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Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #5
The next alteration to the digest might be to switch it to the more easily maintained profile page. Digest notices will then be sent as private messages. Having a single, growing page, and sending the messages private, would be easier on FR's bandwidth, and allow editing out of typos and problems. If so, I figure that September is soon enough. ;') And that will be the last alteration for the foreseeable.
Anatolia
Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/22/2003 9:14:54 AM PDT · 55 replies · 143+ views Beku Today \| 6-20-2003 Italian Archeologist: Anatolia - Home to First Civilization on Earth Prof. Dr. Marcella Frangipane is trying to convince scientists that Anatolia is the source of civilization on earth, and not Mesopotamia, as historians have claimed. 20/06/2003 13:20 After 13 years of work in the Aslantepe Mound Orduzu, Malatya, Frangipane says the archefacts she uncovered prove that the first civilization was established in Anatolia. According to Frangipane, the swords he found in Aslantepe and the palace, are the oldest in the world. These findings contradict everything in history books. Frangipane held a seminar, accompanied by a slide show, entitled 'Anatolia and...
Ancient Greece
Ancient Golden Mask Unearthed (Thracian) ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/20/2004 3:54:16 PM PDT · 27 replies · 566+ views IOL \| 8-20-2004 Ancient golden mask unearthed August 20 2004 at 06:14PM Sofia, Bulgaria - Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed a 2 400-year-old golden mask in the tomb of an ancient Thracian king, a newspaper said on Friday. The mask bears the image of a human face and is made of 500 grams of solid gold, the project's lead archaeologist Georgi Kitov told the local Trud daily. The discovery was made on Thursday near the village of Shipka, 200 kilometres east of Sofia. Kitov, who is at the excavations site, could not be reached immediately for comment. Dozens of Thracian mounds are spread throughout...
Ancient Italy and Rome
Ancient Rome's fish pens confirm sea-level fears ^
	Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism 08/16/2004 5:06:16 AM PDT · 90 replies · 1,870+ views New Scientist \| 09:30 16 August 04 \| Jeff Hecht Ancient Rome's fish pens confirm sea-level fears 09:30 16 August 04 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. Coastal fish pens built by the Romans have unexpectedly provided the most accurate record so far of changes in sea level over the past 2000 years. It appears that nearly all the rise in sea level since Roman times has happened in the past 100 years, and is most likely the result of human activity. Sea-level change is a measure of the relative movement between land and sea surfaces. Tide-gauge records show that the sea level has...

Dietler Discovers Statue In France That Reflects Etruscan Influence ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/19/2004 3:22:01 PM PST · 1 reply · 14+ views University Of Chicago Chronicle \| 2-19-2004 \| William Harms Dietler discovers statue in France that reflects an Etruscan influence By William Harms News Office This image depicts the reconstruction of the statue Michael Dietler found at Lattes in southern France. An image of the statue is positioned in the torso area of the figure of the warrior." A life-sized statue of a warrior discovered in southern France reflects a stronger cultural influence for the Etruscan civilization throughout the western Mediterranean region than previously appreciated. Michael Dietler, Associate Professor in Anthropology, and his French colleague Michel Py have published a paper in the British journal Antiquity on the Iron Age...

Etruscan Engineering and Agricultural Achievements: The Ancient City of Spina ^
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/17/2004 9:05:30 AM PDT · 7 replies · 112+ views The Mysterious Etruscans \| Last modified on Tue, 17-Aug-2004 15:36:27 GMT \| editors Over the centuries the belief lingered on that here had been a great, wealthy, powerful commercial city that dominated the mouth of the Po and the shores of the Adriatic, a city of luxury and splendor, a kind of ancestor and predecessor of Venice, founded more than a thousand years later. Classical scholars also knew about Spina, for ancient literary sources indicated that there must once have existed a thriving maritime trading settlement of great economic importance, until the Celtic invasion of the Po valley destroyed it... The final key to its ultimate discovery came from aerial photography. Some...

Huge Etruscan Road Brought To Light ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/17/2004 3:38:42 PM PDT · 29 replies · 22+ views Discovery News \| 6-16-2004 \| Rossella Lorenzi Huge Etruscan Road Brought to Light By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News The Excavated Road June 16, 2004 ó A plain in Tuscany destined to become a dump has turned out to be an archaeologist's dream, revealing the biggest Etruscan road ever found. Digging in Capannori, near Lucca, archaeologist Michelangelo Zecchini has uncovered startling evidence of an Etruscan "highway" which presumably linked Etruscan Pisa, on the Tyrrhenian coast, to the Adriatic port of Spina. Passing through Bologna, the ancient "two-sea highway" runs just a few meters away from today's modern highway which links Florence to the Tyrrhenian coast. "It all started...

Lost No More: An Etruscan Rebirth ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/15/2003 10:36:32 AM PDT · 4 replies · 17+ views New York Times \| 4-15-2003 \| John Noble Wilford Lost No More: An Etruscan Rebirth By JOHN NOBLE WILFORDNY Times, 4-15-2003 HILADELPHIA ó The Romans relished their founding myths. Aeneas, a fugitive from fallen Troy, anchored in the mouth of the Tiber River and there in the hills of Latium rekindled the flame of Trojan greatness. Romulus and Remus, twin sons of Mars and a sleeping beauty, were suckled by a she-wolf and grew up to establish the city destined for grandeur. In reality, though, the Romans owed more than they ever admitted to their accomplished predecessors and former enemies on the Italian peninsula, the Etruscans. They were known...
Ancient Middle East
DNA to reveal source of Dead Sea Scrolls ^
	Posted by missyme On News/Activism 08/18/2004 7:32:12 PM PDT · 11 replies · 799+ views Jerusalem Post \| August 16th, 2003 Authorities are hoping that DNA testing of animal bones discovered in excavations at the Qumran plateau will reveal the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Archeologists believe the findings will resolve the debate sparked nearly half a century ago with the discovery of the biblical manuscripts in 11 separate caves on the shores of the Dead Sea. Prof. Oren Gutfield of Hebrew University, who participated in the excavations, is attempting to ascertain the relationship between the scrolls and their place of discovery. "What we will do now are DNA tests to these bones in order to compare DNA results from...

DNA to reveal source of Dead Sea Scrolls ^
	Posted by yonif On News/Activism 08/17/2004 9:43:31 PM PDT · 31 replies · 641+ views Jerusalem Post \| Aug. 18, 2004 \| SARAH KATZ Authorities are hoping that DNA testing of animal bones discovered in excavations at the Qumran plateau will reveal the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Archeologists believe the findings will resolve the debate sparked nearly half a century ago with the discovery of the biblical manuscripts in 11 separate caves on the shores of the Dead Sea. Prof. Oren Gutfield of Hebrew University, who participated in the excavations, is attempting to ascertain the relationship between the scrolls and their place of discovery. "What we will do now are DNA tests to these bones in order to compare DNA results from...

Group Discovers John the Baptist Cave ^
	Posted by technomage On News/Activism 08/16/2004 9:09:34 AM PDT · 327 replies · 4,109+ views AP \| 8/16/04 \| AP AP: Group Discovers John the Baptist Cave KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel (AP) KARIN LAUB Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples - a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water. During an exclusive tour of the cave by The Associated Press, archaeologists presented wall carvings they said tell the story of the fiery New Testament preacher, as well as a stone they believe was used for ceremonial foot washing. They also pulled about 250,000 pottery shards from the cave, the apparent remnants of small...

Israeli cave linked to John the Baptist ^
	Posted by Between the Lines On Religion 08/16/2004 11:00:29 AM PDT · 8 replies · 202+ views MSNBC \| Aug. 16, 2004 Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples - a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water. During an exclusive tour of the cave by The Associated Press, archaeologists presented wall carvings they said tell the story of the fiery New Testament preacher, as well as a stone they believe was used for ceremonial foot washing. They also pulled about 250,000 pottery shards from the cave, the apparent remnants of small water jugs used in baptismal ritual. "John the Baptist, who was just a...
Ancient Persia
Ancient Persian fleet surrenders it's mysteries ^
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 08/21/2004 1:17:11 AM PDT · 6 replies · 243+ views New Zealand News \| 8/21/04 \| SIMON COLLINS Secrets of an ancient Persian armada sunk off the coast of Greece 2500 years ago are being dredged up by modern archaeologists. A team from Greece, Canada and the United States has just completed a second expedition to retrieve artefacts from 300 ships of the Persian King Darius that were wrecked in a storm off the Mt Athos Peninsula, northern Greece, in 492BC or 493BC. Aucklanders will be among the first to hear the results today when three of the expedition leaders present their findings in a free public lecture at Auckland University. In two trips so far, last October...

Archaeologists find signs of ancient advertisements from Sassanid era ^
	Posted by BlackVeil On News/Activism 08/21/2004 2:34:39 AM PDT · 10 replies · 197+ views Tehran Times \| August 21 2004 \| Anon TEHRAN (MNA) -- During the latest season of excavations of the northern gate of Takht-e Suleiman, an ancient Zoroastrian fire temple located in northwestern Iran, the stamps of two seals were discovered which indicate that objects entered Takht-e Suleiman from other regions with special tags attached to them which seem to be advertisements. They signify that an early form of advertising was being practiced during the Sassanid era (224-642 C.E.), Yusef Moradi, the head of the excavation team, said on Friday. ìThe team began its excavations in early August and found the stamps of two seals at the upper levels...

Swallowed by the Sands ^
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/21/2004 8:26:26 AM PDT · 1 reply · 1+ view "The Persians set forth from [an] oasis across the sand," Herodotus wrote. "As they were at their midday meal, a wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear." Recently, however, human remains, daggers, metal arrowheads, and other objects likely associated with just such an army were accidentally discovered by a group of geologists working in the northwestern desert. Now a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geologists, and surveyors has been dispatched to determine whether this remote site is the graveyard...
Britain
Country House Mystery Of The Book Lost for 400 Years ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/14/2003 7:32:39 PM PDT · 14 replies · 27+ views The Telegraph (UK) \| 10-15-2003 \| Nick Britten Country house mystery of the book lost for 400 years (Filed: 15/10/2003) A 1583 catechism found at Hardwick Hall raises intriguing questions over its origin and who hid it. Nick Britten reports An unrecorded Elizabethan book detailing the basics of the Christian faith has been found discarded behind oak panelling at a country estate, where it is likely to have lain undiscovered for 400 years. L'ABC des Chrestiens was found by a joiner during restoration work at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. The book was published in 1583 by a French protestant but no record of it has been found and mystery...
China, Korea, Japan
Ancient Relics Discovered In Kaesong Industrial Complex (Korea - Bull) ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/16/2004 10:29:31 AM PDT · 16 replies · 289+ views The Chosun Ilbo \| 8-16-2004 Ancient Relics Discovered at Kaesong Industrial ComplexThousands of historical remains such as figures of bull images were found at the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Korea Land Corporation has conducted a joint excavation with North Korea since last June in 12 areas of the Kaesong Industrial Complex in which relics were distributed, and discovered a huge amount of historical remains from the Old Stone Age to the Chosun (Joseon) Dynasty. Iron figure bull image found at Gaesong Industrial Complex./Yonhap The figures of bull images were found where a Koryo Dynasty building had been, and were probably buried during construction as part of...

China puts Korean spat on the map ^
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 08/18/2004 7:17:08 PM PDT · 6 replies · 248+ views Asia Times \| China puts Korean spat on the map \| David Scofield China puts Korean spat on the mapBy David Scofield The controversy over whether the ancient, ethnically Korean kingdom of Koguryo was historically Korean or historically part of China simmers, and it divides historians, politicians and patriots on both sides in Northeast Asia. The kingdom stretched well into present-day Manchuria in the north and encompassed most of what is North Korea in the south. And, to roil the waters, some academics suggest that China's recent cartographic interest in the Koguryo region has a precedent in Beijing's relatively late public claim that Taiwan is and always has been an inalienable part...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
'Arlington Springs Woman', 13,000 Years Old Human Skeleton, California Island ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/03/2002 4:41:32 PM PDT · 52 replies · 171+ views Newsday.com \| 9-3-2002 \| Bryn Nelson A Second LookArmed with better technology, archaeologists return to the resting place of North Americaís oldest known inhabitant Revisiting the past is never easy, and revisiting an old excavation site on a canyon wall makes for a particularly dicey trip. Especially when it no longer exists. Yet a recent return by scientists to the final resting place of Arlington Springs Woman, the oldest known inhabitant of North America, has provided a striking demonstration of new technology's power to restore the past and preserve it well into the future.SNIP ( click here for entire article) So far, he's obtained 16 dates...

Explorers Find Ancient City in Remote Peru Jungle ^
	Posted by burrian On News/Activism 08/18/2004 7:43:43 PM PDT · 27 replies · 940+ views Reuters \| 8/17/04 \| Marco Aquino LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, explorers said on Tuesday. U.S. and Peruvian explorers uncovered the city, which may have been home to up to 10,000 people, after a month trekking in Peru's northern rain forest and following up on years of investigation about a possible lost metropolis in the region. The stone city, made up of five citadels at 9,186 feet above sea level, stretches over around 39 square miles and contains walls covered in...

Maryland Dig May Reach Back 16,000 Years ^
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/17/2004 6:05:45 PM PDT · 23 replies · 610+ views Newsday \| 8-17-2004 RAWLINGS, Md. -- Robert D. Wall is too careful a scientist to say he's on the verge of a sensational discovery. But the soybean field where the Towson University anthropologist has been digging for more than a decade is yielding hints that someone camped there, on the banks of the Potomac River, as early as 14,000 B.C. If further digging and carbon dating confirm it, the field in Allegany County could be among the oldest and most important archaeological sites in the Americas.
Pyramids
Rock art clue to nomad ancestors of Egyptian pyramid builders ^
	Posted by jimtorr On News/Activism 04/05/2003 3:58:57 PM PST · 6 replies · 18+ views The Guardian \| Saturday April 5, 2003 \| Tim Radford, science editor Stone age cattle herders left religious imagery which was to re-emerge in Valley of Kings Rock art etched on cliff walls in the eastern Sahara more than 6,000 years ago could spell out the answer to one of archaeology's great puzzles - where the ancient Egyptians came from. The answer? They were there all the time. The pyramid builders made their first entry in the archaeological record 5,000 years ago. This appearance was so abrupt that it has provoked fantasies of alien landings, mysterious civilisations or an invading master race. But in Genesis of the Pharaohs, published on Monday by...
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