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Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #22
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Mystery Of 'Chirping' Pyramid Decoded
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2004 2:43:44 PM PST · 74 replies · 1,426+ views Nature | 12-14-2004 | Philip Ball Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded Philip BallAcoustic analysis shows how temple transforms echoes into sounds of nature El Castillo's strange echoes have fascinated visitors for generations © Punchstock A theory that the ancient Mayans built their pyramids to act as giant resonators to produce strange and evocative echoes has been supported by a team of Belgian scientists. Nico Declercq of Ghent University and his colleagues have shown how sound waves ricocheting around the tiered steps of the El Castillo pyramid, at the Mayan ruin of Chichen Itza near Cancun in Mexico, create sounds that mimic the chirp of a bird...
The Roman Head From Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca, Mexico: A Review Of The Evidence
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2004 4:26:41 PM PST · 14 replies · 494+ views University Of New Mexico | 4-18/22-2001 | Romeo H. Hristov/Santiago Genoves T. The Roman Head from Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca, Mexico: A Review of the evidence Paper prepared for the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans, Louisiana (April 18-22, 2001). Romeo H. Hristov (b) and Santiago Genoves T. (b) (a) Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 8713 1, U.S.A. (b) Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas-UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria 04510, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO Abstract: Since the publication of the complementary research on the apparently Roman head found in Central Mexico (Hristov, Romeo and Santiago Genoves 1999 "Mesoamerican Evidence of Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts, Ancient Mesoamerica. 10 (2): 207-213) this find...
Ancient Egypt
British, Egyptian Archaeologists Map Out Regions Beneath Pyramids
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/29/2003 9:35:13 AM PDT · 19 replies · 216+ views Zawya | 9-29-2003 British, Egyptian archaeologists map out regions beneath Pyramids CAIRO, Sept 28 (KUNA) -- A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists are excavating beneath the three Pyramids of Giza to find more about the mystery of the Pyramids and their builders. "The British team, which hails from the University of Birmingham, is using the latest and most up-to-date equipment to seek the mystery of the Pyramids," said Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Higher Council for Antiquities in Egypt. The team is employing a special radar that would help create an archaelogical map of the subterranean region beneath the three Pyramids...
Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/16/2003 11:05:23 AM PST · 36 replies · 154+ views The Herald (UK) | 11-11-2003 | Martin Willians Drought that destroyed a civilisation MARTIN WILLIAMS November 11 2003 IT is one of history's biggest mysteries and has confounded experts for hundreds of years. But a team of scientists believe they have discovered why the world's first great civilisation, established in Egypt nearly 5000 years ago, crumbled and plunged into a dark age that lasted for more than 1000 years. The researchers, including one academic from St Andrews University, have produced new evidence linking the demise of the Egyptian Old Kingdom with decades of drought after a study of layers of sediment at the source of the Blue Nile...
Egypt Announces Discovery Of 30,000 Year-Old Skeleton
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/08/2002 3:46:59 PM PDT · 50 replies · 264+ views ABC News Online | 5-8-2002 Egypt announces discovery of 30,000 year-old skeleton Wednesday, 8 May 2002 The skeleton of a human being who lived more than 30,000 years ago has been discovered in southern Egypt by Belgian archaeologists, an Egyptian official announced. "Anthropologists have set his, or her, age to be between 30,000 and 33,000 years ago," Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said. It was the oldest skeleton ever found in northern Africa, Mr Hawass said. A team from the University of Leuven found the skeleton buried in a seated position facing east, with the head turned upward, the director of...
I Have Solved The Riddle Of The Sphinx, Says Frenchman
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2004 5:36:33 PM PST · 66 replies · 2,493+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 12-14-2004 | Nic Fleming I have solved riddle of the Sphinx, says Frenchman By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent (Filed: 14/12/2004) Archaeologists, who are able to tell us who built the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, have puzzled over the riddle of the Sphinx for generations. The identity of the ruler who ordered the building of the 65ft high, 260ft long limestone half-human statue that has guarded the Giza Plateau for 4,500 years has been lost in the sands of time. Workers on the Sphinx in a television reconstruction Now, following a 20-year re-examination of historical records and uncovering new evidence, Vassil Dobrev, a French Egyptologist,...
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine (Coming to the USA in 2005 for 27 month/4 city tour)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 12/03/2004 7:41:03 PM PST · 59 replies · 1,127+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 12/3/04 | Jill Serjeant - Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The gilded treasures of King Tutankhamun are on their way back to the United States in what could prove a gold rush for Egypt and big business. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" starts a 27-month tour of the United States in June 2005 that will mark the first return here in more than two decades of the precious artifacts buried with the mysterious boy king. The exhibit is twice the size of the late-1970s King Tut global tour which launched an era of "blockbuster" museum exhibitions. This year's version will charge up to...
Ancient India
A Civilisation Parallel To Harappa? Experts Wonder
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2004 12:05:39 PM PST · 6 replies · 288+ views Express India | 12-13-2004 | Abhishek Kapoor A civilisation parallel to Harappa? Experts wonder Abhishek Kapoor Vadodara, December 11: Was Gujarat the cradle of an independent civilisation, contemporary of the classical Harappan civilisation around the Indus Valley? This view is gaining academic credence in the community of archaeologists specialising on the subject across the country. The Sorath (present Saurashtra) region civilisation, dating back to 3700 BC at some places, was distinct from the classical Harappan as it developed in the Indus Valley, say researchers in the field. ëëIt maintained its separate identity in many ways even as a cultural, economic and technological exchange took place between the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Death at Halmyris: Two Christian Martyrs at a Roman Outpost on the Danube
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/15/2004 10:07:57 AM PST · 8 replies · 124+ views Archaeology Odyssey | Nov/Dec 2004 | Mihail Zahariade and Myrna K. Phelps In 2001 our team, which had been excavating Halmyris for 20 years, made an extraordinary discovery: a fourth-century C.E. basilica containing the bones of two Christian martyrs previously known only from literary sources. If Halmyris had long been recognized for its role in Roman military history, now it had instant appeal to students of Christianity as well.
Palestinian Genes Show Arab, Jewish, European and Black-African Ancestry
	Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism 12/17/2004 3:05:57 PM PST · 56 replies · 929+ views Global Politician | December 16, 2004 | David Storobin, Esq. A study by the University of Chicago found that Arab populations, including Palestinians, Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Bedouin, have at least some sub-Saharan African genes. Non-Arabs from the region, including Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Azeris, Georgians, and Jews did not have any African roots. [1] A possible explanation is the proximity of the Arabian peninsula to the Black African nations. This conclusion is favored by the fact that Yemenite Arabs have 35% Black African genes in their mtDNA (which passes through the mother), while others have less. Yemen, of course, is very close geographically to several Black African nations. Other Arabs,...
Western Wall Hill - Out; Temple Period Finds - In
	Posted by Alouette On News/Activism 12/13/2004 3:49:45 PM PST · 6 replies · 376+ views Israel National News (Arutz 7) | Dec. 13, 2004 Jerusalem city engineers will take down the hill jutting out from the Western Wall, replacing it with a bridge. Archaeologists expect to find treasures, such as a tall gate from the Second Temple. The Jerusalem Municipality has decided to take down the hill that leads up from the Western Wall (Kotel) entrance to the Temple Mount, for fear that it might otherwise collapse. The walkway up the hill leads to the Mughrabim Gate, which is currently the only entrance for Jews to the Temple Mount. The city plans to replace the hill with a bridge that will lead into the...
Origins and Prehistory
Archaeologists Excited By 500,000-Year-Old Axe Find In Quarry
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2004 11:37:14 AM PST · 140 replies · 2,375+ views 24hourmuseum.org.uk | 12-16-2004 | David Prudames ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCITED BY 500,000-YEAR-OLD AXE FIND IN QUARRY By David Prudames 16/12/2004 This image shows the axe head from different angles. Photo: Graham Norrie, University of Birmingham Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity. A Stone Age hand axe dating back 500,000 years has been discovered at a quarry in Warwickshire. The tool was found at the Smiths Concrete Bubbenhall Quarry at Waverley Wood Farm, near Coventry, which has already produced evidence of some of the earliest known human occupants of the UK. It was uncovered in gravel by quarry manager John Green who took it to be identified by archaeologists at...
Old graves found at school site were possibly pioneers'
	Posted by Excuse_My_Bellicosity On News/Activism 12/18/2004 7:34:16 AM PST · 39 replies · 763+ views Salt Lake Tribune | 12/18/2004 | Matt Canham Five pine coffins discovered on the future site of North Summit Middle School had some students concerned ghosts would haunt their hallways, while others just wondered what would happen to the old bones. The coffins, containing the remains of one man and four children, were found while construction crews finished the footings on the new building. The workers found the first grave on Dec. 10 and the last - the coffin of a 1- to 2-year-old child - was exhumed Friday. "We knew there used to be an old cemetery here," said North Summit Middle School Principal Lloyd Marchant. "But...
Settled Life Speeds Social And Religious Evolution
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/16/2004 3:32:52 PM PST · 3 replies · 94+ views New Scientist | 12-13-2004 | Emma Young Settled life speeds social and religious evolution 13 December 2004 Emma Young The shift from nomadic life to settled village life can lead to a rapid development of religious and social complexity and hierarchy, according to a detailed chronology of the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico. Only about 1300 years separate its oldest ritual buildings - simple ëmenís hutsí - and the first standardised temples of the Zapotec state, an archaeological study suggests. ìThis is the first study to show how the co-evolution of social and religious complexity occurred, and what steps were involved,î says Joyce Marcus at the University...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2004 11:51:06 AM PST · 27 replies · 671+ views Newswise | 12-18-2004 | Jeff Donnelly Catastrophic Flooding from Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period CLIMATE CHANGE, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, JEFF DONNELLY, ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE Newswise ó Imagine a lake three times the size of the present-day Lake Ontario breaking through a dam and flooding down the Hudson River Valley past New York City and into the North Atlantic. The results would be catastrophic if it happened today, but it did happen some 13,400 years ago during the retreat of glaciers over North America and may have triggered a brief cooling known as the Intra-Allerod Cold Period. Assistant Scientist Jeffrey Donnelly of the Woods...
Experts Seek Trail to Mark Ice Age Floods (National Park Service Study)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 11/10/2003 7:55:28 PM PST · 14 replies · 32+ views Yahoo News | 11/10/03 | Joseph B. Frazier - AP THE DALLES, Ore. - The National Park Service has proposed a marked trail to commemorate Ice Age floods through four Western states that left canyons, valleys, lakes and ridges that still dominate the terrain today ó some so dramatic they can be seen from outer space. Picture an ice dam 30 miles wide, forming a lake 2,000 feet deep and 200 miles long, stretching from the Idaho panhandle into western Montana, containing more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined. Now picture that dam giving way, the water thundering out in 48 hours, through four states, across Washington and...
Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself
	Posted by snarks_when_bored On General/Chat 12/17/2004 10:57:17 PM PST · 44 replies · 307+ views Space and Earth Science News | December 16, 2004 † Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself December 16, 2004 Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson worries that he may have found clues that show history repeating itself, and if he is right, the result could have important implications to modern society. Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe. From the mountains of data drawn by analyzing countless ice cores, and...
Sky-High Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-Central Washington
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/05/2003 6:29:54 AM PST · 11 replies · 28+ views Science Daily | 11-4-2003 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Date: 2003-11-04 Sky-high Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-central Washington Seattle -- Geologists have uncovered a scene in the Pasco Basin west of the Columbia River in Washington state that shows how boulders piggybacked icebergs from what is now Montana and came to rest at elevations as high as 1,200 feet. Although glacial deposits of rocks and boulders are common, especially in the upper Midwest, "There probably isn't anyplace else in the world where there are so many rocks that rafted in on icebergs," said Bruce Bjornstad, a geologist at the Department...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Aircraft litter seafloor off S. Oahu
	Posted by Chuckster On News/Activism 12/16/2004 5:30:57 PM PST · 26 replies · 861+ views Honolulu Advertiser | 12-15-04 | Jan Tenbruggencate Aircraft litter seafloor off S. O'ahu Tenbruggencate Jan Staff Advertiser Final Post-WWI biplanes, flying boats among last week's finds BY JAN TENBRUGGENCATE, Advertiser Science Writer An undersea aircraft museum lies on the ocean floor off South O'ahu, and it includes representatives of virtually the entire era of the flying boats - from early post-World War I biplanes to World War II PBY Catalinas and a postwar behemoth that sank in 1950, the Martin Marshall Mars. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday announced a series of discoveries made last week and said agencies are mapping the seafloor to document the...
(Ten) Egypt Archaeologists Face Smuggling Trial
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2004 3:44:30 PM PST · 4 replies · 105+ views The Guardian (UK) | 12-13-2004 Egypt Archaeologists Face Smuggling Trial Monday December 13, 2004 8:16 PM CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Ten Egyptians, including three top archaeologists, will stand trial on charges of stealing and smuggling tens of thousands of antiquities, the nation's chief prosecutor said Monday. Prosecutor-General Maher Abdel Wahid also decided to send the chief of Pharaonic antiquities, Sabri Abdel Aziz, to a disciplinary tribunal on charges of negligence of duty, Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported. The officials were part of a gang that the government accuses of stealing 57,000 artifacts from antiquity warehouses and smuggling thousands of them abroad. The Egyptian officials,...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #23
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
2,300-year-old mummy found in Mexico
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 12/19/2004 1:36:05 AM PST · 15 replies · 499+ views Billings Gazette | DEc. 19, 2004 | AP MEXICO CITY - Mexican archeologists reported Thursday the discovery of a 2,300-year-old mummy of a female child along with some fabric, hair, feathers and plant remains in a dry, cold, high-altitude cave in the central state of Queretaro. Archeologists received a tip about some human remains in the cave in a mountainous area known as the Sierra Gorda. They searched the cave, located about 9,570 feet above sea level, and found the girl's mummified remains, which lacked one arm. "This is one of the oldest mummies to have been found in Mexico," according to a press release from the Templo...
Ancient Peru Site Older, Much Larger
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/23/2004 9:49:50 AM PST · 67 replies · 975+ views Seattle Times | 12-23-2004 | Thomas H. Maugh Thursday, December 23, 2004 - Page updated at 12:03 A.M. Ancient Peru site older, much larger By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times A Peruvian site previously reported as the oldest city in the Americas actually is a much larger complex of as many as 20 cities with huge pyramids and sunken plazas sprawled over three river valleys, researchers report. Construction started about 5,000 years ago ó nearly 400 years before the first pyramid was built in Egypt ó at a time when most people around the world were simple hunters and gatherers, a team from Northern Illinois University...
Archaeologists push back beginning of civilization in Americas 400 years
	Posted by bruinbirdman On News/Activism 12/22/2004 6:09:11 PM PST · 40 replies · 660+ views Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that the oldest civilisation in the Americas dates back 400 years earlier than previously thought, according to research published today. New radiocarbon dating of 95 samples taken from pyramid mounds and houses suggest that by 3100 BC there were complex societies and communal building of religious monuments across three valleys in Peru. This emerging civilisation was the first in the Americas to develop centralised decision-making, formalised religion, social hierarchies and a mixed economy based on agriculture and fishing. The newly uncovered sites in the Fortaleza and Pativilca valleys, along with the nearby previously reported sites in...
Explorers Rediscover Incan City Near Machu Picchu
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/23/2004 10:15:16 PM PST · 3 replies · 74+ views Reuters | Nov 6 2003 | staff Using infrared aerial photography to penetrate the forest canopy, the team led by Briton Hugh Thomson and American Gary Zeigler located the ruins at Llactapata 50 miles northwest of the ancient Incan capital, Cusco... The site was first mentioned by explorer Hiram Bingham, the discoverer of Machu Picchu, in 1912. But he was very vague about its location, and the ruins have lain undisturbed ever since. After locating the city from the air, the expedition used machetes to hack through the jungle to reach it, 9,000 feet up the side of a mountain. They found stone buildings including a solar...
Inca wall falls for 'Archaeologist' hotel
	Posted by bedolido On General/Chat 09/15/2003 1:57:59 PM PDT · 4 replies · 17+ views ABC News | 09/15/03 | Staff Writer A Frenchman has torn down part of an ancient Inca wall to build a hotel that he ironically wanted to call 'The Archaeologist', in the Peruvian city of Cusco, capital of the Inca empire. The El Comercio newspaper said Joel Raymund was planning to slap up a concrete wall in place of the large, finely cut bricks that had been there since before the 16th century Spanish conquest. Peruvian authorities have halted construction of the hotel. The newspaper reported Mr Raymund has apologised but it is not clear what sanctions he could face. The Inca dynasty ruled over a swathe...
Machete-Wielding Team Discover Inca Fastness Lost For Four Centuries
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/05/2002 5:26:53 PM PDT · 21 replies · 87+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-6-2002 | Roger Highfield Machete-wielding team discover Inca fastness lost for four centuries By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 06/06/2002) One of the last Inca strongholds against the conquering Spanish has been uncovered in cloud-forest by a British and American expedition investigating a rumour of lost ruins, the Royal Geographical Society will announce today. Called Cota Coca, after the coca grown there, the site is more than 6,000ft up in a valley near the junction of the Yanama and Blanco rivers in Vilcabamba, one of the least understood and most significant areas in the history of the Incas, rulers of the last great empire...
Machu Picchu Rubbish Dump Found
	Posted by vannrox On General/Chat 06/12/2002 4:10:51 PM PDT · 6 replies · 42+ views Discovery News | June 12, 2002 | Editorial Staff Archaeologists, while clearing away weeds from Peru's Machu Picchu, uncovered more of the ancient site, including a rubbish dump. Machu Picchu Rubbish Dump Found June 10 ó Archeologists doing maintenance at the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu have found new stone terraces, water channels, a rubbish dump and a wall dividing the site's urban sector from its temples, an official said on Friday. "We were clearing away weeds when we were surprised to discover new stone structures, including a wall 6.8 meters (22 feet) high with fine masonry which separates the urban from the sacred zone," Fernando Astete, administrator...
Road to Machu Picchu runs through L.A.(Inca exhibit in LA Natural History Museum)
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 06/30/2003 8:04:23 PM PDT · 11 replies · 103+ views San Bernardino Sun | June 27, 2003 | Steven Rosen Machu Picchu Comes to L.A. Largest U.S. Exhibition of Inca Treasures Makes Only West Coast Stop at Natural History Museum (http://www.nhm.org/) . June 22 to September 7, 2003. This is the first stop on the exhibitionís national tour, after its debut at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Following the Los Angeles presentation, the exhibit will travel to Pittsburgh, Denver, Houston and Chicago. The enduring allure of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Incan ruins nestled into Peru's Andes Mountains, is its mystery. Why and how did the Incas build such an impressive estate -- a five-acre city, really, with 150...
Stained Teapot Reveals An Ancient Love Of Chocolate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/18/2002 8:26:07 AM PDT · 10 replies · 67+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 7-18-2002 | Roger Highfield Stained teapot reveals an ancient love of chocolate By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 18/07/2002) A teapot has provided evidence that our love affair with chocolate began 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists have shown that cocoa was cultivated in the land between the Americas - including what today is Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize - for thousands of years. Now a study of brown stains on 2,600-year-old Mayan pottery from Belize has identified cocoa residues thought to have been left by ancient drinking chocolate. The discovery, reported today in Nature, pushes back the earliest chemical evidence of cocoa use...
Ancient Greece
Khirokitia
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/25/2004 7:20:25 PM PST · 2 replies · 49+ views Cyprus at a Glance | June 26, 2001 | staff The Neolithic preceramic period is represented by the settlement of Khirokitia and about 20 other similar settlements, spread throughout Cyprus... This, the earliest known culture in Cyprus, consisted of a well-organised, developed society mainly engaged in farming, hunting and herding. Farming was mainly of cereal crops. They also picked the fruit of trees growing wild in the surrounding area such as pistachio nuts, figs, olives and prunes. The four main species of animals whose remains were found on the site were deer, sheep, goats and pigs... The village of Khirokitia was suddenly abandoned for reasons unknown at around 6000 BC...
Kourion: The Monuments Of The City
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/25/2004 7:32:09 PM PST · 4 replies · 48+ views Cytop Net | 1998 | staff This private house is viewable while mounting the hill of Kourion at the left turn towards the Theatre. According to the excavators it was constructed in the late 1st or in the early 2nd century. It was remodeled in the mid 4th century and demolished definitely by the big earthquake, which occurred after the mid 4th century A.D. (365 A.C.). The ruins of this house reflect life in the city of Kourion at the moment of the demolition and all the finds are exposed at the local Museum situated in the village of Episkopi.
The Warriors Of Paros
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2004 11:52:54 AM PST · 8 replies · 226+ views Hellenic News | 12-19-2004 | Foteini Zafeiropoulou/Anagnostis Agelarakis The Warriors of ParosEarliest Polyandria (Soldiers' burials) found in Greece offer clues to the rise of Classical Greek City-States and Phalangeal War Tactics. by Foteini Zafeiropoulou and Anagnostis Agelarakis Soldiers' bones in urns-evidence of a forgotten battle fought around 730 BC. Did these men perish on their island home of Paros, at the center of the Aegean Sea, or in some distant land? The loss of so many, at least 120 men, was certainly a catastrophe for the community, but their families and compatriots honored them, putting the cremated remains into large vases two of which were decorated with scenes...
Ancient Europe
Archaeologists Strike Gold In Secret Spot (Norway)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2004 4:19:03 PM PST · 24 replies · 762+ views Aftenposten | 12-20-2004 Archaeologists strike gold in secret spot Eleven small, golden reliefs have been unearthed at an archaeological dig somewhere in eastern Norway. Officials won't say where, because they think more of the 1,400-year-old gold objects will be found at the site. Professor Heid Gj¯stein Resi with one of the small gold reliefs found in eastern Norway. PHOTO: ARASH A. NEJAD The most intact object found in October depicts a couple, maybe the mythological figures Fr¯y and Gerd.PHOTO: ARASH A. NEJAD "This is a tremendously unique and exciting discovery, the kind an archaeologist makes only once in a lifetime," professor Heid Gj¯stein...
Earliest Depiction Of A Rainbow Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/22/2004 10:12:25 AM PST · 48 replies · 862+ views Discovery News | 12-21-2004 | Jennifer Viegas Earliest Depiction of a Rainbow Found? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Dec. 21, 2004 ó An ancient bronze disc that looks a bit like a freckled smiley face may show the world's earliest known depiction of a rainbow, according to a report published in the new issue of British Archaeology magazine. If the rainbow interpretation proves to be correct, the rare image also would be the only known representation of a rainbow from prehistoric Europe. The round bronze object, called the Sky Disc, was excavated in 1999 at Nebra in central Germany. It was said to have been found at...
Out Of The Flames, A Work Of Art From 4,000 Years Ago
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/20/2004 5:45:54 PM PST · 13 replies · 510+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 12-21-2004 | Paul Stokes Out of the flames, a work of art from 4,000 years ago By Paul Stokes (Filed: 21/12/2004) Archaeologists believe a 4,000-year-old stone carving found among the remnants of a devastating moorland blaze could be the world's earliest work of landscape art. Inscriptions on the yard-wide sandstone panel are thought to depict fields and a house with a mountain or seascape in the background. The sandstone panel is thought to depict fields and a house It was discovered last summer after a four-day peat fire exposed a huge chunk of subsoil on Fylingdales Moor, North Yorks. The area of the North...
Women Warriors From Amazon Fought For Britain's Roman Army
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/22/2004 10:29:18 AM PST · 63 replies · 1,661+ views The Times (UK) | 12-22-2004 | Lewis Smith December 22, 2004 Women warriors from Amazon fought for Britain's Roman army By Lewis Smith THE remains of two Amazon warriors serving with the Roman army in Britain have been discovered in a cemetery that has astonished archaeologists. Women soldiers were previously unknown in the Roman army in Britain and the find at Brougham in Cumbria will force a reappraisal of their role in 3rd-century society. The women are thought to have come from the Danube region of Eastern Europe, which was where the Ancient Greeks said the fearsome Amazon warriors could be found. The women, believed to have died...
Ancient Near East
5,000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/24/2004 11:47:31 AM PST · 14 replies · 376+ views Iranian WS | 12-23-2004 5000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran Dec 23, 2004, 11:34 CHN According to the research by an archeological team in the burnt city, women comprised the most powerful group in this 5000-year-old city. The archeological team has found a great number of seals in the women's graves. In ancient societies, holding a seal was a sign of power, and was of 2 kinds: personal and governmental. The burnt city ancient site located in Sistan-Baluchistan province, southeastern Iran, dates back to between 2000 and 3000 BC. "In the ancient world, there were tools used as a means...
Archaeologists Believe They Have Discovered Part Of Throne Of Darius
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2004 3:19:40 PM PST · 20 replies · 569+ views Tehran Times | 12-21-2004 Archaeologists believe they have discovered part of throne of Darius Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologists believe they have found a part of one leg of the throne of Darius the Great during their excavations at Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid dynasty, the director of the team of archaeologists announced Sunday. ìFour archaeologists of the team found a piece of lapis lazuli during their excavations in water canals passing under the treasury in southeastern Persepolis last year,î said Alireza Askari, adding, ìThe studies on the piece of stone over the past year led the archaeologists...
New Studies Show Jiroft Was An International Trade Center 5,000 Years Ago
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/23/2004 9:39:27 AM PST · 2 replies · 94+ views Tehran Times | 12-23-2004 New studies show Jiroft was an international trade center 5000 years ago Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) ñ- Studies by foreign archaeologists and experts on seals recently discovered in the Jiroft area prove that Jiroft was an international trade center 5000 years ago. The head of the excavation team in the region, Yusef Majidzadeh, said on Wednesday that several ancient seals in various shapes were discovered during the most recent excavation at the site. ìThe twenty-five discovered seals show that the regional people made use of seals in their business. They used to put products inside jars, covered the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Israeli Archaeologists Believe They Have Found Site of Jesus' First Miracle
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 12/21/2004 1:20:03 PM PST · 118 replies · 1,793+ views AP | Dec 21, 2004 | Laurie Copans CANA, Israel (AP) - Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of Cana. They believe these could have been the same kind of vessels the Bible says Jesus used in his first miracle, and that the site where they were found could be the location of biblical Cana. But Bible scholars caution it'll be hard to obtain conclusive proof - especially since experts disagree on exactly where Cana was located....
AP: Historical Christian Site Said to Be Found [Jesus's First Miracle]
	Posted by West Coast Conservative On News/Activism 12/21/2004 1:50:05 PM PST · 28 replies · 1,095+ views AP | Dec. 21, 2004 | LAURIE COPANS Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of Cana. They believe these could have been the same kind of vessels the Bible says Jesus used in his first miracle, and that the site where they were found could be the location of biblical Cana. But Bible scholars caution it'll be hard to obtain conclusive proof ó especially since experts disagree on exactly where Cana was located. Christian theologians attach great...
Archaeologists Identify Remains of Site Where Bible Says Jesus Restored Blind Man's Sight
	Posted by Sub-Driver On News/Activism 12/23/2004 11:51:22 AM PST · 30 replies · 716+ views TBO.COM Archaeologists Identify Remains of Site Where Bible Says Jesus Restored Blind Man's Sight By Ramit Plushnick-Masti Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists in Jerusalem have identified the remains of the Siloam Pool, where the Bible says Jesus miraculously cured a man's blindness, researchers said Thursday - underlining a stirring link between the works of Jesus and ancient Jewish rituals. The archaeologists are slowly digging out the pool, where water still runs, tucked away in what is now the Arab neighborhood of Silwan. It was used by Jews for ritual immersions for about 120 years until the year 70, when...
Israel finds Jesus miracle sites
	Posted by kattracks On News/Activism 12/24/2004 1:25:35 AM PST · 21 replies · 504+ views NY Daily News | 12/24/04 | MATTHEW KALMAN JERUSALEM - Just in time for Christmas, Israeli archeologists unveiled ancient sites where Jesus is believed to have performed two of his most celebrated miracles. In Jerusalem, the pool where Jesus is said to have cured a man's blindness has been found under several yards of dirt. According to John's Gospel, Chapter 9, verses 1-12, Jesus performed this miracle at the Siloam Pool in the City of David just south of the Temple Mount. Archeologists revealed yesterday they found an impressively paved assembly area and water channel that brought rainwater to the Siloam Pool in the Second Temple period when...
Burial box of Jesus's brother is hoax, say experts (Hoaxster charged with fraud)
	Posted by AAABEST On Religion 12/24/2004 8:06:54 AM PST · 20 replies · 249+ views The UK Times | December 24, 2004 | Ian MacKinnon AN ISRAELI collector of antiquities who stunned the world with a find that he said was the burial container of Jesusí ìbrotherî, James, is to be charged with forgery. Justice Ministry officials said last night that Oded Golan would be indicted next week on a range of charges that would include forgery over an inscription on the stone container that carried the script in Aramaic reading: ìJames, son of Joseph, brother of Jesusî. Six others are also to be charged. The discovery of the ossuary in October 2002 was hailed as one of the great archaeological discoveries of the age...
Asia
Black & White Ceramics from 10th-14th Century China
	Posted by maui_hawaii On News/Activism 12/21/2004 9:30:48 PM PST · 18 replies · 224+ views artdaily WASHINGTON, D.C.-From the 10th through the 14th centuries, Chinese potters significantly expanded the ceramic repertoire by perfecting a clay body of pristine whiteness and developing a luscious black glaze, leading to the production of innovative, visually striking vessels, dishes, boxes and tomb ceramics. This exhibition presents examples of the most acclaimed ìblack and whiteî ceramics of the period. The range of glaze colors on view includes ìblacksî that shade to brown, and silvery tones and ìwhitesî that range from ivory to pale blue. Objects from diverse kilns demonstrate the inaccuracy of a longstanding assumption that the major kilns of this...
Origins and Prehistory
Dinosaur Swallows Human
	Posted by BenLurkin On General/Chat 12/24/2004 7:37:06 AM PST · 74 replies · 630+ views biblelandstudios.com | 12-24-04 | "Bibleland" Dear Friends, Thank you for your patience and without further delay Bibleland Studios presents The Photos as promised of what appears to be a fossil of a Dinosaur Swallowing a Human. Do these photos provide the necessary evidence that dinosaurs and humans coexisted in our recent ancient past? From our latest poll many of you believe humans and dinosaurs did coexist. But just because we believe it does that make it so? Bibleland Studios is interested in objective; naked, pure unadulterated truth no matter where it leads. Do you believe as I do that the desire to know where we...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Magnificent Seven That Keep Mere Mortals Wondering
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/02/2004 5:20:20 PM PST · 18 replies · 47+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 4-3-2004 | Christopher Howse Magnificent seven that keep mere mortals wondering By Christopher Howse (Filed: 03/04/2004) Only one person out of more than 600 polled could name all Seven Wonders of the World, according to a survey published today. That person's identity is unknown, since the survey was done scientifically by ICM, guaranteeing anonymity. Perhaps it was you. If not, and you want to try getting all seven, look away from this page now. How did you score? If you could name three, you were doing well. Only one person in 10 managed that. Four or more Wonders were named by only a tiny...
Michigan Man May Have Tapped Secrets Of The Ancients
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 03/24/2004 4:56:10 PM PST · 62 replies · 237+ views The Flint Journal (w o r l d w i d e a n o m a l o u s p h e n o m e n a r e s o u r c e) | 3-20-2004 | Kim Crawford But then, the blocks that Wallace T. Wallington moves around near his home in a rural Flint area have weighed up to nearly 10 tons. And by himself, he moves these behemoth playthings, not with cranes and cables, but with wooden levers. "It's more technique than it is technology," Wallington says. "I think the ancient Egyptians and Britons knew this." Last October, a production crew from Discovery Channel in Canada came to Wallington's home to record him as he raised a 16-foot, rectangular, concrete block that weighed 19,200 pounds and set it into a hole. That taping was made into...
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