Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #229
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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Oet-Oet-Oetzi, Goodbye
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Iceman Oetzi's Last Supper
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12/01/2008 6:05:44 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 525+ views
ScienceDaily | Monday, December 1, 2008 | adapted from Dickson et al
From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from the University of Glasgow in the UK and his team have shed some light on the mummy's lifestyle and some of the events leading up to his death. By identifying six different mosses in his alimentary tract, they suggest that the Iceman may have travelled, injured himself and dressed his wounds. The Iceman is the first glacier mummy to have fragments of mosses in his intestine. This is surprising as mosses are neither palatable nor nutritious and there are few reports...
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Do Octopi Have Octacles?
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Squid With 'Elbows' Captured on Video
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11/30/2008 11:51:41 AM PST · Posted by GQuagmire · 28 replies · 1,200+ views
AOL.com | 11/30/08 | staff
An underwater camera at an oil and gas drilling site off the coast of Texas has captured a rare sight: a squid with "elbows."
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Helix, Make Mine a Double
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Genes of Sephardic Jews still strong in Spain
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12/05/2008 12:21:36 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 16 replies · 287+ views
Reuters | Dec. 5, 2008 | Teresa Larraz
MADRID (Reuters) ñ From the 15th century on, Spain's Jews were mostly expelled or forced to convert, but today some 20 percent of Spanish genes can be traced to Sephardic Jews, a study has found. A report in the American Journal of Human Genetics says almost a fifth of Spaniards' genes are of Sephardic Jewish origin and another 11 percent can be traced to North Africa. "The genetic composition of the current population is the legacy of our diverse cultural and religious past," one of the report's authors, Francesc Calafell, from the evolutionary biology faculty at Pompeu Fabra University in...
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Spanish Inquisition left genetic legacy in Iberia
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12/05/2008 1:47:19 PM PST · Posted by forkinsocket · 21 replies · 536+ views
New Scientist | 04 December 2008 | Ewen Callaway
It's not often that cultural and religious persecution makes countries more diverse, but the Spanish Inquisition might have done just that. One in five Spaniards and Portuguese has a Jewish ancestor, while a tenth of Iberians boast North African ancestors, finds new research. This melting pot probably occurred after centuries of coexistence and tolerance among Muslims, Jews and Christians ended in 1492, when Catholic monarchs converted or expelled the Islamic population, called Moriscos. Sephardic Jews, whose Iberian roots extend to the first century AD, received much the same treatment. "They were given a choice: convert, go, or die," says Mark...
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India
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Murder and torture shakes an ancient pillar of the city
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12/05/2008 5:08:17 PM PST · Posted by MyTwoCopperCoins · 8 replies · 288+ views
The Times Online, UK | 5 Dec., 2008 | The Times Online, UK
Early reports that two heavily armed Islamist extremists had broken into a mottled apartment block in south Mumbai almost escaped notice. Within hours, however, it had dawned on India's Jews, a community that traces its roots to the court of King Solomon, that for the first time in their history they had been targeted because of their religion. SNIP "We are a tolerant society, we've never had any antiSemitism in India. We can't fathom the reasons for this attack," Elijah Jacob, a local Jewish leader, said. "We can no longer remain complacent." Numbering only about 5,000 in a city of...
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Moderate Islam / ROP Alert
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Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai
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11/30/2008 7:44:41 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 22 replies · 672+ views
American Thinker | November 30, 2008 | Andrew G. Bostom
Sixty hours of jihadist terror depradations throughout India's financial capital, Mumbai -- during which nearly†200 innocent victims were murdered, and 300 wounded -- apparently ceased this Saturday, November 29, when Indian commandos slew the last three gunmen inside a luxury hotel, while it was still ablaze. Mainstream media coverage of these rampaging, cold-blooded murderous acts of jihad terrorism -- perpetrated by a self-professed "mujahideen" organization (i.e., "The Deccan Mujahideen") -- consistently ignored the clear ideological linkage to Islam. Simply put, "mujahideen" are Muslim jihadists, "holy warriors," because there is just one historically relevant meaning of jihad, despite present day...
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Longer Perspectives
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First credit crunch traced back to Roman republic
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12/01/2008 2:20:37 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 25 replies · 377+ views
The Guardian | Friday November 28 2008 | Mark Brown
Politicians searching for historical precedents for the current financial turmoil should start looking a bit further back after an Oxford University historian discovered what he believes is the world's first credit crunch in 88BC. The good news is that Philip Kay knows how the Romans got themselves into financial bother. The bad news is no one knows how they got themselves out of it... The monetary historian is giving a lecture today in which he will reveal how Cicero, the Roman orator, gave a speech in 66BC in which he alluded to the credit crunch. Cicero was arguing that Pompey...
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Rome and Italy
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Ancient Roman Oil Lamp 'Factory Town' Found
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12/05/2008 7:43:05 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 54+ views
Discovery News | Friday, December 5, 2008 | Rossella Lorenzi
Evidence of the pottery workshops emerged in Modena, in central-northern Italy, during construction work to build a residential complex near the ancient walls of the city... Firmalampen, or "factory lamps," were one of the first mass-produced goods in Roman times and they carried brand names clearly stamped on their clay bottoms. The ancient dumping in Modena contained lamps by the most famous brands of the time: Strobili, Communis, Phoetaspi, Eucarpi and Fortis. All these manufacturers had their products sold on the markets of three continents. Fortis was the trendiest of all pottery brands and its products were used up to...
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Underwater Archaeology
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First century jars recovered by the Guardia Civil in Alicante
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11/28/2008 8:07:07 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 148+ views
Typically Spanish | November 25, 2008 | h.b.
Two men have been arrested and the amphoras are thought to have come from a shipwreck off Villajoyosa. Agents from the environment protection section of the Guardia Civil, Seprona, in Santa Pola, have arrested two people and recovered 19 amphoras dating from the first and second centuries, thought to have been plundered from a shipwreck. The two men face charges of committing a crime against the historical heritage and one has been identified as 60 year old R.B.M. The earthenware jars are thought to have been taken from the wreck of the 'Bou Ferrer' which was located off the coast...
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Greeks
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The Complete Guide To: Byzantium
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12/02/2008 12:15:26 PM PST · Posted by george76 · 14 replies · 342+ views
belfast telegraph | 2 December 2008 | Cathy Packe
The Byzantine Empire lasted for more than 11 centuries, from AD330-1453. At various times, it incorporated most of Europe, including the Balkans, and Turkey, parts of North Africa, and the Middle East. Predominantly Greek-speaking and Christian, its power superseded that of the Roman Empire. The imperial capital was Constantinople, formerly Byzantium, today Istanbul, a city that wielded considerable power until it was eventually conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Some 300 of the greatest treasures of the Byzantine Empire are currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London ...in an exhibition put together in collaboration with the Benaki...
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Thrace
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Thracian funeral mound found near Pravets
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11/28/2008 8:31:21 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 174+ views
iBox (Bulgaria) | November 26, 2008 | Diana Stoykova
An archaeological discovery of a great importance has been during an anti-treasure hunting action. During an inspection damages on the mound have been noticed and that provoked a further investigation of the site. At the level of the antique terrain a funeral ritual had been performed. Several bronze objects were found, a ring and silver earrings. Another silver earring was found on the upper level of the mound, dating from IV B.C. A fragmented urn with burnt human bones is one of the biggest discoveries. It's hand-made. A small object, most probable a knife, was found inside the urn. The...
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Anatolia
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An Embalmed Corpse of a King was discovered in Kurdistan-Iran [six bodies]
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11/28/2008 8:51:49 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 474+ views
Kurdish Aspect | Thursday, November 27, 2008 | Kurdish National Congress of North America
On November 19, 2008, six corpses were discovered in Kurdistan-Iran. Archeologists believe the corpses were buried some 3000 years ago. The corpses belonged to a king and five of his bodyguards, who were buried around him... [T]he king was buried with jewelry and his crown. A fish plaque with ancient writings placed on his chest requires a scientific study by unbiased archeologists to come up with an authentic and undistorted translation of the historic message. The king's picture shows a strong resemblance to the ones of the ancient pictures of the Medes emperors. Also, the geographical area where the corpses...
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Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
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Parsa emerges from the shadow of Persepolis
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12/01/2008 6:18:26 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 25 replies · 286+ views
Payvand's Iran News | Monday, December 1, 2008 | Hamid Golpira
The ancient town of Parsa has begun to emerge from the shadows of Persepolis. An Iranian-Italian joint archaeological team has brought to light the first remains of the town of Parsa, which was the residential area of commoners just outside the palaces of Persepolis... Professor Callieri said the team, in collaboration with the Parsa-Pasargadae Research Foundation, is also studying the possibility of setting up a centralized data base compiling all the information on Persepolis and the surrounding area, which may also be put online on a web site. Asked if the excavation provided further evidence of the fact that Persepolis...
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Climate
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Cave's climate clues show ancient empires declined during dry spell
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12/05/2008 6:43:34 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 111+ views
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Jill Sakai
The decline of the Roman and Byzantine empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes. Based on chemical signatures in a piece of calcite from a cave near Jerusalem, a team of American and Israeli geologists pieced together a detailed record of the area's climate from roughly 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D. Their analysis, to be reported in an upcoming issue of the journal Quaternary Research, reveals increasingly dry weather from 100 A.D. to 700 A.D. that coincided with the fall of both Roman and Byzantine rule in the region......
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Dinosaurs
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Polar Dinosaurs Endured Cold Dark Winters
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12/04/2008 4:30:38 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 25 replies · 326+ views
Live Science | Dec. 4, 2008 | Robin Lloyd
Polar dinosaurs such as the 4.4-ton duckbill Edmontosaurus are thought by some paleontologists to have been champion migrators to avoid the cold, dark season. But a study now claims that most of these beasts preferred to stick closer to home despite potentially deadly winter weather. While some polar dinosaurs may have migrated, their treks were much shorter than previously thought, University of Alberta researchers Phil Bell and Eric Snively conclude from a recent review of past research on the animals and their habitat. Polar dinosaurs include hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, tyrannosaurs, troodontids, hypsilophodontids, ankylosaurs, prosauropods, sauropods, ornithomimids and oviraptorosaurs.
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Paleontology
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New flying dinosaur species found by British scientists
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12/03/2008 3:51:17 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 46 replies · 625+ views
The Telegraph | 12/3/2008 | Richard Alleyne
A new species of pterosaurs which had a wingspan 16ft wide has been uncovered by scientists - the largest of its kind to ever be found. Pterosaur: A new species has been discovered by scientists from Portsmouth University Mark Witton, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth, was able to estimate from a partial skull fossil that the pterosaur would have had a wingspan of five metres (16.4ft) and would have been more than one metre (39 inches) tall at the shoulder. The fossil is the first example of a chaoyangopteridae, a group of toothless pterosaurs, to be found outside...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Huge Impact Crater Uncovered in Canadian Forest
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11/28/2008 7:56:19 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 49 replies · 1,189+ views
National Geographic News | November 25, 2008 | John Roach
About 1,100 years ago a space rock the size of a big tree stump slammed into western Canada, carving an amphitheater-like crater into the ground and littering it with meteorites, a new study found. The rock that made the newly identified crater might have created a sky show similar to the one that tore across northern Alberta's skies in the early evening hours of November 20. But unlike the recent fireball -- which broke apart as it streaked through Earth's atmosphere -- the meteorite that carved the newly announced crater would have stayed solid until impact... Meteorites, objects from space...
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Lasers Uncover Craters
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12/03/2008 8:30:16 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 14 replies · 521+ views
ScienceNOW Daily News | 1 December 2008 | Phil Berardelli
Enlarge ImageUnmasked. Aircraft LIDAR sweeps found this previously hidden impact crater in central Alberta, Canada. Credit: Herd et al., Geology Researchers have uncovered a pond-sized crater in the woods of central Alberta, Canada, carved out by a meteor that slammed into Earth about 1100 years ago. The technique they used to pinpoint the pit--a laser take on radar--figures to help scientists find evidence of hundreds of similar impacts that have remained hidden until now. Every 10 years or so, a sizable chunk of asteroid or comet crashes to Earth, leaving a crater about 40 meters wide. The remnants of...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Pre-Columbian Tribes Had BBQs, Parties on Grave Sites
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12/05/2008 7:54:27 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 2 replies
National Geographic News | Friday, December 5, 2008 | Alexis Okeowo
Some pre-Hispanic cultures in South America had elaborate celebrations at their cemeteries, complete with feasting and drinking grounds much like modern barbecue pits, according to a new archaeological study. Excavations of 12th- and-13th-century burial mounds in the highlands of Brazil and Argentina revealed numerous earthen ovens. The finds suggest that the graves were also sites of regular festivals held to commemorate the death of the community's chief.
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Diet and Cuisine
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Dental Plaque Gives Clue To Diet Of Ancient People [ Peru's Nanchoc Valley ]
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12/02/2008 8:22:46 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 233+ views
CBS News Interactive | December 1, 2008 | Associated Press
Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.
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Superdirt!
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Superdirt Made Lost Amazon Cities Possible
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11/30/2008 3:36:23 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 22 replies · 844+ views
nationalgeographic
Centuries-old European explorers' tales of lost cities in the Amazon have long been dismissed by scholars, in part because the region is too infertile to feed a sprawling civilization. But new discoveries support the idea of an ancient Amazonian urban network -- and ingeniously engineered soil may have made it all possible.
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Peru, the Andes
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Lost city of 'cloud people' found in Peru
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12/03/2008 4:58:17 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 37 replies · 1,310+ views
The Telegraph | 12/3/2008 | Jeremy McDermott
Archaeologists have discovered a lost city carved into the Andes Mountains by the mysterious Chachapoya tribe. The settlement covers some 12 acres and is perched on a mountainside in the remote Jamalca district of Utcubamba province in the northern jungles of Peru's Amazon. Buildings carved into the Pachallama peak mountainside in Peru, by Chachapoya The buildings found on the Pachallama peak are in remarkably good condition, estimated to be over 1,000 years old and comprised of the traditional round stone houses built by the Chachapoya, the 'Cloud Forest People'. The area is completely overgrown with the jungle now covering much...
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Ancient Autopsies
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VIDEO: Machu Picchu Mummy, Gold Found
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12/02/2008 5:49:48 AM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 17 replies · 474+ views
nationalgeographic | December 1, 2008
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered an Inca mummy and artifacts, including gold jewelry, near the ancient mountain citadel of Machu Picchu.
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Riddle Of Giant Rock 'Sculptures'[Peru]
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12/04/2008 10:20:27 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 39 replies · 975+ views
Sky News | 04 Dec 2008 | Julia Reid
A British discoverer who says he has found the world's largest rock sculptures is poised to prove his claims. Can you spot the reclining lamb? Bill Veall used the latest satellite imaging techniques to search the Peruvian mountains for ancient shapes and formations. He was astonished to discover a series of designs, carved into the Andean Cordillera. Mr Veall made a film of his discovery and uploaded it to skynews.com/yourvideos. A 'sacred lamb' image, measuring 1400m by 1000m, was identified next to an altar stone, an antelope head and two staring faces of the 'Sun God' and Venus.Can you see...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Mormon missionaries find sasquatch print[Canada]
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12/05/2008 9:53:08 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 43 replies · 661+ views
BC Local News | 04 Dec 2008 | BC Local News
Two missionaries with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints received a scare on the night of Dec. 2 when they saw what they think was a set of sasquatch footprints outside of their Burns Lake home. Tyler Beck and Brad Blazzard are in B.C. for two years, rotating in different communities throughout the Smithers and Burns Lake area for the past seven months. "The first thing we thought was that someone was playing a trick on us," Beck said."But we don't know anyone our age who would do that and our house in on the southside, so...
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Early America
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NYC marks forgotten holiday from Revolutionary War[Evacuation Day]
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12/04/2008 12:47:04 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 11 replies · 205+ views
AP | 25 Nov 2008 | RICHARD PYLE
People in 18th century dress greeted visitors Tuesday at Federal Hall, commemorating the end of the Revolutionary War. The costumed reenactors were busy answering questions about the 225th anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day in 1783 when the last British redcoats boarded ships in New York Harbor and sailed away, and Gen.George Washington and his victorious troops marched down Broadway.
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World War Eleven
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Sailor Missing From WWII Is Identified
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12/01/2008 11:49:49 AM PST · Posted by Stonewall Jackson · 46 replies · 1,463+ views
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office | Dec. 1, 2008 | Staff
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Ensign Robert G. Tills, U.S. Navy, of Manitowoc, Wis. He will be buried on March 23, 2009 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. Representatives from the Navy's Mortuary Office met with Tills' next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Navy. On Dec. 8, 1941,...
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The Not-So-Great Helmsman
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Stalin planned to destroy Moscow if the Nazis moved in
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12/05/2008 4:48:28 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 15 replies · 602+ views
The Telegraph | 12/5/2008 | Adrian Blomfield in Moscow
Stalin planned to blow up more than 1,200 buildings including the Bolshoi Theatre and St Basil's Cathedral if the Nazis ever took Moscow An exhibition of secret papers staged to commemorate 90 years of military counter-intelligence showed the extraordinary lengths the Soviet high command was prepared to go to if the city fell. The documents were drawn from archives of the so-called "Moscow Plan" drawn up in the Autumn of 1941, when German forces were within 19 miles of the city. Soviet generals had told Stalin that the capital was likely to be overrun and the dictator responded by forming...
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Pretty Little Thing Waitin' For the King
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Hunt on for Tsars' Amber Room
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03/29/2003 12:21:41 PM PST · Posted by vannrox · 3 replies · 319+ views
The Scotsman | Sat 29 Mar 2003 | ALLAN HALL IN BERLIN
CRAFTED entirely out of amber, gold and precious stones, it was a masterpiece of baroque art and widely regarded as the world?s most important art treasure. When its 565 candles were lit, the famous Amber Room was said to glow a fiery gold. Looted by the Nazis , its whereabouts have been a mystery since the dying days of the Second World War. But now a new German investigation believes it has found where the treasure, worth £120 million today, lies - in abandoned mine workings in the former East Germany. One of the few facts all historians seem to...
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Asia
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Dig unearths Stone Age sculptures[Russia]
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12/02/2008 8:59:26 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 7 replies · 316+ views
BBC | 02 Dec 2008 | Jason Palmer
Rare artefacts from the late Stone Age have been uncovered in Russia. The site at Zaraysk, 150km south-east of Moscow, has yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks. The finds also included a cone-shaped object whose function, the authors report in the journal Antiquity, "remains a puzzle". Such artistic artefacts have been found in the nearby regions of Kostenki and Avdeevo, but this is the first such discovery at Zaraysk. The Upper Palaeolithic is the latter part of the Stone Age, during which humans made the transition from functional tool-making to art and adornment. The new artefacts, discovered by Hizri...
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Navigation
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Dugout probably dating to prehistoric age discovered at Black Sea bottom
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12/01/2008 6:08:18 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 414+ views
FOCUS News Agency | November 29, 2008 | unattributed
A dugout probably dating back to the prehistoric age has been discovered the bottom of the Black Sea, National History Museum Director professor Bozhidar Dimitrov told Focus News Agency. On Friday evening at some 15 miles in the sea, east of Maslen Cape, between the seaside cities of Sozopol and Primorsko, a fishing ship found an enormous dugout, he added. "You can find nowhere similar dugouts, as well as any type of vessels older than 3 years of age, because water rots the wood away, but in the Black Sea below a certain depth there is dissolved sulphuretted hydrogen, which...
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Rainy Day Women
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Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana[China]
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11/30/2008 12:31:53 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 27 replies · 648+ views
The Canadian Press | 27 Nov 2008 | The Canadian Press
Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany. The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China. The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the...
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Prehistory and Origins
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The Long Road to Modernity
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12/03/2008 8:17:57 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 19 replies · 224+ views
ScienceNOW | Monday, December 1, 2008 | Michael Balter
About 1.7 million years ago in Africa, Homo erectus, an ancestor of modern humans, started using large hand axes and cleavers. This know-how spread to Asia and Europe and remained cutting-edge technology for well over a million years. Eventually, however, it gave way to the Middle Stone Age, which featured smaller and more sophisticated blades and spearheads... In the 1990s... archaeologists dated a Middle Stone Age site in Ethiopia called Gademotta to 235,000 years ago -- implying that the technology had been maturing for a while before the arrival of modern humans... Kapthurin in Kenya, was more reliably dated in...
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Scotland Yet
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Pride of place for controversial book discovered at historic site
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12/02/2008 5:33:53 PM PST · Posted by Alex Murphy · 24 replies · 573+ views
The Star | 02 December 2008
A MYSTERIOUS Bible printed more than 400 years ago could be the key to unlocking little known secrets about Sheffield's historic Manor Castle. Little is know about the origins of the ancient book found at the site best known as a prison for Mary Queen of Scots. And the more local historians find out about it, the more questions need answering. Printed in 1594, the ancient tome is a Geneva Bible which went on to cause great controversy because it contained annotations which enraged the Catholic Church and infuriated King James. Inside the front cover is a handwritten list containing...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Medieval library site to be dug [ Herefordshire ]
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12/02/2008 8:36:15 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 240+ views
BBC | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 | unattributed
Archaeologists are to examine a site near a medieval Herefordshire building before a new library is built. The dig will take place near the Master's House in Ledbury before it is extended to house a new library. Herefordshire Council said a viewing platform will be put up so people can observe the work taking place during the three-week dig from 5 January. A medieval wall was uncovered at the site in June, which prompted the more detailed examination. Kate Murray, assistant cultural services manager at the council, said: "I would like to apologise to motorists and traders for any inconvenience...
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British Isles
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Rare Bronze Age necklace is found [ Britain ]
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12/01/2008 3:00:51 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 16 replies · 471+ views
BBC | Monday, December 1, 2008 | unattributed
A rare amber necklace believed to be about 4,000 years old has been uncovered in Greater Manchester. Archaeologists made the find while excavating a cist - a type of stone-lined grave - in Mellor, Stockport. It is the first time a necklace of this kind from the early Bronze Age has been found in north-west England. Experts from the University of Manchester Archaeological Unit said a amber necklace was one of the ultimate status symbols of the period. The necklace consists of dozens of pierced amber beads of various sizes, linked together on a length of fibre. It was discovered...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Photographer races clock to honor last few World War I vets
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11/11/2008 10:06:01 AM PST · Posted by Borges · 14 replies · 87+ views
CNN | 11/11/08 | Mark Bixler and Paula Hancocks
Photographer David DeJonge plans to capture a vanishing bit of history Tuesday on a trip to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington. There, he hopes to photograph 107-year-old Frank Buckles, one of the few men still alive who fought in World War I. Buckles will lay a wreath at the grave of Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, who led U.S. forces in Europe in World War I. The visit comes 90 years to the day after the end of World War I, an occasion that led to Veterans Day in the United States and Armistice Day in other nations. For...
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Take One
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Story Details for Roland Emmerich's 2012! (Doomsday movie)
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12/02/2008 9:09:23 AM PST · Posted by dennisw · 30 replies · 575+ views
latinoreview | June 24, 2008 | Kellvin Chavez
One of our readers, Dr. Strangefist was able to track down the first big spec script that Sony won in a bidding war after the writer's strike. The budget is rumored to be close to $200 million and already has John Cusack and Amanda Peet cast in lead roles. The story blends the idea of the Mayan calendar, which predicts the world ending in 2012, with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers plaguing the planet and a large cast of characters dealing with the mayhem. WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILERS LAY AHEAD So here we have 2012, the latest...
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Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles
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Rare fragment of early copy of Gospel goes on sale
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11/28/2008 5:12:08 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 17 replies · 420+ views
Reuters | 28 Nov 2008 | Mike Collett-White
An unusually large fragment from possibly the oldest copy of part of the Gospel of John will go on sale next month, when the torn piece of papyrus with Greek writing is expected to fetch up to 300,000 pounds ($460,000). The fragment is believed to date to 200 AD, less than 170 years after the crucifixion of Christ, when Christianity was still illegal and around 100 years after experts believe the original Gospel was first written. "This is either the first or the second oldest copy of this part of the text of the Gospel of John," Sotheby's specialist Timothy...
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Faith and Philosophy
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Turin Shroud may be genuine after all
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10/10/2002 2:14:50 AM PDT · Posted by SteveH · 210 replies · 736+ views
UPI via The Washington Times | 10/9/2002 | Uwe Siemon-Netto
GURAT, France, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The Turin Shroud bearing the features of a crucified man may well be the cloth that enveloped the body of Christ, a renowned textile historian told United Press International Tuesday. Disputing inconclusive carbon-dating tests suggesting the shroud hailed from medieval times, Swiss specialist Mechthild Flury-Lemberg said it could be almost 2,000 years old.
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Ready to Rumble?
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Thera eruption in 1613 BC
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12/03/2008 4:12:12 AM PST · Posted by Mike Fieschko · 38 replies · 646+ views
ANA | 12/03/2008 | SIMELA PANTZARTZI
Two olive branches buried by a Minoan-era eruption of the volcano on the island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) have enabled precise radiocarbon dating of the catastrophe to 1613 BC, with an error margin of plus or minus 10 years, according to two researchers who presented conclusions of their previously published research during an event on Tuesday at the Danish Archaeological Institute of Athens. Speaking at an event entitled "The Enigma of Dating the Minoan Eruption - Data from Santorini and Egypt", the study's authors, Dr. Walter Friedrich of the Danish University of Aarhus and Dr. Walter Kutschera of the Austrian...
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Egypt
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Egyptologists: It is Time to Prove Your Claims
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12/02/2002 4:30:56 PM PST · Posted by vannrox · 76 replies · 3,273+ views
World Mysteries | FR Post 12-2-2002 | by Will Hart
†www.world-mysteries.com Articles by Will Hart published on the World-Mysteries.com:†Egyptologists: It is Time to Prove Your ClaimsSomething is Wrong with this Picture! Great Pyramid ShockerPerspective - Settling an Old ControversyArchaeological Cover-ups: A Plot to Control History?†The Ancient Enigma - Moving the MegalithsAbout the Author Egyptologists: It is Time to Prove Your Claimsby Will Hart Egyptologists are displaying irrational and unscientific fixations by stubbornly clinging to ideas that have already been discredited. Mr. Lerhner and Mr. Hawass use every public forum to repeat their unproven speculations about how the ancient (Egyptian) builders quarried, transported, lifted, dressed and precisely positioned blocks...
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Beethoven's Fifth? Nope, Colt 45
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Beethoven was black?
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11/28/2008 7:36:05 PM PST · Posted by mainestategop · 142 replies · 2,196+ views
Africa within
Beethoven: Revealing His True Identity ††In the 15th and 16th century, written history underwent a massive campaign of misinformation and deception. With the European slave trade in full swing, Afrikans were transported to various parts of the world and were stripped of every aspect of their humanity, and in most of western civilization, were no longer considered human. This triggered a wholesale interpretation of history that methodically excluded Afrikans from any respectful mention, other than a legacy of slavery. This can result in being taught, or socialized, from one perspective. In this instance, historical information tends to flow strictly...
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end of digest #229 20081206
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