Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #100
Saturday, June 17, 2006
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British Isles
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New glacier theory on Stonehenge
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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...
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Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
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Road plans put Stonehenge status at risk
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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...
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Druids Despair As Seahenge Set For Dry Berth
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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 ...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Did The Ancient Greeks And Native Americans Swap Starcharts?
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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...
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Archaeological site yields dental surprise [ PreColumbian dental work ]
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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...
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Andes People Look Back To The Future
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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...
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Prehistory and Origins
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Affinities Of The Paleoindians
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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...
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Scientist's Study Of Brain Genes Sparks a Backlash
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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...
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Mesopotamia
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Priceless Assyrian Relics Used for Target Practice
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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...
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Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
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Russian Archaeologist Says Merv Was Origin Of Zoroastrianism
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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...
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India
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Search For India's Ancient City (Muziris - Roman)
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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...
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Faith and Philosophy
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India: New Interest In 'Jesus Grave' In Kashmir
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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...
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On the trail of Buddha's disciples
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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.
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Is the Truth About Masada Less Romantic?
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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...
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In a Ruined Copper Works, Evidence That Bolsters a Doubted Biblical Tale
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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...
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Anatolia
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Turkey orders 500-year-old inscription erased from castle
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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...
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Underground City Found Underneath Architect Sinan's House
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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...
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Recent Finds Prove That Homer's Stories Were More Than Myth
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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 ...
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Ancient Greece
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Since when is ancient Greek art obscene?
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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...
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So Much Lost and Little Gained: Stone's leftist agenda robs Alexander of authenticity.
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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...
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Persians Find Hollywood's Alexander Not So Great
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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...
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Ancient Rome
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Man Leads Archaeologists To Frescoed Tomb (Europe's Oldest)
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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...
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Ancient Europe
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Basques Were Fishermen More Than 8,000 Years Ago
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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...
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Agriculture and Domestication
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Is Modern Civilization Fragile?
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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...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Scientists Find DNA Region That Affects Europeans' Fertility
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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...
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Oldest known bird found in China
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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...
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Asia
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Ancient tomb found underneath Yen Tu relic [ Han Dynasty ]
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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.
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?
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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...
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Climate
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Noah's Ark, Pieces Intact, Found
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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...
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Ancient Egypt
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In Egypt, the Pharaohs' outspoken defender kicks up a dust storm [ Zahi Hawass ]
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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...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Hittite graves, artifacts unearthed in Adana
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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...
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An interpreter of Maya culture [ Harri Kettunen ]
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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...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Bosnian Pyramids: Absence Of Evidence Is Not Evidence Of Atlantis
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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....
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Underwater Archaeology
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Skeleton under ship is Iron age [ Newport Ship ]
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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...
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Protection for wreck sunk in 1703
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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 --...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Hidden room where Leonardo met his Mona
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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...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Museum to reunite Venus statue with head
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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...
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Gritty Clues (How Soil Can Tell Stories Of The Past)
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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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