Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Another "Look Back in Amber" ping. Good choice for the weekly digest ping, although there were some other great topics this week.
- Mysterious amphibious human-like creature spotted in the Caspian Sea
- The Body on Somerton Beach
- Mary Beard: why ancient Rome matters to the modern world
- We Finally Know How Much the Dino-Killing Asteroid Reshaped Earth
- Three D animated reconstruction of Pompei
- Newfound Dino Looks Like the Creepy Love Child of a Turkey and an Ostrich
- Archaeologists Virtually Recreate House of Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii
- New Jersey Fossils Shed Light on Theropod Dinosaurs of Eastern United States
- Fungi that live in cockroaches, oil paintings, and other bizarre places come to light in new report
- Amazing giant dinosaur discovery: New dino species identified
- Shallow Waters Allowed Early Fish-Like Creatures to Experiment With Evolution
- King George III speaks to Parliament of American rebellion, 1775
- Tourist from Louisiana..tells of the moment he nabs thief who tried to steal the..Magna Carta [tr]
- Britain's last remaining feudal village complete with 17 working farms and a pub goes on sale [tr
- 5 skeletons found at Pompeii [too late to dial IX-I-I]
- Excavation of King Ramses II shrine in Matariya complete
- Peruvian archeologists discover pre-Columbian statues
- Mary Beard: It doesn't really matter if tourists damage Pompeii
- 3,200-Year-Old Cyclopean Masonry Fortress... Ancient Thrace Was Part of Mycenaean Civilization [tr]
- Paleontologists Discover New Species of Archaeopteryx
- Archaeologists Find 15,500-Year-Old Spear Points in Texas
- On 200th anniversary of her death, meet America's second first lady
- The Surprising Connection Between The Muskogee Language And Whiskey
- New Caledonian Crows Can Combine Objects to Construct New Compound Tools
- The Grand Canyon's Oldest Footprints Are 310 Million Years Old
- We Always Thought This Dinosaur Was a Vegetarian, Then We Found Its Front Teeth
- Wreck of the first US ship to defeat the Royal Navy in home waters before she sank in 1779 [tr]
- This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid