it would be impossible... |
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| Pyramid power used to stop road accidents |
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· 07/15/2010 6:57:26 PM PDT · · Posted by shibumi · · 19 replies · · Herald Sun · · July 13, 2010 · · From correspondents in Mumbai · |
THEY have been credited with supernatural or paranormal properties since the days of ancient Egypt. Now the putative power of pyramids is to be harnessed by Indian police to cut road accidents. Traffic officers in Nagpur, 870km west of Mumbai, have agreed to allow small pyramids to be placed at 10 accident-prone sites in the city to see if their claimed positive energy can reduce crashes. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Sahebrao Patil said the road safety initiative came about after a meeting with an expert in Vastu, an ancient Hindu system of construction which is similar to Chinese Feng... |
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