Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #116
Saturday, October 7, 2006
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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A Second Look at the "Alexander Son of Simon" Ossuary: Did It Hold Father and Son?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/01/2006 12:03:49 AM EDT · 6 replies · 93+ views
Biblical Archaeology Review | September 26, 2006 | Tom Powers
The ossuary was discovered in 1941 by archaeologists Eliezer L. Sukenik and Nahman Avigad of Jerusalem's Hebrew University and came to light through a systematic survey of tombs in the Kidron Valley, south of Jerusalem's Old City and the Arab village of Silwan. This ossuary and ten others were found as an intact assemblage in a tomb chamber that had survived the centuries untouched by tomb robbers, with its blocking stone still in place. In short, there is absolutely no question about this object's provenance and authenticity... The burial cave was a single, rock-hewn chamber without niches of any sort,...
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No historical evidence of Jesus
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Posted by ambrose
On News/Activism 05/18/2004 2:54:58 AM EDT · 112 replies · 399+ views
Toronto Star | 5.16.04 | Tom Harpur
May 16, 2004. 08:48 AM No historical evidence of Jesus TOM HARPUR Ever since the publication of The Pagan Christ, literalist clergy and others have been hammering away at the theme of the alleged historicity of the Gospels. Yet, Bible scholars today know that the Gospels never were historical biographies even though they may appear to be such. Listen to the genius Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his landmark book The Quest Of The Historical Jesus: "The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of...
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Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals: Apostle Simon Peter buried in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
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Posted by OrthodoxPresbyterian
On Religion 11/23/2003 6:39:24 AM EST · 512 replies · 944+ views
Jerusalem Christian Review | 11-23-2003 | OP
Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals:Names, Testimonies of First Christiansby Jean Gilman JERUSALEM, Israel - Does your heart quicken when you hear someone give a personal testimony about Jesus? Do you feel excited when you read about the ways the Lord has worked in someone's life? The first century catacomb, uncovered by archaeologist P. Bagatti on the Mount of Olives, contains inscriptions clearly indicating its use, "by the very first Christians in Jerusalem."If you know the feeling of genuine excitement about the workings of the Lord, then you will be ecstatic to learn that archaeologists have found first-century dedications with the names...
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Not a shard of truth (No proof of John the Baptist.)
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 02/03/2003 8:00:10 PM EST · 14 replies · 614+ views
wwwHaaretz | 2-3-3 | By Dalia Shehori
w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Not a shard of truth Sensational claims have been made about bonesfound in Qumran, but no, this is not John the Baptist,say the heads of the dig. In August 2002, Time Magazine carried a headline that aroused curiosity: "Digging for the Baptist." The reference was to an archaeological dig being carried out for the past two years or so in Qumran, near the shore of the Dead Sea. The dig is headed by Prof. Hanan Eshel, head of the...
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Israeli Experts Examine Ancient Tablet
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Posted by afraidfortherepublic
On News/Activism 01/13/2003 4:14:31 PM EST · 15 replies · 302+ views
Guardian Unlimited (UK) | 1-13-03
Monday January 13, 2003 7:10 PM JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli geologists said Monday they have examined a stone tablet detailing repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon that, if authenticated, would be a rare piece of physical evidence confirming biblical narrative. The find - whose origin is murky - is about the size of a legal pad, with a 15-line inscription in ancient Hebrew that strongly resembles descriptions in the Bible's Book of Kings. It could also strengthen Jewish claims to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City that is now home to two major mosques. Muslim...
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"Brother of Jesus" bone-box plot thickens [Israeli Scholars: Jesus' 'Brother' Box Fraud]
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Posted by Polycarp
On News/Activism 11/06/2002 2:11:35 PM EST · 119 replies · 281+ views
Israel Insider | November 5, 2002 | Ellis Shuman
"Brother of Jesus" bone-box plot thickens By Ellis Shuman November 5, 2002 An ancient burial box believed to have belonged to James, the Biblical brother of Jesus, was damaged while being sent for display at a Toronto museum. The museum is awaiting word from the ossuary's owner before attempting to repair the box, but the owner is being questioned by police as the burial box may actually belong to the State of Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli scholars insist that the inscription on the box is a fraud. Staff at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto discovered numerous cracks Friday in the...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Possible ancient calendar entry found [ Tantoc ruins, San Luis Potosi state, Huasteco culture ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:53:42 AM EDT · 1 reply · 1+ view
Cleveland Plain Dealer | Friday, October 06, 2006 | Mark Stevenson (AP)
Markings on top of the figures appear to depict an entry from, or part of, a 13-month lunar calendar, said archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja, who led the excavation of the monument. "This would be the first depiction of a calendar or calendar elements in such an early time period," he said. The monolith, which measures more than 25 feet and weighs about 20 tons, was found in March 2005 at the Tantoc ruins in San Luis Potosi state, near Mexico's northern Gulf coast, by construction workers. Ahuja theorized that the stone's glyphlike inscriptions were carved sometime around 700 B.C., likely by...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit (9,400 YO American Mummy)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/04/2006 8:24:51 PM EDT · 26 replies · 562+ views
Friends Of The Past | 9-25-2006
The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit NEWS: The Court has remanded the matter back to the Bureau of Land Management for further proceedings. See Order (posted 9/25/06) -- The text of the Conclusion In July 2000 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a determination that the Spirit Cave Man could not be culturally linked to the claiming Fallon-Paiute Shoshone tribe. The tribe filed a lawsuit asking the Federal Court to review their claim under NAGPRA. In their determination, the BLM assumed that the Spirit Cave Man was Native American based solely on his age. In the Kennewick Man lawsuit, the...
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Peru finds ancient burial cave of warrior tribe - Chachapoyas, white-skinned aka "Cloud People"
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 10/05/2006 11:11:48 PM EDT · 24 replies · 912+ views
Reuters on Yahoo | 10/5/06 | Robin Emmott
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday. After a tip-off from a farmer in Peru's northern Amazon jungle, archeologists from Peru's National Culture Institute last week found the 820-feet-(250-meter)deep cave that was used for burial and worship by the Chachapoyas tribe. So far archeologists have found five mummies, two of which are intact with skin and hair, as well as ceramics, textiles and wall paintings, the expedition's leader and regional cultural director Herman Corbera told...
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Scholars study lost city of Mabila at UA
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:31:55 PM EDT · 7 replies · 130+ views
Tuscaloosa News | September 29. 2006 3:30AM | Adam Jones
It's believed to be the largest battle between Europeans and Native Americans north of the Rio Grande, but the city of Mabila remains lost... A team of historians, archeologists and geologists have come to the University of Alabama for three days to study the battle.. Their aim, though, isn't to find the city, but to compile everything known, for possible future excavations, said Jim Knight, a UA anthropology professor who helped organize the conference... Finding Mabila means addressing a host of problems ranging from suspect accounts of De Soto's expedition to the possibility that modern dams may have flooded the...
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Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
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Radical solution proposed for Stonehenge
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:57:51 AM EDT · 14 replies · 93+ views
Guardian Unlimited | Saturday October 7, 2006 | Maev Kennedy
Last night Professor Peter Fowler, an internationally acknowledged expert on the Stonehenge landscape and on World Heritage Sites management, washed his hands of the whole argument. The A303, a main artery to the south west that narrows to a grinding two-lane traffic jam where it passes the stone circle, should be closed and replaced with a tunnel, and the smaller A344 which actually clips the heel stone of the monument, should also go, he said, adding, "But since no sort of a tunnel is going to be built, the A303 should be kept exactly as and where it is, because...
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Anatolia
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Schliemann's search for the 'first city'
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:46:09 PM EDT · 18 replies · 159+ views
Athens News | Friday, 22 September 2006 | Jonathan Carr
In his new novel, 'The Fall of Troy', Peter Ackroyd recreates the19th-century excavation of one of antiquity's greatest sites which was led byan archaeologist whose methods have always provoked controversy.. Some details about Heinrich Schliemann's life are documented but not too much should be taken for granted about a man so adept at presenting grand conclusions based on dodgy evidence. The location of the Homeric Ithaca remains in dispute and what Schliemann did find on modern Ithaca was no palace; the treasure he unearthed at Troy has since been dated to more than a thousand years before Homer's Trojan war;...
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Bathed in controversy
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/05/2006 1:25:11 PM EDT · 7 replies · 135+ views
Guardian | Wednesday October 4, 2006 | Helena Smith
The ruins of Allianoi are among the few "asclepions" - or therapeutic centres - ever discovered. Testimony to the extraordinary sophistication of urban planning and hydrological engineering during the Roman era, archaeologists believe that with its curative waters, the spa city complemented the legendary asclepion at nearby Pergamon. There, patients were healed through psychotherapy to the accompaniment of music. Artefacts found on the site, including bronze surgical instruments, suggest it was a prominent health centre from the second century BC to the 11th century AD. Having survived earthquakes in AD 178 and 262, the site has been spectacularly preserved beneath...
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British Isles
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Pupils who dig their Latin lessons [ could uncover a Roman camp ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/30/2006 4:19:44 PM EDT · 10 replies · 90+ views
Leeds Today | Saturday, September 30, 2006 | Ian Rosser
Today it's home to a Leeds school with more than 1,000 students. But backtrack 2,000 years and the site of Allerton High in Moortown could have been occupied by soldiers from one of history's largest empires... According to Ordnance Survey maps dating back to 1847, the existing school was built on a site called Camp Town. In the south-east corner of the grounds, which was once a sandstone quarry, there is a clearly-marked historical camp. The school's deputy head Heather Scott... said, a mention in the "Mannour Books of Leeds" from 1709 of a "garth named Campo" and the existence...
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Roman mosaics found on Quantocks
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Posted by george76
On News/Activism 10/05/2006 10:47:50 PM EDT · 3 replies · 128+ views
BBC NEWS | 4 October 2006 | bbc
Archaeologists working on the Quantock Hills in Somerset have uncovered evidence of a substantial Roman villa with a mosaic floor in the main room. The findings are part of a six-year study carried out on six separate sites around the area. The dig team said the villa at Yarford is one of the most westerly villas with mosaic floors found in Roman Britain. It was subjected to three seasons of excavation but has since been buried again to protect it for the future. "If there is one villa, then the chances are that others will be found in due course."...
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Ancient Rome
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Which character on "Rome" are you most like?
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Posted by Perdogg
On General/Chat 12/30/2005 3:02:47 PM EST · 7 replies · 221+ views
12/30/05 | Perdogg
Warning: this thread will contain talk of sex, nudity, and violence. If any of this is offensive please read on. Which Character on "Rome" Are most like? Men: Julius Caesar - Strong, never in doubt, decisive. Plus the women love him. Has slept with Servilia and Cleopatria. Nice job. Lucius - Duty always comes before self. Must be a strong willed man to have resisted Cleopatria. Titus Pullo - A Man's Man; personnal demons and obsession with a slave girl may be his own end. Oh so willing to use violence. Mark Antony. Male version of Atia. Willing to do...
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How TV is wiping out the movies -- again
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Posted by Keltik
On News/Activism 09/27/2006 2:04:53 PM EDT · 71 replies · 1,588+ views
The New Republic | 09.19.06 | Christopher Orr
There's a gag in one of the old "Treehouse of Horror" episodes of "The Simpsons," in which Homer and Marge attend a parents meeting at Springfield Elementary School on the "thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month." The meeting, of course, is to discuss misprinted calendars; as Homer walks in from the wintry outdoors he glances at one hanging nearby and grouses, "lousy Smarch weather." Well, the DVD calendar now has its very own Smarch. Until recently, video releases have followed essentially the same schedule as theatrical openings, just shifted forward three or four months: The studios'...
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Generating Buzz in All the Right Places, 'Entourage' Fills a Gap for HBO
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Posted by Mr. Blonde
On General/Chat 08/29/2006 11:34:36 AM EDT · 12 replies · 177+ views
New York Times | August 28 | Bill Carter
On the elegant office set representing the headquarters of Ari Goldís new palatial Hollywood talent agency, Doug Ellin sat in the glass-walled ersatz conference room, about where the fictional ¸ber-agent Ari might sit, talking about the utterly unexpected phenomenon of the series he created, HBOís ìEntourage.î
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Two and Out for 'Rome' January will begin final season for 'Rome' and 'Sopranos'
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Posted by Snickering Hound
On News/Activism 07/12/2006 5:01:51 PM EDT · 42 replies · 931+ views
Zap to it.com
LOS ANGELES -- The fall of "Rome" will happen sometime in early 2007. HBO announced Wednesday that the second season of its epic series set in the time of Caesar will debut Jan. 7. At the same time, the network says next season will be the last for the show. Filming on season two is currently taking place at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome and will wrap in October. Once that's done, though, the show -- a co-production with the BBC -- will call it quits. "Rome" was one of the most expensive projects in TV history -- reports pegged...
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Near East
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Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria
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Posted by uglybiker
On General/Chat 10/05/2006 1:04:58 PM EDT · 18 replies · 261+ views
Yahoo!
Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria DAMASCUS (AFP) - Archaeologists said they have discovered an 11-millennium-old building with on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. "A remarkable discovery has just been uncovered of a large circular building dating back to 8,800 BC near (the locality of) Ja'de," the head of the French archaeologal team that made the find told AFP. The building, much larger than normal houses, "had a collective use, probably for all of the village or a group," Eric Coqueugniot said. "A part of this community building takes the shape of the head of a...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Mastodons Driven To Extinction By Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/03/2006 6:01:37 PM EDT · 65 replies · 816+ views
National Geographic | 10-3-2006 | Kimberly Johnson
Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest Kimberly Johnson for National Geographic News October 3, 2006 Tuberculosis was rampant in North American mastodons during the late Ice Age and may have led to their extinction, researchers say. Mastodons lived in North America starting about 2 million years ago and thrived until 11,000 years agoóaround the time humans arrived on the continentówhen the last of the 7-ton (6.35-metric-ton) elephantlike creatures died off. Scientists Bruce Rothschild and Richard Laub pieced together clues to the animals' widespread die-off by studying unearthed mastodon foot bones. Rothschild first noticed a telltale tuberculosis lesion on...
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We Dodged Extinction
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Posted by Sabertooth
On News/Activism 01/29/2002 10:23:19 PM EST · 172 replies · 972+ views
ABCNews | Lee Dye
We Dodged Extinction ‘Pruned’ Family Tree Leaves Little Genetic Variety Just one group of chimpanzees can have more genetic diversity than all 6 billion humans on the planet. (Corel) Special to ABCNEWS.com A worldwide research program has come up with astonishing evidence that humans have come so close to extinction in the past that it’s surprising we’re here at all. Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at San Diego, and other members of a research team studied genetic variability among humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes of Africa. Humanoids are believed ...
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Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
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Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/03/2006 6:09:36 PM EDT · 48 replies · 1,026+ views
National Geographic | 10-2-2006 | Erica Lloyd
Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says Erica Lloyd for National Geographic News October 2, 2006 It's no secret that in the past few centuries people in Western nations have been getting taller and living longer. But now experts say that today's Westerners are the product of an accelerated spate of growth that is unique in human history. People in the developed world are taller and more robust than their great, great, great grandparents probably ever imagined. Robert Fogel, director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago, notes that Westerners are about 50 percent larger...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution
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Posted by GarySpFc
On News/Activism 05/08/2005 1:20:27 PM EDT · 134 replies · 1,698+ views
The Kansas City Star | May 8, 2005 | Jonathan Witt
Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution By Jonathan Witt Special to The Star Biology textbooks diligently paper over the fact that biologists have never observed or even described in credible, theoretical terms a continually functional, macroevolutionary pathway leading to fundamentally new anatomical forms. It seems the Darwinists in Kansas are living in the past. Not the past of, say, the fossil record. The history written there tells of the abrupt appearance of major animal forms, nothing like the gradually branching tree of life that Darwin envisioned. The past that some evolutionists are living in, rather, is the Kansas science curriculum battle...
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Formation Of New Species Proves Gradual, Not Sudden
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Posted by sourcery
On News/Activism 05/28/2002 3:35:38 PM EDT · 77 replies · 639+ views
UniSci.com | 28 May 2002
Home Search † Formation Of New Species Proves Gradual, Not SuddenThe formation of new species is a gradual and not a sudden process, according to a team of biologists from the UK, France, Australia and the USA.Their findings, from a study of birds on Pacific islands, are reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).The "founder effect" theory, a controversial idea among biologists, says that speciation occurs suddenly due to a small influx of colonists founding new populations, in the process creating many new gene combinations and losing many others, in what is known as a...
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Prehistory and Origins
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Mitochondria (DNA) Can Be Inherited From Both Parents
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/24/2002 10:22:09 AM EDT · 33 replies · 531+ views
New Scientist | 8-23-2002 | Denny Penman
Mitochondria can be inherited from both parents 17:01 23 August 02 NewScientist.com news serviceMitochondria may not be inherited solely through the maternal line, according to new research that promises to overturn accepted biological wisdom. If confirmed by other researchers, the findings could have huge implications for evolutionary biology and biochemistry. Robert Sanders Williams, from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, says the findings are "remarkable and unanticipated. This is more than a mere curiosity. It asserts the principle that it can occur in humans. It could have significant implications for the study of human evolution and the migrations of...
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Ancient fossils fill gap in early human evolution
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Posted by Sofa King
On General/Chat 04/12/2006 3:21:23 PM EDT · 132 replies · 1,741+ views
Yahoo | 4/12/06 | Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution. ADVERTISEMENT The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of Australopithecus known as Au. anamensis, an ape-man creature that walked on two legs.
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Where do Human Beings Come From?
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Posted by wallcrawlr
On General/Chat 08/04/2005 10:23:17 AM EDT · 23 replies · 520+ views
Yahoo news | August 3, 2005
It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The search for the ultimate answer has taken a number of twists and turns, with careers made and broken along the way. APE TO MAN is the story of the quest to find the origins of the human race -- a quest that spanned more than 150 years of obsessive searching. APE TO MAN...
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Ancient Europe
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Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat
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Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 02/19/2002 10:53:03 AM EST · 45 replies · 589+ views
University Of Toront | 19 February 2002 | Staff
University of Toronto anthropologist David Begun and his European colleagues are re-writing the book on the history of great apes and humans, arguing that most of their evolutionary development took place in Eurasia, not Africa. In back-to-back issues of the Journal of Human Evolution, Begun and his collaborators describe two fossils, both discovered in Europe. One comes from the oldest relative of all living great apes (orangutans and African apes) and humans; the other is the most complete skull ever found of a close relative of the African apes and humans. In the November 2001 issue, Begun and colleague Elmar ...
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Neandertal / Neanderthal
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Scientists Bid To Take Neanderthal DNA Sample
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:00:57 PM EDT · 21 replies · 372+ views
Scotsman | 10-1-2006 | Kark Mansfield
Scientists bid to take Neanderthal DNA sample KARL MANSFIELD SCIENTISTS are attempting to extract DNA for the first time from the fossilised bones thought to be of a Neanderthal man who roamed Britain 35,000 years ago. Experts plan to use a tooth from an upper jaw to establish whether the closest relative of modern humans lived on the British Isles later than it was once thought. The fragment of an upper jaw, which was found in 1926 at Kent's Cavern in Devon, was originally thought to be human, but experts now think it could date back even further. Chris Stringer,...
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Delving Deep Into Britain's Past
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:18:29 PM EDT · 6 replies · 273+ views
BBC | 10-1-2006 | Paul Ricon
Delving deep into Britain's past By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Neanderthals probably made this hand axe from Swanscombe in Kent Scientists are to begin work on the second phase of a project aimed at piecing together the history of human colonisation in Britain. Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Phase two has now secured funds to the tune of £1m and will run until 2010. Team members hope to find out more about Britain's earliest settlers and perhaps unearth their fossil remains. They...
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Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years
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Posted by ckilmer
On News/Activism 09/02/2005 5:31:25 PM EDT · 84 replies · 1,749+ views
ABC NEWSonline | Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST)
Last Update: Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST) A reconstruction of the face of a young female Neanderthal who lived about 35,000 years ago in France. (AFP) Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals co-existed with anatomically modern humans for at least 1,000 years in central France.The finding suggests Neanderthals came to a tragic and lingering end.Few chapters in the rise of Homo sapiens, as modern mankind is known, have triggered as much debate as the fate of the Neanderthals.Smaller and squatter than Homo sapiens but with larger brains, Neanderthals lived in Europe,...
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Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
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Poisoning has long history of use as means of removing human obstacles
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Posted by bedolido
On News/Activism 12/27/2004 9:33:57 AM EST · 14 replies · 858+ views
charlotte.com | 12/27/2004 | CHARLES LEROUX
CHICAGO - (KRT) - One imagines the Persian queen smiling warmly as she passes the food down the table to her daughter-in-law. Queen Parysatis, during the reign of her son, Artaxerxes II (405 to 359 B.C.), was trying to influence a power struggle within the kingdom and had felt the need to be rid of her daughter-in-law. She poisoned one side of a knife that then was used to bisect a roast bird at dinner. Taking the untainted half for herself, she passed the rest, knowing - hence the smile - that her problem was all but solved. Recorded instances...
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Oxford Archaeologists Want To Join Studies On Iran's Salt Men
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/01/2006 12:40:31 AM EDT · 8 replies · 190+ views
Payvand | 9-27-2006
Oxford archaeologists want to join studies on Iran's salt men TEHRAN, Sept. 27 (Mehr News Agency) -- The director of an archaeological team working at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Hamzehlu region near Zanjan said that a group of Oxford University archaeologists is interested in participating in the study on the salt men found at the mine. "A group of Oxford University archaeologists has prepared a plan, asking to participate in the study, and the Center for Archaeological Research is investigating the plan," Abolfazl Aali told the Persian service of CHN on Wednesday "The archaeologists will be invited to...
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Asia
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Ancient Burial Urns Found In Central Vietnam
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/01/2006 1:02:53 AM EDT · 13 replies · 184+ views
Thanhnien News | 9-29-2006 | Sai Gon Giai Phong - Thu Thuy
Ancient burial urns found in central Vietnam Archaeologists have discovered 30 burial jars belonging to the 2,500-year-old Sa Huynh civilization in central Vietnam. The graves together with many artifacts were unearthed at the Con Dai archaeological site in Thua Thua-Hue provinceís Huong Tra district. Of the jars, 25 contained ritual offerings like small trays, agate balls, and earrings, all of them still intact. They will be displayed at the Museum of Vietnamese History and the provinceís museum. The archaeologists said the excavation provided further evidence that an early Metal Age culture had once existed in central Vietnam. The Sa Huynh...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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York's Viking Gold Armband Goes On Display At Yorkshire Museum
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:20:19 PM EDT · 16 replies · 157+ views
24 Hour Museum | September 29, 2006 | unattributed
A rare piece of Viking gold that was discovered in the possessions of a deceased builder from York has finally gone on display at the Yorkshire Museum. The pure gold armband weighing three quarters of a Kilogram is only the third of its type ever to be found in Britain and Ireland and experts at the museum believe it would have been worn by one of the richest people living in Viking York, then called Jorvik... "This is only the second arm ring of this type to be found in England and for us to have it is exceptional," said...
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Faith and Philosophy
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Crumbling cathedral held together by tape [Canterbury, England, 900+ years old]
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Posted by Mike Fieschko
On News/Activism 10/05/2006 6:48:50 AM EDT · 184 replies · 1,855+ views
Daily Telegraph | Oct 4, 2006 | Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
Canterbury Cathedral is falling apart at the seams, with chunks of masonry dropping off its walls and a fifth of its internal marble pillars held together by duct tape.   An art student paints in the cloisters, but trustees say parts of the building may have to be closed to visitors for safety reasons The extent of the building's disrepair was revealed yesterday at the launch of a global campaign to raise £50 million over five years for urgent and long-term renovation and conservation.The cathedral, the mother church of worldwide Anglicanism which was founded in 597 by St Augustine,...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Treasures Lby Rome 'Are Back In The Holy Land'
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Posted by Iam1ru1-2
On News/Activism 09/30/2006 11:56:23 PM EDT · 22 replies · 442+ views
TimesOnline.Co.UK | Dalya Alberge
By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent A COLLECTION of sacred artefacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist. Sean Kingsley, a specialist in the Holy Land, claims to have discovered what became of the collection, which is widely regarded as the greatest of biblical treasures and includes silver trumpets that would have heralded the Coming of the Messiah. The trumpets, gold candelabra and the bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence were among pieces shipped to Rome...
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Bobblehead Muhammed?
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Posted by Behind Liberal Lines
On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:23:03 PM EDT · 173 replies · 5,188+ views
All contents © 2006 Daily News, L.P. | Originally published on October 1, 2006 | BY TINA MOORE
A ceramic bobblehead doll of the Prophet Muhammed - created to resemble the infamous caricature published by a Danish newspaper - is being hawked online for $22.99 a pop by an ex-Marine. The unapologetic creator, Timothy Ames, 28, said the bobblehead is similar to "dashboard Jesus" figurines that can be stuck with adhesive to flat surfaces. "I thought, 'If they flipped out over some cartoons what will they do with a dashboard Muhammed?'" Ames said from his home in Hawaii. But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet....
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Sydney 'survivor' exhumed on island (HMAS Sydney - sunk in battle), November 19th 1941)
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Posted by naturalman1975
On News/Activism 10/04/2006 8:37:13 PM EDT · 16 replies · 655+ views
The Australian | 4th October 2006 | Tony Barrass
THE remains of the unknown sailor believed to be the sole survivor of Australia's most enduring wartime mystery - the sinking of HMAS Sydney off Western Australia - have been unearthed on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The Defence Department last night confirmed that bones had been discovered in the island's Old European Cemetery by a navy-led team of experts and, once removed, would be taken to Sydney for further forensic tests in an attempt to establish identity. The discovery is yet another piece to a puzzle that has fascinated and frustrated historians for more than half a century....
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end of digest #116 20061007
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