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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #333
Saturday, December 04, 2010 |
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| Censers & Sensors |
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Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says research
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· 12/01/2010 6:51:18 PM PST ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 19 replies ·
· BBC ·
· December 1, 2010 · |
Peruvian foraging societies were already chewing coca leaves 8,000 years ago, archaeological evidence has shown. Ruins beneath house floors in the northwestern Peru showed evidence of chewed coca and calcium-rich rocks. Such rocks would have been burned to create lime, chewed with coca to release more of its active chemicals. Writing in the journal Antiquity, an international team said the discovery pushed back the first known coca use by at least 3,000 years. Coca leaves contain a range of chemical compounds known as alkaloids. In modern times, the most notable among them is cocaine, extracted and purified by complex chemical...
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| Agriculture... |
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Farmers slowed down by hunter-gatherers:
Our ancestors' fight for space
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· 12/03/2010 4:23:39 AM PST ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 14 replies ·
· Institute of Physics ·
· December 3, 2010 ·
· Unknown · |
Agricultural -- or Neolithic -- economics replaced the Mesolithic social model of hunter-gathering in the Near East about 10,000 years ago. One of the most important socioeconomic changes in human history, this socioeconomic shift, known as the Neolithic transition, spread gradually across Europe until it slowed down when more northern latitudes were reached. Research published today, Friday, 3 December 2010, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society), details a physical model, which can potentially explain how the spreading of Neolithic farmers was slowed down by the population density of hunter-gatherers. The...
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| ... & Animal Husbandry |
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Ancient Lambayeque civilizations domesticated cats 3500 years ago
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· 11/30/2010 4:17:10 AM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 15 replies ·
· en Peru ·
· November 24, 2010 ·
· Stuart Starrs et al · |
Recent finds at the Ventarrón archaeological site have revealed some of the oldest examples of ancient Peruvian domestication of animals. The Ventarrón site, belonging to one of the oldest civilizations in the Americas, has already given up a number of amazing discoveries. This latest gives us a look at early animal domestication. Work at the site, under the leadership of Ignacio Alva, son of famous Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, has revealed a huge collection of animal bones, mostly felines from the Peruvian Amazon on the other side of the Andes mountains. With such a large number of bones, the archaeologists...
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany |
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Tribes angry, Everglades projects halt after
workers dig up major burial ground but don't tell
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· 11/26/2010 9:15:31 PM PST ·
· Posted by ApplegateRanch ·
· 54 replies ·
· The Palm Beach Post ·
· Nov. 25, 2010 ·
· Christine Stapleton · |
In May 2008, archaeologists began the tedious task of exhuming the remains of Native Americans at a remote site south of Lake Okeechobee and reburying them at another remote site, to make way for a man-made wetland needed to restore the Everglades. [snip] But the more the archaeologists dug, the more they found. After nearly two years, the tribes learned that what they'd been told were some teeth and bones turned out to be partial remains of 56 men, women and children moved from an ancient burial ground so significant that it would have been eligible for listing on the...
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis |
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Cahokia's Woodhenge: a surprising implication
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· 11/29/2010 8:19:23 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 32 replies ·
· Examiner.com ·
· Friday, November 26th, 2010 ·
· Richard Thornton · |
Today we travel to southern Illinois, where just across the Mississippi River is located the Cahokia Archaeological Zone. Cahokia was the largest known Native American city north of Mexico. At its peak population around 1250 AD, it was larger that London, England. Of course, Cahokia was not its real name. No one knows its real name. Unlike the ancient towns in the Southeast, where direct descendants of the original occupants still live, no one even knows yet what happened to the population of Cahokia, after it was abandoned. There was an indigenous village in the vicinity of Cahokia as early...
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| Megaliths & Archaeoastronomy |
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Standing stone cup marks may represent star constellations
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· 11/29/2010 8:11:46 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies ·
· Past Horizons ·
· Sunday, November 28, 2010 ·
· George Nash · |
A recent excavation programme at a standing stone known as Trefael, near Newport in southwest Wales has revealed at least two unique episodes in its early history; firstly as a portal dolmen and secondly as a standing stone, probably used as a ritual marker to guide communities through a sacred landscape. This solitary stone, standing in a wind-swept field has been designated a Scheduled Monument and has over 75 cupmarks gouged onto its upper surface. Following the complete exposure of the capstone through excavation, it is now considered by several astronomers that the distribution of the cupmarks may represent a...
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| Star of the East |
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Did You Know About the Relics of the Three Wise Men?
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· 01/04/2010 10:43:57 AM PST ·
· Posted by GonzoII ·
· 90 replies · 1,881+ views ·
· cantuar.blogspot.com ·
· Sunday, January 03, 2010 ·
· Taylor Marshall · |
When I was in college, I journeyed to Cologne, Germany and visited the city's glorious cathedral. I was a Protestant at the time, but I remember being amazed that people had been building this cathedral for so many centuries. It is one of the greatest Gothic churches of all time.
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An Astronomer's Explanation For The Star Of Bethlehem
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· 12/25/2008 9:15:43 AM PST ·
· Posted by CE2949BB ·
· 42 replies · 2,376+ views ·
· Scientific Blogging ·
· December 25th 2008 · |
According to the Bible, when Jesus was born three Magi saw a star in the East that signaled the birth of a new king. But just what was it, from an astronomical point or view, that the Magi actually saw? Fred Grosse, a professor of physics and astronomy at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., says there are several popular theories that may answer this question.
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Star of Bethlehem
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· 12/24/2007 7:41:21 PM PST ·
· Posted by ZULU ·
· 12 replies · 118+ views ·
· Michael R. Molnar ·
· 1997 ·
· Michael R. Molnar · |
Could the purchase of an ancient coin have led to an important clue about the Star of Bethlehem? The above illustration is a Roman coin from Antioch, Syria which shows the zodiacal sign, Aries the Ram. In trying to understand the meaning behind this coin, I found that Aries was the sign of the Jews. Realizing that this is where ancient stargazers would have watched for the Star of Bethlehem, I embarked on searching for the celestial event that signified the birth of the Messiah in Judea. Superposed on the photograph of the coin is what I found: Jupiter underwent...
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Three wise men leading us astray?
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· 12/20/2007 1:14:02 PM PST ·
· Posted by Sub-Driver ·
· 27 replies · 411+ views ·
· The Australian · |
Could the devil be in the detail of the Christmas story? That's what the leader of the world's Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has implied in a BBC interview. The story of the three wise men following the star to Bethlehem is a legend -- stars don't behave like that, he said -- it is unlikely Jesus was born in December and you can take or leave the virgin birth. He says he believes in it but that's not a pre-condition for...
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Date Of The Birth Of Christ (The Star that Astonished the World)
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· 12/15/2007 6:05:34 AM PST ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 22 replies · 231+ views ·
· EWTN ·
· E. L. Martin · |
(Summarized from E. L. Martin, "The Star that Astonished the World," ASK Publications, Box 25000, Portland Or. 1991) The date of the birth of Christ hinges on just one thing, the statement of Josephus (Antiquities 17.6-8) that Herod died shortly after an eclipse of the moon. Astronomers supply the dates for such eclipses around those years: None in 7 or 6 BC. In 5 BC, March 23, 29 days to Passover. Also in 5 BC. Sept. 15,7 months to Passover. In 4 B.C. March 13, 29 days to Passover. 3 and 2 B.C. no eclipses. In 1 BC. January...
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The Star of Bethlehem [Bristol Astronomical Society]
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· 12/19/2006 9:31:25 AM PST ·
· Posted by Alex Murphy ·
· 7 replies · 442+ views ·
· Bath Royal Literary & Scientific ·
· Rod Jenkins · |
The Star of Bethlehem Meeting chaired by Richard Phillips Rod Jenkins Bristol Astronomical Society 7 January 2005 This talk was originally scheduled for 3 December 2004 -- just before the speaker's paper was published in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association vol. 114 No. 6. A full account with references appears in that publication on pp. 336-341. According to Giotto, the Star of Bethlehem is shown in his painting The Adoration of the Magi as a comet -- presumably Halley's as it appeared during his lifetime. For this reason the space probe sent to study Halley's comet in 1986...
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The Christmas Star [re-post]
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· 11/30/2006 7:59:42 AM PST ·
· Posted by truthfinder9 ·
· 4 replies · 681+ views ·
· Reasons.org ·
· Dr. Hugh Ross · |
For centuries scholars and laymen alike have speculated on the nature of the star that led the wise men from the east to seek out the Messiah that had come to the Jews. The only reliable account of this event is found in Matthew 2 of the Bible. Three controversial questions arise out of a study of this text: 1. Were the wise men led by astrology? Some people have used the story of the advent of Jesus Christ, specifically the Matthew 2 portion, to suggest that astrology might be okay, at least...
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Seeing and believing in the Star of Bethlehem
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· 12/29/2005 4:21:23 PM PST ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 26 replies · 1,043+ views ·
· Explorer ·
· December 29, 2005 ·
· Renee Schafer Horton · |
Dec. 28, 2005 -- "... during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.'" -- Matthew 2:1-2 They are requisite figures in every nativity scene: Three elegantly dressed exotic men, camels in tow, weighed down with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They are always a few steps removed, seeming to defer to the farm animals surrounding the young mother and her newborn. Accuracy is not a hallmark...
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Why December 25?
The origin of Christmas had nothing to do with paganism
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· 12/07/2005 2:36:38 PM PST ·
· Posted by Charles Henrickson ·
· 408 replies · 6,651+ views ·
· WORLD Magazine ·
· Dec 10, 2005 ·
· Gene Edward Veith · |
According to conventional wisdom, Christmas had its origin in a pagan winter solstice festival, which the church co-opted to promote the new religion. In doing so, many of the old pagan customs crept into the Christian celebration. But this view is apparently a historical myth -- like the stories of a church council debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or that medieval folks believed the earth is flat -- often repeated, even in classrooms, but not true. William J. Tighe, a history professor at Muhlenberg College, gives a different account in his article "Calculating Christmas," published in the...
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What Was The Star?
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· 12/23/2004 11:21:04 AM PST ·
· Posted by GLDNGUN ·
· 61 replies · 1,601+ views ·
· BethlehemStar.net · |
Scholars debate whether the Star of Bethlehem is a legend manufactured by the early church or a miracle which marked the advent of Christ. But if the Star was a real astronomical event, what could it have been? It's an astronomical mystery. A strange star is claimed to have appeared at the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. This site is an investigation of the story found in the Biblical Gospel of Matthew, a story often called the 'Star of Bethlehem.' It brings the words of Roman and Jewish historians alongside the visions of ancient prophets. It mixes "modern" mathematicians with...
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Should Christians be celebrating Christmas at all?
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· 12/06/2004 4:59:08 PM PST ·
· Posted by Perdogg ·
· 31 replies · 532+ views ·
· 12/06/04 ·
· Perdogg · |
I am a Christian, I believe in Christ. However, why do Christians knowing that Christ was born in the summer time (northern Hemisphere, celebrate Christmas in December? I know that December 25th was a holiday during the Roman Empire. It would make sense if some astronomer could calculate when Christ was born. Also, I am sure other religions have records on when the astological event took place when Christ was Born. I think that God intended Christmas to be treated somewhat differently than Easter. For some reason it seems in the telling of the birth of Christ, there is a...
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Were the Magi who visited Jesus -- Persian?
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· 12/23/2003 10:55:46 PM PST ·
· Posted by freedom44 ·
· 38 replies · 4,391+ views ·
· Christian Farsinet ·
· 12/23/03 ·
· Christian Farsinet · |
Magi (Majusian) From old Persian language, a priest of Zarathustra (Zoroaster). The Bible gives us the direction, East and the legend states that the wise men were from Persia (Iran) -- Balthasar, Melchior, Caspar -- thus being priests of Zarathustra religion, the mages. Obviously the pilgrimage had some religious significance for these men, otherwise they would not have taken the trouble and risk of travelling so far. But what was it? An astrological phenomenon, the Star? Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, was erected in 329 by Queen Helena in the area it was believed to be where Jesus was born....
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The Christmas Star
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· 12/04/2003 8:11:10 AM PST ·
· Posted by truthfinder9 ·
· 1 replies · 84+ views ·
· Reasons.org ·
· 12/02/2003 ·
· Dr. Hugh Ross · |
For centuries scholars and laymen alike have speculated on the nature of the star that led the wise men from the east to seek out the Messiah that had come to the Jews. The only reliable account of this event is found in Matthew 2 of the Bible. Three controversial questions arise out of a study of this text...
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| Epigraphy & Language |
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A case of Slander, Lies and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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· 11/30/2010 8:59:07 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 35 replies ·
· Archaeology News ·
· Wednesday, November 24, 2010 ·
· Jewish Journal · |
...Using sophisticated computer programs, Cargill built what he described as "a fully reconstructed, three-dimensional, real time, interactive model of Khirbet Qumran." Taking the building's excavated remains as a blueprint, the model "visualized" that the structure was originally designed as a fortress, then abandoned, and later expanded and repurposed by a group... According to the model, the new inhabitants built an elaborate water system, as well as a scriptorium, where the scrolls were written. The building was destroyed in 70 C.E., or shortly thereafter, by the conquering Roman legions, a view now widely accepted... In early 2007, Cargill was nearing completion...
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| Facts on the Ground |
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Chemists help archaeologists to probe biblical history
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· 12/01/2010 1:45:37 AM PST ·
· Posted by 2ndDivisionVet ·
· 8 replies ·
· Nature ·
· November 30, 2010 ·
· Haim Watzman · |
TEL MEGIDDO -- Fabled as a site of biblical battles and spectacular palaces, Tel Megiddo today is a dusty mound overlooking Israel's Jezreel valley. It is also host to one of the hottest debates in archaeology -- a controversy over the historical truth of the Bible's account of the first united Kingdom of Israel. Ancient Megiddo is said to have been a key administrative and military centre in the kingdom ruled by King David and his son Solomon during the eleventh and tenth centuries BC. But the biblical narrative is challenged by archaeologists such as Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv...
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| Let's Have Jerusalem |
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Jewish Presence Near Rachel's Tomb
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· 09/29/2003 9:28:45 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Alouette ·
· 9 replies · 193+ views ·
· Israel National News (Arutz 7) ·
· Sept. 29, 2003 · |
Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz allowed, only hours before the onset of the Rosh HaShanah holiday, a Jewish group to move in to property adjacent to Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. Forty people, including students of the Rachel's Tomb yeshiva and other students and their families, spent the two-day holiday there. Even more dramatically, two families hope to move in permanently in the course of the next two weeks -- - the first Jews to live in the city in several decades. Appropriate security measures such as bullet-proof windows have been installed, but the army has required the new occupants to implement...
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Court okays Jerusalem-Rachel's Tomb road
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· 02/03/2005 10:05:30 AM PST ·
· Posted by Alouette ·
· 12 replies · 396+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· Feb. 3, 2005 ·
· Dan Izenberg · |
The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a petition filed by the Bethlehem municipality against construction of a bypass road from Jerusalem to Rachel's Tomb and rejected the accusation that the road annexed the tomb, which is located in Palestinian territory. According to the ruling handed down by Justice Dorit Beinisch, "the solution devised by the [state] guarantees freedom of worship to those who come to pray without causing substantial damage to the petitioners' freedom of movement and right to ownership of property. Therefore, we did not find that the solution that was devised at the end of the...
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Routing for Rahel [Rachel's Tomb]
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· 02/12/2005 5:22:05 PM PST ·
· Posted by Alouette ·
· 27 replies · 4,018+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· Feb. 12, 2005 ·
· Dave Bender · |
We've succeeded in saving Rahel's Tomb," says Kever Rahel Fund founder and director Miriam Adani. Adani was responding to the decision by the High Court of Justice last week to dismiss petitions by 18 local Palestinians, together with the Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities, against construction of a bypass road leading to the compound. The new route will annex Rahel's Tomb to Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and place it within a segment of the planned "envelope" barrier being constructed along the city's southern perimeter. Adani, who established the Kever Rahel fund in 1999, reveals that for her and her supporters, the...
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| Climate |
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Shuttle images reveal Egypt's lost great lake
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· 12/03/2010 4:09:49 AM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 26 replies ·
· Science News ·
· Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 ·
· Alexandra Witze · |
Radar images taken from the space shuttle confirm that a lake broader than Lake Erie once sprawled a few hundred kilometers west of the Nile, researchers report in the December issue of Geology. Since the lake first appeared around 250,000 years ago, it would have ballooned and shrunk until finally petering out around 80,000 years ago... Since then, desert winds have eroded and sands have buried much of the region's landscape, says Maxine Kleindienst, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto. But during next summer's field season, she and her colleagues will be checking for ancient shorelines at the elevations...
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| Paleontology |
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Graptolite fauna indicates the beginning of the Kwangsian Orogeny
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· 12/03/2010 7:34:12 AM PST ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 35 replies ·
· Science in China Press ·
· December 3, 2010 ·
· Unknown · |
Our research at the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, has shown, based on a refined division and correlation of the graptolite-bearing strata in southern Jiangxi, China, that the Kwangsian Orogeny commenced in the early Katian Age of the Late Ordovician. Because of its significant research value, this study is published in Issue 11 of Science China Earth Sciences. An angular unconformity separating the Lower-Middle Devonian and underlying strata is widespread in the Zhujiang region of South China, and occurs across most of Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. This angular unconformity indicates...
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| Ancient Autopsies |
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2,000-year-old intact female skeleton with gray hair unearthed in Hubei
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· 12/02/2010 6:00:47 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 19 replies ·
· People's Daily Online ·
· ovember 23, 2010 ·
· unattributed · |
A 2,000-year-old intact skeleton of an elderly woman was unearthed from a tomb from the early Western Han dynasty at the construction site of an industrial park in the north of Zhuchengjie, a satellite city of Wuhan, capital of east-central China's Hubei Province... The archaeological team said that when exploring the tomb numbered M6 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Nov. 19, they found a nearly intact outer coffin and almost no water had leaked into it. More surprisingly, there was a well-preserved dark brown skeleton inside the inner coffin, with a lot of gray hair still on the...
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| Central Asia |
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The golden haul of Afghanistan:
Priceless 2,000 year old collapsible crown on display in Britain
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· 11/30/2010 7:46:52 PM PST ·
· Posted by Pan_Yan ·
· 21 replies ·
· Daily Mail (UK) ·
· 7:29 PM on 30th November 2010 ·
· Daily Mail Reporter · |
A gold crown -- said to be one of the 'world's most beautiful and priceless objects' -- is set to be the star attraction at a British Museum exhibition of treasures from Afghanistan. More than 200 objects, many of which were hidden away for 25 years, are being loaned from the National Museum of Afghanistan. The 'collapsible' crown was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1978 in an elite nomadic cemetery and has never been shown in Britain before. Other objects showing ancient Afghanistan's links through trade with other cultures include classical sculptures, gold ornaments and jewellery, carved ivory attached to...
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| India |
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Burial urn dating to Megalithic period unearthed
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· 12/02/2010 5:23:16 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 14 replies ·
· MSN ·
· Friday, November 25, 2010 ·
· PTI COR APR · |
A five feet high burial urn dating to the Megalithic period (300 BC to 100 AD) and containing teeth and some other articles was unearthed by construction workers at a village near here today. The urn was found at a depth of about eight feet at the backyard of a house at Thillayadi village and contained pieces of teeth and some articles commonly used by soldiers, officials said. Speaking to reporters after visiting the spot, Tarangambadi Archaeological Curator Muthusamy said the urn was four feet wide, with a 2.5 foot diameter mouth. Two small pots, black and red in colour,...
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| Prehistory & Origins |
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Tombs Dating Back to 5th Millennium BC Unearthed in Syria
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· 11/29/2010 8:02:36 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 10 replies ·
· Global Arab Network ·
· Thursday, November 25, 2010 ·
· H. Zain · |
The dolmen means "stone table" or the "holy cemeteries". It represents the beginning of human architectural art as the findings indicate that man used this kind of tombs for burial 5,000 years ago. Archaeologist Yasser Abu Noktah said that the discovered dolmens at al-Maysara Spring consist of roofs with huge flagstones, on which animals' drawings are carved, adding that a number of stone and flint tools were also unearthed at the site. Al-Maysara site is one of the most important Syrian sites which date back to the Neolithic Age between 7,000 to 4,500 BC. Abu Noktah added the archaeological expeditions...
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| Catastrophism & Astronomy |
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Masters of Math, From Old Babylon
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· 11/27/2010 12:09:10 PM PST ·
· Posted by pillut48 ·
· 30 replies ·
· NYT ·
· November 26, 2010 ·
· Edward Rothstein · |
If the cost of digging a trench is 9 gin, and the trench has a length of 5 ninda and is one-half ninda deep, and if a worker's daily load of earth costs 10 gin to move, and his daily wages are 6 se of silver, then how wide is the canal? Or, a better question: if you were a tutor of Babylonian scribes some 4,000 years ago, holding a clay tablet on which this problem was incised with cuneiform indentations -- the very tablet that can now be seen with 12 others from that Middle Eastern civilization at the...
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| The Greeks |
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Archaeologists to embark on quest for 2,500-year-old lost Greek theatre
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· 11/29/2010 7:55:28 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 9 replies ·
· Telegraph UK ·
· Monday, November 29, 2010 ·
· Nick Squires · |
Alexander Hardcastle spent a decade searching for the fabled theatre, which is said to be buried beneath the remains of Akragas, a city established by Greek colonists six centuries before Christ on the southern coast of Sicily... Hardcastle, a former soldier who had served with the Royal Engineers in the Boer War, believed that remains of the stone-built theatre had survived, despite Akragas being shaken by earthquakes, sacked by the Carthaginians and plundered for its stone. The Harrow-educated gentleman scholar, who was born in Belgravia, spent a fortune on the quest between 1920 and 1930, but lost all his money...
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| Hear Music, but There's No One There |
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3,000- Year-Old Musical Instrument Unearthed In Vietnam
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· 11/30/2010 4:19:42 AM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 8 replies ·
· Bernama ·
· November 19, 2010 ·
· unattributed · |
BINH THUAN, Nov 19 (Bernama) -- A set of stone musical instrument dating from 3,000 years ago was unearthed by a farmer in Da Kai commune, Duc Linh district, when he dug holes for planting coffee trees, according to Vietnam news agency on Friday. The music instrument comprises of five slabs of black blue stone, which when arranged from small to big form a trapezoid. This is a typical character of ancient lithophone, different from new lithophones or sounding stone slabs. The instrument has been handed over to the Binh Thuan museum. Earlier, the Binh Thuan museum in coordination with...
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| Navigation |
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Mystery shipwreck found in central Stockholm
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· 11/30/2010 4:26:07 AM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 21 replies ·
· The Local ·
· Thanksgiving Day 2010 ·
· TT/AFP · |
The remains of a ship dating from the 1600s have been discovered outside the Grand Hotel in central Stockholm. The vessel was built with an almost completely unknown technology, delighting archaeologists. The planks of the ship are not nailed down, but sewn together with rope. The discovery was made by labourers close to the royal palace and in front of Stockholm's Grand Hotel during renovation works to a quay. "The discovery of the wreck is extremely interesting given the place where it was made. There was a naval shipyard on this spot until the start of the 17th century," Maritime...
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double |
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Was Christopher Columbus Polish?
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· 11/30/2010 3:45:13 PM PST ·
· Posted by Coleus ·
· 59 replies ·
· wbj ·
· 29th November 2010 ·
· Andrew Shale · |
A Portuguese historian believes he has solved the age-old mystery surrounding the nationality of Christopher Columbus. According to Manuel Rosa, a lecturer at Duke University, North Carolina, the explorer was in fact the son of Polish King Wladyslaw III. It has always been thought that King Wladyslaw III fell in battle against the forces of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Varna in 1444. According to Mr Rosa, however, the king managed to survive the battle unscathed and fled to the Portuguese island of Madeira where he lived out the rest of his life as a hermit and married...
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| Middle Ages & Renaissance |
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Identifying Eadgyth [granddaughter of Alfred the Great]
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· 12/02/2010 6:09:52 PM PST ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 12 replies ·
· PhysOrg ·
· November 26, 2010 ·
· University of Bristol · |
Eadgyth was the granddaughter of Alfred the Great and the half-sister of Athelstan, the first acknowledged King of England. She was sent to marry Otto, King of Saxony, in AD 929, and bore him at least two children, before her death, at around the age of 36, in AD 946. Buried in the monastery of St Maurice in Magdeburg, historical records state that her bones were moved on at least three occasions before being interred in an elaborate tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral in 1510. It was long assumed that this tomb was empty, so, when German archaeologists opened it in...
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| The Revolution |
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Today in History November 29th 1775, Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
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· 11/29/2010 4:43:44 PM PST ·
· Posted by mdittmar ·
· 8 replies ·
· various ·
· November 29th 2010 ·
· various · |
During the Revolutionary War, founding father John Jay's brother, Sir James Jay, invented a method for the Patriots to communicate with each other that could not be intercepted by the British. Washington called Jay's invention "sympathetic stain" or "white ink." We would call it invisible ink.
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| Longer Perspectives |
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A History of the World [in 100 Objects]
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· 12/04/2010 7:00:17 AM PST ·
· Posted by AndyJackson ·
· 26 replies ·
· British Museum and the BBC ·
· various · |
This is a website providing access to an online web and video presentation of the history of the world shown through 100 objects that are in the British museaum. Of the 100 British Museum Objects , objects 1-10 are: 1: Mummy of Hornedjitef. 2: Olduvai stone chopping tool. 3: Olduvai handaxe. 4: Swimming reindeer 5: Clovis spear point. 6: Bird-shaped pestle. 7: Ain Sakhri lovers figurine. 8: Egyptian clay model of cattle. 9: Maya maize god statue. 10: Jomon pot.
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