Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #117
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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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 · 303+ 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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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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Remains of giant camel discovered in Syria
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 10/08/2006 10:58:20 AM EDT · 95 replies · 1,660+ views
Mumbai Mirror | October 8, 2006 | Reuters
Damascus: Swiss researchers have discovered the 1,00,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria. "This is a big discovery, a revolution in science," Professor Jean-Marie Le Tensorer of the University of Basel said. "It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago." "Can you imagine? The camelís shoulders stood three metres high and it was around four metres tall, as big as a giraffe or an elephant. Nobody knew that such a species had existed." Tensorer, who has been excavating at the desert site in Kowm since...
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Ancient Egypt
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Before the Mummies: The Desert Origins of the Pharaohs
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/07/2006 3:02:30 PM EDT · 15 replies · 164+ views
Saudi Aramco World Volume 57, Number 5 | September/October 2006 | Graham Chandler
The question of where the great Pharaonic civilization came from and how it arose has never really been answered, not by the ancient Greeks nor by the first European explorers and archeologists, who explored and plundered it in the 19th century. Until just a few decades ago, the received wisdom was that a "superior culture" must have invaded Egypt, or migrated there, from the Levant or Mesopotamia -- regions that had civilizations a thousand years earlier. But for more than 200 years, precious few archeologists had the inclination to explore this question of origins: Most were more dazzled by the mummies, temples...
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Mummy DNA Reveals Birth Of Ancient Scourge
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/08/2006 6:30:07 PM EDT · 9 replies · 956+ views
Scientific American | 10-6-2006 | David Biello
Mummy DNA Reveals Birth of Ancient Scourge Image: © ALADIN ABDEL NABY/REUTERS/CORBIS Centuries of silence cannot keep ancient Egyptian mummies from sharing their secrets with scientists. From archaeologists determining cultural practices to chemists studying embalming, mummies have revealed libraries of information. Now such mummies are also yielding evidence about the diseases of the past by giving up the facts encoded in their preserved DNA, and new research may have pinned down the ancient homeland of a modern scourge. Leishmaniasis--a disease caused by microscopic parasites, like malaria, and transmitted by sand flies--results in painful skin sores and in its most vicious...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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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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New mouse find is 'living fossil'
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Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On News/Activism 10/12/2006 1:32:36 PM EDT · 95 replies · 1,504+ views
BBC | October 12, 2006 | Staff
A new species of mouse found in Cyprus is delighting scientists. Identified by researchers at Durham University, it has bigger ears, eyes and teeth than other European mice. The scientists say it is a surviving remnant of indigenous Cypriot fauna which mostly went extinct with the arrival of humans. Most finds of new species occur in tropical regions with sparse human populations, which makes this a highly unusual discovery. "It was generally believed that every species of mammal in Europe had been identified," said Durham's Thomas Cucchi. "This is why the discovery of a new species of mouse on Cyprus...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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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 · 661+ 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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We Dodged Extinction
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Posted by Sabertooth
On News/Activism 01/29/2002 10:23:19 PM EST · 172 replies · 1,013+ 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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Genes and Morphology
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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 · 1,737+ 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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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 · 538+ 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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Africa
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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 · 136 replies · 1,785+ 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. 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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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 · 608+ 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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Fossil Remains Show The Merging Of Neandertals, Modern Humans
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/12/2006 2:22:03 PM EDT · 140 replies · 1,961+ views
Washington University | 10-12-2006 | Neil Schoenherr
Fossil remains show the merging of Neandertals, modern humans By Neil Schoenherr The early modern human remains from the Pestera Muierii (Cave of the Old Woman), Romania, which were discovered in 1952, have been poorly dated and largely ignored. But recently, a team of researchers from the Anthropological and Archaeological Institutes in Bucharest, Romania, and from WUSTL has been able to directly date the fossils to 30,000 years ago. The fossils prove that a strict population replacement of the Neandertals did not happen. "What these fossils show is that these earliest modern humans had a mosaic of distinctly modern human...
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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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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 · 23 replies · 420+ 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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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 · 1,788+ 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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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 · 521+ 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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Faith and Philosophy
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Zoroastrians struggle for survival in Iran
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 10/12/2006 8:40:31 PM EDT · 45 replies · 591+ views
Zee News | 10/12/06 | Zee News
Flicking through photographs of immigrant Zoroastrian friends in sunny California, 40-year-old Farzad Dehnavizadeh sighs and wishes the young people of his faith would stop leaving Iran for the west. His 40,000-strong Zoroastrian community has survived centuries of conquest, oppression and forced conversion to keep their 3,200-year-old monotheistic faith alive and guard ancient traditions in Shiite Muslim majority Iran. Having withstood the ravages of history, the community is now threatened by emigration, which is day by day robbing the Zoroastrians of their precious youth. Precise figures on the scale of the exodus are not available but sources in the community estimate...
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Maps and Legends
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For Sale: World's first printed atlas
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Posted by Pokey78
On News/Activism 10/07/2006 3:50:05 PM EDT · 7 replies · 292+ views
Daily Mail (U.K.) | 10/06/06
It was based on the tales of travellers who roamed the seas the best part of 2000 years ago. So it is not surprising, perhaps, to find a few inaccuracies in the world's first printed atlas. Scotland, for example, is pushed way out east, into the "German Sea," and England looks long and spindly, jutting out into the Bay of Biscay. The undiscovered Americas were absent. And the ancient map makes the earth too small, as well as overestimating the size of China. Next week the 529 year old atlas - based on the findings of 2nd century geographer Claudius...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Dighton Rock markings debated by historians
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/09/2006 12:21:22 AM EDT · 5 replies · 121+ views
Taunton Gazette | Sunday, October 8, 2006 | Scott Spitler
As the theory goes, Portuguese navigator Miguel Cortereal sailed to the new world in 1502 in search of his brother who never returned from a trip here. Miguel Cortereal also failed to return to Portugal, but the Dighton Rock, some say, proves that the sailor and his crew survived a shipwreck and marked his landing in Massachusetts. Portuguese symbols in the form of a coat of arms and uniquely drawn crosses can be seen on the rock face, da Silva and other say. Cortereal's name and 1511, the date of its inscription, are also visible. Delabarre wrote that a Latin...
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Navigation
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Early Humans Followed Coast
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/07/2006 1:14:08 PM EDT · 43 replies · 567+ views
BBC | 10-7-2006 | Paul Ricon
Early humans followed the coast By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Coastlines were rich in resources for early humans Learning how to live off the sea may have played a key role in the expansion of early humans around the globe. After leaving Africa, human groups probably followed coastal routes to the Americas and South-East Asia. Professor Jon Erlandson says the maritime capabilities of ancient humans have been greatly underestimated. He has found evidence that early peoples in California pursued a sophisticated seafaring lifestyle 10,000 years ago. Anthropologists have long regarded the exploitation of marine resources as a recent...
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Prehistory and Origins
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Did first Americans come from Europe?
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Posted by minus_273
On News/Activism 02/20/2006 3:01:38 AM EST · 137 replies · 1,887+ views
MSNBC | 2/20/06 | By Bjorn Carey
ST. LOUIS - The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago. The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska began receding around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving very little chance that...
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Peru
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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 · 25 replies · 948+ 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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Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/07/2006 6:43:02 PM EDT · 61 replies · 1,414+ views
kuelap Peru.com | 10-7-2006
Kuelap -- the Machu Picchu of Northern Peru.The mysterious super fortress of the Chachapoyan Cloud PeopleKuelap is the largest building structure of the Americas. It is estimated to contain 3 times more material than Egyptís largest pyramid. Peru considers Kuelap to be as good as Machu Picchu and is trying to make this its equal 2nd major destination. It is twice as old as the Incas and in remarkably better condition before restoration. Kuelap is an unknown giant just waking up. Peru is a huge country the size of the 5 west coast states, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Montana....
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Belize
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Ancient Canoe Found On Belize Research Dig
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/10/2006 8:39:38 PM EDT · 7 replies · 339+ views
Ascribe | 10-10-2006 | Keith Prufer
Ancient Canoe Found by Wichita State University Professor on Belize Research Dig WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An ancient canoe -- more than likely the oldest canoe ever uncovered in Mesoamerica -- was discovered this summer in a cliff-top cave in Belize by an excavation team being led by Wichita State University archaeologist Keith Prufer. Prufer estimates that the canoe very likely dates to 200 to 800 AD, based on previous findings in the area. Carbon testing is currently being wrapped up to confirm that the canoe is indeed the oldest found in Mesoamerica, the geographical region from...
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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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Cuban Colonists Traded Bootlaces For Gold
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/09/2006 7:16:32 PM EDT · 21 replies · 363+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 10-9-2006 | Maev Kennedy
Cuban colonists traded bootlaces for gold Maev Kennedy Monday October 9, 2006 Guardian Unlimited (UK) El Chorro de Maita cemetery; and an artist's impression of the jewellery made by the Cubans from the Europeans' shoelaces. Images: Courtesy Institute of Archaeology The people of El Chorro de Maita, a fishing and farming village on the east coast of Cuba, were buried with their greatest treasures: jewellery made of stone, coral, pearl, gold and silver alloy, and odd little tube shaped metal beads. Meanwhile the first Europeans to make contact with the island were sailing home, well pleased with their barter: they'd...
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Columbus
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Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean
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Posted by Marius3188
On News/Activism 08/09/2006 8:44:39 AM EDT · 157 replies · 2,291+ views
The Guardian | 07 Aug 2006 | Giles Tremlett
Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document uncovered by Spanish historians. As governor and viceroy of the Indies, Columbus imposed iron discipline on the first Spanish colony in the Americas, in what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic. Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses, parading women naked through the streets and selling them into slavery. "Columbus' government was characterised by a form of tyranny," Consuelo Varela, a Spanish historian who has seen...
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Some of Columbus' Bones Buried in Spain
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Posted by freepatriot32
On News/Activism 05/20/2006 5:47:22 PM EDT · 9 replies · 355+ views
comcast.net | 5 20 06 | DANIEL WOOLLS
MADRID, Spain - Scientists said Friday they have confirmed that at least some of Christopher Columbus' remains were buried inside a Spanish cathedral, a discovery that could help end a century-old debate over the explorer's final resting place. DNA samples from 500-year-old bone slivers could contradict the Dominican Republic's competing claim that the explorer was laid to rest in the New World, said Marcial Castro, a Seville-area historian and high school teacher who devised the study that began in 2002. However, some of Columbus' remains also could have been buried in the Dominican Republic, he said. The announcement came a...
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Did Muslims Visit America Before Columbus?
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Posted by LibWhacker
On News/Activism 05/09/2006 12:55:41 PM EDT · 154 replies · 2,894+ views
History News Network | 5/8/06 | Rebecca Fachner
Is it possible that there were Muslims in the Americas before Columbus? Some claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Are the claims true? Every elementary school student knows the story of Christopher Columbus; that he set sail from Spain and mistakenly discovered America in 1492, landing on an island in the Caribbean. Columbus encountered native inhabitants of this new world, and thinking that he had landed in India, he called them Indians. While many of the details have been mythologized or fabricated over the ensuing 500 years, Columbusís expedition represents...
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Chinese map claims to back theory that China discovered America
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Posted by presidio9
On News/Activism 01/17/2006 8:00:33 PM EST · 52 replies · 792+ views
AFP | 1/17/06
Chinese map collecter has found a copy of an ancient map he claims proves controversial theories that famed Chinese mariner Zheng He was the first person to discover America and circumnavigate the world. Liu Gang said the map supports the recent theories that Chinese discovered America before Christopher Columbus and charted parts of the world such as Antartica and northern Canada long before Western explorers. "The map shows us that Chinese discovered the world 70 years before Columbus," Liu said in a public unveiling of the chart. "The map tells us that Zheng He discovered the world." The map is...
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Columbus' Purported Remains Are Still Bones of Contention
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 05/05/2005 4:06:24 AM EDT · 1 reply · 215+ views
Tapohilia | May 2, 2005 | Carol J. Williams
It's been nearly two years since Spanish scientists asked to examine the contents of this Caribbean nation's most celebrated tomb to determine whether the centuries-old bones are actually those of Christopher Columbus. They've been told yes, no and maybe. The protracted deliberation through two Dominican administrations has deepened suspicions that authorities here don't really want a definitive answer for fear that the mammoth lighthouse mausoleum they've built into a tourist draw isn't the bona fide resting place of the explorer. Even those who favor letting modern science settle the matter are loath to concede that they might have invested millions...
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Move over Christopher Columbus, Admiral Zheng He is here
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Posted by MikeEdwards
On Bloggers & Personal 03/11/2005 11:19:24 AM EST · 38 replies · 958+ views
CFP | March 11, 2005 | Judi McLeod
Thatís the day when the United Nations will begin trying to convince the world that Christopher Columbus did not discover North America, a Chinese-Muslim explorer discovered us a half century before C.C. No, this is not science fiction. It is todayís cover story in Canada Free Press. That the Canadian government has been selling off our natural resources, including the Alberta tar sands to the Chinese government ought to be worry enough for any with the sovereignty of our nation in mind. Now we have a yet to be identified "respected Canadian architect" headed to the United Nations to tell...
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Christopher Columbus' Remains
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Posted by TexasTaysor
On News/Activism 01/18/2005 8:29:56 AM EST · 33 replies · 1,042+ views
Netscape News | 1/17/05 | DANIEL WOOLLS
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish researchers said Monday they've won permission to open a tomb in the Dominican Republic purported to hold remains of Christopher Columbus, edging closer to solving a century-old mystery over whether those bones or a rival set in Spain are the real thing.
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De Soto
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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 · 152+ 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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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 · 3 replies · 70+ views
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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Radical solution proposed for Stonehenge
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:57:51 AM EDT · 16 replies · 168+ 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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British Isles
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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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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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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 · 128+ 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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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 · 183+ 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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Ancient Rome
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ANCIENT NECROPOLIS FOUND BENEATH VATICAN
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Posted by NYer
On Religion 10/09/2006 12:03:15 PM EDT · 56 replies · 1,241+ views
Yahoo News | October 9, 2006
The history of this dig may be found here. AP - Mon Oct 9, 10:40 AM ET In this undated photo provided Monday, Oct. 9, 2006 by the Vatican Museums, a general view of an ancient necropolis unearthed at the Vatican is seen. Vatican Museums officials and archaeologists on Monday unveiled the necropolis, which was unearthed three years ago during the construction of a parking lot for Vatican City employees and vehicles. Visitors to the Vatican will soon be able to step into the newly unveiled necropolis likened by archaeologists to a ''little Pompeii'' of cemeteries which were the final...
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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 · 1,632+ 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 · 203+ 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 "Entourage."
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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 · 972+ 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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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 · 235+ 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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Anatolia
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Magnificent ruins brought to light in Turkey
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/10/2006 1:56:02 AM EDT · 5 replies · 170+ views
Times Colonist | Saturday, October 07, 2006 | Mike Karapita
Ephesus dates back to the 11th century BC as a port city on the Aegean, but its golden history under Rome began in 133 BC. From that point on, it was transformed into the cultivated capital for all of Asia Minor. Things stayed that way for centuries until power shifted to Constantinople, now Istanbul. Ephesus's harbour silted up and it gradually became a ghost town... The ruins of Ephesus are about two kilometres long, so allow time for your visit (and bring a hat and sunscreen -- it can be baking hot)... Archeologists estimate that only one-third of the city...
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Troy, Homer, the Trojan War
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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 · 195+ 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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Drill hole begins Homeric quest
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/11/2006 12:53:43 PM EDT · 9 replies · 160+ views
BBC News | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 | Jonathan Amos
Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location. But geologists are this week sinking a test borehole on nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of Paliki is the real site. The scientists hope to find evidence that the peninsula once stood proud, separated from Kefalonia by a narrow, navigable marine channel. It is only within the last 2,500-3,000 years - and long after Homer's time - that the channel has been filled in, the team contends. "We can't prove the story of the Odyssey is true, but we can test whether...
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Geologists Show Homer Got It Right
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/29/2003 7:58:53 PM EST · 24 replies · 389+ views
Nature | 1-29-2003 | Philip Ball
Geologists show Homer got it right Trojan geography in Homer's Iliad matches sediment record of Dardanelles coastline. 29 January 2003 PHILIP BALL The ruins of Troy now perch on the edge of a plateau overlooking a river flood plain. © Uni. of Oxford Homer knew his geography, say US researchers. The ancient Greek writer's description of the war fought around Troy is consistent with a new reconstruction of the way the region looked about three millennia ago1. In his Iliad, Homer recounts how the city of Troy was besieged and finally conquered by the army of the Spartan king Menelaus, who...
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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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Goats Key To Spread Of Farming, Gene Study Suggests
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/12/2006 2:38:58 PM EDT · 28 replies · 416+ views
National Geographic | 10-10-2006 | James Owens
Goats Key to Spread of Farming, Gene Study Suggests James Owen for National Geographic News October 10, 2006 Goats accompanied the earliest farmers into Europe some 7,500 years ago, helping to revolutionize Stone Age society, a new study suggests. The trailblazing farm animals were hardy and highly mobile traveling companions to ancient pioneers from the Middle East who introduced agriculture to Europe and elsewhere, researchers say. The onset of farming ushered in the so-called Neolithic Revolution, when settled communities gradually replaced nomadic tribes and their hunter-gatherer lifestyles between 8000 and 6000 B.C. A team of archaeologists and biologists has traced...
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Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate
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Posted by martin_fierro
On General/Chat 10/07/2006 4:17:17 PM EDT · 11 replies · 187+ views
EurekAlert! | 10/3/06 | Joseph Blumberg
Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Genome Research's cover story for Oct. 2 tells a tale of "genome archaeology" by genetic researchers who dug deeply into the long history of maize and rice. Their resulting insights into plant genomic evolution may well fuel the fires of the genetically modified organism (GMO) controversy. "Our findings elucidate an active evolutionary process in which nature inserts genes much like modern biotechnologists do. Now we must reassess the allegations that biotechnologists perform 'unnatural acts,' thereby creating 'Frankenfoods,'" said Professor Joachim Messing, project leader and director of the Waksman Institute...
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Scientists Trace Corn Ancestry from Ancient Grass to Modern Crop
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Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 06/15/2005 12:41:56 PM EDT · 138 replies · 1,723+ views
National Science Foundation | 27 May 2005 | Staff
Researchers have identified corn genes that were preferentially selected by Native Americans during the course of the plant's domestication from its grassy relative, teosinte, (pronounced "tA-O-'sin-tE") to the single-stalked, large-eared plant we know today. The study revealed that of the 59,000 total genes in the corn genome, approximately 1,200 were preferentially targeted for selection during its domestication. The study, by University of California, Irvine's Brandon Gaut and his colleagues, appears in the May 27 issue of the journal, Science. Understandably, a primary goal of teosinte domestication was to improve the ear and its kernels. A teosinte ear is only 2...
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Introns Stump Evolutionary Theorists
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Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On News/Activism 03/10/2006 9:12:05 AM EST · 81 replies · 1,488+ views
Creation-Evolution Headlines | March 9, 2006 | Staff
This story is not about Enron and Exxon, but about introns and exons. The proportions of the scandals they are causing in evolutionary theory, however, may be comparable. Introns are spacers between genes. For several decades now, it has been a puzzle why they are there, and why a complex machine called a spliceosome takes them out and joins the active genetic parts -- the exons -- together. Only eukaryotes have spliceosomes, though; mitochondria have "group II introns" and some mRNAs may have them. Their presence and numbers in various groups presents a bewildering array of combinations. Figuring...
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Diet, Food, Health
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New Insights Into Healthful Compounds In Native American Diets
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/10/2006 10:17:41 PM EDT · 47 replies · 629+ views
Science Daily | 10-10-2006
New Insights Into Healthful Compounds In Native American Diets In an advance toward understanding the early California Native American diet, food scientists have identified the full range of phytochemicals in tanoak acorns. Acorns were a staple in the diet of early Native Americans in California, comprising up to 50 percent of total food intake, Alyson E. Mitchell and colleagues note in a report in the current (Oct. 4) issue of the ACS biweekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Acorns are still used by Californian Native Americans -- special processing is needed to make the nuts edible -- to make...
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Ancient brain surgery
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/10/2006 1:31:24 AM EDT · 16 replies · 162+ views
Ananova | October 2006? | unattributed
Bulgarian archaeologists claim to have unearthed evidence that brain surgery was carried out more than 4,000 years ago. Georgi Nehrizov, heading a team digging near the city of Svilengrad, said a skull belonging to a man who lived in Thracian times had been found with a hole in it that had been carved out with surgical precision. He said: "The skull dates back to 2500-1800 BC and the hole had clearly been made for medical reasons. It is the first such discovery from Thracian times." The Thracians were a nation made up of numerous tribes that developed from a mixture...
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The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 03/07/2002 9:16:05 PM EST · 128 replies · 1,861+ views
Chet Day | Unknown | An Interview with Loren Cordain
Adapted from:The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications An Interview with Loren Cordain, PhD by Robert Crayhon, MS Reprinted by permission from Life Services Can hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution be wrong? What are we really "designed" to eat? Are high carbohydrate "Food Pyramid" diet standards a health disaster? What do paleolithic fossil records and ethnographic studies of 180 hunter/gatherer groups around the world suggest as the ideal human diet? Find out in nationally acclaimed author and nutritionist Robert Crayhon's interview with paleolithic diet expert, Professor Loren Cordain, Ph.D. Robert Crayhon, M.S. is a clinician, researcher and ...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Has King David's spa been uncovered?
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 10/08/2006 12:52:21 PM EDT · 34 replies · 938+ views
Ynet | 10/7/06 | Ofer Petersburg
There's a buzz of excitement among archeologists. In recent days, archeological digs in Jerusalem revealed a tunnel that, according to a number of estimates, leads to a pool used by King David. The digs, which have been underway for years, are located in David's City, west of the Wailing Wall. A year ago, archeologists discovered a pool from the days of the Second Temple that had been used by pilgrims to Jerusalem, to refresh them after their long journey. Recently, the edge of a tunnel was discovered in the digs. Archeologists posit that it leads to a pool, originally located...
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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 · 167+ 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 · 524+ 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 · 977+ 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 · 691+ 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 · 342+ 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 · 311+ 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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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Today in History: The Battle of Tours 10/10/732 [Charles Martel C in C]
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Posted by yankeedame
On General/Chat 10/10/2006 2:20:34 PM EDT · 32 replies · 242+ views
Answers.com
The Battle of Tours Charles de Steuben's Battaile de Poitiers en Octobre 732 depicts a triumphant Charles Martel (mounted) facing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi (right) at the Battle of Tours. Date: October 10, 732 Location: near Tours, France Result: Decisive Frankish victory CombatantsCarolingian Franks v. Umayyad Caliphate Commanders Charles Martel v.Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi Abd er Rahman Strength 15,000-75,000 v. 60,000-400,000 Casualtiesabout 1500 reported in western history, but probably far heavier unknown, but reported massive, notably Emir Abd er Rahman. The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers and also called in Arabic...
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Celebrating Genghis Khan's Big Year
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/13/2006 6:52:54 PM EDT · 15 replies · 296+ views
Archaeology Magazine | 9-29-2006 | Eric Powell
Celebrating Genghis Khan's Big Year September 29, 2006 by Eric Powell Eight centuries on, the Mongolian conqueror continues to influence culture worldwide. Mongolians love their Khan. Before I traveled to Mongolia last year to report a story on Bronze Age nomads, I'd read about the country's devotion to a man known throughout the rest of the world as the most ruthless and bloodthirsty conqueror in the planet's history. But I was still surprised by the ubiquity of his presence in the capital city Ulaanbaatar (sometimes spelled Ulan Bator, or "Red Hero" in Mongolian). Not only is his visage (sometimes benevolent,...
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Longer Perspectives
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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 · 915+ 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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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 · 190 replies · 1,896+ 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 · 562+ 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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British Historian Claims to Have Found the Temple Treasures
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Posted by M. Espinola
On News/Activism 10/09/2006 3:29:32 AM EDT · 55 replies · 1,814+ views
Arutz Sheva Israel Broadcasting Networ | Oct 08, '06 | Gil Zohar
What happened to the 50 tons of gold, silver and sacred treasures looted from Herod's Temple following the Roman legionnaires' sack of Jerusalem on Tisha b'Av in the year 70 CE? The Arch of Titus in Rome, erected shortly after the death of Titus who reigned as emperor from 79 to 81, clearly depicts Roman soldiers bearing on their shoulders the golden candelabrum, silver trumpets and bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence which the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus carted back to Rome as trophies of war. Between 75 CE and the early 5th century, the treasure...
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British Historian Claims to Have Found the Temple Treasures
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Posted by Fred Nerks
On News/Activism 10/09/2006 11:46:29 PM EDT · 21 replies · 910+ views
Arutz Sheva website | 16:42 Oct 08, '06 / 16 Tishrei 5767 | Gil Zohar
What happened to the 50 tons of gold, silver and sacred treasures looted from Herod's Temple following the Roman legionnaires' sack of Jerusalem on Tisha b'Av in the year 70 CE? The Arch of Titus in Rome, erected shortly after the death of Titus who reigned as emperor from 79 to 81, clearly depicts Roman soldiers bearing on their shoulders the golden candelabrum, silver trumpets and bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence which the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus carted back to Rome as trophies of war. Between 75 CE and the early 5th century, the treasure remained...
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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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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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end of digest #117 20061014
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