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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #99 Saturday, June 10, 2006
Catastrophism and Astronomy
BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA -- KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 06/01/2006 5:26:58 PM EDT · 244 replies · 5,274+ views Ohio State University | 01 June 2006 | Staff (press release) Ancient mega-catastrophe paved way for the dinosaurs, spawned Australian continent. Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land...
Giant Crater Found [in Antarctica]: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever [Permo-Triassic]
	Posted by cogitator On News/Activism 06/02/2006 2:44:43 PM EDT · 123 replies · 2,205+ views SPACE.com | June 2, 2006 | Robert Roy Britt An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago. The crater, buried beneath a half-mile of ice and discovered by some serious airborne and satellite sleuthing, is more than twice as big as the one involved in the demise of the dinosaurs. The crater's location, in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia, suggests it might have instigated the breakup of the so-called Gondwana supercontinent, which pushed Australia northward, the researchers said. "This...
Meteor mega-hit spawned Australian continent: researchers
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 06/03/2006 6:23:27 PM EDT · 22 replies · 509+ views AFP on Yahoo | 6/2/06 | AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) - A meteor's roaring crash into Antarctica -- larger and earlier than the impact that killed the dinosaurs -- caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history and likely spawned the Australian continent, scientists said. Ohio State University scientists said the 483-kilometer-wide (300-mile-wide) crater is now hidden more than 1.6 kilometers (one mile) beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. "Gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out," the university said in a statement Thursday....
Reversal of Earth's Magnetic Field-(Hey Algore read this)
	Posted by ThreePuttinDude On News/Activism 06/03/2006 10:00:13 AM EDT · 71 replies · 1,621+ views Projects in Scientific Computing | N/A | Gary Glatzmaier, Los Alamos National Laboratory Rush made mentioned this week of a core sample that showed evidence of tropical remains from an Arctic sample. Here are the results of a similar study done by a federally funded organization that claims this has been happening for........ever. Simulated three-dimensional structure of Earth's magnetic field, with inward (blue) and outward (yellow) directed field lines. Field lines extend two Earth radii from the core. The location of the core-mantle boundary is evident where the structure becomes complex
Giant Asteroid To Pass Near Earth Wednesday September 29
	Posted by Rome2000 On News/Activism 09/20/2004 11:56:32 PM EDT · 159 replies · 7,988+ views survivalcenter.com News-Alert-Specials from The Survival Center August 26, 2004 Asteroid Toutatis 4179 (official) Sept 29th, 2004 Anyone who spends even 20 minutes researching Toutatis should quickly comprehend the very real danger this monstrosity represents. ==== According to NASA on September 29, 2004 a large and potentially hazardous asteroid called Toutatis 4179 will come very close to planet Earth. Facts from NASA: Toutatis is about 3 miles long, 1.5 miles wide Discovered in 1989, it nears earth every 3.98 years It has a very strange shape, rotation and orbit On Sept 29th it will come less than 963,000 miles close 963,000 miles...
Native Americans Recorded Supernova Explosion
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/05/2006 7:27:51 PM EDT · 130 replies · 1,761+ views New Scientist | 6-5-2006 | Zeeya Merali - Kelly Young Native Americans recorded supernova explosion 16:45 05 June 2006 NewScientist.com news service Zeeya Merali and Kelly Young The Arizonan petroglyph may depict the supernova of 1006 AD - the star symbol is on the right and the constellation Scorpius on the left (Image: John Barentine, Apache Point Observatory) This double-sun petroglyph at Chaco Canyon National Monument in New Mexico may depict the supernova of 4 July 1054 (Image: Mark Lansing) There are numerous examples of rock art in the Chaco Canyon National Monument depicting celestial objects (Image: Mark Lansing) Prehistoric Native Americans may have carved a record of a supernova...
Underwater Archaeology
Experts Look For 'Watery Kingdom'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/08/2006 9:40:09 PM EDT · 24 replies · 624+ views BBC | 5-25-2006 Experts look for 'watery kingdom' The forest can been seen at low tide in Cardigan Bay Scientists are to carry out an underwater search for a supposed kingdom in Cardigan Bay said to have existed more than 5,000 years ago. Legend has it that the low-lying land of Cantre'r Gwaelod disappeared under the waves during a storm or a tsunami. Experts say the remains of an ancient forest seen sometimes at low tide is evidence that Cantre'r Gwaelod existed. Conservation group Friends of Cardigan Bay will begin the three-year project in Ceredigion this summer. The oldest part of the submerged...
Expedition Seeks Clues To Lost Bronze Age Culture (Minoans - Robert Ballard)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/04/2006 7:05:30 PM EDT · 8 replies · 314+ views Yahoo | 6-1-2006 | Richard C. Lewis Expedition seeks clues to lost Bronze Age culture By Richard C. Lewis Thu Jun 1, 4:11 PM ETReuters Photo: Deep-sea explorer Robert Ballard speaks at the National Geographic Society in an undated file photo.... PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - An underwater explorer who found the Titanic and a team of international scientists will soon survey waters off the Greek island of Crete for clues to a once-powerful Bronze Age-era civilization. The expedition about 75 miles northwest of Crete aims to learn more about the Minoans, who flourished during the Bronze Age, and seeks to better understand seafaring four millennia ago,...
Titanic explorer to seek shipwrecks in Aegean: Greek officials
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 06/09/2006 5:23:58 PM EDT · 13 replies · 204+ views PhysOrg | 6/8/06 | AFP The explorer who discovered the Titanic's resting place is to undertake a search for ancient shipwrecks off the southern Greek island of Crete, the Greek foreign ministry said Thursday. The search, by American oceanographer Robert Ballard, will be conducted in international waters, with the Greek culture ministry hoping to send a representative to observe operations, a ministry official said. "Deep-sea research will be conducted in the area between Santorini and Crete, for the purpose of locating (ancient) Mediterranean sea trade routes, recording ancient shipwrecks etc," culture ministry general secretary Christos Zahopoulos told a news conference this week. "The necessary steps...
Prehistory and Origins
Fossils point to oldest life on Earth
	Posted by xcamel On General/Chat 06/07/2006 5:46:26 PM EDT · 12 replies · 111+ views SPI | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON -- The best evidence yet for the oldest life on Earth is found in odd-shaped, rock-like mounds in Australia that are actually fossils created by microbes 3.4 billion years ago, researchers report. "It's an ancestor of life. If you think that all life arose on this one planet, perhaps this is where it started," said Abigail Allwood, a researcher at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and lead author of the new study. It appears Thursday in the journal Nature. The strange geologic structures - which range from smaller than a fingernail to taller than a man - are exactly...
Early Earth Likely Had Continents, Was Habitable, According To New Study
	Posted by dila813 On News/Activism 11/18/2005 11:32:59 PM EST · 27 replies · 795+ views University of Colorado at Boulder | 2005-11-18 | University of Colorado at Boulder Early Earth Likely Had Continents, Was Habitable, According To New StudyA surprising new study by an international team of researchers has concluded Earth's continents most likely were in place soon after the planet was formed, overturning a long-held theory that the early planet was either moon-like or dominated by oceans. Artist's conception of the early magma ocean. (Image courtesy of NASA) The team came to the conclusion following an analysis of a rare metal element known as hafnium in ancient minerals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia, thought to be among the oldest rocks on Earth. Hafnium is found...
100,000 year-old DNA sequence allows new look at Neandertal's genetic diversity
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 06/05/2006 4:11:24 PM EDT · 63 replies · 1,200+ views EurekAlert (AAAS) | 05 June 2006 | Staff By recovering and sequencing intact DNA from an especially ancient Neandertal specimen, researchers have found evidence suggesting that the genetic diversity among Neandertals was higher than previously thought. The findings also suggest that genetic diversity may have been higher in earlier Neandertal periods relative to later periods that approached the arrival of humans in Europe. Changes in genetic diversity over time are thought to reflect population events, such as low-population bottlenecks caused by disease or environmental change, as well as the influence of random genetic change. The findings are reported in the June 6th issue of Current Biology by a...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Evolving Genes May Not Size Up Brain
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/04/2006 8:02:02 PM EDT · 11 replies · 306+ views Science News | 6-3-2006 | Bruce Bower Evolving genes may not size up brain Bruce Bower Two gene variants previously proposed as contributors to the evolution of human brain size exert no influence on brain volume in people today, a new report indicates. If these particular genes indeed spread quickly by natural selection, that process might have been spurred by the genes' effects on reproductive organs or other tissue outside the brain, say neurologist Roger P. Woods of the University of California, Los Angeles and his colleagues. Prior research had indicated that a now-common variant of a gene called microcephalin originated 37,000 years ago and that a...
The Deadly Virus (The Influenza Epidemic Of 1918)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/04/2006 7:33:03 PM EDT · 46 replies · 966+ views Science News Archives | 6-4-2006 The Deadly VirusThe Influenza Epidemic of 1918 True or False? The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 killed more people than died in World War One.Hard as it is to believe, the answer is true. World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history. The plague emerged in two phases. In late spring of 1918, the first phase, known as the...
Asia
Ancient Engraved Chessboards Found On Great Wall
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/05/2006 7:00:02 PM EDT · 22 replies · 437+ views People's Daily - Xinhua | 6-5-2006 Ancient engraved chessboards found on Great Wall Archaeologists have found two ancient engraved chessboards probably used by soldiers on the Great Wall more than 700 years ago at Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei Province. The two boards, one for Chinese chess and the other for the ancient game "Tiger Eats Sheep", were engraved on a stone in front of a Great Wall beacon tower possibly in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), said officials with the provincial department of cultural relics. Archaeologists believe that soldiers from all parts of ancient China used to play chess to while away the time on the remote...
India
Aryans In India: Old Debate Triggers New Debate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/11/2002 6:08:30 PM EST · 61 replies · 623+ views deepikaglobal.com | 11-11-2002 Aryans In India: Old Debate Triggers New Debate New Delhi, Nov 11 (UNI) An Ancient India historian today said his remarks on academic debate over Aryan invasion were torn out of context by the Director of the New Delhi-based National Council of Educational Research and Training. ''He should read my book,'' Prof D N Jha said, commenting on a suggestion by Prof J S Rajput that his remarks perhaps implied a shift from the theory of Aryans' foreign origin. Prof Rajput's suggestion came in a statement voicing satisfaction over scholars' ''professional'' remarks on the publication of the Council textbook on...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Under Tremendous Pressure, Mullahs Agree To Renovate Tomb Of "Cyrus The Great"
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/06/2006 5:11:28 PM EDT · 15 replies · 597+ views Persian Journal | 5-29-2006 Under tremendous pressure, mullahs agree to renovate tomb of "Cyrus the Great" May 29, 2006 Thanks to Iranian arab-parast, tomb of founder of Iran Zamin covered with dust but tomb of their beloved cowered arab imam whom ran away to Iran for dear life, covered with gold Under tremendous pressure by Iranian People, mullahs agree to renovate tomb of "Cyrus the Great". A team of experts have recently began renovating the tomb of Cyrus the Great at the ancient site of Pasargad in southern province of Fars. Several megaliths of the tomb have been stolen over time and the renovation...
Traces of Mithraism Found in Mazandaran Province
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/09/2006 11:01:21 AM EDT · 9 replies · 110+ views Cultural Heritage News Agency | 6/8/2006 | unattributed According to Sourtiji, while most of the Mithraism worship places were located inside the caves or places deeper in the ground with the opening towards the sun, Kangelou monument has a quiet different style. "Kangelou is an oval-shaped tower with a 50-square-meter area, constructed in three floors with rubbles, plaster, and mortar. Although most parts of the ceiling have been destroyed over time, what has remained indicates that Sassanid architectural style was used in the construction of the ceilings. A small hole towards the west was identified during the initial excavations in this monument on the base of the tower...
Faith and Philosophy
Literacy in the Time of Jesus - Could His Words Have Been Recorded in His Lifetime?
	Posted by Between the Lines On Religion 02/07/2006 1:41:13 PM EST · 5 replies · 246+ views Biblical Archaeology Society | Jul/Aug 2003 | Alan Millard Literacy in the Time of Jesus Could His Words Have Been Recorded in His Lifetime? Sidebar: Writing Tablets Sidebar: Priceless Garbage How likely is it that someone would have written down and collected Jesusí sayings into a book in Jesusí lifetime? Several lines of evidence converge to suggest it is quite probable. The first factor to consider is how prevalent literacy was in Jesusí time. Full literacy means being able to read and write proficiently, but degrees of literacy vary; people who can read, for example, may not be able to write. A common view is that of W.H....
Epigraphy and Language
Third Century Roman Inscriptions Discovered In Basque Country
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/08/2006 3:51:09 PM EDT · 34 replies · 975+ views eitb24 | 6-8-2006 Third century Roman inscriptions discovered in the Basque Country 06/08/2006 Archaeologists in the site of IruÒa-Veleia have discovered an epigraphic set "among the most important of the Roman world" with drawings from the third century and a representation of a Calvary. Archaeological site in IruÒa-Veleia Archaeologists in the site of IruÒa-Veleia have discovered an epigraphic set "among the most important of the Roman world," with a series of 270 inscriptions and drawings from the 3rd century and a representation of a Calvary, "the most ancient known up to this moment." The managers of the archaeological site, located near the Alavan...
Ancient Rome
Tombs Of Roman Foes Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/09/2006 6:13:28 PM EDT · 7 replies · 386+ views ANSA | 6-7-2006 Tombs of Roman foes discoveredTerracotta, daggers and jewelry in Abruzzo necropolis (ANSA) - L'Aquila, June 7 - Fresh tombs of one of Rome's most implacable foes have been discovered in Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region . Some of the tombs have been dated to the Second Century BC, when Rome was still trying to subdue the warlike peoples that lived in the region . Others date as far back as the 8th century BC, before Rome was founded . A particularly interesting find was a 2nd-Century BC chamber tomb containing terracotta ware, jewelry and a dagger . "It's fascinating to see...
Ancient Europe
Galicians (Vanity)
	Posted by Ptarmigan On General/Chat 06/03/2006 6:55:57 PM EDT · 10 replies · 169+ views In the land of Spain in the Iberian Peninsula, there are groups of people who speak a language similar to Portguese called the Galicians. Galicians live in northwestern part of Spain, known as the "land of the 1000 rivers". It is one of Spain's official language besides Spanish and are refered as Gallegos. Galcians have migrated to other parts of Spain and Latin America. Galicians have their own autonomous region in Spain, like the Basque people. Galicians originally were Celtic people who migrated from the Pyrenees Mountain. The tribe called Galleci was established in northwestern part of Spain. Then around...
Newly found mosaic is optical illusion
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/03/2006 8:14:32 PM EDT · 34 replies · 614+ views The Guardian | June 3, 2006 | John Hooper Archaeologists studying an ancient mosaic found by workers laying cable south of Rome have been astonished to discover that it is an optical illusion. Viewed one way up it is a bald old man with a beard, but turned the other way round it is a beardless youth. Roberto Cereghino, a government archaeological official... said it appeared to be a depiction of Bacchus. The double face is surrounded by objects that were used in Bacchanalian rites: an ancient musical instrument, the sistrum, a two-handed drinking bowl, and a priestly wand. The mosaic's optical trickery may be linked to the fact...
Ancient Greece
Were Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time?
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 06/07/2006 6:58:41 PM EDT · 88 replies · 1,734+ views The Scotsman | June 7, 2006 | EBEN HARRELL FOR decades, researchers have been baffled by the intricate bronze mechanism of wheels and dials created 80 years before the birth of Christ. The "Antikythera Mechanism" was discovered damaged and fragmented on the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. Advert for The Scotsman Digital Archive Now, a joint British-Greek research team has found a hidden ancient Greek inscription on the device, which it thinks could unlock the mystery. The team believes the Antikythera Mechanism may be the world's oldest computer, used by the Greeks to predict the motion of the planets. The...
Researchers find hidden Greek text on 'world's oldest astronomy computer'
	Posted by InvisibleChurch On News/Activism 06/07/2006 11:44:29 PM EDT · 29 replies · 945+ views physorg.com | June 06, 2006 The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn of the 20th century has baffled scientists for years. Now a British researcher has stunningly established it as the world's oldest surviving astronomy computer. A team of Greek and British scientists probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism has managed to decipher ancient Greek inscriptions unseen for over 2,000 years, members of the project say. "Part of the text on the machine, over 1,000 characters, had already been deciphered, but we have succeeded in doubling this total," said physician Yiannis Bitsakis, part...
Anatolia
Ancient Stone Tablets Could Shed Light On Surtepe Excavations
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/04/2006 6:50:08 PM EDT · 12 replies · 417+ views Turkish Daily News | 5-31-2006 Ancient stone tablets could shed light on Surtepe excavations Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Results are being presented this week at the 28th International Congress on Excavations, Surveys and Research in Turkey, which started on Monday in «anakkale, a western province that is also home to the ruins of ancient Troy ANKARA - Turkish Daily News Ancient stone tablets and seals unearthed during archaeological excavations at the Surtepe tumulus, seven kilometers north of Birecik in the southeastern province of fianl´´urfa, could shed light on other ancient structures discovered in the area. A team of experts headed by project director Jesus Gil...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Forgotten petroglyphs in Baltimore park to be studied, displayed [ Susquehanna Valley petroglyphs ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/05/2006 11:17:29 AM EDT · 8 replies · 109+ views Centre Daily | Fri, Jun. 02, 2006 | Associated Press / Baltimore Sun Eventually the more than two dozen Native American carvings, which may be thousands of years old, will be put on display. The carvings are called the Bald Friar Petroglyphs. They are older than those of the Aztecs and include concentric circles, fishlike designs and shapes that appear to depict the sun and humans... On Thursday, state archaeologists used chisels and crowbars to dislodge the carvings... The petroglyphs arrived in Baltimore in 1926 after preservationists removed them from the lower Susquehanna Valley to avoid their being inundated by Conowingo Dam. The stones were found in the Bald Friar area of Pennsylvania....
New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: A Place Of Kings And Palaces?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/06/2006 4:57:14 PM EDT · 58 replies · 895+ views Ascribe Newswire | 6-5-2006 Mon Jun 5 09:31:01 2006 Pacific Time New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: A Place of Kings and Palaces? BOULDER, Colo., June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kings living in palaces may have ruled New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a thousand years ago, causing Pueblo people to reject the brawny, top-down politics in the centuries that followed, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder archaeologist. University of Colorado Museum anthropology Curator Steve Lekson, who has studied Chaco Canyon for several decades, said one argument for royalty comes from the rich, crypt-style burials of two men discovered deep in a Chaco Canyon "great house"...
Agriculture and Domestication
KU Professor's Research Defies Traditional Thinking About Agriculture in Amazonia
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/05/2006 11:21:18 AM EDT · 5 replies · 69+ views Kansas City infoZine | Sunday, June 04, 2006 | infoZine Staff Research by a University of Kansas professor and his colleagues showing that ancient Amazonia may have supported large-scale agriculture is challenging conventional thinking and providing ideas for more efficient and environmentally friendly land use in the future... He thinks inhabitants enriched the soil by adding household waste and using a method called slash and char. Slash and char differs from the more established practice of slash and burn. Slash and burn was a high temperature fire that emitted a lot of gas and didn't add much to the soil. Slash and char was a much lower-temperature, smoldering method that added...
Killing Ground (GGG)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/03/2006 5:54:50 PM EDT · 9 replies · 435+ views National Post | 6-3-2006 Killing ground Published: Saturday, June 03, 2006 PURPLE SPRINGS, Alta. - Buried deep below a shallow southeastern Alberta valley, punctuated by wind-swept sand dunes, vast grassland and aging cow manure, lies evidence of a slaughter that took place 2,500 years ago. What was once little more than leased Crown land now doubles as a precious archeological dig, which, with each turn of the trowel, is teaching University of Lethbridge researchers what one of Alberta's few known bison kill sites can tell us about our past. Listening to archeology professor Shawn Bubel tell the story of how a roaming herd met...
British Isles
Peer's fears over 'pyramid' hill [ Silbury Hill ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/09/2006 11:22:52 AM EDT · 4 replies · 52+ views BBC | Monday, 17 May, 2004 | unattributed A peer has compared an ancient monument to the pyramids in a row over the government's right to roam laws. Lord Avebury says he is "stunned" the Countryside Agency's wants to label Silbury Hill in Wiltshire as "unimproved chalk grassland". The move could lead to ramblers having free access to the hill, which opponents fear may cause damage. However, the agency says it took the decision because the 4,700-year-old hill is a "man-made structure". Silbury Hill is comparable with the ancient Pyramids of Egypt or the Great Pyramids of Mexico" -- Lord Avebury Lord Avebury spoke at the public inquiry...
Ancient Egypt
Mummy dearest: riddle wrapped in a mystery [Nefertiti, Maya, Ankhesenpamon?] [ KV-63 ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/07/2006 12:31:03 PM EDT · 13 replies · 174+ views Washington Times / AFP | June 7, 2006 | Alain Navarro Could the small tomb, designated KV63, hold a royal mummy, perhaps that of Tutankhamen's widow or even his mother? ...Otto Schaden, the man who found them, leads the American team. He believes they may have located the mummy of Tutankhamen's widow, Ankhesenamen, after traces of her name were found on the seal of one urn. The secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, thinks the final coffins may contain the remains of the pharaoh's mother, whose identity is unknown, and not the wife of Tutankhamen, the boy king who died at age 18.
Climate
Egyptologists' palm nearly extinct.
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 06/06/2006 11:53:33 AM EDT · 16 replies · 301+ views newscientist | 3 6 Histories: Fruits of the tomb 03 June 2006 NewScientist.com news service Stephanie Pain When Giuseppe Passalacqua went to Egypt in the 1820s his plan was to do a bit of horse-trading. He soon discovered a more lucrative line of work - excavating ancient tombs and selling off their contents. While Passalacqua found many priceless treasures, unlike most tomb-robbers he also made off with the more mundane. If something could be carried off, it was - right down to the dried-up offerings left to feed the ancients in the afterlife. Among these were some strange shrivelled fruits that have posed a...
Africa
An African kingdom on the Nile [ Meroe ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/09/2006 11:29:36 AM EDT · 6 replies · 91+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 8 - 14 June 2006 | unattributed In a lecture at the Canadian Institute of Archaeology in Cairo last month, Krzys Grzymski of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) described the use of modern technology to uncover the origins and topography, history and development of Meroe, an African kingdom which developed along the upper reaches of the Nile about 200km north of Khartoum between 800 BC and 350 AD... [Excavations have] produced a number of surprises which included errors in earlier published plans of various buildings, numerous unrecorded inscriptions, some graffiti, and many beautifully carved blocks. "Perhaps the most exciting discovery was a stone block bearing the name...
What's New About African History?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/05/2006 11:27:45 AM EDT · 12 replies · 157+ views History News Network | June 5 2006 | John Edward Philips, editor Nor were written documents neglected in those days. Led by John Hunwick, R.S. O'Fahey, and others, historians increasingly tapped the many Arabic and other written documents of Islamic Africa to reconstruct the past of those societies. The Arab Literature of Africa series of catalogues, published by E. J. Brill in the Netherlands, has continued to attract attention to this formerly neglected area of the Islamic world, which has had much impact not only on other parts of Africa but even on the central Islamic lands themselves but which had been shamefully and systematically neglected in Brockelmann's monumental five volume history...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Japan is proud home of Christ's tomb
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 05/31/2006 12:56:17 PM EDT · 87 replies · 2,176+ views TimesOnline | May 29, 2006 | Leo Lewis IN A paddy-lined valley in the far north of Japan is a municipal signpost inscribed: ìTomb of Christ: next left.î Follow the winding path up into the forest and there, sure enough, is a simple mound with a large wooden cross labelled as the grave of Jesus. Nearby is a tomb commemorating Isukiri, Christís brother, adorned with a plastic poinsettia Christmas wreath. For two millennia the farming village of Shingo claims to have protected a tradition that Jesus spent most of his life in Japan. The village is the home of Sajiro Sawaguchi, a man in his eighties who claims...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
World's oldest condom
	Posted by Millee On General/Chat 06/08/2006 10:31:00 AM EDT · 95 replies · 959+ views Ananova | 6/8/06 | Staff The oldest surviving condom in the world has gone on display in an Austrian museum. The world's oldest condom, dating back to 1640, has gone on display at a museum in Austria /Europics The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users' manual, written in Latin. The manual suggests that users immerse the condom in warm milk prior to its use to avoid diseases. The antique, found in Lund in Sweden, is made of pig intestine and is one of 250 ancient objects related to sex on display at the Tirolean County Museum...
Bocksten Man shows his face after 700 years
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/03/2006 8:03:04 PM EDT · 9 replies · 220+ views The Local -- News from Sweden in English | 2nd June 2006 | Adam Ewing Nearly 70 years after a boy made an exciting find in a bog south of Gothenburg in 1936, the skeletal remains of a person, now known as the "Bocksten man," are now on display for all to see. Professor Claes Lauritzen made a copy of the skull and had doll maker Oscar Nilsson reconstruct the face with clay and silicon... Using skills similar to those used in forensic medicine, researchers now have an idea of what the man looked like, under what conditions he lived, and how he died. According to Lauritzen, a skull expert, the 30 to 35-year-old man...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
June 6, 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlord
	Posted by fgoodwin On General/Chat 06/06/2006 12:22:57 PM EDT · 12 replies · 106+ views History Channel | June 6, 2006 | anon June 6, 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlordhttp://www.historychannel.com/td http://tinyurl.com On this day in 1944, now known as D-Day, future President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II gives the go-ahead for a massive invasion of Europe called Operation Overlord. Back in America, President Franklin Roosevelt waited for word of the invasionís success. By the first week of June 1944, Nazi Germany controlled most of Western Europe. Allied forces, numbering 156,000, were poised to travel by ship or plane over the English Channel to attack the German army dug in at Normandy,...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #100 Saturday, June 17, 2006
British Isles
New glacier theory on Stonehenge
	Posted by billorites On News/Activism 06/13/2006 7:27:54 AM PDT · 41 replies · 1,049+ views BBC News | June 13, 2006 A geology team has contradicted claims that bluestones were dug by Bronze Age man from a west Wales quarry and carried 240 miles to build Stonehenge. In a new twist, Open University geologists say the stones were in fact moved to Salisbury Plain by glaciers. Last year archaeologists said the stones came from the Preseli Hills. Recent research in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology suggests the stones were ripped from the ground and moved by glaciers during the Ice Age. Geologists from the Open University first claimed in 1991 that the bluestones at one of Britain's best-known historic landmarks had...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Road plans put Stonehenge status at risk
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/13/2006 10:10:01 PM PDT · 17 replies · 131+ views The Guardian | Wednesday June 14, 2006 | David Adam Sarah Staniforth, historic properties director with the trust, said the national committee of Unesco, which administers world heritage sites, had reviewed the situation and Stonehenge could be taken off the list because of poor traffic management. The trust's warning comes as ministers prepare to decide what to do to ease congestion on the A303, which passes the ancient stones... The issue was not the preservation of the stones but protection and restoration of the surrounding site, believed to hold undiscovered archaeological treasures. "We cannot stand by and allow a second-rate solution to damage for ever one of the world's most...
Druids Despair As Seahenge Set For Dry Berth
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/20/2001 9:49:22 AM PST · 42 replies · 385+ views IOL (South Africa) | 11-19-2001 Druids despair as Seahenge set for dry berth November 19 2001 at 04:16PM London - A Bronze Age timber circle dug up on a beach two years ago should not be returned to its original site, where it would be vulnerable to the forces of the North Sea, English Heritage said on Monday. The 4 000-year-old structure, which became known as Seahenge, was found off the coast of Norfolk, north-east England, and removed despite prolonged protests by locals and Druid groups, who said the circle was a religious monument. English Heritage, the preservation group that oversaw and financed the ...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Did The Ancient Greeks And Native Americans Swap Starcharts?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/11/2006 6:18:49 PM PDT · 33 replies · 872+ views Live Science | 6-12-2005 | Ker Than Did the Ancient Greeks and Native Americans Swap Starcharts? Author Ker Than I had a story on SPACE.com yesterday about a very cool discovery: a one-thousand year old petroglyph, or rock carving, that was found in Arizona and which might depict the supernova of 1006, or SN 1006. The carving is presumed to have been made an ancient group of Native Americans called the Hohokam. The researcher who made the discovery argues that symbols of a scorpion and stars on the petroglyph match the relative positions of SN 1006 to the constellation Scorpius when the star first exploded. Well, after...
Archaeological site yields dental surprise [ PreColumbian dental work ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/14/2006 12:15:14 PM PDT · 10 replies · 129+ views Yahoo / AP | Wed June 14 2006 | Randolph E. Schmid Researchers report Wednesday that they found a 4,500-year-old burial in Mexico that had the oldest known example of dental work in the Americas. The upper front teeth of the remains had been ground down so they could be mounted with animal teeth, possibly wolf or panther teeth, for ceremonial purposes, according to researchers led by Tricia Gabany-Guerrero of the University of Connecticut... The individual, aged 28 to 32, would not have been able to bite with his front teeth but appears to have been well fed nonetheless, Chatters said. The body indicated he didn't do hard work, perhaps having been...
Andes People Look Back To The Future
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/12/2006 6:02:34 PM PDT · 14 replies · 312+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-13-2006 | Roger Highfield Andes people look back to the future Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 13/06/2006) The Aymara people in South America have a concept of time opposite to the rest of the us, so that the past lies ahead of them and the future behind, according to a study published yesterday. "Until now, all the studied cultures and languages of the world - from European and Polynesian to Chinese, Japanese, Bantu and so on - have not only characterised time with properties of space, but also have all mapped the future as if it were in front. "The Aymara case is the...
Prehistory and Origins
Affinities Of The Paleoindians
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/13/2006 2:20:25 PM PDT · 8 replies · 322+ views Antiquity Of Man | Mikey Brass Affinities of the Paleoindians by Mikey Brass I would like to make it clear from the start that my knowledge of the early occupation of the Americas is very limited. It is a peripheral interest of mine. I don't feel competent enough to make many pronouncements on the late Pleistocene timing of the migration(s) from north-east Asia into the Americas. Instead I focus primarily here on showing, contrary to reports eminating from both pseudoscientific and unfortunately some portions of mainstream archaeology, that the origins of the Paleoindians lay in mainland Asia. Christy Turner has identified what he terms the "Mongoloid...
Scientist's Study Of Brain Genes Sparks a Backlash
	Posted by Tolerance Sucks Rocks On News/Activism 06/16/2006 9:32:09 AM PDT · 86 replies · 1,777+ views Wall Street Journal | June 16, 2006 | Antonio Regalado CHICAGO -- Last September, Bruce Lahn, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, stood before a packed lecture hall and reported the results of a new DNA analysis: He had found signs of recent evolution in the brains of some people, but not of others. It was a triumphant moment for the young scientist. He was up for tenure and his research was being featured in back-to-back articles in the country's most prestigious science journal. Yet today, Dr. Lahn says he is moving away from the research. "It's getting too controversial," he says. Dr. Lahn had touched...
Mesopotamia
Priceless Assyrian Relics Used for Target Practice
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/13/2006 10:16:53 PM PDT · 8 replies · 197+ views Inter Press Service News Agency | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | Lisa Sˆderlindh Located northeast of ancient Nineveh on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in modern-day Mosul, the almost 2,700-year-old Khinnis site, also known as the Bavian site, highlights the geographical start of a impressive engineering feat of ancient Assyrian culture. It remains important to the Assyrian Christian people of Iraq, historically traceable to the Mesopotamian cradle of civilisation... During the recent trip by ISDP -- a special project launched by the Chicago-based Assyrians Academic Society, with members worldwide -- the delegation not only observed the damage caused by tourism, including visitors having chipped off pieces from the rock carvings, but...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Russian Archaeologist Says Merv Was Origin Of Zoroastrianism
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/10/2006 3:16:44 PM PDT · 28 replies · 689+ views Mehr News | 6-10-2006 Russian archaeologist says Merv was origin of Zoroastrianism TEHRAN, June 10 (MNA) -- Russian archaeologist Victor Sarianidi believes that Merv, a province in southern Turkmenistan, was the cradle of Zoroastrianism, the Persian service of Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported here Saturday. According to Sarianidi, his archeological team has recently discovered some Zoroastriansí temples in the region. Each has two fire temples -- one was presumably used for religious ceremonies and one for cooking, he added. The temples date back to some 3,000 years BC, estimated the archaeologist. Sarianidi had already named the legendary land of Margush as the origin...
India
Search For India's Ancient City (Muziris - Roman)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/11/2006 6:55:04 PM PDT · 8 replies · 462+ views BBC | 6-12-2006 Search for India's ancient city Roman amphora pieces abound in Pattanam Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have solved the mystery of the location of a major port which was key to trade between India and the Roman Empire - Muziris, in the modern-day state of Kerala. For many years, people have been in search of the almost mythical port, known as Vanchi to locals. Much-recorded in Roman times, Muziris was a major centre for trade between Rome and southern India - but appeared to have simply disappeared. Now, however, an investigation by two archaeologists - KP...
Faith and Philosophy
India: New Interest In 'Jesus Grave' In Kashmir
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/12/2006 9:24:09 AM PDT · 110 replies · 660+ views Aki/Asian Age | Jun-12-2006 06:14 pm | unattributed The hypothesis that Jesus Christ is buried in central Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, has aroused a lot of interest among historiographers, researchers, scholars, archaeologists and religious groups both in India and worldwide once again. A team of German researchers, including two archaeologists, is planning to visit Srinagar later this year to investigate the subject. Within India, the political party known as the Janata Party has set up a group of experts from among its members which would be coming to Kashmir's summer capital soon to start research work. The party's president, Dr Subramanian Swamy, who was in...
On the trail of Buddha's disciples
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/15/2006 10:24:41 PM PDT · 1 reply India Express | Friday, June 16, 2006 | Tarannum Manjul The country may be busy celebrating the 2550th year of Buddha's Mahaparinirvana, but grey areas abound on how Buddhism spread across the globe after the first sermon at Sarnath. Which is why the state's archaeology department has finally decided to track the route taken by Buddha's disciplesóKumar Jeev, Kashyap and Matangó to spread his message of peace and harmony. The project, titled "The Buddha Sandesh Yatra", will span 11 countries. Beginning from Sarnath, the team will travel to Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afganistan, Pakistan and Tibet.
Let's Have Jerusalem
Is the Truth About Masada Less Romantic?
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism 06/12/2006 10:48:30 AM PDT · 65 replies · 1,771+ views History Network | June 12, 2006 | Kim Stubbs Is the Truth About Masada Less Romantic? By Kim Stubbs Kim Stubbs is an Australian freelance writer specialising in ancient and early medieval history. It is the spring of 73 AD and the revolt that has raged in the Roman province of Judea for eight years is about to reach its bloody and tragic conclusion. On an isolated rock overlooking the Dead Sea at the edge of the Judean Desert 967 men, women and children - the last remnants of Jewish resistance to Imperial Rome - await their fate. The spectacular natural redoubt that has become their final refuge is...
In a Ruined Copper Works, Evidence That Bolsters a Doubted Biblical Tale
	Posted by Sabramerican On News/Activism 06/13/2006 12:20:10 PM PDT · 43 replies · 2,246+ views New York Times | 6/13/2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD In a Ruined Copper Works, Evidence That Bolsters a Doubted Biblical Tale In biblical lore, Edom was the implacable adversary and menacing neighbor of the Israelites. The Edomites lived south of the Dead Sea and east of the desolate rift valley known as Wadi Arabah, and from time to time they had to be dealt with by force, notably by the likes of Kings David and Solomon. Today, the Edomites are again in the thick of combat ó of the scholarly kind. The conflict is heated and protracted, as is often the case with issues related to the reliability of...
Anatolia
Turkey orders 500-year-old inscription erased from castle
	Posted by SmoothTalker On News/Activism 06/13/2006 11:14:14 AM PDT · 48 replies · 1,556+ views Mainichi Daily News "Turkey's Islamic-rooted government has ordered a 500-year old Latin inscription believed to have been carved by the Knights of St. John erased from an old castle, newspaper reports said Tuesday." "In the written order, the Culture Minister told museum officials to scrape away the inscription "Inde deus abest," or "Where God does not exist," carved at the entrance to the dungeon of the Castle of St. Peter in the Aegean resort of Bodrum, Hurriyet, Sabah and Milliyet newspapers reported Tuesday." "The sign could be considered offensive to devout Muslims who believe in God's omnipresence. "Baffling censorship on 500-year-old inscription," Sabah...
Underground City Found Underneath Architect Sinan's House
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 04/09/2004 2:18:04 PM PDT · 65 replies · 592+ views Zaman Online | 04.08.2004 Thursday | Ersan Temizel Underground City Found Underneath Architect Sinan's House During restoration of the architect Sinan's house in the town of Kayseri, a Central Anatolian city in Agirnas, an underground city was found. Approximately 4000 square meters of the city, the age of which cannot be estimated, have been excavated so far. Nuvit Bayar, the Project Director of Guntas, the company responsible for the restoration, says, "We plan to finish this delicate job, which has been going on for two years, by the end of this month." Saying that when looked at from outside, Sinan's house looked like a two-story building, Bayar said...
Recent Finds Prove That Homer's Stories Were More Than Myth
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/24/2002 4:46:17 PM PST · 21 replies · 286+ views The Times (UK) | 2-25-2002 | Norman Hammond February 25, 2002 Recent finds prove that Homer's stories were more than myth By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent A CYNICAL scholar once noted that the reason that academic disputes were so bitter was that the stakes were so small. In the real world maybe, but Troy has been a battleground for 3,000 years not because of mundane matters of funding and status but because of its grip on our imaginations. There may or may not have been a decadeís siege on the edge of the Dardanelles around 1100BC, pitting Late Mycenaean Greeks against their neighbours and possible distant kin: but ...
Ancient Greece
Since when is ancient Greek art obscene?
	Posted by billorites On News/Activism 01/22/2005 5:51:21 AM PST · 15 replies · 698+ views Manchester Union Leader | January 22, 2005 | GIANNA ANGELOPOULOS-DASKALAKI GREECE does not wish to be drawn into an American culture war. Yet that is exactly what is happening. The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games. The first step was taken in December, when the commission demanded that NBC provide it with tapes of the broadcast. This was in response to nine complaints about indecency from U.S. citizens (globally, viewers exceeded 3.9 billion). The FCC posted the complaints on its Web site. One person reported hearing an obscenity; one objected to the male anatomy on...
So Much Lost and Little Gained: Stone's leftist agenda robs Alexander of authenticity.
	Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism 12/05/2004 7:54:31 PM PST · 26 replies · 1,085+ views VDH Private Papers | December 5, 2004 | Bruce Thornton A movie as bad as Oliver Stone's Alexander usually would not be worth notice, but Stone has indulged several cinematic and political pathologies that are illuminating. Some of the film's flaws are curiously old-fashioned, redolent of studio schlock of the 1950s ó the bombastic musical score, Angeline Jolie's pointless Elvira "Mistress of the Night" accent; the heavy-handed, stale Oedipal psychology, complete with snakes; and the corny dialogue whose purple patches sound positively late Victorian. And Colin Farrel's waxed legs and dye job are as embarrassing as Richard Burton's were in his turn as the Macedonian conqueror. More interesting is what...
Persians Find Hollywood's Alexander Not So Great
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 12/31/2004 12:17:57 PM PST · 24 replies · 700+ views AFP via Smccdi | 12/31/04 | AFP SHIRAZ -- Some Iranians are up in arms again at the United States -- this time because of Hollywoodís version of Alexander the Greatís conquest of ancient Persia. According to Hassan Moussavi, who teaches history at Shiraz University, Oliver Stoneís latest blockbuster is merely the latest in a long line of affronts to the national esteem of the Persians. 'There is not even any proof that this Alexander even existed,' asserted Moussavi, who said he was 'fed up' with historyís ongoing fascination with the Macedonian king, who died in 323 BC at the age of 32 after capturing most of...
Ancient Rome
Man Leads Archaeologists To Frescoed Tomb (Europe's Oldest)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/16/2006 2:21:35 PM PDT · 11 replies · 480+ views ABC News | 6-16-2006 Man Leads Archaeologists to Frescoed TombSuspected Tomb Raider Leads Archaeologists to Frescoed Tomb North of Rome; May Be Europe's Oldest.This photo provided by the Italian Ministry of Culture on Friday, June 16, 2006 shows a frescoed burial decorated with migratory birds, in the town of Veio, near Rome. Experts on Friday, June 16, 2006 described the tomb as the oldest known frescoed burial chamber in Europe. It belonged to a warrior prince from the nearby Etruscan town of Veio, and dates back to 690 B.C.(AP Photo/Courtesy of Ministry of Culture, HO) VEIO, Italy Jun 16, 2006 (AP)ó A suspected tomb...
Ancient Europe
Basques Were Fishermen More Than 8,000 Years Ago
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/13/2006 3:13:58 PM PDT · 12 replies · 267+ views EITB24 | 6-13-2006 Basques were fishermen more than 8,000 years ago 06/13/2006 The Basques that settled 8,300 years ago in the Jaizkibel Mountain near the Basque coast were skillful enough to go fishing two kilometres out to sea. The human beings that lived in the Basque Country in the Mesolithic, more than 8,000 years ago, set sail out to sea fishing, something which meant 50 percent of their diet, Aranzadi society of sciences reported Tuesday after examining archaeological remains found in Gipuzkoa. They did not hunt whales, as their descendants many years after, neither tuna nor anchovy as the current Basque fishermen but...
Agriculture and Domestication
Is Modern Civilization Fragile?
	Posted by RWR8189 On News/Activism 06/10/2006 6:43:49 PM PDT · 94 replies · 1,250+ views Reason | June 9, 2006 | Ronald Bailey CaltechóOur ancestors made themselves and us more vulnerable to the vagaries of nature and the weather once they switched from hunting and gathering to farming. So says Brian Fagan, emeritus professor of anthropology from University of California at Santa Barbara, who spoke on the impact of climate change on ancient societies at the Environmental Wars conference of the Skeptics Society last weekend. Fagan's chief claim is that Farming in this case stands for the advent of more complex and interconnected societies. Fagan argues that nimble hunter/gatherers could respond to environmental changes faster than farmers and urbanites who are tied to...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Scientists Find DNA Region That Affects Europeans' Fertility
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 01/16/2005 7:32:58 PM PST · 35 replies · 887+ views New York Times | 17 January 2005 | NICHOLAS WADE Researchers in Iceland have discovered a region in the human genome that, among Europeans, appears to promote fertility, and maybe longevity as well. Though the region, a stretch of DNA on the 17th chromosome, occurs in people of all countries, it is much more common in Europeans, as if its effect is set off by something in the European environment. A further unusual property is that the genetic region has a much more ancient lineage than most human genes, and the researchers suggest, as one possible explanation, that it could have entered the human genome through interbreeding with one of...
Oldest known bird found in China
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 06/15/2006 2:56:31 PM PDT · 18 replies · 465+ views Globe and Mail | 6/15 | DAWN WALTON Scientists have uncovered remarkably preserved fossils -- including feathers and webbed feet -- of the oldest known relatives of modern birds, which also shores up the theory that birds evolved from aquatic environments. Little is known about birds from the age of dinosaurs, since fossils that date back to the early Cretaceous Period -- some 105 to 115 million years ago -- are have rarely been found, the discovery reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science is particularly exciting for those trying to fill gaps in the avian family tree. 'I was totally blown away. I was stunned,' said...
Asia
Ancient tomb found underneath Yen Tu relic [ Han Dynasty ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/15/2006 10:27:07 PM PDT · 3 replies · 22+ views Vietnam News Agency | 6/15/2006 | unattributed The arch brick tomb, located about 0.5 m below the relic, is 1.7 m wide and 6m long and is believed to date back to the 5th-6th century of the Han dynasty. Many pottery and china artifacts such as bowls, plates, jars and pots were also found inside and around the ancient tomb.
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?
	Posted by Zon On News/Activism 01/21/2005 7:09:59 AM PST · 43 replies · 1,168+ views c|net news.com | 1/20/2005 | Michael Kanellos Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the majority of life on earth may have suffocated. The "Great Dying," a catastrophic event that killed 90 percent of Earth's marine life and 75 percent of the life on land, was caused by a combination of warmer temperatures and lower oxygen levels, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Washington. In other words, the extinction was precipitated by global warming, rather than an asteroid collision, the reigning theory. The findings, to be published in the magazine Science, are largely based on comparisons of fossils found in South Africa's...
Climate
Noah's Ark, Pieces Intact, Found
	Posted by Michael_Michaelangelo On Religion 06/15/2006 7:56:07 AM PDT · 137 replies · 2,825+ views Koenig's International News | 6/14/06 | Bill Wilson WashóJune 14óKINóOn June 5th, Bible Historian and explorer Bob Cornuke led an expedition of 15 geologists, historians, archeologists, scientists and attorneys on an exhausting mission 13,300 feet above sea level to locate and document the tremendous sections of what is thought to be Noah's Ark located in the Ararat mountain range six hours North of Tehran, Iran. It had been essentially buried beneath the preservation of glaciers until last year when Iran recorded the hottest year on record which melted some of the snowcap revealing 450 by 75-foot footprint of the 'object.' Noah's Ark was claimed to be found in...
Ancient Egypt
In Egypt, the Pharaohs' outspoken defender kicks up a dust storm [ Zahi Hawass ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/14/2006 10:50:26 PM PDT · 1 reply · 4+ views San Francisco Chronicle | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 (Page†E - 1) | Jack Epstein At a preview of a King Tut display at Chicago's Field Museum last month, Hawass, whose critics call him "the Show-Biz Pharaoh," a "media whore" and "part P.T. Barnum, part Indiana Jones," asked museum officials to remove one of the exhibition's corporate sponsors after learning its chief executive owned a 2,600-year-old Egyptian coffin... In April, he fired off a letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, asking him to return a 71-foot-high Egyptian obelisk in Central Park if he didn't start taking care of it. The pillar, which is in poor condition because of neglect, has been in the park...
Epigraphy and Language
Hittite graves, artifacts unearthed in Adana
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/14/2006 10:55:32 PM PDT · 4 replies · 109+ views Turkish Daily News | Thursday, Jun 15 2006 | unattributed Four graves, two jugs and seven coins dating to the Hittite period were unearthed during excavations conducted in the Mediterranean province of Adana, archaeologists working at the site announced on Monday. Adana Archaeology Museum Director Kazõm Tosun told reporters that the graves were unearthed on May 25 during the excavations in the Ceyhan village of Sirkeli. Tosun said they had found some human bones in the graves. "The excavation is still under way. The findings will be exhibited at the Adana Archaeology Museum," he said. He also said the excavations were begun at the request of Akdeniz Petrolleri Inc. prior...
An interpreter of Maya culture [ Harri Kettunen ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/15/2006 9:07:59 AM PDT · 2 replies · 73+ views the quarterly of the University of Helsinki | summer 2006 | Jani Saxell "The Maya are the only pre-Columbian culture whose texts have been preserved up to our time in the thousands. They reveal the Maya to have been a people like all others. In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, the area was the most populous in the world and the city-states waged wars against each other," says Kettunen. Kettunen explains that there are quite human reasons why the idealised image of the Maya arose. An early authority on Maya studies, the British archaeologist Eric Thompson had experienced two world wars. "He wanted to believe that the world had had at least...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Bosnian Pyramids: Absence Of Evidence Is Not Evidence Of Atlantis
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/15/2006 2:55:21 PM PDT · 11 replies · 388+ views History News Network | 6-15-2006 | Alun Salt Alun Salt Bosnian Pyramids: Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Atlantis I wasn't going to pyramid blog here, but I've new information and it might be handy to collate all the debunking into one post. If you've been following this at my site then skip on to the Geological and Archaeological results. Otherwise this is both really odd and something I would dearly love to be wrong about. Late last year news broke of a pyramid that had been found in Bosnia. I didnít give it any thought until Coturnix wrote about it in December at Science and Politics....
Underwater Archaeology
Skeleton under ship is Iron age [ Newport Ship ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/14/2006 9:42:27 AM PDT · 22 replies · 269+ views BBC | Monday, 5 December 2005 | unattributed The remains of a skeleton found underneath a medieval ship discovered buried in the banks of the River Usk in Newport are that of an Iron age man. Tests carried out on the bones which were found in December 2002, have shown that they date back to 170BC... about 1,500 years older than the 15th century ship. The man is thought to have been about 5ft 9in tall and very muscular. He was probably in his late 20s or early 30s when he died. Experts carried out radio carbon dating on the bones which were found underneath wooden struts supporting...
Protection for wreck sunk in 1703
	Posted by robowombat On General/Chat 06/12/2006 11:53:15 AM PDT · 7 replies · 92+ views (UK) Dept of Culture , Media, and Sport | 30 May 2006 30 May 2006 Culture Minister David Lammy Acts To Protect The Wreck of 70 Gun Warship Thought To Be Resolution, Sunk Off Sussex In 1703 Culture Minister David Lammy today took action to protect a wreck, believed to be that of the 70-gun war ship Resolution, recently discovered by divers on the seabed in Pevensey Bay, off the Sussex coast. His decision to 'designate' the well preserved remains under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 follows a recommendation from English Heritage. The Order laid in Parliament will protect the newly discovered remains -- and the 100m area around them --...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Hidden room where Leonardo met his Mona
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 01/12/2005 12:59:52 AM PST · 3 replies · 1,165+ views Telegraph (UK) | 12/01/2005 Restorers find artistís workshop in old Florence friary, writes Bruce Johnston The workshop where Leonardo da Vinci first met and may have begun painting the woman he immortalised as the Mona Lisa has been discovered in a military college. The studio and lodgings, filling five rooms on two floors and still showing traces of wall paintings bearing what one expert called "astonishing associations" with his work, have come to light in what was once part of the friary of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence and was later taken over by Italy's Military Geographical Institute. A team of restorers found the...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Museum to reunite Venus statue with head
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/14/2006 12:28:15 PM PDT · 25 replies · 202+ views Yahoo / AP | Tue Jun 13, 9:23 PM ET | Giovanna Dell'orto For the first time in possibly 170 years, a Roman marble statue of Venus will be reunited with its head as both are coming to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, where conservators will piece them back together... A private collector in Houston, Texas, agreed to sell to those who purchased the body at the auction the head as well, which was last documented attached to the body in 1836. The head sold for about $50,000. The 4-foot-6-inch statue is a marble copy from the late 1st century A.D. of an earlier Greek bronze sculpture, which many scholars...
Gritty Clues (How Soil Can Tell Stories Of The Past)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/11/2006 12:57:29 PM PDT · 13 replies · 332+ views Science News | 6-11-2006 | Aimee Cunningham Gritty CluesHow soil can tell stories of the past Aimee Cunningham At the base of Monticello Mountain, just below Thomas Jefferson's historic estate in Charlottesville, Va., sits a 90-meter-long greenstone wall. The Rivanna River runs on one side. On the other, earth has piled up to the wall's top. Built up from sediments washing down the mountain for centuries, this soil holds clues to history. But rather than bits of tools or pottery, the clues are chemical elements in the soil. The soil at Monticello Mountain in Charlottesville, Va., contains clues about Thomas Jefferson's agricultural practices on those slopes. Archaeologists...
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