Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Cool, thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure, and thanks again!

[PotatoHeadMick]

Thank you for the shout out, I do occasionally post articles that interest this group, are there any “keywords” you’d like me to post in the future so that members can spot relevant posts?

[SunkenCiv]

Here’s the standard one.

godsgravesglyphs

Don’t worry, if you ping me, I’ll put it in there if I think it’s warranted.

Yes, I *am* drunk on my own power. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #238 Saturday, January 07, 2009
Multiregionalism
Early Humans Had Nutcracker Jaws
	02/03/2009 12:13:55 PM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 29 replies · 483+ views LiveScience.com | Feb. 3, 2009 | LiveScience Staff Our ancient human relatives had jaws like nutcrackers that allowed the hominids to chomp down on hard nuts and seeds and adapt to changes in food sources in their environment, a new computer simulation reveals. Today's humans have comparatively small faces and teeth, making us ill-equipped to bite down forcefully on hard objects. Apparently that wasn't the case for Australopithecus africanus , which lived 3.3 million to 2.5 million years ago. An international team of researchers used computed tomography scanning to digitally recreate an A. africanus skull to see how the jaw operated and what forces it could produce. Then,...
Epigraphy and Language
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age
	02/02/2009 1:00:38 PM PST · Posted by MrEdd · 64 replies · 689+ views ars technica | February 1, 2009 | John Siracusa I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic, and political hornet's nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of "the world's largest e-book store." Unfortunately, despite starting the company...
Reptile on a whole different Scale
Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!
	02/04/2009 8:54:31 AM PST · Posted by NCDragon · 133 replies · 2,064+ views WRALNews.com | February 4, 2009 | MALCOLM RITTER NEW YORK -- Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds. "This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus," enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was familiar with the find. "It could easily eat something the size of a cow. A human...
Largest snake was 'size of bus'
	02/04/2009 10:07:43 AM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 24 replies · 975+ views news.bbc | Wednesday, 4 February 2009 The discovery of fossilised remains belonging to the world's largest snake has been reported in Nature journal. Titanoboa was 13m (42ft) long - about the size of a London bus - and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago. The snake was so wide it would have reached up to a person's hips, say researchers, and was estimated to have weighed more than a tonne. Green anacondas - the world's heaviest snakes - reach a mere 250kg (550lbs).
Largest prehistoric snake slithers into record books
	02/04/2009 10:32:57 AM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 15 replies · 575+ views The Financial Times | Feb. 4, 2009 | Clive Cookson After the extinction of the dinosaurs 65m years ago, new giants evolved to terrorise life on Earth: snakes as long as a bus and as wide as a door. On Thursday an international scientific team will announce in the journal Nature the discovery of Titanoboa, the largest snake that has ever lived. Its fossils were found in the Cerrejen coal mines of Colombia. Titanoboa was a constrictor like today's boas and anacondas, preying on crocodiles and giant turtles about 60m years ago in what was then a steamy tropical rainforest. At a conservative estimate it grew 13 metres long and...
Australia and the Pacific
Rock art find highlights ancient east-west Polynesia links
	02/04/2009 4:57:12 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 118+ views Google News | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | AFP The discovery of more than 50 ancient rock engravings in Tonga has excited archaeologists, who say they demonstrate the links between the Pacific island and Hawaii before Europeans arrived... Tonga, where Burley has previously documented a fishing village established 2,900 years ago as the first settlement in Polynesia, is 5,060 kilometres (3,144 miles) from Hawaii. The rock drawings, or petroglyphs, include images of humans and animals and are on two slabs of beach-rock that were exposed by erosion on Tonga's Foa island. They are in the style of the earliest stick figure forms in Hawaii, which would place them between...
The aggressive dances of the Pacific Islands. Haka, Cibi, Siva Tau and Sipi Tau.
	11/02/2003 5:56:32 PM PST · Posted by .cnI redruM · 34 replies · 3,713+ views rugbyrugby.com | 31/10/03 | By Paul Dobson Rugby football, via television, has brought to the world an ancient and aggressive form of South Pacific dancing, not the beautiful girls in hula skirts with leis around their necks to welcome American sailors in search of rest and recreation, as Technicolor movies told the world was how dancing was done in the islands. The four Pacific Island teams at the Rugby World Cup have shown off dances of a different kind to the world, the best moments of prematch drama. It was a moment of gripping drama as the All Blacks performed their Haka, now stylised and theatrical, and...
Africa
Africa's oldest human sacrifice found in Sudan
	02/05/2009 6:50:38 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 2 replies · 170+ views Telegraph UK | 4 Feb 2009 | unattributed French archaeologists in northern Sudan have unearthed a 5,500 year-old Stone Age tomb they believe to confirm the location of Africa's "oldest human sacrifice." In a graveyard in Al-Kadada, north of Khartoum, the archaeologists have dug up the tomb of a man and a woman facing each other in a ditch, with bodies of two women, two goats and a dog buried nearby. The discovery of the group "confirms" excavations last year which found traces of the oldest human sacrifice ever identified in Africa, Jacques Reinold, a researcher for the French section of the Sudanese antiquities department, said. The ancient...
India
Archaeologists made new discoveries at Moenjodaro
	02/05/2009 6:59:47 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 210+ views Irish Sun | Monday 2nd February, 2009 | (IANS) Archaeologists cleaning a drain to flush out rainwater from an explored part of the ancient Indus Valley city of Moenjodaro have been pleasantly surprised to come across artefacts and other objects of much cultural value at the World Heritage site... Well-defined structures of old drains were discovered along with certain old artefacts during the digging, which was necessitated to prevent rainwater stagnating at the world heritage site. An object called an 'elliptical lid' that might have been used for keeping 'holy water' or 'ceremonial water' was also found. Moenjodaro curator Irshad Rid said this was something new for archaeologists. Prior...
Egypt
Terracotta Vase Left in Garden for 20 Years is Ancient Egyptian Relic
	02/04/2009 5:37:47 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 28 replies · 760+ views The Telegraph | 03 Feb 2009 | Caroline Gammell A terracotta vase which stood on a garden patio for 20 years is actually an ancient Egyptian relic dating back 3,000 years.The 13-inch high ornament with its distinctive pharaoh headdress was originally designed to hold the internal organs of the dead as part of the mummification process. The Canoptic jar, complete with cover, was left outside in a garden in north Dorset until its owner decided to have it valued. Experts discovered that the lid of the ornament was modelled on the face of the Egyptian god Imseti, wearing a black striped wig. The jar was designed to hold the...
Paleontology
A Much Earlier Start for Animals
	02/04/2009 8:07:59 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 20 replies · 580+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 4 February 2009 | Phil Berardelli Enlarge ImageMolecular fingerprints. Sedimentary rock formations in Oman, like this one, contain chemical evidence of the planet's first animals, which appeared at least 635 million years ago. Credit: David Fike, Nature Where did all the animals come from? The fossil record is virtually animal-free up until the Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago, and then--boom--thousands of critters of all shapes and sizes show up. The mystery has plagued scientists for more than a century and a half, beginning with Charles Darwin. Now, with a brilliant bit of detective work, researchers have located our missing ancestors. The problem with the...
Climate
Archaeologists Keeping Eye on Blanka Tunnel
	01/31/2009 11:52:06 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 5 replies · 255+ views Prague Daily Monitor | 30 January 2009 The construction of the road tunnel Blanka that is underway in Prague's Strôeovice has been under the supervision of archaeologists. The tunnel, which is to be part of the planned Prague ringroad and connect Malovanka with Pelc-Tyrolka, is being built on a site that used to be inhabited in prehistoric times, the news site iDnes.cz reported on Thursday. "Trained colleagues are watching the excavator digging earth, and they halt the work whenever they notice something that does not belong there," archaeologist Katerina Tomková told iDnes.cz Archeologists expect the site, where a meandering river used to flow some 300,000 years ago,...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic
	02/01/2009 1:11:58 PM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 43 replies · 791+ views LiveScience.com on Yahoo | 2/1/09 | LiveScience Staff The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did. The discovery, detailed today in the journal Geology, suggests animals migrated from Asia to North America not around Alaska, as once thought, but directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean. It also provides additional evidence that a rapid influx of carbon dioxide some 90 million years ago was the likely cause of a super-greenhouse effect that created extraordinary heat in the polar region. "We've known there's been an interchange of animals between Asia and...
Turtles Island-Hopped Their Way Across a Warm Arctic
	02/03/2009 9:53:46 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 15 replies · 352+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 2 February 2009 | Jackie Grom Enlarge ImageFrigid find. The location (red star) of the ancient turtle fossil (inset) is seen on a map centered on the North Pole. Researchers speculate that Asian turtles (red diamonds) migrated to North America (green squares) across an archipelago created by the Alpha Ridge. Credit: Tom Whitley Sometime about 90 million years ago, Asian turtles hit the road for North America. Although researchers thought that these reptiles had crawled around the globe via Russia and Alaska, new findings suggest that they may have taken a shortcut--over a series of islands now submerged under the Arctic Sea. The conclusions are...
Researchers May Have Found Origin of Turtle's Mysterious Shell
	02/01/2009 12:18:26 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 16 replies · 496+ views The Ottawa Citizen | January 19, 2009 | Tom Spears Xiao-chun Wu has spent years studying fossils, and he finally has enough evidence to write his own Just So Story: How the Turtle Got His Shell. Publishing today in a science journal, his Chinese, Canadian and American team has some stunning evidence: two well-preserved fossils of ancestral turtles that swam in the shallow ocean of present-day China more than 220 million years ago. These are the oldest turtles ever found, even older than most dinosaurs. Turtles have lived a long time without changing much. They've had a broad top shell and smaller bottom one for something like 216 million years,...
Entomology
Hissing cockroach: one of man's best friends?
	02/02/2009 2:53:06 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 12 replies · 270+ views The Pueblo Chieftan | February 01, 2009 | Tom Galusha i thought of all the massacres and slaughter of persecuted insects at the hands of cruel humans and i cried aloud to heaven and i knelt on all six legs and vowed a vow of vengeance i shall organize the insects i shall drill them i shall lead them i shall fling a billion times a billion billion risen insects in an army at the throats of all you humans From "archy declares war" by Don Marquis, this poem reflects the rage of one cockroach at the eternal war between humans and cockroaches. Most people kill cockroaches on sight. In...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
James Q. Wilson: The DNA of Politics - Genes shape our beliefs, our values, and even our votes.
	01/30/2009 1:31:37 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 28 replies · 525+ views City Journal | Winter 2009 | James Q. Wilson Children differ, as any parent of two or more knows. Some babies sleep through the night, others are always awake; some are calm, others are fussy; some walk at an early age, others after a long wait. Scientists have proved that genes are responsible for these early differences. But people assume that as children get older and spend more time under their parents' influence, the effect of genes declines. They are wrong. For a century or more, we have understood that intelligence is largely inherited, though even today some mistakenly rail against the idea and say that nurture, not nature,...
Test Tube Babies
Extinct Animal Resurrected - Then Goes Extinct Again in 7 Minutes
	02/05/2009 7:47:48 AM PST · Posted by nysuperdoodle · 16 replies · 664+ views Evil Conservative Radio | 05 February 2009 | EC For the first time, scientists have succeeded in recreating an extinct breed of Spanish mountain goat, the ibex, thereby bringing an animal back from extinction. For seven minutes, then the laboratory creation died again.
Biology and Cryptobiology
Wolves Black Color Tied to Gene Mutation in Dogs
	02/05/2009 2:25:31 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 28 replies · 705+ views nytimes | February 5, 2009 In a bit of genetic sleuthing, a team of researchers has determined that black wolves and coyotes in North America got their distinctive color from dogs that carried a gene mutation to the New World. The finding presents a rare instance in which a genetic mutation from a domesticated animal has benefited wild animals by enriching their genetic legacy, the scientists write in Thursdays Science Express, the online edition of the journal Science. Since black wolves are more common in forested areas than on the tundra, the researchers concluded that melanism the pigmentation that came from the mutation must give...
Rome and Italy
Is the Roman Pantheon a colossal sundial?
	02/05/2009 6:39:00 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 27 replies · 491+ views New Scientist | Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | Jo Marchant The imposing temple in Rome, completed in AD 128, is one of the most impressive buildings that survives from antiquity. It consists of a cylindrical chamber topped by a domed roof with an oculus in the top which lets through a dramatic shaft of sunlight. It boasts a colonnaded courtyard at the front. When Robert Hannah of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, visited the Pantheon in 2005, researching for a book... he realised that the Pantheon may have been more than just a temple. During the six months of winter, the light of the noon sun traces...
It Wasn't Good Enough for the Hebrew Children
Pagan cult mosaic found under cathedral
	02/03/2009 12:58:11 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 32 replies · 728+ views MSNBC | Tues., Feb. 3, 2009 | Rossella Lorenzi A Roman mosaic floor filled with scenes depicting pagan rites and oriental gods has emerged from the ground of a Catholic church in Italy, archaeologists announced. The mosaic pavement, which measures 140 square feet and dates to the fourth century A.D., was unearthed at a depth of about 13 feet below the the ground's surface during archaeological investigations in the crypt of the Cathedral of Reggio Emilia, in central-northern Italy. "The size and design of the mosaic pavement suggest that it formed the floor of a huge room. We believe this was the residence of a wealthy Roman," Renata Curina,...
Mycenaeans
New Evidence From Excavations In Arcadia, Greece, Supports Theory Of 'Birth Of Zeus'
	02/02/2009 7:56:24 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 348+ views ScienceDaily | Monday, February 2, 2009 | University of Pennsylvania A Greek and American team of archaeologists working on the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project believe evidence indicates that Zeus' worship was established on Mt. Lykaion as early as the Late Helladic period, if not before, more than 3,200 years ago... Over fifty Mycenaean drinking vessels, or kylikes, were found on the bedrock at the bottom of the trench along with fragments of human and animal figurines and a miniature double headed axe. Also found were burned animal bones, mostly of goats and sheep, another indication consistent with Mycenaean cult activity... Evidence from subsequent periods in the same trench...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Macedonia: Archaeological Excavations of Justiniana Prima Continue near Skopje
	02/05/2009 6:54:04 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 125+ views BalkanTravellers.com | 4 February 2009 | unattributed Excavations at the Gradishte archaeological site near the village of Taor, continue to unearth findings that shed light on the Early Byzantine fortified settlement and birthplace of Emperor Justinian I. "A number of coins, jewellery, ceramic bowls, weapons, tools and other artefacts have been unearthed at Taor," archaeologist Kire Ristov of the Museum of the City of Skopje who has headed the systematic excavations of the site since 2000 told the Vecher newspaper recently. He added that a part of the wall surrounding the settlement, two buildings and parts of public structures were also defined last year. Another major find...
Greece
Divers plunder Greece's sunken treasure troves
	02/05/2009 6:57:17 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 278+ views Guardian | Friday 30 January 2009 | Helena Smith For centuries they have lain forgotten and untouched in the murky depths of the Mediterranean. But the sunken glories of Greece are now threatened by modern treasure hunters, who are targeting their riches since the lifting of a ban on coastal scuba-diving. At risk, say archaeologists, is an unseen part of the country's cultural patrimony, comprising thousands of shipwrecks dating from Classical, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine and early modern times and their priceless cargoes of coins, ingots, weapons and gold... Until recently divers were allowed access to just 620 miles of the country's 12,000 mile coastline, but in an attempt to...
The Roads Are Deeper Than The Lakes
France Says it Owns Legendary Vessel (Court Case Over 17th Century Ship in Lake Michigan)
	02/02/2009 10:57:34 AM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 32 replies · 865+ views The Mining Journal | January 30, 2009 | JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY - The French government says it still owns the Griffin, a 17th century ship built by legendary explorer La Salle that may have been discovered in northern Lake Michigan. France filed a claim to the vessel Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, escalating a legal battle over who owns and has authority to retrieve artifacts from the long-lost vessel. Michigan also is seeking title, although state officials have raised doubts about whether the Griffin's gravesite actually has been found. They say federal law gives the state ownership of abandoned vessels embedded in its Great Lakes bottomlands....
Age of Sail
Wreck of renowned British warship found in Channel
	02/01/2009 9:42:19 AM PST · Posted by george76 · 19 replies · 671+ views Associated Press | February 01, 2009 | MITCH STACY, Florida deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: A legendary British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago. Odyssey Marine Exploration hasn't found any gold this time, but it's looking for an even bigger jackpot. The company's research indicates the HMS Victory was carrying 4 tons of gold coins that could be worth considerably more than the treasure that Odyssey raised from a sunken Spanish galleon in 2007, co-founder Greg Stemm said ahead of a news conference set for Monday in London. So far, Odyssey...
Wreck of HMS Victory 'recovered from Channel'
	02/01/2009 4:24:28 PM PST · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 31 replies · 918+ views Daily Telegraph (UK) | 01 Feb 2009 | Jon Swaine Wreck of HMS Victory 'recovered from Channel' The shipwrecked predecessor to Lord Nelson's HMS Victory, which is thought to contain millions of pounds' worth of gold, is thought to have been found at the bottom of the English Channel. The ship, the fourth of six HMS Victories, sunk with its 1,150 sailors in October 1744 around The Casquets, a group of rocks off the Channel Islands. Among other valuable artefacts, it is thought to contain 100,000 gold coins. After months of secrecy, Odyssey Marine Exploration, a US company, is expected to confirm on Monday that the ship, codenamed "Legend", that...
Warts and All
Yours for £1,000... Oliver Cromwell's death mask, warts and all
	02/04/2009 6:36:45 AM PST · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 15 replies · 691+ views Daily Mail (UK) | 03rd February 2009 | David Wilkes He loathed vanity so much that he insisted his portraits depict him faithfully, 'warts and all'. And even after his death, Oliver Cromwell's instructions were followed to the letter. This death mask shows the puritanical Lord Protector of England in all his grizzled, lumpy glory. There has been no attempt to conceal the growth on his lower lip or straighten his crooked nose. All in all, the mask doesn't make an attractive artwork - though that probably won't bother the person who buys it this week. The plaster cast, made around 350 years ago, has been put up for sale...
Not So Ancient Autopsies
King size! Henry VIII's armour reveals he had a 52in girth - for which he paid a terrible price
	02/02/2009 3:43:41 PM PST · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 85 replies · 1,642+ views Daily Mail (UK) | 02nd February 2009 | Philippa Gregory He was an immense figure in the history of England. Just how immense, however, has finally been revealed after a study of his body armour exposed Henry VIII's extraordinary vital statistics. It found that by the end of his reign the 6ft 1in Tudor king had a whopping 52in waist and 53in chest - enough to make him severely obese by modern standards. The study by the Royal Armouries coincides with a forthcoming exhibition of his supersized battle dress at the Tower of London to mark the 500th anniversary of him taking the throne. Here, Philippa Gregory reveals the heavy...
British Isles
Pair unearth Saxon burial remains[UK]
	02/05/2009 2:58:24 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 8 replies · 274+ views BBC | 04 Feb 2009 | BBC The remains of a 1,500-year-old Saxon burial ground have been uncovered by two Sussex metal detector enthusiasts. Bob White and Cliff Smith unearthed brooches, a bronze bowl, a spear and a shield from the graves of a man and two women on farmland near Lewes. Mr Smith, of Eastbourne District Metal Detecting Club, said he knew he had found something special when he noticed part of a bowl and a piece of skull. It is thought the family were relatively wealthy and of high status. Mr Smith and Mr White called Sussex Police as soon as they uncovered the items...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
'Genius existed on the prairies 5,000 years ago'[Canada]
	02/03/2009 12:19:57 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 38 replies · 665+ views The Canadian Press | 31 Jan 2009 | Bob Weber An academic maverick is challenging conventional wisdom on Canada's prehistory by claiming an archeological site in southern Alberta is really a vast, open-air sun temple with a precise 5,000-year-old calendar predating England's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids. Mainstream archeologists consider the rock-encircled cairn to be just another medicine wheel left behind by early aboriginals. But a new book by retired University of Alberta professor Gordon Freeman says it is in fact the centre of a 26-square-kilometre stone "lacework" that marks the changing seasons and the phases of the moon with greater accuracy than our current calendar. "Genius existed on the prairies...
Open Wide for Chunky
Earliest chocolate use found in Chaco Canyon ( New Mexico )
	02/02/2009 9:59:00 PM PST · Posted by george76 · 42 replies · 447+ views Associated Press | 02/02/2009 You may be surprised to know how far back chocolate goes -- perhaps 1,000 years in what's now the United States. Evidence of chocolate has been found in northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, at Pueblo Bonito. The discovery indicates trade was under way between the Chaco Canyon and cacao growers in Central America -- more than 1,000 miles away. Crown says importing the material would have been a major undertaking.
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
The History of Money: Peru and its Fiat Currencies
	02/05/2009 3:18:48 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 7 replies · 181+ views Market Oracle | 05 Feb 2009 | Mike Hewitt Peru is the nineteenth largest country in the world and is a diverse land, both in terms of people and geography. It is populated by over 29.2 million people (July 2008 estimate), largely descended from Spanish settlers, native Inca, and pre-Inca cultures. Peru has three national languages: Spanish, Aymara, and the native Quechua, reflecting the native Indian and Spanish roots that cultivated modern Peruvian society. Three distinct geographical terrains - coastal, sierra and tropical rain forest - give Peru a wide variety of both climatic and natural variation. Traditionally the Peruvian economy was based on natural resources such as mining,...
Arabia Felix / Yemen
Archeological sites in Bani Hushaish suffer from vandalism
	02/06/2009 3:16:25 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 4+ views Yemeni Observer | February 3, 2009 | Mansur Ali al-Muntasir The most important of the discovered archeological sites is in Shibam al-Ghras, where several mummies were found. The district contains several other neglected sites, which have not yet been identified by archeological authorities. This is disturbing; as these sites have been damaged as a result of official negligence, and a lack of public awareness about their value and importance to Yemeni heritage... The area in which the mummies were discovered, Jabal Thi Marmar, in Shibam al-Ghrasi in Bani Hushaish, is situated 27 km north-east of Sana'a... Dr. Noradin says that the Sukhaim tribe used to consider Shibam an important center,...
Faith and Philosophy
"Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus
	02/06/2009 9:35:02 AM PST · Posted by Between the Lines · 34 replies · 701+ views Reuters | Feb 6, 2009 | Sarah Ktisti and Simon Bahceli NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) - Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus. The manuscript was found in a police raid on suspected antiquity smugglers. Turkish Cypriot police testified in a court hearing they believe the manuscript could be about 2,000 years old. The manuscript carries excerpts of the Bible written in gold lettering on vellum and loosely strung together, photos provided to Reuters showed. One page carries a drawing of a tree, and another eight lines of Syriac script. Experts were however divided...
Moderate Islam
Saving the monastery of Mor Gabriel (Muslims seek to close oldest Christian monastery)
	02/02/2009 12:50:11 PM PST · Posted by NYer · 58 replies · 890+ views Asia News | January 26, 2009 | Geries Othman Muslim leaders are trying to destroy it, and have sued the monastery for alleged proselytism. A spiritual and cultural center for the Syriac Orthodox, it still uses ancient Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus. During the 1960's, at least 130,000 Syriacs lived in Tur Abdin. Today, there are only 3,000. The minority community hopes that the European Union will come to its defense with an appeal to Ankara." Ankara (AsiaNews) - Demonstrations are being held in many European countries to save the monastery of Mor Gabriel, a spiritual center for the Syriac Orthodox community in Turkey.Founded in 397, it is...
Longer Perspectives
How the Swedes viewed us down the centuries [ Cyprus ]
	02/06/2009 3:21:43 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 13+ views Cyprus Mail | February 3, 2009 | Zoe Christodoulides The adventures of Swedish travellers dating all the way back to the Vikings have now been brought to life in a new book written by local art historian, Rita Severis. Examining the texts of some 30 travellers to the country over a thousand years, The Swedes in Cyprus sheds light on Nordic attitudes to the island right from when Viking ships first docked on our shores. These intriguing tales are only now available, simply because Swedish texts on Cyprus had hardly ever been translated... With a large number of travelogues now translated into English for the very first time, the...
Underwater Archaeology
Hidden Wrecks Revealed [ Northumberland NE Coast ]
	02/06/2009 3:26:30 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 5+ views Northumberland Gazette | 29 January 2009 | Helen Woods Nearly a thousand new archeological sites have been discovered off the North East coast as part of an English Heritage-funded project... Among the results were four ship wrecks found in mud flats off the coast of Amble. Their existence had previously been recorded, but until the survey took place their exact location was not known. However, it is not known when the wrecks date back to, but they are clearly visible on aerial photographs from the 1940s. And on the Farne Islands, a pattern of rectangular features around the medieval St Cuthbert's Hermitage can be seen. It is believed that...
Early America
Roanoke Island: What Happened to the Lost Colonists of 1587?
	02/01/2009 4:59:35 PM PST · Posted by Vendek · 70 replies · 1,505+ views A Novel of America | 1/25/2009 | Errol Lincoln Uys "We found the houses taken down and the place very strongly enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains and flankers very fortlike, and one of the chief trees or posts at the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off, and five feet from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATAN, without any cross or sign of distress. We entered the palisade, where we found many bars of iron, two pigs of lead, four fowlers, iron sacker-shot and such like heavy things, thrown here and there, almost overgrown with grass and weeds." --...
The Framers
Archaeologist to Discuss Life on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation
	02/06/2009 9:38:35 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 256+ views Smith College, Office of College Relations | Monday, February 2, 2009 | Kristen Cole, Media Relations Director Later this month, an archaeologist at Thomas Jefferson's historic home of Monticello in Charlottesville, Va., will speak at Smith College about the use of the late president's plantation by the estate's residents, both free and enslaved. Sara Bon-Harper, archeological research manager, will lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in McConnell Hall, Room 103, about "Defined Spaces: Landscape on the Monticello Plantation." The event is sponsored by the Program in Archaeology and the Lecture Committee and is free and open to the public. Bon-Harper's work at Monticello focuses on an archaeological survey of the original 5,000-acre plantation and the excavation...
Abolition
Underground Railroad Museum's Slave Pen Tells Story
	02/02/2009 12:40:23 AM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 10 replies · 427+ views Journal Sentinel | Jan. 30, 2009 | MARY LU LAFFEY The pen is powerful, says Carl B. Westmoreland, curator and senior adviser to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. He believes it is here to tell the story of the inter-American slave trade to future generations. The "pen" that Westmoreland refers to is a 19th-century slave pen recovered from a farm in Kentucky. Since the Freedom Center opened five years ago, 900,000 visitors have walked through it. The slave pen is the center's largest artifact, and it looms in the lobby beyond the reception area like the proverbial elephant in the room. Too powerful and too symbolic to be ignored....
The Civil War
LONG-LOST ABE [ HISTORIC PHOTO'S AMAZING COMEBACK]
	01/31/2009 12:25:33 PM PST · Posted by Mr_Moonlight · 93 replies · 1,419+ views New York Post | January 31 2009 | BEN DOBBIN, AP ROCHESTER, NY - Seated by a window in the Illinois state Capitol in 1860, a beardless Abraham Lincoln held still 25 seconds for a classic campaign portrait of the soon-to-be president. It was undoubtedly a personal favorite. "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever seen," Lincoln said in a letter to photographer Alexander Hesler. "If it pleases the people, I am satisfied." To mark the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth on Feb. 12, the long-lost positive transparency of this photograph goes on display beginning tomorrow at the George Eastman House museum of photography in Rochester.
Long-Lost Abe - Historic Photo's Amazing Comeback
	01/31/2009 12:56:10 PM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 15 replies · 627+ views Associated Press | Jan. 31, 2009 | BEN DOBBIN ROCHESTER, NY - Seated by a window in the Illinois state Capitol in 1860, a beardless Abraham Lincoln held still 25 seconds for a classic campaign portrait of the soon-to-be president. It was undoubtedly a personal favorite.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Little Girl Preserved In 1500s Tomb Packed With Mummies - Pictures
	01/30/2009 9:45:13 PM PST · Posted by Steelfish · 107 replies · 2,291+ views Daily Mirror (U.K.) | January 30, 2009 Little girl preserved in 1500s tomb packed with mummies - pictures By Emily Nash 30/01/2009 Resting peacefully in her coffin you'd think she'd died yesterday. But this little girl called Rosalina passed away in 1920 and her body has been kept perfectly preserved in a tomb packed with mummies that was first used in the 16th century. The pretty two-year-old, her matted blonde hair tied up with a ribbon, died of a bronchial infection. She is one of 2,000 mummified bodies buried in a catacomb at Palermo, Sicily.
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Amazing Pyramids of Europe
	02/05/2009 5:27:55 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 13 replies · 547+ views Tenerife News | Jan. 5, 2009 | Ellie Sand Historian Osmanagich discovered the pyramids while studying the Visoko valley of Bosnia and Herzegovina using satellite, topography, thermal and radar analysis of the country in an attempt to locate anomalies in the landscape and has discovered 9 unusual hills that do not conform to the typical landscape. Five of these have been located in the Visoko region. Further analysis of three of these anomalies has shown paved footways and roads, and a huge network of interconnecting tunnels beneath these pyramids. Coping and corner stones have been exposed, and artefacts have been discovered (www.samosmanagich.com) .
Bosnian Pyramids: Great Discovery or Colossal Hoax?
	05/08/2006 1:44:15 AM PDT · Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu · 6 replies · 588+ views LiveScience.com | May 4, 2006 | Heather Whipps either one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time, or man has made a giant pyramid out of a molehill. In the wake of recent news that evidence of colossal pyramids had been found in the small Bosnian town of Visoko, many in the archaeological community are speaking out and dismissing both the discovery and the man who made it, businessman Semir Osmanagic. Some critics have gone as far as to call the pyramid an absurd publicity stunt. But Osmanagic stands by his claim. "They are jealous," Osmanagic told LiveScience in a telephone interview. "These people are going crazy...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #238 20090207 · Saturday, January 07, 2009 · 43 topics · 2180061 to 2175477 · 704 members ·
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #239 Saturday, January 14, 2009
The Framers
Founding Father, Entrepreneur - The overlooked business career of George Washington
	02/13/2009 2:02:06 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 19 replies · 381+ views Reason | February 12, 2009 | John Berlau On February 16, the United States will celebrate the birth of one of its greatest -- and least acknowledged -- entrepreneurs: George Washington. Washington's political and military exploits are of course well-known: He was a member of colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses and a delegate to the Continental Congress; he led the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and won a hard-fought victory for independence; and he served as the first president of these United States. Yet his business ventures are impressive in their own right. During America's time as an English colony, Washington ran a fishing operation that processed 1.5 million fish per...
Pages
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
	02/13/2009 9:37:08 PM PST · Posted by restornu · 3 replies · 191+ views Amazon | By W. Cleon Skousen GLENN BECK, award winning radio and TV host has been talking about... The 5000 Year Leap! - How America became an economic powerhouse offering wealth to the average citizen! - How the Federal Government was built to protect and safeguard citizen s rights! - 28 Principles indisputably creating freedom & prosperity unlike any other! The 5,000 Year Leap comes Highly Recommended book by radio and television host Glenn Beck. 28 Principles establishing America in a leap from 5,000 years of come-and-go civilizations to the most advanced and powerful country that world history has ever known, are explored by Dr....
Longer Perspectives
the 10th Amendment
	02/09/2009 6:51:33 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 68 replies · 728+ views Constitution of the United States, via Populist America et al | The Framers The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Early America
This Week in U.S. Military History
	02/13/2009 8:55:38 AM PST · Posted by Crush · 9 replies · 177+ views Human Events | 11 Feb 2008 | W. Thomas Smith, Jr. Feb. 9, 1943: U.S. Adm. William F. "Bull" Halsey receives the following message from U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Alexander M. "Sandy" Patch: "Total and complete defeat of Japanese forces on Guadalcanal effected 1625 today . . . Am happy to report this kind of compliance with your orders . . . because Tokyo Express no longer has terminus on Guadalcanal." The campaign launched by U.S Marines and sailors in August 1942, and fought by Army, Navy, and Marine forces (and allies) over a six-month period, has resulted in the decisive defeat of Japanese forces on-and-near the island of Guadalcanal. The...
Old Salem museum
	02/08/2009 10:00:11 AM PST · Posted by Peter Horry · 12 replies · 194+ views Winston-Salem Journal | January 28, 2009 | JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF Old Salem Inc. is far from alone in being hit hard by the recession. But the museum's struggle is especially distressing because it's an important tourism draw for Winston-Salem. For that reason, as Old Salem officials struggle to do more with less, area residents should help by touring the museum. Old Salem is an intriguing replication of life here, particularly Moravian life, roughly between 1750 and 1850. But it's too easy to take it for granted. History museums are struggling nationwide. Between the economy and the high gas prices of the last few years, people take fewer vacations. When they...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
FYI: How to Download Free Books onto the Amazon Kindle
	02/11/2009 6:25:03 AM PST · Posted by yankeedame · 9 replies · 458+ views PopularMechanics.com | February 9, 2009 | Seth Porges The cost of books for e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader can add up. But there's no reason to pay Sony or Amazon for books that are already in the public domain. Here's how to get them onto your e-book reader for free. Because their static screens don't flicker like an LCD, E Ink e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle (check out our coverage of the just-announced second-gen Kindle here) and Sony Reader are easy on your eyes and easy on their own batteries. They draw power...
Greece
Mythic Birthplace of Zeus Said Found
	02/09/2009 1:15:59 PM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 25 replies · 460+ views LiveScience.com on Yahoo | 2/9/09 | Heather Whipps The Greek god of thunder and lightning had Earthly beginnings, and scientists think they finally know where. Ancient Greeks first worshipped the omnipotent Zeus at a remote altar on Mount Lykaion, a team of Greek and American archaeologists now think. During a recent dig at the site, the researchers found ceremonial goods commonly used in cult activity and dated at over three millennia old, making them the earliest known "appearance" of Zeus in Greece. The discovery challenges the idea that Zeus worship began on the Greek island of Crete, which at least one classical historian names as the god's mythic...
Test Tube Babies
Gene code mapping 'for all babies within 10 years'
	02/09/2009 9:58:12 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 21 replies · 298+ views Daily Mail | 09 Feb 2009 | Mark Prigg Every baby could have its genetic code mapped out at birth within 10 years, a process which will predict conditions such as diabetes and heart disease and help prevent them. Jay Flatley, head of leading genome company Illumina, predicted a revolution in healthcare after the complete DNA read-out for every newborn becomes a technical reality. He said only social and legal issues would delay the process. But with many people reluctant to have their genome read for fear it could be used against them by employers or insurance companies, the process is expected to raise difficult questions over privacy. The...
Climate
1709: The year that Europe froze (even the Mediterranean iced over)
	02/08/2009 4:10:26 PM PST · Posted by E. Pluribus Unum · 90 replies · 2,443+ views New Scientist | 07 February 2009 | Stephanie Pain People across Europe awoke on 6 January 1709 to find the temperature had plummeted. A three-week freeze was followed by a brief thaw - and then the mercury plunged again and stayed there. From Scandinavia in the north to Italy in the south, and from Czechoslovakia in the east to the west coast of France, everything turned to ice. The sea froze. Lakes and rivers froze, and the soil froze to a depth of a metre or more. Livestock died from cold in their barns, chicken's combs froze and fell off, trees exploded and travellers froze to death on the...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Life in the 1500's (email I received - relevant as we all may be living this way soon)
	02/10/2009 12:42:17 PM PST · Posted by Grumpybutt · 50 replies · 1,655+ views The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s: Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water....
Underwater Archaeology
Origins of underwater stones a mystery
	02/09/2009 11:42:11 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 22 replies · 1,112+ views United Press International | Monday, February 9, 2009 | unattributed An archaeologist says it remains a mystery how a circle of stones initially arrived at the floor of Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Underwater archeologist Mark Holley said while he first discovered the underwater stones in 2007, no one has been able to prove whether the rocks were placed there by nature or by mankind, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday. "The first thing I said when I came out of the water was, 'Oh no, I wish we wouldn't have found this,'" Holley said of his discovery. "This is going to invite so much controversy that this is where we're going...
Paleontology
Earliest Animals Were Sea Sponges, Fossils Hint
	02/09/2009 8:59:10 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 27 replies · 271+ views National Geographic News | February 4, 2009 | Rebecca Carroll Based on chemical signatures inside sedimentary rocks, Love and colleagues think the sponges likely grew in colonies that blanketed areas of the ocean floor. Back then the supercontinent Rodinia, which had been Earth's dominant landmass for at least 350 million years, was in the process of breaking up, and the climate was extremely cold worldwide. Sponges evolved in shallow ocean basins, because the deeper seas did not yet contain oxygen, a necessity for almost all life. Although the environment was harsh at this time -- about a hundred million years before the evolutionary growth spurt known as the Cambrian explosion...
Catastrophism...
Mediterranean Sea Dried Up Five Million Years Ago
	02/12/2009 7:51:15 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 23 replies · 525+ views ScienceDaily | Thursday, February 12, 2009 | Utrecht University Approximately five million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea dried up after it was sealed off from the Atlantic Ocean. According to earth scientist Rob Govers of Utrecht University, a reduction in the weight on the Earth's crust led to the Straits of Gibraltar moving upwards. Govers will publish his conclusions in the February issue of the earth sciences journal Geology. Much like a mattress springs back into shape after you get off it, the Earth's crust moves upwards when sea levels fall. Known as isostasy, this phenomenon explains how the Mediterranean Sea was sealed off from the Atlantic Ocean five...
...and Astronomy
Unseen dark comets 'could pose deadly threat to earth'
	02/12/2009 3:29:16 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 31 replies · 271+ views Telegraph | Thursday, February 12, 2009 | Kate Devlin The comets, of which there could be thousands, are not currently monitored by observatories and space agencies. Most comets and asteroids are monitored in case they start to travel towards earth. But Bill Napier, from Cardiff University, said that many could be going by unnoticed. "There is a case to be made that dark, dormant comets are a significant but largely unseen hazard," he said Scientists estimate that there should be around 3,000 comets in the solar system, but only 25 have so far been identified. "Dark" comets happen when the water on their surface has evaporated, causing them to...
Ancient Autopsies
Oldest Human Hair Found in Hyena Poop Fossil?
	02/07/2009 8:45:32 AM PST · Posted by puffer · 48 replies · 830+ views National Geographic | 2-6-09 | Charles Q. Choi The oldest known human hairs could be the strands discovered in fossil hyena poop found in a South African cave, a new study hints. Researchers discovered the rock-hard hyena dung near the Sterkfontein caves, where many early human ancestor fossils have been found. Each white, round fossil turd, or coprolite, is roughly 0.8 inch (2 centimeters) across. They were found embedded in sediments 195,000 to 257,000 years old. Until now, the oldest known human hair was from a 9,000-year-old Chilean mummy. The sizes and shapes of the coprolites and their location suggest they came from brown hyenas, which still live...
Oldest Human Hair Found In Fossilized Hyena Dung
	02/10/2009 10:45:50 AM PST · Posted by Islander7 · 36 replies · 714+ views Discovery News | Feb 10, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony material in the early human fossil record. Until now, the oldest known human hairs were from a 9,000-year-old Chinchorro mummy from Arica, northern Chile. This latest discovery, made at Gladysvale cave, South Africa, exceeds the mummy's age by about 200,000 years.
Neanderthals / Neandertals
Neanderthal genome to be unveiled: Draft sequence opens window on human relatives
	02/07/2009 8:31:28 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 17 replies · 377+ views Nature -- 457, 645 (2009) | February 4, 2009 | Rex Dalton The entire genome of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal has been sequenced by a team of scientists in Germany. The group is already extracting DNA from other ancient Neanderthal bones and hopes that the genomes will allow an unprecedented comparison between modern humans and their closest evolutionary relative. The three-year project, which cost about ?5 million (US$6.4 million), was carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Project leader Svante Pääbo will announce the results of the preliminary genomic analysis at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, which starts on 12...
Neanderthals could walk again after discovery of genetic code
	02/12/2009 12:35:36 PM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 39 replies · 531+ views dailymail.co.uk | Feb. 12, 2009 | Fiona Macrae Neanderthals are a step closer to walking on Earth again. Scientists have unravelled the genetic code of man's closest cousin using fragments of bone found across Europe. The blueprint could provide information on the Neanderthal's looks, intelligence, health and habits, as well as what makes us human. It also raises the intriguing possibility of bringing our ancient relatives, who died out around 30,000 years ago, back from the dead. Researcher Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin said: 'Studying the Neanderthals and studying the Neanderthal genome will tell us what makes modern humans really human, why we are alone, why we have these amazing...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Largest-to-date Genetic Snapshot Of Iceland 1,000 Years Ago Completed
	02/07/2009 8:24:16 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 551+ views Science News | January 18, 2009 | Public Library of Science, via EurekAlert! Scientists at deCODE genetics have completed the largest study of ancient DNA from a single population ever undertaken. Analyzing mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to offspring, from 68 skeletal remains, the study provides a detailed look at how a contemporary population differs from that of its ancestors. The results confirm previous deCODE work that used genetics to test the history of Iceland as recorded in the sagas. These studies demonstrated that the country seems to have been settled by men from Scandinavia -- the vikings -- but that the majority of the original female inhabitants were from the...
Mummy Told Me...
30 mummies found in Egypt tomb [ Gisr al-Moudir, west of Saqqara, VIth dynasty, Old Kingdom ]
	02/09/2009 7:15:13 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 457+ views Philippine Daily Inquirer | Monday, February 9, 2009 | Agence France-Presse Egyptian archaeologists have discovered dozens of mummies and several stone and wood sarcophagi south of Cairo in a pharaonic tomb estimated to be 4,300 years old, the ministry of culture said on Monday. The find was made at Gisr al-Moudir, west of Egypt's first ever pyramid at Saqqara, the step pyramid of Djoser built by architect Imhotep in around 2,700 BC, the ministry said in a statement. "The tomb dates from the era of the VIth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, about 4,300 years ago," Egypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said. "Thirty mummies and skeletons were discovered, including a wooden...
Egypt
Images of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy revealed by scanner
	02/08/2009 4:53:43 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 48 replies · 1,699+ views The Telegraph | 2/8/2009 Spectacular images from within the unopened casket of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy have been revealed using a hi-tech hospital scanner. The elaborately decorated coffin contains the wrapped remains of Meresamun, a woman believed to have been a singer-priestess at a temple in Thebes in 800 BC. "Experts do not want to disturb the casket, which has remained sealed Experts do not want to disturb the casket, which has remained sealed since Meresamun was laid to rest almost 1,000 years before the birth of Christ. But now cutting edge X-ray technology has allowed scientists to peer through the coffin and obtain...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles
Caregiving Nuns Wiped Out by Plague [ Renaissance France ]
	02/07/2009 8:18:50 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 16 replies · 396+ views Discovery News | February 6, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas Nuns and priests sacrificed their own lives to provide medical care for the poor in Renaissance France, according to a new study that implicates exposure to contagious plague victims in the deaths of several religious order members. The study is among the first to find that plague, a deadly bacterial disease also known as "the Black Death," can be quickly and accurately identified in ancient human remains. Several recently identified women who died after caring for plague victims were all Benedictine nuns from the Sainte-Croix Abbey's chapter house near Poitiers, France... Historical accounts suggest that nuns caring for the plague...
Let's Have Jerusalem
"Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus
	02/07/2009 1:26:18 AM PST · Posted by malkee · 29 replies · 1,529+ views yahoo news | Feb. 6 | Sarah Ktisti and Simon Bahceli Sarah Ktisti And Simon Bahceli NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) -- Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus. The manuscript was found in a police raid on suspected antiquity smugglers. Turkish Cypriot police testified in a court hearing they believe the manuscript could be about 2,000 years old. The manuscript carries excerpts of the Bible written in gold lettering on vellum and loosely strung together, photos provided to Reuters showed. One page carries a drawing of a tree, and another eight lines of Syriac script. Experts were however divided...
Moderate Islam
Victory in the WOT?
	02/07/2009 2:57:08 PM PST · Posted by WesternCulture · 15 replies · 290+ views 02/07/2009 | WesternCulture The US is like France. A scattered nation that refuses to bow down to the concept of true national discipline, even when confronted with uttermost evil. The European countries of today are no better. But have a look at French and/or American history and you'll find out both France and USA have a great tradition of standing up, as one man, for the cause of independence - even though Vichy France cooperated with the Nazis and an American company like Standard Oil sold vast amounts of fuel to the Luftwaffe. I'm Swedish and soldiers from my country recently have died...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Armenian links to Stonehenge explored [ Carahunge ]
	02/12/2009 7:43:34 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 22 replies · 293+ views Salisbury Journal | Monday, February 9th, 2009 | Corey Ross The story of Stonehenge and the mystery that surrounds it is familiar to most Salisbury residents, but one man has come to the city to tell people about an ancient circle of standing stones which pre-dates even Wiltshire's World Heritage site. Vardan Levoni Tadevosyan is an Armenian/Spanish historian of the occult who visited Salisbury last week to raise the profile of Carahunge, dubbed the Armenian Stonehenge. Carahunge, meaning 'speaking stones', is located 200km from the Armenian capital Yerevan, near a town called Sisian. There are over 200 stones on the seven-hectare site and many of the stones have smooth angled...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mexico mass grave may hold last Aztec resistance fighters
	02/11/2009 9:18:20 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 321+ views Daily Mail | 11 Feb 2009 | Daily Mail Archaeologists have found a mass grave in Mexico that may hold the skeletal remains of the Aztecs who fought conquistador Hernan Cortes. The unusual burial was found in a ruined pyramid in downtown Mexico City. It holds the carefully arrayed skeletons of at least 49 adult Indians who were buried in the remains of a pyramid razed by the Spaniards during the 1521 conquest of the Aztec capital. The pyramid complex, in the city's Tlatelolco square, was the site of the last Indian resistance to the Spaniards during the months-long battle for the city. Archaeologist Salvador Guilliem, the leader of...
Age of Sail
Sunken Relics Promise to Unlock the Secret of How Victory Met Her Doom
	02/08/2009 6:15:41 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 16 replies · 494+ views The Times | February 7, 2009 | Frank Pope With its thruster motors fighting the current, the submersible pushed through a blizzard of sediment. Far above, in a darkened control room, the robot's operator squeezed his eyes shut to push away the fatigue. Making three dives a day, he had lost count of how many times he had approached suspected wrecks only to find a clump of ferrous rocks or junk from a ship. This time it would be different. The announcement this week that Odyssey Marine Exploration, the world's biggest commercial shipwreck exploration specialist, has discovered what appear to be the remains of HMS Victory has caused a...
Australia and the Pacific
Pub of Hidden Secrets Razed
	02/10/2009 3:55:41 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 253+ views Herald Sun | February 10, 2009 FIRE has destroyed an historic pub and nearly 150 years of gold mining heritage, leaving the NSW central-western town of Forbes in disbelief. The Albion Hotel was first built in 1861, when gold was discovered in the area, and rebuilt to its current size in 1889. The three-storey premises straddled an entire block in Forbes' heritage district and offered more than what first meets the eye. A series of tunnels under the hotel were used during the gold rush days as a secure method of transferring gold to and from local banks to the hotel - a dispatch location for...
World War Eleven
The White Death
	02/11/2009 8:18:36 PM PST · Posted by Mr. Mojo · 34 replies · 1,055+ views Guns and Ammo magazine | 10-20-08 | Paul Scarlatta Winter War: Finland's Simo Häyhä was probably the most prolific sniper in history.World War II saw the duel between Soviet sniper Vasili Zeitsev and his German counterpart Heinz Thorvald, which was the stuff that legends (and movies) are made of. Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock earned a reputation for disposing of Viet Cong and NVA officers. More recently, U.S. Army and Marine Corps snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven the effectiveness of the single, precisely placed rifle bullet. Zietsev was credited with 242 kills, while Hathcock's total of 93 is just as impressive when you consider that some were executed...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #239 20090214 · Saturday, January 14, 2009 · 29 topics · 2185175 to 2180298 · 707 members ·
	Saturday Jan 14 2009 v 5 n 31 view this issue	Welcome to the 239th issue, filled with 29 freshly baked topics to satisfy the appetites of 707 members and countless other FReepers. Great, now I'm hungry. I'm running a bit behind today, so I plan to post this quite late, after taking the data on a flash drive for my semi-monthly trip out into my favorite spot, the Boonies. Lately I've used this space to thank the many FReepers who contribute topics and/or ping me to them, but this week... Porkulus passed, not primarily due to a RINO or three, but because of the so-called Democrats. Remember who our enemies are. Remember that old saying, "dance with the one what brung ya"? That's what RINOs have to do. You've heard the one attributed to Tip O'Neill, "all politics is local"? Same idea. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #240 Saturday, February 21, 2009
Atlantis
Is this Atlantis?
	02/20/2009 9:49:04 AM PST · Posted by pissant · 106 replies · 2,328+ views UK Mirror | 2/20/09 | Virginia Wheeler THIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis. It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3 miles down. A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary. They seem too vast and organised to be caused naturally. And last night the possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated.
Breaking! Atlantis discovered on Google Earth (well, maybe) (Atlantis coverup?)
	02/20/2009 12:38:03 PM PST · Posted by puffer · 72 replies · 2,784+ views Yahoo | 2-20-09 Quick -- fire up Google Earth on your PC, and find the following coordinates: 31 15'15.53N, 24 15'30.53W (hint: it's about 600 miles west of Morocco, deep in the Atlantic Ocean). Zoom in, and check out that rectangle on the ocean floor. Could it be Atlantis? That's what a squad of "Atlantic experts" are telling the Daily Telegraph, and indeed, the rough rectangle -- complete with dozens of shaky grid marks carved into the ocean floor -- is a surreal sight, at least to the untrained eye. Apparently, the oddly shaped box marks "one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis,...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Peru's Scratchpad The Nazca Plain
	02/15/2009 3:59:53 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 49 replies · 681+ views sundayobserver | Sunday, 15 February 2009 The world we live in is full of mysteries and man has been searching answers for them from time immemorial. However, no matter how advanced science has become, there are still many mysteries that cannot be unravelled by science. They continue to baffle us. The famous Nazca lines of Peru, which are associated with the Incan civilization by some scientists, have become a great puzzle; no one has yet come up with an acceptable theory as to why the Nazca Indians who lived in this area between 300 BC and AD 800, have drawn them.
The Vikings
Inukpasuit, Inuit and Viking contact in ancient times
	02/18/2009 6:45:35 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 14 replies · 450+ views The Arctic Sounder | 12 Feb 2009 | Ronald Brower There are many stories of "Qavlunaat,' white-skinned strangers who were encountered in Inuit-occupied lands in times of old. Stories of contact between these foreign people and Inuit were passed down the generations and used mostly to scare children to behave "or the Qavlunaat will get them." This sparked my curiosity to explore both sides of the encounters from written records and Inuit oral legends to see if some of these events can be correlated. One must recall that these legends were passed down orally in the Inupiaq language. Inuit myths and legends of contact with other people were passed from...
Pages
Book Review: Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe
	02/16/2009 6:22:04 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 150+ views The Scotsman | July 19, 2008 | unattributed Cunliffe's thesis is disarmingly straightforward and elegant. In seeking to unpack the history behind the extraordinary expansion of European power and influence all over the world after 1500, he looks closely at how the peoples of the continent communicated and interacted in the 10,000 years before that. It is his central contention that geography was absolutely determinant, and that Europe's long and indented coastline -- the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic -- encouraged constant mobility, the rapid exchange of ideas and a ceaseless flow of innovation. To illustrate, Cunliffe's approach is like that...
Japan
Rebuilding Sacred Secrets of Ancient Omi Province
	02/14/2009 4:44:02 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 153+ views Japan Times | Sun., Feb. 15, 2009 | CHIHO IUCHI Tourists might be attracted by Japanese temples and their gardens, but have you ever thought what it takes to preserve their timeless beauty? Recent encounters in Shiga Prefecture certainly brought home to me the enormous effort required to pass age-old traditions down through generations. The history of Omi Province (now Shiga Prefecture), which boasts the huge Lake Biwa, goes back to ancient times. But nowadays, as you race through it on a bullet train between Nagoya and Kyoto, its gentle hills and vistas of paddy fields may barely give you pause...
Asia
Drought might have collapsed Cambodian Angkor city
	02/18/2009 5:28:21 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 146+ views Associated Press | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | unattributed The collapse of Cambodia's great ancient city of Angkor may have been due to a massive drought nearly 600 years ago -- not just rival Siamese forces and widespread deforestation as previously suspected, a researcher said. Brendan M. Buckley said Tuesday that bands from tree rings that he and his colleagues examined show that Southeast Asia was hit by a severe and prolonged drought from 1415 until 1439, coinciding with the period during which many archeologists believe Angkor collapsed.
Indus Valley Silk Secrets
Rethinking silk's origins
	02/18/2009 7:03:32 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 10 replies · 298+ views Nature | 17 Feb 2009 | Philip Ball Did the Indian subcontinent start spinning without Chinese know-how? New findings suggest that silk making was not an exclusively Chinese technological innovation, but instead arose independently on the Indian subcontinent. Ornaments from the Indus valley in east Pakistan, where the Harappan culture flourished more than 4,000 years ago, seem to contain silk spun by silk moths native to the region. What's more, the silk seems to have been processed in a way previously thought to have been a closely guarded secret within China. There is hard and fast evidence for silk production in China back to around 2570 BC; the...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Researchers unravel missing link in spider evolution
	01/01/2009 9:58:11 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 19 replies · 628+ views Thaindian News | January 2nd, 2009 Researchers have unravelled an ancient missing link between today's spiders and their long-extinct ancestors, and that may help explain how spiders came to weave webs. The research by scientists at the University of Kansas (KU) and Virginia's Hampden-Sydney College focuses on fossil animals called Attercopus fimbriunguis. While modern spiders make silk threads with modified appendages called spinnerets, the fossil animals wove broad sheets of silk from spigots on plates attached to the underside of their bodies. Unlike spiders, they had long tails. The research was led by Paul Selden, professor of invertebrate paleontology in the department of geology at KU,...
Scientists May Have Solved the Secret of Silk
	08/27/2003 11:44:51 AM PDT · Posted by presidio9 · 30 replies · 260+ views Reuters | Wed, Aug 27, 2003 Scientists say they may have worked out how spiders and silkworms are able to produce such strong fibers to spin their webs and cocoons. They say that if they are right, their research could be used to produce silk in the laboratory for extra-strong protective clothing, sports equipment and even replacement bone tissue. Silk is the strongest natural fiber known to man but scientists have yet to replicate its strength. They have managed to purify silk into powder but have not been able to turn it into material. "The problem is that when people take these purified powders and try...
Faith and Philosophy
Silk Road Paved With Christian Tradition (1,500 Y.O. Church In Western China)
	12/22/2002 4:04:11 PM PST · Posted by blam · 3 replies · 298+ views Chicago Sun Times | 12-20-2002 | Andrew Greely Silk Road paved with Christian tradition December 20, 2002 BY ANDREW GREELEY Martin Palmer, an English Sinologist, was searching western China in 1998 for a pagoda, which was all that was left of the monastery of Da Qin. He believed the pagoda was a remnant of the Christians who for several hundred years flourished along the ancient Silk Road. One day he and a couple of his colleagues came upon a pagoda in a field, time-worn but still standing. He asked a woman (a Buddhist nun, as it turned out) what the pagoda was. All that remained of a great...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Maccabee-era relics found near Jerusalem shed light on ancient Jewish warriors
	02/18/2009 7:45:52 PM PST · Posted by GSP.FAN · 10 replies · 279+ views Haaretz | 23:29 16/02/2009 | Haaretz Service Three fragments of a Greek inscription, believed to be part of the "Heliodoros stele" were recently found at an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation at the National Park of Beit Guvrin.
Exegesis
Ark hunter: Christianity packed with paganism
	02/12/2009 8:40:24 PM PST · Posted by Chris DeWeese · 154 replies · 1,531+ views World Net Daily | 2/7/09 | © 2009 WorldNetDaily A Tennessee historian and author best known for his searches for the Ark of the Covenant -- the box containing the Ten Commandments -- is now challenging much of modern Christianity, claiming the traditional version of the faith has more in common with ancient paganism than actual biblical content. "Today, it is amazing what is being presented as Christianity," says Richard Rives of Lewisburg, Tenn., who has just released a book and DVD collection titled, "Time is the Ally of Deceit." "First century believers would have never accepted [today's practices]," the 56-year-old ark hunter told WND. "We must earnestly contend...
India
[Tamil Nadu] 'TN inhabited by people dissimilar to Tamils in pre-historic times'
	02/16/2009 7:30:21 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 275+ views The Hindu | Sunday, February 15, 2009 | unattributed The south east coast of Tamil Nadu was inhabited in pre-historic times mainly by Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Negroids and Australoids rather than people similar to contemporary Tamils, a dental anthropological study has found. A team of anthropologists came to the finding after studying more than 1,000 teeth from Adichanallur's pre-historic harbour site on the south-east coast of Tamil Nadu that dates back to 2,500 BC... Optical microscope techniques were employed to study the teeth, which have shown the various growth stages, ageing and wearing processes, racial and ethnic and geographical affinities, dietary patterns, jaw mechanism, constitutional abnormalities of the jaws, pathological...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Medieval London water mill found
	02/17/2009 8:00:25 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 15 replies · 378+ views BBC | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | unattributed Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered the foundations of an 800-year-old water mill in south-east London. The 12th Century water mill found at Greenwich Wharf is believed to be one of the earliest tide-powered mills to be found in the capital. The 10m (32.8ft) by 12m (39.3ft) base of the mill supports a 5.2m (17ft) wheel. Both are well preserved. Diggers chanced upon it while digging for a housing development. The riverside peat deposits preserved the large piece of intact wheel and an enormous trough made from a single oak beam. Even the carpenters' construction marks are visible...
Epigraphy and Language
Palermo Stone Egypt's first history book
	02/15/2009 6:04:51 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 8 replies · 405+ views weekly | 12 - 18 February 2009 The historical importance of the Palermo Stone has long been overshadowed by the famous Rosetta Stone, but Jill Kamil says it is now being reconsidered as a legitimate historical record of ancient Egypt The so-called Palermo Stone is the largest and best preserved fragment of a rectangular slab of basalt known as the Royal Annals of ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom. Its origin is unknown, but it may have come from a temple or another important building.
Egypt
Britain's 'Super X-ray' Diamond Synchrotron to shed new light on the ancient world
	02/16/2009 6:49:28 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 291+ views Times of London | February 17, 2009 | Mark Henderson Three Egyptian bronze figurines from the British Museum will be among the first treasures to be investigated by the Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing beamline or Jeep... Jen Hiller, a scientist working on the beamline... "It might give us the chance to look at the contents. The Egyptians used to stash things inside their statues. We also get very fragile inner sarcophagi or mummy wrappings." Janet Ambers, of the British Museum, said that the joins between parts of the statues were so dense that it was only by using Jeep's intense X-rays that it would be possible to see...
Not So Ancient Autopsies
Frozen In Time... The Watch Which Shows The Moment Newlywed Titanic Passengers Fell Into Sea
	02/20/2009 10:50:40 PM PST · Posted by Steelfish · 11 replies · 1,112+ views Daily Mirror (U.K.) | February 20, 2009 Frozen in time... the watch which shows the moment newlywed Titanic passengers fell into sea and died By Richard Smith 21/02/2009 THIS [see PIC in URL] is the pocket watch which shows the moment a couple of newlywed Titanic passengers fell into the sea and died together. John Chapman, 37, was on honeymoon with new bride Lizzie, 29, when the liner struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912 and sank 35 minutes after they were pitched into the freezing Atlantic water. Lizzie died after refusing a place on a lifeboat because her beloved husband was not allowed to go with...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.
	02/17/2009 10:55:33 PM PST · Posted by smokingfrog · 45 replies · 1,100+ views latimes | Feb. 17, 2009 | Thomas H. Maugh II Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, an assemblage that has flabbergasted paleontologists. Researchers from the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits have barely begun extracting the fossils from the sandy, tarry matrix of soil, but they expect the find to double the size of the museum's collection from the period, already the largest in the world. Among their finds,...
Uncovered bones are a hot find from the Ice Age
	02/16/2009 6:40:20 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 476+ views Star Tribune | Monday, February 16, 2009 | Richard Meryhew John Ackerman wasn't looking to dig up history as he crept through the cold, wet southern Minnesota cave that spring afternoon in 2008. A longtime caver, the 54-year-old Farmington man simply wanted to dig out some sediment to see where a newly discovered side passage might lead. But the prehistoric stag moose antler he and two friends unearthed that day and a saber-tooth cat skull they found two months later may be the most significant paleontological discoveries in the Upper Midwest in years. Scientists say the fossils are the first of their kind discovered in Minnesota, meaning that both ice-age...
Paleontology
Missing dinosaur link found in Argentina (omnivore, it ate everything inc. plants and meat)
	02/16/2009 3:18:48 PM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 264+ views AFP on Yahoo | 2/16/09 | AFP BUENOS AIRES (AFP) -- Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina -- a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday. "It is an omnivore -- in other words it ate everything (plants and meat) -- which is the missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and giant four-footed herbivores," said Oscar Alcober, also director of the Natural Sciences Museum in San Juan, 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) west of Buenos Aires. "This is a very important piece of the puzzle on the origin of dinosaurs," said Alcober. Alcober and Ricardo Martinez, chief of the museum's paleontology division,...
Early America
Census records, genealogical research show forebears of Obama's mother owned slaves
	02/17/2009 6:40:55 PM PST · Posted by DBCJR · 89 replies · 1,739+ views Baltimore Sun | March 2, 2007 | David Nitkin and Harry Merritt <p>Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Obama Jr's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But, (quoting a Mar.2, 2007 report in the Baltimore Sun), "an intriguing sliver of his [Obama Jr.] family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.</p>
North Jersey celebrates George Washington's birthday
	02/20/2009 1:49:04 PM PST · Posted by Coleus · 14 replies · 128+ views northjersey.com | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | JIM BECKERMAN The general will see you now. And you, and you, and you. As a matter of fact, Gen. George Washington, first commander in chief of the Continental Army and first president of these United States, may end up seeing upwards of 200 people at his birthday ball Sunday at historic New Bridge Landing in River Edge. That's a whole lot of hands that Hawthorne's Rodger Yaden will be clasping in his white cotton gloves. But he's game. "I'll shake as many hands as are offered," says Yaden, who has been doing a full-dress impersonation of the Father of Our Country,...
The Civil War
This Day In Civil War History February 21, 1862 Battle of Val Verde
	02/21/2009 8:04:49 AM PST · Posted by mainepatsfan · 4 replies · 151+ views http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2113 February 21, 1862 Battle of Val Verde Confederate troops under General Henry Hopkins Sibley attack Union troops commanded by Colonel Edward R. S. Canby near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. The first major engagement of the war in the far West, the battle produces heavy casualties but no decisive result. This action was part of the broader movement by the Confederates to capture New Mexico and other parts of the West. This would secure territory that the Rebels thought was rightfully theirs but had been denied them by political compromises made before the Civil War. Furthermore, the cash-strapped Confederacy...
Underwater Archaeology
Sub's Fate is a Cold Case (Civil War Confederate Submarime Mystery)
	02/16/2009 12:19:27 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 20 replies · 718+ views REocky Mount Telegram | Monday, February 16, 2009 Hunley closely guards it secretsIt could be one of the nation's oldest cold case files: What happened to eight Confederate sailors aboard the CSS H.L. Hunley after it became the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship? Their hand-cranked sub rammed a spar with black powder into the blockade ship USS Housatonic off Charleston on a chilly winter night in 1864 then disappeared. The Hunley's fate has been the subject of almost 150 years of conjecture and almost a decade of scientific research since it was raised in 2000. But the submarine has been agonizingly slow surrendering her...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Seances in the White House?-Abraham Lincoln & The Supernatural
	02/17/2009 7:46:14 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 15 replies · 390+ views Prairie Ghosts | 16 Feb 2009 | Troy Taylor One of the most fascinating characters in American history was undoubtedly President Abraham Lincoln. In addition to his many contributions to our history, connections between Lincoln and the supernatural were maintained throughout his life, and some say beyond it. Much has been made of Lincoln's prophetic dreams and of his belief in the spirit world and of course, of the hauntings which are said to be connected to his home in Springfield and his mysterious tomb. Stories have also been told of his belief in the spirit world and for our purposes here, that is what I wish to focus...
Indiana Man Renovating Old House Finds Hidden Room
	02/17/2009 8:04:31 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 47 replies · 2,144+ views AP | 2/12/09 A man who's renovating a 120-year-old house has discovered a hidden room in its basement -- a find he said shows that some old buildings definitely hold secrets. A friend of Carl Thoms was working recently on plumbing in the 1890 home's basement when he noticed that he could see around those pipes into a hidden room covered in tiles. He also spotted a staircase -- a discovery that led Thoms to a bedroom off of the home's kitchen, where he pried up some floorboards and accessed those stairs.
Skull & Bones sued for Geronimo's remains
	02/17/2009 9:18:37 PM PST · Posted by XR7 · 28 replies · 1,208+ views Yale Daily News | 2/17/09 | Nora Caplan-Bricker The heirs of an Apache chieftain whose remains are rumored to be held inside Yale's oldest secret society filed a lawsuit today demanding the return of their ancestor's skull. Twenty descendants of the legendary Apache chieftain Geronimo are suing the federal government, the University and the society Skull & Bones in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to seek the return of his remains as well as punitive damages. One hundred years ago today, Geronimo died of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Okla., but the suit alleges members of the society exhumed his remains in 1918 or 1919 and...
War to End All Wars
Letters From the Front Lines of World War I
	02/14/2009 4:40:13 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 315+ views The Daily Record | 2/14/2009 | Charlotte Burrous Soldier kept in contact regularly with family during his time in warChasing the Germans through the forest in France, the Americans ran into stiff opposition near the end of World War I and were forced to retreat across the Meuse River at Bruelles, France. But the Americans did not give up. A World War I veteran, serving in the intelligence section of the 59th Infantry Fourth Division of the American Expeditionary forces, the late CaÃ’on City resident Clark Nesbit was sent to the front lines, where fighting was fierce, according to a letter he sent back home to his family....
The Holocaust
Rescuer of Anne Frank's diary marks 100th birthday
	02/14/2009 9:25:14 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 27 replies · 575+ views hostednews/ Anne Frank called them the Helpers. They provided food, books and good cheer while she and her family hid for two years from the Nazis in a tiny attic apartment.On Sunday, the last surviving helper, Miep Gies, celebrates her 100th birthday, saying she has won more accolades for helping the Frank family than she deserved -- as if, she says, she tried to save all the Jews of occupied Holland.
Anne Frank guardian reaches 100
	02/15/2009 1:22:55 PM PST · Posted by Borges · 21 replies · 680+ views BBC News | 2/15/09 The last surviving member of the group who helped hide the Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam has turned 100 years old. Miep Gies was planning a quiet celebration of her birthday with friends and relatives. She said she was not deserving of the attention, and others had done far more to protect Jews in the Netherlands. She paid tribute to "unnamed heroes", picking out her husband Jan for his courageous defiance of the Nazis. "He was a resistance man who said nothing but did a lot. During the war he refused to say...
World War Eleven
Historic Jewish Haven In Shanghai Faces Demolition
	02/17/2009 8:51:16 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 5 replies · 245+ views NPR | 11 Feb 2009 | Louisa Lim Part of Shanghai's Jewish history is under threat from bulldozers. In the 1930s, Shanghai was the only place in the world to offer visa-free sanctuary to Jews fleeing Nazism -- 20,000 ended up in Shanghai. In 1943, the Japanese restricted them to a one-square-mile area, which became known as Little Vienna. A pianist and a violinist used to play popular music for customers at the White Horse Inn, or Das Weisse Rossl. The waitresses wore dirndls -- traditional Bavarian outfits -- and the menu featured Wiener schnitzel. But the White Horse wasn't in Austria or Germany, it was in wartime...
The Underwater Archaeologist
	02/15/2009 6:19:35 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 4 replies · 312+ views Forbes | 02.11.09 | Mark Lewis Naval history buffs would find much to interest them in Guam, but unless they are divers, they rarely make the trip. Getting there requires a 6,000-mile flight from San Francisco, and most of the attractions are resting on the bottom of Apra Harbor. But if, like Wayne Abrahamson, you once served on a Navy supply ship berthed at Apra, then you too might have had an underwater epiphany like the one he had there in the early 1980s, when he entered the harbor a mere diver and emerged a future maritime archeologist. Abrahamson grew up in tiny Elroy, Wis., which...
Longer Perspectives
How Democracies Become Tyrannies
	02/16/2009 9:46:22 AM PST · Posted by Tolik · 74 replies · 1,953+ views americanthinker.com | February 16, 2009 | Ed Kaitz Back in 1959 the philosopher Eric Hoffer had this to say about Americans and America: For those who want to be left alone to realize their capacities and talents this is an ideal country. That was then. This is now. Flash forward fifty years to the election of Barack Obama and a hard left leaning Democrat Congress. What Americans want today, apparently, is a government that has no intention of leaving any of us alone. How could Hoffer have been so wrong about America? Why did America change so quickly? Can a free people willingly choose servitude? Is it possible...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Guard Of Honor ("Taking Chance") HBO tonight
	02/21/2009 9:25:23 AM PST · Posted by KeyLargo · 5 replies · 201+ views The Wall Street Journal | February 20, 2009 | Dorothy Rabinowitz It was impossible to imagine, beforehand, all the ways a film like "Taking Chance" (Saturday, 8-9:30 p.m. EST, on HBO) could work its power. There are no conflicts, no warring sides, no mysteries of character -- the usual stuff of drama. The story's outcome is clear from the beginning. Yet it's no less clear that "Taking Chance" is not only high drama, but a kind that is, in the most literal way, breathtaking -- watching parts of it can make breathing an effort, and those...
Presidential Historians Rank the U.S. Presidents from Best to Worst - Video 2/15/09
	02/15/2009 7:20:20 PM PST · Posted by Federalist Patriot · 32 replies · 1,018+ views Freedom's Lighthouse | February 15, 2009 | BrianinMO Here is a brief video report on a survey done by C-Span.org in which they asked Presidential Historians to rank the 42 men who have served as President of the United States (Obama not included). Abraham Lincoln graded out as our greatest President, and James Buchanan as the worst. . . . . . (Watch Video)
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #240 20090221 · Saturday, February 21, 2009 · 36 topics · 2190817 to 2186398 · 709 members ·
	Saturday Feb 21 2009 v 5 n 32 view this issue	Welcome to the 240th issue. This will be the GGG equivalent to the Kiss and Ride, because I want to go soak in the tub (sore) or just crash. To everyone who contributed topics or pinged me to one -- Thanks! Ouch -- I've been saying "January" instead of "February" in the past couple of digest ping messages. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #241 Saturday, February 28, 2009
Greece
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
	02/23/2009 11:12:46 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 45 replies · 495+ views Academic Earth | December 15, 2008 | Donald Kagan A friend online pointed out this website of free courses. May want to watch for dropping leftist hints in some of the lectures, haven't explored much.
Etruscans
'Etruscan Treasures' On View At Dallas's Meadows Museum
	02/25/2009 6:17:39 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 209+ views Antiques and the Arts | February 24th, 2009 | unattributed Dallas, Texas: The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University [5900 Bishop Boulevard, 214-768-2516] presents "From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany," a comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art, on view through May 17. More than 400 objects spanning the Ninth through Second Centuries BC are featured, drawn primarily from the renowned Florence Archaeological Museum, as well as from several smaller Italian museums and private collections. Many of the objects have never before traveled here. A complementary exhibition, "New Light on the Etruscans: Fifteen Years of Excavation at Poggio Colla," presents for the first time in North America the...
Epigraphy and Language
Experts trying to decipher ancient language
	02/28/2009 12:35:50 PM PST · Posted by ApplegateRanch · 32 replies · 896+ views Ap via Excite.com | Feb 28, 2009 | By BARRY HATTON When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The enigmatic pattern of inscribed symbols curled symmetrically around the upper part of the rough-edged, yellowish stone tablet and coiled into the middle in a decorative style typical of an extinct Iberian language called Southwest Script. "We didn't break into applause, but almost," says Amilcar Guerra, a University of Lisbon lecturer overseeing the excavation. "It's an extraordinary thing."
Stone Age phrasebook developed by scientists studying oldest words
	02/26/2009 8:52:45 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 39 replies · 558+ views Telegraph | 25 Feb 2009 | Alastair Jamieson Some of the oldest words in use in have been identified by scientists studying the evolution of language. English and Indo-European words including 'I', 'we', 'two' and 'thou' have changed so little in tends of thousands of years that ancient hunter-gatherers would have been able to understand them. Researchers have also identified several words that could die out within 1,000 years because they are likely to evolve into different forms. They include "throw", "stick", "dirty", "guts" and "squeeze" which could all be out of use by the year 3000. Mark Pagel, of the University of Reading, who is leading the...
'Oldest English Words' Identified
	02/26/2009 4:51:56 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 46 replies · 605+ views BBC | Thursday, 26 February 2009 Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.Reading University researchers claim "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the most ancient, dating back tens of thousands of years. Their computer model analyses the rate of change of words in English and the languages that share a common heritage. The team says it can predict which words are likely to become extinct - citing "squeeze", "guts", "stick" and "bad" as probable first casualties. "We use a computer to fit a range of models that tell us how rapidly these words evolve," said Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist...
Cornish language Extinct, Says UN (Maybe Not, UN)
	02/26/2009 5:08:38 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 16 replies · 287+ views http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/7900972.stm The Cornish language has been branded "extinct" by linguistic experts, sparking protests from speakers. Thirty linguists worked on Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, compiled by United Nations group Unesco. They also said Manx Gaelic was extinct. Cornish is believed to have died out as a first language in 1777. But the Cornish Language Partnership says the number of speakers has risen in the past 20 years and there should be a section for revitalised languages. The Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, published by Unesco, the cultural section of the United Nations, features about 2,500 dialects. There...
Britain
Treasure hunter finds 700-year-old ring in Flintshire field[UK]
	02/26/2009 6:59:32 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 15 replies · 556+ views Evening Leader | 26 Feb 2009 | Evening Leader A TREASURE hunter has unearthed a 14th-century silver ring at the back of a farmer's field in Flintshire. Douglas Fletcher, 44, of Flint, found the decorative, gilt, 97 per cent silver ring in the field in his home town, in January last year. At an inquest in Flint yesterday, the find was declared treasure by John Gittins, deputy coroner for north east Wales. Mr Fletcher, who has been treasure hunting for three years with wife Linda, came across the ring on one of his regular solo hunts. The Mold Historical Search Society member had to dig just six inches into...
Egypt
Blast in crowded Cairo tourist area wounds 14
	02/22/2009 10:15:16 AM PST · Posted by jersey117 · 31 replies · 1,197+ views AP | 2/22/09 | OMAR SINAN CAIRO (AP) -- A bomb exploded Sunday in a crowded Cairo market frequented by tourists, wounding at least 14 people, including foreigners, said police and medical sources.
India
2000-Yr-Old Shiva Shrine Found
	02/22/2009 2:47:22 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 351+ views The Times Of India | 23 Feb 2009 Believed to be among the oldest brick shrines in India, Lucknow University's department of ancient Indian history and archaeology has unearthed a 2,000-year-old Shiva temple as part of its excavation project recently in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district. ""It's actually a complex comprising five temples,'' Prof D P Tewari of the Lucknow University said. ""While four temples belong to the Kushana period (1st-3rd century AD or 2,000 years ago), it appears that the primary temple was constructed during the Sunga period (2nd century BC to 1st century AD or 2,200 years ago).'' The temple site is a mound in Sanchankot in...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical Era Royal Seals Found in Jerusalem Hills
	02/23/2009 3:07:41 PM PST · Posted by Nachum · 17 replies · 607+ views Arutz Sheva | 2/23/09 | Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of royal seal impressions from the times of the First and Second Temples. The finds were made at a site in the southern Jerusalem hills. The seal impressions are believed to date back to the time of King Hezekiah, who ruled over Judea in the late eighth century BCE. Four "LMLK"-type seals were found, as were seals from high-ranking administrators Ahimelech ben Amadyahu and Yehokhil ben Shahar. One seal impression combined the LMLK-type seal and the seal of Yehokhil, an occurrence that archaeologists confirmed is highly unusual. A later inscription, estimated...
A model of biblical proportions: man spends 30 years creating model of Herod's Temple (Photos)
	02/27/2009 3:46:48 PM PST · Posted by mojito · 35 replies · 1,467+ views Telegraph (UK) | 2/26/2009 | Photo Essay Now, here's a model of biblical proportions. A retired farmer has spent more than 30 years building an enormous scale model of Herod's temple - and it is still not finished [Photos at link]
Catastrophism and Astronomy
CU professor finds evidence of extinct camels in Boulder
	02/25/2009 3:28:15 PM PST · Posted by george76 · 13 replies · 250+ views Daily Camera | February 25, 2009 | Laura Snider Cache of tools found in Boulder yard used to butcher ice-age camels, horses. The "chink" of the impact sounded odd, so the crew poked around, and just 18 inches beneath the soil surface they made an extraordinary find: 83 stone tools left in a cache 13,000 years ago by people who used the sharpened rocks to butcher ice-age camels. "Sometimes they're interesting things, and sometimes they're just cool rocks," said Bamforth, who studies the culture and tools of Paleoindians, who lived in the Boulder area at the end of the last ice age. But a good anthropologist leaves no rock...
13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home
	02/26/2009 5:30:42 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 35 replies · 1,033+ views news.yahoo | Thu Feb 26 | ALYSIA PATTERSON Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Clovis people -- ice age hunter-gatherers who remain a puzzle to anthropologists. The home's owner, Patrick Mahaffy, thought they were only a century or two old before contacting researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder. "My jaw just dropped," said CU anthropologist Douglas Bamforth, who is leading a study of...
Climate
Finding the lost city: Does the Amazon jungle conceal a vanished empire?
	02/23/2009 3:22:34 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 47 replies · 790+ views Boston Globe | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | David Grann Many modern scientists have assumed that no complex civilization could have emerged in so hostile an environment, where the soil is agriculturally poor, mosquitoes transport lethal diseases, and predators lurk amid the forest canopy. The Amazon's brutal conditions have fueled one of the most enduring theories of human development: environmental determinism... Yet in recent years archeologists have begun to find evidence of what Fawcett had always claimed: ancient ruins buried deep in the Amazon, in places ranging from the Bolivian flood plains to the Brazilian forests. These ruins include enormous man-made earth mounds, plazas, geometrically aligned causeways, bridges, elaborately engineered...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Sinkhole Holds 12,000-Year-Old Clues to Early Americans
	02/19/2009 3:15:45 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 21 replies · 582+ views nationalgeographic | February 18, 2009 | Willie Drye Divers exploring a southern Florida sinkhole have uncovered clues to what life was like for some of America's first residents.Led by University of Miami professor John Gifford, underwater archaeologists are exploring Little Salt Spring, 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of Sarasota.Earlier this year, students working about 30 feet (9 meters) below the surface found the remains of a gourd that probably was used as a canteen by an ancient hunter about 8,000 or 9,000 years ago, according to Gifford.Archaeologists have been recovering primitive relics from the spring since 1977, when divers found the remains of a large, now extinct tortoise...
Underwater Archaeology
Ancient Shipwreck's Stone Cargo Linked to Apollo Temple
	02/25/2009 5:06:54 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 281+ views National Geographic | February 23, 2009 | Helen Fields For a few days back in July 2007, it was hard for archaeologist Deborah Carlson to get any work done at her site off the Aegean coast of western Turkey. She was leading an underwater excavation of a 2,000-year-old shipwreck, but the Turkish members of her crew had taken time off to vote in national elections. So things were quiet at her camp on an isolated cape called Kizilburun. The shipwrecks' main cargo was 50 tons of marble -- elements of a huge column sent on an ill-fated journey to a temple, Carlson thought. But she didn't know which temple, so she...
Anatolia
Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden?
	02/27/2009 9:47:03 PM PST · Posted by Steelfish · 83 replies · 2,525+ views Daily Mail (U.K.) | February 27, 2009 Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? By TOM COX For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides, he passed the single mulberry tree, which the locals regarded as 'sacred'. The bells on his sheep tinkled in the stillness. Then he spotted something. Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a strange, large, oblong stone. The man looked left and right: there were similar stone rectangles, peeping from the sands. Calling his dog to heel,...
Flood, Here Comes the Flood
Stunning New Evidence of a Higher Ancient Sea Level
	02/25/2009 8:17:44 AM PST · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 126 replies · 1,971+ views ICR | February 25, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S. Stunning New Evidence of a Higher Ancient Sea Level by Brian Thomas, M.S.* According to the record in Genesis, there was a time when the entire surface of the earth was inundated with water. This possibility has been ridiculed because of questions regarding the origin and destination of all the extra water that supposedly would have been required to accomplish this.1 But newly described fossils of marine creatures found in a rock quarry in Bermuda indicate that ancient sea levels used to be 70 feet higher than they are today, which presents a puzzle to standard geological thinking.2 Geologist Paul...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Has the Loch Ness Monster emigrated to Borneo?
	02/22/2009 8:06:19 PM PST · Posted by Beowulf9 · 34 replies · 839+ views Telegraph.co.uk | February 19, 2009 A member of a disaster team monitoring flood regions on the South East Asian island is said to have captured the image while hovering over the Baleh river in a helicopter. The shot, which shows a green, wavy object floating along the meandering river, has sparked rumours that a mythical snake called Nabau has returned to the area. Sceptics have joined the debate claiming that it is nothing more than the work of photo-editing software. Rather like the myths surrounding Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, legend has it that a terrifying 100ft snake called Nabau, with a dragon's head and seven...
Paleontology
Study of fossils shows prehistoric fish had sex
	02/25/2009 1:55:22 PM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 20 replies · 286+ views AP on Yahoo | 2/25/09 | Michael Casey - ap BANGKOK, Thailand -- The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it -- fertilization of eggs inside a female -- took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Thursday. Scientists from Australia and Britain studying 380 million-year-old fossils of the armored placoderm fish, or Incisoscutum richiei, said they were initially confused when they realized that the two fish were carrying embryos. They originally thought the fish laid their eggs before fertilization. "Once we found embryos in this group, we knew they had internal fertilization. But how the hell are...
Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex
	02/25/2009 2:37:11 PM PST · Posted by RDTF · 32 replies · 527+ views Fox | Feb 25, 2009 Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers' wombs for 380 million years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western Australia. The finding is a big deal because it suggests that sex goes way back. The prehistoric fish, called placoderms, are found at the base of the vertebrate evolutionary tree (in a large group we humans also belong to), so it now looks like sexual intercourse, and the mating behaviors that go along with it, were more widespread in these ancient animals than previously thought, said the scientists who made the discovery. -snip-
Prehistoric Fish Pioneered Sex
	02/25/2009 10:06:34 PM PST · Posted by gondramB · 16 replies · 258+ views Reuters via Zimbio | Prehistoric Fish Pioneered Sex LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Sex has been a fact of life for at least 380 million years, longer than previously thought. Sex has been a fact of life for at least 380 million years.Internal fertilisation was widespread among prehistoric fish living on ancient tropical coral reefs in the Devonian period, research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday showed. The discovery sheds new light on the reproductive history of all jawed vertebrates, including humans. "It shifts how we think about how reproduction evolved. You're a jawed vertebrate and I'm a jawed vertebrate, so this is our own history," said...
Arch-e-ology
Prints Are Evidence of Modern Foot in Prehumans
	02/26/2009 12:08:19 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 37 replies · 466+ views nytimes | February 26, 2009 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Footprints uncovered in Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species, almost certainly Homo erectus, had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans.
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Shopping is 'throwback to days of cavewomen'
	02/25/2009 7:21:14 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 33 replies · 410+ views Telegraph UK | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Ben Leach A woman's love of shopping is a throwback to her days in the caves, according to a new study. Shoppers are using instincts they learnt from their Neanderthal ancestors, researchers have found. Dr David Holmes, of Manchester Metropolitan University, said skills that were learnt as cavemen and women were now being used in shops. He said: "Gatherers sifted the useful from things that offered them no sustenance, warmth or comfort with a skill that would eventually lead to comfortable shopping malls and credit cards. "In our evolutionary past, we gathered in caves with fires at the entrance. "We repeat this...
Oo-peg, Shoepeg
Finding genes that make teeth grow all in a row
	02/26/2009 5:29:07 PM PST · Posted by MissCalico · 3 replies · 177+ views AP Associated Press | 02/26/09 | LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Write WASHINGTON -- Ever wonder why sharks get several rows of teeth and people only get one? Some geneticists did, and their discovery could spur work to help adults one day grow new teeth when their own wear out. A single gene appears to be in charge, preventing additional tooth formation in species destined for a limited set. When the scientists bred mice...
Longer Perspectives
the 9th Amendment
	02/24/2009 4:55:40 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 351+ views Constitution of the United States, via Populist America et al | The Framers The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Pages
Free Republic Homeschool Forum 2008-2009
	07/24/2008 10:19:49 AM PDT · Posted by Tired of Taxes · 73 replies · 556+ views July 24, 2008 | Tired of Taxes Free Republic Homeschool Forum 2008-2009A spot for homeschoolers on Free Republic to share information Once again, we are reviving our Free Republic Homeschool Forum where homeschoolers can share tips and talk about curriculum for the upcoming year. Below is a list of educational books, curricula, and other resources recommended by homeschoolers on Free Republic. This list was compiled, updated, and reformatted using the suggestions many of you gave on our last thread. (If any corrections are needed, please advise.) Feel free to add more of your favorite books and products to the comments below. Which curriculum has worked well for...
China
Chariot and horse burial chamber excavated in Henan [Eastern Zhou period]
	02/23/2009 7:59:17 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 207+ views China Central Television | February 19, 2009 | CRI, ed by Liu Fang The excavation site contains 29 tombs, including two imperial wooden chariots and two dead horses. Field work for this excavation began in August 2008 and took archaeologists three months to finish. Many artifacts such as pottery, bronze weapons and jade were found despite the fact that most of the tombs had already been plundered by grave robbers. The horses, laying back to back in an orderly arrangement, were evidently killed before the burial. The two wooden chariots had rotted away, leaving only dusts. According to local archaeologists, this is also the first time a burial chamber with two horses and...
Han tomb with murals found[China]
	02/25/2009 6:45:23 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 8 replies · 329+ views CCTV | 21 Feb 2009 | CCTV A ramp leads to the tomb chambers. Murals decorate both the vault and the brick walls. Cheng Linquan, director, Institute of archeology, said, The upper part is painted with celestial signs and the lower part is painted with life scenes. We see here is a woman carrying a baby, while leading another child. The lines are simple and earthy, reflecting the art style of that era. Xi'an was the Han dynasty capital around two thousand years ago. Of the four Han tombs found in Xi'an so far, this one is exceptional for its richly illustrated murals. A striking characteristic is...
Asia
The Ancient Secret of Tanjung Tokong
	02/19/2009 2:52:35 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 305+ views The Sun Daily | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 | Himanshu Bhatt UNKNOWN to many, there is an ancient cemetery nestled on a small green hill in Tanjung Tokong, the fast developing area on Penang's northern cape, that beguiles historians. With its rows of mouldy headstones, the lush plot of land heaves with a strange sanctified air, even as it remains hidden from the sights of people who live or travel along the area everyday. It is said that the unique cemetery has kept the remains of some of the earliest inhabitants of the island, predating even the British colonialists. What makes it even more remarkable is that the descendants of these...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Hi-tech research shows Neolithic axes have travelled from the Alps
	02/23/2009 7:55:54 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 13 replies · 222+ views Daily Echo | Friday February 20th 2009 | Andrew Napier It's a mystery that could shed light on life in Hampshire 6,000 years ago. Four Stone Age axes, dating from a time when people had stopped hunting woolly mammoths and sabretoothed tigers and turned to farming, are giving clues to the origins of settled human life in the county. They were found at Hill Head and Titchfield, near Fareham, and at Beaulieu, in the New Forest, and Bartonon- Sea. The tools, which are now in Winchester City Council's collection, have been analysed and found to originate in the north Italian Alps from around 4,000BC... The analysis, undertaken at the British...
Rome and Italy
ISIS Examines Origins Of Pompeii-Style Artifacts
	02/25/2009 6:22:49 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 123+ views RedOrbit | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | unattributed Researchers hope to learn more about our heritage by discovering whether the items were imported from southern Italy, or manufactured using similar techniques in Britain. The bronze artifacts, which include a wine-mixing vessel, jugs and ceremonial pan-shaped objects, were discovered in Kent in two high status Roman pit-burials that are among the best examples ever seen in Britain... Archaeological scientists will compare the 1st Century AD artifacts from Kent with those from Pompeii in Italy. The neutron beams at the world-leading ISIS facility allow for detailed crystal structure analysis of intact delicate objects without cutting out a sample of the...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Video: 'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy
	02/20/2009 9:31:37 AM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 16 replies · 593+ views news.bbc | 20 February 2009 The English navy at around the time of the Armada was evolving revolutionary new tactics, according to new research.Tests on cannon recovered from an Elizabethan warship suggest it carried powerful cast iron guns, of uniform size, firing standard ammunition."This marked the beginning of a kind of mechanisation of war," says naval historian Professor Eric Grove of Salford University. "The ship is now a gun platform in a way that it wasn't before."
Heptarchy
Celebrating history of Northumbria
	02/25/2009 7:17:40 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 176+ views The Journal (Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham) | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Neil Mckay A new exhibition revealing the history of the palace of the ancient kings of Northumbria has opened in Durham. The exhibition, entitled Yeavering: rediscovering the landscape of the Northumbrian Kings, is now open at the Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology on the Banks in Durham City. Known only from the 7th Century writings of the Venerable Bede, Ad Gefrin, the palace of the Anglo-Saxon kings in Northumbria, was little more than a legend until archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor began work at the site of Yeavering in North Northumberland in the 1950s. It was in 1949 that aerial photography revealed the...
Early America
Scholars seek to spread word on Sir Walter Raleigh [History of the World vol I]
	02/24/2009 8:25:50 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 227+ views Virginian-Pilot | February 1, 2009 | Catherine Kozak Robert Anthony, curator of the North Carolina collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... was one of the 24 scholars who holed up last month in the Tower of London, the dank quarters where Raleigh spent most of the last 15 years of his life working on Volume I of the "History of the World." When the academics emerged from the Tower after two days, it was agreed that a critical analysis of the writings and works of the man largely responsible for persuading the queen to launch the 1584-87 Roanoke...
The Framers
Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration
	02/27/2009 7:43:05 PM PST · Posted by dware · 25 replies · 593+ views AP | 02/28/2009 | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM RICHMOND, Va. -- A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776. Virginia's high court said that a lower court did not err in its ruling in Adams' favor because Maine didn't prove the document was ever an official town record and...
The Civil War
Student Finds Rare Lincoln Fingerprint
	02/23/2009 11:31:52 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 16 replies · 432+ views ScienceDaily | 22 Feb 2009 | ScienceDaily A student at Miami University has discovered what experts say is a fingerprint belonging to Abraham Lincoln from nearly 150 years ago. Lydia Smith, a first-year psychology major from Granville, Ohio, was transcribing a letter written by Lincoln on Oct. 5, 1863, for a class project when she noticed a smudge that she suspected could be the 16th president's thumbprint. Lincoln historians have confirmed the print. A student at Miami University has discovered what experts say is a fingerprint belonging to Abraham Lincoln from nearly 150 years ago. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a project of the Illinois Historic Preservation...
Slave in Jefferson Davis' home gave Union key secrets
	02/20/2009 1:45:46 PM PST · Posted by Non-Sequitur · 66 replies · 1,023+ views CNN Online | 2/20/09 | Barbara Starr and Bill Mears William Jackson was a slave in the home of Confederate president Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. It turns out he was also a spy for the Union Army, providing key secrets to the North about the Confederacy. William Jackson, a slave, listened closely to Jefferson Davis' conversations and leaked them to the North. Jackson was Davis' house servant and personal coachman. He learned high-level details about Confederate battle plans and movements because Davis saw him as a "piece of furniture" -- not a human, according to Ken Dagler, author of "Black Dispatches," which explores espionage by America's slaves.
Archaeologist finds map of Knox from Civil War
	02/26/2009 11:32:16 AM PST · Posted by SmithL · 17 replies · 533+ views Knoxville News Sentinel | 2/26/9 | Fred Brown Put a fedora hat and worn leather jacket on Joan Markel, place her in the dusty rows of Frank H. McClung Museum's skulls, bones, books and spooky artifacts, and you have the makings of a George Lucas-like blockbuster movie sequel. Call the first one "Tennessee Markel and the Treasure of the Lost Map." Well, maybe that's a little over the top. But you get the notion. Markel is a librarian and an archaeologist with a furious heart for finding the Civil War history of Knoxville. She has uncovered a doozie. Capt. Orlando Poe, architect of Union fortifications in Knoxville during...
Columnist Calls for removal of NC's Confederate Monument
	02/23/2009 10:18:10 AM PST · Posted by Rebeleye · 49 replies · 714+ views Raleigh (NC) News and Observer | 8 February 2008 | J. Peder Zane Yet it remains Raleigh's most prominent piece of public art, a signature symbol with an ugly past representing values and ambitions that no longer reflect who we are.
War to End All Wars
Discovered: Revolver which belonged to British hero killed on the first day of the Somme
	02/19/2009 6:45:05 AM PST · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 24 replies · 702+ views Daily Mail (UK) | 19th February 2009 | Daily Mail Reporter A rare World War One revolver used by an army hero who died at the Somme has been found dumped in a bundle of second-hand clothes which were donated to a charity shop. Staff at the store were shocked to discover the rare and engraved pistol mixed up in a pile of clothes that had been donated to them anonymously. After finding the 1912 Webley Revolver, staff at the shop in Earl Sholton, near Leicester called Leicestershire police to collect the weapon so it could be dismantled.
Discovery for the Ages in New Bedford
	02/23/2009 1:13:13 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 21 replies · 667+ views Standard Times | February 23, 2009 | DON CUDDY Jarrad Freitas was installing an alarm in the home on Durfee Court in New Bedford where he and his family have lived for four years when he felt something under the insulation in the attic. "I rummaged around and found this," he said, displaying a photograph that dates from 1917. It shows a group of noncommissioned officers from the 4th Company, 55th Coast Artillery who were stationed at Fort Rodman before their departure for France with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. A further search turned up more sepia toned photographs, in addition to old military magazines, bundles...
Video: Danton wreck found in deep water
	02/19/2009 3:51:59 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 17 replies · 674+ views news.bbc.co. | Thursday, 19 February 2009 | Jonathan Amos A French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine has been discovered in remarkable condition on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. The Danton, with many of its gun turrets still intact, is sitting upright in over 1,000m of water. It was found by the Fugro geosciences company during a survey for a gas pipeline between Algeria and Italy. The Danton, which sank with 296 sailors still onboard, lies 35km southwest of the island of Sardinia. Naval historians record that the Danton's Captain Delage stood on the bridge with his officers and made no attempt to leave the ship...
World War Eleven
Enigma: the Riddle of German Dependence on One Machine
	02/19/2009 1:18:20 PM PST · Posted by Cargon · 78 replies · 743+ views Poster | 2-19-09 | Cargon Question: Why oh why did the Germans and Nazis place such complete reliance on this one machine(ENIGMA) and its' variants ? The obvious answer is the 3 branches of the German military(Army, Navy, Luftwaffe) wanted to be able to communicate with each other to make collaborative efforts. That created a 'backdoor' for code-breakers. Break one code of one brach and it opens up the communiques of others. I have a novel explanation: the German Industrial Virtues of their technology: Durability, Precision, and Mass Production. The Enigma was all of these, it was rugged(good for the enviroment of the U-boat) it...
Britain at War: Keeper of Secrets at Bletchley Park
	02/19/2009 1:30:05 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 8 replies · 356+ views The Telegraph | Stan Ingram In 1943 I was stationed at RAF Brize Norton, working as an electrician on Hen gist gliders among other aircraft. One morning I received a message at a dispersal point to report immediately to the Station Warrant Officer. Within hours I had cleared the Station and was on the train to participate in one of the best kept secrets of WWII. In 1943 a number of RAF electricians were interviewed for an unspecific task at an unspecific place and I was among those selected. Within a few weeks I joined a group of fellow electricians at RAF Church Green, where...
A lucky drive through WW2 France
	02/22/2009 5:57:49 PM PST · Posted by T-Bird45 · 7 replies · 563+ views The Deseret News | 2/22/09 | Lynn Arave Perhaps some World War II comedies like "McHale's Navy" and "Hogan's Heroes" aren't so farfetched after all. A war story from more than 64 years ago told by a Utah veteran is steeped in almost comical ignorance and just plain luck, and serves as a previously unwritten footnote to the official end-of-the-war history. Art Lifferth, 86, of Bountiful, who served in the 98th Squadron of the 440th Troop Carrier Group in Europe during World War II, recently pulled out his journal to share his experiences during the last months of the war. His story and others like it are outside...
Secret footage unearthed of American troops practising D-Day landings at Devon
	02/23/2009 7:16:50 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 9 replies · 549+ views Daily Mail | 23 Feb 2009 | Daily Mail It was the practise run which would lead to the liberation of Europe from the tyranny of Hitler's Nazi empire. And it took place in Devon. Secret footage of U.S. soldiers training alongside British troops for D-Day in South-West England have been unearthed from a dusty archive and seen for the first time in 65 years. The 38 reels - lasting ten minutes each - show a variety of images including tanks rolling across beaches and soldiers wading through waves. In another sequence, troops are lined up in make-shift landing barges. Wartime leaders Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower are also...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Alamo defenders call for help
	02/24/2009 6:59:23 AM PST · Posted by Former MSM Viewer · 45 replies · 489+ views www.history.com | 2-24-09 | Unknown February 24, 1836 On this day in 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William Travis issues a call for help on behalf of the Texan troops defending the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and fortress under attack by the Mexican army.
Not So Ancient Autopsies
Herhold: The Story of a 99-Year-Old Unsolved Murder
	02/23/2009 12:52:29 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 592+ views San Jose Mercury News | 02/22/2009 | Scott Herhold Ninety-nine years ago this August, a prosperous blacksmith and wheelwright named Alonzo Withers left his home in San Jose for the mountainous country beyond Mount Hamilton carrying a revolver and $215 in gold coins -- nearly $5,000 in today's money. The 48-year-old Withers, a strikingly handsome man, wanted to resolve a grazing dispute with a rural partner over a herd of cows and goats he was raising in the remote Blackbird Valley, 24 miles east of Mount Hamilton. The trip was his last. The coroner returned with Withers' body a few days later. The blacksmith had been killed in a...
Sudden Stop at the End
Norway Searches for Lost Hero (South Pole Conqueror Roald Amundsen)
	02/27/2009 3:58:07 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 189+ views Scotsman | 27 February 2009 | Margaret Neighbour NORWAY plans to resume the search for South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen's plane 81 years after it vanished during an Arctic rescue mission, the Royal Norwegian Navy has announced. Amundsen was on board a French Latham 47 flying boat that disappeared in the Barents Sea on 18 June, 1928. The plane was searching for the airship Italia, which crashed while returning from a North Pole expedition led by Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautical engineer. "We want to find the plane and help solve the mystery," said Commander Frode Loeseth of the Norwegian navy. In 1926, Amundsen and a crew that...
Snap, Snap, Say No More
Photos Found Of Unknown Family
	02/22/2009 6:09:44 PM PST · Posted by Dallas59 · 112 replies · 3,665+ views Flickr | 02/22/2009 | *Kid*Doc*One* I found the negatives for these pictures in a box of darkroom items at a garage sale 15 years ago. I have been haunted by them ever since. I have scoured these pictures looking for clues as to the identity of this family. Now I will ask my Flickr friends to help Seems nobody really knows.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #242 Saturday, March 7, 2009
Let's Have Jerusalem
Rare Magic Inscription on Human Skull
	03/01/2009 5:44:01 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 37 replies · 691+ views Biblical Archaeology Review 35:02 | Mar/Apr 2009 | Dan Levene Only five skulls inscribed with Jewish Aramaic magic incantation texts have come to light, none from professional excavations. Like the others before it, this skull, acquired by collector Shlomo Moussaieff, raises more questions than it answers. Its relationship to the more common genre of incantation bowls and its use in a rite of magic seem clear enough. But until more information emerges, basic questions -- how this skull was used, for whom, by whom and for what reason -- remain unanswered. [Ardon Bar Hama] The Moussaieff incantation skull arrived in two earthenware bowls that form a container. The bowls...
UK: Pensioner spends 30 years building amazing model of Herod's Temple (photos)
	02/27/2009 6:59:37 AM PST · Posted by yankeedame · 33 replies · 987+ views DailyMail.uk | 26th February 2009 | staff writer Pensioner spends 30 years building amazing model of Herod's Temple ... Brick by brick, tiny figure by tiny figure, Alec Garrard has...worked for 30 years on an astonishing recreation of Herod's Temple. ...the Biblical project which now measures 20ft by 12ft and is housed in a seperate building in his garden. His version is so impressive...top archaeologists and experts...have come to view it. Alec Garrard standing next to the mode...[snip] ...the Court of Prayer, enables one to see< the extraordinary attention to detail...This artist's impression of Herod's Temple...in 1886 by James Tissot [snip] ...Mr Garrard, 78, has dedicated 33,000 hours...
Herod's Temple, in all its (tiny) grandeur (graphic intensive)
	03/02/2009 1:53:08 PM PST · Posted by NYer · 13 replies · 557+ views Inside Catholic | March 2, 2009 | Brian Saint-Paul Alec Garrard, a 78 year old British farmer, has spent the past 30 years building a 100:1 scale model of King Herod's Temple... and he isn't finished yet.The meticulously researched, painstakingly accurate model sits in a long house on Garrard's property. He created over 4,000 minature people to populate the model and hand-baked every clay brick. Amazing. See the entire magnificent thing here.
Faith and Philosophy
Sinai Monks in Historic Agreement with British Library
	04/23/2005 12:45:41 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 13 replies · 450+ views The Art Newspaper | Saturday, 23 Avril 2005 | Martin Bai Ownership dispute has been set aside for joint study and digitisation of the world's oldest bibleAn emotional reunion took place in the vaults of the British Library last month, when the archbishop responsible for St Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt was shown the Codex Sinaiticus, the world's oldest Bible. The manuscript, which had almost certainly been at the desert monastery from the sixth century onwards and possibly from two centuries earlier, was taken to Russia in the 19th century in controversial circumstances. It is so precious that only four scholars have been allowed full access to the...
Britain May Have to Give up Oldest Known Bible
	04/20/2005 12:03:16 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 18 replies · 965+ views Times of London | April 12, 2005 | Dalya Alberge THE British Library is facing the possible loss of one of its most important manuscripts, the world's oldest Bible, to a Middle Eastern monastery. The fear is raised weeks after the institution was told by a government advisory panel that a 12th-century manuscript in its collection was looted from a cathedral near Naples during the Second World War and must be returned. The backing last month by the Spoliation Advisory Panel of a 27-year campaign by the city of Benevento to be reunited with a jewel of Italy's heritage will have given renewed hope to St Catherine's, a desert monastery...
The Exodus
Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
	03/04/2008 1:31:40 PM PST · Posted by Anti-Hillary · 98 replies · 497+ views Breitbart | 3-4-08 | Breitbart High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy. "As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an...
Did G-d Speak at Sinai?
	05/28/2006 7:58:46 AM PDT · Posted by Zionist Conspirator · 16 replies · 355+ views aish.com | Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith and Rabbi Moshe Zeldman What support is there for the claim that God spoke to all the Jewish people at the foot of Mount Sinai?Who did God give the Torah to at Mount Sinai? Most people reply, "God gave the Torah to Moses." And what were the Jewish people doing while Moses was receiving the Torah? "Worshipping the Golden Calf." Correct answers -- but NOT according to the Bible. The above answers come from Cecil B. DeMille's classic film, "The Ten Commandments." Amazing the impact one movie can have on the Jewish education of generations of Jews. It's a great film, but DeMille should...
Bob Cornuke - Christian Indiana Jones - Real Mt Sinai
	12/05/2005 1:02:57 PM PST · Posted by bahblahbah · 3 replies · 406+ views First Family Church Click on the Wensday 30th video and skip to a little over half way through. If you see desert or rocky images, you've gone too far. Here are some articles from Gordon Franz that opposes the theory that Jebel El-Lawz is Mt Sinai. http://www.ldolphin.org/franz-ellawz.html http://www.ldolphin.org/franz-sinai.html Here is an open letter Franz sent out(I could only find it on archive.org) and Cornuke's response. http://web.archive.org/web/20021021081348/http://www.ldolphin.org/cornukeletter.html http://www.baseinstitute.org/franz.pdf Touches for a second about the Shroud of Turin and the Davinci Code too.
Sinai
Sinai's turquoise goddess
	03/01/2009 6:56:44 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 330+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 26 February - 4 March 2009 | Nevine El-Aref From pre-dynastic times, early Egyptians made their way to the Sinai Peninsula over land or across the Red Sea in search of minerals. Their chief targets were turquoise and copper, which they mined and extracted in the Sinai mountains. Archaeologists examining evidence left 8,000 years ago have concluded that some of the very earliest known settlers in Sinai were miners. In about 3,500 BC these mineral hunters discovered the great turquoise veins of Serabit Al-Khadim. Some 500 years later the Egyptians had mastered Sinai and set up a large and systematic mining operation at Serabit Al-Khadim, where they carved out...
Sakkara / Saqqara
Wooden sarcophaguses found in Egypt tomb
	03/01/2009 12:55:54 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 312+ views Reuters, via Yahoo! | Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Jonathan Wright, ed by Louise Ireland Japanese archaeologists working in Egypt have found four wooden sarcophaguses and associated grave goods which could date back up to 3,300 years, the Egyptian government said on Thursday. The team from Waseda University in Tokyo discovered the anthropomorphic sarcophaguses in a tomb in the Sakkara necropolis, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Cairo, the Supreme Council for Antiquities said in a statement. Sakkara, the burial ground for the ancient city of Memphis, remains one of the richest sources of Egyptian antiquities. Archaeologists say much remains buried in the sands. The tomb also contained three wooden Canopic jars, in which...
Mummies found hidden in Saqqara
	03/01/2009 6:50:30 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 312+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 19 - 25 February 2009 | Nevine El-Aref Two weeks ago, during a routine excavation work at the mastaba of the Sixth-Dynasty lector-priest Sennedjem, archaeologists from the SCA stumbled upon what is believed to be a cache of mummies of the 26th Dynasty... inside an 11- metre deep burial shaft excavated inside the Sennedjem mastaba. Although the mastaba dates from a much earlier period, the shaft is intrusive... One of the newly-discovered, 2,600- year-old wooden coffins was still sealed... From the finely carved inscription on the coffin, Hawass was able to determine that the mummy belonged to a man named Padi-Heri, the son of Djehuty-Sesh-Nub and the grandson...
Giza
Ancient statue found buried at Egypt Giza pyramids
	03/02/2009 4:50:38 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 484+ views Reuters | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | Cynthia Johnston, ed by Tim Pearce Maintenance workers at Egypt's Giza Pyramids have found an ancient quartzite statue of a seated man buried close to the surface of the desert, the culture ministry said on Tuesday. The statue, about life-size at 149 cm (five feet) tall, was found north of the smallest of Giza's three main pyramids, the tomb of the fourth dynasty Pharaoh Mycerinus, who ruled in the 26th century BC, the ministry said in a statement. The man was wearing a shoulder-length wig and was seated in a simple chair, his right hand clenched on his knee and holding an object. His left hand...
'Royal granddaughter's tomb' found near Cairo
	03/05/2009 6:29:33 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 161+ views Times of London | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | AFP Cairo Archaeologists have unearthed the 3,000-year-old tomb of an Egyptian noblewoman in the necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo. The Japanese team believes that the tomb belongs to Isisnofret, granddaughter of Ramses II, the 19th Dynasty pharaoh who reigned over Egypt from 1304BC to 1237BC. The tomb contained a broken limestone sarcophagus bearing the name of Isisnofret, three mummies and fragments of funerary objects. The archaeologists' team leader, Sakuji Yoshimura, said that the find was made near the tomb of Prince Khaemwaset, a son of Ramses II. "Prince Khaemwaset had a daughter named Isisnofret [and] because of the proximity of...
Thebes / Luxor / KV
Ancient tomb rediscovered under sands of Egypt
	03/01/2009 1:06:35 PM PST · Posted by Jet Jaguar · 13 replies · 404+ views ap via Breitbart | Mar 1, 2009 | n/a Belgian archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old pharaonic official's tomb that had disappeared under sand in southern Egypt after it was first discovered about 130 years ago. Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Sunday that the Belgian team in Luxor uncovered the tomb of Amenhotep, the deputy seal-bearer for King Thutmose III who ruled Egypt in the 18th Dynasty. The tomb was first discovered in 1880 by Swedish Egyptologist Karl Piehl, but it was later buried under sand until the Belgian team found it again this year.
Isisnofret [search for an unknown tomb in the Valley of the Kings]
	03/05/2009 6:40:06 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 131+ views News from the Valley of the Kings ('blog) | Monday, January 26, 2009 | Kate Phizackerley Weeks relates that in 1902 Howard Carter found an ostracon in debris somewhere near the entrance to KV5 which mentions several tombs:From tr(t)yt [Kate: willow tree] to the general in chief 30 cubits; (and to) the tomb of the Greatest of Seers, Meryatum, 25 cubits. From Tr(t)yt (and? to?) tomb of the oils to my Greatest of Seers, 40 cubits. Downstream on the northern path where the old tomb is, 30 cubits to the general-in-chief.And on the other side:(From?) tomb of Isisnofret to the tomb of my Greatest of Seers, Meryatum, 200 cubits. From the end of the Water of...
Eighteenth Dynasty
Iraq: Small statue of Egyptian pharaoh found
	03/06/2009 7:51:23 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 184+ views AllNewsWeb.com | Monday, February 16, 2009 | Michael Cohen Archaeologists have discovered a small ancient statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in Kurdish Northern Iraq. The discovery was made by a team led by noted Iraqi archaeologist Mr Hassan Ahmad in an area known as Dohuq Valley in a place referred to by locals as 'Pharaoh's Palace'. Experts have estimated the age of the statue at around 3500 years old, dating from around 1400 BC. The statue confirms historical data that the ancient Egyptians, during the 'New Kingdom' period, enjoyed warm relations with the Hittite Mitanni Kingdom and often travelled into their territory many hundreds of miles from the...
Amenhotep III statue rises again
	03/02/2009 4:45:32 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 243+ views Times of London | Monday, March 2, 2009 | Norman Hammond One of Egypt's most noted Pharaohs is once more standing tall and looking out across the Nile Valley, by the efforts of an international team and a little help from the British Museum. A colossal statue of Amenhotep III, grandfather of Tutankhamun and ruler of Egypt for more than 36 years, has been raised and given back his head. The red quartzite statue, one of a set that stood around the courtyard of his funerary temple at Kom el-Hettan, near Luxor, fell centuries ago. In the early 19th century the British collector Henry Salt acquired its head, together with a...
Epigraphy...
Fragments of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Found [ Turin Kinglist ]
	03/01/2009 5:56:06 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 325+ views Discovery News | Discovery News | Rossella Lorenzi Found stored between two sheets of glass in the basement of the Museo Egizio in Turin, the fragments belong to a 3,000-year-old unique document, known as the Turin Kinglist. Like many ancient Egyptian documents, the Turin Kinglist is written on the stem of a papyrus plant. Believed to date from the long reign of Ramesses II, the papyrus contains an ancient list of Egyptian kings. Scholars from the British Museum were tipped off to the existence of the additional fragments after reviewing a 1959 analysis of the papyrus by a British archaeologist. In his work, the archaeologist, Alan Gardiner, mentions...
...and Language
A handy little guide to small talk in the Stone Age
	03/04/2009 4:07:29 PM PST · Posted by billorites · 20 replies · 297+ views Times online | February 26, 2009 | Mark Henderson A "time traveller's phrasebook" that could allow basic communication between modern English speakers and Stone Age cavemen is being compiled by scientists studying the evolution of language. Research has identified a handful of modern words that have changed so little in tens of thousands of years that ancient hunter-gatherers would probably have been able to understand them. Anybody who was catapulted back in time to Ice Age Europe would stand a good chance of being intelligible to the locals by using words such as "I", "who" and "thou" and the numbers "two", "three" and "five", the work suggests. More nuanced...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Horses tamed 1,000 years earlier than thought
	03/06/2009 8:03:54 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 8 replies · 183+ views Times Online | 06 Mar 2009 | Mark Henderson Horses were first tamed at least 5,500 years ago, by peoples who not only rode them but milked them as well. Archaeological research has shown that the domestication of horses began at least 1,000 years earlier than thought, among the Botai culture that thrived in what is now Kazakhstan between 3700BC and 3100BC. A British-led team of scientists has discovered three lines of evidence that point to an equestrian tradition among the Botai, who lived in a region where wild horses are known to have been abundant. The findings, published in the journal Science, also show that the animals were...
Earliest domesticated horses dated 5,500 years ago
	03/06/2009 8:59:29 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 22 replies · 275+ views AP via Yahoo! | Thursday, March 5, 2009 | Randolph E. Schmid To Hell with AP.
Japan
DNA sheds light on mysterious Okhotsk people
	03/02/2009 4:31:26 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 322+ views Asahi Shimbun | February 24, 2009 | Nobuyuki Watanabe Scholars using DNA testing hope to unravel age-old mysteries surrounding the Okhotsk people, who suddenly disappeared around the 10th century in northern parts of Hokkaido. And their research could shatter theories on the evolution of the indigenous Ainu people. The Okhotsk culture is believed to have originated on Sakhalin and spread south to northern Hokkaido around the fifth century, when Japan was in the kofun period of tumulus mounds. The culture eventually spread to eastern Hokkaido and reached the Chishima archipelago, before disappearing in the 10th century... Some scholars believe the Okhotsk people were the northern race referred to as...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
A Curious Case of Genetic Resurrection
	03/06/2009 3:24:15 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 2 replies · 84+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 6 March 2009 | Benjamin Lester Curious evolution. Lemurs and other prosimians have a working copy of IRGM, but new data show that junk DNA then rendered it nonfunctional in monkeys. Two mutations and the insertion of a retrovirus restored its function in apes and humans. Credit: Adapted from Cemalettin Bekpen/Stockxpert.com Some genes just won't stay dead. Between 40 million and 50 million years ago, a slice of DNA called IRGM stopped functioning in the ancestors of modern-day monkeys. But 25 million years later, in the lineage that led to humans and great apes, three random events turned the gene back on. In mammals...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
First Draft of the Neandertal Genome Sequence Released
	03/04/2009 7:00:22 PM PST · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 50 replies · 585+ views ICR | March 4, 2009 | Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. First Draft of the Neandertal Genome Sequence Released by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D.* The highly anticipated initial draft assembly of the Neandertal genome was announced at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the United States and at a European press conference.1 This genomic milestone involves approximately 3 billion bases of ancient human (Neandertal) DNA sequenced so far, which is the same amount of DNA contained in one set of human chromosomes or a single genome coverage. This is a major event in the booming scientific field referred to as "paleogenomics," a discipline that...
Catastrophism...
New Zealand & New Caledonia Geographically Connected: Ocean's Journey Towards the Center of Earth
	03/06/2009 12:42:30 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 184+ views ScienceDaily | Thursday, March 5, 2009 | Monash University A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically connected. Using new computer modelling programs Wouter Schellart and the team reconstructed the prehistoric cataclysm that took place when a tectonic plate between Australia and New Zealand was subducted 1100 kilometres into the Earth's interior and at the same time formed a long chain of volcanic islands at the surface. Mr Schellart conducted the research, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in collaboration...
...and Astronomy
Kepler, SETI and Ancient Probes
	03/05/2009 6:03:25 PM PST · Posted by LibWhacker · 26 replies · 393+ views Centauri Dreams | 3/5/09 We've already speculated here that if the Kepler mission finds few Earth-like planets in the course of its investigations, the belief that life is rare will grow. But let's be optimists and speculate on the reverse: What if Kepler pulls in dozens, even hundreds, of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of their respective stars? In that case, the effort to push on to study the atmospheres of such planets would receive a major boost, aiding the drive to launch a terrestrial planet hunter with serious spectroscopic capabilities some time in the next decade.Budget problems? Let's fold Darwin...
Moderate Islam
Endangered Site: Visoki Decani Monastery, Kosovo
	03/06/2009 10:25:16 AM PST · Posted by Doctor13 · 10 replies · 361+ views The Smithsonian Magazine | March 2009 | Kathleen Burke The fate of the 14th-century abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval churches in the Balkans, has been darkened by ethnic violence. Time stands still within the Visoki Decani Monastery, nestled among chestnut groves at the foot of the Prokletije Mountains in western Kosovo. Declared a World Heritage Site in 2004, Unesco cited the 14th-century abbey as an irreplaceable treasure, a place where "traditions of Romanesque architecture meet artistic patterns of the Byzantine world." The Serbian Orthodox monastery represents, according to art historian Bratislav Pantelic, author of a book on Decani's architecture, "the largest and best-preserved medieval church in the entire...
Central Asia / Religion of Peace
What Will Happen to Ancient Art in the Taliban's Swat?
	03/02/2009 4:38:57 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 16 replies · 262+ views Archaeology | Friday, February 20, 2009 | Beyond Stone & Bone Archive For centuries, the Swat River valley was a Buddhist haven. According to tradition, Buddha himself journeyed to Swat during his last reincarnation, and preached to the local villagers. And by the 6th-century A.D, Buddhist pilgrims from as far away as China flocked to the Swat valley, a beautiful lush land of orchards and rushing mountain streams. One early Chinese account describes as many as 1400 Buddhist monasteries perched along the valley walls in the 7th century. Devout Buddhist artists left an incredibly rich legacy in Swat. Since the valley lay along a major route of the Silk Road -- which...
Greece
Scientists Reconstruct An Ancient Greek Musical Instrument, The Epigonion
	03/06/2009 9:11:28 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 23 replies · 494+ views ScienceDaily | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | EGEE, AlphaGalileo The ASTRA project, standing for Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application, has revived an instrument that hasn't been played or heard in centuries. Using the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE infrastructure for computing power, a team based in Salerno and Catania, Italy, has reconstructed the "epigonion," a harp-like, stringed instrument used in ancient Greece. With data from numerous sources, including pictures on urns, fragments from excavations and written descriptions, the team has been able to model what the instrument would have looked and sounded like. Their model has become sophisticated enough to be used by musicians of the Conservatories of Music of...
Statues offer clues to Greek isle's past (Keros Island, Cycladine)
	01/01/2007 4:32:18 AM PST · Posted by TigerLikesRooster · 11 replies · 825+ views AP | 12/31/06 | NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea, Keros is a tiny rocky dump inhabited by a single goatherd. But the barren islet was of major importance to the mysterious Cycladic people, a sophisticated pre-Greek civilization with no written language that flourished 4,500 years ago and produced strikingly modern-looking artwork. A few miles from the resorts of Mykonos and Santorini, Keros is a repository of art from the seafaring culture whose flat-faced marble statues inspired the work...
Brits cave: Elgin Marbles on way back to Greece
	08/03/2003 2:42:34 PM PDT · Posted by yankeedame · 24 replies · 224+ views News.Com.AU | August 4, 2003 | Jon Ungoed-Thomas Marbles back for Greek GamesBy Jon Ungoed-Thomas August 4, 2003THE British Museum has held undisclosed talks with the Greek Government over a proposal to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens for next year's Olympic Games. The museum has confirmed it had talked with the Greeks about lending the marbles, despite repeatedly stating they would remain in Britain. In Athens, work has started on a $74 million Acropolis Museum, which has been designed specifically to exhibit the marbles. Under the proposed deal, the exhibition space might formally be designated an annexe of the British Museum. British Museum director Neil MacGregor confirmed...
Rome and Italy
What the Romans learnt from Greek mathematics
	03/02/2009 4:35:10 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 268+ views AlphaGalileo | Saturday, February 28, 2009 | University of Gothenburg Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilisation. The three Roman authors Varro, Cicero and Vitruvius were all, in their own way, influenced by Greek knowledge and transferred it to Roman literature. In his dissertation, Erik Bohlin, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, studied the traces of Greek influence on these authors with regard to the mathematical branch of geometry... According to some sources, the Roman author Varro is supposed to have written a book on the subject of geometry... Cicero's rhetorical and...
Malta
Underground passageways discovered in Valletta
	03/01/2009 6:37:10 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 356+ views Times of Malta | Friday, 27th February 2009 | Kurt Sansone Preliminary archaeological studies in St George's Square, Valletta have uncovered an undocumented network of underground passageways, which could possibly connect to the Palace... The passageways were discovered on Tuesday when government employees from the Works Division under architect Claude Borg dug through a wall in a small room on Archbishop Street. After clearing debris and other material, they discovered that the passageway leads to under the Main Guard portico, parallel to the Palace... Further excavation works revealed that the central passageway had a number of corridors that led to other directions. One such corridor, at right angles with the central...
The Phoenicians
Statue Find 'A Revelation' (Phoenician 'Baal Addir')
	08/07/2002 9:39:50 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 64 replies · 589+ views Australian News.com | 8-7-2002 Statue find 'a revelation' From correspondents in Rome August 07, 2002 A HUMAN-size statue of Baal Addir, the Phoenician god of the dead, has been found in an ancient tomb in southern Sardinia. The statue was found in a burial site used by the ancient people of Carthage, who held the southern Mediterranean island after the Punic Wars against the Romans in the third century BC. Italy's national research centre today said the discovery of the red-and-black statue pointed to the large presence of Carthaginians on the island from 510 to 238 BC. They had apparently used the statue to...
Aram / Syria
Cuneiform tablet discovered in Homs dating back to 1700 B.C.
	03/01/2009 6:39:21 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 344+ views Syrian Arab news agency | February 19, 2009 | H.Zain/ Idelbi The Syrian National Expedition working at al-Mishrefa (Qatana) site in Homs governorate discovered Wednesday a cuneiform tablet dating back to1700 B.C. of the Bronze era. The tablet tells the story of Mrs. Khimar Ashkhara who buys a wall to separate between her house and the house of her neighbors Mr. Akhla Ashmieh and to fix the real-estate of her property in return for 25 grams of silver
Cyprus
2008 Excavation Results -- Pyrgos Mavroraki [Advanced Technology In Bronze Age Cyprus]
	03/01/2009 6:27:39 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 146+ views Maria Rosaria Belgiorno Project | January 2009 | Antonio de Strobel (?) A second building was discovered and brought to light in 2008 South to the industrial area. This is a unique construction, consisting of two rooms arranged in a triangular area. As the nearby building it was probably destroyed by the earthquake and abandoned in 1800 BC circa... The room is rectangular, tapered toward southeast to follow the triangular shape of the complex. It is divided into two areas: the north is covered, the south unroofed. The North keeps intact the lying of the collapse of structures at the time of the earthquake. The collapse, which was not removed, it gives...
Persian Gulf
Ancient seal dating back to Bronze Age discovered in Abu Dhabi
	03/02/2009 4:48:34 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 176+ views Gulfnews | Sunday, March 01, 2009 | Staff A team working for the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has found an ancient stone cylinder seal dating back to the beginning of the local Bronze Age, around 5,000 years ago. It is the first of its type found in Arabia and was found in the deserts of the Al Gharbia area (Western Region) of Abu Dhabi. The discovery was made by a team from GRM International that is currently undertaking the Abu Dhabi Emirate soil survey, which is managed by EAD. The seal was lying in an area where samples were being collected. The seal is in the...
Australia & the Pacific
Archaeologists Find Prehistoric Buildings [Bujang Valley Malaysia]
	03/05/2009 7:57:51 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 189+ views Malaysian National News Agency | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | unattributed A group of archaeologists has unearthed two prehistoric buildings from the third century AD in the Bujang Valley recently... found a building and a smelting factory, following an excavation project in Sungai Batu, Semeling... "This latest finding at Sungai Batu I were of bricks believed to be from a house or office, and another at Sungai Batu II which functioned as a smelting factory," he said... Dr Mokhtar said coal samples found at the foundry were sent for Radiocarbon Dating tests at the Beta Analytic Inc, Florida, US, which confirmed that it dated back to the third or fourth century...
Europe
Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians [Cologne's Historical Archive]
	03/04/2009 8:09:43 AM PST · Posted by Mike Fieschko · 28 replies · 533+ views Der Spiegel | 03/04/2009 | Andrew Curry The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on Tuesday buried more than a millenium's worth of documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and historians hope something can be salvaged, but the future of the city's past is grim. Disaster struck in Cologne on Tuesday, as the building housing the city's Historical Archive suddenly collapsed. According to city officials, two people are officially missing and believed dead. ... Cologne's archives are one of the only collections in Germany to have survived World War II completely intact. Because of Cologne's long history, much of its heritage was stored locally rather than...
Stone Age Art
World's Oldest Art Uncovered in Germany
	12/20/2003 10:06:34 AM PST · Posted by Lessismore · 14 replies · 213+ views Deutsche Welle | 19.12.2003 Archeologists working on a dig in the southern German province of Swabia have unearthed what they claim to be the oldest statue in the history of art. The three little figurines carved from mammoth bone were discovered in a cave in Southern Germany, and are so intricate in their design that archeologists believe they could change our understanding of the imaginative power of early man's mind. The artifacts date back between 30,000 and 33,000 years, to a time when some of modern humans' earliest relatives populated the European continent. The incredible discovery was made during a dig headed by U.S....
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Sir John Hawkwood
	03/06/2009 9:06:28 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 164+ views Paladins of Chivalry | 2006 | Martin Cazey John Hawkwood came from obscurity in Essex to fight with distinction in the early part of the Hundred Years War when he was knighted. With the coming of peace in 1360 he went with other "unemployed" soldiers to Italy, where he became a famous mercenary captain. He was appointed Captain General of the armies of Florence and in old age was planning to return to England when he died... Hawkwood learned his trade as the English battled the French for twenty years. It was during this time that the tactics of the English with their men at arms supported ably...
Not So Ancient Autopsies
Skeleton of village 'witch' to be re-buried [ a good bit o' spin in the headline ]
	03/06/2009 9:34:23 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 35 replies · 390+ views Kent Online | March 2009 | Keyan Milanian The medieval remains of a teenage girl who may have been suspected of witchcraft are to be given a Christian burial and funeral. The skeleton, found by Faversham-based archaeologist Dr Paul Wilkinson, is thought to be from the 14th or 15th century. It was found in unconsecrated ground under a holly tree, next to Hoo St Werburgh parish church, near Rochester. The remains would normally be left in archives for future archaeological reference, but the vicar of Hoo, the Rev Andy Harding, has asked for the body to be returned so she can be re-buried in the church grounds. Dr...
But for Wales?
St George Found In Welsh Church
	06/27/2004 4:03:04 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 20 replies · 216+ views BBC | 6-27-2004 St George found in Welsh church The life-size painting was discovered during renovation work A medieval wall painting has been uncovered during renovation work at a south Wales church. A life-size image of St George standing on a slain a dragon was uncovered at St Cadoc's church in Llangattock Lingoed, near Abergavenny. Discovered during recent renovations at the centuries old church, experts have described the painting as a "special find". The painting is thought to have been covered up during the Reformation. Ruth McNeilage who is a specialist in conserving wall paintings worked on the image. "It is quite high...
The Vikings
Inuit and viking contact in ancient times
	03/02/2009 3:04:03 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 4 replies · 277+ views The Arctic Sounder | 26 Feb 2009 | RONALD BROWER Editor's note: This is the second of two parts. There are many stories of "Qalunaat," white-skinned strangers who were encountered in Inuit occupied lands in times of old. Much of the traditional life had changed by the 1840s when Hinrich Johannes Rink went to Greenland to study geology and later became the governor of Greenland. Johannes was soon drawn to a new interest in the Inuit language and folklore, which he viewed as national treasures. He published old stories collected in 1866 "Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo" in which he included some early contact stories with the Qalunaat. In...
Prehistory and Origins
Oldest Known Fossilized Brain Found in Kansas (cue the Helen Thomas jokes!
	03/03/2009 11:29:16 AM PST · Posted by Red in Blue PA · 59 replies · 885+ views Fox | 3/3/2009 | Fox WASHINGTON -- A 300-million-year-old fossilized brain has been discovered by researchers studying a type of fish that once lived in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma. "Fossilized brains are unusual, and this is by far the oldest known example," said John Maisey, curator in the division of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. "Soft tissue has fossilized in the past, but it is usually muscle and organs like kidneys," Maisey said in a statement.
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Spanish Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Man in Paraguay [ 5,000 years ]
	03/02/2009 4:28:26 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 148+ views Latin American Herald Tribune | February 2009 | unattributed Spanish experts have found in Paraguay the oldest evidence of the presence of man dating back more than 5,000 years. The find was made during the course of an investigation being conducted into the heritage of the Pai Tavytera Indians. The remnants of ancient man's presence - which were not specified - were found in a hill known as Jasuka Venda by a team from the Altamira Museum, which is responsible for looking after the same-named cave containing the famous Upper Paleolithic cave paintings. The museum will present details of the Paraguay find at the International Congress on Cave Art...
Lost Pre-Inca Treasure Found In Spanish Lock-Up
	12/06/2007 8:05:58 AM PST · Posted by blam · 13 replies · 120+ views The Guardian (UK) | 12-602997 | Dale Fuchs Lost pre-Inca treasure found in Spanish lock-up Dale Fuchs in Madrid Thursday December 6, 2007 The Guardian(UK) Police have uncovered a hidden storage room in Spain holding 1,800 pieces of pre-Colombian art, including ceremonial masks, ceramics, jewellery and a suit of 37 plates of gold - artefacts from a collection last seen in public 10 years ago. Many of the metallic pieces, including four copper masks, four gold rattles and four gold nose pendants, derived from the ancient tomb of the Lord of Sipan, one of the most important vestiges of pre-Inca Moche culture in Peru. The treasure, "of incalculable...
Early America
Congress looking to acquire, preserve Revolutionary War battlefields
	03/03/2009 9:44:42 PM PST · Posted by Coleus · 15 replies · 225+ views star ledger Legislation to protect Revolutionary War battlefield sites, including some in New Jersey, is moving through Congress. Sponsored by New Jersey Democrat Rush Holt, the bill would establish a $50 million grant program to help acquire and preserve battlefields, barracks and other sites related to the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. New Jersey has nearly 300 sites with direct ties to events of the American Revolution. The bill would allow the National Park Service to collaborate with state and local governments and nonprofit organizations to preserve and protect sites threatened by housing sprawl and commercial development. It now awaits...
The Framers
the 8th Amendment
	03/02/2009 4:15:10 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 13 replies · 282+ views Constitution of the United States, via Populist America et al | The Framers Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
The Civil War
In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide
	01/23/2007 6:46:55 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 21 replies · 837+ views NY Times | January 23, 2007 | NOAM COHEN At the northwest corner of Central Park, construction is under way on Frederick Douglass Circle, a $15.5 million project honoring the escaped slave who became a world-renowned orator and abolitionist. Beneath an eight-foot-tall sculpture of Douglass, the plans call for a huge quilt in granite, an array of squares, a symbol in each, supposedly part of a secret code sewn into family quilts and used along the Underground Railroad to aid slaves. Two plaques would explain this. The only problem: According to many prominent historians, the secret code -- the subject of a popular book that has been featured on...
Longer Perspectives
Desert Secret Cracked: Ancient Hunting Techniques Revealed
	03/02/2009 5:32:41 AM PST · Posted by SJackson · 40 replies · 2,148+ views Arutz Sheva | 3-3-09 | Baruch Gordon Desert Secret Cracked: Ancient Hunting Techniques Revealed Adar 6, 5769, 02 March 09 11:12by Baruch Gordon (IsraelNN.com) How did humans living in the third millennium BCE manage to find sufficient quantities of meat in the arid desert regions? A new study of the "desert kites" that are spread across the expanses of Israel's Negev and Arava desert region, carried out by researchers from the University of Haifa, unearths the answer to this riddle.Already in the early 20th century, British pilots flying over the Middle Eastern deserts identified strange forms spreading over hundreds of meters, sometimes even over a few kilometers....
Climate
Reversing Ecology Reveals Ancient Environments
	03/02/2009 4:56:58 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 144+ views ScienceDaily | February 25, 2009 | Stanford University Elhanan Borenstein is lead author of a paper that offers clues to the complex evolutionary interplay between organisms such as parasites and hosts. From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and how to look. Stanford researchers with collaborators at Tel-Aviv University have now laid the foundation for opening such a window to the past using a technique called "reverse ecology." The technique uses genomic data to...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Science rewrites Northern legend [ The Hunt for the Mad Trapper ]
	03/06/2009 9:52:52 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 284+ views Northern News Services | Monday, March 2, 2009 | Andrew Livingstone A soon to be released documentary will prove Canadians hoping they inherited some rebel blood from the infamous Mad Trapper dead wrong. Airing in May, the Hunt for the Mad Trapper will prove the outlaw, otherwise known as Albert Johnson, is either American or Scandinavian, not Canadian as originally thought... "The oral histories and written history all fits," she said. "It tells us that people who spoke with him, when he did speak, said he had a Scandinavian accent. Others said he was Johnny Johnson from the Midwest U.S. It was interesting the science matched what information was there." Albert...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #242 20090307 · Saturday, March 7, 2009 · 53 topics · 2201042 to 2196836 · 713 members ·
	Saturday Mar 07 2009 v 5 n 34 view this issue	Welcome to the 242nd issue. The combined GGG membership has hit 713, which is great. To everyone who contributed topics or pinged me to one -- Thanks! We're getting closer to the end of year five of the Digest version, and frankly, I've begun to see why my housekeeping has been neglected. Of course, it's not just GGG, which was begun and sustained by many others before I got to FR. Most of my online time is spent on non-GGG topics, reading and making myself a nuisance with pings. Anyway, the point about housekeeping stills stands. Thanks a lot, JimRob. ;') I said I was going to take it easier on me and on you this week, so instead of 51 topics, this week there are 53. Ow. These topics aren't chosen willy-nilly though, and I'm sure you'll be as pleased as I am with the selections. There's a massive selection of topics pertaining to ancient Egypt and Sinai. Here's something unusual, even for one of my lists :') which doesn't qualify for GGG, but since I have your attention, perhaps you can help out with this. City of Mesa Seeks Owners of Unclaimed World War II Medals As is my wont from time to time, I'm posting and pinging this issue on Friday rather than the cover date, which is always Saturday. I'm going to try to avoid spending time online this weekend. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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The Conspiracy of Catiline
Source: http://www.richmond.edu/~wstevens/grvaltexts/sallust.html
Published: back in the day Author: Sallust
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #243 Saturday, March 14, 2009
President John Tyler's Grandson?!?
Tech degree, not ancestry, key to success (Grandson of Pres. JOHN TYLER)
	03/12/2009 4:02:58 AM PDT · Posted by Keltik · 18 replies · 497+ views Virginia Tech | Winter 2007 | Christopher J. Leahy As a boy, Harrison Tyler (chemical engineering '51) never gave much thought to his grandfather, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. "I grew up during World War II," he told Subaru Drive Magazine in 2002, "and surviving the war and the shortages was what was on everybody's mind. Being related to a president was never a thought." Such a view may seem astonishing, but President Tyler died in 1862, 66 years before his grandson was born. In fact, Harrison Tyler's father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853 and died in 1935, so there were very few...
Tippecanoe and Who? [Grandson on Pres John Tyler Lives]
	03/12/2009 6:58:30 AM PDT · Posted by PurpleMan · 19 replies · 647+ views The (NRO) Corner | 11 Mar 09 | Mark Krikorian "... not one, but two, of President John Tyler's grandsons are still alive."
President John Tyler's grandson working in obscurity at Virginia Tech
	03/12/2009 8:38:10 AM PDT · Posted by Edit35 · 6 replies · 387+ views Virginia Tech Magazine | Feb, 2007 | Christopher Leahy As a boy, Harrison Tyler (chemical engineering '51) never gave much thought to his grandfather, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. "I grew up during World War II," he told Subaru Drive Magazine in 2002, "and surviving the war and the shortages was what was on everybody's mind. Being related to a president was never a thought."
Rome and Italy
Rome's Tremendous Tunnel [100 kilometers long, century to dig it]
	03/13/2009 8:35:55 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 31 replies · 714+ views Speigel | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | Matthias Schulz Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities in the ancient province of Syria. The monumental effort took more than a century, says the German researcher who discovered it... The tunnel begins in Syria and runs 64 kiometers above ground before going below the surface in three lengths of one, 11 and 94 kilometers... The tunnel was discovered by Mathias Döring, a hydromechanics professor in Darmstadt, Germany... Qanat Firaun, "Canal of the Pharaohs," is what the locals call the weathered old pipeline. There are even rumors that gold is hidden in...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Burgundy Wine Has Long History In France: Remains Of Gallo-Roman Vineyard Discovered...
	03/13/2009 8:45:11 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 18 replies · 240+ views ScienceDaily | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | CNRS via AlphaGalileo Gevrey-Chambertin, 12 km from Dijon, is famous throughout the world for its Burgundy wines. It is now possible to conclude that winegrowing in this region goes back to the Gallo-Roman era, as testified by the findings of excavations by the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP), at the spot known as "Au dessus de Bergis"... the archeological dig revealed 316 rectangular pits aligned in 26 rows, interpreted as being the remains of a vineyard from the first century AD... revealed a series of hollow remains (pits, pot-holes and ditches) from different periods. For the Gallo-Roman era, an area of...
Epigraphy and Language
Scholar: The Essenes, Dead Sea Scroll 'authors,' never existed
	03/13/2009 9:53:56 PM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 15 replies · 389+ views Haaretz.com | Mar 13, 2009 Scholarship suggesting the existence of the Essenes, a religious Jewish group that lived in the Judea before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, is wrong, according to Prof. Rachel Elior, whose study on the subject will be released soon. Elior blasts the predominant opinion of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars that the Essenes had written the scrolls in Qumran, claiming instead that they were written by ousted Temple priests in Jerusalem. "Sixty years of research have been wasted trying to find the Essenes in the scrolls. But they didn't exist, they were invented by [Jewish-Roman historian] Josephus. It's...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
New Madrid fault system may be shutting down
	03/14/2009 3:57:46 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 10 replies · 311+ views Purdue University | March 13, 2009 | Elizabeth K. Gardner The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows. A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed the fault motion for eight years using global positioning system measurements and found that it is much less than expected given the 500- to 1,000-year repeat cycle for major earthquakes on that fault. The last large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone were magnitude 7-7.5 events in 1811 and 1812. Estimating an accurate earthquake threat for the area, which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee,...
Are You Cereous? Life Came from an Asteroid?
	03/06/2009 4:12:22 PM PST · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 81 replies · 781+ views CEH | March 5, 2009 Ceres is an icy asteroid way out in space that has a lot of ice. The DAWN spacecraft is heading there. When it arrives in 2015, maybe it will find out if a substantial part of the water is in liquid state under an ice crust. Say the word water, and some think... life. Space.com reported that an astrobiologist has a new idea: life started on Ceres and then moved to Earth. Believe it or not, it’s a radical new theory Joot Houtkooper told the International Society...
Ancient fossil forest found by accident (potential major out of order problem for Darwinists)
	07/30/2007 2:01:00 PM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 375 replies · 5,752+ views news@nature.com (via BioEd online) | April 23, 2007 | Katharine Sanderson Geologists have found the remains of a huge underground rainforest hidden in a coal mine in Illinois. The fossil forest, buried by an earthquake 300 million years ago, contains giant versions of several plant types alive today. ... Also surprising is the presence of remains from mangrove-like plants. "It was always assumed that mangrove plants had evolved fairly recently," says Falcon-Lang.
Empty Quarter
George Hedges dies at 57; celebrity lawyer was also a noted archaeologist
	03/13/2009 7:45:45 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 234+ views Los Angeles Times | Friday, March 13, 2009 | Thomas H. Maugh II Hedges retained an interest in archaeology throughout his law career. A 1984 luncheon conversation with filmmaker Nicholas Clapp brought the fabled city of Ubar to his attention. An important center of the frankincense trade 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Ubar had been unsuccessfully sought by a variety of archaeologists and explorers, and many thought it was mythical. Hedges and Clapp decided it was real and enlisted JPL scientists Blom and Charles Elachi, who persuaded NASA astronauts to photograph the region of southern Oman where they believed the city would be found. Those photos revealed faint traces of ancient...
Amateur Contributions
Armchair explorers: Surprising finds in satellite photography
	03/10/2009 10:43:24 AM PDT · Posted by Squidpup · 15 replies · 1,241+ views Christian Science Monitor | March 10, 2009 | CSMonitor Outside of Tucson, Ariz., the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is used to store old planes. The airplane 'boneyard' houses thousands of decomissioned military aircraft. The base is still in use, and you can find many active aircraft slightly to the northwest.
Let's Have Jerusalem
Byzantine era church discovered near Bet Shemesh
	03/11/2009 6:02:01 PM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 24 replies · 454+ views JERUSALEM POST | 3-10-09 A church dating from the Byzantine period (sixth-seventh centuries CE) and paved with beautiful mosaics and a dedicatory inscription has been exposed at an Antiquities Authority excavation at Horvat a-Diri, 5 km. east of Bet Shemesh, in the wake of plans to enlarge the nearby Moshav Ness Harim. This mosaic found near Moshav Ness Harim includes a dedicatory inscription in acient Greek. Photo: Daniel Ein Mor / Antiquities Authority "The site was surrounded by a small forest of oak trees and is covered with farming terraces that were cultivated by the residents of Ness Harim. Prior to the excavation, we...
Farmers Find Ancient Monastery
	03/13/2009 7:22:45 AM PDT · Posted by GonzoII · 6 replies · 271+ views CNN via AOL | March 11, 2009 | Deb Krajnak After a group of Israeli farmers sought last year to expand their property in the hills near Jerusalem, they discovered an archeological gem beneath the dirt. A team led by Daniel Ein Mor barely had to scratch the surface before finding the remains of a Byzantine monastery, he told CNN on Wednesday. "The excavation at Nes-Harim supplements our knowledge about the nature of the Christian-Byzantine settlement in the rural areas between the main cities in this part of the country during the Byzantine period," including Jerusalem, Mor said. The church is believed to have been built in the late fifth...
Faith and Philosophy
Authors Warn That Many Textbooks Distort Religion
	03/07/2009 8:13:13 AM PST · Posted by metmom · 33 replies · 774+ views FOXNews.com | Saturday, March 07, 2009 | By Lauren Green Jesus was a Palestinian? That's what one public school textbook says. Although Jesus lived in a region known in his time as Palestine, the use of the term "Palestinian," with its modern connotations, is among the hundreds of textbook flaws cited in a recent five-year study of educational anti-Semitism detailed in the book "The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion." Authors Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research found some 500 flaws and distortions concerning religion in 28 of the most widely used social studies and history textbooks in the United States.
Longer Perspectives
History's oldest hatred
	03/11/2009 1:32:44 AM PDT · Posted by MartinaMisc · 21 replies · 671+ views Boston Globe | 3/11/09 | Jeff Jacoby ANTI-SEMITISM is an ancient derangement, the oldest of hatreds, so it is strange that it lacks a more meaningful name. The misnomer "anti-Semitism" - a term coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr, who wanted a scientific-sounding euphemism for Judenhass, or Jew-hatred - is particularly inane, since hostility to Jews has never had anything to do with Semites or being Semitic. Perhaps there is no good name for a virus as mutable as anti-Semitism. "The Jews have been objects of hatred in pagan, religious, and secular societies," write Joseph Telushkin and Dennis Prager in "Why the Jews?," their...
Moderate Islam
Dark passages Does the harsh language in the Koran explain Islamic violence?
	03/08/2009 5:00:22 AM PDT · Posted by ninonitti · 20 replies · 419+ views Boston Globe | March 8,2009 | By Philip Jenkins WE HAVE A good idea what was passing through the minds of the Sept. 11 hijackers as they made their way to the airports. Their Al Qaeda handlers had instructed them to meditate on al-Tawba and Anfal, two lengthy suras from the Koran, the holy scripture of Islam. The passages make for harrowing reading. God promises to "cast terror into the hearts of those who are bent on denying the truth; strike, then, their necks!" (Koran 8.12). God instructs his Muslim followers to kill unbelievers, to capture them, to ambush them (Koran 9.5). Everything contributes to advancing the holy goal:...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Iran urbanized 4,500 years ago
	03/09/2009 9:39:03 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 251+ views Iran Press TV | Sunday, March 8, 2009 | NAT/JG Archeological studies have indicated that traces of ancient population in Iran's northern province of Mazandaran goes back 5,600 years. "Archeological excavations and precise date recognition at the historical site of Gohar Tappeh revealed urbanism had entered the region about 4,500 years ago," says Ali Mahforouzi, head of the excavation team of Gohar Tappeh of Mazandaran. The discovery has also led archeologists to believe that powerful political and economic systems in the region were established around 5,600 years ago. "If we believe in the theory that urban dwelling occurred after agrarian, we could claim settlement in Mazandaran province dates back...
Egypt
In the house of millions of years
	03/09/2009 9:15:30 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 197+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | Issue No. 937, 5 - 11 March 2009 | Nevine El-Aref Nice article about some recent finds, including at least two which have appeared on FR of late. Clockwise from top: King Amenhotep III's sphinx statue; canopic jars from Sheikh Abdel-Gourna; a relief on Isisnofret's sarcophagus; the lower part of King Amenhotep's statue (5 - 11 March 2009, issue #937)
Sail Like An Egyptian
	03/10/2009 1:36:39 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 16 replies · 419+ views Popular Science | 09 Mar 2009 | Jeremy Hsu It turns out the oldest seafaring ships ever found actually work An archaeologist who examined remnants of the oldest-known seafaring ships has now put ancient Egyptian technology to the test. She teamed up with a naval architect, modern shipwrights and an on-site Egyptian archaeologist to build a replica 3,800-year-old ship for a Red Sea trial run this past December. The voyage was meant to retrace an ancient voyage that the female pharaoh Hatsheput sponsored to a place which ancient Egyptians called God's land, or Punt. Ship planks and oar blades discovered in 2006 at the caves of Wadi Gawasis provided...
Underwater Archaeology
China to Salvage Porcelain-Laden Ming Dynasty Ship
	03/12/2009 12:07:59 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 10 replies · 287+ views The Hindu | 3/11/09 Archaeologists will salvage a porcelain-laden ship that is believed to have sunk off the coast of southern China some 400 years ago, state media said on Wednesday, hoping to find out more about foreign trade during a period when the country tried to close itself off to the world. The ship is thought to be a merchant vessel and could contain some 10,000 pieces of porcelain, most made during the reign of Emperor Wanli (1572-1620) in the latter part of the Ming Dynasty, the official Xinhua News Agency said. About 200 pieces have already been recovered and some date back...
Prehistory and Origins
'Peking Man' older than thought
	03/12/2009 9:16:42 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 22 replies · 431+ views BBC | 11 Mar 2009 | Paul Rincon Iconic ancient human fossils from China are 200,000 years older than had previously been thought, a study shows. The new dating analysis suggests the "Peking Man" fossils, unearthed in the caves of Zhoukoudian are some 750,000 years old. The discovery should help define a more accurate timeline for early humans arriving in North-East Asia. A US-Chinese team of researchers has published its findings in the prestigious journal Nature. The cave system of Zhoukoudian, near Beijing, is one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in the world. Between 1921 and 1966, archaeologists working at the site unearthed tens of thousands of...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
White Masters in the deserts of China?
	03/11/2009 5:30:22 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 11 replies · 544+ views Philip Coppens | 11 Mar 2009 | Philip Coppens The discovery of Caucasoid mummies in China shows that East and West might have been meeting since the Bronze Age. Do they validate some of the ancient legends? Cherchen Man mummy Christopher Columbus is said to have been the first who broke down the barrier that was the Atlantic Ocean, that body of water that separated two continents. But no such barriers -- whether natural or ideological -- existed between Europe and the East -- one could travel over land. Nevertheless, the discovery of Caucasoid mummies has provided not only indisputable evidence that Europeans travelled very far East, it has...
Central Asia
Bizarre, elongated skulls found in Siberia
	03/12/2009 11:00:58 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 63 replies · 1,492+ views Digitial Journal | 28 Feb 2009 | Adriana Stuijt This one-minute video shows skulls dating from the 4th century AD, excavated near Omsk, Siberia by Russian archeologists. They show a prominent deformation which they said was created by skull clamping or binding of newborns crania. Archeologists deem these too strange to be publicly displayed in the city museum. From the front the skulls look like that of a normal human, but when turned to the side it's clear that this is not the case. The skulls are grossly elongated. Scholars at the Omsk Museum of History and Culture have no conclusive answer as to the origins of these skulls,...
Why Did You Say Burma?
Myanmar finds more evidences on Bronze Age, Iron Age
	03/09/2009 7:14:24 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 153+ views ChinaView / Xinhua | Monday, March 9, 2009 | Deng Shasha (editor) Recent excavations have found more evidences on both Bronze Age and Iron Age in Thazi township, central Mandalay division, Myanmar, proving that the country passed through both Bronze Age and Iron Age in the ancient time. The Archaeology, Natural Museum and Libraries Department under the Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the CNRC of France, excavated the areas around Ywagongyi village in the township for 20 days from Jan. 10 to 30, finding out the site where 44 bodies were buried along with two small bundles of bronze sheets, two iron objects, 14 stone beads of different colors, a fine...
India
Lord Rama's ancient idol found
	03/09/2009 9:02:24 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 313+ views NewKerala | Saturday, March 7, 2009 | United News of India An idol of Lord Rama -- about 1000-years-old -- was found at Sidha Ashram in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh. The idol of 11th century AD was found by intellects and archaeologists taking part in nine-day Ram Vangaman Path Sarvekshan Yatra started from Satna district's Chitrkut area from March 1, official sources said today. "This is the most ancient idol of Lord Rama found ever," claimed Archaeology Experts R K Chaturvedi and R A Sharma, member of Prof Awadesh Parasad Pande headed Sarvekshan Yatra team. The idol of the deity was holding a bow and arrow indicating his readiness to...
Lancelot Link
Zoo chimp 'planned' stone attacks
	03/10/2009 12:46:01 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 48 replies · 1,257+ views news.bbc | 9 March 2009 A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers. Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles. Further, the chimp learned to recognise how and when parts of his concrete enclosure could be pulled apart to fashion further projectiles. The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology. There has been scant evidence in previous research that animals can plan for future events.
D.B. Cooper
Scientists Helping FBI Solve D.B. Cooper Case
	03/08/2009 1:57:36 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 52 replies · 1,326+ views MSNBC | Tues., March. 3, 2009 | CHRIS INGALLS A team of scientists is in town, helping the Seattle FBI do something it hasn't been able to do on its own. They're trying to find new evidence that will lead to one of the Northwest's most notorious fugitives. Tom Kaye's casting with cash, which tells you this is ordinary fisherman on the banks of the Columbia River. Weird science - that's probably the better way to describe the fishing expedition that's going on this week near Vancouver. Kaye is hoping his experiment can help reel in one of the biggest catches of all: the Northwest skyjacker known only as...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Elf Detection 101-How to find the hidden folk of Iceland
	03/11/2009 6:24:04 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 56 replies · 608+ views Slate | 11 Mar 2009 | Juliet Lapidos An article on Iceland's de facto bankruptcy in the April issue of Vanity Fair notes that a "large number of Icelanders" believe in elves or "hidden people." This widespread folklore occasionally disrupts business in the sparsely populated North Atlantic country. Before the aluminum company Alcoa could erect a smelting factory, "it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it." How do you find an elf? With psychic powers. According to a poll conducted in 2007, 54 percent of Icelanders don't deny the existence of elves...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Attenborough: Yeti evidence 'convincing'
	03/12/2009 10:17:51 AM PDT · Posted by dragonblustar · 25 replies · 612+ views Belfast Telegraph | Saturday, 28 February 2009 Sir David Attenborough believes there is "very convincing" evidence that Yetis exist. Speaking on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the revered wildlife expert said: "I'm baffled by the Abominable Snowman - very convincing footprints have been found at 19,000ft. No-one does that for a joke. I think it's unanswered."
New Lemurs Found in Madagascar
	08/11/2005 2:53:55 AM PDT · Posted by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island · 65 replies · 1,200+ views BBC | 9 August 2005 | Staff Two new species of lemur have been found in Madagascar, bringing the number of known species to 49. German and Malagasy scientists made the discovery by analysing the genetic make-up of wild lemurs. Lemurs are considered the most endangered of all primates and live only on Madagascar which has evolved in isolation for 165 million years. As a result, the island is now home to mammals, birds and plants that exist nowhere else on our planet. The first new species is a giant mouse lemur known as Mirza zaza. It has a long bushy tail and is about the size...
The Vikings
Those nice Vikings did a lot for us - and it wasn't all pillaging[UK]
	03/13/2009 10:24:11 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 41 replies · 677+ views Times Online | 13 Mar 2008 | Ben Hoyle From the moment that they ransacked a remote priory at Lindisfarne in 793, the Vikings have had a bad press. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for the year says that the raiders made "lamentable havoc in the church of God in Holy-island, by rapine and slaughter", fixing the popular image of the Vikings for the next 1,200 years. New evidence suggests that many of the Norse invaders were in fact model immigrants. Historians will try to redress the balance today at a conference at the University of Cambridge and show that the Vikings who settled in Britain and Ireland were technologically...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Historian reveals men in Rembrandt's Night Watch
	03/13/2009 10:46:44 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 514+ views Reuters | 13 Mar 2009 | Aaron Gray-Block New life has been breathed into Dutch master painter Rembrandt's 'Night Watch', the famous dark-toned 17th-century painting of city guards gathering to march For more than three centuries, the identity of the men depicted in the massive portrait hanging in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum have been unknown, but a Dutch historian now claims to have identified them all. The painting, some 363 cm by 437 cm, is considered the Rijksmuseum's most famous painting. The Rijksmuseum said on Wednesday retired historian Bas Dudok van Heel has identified the men after years of research. "It is great for both the museum and the public...
How Long Will It Laster
Old soles: 800-year-old shoe soles yield clues about preservation of leather
	03/09/2009 9:06:01 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 306+ views Phys.org | March 4th, 2009 | Provided by ACS Ancient garbage can be like gold to archaeologists. During excavation of an 800-year-old trash dump in Lyon, France, scientists discovered the archaeological equivalent of golden shoe soles: A trove of leather soles of shoes, which is helping scientists understand how leather stays preserved in wet, oxygen-free environments. That knowledge could aid restoration of other leather artifacts, according to a report on analysis of the old soles scheduled for the current issue of ACS' semi-monthly journal Analytical Chemistry. In the article, Michel Bardet and colleagues point out that leather consists of collagen, a tough protein that can remain intact hundreds of...
Not So Ancient Autopsies
Mediaeval 'vampire' skull found near Venice
	03/08/2009 5:13:24 PM PDT · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 20 replies · 925+ views Daily Telegraph (UK) | 8 Mar 2009 | Nick Squires The remains of a woman's skull with a rock thrust into its jaws is evidence of the mediaeval fear of vampires, Italian anthropologists have claimed. Scientists found the skull, with its mouth agape and a large slab of rock forced into its mouth, while excavating a mass grave dating from the Middle Ages on an island near Venice. Female "vampires" were often blamed for spreading the plague epidemics through Europe, said Matteo Borrini of Florence University. Wedging a rock or brick into the mouth of a suspected vampire was a way of preventing the person from feeding on the bodies...
Italy dig unearths female 'vampire' in Venice
	03/13/2009 3:36:30 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 13 replies · 530+ views AP | 3/13/09 | Ariel David An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws -- evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire. The unusual burial is thought to be the result of an ancient vampire-slaying ritual. It suggests the legend of the mythical bloodsucking creatures was tied to medieval ignorance of how diseases spread and what happens to bodies after death, experts said. The well-preserved skeleton was found in 2006 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo island, north of the lagoon city, amid other corpses buried in a mass grave during an...
Shakespeare First Theater, and Portrait?
Shakespeare painting is 'only surviving portrait from his lifetime'
	03/08/2009 7:04:07 PM PDT · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 36 replies · 1,046+ views dailymail.co.uk | March 9, 2009 | Matt Sandy A 400 year old painting thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare from his lifetime is to be unveiled. The picture, painted in 1610, six years before the playwright's death, has been owned by the Cobbe family since the early 18th century. But for three centuries they were unsure if the subject was Britain's greatest writer. At one point it was thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh.
Only Shakespeare Portrait Painted During His Lifetime Is Revealed in London (video)
	03/10/2009 9:53:40 AM PDT · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 16 replies · 1,094+ views NBC News | March 10, 2009 The New York Times: "His face is open and alive, with a rosy, rather sweet expression, perhaps suggestive of modesty."
Diplomat 'was real Shakespeare' (latest theory on "true" Shakespeare in new book)
	10/05/2005 11:38:17 AM PDT · Posted by Stoat · 33 replies · 1,339+ views The BBC | October 4, 2005 Diplomat 'was real Shakespeare' † The authorship of Shakespeare's plays has often been questioned An Elizabethan diplomat named Sir Henry Neville was the real author of William Shakespeare's plays, a new book claims.The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare says the courtier, nicknamed "Falstaff" by close friends, used Shakespeare as a "front man". The book by Brenda James and Professor William Rubinstein contains a foreword by Mark Rylance, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Many experts remain sceptical at claims to have found the "real" Shakespeare. Jonathan Bate, professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of...
British Isles
Ancient fish trap discovery in the Teifi Estuary[UK]
	03/10/2009 1:44:18 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 12 replies · 427+ views Tivy-Side Advertiser | 10 Mar 2009 | Tivy-Side Advertiser A huge ancient fish trap more than 250 metres long and probably at least 1,000 years old has just been discovered in the Teifi estuary. The underwater structure was first identified on aerial photographs and a recent exploratory dive at the site near Poppit has revealed the structure is protruding about 30 cm above the sand, allowing for a fuller investigation by divers. A collaborative project is currently underway between Pembrokeshire College and the Dyfed Archaeological Trust, and members of the public are being asked to help with information for research into the conundrum of the "Poppit fish-trap'. Dr Ziggy...
The Head that Wears the Crown
Was this Britain's first black queen?
	03/12/2009 10:00:05 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 53 replies · 1,013+ views Guardian | 12 Mar 2009 | Stuart Jeffries Queen Charlotte was the wife of George III and, like him, of German descent. But did she also have African ancestry? Queen Charlotte died nearly two centuries ago but is still celebrated in her namesake American city. When you drive from the airport in North Carolina, you can't miss the monumental bronze sculpture of the woman said to be Britain's first black queen, dramatically bent backwards as if blown by a jet engine. Downtown, there is another prominent sculpture of Queen Charlotte, in which she's walking with two dogs as if out for a stroll in 21st-century America. Street after...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Rare Maya panels found in Guatemala
	03/12/2009 10:57:48 AM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 412+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 3/11/09 | Sarah Grainger GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -- Archeologists have uncovered carved stucco panels depicting cosmic monsters, gods and serpents in Guatemala's northern jungle that are the oldest known depictions of a famous Mayan creation myth. The newly discovered panels, both 26 feet long and stacked on top of each other, were created around 300 BC and show scenes from the core Mayan mythology, the Popol Vuh. It took investigators three months to uncover the carvings while excavating El Mirador, the biggest ancient Mayan city in the world, the site's head researcher, Richard Hansen, said on Wednesday. The Maya built soaring temples and elaborate...
Columbus
Christopher Columbus was actually a Scotsman called Pedro Scotto, historian says
	03/09/2009 8:02:54 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 32 replies · 679+ views Telegraph | 08 Mar 2009 | Telegraph The 15th century explorer who opened up the American continents to Europe was actually called Pedro Scotto - not Christopher Columbus - and his family originally hailed from Scotland, a Spanish historian has claimed. Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga has disputed conventionally-accepted narratives on the explorer's origins - that he was the son of a weaver in Genoa, Italy, or that he was from Catalonia or Galicia in Spain. In fact, he was from Genoa, but he was "the son of shopkeepers not weavers and he was baptised Pedro not Christopher," Mr Villalonga told Spain's ABC newspaper on Sunday. And his...
Surprising colonists of La Isabela
	03/09/2009 8:01:59 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 4 replies · 205+ views Times Online | 04 Mar 2009 | Norman Hammond, Burials excavated at the earliest European settlement in the New World, established by Christopher Columbus in 1493, have surprised archaeologists by including women and children. It had been thought from documentary evidence that the settlers had all been men. La Isabela, on the north coast of Hispaniola, in what is now the Dominican Republic, was founded by Columbus, pictured below, late in 1493 on his second voyage. The camp at La Navidad, now in Haiti, established on his first voyage in 1492, had been abandoned by the time he got back, and he moved eastwards along the coast of Hispaniola...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Mysterious shipwreck unearthed at bottom Gulf
	03/09/2009 5:57:30 AM PDT · Posted by BBell · 45 replies · 2,248+ views Times Picayune | March 08, 2009 | John Pope Nearly 200 years ago, a ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, about 35 miles off Louisiana's coast. It stayed, undiscovered, on the seabed, about 4,000 feet below the surface, until 2002, when a crew happened upon the wreckage while checking out a pipeline. An expedition led by Texas A&M University found no skeletal remains and nothing to indicate the vessel's name, where it came from or how it sank. But underwater sleuths discovered plenty of artifacts, including a telescope, pottery, French bottles, swords, English mustard jars, hourglasses, a cast-iron stove and a Scottish cannon, Louisiana State Museum spokesman Arthur...
New light shed on shipwreck mystery
	03/10/2009 6:46:47 AM PDT · Posted by BBell · 8 replies · 694+ views Times Picayune | March 10, 2009 | John Pope Details match those of 1813 privateer The mystery surrounding the wreckage of a ship at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico may have moved a few steps closer Monday toward being solved. Details that investigators have been able to piece together about the vessel match those of a ship that capsized in the Gulf in November 1813 after being chased by a British ship that was part of a naval blockade during the War of 1812, said Jack Irion, a marine archaeologist with the federal Minerals Management Service. In that incident, all eight crewmen were rescued by the British...
Early America
Celebrating 276 Years of Bowling Green
	03/12/2009 11:22:15 AM PDT · Posted by Pharmboy · 11 replies · 193+ views NY Times | March 12, 2009 | Sewell Chan Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Bowling Green, a parade ground and cattle market in the Dutch era, was laid out in 1733 during the period of British colonial rule. Bowling Green, the uneven gated ellipse at the foot of Broadway, evokes history more than most spots in New York City. Legend has it -- though historians give the legend almost no credence -- that Indian tribal leaders used the land for meetings and to negotiate the sale of Manhattan to Peter Minuit in 1626. What is known is that the site was a parade ground and cattle market in...
The Mystery of the Forgotten U.S. Flag Revealed
	03/10/2009 7:36:13 AM PDT · Posted by FreeManWhoCan · 16 replies · 841+ views Civil-liberties.com A little known odd fact about the history of Old Glory, is her sister, the forgotten Civil Flag of the United States. The existence of the first U.S. civil flag came about in 1767 when members of the "Sons of Liberty" rebelled against the Stamp Act by turning the flag of the British East India Company on its side and then flew it on the "Liberty Tree...
Revolution leaps from the pages
	03/09/2009 11:19:03 AM PDT · Posted by Pharmboy · 8 replies · 261+ views The State (SC) | Mar. 09, 2009 | JOHN MONK The Magazine's First EditionDavid Reuwer, Publisher History buff publishes magazine about the war for independence A dark blue Liberty battle flag of the American Revolution flies outside David Reuwer's Camden office, while pictures of early patriots -- Ben Franklin, John Adams, Henry Laurens -- line a wall inside. "The Revolution and its era, it is a narrative of who we are," said Reuwer, 50, whose S.C. license tag reads "Rev War." "It's our identity, and it created something that is still playing out." Reuwer's passion led him recently to publish American Revolution, a magazine he hopes to print five times...
Revolutionary War site still a mystery[GA]
	03/09/2009 10:38:04 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 8 replies · 471+ views WTOC | 02 Mar 2009 | Dal Cannady History and a mystery all rolled into one. Musket fire filled the woods near Brier Creek, but nothing like 230 years ago. Crowds gathered to remember the 3,000 Revolutionary War soldiers who fought there on this date. Among them, Tom Gurley's great, great, great grandfather. "He submitted paperwork for a Revolutionary War pension and in his deposition he described marching here, the battle and escaping across the Savannah River." said Gurley. 150 men weren't as lucky. They were killed by the British in one of the war's lesser known battles. Local historians know the names of many who died here,...
The Framers
the 7th Amendment
	03/08/2009 5:22:57 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 18 replies · 429+ views Constitution of the United States, via Populist America et al | The Framers In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
The Civil War
Hidden Message Found in Lincoln Pocket Watch (Abraham Lincoln)
	03/10/2009 3:15:49 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 128 replies · 3,522+ views Washington Post | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Neely Tucker For nearly 150 years, Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch has been rumored to carry a secret message, supposedly written by an Irish immigrant and watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon. Dillon, working in a D.C. watch repair shop in 1861, told family members that he -- by incredible happenstance -- had been repairing Lincoln's watch when news came that Fort Sumter had been attacked in South Carolina. It was the opening salvo of what became the Civil War. Dillon told his children (and, half a century later, a reporter for the New York Times) that he opened the watch's inner workings and scrawled...
Collector: Lincoln photo uncovered in Grant album
	03/10/2009 7:15:57 AM PDT · Posted by jimtorr · 19 replies · 1,212+ views AP via Yahoo News | 10 March 2009 | Brett Zongker, AP It's an AP story, so I'll paraphrase the first paragraph. U.S. Grant's great-great-grandson found what appears to be a picture of Lincoln standing in front of the White House in 1865. It could be the last picture of him taken before he was killed.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #244 Saturday, March 21, 2009
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Clues To A Secret Of Life Found In Meteorite Dust....
	03/17/2009 1:29:48 PM PDT · Posted by TaraP · 32 replies · 462+ views Science Daily | March 17th, 2009 NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites have discovered new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its most basic, molecular level. We found more support for the idea that biological molecules, like amino acids, created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts help explain why life is LEFT-HANDED," said Dr. Daniel Glavin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "By that I mean why all known life uses only left-handed versions of amino acids to build proteins." Glavin is lead author of a paper on this research appearing in the Proceedings of...
Prehistory and Origins
3 new bacteria species found (not on earth, either...)
	03/16/2009 4:32:36 PM PDT · Posted by aMorePerfectUnion · 29 replies · 618+ views The Hindu Newspaper (India) | March 17, 2009 | T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: Three new species of bacteria, which are not found on the earth and are highly resistant to ultraviolet radiation, have been discovered in the upper stratosphere (more than 15 km above the earth) by Indian scientists, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). While one of the species has been named Janibacter hoylei after astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, the second has been christened Bacillus isronensis recognising the ISRO's contribution in balloon experiments which led to the discovery. The third has been named Bacillus aryabhata after the Indian astronomer. An ISRO statement said: "The precautionary measures and controls operating in...
Paleontology
Unknown lifeform discovered in ancient fossil
	03/15/2009 8:40:14 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 27 replies · 704+ views Telegraph | 14 Mar 2009 Traces of an unknown lifeform have been found in rocks in a secret location in Devon in south west England. The animal, which made large burrows through sediment at the bottom of desert wadis in Torbay some 260 million years ago,could be unknown to science. Scientists from around the world will be informed of the mystery when the findings are officially published later this year. It comes as nine other sites in the area have been officially recognised as of national and international importance geologically. Geologist Kevin Page from Plymouth University, said they had been unable to find any known...
Dinosaurs
Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs
	03/19/2009 7:45:22 AM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 17 replies · 345+ views news.bbc | 18 March 2009 | Victoria Gill discovery in China has prompted researchers to question the scaly image of dinosaurs. Previously, experts thought the first feathered dinosaurs appeared about 150 million years ago, but the find suggests feathers evolved much earlier. This has raised the question of whether many more of the creatures may have been covered with similar bristles, or "dino-fuzz".
Miniature carnivore dinosaurs roamed North America (the size of a small chicken)
	03/17/2009 2:16:07 PM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 30 replies · 439+ views AFP on Yahoo | 3/17/09 | Jean-Louis Santini WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Meat-eating dinosaurs the size of a small chicken roamed areas of North America 75 million years ago, according to research by Canadian paleontologists. The mini-dinosaur, similar in appearance to the Velociraptor, is named Hesperonychus elizabethae and is the smallest carnivorous dinosaur known to have lived in North America. "Hesperonychus is currently the smallest dinosaur known from North America," said University of Calgary paleontologist Nick Longrich. "Its discovery just emphasizes how little we actually know, and it raises the possibility that there are even smaller ones out there." Longrich, together with University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie, are...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Photo In The News: Bizarre Giant-Headed Predator Found
	03/19/2009 6:05:08 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 48 replies · 1,544+ views National Geographic | March 19, 2009 | Christine Dell'Amore A giant head and gill-covered body make this newly reconstructed creature (pictured) "one of most bizarre fossil creatures that there is," one scientist said. The 505-million-year-old critter was first identified in 1912 from fossil pieces. Over the years, bits of it showed up in museum collections mislabeled as jellyfish, sea cucumbers, and various other creatures. But expeditions in the 1990s began to uncover more complete specimens, which suggested the animal, dubbed Hurdia Victoria, was much more unique than previously thought. Now, a well-preserved specimen found in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and...
"Predator X" Arctic sea monster's giant bite
	03/17/2009 10:51:43 AM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 34 replies · 1,076+ views news.bbc | 17 March 2009 A giant fossil sea monster found in the Arctic had a bite that would have been able to crush a 4x4 car, according to its discoverers. Researchers say the marine reptile, which measured an impressive 15m (50ft) long, had a bite force of about 45 tonnes (33,000lbs) per square inch. The creature's partial skull was dug up last summer in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by a Norwegian-led team. Dubbed "Predator X", it patrolled the oceans some 147 million years ago. Its jaws may have been more powerful than those of a Tyrannosaurus rex, though estimates of the dinosaur's bite...
Anthropology
Armed' chimps go wild for honey
	03/19/2009 8:27:42 PM PDT · Posted by jmcenanly · 12 replies · 271+ views BBC | 11:06 GMT, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 | Rebecca Morelle Cameras have revealed how "armed" chimpanzees raid beehives to gorge on sweet honey. Scientists in the Republic of Congo found that the wild primates crafted large clubs from branches to pound the nests until they broke open. The team said some chimps would also use a "toolkit" of different wooden implements in a bid to access the honey and satisfy their sweet tooth. The study is published in the International Journal of Primatology. Crickette Sanz, from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said: "The nutritional returns don't seem to be that great.
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited
	03/18/2009 8:36:57 AM PDT · Posted by Pharmboy · 67 replies · 1,098+ views UCLA/Eureka Alerts | 17-Mar-2009 | Mark Wheeler UCLA researchers find that genes determine brain's processing speed They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience Feb. 18, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain's axons, or wiring that sends signals throughout the brain. The faster the signaling, the faster the brain processes information. And since the integrity of the brain's wiring is influenced by...
Longer Perspectives
There's more to life than sequence
	03/15/2009 11:25:04 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 13 replies · 252+ views Nature News via Water in Biology | March 13, 2009 | Philip Ball I have been meaning for some time to write about an interesting paper in JACS by Naoki Sugimoto's group in Kobe. It found its way into an article that I wrote this week for Nature's online news. So I've decided to simply post this article here -- it's not all strictly relevant to water in biology, but hopefully is interesting stuff anyway. This is the version before editing, which has more detail. Shape might be one of the key factors in the function of mysterious, 'non-coding' DNA. Everyone knows what DNA looks like. Its double helix decorates countless articles on...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Three Sisters Mystery Masonic Link?
	03/18/2009 11:47:22 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 22 replies · 648+ views Largs and Millport News | 18 Mar 2009 | Largs and Millport This week, Know Your Largs looks into the secrets behind the "Three Sisters" in a script which could come right out of "The Da Vinci Code" while arguments raged about the discovery of mysterious human remains on the same hill. Mr Charles Kidd, a former manager of the Clydesdale Bank in Largs dating back to the 1950s, investigated the historic Three Sisters landmark which were built by Sir Thomas Brisbane exactly 200 years ago in 1809. Another archaeologist, Dr Phene, speculates on the original significance of the Green Hill on which the pillars are built and on the significance of...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Hunt for Alexander's tomb: Greece, Egypt, Persia, India, Broome
	03/20/2009 9:54:17 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 9 replies · 366+ views ABC News | 18 Mar 2009 | ABC News Alexander the Great, whose tomb has been missing for nearly 2,000 years, could be buried in Broome in Western Australia, a Perth man says. Macedonian-born Tim Tutungis told ABC Kimberley that he first heard the 'Broomer' from his old mate, Lou Batalis. "We just got onto the subject of Alexander The Great's tomb, and he said, 'They'll never ever find it, no matter where they look, because Alexander the Great is buried in Broome, in Western Australia'," Mr Tutungis said. "Approximately 50 years ago, some guy went into a cave in Broome and he saw some inscriptions in there and...
The Party of Treason
The Conyers bill is back [restricting access to research we paid for]
	02/14/2009 6:44:09 AM PST · Posted by antiRepublicrat · 17 replies · 499+ views Open Access News | February 04, 2009 | Staff Yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act.† This year it's H.R. 801 (last year it was H.R. 6845), and co-sponsored by Steve Cohen (D-TN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Darrell Issa (R-CA), and Robert Wexler (D-FL).† The language has not changed.† The Fair Copyright Act is to fair copyright what the Patriot Act was to patriotism.† It would repeal the OA policy at the NIH and prevent similar OA policies at any federal agency.† The bill has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, where Conyers is Chairman, and where he has consolidated his power...
Rep. Conyers wants science to be secret -- or you will pay
	03/06/2009 5:47:17 PM PST · Posted by LibWhacker · 38 replies · 846+ views DiscoverMagazine | 3/6/09 There are some things science needs to survive, and to thrive: eager, hardworking scientists; a grasp of reality and a desire to understand it; and an open and clear atmosphere to communicate and discuss results. That last bit there seems to be having a problem. Communication is key to science; without it you are some nerd tinkering in your basement. With it, the world can learn about your work and build on it. Recently, government-sponsored agencies like NIH have moved toward open access of scientific findings. That is, the results are published where anyone can see them, and in fact...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Scientists in bone battle
	03/19/2009 8:05:35 AM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 11 replies · 280+ views nature | 18 March 2009 | Rex Dalton Officials at the University of California are moving to give two of the oldest-known skeletons in North America to a local Native American tribe, against the recommendation of university scientists who say the bones should be retained for study. Under federal law, bones are returned to a tribe that can prove 'cultural affiliation' through artefacts or other analyses. At nearly 10,000 years old, the skeletons in question -- unearthed in 1976 at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) -- are so ancient that they are not culturally linked to any tribe...But last month, University of California president Mark Yudof...
British Isles
Alabama fights to reinstate plaque celebrating Welsh "Columbus'
	03/18/2009 11:26:54 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 12 replies · 252+ views Wales Online | 18 Mar 2009 | Darren Devine A GROUP of Welsh Americans are hoping their campaign to reinstate a plaque celebrating the arrival of Prince Madoc ap Owain in the US will overcome its final political hurdle. The plaque was blown out of its position on the Alabama shoreline at military museum Fort Morgan by Hurricane Frederic in 1979. The Alabama Welsh Association (AWA) wants the plaque restored to its original position and last year won the backing of the state's House of Representatives. Though the motion then stalled in Alabama's senate the AWA believes a resolution calling for its reinstatement could be passed when the local...
And for Dessert, Lady Fingers
Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?
	03/20/2009 4:10:41 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 26 replies · 701+ views nationalgeographic | March 20, 2009 | James Owen Recent evidence that Druids possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice -- perhaps on a massive scale -- add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.After a first century B.C. visit to Britain, the Romans came back with horrific stories about these high-ranking priests of the Celts, who had spread throughout much of Europe over a roughly 2,000-year period.
This Week's Excuse for Cheap Gags
Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw
	03/14/2009 11:16:04 AM PDT · Posted by Turret Gunner A20 · 31 replies · 846+ views PeoplePC Online | Saturday, March 14, 2009 | Staff LONDON - A British academic says he's found proof that Britain's legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn't as popular with the poor as folklore suggests. Julian Luxford says a newly found note in the margins of an ancient history book contains rare criticism of the supposedly benevolent bandit. According to legend, Hood roamed 13th-century Britain from a base in central England's Sherwood Forest, plundering from the rich to give to the poor. But Luxford, an art history lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, says a 23-word inscription in a history book, written in Latin by a medieval...
The 13th Century manuscript that shows Robin Hood and his Merry Men weren't so popular after all
	03/14/2009 7:48:20 AM PDT · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 70 replies · 1,341+ views Daily Mail (UK) | 14th March 2009 | Paul Sims Folklore holds that Robin Hood was a fearless outlaw loathed by the rich and loved by the poor. Fighting injustice and tyranny, his gallantry became the stuff of legend - and Hollywood movies. But according to a newly-discovered manuscript entry it appears that Robin and his Merry Men may not have been as popular as the stories would have us believe.Written in Latin and buried among the treasures of Eton's library, the 23 sparse words shed new light on the Sheriff of Nottingham's mortal foe. Translated, the 550-year-old note reads: 'Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw...
Egypt
Egypt Set to Open Pyramid for First Time to Tourists
	03/16/2009 7:29:36 PM PDT · Posted by AngieGal · 16 replies · 461+ views Fox News | March 16, 2009 | Associated Press Travelers to Egypt will soon be able to explore the inner chambers of the 4,500-year-old "bent" pyramid, known for its oddly shaped profile, and other nearby ancient tombs, Egypt's antiquities chief announced Monday. The increased access to the pyramids south of Cairo is part of a new sustainable development campaign that Egypt hopes will attract more visitors but also to avoid some of the problems of the urban sprawl that have plagued the famed pyramids of Giza. Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the chambers of the 330-foot-pyramid outside the village of Dahshur, 50 miles south of Cairo, will be...
Ancient Autopsies
Found: the sister Cleopatra killed
	03/15/2009 2:18:56 AM PDT · Posted by BlackVeil · 27 replies · 947+ views The Times | March 15, 2009 | Daniel Foggo Forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of the queen's younger sister, murdered over 2,000 years ago ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra's younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are the first relics of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be identified. The breakthrough, by an Austrian team, has provided pointers to Cleopatra's true ethnicity. Scholars have long debated...
Skeleton of Cleopatra's Murdered Sister Identified
	03/15/2009 3:13:37 PM PDT · Posted by RDTF · 15 replies · 454+ views Fox | March 15, 2009 Archeologists and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra's younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are the first relics of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be identified. -snip-
Found: the Sister Cleopatra Killed
	03/15/2009 11:07:14 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 34 replies · 854+ views The Times (London) | March 15, 2009 | Daniel Foggo ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra's younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are the first relics of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be identified. The breakthrough, by an Austrian team, has provided pointers to Cleopatra's true ethnicity. Scholars have long debated whether she was Greek or Macedonian like her ancestor the original Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who was made...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Where is the tomb of Mordechai and Esther?
	03/11/2009 5:42:58 AM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 34 replies · 839+ views Jerusalem Post | 3-11-9 | MICHAEL FREUND A few months ago, the normally hostile Iranian regime took the rather unusual step of adding a Jewish holy site to its National Heritage List. On December 9, 2008, Iranian news outlets reported that the tomb of Mordechai and Esther, the heroes of the Purim saga, would now be under official government protection and responsibility. The purported tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Iran. Photo: Courtesy The move cast a brief spotlight on the site, which is well-known to Iranian Jews but largely unfamiliar to those outside the country. And with Purim being celebrated this week, it is worth taking...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Scholar: The Essenes, Dead Sea Scroll 'authors,' never existed
	03/13/2009 8:18:50 AM PDT · Posted by TaraP · 42 replies · 971+ views Ofri Ilani | March 13th, 2009 Scholarship suggesting the existence of the Essenes, a religious Jewish group that lived in the Judea before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, is wrong, according to Prof. Rachel Elior, whose study on the subject will be released soon. Elior blasts the predominant opinion of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars that the Essenes had written the scrolls in Qumran, claiming instead that they were written by ousted Temple priests in Jerusalem. "Sixty years of research have been wasted trying to find the Essenes in the scrolls. But they didn't exist, they were invented by [Jewish-Roman historian] Josephus. It's...
Challenging History: The Dead Sea Scrolls
	09/25/2007 4:48:34 PM PDT · Posted by brityank · 9 replies · 179+ views The Evening Bulletin [PA] | 25 September, 2007 | Neil Altman Challenging History: The Dead Sea Scrolls By: Neil Altman, For The Bulletin 09/24/2007 Editor's Note: According to an exhibit at the United States Library of Congress, young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert in 1947, entered a long-untouched cave and found scrolls in a jar and under debris on the floor. That initial discovery by the Bedouins began a search that lasted nearly a decade, eventually producing thousands of scroll fragments from 11 caves. During those same years, archaeologists tried to identify the people who deposited the scrolls. They found the Qumran ruin, a...
Who Wrote the Books of the Bible?: New Book Addresses Historical Origins of the Bible
	02/16/2007 2:06:00 PM PST · Posted by Alex Murphy · 15 replies · 840+ views PR Newswire | Feb. 16, 2007 LAPORTE, Ind., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- C. Jack Trickler presents a clear and accessible study of the people who wrote the books of the Bible, their motivations and the historical, political and social settings in which they wrote in his new book, "A Layman's Guide to Who Wrote the Books of the Bible?" (now available through AuthorHouse). Trickler discusses his own theories, as well as those of other religious scholars, to offer a thorough, well-researched argument. "When you get into the Bible, you see enough evidence that the Bible was written by humans that you have to say, 'Well, who...
The Chinese connection (to the Dead Sea Scrolls)
	11/30/2006 8:40:52 PM PST · Posted by John Philoponus · 11 replies · 457+ views The Star | Nov. 4, 2006 | NEIL ALTMAN The Dead Sea Scrolls have been guarded for 60 years like crown jewels, the possessions of a scholarly elite who were challenged only in the past decade to bring the scrolls to the public. Now, there is accumulating and compelling evidence that these supposedly ancient texts are medieval at best and have a connection with China. That connection is raising questions about the manuscripts' true dating, origin and possible authenticity. ........ In 1991, I wrote articles for the Washington Post and Boston Herald about the idea that a number of previously undeciphered markings in the margins of two Dead Sea...
Pages
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google
	03/19/2009 9:45:42 AM PDT · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 19 replies · 415+ views SFGate | Thursday, March 19, 2009 | AP Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday. It's the first time Google has made its vast trove of scanned public-domain books available to an e-book device, and vaults the Sony Reader past Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle as the device with the largest available library, at about 600,000 books.The scanned books were all published before 1923, and include works like Charles Dickens'"A Tale of Two Cities" as well as nonfiction classics like Herodotus'"The Histories."The books are already available as free downloads in...
Rome and Italy
The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
	03/14/2009 6:31:51 PM PDT · Posted by Captain Peter Blood · 17 replies · 404+ views Mark Twain Short Story | 03-14-2009 | Captain Peter Blood Being the only true and reliable account ever published; taken from the Roman "Daily Evening Fasces," of the date of that tremendous occurrence. Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. He takes a living delight in this labor of love--for such it is to him, especially if he knows that all the other papers have gone to press, and his will be the only one that will contain the dreadful intelligence. A feeling of regret has often come...
Climate
American Adults Flunk Basic Science
	03/19/2009 6:27:05 PM PDT · Posted by freedumb2003 · 93 replies · 903+ views Science Daily | 3/13/2009 | ScienceDaily ... Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun... Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time... Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water... ... Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly
Bloodbaths
Amazing Fossils: Do They Help Darwin?
	03/20/2009 8:09:11 AM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 56 replies · 833+ views CEH | March 19, 2009 Amazing Fossils: Do They Help Darwin? March 19, 2009 -- Some remarkable fossils have been found recently. According to the reports, scientists are not sure what to make of them, even though evolutionary language is liberally applied to the interpretation...
No more love for Lucy? (33 years of evolutionary propoganda up in smoke)
	03/11/2009 11:40:00 AM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 308 replies · 3,377+ views Journal of Creation | Ryan Jaroncyk No more love for Lucy? Ryan Jaroncyk For over the last 30 years, the supposedly 3.2 Ma old Australopithecus afarensis specimen known as "Lucy' has been boldly proclaimed as the ancestor of all humanity in magazines, television shows, books, newspapers and museums. However, Tel Aviv University anthropologists have published a study casting serious doubt on Lucy's role as mankind's ape ancestor.1 Based on a comparative analysis of jaw bones in living and extinct primates, researchers concluded that Lucy and members of her kind should be "placed as the beginning of the branch that evolved in parallel to ours.'...
What Darwin Didn't Know
	01/27/2009 2:23:45 PM PST · Posted by truthfinder9 · 41 replies · 590+ views http://charismamag.com/articles/index.php/18473 | Fazale Rana A sage once said, "It's not what you know you don't know that's the problem; it's what you don't know that you don't know." When Charles Darwin advanced his theory of biological evolution, there was a lot of biology he didn't know. Some of it he recognized. But there was much he never even thought about. During the 150 years since then, scientific advance has yielded important understanding about life's origin, history and characteristics. These accomplishments provide the framework for modern biology. Even more, they are causing scientists to question his theory. Learning what scientists know will equip Christians with...
Meet the Earliest Baby Girl ever Discovered!
	09/21/2006 7:05:18 AM PDT · Posted by PatrickHenry · 197 replies · 3,275+ views Max Planck Society | 12 September 2006 | Staff (press release) 3.3 million years ago, a three year old girl died in present day Ethiopia, in an area called Dikika. Though a baby, she provides researchers with a unique account of our past, as would a grandmother. Her completeness, antiquity, and age at death combine make this find unprecedented in the history of paleoanthropology and open many new research avenues to investigate into the infancy of early human ancestors. The extraordinary discovery reported this week in the scientific journal Nature, was found in north-eastern Ethiopia, by a paleoanthropological research team led by Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute in...
Stakes Are High and So Am I
700 years on, a proper funeral for the 'teenage witch' who had her head chopped off
	03/16/2009 6:06:34 PM PDT · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 37 replies · 551+ views Daily Mail (UK) | 16th March 2009 | Beth Hale The body of a 14th century teenager thought to have been beheaded as a witch and buried on unconsecrated ground has been exhumed and given a proper burial. The girl, named Holly by archaeologists because her remains were found beneath a holly bush, had had her head laid at her side, a sign that she might have been suspected of witchcraft. Holly's body was found six years ago in Hoo, Kent, during an excavation by archaeologists prior to work starting on a housing development and was taken away for research.
'Vampire' unearthed from Venice plague grave
	03/14/2009 7:50:08 PM PDT · Posted by BlackVeil · 13 replies · 557+ views Australian Broadcasting Commission | March 13 2009 | anon Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" in Venice, buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century. Matteo Borrini, an anthropologist from the University of Florence, said the discovery on the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo in the Venice lagoon supported the medieval belief that vampires were behind the spread of plagues like the Black Death. "This is the first time that archaeology has succeeded in reconstructing the ritual of exorcism of a vampire," Mr Borrini said. "This...
Faith and Philosophy
2 men get prison for stealing, destroying statue at Padre Pio shrine near Barto
	03/18/2009 6:58:01 AM PDT · Posted by Born Conservative · 26 replies · 365+ views Reading Eagle | 3/18/09 | Holly Herman Two men apologized Tuesday in Berks County Court before they were sentenced to state prison for stealing and destroying a brass statue of an angel from the National Center of Padre Pio Inc. near Barto in September. John E. Hammond Jr. and Jamie L. Custer admitted they cut the 8-foot-tall, 1,200-pound "Angel of the Roses" into pieces and sold them as scrap for $952. Hammond, 31, of Spring City, Chester County, was sentenced by Judge James M. Bucci to 21 months to six years in state prison. "I am ashamed and embarrassed," Hammond said. Custer, 31, Norristown, received one to...
Early America
Spy network gave Washington victory
	03/16/2009 2:13:39 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 18 replies · 411+ views The Free-Lance Star | 16 Mar 2009 | CATHY DYSON The father of our country also was a 'spymaster extraordinaire,' according to a retired CIA executive George Washington defeated the British empire, not with his "ragtag Army," but with his extensive network of spies. That's according to Eugene Poteat, a retired senior CIA executive who began to research the history of espionage decades ago. "Washington had his spies everywhere," said Poteat, who helped establish the International Spy Museum in Washington. "He set up the most effective intelligence operation this country has ever seen." Poteat lives in McLean, but was in Fredericksburg Saturday to address a group keenly interested in the...
The Framers
the 6th Amendment
	03/15/2009 5:09:24 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 37 replies · 396+ views Constitution of the United States, via Populist America et al | The Framers "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #244 20090321 · Saturday, March 21, 2009 · 40 topics · 2211108 to 1786184 · 714 members ·
	Saturday Mar 21 2009 v 5 n 36 view this issue	Welcome to the 244th issue. To everyone who contributed GGG topics or pinged me to one -- Thanks! The number of topics declined to 40, which is fine by me. The quality and variety remained high. Each week I'll dream up some kind of new header caption, or more than one, but don't call attention to it. One from this issue is "This Week's Excuse for Cheap Gags". I'm sure I've done this before, but I just went through and shortened the standard links in this message, removing the opening "http://www.freerepublic.com/" and replacing them with "/". Beats me how I managed to do that before. I remember doing it, but it could have been in my FR profile. I'm all about saving bandwidth -- except when it comes to editorializing and general running off at the keys of course. Early this week I visited the Memorial Wall (always linked in the Digest ping message) and found to my dismay that FReeper Ruoflaw (Paulette Hoelscher) passed away last year, September 17, 2008. Here's the tribute thread. Her last FR posting was made November 2007, and is a thank-you to those who started a prayer thread for her. What a gracious lady. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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