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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #301 Saturday, April 24, 2010 |
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| When Cousins Marry | |
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| Third Cousins Have Greatest Number Of Offspring, Data From Iceland Shows |
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· 02/07/2008 5:39:12 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 103 replies · 2,409+ views · · Science Daily · · 2-8-2008 · · deCODE genetics. · |
Third Cousins Have Greatest Number Of Offspring, Data From Iceland Shows ScienceDaily (Feb. 8, 2008) -- DeCODE scientists have established a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of children and grandchildren they have. The study, which analyzes more than 200 years of deCODE's comprehensive define genealogical data on the population of Iceland, shows that couples related at the level of third cousins have the greatest number of offspring. For example, for women born between 1800 and 1824, those with a mate related at the level of a third cousin had an average of... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| Archeology: When did the First Settlers Come to Iceland? |
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· 04/17/2010 4:49:07 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 24 replies · 451+ views · · icelandreview.com · · April 4, 2010 · |
One of the things that makes Iceland unique in Europe is the fact that Icelanders know the year the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, came to Iceland from Norway. The Icelandic script, Íslendingabók (Book of Icelanders), written by Ari the wise, tells of the first men coming to Iceland on explorations. Three expeditions came to Iceland, but the first men who came to Iceland to live there permanently were Ingólfur and Hjörleifur. The two came to Iceland in 874. Hjörleifur was killed by his slaves, which only left Ingólfur and his wife Hallgerdur Fródadóttir. They settled in Reykjavík, now the capital... |
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| Archeology: When did the First Settlers Come to Iceland? [the Irish] |
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· 04/17/2010 5:12:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · 514+ views · · Iceland Review · · April 5, 2010 · · unattributed · |
One of the things that makes Iceland unique in Europe is the fact that Icelanders know the year the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, came to Iceland from Norway. The Icelandic script, Íslendingabók (Book of Icelanders), written by Ari the wise, tells of the first men coming to Iceland on explorations. Three expeditions came to Iceland, but the first men who came to Iceland to live there permanently were Ingólfur and Hjörleifur. The two came to Iceland in 874. Hjörleifur was killed by his slaves, which only left Ingólfur and his wife Hallgerdur Fródadóttir. They settled in Reykjavík, now the capital... |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
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| Holy Cow, Look What Happened When Eyjafjallajökull Erupted In 1812 |
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· 04/16/2010 7:58:58 AM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 104 replies · 4,012+ views · · The Business Insider · · 4-16-2010 · · Gregory White · |
The last time Eyjafjallajökull blew its top the eruption lasted for two years, spreading smoke and ash over Iceland causing significant damage. * The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted, it lasted 2 years stretching from 1821-1823. It also erupted in 920 and 1612. * The 1821 eruption spread fluoride across iceland, damaging livestock and human well-being. Glacial flooding also resulted from the eruption. * Eyjafjallajökull's eruption usually precedes an eruption for another Icelandic volcano called Katla, as it did in 1823. Katla's eruptions are... |
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| How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution |
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· 04/20/2010 4:55:46 PM PDT · · Posted by Kartographer · · 37 replies · 838+ views · · guardian.co.uk · · 4/15/10 · · Greg Neale · |
Just over 200 years ago an Icelandic volcano erupted with catastrophic consequences for weather, agriculture and transport across the northern hemisphere -- and helped trigger the French revolution. The Laki volcanic fissure in southern Iceland erupted over an eight-month period from 8 June 1783 to February 1784, spewing lava and poisonous gases that devastated the island's agriculture, killing much of the livestock. It is estimated that perhapsa quarter of Iceland's population died through the ensuing famine. Then, as now, there were more wide-ranging impacts. In Norway, the Netherlands, the British Isles, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, in North America and even... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| Primate Fossil More Than 11 Million Years Old Discovered [Spain] |
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· 04/22/2010 9:32:34 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · 323+ views · · ScienceDaily · · April 23, 2010 · · FECYT via Eurekalert · |
Catalan researchers have discovered in the rubbish dump of Can Mata in the Valles-Penedes basin (Catalonia) a new species of Pliopithecus primate, considered an extinct family of primitive Catarrhini primates (or "Old World monkeys"). The fragments of jaw and molars found in this large site demonstrate that Pliopithecus canmatensis belongs to this group, which includes the first Catarrhini that dispersed from Africa to Eurasia. Named Pliopithecus canmatensis, in honour of the place they were discovered in Catalonia, the new fossil species sheds light on the evolution of the superfamily of the Pliopithecoidea, primates that include various genera of basal Catarrhini,... |
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| Neandertals / Neanderthals | |
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| Neanderthals may have interbred with humans |
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· 04/22/2010 5:12:55 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 71 replies · 1,361+ views · · Nature News · · 4-20-10 · · Rex Dalton · |
Genetic data points to ancient liaisons between species. Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they're not forgotten -- at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world indicates that such extinct species interbred with the ancestors of modern humans twice, leaving their genes within the DNA of people today. The discovery, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 17 April, adds important new details to the evolutionary history of the human species. And it may help explain the... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Lice hang ancient date on first clothes: Genetic analysis puts origin at 190,000 years ago |
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· 04/23/2010 6:41:29 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 41 replies · 462+ views · · Science News · · May 8th, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
Using DNA to trace the evolutionary split between head and body lice, researchers conclude that body lice first came on the scene approximately 190,000 years ago. And that shift, the scientists propose, followed soon after people first began wearing clothing... sheds light on a poorly understood cultural development that allowed people to settle in northern, cold regions, said Andrew Kitchen of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Armed with little direct evidence, scientists had previously estimated that clothing originated anywhere from around 1 million to 40,000 years ago. An earlier analysis of mitochondrial DNA from the two modern types of... |
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| Gene Study Identifies 5 Main Human Populations |
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· 04/23/2010 6:58:06 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 31 replies · 851+ views · · New York Times · · December 20, 2002 · · Nicholas Wade · |
Scientists studying the DNA of 52 human groups from around the world have concluded that people belong to five principal groups corresponding to the major geographical regions of the world: Africa, Europe, Asia, Melanesia and the Americas. The study, based on scans of the whole human genome, is the most thorough to look for patterns corresponding to major geographical regions. These regions broadly correspond with popular notions of race, the researchers said in interviews. The researchers did not analyze genes but rather short segments of DNA known as markers, similar to those used in DNA fingerprinting tests, that have no... |
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| Saluting the discoverers of DNA |
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· 04/24/2003 4:23:13 AM PDT · · Posted by RJCogburn · · 28 replies · 2,011+ views · · Boston Globe · · 4/24/03 · · Kevin Davies · |
FIFTY YEARS AGO tomorrow, the British science magazine Nature published one of the most astounding scientific reports in history. James Watson and Francis Crick impudently informed the world that they had cracked the molecular structure of the salt of deoxyribosenucleic acid -- better known as DNA. The report included one simple black and white illustration, sketched by Crick's wife, of what has since become universally known as the double helix. The architecture of DNA resembles a twisted ladder that contains some 3 billion rungs labeled in a simple four-letter alphabet -- A, C, G and T -- that spells out the language of life. |
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| Is the Mysterious Siberian "X-Woman" a New Hominid Species? |
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· 03/25/2010 9:09:33 AM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 28 replies · 812+ views · · Discover Magazine · · March 25, 2010 · · Smriti Rao · |
In 2008, archeologists working at the Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains discovered a tiny piece of a finger bone, believed to be a pinky, buried with ornaments in the cave. Scientists extracted the mitochondrial DNA (genetic material from the mother's side) from the ancient bone and checked to see if its genetic code matched with the other two known forms of early hominids -- Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans. What they found was a real surprise. The team, led by geneticist Svaante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute, discovered that the mtDNA from the finger bone matched neither -- suggesting there... |
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| Swingin' Ancestors | |
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| Ancient Hominids Had Human-Like Grip |
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· 04/22/2010 7:46:32 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · 254+ views · · Discovery News · · Monday, April 19, 2010 · · Bruce Bower, Science News · |
An upright gait and a relatively sophisticated ability to manipulate objects apparently evolved in tandem among the earliest hominids at least 6 million years ago, said Sergio Almécija of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. That's well before the earliest evidence of stone toolmaking, about 2.6 million years ago, arguing against the idea that fine motor skills for toolmaking drove the evolution of opposable thumbs. Almécija and his colleagues studied a bone from the tip of a thumb belonging to Orrorin tugenensis. At an estimated 6 million years old, Orrorin is the second oldest hominid genus. A more recently identified... |
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| Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho | |
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| Hobbit debate goes out on some limbs |
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· 04/23/2010 11:21:30 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · 264+ views · · ScienceNews · · May 8, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
Two fossil hobbits have given what's left of their arms and legs to science. That wasn't enough, though, to quell debate over hobbits' evolutionary status at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 17. Since 2004, the discoverers of unusual "hobbit" fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores have attributed their find to a pint-sized species, Homo floresiensis, that lived there from 95,000 to 17,000 years ago. These researchers also suspect, on the basis of hobbit anatomy and recent stone tool discoveries on Flores, that H. floresiensis evolved from a currently unknown hominid species that... |
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| Prehistory & Origins | |
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| 'Java Man' takes age to extremes [ H. erectus 550,000 yrs BP? ] |
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· 04/17/2010 6:46:15 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 21 replies · 446+ views · · Science News · · Friday, April 16th, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
New age estimates for Homo erectus fossils on the Indonesian island of Java have physical anthropologists scratching their crania. After convincing most of their colleagues that H. erectus may have persisted on the Indonesian island of Java as recently as 30,000 years ago -- late enough to have coexisted in Asia with modern humans for more than 100,000 years -- anthropologists presented new analyses April 14 suggesting the fossils in question may actually predate Homo sapiens by hundreds of thousands of years. It all depends which radiometric method you use to assess the fossils' age, New York University anthropologist Susan... |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Nanostructure of 5,000-year-old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process [Oetzi] |
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· 04/22/2010 9:04:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · 343+ views · · PhyOrg · · April 20, 2010 · · Lisa Zyga · |
sing cutting-edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well-preserved for thousands of years. A team of scientists from Germany and Italy has investigated skin samples from Europe's oldest natural mummy, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman" who was buried in a glacier shortly after death in the Otzal Alps between Italy and Austria. The researchers found that the underlying structure of the mummy's skin is largely unaltered compared with the skin of a modern living human, likely maintaining its protective function due to dehydration... Since the Iceman's discovery, investigations using optical and scanning electron microscopes have... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Egyptian Official Angry that King Tut is not at the Met: Calls Times Square Exhibition Space a 'Hole' |
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· 04/23/2010 9:46:24 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 37 replies · 451+ views · · DNAinfo · · April 22, 2010 · · Tara Kyle · |
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the secretary general for Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities told a press conference Wednesday that hosting the Tutankhamun's tomb at the Discover Time Square Exposition cheapened the exhibition. "This priceless artifact should be at the Met, not at this hole," Hawass said. In an embarassing preview for the exhibition, Hawass called Arts and Exhibitions International President John Norman to the stage and demanded he "answer the question. Why is King Tut not at the Met?" Norman responded by saying then when plans to bring Tut back to New York began over five years ago, he met with... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Coins Found in Egypt |
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· 04/23/2010 8:17:29 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 23 replies · 597+ views · · Discovery News · · Thursday, April 22, 2010 · · Associated Press · |
Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, Egypt's antiquities authority announced Wednesday... |
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| Greece | |
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| 'Ancient IKEA building' discovered by Italian archaeologists |
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· 04/22/2010 8:02:47 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · 415+ views · · Times Online · · April 22, 2010 · · Richard Owen, Rome · |
Massimo Osanna, head of archaeology at Basilica University, said that the team working at Torre Satriano near Potenza in what was once Magna Graecia had unearthed a sloping roof with red and black decorations, with "masculine" and "feminine" components inscribed with detailed directions on how they slotted together. Professor Christopher Smith, director of the British School at Rome, said that the discovery was "the clearest example yet found of mason's marks of the time. It looks as if someone was instructing others how to mass-produce components and put them together in this way"" he told The Times. Professor Osanna suggested... |
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| Parthenon yields clues to quake-proof design |
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· 04/22/2010 8:11:51 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · 383+ views · · Cosmos Magazine · · Monday, August 25, 2008 · · Agence France-Presse · |
Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has withstood scores of quakes. "The Parthenon had great resilience to earthquakes, as did most classical Greek temples," said Maria Ioannidou, the archaeologist in charge of conservation of the ancient Acropolis citadel where the Parthenon stands. "The ancient Greeks apparently had very good knowledge of quake behaviour and excellent construction quality," she added. Toshikazu Hanazato, a professor of engineering and an expert in post-quake reconstruction, at Japan's Mie University, heads the research team which is visiting Greece next month to study... |
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| Roman Empire | |
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| Serbia to boast heritage as birthplace of 18 Roman emperors |
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· 04/17/2010 7:15:16 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 15 replies · 350+ views · · Monsters and Critics · · Apr 3, 2010, · · Ksenija Prodanovic · |
Belgrade - The mention of Serbia usually brings to mind the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, but rarely ever the Roman Empire - despite the fact that 18 Roman rulers, one fifth of all emperors, were born on its territory. With that in mind, archaeologist Miomir Korac has launched The Road of Roman Emperors in Serbia (Itinerarium Romanum Serbiae) - a project meant to combine dozens of antique places across the country into a 600-kilometre-long tourist itinerary. "This is perhaps the most important project in Serbia because it is a chance to show the country's pretty face and... |
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| Roman finds made during work on access road |
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· 04/17/2010 7:10:36 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 8 replies · 329+ views · · yourthanet.co.uk · · 31/03/2010 · |
KENT NEWS: Pieces of the past have been unearthed during the first stages of construction of the East Kent Access Road. Archaeologists have found artefacts dating from when the Romans inhabited Thanet, as well from other periods. The finds from the recent excavations were shown to isle residents at two roadshows from the Trust for Thanet Archaelogy over the weekend. The first took place at Margate library on Saturday, and the second at Westwood Cross on Sunday. Shoppers thronged around the stall outside Debenhams to look at what has been found so far. Pieces of Roman ceramics from the period... |
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| Hundreds of rare Roman pots discovered by accident off Italy's coast by British research ship |
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· 04/18/2010 6:35:25 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 35 replies · 929+ views · · Daily Mail · · April 13th 2010 · · Reporter · |
A British underwater research team has discovered hundreds of rare Roman pots by accident, while trawling the wreckages of ships on the sea bed. The team had been using remote operated vehicles (ROVs) to scour modern wrecks for radioactive materials. They were amazed to come across the remains of a Roman galley which sank off the coast of Italy thousands of years ago... The crew from energy company Hallin Marine International, based in Aberdeen, found a number of ancient pots lying in the mud 1,640ft below the waves... the crew worked around the clock for two days to bring them... |
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| China | |
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| Archaeologists: Sea relics in Xisha too fragile |
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· 04/17/2010 7:07:33 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 7 replies · 281+ views · · chinadaily.com · · 2010-04-02 · · Zuo Likun · |
The archaeological dragnet sweeping across South China's Xisha archipelago has turned up over 50 underwater heritage sites, including several ancient trade boats, which have for decades been a tempting treasure coveted by antiques smugglers. Porcelain, iron and bronze wares dating to the South Song Dynasty (1127 -- 1279) were recovered in the emergency expedition, which kicked off last May. However, salvage rescue is a mixed blessing for the underwater antiques, whose fragility in seawaters renders preservation on the spot a far better choice. "The scope of underwater antiques around Xisha archipelago is enormously huge and far away from the land. It is... |
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| India | |
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| Deciphering the Indus script: challenges and some headway |
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· 04/18/2010 7:39:07 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · 365+ views · · The Hindu · · Thursday, April 15, 2010 · · Interview with Professor Asko Parpola · |
All those features of the Indus script which have been mentioned as proof for its not being a writing system, characterise also the Egyptian hieroglyphic script during its first 600 years of existence. For detailed counterarguments, see my papers at the website... The script is highly standardised; the signs are as a rule written in regular lines; there are hundreds of sign sequences which recur in the same order, often at many different sites; the preserved texts are mostly seal stones, and seals in other cultures usually have writing recording the name or title of the seal owner; and the... |
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| Indus Valley east theory challenged |
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· 04/17/2010 6:55:07 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 9 replies · 246+ views · · Telegraph India · · April 5, 2010 · · G.S. Mudur · |
A study of hundreds of ancient Indus Valley civilisation sites has revealed previously unsuspected patterns of growth and decline that challenge a long-standing idea of a solely eastward-moving wave of Indus urbanisation. Researchers at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Chennai, combined data from archaeology, radiocarbon dating, and river flows to study how settlements around the Indus Valley region had evolved from around 7000 BC till 1000 BC. Their analysis of 1,874 Indus region settlements has shown that the Indus urbanisation had three epicentres -- Mehrgarh in present-day Baluchistan, Gujarat, and sites along an ancient river called the Ghaggar-Hakra in... |
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| Peaceful Easy Feelin' | |
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| New tech sees dead people |
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· 04/17/2010 2:37:26 PM PDT · · Posted by Berlin_Freeper · · 28 replies · 928+ views · · msnbc.msn.com · · April 16, 2010 · · Eric Bland · |
A spooky sounding technology is finding old, unmarked graves. Using hyperspectral imaging, scientists from McGill University have found unmarked animal graves with special cameras that measure changes in the light coming from soil and plants. Hyperspectral imaging collects and processes light from across the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light as well as ultraviolet and infrared light. The research could help police solve missing persons cases or reveal new mass graves from hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. "As soon as there is some decay you can see a difference," said Andre Costopoulos, a professor at McGill University developing new... |
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| Dinosaurs (et al) | |
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| This dinosaur had a Jersey attitude |
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· 04/18/2010 2:52:10 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 10 replies · 378+ views · · northjersey.com · · 04.13.10 · · Bill Ervolino · |
Gary Vecchiarelli is in love with a dinosaur. That may sound like a great premise for a Saturday morning cartoon show, but Vecchiarelli, a 33-year-old Boonton resident, is a real person, not some Barney Rubble wannabe. A paleontological field associate and graduate student at New Jersey City University, where he is completing his master's in geology and education, Vecchiarelli is also a man on a mission: to turn the 66.5-million-year-old Drypto-saurus, one of two Late Cretaceous-era dinosaurs known to have lived in what is now New Jersey, into a household name, right up there with Albert Einstein, Snooki Polizzi and... |
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| Hey There Little Reptile | |
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| Ancient treasure comes home: 200-million-year-old fossil back in N.J. |
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· 04/18/2010 2:47:00 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 10 replies · 392+ views · · star ledger · · 04.11.10 · · Brent Johnson · |
For millions of years, Tany laid buried under layers of rock in what is now Hudson County. She was unearthed in 1979 by a trio of amateur fossil hunters in an abandoned quarry: a rare, complete skeleton of a primitive reptile -- one that swam through waterways in the northeast as dinosaurs began to roam the planet. But in the decades since her discovery, Tany has been stored out of state, modestly displayed in the lobby of a New York research laboratory. Now, she's back home. The fossil's founders, Steven and Trini Stelz and James Leonard, recently donated the 200-million-year-old... |
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| Agriculture and Animal Husbandry | |
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| Mysterious Desert Lines Were Animal Traps [Negev and Sinai] |
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· 04/20/2010 9:10:50 PM PDT · · Posted by Enchante · · 12 replies · 773+ views · · Discovery.com · · April 20, 2010 · · Larry O'Hanlon · |
THE GIST: * A series of low, long walls are cleverly constructed traps that used the landscape. * Gazelle, ibexes, wild asses and other large herding animals were the targets. * No one is sure why the kites were abandoned. British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins. The lines are low, stone walls, usually found as angled pairs, that begin far apart and converge at circular pits. In some places in Jordan the lines... |
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| Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Do Dartmoor's ancient stones have link to Stonehenge? |
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· 04/19/2010 9:09:10 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 13 replies · 841+ views · · newscientist · · 14 April 2010 · · Linda Geddes · |
LITTERED across the hills of Dartmoor in Devon, southern England, around 80 rows and circles of stones stand sentinel in the wild landscape. Now, striking similarities between one of these monuments and Stonehenge, 180 kilometres to the east, suggest they may be the work of the same people. The row of nine stones on Cut Hill was discovered in 2004 on one of the highest, most remote hills of Dartmoor national park. "It is on easily the most spectacular hill on north Dartmoor," says Andrew Fleming, president of the Devon Archaeological Society. "If you were looking for a distant shrine... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Does archaeology support the Bible? |
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· 03/19/2010 8:34:02 PM PDT · · Posted by restornu · · 76 replies · 1,087+ views · · TruthOrTradition.com · · 2008 · |
The material evidence that archaeologists have discovered supports the Bible. Sadly, in the 1900s there was a great deal of archaeological work interpreted in a way that discredited the Bible. Of course, it has been said that archaeology "proves" the Bible, and this is not technically correct either. The Bible contains much information about God, the spiritual nature of the world, and the future of man that archaeology can never prove. The best archaeology can do is substantiate what the Bible says about the past, but the importance of that should not be understated. If, time after time, archaeology substantiates... |
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| Faith and Philosophy | |
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| Searching for the Better Text: How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them |
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· 04/23/2010 7:35:06 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · 563+ views · · Biblical Archaeology Review · · April 2010 · · Harvey Minkoff · |
In some cases the traditional text is clearly superior, but in others the version in the scrolls is better. Thanks to the scrolls, more and more textual problems in the Hebrew Bible are being resolved. The notes in newer Bible translations list variant readings from the scrolls, and in some cases, the translations incorporate these readings in the text as the preferred reading. No one has ever seriously suggested that the Dead Sea Scrolls contain anything like an eleventh commandment; but the scrolls do help clarify numerous difficult phrases in the Hebrew Bible, and for textual scholars that is more... |
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| Aramaic Gospels online |
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· 02/28/2004 8:29:38 PM PST · · Posted by djf · · 16 replies · 1,044+ views · · The Peshitta website · |
For those who are interested, there is a literal translation of the Aramaic Gospels (and Acts) online. Mattai, Marqus, Luqa, and Yukhanan. I have not compared it yet to my 1872 hardcopy of Murdocks Translation of The Syriac Testament(1851) and am unsure if they are the same source, as there are about 6 extant versions of the Aramaic text. You will need a frame compatible browser and Adobe Acrobat to read it, go to WWW.PESHITTA.ORG, and on the left frame, click on Interlinear to expand. It reads right to left. Here is a sample, The Lords prayer, Luqa 1: "Our... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Minuteman reenactor's forebear may have started the battle |
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· 04/19/2010 8:52:48 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 24 replies · 813+ views · · Boston.com · · April 19, 2010 · · David Filipov · |
LEXINGTON -- Like the other Minutemen in his company, Bill Poole will grab his musket, sling his cartridge box over his shoulder, and stride onto Lexington Green this morning to fight, and lose, the famed first skirmish between Patriot and Redcoat. But unlike his comrades in the annual reenactment, Poole will carry with him a piece of a 235-year-old mystery that still surrounds that momentous clash: the question of who fired the shot that sparked the opening volley of the Revolutionary War. Poole, 76, is the direct descendant of Ebenezer Locke, a man who, according to one account, fired the... |
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| Why Can't Old Media Get History Right Part 2: Boston Herald Muffs Rev War |
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· 04/20/2010 10:29:07 AM PDT · · Posted by Mobile Vulgus · · 4 replies · 352+ views · · Publius Forum · · 04/20/10 · · Warner Todd Huston · |
Last week I posted a deconstruction of the muffed WWII history as penned by NPR commentator Cokie Roberts. Today I have another example of muddled history in the Old Media. This one is misconstrued Revolutionary War history as published by the Boston Herald. Hard to believe that the Boston Herald, a paper that sits in the cradle of the Revolutionary War, can get Revolutionary War history wrong but such is the degraded state of the Old Media. In Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 2010, reenactors of the Rev War celebrated the 235th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. The Boston... |
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| The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere |
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· 04/18/2010 9:02:34 PM PDT · · Posted by Oratam · · 46 replies · 631+ views · · A Wayside Inn · · April 19, 1860 · · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · |
Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every... |
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| The Framers | |
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| President George Washington racks up $300,000 late fee for two Manhattan library books |
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· 04/17/2010 2:24:46 PM PDT · · Posted by Sub-Driver · · 60 replies · 1,269+ views · · NY Daily News · |
President George Washington racks up $300,000 late fee for two Manhattan library books BY Rich Schapiro DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Saturday, April 17th 2010, 4:00 AM He may have never told a lie, but George Washington apparently had no problem stiffing a Manhattan library on two books. Two centuries ago, the nation's first President borrowed two tomes from the New York Society Library on E. 79th St. and never returned them, racking up an inflation-adjusted $300,000 late fee. But Washington can rest easy. "We're not actively pursuing the overdue fines," quipped head librarian Mark Bartlett. "But we would be very... |
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| 184-year-old Adams letter found |
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· 04/21/2010 12:38:59 PM PDT · · Posted by txroadkill · · 19 replies · 1,634+ views · · The Boston Globe · · David Abel · |
QUINCY -- Paul Hines, an assistant city solicitor, was combing through dozens of old boxes in the musty basement of City Hall, searching for records to defend the city from a lawsuit, when he made an unexpected find. A dust-covered box in one of the 126-year-old building's former jail cells was filled with old scrapbooks. As Hines leafed through the brittle pages earlier this month, he came upon a letter from 1826 that addressed the burial of John Adams and his wife, Abigail, in First Parish Church across the street from City Hall. And when he flipped over the sheet... |
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| Alexander Hamilton and New Jersey perfect together |
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· 04/18/2010 2:18:40 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 6 replies · 243+ views · · northjersey.com · · 01.24.10 · · RICHARD TOWNSEND · |
Our early New Jersey statesmen were more than acquaintances. Alexander Hamilton, with a handful of his associates, was a central figure in the development of the Village of Bergen into Jersey City. Prior to the War of Independence, the colonies under English rule were prohibited from manufacturing products for their own use. For example, iron ore was converted to pig iron and shipped to England. There, the pig iron was used to manufacture a wide variety of products that were shipped back to the colonies for sale. This was one of the causes of the Revolution. After the war, Hamilton... |
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| Dr. Benjamin Franklin Statement to 1787 Constitutional Convention RE: Executive Salary |
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· 04/18/2010 5:02:58 PM PDT · · Posted by dajeeps · · 13 replies · 437+ views · · The Avalon Project · · 1787 · · Dr. Benjamin Franklin · |
Dr. B. Franklin Madison Debates Saturday June 2, 1787 IN COMMITTEE OF WHOLE Sir. It is with reluctance that I rise to express a disapprobation of any one article of the plan for which we are so much obliged to the honorable gentleman who laid it before us. From its first reading I have borne a good will to it, and in general wished it success. In this particular of salaries to the Executive branch I happen to differ; and as my opinion may appear new and chimerical, it is only from a persuasion that it is right, and from... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Research restores credit for an engineering feat (Cabin John Bridge [Union Arch Bridge]) |
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· 04/21/2010 10:28:10 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 9 replies · 301+ views · · Case Western Reserve University · · Apr 21, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Bridge designer and builder denied recognition after joining Confederacy -- Carved in stone on a Civil War-era bridge -- a world-class feat of engineering that stands a couple miles northwest of Washington - are the names of builders and officials of the day. A key name, however, is missing. New research shows that Virginian Alfred R. Rives led the design and construction of the Cabin John Bridge. Also called the Union Arch Bridge, the aqueduct and roadway reaches 220 feet across Cabin John Creek in a single span - the world's longest single-span masonry bridge for nearly 40 years and the nation's... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| Remembering the Forsaken -- a review of the book "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy In Stalin's Russia" |
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· 04/22/2010 10:09:29 AM PDT · · Posted by GonzoII · · 8 replies · 203+ views · · Tradition Family and Property · · Francis Slobodnik · · Tuesday, 12 January 2010 · |
In times of social and political turmoil, it is not uncommon for men to grasp for what appear to be easy solutions. Oftentimes, these impulsive decisions can have disastrous consequences. There is nothing meritorious about change in and of itself. The virtuous person prayerfully reasons through the options before making decisions. Men with little virtue grab desperately for anything that, on the surface, appears will improve their... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| UM digs find 10,000-year-old Native oasis |
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· 04/17/2010 7:02:34 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 9 replies · 415+ views · · missoulian.com · · April 3, 2010 · · BRETT FRENCH · |
Thousands of years before Euro-Americans "discovered" the bubbling mudpots and eruptive geysers of what is now Yellowstone National Park, early Americans were spending part of their summer camping in the Yellowstone Lake area. "It's always been a destination resort," said Elaine Hale, park archaeologist. "For at least 10,000 years people have been using the lake area." Thanks to archaeological digs around Yellowstone Lake last summer by University of Montana assistant archaeology professor Douglas MacDonald and 13 graduate and undergrad students, park officials are now getting a broader picture of early human use of the lake area. "The lake may have... |
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| Sunflower Genes Yield Traces Of Early Native Americans |
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· 04/17/2010 7:19:18 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 14 replies · 344+ views · · Redorbit.com · · 2 April 2010 · |
New information about early Native Americans' horticultural practices comes not from hieroglyphs or other artifacts, but from a suite of four gene duplicates found in wild and domesticated sunflowers. In an upcoming issue of Current Biology, Indiana University Bloomington biologists present the first concrete evidence for how gene duplications can lead to functional diversity in organisms. In this case, the scientists learned how duplications of a gene called FLOWERING LOCUS T, or FT, could have evolved and interacted to prolong a flower's time to grow. A longer flower growth period means a bigger sunflower -- presumably an attribute of great... |
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| W.Va. Stalagmite Points to Surprising Carbon Footprint |
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· 04/19/2010 12:04:54 PM PDT · · Posted by Eleutheria5 · · 33 replies · 1,085+ views · · aol News · · 19/4/10 · · Dave Thier · |
(April 18) -- The popular American myth of the "noble savage" -- perpetuated by novelists, painters, elementary schoolteachers and James Cameron alike -- holds that the original inhabitants of this continent were shining paragons of living in harmony with Mother Nature. But archaeology, and history, tell a different story: that Native Americans before 1492 seemed to be, well, people. Courtesy Gregory Springer, Ohio University This stalagmite, found in a West Virginia cave, showed a major change in the area's local ecosystem at about 100 B.C. The latest evidence for this comes from scientists at Ohio University, who have made a... |
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| Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools |
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· 04/22/2010 3:23:28 AM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 17 replies · 350+ views · · BBC · · 20 April 2010 · · Rebecca Morelle · |
New Caledonian crows have given scientists yet another display of their tool-using prowess. Scientists from New Zealand's University of Auckland have found that the birds are able to use three tools in succession to reach some food. The crows, which use tools in the wild, have also shown other problem-solving behaviour, but this find suggests they are more innovative than was thought. The research is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The team headed to the South Pacific island of New Caledonia, the home of Corvus moneduloides. Finding that the crows could solve the problem... was incredibly... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #302 Saturday, May 1, 2010 |
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| Australia and the Pacific | |
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| Brighton bypass significance confirmed |
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· 04/30/2010 8:08:40 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 2 replies · 54+ views · · Australian Broadcasting Corp · · April 26, 2010 · · Robert Paton · |
Archaeologists have confirmed an Aboriginal site in the path of a major Tasmanian highway contains the oldest evidence of human habitation in the southern hemisphere. About 3 million Indigenous artefacts were discovered at the Jordan River levee north of Hobart. The State Government commissioned archaeologists to examine the site after the Aboriginal community raised concerns that construction of the Brighton bypass could damage it. The site's archaeological director, Rob Paton, says the final report on the dig confirms some artefacts are about 40,000 years old. "They're stone artefacts, they're used for day to day living, cutting and sharpening. It's that... |
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| Farty Shades of Green | |
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| Archaeologists baffled over 'bizarre' Viking discovery [Irish eyes smiling] |
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· 04/30/2010 7:37:23 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · 506+ views · · Irish Examiner · · Wednesday, April 28, 2010 · · Gordon Deegan · |
A team of Irish archaeologists is puzzled by the "bizarre" discovery of a 1,150-year-old Viking necklace in a cave in the Burren. Besides being the largest by far -- up to 12 times longer than previous finds -- the team is puzzled by how such a "high-status" Viking treasure came to lie in the Burren, an area never settled by the Norsemen. The site where the necklace was found at Glencurran Cave was described by team leader Dr Marion Dowd of Sligo IT as a "treasure trove" for archaeologists. The necklace is one of a number of major items discovered... |
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| Carlisle dig's Roman finds of 'international importance' -- report |
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· 04/30/2010 8:26:53 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · 136+ views · · Cumberland News (UK) · · Friday, April 30, 2010 · · Victoria Brenan · |
A 936-page report into the Millennium dig in the grounds of Carlisle castle in 1999 has now been published, detailing the 80,000 artefacts discovered and what they reveal about Roman life in the city. Archaeologists dug five trenches on the Castle Green and Eastern Way and, over the following three years, unearthed a huge quantity of pottery, armour, weapons, and, unusually, wooden remains. They normally rot away but, because of the waterlogged soil, 2,000 large pieces of timber were discovered... also saw 2662 fragments of pottery -- including 442 bowls from Gaul -- 536 Roman coins, 30,250 bits of animal... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| 'Epigenetic' concepts offer new approach to degenerative disease (Dietary approach?) |
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· 04/28/2010 4:17:12 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 10 replies · 243+ views · · Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · · Apr 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
ANAHEIM, CA -- In studies on cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and other degenerative conditions, some scientists are moving away from the "nature versus nurture" debate, and are finding you're not a creature of either genetics or environment, but both - with enormous implications for a new approach to health. The new field of "epigenetics" is rapidly revealing how people, plants and animals do start with a certain genetic code at conception. But, the choice of which genes are "expressed," or activated, is strongly affected by environmental influences. The expression of genes can change quite rapidly over time, they can... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| New Drug May Treat Cystic Fibrosis, Other Diseases Caused by "Nonsense Mutations,"... |
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· 04/27/2010 2:42:28 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 4 replies · 171+ views · · University of Alabama at Birmingham · · Apr 26, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis can be caused by genetic "nonsense mutations" that disrupt the way human cells make proteins. David Bedwell, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Microbiology, says scientists are now closer to producing drugs that will fix this disruption and drastically improve treatment of genetic disease. Bedwell is a renowned researcher on the select group of genetic alterations called nonsense mutations - DNA alterations that can lead to nonfunctional or missing proteins. He presented recent findings on an experimental drug that may help to treat some cystic fibrosis patients... |
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| Ancient DNA suggests new hominid line |
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· 04/25/2010 8:28:57 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 25 replies · 533+ views · · ScienceNews · · Apr 24, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the first time based on an ancient genetic sequence, not fossil bones. Even more surprising, this novel and still mysterious hominid, if confirmed, would have lived near Stone Age Neandertals and Homo sapiens. "It was a shock to find DNA from a new type of ancestor that has not been on our radar screens," says geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. These enigmatic hominids left Africa in a previously unsuspected migration around 1 million years ago, a team led by... |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| New "Splinter Cell" Super-Immune Cells Created; Ready to Fight Cancer, AIDS |
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· 04/29/2010 1:46:20 PM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 9 replies · 252+ views · · Daily Tech · · April 27, 2010 7:45 PM · · Jason Mick (Blog) · |
Why use drugs, when you can improve the body's own designs? Evolution has bestowed mammals with amazingly complex and robust immune systems capable of fighting off a variety of foreign invaders including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The immune system is also capable of detecting cancerous cells -- cells in which mutations have led to uncontrolled growth which threatens to engulf normal healthy tissues. The problem is that even nature sometimes falls short. The immune system's T Cells, special cells used to fight extreme abnormalities such as AIDS and cancer (note, a special type of T cell fights HIV-infected T cells in AIDS), often... |
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| WHOI scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast (Maltenes?) |
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· 04/25/2010 3:07:30 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 35 replies · 1,042+ views · · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · · Apr 25, 2010 · · Unknown · |
They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that were discovered recently by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). Their report -- co-authored with researchers from UC Davis, the University of Sydney... |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Dinosaurs died from sudden temperature drop 'not comet strike', scientists claim |
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· 04/25/2010 6:50:12 PM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 41 replies · 906+ views · · Telegraph · · Apr 24, 2010 · · Andrew Hough · |
Dinosaurs were wiped out by sudden drop in temperatures, not by comet striking the planet, scientists claimed. British researchers claim that a sudden plummeting in the sea temperature of 16F (9C) more than 137 million years ago was the first step towards their eventual road to extinction. While studying fossils and minerals from the Arctic Svalbard, Norway, they concluded the sudden change in the Atlantic Gulf Stream during the Cretaceous period would almost certainly have wiped out the ''abundance'' of the world's dinosaurs. |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| Research shows part of Alaska inundated by ancient megafloods |
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· 04/28/2010 12:23:15 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 35 replies · 445+ views · · University of Washington · · Apr 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth's history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign. The event was one of at least four "megafloods" as Glacial Lake Atna breached ice dams and discharged water. The lake covered more than 3,500 square miles in the Copper River Basin northeast of Anchorage and Wasilla. The megaflood that covered the Wasilla region released as much as 1,400 cubic kilometers, or 336 cubic miles, of... |
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| Ancient Artifacts Revealed as Northern Ice Patches Melt |
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· 04/26/2010 11:35:18 AM PDT · · Posted by Frenchtown Dan · · 34 replies · 1,012+ views · · Science daily · · 4/26/2010 · · Science Daily · |
High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years. |
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| Anatolia | |
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| Flood Expedition Inspires 'Noah's Ark' in Bulgaria |
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· 08/27/2002 5:12:41 AM PDT · · Posted by Tancred · · 1 replies · 286+ views · · Reuters · · August 27, 2002 · · Reuters · |
Flood Expedition Inspires 'Noah's Ark' in Bulgaria Tue Aug 27, 7:17 AM ET SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) -- An expedition looking to prove that the great biblical flood occurred in the Black Sea has inspired Bulgarian entrepreneurs to build a replica of Noah's Ark aimed at luring tourists. The wooden vessel, 368 feet long, will shelter exotic animals while actors play the biblical figures of Noah and his family, project manager Nikolai Kanchev said Monday. The Ark will be built near the Black Sea resort of Slanchev Bryag and open for visitors next year, Kanchev told Reuters. Last year U.S. geologist... |
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| CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents |
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· 11/21/2002 11:50:10 AM PST · · Posted by Ready2go · · 129 replies · 1,311+ views · · Insight Mag · · Nov. 13, 2002 · · Timothy W. Maier · |
CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock? Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush. The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing... |
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| Update: Noah's Ark Investigation |
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· 04/15/2003 6:54:23 PM PDT · · Posted by Prince Charles · · 15 replies · 479+ views · · Insight · · 4-15-03 · · Timothy W. Maier · |
Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a... |
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| Update: Noah's Ark Investigation |
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· 04/16/2003 3:32:02 PM PDT · · Posted by green team 1999 · · 41 replies · 709+ views · · Insightmag.com · · april-15-2003 · · By Timothy W. Maier · |
Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a... |
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| The Gospel According to the Zoo |
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· 05/17/2003 7:33:29 PM PDT · · Posted by fightinJAG · · 1 replies · 241+ views · · Deutsche Welle · · May 17, 2003 · · Staff · |
The Gospel According to the Zoo Animals at the Osnabruck Zoo are part of the cast of the story of creation this summer. Zookeepers in Osnabruck, Germany, are building their own metaphorical Noah's Ark to teach school children stories from the bible, incorporating gazelles, lions and even ostriches. A gaggle of school kids is gathered in front of the goat enclosure at the local zoo in Osnabruck, Germany. Like most young children, they are intrigued by the creatures and poke their fingers through the fence, attempting to grab hold of the animal's horns. But today's lesson for the third-grade class... |
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| Noah's Ark takes ride on biblical side with ad |
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· 06/16/2003 1:14:19 PM PDT · · Posted by rattrap · · 16 replies · 294+ views · · Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online · · June 15, 2003 · · DORIS HAJEWSKI · |
Noah's Ark takes ride on biblical side with ad Attraction aims to make park weather-proof By DORIS HAJEWSKI dhajewski@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: June 15, 2003 Noah's Ark is going biblical with a new ad to promote the Wisconsin Dells water park this season. Noah's Ark Ad A coffee shop in heaven is the setting for the new 30-second TV ad, which marks a departure from the tried-and-true amusement park format that typically shows kids enjoying the rides. The new ad, running now on broadcast and cable stations around the state, has Noah and Moses competing for the attention of a pretty... |
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| Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea |
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· 07/17/2003 7:27:18 AM PDT · · Posted by presidio9 · · 65 replies · 561+ views · · Associated Press · · 7/16/2003 · |
In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. |
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· 07/17/2003 5:42:16 PM PDT · · Posted by UnklGene · · 7 replies · 172+ views · · WorldNetDaily · · July 16, 2003 · |
Posted 7/16/2003 2:45 PM Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) -- In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. Hiebert knows now why they did. After some preliminary trips, the University of Pennsylvania professor and other scientists will go on a first-ever effort to excavate ancient ships... |
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| Explorer Who Discovered The 'Titanic' Sets Out To Prove That Noah's Flood Formed Black Sea |
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· 07/22/2003 6:51:44 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 32 replies · 936+ views · · Independent (UK) · · 7-23-2003 · · David Usborne · |
Explorer who discovered the 'Titanic' sets out to prove that Noah's flood formed Black Sea By David Usborne 23 July 2003 The Bible tells us how the Great Flood happened, compelling Noah to herd all of animal life into his Ark. The skies opened and it rained incessantly, in fact for 40 days and 40 nights. But some scientists have another theory altogether and this week an expedition will leave for the Black Sea to try to prove it. Among the team will be Robert Ballard, the American underwater explorer who became famous when he found the Titanic beneath the... |
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| In Search of Noah's Ark |
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· 07/23/2003 7:03:32 AM PDT · · Posted by LOL Clinton Was Impeached · · 134 replies · 450+ views · · MSNBC · · July 21st, 2003 · · Eve Conant · |
He found the Titanic. Now Robert Ballard hunts the quarry of a lifetime July 21 issue -- Ten thousand years ago, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake in the middle of a vast, low-lying basin. Its fertile valleys and lush pastures would have given Neolithic hunter-gatherers a perfect opportunity to make the leap to a more settled, agricultural society. But then disaster struck. ABOUT 7,500 YEARS ago the ice age ended, the world's climate warmed and the seas rose. The Aegean Sea breached a narrow strip of land, where the Strait of Bosporus is today, like a dam bursting.... |
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| Believers In The Lost Ark (Noah's) |
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· 08/08/2003 6:56:40 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 24 replies · 531+ views · · The Guardian (UK) · · 8-9-2003 · · Karen Armstrong · |
Believers in the lost Ark Treating myth as fact misunderstands the meaning of religion Karen Armstrong Saturday August 9, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The explorer who discovered the Titanic beneath the Atlantic in 1985 is setting out on another underwater expedition to document Noah's flood. The Black Sea was originally a freshwater lake that in ancient times became inundated by the salty Mediterranean. Robert Ballard believes that this was a cataclysmic event that occurred about 7,500 years ago, and was possibly the deluge described in the Bible. Ballard's critics are sceptical: they argue that the infiltration of the Black Sea... |
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· 08/22/2003 10:40:24 AM PDT · · Posted by aynfan · · 27 replies · 373+ views · · Internet · · 08/22/03 · · unknown · |
IF NOAH WERE ALIVE TODAY It is the year 2003 and Noah lives in the United States. The Lord speaks to Noah and says: "In one year I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark." In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. Fearful and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark. "Remember,"... |
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| Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? |
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· 10/30/2003 1:04:06 PM PST · · Posted by sonsofliberty2000 · · 40 replies · 209+ views · · Pravda · |
Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? -- 10/30/2003 16:02 A Russian expedition managed to discover remains of the legendary ark Within the past years, results of aero and space photography have proved that there is some wooden construction in the glacier on the top of the Ararat mountain. This huge construction looks very much like an ark. But as Turks (as is known, the Ararat mountain is situated on the territory of Turkey) do not allow foreigners to this part of the country, it has not been yet found out what the construction is in fact. At the... |
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· 01/08/2004 7:02:31 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 45 replies · 310+ views · · The Guardian (UK) · · 1-9-2004 · · Duncan Campbell · |
Noah claim annoys scientists Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Friday January 9, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Noah and his ark have entered the choppy waters of a debate about the age and geological history of the Grand Canyon. For years, geologists have held that the 217-mile-long canyon in Arizona was fashioned by the Colorado river between 5m and 6m years ago, and contains some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth. But now a book sold in the offical Grand Canyon park bookstore suggests that it was created by the flood that is reported in the book of Genesis. Grand... |
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| Animals into the ark two by two? Not if you believe the BBC |
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· 03/06/2004 4:50:17 PM PST · · Posted by Pokey78 · · 76 replies · 502+ views · · The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) · · 03/07/04 · · Chris Hastings · |
The Biblical story of Noah's ark is a "great myth", devoid of any scientific or historical credibility according to a new BBC programme about the great flood. Noah's Ark, which has been produced by the Corporation's religion and ethics division, argues that there is no evidence to support the idea of an ark, a global flood or even a man called Noah. It claims that the story in the Book of Genesis was a fabrication inspired by the story of King Gilgamesh, who was caught up in a flood while trying to transport his own livestock. Gilgamesh, who was King... |
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| BBC Report: Noah's Ark "...more credible version based on Babylonian sources." |
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· 03/19/2004 10:44:41 AM PST · · Posted by yankeedame · · 111 replies · 686+ views · · BBC On Line · · Friday, 19 March, 2004 · · Jeremy Bowen · |
Last Updated: Friday, 19 March, 2004, 11:06 GMT Did Noah really build an ark? By Jeremy Bowen Presenter, Noah's Ark In the Bible, God tells Noah he has to build an ark and load a pair of every kind of animal before a great flood engulfs the world. It is widely regarded as a myth, but could it actually be true? The story of Noah and his ark is one which sticks in the minds of children and never gets forgotten. God warned Noah -- the only good man left in a world full of corruption and violence -- to... |
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| Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof |
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· 04/26/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT · · Posted by Brett66 · · 85 replies · 1,271+ views · · Space.com · · 4/26/04 · · Space.com · |
April 26 Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof Satellite photos of Mount Aratat, Turkey taken by commercial imaging satellite company Digital Globe released today are said to contain proof of the existence of the biblical Noah's Ark. The images, revealed at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (see right), are said to reveal a man-made structure at the site where the Bible states the vessel came to rest. The claim was made by Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock -- The Trinity Corporation, who according to a press release has been... |
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| Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark |
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· 04/26/2004 6:19:02 PM PDT · · Posted by wagglebee · · 29 replies · 358+ views · · FoxNews.com · · 4/26/04 · · Associated Press · |
An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat (search) where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark (search). A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock_The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide and... |
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| Satellite photos spark Noah's Ark trek |
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· 04/26/2004 10:48:33 PM PDT · · Posted by JohnHuang2 · · 19 replies · 651+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · Tuesday, April 27, 2004 · |
A team of scientists, archaeologists and forensic experts plan to climb Turkey's Mt. Ararat this summer in quest of evidence that will prove they have discovered Noah's Ark. Satellite photos taken last year at the height of a record-warm summer, give Daniel P. McGivern confidence he has discovered the biblical icon. "These new photos unequivocally show a man made object," McGivern told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington. "I am convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will prove that it is Noah's Ark," said McGivern, president of... |
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| Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark |
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· 04/27/2004 5:00:15 AM PDT · · Posted by a_Turk · · 49 replies · 519+ views · · AP · · 4/27/2004 · · HOPE YEN · |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark. A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock-The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide... |
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| Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned For Summer |
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· 04/28/2004 1:17:42 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 90 replies · 1,781+ views · · National Geographic News · · 4-27-2004 · · Hillary Mayall · |
Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned for Summer Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News April 27, 2004 Satellite pictures taken last summer of Mount Ararat in Turkey may reveal the final resting place of Noah's ark, according to Daniel McGivern, the businessman and Christian activist behind a planned summer 2004 expedition to investigate the site. "We're telling people we're 98 percent sure," said McGivern, a member of the Hawaii Christian Coalition. "In one image we saw the beams, saw the wood. I'm convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will... |
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| Flash: Noah To Appear Before Genesis 7:11 Commission [40 days, who knew what and when?] |
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· 07/08/2004 6:52:18 PM PDT · · Posted by SJackson · · 13 replies · 635+ views · · Jewish Press · · 7-7-04 · · EDWARD FINKELSTEIN · |
HARAN, Mesopotamia (Reuters) -- Excitement swept through the Fertile Crescent earlier today after it was reported that Noah, the man who played such a central role in the epic flood, would finally be appearing before the Genesis 7:11 Commission. The Commission, which is investigating why it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, has been seeking Noah -- s testimony for many months. However, Noah -- s attorneys had been refusing to allow Noah to testify due to a pending criminal investigation of allegedly illegal ark dumping. A major breakthrough came earlier this week when the Anatolian District Attorney's Office dropped all criminal charges... |
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| Noah's Ark Expedition News? |
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· 07/23/2004 4:21:47 PM PDT · · Posted by Integrityrocks · · 10 replies · 1,218+ views · · Vanity · · IngegrityRocks · |
Has anyone found any "recent" news on the Noah's Ark Expedition that was supposed to start in Turkey up Mt. Ararat on July 17th? I searched Google and found a lot of sites discussing it back in April and May, but nothing about the expedition status. Anyone else have any news? |
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| Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusion (Noah's Flood?) |
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· 07/31/2004 4:37:21 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 7 replies · 985+ views · · Newsday · · 7-31-2004 · · Richard Lewis · |
Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusions By RICHARD C. LEWIS Associated Press Writer July 30, 2004, 2:06 PM EDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea built about 7,500 years ago -- just before tidal waves inundated the homestead, submerged miles of coastline and turned the freshwater lake into a salty sea. Some believed the rectangular site of stones and wood could help solve the age-old question of whether the Black Sea's flooding was the event... |
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| Russian researchers about to unravel the mystery of Noah's Ark |
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· 12/09/2005 10:42:52 AM PST · · Posted by Red Badger · · 23 replies · 1,488+ views · · Pravda (Trust but Verify) · · 12/09/2005 · · Staff · |
The men went to explore the Ahora Gorge on the north-west slope of Ararat It has become some sort of a tradition to make sensational statements about discovery of Noah's Ark every year in October -- November. As a rule, the exact place is not mentioned at that for two reasons. Either these people know the exact location of Noah's Ark and try to keep it secret, or make such sensational statements having no grounds at all just to have their names made public in connection with the sacred mystery. Noah's Ark This year, legendary mountain-climber President of Russia's... |
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| New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania' |
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· 03/09/2006 11:30:41 PM PST · · Posted by Tim Long · · 322 replies · 10,924+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern · · Joe Kovacs · |
Digital image of 'Ararat Anomaly' has researchers taking closer look A new, high-resolution digital image of what has become known as the "Ararat Anomaly" is reigniting interest in the hunt for Noah's Ark. Satellite image of 'Ararat Anomaly,' taken by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Satellite in 2003 and now made public for the first time (courtesy: DigitalGlobe) The location of the anomaly on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey has been under investigation from afar by ark hunters for years, but it has remained unexplored, with the government of Turkey not granting any scientific expedition permission to explore on... |
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| How Big Was Noah's Ark |
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· 03/11/2006 10:25:09 AM PST · · Posted by DouglasKC · · 245 replies · 7,470+ views · · biblestudy.org · · Unknown · · A. Mendez · |
How BIG was Noah's Ark?How many animals did Noah's Ark hold?"And God said unto Noah, . . . Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt... |
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| Why Noah's Flood was Local |
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· 05/29/2006 6:28:25 AM PDT · · Posted by truthfinder9 · · 253 replies · 2,876+ views · · · |
I often hear skeptics point to the belief in the global flood as a reason to not believe Christianity. I also see "Christian" creationist groups condem other Christians who believe the local flood is the literal interpretation. It's time we start telling "Christian" groups like ICR and AIG to stop turning people away from the Bible and tell them to stop their childish, immature attacks on other Christians (AIG recently refused to be subject to review, now there's the making of a cult!). And it's time for Christians to stop blindly believing everything they are told, just because it comes... |
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| Noah's Ark, Pieces Intact, Found |
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· 06/15/2006 7:56:07 AM PDT · · Posted by Michael_Michaelangelo · · 160 replies · 10,767+ views · · Koenig's International News · · 6/14/06 · · Bill Wilson · |
Wash -- June 14 -- KIN -- On June 5th, Bible Historian and explorer Bob Cornuke led an expedition of 15 geologists, historians, archeologists, scientists and attorneys on an exhausting mission 13,300 feet above sea level to locate and document the tremendous sections of what is thought to be Noah's Ark located in the Ararat mountain range six hours North of Tehran, Iran. It had been essentially buried beneath the preservation of glaciers until last year when Iran recorded the hottest year on record which melted some of the snowcap revealing 450 by 75-foot footprint of the "object." Noah's Ark was claimed to be found in... |
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| Noah's Ark? For Real |
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· 06/30/2006 6:50:20 AM PDT · · Posted by markedmannerf · · 38 replies · 835+ views · · World View Weekend · · June 16 2006 · · Brannon S. Howse · |
How many times have you yawned at the claim "Noah's Ark Has Been Discovered"? Right, you say, and Elvis has been sighted again, too. People who hoped to find the famous vessel and the legendary voice have been pretty much in the same boat (so to speak) -- No proof. Until today. Led by explorer, adventurer, and featured Worldview Weekend speaker Dr. Bob Cornuke, a fourteen man crew returned this week from Iran bearing stunning evidence that theirs is the long-anticipated even coveted discovery of the remains of Noah's Ark. Bob's team consisted of a Who's Who of business, law, and ministry... |
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| Team believes it found Noah's Ark (In Iran) |
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· 06/30/2006 8:26:43 AM PDT · · Posted by DannyTN · · 214 replies · 5,827+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · 6/30/06 · · WorldNetDaily · |
A 14-man crew that included evangelical apologist Josh McDowell says it returned from a trek to a mountain in Iran with possible evidence of the remains of Noah's Ark. The group, led by explorer Bob Cornuke, found an unusual object perched on a slope 13,120 feet above sea level. Cornuke, president of the archeological Base Institute and a veteran of nearly 30 expeditions in search of Bible artifacts and locations, said he is cautiously,... |
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| Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran? |
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· 07/07/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT · · Posted by freedom44 · · 385 replies · 9,038+ views · · National Geographic · · 7/7/06 · · Kate Ravilious · |
High in the mountains of northwestern Iran, a Christian archaeology expedition has discovered a rock formation that its members say resembles the fabled Noah's ark. The team discovered the prominent boat-shaped rocks at just over 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) on Mount Suleiman in Iran's Elburz mountain range. "It looks uncannily like wood," said Robert Cornuke, president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE), the Palmer Lake, Colorado-based group that launched the expedition. Photos taken by BASE members show a prow-shaped rock outcrop, which the team says resembles petrified wood, emerging from a ridge. "We have had [cut] thin... |
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| Flood of claims for 'Noah's Ark' |
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· 07/17/2006 9:45:55 AM PDT · · Posted by SirLinksalot · · 44 replies · 1,715+ views · · WorldNetdaily.Com · · 07/16/2006 · · Joe Kovacs · |
Legendary vessel of Genesis story goes from nowhere to everywhere -- After centuries of scouring the Earth for Noah's Ark, claims are now flooding in that the legendary vessel of the Bible has been found. Last month, headlines screamed that a Texas team of archaelogists believed they had possibly located the biblical boat in Iran. But hang on to the "Hallelujah!" chorus a little longer. There are numerous claims about the final resting place, from Ararat to Armenia. With modern... |
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| Noah's Ark Discovered ... Again and Again |
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· 09/05/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT · · Posted by Central Scrutiniser · · 249 replies · 4,626+ views · · Skeptical Inquirer · · 9-5-06 · · Benjamin Radford · |
In this world there are things that seem on the verge of being discovered every so often, yet never quite materialize. The "Lost City" of Atlantis, for example, has been "found" at least a half dozen times. One researcher is pretty sure it is in Bolivia; another says it is Antarctica; a third claims that Bimini beachrock may be from the lost civilization. So it is with Noah's Ark. The difference is, of course, that the implications of Noah's Ark actually being found extend far beyond archaeology. The weight of all the paired animals in the world is nothing compared... |
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| Purported Sightings Of Noah's Ark |
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· 07/13/2007 6:50:08 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 9 replies · 751+ views · · Planet Preterist · |
Details of the reported sightings and finds are described below... |
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| The Search For Noah's Ark |
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· 07/19/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 71 replies · 3,147+ views · · The Parent Company · · Kelly L. Segraves · |
The first sightings of the ark in more modern times took place in 1856 when a group of English scientists climbed the mountain to search for the Ark. They asked a young Armenian boy, Haji Yearman, and his father to guide them up the mountain and show them the ark of Noah. Haji Yearman and his father did just that! This upset the scientists, because their object was to prove that the ark was not there. These scientists were atheists, and they tried to burn the ark. They said it would not burn, so they tried to destroy it, but... |
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| Marine Team Finds Surprising Evidence Supporting A Great Biblical Flood |
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· 09/10/2007 8:00:41 AM PDT · · Posted by Ben Mugged · · 25 replies · 1,401+ views · · Science Daily · · September 10, 2007 · · Unattributed · |
Did the great flood of Noah's generation really occur thousands of years ago? Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami? Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain forever a mystery? ~snip~ "When I was looking for a partner, I needed to find a team of marine scientists who were leaders in their fields," says Weil, a Swedish environmental philanthropist who helped conceive and fund the idea of giving a free, floating marine research lab to any scientist who needed it. "I didn't want us to be just another Greenpeace group of environmental activists. My dream... |
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| Did A Comet Cause The Great Flood? |
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· 11/21/2007 2:17:23 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 119 replies · 679+ views · · Discover Magazine · · 11-15-2007 · · Scott Carney · |
Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?The universal human myth may be the first example of disaster reporting. by Scott Carney11-15-2007 The Fenambosy chevrons at the tip of Madagascar. Image courtesy of Dallas Abbott The serpent's tails coil together menacingly. A horn juts sharply from its head. The creature looks as if it might be swimming through a sea of stars. Or is it making its way up a sheer basalt cliff? For Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, there is no confusion as he looks at this ancient petroglyph, scratched into a rock by a... |
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| Modern Claims To Have Seen The Ark Of Noah |
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· 12/30/2007 6:28:05 AM PST · · Posted by Fennie · · 33 replies · 269+ views · · origins.swau.edu · · Lee Spencer and Jean Luc Lienard · |
The story of Haji Yearam is the first known to us where a person claims to have seen the ark himself. He was born in 1832 in Armenia, moved at sometime to Oakland, California, where he lived until he died in 1920. "When Haji was a large boy, but not yet a man fully grown, there came to his home some strangers. If I remember correctly there were three vile men who did not believe the Bible and did not believe in the existence of a personal God. They were scientists and evolutionists. They were on this expedition specifically to... |
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| Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming |
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· 01/24/2008 3:04:09 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 33 replies · 114+ views · · Canada West · · Randy Boswell · |
Ancient Canadian flood cascaded changes across Europe -- A British scientist has found evidence linking the catastrophic collapse of a glacial ice dam in Canada more than 8,000 years ago and the rapid spread of agriculture across Europe around the same time. The dramatic discharge of freshwater from prehistoric Lake Agassiz -- which covered much of Central Canada at the end of the last ice age -- has long been blamed for altering global climate patterns and raising sea levels around the world by at... |
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| Noah's Ark nestled on Mount Ararat |
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· 02/17/2008 5:05:48 PM PST · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 281 replies · 1,245+ views · · The Peninsula · · January 19, 2008 · · Satish Kanady · |
Dogubayazit (Turkey's Iran-Armenian Border) -- For the first time in the seven decade-long history of the search for the legendary Noah's Ark, a Turkish-Hong Kong exploration team on Tuesday came out with "material evidence", to prove that the Ark was nestled on Mount Ararat, Turkey's highest mountain peak bordering Iran and Armenia. A panel of experts, comprising Turkish authorities, veteran mountaineers, archaeologists, geologists and members of Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International, also displayed an almost one-metre-long peice of petrified wood before the media and specially invited international experts. The experts claimed it to be a part of a long... |
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| Noah's Ark -- Fact Not Fiction |
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· 08/22/2008 9:59:31 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 81 replies · 1,686+ views · · rsanoa.home.comcast.net · · Ray Anderson · |
In 1943 during WW2, an army Sgt., Ed Davis, was working in Iran near the Turkish border, in charge of locals hired by our army to build a road through Iran to the Soviet border, which would carry supplies to the Soviets instead of flying them in. In short, Ed did a tremendous favor for a little Kurdish village near Ararat. His workers were mostly Kurds and the chief of the village came to Ed and asked if he would like to see Noah's Ark. He said the summer on the mountain had been hottest in many years and the... |
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| Noah's ark booth won't be a part of Lincoln event |
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· 10/20/2008 8:28:26 AM PDT · · Posted by stan_sipple · · 15 replies · 356+ views · · Individual.com · · 10-18-2008 · · Christopher Burbach · |
In the latest flap over religion in public places, a Lincoln restaurateur and Christian church have decided to pull their Noah's ark booth out of the Lincoln Children's Zoo's annual "Boo at the Zoo" trick-or-treating event. The reason? A new zoo diversity policy forbade Bible verses on the booth's pizza coupons, and the restaurant owner and church leaders did not want to go along with that ruling. The owner of the daVinci's restaurant chain, Kelly Knudson, said he and First Covenant Evangelical Church leaders decided to pull out despite a 15-year history of participating in the event. For all those... |
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| Speciation and the Animals on the Ark |
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· 04/15/2009 8:21:59 PM PDT · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 25 replies · 758+ views · · ICR · · April 2009 · · Daniel Criswell, Ph.D. · |
Speciation and the Animals on the Ark by Daniel Criswell, Ph.D.* Many people who use biological data to support an old-earth position believe that the appearance of millions of animal species does not support a young earth interpretation of creation. Nor do they think that a recent global Flood would support the existence of a great number of animals today if Noah only took two of each kind on the Ark. However, the science of how speciation occurs, and the definition of a species versus the biblical kind, does explain how many variations of the same kind of animal can... |
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| News to Note: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint |
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· 04/18/2009 11:57:10 AM PDT · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 19 replies · 1,019+ views · · AiG · · April 18, 2009 · |
Read these stories and much more by clicking the excerpt link below: 1. Wall Street Journal: "Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions" 2. ScienceNOW: "Our Ancestors Were No Swingers" 3. National Geographic News: "First Tool Users Were Sea Scorpions?" 4. LiveScience: "Three Subgroups of Neanderthals Identified" 5. BBC News: "Stem Cells 'Can Treat Diabetes'" (adult stem cells, that is...) 6. New Scientist: "Praying to God Is Like Talking to a Friend" And much much more at... |
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| Forbidden Arkeology: "The Riddle Of Ararat" |
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· 06/13/2009 3:58:37 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 50 replies · 3,279+ views · · Fortean Times · · By Robin Simmons · |
There's a well-known account of ten year old Georgie Hagopian, who saw Noah's Ark while climbing Ararat with his uncle in 1904. The date isn't precise but this was around the time my grandfather was in the region and heard convincing stories of the Ark, preserved in ice and snow, still occasionally visible. My grandfather died in 1980, aged 106. As a boy, I listened to his adventures as a doctor in Eastern Turkey and Russia between 1904 and 1910. He worked in the very shadow of Greater Ararat -- the legendary Biblical landing place of Noah's ship. My grandfather... |
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| Claudio Schranz, The Guide Who Climbed The Mountain And Found A Girder Of The Ark Of Noah |
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· 06/21/2009 6:10:51 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 21 replies · 1,832+ views · · mmmgroup.altervista.org · |
The girder comes out from the glacier of Mount Ararat, at an altitude of 4200 meters. It's visible to the naked eye and the Alpine guide Claudio Schranz of Macugnaga has no more doubts: it's a piece of the Noah's Ark. He saw and photographed it at a distance of five meters. It's the morning of December, 2nd, Schranz is an Alpinist and he's 51 years old, he has hundredths of expeditions in all the world to his credits. |
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| Wooden Beam Of Noah's Ark On Mount Ararat |
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· 06/22/2009 7:52:45 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 122 replies · 6,197+ views · · YouTube · · 2002 · |
On the 2nd December 2002 Claudio Schranz of our group and alpine guide has been able to film clearly a beam of Noah's Ark protruding out of the ice on Mount Ararat. It was found at 4000m between the beginning of the Parrot glacier. |
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| Noah's Ark Found? |
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· 06/24/2009 8:01:37 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 44 replies · 2,914+ views · · YouTube · |
Many believe that Mount Ararat in Turkey hold the remains of Noah's Ark. |
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| Noah's Ark On Mount Ararat |
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· 06/25/2009 6:06:17 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 10 replies · 1,721+ views · · YouTube · |
Pictures of a piece of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat (meaning: sacred land or high land), eastern Turkey or former western Armenia, because Noah's Ark is in pieces! |
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| Noahs Ark On Ararat On The Kurdistan Armenian Boarder |
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· 06/26/2009 3:44:07 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 17 replies · 1,539+ views · · YouTube · |
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| Virginia Man To Search For Noah's Ark In Turkey |
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· 06/28/2009 5:17:15 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 46 replies · 2,186+ views · · FOX News · · February 2, 2009 · · Associated Press · |
Saddened by the wickedness of man, God directs the righteous Noah to build an ark for his family and two of each species of animal. Together, they ride the ark through 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rains that God unleashes upon the Earth. And when the waters subside, Noah and the animals return to land. "That seems almost like a fairy story," said archaeologist Randall Price, who is director of Liberty University's new Center for Judaic Studies. "But we believe it was an actual event." This summer Price, 57, plans to continue on a journey to prove just... |
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| T. Rex Cousin Evolved 60 Million Years Too Early |
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· 09/29/2009 10:10:39 AM PDT · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 45 replies · 2,033+ views · · ICR News · · September 29, 2009 · · Brian Thomas, M.S. · |
The most popular dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, a Latin term that loosely translates as "king lizard." Based on evolutionary assumptions, scientists have long held that these dinosaurs lived for "only" 3 million years, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago. A fossil looking remarkably like a small version of T. rex, however, has been located in a much lower rock layer.[1] Using the evolutionary dates assigned to the relevant strata, this adds 60 million years to the T. rex timeline. If the evolutionary interpretation was this wrong about one creature, can it be trusted on the rest of the... |
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| Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible) |
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· 10/18/2009 11:16:37 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 72 replies · 4,045+ views · · Spirit Daily · · October 17, 2009 · |
This is amazing. The wood alone would have cost him a fortune. Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible) In Schagen , NetherlandsThe massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was opened to the first crowd of curious townsfolk to behold the wonder. Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark , built by Dutch creationist, Johan Huibers, as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high an d 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a... |
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· 12/03/2009 8:35:52 AM PST · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 371 replies · 4,852+ views · · CMI · · December 1, 2009 · · Dave Woetzel · |
Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science --snip-- Today, the Darwinian scientific consensus persists within almost every large university and governmental institution. But around the middle of the 20th century an interesting new trend emerged and has since become increasingly established. Evolutionary theorists have been forced, step by step, to steadily retreat from the evidence in the field. Some of the evidences mentioned earlier in this article were demonstrated to be frauds and hoaxes. Other discoveries have been a blow to the straightforward expectations and predictions of evolutionists. Increasingly, they have been forced to tack ad hoc mechanisms onto Darwin's... |
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| Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular |
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· 01/02/2010 11:48:34 AM PST · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 54 replies · 2,668+ views · · guardian.co.uk · · Jan. 1, 2010 · · Maev Kennedy · |
That they processed aboard the enormous floating wildlife collection two-by-two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside. According to newly translated instructions inscribed in ancient Babylonian on a clay tablet telling the story of the ark, the vessel that saved one virtuous man, his family and the animals from god's watery wrath was not the pointy-prowed craft of popular imagination but rather a giant circular reed raft. The now battered tablet, aged about 3,700 years, was found somewhere in the Middle East by... |
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| 'Noah's Ark' discovery on Turkish mountain |
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· 04/26/2010 9:01:21 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 93 replies · 2,424+ views · · AFP · · April 27, 2010 · |
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark -- 4000m up a mountain in Turkey. The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat. "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told... |
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| Noah's Ark found in Turkey |
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· 04/27/2010 8:28:30 AM PDT · · Posted by evets · · 257 replies · 6,670+ views · · THE SUN · · TODAY · · STAFF REPORTER · |
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed. A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old -- around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it." He said the structure contained several compartments,... |
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| Evangelists claim Noahs Ark Found |
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· 04/27/2010 9:29:08 AM PDT · · Posted by marstegreg · · 82 replies · 3,227+ views · · World Net Daily · · April 27, 2010 · · Joe Kovacs · |
This story contains much more information and additional photos than The Sun. |
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| Video Shows What Researchers Believe to be Remains of Noah's Ark -- Video |
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· 04/27/2010 9:35:50 AM PDT · · Posted by Federalist Patriot · · 23 replies · 1,442+ views · · Freedom's Lighthouse · · April 27, 2010 · · Brian · |
Here is video showing Chinese and Turkish Evangelical Christian researchers who are virtually sure they have found the remains of Noah's Ark atop Turkey's Mt. Ararat. The video shows them revealing wooden planks and compartments in the structure. You can hear them knocking on wood. The Bible teaches that at the end of the great worldwide flood, the Ark came to rest on a mountain. A Dutch researcher has confirmed he believes this is Noah's Ark. |
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| Evangelical Explorers Claim To Have Found Noah's Ark |
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· 04/28/2010 2:11:07 PM PDT · · Posted by Patriot1259 · · 20 replies · 506+ views · · TheCypressTimes.com · · 04/28/2010 · · John G. Winder · |
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey, said: "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it." According to Genesis 8:4, once the flood waters receded Noah's Ark "came to rest on the mountains of Ararat." That is where the team of Chinese and Turkish Evangelical Christians found what they believe to be the famed Ark. The group says that carbon dating proves the relics found are 4,800 year old which correlates to the time-frame given... |
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| Pics, Video From Alleged Noah's Ark Find |
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· 04/27/2010 1:02:13 PM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 63 replies · 3,316+ views · · Dakota Voice · · April 27, 2010 · · By Bob Ellis · |
The Sun, Fox News and others are reporting that a group of Chinese and Turkish Christians claim to have found the remains of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat about 13,000 ft up. |
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| Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop? |
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· 04/28/2010 4:56:07 AM PDT · · Posted by urroner · · 45 replies · 1,031+ views · · Fox News · · April 27, 2010 · |
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah's Ark. The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical stories. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery, said: "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's... |
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| Scientists discover wooden structure believed to be Noah's Ark |
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· 04/28/2010 5:56:26 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 61 replies · 1,879+ views · · cna · · April 27, 2010 · |
A Chinese explorer inside one of the wooden structures on Mt. Ararat. Credit: Noah's Ark Ministries International. -- A Chinese-Turkish exploration team reported on Sunday that they have discovered a wooden structure on the top of Mt. Ararat in Turkey which they believe to be the biblical Noah's Ark. |
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| Latest Claim of Noah's Ark Discovery Like Others for Now, Experts Say |
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· 04/29/2010 6:48:14 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 22 replies · 499+ views · · Christian Post · · 04/29/2010 · · Eric Young · |
Despite the notable lack of significant evidence, the media and the blogosphere are abuzz over the cries of a team of Chinese and Turkish explorers who claim that the wooden structure they found on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey is none other than Noah's Ark. Experts in history, archaeology, and bibliology, meanwhile, are making note of the claim but not taking the bait. They say they've heard the cries before and will need a lot more than the confirmation of 4,800-year-old wood to take the claims seriously. "Periodically, there are announcements, almost always by enthusiasts without real background in archaeology,... |
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| Noah's Ark found in Turkey (VIDEO) |
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· 04/29/2010 8:37:29 AM PDT · · Posted by FreeManWhoCan · · 26 replies · 938+ views · · YouTube · |
See video |
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| Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey |
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· 04/30/2010 3:13:27 PM PDT · · Posted by FootBall · · 35 replies · 573+ views · · The Christian Science Monitor · · April 30th, 2010 · · Stephen Kurczy · |
Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey The Hong Kong-based team rebutted skepticism over their claims of finding Noah's Ark in Turkey, though they said further research is needed to prove beyond doubt that they have located the fabled biblical boat. |
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| Video: Package №1: Bloody Soviet pages of Katyn massacre published |
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· 04/28/2010 3:08:43 PM PDT · · Posted by kronos77 · · 18 replies · 700+ views · · YouTube · |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkRB3wsj2E&feature=player_embedded |
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| Man claims he ate, drank nothing for 70 years |
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· 04/29/2010 4:19:30 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 62 replies · 1,525+ views · · couriermail.com.au · · April 29, 2010 · · staff writers · |
SCIENTISTS are studying an 82-year-old man who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years. Prahlad Jani's claims are being put to the test at a hospital in Ahmedabad, where he is being closely monitored and studied by India's Defence Research Development Organisation, which believes he may have a quality which could help save lives, The Telegraph reports. He has so far spent six days without food or water under the strict observation of doctors who say his body is yet to show any signs of hunger or dehydration. Mr Jani is regarded as a "breatharian"... |
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| Historic medical conference finds Bolivar may have been poisoned (medicinally) |
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· 04/28/2010 6:07:52 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 14 replies · 275+ views · · U of Md Medical Center · · Apr 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Doctors reconsider health and death of 'El Libertador,' general who freed South AmericaCould one of South America's greatest military figures have died from a deadly poison, rather than the tuberculosis assumed at the time of his death in 1830? The mysterious illness and death of Simon Bolivar -- known as "El Libertador" or "The Liberator" -- is the medical mystery in question at this year's Historical Clinicopathological Conference (CPC), sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore. This conference is devoted to the modern medical diagnosis of disorders... |
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