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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #425 Saturday, September 8, 2012 |
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| Catastrophism & Astronomy | |
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| Staggering Number of Bones of Extinct Ice Age Animals Found in Mexico |
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· 09/06/2012 8:24:18 PM PDT · · Posted by ForGod'sSake · · 110 replies · · International Business Times · · September 4, 2012 · · Sanskrity Sinha · |
Apparently, archaeologists have also found a few human skeletal remains at the excavation site -- More than hundred bones of animals, now extinct, that thrived over 10,000 years ago (the late Pleistocene period), have been discovered in the state of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. Remains of megafauna that lived more than 10,000 years ago in what is now the Valley of Mexico. (Photo: INAH) The discovery was made at a construction site of a wastewater treatment plant near the river El Salto in the city of Atotonilco de Tula,... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Human Genome Is Much More Than Just Genes |
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· 09/06/2012 10:04:50 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 13 replies · · ScienceNOW · · 5 September 2012 · · Elizabeth Pennisi · |
This diagram illustrates a chromosome in ever-greater detail, as the ENCODE project drilled down to DNA to study the functional elements of the genome. Credit: ENCODE project · The human genome -- the sum total of hereditary information in a person -- contains a lot more than the protein-coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found. When researchers decided to sequence the human genome in the late 1990s, they were focused on finding those traditional genes so as to identify all the proteins necessary for life. Each gene was thought to be a discrete piece... |
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| How our DNA differs from that of Denisovans, our extinct cousins |
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· 09/01/2012 5:42:46 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 45 replies · · LA Times · · 9-1-12 · · Rosie Mestel · |
Scientists are beginning to analyze the DNA differences between modern humans and our extinct archaic relatives, the Denisovans. (National Human Genome Research Institute) Genome of ancient Denisovans may help clarify human evolution Scientists recently reported they had pieced together a high-quality sequence of an archaic human relative, the Denisovans. Among other things, the researchers took a close look at the ways in which we differ from these people, who were named after the place where their traces were discovered: Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia....snip It's "fascinating" to see the DNA changes that spread to most or all... |
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| A brief history of Iceland - Vanity |
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· 12/08/2006 11:24:32 AM PST · · Posted by Leifur · · 128 replies · 2,467+ views · · 8.12.2006 · · Leifur · |
Here are the basics of the history of Iceland. With a special emphasis of US - Icelandic connections and the US military presence here and its end in this year, and the disillusionment of many Icelanders, specially on the right, because of this towards the US wich they have supported for long time. 874: Scandinavian/british isles vikings and their celtic slaves began settling the country. 930: Mostly settled, the Icelandic Free State was established, a governing system without a king or any executive branch whatsoever. A very individualistic system of governance, that ensured peace and prosperity here for 300 years.... |
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| Middle Ages & the Renaissance | |
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| Two Iron Age Sites Discovered in Finland |
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· 09/03/2012 6:21:35 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · Popular Archaeology · · Thursday, September 6, 2012 · · unattributed · |
In the autumn of 2010, local amateur archaeologists discovered a large harbor, dating from around 1000-1200 AD, in Ahvenkoski village, at the mouth of western branch of the Kymijoki River in Finland. The findings included a smithy, a iron smelting furnace, forceps, as well as hundreds of iron objects such as boat rivets, similar to those found at Viking settlements in different parts of the Baltic, Scandinavia, Scotland and Iceland. More recently, in August of 2012 and in the same area, a 2 x 3 meter wide late Viking Age or Crusade period cremation grave was uncovered. Artifacts included a... |
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| [Indo-Euro]Language family may have Anatolian origins |
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· 09/01/2012 6:51:05 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 14 replies · · Science News · · August 23rd, 2012 · · Bruce Bower · |
Indo-European tongues traced back more than 8,000 years to present-day Turkey ANCIENT SPREADThe map shows the timing and geographic expansion of Indo-European languages proposed in a new statistical analysis. The red area in what's now Turkey is a possible birthplace of the Indo-European language family more than 8,000 years ago.Remco Bouckaert et al. Indo-European languages range throughout Europe and South Asia and even into Iran, yet the roots of this widespread family of tongues have long been controversial. A new study adds support to the proposal that the language family expanded out of Anatolia -- what's now Turkey -- between... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Archaeologists unearth ruins of 1,500-year-old Jewish town in southern Israel |
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· 09/03/2012 6:06:02 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Times of Israel · · Sunday, September 2, 2012 · · Matti Friedman · |
The remains of two Jewish ritual baths and two public buildings were uncovered in a salvage dig ahead of the paving of a new section of Israel's Highway 6, a north-south toll road eventually slated to run much of the length of the country. Both of the public buildings feature raised platforms along the walls facing Jerusalem, archaeologists say -- a trademark feature of Jewish houses of prayer... The existence of the town was known to scholars from archaeological surveys, but the findings show it was more substantial than had been previously thought, Nir Shimshon-Paran, the dig director, told The... |
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| Late Roman Shipwreck on Spanish Chapel |
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· 09/03/2012 7:54:05 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archeology · · by 2009 · · Tony Marciniec · |
Just off the west coast of the Bodrum peninsula, southwest of an island called Yassiada, there is a submerged reef appropriately referred to by some as The Ship Trap. About A.D. 626, in the reign of Emperor Heraclius, when the Persians and the Avars were laying siege to Constantinople, the capital of the East Roman Empire, the reef claimed another victim, a small ship bearing in its hold a cargo of nearly a thousand wine amphorae. For more than thirteen centuries the shipwreck lay on the seabed until it was discovered by Kemal Aras, a Turkish diver, who then showed... |
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| Anatolia | |
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| Headless statues unearthed in Aphrodisias excavations |
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· 09/03/2012 7:00:33 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Hurriyet Daily News · · Anatolia News Agency · |
The two big headless statues have been found at the ancient city of Aphrodisias. The ongoing excavation works at one of Turkey's most important archaeological sites, the Karacasu Aphrodisias Ancient City, have revealed two headless statues. According to information provided by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, one of the statues is in 1.76 meters in height and the other is 1.68 meters. One of the statues holds a roll in its left hand and its right hand is on its chest. There is a pack of documents behind its left foot, but the fingers and head are broken. The second... |
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| Turkish Archaeologists Reveal 6th Century Baptistery Abroad [in Kosovo] |
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· 09/07/2012 11:14:09 AM PDT · · Posted by marshmallow · · 6 replies · · Hurriyet Daily News · · 9/7/12 · · Dogan News Agency · |
A historic baptistery structure has been unearthed at one of the most important ancient sites in Kosovo by Turkish archaeologists. It is the first such excavation to be carried out by Turkish archaeologists in Europe Since the beginning of excavations in July in Kosovo's ancient city of Ulpiana, a baptistery dating from the Byzantine period have been unearthed by Turkish archaeologists of the Mimar Sinan University. At an excavation site in Kosovo's ancient city of Ulpiana, a team of Turkish archaeologists have discovered a baptistery dating from the Byzantine period. The archaeological team, consisting of archaeology students from Istanbul's Mimar... |
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| Faith & Philosophy | |
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| Crosses appear inside the Hagia Sophia |
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· 09/01/2012 11:49:37 AM PDT · · Posted by annalex · · 29 replies · · Orthodoxy and Hellenism · · September 30, 2011 · |
Strange and inexplicable event comes after the last appearance of winged angels. A paradox for those of us who do not possess the art of iconography is that the mosaics were covered with a thick layer of lime (about two fingers), as seen in this picture, in order to hide the Christian symbols. It is onto the lime cover that these crosses appeared. And rightfully should the visitors wonder, since they are not painted later. Somehow they "seeped" from the wall up to the outer surface of plaster? And why should only the crosses... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Ask Ron column: Did Route 222 [PA] play an important role in the American Revolution? |
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· 09/06/2012 7:45:29 PM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 11 replies · · NY Daily News · · September 6th 2012 · · Ron · |
The road from Reading to Easton, now Route 222, was called King's Highway in 1776. It was a critical artery for the movement of troops and supplies during the American Revolution. Indeed, there's strong evidence that Gen. George Washington himself traversed the road on his way to upstate New York in 1782, stopping off in the Moravian town of Bethlehem. Revolution, however, was not on the minds of most colonists when the Reading-to-Easton road was proposed by Conrad Weiser, William Parsons and other leaders in 1753; Indians were. There had been massacres of settlers pushing north from Philadelphia to settle... |
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| The Great War | |
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| WWI era ammunition frozen in a glacier for nearly a century has been found in N. Italy |
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· 09/02/2012 7:17:19 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 28 replies · · Daily Mail (U.K.) · · September 2, 2012 · · Alex Gore · |
First World War ammunition frozen in time for nearly a century has been found as glacier melts WWI ammunition frozen in time for nearly a century has been discovered in northern Italy. More than 200 pieces of the ammunition were revealed at an altitude of 3,200 metres by a melting glacier on the Ago de Nardis peak in Trentino. The 85-100mm caliber explosives weighed between seven and 10 kilos and explosives experts have been to the site to safely dispose of the weaponry. The once-perennial glacier began partially melted during a recent heat wave, allowing the Finance Police Alpine rescue... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| B-17 - Fantastic Story of Survival |
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· 09/02/2012 8:54:46 AM PDT · · Posted by Windflier · · 84 replies · · Email · · Unknown · · Unknown Patriot · |
WWII B-17 Survival Story · B-17 "All American" (414th Squadron, 97BG) · Crew Pilot- Ken Bragg Jr. · Copilot- G. Boyd Jr. · Navigator- Harry C. Nuessle · Bombardier- Ralph Burbridge · Engineer- Joe C. James · Radio Operator- Paul A. Galloway · Ball Turret Gunner- Elton Conda · Waist Gunner- Michael Zuk · Tail Gunner- Sam T. Sarpolus · Ground Crew Chief- Hank Hyland · B-17 in 1943 · A mid-air collision on February 1, 1943, between a B-17 and a German fighter over the Tunis dock area, became the subject of one of the most famous photographs of World War II. An enemy fighter attacking a 97th Bomb Group formation went... |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| Volunteer For Auschwitz Among Polish War Heroes Buried In Mass Grave By Poland's Communist Regime |
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· 08/30/2012 8:34:00 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 13 replies · · leaderpost.com · |
Man who volunteered for Auschwitz among war heroes Poland searching for in mass grave WARSAW, Poland - It could hardly have been a riskier mission: infiltrate Auschwitz to chronicle Nazi atrocities. Witold Pilecki survived nearly three years as an inmate in the death camp, managing to smuggle out word of executions before making a daring escape. But the Polish resistance hero was crushed by the post-war communist regime -- tried on trumped-up charges and executed. Six decades on, Poland hopes Pilecki's remains will be identified among the entangled skeletons and shattered skulls of resistance fighters being excavated from a mass... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Berlin marks 100 years of discovering Nefertiti |
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· 09/03/2012 7:30:22 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · · Hurriyet Daily News · · August 30, 2012 · · Agence France-Presse · |
Berlin's Egyptian Museum has said that it will celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the 3,400-year-old fabled bust of Egypt's Queen Nefertiti amid an ongoing feud with Cairo over its ownership. The museum said it would open an exhibition on Dec. 6 honoring the famous sculpture and other jewels of the Amarna period in its collection on the German capital's Museum Island. On the same day in 1912, the bust was unearthed by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt. "The exhibition focuses on never-before-seen discoveries from the collections of the Berlin museum, supplemented by loans from other museums abroad," it said,... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Janet Suzman 'Mad as a Snake' Over Rylance and Shakespeare 'Myths' |
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· 09/04/2012 12:39:06 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 21 replies · · Guardian · · Dalya Alberge · |
Janet Suzman 'mad as a snake' over Rylance and Shakespeare 'myths' |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| Must Read: Zombies: How the Left Captured Academia, the Media, and Other Organizations |
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· 09/05/2012 2:07:10 PM PDT · · Posted by lbryce · · 23 replies · · PJMedia · · September 5 , 2012 · · Vik Rubenfeld · |
Alinsky-style behavior in the workplace itself may have been the key Recent studies have confirmed that American universities have become bigoted and biased against the expression of conservative views. One new study documents bias against the expression of conservative views among social and personality psychologists, including those at universities: We find that respondents significantly underestimate the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. ... that conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, we find that conservatives are right to do so. In decisions ranging from... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #426 Saturday, September 15, 2012 |
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| Neandertal / Neanderthal | |
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| Early Cannibalism Tied to Territorial Defense? |
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· 09/10/2012 6:08:37 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 34 replies · · Smithsonian 'blogs · · Wednesday, September 5, 2012 · · Erin Wayman · |
The earliest known instance of cannibalism among hominids occurred roughly 800,000 years ago. The victims, mainly children, may have been eaten as part of a strategy to defend territories against neighbors, researchers report online in the Journal of Human Evolution. The new study shows how anthropologists use the behavior of modern humans and primates to make inferences about what hominids did in the past -- and demonstrates the limitations of such comparisons. The cannibalism in question was discovered in the Gran Dolina cave site of Spain's Atapuerca Mountains. Eudald Carbonell of the University of Rovira and Virgili in Spain and... |
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| Prehistoric Animated Cave Drawings Discovered In France |
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· 09/12/2012 5:47:16 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 21 replies · · Web Pro News · · 6-14-2012 · · Amanda Crum · |
News out of France concerning Prehistoric cave drawings that were animated by torch-light is taking the art history world by storm, and has overwhelmed this artist to the point of awe. The cave drawings were found by archaeologist Marc Azema and French artist Florent Rivere, who suggest that Paleolithic artists who lived as long as 30,000 years ago used animation effects on cave walls, which explains the multiple heads and limbs on animals in the drawings. The images look superimposed until flickering torch-light is passed over them, giving them movement and creating a brief animation. "Lascaux is the cave with... |
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| Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous |
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· 09/04/2012 8:31:09 AM PDT · · Posted by Theoria · · 29 replies · · Discover Magazine · · 29 Aug 2012 · · David R. Montgomery · |
Geologists long rejected the notion that cataclysmic flood had ever occurred -- until one of them found proof of a Noah-like catastrophe in the wildly eroded river valleys of Washington State. After teaching geology at the University of Washington for a decade, I had become embarrassed that I hadn't yet seen the deep canyons where tremendous Ice Age floods scoured down into solid rock to sculpt the scablands. So I decided to help lead a field trip for students to see the giant erosion scars on the local landforms.We drove across the Columbia River and continued eastward, dropping into Moses Coulee, a... |
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| Coral links ice to ancient 'mega flood' |
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· 03/30/2012 12:44:46 PM PDT · · Posted by Red Badger · · 28 replies · · www.physorg.com · · 03-30-2012 · · Provided by Oxford University · |
Coral off Tahiti has linked the collapse of massive ice sheets 14,600 years ago to a dramatic and rapid rise in global sea-levels of around 14 metres. Previous research could not accurately date the sea-level rise but now an Aix-Marseille University-led team, including Oxford University scientists Alex Thomas and Gideon Henderson, has confirmed that the event occurred 14,650-14,310 years ago at the same time as a period of rapid climate change known as the Bölling warming. The finding will help scientists currently modelling future climate change scenarios to factor in the dynamic behaviour of major ice sheets. A report of... |
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| Human Impact Felt On Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era |
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· 09/08/2012 6:13:53 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · ScienceDaily · · September 4, 2012 · · Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst · |
In the delta's early stages of development, the river deposited its sediment within a protected bay. As the delta expanded onto the Black Sea shelf in the late Holocene and was exposed to greater waves and currents, rather than seeing the decline in sediment storage that he expected, Giosan found the opposite. The delta continued to grow. In fact, it has tripled its storage rate. If an increase in river runoff was responsible for the unusual rapid build up of sediment in the delta, says Giosan, the question is, "Was this extraordinary event in the Danube delta felt in the... |
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| The great flood legends -- ancient misreadings of the fossil record? |
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· 06/21/2004 7:49:48 AM PDT · · Posted by aculeus · · 64 replies · 1,338+ views · · Antiquity · · June 2004 · · Richard K. Jeck · |
Over the past two decades there have been renewed attempts to search for remains of Noah's ark and to discover evidence of the biblical Flood itself. In the early 1980s, several expeditions led by an American astronaut and others ascended Mt. Ararat, the legendary resting place of Noah's ark in northern Turkey, in an unsuccessful search for remains of the ark. More recently, evidence has been reported that the Black Sea may have formed suddenly about 7500 years ago by break-through flooding from the Mediterranean Sea (Ryan & Pitman 1998; Ballard 2001). These authors speculate that this natural disaster (for... |
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| Shipwreck in 'exceptional' condition discovered by archaeologists in France |
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· 09/08/2012 9:36:29 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · Le Monde via Guardian Weekly · · Tuesday 4 September 2012 · · Stéphane Foucart · |
It looks like the rib cage of a large marine mammal, whose bones turned black as it was fossilised. The wreck was discovered in May during a dig in Antibes, on the French Riviera, prior to construction of a car park on the site of the Roman port of Antipolis. Archaeologists have gradually uncovered a 15-metre length of hull and structural timbers, in "exceptional" condition, according to Giulia Boetto, a specialist in ship design at Aix-Marseille University who is involved in the dig. Saw and adze marks are still visible on the wood. Luckily the ground in which it was... |
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| Buried but found: First images of a lost Roman town |
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· 09/10/2012 6:02:01 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 25 replies · · Phys.org · · Wednesday, September 5, 2012 · · U of Cambridge · |
Originally founded as a Roman colony in the 4th century BCE, the site of Interamna Lirenas lies in the Liri Valley in Southern Lazio, about 50 miles south of Rome itself. After it was abandoned around the year 500 CE, it was scavenged for building materials and, over time, its remains were completely lost from view. Today, the site is an uninterrupted stretch of farmland, with no recognisable archaeological features. Now, researchers have successfully produced the first images of the ancient site, using geophysical methods that allowed them to look beneath the surface of the earth and map the layout... |
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| Reservoir from time of King Solomon found in Jerusalem |
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· 09/10/2012 4:39:23 PM PDT · · Posted by little jeremiah · · 12 replies · · Fox News · · September 10, 2012 · |
Archaeologists have found an ancient water reservoir in Jerusalem that may have been used by pilgrims coming to the Temple Mount, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced. The IAA said the cistern could have held 66,000 gallons (250 cubic meters) of water; it likely dates back to the era of the First Temple, which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was constructed by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. and then destroyed 400 years later. Israeli archaeologists believe the reservoir served the general public in the ancient city, but say its location hints at... |
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| Tutankhamun's death and the birth of monotheism |
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· 09/10/2012 6:16:15 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 26 replies · · New Scientist · · 5 September 2012 · · Jessica Hamzelou · |
...says Hutan Ashrafian, a surgeon with an interest in medical history at Imperial College London. Tutankhamun died young with a feminised physique, and so did his immediate predecessors. Paintings and sculptures show that Smenkhkare, an enigmatic pharaoh who may have been Tutankhamun's uncle or older brother, and Akhenaten, thought to have been the boy king's father, both had feminised figures, with unusually large breasts and wide hips. Two pharaohs that came before Akhenaten -- Amenhotep III and Tuthmosis IV -- seem to have had similar physiques. All of these kings died young and mysteriously, says Ashrafian. "There are so many... |
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| Land near Petra was a green oasis in the past |
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· 09/08/2012 9:30:00 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 21 replies · · Past Horizons · · September 2012 · · unattributed · |
About 15 km to the east of the ancient city of Petra, archaeologists from the University of Leiden have discovered an impressive network of ancient water conservation measures and irrigated field systems... In Antiquity, an ingenious system of underground canals, hacked out of the limestone bedrock, in addition to specially built aqueducts and reservoirs with capacities of millions of litres of water, transformed this marginal region into a complex man-made landscape. This is a fantastic example of ancient water-management technology, constructed to irrigate the surrounding terraced field systems... It is possible that parts of this agricultural system -- which was... |
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| US opposes penalty for Russia over historic books |
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· 09/11/2012 3:41:35 PM PDT · · Posted by SJackson · · 14 replies · · Seattle Times · · 9-11-12 · · Frederic J. Frommer · |
The Obama administration is opposing a Jewish group's bid to have civil fines levied against Russia for failing to obey a court order to return its historic books and documents -- a dispute that has halted the loan of Russian art works for exhibit in the United States. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is opposing a Jewish group's bid to have civil fines levied against Russia for failing to obey a court order to return its historic books and documents -- a dispute that has halted the loan of Russian art works for exhibit in the United States. In a... |
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| Mammoth tooth found at Transbay dig |
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· 09/13/2012 1:22:15 AM PDT · · Posted by thecodont · · 11 replies · · San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com · · Wednesday, September 12, 2012 · · Updated 10:55 p.m. · · Michael Cabanatuan · |
A seemingly ordinary day at the Transbay Transit Center construction site became a mammoth day of discovery Monday when a mild-mannered crane operator reached deep into the earth and pulled out a tooth. This was no ordinary tooth. The 10-inch-long brown, black and beige chomper, broken in two and missing a chunk, once belonged to a woolly mammoth, an elephantine creature that roamed the grassy valley that's now San Francisco Bay 10 million to 15 million years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. Other woolly mammoth fossils have been found in the Bay Area, including in San Francisco about 2 miles... |
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| Mammoth fragments raise cloning hopes |
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· 09/15/2012 11:44:55 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · Telegraph (UK) · · Tuesday, September 11, 2012 · · AP · |
Well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments have been discovered deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organiser has said. Russia's North-Eastern Federal University said an international team of researchers had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow some 328 feet (100 meters) underground during a summer expedition in the northeastern province of Yakutia. Expedition chief Semyon Grigoryev said Korean scientists with the team had set a goal of finding living cells in the hope of cloning a mammoth. Scientists have previously found bones and fragments... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| 'Junk DNA' Debunked |
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· 09/14/2012 8:48:31 PM PDT · · Posted by Olog-hai · · 11 replies · · Wall Street Journal · · September 5, 2012, 2:01 p.m. ET · · Gautam Naik and Robert Lee Hotz · |
The deepest look into the human genome so far shows it to be a richer, messier and more intriguing place than was believed just a decade ago, scientists said Wednesday. While the findings underscore the challenges of tackling complex diseases, they also offer scientists new terrain to unearth better treatments. Encode succeeded the Human Genome Project, which identified the 20,000 genes that underpin the blueprint of human biology. But scientists discovered that those 20,000 genes constituted less than 2% of the human genome. The task of Encode was to explore the remaining 98% -- the so-called junk DNA -- that lies between those... |
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| Have UK archaeologists found Richard III's skeleton? |
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· 09/12/2012 12:14:15 PM PDT · · Posted by TnGOP · · 24 replies · · Reuters · · 09/12/2012 · · Michael Holden · |
(Reuters) -- Archaeologists searching for the body of England's King Richard III under a city centre parking lot said on Wednesday they had found remains which could be those of the monarch depicted by Shakespeare as an evil, deformed, child-murdering monster. |
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· 09/12/2012 9:09:02 PM PDT · · Posted by MrsEmmaPeel · · 35 replies · · CBC News · · Sept 12, 2012 · · CBC News · |
Archeologists at the University of Leicester in central England say they have discovered a human skeleton with battle wounds and a curved spine that could be the remains of King Richard III. |
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| Civil War "Blockade Runner" Warship Washes Up On Alabama Beach |
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· 09/04/2012 10:13:29 AM PDT · · Posted by trailhkr1 · · 21 replies · · The Daily Mail · · 9-4-12 · · The Daily Mail · |
Gulf Coast residents are getting a history lesson after a mysterious ship popped up on the beach after Hurricane Isaac. The wreckage of a presumed Civil War warship washed up in Fort Meyer, Alabama, near Mobile, after the Category 1 storm barreled down on the Gulf Cost. |
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| Colour film of 1901, judged world's earliest ever, found at media museum |
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· 09/14/2012 6:49:33 PM PDT · · Posted by lowbridge · · 26 replies · · guardian · · september 12, 2012 · · mark brown · |
There is not much of a plot -- goldfish in bowl -- but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than "rewrite film history". The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process -- Kinemacolor -- by eight years. "We believe this will literally rewrite film history," said the museum's head of collections, Paul Goodman. "I don't think it is... |
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| Are Democrats Really the "Pro-Science" Party? |
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· 09/10/2012 2:29:35 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 84 replies · · realclearpolitics.com · · September 10, 2012 · · Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell · |
A narrative has developed over the past several years that the Republican Party is anti-science. Recently, thanks to the ignorant remarks about rape made by Rep. Todd Akin, the Democrats have seized the opportunity to remind us that they are the true champions of science in America. But is it really true? No. As we thoroughly detail in our new book, "Science Left Behind," Democrats are willing to throw science under the bus for any number of pet ideological causes -- including anything from genetic modification to vaccines. Consider California's Proposition 37, which would require genetically modified food to carry... |
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