Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #20
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Anatolia
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King Midas' Modern Mourners
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/28/2004 6:23:26 PM PST · 8 replies · 87+ views
Science News | Nov. 4, 2000; Vol. 158, No. 19 , p. 296 | Jessica Gorman
The modern diners sitting before Sams were about to eat the first reconstruction of that feastóa celebration that had remained undiscovered for decades after archaeologist Rodney S. Young first excavated Midas' tomb in 1957. Ancient Roman, Greek, or even Maya banquets had been re-created previously, but generally from texts and ancient recipes. Not so with the Midas feast. "It's the first time that somebody tried to do it working just from the chemical evidence," says Patrick E. McGovern, the museum's molecular archaeologist who led the analyses. In other words, from the pan scrapings.
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Troy the Movie
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Posted by JFC
On General/Chat 05/25/2004 7:00:32 AM PDT · 40 replies · 172+ views
Vanity | JFC
I went to see the movie Troy, reluctantly, last night with my husband. We both turned to each other at the end and said... the left who said the Passion was bloody and so harsh for all eyes, just have no leg to stand on. I do think Brad Pitt is trying and will be taking the place of Mel Gibson in these type of roles, since Hollywood has left Mel out to dry. I would not recommend seeing it. Unless your into blood, and lots of naked bodies.
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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Italy
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Posted by green team 1999
On News/Activism 05/02/2003 10:57:36 PM PDT · 107 replies · 787+ views
whitley strieber unknowncountry.com | may-2-2003 | whitley strieber unknowncountry
Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Italy 02-May-2003 On the Farshores website, Marco V. of Varese, Italy writes, "You may be interested in a discovery which has been recently made: three pyramids were discovered thanks to satellite and aerial imagery in northern Italy, in the town of MontevecchiaÖ They are the first pyramids ever discovered in Italy and the dimensions are quite impressive; the highest pyramid is [500 feet] tall. They are stone buildings, as recent excavations have proved. However, they are now completely covered by ground and vegetation, so that they now look like hills. "The inclination degree of all the...
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Dynasty 0 (Egyptian colonies in Canaan)
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/27/2004 9:48:47 PM PST · 9 replies · 83+ views
xoomer.virgilio.it | Francesco Raffaele
Most of the occurrences of Narmer's name are on jars and jar fragments; an astonishing number of serekhs has emerged in the last 25 years from excavations in Israel and Palestine (Tel Erani, En Besor, Arad, Halif Terrace/Nahal Tillah, Small Tel Malhata, Tel Maahaz, Tel Lod and some more) signifying an apex of commercial contacts between Egypt and Canaan which lasted all through [Early Bronze I] ...These data and the excavation of many Southern Palestine sites, are proof of a very complex series of interrelations between Egypt and peoples centred beyond North Sinai lasting more than two (or three) centuries....
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Pharoahs and Kings - A Test of Time
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Posted by Scythian
On News/Activism 07/31/2002 7:35:06 PM PDT · 9 replies · 107+ views
debate.org.uk | David M. Rohl
A New Chronology Synopsis of David Rohl's book "A Test of Time" by John Fulton The concept of time for us today is taken to be an absolute unchangeable system. We measure time from the fixed point of Christ's birth so that this is the one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seventh year since he was born. The ancients, however, could not look forward to Christ's birth; instead, they worked on a regnal dating system where events happened in the Nth year of the reign of a particular king. For most of the Old Testament, we can find a good...
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What Made Alexander So Great?
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Posted by Destro
On General/Chat 12/01/2004 9:12:17 AM PST · 4 replies · 109+ views
slate.msn.com | Monday, Nov. 29, 2004, at 10:30 AM PT | Christopher Hitchens
Recent studies have also raised the question of whether he was a hopeless alcoholic (or perhaps an almost sacrificial votary of a cult devoted to Dionysus, the god of wine) and of whether he was just another bloodthirsty conqueror. But note this first: This man really did exist, and these events really did occur. Our sources may be fragmentary and inconsistent and contradictory, but they involve us in disputes about real people and events. For the next four weeks, you won't be able to go into a supermarket without hearing pseudo-devotional music concerning an episode 2,000 years ago that may...
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Ancient Greece
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Archaeological Discovery in Bulgaria Clue to Ancient Mystery
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 02/14/2003 1:30:45 PM PST · 19 replies · 146+ views
www.novinite.com | 2003-02-13 | Novinite editorial Staff
†Subscribe for free at www.novinite.com Archaeological Discovery in Bulgaria Clue to Ancient Mystery2003-02-13Bulgarian archaeologists discovered an oval ritual hall fitting the description that ancient historians gave to the Dionysus Temple in the Rhodope range famous for its splendor and mysteriousness in antique times and for the many failed attempts to determine its exact location in modernity. During an expedition in 2002, the team of archeologist Nikolay Ovcharov unearthed the hall inside of an ancient Thracian palace, some 250km southeast of Bulgaria's capital Sofia. The temple-palace is part of the dead city of Perpericon in Bulgaria's Eastern Rhodope Mountain that...
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The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/28/2004 7:29:26 PM PST · 4 replies · 43+ views
Dartmouth College | 1996 | faculty
DO-E-RO, DO-E-RA [doeros, doera] -- Such personnel are common at both Pylos and Knossos. Although the later Greek cognates doulos and doule mean "male slave" and "female slave" respectively, the Mycenaean Greek forms may have had a significance closer to "servant, bondsman/bondswoman". Some DO-E-RO are clearly the property of living individuals, while others are described as being "of (= belonging to) a god/goddess". There is some evidence that the children of parents of whom only one was a slave were also slaves, a situation unlike that prevailing in Classical Greece. Slaves of a divinity are the most common form at...
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Ancient Rome and Italy
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Discovering Dante's Damsel In Distress
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Posted by blam
On General/Chat 12/01/2003 1:16:10 PM PST · 4 replies · 25+ views
Discovery.com | 12-1-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi
Discovering Dante's Damsel in Distress Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News A Majolica Jug: Missing Link? Dec. 1, 2003 ó A 14th century jug unearthed in a Tuscan castle might shed new light on one of the most touching and mysterious female figures in Dante's Divine Comedy, according to Italian archaeologists. Legend has always linked Castel di Pietra, a castle near the village of Gavorrano in the Tuscan Maremma, with the sad fate of Pia dei Tolomei, a lady supposedly imprisoned there and then murdered by her jealous husband. "Do thou remember me who am the Pia/ Siena made me, unmade me...
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Etruscan Ruins Show How Ancients Lived
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Posted by blam
On General/Chat 04/08/2002 5:05:24 AM PDT · 5 replies · 36+ views
IOL | 4-7-2002 | Shasta Darlington
Etruscan ruins show how ancients lived April 07 2002 at 11:34AM By Shasta Darlington Rome - The ruins of an Etruscan mining city abandoned almost 3 000 years ago are giving archaeologists an unprecedented look at one of Italy's first and most mysterious civilisations. Since stumbling across the ruins of a single stone dwelling in the early 1980s, archaeologists have found the region, on the shores of a lake in central Italy, was once the site of an Etruscan city in 700 BC and 600 BC. "It's an extraordinary find because almost all Etruscan ruins are necropoli," said Giovannangelo Camporeale,...
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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars ~ September 16, 2003
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Posted by LaDivaLoca
On News/Activism 09/16/2003 2:53:23 AM PDT · 303 replies · 215+ views
Heraklia.fws1.com | September 16, 2003 | LaDivaLoca
† † For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. † † Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! † † ANCIENT WARFARE ANCIENT ROMAN MILITARY(continuation) † Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars "I am bound to suspect, Caesar, that your friendship is a sham and that your army here in Gaul is for no other purpose than to crush me. So if you do not get out of this area and take your army with you, I shall treat you not as a friend but...
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Gallic war treasure discovered in southern France
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Posted by FairOpinion
On News/Activism 11/27/2004 9:49:43 PM PST · 58 replies · 1,413+ views
Yahoo News | Nov. 27, 2004 | AFP
BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - French archaeologists said this week they had discovered an exceptional Gallic war treasure in the south of the country, including rare war trumpets and ornate helmets. The some 470 objects, or fragments of objects, were found at the end of September during a dig at Naves, in the department of Correze in southern France, in a ditch hollowed out of a Gallic-Roman temple, they said. "The exceptional character of this discovery lies mainly in the presence of five almost complete carnyx," Christophe Maniquet, an archeologist at Inrap, France's national institute for Archeological studies, said. "They are...
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Post Your Favorite Latin Quotes
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Posted by Mad Dawgg
On General/Chat 11/03/2003 2:40:42 PM PST · 90 replies · 374+ views
Today of course | All the gang at FR
Hey this is just a little break from the Election madness we will all be a part of tomorrow. Post any Latin quotes you like whether they be serious or funny. If you don't know any just do a google search on Latin Quotes there are some really great ones.
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Pompeii's Burial Not Its First Disaster
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/02/2004 4:17:13 PM PST · 10 replies · 289+ views
Science News | 11-27-2004 | Sid Perkins
Pompeii's burial not its first disaster Sid Perkins From Denver, at a meeting of the Geological Society of America Recent excavations reveal that the ancient city of Pompeii, famed for its burial by an eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, suffered through several devastating landslides in the centuries preceding its volcanic demise. About three-fourths of Pompeii has been excavated, says Jean-Daniel Stanley of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. However, most of the digs in the city have extended down only to the ground level of dwellings that were standing in the 1st century. In...
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Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows.
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 08/26/2002 2:20:42 PM PDT · 72 replies · 520+ views
The Scotsman | Mon 26 Aug 2002 | John Innes
Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows John Innes ROMAN soldiers went to war on egg and pizza according to archaeological analysis of Roman army toilets in Scotland. Scientists also have discovered that the soldiers also appear to have gone to the lavatory in pairs. Further analysis of the 2,000-year old remains of the legionnairesí breakfasts may produce more clues to the diet and eating habits of the troops led by Gnaeus Agricola. They forced their way to the north of Scotland and victory over Caledonian tribesmen at the battle of Mons Graupius in 84 AD. But...
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Ancient Seas and Thereunder
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A 2nd July 2002 Update of the Undersea City off Cuba! - Involves National Geographic!
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 08/12/2002 7:55:09 PM PDT · 32 replies · 343+ views
The Earth Files | JULY 2002 | Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig
† † Update About Cuba Underwater Megalithic Research 2002 by Linda Moulton Howe A half mile down in the waters of Cabo de San Antoniooff the western tip of Cuba's Guanahacabibes marked by red X is a 20-kilometersquare area of clean, white sand punctuated by tall, megalithic stones or structures first reported in May 2001 by Paulina Zelitsky, Ocean Engineer, Havana, Cuba. "They (megalithic stones) are very unique structures. They really are not easy to understand and I do not have any easy explanation for them in a natural geological process." != Manuel Iturralde-Vinent, Ph.D., Geologist, National Museum of...
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Satellite Images 'Show Atlantis'
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/06/2004 10:00:25 AM PDT · 102 replies · 224+ views
BBC | 6-6-2004 | Paul Rincon
Satellite images 'show Atlantis' By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff The imagery may show the former locations of major buildings and rings A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis. Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia. Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC. The research has been reported as an ongoing project in the...
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Something You Didn't Know About Cajuns (Ilenos, Canary Islands)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/06/2002 6:10:13 PM PDT · 39 replies · 422+ views
Intersurf.com | unknown | Gilbert C. Din/Sidney Villere
ISLENOS, CANARY ISLANDS The archipelago of the Canaries consists of seven main islands, having a total area of less than 6 percent of the size of Louisiana, lying about sixty-five miles west of Morocco in Northern Africa. They were formed as a result of volcanic activity. It is a rugged, mountainous terrain, and plains are almost nonexistent. Lack of water is a serious problem. The westernmost islands receive the most rain, while the two islands closest to the Sahara Desert and lower in elevation have some deserts. The higher elevations on some of the western islands have pleasant temperatures, and...
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Where Was Atlantis? Sundaland Fits The Bill, Surely!
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/29/2004 5:18:02 PM PDT · 35 replies · 586+ views
Graham Hancock | unknown | Dr Sunil Prasannan
Where was Atlantis? Sundaland fits the bill, surely! by Dr. Sunil Prasannan Dr. Sunil Prasannan takes a brief time-out from his NMR spectroscopic studies to suggest a Southeast Asian location for Atlantis as described in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias. OK, so I'm an orthodox scientist, but don't let that bother you - I'm really an OK guy! As I have already explained on the Mysteries message board, I don't intend this to be an exhaustive essay, but as I have been asked for more detail, I will gladly provide it. Neither do I wish to pretend I am the...
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Asia
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Inscribed Bricks Unearthed South Of Iran (1100BC)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2004 12:26:38 PM PST · 56 replies · 1,113+ views
Net Iran | 11-23-2004
Date Added:Nov 24 2004Inscribed Bricks Unearthed South of Iran Iran-11/23/2004 In the latest round of archeological excavations at the historical site of Enshan, Fars province, Iranian and American archeologists have unearthed several inscribed bricks and a seal dating back to the mid-Elamite era (1100 BC).Enshan is regarded as one of the capitals of the Elamites and is rich in cultural heritage artifacts ranging from the Elamite to the Achamenid era (3500 BC to 500 AD). Dr. Kamyar Abdi, an instructor of Dartmouth College in the United States told Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency that in the course of excavations in...
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1421 (Chinese discovery of America)
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Posted by SteveH
On General/Chat 01/01/2004 4:48:30 PM PST · 16 replies · 104+ views
(vanity concerning the book 1421)
Hello, I am wondering if anyone out there has read "1421" yet. I read it over the holidays and found it about 80% believable. In reading some of the other reviews on Amazon, it seemed that some skeptical readers blew it off due to a small set of fanciful conjectures that appeared relatively early in the book. Any other reviews?
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Unearthed Painting Fragments Point To Ancient Fire In Nara
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/01/2004 4:26:06 PM PST · 13 replies · 258+ views
Mainichi | 12-01-2004 | Manichi Shimbun
Unearthed painting fragments point to ancient fire in Nara IKARUGA, Nara -- Numerous fragments of burned wall paintings have been unearthed at Nara Prefecture's Horyuji Temple, underscoring descriptions in ancient literature of a fire that broke out in 670. Mainichi ShimbunHoryuji Temple Officials of the Ikaruga Municipal Board of Education said they believed wall-painting fragments found near the famous Minami Daimon gate of Horyuji Temple were those from a hall in the temple, which was built in the early 7th century. Horyuji holds another set of paintings created at the end of the 7th century that are believed to be...
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British Isles
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New Theory On Stonehenge Mystery
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/03/2004 4:00:41 PM PST · 43 replies · 1,181+ views
BBC | 12-3-2004
New theory on Stonehenge mystery Experts believe the stones may have been levered into place A fresh theory on how Stonehenge was built has been tested out by a group of experts and enthusiasts. Gordon Pipes, of the Stonehengineers group of scientists and archaeologists, has suggested that levers may have been used to move the giant stones. They have tested his "stone-rowing" theory which involves a 45-tonne stone being levered on a track of logs. "It's akin to rowing a boat, weights can be picked up with levers using body mass and balance," said Mr Pipes. Mr Pipes, from Derby,...
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Unearthed, The Prince Of Stonehenge
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/25/2002 5:04:48 PM PDT · 63 replies · 278+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-26-2002 | Roger Highfield
Unearthed, the prince of Stonehenge By Roger Highfield (Filed: 21/08/2002) A prehistoric prince with gold ear-rings has been found near Stonehenge a few yards away from the richest early Bronze Age burial in Britain. Earlier this year, archaeologists found an aristocratic warrior, also with gold ear-rings, on Salisbury Plain and speculated that he may have been an ancient king of Stonehenge. The body was laid to rest 4,300 years ago during the construction of the monument, along with stone arrow heads and slate wristguards that protected the arm from the recoil of the bow. Archaeologists named him the Amesbury Archer....
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History Unearthed (Viking Hoard)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/03/2004 3:53:30 PM PST · 64 replies · 920+ views
Chester Chronicle | 12-3-2004
History unearthed Dec 3 2004 Chester Chronicle A HOARD of Viking jewellery has been found by a metal detector enthusiast in the Cheshire countryside. The finder, Steve Reynoldson from Keighley in West Yorkshire, made the discovery near Huxley on Sunday during a metal detecting rally which attracted almost 100 enthusiasts. Archaeologist Dan Garner, who works for Chester Archaeology, went to the site where he confirmed the booty of 20 silver arm bands was likely to date from the Viking period in the 10th century. Mr Garner said: 'Of the treasure-detected finds in the area, it has to be one of...
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How We Loved The Romans (Scotland Celts)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2002 4:36:00 PM PST · 45 replies · 200+ views
Sunday Herald | 10-28-2002 | Juliette Garside
How we really loved the Romans New research explodes myth that Scots were untameable barbarians By Juliette Garside The enduring myth that the Romans left the 'barbarians' of Scotland untouched during their conquest of the rest of the British Isles has been shattered by a new archaeological find. Not only did they settle in Scotland for around 15 years in the first century AD ... they even got our ancestors to swap their beer and lard for wine and olive oil. For hundreds of years, historians who based their theories on the classical writer Tacitus have always assumed the first...
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Y Chromosomes Rewrite British History
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/24/2003 10:33:30 AM PDT · 78 replies · 467+ views
Nature | 6-19-2003 | Hannah Hoag
Y chromosomes rewrite British historyAnglo-Saxons' genetic stamp weaker than historians suspected 19 June 2003 HANNAH HOAG Some Scottish men's Y's are remarkably similar to those of southern England. © GettyImages A new survey of Y chromosomes in the British Isles suggests that the Anglo-Saxons failed to leave as much of a genetic stamp on the UK as history books imply1. Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans invaded Britain repeatedly between 50 BC and AD 1050. Many historians ascribe much of the British ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons because their written legacy overshadows that of the Celts. But the Y chromosomes of...
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Y Chromosomes Sketch New Outline of British History
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 05/27/2003 3:49:55 PM PDT · 67 replies · 552+ views
NY Times | May 27, 2003 | NICHOLAS WADE
History books favor stories of conquest, not of continuity, so it is perhaps not surprising that many Englishmen grow up believing they are a fighting mixture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans who invaded Britain. The defeated Celts, by this reckoning, left their legacy only in the hinterlands of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. A new genetic survey of Y chromosomes throughout the British Isles has revealed a very different story. The Celtic inhabitants of Britain were real survivors. Nowhere were they entirely replaced by the invaders and they survive in high proportions, often 50 percent or more, throughout...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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The Hazard of Near-Earth Asteroid Impacts on Earth
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/02/2004 10:51:16 AM PST · 14 replies · 128+ views
Frontiers | 4 March 2004 | Clark R. Chapman
The actual damage that a NEA impact might cause on Earth was concretely described by Baldwin, a leading advocate for the impact origin of lunar craters. Later, Opik... proposed that NEA impacts might account for mass extinctions in the Earth's paleontological record. Around the same time, Shoemaker firmly established the impact origin of Meteor Crater in Arizona... [I]t was not only a cultural but a scientific shock when Mariner 4's first photographs of the Martian surface revealed it to be covered by craters; a decade later, Mariner 10 found the same on Mercury... In 1979 and 1980, the Voyagers first...
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Legacy of Bethlehem: Amazing intrigue surrounding birth of Jesus, connections to Islam
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Posted by JohnHuang2
On News/Activism 12/25/2003 7:09:28 AM PST · 11 replies · 45+ views
WorldNetDaily.com | Thursday, Christmas Day, 2003 | Hal Lindsey
Bethlehem's legacy Posted: December 25, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern ©†2003†WorldNetDaily.com Bethlehem is a sacred city to both Jews and Christians. It is sacred to the Jews because its greatest King, David, was born there. It is sacred to Christians because Jesus, the Messiah, was born there, as was predicted some 700 years before: But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be numbered among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.ñ Micah 5:2, NASB Ironically, the real legacy...
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Police On Meteor Alert After Huge Balls Of Fire Light Up Spanish Sky
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/05/2004 6:45:55 PM PST · 7 replies · 25+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 1-6-2004 | Giles Tremlett
Police on meteor alert after huge balls of fire light up Spanish sky Giles Tremlett in Madrid Tuesday January 6, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Was it a brightly shining star leading the present-laden three kings to the homes of millions of children at today's Epiphany, Spain's biggest gift-giving day of Christmas? As police scoured a remote mountainous district of the northern LeÛn province yesterday for remnants of a large, brilliant, burning object that fell to earth on Sunday, the most likely explanation was that it was part of a meteor. The search concentrated near Renedo de Valderaduey after neighbours saw...
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Researcher has theory on the 'Star of Bethlehem' -
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Posted by UnklGene
On News/Activism 12/14/2003 4:14:42 PM PST · 19 replies · 42+ views
San Antonio Express-News | December 13, 2003 | Rachel L. Toalson
Researcher has theory on the 'Star of Bethlehem' - By Rachel L. Toalson San Antonio Express-News 12/13/2003 All she did was ask him to hang a star above the three wise men adorning their lawn that Christmas in 1998. But Marion Larson's request launched her father into a project that, after hours of research, would carry him across the world. "I was tricked into it," said Rick Larson, a former law professor at Texas A&M University in College Station. "I'm not an astronomer, I'm a lawyer. But when you tell a lawyer he has to have a star, he's got...
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Origins and Prehistory
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Doctors link polio to West Nile virus
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Posted by sarcasm
On News/Activism 09/24/2002 2:17:21 AM PDT · 59 replies · 168+ views
Boston Globe | September 24, 2002 | Stephen Smith
<p>In case reports released yesterday, stunned neurologists in Mississippi and Georgia describe the conditions of four patients suffering from the hobbled limbs, impaired breathing, and fevers that are the hallmark of polio, a disease essentially eradicated in the United States.</p>
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Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/23/2004 4:42:34 PM PDT · 73 replies · 468+ views
BBC | 6-23-2004
Farming origins gain 10,000 years Wild types of emmer wheat like those found at Ohalo were forerunners of today's varieties Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say. These grasses included wild emmer wheat and barley, which were forerunners of the varieties grown today. A US-Israeli team report their findings in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The evidence comes from a collection of 90,000 prehistoric plant remains dug...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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A.D., B.C. - not P.C.
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Posted by .cnI redruM
On News/Activism 11/18/2004 10:39:06 AM PST · 176 replies · 2,350+ views
The American Thinker | November 18th, 2004 | Selwyn Duke
Our civilization is suffering what could be called a cultural death by a thousand cuts. The open sores are ubiquitous, but what happens to irk me at this moment is that quite some time ago I learned that my birth date is not what my parents always told me it was. Moreover, no one elseís is either. You see, those who are contemptuous of tradition have decided to take it upon themselves to change our calendar and replace B.C. [Before Christ] and A.D. [Anno Domini] with B.C.E. [Before the Common Era] and C.E. [The Common Era]. The latter two designations...
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Are the Arabs, Arab?
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Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 02/02/2004 5:07:04 AM PST · 51 replies · 106+ views
Fontpagemagazine | 22-04 | David Yeagley
The people of the Middle East have forgotten their legitimate ethnic heritage. . . and it's not "Arab." Are the Arabs, Arab?By David YeagleyFrontPageMagazine.com | February 2, 2004 People in the Arabic world have forgotten who they are. The people of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and even some "Palestinians," are not Arabs at all. Instead, they are descendents of very ancient peoples, with different cultural and ethnic origins. Militant Arabs invaded these lands in the 7th century A.D. and forced "Arabic" culture on their ancestors. Mohammadís new religion of Islam sought world dominion through coerced unity, crushing cultural diversity. But...
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Assyrians in Turkey: Disappearance of a Culture? (July, 2000)
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Posted by miltonim
On News/Activism 01/02/2004 1:04:19 PM PST · 2 replies · 67+ views
Assyrian Education Network | Friday, August 25, 2000 at 02:32 PM CT | Dr. Racho Donef
Last year, as some of you may know, a conference entitled "Portraits of Christian Asia Minor" was held at Macquarie University. The Conference was attended by the Turkish Consul who, reportedly, after the conference requested a meeting with Senator John Nimrod, from the U.S., who is also, President of the Assyrian Universal Alliance. The Consul expressed his regret for what had happened in the past, explaining that the Turks are trying to turn a new page with the Assyrians. He advised that he is personally working to establish contact and good relations with the Assyrians.[1] I am reporting this here...
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Destination Kabul for Turkish forces
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Posted by a_Turk
On News/Activism 06/24/2002 8:05:53 PM PDT · 27 replies · 45+ views
BBC | 6/21/2002 | Jonny Dymond
It was six in the morning local time. The aeroplane's in-flight monitor read "Welcome to Ashkhabad". But something was wrong. Because on either side of the airbus as it had taxied to a halt had been burnt out fighter jets and bombed buildings, the wreckage of a relatively low-level but long-term conflict. If this was Ashkhabad, capital of Turkmenistan, we'd all be missing a big story. Kabul remains a city of destroyed buildings. In fact it was Kabul, the Afghan capital. The brass band of the Turkish Army reached up into overhead lockers, fretting over their creased uniforms. And...
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Did Israel's Lost Tribes end up in Afghanistan?
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Posted by CommiesOut
On News/Activism 02/02/2002 9:22:59 PM PST · 92 replies · 164+ views
Reuters | 03 FEB 2002 | Tom Heneghan
Did Israel's Lost Tribes end up in Afghanistan? By Tom Heneghan KABUL, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Considering all they shunned and shattered in their quest for pure Islam, Afghanistan's now vanquished Taliban seem to have overlooked the awkward legend that they were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel. The Pashtun tribes that produced the Taliban, one of the most zealous sects the Muslim world has ever seen, have traditionally traced their roots to the Jews who disappeared after the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century B.C. The legend, which seems bizarre in light of Jewish-Muslim tensions since the creation ...
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Early Christians Hid The Origins Of The Bethlehem Star
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2001 5:11:00 AM PST · 155 replies · 568+ views
New Scientist | 12-21-2001 | Marcus Chown
Early Christians hid the origins of the Bethlehem star 13:15 21 December 01 Marcus Chown A US astronomer claims he has found the first mention of the star of Bethlehem outside the Bible. The reference is in a 4th-century manuscript written by a Roman astrologer and Christian convert called Firmicus Maternus. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library Michael Molnar, formerly of Rutgers University in New Jersey, is the originator of the idea that the star of Bethlehem was not a spectacular astronomical event such as a supernova or a comet but an obscure astrological one. The event would nevertheless have been ...
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The Kurdish People: A Background and History
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Posted by xzins
On News/Activism 04/07/2004 7:54:38 PM PDT · 35 replies · 98+ views
The Kurdish Partnership | Matthew Hand and Mark Brockman
"No Friends but the Mountains" The Kurdish people comprise a large ethnic group of about 25 million that have always lived in the same place, and trace their roots back to the Medes of ancient Persia more than 2,500 years ago. In fact, the Magi, or "wise men" who traveled from the east to deliver their gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus at Bethlehem were most likely Zoroastrian priests, forbears of the modern Kurds. The Kurds are tribal people, many of them lived, until recently, a nomadic lifestyle in the mountainous regions of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and...
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Zoroastrians Fight Extinction
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 12/23/2003 10:01:12 PM PST · 122 replies · 212+ views
VOANews | 12/23/03 | VOANews
The opening bars of Richard Straussí composition ìThus Spoke Zarathustraî became famous as the theme for Stanle Kubrickís 1968 movie ì2001: A Space Odyssey.î But apart from academics and some 300-thosuand believers, few people know much about ancient Iranian prophet Zarathustra and his teaching. ìYet only one thousand years ago, millions, millions espoused Zarathustraís monotheistic percepts in nations which stretched from (the ancient Chinese city of) Sian (western China) to the Eastern China across central Asia, northern India, Iran, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia up Greece in the west and Arabia, north Africa and Ethiopia in the south,î says Adi Davar, a...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Cave Skeleton Is European, 1,300 Years Old (Wyoming)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/30/2002 3:47:50 PM PDT · 61 replies · 196+ views
Sunday Gazette Mail | 9-29-2002 | Rick Steelhammer
Cave skeleton is European, 1,300 years old, man says Archaeologist group wants a look at evidence Sunday September 29, 2002 By Rick Steelhammer STAFF WRITER MORGANTOWN ó The man who first advanced the theory that markings carved on in a Wyoming County cave are actually characters from an ancient Irish alphabet has found human remains at the site, which tests indicate are European in origin and date back to A.D. 710, he maintains. Robert Pyle of Morgantown says that a DNA analysis of material from the skeletonís teeth roots was conducted by Brigham Young University. That analysis, he says, shows...
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A Complex Agricultural Society In Uruguay's La Plata Basin, 4,800 - 4,200 Years Ago
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/02/2004 11:26:39 AM PST · 19 replies · 229+ views
Eureka Alert/Smithsonian | 12-2-2004 | Jose Iriarte
Contact: JosÈ Iriarte iriartej@si.edu 202-786-2094 x8350 Smithsonian Institution A complex agricultural society in Uruguay's La Plata basin, 4,800-4,200 years ago A complex farming society developed in Uruguay around 4,800 to 4,200 years ago, much earlier that previously thought, Iriarte and his colleagues report in this week's Nature (December 2). Researchers had assumed that the large rivers system called the La Plata Basin was inhabited by simple groups of hunters and gatherers for much of the pre-Hispanic era. Iriarte and coauthors excavated an extensive mound complex, called Los Ajos, in the wetlands of southeastern Uruguay. They found evidence of a circular...
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Maize Reveals Traces Of Old Breeding Project
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/02/2004 11:37:33 AM PST · 20 replies · 425+ views
Nature | 12-1-2004 | Emma Harris
Maize reveals traces of old breeding project Emma Marris Gene suggests ancient culture selected patterns in its corn. Teosinte grass (left) compared to "reconstructed" primitive maize, created by crossing teosinte with Argentine pop corn. © The Doebley Lab The people of Mesoamerica are largely responsible for the golden corn we grow today, having domesticated tough teosinte grass thousands of years ago and bred it into modern maize. Researchers have now located the gene responsible for some of the traits that the Mesoamericans were selecting. The discovery should help scientists understand how plants develop, and reveals just how strict the ancient...
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Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid
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Posted by Betis70
On News/Activism 12/02/2004 5:58:20 PM PST · 112 replies · 1,900+ views
Yahoo Reuters | 12/2/2004 | Brian Winter
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday. The tomb at Teotihuacan, the first major city built in the Americas, whose origins are one of history's great mysteries, also held the bound carcasses of eagles, dogs and other animals. "It is hard to believe that the ritual consisted of clean, symbolic performances -- it is most likely that the ceremony created a horrible scene of bloodshed with sacrificed people and animals," said Saburo Sugiyama,...
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Mexican tomb reveals gruesome human sacrifice
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Posted by snarks_when_bored
On General/Chat 12/03/2004 4:14:00 PM PST · 15 replies · 79+ views
New Scientist | December 4, 2004 | Will Knight
Mexican tomb reveals gruesome human sacrifice 18:46†03†December†04 NewScientist.com news service † Evidence of a grisly human sacrifice and a complex military infrastructure has emerged from an excavation of the ruins of a pyramid in the 2000-year-old city of Teotihuacan in Mexico. A vault containing 12 bodies, ten of which had been decapitated, along with the remains of pumas, wolves and eagles were discovered at the city's central structure, the Pyramid of the Moon. "What we have found in this excavation suggests that a certain kind of mortuary ritual took place inside the tomb before it was filled in," says...
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A Noble Find Reveals Life In The Past (Ancient China)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/03/2004 3:39:10 PM PST · 4 replies · 228+ views
Xinhuanet/China View | 12-3-2004
A noble find reveals the life in the past www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-03 11:02:53 BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Chicken fighting, women dancing with long silk sleeves and other colourful mural portrayals of the ancient Chinese captivated archaeologists when they entered an ancient tomb in Shaanxi Province. The hostess and her female guests constitute a part of the murals found in an ancient tomb in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. [file photo] The murals have been considered a rare find, according to Cheng Linquan, deputy director of the Xi'an Research Institute of Archaeology. They provide visual evidence for the study...
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Sacrificial Burial Deepens Mystery At Teotihuacan, But Confirms The City's Militarism (More)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/03/2004 3:31:14 PM PST · 9 replies · 268+ views
Innovations Report | 12-3-2004
Sacrificial burial deepens mystery at Teotihuacan, but confirms the cityís militarism Partially uncovered figurine, carved in jade, found in connection with three unbound, seated bodies and other objects at the top of the pyramidís fifth stage (the offering was presumably made in the construction of the sixth stage), circa 350 AD. This object is notable in that it is carved from jade that originated in Guatemala, and appears to be Mayan in style. Other jade objects on top of the figurine are beads and earspools. A spectacular new discovery from an ongoing excavation at the Teotihuacanís Pyramid of the Moon...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Church's taxation enrages Italians [bishop reinstates medieval church property tax]
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Posted by Polycarp
On News/Activism 01/13/2003 12:26:46 PM PST · 20 replies · 40+ views
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH | Bruce Johnston
Church's taxation enrages Italians By Bruce Johnston LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ROME - The people and politicians of a Tuscan village are in revolt against their bishop after he reinstated a medieval church property tax at heavy new levels. In protest, many devout Roman Catholics are boycotting Mass and withholding collection payments. The bills began arriving over Christmas at the homes of hundreds of property owners in Terricciola, a picturesque village of 4,000 people that sits in rolling, vine-covered hills near Pisa. Many are for large sums, some as high as $2,000. The diocese of Volterra insists that the money is...
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Dumbing down: the proof [a copy of a test for 11-year-olds from 1898]
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Posted by snarks_when_bored
On General/Chat 11/28/2004 5:50:10 AM PST · 30 replies · 341+ views
The Spectator (U.K.) | November 27, 2004 | No author
Dumbing down: the proof As a service to Spectator readers who still have any doubts about the decline in educational standards, we are printing these exam papers taken by 11-year-olds applying for places to King Edwardís School in Birmingham in 1898. ENGLISH GRAMMAR1. Write out in your best handwriting:ó ëO Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,Across the sands oí Dee.íThe western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand,And oíer and oíer the sand,And round and round the sand,As...
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Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/30/2004 7:08:36 PM PST · 20 replies · 298+ views
Reuters/Yahoo | 11-29-2004
Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony Mon Nov 29,12:40 PM ET Science - Reuters CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scurvy wiped out nearly half of the colonists who established one of the first French settlements in North America 400 years ago, scientists confirmed on Monday. Picture Perfect How to choose the right digital camera, plus the best printers and online photo services. The colony existed in 1604 and 1605 on St. Croix Island off present-day Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Nearly half of the 79 settlers died during the harsh winter, prompting survivors to move to what is...
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The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians" - The Israel Report July 2001
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Posted by doug from upland
On News/Activism 03/30/2002 2:40:34 PM PST · 23 replies · 213+ views
The Israel Report | July 2001 | various authors
July 2001††††††††† The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians" "There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews . . . . Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us? "The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity." ---- Golda Meir quoted by Sarah...
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Not Just Anti-Semitic Lies!-The essence of the message no possibility of peace with the Jews
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Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 12/06/2002 1:35:58 PM PST · 3 replies · 13+ views
Jerusalem Report | 12-05-02 | Ehud Ya'ari
The essence of the message is that there is no possibility of making peace with the Jews "Horseman without a horse," the Egyptian TV hit series being broadcast by 14 Arab TV networks, is not the only anti-Semitic production to be galloping across the screens each evening this Ramadan. For viewers looking for more than the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" can offer, thereís no shortage of alternatives. Anti-Semitism has become the last word in the Arab entertainment industry. Al-Manar, the Hizballah TV station broadcast from Lebanon, features Dr. Ghazi Hussein, a veteran salaried PLO lackey and a...
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Safed: Chief rabbi questioned for incitement
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Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 11/28/2004 12:38:54 PM PST · 10 replies · 169+ views
Jerusalem Post | Nov. 28, 2004 | David Rudge
Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu was questioned by Galilee district police on Sunday apparently over comments made in August in which he reportedly called on Jews not to rent or sell homes to Arabs. The Mosawa advocacy center for Arab citizens of Israel at the time submitted a complaint to Attorney-General Menny Mazuz and called on him to initiate a criminal investigation against Eliyahu on the grounds that his reported comments constituted incitement to racism. No further details about the questioning of Eliyahu were available from police on Sunday evening.
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The Last Crusade Of The Templars
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2004 2:57:11 PM PST · 150 replies · 2,840+ views
Times Of London | 11-29-2004 | Ruth Gledhill
The last crusade of the Templars By Ruth Gledhill The knights want a Papal apology nearly 700 years after they were disbanded and hounded into exile THE VATICAN is giving ìserious considerationî to apologising for the persecution that led to the suppression of the Knights Templar. The suppression, which began on Friday , October 13, 1307, gave Friday the Thirteenth its superstitious legacy.A Templar Order in Britain that claims to be descended from the original Knights Templar has asked that the Pope should make the apology. The Templars, based in Hertford, are hoping for an apology by 2007, the 700th...
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end of digest #20 20041204
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