Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #8
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Anatolia
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Oldest Swords Found In Turkey (3,300BC)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/30/2003 4:37:06 PM PST · 25 replies · 104+ views
Discovery Channel | 3-25-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi
Oldest Swords Found in Turkey By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News March 25, 2003 ó The most ancient swords ever found were forged 5,000 years ago in what is today Turkey, according to Italian archaeologists who announced the results of chemical analysis at a recent meeting in Florence. Digging at Arslantepe, a site in the Taurus mountains of southeast Anatolia, Marcella Frangipane, professor at the department of historical science, archaeology and anthropology of antiquities of Rome University, found nine swords dating back to about 3,300 B.C. Blade and hilt were cast in one piece; moreover, three swords were beautifully inlaid with...
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Britain
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Genetic Survey Reveals Hidden Celts Of England
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/06/2001 6:35:33 AM PST · 215 replies · 704+ views
The Sunday Times (UK) | 12-02-2001 | John Elliott/Tom Robbins
SUNDAY DECEMBER 02 2001 Genetic survey reveals hidden Celts of England JOHN ELLIOTT AND TOM ROBBINS THE Celts of Scotland and Wales are not as unique as some of them like to think. New research has revealed that the majority of Britons living in the south of England share the same DNA as their Celtic counterparts. The findings, based on the DNA analysis of more than 2,000 people, poses the strongest challenge yet to the conventional historical view that the ancient Britons were forced out of most of England by hordes of Anglo-Saxon invaders. It suggests that far from being ...
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Irish, Scots And Welsh Not Celtic - Scientist
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/09/2004 3:59:23 PM PDT · 48 replies · 1,000+ views
IOL | 9-9-2004
Irish, Scots and Welsh not Celts - scientists September 09 2004 at 08:15PM Dublin - Celtic nations like Ireland and Scotland have more in common with the Portuguese and Spanish than with "Celts" - the name commonly used for a group of people from ancient Alpine Europe, scientists say. "There is a received wisdom that the origin of the people of these islands lie in invasions or migrations... but the affinities don't point eastwards to a shared origin," said Daniel Bradley, co-author of a genetic study into Celtic origins. Early historians believed the Celts - thought to have come from...
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Six More Bodies Found Near 'King Of Stonehenge' Site
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 05/21/2003 4:39:06 PM PDT · 30 replies · 105+ views
The Scotsman | 5-21-2003 | Stuart Coles
Six More Bodies Found Near ëKing of Stonehengeí Site By Stuart Coles, PA News Archaeologists have discovered six more bodies near the grave of the so-called ìKing of Stonehengeî, it was announced today. The remains of four adults and two children were found at a site in Amesbury, Wiltshire. It was about half-a-mile from that of the Amesbury Archer, the Bronze Age man who was buried with the earliest gold found in Britain. He was dubbed by the media as King of Stonehenge ñ so-called because it is thought he might have had a major role in creating Stonehenge. Tests...
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Viking Burial Site Found in England
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Posted by 68skylark
On News/Activism 09/07/2004 7:53:26 AM PDT · 123 replies · 1,722+ views
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via NY Times | September 7, 2004 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON (AP) -- Archaeologists in northwestern England have found a burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewelry, fire-making materials and riding equipment, officials said Monday. The site, discovered near Cumwhitton, is believed to date to the early 10th century, and archaeologists working there called it the first Viking burial ground found in Britain. The only other known Viking cemetery was found in Ingleby east of Cumwhitton. It was excavated in the 1940s, but the bodies had been cremated and not buried. Local metal specialist Peter Adams made the find at the end of March...
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India
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Money talks: Ancient coins refute myths
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 02/02/2003 4:14:29 PM PST · 13 replies · 36+ views
The Times of India. | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2003 01:34:12 AM | SHABNAM MINWALLA
Money talks: Ancient coins refute myths SHABNAM MINWALLA TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2003 01:34:12 AM ] MUMBAI: Centuries before Dire Straits coined the phrase, medieval Indians had cracked the secret of ëMoney for nothingí. When Mohammad bin Tughlaq introduced copper currency in the 14th century, he made a critical mistakeóhe failed to put an official stamp on the coins. Soon, every housewife was melting her copper vessels, every mohalla had sprouted a mint. ìIn those times, the face value of a coin was the same as its intrinsic value. Tughlaqís idea of substituting silver coins with token...
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Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar unraveled
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 07/21/2002 1:15:49 PM PDT · 40 replies · 161+ views
Press Trust of India | Sunday, July 21, 2002 | Editorial Staff
Nation Monday, July 22, 2002 † Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar unraveled New Delhi, July 18: Experts at the Indian Instituteof Technology have resolved the mystery behind the 1,600-year-old iron pillar in Delhi, which has never corroded despite the capital's harsh weather. Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of "misawite", a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen, has protected the cast iron pillar from rust. The protective film took form within three years after erection of the pillar and has been growing ever so slowly since then. After 1,600 years, the film has grown just...
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Tamil Trade
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/11/2004 8:07:01 PM PDT · 1 reply · 1+ view
INTAMM | 1997 | Xavier S. Thani Nayagam
Whatever study has been made so far of the Tamil texts side by side with comparable data available in Strabo, Pliny, the Periplus Maris Erythraei and Ptolomey, and with the archaeological and numismatic finds in Southern India, has shown that the Tamil texts contain illuminating corroborative evidence. Discussions of Roman Tamil trade made by Jean Filliozat, Mortimer Wheeler, Pierre Meile, E.H. Warmington and M.P. Charlesworth have taken into consideration the tests interpreted by V. Kangasabai Pillai in his book the "Tamils one thousand eight hundred years Ago". 1904.
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Rome and Italy
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The Pacific's Pompeii
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/11/2004 2:39:03 PM PDT · 13 replies · 380+ views
New Zealand Herald | 9-11-2004 | Stuard Bedford
The Pacific's Pompeii 11.09.2004Stuart Bedford displays a piece of Lapita pottery. Picture/ Amos Chapple When New Zealand archaeologist Dr Stuart Bedford was handed a large piece of ancient broken pottery in Vanuatu this year he thought it was a joke. At Port Vila for a wedding, all thoughts of the nuptials deserted him as he stared at the piece of highly decorated Lapita pottery. "I thought I must have been in another country," he said. Finds of Lapita, the distinctive patterned pottery that marks the movement of the first settlers into eastern Melanesia and western Polynesia, are relatively uncommon on...
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Middle East
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Court bars removal of Temple Mount artifacts
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Posted by Nachum
On News/Activism 09/07/2004 7:46:18 AM PDT · 14 replies · 457+ views
Jerusalem Post | Sep. 6, 2004 | Etgar Lefkovits
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a temporary injunction barring the state from removing thousands of tons of earth and rubble mixed with assorted archaeologically rich artifacts laying on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, just hours after a group of leading Israeli archaeologists and public officials filed a petition to the High Court of Justice against their removal. The swift interim ruling issued by Justice Jacob Turkel - which was handed down the afternoon after the non-partisan 'Committee Against the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount' took the Government of Israel and the Antiquities Authority to court - bars the state...
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Ethnic Groups in Philistia
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/08/2004 10:41:26 PM PDT · 6 replies · 72+ views
Giving Goliath His Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines | Neal Bierling
The name Goliath, like Achish, is not Semitic, but rather Anatolian (McCarter 1980, 291, Mitchell 1967, 415; Wainwright 1959, 79). Not all agree though; the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2:524) proposes that Goliath may have been a remnant of one of the aboriginal groups of giants of Palestine who now were in the employ of the Philistines. [1. Naveh (1985, 9, 13 n. 14) states that Ikausu, the name of the king of Ekron in the seventh century b.c., is a non-Semitic name that can be associated with that of the Achish of Gath in David's time. The name in...
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Herodotus' History
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/09/2004 10:31:01 PM PDT · 4 replies · 70+ views
The History: Thalia, the Internet Classics Archive | 440 B.C. | Herodotus, tr by George Rawlinson
There is a great river in Arabia, called the Corys, which empties itself into the Erythraean sea. The Arabian king, they say, made a pipe of the skins of oxen and other beasts, reaching from this river all the way to the desert, and so brought the water to certain cisterns which he had dug in the desert to receive it. It is a twelve days' journey from the river to this desert tract. And the water, they say, was brought through three different pipes to three separate places.
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Persia
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2,500-year-old charter of rights to revisit Iran [Cyrus the Great]
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 09/10/2004 8:56:28 PM PDT · 16 replies · 217+ views
Smccdi/News.Indep.Co.uk | 9/11/04 | Louise Jury
The British Museum is to lend Iran one of its most famous antiquities, which is regarded as the first charter of human rights, 30 years after its loan to the Shah triggered a fierce diplomatic row. The inscriptions on the clay drum known as the Cyrus Cylinder detail the conquest of the Babylon of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar by the 6th-century BC Persian king, Cyrus the Great. It was the Iraq/Iran war of the time. The victory made Cyrus the leader of the first world empire, stretching from Egypt to China. Cyrus proved a model ruler. He describes on the cylinder...
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In Search of Zarathustra [Pre-Islamic Iran once again making a strong come back]
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 09/05/2004 8:09:50 PM PDT · 121 replies · 1,302+ views
Boston Review | 9/5/04 | Jehangir Pocha
Despite the tendency to see Iran as an Islamic monolith and the attempts of the ruling clerics in Tehran to cast it as such, the full complexity of Iranian identity is little understood and almost never discussedóeven by Iranians themselves. Long before it was absorbed into the Islamic empire by Arab armies under Caliphs Umar and Uthman in the mid-seventh century, Persia had been the birthplace of Zarathustianism, or Zoroastrianism, the worldís first monotheistic religion.The religion was forged some 3,500 years ago around the philosopher-prophet Zarathustraís teachings, which emphasized personal morality and a conscious choice between good and evil. From...
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Pacific
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Kon-Tiki Replica To Sail, Study Pacific In 2005
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/06/2004 4:20:33 PM PDT · 14 replies · 263+ views
ABC Science News | 9-6-2004 | Alister Doyle
Kon-Tiki Replica to Sail, Study Pacific in 2005 Sept. 6, 2004 ó By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A replica of the Kon-Tiki balsa raft will sail the Pacific in 2005 to study mounting environmental threats to the oceans since Thor Heyerdahl made his daredevil 1947 voyage, organizers said on Monday. One of Heyerdahl's grandsons will be among the six-strong crew for the trip from Peru aiming to reach Tahiti, about 310 miles west of the Raroia atoll where the Kon-Tiki ran aground after traveling 4,970 miles in 101 days. Heyerdahl's original voyage defied many experts' predictions that...
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Maori Men And Women From Different Homelands
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/06/2004 5:15:41 PM PDT · 20 replies · 600+ views
ABC Science News | 3-27-2003 | Adele Whyte
Maori men and women from different homelands Thursday, 27 March 2003 "A New Zealand Warrior and his Wife", an engraving from the journal of Captain James Cook's 1784 visit on Endeavour (Pic: State Library of NSW) The male and female ancestors of todayís Maori people of New Zealand originated from different parts of the world, molecular biologists have said. Their claims, made by Masters student Adele Whyte, the Tuapapa Putaiao Maori Fellow at Victoria University in Wellington, and her supervisor Professor Geoff Chambers, will be aired on ABC-TVís science program Catalyst tonight. By comparing the DNA of people from Asia,...
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Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/06/2004 8:04:53 AM PDT · 29 replies · 221+ views
Reuters | Mon Sep 6, 2004 09:24 AM ET | staff
Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said skeletal evidence pointed strongly to this unpalatable truth and hinted that recovered DNA would corroborate it... She said there was very strong evidence that the first migration came from Australia via Japan and Polynesia and down the Pacific Coast of America. Skulls of a people with distinctively long and narrow heads discovered in Mexico and California predated by several thousand years the more rounded features of the skulls of native Americans. One particularly well preserved skull of a long-face woman had been carbon dated to 12,700 years ago, whereas the...
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Divers Find Ancient Skeleton in Mexico
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Posted by NCjim
On News/Activism 09/09/2004 8:02:57 PM PDT · 32 replies · 651+ views
Associated Press | September 9, 2004
Divers making dangerous probes through underwater caves near the Caribbean coast have discovered what appears to be one of oldest human skeletons in the Americas, archaeologists announced at a seminar that was ending on Friday. The report by a team from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History exploits a new way of investigating the past. Most coastal settlements by early Americans now lie deep beneath the sea, which during the Ice Age was hundreds of feet lower than now. Researchers at the international ``Early Man in America'' seminar here also reported other ancient finds -- including a California bone...
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'First Americans Were Australian'
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/15/2003 9:18:19 PM PDT · 87 replies · 163+ views
BBC | 6-15-2003
'First Americans were Australian' This is the face of the first known American, Lucia The first Americans were descended from Australian aborigines, according to evidence in a new BBC documentary. The skulls suggest faces like those of Australian aborigines The programme, Ancient Voices, shows that the dimensions of prehistoric skulls found in Brazil match those of the aboriginal peoples of Australia and Melanesia. Other evidence suggests that these first Americans were later massacred by invaders from Asia. Until now, native Americans were believed to have descended from Asian ancestors who arrived over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and...
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Liberal 'History 101' takes a hit?
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Posted by Mr_Fantastic_1776
On General/Chat 08/18/2004 1:56:04 PM PDT · 8 replies · 107+ views
The Equinox Project
Archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnographers work hand in hand with historians. Their job is to present information that protects and preserves political history. As a unified group these folks soundly condemn the work of Dr. Fell. They do so without basis in fact and a vengence undeserved. (See Dr. Norman Totten's response here.) His revelation that the Celtic, Arabic and other People visited, emigrated and traded with Native Americans is simple truth. History hides these facts from the general population. They would rather keep the idea that the Native Americans were illiterate savages, incapable of civilized behavior. Nothing could be farther...
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Tribe challenges American origins (South Pacific Rim peoples were 1st Americans)
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Posted by yankeedame
On News/Activism 09/08/2004 2:43:26 PM PDT · 20 replies · 324+ views
BBC On-Line | Tuesday, 7 September, 2004 | Paul Rincon
Last Updated: Tuesday, 7 September, 2004, 14:26 GMT 15:26 UK Tribe challenges American origins By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff, at the BA festival The skulls (r) are long and narrow, not in keeping with Native Indians' broader, rounder features. Some of the earliest settlers of America may have come from Australia, southern Asia, and the Pacific, new research suggests. Traditional theories have held that the first Americans originated from northern Asia. Dr Silvia Gonzalez conducted a study of ancient bones found in Mexico and found that they have very different characteristics to Native Americans. The results are...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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An Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/06/2004 8:16:38 AM PDT · 64 replies · 212+ views
American Scientist | September-October 2001 | Armand H. Delsemme
Abstract: The young Earth appear to have been bombarded by comets for several hundred million years shortly after it was formed. This onslaught, perhaps involving hundreds of millions of comet impacts, is currently the best explantion for the origin of the Earthís oceans, atmosphere and organic molecules. Although historically a controversial idea, there is now a considerable amount of physical and chemical evidence supporting the theory. Comet scientist Armand Delsemme reviews the evidence and argues that comets from the vicinity of Jupiter contributed the bulk of the constituents found in Earthís biosphere.
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Of Interest to All
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The Ultimate Sidebar Management Thread
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Posted by I Am Not A Mod
On News/Activism 03/04/2003 7:15:40 AM PST · 81 replies · 182+ views
<p>Did you know that any Free Republic topic can be a sidebar for you? Did you know you can remove any sidebar that you currently have? Did you know you can control how many posts show up in each sidebar, and what order the sidebars show up on your latest posts page?</p> <p>I have compiled this thread to help make the task of managing your sidebars easier.</p>
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