Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #24
January 1st, 2005
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Ancient Navigation
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Of Lasting Genes And Lost Cities Of Tamil Nadu
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/05/2003 4:15:36 PM PST · 21 replies · 103+ views
Hindustan Times | 1-5-2003 | Papri Sri Raman
Of lasting genes and lost cities of Tamil Nadu Papri Sri Raman (Indo-Asian News Service) Chennai, January 5 India's East Coast, especially along Tamil Nadu, is increasingly drawing the attention of archaeologists and anthropologists from across the world for its evolutionary and historical secrets. The focus has sharpened after genetic scientist Spencer Wells found strains of genes in some communities of Tamil Nadu that were present in the early man of Africa. In the "Journey of Man" aired by the National Geographic channel, Wells says the first wave of migration of early man from Africa took place 60,000 years ago...
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The Periplus of the Red Sea, edition Megalommatis, a Book Review.
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Posted by Muhammad Shams Megalommatis
On Bloggers & Personal 06/16/2004 7:33:33 AM PDT · 3 replies · 219+ views
The Books | 15/6/04 | Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Periplus of the Red Sea (O Periplous tes Erythras Thalasses) Edition Megalommatis. A Book Review. Published in Greek, in 1994 (STOHASTIS Publishing House, Athens - Greece), 272 p., the book consists in a theoretical approach and analytical presentation of a major historical phenomenon that shaped to a very large extent the World History: the development of the trade between East and West. The text of the Periplus of the Red Sea is by definition the central text in the study of the East - West Trade, an interdisciplinary field where more than two dozens of historical branches have been...
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Scientists Discover Ancient Sea Wharf (Marine Silk Road)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/30/2004 11:46:01 AM PST · 12 replies · 428+ views
East Day.Com | 12-30-2004
Scientists discover ancient sea wharf 30/12/2004 7:32 Archeologists say that they have found the country's oldest wharf and it is believed to be the starting point of an ancient sea route to Central and West Asia. The discovery has reaffirmed the widespread belief that the ancient trade route started in Hepu County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, archeologists said at yesterday's symposium on the nation's marine silk road. After three years of excavation, archeologists have unearthed a wharf that is at least 2,000 years old in Guchengtou Village, according to Xiong Zhaoming, head of the archeological team. At the same site,...
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Ancient Egypt
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8 Prehistoric Granaries Found In Egypt (9,000 Years Old)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/29/2004 8:37:42 AM PST · 20 replies · 542+ views
The Ledger | 12-28-2004
Published Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8 Prehistoric Granaries Found in Egypt The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt An American excavation mission has unearthed eight granaries that are relics from agricultural life in the Neolithic era, the Egyptian culture minister said in a statement Tuesday. The granaries were discovered last week in Fayoum, an oasis some 50 miles southwest of Cairo, Farouk Hosni said in the statement. The statement said the granaries date back to the Neolithic era that began around 9,000 B.C., known as a transition point from roaming and hunting societies to an agricultural one. Hosni added that "those granaries...
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Egypt demands return of Rosetta Stone!
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Posted by UnklGene
On News/Activism 07/20/2003 10:18:03 AM PDT · 228 replies · 929+ views
The Sunday Telegraph - UK | July 20, 2003 | Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner
Egypt demands return of the Rosetta Stone By Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner (Filed: 20/07/2003) Egypt is demanding that the Rosetta Stone, a 2,000-year-old relic and one of the British Museum's most important exhibits, should be returned to Cairo. The stone, which became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, was found by Napoleon's army in 1799 in the Nile delta, but has been in Britain for the past 200 years. It forms the centrepiece of the British Museum's Egyptology collection and is seen by millions of visitors each year. Now, in an echo of the campaign by Athens for...
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Egypt demands return of Rosetta Stone- threatens to pursue its claim "aggressively"
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Posted by yankeedame
On News/Activism 07/20/2003 5:58:03 PM PDT · 25 replies · 66+ views
The Sydney Morning Herald | July 21, 2003 | staff writer
Egypt demands return of ancient Rosetta StoneJuly 21 2003Egypt is demanding that the 2000-year-old Rosetta Stone be returned to Cairo and has threatened to pursue its claim "aggressively" if the British Museum does not agree to give it back. The stone, which became the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, was found by Napoleon's army in 1799 in the Nile delta, but has been in Britain for 200 years. "If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity," said...
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A lost city has been descovered in Egypt (The Scots and the lost city of Egypt).
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 02/12/2003 1:56:18 PM PST · 26 replies · 380+ views
The Scotsman | 2-12-03 | JIM MCBETH
A SCOTTISH archaeological expedition, operating on a shoestring budget, has uncovered an ancient Egyptian city, buried by the sands of time. The expedition, which scrapes together £10,000 a year to maintain its dig near Memphis, the ancient Pharaonic capital, has written a new page of Egyptís history. For the newly-discovered town, situated near the necropolis of Saqqara, 15 miles from Cairo, is almost certainly where the workmen who built the pyramids lived with their families. The presence of large temples, some nearly 200ft square, a number of tombs and the mix of large and small dwellings indicate a place...
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The missing sun temples! (Where are they?)
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 01/03/2003 3:59:47 PM PST · 35 replies · 275+ views
Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) | 2 - 8 January 2003 | Jill Kamil
The missing sun temples Six Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty built massive sun temples at Abu Sir in addition to their pyramids, but only two have so far been found.Jill Kamil talks to the head of the Czech archaeological mission In a presentation on Abu Sir given at the American University in Cairo last week head of the Czech mission Miroslav Verner told the audience that his team had recently been focusing on the "vast and remarkable monuments", the sun temples raised by the Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty who ruled from 2494 to 2345 BC. "Their plan (main...
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Pharaoh at bat? History throws a curve (Prof claims baseball invented in ancient Egypt)
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Posted by mhking
On News/Activism 03/16/2003 4:29:13 AM PST · 20 replies · 191+ views
Albany Times-Union | 3.15.03 | BRUCE WEBER
Pharaoh at bat? History throws a curve Professor claims earliest bat-and-ball games were played in ancient EgyptBy BRUCE WEBER, New York Times First published: Saturday, March 15, 2003 No disrespect meant to Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright or anybody else who might claim responsibility for the game we call baseball, but Thutmose III had them beat by three millennia or so. Thutmose ruled Egypt during the 15th century B.C., and is the first known pharaoh to have depicted himself in a ritual known as seker-hemat, which Egyptologist Peter A. Piccione has loosely translated as "batting the ball." "The word...
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Ancient Egypt -- Amarna
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Akhenaten: An Early Egyptian Monotheist
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Posted by restornu
On Religion 04/05/2004 8:52:20 PM PDT · 27 replies · 73+ views
M E R I D I A N M A G A Z I N E | By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin
Although monotheism is usually associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there have, in fact, been a number of other monotheistic religions in world history. Iran, in particular, was a center for monotheistic thought, being home to both Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. At first glance, ancient Egypt, with its hundreds of exotic gods, would seem the last place for a monotheistic revelation. Yet one of the earliest monotheists known to history was Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt from 1352-1336 BC, who perhaps lived in the generation before Moses. Akhenaten was born of royal parents, raised and trained in the religious traditions of Egypt...
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Found: Queen Nefertiti's Mummy
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/08/2003 10:05:51 AM PDT · 72 replies · 719+ views
The Sunday Times (UK) | 6-8-2003 | Jack Grinston
June 08, 2003 Found: Queen Nefertitiís mummy Jack Grimston BRITISH archeologists believe they may have identified the body of one of the most legendary beauties of the ancient world. They are confident a tattered mummy found in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings is probably Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of the boy king Tutankhamun and one of the most powerful women in ancient Egypt. The conclusion has been made after 12 years of research, using clues such as fragments of a wig and the piercing of the mummyís ears. The breakthrough came after the Egyptian authorities allowed the 3,500-year-old...
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Ancient Egypt -- Mummies
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Ancient Mummy, Probably Pharaoh, Returns to Egypt
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Posted by presidio9
On News/Activism 10/28/2003 8:11:40 AM PST · 18 replies · 102+ views
Reuters | Tue, Oct 28, 2003
A Egyptian mummy, which is probably pharaoh Ramses I who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, returned home from a U.S. museum after a journey that began with a 19th century grave robbery. The body, which like that of other ancient Egyptian rulers would originally have been laid in a decorated tomb, was flown into Cairo airport carefully packed in a plain wooden crate. Witnesses said the box was taken off the plane Saturday draped in an Egyptian flag. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, accompanied the mummy on the flight. The Michael C. Carlos Museum...
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Atlanta Sends Mummy Home
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Posted by Chipata
On News/Activism 04/30/2003 1:59:07 PM PDT · 10 replies · 95+ views
National Geographic | April 30, 2003 | Hillary Mayell
U.S. Museum to Return Ramses I Mummy to Egypt Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News April 30, 2003 A 3,000-year-old mummy that many scholars believe is ancient Egypt's King Ramses I is the star attraction of an exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta that will run from April 26 to September 14. How the mummy came to reside in North America for 140 years, and wound up in Atlanta, is a tale that includes the collapse of law and order in ancient Egypt, grave robbers, stolen antiquities, a two-headed calf and a five-legged pig, the wonders of...
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Curses! Mummy Tale Not True
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 12/20/2002 6:39:28 PM PST · 11 replies · 99+ views
Yahoo! News | 12/20/02 | Amanda Gardner - HealthScoutNews
Curses! Mummy Tale Not True Fri Dec 20, 2:53 PM ET By Amanda GardnerHealthScoutNews Reporter FRIDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthScoutNews) -- Tut tut to those who believe in the mummy's curse. Reuters Photo According to a study reported in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, there is no mummy's curse associated with the opening of the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt. The study confirms what other experts have long suspected. "I've never had any weird experience with a mummy, and I've worked with them for 30 years," says Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University's...
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Egyptian Busted for Trying to Sell Mummy
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Posted by JohnHuang2
On News/Activism 10/31/2003 12:18:16 PM PST · 25 replies · 50+ views
Associated Press | Friday, October 31, 2003
Egyptian Busted for Trying to Sell Mummy .c The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A senior Egyptian official and six other government employees have been arrested for trying to sell a mummy to an undercover officer, police said Friday. The seven, all employed at the Agriculture Ministry, were arrested Thursday while negotiating with an officer posing as an antiquities dealer. They are believed to have excavated the mummy recently in an illegal dig in Beni Suef, 60 miles south of Cairo, and had hidden it in a government-owned truck, police said. Most sales of Egyptian antiquities are illegal under...
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Egypt's 'Ramses' mummy returned (Ramses I)
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Posted by Sabertooth
On News/Activism 10/26/2003 8:58:18 AM PST · 16 replies · 422+ views
BBC | October 26th, 2003
Egypt's 'Ramses' mummy returned The mummy is believed to be that of the Pharaoh Ramses I An ancient Egyptian mummy thought to be that of Pharaoh Ramses I has returned home after more than 140 years in North American museums. The body was carried off the plane in Cairo in a box draped in Egypt's flag. The Michael Carlos Museum gave it back after tests showed it was probably that of the man who ruled 3,000 years ago. The US institution acquired it three years ago from a Canadian museum, which in turn is thought to have bought it...
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Ancient Greece
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On this Day In History, The Battle of Salamis, 480 B.C.
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Posted by Valin
On News/Activism 09/20/2003 2:29:05 PM PDT · 23 replies · 114+ views
Hellas net.
After the first Persian wars an exceptional rich vein was discovered in the Attic silver mines of Laurium. This gave new opportunities for Athens. One group led by Aristides wanted the profits to be spread out over the population, as it was normal in those days, others who were led by Themistocles wanted something different. He was the only one who had correctly understood the message of the oracle of Delphi that Athens should be protected by a wooden wall: he debated that Athens should built a fleet of 200 triremes. He pointed out to the Athenians that a strong...
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(huge # of graphics) USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Ancient Greek Warfare Part III - Ancient Greek Navy ~ NOV 25 2003
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Posted by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
On News/Activism 11/24/2003 9:57:30 PM PST · 368 replies · 257+ views
Warfare in Hellas | 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 WARFAREPart III: Ancient Greek Military: †Lfikrates' Hoplite Greek Navy Ifikrates' hoplite. Ifikrates was an Athenian general during the hegemony of Thebes, but most of all somebody who was not afraid of changes. He noticed the power of the peltasts at an early stage and managed to break down a Spartan phalanx with a group of peltasts during the battle of Lechaeum....
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Ancient Near East
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Ancient Curse, Modern War Hide Arabian Desert Tombs
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Posted by BlackVeil
On News/Activism 12/31/2004 12:11:54 AM PST · 9 replies · 330+ views
Yahoo News | 2 Dec 2004 | By Dominic Evans
MEDA'IN SALEH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Sheltered from the world by an ancient religious curse and modern Middle East conflict, a spectacular ruined city lies almost hidden in the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia. More than 100 tombs and burial chambers are carved elaborately into rocky outcrops across the sands of this city, still bearing names and ornate religious symbols chipped into the sandstone 2,000 years ago. Nearby volcanic mountains, decorated with the 10,000-year-old art of prehistoric hunters, tower over a palm-filled oasis and an abandoned mud house village. Through them all snake the remains of an Ottoman railway, built...
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Persia, Elam, etc
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Human Sacrifice Was Common In Burnt City (Iran)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/28/2004 3:15:07 PM PST · 18 replies · 421+ views
Payvand | 12-27-2004
12/27/04Human Sacrifice Was Common in Burnt City Tehran (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) -- According to archeological research in the 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times. After excavating a number of graves in the cemetery of the burnt city, the Iranian archeological team came across signs of murder and generally beheaded bodies.ìDuring excavations in the burnt city cemetery, we came across a grave with only one skull buried along with gifts and personal items needed for the afterlife. There was also another grave in the form of a...
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Parthian Era Subterranean Village Discovered Near Maragheh
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/31/2004 12:19:44 PM PST · 6 replies · 277+ views
Teheran Times | 12-31-2004
Parthian era subterranean village discovered near Maragheh Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologists have discovered a Parthian era village under the earth near the Mehr Temple of the northwestern city of Maragheh, the director of the Maragheh Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department said on Wednesday. ìSince the Mehr Temple is one of the little known sites of Iran, our team planned to carry out some excavations around it to ascertain some details about the temple. The excavations resulted in the discovery of an underground village which archaeologists believe dates back to the Parthian era,î Nasser Zavvari added....
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Photo Series: Persepolis, Iran - Capital of Persian Empire [History]
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Posted by freedom44
On Bloggers & Personal 08/27/2004 9:42:57 PM PDT · 33 replies · 722+ views
Iranian | 8/27/04 | Iranian
Cyrus the Great Cylinder, The First Charter of Human Rights By 546 BCE, Cyrus had defeated Croesus, the Lydian king of fabled wealth, and had secured control of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, Armenia, and the Greek colonies along the Levant. Moving east, he took Parthia (land of the Arsacids, not to be confused with Parsa, which was to the southwest), Chorasmis, and Bactria. He besieged and captured Babylon in 539 and released the Jews who had been held captive there, thus earning his immortalization in the Book of Isaiah. When he died in 529, Cyrus's kingdom extended as...
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Ancient Rome and Italy
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Buried Women 'Were In Amazon Fighting Tribe' (More)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/29/2004 8:57:36 AM PST · 27 replies · 867+ views
Cumbria-Online | 12-29-2004 | Pam McClounie
BURIED WOMEN ëWERE IN AMAZON FIGHTING TRIBEí Published in News & Star on Wednesday, December 29th 2004 Fierce: Women may have fought in the Roman army By Pam McClounie TWO bodies unearthed from an ancient cemetery at Brougham, near Penrith, have changed expertsí views on Roman Britain. For the 1,750-year-old remains ñ found at the site in the 1960s ñ have been identified as women warriors who may have been from the fabled Amazon fighting tribe of Eastern Europe. The discovery has astonished archaeologists and historians because women were not previously known to have fought in the Roman army, which...
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British Isles
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Anglo Saxon Brooch Has Oldest Writing In English
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/07/2003 6:14:03 PM PDT · 49 replies · 56+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 6-7-2003 | Paul Stokes
Anglo Saxon brooch has oldest writing in English By Paul Stokes (Filed: 07/06/2003) What is believed to be the oldest form of writing in English ever found has been uncovered in an Anglo-Saxon burial ground. It is in the form of four runes representing the letters N, E, I and M scratched on the back of a bronze brooch from around AD650. The six inch cruciform brooch is among one million artefacts recovered from a site at West Heslerton, near Malton, North Yorks, since work began there in 1978. Dominic Powlesland, the archaeologist leading the excavation team, said: "This could...
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Campaign To Bring 'Red Lady' Back To Swansea After 180 Years
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/27/2004 12:05:01 PM PST · 8 replies · 457+ views
IC Wales | 12-27-2004 | Robin Turner
Campaign to bring 'Red Lady' back to Swansea after 180 years Dec 27 2004 Robin Turner, Western Mail THE chairman of Swansea's tourism association is backing an Elgin Marbles style campaign to secure the return to Wales of the Red Lady of Paviland. The skeleton of the "red lady", complete with jewellery and a mammoth's head grave marker, is regarded as one of the world's most important archaeological finds. It was discovered in 1823 at Paviland Cave on Gower. Later analysis showed the skeleton to be that of a man, probably a chieftain, but the Red Lady tag has stuck....
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Looking into Blackheath's mysterious cavern (Huge Cave system under London)
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 03/17/2004 6:04:02 AM PST · 37 replies · 631+ views
icSouthlondon | Sep 03.03 | Mandy Little
Land around a mysterious cavern underneath Blackheath could soon be under investigation. Parkman's, the surveyors who investigated a six-foot-wide crater that appeared in the A2 at Blackheath Hill last April has said further checks on land stability in the area are needed. Decisions on their report were to be made by Greenwich council last night. But the council, which would apply for a grant from English Partnerships to cover the costs of the investigation, is not yet sure how much it will cost. The collapse of the A2 into chalk pits after subsoil washed away triggered traffic chaos, hundreds of...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Archaeologists Find Ancient Village Near Tel-Aviv
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/27/2004 12:12:04 PM PST · 17 replies · 646+ views
Jerusalem Post | 12-27-2004 | AP
Dec. 26, 2004 19:29Archeologists find ancient village near Tel-Aviv By ASSOCIATED PRESS Archeologists have discovered a village near the Mediterranean coast dating from the 4th century B.C., the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday - a rare find. The discovery provides an unusual insight into a turbulent period when there were intense struggles for control over the area, said Uzi Ad, who led the dig. During this period the region was under the rule of the Egyptian Ptolemy empire and then the Selucid Greeks from Syria before it was conquered by the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty in the second century B.C. "The...
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Eusebius' Onomasticon: Geographical Knowledge in Byzantine Palestine
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/01/2005 1:36:08 AM PST · 1 reply · 50+ views
Palestine Exploration Fund | 17 March, 2004, Last modified 30 April, 2004 | Joan E. Taylor and Rupert L. Chapman
The most widely held view is that the modern site of Beitin was Bethel, however, the detailed information given by Eusebius did not particularly suit this identification... Eusebius had used Bethel as a central place for identification of the location of other places, second in importance only to Jerusalem, and had given distances from four other locations. The first of these, at the twelfth milestone north of Jerusalem, presented few problems, but the second, 4 milestones east of Gibeon, was more problematic, did not really fit Beitin, and was better suited to el-Bireh... Archaeologically, although both Eusebius and Jerome described...
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The Battleground (Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David Or Shishak?)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2003 4:49:06 PM PDT · 13 replies · 132+ views
Bibical Archaeology | 10-23-2003 | Timothy P. Harrison
The Battleground Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David or Shishak? Timothy P. Harrison Sidebar: Megiddo at A Glance Did King David conquer and destroy Megiddo? Well, that depends partly on the date of Stratum VI. Let me explain why. Most scholars accept David as a historical figure who was an active military ruler in the period portrayed in the Hebrew Bible (the early tenth century B.C.E.). However, there is considerably less agreement on how to interpret the archaeological evidence for this period. Thatís where Megiddo Stratum VI figures in. The dispute is over which archaeological material relates to the time...
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Forgery: Museums urged to take a new look at Bible-era relics
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 01/01/2005 3:03:32 PM PST · 8 replies · 137+ views
Winston-Salem Journal | 1/1/05 | AP
Experts advised world museums to re-examine their Bible-era relics after Israel indicted four collectors and dealers on charges of forging items thought to be some of the most important artifacts discovered in recent decades. The indictments issued Wednesday labeled many such "finds" as fakes, including two that had been presented as the biggest biblical discoveries in the Holy Land - the purported burial box of Jesus' brother James and a stone tablet with written instructions by King Yoash on maintenance work at the ancient Jewish Temple. Shuka Dorfman, the head of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said that the scope of...
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Scientists excited by stone record of Solomon's wisdom
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Posted by MadIvan
On News/Activism 01/17/2003 4:03:58 PM PST · 19 replies · 76+ views
The Times | January 18, 2003 | Stephen Farrell
THE scene is straight from The Maltese Falcon. A secret hotel rendezvous, and a Jewish messenger and his silent Arab accomplice waiting while the learned Israeli academic peers at a black stone tablet. Written in stone: the tablet has been carbon-dated at 2,300 years old but doubts remain about its true origins This was how it began a year and a half ago, the first sighting of what is either a state-of-the-art hoax or an ancient Hebrew inscription ó more than 2,000 years old ó confirming the Biblical account of Solomonís temple. The fragment, 31cm x 24cm x 7cm of...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Tunnels under Cusco
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 12/28/2004 9:45:15 AM PST · 19 replies · 1,087+ views
El Comercio Peru | FR Post 12-29-2004 | El Comercio Peru
Tunnels under Cusco Early chroniclers reported that by far the greatest amount of treasure in Cusco was in the Sun Temple (Koricancha). However, it disappeared before the conquistadors could get hold of it and melt it down. Despite the use of various forms of persuasion, the Spanish never found this horde. A team of investigators from Spain, using modern technology of radar and software producing 3D images, have suggested that there are tunnels connecting the former Incan temples (over which colonial churches were built) to Sacsahuaman. They have discovered the existence of huge tunnels over 5 metres deep under the...
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Origins and Prehistory
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A taste for trouble ("Caveman" Beer created - puts hair on your chest)!
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 02/19/2004 1:35:04 PM PST · 23 replies · 150+ views
The Scottsman | Thu 19 Feb 2004 | KEN BARRIE
AN ARCHAEOLOGIST recently recreated a neolithic brew based on ingredients excavated in Perthshire. The resulting ale tasted unpleasant, but clearly those who drank it originally were not put off. Ever since, the production and consumption of alcohol has been central to Scotland?s culture. It wasn?t just home-produced brew for which Scots developed a taste. Scotland did brisk international trade exporting a wide range of goods in exchange for claret, imported from France to Leith as early as the 12th century. Subsequently, wines from Spain were landed in Dumbarton, bound for Glasgow. In the other direction, export ales were developed from...
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Brewers Concoct Ancient Egyptian Ale ("..tastes very different from today's beer.")
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Posted by yankeedame
On News/Activism 08/03/2002 8:09:31 AM PDT · 18 replies · 177+ views
BBC On-Line | Saturday, 3 August, 2002 | staff writer
Saturday, 3 August, 2002, 10:06 GMT 11:06 UK Brewers concoct ancient Egyptian aleDid King Tut sup on the Old Kingdom recipe?A Japanese beer maker has taken a 4,400-year-old recipe from Egyptian hieroglyphics and produced what it claims is a brew fit for the Pharaohs. The Kirin Brewery Co. has called the concoction Old Kingdom Beer. It has no froth, is the colour of dark tea and carries an alcohol content of 10% - about double most contemporary beers. Sakuji Yoshimura, an Egyptologist at Waseda University in Tokyo, helped transcribe the recipe from Egyptian wall paintings. Kirin spokesman Takaomi Ishii said:...
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Chemistry Used to Unlock Secrets in Archeological Remains
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 04/30/2002 6:10:04 PM PDT · 3 replies · 70+ views
VOA News | 27 Apr 2002 12:35 UTC | Written by Laszlo Dosa , Voiced by Faith Lapidus
Patrick McGovern "The site is very rich archeologically, has been excavated for the last 50 years by the University of Pennsylvania Museum. It has a large palace area with rooms, some of which are thought to have been kitchens for making the food for the palace, with jars of barley and other goods. Also, it has a whole series of tombs in which the burial was done in a special wooden chamber beneath a very large mound. It's almost as if you cut it yesterday and put the structure together. It is the earliest intact human building made of...
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The Demon In The Freezer
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Posted by tallhappy
On News/Activism 10/29/2001 12:44:48 PM PST · 51 replies · 279+ views
New Yorker | 7-12-99 | RICHARD PRESTON
A REPORTER AT LARGE THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER How smallpox, a disease of officially eradicated twenty years ago, became the biggest bioterrorist threat we now face. _______________ BY RICHARD PRESTON THE smallpox virus first became entangled with the human species somewhere between three thousand and twelve thousand years ago -- possibly in Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs. Somewhere on earth at roughly that time, the virus jumped out of an unknown animal into its first human victim, and began to spread. Viruses are parasites that multiply inside the cells of their hosts, and they are the ...
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Javanese Fossil Skull Provides New Insights into Ancient Humans
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Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 02/28/2003 3:48:16 AM PST · 67 replies · 44+ views
Scientific American | 28 February 2002 | Sarah Graham
A routine construction dig has turned up a fossil skull that is giving scientists a better glimpse inside the head of our ancient predecessor, Homo erectus. According to a report published today in the journal Science, the find suggests that the H. erectus population that occupied the island of Java was isolated from other Asian populations and probably made only minimal genetic contributions to the ancestry of modern humans. So far, more than 20 hominid skull fossils have been found at sites in Java. The latest, dubbed Sm 4 (see image), was recovered from the bed of the Solo River...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Experts Says
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/18/2001 1:46:50 PM PDT · 28 replies · 225+ views
National Geographic | 10-17-2001 | Hillary Mayall
Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Expert Says By Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News October 17, 2001 Two cities that lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1,200 years ago, Herakleion and Eastern Canopus, disappeared suddenly, swallowed by the sea. Now, an international team of scientists may have figured out the mystery of why it happened. The researchers have concluded that the two cities collapsed when the land they were built on suddenly liquefied. The cities of Herakleion and Eastern Canopus lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1,200 years ago, but disappeared suddenly when ...
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Stark contrast to Environmentalists' Claims - Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists
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Posted by Cincinatus' Wife
On News/Activism 04/06/2003 1:53:02 AM PST · 25 replies · 80+ views
Daily Telegraph | April 6, 2003 | Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent
Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate Impacts Programme said that global temperatures were "the hottest since records began" and added: "We are pretty sure that climate change...
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Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today, Say Scientists
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Posted by Ethyl
On News/Activism 04/07/2003 8:46:28 PM PDT · 22 replies · 33+ views
UK Telegraph | Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent
Rush was reading this report today Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 06/04/2003) Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate...
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Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years ago: Evidence Suggests That History May Repeat Itself
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/28/2004 3:08:55 PM PST · 79 replies · 2,195+ views
Ohio State University | 12-24-2004 | Ohio State University
Source: Ohio State University Date: 2004-12-24 Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself COLUMBUS, Ohio -- 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...
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Quake May Have Altered Earth's Rotation
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 12/27/2004 6:48:27 PM PST · 152 replies · 3,469+ views
Drudge Report | 12/27/04 | Matt Drudge
May have shortened the day by 3 microseconds, said gravity expert Richard Gross of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena... On premise a slab slid into core, Gross said he's done calculations 'to see what effect this (earthquake) should have had.' The result: A day shortened... 'We won't know for weeks,' said a geophysicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'So it's a guess, as of now'...
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Scientist say that recent earthquake is big enough to effect earth's rotation.
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Posted by alienken
On General/Chat 12/27/2004 7:00:43 PM PST · 18 replies · 1,977+ views
I heard this at the end of a news break on the radio once. Has anyone else heard anything about this? It sounds important if it's possible. What if the earth's axis or orbit around the sun was changed. I'm looking for links with info on this.
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What Happened To The Rare Tribes (Tsunami)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/28/2004 6:34:30 PM PST · 116 replies · 2,995+ views
Times Of India | 12-28-2004 | Sanjay Dutta/Chandrika Mago
What happened to the rare tribes? SANJAY DUTTA & CHANDRIKA MAGO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 11:19:06 PM NEW DELHI: An enormous anthropological disaster is in the making. The killer tsunami is feared to have wiped out entire tribes ó already threatened by their precariously small numbers ó perhaps rendering them extinct and snapping the slender tie with a lost generation. Officials involved in rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as bearing the brunt of the killer wave. The bigger fear is for the Sentinelese, anthropologically the most...
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Update on the "undersea ruins" off Cuba.
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 08/12/2002 7:37:18 PM PDT · 28 replies · 986+ views
VAISHNAVA News FROM REUTERS | CUBA, Dec 8 (VNN) | Author: Andrew Cawthorne
Explorers View 'Lost City' Ruins Under Caribbean FROM REUTERS CUBA, Dec 8 (VNN) ó Author: Andrew Cawthorne HAVANA (Reuters) - Explorers using a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba said on Thursday they had confirmed the discovery of stone structures deep below the ocean surface that may have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago. Researchers with a Canadian exploration company said they filmed over the summer ruins of a possible submerged ''lost city'' off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula on the Caribbean island's western tip. The researchers cautioned that they did...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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The Poe Toaster to appear on the 19th?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/11/2004 10:41:21 PM PST · 4 replies · 85+ views
eapoe.org | 2000 | E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore
The Poe Toaster E.A. Poe Society of BaltimoreSince 1949, on the night of the anniversary of Poe's birth, a mysterious stranger has entered this cemetery and left as tribute a partial bottle of cognac and three roses on Poe's grave. The identity of the stranger, referred to affectionately as the Poe Toaster, is unknown. The significance of cognac is uncertain as it does not feature in Poe's works as would, for example, amontillado. The presumption for the three roses is that it represents the three persons whose remains are beneath the monument: Poe, his mother-in-law (Maria Clemm) and his...
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end of digest #24 20050101
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