Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

Gods, Graves, Glyphs ^ | 7/17/2004 | various

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• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan  ^ 6 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#6]
• Achaemenid, Worldís First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:45:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)  ^ 27 posted on 07/06/2004 7:23:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#27]
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane  ^ 21 posted on 05/31/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by farmfriend [#21]
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements  ^ 22 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#22]
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Archaeologists tackle China mystery  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:43:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 16 posted on 07/11/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#16]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 2 posted on 07/11/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#2]
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway  ^ 5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)  ^ 32 posted on 05/31/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by farmfriend [#32]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 17 posted on 07/14/2004 12:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#17]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 11 posted on 07/11/2004 9:53:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#11]
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered  ^ 24 posted on 05/26/2004 9:32:54 AM PDT by farmfriend [#24]
• Catapult-Makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 3:22:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares  ^ 25 posted on 07/03/2004 4:45:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#25]
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins  ^ 8 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• China: Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago(more on Western Zhou Dynasty)  ^ 9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:10:43 AM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting  ^ 5 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises  ^ 6 posted on 06/02/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Forgotten culture  ^ 21 posted on 07/04/2004 12:32:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#21]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)  ^ 18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#18]
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages  ^ 8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found  ^ 22 posted on 05/31/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by farmfriend [#22]
• Humanity's Strange Face  ^ 19 posted on 05/25/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.) [#19]
• Keeping Up With The Empire (Romans In Netherlands)  ^ 4 posted on 05/26/2004 9:28:27 AM PDT by farmfriend [#4]
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?  ^ 6 posted on 05/28/2004 1:08:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Plan to Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory  ^ 64 posted on 07/14/2004 10:51:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#64]
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older  ^ 3 posted on 06/29/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by NukeMan [#3]
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d tour Capital of Persian Empire]  ^ 5 posted on 07/11/2004 10:11:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites  ^ 3 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• The Poop On Ancient Man  ^ 4 posted on 07/02/2004 7:51:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Quarries Providing Stone for Persepolis Discovered  ^ 3 posted on 07/11/2004 10:13:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration  ^ 5 posted on 06/08/2004 2:09:28 PM PDT by farmfriend [#5]
• Remains Of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'  ^ 35 posted on 07/14/2004 10:53:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#35]
• Replica Of Roman Murder Victim (1,700 Years Old)  ^ 9 posted on 05/26/2004 10:37:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains  ^ 4 posted on 07/14/2004 10:49:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Signs of 8,000-year-old culture found near Bedford  ^ 34 posted on 06/08/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by farmfriend [#34]
• Silk painting, brassiere unearthed from ancient tombs in N. China(1,000 year-old golden brassiere)  ^ 27 posted on 06/08/2004 12:18:58 PM PDT by farmfriend [#27]
• Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed  ^ 15 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#15]
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)  ^ 5 posted on 07/14/2004 10:45:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 154 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#154]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 163 posted on 07/09/2004 11:08:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#163]
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 6:40:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]

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Here's the group photo from our last meeting:

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LOL!! Isn't that you--third row from the bottom fourth from the left?

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #55 Saturday, August 6, 2005
Biology and Cryptobiology
Rome Debates Mystery of Dead Fish in Mighty Tiber
	Posted by Siobhan On News/Activism  07/26/2002 4:28:33 PM PDT · 19 replies · 238+ views Reuters.com | July 25, 2002 01:18 PM ET | Luke Baker ROME (Reuters) - Experts are scratching their heads in concern and confusion over what has happened to Rome's Tiber river where tons of dead fish have floated to the surface and algae have spread like the plague. Environmentalists say the phenomenon may have wiped out two-thirds of the fauna in a five-kilometer (three-mile) stretch of the river that runs through the heart of the city. Tons of dead fish have floated to the surface since July 15, leaving a stench hanging over the city center. Even eels, the Tiber's hardiest denizens, have leapt onto the banks to escape the water....
World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria [Bermuda Triangle too]
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism  06/07/2005 4:18:16 AM PDT · 21 replies · 512+ views Cardiff University via UrekAlert | 06 June 2005 | Professor R.John Parkes Sustainable energy source could solve Bermuda Triangle riddle. Experts at Cardiff University, UK, have designed world-first technology to investigate sustainable energy sources from the ocean bed by isolating ancient high-pressure bacteria from deep sediments. Scientists and engineers at Cardiff University are investigating bacteria from deep sediments which despite high pressures (greater than 1,000 atmospheres), gradually increasing temperatures (from an icy 2?C to over 100?C), great depth (several kilometres) and age (many millions of years) may contain most of the bacteria on Earth. Some of these bacteria produce methane that accumulates in "gas hydrates" ñ a super concentrated methane ice that...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
The day the sky fell in
	Posted by e_engineer On News/Activism  02/24/2003 4:06:52 PM PST · 13 replies · 123+ views Guardian | February 6, 2003 | Duncan Steel A metallic asteroid may have coincided with the fall of Rome, says Duncan Steel Thursday February 6, 2003 The Guardian In the early fifth century, rampaging Goths swept through Italy. Inviolate for 1,100 years, Rome was sacked by the hordes in 410 AD. St Augustine's apologia, the City of God, set the tone for Christians for the next 16 centuries. But the Rome of that era came close to suffering a far worse calamity. A small metallic asteroid descended from the sky, making a hypervelocity impact in an Apennine valley just 60 miles east of the city. This bus-sized lump...
Ice ages linked to earth's travels through galaxy
	Posted by Graybeard58 On General/Chat  08/02/2005 4:00:39 PM PDT · 47 replies · 403+ views Waterbury Republican-American | August 2, 2005 | Keay Davidson (A.P.) It might sound preposterous, like astrology, to suggest that galactic events help determine when North America is or isn't buried under immense sheets of ice taller than skyscrapers. But new research suggests the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Resembling the curved contrails of a whirling Fourth of July pinwheel, the Milky Way's spiral arms are clouds of stars rich in supernovas, or exploding stars. Supernovas emit showers of charged particles called cosmic rays. Theorists have proposed that when...
Climate
Bacteria froze the Earth, researchers say ~~ CO2 saved it....
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On News/Activism  08/02/2005 9:27:19 PM PDT · 19 replies · 533+ views Marketwatch CNET | August 2, 2005, 5:15 PM PDT | Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Bacteria froze the Earth, researchers say By Michael Kanellos http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com, marketwatch-cnet.com.com/Bacteria+froze+ Story last modified Tue Aug 02 17:15:00 PDT 2005 Humans apparently aren't the first species to change the climate of the planet. Bacteria living 2.3 billion years ago could have plunged the planet into deep freeze, researchers at the California Institute of Technology claim in a new report. Several graduate students, along with supervising professor Joe Kirschvink, have released a paper presenting their explanation of what caused "Snowball Earth," a periodic deep freeze of Earth's atmosphere that has been theorized for years. The Caltech team argues that 2.3 billion...
Ice Age Ocean Circulation Reacted to, did not cause, Climate Change at Glacial Boundaries
	Posted by Brian328i On News/Activism  04/07/2005 7:40:11 PM PDT · 6 replies · 310+ views The Earth Institute at Columbia University | 04/07/05 | Jennifer Freeman New tracer demonstrates carbon cycle changes preceded thermohaline changes Scientists from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) have provided new evidence that ocean circulation changes lagged behind, and were not the cause of, major climate changes at the beginning and end of the last ice age (short intervals known as glacial boundaries), according to a study published in the March 2005 issue of Science magazine. Both ice sheet volume and the ìglobal carbon budget,' the amount of carbon stored in deep ocean reservoirs compared to that on the earth's surface, changed before ocean circulation patterns changed, according to evidence from...
River Of Data Decodes Nile Cycles
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/02/2005 8:32:23 PM PDT · 14 replies · 365+ views Geotimes | 8-2-2005 | Kathryn Hansen River of data decodes Nile cycles The Old Testament may seem like an unlikely source from which to draw inspiration for a modern-day climatology study. But a story from the book of Genesis -- in which Joseph predicts seven years of abundant crops, followed by seven years of famine for Egypt -- drove researchers to scour centuries of water-level data for the Nile River to determine if such a cycle actually exists, and if so, what causes it. This Byzantine-period mosaic from northern Israel shows a man carving on a ìnilometer' the highest level the Nile reached in that year....
Africa
Lightning Damages Axum Obelisk In Rome
	Posted by blam On General/Chat  05/30/2002 7:22:52 AM PDT · 9 replies · 110+ views CNN Europe | 5-28-2002 <p>ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Lightning has damaged a 3,000-year-old obelisk which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's troops plundered from Ethiopia and brought to the heart of Rome before World War II.</p> <p>Lightning struck the obelisk late on Monday and chipped chunks of stone from the top of the 24-metre (75-foot) artefact, looted from the holy city of Axum in 1937 after fascist Italy annexed the Horn of Africa country.</p>
Ancient Egypt
Egyptian mummy brought to virtual life in US technology mecca
	Posted by Thinkin' Gal On News/Activism  08/05/2005 12:49:51 AM PDT · 17 replies · 428+ views Yahoo (AFP) | 05 August 2005 Egyptian mummy brought to virtual life in US technology mecca Computer experts in US technology mecca Silicon Valley have used 21st century science to virtually revive a two-century-old Egyptian mummy. Picture shows an open coffin and a mummy at an excavation south of Cairo.(AFP/File) † SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Computer experts in US technology mecca Silicon Valley have used 21st century science to virtually revive a two-century-old Egyptian mummy. Technicians at computing visualization company Silicon Graphics Incorporated used body scan data to create three-dimensional imagery of a mummified girl kept at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose since about 1930....
Ancient Europe
Abbey oak door 'Britain's oldest'
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism  08/05/2005 11:42:24 AM PDT · 34 replies · 859+ views BBC News | 8/3/05 | BBC News A 900-year-old door - once thought to be covered in human skin - has been identified as the oldest in the UK. Archaeologists discovered the oak door in Westminster Abbey was put in place in the 1050s, during the reign of the Abbey's founder, Edward the Confessor. It makes it the only surviving Anglo Saxon door in Britain. Tests also showed fragments of hide stuck to the door - which legend said was the skin of a punished man - was cow hide, said an Abbey spokeswoman. Stuff of legend Research on the door was funded by English Heritage and...
Archaeologists Baffled by Headless Bodies Find
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism  08/05/2005 8:27:24 AM PDT · 30 replies · 988+ views Taphophilia.com | April 2005 | Nick Foley Archaeologists Baffled by Headless Bodies Find By Nick Foley, PA Archaeologists have been left mystified by the discovery of 36 decapitated bodies, it was revealed today. Experts from the York Archaeological Trust unearthed the skeletons of 49 young men and seven children at a Roman cemetery they discovered in The Mount area of the city. But they were stunned to find that most of the men had had their heads chopped off, while another was bound with iron shackles. Dr Patrick Ottaway, the trust's head of field word, said he was left baffled by the find because Romans had no...
Archaeology: 8,000 Year-Old Pirogue (Boat) Found In Lake Bracciano
	Posted by blam On General/Chat  08/02/2005 7:50:42 PM PDT · 9 replies · 207+ views AGI | 8-1-2005 ARCHEOLOGY: 8000 YEAR-OLD PIROGUE FOUND IN LAKE BRACCIANO (AGI) - Rome, Italy, Aug 1 - An 8,000 year-old pirogue was found in Lake Bracciano, in the area of the neolithic village La Marmotta. "It's an exceptional example of ancient ship engineering, which proves the advanced knowledge of the peoples who lived here in 6000 BC" say the archaeologists who made the discovery, of the Prehistoric Museum 'Luigi Pigorini' in ROme. More than 10m long, made out of a single oak trunk, the pirogue was still being made when it was abandoned for reasons we still don't know. It was found...
Ancient Greece
Protopalatial Sanctuary at Anemospilia (Archanes), More on the Peaceful Minoans
	Posted by Little Bill On News/Activism  07/30/2005 7:03:20 PM PDT · 18 replies · 374+ views Web Site | Temple of the Sacred Sprial Excavated in the summer of 1979, this four-room building set within a low enclosure (temenos) wall serves as a reminder that our views about a past culture may be subject to sudden and drastic change as the result of a single new discovery. The building, oriented roughly to the cardinal points and entered from the north, lies on the northern slopes of Mt. Iuktas some seven kilometers south of Knossos . In plan, it consists of an east-west corridor at the front off of which open three non-connecting rectangular rooms oriented north-south. In the east room were found large numbers...
Asia
3rd Century Buddhist Relic Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/05/2005 12:25:41 PM PDT · 12 replies · 282+ views The Statesman | 8-3-2005 3rd century Buddhist relic discovered Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 3. -- The state cultural department today claimed to have discovered 3 Asokan stupas dating back to the 3rd century BC in Dharmasala area of Jajpur district. The discovery is likely to provide further archaeological evidences on the visit of Lord Buddha to Kalinga, site of the historic Kalinga war and the location of Kalinga's capital. Talking to reporters here today, culture minister Dr Damodar Rout said that the Orissa Institute of Maritime and South-East Asian Studies, under the state culture department, had taken up the excavation work at Tarapur,...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Ilkhanid era site on Kish Island yields new artifacts
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  08/01/2005 12:23:09 AM PDT · 4 replies · 171+ views Tehran Times | July 30, 2005 TEHRAN -- A team of archaeologists working at the ruins of Harireh on Kish Island recently discovered the remains of an oven, kitchenware, and coal, the head of the team announced on Friday. Saman Surtiji said that the new discovery is from the kitchen of an Ilkhanid era mansion in Harireh. ìBeside the ruins of the mansion, several wells, cisterns, as well charred jars and bowls were discovered. Pieces of ornaments including a glass bracelet and a brass ring were also discovered in the lower part of the building,' he explained. The discovery of the ornaments in the kitchen proves...
Mesopotamia
Ancient Iraqi harp reproduced by Liverpool engineers
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  07/31/2005 12:01:10 AM PDT · 12 replies · 398+ views Eureka Alert A team of engineers at the University of Liverpool has helped reproduce an ancient Iraqi harp ñ the Lyre of Ur Engineers from the University's Lairdside Laser Engineering Centre (LLEC) employed revolutionary laser technology to engrave authentic designs onto Gulf Shell (mother of pearl) ñ the original material used to decorate the body of the harp. Dr Carmel Curran, who carried out the work at the LLEC, commented: "This is the first time we have laser processed this type of material and the results are remarkable. It is fantastic to be involved in the recreation of such a piece of...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
New Analysis Of Pottery Stirs Olmec Trade Controversy
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/02/2005 8:00:10 PM PDT · 10 replies · 232+ views Innovations Report | 8-2-2005 New analysis of pottery stirs Olmec trade controversy Clearing -- or perhaps roiling -- the murky and often contentious waters of Mesoamerican archeology, a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence that the Olmec may not have been the mother culture after all. Writing this week (Aug. 1, 2005) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of scientists led by University of Wisconsin-Madison archeologist James B. Stoltman presents new evidence that shows the Olmec, widely regarded as the creators of the first civilization in Mesoamerica, imported pottery from other nearby cultures. The finding undermines the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Digging Deep for Proof of an Ancient Jewish Capital
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism  08/05/2005 3:28:29 AM PDT · 33 replies · 741+ views NY Times | August 5, 2005 | STEVEN ERLANGER Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Eilat Mazar, an Israeli archaeologist, stood amid the ruins of a huge public building of the 10th century B.C. that she believes may be the remains of King David's palace in a biblical Jewish capital. JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 - An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David. Her work has been sponsored by a conservative Israeli research institute and financed by an American Jewish investment banker who would like to prove that Jerusalem was indeed the capital of the...
Royal Seal Unearthed In City Of David
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/02/2005 8:09:34 PM PDT · 48 replies · 1,226+ views Israel International News | 8-2-2005 Royal Seal Unearthed in City of David 12:48 Aug 02, '05 / 26 Tammuz 5765 (IsraelNN.com) A royal seal dating to the period of the First Temple has been found in an archeological dig in the City of David, adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem. The seal's inscription has the name of Jehudi, son of Shelemiah, one of the top officials in the court of the last Judean king prior to the destruction of the First Temple, King Zedekiah. He is mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah. The seal dates from about 580 B.C.E. The seal was found at...
Pin camera ready to roll on Ark of Covenant discovery
	Posted by MikeEdwards On Bloggers & Personal  06/29/2005 3:10:31 PM PDT · 40 replies · 1,463+ views Canada Free Press | June 28, 2005 | Judi McLeod Mark August 14, 2005 on your calendar as potentially momentous. It's one day before Ariel Sharon's planned removal of 8,000 settlers from the Gaza strip, a dramatic event no matter the outcome.
Pin camera ready to roll on Ark of Covenant discovery
	Posted by CharlieOK1 On News/Activism  08/03/2005 1:59:54 PM PDT · 112 replies · 3,264+ views Israel National News | 6/29/2005 | Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press Toronto-- Mark August 14, 2005 on your calendar as potentially momentous. It's one day before Ariel Sharon's planned removal of 8,000 settlers from the Gaza strip, a dramatic event no matter the outcome. Providing even more drama of a coincidental kind is Dr. Vendyl Jones. With the kind of credentials that make him one of the world's most renowned experts on Qumran and the Land of Israel, Jones last month announced on Israel National Radio that he hopes to reveal the long-hidden site of the Ark of the Covenant "by August 14." Stirring human imagination down through the ages, the...
Oldest known Bible to go online
	Posted by BlackVeil On News/Activism  08/04/2005 10:22:42 PM PDT · 38 replies · 766+ views BBC World News | 7 August 2005 | anon A manuscript containing the oldest known Biblical New Testament in the world is set to enter the digital age and become accessible online. A team of experts from the UK, Europe, Egypt and Russia is currently digitising the parchment known as the Codex Sinaiticus, believed originally to have been one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after he converted to Christianity. The Bible, which is currently in the British Library in London, dates from the 4th Century. "It is a very distinctive manuscript. No other manuscript looks like this," Scot McKendrick, the head of the...
Twelve Sons, Twelve Stones
	Posted by restornu On General/Chat  08/03/2005 11:00:00 PM PDT · 3 replies · 111+ views M E R I D I A N M A G A Z I N E | 2005 | Twelve Sons, Twelve Stones The twelve stones in the breastplate of the ancient Hebrew high priest can now be identified, with the corresponding tribes of Israel. The Lord instructed Moses to have the names of the twelve sons of Israel engraved on twelve stones in the breastplate of the high priest. The exact order, arrangement, and type of each stone were explicitly stated (Ex. 28:17-21), but the name to be written on each stone was not given, perhaps because it was obvious to Moses. After the destruction of the temple, the knowledge of which tribe was associated with which stone was lost, and even...
Vendyl Jones Rainbow Covenant Religion
	Posted by Ryan Bailey On Religion  05/20/2005 1:29:39 PM PDT · 13 replies · 798+ views Rainbow Covenant Foundation Welcome to the Rainbow Covenant Foundation From mankind's very beginning, going back to our legendary common ancestors, every person of every nation lives connected to God. We all share in and we are all bound by a direct covenantal relationship with God Himself. And God spoke unto Noah, and to Noah's children with him, saying: 'And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you.' --Genesis 9:8-9 Some people call it the Noahide Covenant, after Noah. Others call it the Universal Covenant. We prefer Rainbow Covenant, because, as the Bible itself declares, God...
When was the Ark of the Covenant to be Unearthed?
	Posted by tmp02 On Religion  07/19/2005 11:46:39 AM PDT · 24 replies · 553+ views me | 07/19/2005 | tmp02 Wasn't there a scientist that said that he was going to unearth the Ark around July 15 -19? Can anyone recall? Does anyone have any update?
Ancient Rome
Burial with the Romans (New discoveries in the way Romans treated their dead).
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism  03/25/2003 4:19:01 PM PST · 6 replies · 310+ views British Archaeology Magazine | FR Post 3-24-03 | Alison Taylor Burial with the Romans The Romans normally respected the dead. But not always. Alison Taylor reports on mutilation, child sacrifice, burial alive and other such practices For most of us, Roman culture is a byword for civilisation in an otherwise 'barbarian' ancient world. When we think of the Romans, what springs to mind are their achievements in art and literature, architecture, engineering, law - and all the rest. Yet the undeniable sophistication of the Romans has led many archaeologists to expect civilised treatment of the dead. When excavating cemeteries in Roman Britain, we go to huge lengths to explain away...
Caligula's Roman Palace Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/07/2003 4:30:54 PM PDT · 37 replies · 361+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 8-8-2003 | Bruce Johnson Caligula's Roman palace discovered By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 08/08/2003) The ancient palace in Rome that provided the backdrop for many of Emperor Caligula's wildest depravities has been found by British and American archaeologists. After two months of digs at the edge of the Forum close to the Palatine Hill, the group - involving Oxford and Stanford Universities, the British School at Rome, and the American Institute for Roman Culture - were confident that they had found the site. While it had been known from ancient sources that the palace was in the area, it had never been located...
The Fall of the Roman Empire Revisited: Sidonius Apollinaris and His Crisis of Identity
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism  02/01/2003 7:42:21 AM PST · 47 replies · 695+ views Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. | 2-1-03 (Volume Thirty-Seven) | By Eric J. Goldberg Volume Thirty-Seven †††††† 1995 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Fall of the Roman Empire Revisited: Sidonius Apollinaris and His Crisis of Identity By Eric J. Goldberg Scholars of Late Antiquity (the period roughly from A.D. 300-600) have long labored under the shadow of two monumental works: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1787) and M. I. Rostovtzeff's Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926). Though Gibbon, an intellectual of the Enlightenment, and Rostovtzeff, a Russian Marxist, approached their topic from very different viewpoints,...
Found: Earliest Roman plaque of London
	Posted by Korth On News/Activism  10/15/2002 9:40:04 AM PDT · 21 replies · 80+ views CNN.com | October 11, 2002 <p>Archaeologists excavating an ancient site in London said on Friday they had unearthed the oldest known plaque inscribed with the city's Roman name.</p> <p>"This is hugely important," Francis Grew, curator of archaeology at the Museum of London told reporters. "It is the first real monumental inscription with the word Londinium on it.</p>
210 reasons for the fall of Rome
	Posted by Constitutionalist Conservative On News/Activism  07/18/2003 9:45:13 AM PDT · 17 replies · 940+ views The Spectator (UK) | 07/12/03, 07/19/03 | Peter Jones http://www.spectator.co.uk † ANCIENT AND MODERN Peter Jones† † Greeks and Romans loved lists, from Tables of Persons Eminent in Every Branch of Learning together with a List of Their Writings to Words Suspected of Not Having Been Used by the Ancients. In the same spirit, this column will over the next two weeks publish, from Professor Alexander Demandt's Der Falls Rom (1984), a list of the 210 reasons for the fall of the Roman empire. As modern empires rise and fall in these troubled times, the lessons of history -- or should that be historians? -- may help us find our...
Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire (Does history repeat itself?)
	Posted by SpaceBar On News/Activism  10/25/2003 8:44:44 PM PDT · 60 replies · 1,599+ views killeenroos.com | Unknown | Unknown Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire All left Rome open to outside invadersadapted from History Alive material There were many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. Each one intertwined with the next. Many even blame the introduction of Christianity for the decline. Christianity made many Roman citizens into pacifists, making it more difficult to defend against the barbarian attackers. Also money used to build churches could have been used to maintain the empire. Although some argue that Christianity may have provided some morals and values for a declining civilization and therefore may have actually prolonged the...
Receipt for girl reveals Roman slave secrets
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism  03/25/2003 4:25:17 PM PST · 25 replies · 284+ views Receipt for girl reveals Roman slave secrets By David Derbyshire, Science Correspondent (Filed: 22/03/2003) The first evidence of Roman Britain's slave trade has been unearthed: a receipt for a young French girl bought for the equivalent price of a small sports car today.Faint scratchings on a wooden writing tablet show that a wealthy slave working for the imperial household bought a girl named Fortunata (Lucky), a member of a Celtic tribe living on the borders of Normandy and Brittany. The silver-fir tablet had been preserved in wet London soil for 2,000 years.Although many Roman slaves were forced to work...
Roman Britons After 410
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  12/21/2002 6:58:05 PM PST · 38 replies · 485+ views British Archaeology | 12-2002 | Martin Henig Roman Britons after 410The ëend of Roman Britain' is a myth. Roman culture survived right through the Anglo-Saxon period. Martin Henig explainsThe 'story' of Roman Britain, as told to generations of schoolchildren, is a very simple one - AD 43, the Roman legions march in; AD 410, they march out again. Barbarity beforehand, barbarity afterwards, civilisation in between. In an earlier issue of this magazine (BA, September 1998) I suggested that the Roman 'conquest' of AD 43 was not all that it seemed to be, and that Britain's southern rulers - if not those in the north - were Romanised...
Roman Legion Founded Chinese City
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  07/31/2005 12:31:23 PM PDT · 34 replies · 1,138+ views Ansa | 7-25-2005 Roman legion founded Chinese city Survivors of Crassus's routed army said to have built town (ANSA) - Florence, July 25 - Roman soldiers who disappeared after a famous defeat founded a city in eastern China, archaeologists say . The phantom legion was part of the defeated forces of Marcus Licinius Crassus, according to the current edition of the Italian magazine Archeologia Viva . The famously wealthy Crassus needed glory to rival the exploits of the two men with whom he ruled Rome as the First Triumvirate, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar . Crassus decided to bring down the Parthian...
Roman Ruler's Head Found in Sewer [Emperor Constantine]
	Posted by gopwinsin04 On News/Activism  07/31/2005 4:18:37 PM PDT · 27 replies · 953+ views BBC | July 29, 2005 A 1,700 year old carved marble head of Emperor Constatine has been found in a sewer in central Rome. Archaeologists found the 2ft head while cleaning an ancient drainage system in the Roman Forum.Constantine, wwho reigned from 306 to 337 AD, is known for ending persecution of Christians and founding Constantinapole. Although most of his subjects remained pagans, he is credited with helping to establish Europe's Christian roots by proclaiming religious freedom.Probably carved between 312 and 325 AD, in may have belonged to a statue of the emporer in full armor.The heads unceremonious insertion in a blocked drain may have...
Roman soldier's life unfurls: Princeton grad helps bring ancient writings to light
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  01/26/2004 12:59:55 PM PST · 75 replies · 1,235+ views The Cincinnati Enquirer | Monday, January 26, 2004 | Sue Kiesewetter SHARONVILLE - Nearly 2000 years ago a young Roman soldier wrote home, asking his father's permission to marry his girlfriend. In another letter, he asks for boots and socks to keep his feet warm during a cold winter. And he tells how he must violently put down those who revolt and riot in Alexandria. All this - and more - about life for Tiberianus, who lived in Roman Egypt, is being advanced through the work of a Princeton High School graduate now attending the University of Michigan. Last fall, Robert Stephan (Class of 2001) found some papyri - ancient writings...
Roman Souvenir Of (Hadrian's) Wall Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  09/30/2003 1:58:50 PM PDT · 28 replies · 110+ views BBC | 9-30-2003 Roman souvenir of wall found The bronze pan has the names of Roman forts on it A unique Roman "souvenir" of the building of Hadrian's Wall has been discovered. The bronze pan, dating from the second century AD, when the Romans built the dividing wall across the north of England, was found in the Staffordshire moorlands. Archaeologists are excited because the names of four forts located at the western end of Hadrian's Wall - Bowes, Drumburgh, Stanwix and Castlesteads - are engraved on the vessel. The discovery was being made public at the Institute of Archaeology in London by the...
Roman Stadium Found In Tiberias
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  06/17/2002 5:06:40 PM PDT · 18 replies · 232+ views The Jerusalem Post | 6-16-2002 Jun. 16, 2002Roman stadium found in Tiberias By THE JERUSALEM POST STAFF The remains of a monumental public building archeologists think may be a stadium from the first century CE have been found during a dig on the grounds of the Galei Kinneret Hotel in Tiberias. The form of the building, its hewn stone construction, and round southern end date it from the Roman period, when it served an important public function. Moshe Hartal, an archeologist with the Antiquities Authority, said it is possible the building is the stadium mentioned in the writings of Josephus Flavius. "The stadium was used...
Rome vs. Carthage: The Day the World Trembled
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism  05/28/2002 11:42:09 AM PDT · 38 replies · 608+ views Military History Magazine | June 2002 | Lee Levin The course of civilization was determined on the banks of the Metaurus River in 207 BC, when brilliant Roman and Carthaginian generals fought the perfect battle. By Lee Levin for Military History Magazine Battles are won or lost by the side that makes the fewest mistakes. But what if the battle was for mastery of the entire world? And what if the generals on both sides, each brilliant beyond criticism, should sink into obscurity, so that knowledge of the battle itself is known only to the most consummate scholars of military history? Just such a battle was fought on the...
Stuffed Dormice A Roman Favourite
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  07/21/2003 4:18:11 PM PDT · 38 replies · 188+ views BBC | 7-21-2003 Stuffed dormice a Roman favourite The remnants of a Roman hare stew Archaeologists in Northamptonshire are unearthing the recipe secrets of the Romans. Excavations in the county have shown the dish of the day 2,000 years ago was freshly-grilled hare and stuffed dormice. The excavations are at Whitehall Villa, Nether Heyford, just yards from the Grand Union Canal, are revealing the secrets of Northamptonshire's Roman Heritage, including their unusual diet. Archaeologist Martin Weaver said a burned bowl found at the site contained the remnants of hare stew. "They also ate dormice - stuffed - and oysters. They loved their oysters,"...
Woman may have founded ancient Rome
	Posted by scouse On News/Activism  04/24/2003 11:41:53 AM PDT · 39 replies · 162+ views Telegraph (UK) | 4/22/03 | Bruce Johnston Woman may have founded ancient Rome By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 22/04/2003) Rome celebrated its 2,756th birthday yesterday, amid claims that the city may have been founded by a Trojan woman called Roma and not, as legend has it, by Romulus. According to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could easily be Rome. The scene was described as one of enchanting beauty, where before the setting sun the visitor was "enticed to dream while...
Underwater Archaeology
Archaeologists continue work on shipwreck
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  07/18/2005 12:19:51 PM PDT · 49 replies · 1,057+ views Rocky Mount Telegram | July 17, 2005 | Tom Murphy In March 1997, archaeologists in Raleigh made an exciting announcement: Divers had discovered a wreck the previous year off Beaufort Inlet they believed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, the flagship of the famous pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. The Queen Anne's Revenge sank in approximately that location in June 1718, Dr. Sim Wilde, program administrator for exploration of the ship, told Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club members Thursday at Benvenue Country Club. A diving expedition in October 1997 provided additional evidence strongly suggesting that the wreck is, indeed, the Queen Anne's Revenge, he said. "Blackbeard the pirate ran...
Legend yields to truth with Lake Superior shipwreck discovery
	Posted by wallcrawlr On News/Activism  07/20/2005 7:44:23 AM PDT · 45 replies · 1,429+ views Star Tribune | July 20, 2005 | Larry Oakes DULUTH -- For more than 90 years it was a secret Lake Superior wouldn't tell: the deep, dark place where it had entombed the 239-foot Great Lakes freighter Benjamin Noble and its crew of 20 men. Its captain, 31-year-old John Eisenhardt of Milwaukee, worried in a letter to his sister that the vessel was overloaded, making it unstable, according to "Lake Superior Shipwrecks" by Julius F. Wolff. The trip was Eisenhardt's first as captain. It became his last. As the vessel crossed Lake Superior, one of the worst spring storms ever to strike the big lake was gathering -- with...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Gladiators return to march in Rome
	Posted by yankeedame On News/Activism  04/24/2003 7:35:58 AM PDT · 18 replies · 104+ views CNN.com | Monday, April 21, 2003 | staff writer <p>ROME, Italy (AP) -- Hundreds of gladiators sporting chain-mail, wolf-skins and swinging grappling nets marched by the ruins of ancient Rome on Monday in a birthday celebration for the city, which legend says was founded 2,756 years ago.</p> <p>The make-believe gladiators -- some from as far away as France and Hungary -- poured off buses, sporting steel helmets and daggers swinging from scabbards.</p>
Mein Gott! Hitler sought sanctuary in Japan?
	Posted by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget On General/Chat  08/05/2005 7:38:21 AM PDT · 7 replies · 133+ views Mainichi/MSN | August 4, 2005 | Ryann Connell Aware that his Third Reich was on the verge of collapse just 12 years into the 1,000-year reign he had promised, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler tried to flee the rampaging Russians battering his Berlin bunker and sought sanctuary in Japan, according to Shukan Shincho (8/11-18). As the Soviets relentlessly pounded the German dictator and his cronies holed up in the subterranean fortress in the German capital, moves were apparently afoot to whisk away top Nazis on long-range Condor airplanes to Japan, journalist Eiichiro Tokumoto writes in the prestigious weekly. Tokumoto cites a top secret letter dated April 24, 1945, that...
"National Treasure": Freemasons, Fact, and Fiction
	Posted by sandyeggo On Religion  11/24/2004 8:42:27 PM PST · 191 replies · 2,673+ views National Geographic News | November 19, 2004 | Stefan Lovgren Imagine this: Centuries ago an order of European knights amassed a huge treasure of priceless artifacts from around the world. The loot was later brought to the United States by the Freemasons, a secret society. Determined to keep it out of the hands of the British during the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin and other Masons hid the treasure in a secret location but left clues to its whereabouts in famous American landmarks. Now, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of a carriage boy who learned the secret vows to find the treasure. The clues lead him to an invisible map hidden on the back...
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Day late, but way more than a dollar short. Worked a double shift, was wiped out all day. Notice, there's nothing about boring old [joke! joke!] Ancient Egypt this week. That's unusual. Zahi "Zowie" Hawass must not have had any tourists step in a hole and find a previously unsuspected thousand acre burial ground.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #56 Saturday, August 13, 2005
Anatolia
Unlocking the Power of Myth
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/12/2005 8:50:43 AM PDT · 14 replies · 203+ views Humanities, Volume 26/Number 3 | May/June 2005 | Victor Wishna No one knows exactly why the Trojan War was waged, when it took place, or whether it took place at all. Excavations at the ancient site of Troy have unearthed no wreckage of a giant wooden horse, no statues of Helen, no physical evidence that a warrior named Achilles ever existed.
Ancient Greece
Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Coins In The Heart Of Athens
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/13/2005 11:44:21 AM PDT · 29 replies · 705+ views Afp/Yahoo | 8-11-2005 Archeologists uncover ancient coins in the heart of Athens Thu Aug 11,11:46 AM ET ATHENS (AFP) - Scores of silver coins dating back well over two millennia have been unearthed in the heart of Athens, officials announced. More than five kilos (11 pounds) of silver pieces dating primarily from the 4th century BC were discovered in an excavation project of the American School of Archeology, a statement from the ministry of culture said. Some 45 of the silver pieces are believed to date back to the 5th century BC. The discovery at the Athens Agora -- the chief marketplace and...
Original Draconian Laws may be Revealed by New Machine (X-ray fluorescence imaging)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/11/2005 10:53:40 PM PDT · 2 replies · 147+ views LiveScience.com via Yahoo | Tuesday August 2, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt Scientists figure there are at least half a million Greek and Latin inscriptions on stones in various states of decay and legibility... Tests conducted on stone tablets a hundred generations old clearly reveal writing that was lost to the eye... "This means restoring thousands of stones, including, possibly, part of the law code of Draco," Clinton said. "It applies to practically any kind of public document you can think of, including many laws, decrees, religious dedications and financial documents."
Ancient Rome and Italy
Ancient Roman temple found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/12/2005 8:30:03 AM PDT · 7 replies · 118+ views ANSA Italy | August 10 2005 | staff The woman's head is therefore without doubt that of an important member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (14-68 AD), but there is still a slight question mark as to whether it is Agrippina, daughter of the Emperor Claudius.
The Domitii Mark -- Rome's Greatest Brickmakers Identified
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/10/2005 9:28:18 AM PDT · 12 replies · 154+ views Discovery News | August 9, 2005 | Rossella Lorenzi Found in Mugnano in Teverina, a tiny village some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Rome, the furnaces belonged to Tullus and Lucanus, brothers of the Domitii family, as an inscription found on the road leading to the brickfield confirms: "iter privatum duorum Domitiorum" (private road of the two Domitii). The furnaces provided bricks for grandiose buildings such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Market of Trajan and the Diocletian and Caracalla Baths, said archaeologist Tiziano Gasperoni, who discovered the furnaces.
Roman ruins to remain under rainwater canal
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/12/2005 8:46:10 AM PDT · 4 replies · 54+ views Times of Malta | Tuesday, August 9, 2005 | Herman Grech The Works' Division and the heritage authorities have had to find the middle ground between building a water canal to alleviate flooding problems and exploiting one of the most important historical finds in recent years. The area consists of a stretch of about 125 metres along the northern half of the water channel near Jetties Wharf, Marsa, which may be dated from the ceramics recovered from site to the Roman and Early Medieval periods... He said the anti-flooding development in the area had now been redesigned in such a way as not to cause any long-term damage to the Roman...
Where Did The Etruscans Come From?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/06/2005 9:08:13 PM PDT · 37 replies · 398+ views Etruscology website | June 2002 | Dieter H. Steinbauer Nevertheless, after more than a century of research, the linguistic relationship between Lemnian and Etruscan -- despite the scanty material -- is nowadays established to a large extent as an undeniable fact. The phonemic systems can not be set to coincide completely, yet it is significant that apart from the already mentioned four vowel system parallels exist in the consonant inventory, too. There are two varieties of s (here written s and sh) and no indications of the voiced plosives b, d, g, while next to each other are to be found in both languages t and th (no aspirate...
Phoenicians
Italian archeologists on trail of ancient warships
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/12/2005 8:21:24 AM PDT · 4 replies · 113+ views Reuters | Fri Aug 12, 2005 | Shasta Darlington After two years of underwater searches around the islands, which lie west of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, experts last year found a bronze helmet and some amphorae from about 241 BC, the date of the decisive Roman victory over the Carthage fleet. At around the same time, a team of Italy's famed art police busted a collector who had a ship's bronze battering ram from the same period on display in his home. It turned out the relic had been illegally looted using nets from the same area... The Battle of the Aegates Islands was the final naval battle...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical Pool of Siloam Is Uncovered in Jerusalem
	Posted by dila813 On News/Activism 08/08/2005 6:29:42 PM PDT · 48 replies · 2,530+ views BiblePlaces.com | Today | Text and photos by Todd Bolen <p>Archaeologists working in the City of David have uncovered the edge of what they believe is the Pool of Siloam from the time of Jesus (cf. John 9). The photo at left shows the city of Jerusalem with the Temple Mount and the City of David. The excavations are on the west side of the City of David. Letter "A" is located where the traditional "Pool of Siloam" is and Letter "B" shows the area of the present excavations.</p>
King David's Palace Is Found, Archaeologist Says
	Posted by West Coast Conservative On News/Activism 08/05/2005 11:51:57 AM PDT · 133 replies · 3,633+ views New York Times | August 5, 2005 | STEVEN ERLANGER An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David. Her work has been sponsored by a conservative Israeli research institute and financed by an American Jewish investment banker who would like to prove that Jerusalem was indeed the capital of the Jewish kingdom described in the Bible. Other scholars are skeptical that the foundation walls discovered by the archaeologist, Eilat Mazar, are David's palace. But they acknowledge that what she has uncovered is rare and important: a major public building from around the 10th century B.C., with pottery...
Mesopotamia
The Monolith of Pokotia (Sumerian Language etched on Ancient Mesopotamian Items)!
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 10/19/2002 10:28:48 AM PDT · 34 replies · 1,024+ views Bernardo Biadós Yacovazzo & Freddy Arce, | FR Post 10-19-2002 | Bernardo Biadós Yacovazzo & Freddy Arce Introduction - Investigations of Bolivia Fuente Magna and the Monolith of Pokotia The following material is reprinted by permission from Bernardo Biadós Yacovazzo & Freddy Arce, OIIB - Omega Institute Investigations (Bolivia), INTI - NonGovernmental Organizacion (Bolivia). A large stone vessel, resembling a libation bowl, and now known as the Fuente Magna, was originally discovered in a rather casual fashion by a country peasant from the ex-hacienda CHUA, property of the Manjon family situated in the surrounding areas of Lake Titicaca about 75/80 km from the city of La Paz. The site where it was found has not been...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Humans to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions, Study Says
	Posted by ZULU On News/Activism 08/11/2005 11:02:22 AM PDT · 139 replies · 1,936+ views National Geographic | August 10, 2005 | Hillery Mayell Humans are likely responsible for the extinction of Ice Age megafauna—large mammals like giant sloths, short-faced bears, mammoths, and saber-toothed cats—that occurred in the Americas around 11,000 years ago, a new study says. Scientists have long debated whether giant pre-historic mammals disappeared because of climate change or because humans hunted them to extinction. The mass extinctions coincided with both the end of the last Ice Age and the arrival of humans in the Americas around 11,000 years ago. This timing has made it difficult for scientists to isolate the cause of the species' disappearance. But a study comparing the extinction...
Did ancient Inca communicate through knots?
	Posted by wallcrawlr On General/Chat 08/11/2005 1:18:17 PM PDT · 15 replies · 171+ views Associated Press | August 11, 2005 | August 11, 2005 WASHINGTON — Three figure-eight knots tied into strings may be the first word from the ancient Inca in centuries. While the Incan empire left nothing that would be considered writing by today's standards, it did produce knotted strings in various colors and arrangements that have long puzzled historians and anthropologists. Many of these strings have turned out to be a type of accounting system, but interpreting them has been complex. Now, Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine of Harvard University say they have found a three-knot pattern in some of the strings, called khipu, that they believe identifies them as...
Explorer: Legendary El Dorado Pinpointed
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 08/12/2002 4:27:35 PM PDT · 10 replies · 191+ views Discovery News | August 12, 2002 | By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Explorer: Legendary El Dorado Pinpointed By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News normalize font | increase font Aug. 9 — The fabled treasure of El Dorado may lie in tunnels and caves at the bottom of a lake in the Peruvian Amazon, according to a Polish-Italian explorer who has returned from a three-week reconnaissance trip in search of the legendary city. Called Paititi by the Incas and El Dorado by the Spaniards, the mythical city is thought to have been the last place of refuge for the Incas when they fled with their treasures ahead of the advancing Spanish...
Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism 08/05/2005 8:32:05 AM PDT · 82 replies · 1,716+ views Reuters | Dec 3, 2004 | Brian Winter Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid By Brian Winter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday. The tomb at Teotihuacan, the first major city built in the Americas, whose origins are one of history's great mysteries, also held the bound carcasses of eagles, dogs and other animals. "It is hard to believe that the ritual consisted of clean, symbolic performances -- it is most likely that the ceremony created a horrible scene...
Studies of Amazonian languages challenge linguistic theories
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/09/2005 10:57:22 PM PDT · 14 replies · 234+ views Eureka Alert / University of Chicago Press Journals | 2-Aug-2005 | Carrie Olivia Adams The unifying feature behind all of these characteristics is a cultural restriction against talking about things that extend beyond personal experience. This restriction counters claims of linguists, such as Noam Chomsky, that grammar is genetically driven system with universal features. Despite the absence of these allegedly universal features, the Pirahã communicate effectively with one another and coordinate simple tasks. Moreover, Piraha suggests that it is not always possible to translate from one language to another.
Unpublished document sheds light on Peru's Inca rulers
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 08/25/2002 7:47:16 PM PDT · 5 replies · 232+ views The New Mexico News | EFE - 8/18/2002 | Gonzalo Castillero Unpublished document sheds light on Peru's Inca rulersGonzalo Castillero, EFE - 8/18/2002 LIMA - An unpublished 19th-century manuscript rescued from oblivion by a collector contains depictions of Inca rulers that clear up centuries-old questions. The manuscript, entitled "Memories of the Peruvian Monarchy or Outline of Inca History," was written in 1838 by Justo Apu Sahuaraura, a direct descendant of Pachacutec, the last Inca of royal stock. Born in 1775 to a noble Indian family, Sahuaraura illustrated his manuscript with watercolor portraits of the 17 Inca rulers and included his own. "Many doubts remained as to what the Incas looked...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Split sabretooths from living cats on feline family tree: paleontologists
	Posted by jb6 On General/Chat 08/09/2005 9:14:38 AM PDT · 17 replies · 313+ views CBC News | 08 Aug 2005 The ancient sabretooth is not directly related to modern day cats, according to a new DNA analysis. Large cats such as the sabretooth roamed North and South America toward the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. The puma, also known as a mountain lion or cougar, and the jaguar are the only remaining large cats in the Western Hemisphere. Paleontologists have closely studied the extinct American cats based on their bone structure, but the proposed relationships remain contentious. To refine the branches of the feline family tree, Ross Barnett of the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre...
Origins and Prehistory
The Human Wave
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/11/2005 6:12:55 PM PDT · 76 replies · 971+ views Science News Magazine | 8-11-2005 | Bruce Bower The Human WavePeople may have evolved fluidly, with lots of interbreeding Bruce Bower Release a drop of red food coloring into a glass filled with water. Watch the drop slowly spread until it imbues the water with a rosy tint. Then, add a drop of blue coloring and observe the boundaries of purple expand. According to Vinayak Eswaran, this process, known as diffusion, reflects how, over the past 200,000 years, people evolved to have the relatively thin bones, small jaws, and other distinctive aspects of their current physical form. A mechanical engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur,...
New Technology Shows Our Ancestors Ate…Everything!
	Posted by dila813 On News/Activism 08/08/2005 10:49:06 PM PDT · 33 replies · 891+ views RedNova | 8/8/2005 | Hopkins Medical Institutions Click to enlarge Using a powerful microscope and computer software, a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins, the University of Arkansas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and elsewhere has developed a faster and more objective way to examine the surfaces of fossilized teeth, a practice used to figure out the diets of our early ancestors. By comparing teeth from two species of early humans, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, the researchers confirm previous evidence that A. africanus ate more tough foods, such as leaves, and P. robustus ate more hard, brittle foods. But they also revealed wear patterns suggesting that both...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Study: Meteor Crashes Jump-Start Life
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/10/2005 9:39:26 AM PDT · 15 replies · 158+ views Discovery News Brief | August 9, 2005 | AFP Canadian geologists have found more evidence that impact craters may, in fact, be the best places to look for signs of past life on Mars and other worlds, and could even have been the place life began on Earth... It was during some field work on the 15-mile (24 kilometer) wide Haughton crater that he and his colleagues recognized what appeared to be the remains of hydrothermal structures. These would have been steaming vents at one time, releasing heat for millennia that had been generated by the impact event.
Asia
600-Year-Old Ancient Warship Found In Shandong
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/13/2005 11:33:57 AM PDT · 11 replies · 401+ views Xinhuanet/China View | 8-12-2005 600-year-old ancient warship found in Shandong www.chinaview.cn 2005-08-12 10:50:02 ™@BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Archaeologists have recently founda well-preserved ancient warship dated back to some 600 years ago, at a relics site in the ancient Dengzhou Harbor in Penglai, east China's Shandong Province. This is the first discovery of a large ancient ship in China in over two decades. The wooden ancient vessel, more than 20 meters long, is believed to be a warship from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), said You Shaoping, director of the Shandong Cultural Heritage Bureau, on Thursday. The value of the ancient warship is yet to...
British Isles
The Medical World Of Medieval Monks
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/07/2005 4:58:33 PM PDT · 23 replies · 573+ views BBC | 8-7-2005 | Jane Elliott The medical world of medieval monks By Jane Elliott BBC News All that remains of the hospital Anaesthetics and disinfectants are thought to be a modern medical invention but evidence is coming to light that medieval doctors knew of them too. Evidence found at the ancient Soutra Hospital site, in Scotland, suggests the medieval Augustine monks also knew how to amputate limbs, fashion surgical instruments, induce birth, stop scurvy and even create hangover cures. The excavations at Soutra have also unearthed fragments of pottery vessels that were once used for storing medicines such as an analgesic salve made from opium...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Fossil poachers running rampant
	Posted by Aussie Dasher On News/Activism 08/07/2005 7:11:36 PM PDT · 18 replies · 528+ views The Washington Times | 8 August 2005 CHADRON, Neb. (AP) -- When three suspicious men were stopped on federal land in remote northwestern Nebraska in 2003, the U.S. Forest Service didn't take long to figure out what they were doing. The men had dug an 18-by-10-foot hole more than 2 feet deep, leaving the fossilized bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros exposed. Plaster used to take casts of the bones and excavating tools also were found. The men were poaching fossils -- a practice the Forest Service says has become rampant in recent years at Oglala National Grasslands. Although the men in this case were arrested and eventually...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #57 Saturday, August 20, 2005
Medieval Europe
Dig Reveals More Of Isles' Bloody History (Scotland)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 08/17/2005 4:54:27 PM PDT · 10 replies · 195+ views Scotsman | 8-16-2005 | John Ross Dig reveals more of isles' bloody history JOHN ROSS NEW evidence of bloody clan battles at a medieval stronghold in the Western Isles has been unearthed by archaeologists. A team from Glasgow University has revealed a fortified settlement on Dun Eistean, a sea stack on the north-east coast of Lewis, thought to have been a refuge and spiritual home for the Clan Morrison 400 to 800 years ago. The discovery of musket balls, a lookout tower and a defensive wall around the perimeter of the island points to battles with the Morrisons' fierce rivals, including the Macaulays. Rachel Barrowman and...
Grave Of Egil Skalla-Grimsson Found? (Iceland)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/18/2005 3:07:15 PM PDT · 62 replies · 962+ views Iceland Review | 8-9-2005 08/09/2005 | 13:05 Grave of Egil Skalla-GrÌmsson found? Icelandic State Radio reports that the possible grave site of Egil Skalla-GrÌmsson, one of Iceland's most famous vikings, has been found under the altar of a church from the settlement period. No bones were found at the burial site. Jessie Byock, archeology professor at the University of California in Los Angeles who is in charge of the excavation, emphasizes that the work being done in Mosfellsdal is not directed at finding the grave site of Egil Skalla-GrÌmsson. The excavation has taken many years and the church at HrÌsbr? is the seventh dig...
Anatolia
Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 02/07/2003 9:52:05 PM PST · 52 replies · 443+ views BBC NEWS | 02/07/03 | N/A Friday, 7 February, 2003, 11:42 GMT Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield The Greeks armies would have attacked from the west Homer's description of the Trojan battlefield in his classic poem the Iliad is accurate, say scientists. The subject of the story - the Greeks' 10-year siege of Troy and the wooden horse they used to bring it to an end - may have been a myth, but its geography was not. It was right in front of Troy that we were drilling a hole and seashells came out Chris Kraft The researchers drilled sediments in northwest Turkey to map how the...
Ancient Egypt
King of the Wild Frontier (Hyksos art and architecture in the Sinai)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/15/2005 7:33:49 PM PDT · 11 replies · 144+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 2005 | Nevine El-Aref A team of archaeologists digging at Tel-Habuwa, near the town of Qantara East and three kilometres east of the Suez Canal... chanced upon a cachet of limestone reliefs bearing names of two royal personalities and two seated statues of differing sizes. The larger statue is made of limestone and belongs to a yet unidentified personage, but from its size and features archaeologists believe that it could be a statue of Horus, the god of the city. In 2001 archaeologists unearthed remains of a mud-brick temple dedicated to this deity. The second is a headless limestone statue inscribed on the back...
Reconstruction Reveals Mummy's Face
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/28/2005 11:56:04 PM PDT · 26 replies · 1,253+ views Discovery Channel | April 27, 2005 | Jennifer Viegas The face of "Bess," an Egyptian woman who died 3,000 to 3,500 years ago, is once again visible as technology brings to life what an artist's hand used to. "The Egyptians obviously put a huge amount of effort into preparing their bodies for eternal life," said Stephen Humphries, director of business development at Medical Modeling LLC of Golden, Colo., where the reconstruction took place. "Thanks to the technology that they developed to preserve their bodies over thousands of years, and to modern computer and manufacturing technology, it might be true that 'Bessy' has achieved eternal life." Bess was five feet...
Ancient Greece
Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Treasure Of Thousands Of Golden Ornaments
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/17/2005 4:37:50 PM PDT · 26 replies · 557+ views Canadian Press | 8-17-2005 Bulgarian archeologists uncover treasure of thousands of golden ornaments Canadian Press Wednesday, August 17, 2005 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Archeologists working a dig in central Bulgaria have unearthed some 15,000 miniature rings and other gold ornaments that date to the end of the third millennium BC - a find they say matches the famous treasure of Troy, scholars announced Wednesday. The 4,100- to 4,200-year-old golden ornaments have been gradually unearthed over the past year from an ancient tomb near the central village of Dabene, 120 kilometres east of the capital, Sofia, according to Prof. Vasil Nikolov, the consultant on the...
Ancient Rome
Historical Tiberias
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/19/2005 12:01:35 PM PDT · 10 replies · 344+ views Israel Today | 8-19-2005 Historical Tiberias Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have been taking place in Tiberias at three different locations on the Sea of Galilee. Archaeologists discovered a Roman stadium dating back to the first century, which is also mentioned in the writings of Flavius Josephus. Inhabitants of this ancient town used the stadium for various events such as chariot racing and a gathering place for special occasions. In 67 AD, the Romans captured thousands of Jews and assembled them in the stadium. After a bloody battle between the Romans and Jews near Migdal, a town on the Sea of Galilee...
Asia
Ancient faces brought to life
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/17/2005 8:17:40 AM PDT · 6 replies · 217+ views Vietnam News Agency | August 14 2005 | Viet Nam News [caption] The faces of a 40-year-old man (first two photos from left) and a 17-years-old girl (last two photos) of the Mongol race are shown in completion. They are considered the first portraits of the Dong Son people in Viet Namís history of archaeology.
Scientists unearth bronze casting centre (Vietnam)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/17/2005 8:25:22 AM PDT · 2 replies · 77+ views Vietnam News Agency | August 14 2005 | Viet Nam News
Let's Have Jerusalem
Dig Backs Biblical Account Of Philistine City Of Gat
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/14/2005 8:20:53 PM PDT · 29 replies · 682+ views Haaretz | 8-9-2005 | Amiram Barkat Dig backs biblical account of Philistine city of GatLast update - 02:53 09/08/2005 By Amiram BarkatThe moat running around Gat that was to enforce the siege. David Bachar New evidence regarding the bitter end of Gat, the largest and most important Philistine city, was recently unearthed at a dig at Tel Zafit near the Masmia intersection in the Lachish region. According to Kings II (12:18), Gat was conquered by King Hazael of Aram. He intended to capture Jerusalem as well, but King Jehoash of Judah saved the capital while losing treasure taken from the Temple (Kings II 14:14). Findings at...
King Hezekiah's Water System (Two recent excavations uncover ancient water systems)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/15/2005 8:00:31 PM PDT · 13 replies · 146+ views Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs | 10-Aug-2005 | staff Such a massive enterprise, archeologists deduce, could only have been a project undertaken by the kingdom of Judah, and it must have been used by the inhabitants of the nearby biblical town of Suba. The dig showed that the water system fell into disuse in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, although the reservoir-cave below was still being used for its water. During the Persian and Hellenistic periods the cave was still partially being used, but was eventually completely abandoned in the 2nd century BCE.
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mexican footprints cause scientific stir
	Posted by gnarledmaw On News/Activism 08/18/2005 9:21:43 AM PDT · 65 replies · 1,381+ views MANBC | 2:01 p.m. ET July 5, 2005 | AP AP LONDON - British scientists claimed on Tuesday to have unearthed 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico, challenging previous studies that put the arrival of the first humans in the Americas at about 13,500 years ago. Scientists Silvia Gonzalez, from Liverpool John Moores University, and Matthew Bennett, of Bournemouth University, found the footprints in an abandoned quarry close to the Cerro Toluquilla volcano in the Valsequillo Basin...Continued at MSNBC
Scientists Detail Study of Kennewick Man
	Posted by jazzo On News/Activism 07/11/2005 11:48:33 AM PDT · 51 replies · 1,121+ views Yahoo! News | 07/11/2005 | Melanthia Mitchell SEATTLE - Cloistered around padded tables, scientists from around the country have been peering through microscopes and measuring bone fragments trying to unearth the history of an ancient skeleton found along the Columbia River. Researchers on Sunday offered details of their first comprehensive study of the 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in North America. The team of anthropologists, geochemists and data analysts have been busy assembling the skeleton's more than 300 bones and bone fragments at the University of Washington's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, where the remains have been...
Inca May Have Used Knot Computer Code To Bind Empire
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/22/2003 8:08:43 PM PDT · 19 replies · 121+ views Independent (UK) | 6-23-2003 | Steve Conner Inca may have used knot computer code to bind empire By Steve Connor, Science Editor 23 June 2003 They ran the biggest empire of their age, with a vast network of roads, granaries, warehouses and a complex system of government. Yet the Inca, founded in about AD1200 by Manco Capac, were unique for such a significant civilisation: they had no written language. This has been the conventional view of the Inca, whose dominions at their height covered almost all of the Andean region, from Colombia to Chile, until they were defeated in the Spanish conquest of 1532. But a leading...
Incan Counting System Decoded?
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/03/2004 6:04:59 AM PST · 95 replies · 862+ views Discovery News | Feb 3 2004 | By Rossella Lorenzi Incan Counting System Decoded? By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Learn how to add 9+7 on the yupana abacus. Jan. 29, 2004 ? The Inca invented a powerful counting system that could be used to make complex calculations without the tiniest mistake, according to an Italian engineer who claims to have cracked the mathematics of this still mysterious ancient population. Begun in the Andean highlands in about 1200, the Inca ruled the largest empire on Earth by the time their last emperor, Atahualpa, was garroted by Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Long been considered the only major Bronze Age civilization without a...
Scientists untangle Inca number-strings (Kept Track of Tax Payments)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 08/14/2005 10:47:40 PM PDT · 19 replies · 474+ views news@nature.com | 11 August 2005 | Andreas von Bubnoff Knotted threads carry signs of ancient accountancy.Scientists have picked apart some 500-year-old calculations from the Inca empire. The team deciphered the maths from a series of 'khipus': elaborate structures of coloured, knotted strings. Researchers have long known that the Inca, who lived along the west coast of South America from AD 1400-1532, used such cords to record numbers. But this is the first mathematical relationship found between khipu. And that may help to work out what kind of information they stored. Khipus encode numbers as knots in strings hanging from a cord. The closer a knot is to the cord,...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rates
	Posted by Ahban On News/Activism 09/01/2002 4:20:09 PM PDT · 153 replies · 332+ views University of North Carlolina Computer Science Department website | from 1997 to present | David Plaistid Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rates David A. Plaisted Recently an attempt was made to estimate the age of the human race using mitochondrial DNA. This material is inherited always from mother to children only. By measuring the difference in mitochondrial DNA among many individuals, the age of the common maternal ancestor of humanity was estimated at about 200,000 years. A problem is that rates of mutation are not known by direct measurement, and are often computed based on assumed evolutionary time scales. Thus all of these age estimates could be greatly in error. In fact, many different rates of mutation are...
Study: "Jumping Genes" Create Ripples in the Genome- -and Perhaps Species' Evolution
	Posted by forsnax5 On News/Activism 08/17/2002 6:06:34 PM PDT · 547 replies · 184+ views JHMI Office of Communications and Public Affairs | August 15, 2002 | Johns Hopkins, et al Laboratory experiments led by Hopkins scientists have revealed that so-called "jumping genes" create dramatic rearrangement in the human genome when they move from chromosome to chromosome. If the finding holds true in living organisms, it may help explain the diversity of life on Earth, the researchers report in the current (Aug. 9) issue of Cell. "Jumping genes," or retrotransposons, are sequences of DNA that are easily and naturally copied from one location in the genome and inserted elsewhere, particularly in developing eggs and sperm. There are more than 500,000 copies in the human genome of the retrotransposon the scientists studied,...
Prehistory and Origins
Ice Age Engravings Found In Somerset (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/18/2005 2:47:54 PM PDT · 27 replies · 548+ views The Guardian (UK) | 8-18-2005 Ice Age engravings found in Somerset Press Association Thursday August 18, 2005 The Guardian (UK) A series of rare engravings, believed to date from the Mesolithic period, 10,000 years ago, have been discovered in a cave in Somerset. The three abstract squares, thought to have been made with stone tools, were found in Long Hole cave in Cheddar by the University of Bristol Speleological Society. The find follows the discover of ancient inscribed crosses at nearby Aveline's Hole cave in February this year. Experts have not been able to determine the meaning of the engravings yet, but say they are...
The place of the Basques in the European Y-chromosome diversity landscape
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/15/2005 8:42:56 PM PDT · 21 replies · 254+ views Nature (abstract only) | 2005 | Santos Alonso et al There is a trend to consider the gene pool of the Basques as a 'living fossil' of the earliest modern humans that colonized Europe. To investigate this assumption, we have typed 45 binary markers and five short tandem repeat loci of the Y chromosome in a set of 168 male Basques. Results on these combined haplotypes were analyzed in the context of matching data belonging to approximately 3000 individuals from over 20 European, Near East and North African populations, which were compiled from the literature. Our results place the low Y-chromosome diversity of Basques within the European diversity landscape. This...
Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human Origins
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 08/11/2002 3:59:04 PM PDT · 465 replies · 377+ views NY Times | August 6, 2002 | By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD August 6, 2002 Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human OriginsBy JOHN NOBLE WILFORD wo ancient skulls, one from central Africa and the other from the Black Sea republic of Georgia, have shaken the human family tree to its roots, sending scientists scrambling to see if their favorite theories are among the fallen fruit. Probably so, according to paleontologists, who may have to make major revisions in the human genealogy and rethink some of their ideas about the first migrations out of Africa by human relatives. Yet, despite all the confusion and uncertainty the skulls...
Science and Creation Myth
	Posted by WaterDragon On Religion 09/02/2002 10:25:23 AM PDT · 22 replies · 45+ views Oregon Magazine | September 1, 2002 | Eric Blair The creation vs evolution drama continues. From here it looks like the God people are winning. When you think about that, it's a logical outcome. A supreme court that opens with a prayer comes off as a bit hypocritical when it says that religion has no place in publicly-financed institutions. That's a bit like a fox passing a law against hawks eating chickens.....(snip)Please click here for complete article.
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Fossil hunter believes tsunami struck Florida
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 08/17/2005 10:12:07 AM PDT · 24 replies · 1,201+ views News Sentinel | Mon, Aug. 15, 2005 | NICHOLAS SPANGLER Fossil Frank has a hypothesis - inspired by certain shells taken from deep in a limestone quarry abutting the Everglades - that a great tsunami hit Florida about two million years ago. It happened in the evening - and he can prove it. More of this later. Before Frank Perillo became Fossil Frank he was an unhappy mechanic. He hated every day he lay on his back in Ketcham's garage. Winter days were worst, because his hands turned to meat from the cold and the lacquer thinners he used to wash himself. When he jacked up cars, the ice on...
Underwater Archaeology
Atlantis expedition reveals structures
	Posted by jb6 On News/Activism 08/16/2005 2:42:44 PM PDT · 33 replies · 921+ views Financial Mirror | 05/08/2005 The sonar scans of manmade structures one mile below water off the southeast coast of Cyprus were presented here Thursday by Robert Sarmast, head of the Cyprus/Atlantis Expedition project for the first time. Announcing the results of last yearís expedition to find one of humankindís greatest mysteries, the legendary Atlantis, Sarmast presented three dimension underwater side-scan sonar pictures of structures 1.5 km below sea level, 80 km off the southeast coast of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean. He said it was no coincidence that his team discovered a 3km long straight wall intersected at right angles by another wall, adding...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Ancient Civilizations: Six Great Enigmas
	Posted by jb6 On News/Activism 08/16/2005 1:39:57 PM PDT · 71 replies · 1,890+ views Disklosure | WILL HART & ROBERT BERRINGER We stand today at an unprecedented turning point in human history. In recent years two versions of ancient history have formed. One, we shall call ëalternativeí history, the other we shall refer to as ëofficialí history. The former ponders over a variety of anomalies and tries to make sense out of the corpus of evidence, i.e., the pyramids and timelines, why they were built, by whom and when. The latter conducts digs, catalogues pottery shards, and tries to defend its proposal there are no enigmas, and virtually everything is explained. At one point perhaps as late as fifteen years ago...
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Ancient Egypt
Egypt uncovers remains of ancient church beneath monastery
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 08/24/2005 6:21:42 AM PDT · 17 replies · 758+ views People's Daily | August 8, 2005 The remains of an ancient church dating to the early days of Christianity have been discovered beneath a Coptic Christian monastery, the Egyptian Gazette daily reported Sunday. Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni announced Saturday that archaeologists have found the remains of the church, built of bricks. It included a number of underground rooms which monks used for celebrating the liturgy. The church, uncovered beneath Saint Anthony's Monastery in the Red Sea area, was founded by disciples of Saint. Anthony, a hermit who died in A.D.356 and is regarded as the father of Christian monasticism. Archaeologists have also unearthed the bases...
Ancient Greece
Technology in Ancient Greece -- Draining projects in the lake Kopaida
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/26/2005 8:36:12 AM PDT · 7 replies · 101+ views Dina Baga homepage | last updated Novembre 28, 1997 | Dina Baga The biggest technical project of the Mycenae civilization is the one of the drainning of the lake Kopaida in the 14th century B.C. The water from the rivers and the torrents that were overflowing the plain, were conveied through an irregular canal, the width of which was 40 -60 metres, and a system of banks at the NE side of the lake, where a concentrating trench(ditch) (total length of 9 kilometres) was carrying them away into deep holes. Those holes were not enougth to absorb all that water, so the Mycenae's technicians builted an underground inclined tunnel, dug into the...
Ancient Rome
BBC's £58m Rome is most violent, explicit and costly drama yet
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 08/21/2005 12:09:19 PM PDT · 44 replies · 967+ views UK Telegraph | 8/21/05 | Chris Hastings The BBC is about to broadcast the most violent and sexually explicit programme ever to be shown on British television - and at £58 million for 12 episodes it is also the most expensive. Rome, a drama set in the dying days of the Roman Empire, contains full frontal male and female nudity and depictions of violent sex. The Sunday Telegraph has seen the first six episodes of the blood-soaked drama - a co-production between the corporation and the American broadcaster HBO - which contains nudity within its opening minutes. The show, which premieres in America next Sunday and hits...
Asia
Ancient Site Reveals Stories Of Sacrificed Horses
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/24/2005 4:26:47 PM PDT · 11 replies · 291+ views Xinhuanet/China View/China Daily | 8-24-2005 Ancient site reveals stories of sacrificed horses www.chinaview.cn 2005-08-24 14:15:53 BEIJING, Aug. 24 -- A trip to Zibo might leave you with the similar impression as to a trip to Xi'an, especially when you visit the relics of horses buried for sacrifice. Zibo, in east China's Shandong Province, is the location of the state of Qi's capital in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). During this period, five feudal lords were able to gain control over the other states, with Duke Huan of Qi the head of the five. The difference between the horse buried for sacrifice in Zibo...
British Isles
BILL WYMAN KICKS OFF PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES ROADSHOW IN COLCHESTER (Wrote Book About Archaeology)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/26/2005 8:33:12 PM PDT · 46 replies · 603+ views 24 Hour Museum | 2/26/05 He might be better known for wielding a bass guitar than a metal detector, but former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has been an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist for many years. So who better to open proceedings at a Portable Antiquities Scheme Roadshow? Held up and down the country on November 27, the events offered a chance for members of the public to have any finds they’d unearthed identified by an expert. Altogether some 840 people did just that at events in Donnington, Exeter, Reading, Shrewsbury, Wrexham, York and Colchester where Bill Wyman was on hand to get things going. Speaking to...
Stone Axes Highlight 10,000 Years Of Commuting In Stockbroker Belt (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/25/2005 1:48:17 PM PDT · 13 replies · 278+ views London Times | 8-25-2005 | Dalya Alberge August 25, 2005 The Times Stone axes highlight 10,000 years of commuting in stockbroker belt By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered an important Stone Age site in the heart of Surrey. An excavation has turned up flint tools and cooking pots from about 10,000 years ago at the site on the North Downs. The area, which bears the remains of cooked meals, campfires and flints shaped into tools by people who visited the North Downs around 8,000BC, is believed to contain one of the most important Mesolithic excavations in Britain. Andrew Josephs, an archaeologist and the project’s consultant,...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Islamic regime to submerge Iran's historical root (Persepolis & Pasargade)
	Posted by F14 Pilot On News/Activism 08/22/2005 1:02:15 PM PDT · 91 replies · 943+ views SMCCDI | Aug 21, 2005 The Islamic regime is to submerge part of Iran's past in a shameful historical cleansing, in order to avoid facing more nationalistic problems with future generations. The construction of a very controversial dam project is near completion and soon, the tomb of "Cyrus the Great" and "Persepolis" would be submerged under water. Cyrus the Great (580-529 BC) (known as Kourosh in Persian; Kouros in Greek; Kores in Hebrew) was the first Achaemenian Emperor and founder of Iran, who issued a decree on his aims and policies, later hailed as his charter of the rights of nations. Inscribed on a clay...
Let's Have Jerusalem
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN ISRAEL PERTAIN TO KING DAVID, JESUS
	Posted by gscc On Religion 08/20/2005 6:09:30 PM PDT · 8 replies · 330+ views travelvideo.tv | August 17, 05 RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN ISRAEL PERTAIN TO KING DAVID, JESUS Aug 17, 05 | 4:55 pm Working a short distance from each other near Jerusalem's Old City, archaeologists have made two major discoveries in recent months, one pertaining to King David and the other to Jesus.
Third-generation Iraqi looks after Abraham's birthplace
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 08/20/2005 7:07:10 PM PDT · 19 replies · 511+ views AFP /Yahoo News | Aug. 20, 2005 | AFP UR, Iraq (AFP) - Dhia Mhesen rattles off fact after fact about this ancient mud brick city, the site of a giant ziggurat and the reputed birthplace of Abraham -- the prophet revered by Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike. "The ziggurat was the temple of the moon god," said Mhesen. "And over there is the house of Abraham. The bible calls this place Ur of the Chaldeans." Mhesen, 46, is the third generation caretaker at Ur, a 4,000 year-old city located near Nasiriyah, 375 kilometers (235 miles) southeast of the Iraqi capital. The site is also known as Tell Muqayyar....
Mesopotamia
Under the Old Neighborhood: In Iraq, an Archaeologist's Paradise
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 08/22/2005 9:28:43 PM PDT · 7 replies · 398+ views NY Times | August 23, 2005 | JAMES GLANZ ERBIL, Iraq - If a neighborhood is defined as a place where human beings move in and never leave, then the world's oldest could be here at the Citadel, an ancient and teeming city within a city girded by stone walls. Resting on a layer cake of civilizations that have come and gone for an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 years, the Citadel looms over the apartment blocks of this otherwise rather gray metropolis in Iraqi Kurdistan. The settlement rivals Jericho and a handful of other famous towns for the title of the oldest continuously inhabited site in the world. The...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Peruvian Pyramids Rival The Pharaohs'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/22/2005 11:38:36 AM PDT · 48 replies · 1,117+ views The Times Of London | 8-20-2005 | Norman Hammond August 20, 2005 Peruvian pyramids rival the pharaohs' By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent RUINS on Peru’s desert coast dated to some 4,700 years ago suggest an earlier focus of civilisation than any so far identified in the New World. The site of Caral, in the Supe Valley north of Lima, covers 66 hectares (165 acres) and includes pyramids 21m (70ft) high arranged around a large plaza. “What really sets Caral apart is its age,” Roger Atwood reports in Archaeology. “Carbon dating has revealed that its pyramids are contemporary with those of Egypt and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia.” These are among...
Biology and Cryptobiology
In the Wake of the Phoenicians: DNA study reveals a Phoenician-Maltese link
	Posted by afraidfortherepublic On News/Activism 08/21/2005 1:38:08 PM PDT · 32 replies · 651+ views The National Geographic | October 2004 | Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa In the Wake of the Phoenicians: DNA study reveals a Phoenician-Maltese link The idea is fascinating. Who among us hasn't considered our heritage and wondered if we might be descended from ancient royalty or some prominent historical figure? Led by a long-standing interest in the impact of ancient empires on the modern gene pool, geneticist and National Geographic emerging explorer Spencer Wells, with colleague Pierre Zalloua of the American University of Beirut, expanded on that question two years ago as they embarked on a genetic study of the Phoenicians, a first millennium B.C. sea empire that—over several hundred years—spread across...
Some scholars think unending arguments over evolution in U.S. are inescapably religious
	Posted by AncientAirs On News/Activism 08/18/2005 7:58:27 PM PDT · 24 replies · 369+ views Mainichi Daily News | August 19, 2005 NEW YORK -- As students head back to biology classrooms across the United States in the next few weeks, debate over whether they should be taught "intelligent design" concepts alongside evolution is getting hotter, with the president, other politicians and a high-profile Roman Catholic cardinal from Austria all weighing in. Quizzed on the topic, President George W. Bush recently told reporters: "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas and the answer is 'Yes."' The president's remark prompted sharp criticism from intelligent design opponents. Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Sunday on the CBS...
Prehistory and Origins
Bones reveal first shoe-wearers
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 08/24/2005 10:06:07 PM PDT · 96 replies · 1,063+ views BBC | 8/24/05 | Olivia Johnson Sturdy shoes first came into widespread use between 40,000 and 26,000 years ago, according to a US scientist.Humans' small toes became weaker during this time, says physical anthropologist Erik Trinkaus, who has studied scores of early human foot bones. He attributes this anatomical change to the invention of rugged shoes, that reduced our need for strong, flexible toes to grip and balance. The research is presented in the Journal of Archaeological Science. The development of footwear appears to have affected the four so-called "lesser" toes - excepting the big toe. Ancient footwearWhile early humans living in cold northern climates may...
Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull
	Posted by anymouse On News/Activism 08/22/2005 6:43:45 PM PDT · 27 replies · 496+ views Associated Press | 8/22/05 | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI TBILISI, Georgia - Archaeologists in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have unearthed a skull they say is 1.8 million years old — part of a find that holds the oldest traces of humankind's closest ancestors ever found in Europe. The skull from an early member of the genus Homo was found Aug. 6 and unearthed Sunday in Dmanisi, an area about 60 miles southeast of the capital, Tbilisi, said David Lortkipanidze, director of the Georgian National Museum, who took part in the dig. In total, five bones or fragments believed to be about the same age have been found...
Not the Biggest Man on Campus, but Surely the Biggest Foot [why is a TX dinosaur track in B'klyn?]
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 08/20/2005 4:25:43 AM PDT · 79 replies · 903+ views NY Times | August 20, 2005 | MICHAEL BRICK Ruby Washington/The New York TimesWayne G. Powell, chairman of the geology department at Brooklyn College, with the track of an Acrocanthosaurus, top, and a larger one from a Pleurocoelus. Scientists thought the block was a replica. Here is a good way to hide dinosaur tracks: Wait tens of millions of years while the footsteps fossilize under a shallow sea that will later become Texas, dig up the tracks just before World War II, put plaster around the sides, paint the whole thing a whimsical muddy red, take it to Brooklyn and bolt it to a classroom wall with an...
Medieval Europe
Scotland's "Braveheart" honored, 700 years on
	Posted by ajolympian2004 On General/Chat 08/24/2005 3:10:49 AM PDT · 27 replies · 210+ views Reuters via Yahoo! | Tues. Aug. 23, 2005 | Gideon Long By Gideon Long Tue Aug 23,11:52 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Seven hundred years to the day after Scottish hero William "Braveheart" Wallace was executed by his English foes, a historian has retraced his final journey to promote his dream of independence for Scotland. David Ross, who has written books on Wallace and other Scottish national heroes, strode from Westminster through the old City of London on Tuesday wearing a kilt and carrying a sword. Accompanied by around 100 supporters, many playing bagpipes and waving the blue-and-white Scottish flag, Ross ended his journey at Smithfield, where Wallace was butchered by...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Experts Discover that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles are Related
	Posted by restornu On General/Chat 08/20/2005 11:24:37 PM PDT · 46 replies · 466+ views My Family Ancestry.com Reveals Prince Charles and Camilla are Cousins PROVO, Utah, April 4/PRNewswire/ -- When Prince Charles first met Camilla Parker-Bowles at a polo match in the early seventies, she said to the prince, “My great-grandmother and your great-great grandfather were lovers, so how about it?” Today, genealogical research shows they have an even stronger bond, they are ninth cousins. According to family history experts at Ancestry.com, a service of MyFamily.com, Inc., Prince Charles and Camilla are ninth cousins once removed. Prince Charles and Camilla are both descendents of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle. Prince Charles’ family history can be...
Mystery Digger named at last
	Posted by naturalman1975 On News/Activism 08/04/2005 4:25:43 PM PDT · 10 replies · 618+ views The Australian | 5th August 2005 | D.D. McNicoll THE grim-faced mystery soldier watching the Japanese surrender at Wom airstrip in New Guinea at the end of World War II has been identified. He is Major Douglas Squire Irving Burrows, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (senior administrative officer) of the Australian 6th Division. His widow, Val Burrows, of Mosman in Sydney, said yesterday that Burrows had never spoken much about the war. "He and his mates laughed about the funny things that happened - and their stories got better with the passing years - but they never spoke about the fighting," she said. "There was no counselling in those days....
New clues to Titanic disaster
	Posted by Aussie Dasher On News/Activism 08/23/2005 6:06:00 PM PDT · 69 replies · 1,615+ views Herald Sun | 24 August 2005 EXPLORERS have found a previously unknown site scattered with artefacts from the Titanic that could shed new light on the final moments of the world's most famous ocean liner. "We found a new debris field about 900 metres south of the stern, which supports my long-standing belief that the Titanic began to break apart and sink further south than where she currently sits," expedition leader G. Michael Harris said today. Mr Harris, whose grandfather led the first wave of expeditions in the early 1980s, made the 4km dive with his 13-year-old son through freezing waters in a three-man submersible. The...
New York State Works to Preserve Rare 18th Century Artifacts, Including Benedict Arnold Papers
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 08/20/2005 11:52:11 AM PDT · 8 replies · 203+ views Associated Press | Aug 20, 2005 | Chris Carola ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The major general was so well known that even his abbreviated signature - "B. Arnold" - was sufficient on a pass to ensure anyone safe passage. But in September 1780, that signature sealed Benedict Arnold's fate as the American hero of Saratoga became America's most infamous traitor. The passes he scrawled for "John Anderson" - the alias of John Andre, a British spy - are among the most treasured items among the thousands of Revolutionary War documents and relics in the state library and archives, located in the New York State Museum. Now, thanks to a...
Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 08/20/2005 6:07:59 PM PDT · 14 replies · 608+ views AP on Yahoo | 8/20/05 | Toby Sterling - AP AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said Saturday. The handwritten manuscript titled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas" was dated December 1924. Considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs, it was published in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in January 1925. High-resolution photographs of the 16-page, German-language manuscript and an account of its discovery were posted on the institute's Web site. "It was quite exciting" when a student working on his...
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Dustbunny (8/20/2005 4:04:23 AM PDT)Archeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, ah, to be young and have the chance to devote my life to learning all the mysteries.

Ah, to be young, period. ;')

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Wow, another week without Egypt, and also a week without Greece.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #59 Saturday, September 3, 2005
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Chandler's Wobble Causes Earthquakes, Volcanism, El Nino, and Global Warming
	Posted by IGBT On News/Activism  01/18/2005 8:58:05 PM PST · 20 replies · 761+ views Michael Wells Mandeville | 2004 | Michael Wells Mandeville The exact location of the North and South Poles of the Earth's spin axis are constantly changing while the Earth's crust wobbles slightly around and over the poles in the 14 month and 6.5 year cycles of Chandler's Wobble. The eigth graphs in this story board demonstrate that peaks of seismic and volcanic activity come and go in accordance with these rhythms of Chandler's Wobble to produce the El Nino syndrome. The graphs also prove that the total amount of this activity has progressively increased during the last 50 years while the center of Chandler's Wobble has slowly drifted towards...
Geology Picture of the Week, January 2-8, 2005: Evidence of Ancient Cretaceous Catastrophe
	Posted by cogitator On General/Chat  01/06/2005 11:32:02 AM PST · 6 replies · 1,221+ views Rochester Academy of Science | January 1998 | Paul Dudley Considering that news is still dominated by the tsunami and its aftereffects (and aid and recovery efforts), my mind is still on that kind of topic. I recalled back during the days when the Chicxulub impact site was being identified as the main Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) event that the supporting evidence for the regional location was thick layers of ejecta at the K/T boundary found around the Caribbean. I checked for pictures and found a few; below is one of the best from Belize. Can you see the K/T boundary? Go to the linked article to read more about this image...
Geology Picture of the Week, January 2-8, 2005: Evidence of Ancient Cretaceous Catastrophe
	Posted by cogitator On News/Activism  01/06/2005 11:40:15 AM PST · 5 replies · 1,533+ views Rochestery Academy of Science | January 1998 | Paul Dudley Link post: the image and the thread (to discuss it) are below: Geology Picture of the Week, January 2-8, 2005: Evidence of Ancient Cretaceous Catastrophe
'Meteorite' Hits Girl
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/27/2002 11:50:09 AM PDT · 96 replies · 309+ views BBC | 8-27-2002 Tuesday, 27 August, 2002, 12:27 GMT 13:27 UK 'Meteorite' hits girl Siobhan Cowton: "I saw it fall from above roof height" The odds against being hit by a meteorite are billions to one - but a teenager in North Yorkshire may have had one land on her foot. Siobhan Cowton, 14, was getting into the family car outside her Northallerton home at 1030 BST on Thursday when a stone fell on her from the sky. This does not happen very often in Northallerton Siobhan Cowton Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her father Niel. The family now...
Rhythmic Submarine Volcanos And El El NiÒos
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/29/2005 1:37:32 PM PDT · 22 replies · 174+ views Science Frontiers | September-October 1993 | William Corliss The real cause of El Ninos is still obscure. However, the recent discovery of over 1,000 previously unmapped submarine volcanos rising from the seafloor in the eastern Pacific may lead to El Nino's source. The synchronous eruption of, say, 100 of these volcanos might warm the ocean around Easter Island a tad -- just enough to warm the atmosphere above a bit -- resulting in a shift of the high pressure area.
Ancient Rome
Battle for the books of Herculaneum (1 of finest libraries of the ancient world, covered in Lava)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  05/15/2005 11:30:07 PM PDT · 3 replies · 433+ views Mimirabilis | 15 May 2005 | Peter Popham Buried deep in the Villa dei Papiri, covered by the molten lava of Vesuvius, lies one of the finest libraries of the ancient world. But excavation may destroy more than it savesThey look like lumps of coal, and when the Swiss military engineer and his team who first explored the buried town of Herculaneum in the 18th century encountered them, that was how they were treated: as ancient rubbish, to be dumped in the sea. But before being hit by a cascade of molten volcanic rock at more than 400C (the so-called pyroclastic flow that inundated the town), these now-blackened...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Iran's dam will sink tomb of Cyrus the Great
	Posted by Cyrus the Great On News/Activism  08/31/2005 4:05:02 PM PDT · 25 replies · 438+ views Iranfocus | 8/31/05 | Iranfocus Tehran, Iran, Aug. 31 ñ Iran is building a dam which once completed will destroy the 2,500-year-old historic ruins of tomb of the first Achaemenian king of ancient Persia. The Sayvand Dam being constructed in the central Fars province will inevitably cause river waters to submerge Persepolis, the capital of ancient Persia, and Pasargard, the site of the mausoleum of the first Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great. The dam which is near completion is some eight kilometres from Pasargard and 50 kilometres from Persepolis, according to an official in Iran's Cultural Heritage Organisation. The dam is to start operation in...
India
Archaeologist stirs storm with 'ancient city' claim
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  04/04/2005 10:36:46 PM PDT · 7 replies · 482+ views Bangladesh News | Monday March 28 2005 A professor of archaeology at the Jahangirnagar University has stirred a controversy with misleading claims about and unauthorised excavation at an archaeological site. Professor Sufi Mustafizur Rahman, who led the excavation of an 18 by 16 metre area at Owari-Bateshwar in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi, claimed in April 2004 that the excavation had led to the discovery of a road, a citadel and a raft of artefacts that dated back to 450BC. Sufi told the media that his findings indicated to the oldest civilisation to have been discovered so far, and would redefine the history of eastern India and substantiate...
Mesopotamia
Museum inquiry into 'smuggling' of ancient bowls
	Posted by swilhelm73 On News/Activism  04/25/2005 2:51:58 PM PDT · 1 reply · 80+ views timesonline | April 22, 2005 | Dalya Alberge ONE of the world's leading buyers of antiquities is at the heart of an inquiry to establish whether part of his multimillion-pound collection was illegally exported from the Middle East. University College London has set up a committee of inquiry into the provenance of 650 Aramaic incantation bowls inscribed with magical texts, The Times has learnt. The bowls were loaned to the university museum ó the Petrie ó by Martin Schoyen, a Norwegian tycoon who has built up one of the world's finest collections of antiquities in private hands. The bowls, which were loaned for research and cataloguing, are being...
Polish and US Troops Saved Ancient Babylon - Says Defence Minister
	Posted by Grzegorz 246 On News/Activism  01/18/2005 9:41:21 AM PST · 10 replies · 574+ views Polskie Radio | 17.01.2005 Polish Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said today that contrary to a report by the British Museum, the presence of foreign troops in Babylon had saved the famous archaeological site for civilisation. A British Museum report published at the weekend said U.S. troops had caused "substantial damage" to the ancient city by setting up a military base amid the ruins in April 2003 after invading Iraq and toppling President Saddam Hussein. It also said U.S. and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilisation and home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Amar: Bnei Menashe are descendants of ancient Israelites
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  04/04/2005 9:50:12 PM PDT · 1 reply · 269+ views Haaretz | Fri., April 01, 2005 | Yair Sheleg Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar decided on Wednesday to recognize the members of India's Bnei Menashe community as descendants of the ancient Israelites. Amar also decided to dispatch a team of rabbinical judges to India to convert the community members to Orthodox Jews. Such a conversion will enable their immigration to Israel under the Law of Return, without requiring the Interior Ministry's authorization. The International Fellowship of Christians & Jews (IFCJ), a group that raises money among evangelical Christians for Jewish causes, has undertaken to finance the process of converting the Bnei Menashe community and bringing them to Israel. The Bnei...
Archeologist is 'naked' and in your face (combines arch. & hipster's approach to explore Bible)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  09/02/2005 12:42:37 AM PDT · 9 replies · 357+ views The Globe and Mail | Thursday, September 1, 2005 | MICHAEL POSNER Simcha Jacobovici combines archeology and a hipster's approach to explore biblical stories, MICHAEL POSNER writesBy You've heard about The Naked Chef, of course: Britain's Jamie Oliver, who lays out the bare essentials of his culinary art in a popular TV series. And you may remember Naked City, a gritty black-and-white police drama from the sixties. But are you ready for The Naked Archaeologist? That would be Toronto documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, who has turned his personal passion for biblical archeology into a 26-part series for Vision Television (debuting Labour Day). Best known for Deadly Currents (a film about the Arab-Israeli...
British Isles
The Ferriby boats -- 1600BC
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/28/2005 5:21:56 AM PDT · 10 replies · 186+ views Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton | Aug 13 1999 | J.S. Illsley The Ferriby boats were first found in 1938, and two further boats were discovered in 1940 and 1963, all by E.V. Wright who has become the principal authority on them. All were buried in the thick and very difficult blue clay in the intertidal regions of North Humberside... The people who built these boats evidently lived in a wood rich society and were familiar with working large timbers on a gross scale (check with Frances on Stonehenge as a wooden building)... Nevertheless the quality of the joins and seams is very high, especially where the side strakes join the edges...
Oldest Bridge in Ireland
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/28/2005 5:10:07 AM PDT · 12 replies · 199+ views Archaeological Institute of America | May 6, 1998 | Ben Keene Built in A.D. 804, the 533-foot-long, 17-foot-wide oak span supported a roadway leading to the nearby monastery and village of Clonmacnoise. The size of the bridge suggests technical know-how and a large, skilled workforce. It also indicates the area was more economically and politically advanced than previously assumed. An underwater team led by Aidan O'Sullivan found the remains in 1996 after reading about the bridge in twelfth-century Irish annals... a bronze liturgical basin decorated with ribbing and dating from the eighth or ninth centuries. About 12 inches across, the basin was badly damaged. It was possibly lost on the bridge...
Medieval Europe
Ancient Skeletons Were Siege Soldiers (Netherlands)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  05/06/2005 12:34:22 AM PDT · 2 replies · 219+ views Expatica | 3 May 2005 AMSTERDAM ó Nine skeletons found on 4 May last year in Maastricht are of Dutch origin and were probably members of the Staatse leger (State army), Maastricht City Council has revealed. Research by police and the municipal's archaeological service has indicated that the soldiers were killed and buried during a siege of Maastricht, either in 1592 (with Prince Maurits) or in 1594 or 1632 (with Prince Frederik Hendrik). The skeletons are currently being stored at the anatomy department of the Leiden University, but later this month they will be transferred to the archaeological department in Maastricht. The small cemetery was...
Crowds mark death of Braveheart
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism  09/01/2005 7:37:16 AM PDT · 16 replies · 785+ views Islington Gazette | 8/31/05 | Islington Gazette CROWDS of more than 1,000 flocked to Smithfield to mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Scottish hero William Wallace - also known as Braveheart. The freedom fighter was hung, drawn and quartered outside the church of St Bartholomew the Great in 1305 after being betrayed by a Scottish knight in service to King Edward the First. His life story was famously given a Hollywood makeover by actor/director Mel Gibson in 1995 for the film Braveheart. But no national celebrations were planned to mark the 700th anniversary of his execution so author and historian David Ross, who wrote bestseller...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Discovery Of Ancient Indian Village Halts School Construction
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  04/26/2005 12:17:29 AM PDT · 3 replies · 293+ views WREG | 4/24/05 | Brian Kuebler Desoto County, MS -- Archeologists are combing over 150 acres of land slated for three new Desoto County Schools. The state of Mississippi halted the construction of the schools after a tip call revealed the land should be marked for an archeological excavation. Preliminary findings proved the tip genuine when scientists found bone fragments, pottery shards and other evidence of a 1200 year old Indian village. The complete excavation process could take some time but a preliminary report will be sent to the state Monday at which point the government will decide whether or not to proceed with the plan....
New Structure Found at Ancient Ohio Site
	Posted by Artemis Webb On News/Activism  08/30/2005 7:52:19 PM PDT · 24 replies · 643+ views AP | 08/30/2005 | none credited OREGONIA, Ohio - Archaeologists say they have something new to study at Fort Ancient State Memorial. A previously unknown circular structure about 200 feet in diameter was detected recently during preliminary work for an erosion-control project at the site of 2,000-year-old earthworks, state authorities said. More study will be needed to determine whether the structure is an earthworks or the remains of a ditch that held a series of large posts or of some other kind of structure, state authorities said. "The reaction is 'Wow!'" Jack Blosser, Fort Ancient's site manager, said of the new find. Blosser said the last...
Prehistory and Origins
"Antibiotic" Beer Gave Ancient Africans Health Buzz
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  05/19/2005 6:57:43 PM PDT · 25 replies · 568+ views National Geographic | May 16, 2005 | John Roach Humans have been downing beer for millennia. In certain instances, some drinkers got an extra dose of medicine, according to an analysis of Nubian bones from Sudan in North Africa. George Armelagos is an anthropologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. For more than two decades, he and his colleagues have studied bones dated to between A.D. 350 and 550 from Nubia, an ancient kingdom south of ancient Egypt along the Nile River. The bones, the researchers say, contain traces of the antibiotic tetracycline. Today tetracycline is used to treat ailments ranging from acne flare-ups to urinary-tract infections. But the...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Carnegie scientists find muscular ancient mammal
	Posted by Willie Green On General/Chat  03/31/2005 1:51:05 PM PST · 5 replies · 105+ views The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Thursday, March 31, 2005 | Byron Spice Scientists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History have discovered fossils of a mouse-size mammal that dug and burrowed in search of tasty insects during the Jurassic Age, 150 million years ago. The extinct species has been dubbed Popeye. Its tastes appeared to favor termites, not spinach as its cartoon namesake. But like the famous Sailor Man, this creature has massive forearms, an adaptation that helped it dig.
Paleoanthropology: Start Over? (Open ended storytelling pawned as science)
	Posted by bondserv On News/Activism  08/27/2005 9:08:20 AM PDT · 220 replies · 1,713+ views Creation-Evolution Headlines | 8/22/05 | Creation-Evolution Headlines Paleoanthropology: Start Over? -- 08/22/2005 -- The September issue of National Geographic, featuring the African continent, has arrived in homes. On page 1, Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post wrote about the quest for early man, asking, "Are we looking for bones in all the right places?" The bulk of the article describes the 'messy' story of human origins. It used to be clean-cut, he said, but no longer: Scientists are good at finding logical patterns and turning data into a coherent narrative. But the study of human origins is tricky: The bones tell a complicated story. The cast of...
Space radiation may select amino acids for life
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism  08/24/2005 10:16:24 PM PDT · 80 replies · 754+ views New Scientist | 8/24/05 | Maggie McKee Space radiation preferentially destroys specific forms of amino acids, the most realistic laboratory simulation to date has found. The work suggests the molecular building blocks that form the "left-handed" proteins used by life on Earth took shape in space, bolstering the case that they could have seeded life on other planets. Amino acids are molecules that come in mirror-image right- and left-handed forms. But all the naturally occurring proteins in organisms on Earth use the left-handed forms - a puzzle dubbed the "chirality problem". "A key question is when this chirality came into play," says Uwe Meierhenrich, a chemist at...
Texas Farmer Claims He Caught Legendary 'Chupacabra'
	Posted by BurbankKarl On General/Chat  08/25/2005 11:44:52 AM PDT · 85 replies · 2,896+ views NBC | 8/25/05 | various A Texas farmer may have found what some would call a "chupacabra," a legendary animal known for sucking the blood out of goats. COLEMAN, Texas -- A Texas farmer may have found what some would call a "chupacabra," a legendary animal known for sucking the blood out of goats. Reggie Lagow set a trap last week after a number of his chickens and turkeys were killed. What he found in his trap was a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo. The mystery animal has been sent to Texas Parks and Wildlife in hopes of determining what...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
America's Pristine Myth
	Posted by Mobile Vulgus On News/Activism  08/31/2005 7:32:03 PM PDT · 59 replies · 1,419+ views Christian Science Monitor | Charles C. Mann Next week my daughter will go back to elementary school, and I will be faced with a choice. At some point the curriculum will cover the environment, and she'll be taught that before Europeans settled the Americas the Indians lived so lightly on the land that for all practical purposes the hemisphere was a wilderness. The forests and plains, the teacher will explain, were crowded with bison, beaver, and deer; the rivers, with fish; flights of passenger pigeons darkened the skies. The continent's few inhabitants walked beneath an endless forest of tall trees that had never been disturbed. But in...
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this was ripped from one of my favorite "mine" sites, and sorted alpha; can't recall which one. In case you're interested...

Anthropology Department News

Anthropology in the News Archives

The Archaeology Channel

Archaeological News Archaeologica

Archaeology Online News

The Human Nature Daily Review

NGNews @ nationalgeographic.com

Welcome to American Archaeology [Archaeological Conservancy]

100 Most Endangered Sites for 2006 World Monuments Fund

Time Watch - Defending the Past

Archaeologists Find Ancient Treasure ABC (8/17/05)

• Thracian Treasure Surfaces in Bulgaria Discovery (8/18/05)
• 4,100-Year-Old Treasure Found in Bulgaria MSNBC (8/17/05)
• Bulgaria Unearths Huge Hoard of Gold Guardian (8/18/05)
• Treasure of Ancient Gold Discovered in Bulgaria Los Angeles Times (8/23/05)

Ancient and Modern Man Lived Side by Side - Study ABC (8/31/05)

• Ancient and Modern Man Lived Side by Side - Study Yahoo (8/31/05)

From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui CCNet (8/22/05)

Talking Primates with Dr. Frans de Waal 92Y Blog (8/25/05)

Mexican Myth or Texas Terror? Netscape (8/31/05)

Climate Change Fueled Human Evolution? Discovery News (8/18/05)

• Climate Flux Could Have Fostered Early Human Speciation, Diatom Study Suggests Scientific American (8/19/05)

Spears Spawned Ancient Group Violence? Discovery (8/25/05)

TB One of Oldest Human Diseases? Discovery (8/30/05)

Russian Archaeologists Discover Ancient Birch-Barks with Profanities RIA Novosti (8/19/05)

9000 Years Old Oriental Wine Found Epoch Times (8/30/05)

Archaeologists Find Evidence of Large-Scale Salt Production in Ancient China People's Daily Online (8/23/05)

Scientists Find Homo Erectus Skull Yahoo (8/22/05)

• Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull Washington Post (8/22/05)
• Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull Yahoo (8/22/05)

New Structure Found at Ancient Ohio Site Yahoo (8/30/05)

Endangered Vultures Highlight Parsi Culture Clash Yahoo (8/26/05)

Protective Footwear Started Nearly 30,000 Years Ago, Research Finds Washington University (8/17/05)

• 26,000-year-old Arch Supports? LiveScience (8/17/05)
• Prehistoric Sturdy Shoe Fad Discovered Discovery News (8/19/05)
• Bones Reveal First Shoe-Wearers BBC News (8/24/05)
• Effects of Prehistoric Trainers Discovered Telegraph (8/31/05)

Cave Reveals 10,000-Year-Old Art BBC (8/17/05)

• Ice Age Engravings Found in Somerset Guardian (8/18/05)

Water Returns to Iraqi Marshlands BBC News (8/24/05)

• Recovery of Iraq's Biblical Marshes a ‘Phenom' MSNBC (8/24/05)
• U.N.: Iraq's Marshlands Recovering CNN (8/24/05)

Balloons Help Spot Ancient Sites BBC News (8/31/05)

Eritrean Cookers Saving Firewood BBC News (8/31/05)

Peru's Glaciers in Retreat BBC News (8/25/05)

Misery of India's Child Sari Weavers BBC News (8/29/05)

In Pictures: Pygmies' Struggle BBC News (8/16/05)

Different view for East and West BBC News (8/22/05)

• Chinese, Americans Truly See Differently, Study Says National Geographic News (8/22/05)
• Westerners and Easterners See the World Differently New Scientist (8/22/05)
• Asians, Americans Show Perceptual Divide Yahoo (8/22/05)
• Americans and Chinese Differ in Their World View--Literally Scientific American (8/23/05)

Schizophrenia 'Price for Speech?' BBC News (8/27/05)

Hadrian's Neglected Mausoleum 'Close to Collapse' Independent (8/23/05)

Photo in the News: Child Mummy Scanned at Stanford National Geographic News (8/18/05)

Navajo Help Save Unique Sheep From Extinction National Geographic News (8/30/05)

Ancient Site Reveals Stories of Sacrificed Horses China View (8/24/05)

China to Salvage 800-Year-Old Ship on "Marine Silk Road" China View (8/25/05)

Third-Generation Iraqi Looks After Abraham's Birthplace Yahoo (8/20/05)

• Third-Generation Iraqi Looks After Abraham's Birthplace Turkish Press (8/22/05)

Rabbit Plague Digs a Hole in British History Observer (8/21/05)

Digging the Work Peoria Journal Star (8/20/05)

Tiny Seed May Fill a Historical Hole Maine Today (8/18/05)

UCSD Scientists Propose Ethical And Scientific Guidelines For Study Of Captive Great Apes Univ of California at San Diego (8/31/05)

Arab Christians are Arabs AMIN (8/28/05)

Prehistoric Dig at Colorado Dam Site Running Out of Time Arizona Sun (8/26/05)

Apes 'Extinct in a Generation' BBC News (9/1/05)

• Plea for $30 Million to Save Africa's Great Apes MSNBC (8/31/05)

Hundreds Mourn Slain Univ of Vermont Professor Burlington Free Post (8/23/05)

Archaeologists Search for Artifacts at Old Mission Coeur d'Alene Press (8/22/05)

Hawaiians Turn to Native Healing CNN (8/18/05)

'Male' Chromosome to Stick Around CNN (8/31/05)

• Male Chromosome May Have a Future After All MSNBC (8/31/05)
• Scientists: Male Chromosome Won't Lead to Extinction NPR (9/1/05)

Native Americans - Lost and Found Christian Science Monitor (8/24/05)

Prehistoric Dig at Dam Site Running Out of Time, Money Denver Post (8/19/05)

New Understanding of Human Sacrifice in Early Peru Eureka Alert (8/25/05)

Empire of the Sums Guardian (8/25/05)

• Cliodynamics

One Side Can Be Wrong Guardian (9/1/05)

A Life with No Purpose Guardian (8/16/05)

How Women Dream of Symmetrical Men Guardian (8/17/05)

Top of the Crops Guardian (8/23/05)

Chechens Consider Reviving Polygamy Institute for War and Peace Reporting (8/18/05)

Region 8 Sheriff Explores Link Between Meth and Arrowheads KAIT Jonesboro, AR (8/23/05)

On a Chinese River, Archeologists Discover Salt's Ancient History Los Angeles Times (8/27/05)

Gambling Monkeys Compelled by Winner's High LiveScience (8/22/05)

Humans Smell Like Bloodhounds Live Science (8/31/05)

Tool-Using Chimps Mostly Lefties, Study Finds MSNBC (8/15/05)

• Study: Chimps Show Hand Preference CNN (8/16/05)

Chimps Show Sign of Culture Nature (8/21/05)

• Cultural Norms Not Unique to Human Societies Eureka Alert (8/21/05)
• Chimpanzee Culture 'Confirmed' BBC News (8/22/05)
• Chimps Found to Conform to Cultural Norms Scientific American (8/22/05)
• Study: Chimpanzees Conform Socially Discovery (8/22/05)
• Copycat Chimps Are Cultural Conformists New Scientist (8/22/05)
• Chimps Show Desire to Fit In Washington Post (8/22/05)
• Chimps Learn By Watching Others -- Just Like Humans ABC News (8/24/05)
• Chimps Show Hallmark of Human Culture, Study Finds National Geographic News (8/26/05)

First Chimp Fossil Unearthed Nature (8/31/05)

• First Convincing Chimp Fossil Discovered New Scientist (8/31/05)
• First Chimp Fossils Found; Humans Were Neighbors National Geographic News (8/31/05)
• First-Ever Chimp Fossils Found Live Science (8/31/05)
• First-Ever Chimpanzee Fossils Found MSNBC (8/31/05)
• First Chimpanzee Fossils Found BBC News (8/31/05)
• Ancient and Modern Man Lived Side by Side - Study Yahoo (8/31/05)
• Fossils Place Chimp, Prehuman in Same Habitat: Primates Lived Side by Side in Africa 500,000 Years Ago San Francisco Chronicle (9/1/05)

Battle in the Brain Predicts Risky Behaviour Nature (8/31/05)

Chimpanzee Joins the Genome Club Nature (8/31/05)

• Chimp Genome Special Nature (8/31/05)
• 'Life Code' of Chimps Laid Bare BBC News (8/31/05)
• Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds National Geographic News (8/31/05)
• DNA Shows Human-Ape Links, Differences NPR (8/31/05)
• The Chimpanzee Genome Is Unveiled New Scientist (8/31/05)
• Scientists Decode Chimp DNA CNN (8/31/05)
• Scientists Decipher the Chimpanzee's DNA ABC (8/31/05)
• Chimp Genetic Code Opens Human Frontiers MSNBC (8/31/05)
• Scientists Decipher Chimp Genome Guardian (8/31/05)
• Chimp Genome--and First Fossils--Unveiled Scientific American (9/1/05)
• Chimp Genome Illuminates Humans Discovery (9/1/05)
• Scientists Complete Genetic Map of the Chimpanzee Washington Post (9/1/05)
• Man, Chimp Separated by Dab of DNA Los Angeles Times (9/1/05)
• In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome's Evolution New York Times (9/1/05)

X-Rays Reveal Ancient Text Wired News (8/24/05)

• X-Rays Reveal Lost Stone Writings Discovery (8/25/05)

Primate Communication Linked to Social Bonding New Scientist (8/24/05)

More Animals Join the Learning Circle New Scientist (8/28/05)

'The Wreckers' Sails into Dark Historical Territory NPR (8/27/05)

Mixed Reviews for Museum of American Indian NPR (8/17/05)

• National Museum of the American Indian

Dam Project Threatens Roman Ruins in Turkey NPR (8/21/05)

Volunteers Help with Missouri Dig NPR (8/26/05)

On the Trail of an Undercover Professor New York Sun (8/19/05)

• Northern Arizona Univ Professor Outed as College Author Arizona Republic (8/23/05)
• Professor Explores Her College USA Today (8/22/05)
• Professor Explores Her College Yahoo (8/23/05)
• Arizona Prof Spends Year As an Undergrad Yahoo (8/25/05)

Have You Heard? Gossip Turns Out to Serve a Purpose New York Times (8/16/05)

Manfred Korfmann, 63, Is Dead; Expanded Excavation at Troy New York Times (8/19/05)

A New Dawn for Museums of Native American Art New York Times (8/20/05)

The Newest Indians New York Times (8/21/05)

In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash New York Times (8/22/05)

• Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive New York Times (8/21/05)
• How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech New York Times (8/21/05)
• Editor Explains Reasons for 'Intelligent Design' Article Washington Post (8/19/05)
• Frist Voices Support for ‘Intelligent Design' MSNBC (8/19/05)
• Taking Issue... Evolution and Religious Faith NPR (8/8/05)

Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science New York Times (8/23/05)

Under the Old Neighborhood: In Iraq, an Archaeologist's Paradise New York Times (8/23/05)

Tracing a Mutiny by Slaves Off South Africa in 1766 New York Times (8/24/05)

Language Born of Colonialism Thrives Again in Amazon New York Times (8/28/05)

Show Me the Science New York Times (8/28/05)

The Claim: Violent Video Games Make Young People Aggressive New York Times (8/30/05)

Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much New York Times (8/30/05)

Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey New York Times (8/31/05)

• Poll Shows Support for Teaching ‘Creationism' MSNBC (8/31/05)

Small 1860s House, Big Site for Diggers Oregonian (8/31/05)

University of Pennsylvania Archaeologists Return to Iran after 26 Years Payvand (8/22/05)

Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light on Ancient Mystery Rochester Inst of Technology (8/31/05)

Intriguing Feature Salina Journal (8/21/05)

Archaeology from the Dark Side Salon (8/29/05)

Students Trace History of Buffalo Soldiers in Guadalupe Mountains Silver City Sun-News (8/22/05)

Swaziland Abandons Ancient Chastity Rite Yahoo (8/22/05)

Long in the Tooth: Dental DNA Reveals Our Ancient Roots San Diego Union Tribune (8/24/05)

Univ of Vermont's Jim Petersen Broke New Ground Times Argus (8/28/05)

New School Year, New Battle Over Evolution USA Today (8/25/05)

Park Service Team Set to Rescue Years of Artifacts Washington Post (9/1/05)

Blood Feud Wired (9/1/05)

• Ancestry in a Drop of Blood Washington Post (8/30/05)

Rev. Guenther Opens Hearts and Minds White Mountain Independent (8/30/05)

The Human Zoo London Zoo (8/26/05)

• Crowds Go Ape Over ‘Humans' Zoo Exhibit MSNBC (8/26/05)
• Humans 'Bear All' at London Zoo ABC News (8/29/05)

[SunkenCiv]

whew, almost addressed this long one to all of ya:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1173106/posts?page=277#277

[SunkenCiv]

This is the second weekly digest without any change to the ping lists. I think the GGG has hit a (temporary?) plateau.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #60 Saturday, September 10, 2005
Ancient Egypt
Egypt discovers ancient tomb
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/03/2005 7:04:36 AM PDT · 5 replies · 118+ views Xinhua | UPDATED: 17:46, August 31, 2005 | some commie drone A joint Egyptian-US archaeological team has discovered a 5,000-year-old funerary complex in Upper Egypt, the Egyptian Gazette reported Wednesday. The tomb was found in the Kom al-Ahmer region near Edfu, some 97 km south of the famous ancient city Luxor on the west bank of the Nile... The tomb is believed to have belonged to one of the first rulers of the Greek city of Apollinopolis Magna, the ancient name of Edfu.
Ancient Greece
Classics and War
	Posted by Noumenon On News/Activism 09/13/2002 11:27:20 PM PDT · 26 replies · 200+ views Imprimis, Hillsdale College | February, 2002 | Victor Davis Hanson Hey, Trev and Ev -- check this out. Dr. Hanson is one the few academics who do not promote an almost knee-jerk hatred of this country and principles upon which it was founded. In this lecture, he helps us to understand just how much we owe to our classical heritage -- the source and foundation of many of the ideas America's founders used to create the most free and prosperous nation the world has ever seen. Hanson says, In our ignorance, too many Americans have made the fatal mistake of assuming that our enemies are simply different from us,...
Ancient Rome
Rome (new HBO series)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/03/2005 7:52:54 AM PDT · 33 replies · 292+ views HBO | August 2005 | some HBO shill After eight years of war, Gaius Julius Caesar has finally completed his bloody conquest of Gaul. Just as he is prepared to celebrate a resounding victory and return to Rome with his army, he receives word that his daughter Julia has died in childbirth.
Ancient Europe
The Man in Salt, Salzwelten, Hallstatt, Austria
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/08/2005 10:10:50 PM PDT · 20 replies · 193+ views Salinen Austria AG | by 2005 | staff
Asia
9000 Years Old Oriental Wine Found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/03/2005 9:02:03 AM PDT · 12 replies · 184+ views The Epoch Times | August 30, 2005 | David James An international team of researchers have discovered after chemical analyses, that organics absorbed and preserved in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Central China contained a beverage of rice, honey, and fruit made as early as 9,000 years ago... According to Dr. McGovern, the analysis of these liquids point to their being fermented and filtered rice or millet wines -- known as 'jiu' or 'chang' according to Shang Dynasty oracle inscriptions.
Sand-covered Huns city unearthed
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 10/12/2002 8:10:28 AM PDT · 4 replies · 106+ views China Daily | 10-9-2002 Sand-covered Huns city unearthed! 10/08/2002 XI'AN: Chinese archaeologists recently discovered a unique, ancient city which has lain covered by desert sands for more than 1,000 years. It is the first ruined city of the Xiongnu (Huns) ever found, said Dai Yingxin, a well-known Chinese archaeologist. The Xiongnu was a nomadic ethnic group, who for 10 centuries were tremendously influential in northern China. The unearthed city occupies 1 square kilometre in Jingbian County, in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, adjacent to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north of the country. It is believed that the city was built by more...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
US forces should take a lesson from the Persian kings
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 09/06/2005 8:18:46 PM PDT · 12 replies · 344+ views Guardian UK | 9-6-05 | Simon Tisdall Present-day US fears about an Iranian-dominated super-state embracing southern Iraq and the Gulf have a basis in historical fact, according to an exhibition charting the exploits of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian empire, which opens at the British Museum on Friday. Cyrus and his successors, Xerxes and Darius, created the world's first superpower in 550BC, ruling territories from central Asia and the Indus valley to Arabia and north Africa. But the Persian kings appear to have had better luck in Iraq than President George Bush has had. Article continues When Persian forces overran Babylonia in 539BC, the inhabitants...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Is This The Palace of King David ? Archeologists Debate New Discovery
	Posted by SirLinksalot On News/Activism 09/09/2005 12:19:46 PM PDT · 21 replies · 815+ views Haaretz.com | 9/8/2005 | Ran Shapira A debate of biblical proportions By Ran Shapira The recently ended season of excavations at the top of the City of David slope was accompanied by much excitement. With every passing day, more and more parts of an enormous building were unearthed. Dr. Eilat Mazar, the archaeologist in charge of the site, believes this could be the palace King David built after conquering Jerusalem from the Jebusites. The discovery has stirred up the old argument among archaeologists as to whether the events described in the Bible in fact occurred, and in this context, the importance and greatness of David himself....
A stone tablet could be a relic of King Solomon's temple--or a clever forgery
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 04/29/2003 6:54:23 PM PDT · 8 replies · 192+ views US News and World Report (Online) | Science & Technology 5/5/03 | By Betsy Carpenter Science & Technology 5/5/03 Article of Faith A stone tablet could be a relic of King Solomon's temple--or a clever forgery By Betsy Carpenter Solomon's Temple was the glory of Jerusalem after its completion in the 10th century B.C. Fronted by colossal bronze columns, it was said to be built of hewn limestone. The nave was lined with fragrant cedar and held a massive golden table and altar. In an inner sanctuary guarded by gilded olive-wood doors, even the walls glistened with gold. The sole remaining testimony to this wondrous temple is the biblical account--and now, perhaps, a dark slab...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient City in Remote Peruvian Jungle Is Plundered by Tomb Robbers, Explorer Says
	Posted by Jet Jaguar On General/Chat 09/04/2005 10:44:47 PM PDT · 9 replies · 150+ views AP | Sep 4, 2005 | Monte Hayes LIMA, Peru (AP) - An American explorer says an ancient metropolis discovered by his father in Peru's cloud forest six years ago has been plundered by tomb robbers. Sean Savoy, 32, who recently led an expedition to the Gran Saposoa ruins, said he was stunned to find a sculptured stone head had been ripped from a stone wall and tombs destroyed since he was there a year ago. "We encountered a site, previously unknown to us, but obviously to others, where over 50 cliffside tombs were destroyed. Not just sacked and looted, the tombs themselves destroyed. Torn apart with picks...
Scientists: Bison in Illinois earlier (aren't you relieved?)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/03/2005 7:17:31 AM PDT · 5 replies · 82+ views South Carolina homepage (thestate.com) | Tue, Aug. 30, 2005 | Associated Press The discovery of bison bones in Peoria County proves the animals were in Illinois about 1,700 years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists. Radiocarbon dating confirmed a group of eight bison died at a site along the Illinois River around 265 B.C., said Alan Harn, an archaeologist with Dickson Mounds Museum. Until the dating tests, scientists did not have evidence of bison in Illinois before 1450... Archaeologists also found two partial deer skeletons and two partial elk skeletons near the bison, Harn said.
Prehistory and Origins
Neanderthals and modern man shared a cave
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/03/2005 6:58:02 AM PDT · 8 replies · 148+ views Times Online | September 01, 2005 | Norman Hammond Radiocarbon dates show that modern people camped in the Ch‚telperron cave, 25 miles northeast of Vichy, about 40,000 years ago, preceded and then followed by two episodes of Neanderthal occupancy... "We realised that these bones could be used for radiocarbon dating, a process not available when Delporte's excavations were carried out," said Professor Paul Mellars of Cambridge, who with Gravina and the Oxford dating specialist Christopher Bronk Ramsey publishes the evidence in the online edition of Nature today. "They give us the first unambiguous proof that Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans overlapped for at least a thousand years in western...
Schizophrenia 'price for speech?'
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/03/2005 8:31:23 AM PDT · 26 replies · 243+ views BBC | Saturday, 27 August 2005 | Caroline Ryan Professor Tim Crow believes that the difference in the development of the human brain from the primate brain - which allows us to process thought and speech - is linked to why psychotic illnesses occur. The human brain has developed to have a strong regional bias, so each side of the brain performs certain roles - for example, speech is controlled by the left side of the brain. Professor Crow of the mental health charity Sane's Prince of Wales International Centre in Oxford, suggests the division boundaries between certain areas of the brain, particularly those which are concerned with language...
Spears: Creators of Warfare? Spears Spawned Ancient Group Violence?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/06/2005 9:15:30 AM PDT · 23 replies · 195+ views Discovery News | August 25, 2005 | Jennifer Viegas According to Raymond Kelly, who formulated the theory, there at least was a period without a lot of group violence from 1 million to 14,000 years ago, when the overall population was lower and groups were less rigidly structured... Spears empowered defenders because people who initiated violence were more likely to be killed than those they attacked. Kelly suggested it was better to be hiding in a bush or a foxhole with a spear than was to be running toward the foxhole or bush with a spear.
Biology and Cryptobiology
Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot ~~ now they tell us....
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On General/Chat 09/06/2005 10:02:44 AM PDT · 57 replies · 506+ views The Sunday Times | September 04, 2005 | Jonathan Leake, Science Editor THE popular image of Tyrannosaurus rex and other killer dinosaurs may have to be changed as a scientific consensus emerges that many were covered with feathers. Most predatory dinosaurs such as tyrannosaurs and velociraptors have usually been depicted in museums, films and books as covered in a thick hide of dull brown or green skin. The impression was of a killer stripped of adornment in the name of hunting efficiency. This week, however, a leading expert on dinosaur evolution will tell the British Association, the principal conference of British scientists, that this image is wrong. Gareth Dyke, a palaeontologist of...
That's a Croc !
	Posted by genefromjersey On News/Activism 09/07/2005 4:17:22 AM PDT · 16 replies · 724+ views The Morning Paper | 09/07/05 | vanity That's a CROC !! A French-sponsored 12 member Peruvian exploration team has discovered the fossil remains of a 46 foot crocodile -- deep in the Amazon jungle. It is believed the entire Amazon Basin was once an inland sea -- stretching from Atlantic to Pacific, and inhabited by creatures such as this monster and a relatively demure and petite giant armadillo -- whose fossil was also found nearby. The crocodile fossil, which included skeleton, jaws, and very large teeth , indicates the creature may have had a head measuring four feet across ; and it probably weighed 'about 9 tons...
Tuberculosis appeared on Earth three million years ago
	Posted by Perdogg On News/Activism 08/23/2005 7:39:34 PM PDT · 43 replies · 643+ views Pravda.ru | 08/22/05 | staff Tuberculosis or consumption is much older than plague, typhus and malaria There are medicines for almost every illness in the XXI century. However, some diseases still can be neither prevented nor cured. It is not only AIDS and cancer, but tuberculosis as well. Although the problem of mass consumption is practically solved in developed countries, there is still Third World left. Meantime, on the whole this disease mows down three million people yearly. Scientists cannot help but be concerned with the origins of the virus and its possible treatment. Finally, French researchers went public with the results of their scientific...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Cosmic Hole-in-One Captured Over Antarctica
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/05/2005 9:36:19 PM PDT · 7 replies · 246+ views RedNova | Monday, 5 September 2005, 20:43 CDT | staff / press release What a powerful telescope had picked up as it stretched towards the night sky over Antarctica was the trail of dust left in the wake of the death of an asteroid... "What he didn't know at the time was that seven hours earlier an asteroid had crashed to Earth in another part of Antarctica, about 1500 kms west of Davis. The closest it got to human habitation was around 900 kms west of Japan's Syowa station," Dr Klekociuk said... Dr Klekociuk said that it was thought that the asteroid had come from what is known as the Aten group somewhere...
Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing (100 square miles near Mt St. Hellens)
	Posted by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget On News/Activism 09/07/2005 10:35:31 AM PDT · 89 replies · 3,153+ views LiveScience.com BEND, Ore. (AP) -- A recent survey of a bulge that covers about 100 square miles near the South Sister indicates the area is still growing, suggesting it could be another volcano in the making or a major shift of molten rock under the center of the Cascade Range. Recent eruptions at nearby Mount St. Helens in Washington state have rekindled interest in the annual Sisters survey and its findings. Oregon has four of the 18 most active volcanoes in the nation -- Mount Hood, Crater Lake, Newberry and South Sister. A recent U.S. Geological Survey report said monitoring is...
Vanished, Under Force of Time and an Inconstant Earth
	Posted by afraidfortherepublic On News/Activism 09/06/2005 11:55:52 AM PDT · 21 replies · 506+ views New York Times | September 6, 2005 | DENNIS OVERBYE Nothing lasts forever. Just ask Ozymandias, or Nate Fisher. Only the wind inhabits the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in Colorado, birds and vines the pyramids of the Maya. Sand and silence have swallowed the clamors of frankincense traders and camels in the old desert center of Ubar. Troy was buried for centuries before it was uncovered. Parts of the Great Library of Alexandria, center of learning in the ancient world, might be sleeping with the fishes, off Egypt's coast in the Mediterranean. "Cities rise and fall depending on what made them go in the first place," said Peirce Lewis,...
Sunken Civilizations (about time, I hear you say?)
Very Detailed Update on the Undersea Discoveries off Cuba (Includes Photos!).
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 08/19/2002 6:52:42 PM PDT · 19 replies · 1,657+ views The Morien Institute | May 28 2002 | Dr Paul Weinzweig Exclusive Morien Institute interview with - Dr Paul Weinzweig - Advanced Digital Communications Havana, Cuba On May 28 2002 National Geographic News reported on the many recent discoveries underwater on the coastal shelves around the world. The story focussed on the recent discovery of megalithic ruins some 2,200 ft below sea level off the coast of Cuba, interviewing geologist, Manuel Iturralde, the Director of Research at Cuba's Natural History Museum. He is the Consulting Geologist for the Canadian exploration company, Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), based in Havana, Cuba, which discovered the megalithic formations It has been suggested that what...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
The Legend of Kilroy
	Posted by Steve Newton On General/Chat 09/04/2005 2:05:32 PM PDT · 10 replies · 239+ views Thanks to Patrick A. Tillery | 2005 | Steve Newton The old sergeant platoon was patrolling in an area they had never been before and one of the goon squad was quick to point out that 'Kilroy' had already been here. The age old sign of 'KILROY WAS HERE' was chalked onto the side of a burned out building.
Researchers to seek long-lost Alligator (Civil War Submarine)
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 09/05/2005 11:33:09 AM PDT · 11 replies · 276+ views The Virginian Pilot | 9/5/05 | DENISE WATSON BATTS The hunt is on for the Alligator. Again. Beginning Friday, a second search will get under way for the Navy's first submarine. The Civil War-era vessel was lost off Cape Hatteras during a fierce storm in 1863. Researchers looked in the same vicinity last summer for six days but found nothing except a barge. This year's mission is scheduled for four days and will cover a smaller piece of ocean, about 30 miles off the coast. The effort is being undertaken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with the Navy's Office of Naval Research. Mike Overfield, chief scientist for...
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