Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #134
Saturday, February 10, 2007
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Navigation
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Crystals 'helped Viking sailors' (For Viking fans....and others, of course).
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Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu
On General/Chat 02/07/2007 5:04:03 PM EST · 33 replies · 396+ views
BBC | Wednesday, February 7, 2007
The sun was not necessary for Vikings to navigate, say researchers Vikings may have used a special crystal called a sunstone to help navigate the seas even when the sun was obscured by fog or cloud, a study has suggested. Researchers from Hungary ran a test with sunstones in the Arctic ocean, and found that the crystals can reveal the sun's position even in bad weather. This would have allowed the Vikings to navigate successfully, they say. The sunstone theory has been around for 40 years, but some academics have treated it with extreme scepticism. Researcher Gabor Horvath from...
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Ancient Europe
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Ten-Year Clean For Iron Age Boat
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/09/2007 1:54:17 PM EST · 21 replies · 863+ views
BBC | 2-9-2007
Ten-year clean for iron age boat The log boat has been dried after a decade soaked in sugar A 2,000-year-old log boat discovered buried in mud is to be put on display after a 10-year restoration project. The Iron Age vessel was found in 1964 during dredging work in Poole Harbour and members of York Archaeological Trust restored the water-logged timber. The log boat, which is thought to have been used for continental trade, is estimated to have weighed 14 tonnes. A glass case has been designed to house the ancient timber, which is due to be displayed in Poole...
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Prehistory and Origins
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Stone Age Camp Found In Germany
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/06/2007 5:46:50 PM EST · 30 replies · 774+ views
Spiegel | 2-6-2007
Stone Age Camp Found In Germany Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 120,000-year-old Stone Age hunting camp in a coal mine in Germany. It is a find of great European importance, researchers say. Open-cast coal mines may get a bad press, but in Germany they're still big business -- the country is the world's largest producer of lignite, or brown coal. Now another advantage of open-cast mines has been discovered -- they can conceal a rich seam of archaeological sites. Archaeologists have found the remains of a 120,000-year-old Stone Age hunting camp in an open-cast lignite mine near Inden...
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Africa
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Yorkshire clan linked to Africa
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Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu
On News/Activism 01/24/2007 6:19:12 AM EST · 8 replies · 425+ views
BBC | Wednesday, January 24, 2007
People of African origin have lived in Britain for centuries, according to genetic evidence. A Leicester University study found that seven men with a rare Yorkshire surname carry a genetic signature previously found only in people of African origin. The men seem to have shared a common ancestor in the 18th Century, but the African DNA lineage they carry may have reached Britain centuries earlier. The connection was found to date back many generations Details of the study appear in the European Journal of Human Genetics. The scientists declined to disclose the men's surname in order to protect their...
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British Isles
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The anatomy of an Iron-Age murder
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 02/03/2007 10:40:45 AM EST · 23 replies · 728+ views
Wilmslow Express | January 31, 2007 | by Betty Anderson
THE discovery of 2,000 year old human remains at Lindow Peat Bog more than 20 years ago sent shock waves through the Wilmslow community and sparked a murder hunt. A year later archaeologists swarmed to the peat farm to examine the relics of an iron age man whose well preserved body lay buried there for centuries. Lindow man, as he later became known, went on to become a national treasure at the British Museum. And for the past 20 years historians, archaeologists and mystics have all had their say on the gruesome discovery. Now, it is time for the public...
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Scotland Yet
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Stones Of Destiny Show Scotland's Ancient Faith
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/09/2007 1:44:51 PM EST · 10 replies · 509+ views
Scotsman | 2-8-2007
Stones of destiny show Scotland's ancient faith PETER YEOMAN The entrance to the revamped Whithorn Museum is eye-grabbing. Picture: Crown Copyright reproduced Courtesy of Historic Scotland MORE than 1,000 years ago three brief words were cut into the face of a beautiful carved cross. Standing at attention: Some of the standing stones on display at the Whithorn Museum. Picture: Crown Copyright reproduced Courtesy of Historic Scotland It is one of more than 60 early Christian grave markers and crosses, many decorated with elaborately carved patterns, that form the internationally important collection known as the Whithorn stones. For centuries the meaning of...
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Question on European/British Isles history
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Posted by ConservativeDude
On General/Chat 02/06/2007 3:52:22 PM EST · 14 replies · 214+ views
I don't understand the 1745 Jacobite uprising in Scotland
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Castle's secrets yet to be fully uncovered [ Bodiam Castle ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/09/2007 1:48:18 AM EST · 15 replies · 322+ views
HastingsToday | Thursday, February 6, 2007 | unattributed
One of most beautiful and spectacular castles in the country, Bodiam was built by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge in 1385 and is now owned and managed by The National Trust. The exciting discovery happened on Friday February 2 [2007] when some earth was being cleared away in the Great Hall ruins. The ground was being made ready for a new gravel base when suddenly the mini-digger struck stone. As the earth was carefully cleared away, with an archaeologist on hand to observe the proceedings, more stonework appeared along with some clay tiles and pieces of rubble. It soon became apparent that...
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Faith and Philosophy
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Basilica Built on Martyrdom; a Caravaggio Rival
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Posted by NYer
On Religion 02/09/2007 9:59:38 PM EST · 4 replies · 31+ views
Zenit News Agency | February 8, 2007 | Elizabeth Lev
The Return of Santo Stefano Rotundo By Elizabeth Lev ROME, FEB. 8, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Lorenzo the Magnificent famously cautioned his young son Giovanni, the future Pope Leo X, as he set off to Rome for the first time, "As you are now to reside in Rome, that pool of all iniquity, the difficulty of conducting yourself Ö will be increased." The wary sentiment of this canny Florentine resonates even today, where many people come to see the wonders of the city without expecting to find much spiritual bolstering. Fortunately, Rome's bad spiritual reputation often proves unwarranted. An example is the...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Commentaries: Greek to Me: Wishing Ancient Greek Were His Mother Tongue
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/07/2007 1:36:17 PM EST · 17 replies · 172+ views
Greek News | November 2006, Posted on Monday, December 4 | Tom Mueller
In English, verbs have a manageable four main forms: yodel, yodels, yodeled, yodeling. Spanish verbs have about 50. Classical Greek? Three hundred and fifty. "They might yodel (in the past) for themselves" (the first aorist middle optative third person plural) and "You are about to be having been yodeled" (the second person singular future perfect passive) are but two of the ways one can yodel in Greek. And just about the time you've memorized all the rules of verb formation, you discover that many Greek verbs are irregular anyway and recklessly break them... "Our love of what is beautiful does...
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Greece
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looking for a good translation of Plutarch's Lives
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Posted by sharpink
On General/Chat 02/08/2007 3:45:41 PM EST · 10 replies · 66+ views
I am currently reading "The Dryden Translation" of Plutarch's Lives. Are there any better translations?
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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DNA Clears the Fog Over Latino Links to Judaism in New Mexico
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Posted by Bella_Bru
On News/Activism 12/06/2004 10:57:38 PM EST · 56 replies · 3,257+ views
LA Times | 12/06/04 | By David Kelly, Times Staff Writer
Tests confirm what tradition and whispers have alluded to -- a Sephardic community often unbeknownst to many of its members. ALBUQUERQUE ó As a boy, Father William Sanchez sensed he was different. His Catholic family spun tops on Christmas, shunned pork and whispered of a past in medieval Spain. If anyone knew the secret, they weren't telling, and Sanchez stopped asking. Then three years ago, after watching a program on genealogy, Sanchez sent for a DNA kit that could help track a person's background through genetic footprinting. He soon got a call from Bennett Greenspan, owner of the Houston-based testing...
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Archeologist: Ancient cistern proves location of Second Temple
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Posted by Esther Ruth
On News/Activism 02/07/2007 11:20:27 PM EST · 43 replies · 898+ views
Jerusalem Post | Feb. 7, 2007 23:28 | Updated Feb. 7, 2007 23:45 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS
Feb. 7, 2007 23:28 | Updated Feb. 7, 2007 23:45 Archeologist: Ancient cistern proves location of Second Temple By ETGAR LEFKOVITS An Israeli archeologist said Wednesday that he has pinpointed the exact location of the Second Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. The site identified by Hebrew University archeologist Prof. Joseph Patrich, based on the study of a large underground cistern on the Temple Mount and passages from the Mishna, places the Temple and its corresponding courtyards, chambers and gates in a more southeasterly and diagonal frame of reference compared to previous studies. Patrich based his research, which is about...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Jerusalem Arabs Riot, Kassams Fired, After Old City Excavations
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Posted by SmithL
On News/Activism 02/06/2007 12:25:13 PM EST · 32 replies · 638+ views
Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews | 2/6/7 | Hillel Fendel
Four Kassam rockets were fired into Israel and Arabs rioted in Jerusalem - in protest of Antiquities Authority works at the Western Wall Plaza entrance to the Temple Mount. Restrictions were placed on Moslem worshipers allowed to the Temple Mount, and the police were out in force Tuesday morning at the excavation works site, in anticipation of a fierce Arab reaction to the work. Though less violent than expected, rock-throwers rioted in eastern and northern Jerusalem; 11 Arabs were arrested. In addition, terrorist groups fired four Kassam rockets, in two waves, claiming to retaliate for the excavation work. In...
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Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
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Fate of Iranian Tablets in Doubt
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Posted by tarnak
On News/Activism 02/04/2007 7:27:58 PM EST · 32 replies · 579+ views
The fate of ancient Iranian tablets housed at the Oriental Institute remains unknown after a federal judge declined to rule immediately at a court hearing contesting their ownership. The Persepolis Fortification tablets, which are on loan to the University from the government of Iran, were to be confiscated and auctioned off to compensate the families of five American victims of a 1997 Hamas bombing at the Ben Yehuda shopping mall in Jerusalem. The families of the victims won a $251 million ruling against the Iranian government in 2003 after a U.S. federal court found that the country had directly funded...
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Asia
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Terracotta Army Sets Off To Conquer Britain
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/07/2007 8:46:51 PM EST · 6 replies · 157+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 2-8-2007 | Nigel reynolds
Terracotta army sets off to conquer Britain By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correrspondent Last Updated: 1:35am GMT 08/02/2007 In pictures: Terracotta Warriors collection China's "terracotta army" is marching on London to bring the capital its greatest exhibition for a generation. Some of the 8,000 terracotta warriors. A dozen will go on show at the British Museum in September In a spectacular deal with China, the British Museum is to display some of the famous life-size figures from the second century BC found in the west of the country in 1974. The Chinese have agreed to loan not only a dozen of...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Forensic Photography Brings Color Back To Ancient Textiles
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/08/2007 6:06:04 PM EST · 16 replies · 483+ views
OHS | 2-7-2007
FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY BRINGS COLOR BACK TO ANCIENT TEXTILES COLUMBUS , Ohio -- Archaeologists are now turning to forensic crime lab techniques to hunt for dyes, paint, and other decoration in prehistoric textiles. Although ancient fabrics can offer clues about prehistoric cultures, often their colors are faded, patterns dissolved, and fibers crumbling. Forensic photography can be used as an inexpensive and non-destructive tool to analyze these artifacts more efficiently, according to new Ohio State University research. Kathryn Jakes Forensic photography helps researchers collect information from fragile artifacts before using expensive chemical tests, which cause damage during material sampling. The forensic method...
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Archaeology trumps oil, gas
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Posted by xcamel
On News/Activism 02/04/2007 7:50:17 PM EST · 15 replies · 469+ views
The Salt Lake Tribune | 02/02/2007 | Joe Baird
** Board shoots down BLM leasing of 14,000 acres on sensitive lands Environmentalists have won another round in challenging a series of Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sales in Utah. The Interior Department's Board of Land Appeals this week reversed the BLM's leasing of roughly 14,000 acres for energy development north of Nine Mile Canyon and just south of the Book Cliffs in central Utah. The leases, covering 16 parcels, have been suspended, effective immediately. The agency, the board ruled, failed to adequately identify sensitive archaeological sites before offering the lease parcels for sale in October 2003....
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Bridge Stirs The Waters In Machu Picchu
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/04/2007 5:45:09 PM EST · 9 replies · 395+ views
BBC | 2-4-2007 | Dan Collyns
Bridge stirs the waters in Machu Picchu By Dan Collyns BBC News, Peru In the year that Peru is trying to get Machu Picchu voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, there are growing tensions over the country's greatest tourist attraction. Machu Picchu is located high in the Andes Mountains A former mayor has built a bridge which creates a new route to the World Heritage site, threatening to bring more tourists and, some say, open up a new route for drug traffickers. The 80-metre long Carilluchayoc bridge, which crosses the Vilcanota river near the base of...
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Climate
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New York Times: Continuing end of last ice-age, not human activity, cause of warming trend
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Posted by nwrep
On News/Activism 02/03/2007 4:25:07 PM EST · 78 replies · 2,080+ views
The New York Times Archives | May 15, 1932 | SPECIAL SECTON SUPPLEMENT
From a bygone era when reasoned scientific analysis held sway: ************************************* NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE WE still speak of "the Ice Age" as if it belonged to the remote geological past. Geologists have reached the conclusion that there were several ice ages. What is more, the last Ice Age, known as the Quaternary, is only about half over, despite our blistering Summers. Very slowly, the great ice sheets in the Arctic and the Antarctic regions are melting and pouring their torrents into the ocean. The earth must inevitably change its aspect and its climate. How the change is...
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Mastodon Tooth Fossil Remains a Mystery
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Posted by xcamel
On General/Chat 02/03/2007 8:57:20 PM EST · 6 replies · 196+ views
ap/myway | Feb 3 | BLAKE NICHOLSON
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada, attic remains a mystery, after a paleontologist concluded it does not belong with a skeleton here that is one of the world's most complete. John Hoganson with the North Dakota Geological Survey climbed a ladder about 10 feet this week to take measurements inside the jaw of the skeleton in the North Dakota Heritage Center on the state Capitol grounds. "The tooth at (the University of) Waterloo was larger than the ones ... here," he said. "The bottom line is it just would not fit." The Earth...
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Australia and the Pacific
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Hobbit Skeptics Split On What A Second Skull Would Mean
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/07/2007 6:47:50 PM EST · 7 replies · 301+ views
Scientific American | 2-6-2007 | JR Minkel
February 06, 2007 Hobbit Skeptics Split on What a Second Skull Would Mean Advocates of a human Hobbit reveal what--if anything--would make them soften their stance By JR Minkel Image: COURTESY OF KIRK E. SMITH/Electronic Radiology Laboratory, Mallinckrodt Institute of RadiologyDOUBLE TROUBLE? A second small Hobbit skull similar to the first [right] would convince some skepticsóbut not all of themóthat they are dealing with a new species, as opposed to a dwarf or a diseased human [left]. For three years researchers have feuded over the rightful classification of the Hobbit, a diminutive, 18,000-year-old specimen unearthed from the Indonesian island of...
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Ooo Ooo Ooo Ahh Ahh Ahh
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Study turns human genetics on its head (less monkey...more variations)
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Posted by peyton randolph
On News/Activism 11/23/2006 7:02:06 AM EST · 71 replies · 1,689+ views
Globe and Mail (Canada) | 11/23/2006 | CAROLYN ABRAHAM
...Using new technology to study the genomes of 270 volunteers from four corners of the world, researchers have found that while people do indeed inherit one chromosome from each parent, they do not necessarily inherit one gene from mom and another from dad. One parent can pass down to a child three or more copies of a single gene. In some cases, people can inherit as many as eight or 10 copies....
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Genetic Breakthrough that Reveals the Differences Between Humans
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Posted by Hawthorn
On News/Activism 11/23/2006 4:14:57 PM EST · 32 replies · 1,618+ views
Link only, due to copyright restrictions: http://news.independent.co.uk
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Human genome completed (again)
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Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 05/17/2006 5:10:02 PM EDT · 10 replies · 568+ views
news@nature.com | 17 May 2006 | Helen Pearson
Close window Published online: 17 May 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060515-12 Human genome completed (again)Scientists today publish the sequence of chromosome 1: the largest and last of the human chromosomes to be done and dusted. News@nature finds out what this latest milestone means.Helen Pearson Haven't scientists already announced the completion of the human genome? Well, yes. Twice. In 2000, two teams declared with great fanfare that they had produced a draft copy of the human genetic code, but there were many gaps and errors in this version. Another announcement, in 2003, marked the completion of a far more accurate 'finished' sequence...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Prehistoric Origins Of Stomach Ulcers Uncovered
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/08/2007 6:53:13 PM EST · 25 replies · 512+ views
Science Daily | 2-8-2007 | BBSRC
Source: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Date: February 8, 2007 Prehistoric Origins Of Stomach Ulcers Uncovered Science Daily ó An international team of scientists has discovered that the ubiquitous bacteria that causes most painful stomach ulcers has been present in the human digestive system since modern man migrated from Africa over 60,000 years ago. The research, published online (7 February) by the journal Nature, not only furthers our understanding of a disease causing bacteria but also offers a new way to study the migration and diversification of early humans. A cell of H.pylori, a bacterial pathogen of the human...
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Make My Helix a Double
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DNA Clue To Presidential Puzzle (Jefferson)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/07/2007 6:23:30 PM EST · 20 replies · 1,046+ views
BBC | 2-7-2007 | Paul Rincon
DNA clue to presidential puzzle By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News DNA results from Thomas Jefferson were a mystery DNA tests carried out on two British men have shed light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, America's third president. In the 1990s, DNA was taken from male relatives of Jefferson to see if he fathered a son with one of his slaves. They found the president had a rare genetic signature found mainly in the Middle East and Africa, calling into question his claim of Welsh ancestry. But this DNA type has now been found in...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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"Korean Pompeii" Discovered on Jeju Island
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/04/2007 7:37:27 PM EST · 20 replies · 230+ views
Chosun Ilbo | Updated Feb.5,2007 08:51 KST | unattributed
An archaeological site on Jeju Island is being called Korea's version of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city which was preserved by volcanic debris. Discovered in 2006, a human settlement at the Hamori 105 formation in Daejung-eup, Seogwipo-city was confirmed to have been smothered by a volcanic eruption more than 5,000 years ago. The Jeju Culture & Art Foundation collected volcanic materials that covered Hamori and sent it to an American research institute. The Foundation said Sunday that the U.S. researchers determined the debris to have come from an eruption at nearby Songak Mountain over 5,200 years ago. Local scientists...
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Rome and Italy
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First Pompeii Uncovered (3rd Century BC)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/04/2007 5:34:35 PM EST · 6 replies · 314+ views
Ansa | 2-1-2007
First Pompeii uncoveredSamnites founded city in Third Century BC (ANSA) - Rome, February 1 - The origins of the famed buried city of Pompeii have emerged from years of excavations, an international conference in Rome was told Thursday. The first Pompeii was not built by the Romans or even by the Greeks who preceded them, but by an ancient people called the Samnites, Pompeii heritage Superintendent Piero Guzzo told a packed audience of archaeologists and scholars. Wielding photos of inscriptions, votive offerings and even entire buildings, Guzzo said "a new season of studies has begun". "For the first time we...
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Rome subway planners try to avoid relics
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 02/03/2007 9:50:16 PM EST · 3 replies · 67+ views
AP on Yahoo | 2/3/07 | Ariel David - ap
ROME - In a city where traffic rumbles past the Colosseum and soccer fans celebrate victories among the remains of the Circus Maximus, it comes as no surprise that relics of the glory that was Rome turn up almost every day, and sometimes get in the way of the modern city's needs. The perennial tug-of-war between preserving ancient treasures and developing much-needed infrastructure is moving underground, as the city mobilizes archaeologists to probe the bowels of the Eternal City in preparation for a new, 15-mile subway line. Eyesore yellow panels have sprung up over the past months to cordon off...
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The Sweetness of Honey and the Sting of Bees
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Eternal embrace? Couple still hugging 5,000 years on
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Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 02/06/2007 4:37:45 PM EST · 78 replies · 2,726+ views
Yahhh News | February 6, 2007
Call it the eternal embrace.Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other."It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova."There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down."I must say that when we discovered it, we all...
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Longer Perspectives
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Women Have Played Major Role In History - - From The Start
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/06/2007 5:52:02 PM EST · 65 replies · 836+ views
Eureka Alert | 2-5-2007 | Andrea Lynn
Public release date: 5-Feb-2007 Contact: Andrea Lynn andreal@uiuc.edu 217-333-2177 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Women have played major role in history -- from the start, authors assert CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ó Hold on to your bearskin hats and your macrame snoods, readers: You are in for a wild verbal ride through your deep, deep past. The authors of a new book have fashioned a 16-chapter prehistory theme park worthy of Disney, but in their confection, lame, even egregious, past assumptions about our past are hunted down and slain, and stars -- in the form of womankind -- are born. "The Invisible...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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US researcher hoping to discover body of Jesus in Kashmir tomb
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 03/11/2002 7:43:17 AM EST · 52 replies · 3,377+ views
Hindustan Times | Monday, March 11, 2002 | Izhar Wani (AFP)
An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ is campaigning to exhume a body at a Muslim shrine in Kashmir for scientific tests. Suzanne Marie Olsson, a New York-based researcher is currently in Srinagar, studying the Muslim shrine of Rozabal. While Muslims say Rozabal houses the tomb of Yuza Asaf, a Muslim saint, many researchers believe it contains the body of Jesus Christ. To put an end to speculation Olsson has suggested exhuming the remains at Rozabal for DNA testing and carbon dating. quot;This will trace him (the saint) to his origin ......
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Mystery of Napoleon's Death Said Solved
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Posted by Vote 4 Nixon
On News/Activism 01/17/2007 1:18:06 PM EST · 21 replies · 927+ views
www.livescience.com | 16 January 2007 | Sara Goudarzi
Putting to rest a 200-year-old mystery, scientists say Napoleon Bonaparte died from an advanced case of gastric cancer and not arsenic poisoning as some had speculated. After being defeated by the British in 1815, the French Emperor was exiled to St. Helenaóan island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Six years later, at the age of 52, Bonaparte whispered his last words, ìHead of Army!î An autopsy at the time determined that stomach cancer was the cause of his death. But some arsenic found in 1961 in the rulerís hair sparked rumors of poisoning. Had Napoleon escaped exile, he could have...
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Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
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Give us back our bones, pagans tell museums
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/06/2007 9:59:52 AM EST · 13 replies · 122+ views
The Guardian | Monday February 5, 2007 | James Randerson
British museums have become used to requests that foreign treasures be repatriated... British pagan groups are increasingly asking for human remains and grave goods from pre-Christian burials to be returned to them as well. The presence of what they see as their ancestors in dusty drawers or under harsh display lights is an affront to their religion. To them, the bones are living beings, whose existence is bound up with their religious descendants and the sacred land... Many scientists counter that, because of numerous influxes of people into the British Isles, it is impossible to identify the cultural or genetic...
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Ancient Egypt
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Discovering the pharmacy of the pharaohs
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 02/03/2007 10:30:46 AM EST · 6 replies · 295+ views
University of Manchester | January 26, 2007 | by Aeron Haworth
Scientists at The University of Manchester have teamed up with colleagues in Egypt in a bid to discover what medicines were used by the ancient Egyptians. The KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology in the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Egyptian Medicinal Plant Conservation Project in St Katherine's, Sinai, have formed a partnership to research Egyptian pharmacy in the times of the pharaohs. The 'Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt' collaboration, which is funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, will compare modern plant species common to the Sinai region with the remains of ancient plants found in tombs. Researcher Dr...
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