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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #112 Saturday, September 9, 2006
Anatolia
Landlocked Proof?: Scientists say Aghdam holds remains of Tigranakert
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/02/2006 2:00:23 PM EDT · 8 replies · 101+ views ArmeniaNow | September 01, 2006 | Gayane Abrahamyan East of the NKR capital of Stepanakert, in Aghdam, archeologists uncovered remains believed to be part of a kingdom built by Armenian king (1st Century BC) Tigran the Great... The first stage of the excavations revealed a 33-meter long wall of one of the citadel terraces with huge polished stones, swallow-tailed couplings, a 5th to 6th century basilica and thousands of pottery, jewelry and casks. "The masonry with the swallow-tailed couplings is very important for dating for this construction technique is very typical to Hellenistic epoch, when the monolith blocs of stones joined by big metal couplings, were filled with...
Ancient Greece
Ancient Gold Treasures Unearthed In Thracian Tomb Near Black Sea
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/04/2006 6:04:13 PM EDT · 7 replies · 422+ views International Herald tribune | 9-4-2006 | AP Ancient gold treasures unearthed in Thracian tomb near Black Sea The Associated Press Published: September 4, 2006 SOFIA, Bulgaria A 2,200-year-old set of gold jewelry was unearthed from a Thracian burial mound on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the archaeologist who led the excavations said Monday. Daniela Agre said her team in late August found dozens of tiny jewelry pieces in the tomb of a woman, most likely a Thracian priestess, near the resort of Sinemorets, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) southeast of the capital, Sofia. The discovery included two earrings, crafted like miniature chariots, as well as parts of gold...
Ancient Rome
Roman mosaic floor rediscovered
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/02/2006 2:09:17 PM EDT · 6 replies · 52+ views BBC | Wednesday, 23 August 2006 | unattributed Gayton Thorpe was first excavated in 1923, but was covered over in the 1960s after it fell into disrepair... Michael de Bootman, who is part of the team, said the site could be about 50% larger than was initially documented. Mr de Bootman, geophysical overseer of the site, said the villa could also include up to five well-preserved masonry buildings, a detached bath house and possibly a gatehouse. "The site is the only exposed Roman mosaic recorded in Norfolk in situ," he said.
Dig unearths 'unique' Roman baths
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/02/2006 2:04:32 PM EDT · 4 replies · 78+ views BBC | Friday, 1 September 2006 | unattributed An archaeological dig in Kent has turned up a Roman bathhouse described as "totally unique" for the county. The remains of the 5th Century building were uncovered in a field in Faversham by students working with the Kent Archaeological Field School. Dr Paul Wilkinson said the Roman baths came to light during a number of excavations for Swale Borough Council. He claimed the octagon-shaped bathhouse was a "very exciting" find and a first for the South East. Dr Wilkinson said: "There's unique shapes in it, there's a hexagon plunge bath in the centre, there would have been two storeys, there's...
Etruscans
Pre-Roman sanctuary discovered [ Etruscan federation ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/02/2006 3:09:24 PM EDT · 4 replies · 72+ views News 24 | Sep 2 2006 | unattributed Archaeologists digging near the central Italian town of Orvieto believe they have discovered the 2 500-year-old ruins of the main sanctuary of the Etruscan federation, a central meeting point where political and religious leaders gathered once a year to discuss important matters. The University of Macerata announced on Friday that the site at the foot of the Umbrian town was probably the location of the Fanum Voltumnae, the federal sanctuary for the 12 Etruscans towns. But the project's lead archaeologist, Simonetta Stopponi, warned that the ultimate confirmation would only come with the discovery of an inscription to the Etruscan god...
Hub Of Etruscan Civilization Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/04/2006 6:17:17 PM EDT · 10 replies · 582+ views The Times | 9-2-2006 | Martin Penner Hub of Etruscan civilisation found By Martin Penner Archaeologists believe that they have found the ruins of the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans lived in the area between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Romans about 600 years later. The heads of Etruria's 12 city states would meet to discuss their affairs every spring at a holy place called the Fanum Voltumnae. It was never clear where the Fanum was but archaeologists from Macerata University believe they have found it at a site near the hill town of...
Etruscan Holy City Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/08/2006 10:56:21 PM EDT · 5 replies · 284+ views ANSA | 9-8-2006 Etruscan holy city discovered Fledgling Rome 'trembled' when leaders of 12 cities met (ANSA) - Rome, September 7 - Italian archaeologists believe they have found the mysterious sanctuary which was the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans were an ancient people known to have lived in the area of Italy between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Rome about 600 years later. For centuries they dominated the fledgling city on the Tiber and even supplied its first kings. But most traces of the Etruscan civilisation, which produced sophisticated art,...
Epigraphy and Language
Sumter Woman Finds Possible Ancient Coin In Grocery Change
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On General/Chat 09/06/2006 5:20:07 PM EDT · 35 replies · 662+ views WLTX | September 5, 2006 | Will Frampton (Sumter) When the coins come out of the cash drawer, they all sound the same. And when Lynn Moore picked up her change and walked out of a Sumter Bi-Lo last November, she had no reason to believe her coins were any different. Boy, was she wrong. "It's definitely not a penny," said Lynn. It wasn't until she emptied her change that she noticed. "I threw it in a vase right next to my kitchen table," said Lynn. She continued, "I dumped it out into my hand and noticed that one coin was very odd looking." For 10 months, she...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
'Pyramids' discovered in Ukraine
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 09/07/2006 7:34:27 AM EDT · 28 replies · 858+ views BBC | 07 Sep 2006 | Helen Fawkes Ukraine may be thousands of miles away from Egypt, but archaeologists there say they have found pyramids. It is claimed that the monuments have been uncovered in the east of the country and that they predate the pyramids in Egypt. But the claim that there is evidence of pyramids is being disputed. The prestigious Academy of Sciences has sent its own expert to the dig. It believes that this could be the Ukrainian version of Stonehenge. This could be one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in recent years. It is claimed that pyramids are buried underground in eastern Ukraine....
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Climate change rocked cradles of civilisation
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 09/07/2006 8:24:26 AM EDT · 49 replies · 602+ views University of East Anglia | 7-Sep-2006 | Simon Dunford Severe climate change was the primary driver in the development of civilisation, according to new research by the University of East Anglia. The early civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia, China and northern South America were founded between 6000 and 4000 years ago when global climate changes, driven by natural fluctuations in the Earth's orbit, caused a weakening of monsoon systems resulting in increasingly arid conditions. These first large urban, state-level societies emerged because diminishing resources forced previously transient people into close proximity in areas where water, pasture and productive land was still available. In a presentation to the BA...
Climate
Antarctic Snowfall Snafu Derails Climate Models
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/12/2006 12:42:17 AM EDT · 38 replies · 1,125+ views National Science Foundation | 11 Aug 2006 | National Science Foundation An improved method of measuring Antarctic snowfall has revealed that previous records showing an increase in precipitation are not accurate, even over a half-century. In the August 10 edition of Science magazine, researchers explain that their analysis of ice cores and snow pits revealed that precipitation levels in the Antarctic have in fact remained steady. The upshot of the study is that models assessing climate-change may need to be revised, as they can no longer be deemed accurate. The multinational Antarctic team comprised 16 researchers who wanted to amass snowfall data going back 50 years to the International Geophysical Year...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Exhibition highlights Jades of Belize
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/07/2006 3:55:55 AM EDT · 13 replies · 125+ views Channel 5 Belize | Wednesday, September 6, 2006 | Jacqueline Godwin Nothing draws a crowd more than the showing of the country's most precious jewel. That's right, the jade head, formally known as Kinich Ahau, the Mayan Sun God, went on display at the Museum of Belize... The jade head was unearthed at Altun Ha in 1968. It was found lying among the remains of this elderly adult male believed to have been an important ruler of the site during his lifetime. Archaeologists suspect that before this Mayan leader died sometime between 600 to 650 AD, he commissioned an artist to create the large carved object that represents the Maya sun...
City where sacrificial slaughter was way of life
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 09/02/2006 4:28:10 PM EDT · 95 replies · 1,989+ views UK Telegraph | 9/2/06 | Aidan Laverty and Roger Highfield As they waited to be sacrificed outside a temple, the victims made no attempt to escape their fate: their throats were cut, they were decapitated and their hearts ripped out. Their hands were not tied and they offered no resistance to the sacrificial knife. A seed containing a potent drug was used to paralyse their bodies, leaving the victims aware of a terrifying ritual that has been revealed for the first time by a dig in the vast pre-Colombian city of Tecume in northern Peru. Archaeologists working in the ruined city of giant pyramids have discovered one of the largest...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Enigmatic Brodgar structure produces another example of Neolithic art
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/02/2006 1:31:27 PM EDT · 5 replies · 18+ views Orkney Archaeology News | August 29, 2006 | Sigurd Towrie When it comes to tombs, the early Neolithic period is characterised by stalled cairns -- structures, such as Unstan in Stenness, which are divided into cells, or stalls, by large upright stones. Towards the end of the period, these were superseded by Maeshowe-type structures -- circular with side chambers. The Brodgar building appears to show characteristics of both. It was a large oval structure but was subdivided into radial chambers -- similar to those found inside the Crantit cairn in 1998. But the surprises didn't stop there. Outside, the structure appears to have been surrounded by a large stone wall,...
British Isles
Gristhorpe Man 'Was Bronze Age Chieftain'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/06/2006 9:36:19 PM EDT · 7 replies · 352+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 9-7-2006 | Roger Highfield - Nic Fleming Gristhorpe Man 'was Bronze Age warrior chieftain' Reports by Roger Highfield and Nic Fleming (Filed: 07/09/2006) Gristhorpe Man, who was found buried in a tree trunk in the 19th century, has been identified as a Bronze Age warrior chieftain by archaeologists. The skeleton of Gristhorpe Man, excavated near Scarborough in 1834 Although a few examples of burial in a scooped-out oak tree have been found in Scotland and East Anglia, it was an unusual method and the example found near Scarborough, North Yorks, was the best preserved. The remains were discovered in 1834 by William Beswick, a local landowner, in...
Prehistory and Origins
Britain's Human History Revealed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/06/2006 3:55:38 PM EDT · 25 replies · 459+ views BBC | 9-5-2006 | Jonathan Amos Britain's human history revealed By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News, Norwich The story has been filled out but human remains are scarce Eight times humans came to try to live in Britain and on at least seven occasions they failed - beaten back by freezing conditions. Scientists think they can now write a reasonably comprehensive history of the occupation of these isles. It stretches from 700,000 years ago and the first known settlers at Pakefield in Suffolk, through to the most recent incomers just 12,000 years or so ago. The evidence comes from the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Modern Humans, Not Neanderthals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/08/2006 10:50:32 PM EDT · EurekAlert | 9-8-2006 | Neil Schoenherr - University Of Washington Contact: Neil Schoenherr nschoenherr@wustl.edu 314-935-5235 Washington University in St. Louis Modern humans, not Neandertals, may be evolution's 'odd man out'Looking incorrectly at Neandertals Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out? New research published in the August, 2006 journal Current Anthropology by Neandertal and early modern human expert, Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, suggests that rather than the standard straight line from chimps to early humans to us with Neandertals off on a side graph, it's...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Today's Birthday girl: Elizabeth Ist of England
	Posted by yankeedame On General/Chat 09/07/2006 11:19:40 AM EDT · 16 replies · 208+ views Answers.Com Elizabeth I- Born: 7 September 1533 - Birthplace: Greenwich, England - Died: 24 March 1603 Best Known As: "The Virgin Queen" of England, 1558-1603 The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth succeeded Mary I in 1558. Dedicated to her position as ruler, Elizabeth fought off rivals (such as heir to the throne Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned for 19 years and executed in 1587) and expanded England's power overseas, eventually succeeding in defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588. Her nearly 45-year reign is considered one of England's high points: it featured luminaries such as Sir Walter Raleigh,...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #113 Saturday, September 16, 2006
Neandertal
Modern Humans, Not Neanderthals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/08/2006 10:50:32 PM EDT · 83 replies · 1,325+ views EurekAlert | 9-8-2006 | Neil Schoenherr - University Of Washington Contact: Neil Schoenherr nschoenherr@wustl.edu 314-935-5235 Washington University in St. Louis Modern humans, not Neandertals, may be evolution's 'odd man out'Looking incorrectly at Neandertals Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out? New research published in the August, 2006 journal Current Anthropology by Neandertal and early modern human expert, Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, suggests that rather than the standard straight line from chimps to early humans to us with Neandertals off on a side graph, it's...
Anthropologist: Neanderthals More Normal Than We Are
	Posted by ryan71 On News/Activism 09/11/2006 11:17:32 AM EDT · 45 replies · 1,256+ views foxnews.com | Monday, September 11, 2006 | By Charles Q. Choi Neanderthals are often thought of as the stray branch in the human family tree, but research now suggests the modern human is likely the odd man out.
Neanderthals And Humans Lived Side By Side
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/13/2006 2:09:49 PM EDT · 64 replies · 1,293+ views New Scientist | 9-13-2006 | Rowan Hooper Neanderthals and humans lived side by side 18:00 13 September 2006 NewScientist.com news service Rowan Hooper Neanderthals were thought to have died out as modern humans arrived in Europe. Now, artifacts found in a cave in Gibraltar reveal that the two groups coexisted for millenia before Neanderthals finally dwindled out of existence. Homo sapiens moved into Europe about 32,000 years ago. But the newly unearthered artefacts shows that a remnant population of Homo neanderthalensis clung on until at least 28,000 years ago, a significant overlap. Clive Finlayson at the Gibraltar Museum, and colleagues, recovered 240 stone tools and artefacts from...
Neanderthals' 'last rock refuge' (survived much longer than previously thought)
	Posted by Mark Felton On News/Activism 09/13/2006 3:25:14 PM EDT · 53 replies · 1,215+ views BBC | 9/13/06 | BBC Our evolutionary cousin the Neanderthal may have survived in Europe much longer than previously thought. A study in Nature magazine suggests the species may have lived in Gorham's Cave on Gibraltar up to 24,000 years ago. The Neanderthal people were believed to have died out about 35,000 years ago, at a time when modern humans were advancing across the continent. The new evidence suggests they held on in Europe's deep south long after the arrival of Homo sapiens. The research team believes the Gibraltar Neanderthals may even have been the very last of their kind. "It shows conclusively that Gorham's...
Neandertals Had Long Childhoods, Tooth Study Suggests
	Posted by billorites On News/Activism 09/14/2006 9:04:20 AM EDT · 39 replies · 761+ views National Geographic News | September 14, 200 | James Owen Our prolonged childhoods make us Homo sapiens unique among primates. Scientists have a theory to explain this lengthy maturation process: Our brains need many years of learning and physical growth before we're equipped for the complexities of human living. Now a new study says we weren't the only humans who took their time growing up. Analysis of Neandertal teeth suggests that the extinct species had similarly lengthy childhoods. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, compared growth rates of Neandertal front teeth with those of three modern human populations: Inuit (Eskimo), English,...
Ancient Europe
Stone Age female statue unearthed
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/11/2006 12:12:00 PM EDT · 26 replies · 434+ views ANSA News in English | 9/11/2006 | unattributed The 7,000-year-old stone statuette, discovered during excavations of a burial site near the northern Italian city of Parma, is over 20 centimetres tall, the archaeological monthly Archeo reported. It depicts a woman with an oval face, slit eyes, a prominent nose and long hair. Her arms are bent at her elbows, sticking out at right-angles to her body... Her back is perfectly vertical, leading experts to conclude that she was probably originally carved to sit on a some kind of throne or support made of a material that has disintegrated over the centuries, such as wood. The figure was unearthed...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Dig unearths evidence of Neolithic partying
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/11/2006 12:16:22 PM EDT · 10 replies · 207+ views This Is Wiltshire | 9/11/2006 | Corey Ross A team of 100 archaeologists, from various universities around Britain, along with Wessex Archaeology, has been carrying out excavations as part of the seven-year Riverside Project at Woodhenge, Durrington Walls and Stonehenge Cursus to find out more about the sites and their links with Stonehenge in the 26th Century BC... Professor of archaeology at Sheffield University Mike Parker- Pearson is leading the dig: "I think our most exciting discovery is the ceremonial avenue which leads from Durrington Walls to the river." ...The road, which formed an avenue aligned on the Midsummer Solstice sunset, suggested that Durrington Walls and Woodhenge were...
Asia
Stone Age Cave In Central Vietnam Has Neighbor
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/12/2006 5:38:59 PM EDT · 12 replies · 332+ views Thanh Nien News | 9-12-2006 | Nguoi Lao Dong - Luu Thi Hong Stone Age cave in central Vietnam has neighbor Vietnamese researchers, studying a grotto discovered a decade ago in which Paleolithic period tools were found, a few days ago stumbled upon another nearby also containing ancient tools. Experts from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Quang Tri Museum in central Vietnam were researching the Hang Doi (bat) cave in Cam Lo districtís Dragon mountain when they found "Hang Doi 2". The grotto is 65 meters underground and its vault is 10-20 meter high. They found 11 stone tools inside. Hang Doi was acknowledged as a provincial relic in 1996 and recently...
Japan
3,500-year-old stone carving found [ Jomon ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 3:04:59 PM EDT · 22 replies · 108+ views Yomiuri Shimbun | Friday, September 15, 2006 | unattributed A 3,500-year-old stone artifact from the late Jomon period (ca. 10,000 B.C.-ca. 300 B.C.) decorated with carved images of three people has been unearthed at the Chikano archaeological site in Aomori... The find is known as a stone crown because of its shape, with the upper part narrower than the bottom. It is rare for a stone artifact with drawings from the Jomon period to be discovered, and it is the first time a stone crown depicting more than one person has been found... The Chikano archaeological site is located near the Sannai-Maruyama dig--the biggest Jomon period village remains... The...
China
Parties To Tackle China's Distortion Of History (Koguryo Kingdoms - Korea)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/09/2006 1:59:39 PM EDT · 10 replies · 117+ views The Korean Times | 9-9-2006 | Lee Jin-woo Parties to Tackle China°Øs Distortion of History By Lee Jin-woo Floor leaders of the governing and opposition parties yesterday agreed to cooperate to address China's distortion of history. The five parties also decided to fully support a resolution unanimously proposed by a National Assembly panel on Thursday. In the resolution, members of the Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee denounced China for intentionally distorting ancient Korean history. They said the controversial research results of the state-funded Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are not purely a scholastic product, but the Chinese government's intention to claim ancient Korean kingdoms originated in...
Sole Music
Chinese Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Leather Shoes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/09/2006 2:19:11 PM EDT · 17 replies · 349+ views The Hindu | 9-9-2006 Chinese archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old leather shoes Beijing, Sept. 9 (PTI): Six leather shoes, made some 2,000 years ago, have been discovered at a relic site in Dunhuang in northwest China's Gansu Province, taking the Chinese shoe-making industry older by some 1,000 years.The leather shoes, from the Han Dynasty (205 BC-220 AD), are the oldest leather shoes found in China, indicating that the history of China's leather shoe-making is some 1,000 years longer than previously believed, an archaeologist from Gansu Province, He Shuangquan said. The newly found, well-preserved shoes were made for children, aged three to six years old, said He,...
India
Skeletons, Script Found At Ancient Burial Site In Tamil Nadu
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/30/2004 6:02:52 PM EDT · 5 replies · 156+ views The Hindu | 5-25-2004 | T.S. Subramanian Skeletons, script found at ancient burial site in Tamil Nadu By T.S. Subramanian An urn containing a human skull and bones unearthed by the Archaeological Survey of India at Adhichanallur, near Tirunelveli town in Tamil Nadu. Twelve of these urns (below) contain human skeletons. Three of them, which may be 2,800 years old, bear inscriptions that resemble the early Tamil Brahmi script. -- Photos: A. Shaikmohideen CHENNAI, MAY 25. In spectacular finds, the Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai Circle, has unearthed a dozen 2,800-year-old human skeletons intact in urns at Adichanallur, 24 km from Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu. Three of...
Ancient Rome
Roman relics found near Elephanta
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 3:58:33 PM EDT · 13 replies · 82+ views Daily News & Analysis | Friday, September 15, 2006 | Ninad D Sheth The marine branch of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered Roman artefacts dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries from the inter-tidal zone (the area between the high-tide and low-tide lines) of Elephanta Island. The find, made last winter, includes artefacts like wine amphorae (vases), pot sheds, storage devices, and stone anchors. The discovery shows that trade between Rome and India continued much later than previously thought... Alok Tripathi, ASI's head of underwater archaeology, said, "The entire Maharashtra coast has evidence of Roman contact on a large scale. We are particularly interested in Elephanta, Sindhudurg, Malvan, and...
The Etruscans
Archaeologists May Have Found What Was Once The Biggest City In Italy
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/07/2004 8:27:22 PM EST · 47 replies · 1,395+ views The Economist | 11-4-2004 Scientific treasure hunters Nov 4th 2004 | CLUSIUM, OR POSSIBLY NOT From The Economist print edition Archaeologists may have found what was once the biggest city in Italy REAL archaeology bears about as much resemblance to an Indiana Jones movie as real spying bears to James Bond. Excavation -- at least if it is to be meaningfully different from grave robbing -- is a matter of painstaking trowel work, not gung-ho gold-grabbing. But there is still a glimmer of the grave robber in many archaeologists, and the search for a juicy royal tomb can stimulate more than just rational, scientific instincts. Few tombs would...
Etruscan Holy City Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/08/2006 10:56:21 PM EDT · 18 replies · 631+ views ANSA | 9-8-2006 Etruscan holy city discovered Fledgling Rome 'trembled' when leaders of 12 cities met (ANSA) - Rome, September 7 - Italian archaeologists believe they have found the mysterious sanctuary which was the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans were an ancient people known to have lived in the area of Italy between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Rome about 600 years later. For centuries they dominated the fledgling city on the Tiber and even supplied its first kings. But most traces of the Etruscan civilisation, which produced sophisticated art,...
Ancient Greece
Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in (Minoan) Bronze Age wall paintings.
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 03/02/2006 8:01:38 AM EST · 50 replies · 1,350+ views www.nature.com/news | 28 February 2006 | Philip Ball Published online: 28 February 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060227-3 Were ancient Minoans centuries ahead of their time? Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in Bronze Age wall paintings. Philip Ball Did the Minoans understand the Archimedes' spiral more than 1,000 years before him? A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier. The mathematical features of the paintings suggest that the Minoans of the Late Bronze Age, around 1650 BC, had a much more advanced working knowledge of geometry than has previously been recognized, says computer scientist Constantin Papaodysseus of...
Climate
Eureka! Quarry near oilsands full of ancient artifacts [ Quarry of the Ancestors ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 3:52:39 PM EDT · 21 replies · 169+ views Hamilton Spectator | Friday, September 15, 2006 | Bob Weber / Canadian Press Oilsands activity has uncovered vast wealth of a different kind -- a 10,000-year-old quarry rich with tools and weapons from some of the first Albertans, including a pristine spearpoint still smeared with the blood of a woolly mammoth... The so-called Quarry of the Ancestors, which scientists suspect may be one of the first places where humans put down roots in northern Alberta after the retreat of the glaciers, is found on an outcrop of hard, fine-grained sandstone adjacent to the Albian Sands oilsands lease about 75 kilometres north of Fort McMurray... The quarry was discovered in 2003 when Birch Mountain...
Epigraphy and Language
Oldest writing in the New World discovered
	Posted by flevit On News/Activism 09/14/2006 4:09:26 PM EDT · 90 replies · 1,554+ views NewScientist.com | 14 September 2006 | Jeff Hecht A slab inscribed with the oldest writing yet discovered in the New World has been discovered in the Veracruz lowlands in Mexico. The writing dates back nearly 3000 years to the height of the Olmec culture that was the first Mesoamerican civilisation, Mexican archaeologists report. Called the Cascajal slab, it had been rescued along with other artefacts from a quarry at Lomas de Tacamichapa, in 1999, where it had been destined for use in road fill. Isolated symbols have been found on a few Olmec artefacts, but the slab is the first solid evidence of a true written language, says...
'Oldest' New World writing found
	Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu On News/Activism 09/15/2006 12:39:19 AM EDT · 19 replies · 315+ views BBC | September 15, 2006 | Helen Briggs Ancient civilisations in Mexico developed a writing system as early as 2,000 years ago, new evidence suggests. The discovery in the state of Veracruz of a block inscribed with symbolic shapes has astounded anthropologists. Researchers tell Science magazine that they consider it to be the oldest example of writing in the New World. The inscriptions are thought to have been made by the Olmecs, an ancient pre-Columbian people known for creating large statues of heads. The finding suggests that New World people developed writing some 400 years before their contemporaries in the Western hemisphere. ...... "I think it could...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mayan Ruins Said Center Of Mysterious Civilization
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/09/2006 1:42:41 PM EDT · 15 replies · 503+ views Reuters | 9-8-2006 | Science News Mayan ruins said center of mysterious civilization Fri Sep 8, 2006 11:43pm ET TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Experts are examining the ruins of a pre-Columbian culture in an area of Honduras where there had been no previous evidence of major indigenous civilization. The site, discovered earlier this year, consists of 14 mounds that form part of what are believed to be ceremonial grounds, the Honduran Institute of Anthropology said. "They are part of a very important site, a governing center of a pre-Columbian civilization," Oscar Neils, the institute's head of research, told Reuters. "We had no idea that there was...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Skeletons Of Bloodiest Day (Towton - 1461AD)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/12/2006 5:45:57 PM EDT · 66 replies · 1,679+ views The Press | 9-12-2006 | Nadia Jefferson-Brown Skeletons of bloodiest day By Nadia Jefferson-Brown SKELETONS bearing marks of horrendous sword injuries have been unearthed beneath a North Yorkshire hall. The victims of a medieval battle were discovered beneath the floor of the dining room of Towton Hall, between Tadcaster and Sherburn-in- Elmet, dating from the Battle of Towton in 1461. The discovery was made as part of a ten-year investigation into the archaeological evidence of the longest and bloodiest battle ever fought in England. Taking place on Palm Sunday, March 29, 1461, the Lancastrian army was handed an enormous blow with its leader, King Henry VI, forced...
British Isles
Black music from Scotland? It could be the gospel truth
	Posted by Between the Lines On News/Activism 09/01/2003 8:57:11 PM EDT · 57 replies · 416+ views Scotsman | Sun 31 Aug 2003 | BEN McCONVILLE THE church elderís reaction was one of utter disbelief. Shaking his head emphatically, he couldnít take in what the distinguished professor from Yale University was telling him. "No," insisted Jim McRae, an elder of the small congregation of Clearwater in Florida. "This way of worshipping comes from our slave past. It grew out of the slave experience, when we came from Africa." But Willie Ruff, an Afro-American professor of music at Yale, was adamant - he had traced the origins of gospel music to Scotland. The distinctive psalm singing had not been brought to Americaís Deep South by African slaves...
Medieval Scotland
DNA Test Can Detect Picts' Descendants
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/14/2006 9:17:14 PM EDT · 48 replies · 1,161+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 8-14-2006 | Auslan Cramb DNA test can detect Picts' descendants By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent (Filed: 14/08/2006) A geneticist has created a DNA test for "Scottishness" that will tell people whether they are direct descendants of the Picts. The test, expected to cost about £130, checks a sample of saliva against 27 genetic markers linked to some of the earliest inhabitants of Scotland. Dr Jim Wilson, of the public health sciences department at Edinburgh University, said: "We started this work a few years ago, looking at the Norse component, and we proved that a large proportion of people on Orkney are descended from Vikings....
Medieval Ireland
The scale and nature of Viking settlement in Ireland from Y-chromosome admixture analysis
	Posted by CobaltBlue On News/Activism 09/10/2006 8:44:28 AM EDT · 62 replies · 1,025+ views European Journal of Human Genetics | September 6, 2006 | Brian McEvoy, Claire Brady, Laoise T Moore and Daniel G Bradley The Vikings (or Norse) played a prominent role in Irish history but, despite this, their genetic legacy in Ireland, which may provide insights into the nature and scale of their immigration, is largely unexplored. Irish surnames, some of which are thought to have Norse roots, are paternally inherited in a similar manner to Y-chromosomes. The correspondence of Scandinavian patrilineal ancestry in a cohort of Irish men bearing surnames of putative Norse origin was examined using both slow mutating unique event polymorphisms and relatively rapidly changing short tandem repeat Y-chromosome markers. Irish and Scandinavian admixture proportions were explored for both systems...
Navigation
The Nitrogen The Vikings Left Behind
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/11/2006 5:55:50 PM EDT · 24 replies · 748+ views New Scientist | 9-11-2006 nitrogen the Vikings left behind 11 September 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition. Discovering ancient settlements is often rather hit and miss, but the odds would be improved with a bit of chemical analysis. Plants growing over old sites of human habitation have a different chemistry from their neighbours, and these differences can reveal the location buried ruins. Plants mostly take in nitrogen from the soil as the isotope nitrogen-14, with just a dash of nitrogen-15. Plants growing above archaeological sites in Greenland, however, seem to have absorbed a larger dose of nitrogen-15. Rob Commisso and Erle Nelson from...
Vikings In South America?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 5:11:03 PM EDT · 9 replies · 87+ views Science Frontiers | Science Frontiers #62, Mar-Apr 1989 | William R. Corliss [T]he latest number of the Belgian journal Kadath is devoted entirely to Viking (hyperboreene) contacts in South America! Now that's a far piece from Greenland. This long article (40 pages) is replete with photographs, interpretations, and translations of runic inscriptions found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It is impossible to do justice to this mass of inscriptions here, but we will reproduce one of the figures below. (de Mahieu, Jacques; "Corpus des Inscriptions Runiques d'Amerique du Sud," Kadath, no. 68, p. 11, 1988.) Comment. To American anomalists, the frustrating part of this whole business is the need to go to...
Faith and Philosophy
In The Towers Of Silence, An Ancient Ritual Of Death Comes Under Threat
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/11/2006 11:20:59 PM EDT · 35 replies · 878+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 9-12-2006 | Peter Foster In the Towers of Silence, an ancient ritual of death comes under threat By Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 12/09/2006) The viability of the centuries-old Zoroastrian custom of allowing vultures to consume the corpses of its devotees has been called into question after a relative of one of the dead discovered piles of rotting bodies lying almost untouched by the birds. Dhun Baria, a member of Bombay's Zoroastrian community, known as Parsis, was shocked to be told that the body of her mother had lain untouched for nine months after she was laid to rest at the Towers of...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Melungeon descendants celebrate their mysterious heritage
	Posted by hispanarepublicana On News/Activism 08/02/2005 1:20:13 PM EDT · 177 replies · 3,739+ views Biloxi Sun Herald (Knight Ridder) | 7/30/05 | Steve Ivey FRANKFORT, Ky. - (KRT) - When S.J. Arthur started tracing her lineage more than 20 years ago, a fellow researcher stammered as she noticed recurring family names. Was she connected to a unique group of people known as Melungeons, the researcher timidly asked, afraid Arthur might slap her. The reference was once considered a racial slur. "I could be," Arthur replied. "I just don't know yet." This weekend Arthur was one of dozens of Melungeon descendants who gathered in Frankfort, Ky., to shed the stigma that plagued their ancestors and try to grasp their mysterious heritage. The Melungeons have been...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Myths & Mysteries: The pharaoh's daughter who was the mother of all Scots
	Posted by martin_fierro On General/Chat 09/15/2006 5:08:29 PM EDT · 16 replies · 160+ views scotsman.com | Thu 14 Sep 2006 | Diane Maclean Myths & Mysteries Thu 14 Sep 2006 The pharaoh's daughter who was the mother of all Scots Diane Maclean "From various writings of ancient chroniclers we deduce that the nation of the Scots is of ancient stock, taking its first beginning from the Greeks and those of the Egyptians." - Walter Bower, Scotichronicon WALTER Bower wrote his compendium of Scottish history, Scotichronicon, in the 1440s. This sweeping Latin text aimed to set down the history of the Scottish people from the earliest times ñ and by so doing to show what race of people we were. He referenced his chronicle...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Sons of American Revolution welcome Gates
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 09/14/2006 7:38:49 PM EDT · 19 replies · 257+ views Harvard University Gazette | 9-14-06 | Anon Gates learned of the Revolutionary War veteran in his lineage while filming his PBS documentary, 'African American Lives.' (Staff file photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office) Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on July 10 at the societyís 116th annual convention, held in Addison, Texas. Gates learned of the Revolutionary War veteran in his lineage while filming his PBS documentary, "African American Lives," a program that used innovations in...
Longer Perspectives
Bernard Lewis. Race and Slavery in the Middle East
	Posted by Bad~Rodeo On News/Activism 07/26/2006 2:16:33 AM EDT · 10 replies · 596+ views fordham.edu | Oxford Univ Press 1994. Chpt. 1 Slavery In 1842 the British Consul General in Morocco, as part of his government's worldwide endeavor to bring about the abolition of slavery or at least the curtailment of the slave trade, made representations to the sultan of that country asking him what measures, if any, he had taken to accomplish this desirable objective. The sultan replied, in a letter expressing evident astonishment, that "the traffic in slaves is a matter on which all sects and nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam . . . up to this day." The sultan continued that...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #113a Saturday, September 16, 2006
Ancient Egypt
Neferititi was actually a 'fascinating' aging beauty
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 6:58:12 PM EDT · 3 replies · 17+ views New Kerala | September 6, 2006 | unattributed Discovered in 1912 at Tel-El-Amarna in what used to be the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose, the bust - depicting a woman with a long neck, elegantly arched brows, high cheekbones, a slender nose and an enigmatic smile played about red lips, has become the international symbol of beauty. However, a new examination of the famous bust has revealed visible wrinkles running down her slender neck, and puffy bags circling, leading experts to now believe that Nefertiti was an aging beauty. Dietrich Wildung, director of Berlin's Egyptian museum, who is part of the investigation, revealed that signs of aging had...
Ancient Rome
Romanian archaeologists discover Roman stronghold
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 7:08:38 PM EDT · 1 reply · 1+ view People's Daily Online | September 14, 2006 | Xinhua Romanian archaeologists have unearthed an unknown Roman stronghold dating back more than 2,000 years in the southwest Mehedinti County, Romanian Rompres news agency reported on Wednesday. The archaeologists discovered that the fortification, in the Izvoarele locality, was from the time of the Roman emperor Diocletian, showing that it was built after the Romans withdrew their armies from Dacia (271-274 BC). The fortification was one of the strongholds in the defence system built by the Romans along the Danube. Manager of the local Iron Gates Region Museum Ion Stanga said the discovery was very important for Romanian history, "as it proves...
A Unique 'Two-Faced' Roman Mosaic from Pomezia, Italy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/15/2006 6:51:04 PM EDT · 2 replies · 4+ views Minerva | Issue 1705 | Dr Mark Merrony (I think) Viewed one way is an image of a bald old man with a beard; from the opposite perspective the face appears as a beardless youth. This bizarre face is thought to depict Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and fertility, because of the association in the same panel with three of his cult objects, a two-handled drinking bowl (skyphos), a rattle (sistrum), and a wand (thyrsus). This unique optical illusion, which may allude to the 'trickery' practised by the god, would also have neatly freed the ancient spectator from viewing the representation from a fixed perspective, which was a major...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #114 Saturday, September 23, 2006
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Red floor unearthed in Persepolis treasury
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/21/2006 3:08:52 PM EDT · 13 replies · 199+ views Mehr News Agency | September 20, 2006 | unattributed A red floor which dates back to the reign of Darius the Great was recently unearthed in the treasury of Persepolis, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday. Archaeologists working on Persepolis were not informed about the floor, which was discovered while gardeners worked on the green area over top of one section of the treasury... [C]urator of the Persepolis site-specific museum Mohammad-Taqi Ataii said... the discovery confirms the view of German archaeologist Erich Frederich Schmidt about the dimensions of the treasury at the time of Darius I. Schmidt excavated Persepolis in the mid 1930s. Archaeological studies show that...
Vandals Pour Paint On Elamite Bas-Reliefs In Southern Iran
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/18/2006 1:58:43 PM EDT · 16 replies · 602+ views Tehran Times | 9-18-2006 Vandals pour paint on Elamite bas-reliefs in southern Iran Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- Unidentified men have poured paint on the bas-reliefs of the Elamite Tarisha Temple in the Izeh region of Khuzestan Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Sunday. In response, the Izeh Cultural Heritage Lovers Society has asked Iranian cultural officials to mobilize security guard teams for the Tarisha Temple, which is also known as Eshkaft-e Salman, and for the nearby Kul-Farah site. The security detail for Izeh's ancient sites has no means to defend themselves or the ancient sites, society chairman Faramarz Khoshab told...
Destruction of Historic Sites in Iran Taliban Style
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 09/16/2006 6:05:13 PM EDT · 24 replies · 504+ views RoozOnline | 9/16/06 | RoozOnline With the launching of Chinese style cultural revolution by the president of Iran and following the clashes between professionals and government officials over the protection of Isfahan's historic sites, news reports indicate that similar quarrels are heating up now in Kermanshah province over its historic sites. By recalling the events that took place in Isfahan, archeology experts argue that planning the underground metro system in Kermanshah on the regions that are registered as national historic sites is not an accidental event. It is completely planned and derives from the perspective that views all focus on pre-Islamic events in the region...
Herodutus Life Situation Affected his History
	Posted by F14 Pilot On News/Activism 10/02/2005 4:59:19 AM EDT · 8 replies · 713+ views Cultural Heritage News Agency | 10/1/2005 How the life Herodotus lived affected his history writing is a subject of dispute among many experts The question of how social conditions affecting Herodotus's personal life affected his writing history may raise many disputes among historians. "The state where Herodotus was born in was under Persian Empire at that time; it was governed by Lygdamis, who put to death the poet Panyasis, a relative of Herodotus, for opposition and riots against Persia. Following this event, Herodotus had to leave his native city and went to Samos Island in Athena, and ever since he inhabited in Greek lands. But since...
Rewriting Victors' View of Persian History
	Posted by F14 Pilot On News/Activism 09/17/2005 7:48:03 PM EDT · 10 replies · 582+ views NY Times Via Iranian.com | September 14, 2005 | By ALAN RIDING An early reference to Alexander of Macedon is the first hint of where the British Museum is heading in its new exhibition, "Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia." After all, to Persians then and Iranians now, there was nothing great about the Alexander who crushed the largest empire the world had yet known. Indeed, his burning of Persepolis in 331 B.C. was considered an act of vandalism. But the show, which runs through Jan. 8, goes further, challenging the version of history that ancient Greece, starting with Herodotus, bequeathed to the West. Put simply, in that version Greece heroically...
Modern Iran unveils marvels of Ancient Persian Empire
	Posted by Khashayar On News/Activism 09/08/2005 12:09:47 AM EDT · 12 replies · 514+ views Reuters | Wed Sep 7, 2005 LONDON (Reuters) - Iran, at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear ambitions, has put tension to one side and lent a treasure trove of artefacts from Ancient Persia to a new exhibition at the British Museum. Organisers were concerned the exhibition may not happen at all after hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected the Islamic state's president in June. "We certainly were worried for a time that we wouldn't receive any objects," said curator John Curtis. "But happily that wasn't the case, and everybody decided to go ahead with the exhibition." "Forgotten Empire: the world of Ancient Persia," which opens...
Your signature is needed to save History of Persia!
	Posted by F14 Pilot On Bloggers & Personal 08/31/2005 8:08:22 PM EDT · 24 replies · 419+ views self SIGN HERE PLEASE The Mullahs of Iran are about to destroy the ancient persian monuments in south of Iran by submerging them. Please sign the petition to help save the history of Persia. Please forward the link to your friends & relatives and those who are interested for more signatures! Your help is appreciated...
Cyrus the Great in Biblical Prophecy
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 10/13/2004 3:49:51 AM EDT · 27 replies · 944+ views Iranian Cultural Heritage | 10/13/04 | Iranian Cultural Heritage One of the truly astounding prophecies of the Bible is found in the last verse of Isaiah 44, together with chapter 45:1ff, (an unfortunate chapter break). It has to do with Cyrus, king of Persia. According to the historian Herodotus (i.46), Cyrus was the son of Cambyses I. He came to the Persian throne in 559 B.C. Nine years later he conquered the Medes, thus unifying the kingdoms of the Medes and the Persians. Cyrus is mentioned some 23 times in the literature of the Old Testament. Isaiah refers to Cyrus as Jehovah's "shepherd," the Lord's "anointed," who was providentially...
Celebration of 2,500 years of Monarchy in Iran (History w/pics)
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 01/03/2004 10:15:05 PM EST · 21 replies · 826+ views Arheman | 1/3/04 | Arheman Shah greeting the leaders Shah leaving to meet world leaders at the airport for the ceremonies. Imperial Pahlavi family arrives to celebrate 2,500 years of Iran's monarchy. Achaemenid Soldiers March The opening March of the 2500 Years Celebrations was the Eye Catching and Glorious Achaemenid Soldiers March. Viewing the ceremonies Alahazrat and Oliyahazrat viweing the opening parade of the ceremonies hosted by the Shah and Empress of Iran. The Persian Navy March Simulation of Achaemenid's Glorious Navy represented by Grand Admiral Artemisia, Commander in Chief of The Persian Navy and her soldiers, presented as an interesting part of the...
Iranians going back to pre-Islamic Days
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 06/08/2003 10:36:40 PM EDT · 15 replies · 371+ views Associated Press | 6/8/03 | ALI AKBAR DAREINI KISH ISLAND, Iran (AP) -- It started small -- a few babies named after the pre-Islamic heroes Darius or Cyrus, a bit more government money for preserving ancient sites, advertisers using the image of the ruins of Persepolis to sell salad dressing and motorbikes. Now comes modern Iran's most audacious salute yet to a Persian past that Islamic fundamentalists would rather forget. It's a $125 million hotel built in the style of Persepolis, all graceful columns, statues of winged bulls with human faces and bas reliefs showing envoys bearing gifts for ancient Achaemenian kings -- decorations that violate Islam's ban...
Anatolia
Ancient Hittite Dam Inaugurated After 32 Centuries
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/20/2006 2:11:24 PM EDT · 27 replies · 644+ views Turkish Daily News | 9-20-2006 Ancient Hittite dam inaugurated after 32 centuries Wednesday, September 20, 2006 ANKARA - Turkish Daily News A Hittite-era dam located in the central Anatolian province of «orum and believed to be one of the oldest in the world to have survived to date has been restored and is once again serving as a source of irrigation for local residents. The dam, located at the Alacahˆy¸k archaeological site, was built by the Hittites in 1240 B.C. The dam's inauguration was marked with a ceremony over the weekend attended by Professor Aykut «´´naro?lu, who heads the team excavating Alacahˆy¸k, Ankara University Rector...
Ancient Egypt
The Queen Who Would Be King [ Hatshepsut ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/18/2006 1:27:52 AM EDT · 16 replies · 115+ views Smithsonian Magazine | September 2006 | Elizabeth B. Wilson Hatshepsut seems to have idolized her father (she would eventually have him reburied in the tomb she was having built for herself) and would claim that soon after her birth he had named her successor to his throne, an act that scholars feel would have been highly unlikely... [I]t was the accepted New Kingdom practice for widowed queens to act as regents, handling the affairs of government until their sons -- in this case, stepson/ nephew -- came of age... says Peter Dorman, an Egyptologist at the University of Chicago and a contributor to the exhibition catalog. "But it's also...
Ancient Rome
Greek language engravings discovered in Alexandria
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/22/2006 1:49:40 PM EDT · 11 replies · 113+ views Hellenic News | September 2006 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur The engravings, which were discovered close to the Amoud al-Sawari monument, are said to date back to the times of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (ruled 161-180 AD.)... are six lines long and were found etched on an artefact measuring 50 centimetres long and 36 centimetres wide, which may perhaps be part of an ancient altar. The engravings are said to be writings glorifying the supreme ancient Greek deity Zeus along with several other Greek gods. The Amoud al-Sawari monument - also known as the Column of the Horsemen, or Pompey's Pillar - is located in the Karmouz district, which is...
Ancient Greece
An Empire's Epidemic (Justinian Plague)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/18/2006 7:38:39 PM EDT · 37 replies · 623+ views UCLA | 5-6-2002 | Thomas H Maugh II An Empire's Epidemic Scientists Use DNA in Search for Answers to 6th Century Plague By THOMAS H. MAUGH II, Times Staff Writer By the middle of the 6th century, the Emperor Justinian had spread his Byzantine Empire around the rim of the Mediterranean and throughout Europe, laying the groundwork for what he hoped would be a long-lived dynasty. His dreams were shattered when disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in AD 540. From there, the devastating disease spread to Alexandria and, by ship, to Constantinople, Justinian's capital, before surging throughout his empire. By the time...
Asia
FReeper Canteen ~ Alexander The Great: Conquest of Syria, Phoenicia, Egypt ~ January 6, 2004
	Posted by LaDivaLoca On News/Activism 01/06/2004 6:57:57 AM EST · 490 replies · 1,259+ views Alexander The Great of Macedon | January 6, 2004 | LaDivaLoca † † For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. † † Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! † † ANCIENT WARFAREPart III: Ancient Greek Military: †Continuation: Alexander The Great † Conquest of Syria, Phoenicia and Egypt332BC With the intention to isolate the Persian fleet from its maritime bases and so to destroy it as an effective fighting force, from Issus Alexander marched south into Syria and Phoenicia. The Phoenician cities Marathus and Aradus came over to Alexander with no resistance. In reply to...
China
German art student poses as terracotta warrior, confounds police
	Posted by martin_fierro On General/Chat 09/17/2006 6:39:01 PM EDT · 19 replies · 368+ views AFP/Yahoo | 9/17/06 German art student poses as terracotta warrior, confounds police 1 hour, 26 minutes ago BEIJING (AFP) - A German art student hoodwinked police in northern China's famed terracotta warrior museum by disguising himself as a clay soldier among a forest of ancient statues, state media said. Pablo Wendel jumped into an archaeological pit showcasing several thousand terracotta soldiers, found a spot to stand and frustrated police who had difficulty finding him amid the 2,200-year-old warriors, Xinhua news agency said. After finally locating the art student, Wendel refused to budge and police at the museum near China's ancient capital of Xian...
German Joins China's Ancient Warriors
	Posted by The G Man On News/Activism 09/19/2006 12:46:27 PM EDT · 10 replies · 447+ views Yahoo | 9/19/06 Back to Story - Help German joins China's ancient warriors Mon Sep 18, 10:27 PM ET A German art student tried to join a Chinese dynasty's army ó but he volunteered centuries too late. The 26-year-old man ó identified only as "Pablo" or by his Chinese name "Ma Lin" ó made a dusty brown suit of armor, a tunic and a helmet, and attempted to blend in with the ancient warriors of the terra cotta army in the western city of Xi'an, the Hong Kong newspapers Ming Pao Daily News and Wen Wei Po reported on Monday.The outfit matched...
Faith and Philosophy
Imaging Technology Restores 700-Year-Old Sacred Hindu Text [ Sarvamoola granthas ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/19/2006 12:13:54 PM EDT · 8 replies · 90+ views RIT University News Web | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 | Susan Gawlowicz Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript containing the essence of Hindu philosophy. The project led by P.R. Mukund and Roger Easton, professors at Rochester Institute of Technology, will digitally preserve the original Hindu writings known as the Sarvamoola granthas attributed to scholar Shri Madvacharya (1238-1317). The collection of 36 works contains commentaries written in Sanskrit on sacred Hindu scriptures and conveys the scholar's Dvaita philosophy of the meaning of life and the role of God... "It is literally crumbling to dust," says Mukund, the Gleason Professor of...
India
Archaeologists dig up 'monastery' at Kapileswar
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/22/2006 11:54:30 AM EDT · 4 replies · 75+ views Newindpress | Friday September 22 2006 | unattributed Archaeologists have dug up remnant seems to be of Buddhist era at Kapileswar on the City outskirts which can throw light on hitherto unknown aspects of Lord Buddha. The new findings can either put to rest the long-drawn debate about his birthplace, early life and the life and culture of that period or add more fuel to the controversy. The excavation work for 10 days in this village by a team of the State Museum has thrown up remains, which experts believe belong to the Buddhist era. The findings would help trace the existence of a Buddhist centre there, believe...
Epigraphy and Language
Script Delivery: New World writing takes disputed turn [ from 2002 ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/17/2006 3:51:29 PM EDT · 8 replies · 74+ views Science News; Vol. 162, No. 23 , p. 355 | Dec. 7, 2002 | Bruce Bower Inscriptions on the seal and plaque display important elements of later scripts employed by civilizations in Mexico and Central America, the researchers say. These include a mix of language-related symbols and drawings, as well as references to a sacred calendar and specific kings. According to the scientists, the seal carries two sets of symbols emanating from the beak of a bird to show that the signs represent spoken words. Pohl and her coworkers interpret these hieroglyphics as representing the name "King 3 Ajaw." ...The researchers couldn't translate the two complete hieroglyphic signs and two possible partial ones on the plaque...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Eagle Mountain: Ancient rock art found at building site [ 6K BP petroglyphs ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/17/2006 3:38:51 PM EDT · 13 replies · 158+ views Salt Lake Tribune | 9/16/2006 | Todd Hollingshead "It is some of the oldest rock art in Utah," Nina Bowen, archivist for the Utah Rock Art Research Association, said in a news release. "Its style is very unique." ...The most compelling piece at the undisclosed site shows what appears to be three figures holding hands and dancing, said Utah Rock Art Research president Troy Scotter... Scotter said the region boasts quite a bit of rock art - ranging from archaic (2,000 to 6,000 years old) to younger creations by the Fremont people (A.D. 500 to 1300). He said the dancing-figures petroglyph is likely Fremont art - although more...
Africa
'Lucy's baby' found in Ethiopia
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 09/20/2006 1:26:20 PM EDT · 135 replies · 2,573+ views BBC News on line | September 20, 2006 | Unsigned The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region. The female bones are from the species Australopithecus afarensis , which is popularly known from the adult skeleton nicknamed "Lucy". Scientists are thrilled with the find, reported in the journal Nature. They believe the near-complete remains offer a remarkable opportunity to study growth and development in an important extinct human ancestor. The skeleton was first identified in 2000, locked inside a block of sandstone. It has taken five years of painstaking work to free the bones. "The Dikika fossil is now revealing many secrets about...
Helen Thomas Convinced Fossil Remains of "Lucy" Are Her Long Lost Daughter
	Posted by StoneGiant On Bloggers & Personal 09/22/2006 6:57:47 PM EDT · 4 replies · 97+ views The Nose on Your Face | 9/22/2006 Helen Thomas Convinced Fossil Remains of "Lucy" Are Her Long Lost Daughter White House Correspondent Helen Thomas reportedly erupted in a startling orgy of joy yesterday when she saw the recreation of "Lucy," a 3.3 million year old skeleton discovered in Ethiopia. According to insiders who were able to decipher Ms. Thomas' grunts and squeals, Lucy is the spitting image of a baby the famed reporter gave up for adoption when she was a teenager. "I've never seen Helen quite like this," said one anonymous colleague. "She was squatting in her chair and pointing at her computer screen, yelling, 'LUCY...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Seeds 200 Years Old Breathe Again
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/22/2006 7:13:40 PM EDT · 17 replies · 558+ views BBC | 9-22-2006 | Richard Black Seeds 200 years old breathe again By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website The unknown acacia species is now half a metre tall Seeds which have been stored away since the time of George III have been persuaded into new life. Scientists from the Millennium Seed Bank, operated by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, have induced seeds from three species to germinate. They had been brought to Britain from South Africa by a Dutch merchant in 1803, and were found in a notebook stored in the National Archives. Given this history, the team said it was surprised by...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Arab Drift Into Scientific Obscurity
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 12/21/2005 6:30:55 PM EST · 48 replies · 1,007+ views Arab News | 12-21-05 | Faisal Sanai In this era of globalization, a nation's growth within the maturity module is determined by its scientific progress. Scientific progress in turn, is measured by the nation's overall research publication in key peer-reviewed journals. This, to put it metaphorically, is the "Holy Grail" of the research community. While recently attending a medical conference in France, I noted that there was a sizeable attendance from Saudi Arabia. Buoyed by the scientific interest that my fellow countrymen seemed to be exhibiting, I scanned the huge list of research trials being presented in the conference and, to my utter dismay, realized that not...
Longer Perspectives
Thieves of Time--France remains the greatest looter in the Middle East
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 04/14/2003 8:28:38 AM EDT · 35 replies · 389+ views FrontPageMagazine.com | April 14, 2003 | Lowell Ponte "WE WERE READY FOR THE BOMBS, NOT THE LOOTERS," said Nabhal Amin. As Deputy Director of Iraq's 70-year-old National Museum of Antiquities, Amin had just watched more than 7,000 years of collected history destroyed or stolen by the storm of lawlessness that swept through Baghdad. The wind tore down Amin's gates last Thursday. "The several acres of museum grounds were overrun by thousands of men, women and children, many of them armed with rifles, pistols, axes, knives and clubs," wrote John Burns of the New York Times. "The crowd was storming out of the complex carrying antiquities on hand carts,...
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White House loot anchors fight over sunken bounty [War of 1812]
	Posted by 1rudeboy On News/Activism 09/22/2006 8:15:39 PM EDT · 32 replies · 786+ views The Hamilton Spectator | 22. September 2006 | Alison Auld By Alison AuldThe Canadian PressHALIFAX (Sep 22, 2006) A stash of loot possibly stolen from the White House in the early 1800s is at the centre of an international dispute over who owns the bounty that now rests in a watery grave off the Nova Scotia coast.A U.S. exploration company has laid claim to the bounty on what it suspects is the HMS Fantome, a navy brig that was loaded with goods British and Canadian soldiers made off with after ransacking the White House and Capitol buildings during the War of 1812.The company, Sovereign Exploration Associates International Inc., has...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Map thief resented prestigious libraries [ "sense of entitlement" ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/22/2006 1:42:00 PM EDT · 10 replies · 143+ views Yahoo! | Thursday, September 21, 2006 | Jason Szep (Reuters) A dealer of antique treasures who admitted stealing more than $3 million (1.6 million pounds) in rare maps was resentful of the world's top libraries and acted to finance his rich tastes and rising debt... Edward Forbes Smiley III stole 98 of the world's most precious maps over seven years... said he initially acted because he felt he had been wronged and slighted. "Although he had a large degree of access to many libraries for his research and used such access, he did not steal maps from every library that he visited," prosecutors wrote... "He explained that his initial thefts...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #115 Saturday, September 30, 2006
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Flood Made Britain An Island 'In 24 Hours'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/24/2006 9:00:46 PM EDT · 238 replies · 3,976+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 9-25-2006 | Tim Hall Flood made Britain into an island 'in 24 hours' By Tim Hall (Filed: 25/09/2006) Britain may have become an island after a Biblical-style flood split it from Europe in less than 24 hours, according to new geological research. The flood would have taken place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, sweeping away hills between Britain and what is now France. The theory could rewrite British prehistory, as current text-books teach that Britain - once a peninsula of continental Europe - split from the great land mass after a long process of erosion and rises in sea levels. However, surveys of...
Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France : Scientists Claim UK/France Land Mass Once joined.
	Posted by SirLinksalot On News/Activism 09/25/2006 12:36:59 PM EDT · 37 replies · 1,101+ views The Australian | 09/25/2006 | Jonathan Leake Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France Jonathan Leake September 25, 2006 SCIENTISTS have found that Britain owes its island status to a catastrophic flood that swept away in less than 24 hours the hills that once joined the land mass to France. The flood, which took place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, instantly turned Britain from being a peninsula of continental Europe into a separate entity, changing forever the way it would develop. The finding has emerged from an advanced sonar survey of the sea bed of the English Channel that revealed huge scour marks, deep bowls and piles...
Epigraphy and Language
Pool Knowledge To Find The Origins Of Language
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/26/2006 7:14:26 PM EDT · 21 replies · 359+ views New Scientist | 9-26-2006 | John Pickrell Pool knowledge to find the origins of language 19:00 26 September 2006 NewScientist.com news service John Pickrell Linguists are calling for an online public database, similar to the human genome project, that would allow researchers to collaboratively share different studies of language impairment. By gathering together studies of developmental disorders that cause communication impairments -- such as autism or Downís syndrome -- they hope to provide new clues about the origins of language. Such a database might also help treat language disorders or help people learn foreign tongues, they say. Language is one of the defining characters of our species,...
Biology and Cryptobiology
UC Davis Study Finds Distinct Genetic Profiles
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/25/2006 5:28:19 PM EDT · 10 replies · 391+ views Eureka Alert - UC Davis | 9-21-2006 | Micjhael Seldin Contact: Michael Seldin mfseldin@ucdavis.edu 530-754-6016 University of California, Davis - Health System UC Davis study finds distinct genetic profiles Results promise to improve genetic studies of human disease (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) --An international team of scientists lead by researchers at UC Davis Health System has found that, with respect to genetics, modern Europeans fall into two groups: a Northern group and a Southern, or Mediterranean one. The findings, published in the Sept. 14 edition of Public Library of Science Genetics (www.plos.org), are important because they provide a method for scientists to take into account European ancestry when looking for genes involved...
We're nearly all Celts under the skin [In Great Britain]
	Posted by Torie On News/Activism 09/23/2006 1:33:58 PM EDT · 128 replies · 1,905+ views The Scotsman | September 21, 2006 | IAN JOHNSTON We're nearly all Celts under the skin IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT A MAJOR genetic study of the population of Britain appears to have put an end to the idea of the "Celtic fringe" of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Instead, a research team at Oxford University has found the majority of Britons are Celts descended from Spanish tribes who began arriving about 7,000 years ago. Even in England, about 64 per cent of people are descended from these Celts, outnumbering the descendants of Anglo- Saxons by about three to one. The proportion of Celts is only slightly higher in Scotland, at...
Prehistory and Origins
Neanderthal 'butcher shop' found in France
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 09/28/2006 9:05:07 AM EDT · 61 replies · 1,378+ views PhysOrg | September 27, 2006 | Staff French and Belgian archaeologists say they have proof Neanderthals lived in near-tropical conditions near France's Channel coast about 125,000 years ago. In a dig at Caours, near Abbeville, France, archeologists found evidence of a Neanderthal "butcher's shop" to which animals as large as rhinoceros, elephant and aurochs, the forerunner of the cow, were dragged and butchered, The Independent reported Wednesday. Jean-Luc Locht, a Belgian expert in prehistory at the French government's archaeological service, told the newspaper: "This is a very important site, a unique site. It proves Neanderthals thrived in a warm northwest Europe and hunted animals like the rhinoceros...
Ancient Europe
"Through the Valley of Shadows" maps burial sites, rituals from Neolithic to early Middle Ages
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/27/2006 2:05:54 PM EDT · 9 replies · 129+ views Radio Prague | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 | Jan Velinger Almost anyone who visits Prague City Museum's new exhibition "Through the Valley of Shadows" is likely to feel at least somewhat humbled, given that the exhibition deals with one of humankind's most important rituals: burial. Organisers set out to show how the burial rite was approached over a period of roughly 7,000 years - from the Stone Age to the early Middle Ages... Archaeologist Michal Lutovsky describes the practice as it was up to the Bronze Age... "We'll never be able to know some things for certain - some symbolic meanings - but from the start of the Neolithic up...
Anatolia
8,400-Year-Old Settlement Unearthed In Izmirís Ulucak Tumulus
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/26/2006 6:55:49 PM EDT · 11 replies · 272+ views Turkish Daily News | 9-25-2006 8,400-year old settlement unearthed in Izmirís Ulucak Tumulus Monday, September 25, 2006 IZMIR - Turkish Daily News A team of archaeologists working at the Ulucak tumulus, located in Izmir's Kemalpa?a district, have unearthed a Neolithic settlement area dating back some 8,400 years, an archaeologist announced last week. Archaeologist Fulya Dedeoglu of Ege University told the Dogan News Agency that excavations had been under way in the area since 1995. She said they believed their latest discovery could be the oldest settlement dating from the Neolithic period unearthed to date and added that further excavations on the lower levels could reveal...
Near East
9,500-Year-Old Decorated Skulls Found In Syria
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/25/2006 5:18:06 PM EDT · 18 replies · 618+ views Yahoo News | 9-24-2006 9,500-year-old decorated skulls found in Syria Sun Sep 24, 4:14 PM ET DAMASCUS (AFP) - Archaeologists said they had uncovered decorated human skulls dating back as long as 9,500 years ago from a burial site near the Syrian capital Damascus. "The human skulls date back between 9,500 and 9,000 years ago, (on which) lifelike faces were modelled with clay earth ... then coloured to accentuate the features," said Danielle Stordeur, head of the joint French-Syrian archaeological mission behind the discovery. Located at a burial site near a prehistoric village, the five skulls were found earlier this month in a pit...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Bosnian Pyramid Phenomenon
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/28/2006 12:06:29 PM EDT · 10 replies · 216+ views www.robertschoch.net | September 2006 | Robert M. Schoch The afternoon we arrived in Bosnia, Osmanagic insisted on taking us straightaway to the so-called "Pyramid of the Sun." I observed the excavated areas of huge stone blocks; blocks that I was told were most definitely not natural. Clearly, Osmanagic insisted, they were man-made concrete blocks that cannot be explained geologically, put into place with a sophisticated ancient technology that has now been lost... Where he saw concrete blocks and human intervention, I saw only perfectly natural sandstones and conglomerates that had broken into larger or smaller blocks due both to tectonic stresses and gravity slumping. The rocks have been...
Ancient Astronaut Archeology
	Posted by KevinDavis On General/Chat 06/25/2006 8:36:04 PM EDT · 20 replies · 410+ views PR Leap | 06/13/06 (PRLEAP.COM) Mr. Jason Martell is a world-renowned researcher and lecturer specializing in the ancient Sumerian culture, Sumerís advanced technology, and how it relates to the Ancient Astronaut theory. Backed by leading scientists from the mainstream scientific community, Mr. Martell has been a guest on numerous television shows, radio programs and has given lectures throughout the world. Mr. Martell has dedicated his studies to scientific research, factual data and supporting evidence. For over a decade, Mr. Martell has researched NASA data of possible artificial structures on Mars, Ancient Astronauts, and the Sumerian culture. Mr. Martell has based his findings in conjunction...
Faith and Philosophy
Analyzing Dead Sea Scrolls evolves from carbon to DNA
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/24/2006 11:58:46 PM EDT · 3 replies · 188+ views Seattle Post-Intelligencer (appropriate, considering that the whole region is post-intelligence) | Saturday, September 23, 2006 | Tom Paulson Because some of the scrolls were written on animal hide, Seidl explained, experts since the mid-1990s have been able to establish a specific "genetic fingerprint" that can identify the species and even an individual animal to further aid in matching scroll fragments. Geology played a critical if indirect role in protecting the scrolls over the millennia. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the planet's surface. It's also one the saltiest places on Earth, which isn't so great for living things but helps keep other things in the area -- such as papyrus or skin documents -- from deteriorating......
Let's Have Jerusalem
Silver found in 2K yr old Jerusalem pottery hints at city's wealth during late Second Temple period
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/28/2006 2:03:35 AM EDT · 15 replies · 180+ views Jerusalem Post | September 27, 2006 | Judy Siegel-itzkovich Many of the samples from Jerusalem and other rural and urban sites were otherwise indistinguishable in date, shape and chemical composition... The geographical distribution of the samples with high silver cannot be explained by natural causes, said the researchers, who deduced that the origin of the silver is related to human activity. The team also concluded that silver was washed into the pottery by the action of groundwater - but it is possible that in some cases the high silver may have been related to the use of the pottery in antiquity. The researchers suggest that the anomalously high silver...
Ancient Rome
Treasures looted by (Ancient) Rome are back in the Holy Land(Jerusalem treasure mystery solved)
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 09/26/2006 9:26:26 AM EDT · 121 replies · 2,177+ views Times Online | September 25, 2006 | Dalya Alberge A COLLECTION of sacred artefacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist. Sean Kingsley, a specialist in the Holy Land, claims to have discovered what became of the collection, which is widely regarded as the greatest of biblical treasures and includes silver trumpets that would have heralded the Coming of the Messiah.The trumpets, gold candelabra and the bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence were among pieces shipped to Rome after the looting in AD70...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
DNA Ties Together Scattered Peoples
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/24/2006 10:25:30 PM EDT · 47 replies · 1,015+ views LA Times | 9-11-2006 | Steve Chawkins DNA Ties Together Scattered PeoplesData on descendants of the Chumash spur new ideas about the first settlers of the Americas. By Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writer September 11, 2006 Over the years, a couple of dozen descendants of the Chumash Indians have complied with the odd requests of their old friend John Johnson, a leading scholar of the tribe's culture and head of the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. After all, what harm could come from parting with a few of their hairs or letting him swab the inside of their cheeks for a saliva...
Ancient Bones Belonged To A Man - - Probably (Arlington Springs Woman)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/24/2006 10:40:16 PM EDT · 14 replies · 470+ views LA Times | 9-11-2006 | Steve Chawkins Ancient Bones Belonged to a Man -- Probably By Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writer September 11, 2006 By the time you reach 13,000 or so, you'd figure that the people closest to you would know some fundamental personal details ó like your sex. But consider the plight of the oldest person yet found in North America.All that remains of him ó or is it her? ó are a couple of thigh bones, which were discovered on Santa Rosa Island in 1959. At the time, scientists thought they belonged to a man of a certain age ó perhaps 10,000. The bones...
Grant to fund shelter for archaeological site shelter where prehistoric remains unearthed in '70s
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/24/2006 11:48:41 PM EDT · 5 replies · 63+ views Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Saturday, September 23, 2006 | David Templeton In 1955, Albert Miller, founder of the Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life, discovered evidence of prehistoric remains in a groundhog hole in the rock shelter. But only after considerable effort to persuade archaeologists to view the site did Dr. Adovasio, then affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, show up to take a look. Soon after in June 1973, he began the dig. Years of work at Meadowcroft produced 20,000 human artifacts, 956,000 animal bones and 1.4 million plant remains, providing a huge body of information on early civilization. The dig is important not only because it reveals human habitation 16,000...
Mummifird Dogs Uncovered In Peru
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/23/2006 6:40:14 PM EDT · 19 replies · 371+ views BBC | 9-23-2006 | Dan Collins Mummified dogs uncovered in Peru By Dan Collins BBC News, Lima Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the mummified remains of more than 40 dogs buried with blankets and food alongside their human masters. The discovery was made during the excavation of two of the ancient Chiribaya people who lived in southern Peru between 900 and 1350 AD. Experts say the dogs' treatment in death indicated the belief that the animals had an afterlife. Such a status for pets has only previously been seen in ancient Egypt. Hundreds of years before the European conquest of South America, the Chiribaya civilisation valued...
Ancient pet cemeteries found in Peru
	Posted by fanfan On General/Chat 09/23/2006 6:53:20 PM EDT · 7 replies · 79+ views AP via CTV News | Sat. Sep. 23 2006 | Associated Press LIMA, Peru -- Even in ancient Peru, it seems dogs were a man's best friend. Peruvian investigators have discovered a pre-Columbian culture of dog lovers who built pet cemeteries and buried their pets with warm blankets and even treats for the afterlife. "They are dogs that were thanked and recognized for their social and familial contribution," anthropologist Sonia Guillen said. "These dogs were not sacrificed." Since 1993, researchers have unearthed 82 dog tombs in pet cemetery plots, laid alongside human mummy tombs of the Chiribaya people in the fertile Osmore River valley, 540 miles southeast of Lima. The Chiribaya were...
British Isles
Robin Hood was Welsh and never went to Nottingham, claims book
	Posted by nickcarraway On General/Chat 09/25/2006 7:26:36 PM EDT · 10 replies · 143+ views Evening Standard | 24.09.06 Robin Hood was really a Welsh freedom fighter who never even set foot in Nottingham let alone Sherwood Forest, a historian has claimed. The medieval outlaw - said to have robbed from the rich to give to the poor - never once met Maid Marian nor the Sheriff of Nottingham, according to Stephen Lawhead. The American blows apart the widely accepted version of the legend in his new book, Hood, arguing that Robin Hood was really a hardened Guerrilla based in the Valleys. But tourism chiefs in Nottingham have rubbished the theory, warning: "Hands off our Robin!" Lawhead, 56, believes...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Today in History: The Norman conquest of England began 940 years ago today (1066 A.D.)
	Posted by yankeedame On General/Chat 09/28/2006 2:48:03 PM EDT · 5 replies · 120+ views Answers.Com William shown as Duke of Normandy in the Bayeux Tapestry The Norman conquest of England began 940 years ago todayNorman Conquest, period in English history following the defeat (1066) of King Harold of England by William, duke of Normandy, who became William I of England. The conquest was formerly thought to have brought about broad changes in all phases of English life. More recently historians have stressed the continuity of English law, institutions, and customs, but the subject remains one of controversy. The initial military conquest of England was quick and brutal. The members of the Anglo-Saxon upper class...
Scientists to unveil secrets of Mona Lisa
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 09/25/2006 7:27:00 PM EDT · 46 replies · 1,308+ views Reuters | 9/25/06 | Reuters PARIS (Reuters) - Scientists are due to unveil some of the secrets behind Western art's most enigmatic smile this week, when they present the findings of the most extensive three dimensional scan ever undertaken on the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece, perhaps the world's most famous painting, is considered a milestone in the art of portraiture and an icon of European culture. A comprehensive examination of the work, painted at some time around 1503-06, was undertaken in 2004, using special 3D technology developed by scientists from Canada's National Research Council (NRC). The scientists scanned the picture on...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
George Washington's Restored Distillery at Mount Vernon Dedicated by Prince Andrew
	Posted by george76 On News/Activism 09/27/2006 10:22:39 PM EDT · 53 replies · 630+ views Yahoo | Sep 27 | Frank Coleman His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York today joined public officials and leaders of the Scottish and American spirits industry at Historic Mount Vernon to celebrate the official dedication of the restored George Washington's Distillery. The Duke, who cut the ribbon at the event, was celebrating the close Scottish-U.S. ties and paying tribute to Scotland's connection to George Washington's distillery. He noted that it was George Washington's Scottish farm manager, James Anderson, who convinced Washington in 1797 that distilling whiskey would be a lucrative business venture and a good use of the excess grain from the nearby gristmill....
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #116 Saturday, October 7, 2006
Let's Have Jerusalem
A Second Look at the "Alexander Son of Simon" Ossuary: Did It Hold Father and Son?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/01/2006 12:03:49 AM EDT · 6 replies · 93+ views Biblical Archaeology Review | September 26, 2006 | Tom Powers The ossuary was discovered in 1941 by archaeologists Eliezer L. Sukenik and Nahman Avigad of Jerusalem's Hebrew University and came to light through a systematic survey of tombs in the Kidron Valley, south of Jerusalem's Old City and the Arab village of Silwan. This ossuary and ten others were found as an intact assemblage in a tomb chamber that had survived the centuries untouched by tomb robbers, with its blocking stone still in place. In short, there is absolutely no question about this object's provenance and authenticity... The burial cave was a single, rock-hewn chamber without niches of any sort,...
No historical evidence of Jesus
	Posted by ambrose On News/Activism 05/18/2004 2:54:58 AM EDT · 112 replies · 399+ views Toronto Star | 5.16.04 | Tom Harpur May 16, 2004. 08:48 AM No historical evidence of Jesus TOM HARPUR Ever since the publication of The Pagan Christ, literalist clergy and others have been hammering away at the theme of the alleged historicity of the Gospels. Yet, Bible scholars today know that the Gospels never were historical biographies even though they may appear to be such. Listen to the genius Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his landmark book The Quest Of The Historical Jesus: "The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of...
Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals: Apostle Simon Peter buried in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
	Posted by OrthodoxPresbyterian On Religion 11/23/2003 6:39:24 AM EST · 512 replies · 944+ views Jerusalem Christian Review | 11-23-2003 | OP Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals:Names, Testimonies of First Christiansby Jean Gilman JERUSALEM, Israel - Does your heart quicken when you hear someone give a personal testimony about Jesus? Do you feel excited when you read about the ways the Lord has worked in someone's life? The first century catacomb, uncovered by archaeologist P. Bagatti on the Mount of Olives, contains inscriptions clearly indicating its use, "by the very first Christians in Jerusalem."If you know the feeling of genuine excitement about the workings of the Lord, then you will be ecstatic to learn that archaeologists have found first-century dedications with the names...
Not a shard of truth (No proof of John the Baptist.)
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/03/2003 8:00:10 PM EST · 14 replies · 614+ views wwwHaaretz | 2-3-3 | By Dalia Shehori w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Not a shard of truth Sensational claims have been made about bonesfound in Qumran, but no, this is not John the Baptist,say the heads of the dig. In August 2002, Time Magazine carried a headline that aroused curiosity: "Digging for the Baptist." The reference was to an archaeological dig being carried out for the past two years or so in Qumran, near the shore of the Dead Sea. The dig is headed by Prof. Hanan Eshel, head of the...
Israeli Experts Examine Ancient Tablet
	Posted by afraidfortherepublic On News/Activism 01/13/2003 4:14:31 PM EST · 15 replies · 302+ views Guardian Unlimited (UK) | 1-13-03 Monday January 13, 2003 7:10 PM JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli geologists said Monday they have examined a stone tablet detailing repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon that, if authenticated, would be a rare piece of physical evidence confirming biblical narrative. The find - whose origin is murky - is about the size of a legal pad, with a 15-line inscription in ancient Hebrew that strongly resembles descriptions in the Bible's Book of Kings. It could also strengthen Jewish claims to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City that is now home to two major mosques. Muslim...
"Brother of Jesus" bone-box plot thickens [Israeli Scholars: Jesus' 'Brother' Box Fraud]
	Posted by Polycarp On News/Activism 11/06/2002 2:11:35 PM EST · 119 replies · 281+ views Israel Insider | November 5, 2002 | Ellis Shuman "Brother of Jesus" bone-box plot thickens By Ellis Shuman November 5, 2002 An ancient burial box believed to have belonged to James, the Biblical brother of Jesus, was damaged while being sent for display at a Toronto museum. The museum is awaiting word from the ossuary's owner before attempting to repair the box, but the owner is being questioned by police as the burial box may actually belong to the State of Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli scholars insist that the inscription on the box is a fraud. Staff at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto discovered numerous cracks Friday in the...
Epigraphy and Language
Possible ancient calendar entry found [ Tantoc ruins, San Luis Potosi state, Huasteco culture ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:53:42 AM EDT · 1 reply · 1+ view Cleveland Plain Dealer | Friday, October 06, 2006 | Mark Stevenson (AP) Markings on top of the figures appear to depict an entry from, or part of, a 13-month lunar calendar, said archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja, who led the excavation of the monument. "This would be the first depiction of a calendar or calendar elements in such an early time period," he said. The monolith, which measures more than 25 feet and weighs about 20 tons, was found in March 2005 at the Tantoc ruins in San Luis Potosi state, near Mexico's northern Gulf coast, by construction workers. Ahuja theorized that the stone's glyphlike inscriptions were carved sometime around 700 B.C., likely by...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit (9,400 YO American Mummy)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/04/2006 8:24:51 PM EDT · 26 replies · 562+ views Friends Of The Past | 9-25-2006 The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit NEWS: The Court has remanded the matter back to the Bureau of Land Management for further proceedings. See Order (posted 9/25/06) -- The text of the Conclusion In July 2000 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a determination that the Spirit Cave Man could not be culturally linked to the claiming Fallon-Paiute Shoshone tribe. The tribe filed a lawsuit asking the Federal Court to review their claim under NAGPRA. In their determination, the BLM assumed that the Spirit Cave Man was Native American based solely on his age. In the Kennewick Man lawsuit, the...
Peru finds ancient burial cave of warrior tribe - Chachapoyas, white-skinned aka "Cloud People"
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/05/2006 11:11:48 PM EDT · 24 replies · 912+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 10/5/06 | Robin Emmott LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday. After a tip-off from a farmer in Peru's northern Amazon jungle, archeologists from Peru's National Culture Institute last week found the 820-feet-(250-meter)deep cave that was used for burial and worship by the Chachapoyas tribe. So far archeologists have found five mummies, two of which are intact with skin and hair, as well as ceramics, textiles and wall paintings, the expedition's leader and regional cultural director Herman Corbera told...
Scholars study lost city of Mabila at UA
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:31:55 PM EDT · 7 replies · 130+ views Tuscaloosa News | September 29. 2006 3:30AM | Adam Jones It's believed to be the largest battle between Europeans and Native Americans north of the Rio Grande, but the city of Mabila remains lost... A team of historians, archeologists and geologists have come to the University of Alabama for three days to study the battle.. Their aim, though, isn't to find the city, but to compile everything known, for possible future excavations, said Jim Knight, a UA anthropology professor who helped organize the conference... Finding Mabila means addressing a host of problems ranging from suspect accounts of De Soto's expedition to the possibility that modern dams may have flooded the...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Radical solution proposed for Stonehenge
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:57:51 AM EDT · 14 replies · 93+ views Guardian Unlimited | Saturday October 7, 2006 | Maev Kennedy Last night Professor Peter Fowler, an internationally acknowledged expert on the Stonehenge landscape and on World Heritage Sites management, washed his hands of the whole argument. The A303, a main artery to the south west that narrows to a grinding two-lane traffic jam where it passes the stone circle, should be closed and replaced with a tunnel, and the smaller A344 which actually clips the heel stone of the monument, should also go, he said, adding, "But since no sort of a tunnel is going to be built, the A303 should be kept exactly as and where it is, because...
Anatolia
Schliemann's search for the 'first city'
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:46:09 PM EDT · 18 replies · 159+ views Athens News | Friday, 22 September 2006 | Jonathan Carr In his new novel, 'The Fall of Troy', Peter Ackroyd recreates the19th-century excavation of one of antiquity's greatest sites which was led byan archaeologist whose methods have always provoked controversy.. Some details about Heinrich Schliemann's life are documented but not too much should be taken for granted about a man so adept at presenting grand conclusions based on dodgy evidence. The location of the Homeric Ithaca remains in dispute and what Schliemann did find on modern Ithaca was no palace; the treasure he unearthed at Troy has since been dated to more than a thousand years before Homer's Trojan war;...
Bathed in controversy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/05/2006 1:25:11 PM EDT · 7 replies · 135+ views Guardian | Wednesday October 4, 2006 | Helena Smith The ruins of Allianoi are among the few "asclepions" - or therapeutic centres - ever discovered. Testimony to the extraordinary sophistication of urban planning and hydrological engineering during the Roman era, archaeologists believe that with its curative waters, the spa city complemented the legendary asclepion at nearby Pergamon. There, patients were healed through psychotherapy to the accompaniment of music. Artefacts found on the site, including bronze surgical instruments, suggest it was a prominent health centre from the second century BC to the 11th century AD. Having survived earthquakes in AD 178 and 262, the site has been spectacularly preserved beneath...
British Isles
Pupils who dig their Latin lessons [ could uncover a Roman camp ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 4:19:44 PM EDT · 10 replies · 90+ views Leeds Today | Saturday, September 30, 2006 | Ian Rosser Today it's home to a Leeds school with more than 1,000 students. But backtrack 2,000 years and the site of Allerton High in Moortown could have been occupied by soldiers from one of history's largest empires... According to Ordnance Survey maps dating back to 1847, the existing school was built on a site called Camp Town. In the south-east corner of the grounds, which was once a sandstone quarry, there is a clearly-marked historical camp. The school's deputy head Heather Scott... said, a mention in the "Mannour Books of Leeds" from 1709 of a "garth named Campo" and the existence...
Roman mosaics found on Quantocks
	Posted by george76 On News/Activism 10/05/2006 10:47:50 PM EDT · 3 replies · 128+ views BBC NEWS | 4 October 2006 | bbc Archaeologists working on the Quantock Hills in Somerset have uncovered evidence of a substantial Roman villa with a mosaic floor in the main room. The findings are part of a six-year study carried out on six separate sites around the area. The dig team said the villa at Yarford is one of the most westerly villas with mosaic floors found in Roman Britain. It was subjected to three seasons of excavation but has since been buried again to protect it for the future. "If there is one villa, then the chances are that others will be found in due course."...
Ancient Rome
Which character on "Rome" are you most like?
	Posted by Perdogg On General/Chat 12/30/2005 3:02:47 PM EST · 7 replies · 221+ views 12/30/05 | Perdogg Warning: this thread will contain talk of sex, nudity, and violence. If any of this is offensive please read on. Which Character on "Rome" Are most like? Men: Julius Caesar - Strong, never in doubt, decisive. Plus the women love him. Has slept with Servilia and Cleopatria. Nice job. Lucius - Duty always comes before self. Must be a strong willed man to have resisted Cleopatria. Titus Pullo - A Man's Man; personnal demons and obsession with a slave girl may be his own end. Oh so willing to use violence. Mark Antony. Male version of Atia. Willing to do...
How TV is wiping out the movies -- again
	Posted by Keltik On News/Activism 09/27/2006 2:04:53 PM EDT · 71 replies · 1,588+ views The New Republic | 09.19.06 | Christopher Orr There's a gag in one of the old "Treehouse of Horror" episodes of "The Simpsons," in which Homer and Marge attend a parents meeting at Springfield Elementary School on the "thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month." The meeting, of course, is to discuss misprinted calendars; as Homer walks in from the wintry outdoors he glances at one hanging nearby and grouses, "lousy Smarch weather." Well, the DVD calendar now has its very own Smarch. Until recently, video releases have followed essentially the same schedule as theatrical openings, just shifted forward three or four months: The studios'...
Generating Buzz in All the Right Places, 'Entourage' Fills a Gap for HBO
	Posted by Mr. Blonde On General/Chat 08/29/2006 11:34:36 AM EDT · 12 replies · 177+ views New York Times | August 28 | Bill Carter On the elegant office set representing the headquarters of Ari Goldís new palatial Hollywood talent agency, Doug Ellin sat in the glass-walled ersatz conference room, about where the fictional ¸ber-agent Ari might sit, talking about the utterly unexpected phenomenon of the series he created, HBOís ìEntourage.î
Two and Out for 'Rome' January will begin final season for 'Rome' and 'Sopranos'
	Posted by Snickering Hound On News/Activism 07/12/2006 5:01:51 PM EDT · 42 replies · 931+ views Zap to it.com LOS ANGELES -- The fall of "Rome" will happen sometime in early 2007. HBO announced Wednesday that the second season of its epic series set in the time of Caesar will debut Jan. 7. At the same time, the network says next season will be the last for the show. Filming on season two is currently taking place at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome and will wrap in October. Once that's done, though, the show -- a co-production with the BBC -- will call it quits. "Rome" was one of the most expensive projects in TV history -- reports pegged...
Near East
Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria
	Posted by uglybiker On General/Chat 10/05/2006 1:04:58 PM EDT · 18 replies · 261+ views Yahoo! Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria DAMASCUS (AFP) - Archaeologists said they have discovered an 11-millennium-old building with on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. "A remarkable discovery has just been uncovered of a large circular building dating back to 8,800 BC near (the locality of) Ja'de," the head of the French archaeologal team that made the find told AFP. The building, much larger than normal houses, "had a collective use, probably for all of the village or a group," Eric Coqueugniot said. "A part of this community building takes the shape of the head of a...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mastodons Driven To Extinction By Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/03/2006 6:01:37 PM EDT · 65 replies · 816+ views National Geographic | 10-3-2006 | Kimberly Johnson Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest Kimberly Johnson for National Geographic News October 3, 2006 Tuberculosis was rampant in North American mastodons during the late Ice Age and may have led to their extinction, researchers say. Mastodons lived in North America starting about 2 million years ago and thrived until 11,000 years agoóaround the time humans arrived on the continentówhen the last of the 7-ton (6.35-metric-ton) elephantlike creatures died off. Scientists Bruce Rothschild and Richard Laub pieced together clues to the animals' widespread die-off by studying unearthed mastodon foot bones. Rothschild first noticed a telltale tuberculosis lesion on...
We Dodged Extinction
	Posted by Sabertooth On News/Activism 01/29/2002 10:23:19 PM EST · 172 replies · 972+ views ABCNews | Lee Dye We Dodged Extinction ‘Pruned’ Family Tree Leaves Little Genetic Variety Just one group of chimpanzees can have more genetic diversity than all 6 billion humans on the planet. (Corel) Special to ABCNEWS.com A worldwide research program has come up with astonishing evidence that humans have come so close to extinction in the past that it’s surprising we’re here at all.     Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at San Diego, and other members of a research team studied genetic variability among humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes of Africa.      Humanoids are believed ...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/03/2006 6:09:36 PM EDT · 48 replies · 1,026+ views National Geographic | 10-2-2006 | Erica Lloyd Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says Erica Lloyd for National Geographic News October 2, 2006 It's no secret that in the past few centuries people in Western nations have been getting taller and living longer. But now experts say that today's Westerners are the product of an accelerated spate of growth that is unique in human history. People in the developed world are taller and more robust than their great, great, great grandparents probably ever imagined. Robert Fogel, director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago, notes that Westerners are about 50 percent larger...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution
	Posted by GarySpFc On News/Activism 05/08/2005 1:20:27 PM EDT · 134 replies · 1,698+ views The Kansas City Star | May 8, 2005 | Jonathan Witt Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution By Jonathan Witt Special to The Star Biology textbooks diligently paper over the fact that biologists have never observed or even described in credible, theoretical terms a continually functional, macroevolutionary pathway leading to fundamentally new anatomical forms. It seems the Darwinists in Kansas are living in the past. Not the past of, say, the fossil record. The history written there tells of the abrupt appearance of major animal forms, nothing like the gradually branching tree of life that Darwin envisioned. The past that some evolutionists are living in, rather, is the Kansas science curriculum battle...
Formation Of New Species Proves Gradual, Not Sudden
	Posted by sourcery On News/Activism 05/28/2002 3:35:38 PM EDT · 77 replies · 639+ views UniSci.com | 28 May 2002 Home Search † Formation Of New Species Proves Gradual, Not SuddenThe formation of new species is a gradual and not a sudden process, according to a team of biologists from the UK, France, Australia and the USA.Their findings, from a study of birds on Pacific islands, are reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).The "founder effect" theory, a controversial idea among biologists, says that speciation occurs suddenly due to a small influx of colonists founding new populations, in the process creating many new gene combinations and losing many others, in what is known as a...
Prehistory and Origins
Mitochondria (DNA) Can Be Inherited From Both Parents
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/24/2002 10:22:09 AM EDT · 33 replies · 531+ views New Scientist | 8-23-2002 | Denny Penman Mitochondria can be inherited from both parents 17:01 23 August 02 NewScientist.com news serviceMitochondria may not be inherited solely through the maternal line, according to new research that promises to overturn accepted biological wisdom. If confirmed by other researchers, the findings could have huge implications for evolutionary biology and biochemistry. Robert Sanders Williams, from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, says the findings are "remarkable and unanticipated. This is more than a mere curiosity. It asserts the principle that it can occur in humans. It could have significant implications for the study of human evolution and the migrations of...
Ancient fossils fill gap in early human evolution
	Posted by Sofa King On General/Chat 04/12/2006 3:21:23 PM EDT · 132 replies · 1,741+ views Yahoo | 4/12/06 | Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution. ADVERTISEMENT The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of Australopithecus known as Au. anamensis, an ape-man creature that walked on two legs.
Where do Human Beings Come From?
	Posted by wallcrawlr On General/Chat 08/04/2005 10:23:17 AM EDT · 23 replies · 520+ views Yahoo news | August 3, 2005 It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The search for the ultimate answer has taken a number of twists and turns, with careers made and broken along the way. APE TO MAN is the story of the quest to find the origins of the human race -- a quest that spanned more than 150 years of obsessive searching. APE TO MAN...
Ancient Europe
Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 02/19/2002 10:53:03 AM EST · 45 replies · 589+ views University Of Toront | 19 February 2002 | Staff University of Toronto anthropologist David Begun and his European colleagues are re-writing the book on the history of great apes and humans, arguing that most of their evolutionary development took place in Eurasia, not Africa. In back-to-back issues of the Journal of Human Evolution, Begun and his collaborators describe two fossils, both discovered in Europe. One comes from the oldest relative of all living great apes (orangutans and African apes) and humans; the other is the most complete skull ever found of a close relative of the African apes and humans. In the November 2001 issue, Begun and colleague Elmar ...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Scientists Bid To Take Neanderthal DNA Sample
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:00:57 PM EDT · 21 replies · 372+ views Scotsman | 10-1-2006 | Kark Mansfield Scientists bid to take Neanderthal DNA sample KARL MANSFIELD SCIENTISTS are attempting to extract DNA for the first time from the fossilised bones thought to be of a Neanderthal man who roamed Britain 35,000 years ago. Experts plan to use a tooth from an upper jaw to establish whether the closest relative of modern humans lived on the British Isles later than it was once thought. The fragment of an upper jaw, which was found in 1926 at Kent's Cavern in Devon, was originally thought to be human, but experts now think it could date back even further. Chris Stringer,...
Delving Deep Into Britain's Past
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:18:29 PM EDT · 6 replies · 273+ views BBC | 10-1-2006 | Paul Ricon Delving deep into Britain's past By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Neanderthals probably made this hand axe from Swanscombe in Kent Scientists are to begin work on the second phase of a project aimed at piecing together the history of human colonisation in Britain. Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Phase two has now secured funds to the tune of £1m and will run until 2010. Team members hope to find out more about Britain's earliest settlers and perhaps unearth their fossil remains. They...
Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years
	Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism 09/02/2005 5:31:25 PM EDT · 84 replies · 1,749+ views ABC NEWSonline | Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST) Last Update: Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST) A reconstruction of the face of a young female Neanderthal who lived about 35,000 years ago in France. (AFP) Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals co-existed with anatomically modern humans for at least 1,000 years in central France.The finding suggests Neanderthals came to a tragic and lingering end.Few chapters in the rise of Homo sapiens, as modern mankind is known, have triggered as much debate as the fate of the Neanderthals.Smaller and squatter than Homo sapiens but with larger brains, Neanderthals lived in Europe,...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Poisoning has long history of use as means of removing human obstacles
	Posted by bedolido On News/Activism 12/27/2004 9:33:57 AM EST · 14 replies · 858+ views charlotte.com | 12/27/2004 | CHARLES LEROUX CHICAGO - (KRT) - One imagines the Persian queen smiling warmly as she passes the food down the table to her daughter-in-law. Queen Parysatis, during the reign of her son, Artaxerxes II (405 to 359 B.C.), was trying to influence a power struggle within the kingdom and had felt the need to be rid of her daughter-in-law. She poisoned one side of a knife that then was used to bisect a roast bird at dinner. Taking the untainted half for herself, she passed the rest, knowing - hence the smile - that her problem was all but solved. Recorded instances...
Oxford Archaeologists Want To Join Studies On Iran's Salt Men
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 12:40:31 AM EDT · 8 replies · 190+ views Payvand | 9-27-2006 Oxford archaeologists want to join studies on Iran's salt men TEHRAN, Sept. 27 (Mehr News Agency) -- The director of an archaeological team working at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Hamzehlu region near Zanjan said that a group of Oxford University archaeologists is interested in participating in the study on the salt men found at the mine. "A group of Oxford University archaeologists has prepared a plan, asking to participate in the study, and the Center for Archaeological Research is investigating the plan," Abolfazl Aali told the Persian service of CHN on Wednesday "The archaeologists will be invited to...
Asia
Ancient Burial Urns Found In Central Vietnam
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 1:02:53 AM EDT · 13 replies · 184+ views Thanhnien News | 9-29-2006 | Sai Gon Giai Phong - Thu Thuy Ancient burial urns found in central Vietnam Archaeologists have discovered 30 burial jars belonging to the 2,500-year-old Sa Huynh civilization in central Vietnam. The graves together with many artifacts were unearthed at the Con Dai archaeological site in Thua Thua-Hue provinceís Huong Tra district. Of the jars, 25 contained ritual offerings like small trays, agate balls, and earrings, all of them still intact. They will be displayed at the Museum of Vietnamese History and the provinceís museum. The archaeologists said the excavation provided further evidence that an early Metal Age culture had once existed in central Vietnam. The Sa Huynh...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
York's Viking Gold Armband Goes On Display At Yorkshire Museum
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:20:19 PM EDT · 16 replies · 157+ views 24 Hour Museum | September 29, 2006 | unattributed A rare piece of Viking gold that was discovered in the possessions of a deceased builder from York has finally gone on display at the Yorkshire Museum. The pure gold armband weighing three quarters of a Kilogram is only the third of its type ever to be found in Britain and Ireland and experts at the museum believe it would have been worn by one of the richest people living in Viking York, then called Jorvik... "This is only the second arm ring of this type to be found in England and for us to have it is exceptional," said...
Faith and Philosophy
Crumbling cathedral held together by tape [Canterbury, England, 900+ years old]
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On News/Activism 10/05/2006 6:48:50 AM EDT · 184 replies · 1,855+ views Daily Telegraph | Oct 4, 2006 | Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent Canterbury Cathedral is falling apart at the seams, with chunks of masonry dropping off its walls and a fifth of its internal marble pillars held together by duct tape. ¬† An art student paints in the cloisters, but trustees say parts of the building may have to be closed to visitors for safety reasons The extent of the building's disrepair was revealed yesterday at the launch of a global campaign to raise ¬£50 million over five years for urgent and long-term renovation and conservation.The cathedral, the mother church of worldwide Anglicanism which was founded in 597 by St Augustine,...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Treasures Lby Rome 'Are Back In The Holy Land'
	Posted by Iam1ru1-2 On News/Activism 09/30/2006 11:56:23 PM EDT · 22 replies · 442+ views TimesOnline.Co.UK | Dalya Alberge By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent A COLLECTION of sacred artefacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist. Sean Kingsley, a specialist in the Holy Land, claims to have discovered what became of the collection, which is widely regarded as the greatest of biblical treasures and includes silver trumpets that would have heralded the Coming of the Messiah. The trumpets, gold candelabra and the bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence were among pieces shipped to Rome...
Bobblehead Muhammed?
	Posted by Behind Liberal Lines On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:23:03 PM EDT · 173 replies · 5,188+ views All contents © 2006 Daily News, L.P. | Originally published on October 1, 2006 | BY TINA MOORE A ceramic bobblehead doll of the Prophet Muhammed - created to resemble the infamous caricature published by a Danish newspaper - is being hawked online for $22.99 a pop by an ex-Marine. The unapologetic creator, Timothy Ames, 28, said the bobblehead is similar to "dashboard Jesus" figurines that can be stuck with adhesive to flat surfaces. "I thought, 'If they flipped out over some cartoons what will they do with a dashboard Muhammed?'" Ames said from his home in Hawaii. But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet....
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Sydney 'survivor' exhumed on island (HMAS Sydney - sunk in battle), November 19th 1941)
	Posted by naturalman1975 On News/Activism 10/04/2006 8:37:13 PM EDT · 16 replies · 655+ views The Australian | 4th October 2006 | Tony Barrass THE remains of the unknown sailor believed to be the sole survivor of Australia's most enduring wartime mystery - the sinking of HMAS Sydney off Western Australia - have been unearthed on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The Defence Department last night confirmed that bones had been discovered in the island's Old European Cemetery by a navy-led team of experts and, once removed, would be taken to Sydney for further forensic tests in an attempt to establish identity. The discovery is yet another piece to a puzzle that has fascinated and frustrated historians for more than half a century....
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #117 Saturday, October 14, 2006
Asia
Ancient Burial Urns Found In Central Vietnam
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 1:02:53 AM EDT · 13 replies · 303+ views Thanhnien News | 9-29-2006 | Sai Gon Giai Phong - Thu Thuy Ancient burial urns found in central Vietnam Archaeologists have discovered 30 burial jars belonging to the 2,500-year-old Sa Huynh civilization in central Vietnam. The graves together with many artifacts were unearthed at the Con Dai archaeological site in Thua Thua-Hue provinceís Huong Tra district. Of the jars, 25 contained ritual offerings like small trays, agate balls, and earrings, all of them still intact. They will be displayed at the Museum of Vietnamese History and the provinceís museum. The archaeologists said the excavation provided further evidence that an early Metal Age culture had once existed in central Vietnam. The Sa Huynh...
Near East
Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria
	Posted by uglybiker On General/Chat 10/05/2006 1:04:58 PM EDT · 18 replies · 261+ views Yahoo! Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria DAMASCUS (AFP) - Archaeologists said they have discovered an 11-millennium-old building with on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. "A remarkable discovery has just been uncovered of a large circular building dating back to 8,800 BC near (the locality of) Ja'de," the head of the French archaeologal team that made the find told AFP. The building, much larger than normal houses, "had a collective use, probably for all of the village or a group," Eric Coqueugniot said. "A part of this community building takes the shape of the head of a...
Remains of giant camel discovered in Syria
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 10/08/2006 10:58:20 AM EDT · 95 replies · 1,660+ views Mumbai Mirror | October 8, 2006 | Reuters Damascus: Swiss researchers have discovered the 1,00,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria. "This is a big discovery, a revolution in science," Professor Jean-Marie Le Tensorer of the University of Basel said. "It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago." "Can you imagine? The camelís shoulders stood three metres high and it was around four metres tall, as big as a giraffe or an elephant. Nobody knew that such a species had existed." Tensorer, who has been excavating at the desert site in Kowm since...
Ancient Egypt
Before the Mummies: The Desert Origins of the Pharaohs
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/07/2006 3:02:30 PM EDT · 15 replies · 164+ views Saudi Aramco World Volume 57, Number 5 | September/October 2006 | Graham Chandler The question of where the great Pharaonic civilization came from and how it arose has never really been answered, not by the ancient Greeks nor by the first European explorers and archeologists, who explored and plundered it in the 19th century. Until just a few decades ago, the received wisdom was that a "superior culture" must have invaded Egypt, or migrated there, from the Levant or Mesopotamia -- regions that had civilizations a thousand years earlier. But for more than 200 years, precious few archeologists had the inclination to explore this question of origins: Most were more dazzled by the mummies, temples...
Mummy DNA Reveals Birth Of Ancient Scourge
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/08/2006 6:30:07 PM EDT · 9 replies · 956+ views Scientific American | 10-6-2006 | David Biello Mummy DNA Reveals Birth of Ancient Scourge Image: © ALADIN ABDEL NABY/REUTERS/CORBIS Centuries of silence cannot keep ancient Egyptian mummies from sharing their secrets with scientists. From archaeologists determining cultural practices to chemists studying embalming, mummies have revealed libraries of information. Now such mummies are also yielding evidence about the diseases of the past by giving up the facts encoded in their preserved DNA, and new research may have pinned down the ancient homeland of a modern scourge. Leishmaniasis--a disease caused by microscopic parasites, like malaria, and transmitted by sand flies--results in painful skin sores and in its most vicious...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mastodons Driven To Extinction By Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/03/2006 6:01:37 PM EDT · 65 replies · 816+ views National Geographic | 10-3-2006 | Kimberly Johnson Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest Kimberly Johnson for National Geographic News October 3, 2006 Tuberculosis was rampant in North American mastodons during the late Ice Age and may have led to their extinction, researchers say. Mastodons lived in North America starting about 2 million years ago and thrived until 11,000 years agoóaround the time humans arrived on the continentówhen the last of the 7-ton (6.35-metric-ton) elephantlike creatures died off. Scientists Bruce Rothschild and Richard Laub pieced together clues to the animals' widespread die-off by studying unearthed mastodon foot bones. Rothschild first noticed a telltale tuberculosis lesion on...
New mouse find is 'living fossil'
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 10/12/2006 1:32:36 PM EDT · 95 replies · 1,504+ views BBC | October 12, 2006 | Staff A new species of mouse found in Cyprus is delighting scientists. Identified by researchers at Durham University, it has bigger ears, eyes and teeth than other European mice. The scientists say it is a surviving remnant of indigenous Cypriot fauna which mostly went extinct with the arrival of humans. Most finds of new species occur in tropical regions with sparse human populations, which makes this a highly unusual discovery. "It was generally believed that every species of mammal in Europe had been identified," said Durham's Thomas Cucchi. "This is why the discovery of a new species of mouse on Cyprus...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Formation Of New Species Proves Gradual, Not Sudden
	Posted by sourcery On News/Activism 05/28/2002 3:35:38 PM EDT · 77 replies · 661+ views UniSci.com | 28 May 2002 Home Search Formation Of New Species Proves Gradual, Not SuddenThe formation of new species is a gradual and not a sudden process, according to a team of biologists from the UK, France, Australia and the USA.Their findings, from a study of birds on Pacific islands, are reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).The "founder effect" theory, a controversial idea among biologists, says that speciation occurs suddenly due to a small influx of colonists founding new populations, in the process creating many new gene combinations and losing many others, in what is known as a...
We Dodged Extinction
	Posted by Sabertooth On News/Activism 01/29/2002 10:23:19 PM EST · 172 replies · 1,013+ views ABCNews | Lee Dye We Dodged Extinction ‘Pruned’ Family Tree Leaves Little Genetic Variety Just one group of chimpanzees can have more genetic diversity than all 6 billion humans on the planet. (Corel) Special to ABCNEWS.com A worldwide research program has come up with astonishing evidence that humans have come so close to extinction in the past that it’s surprising we’re here at all.     Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at San Diego, and other members of a research team studied genetic variability among humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes of Africa.      Humanoids are believed ...
Genes and Morphology
Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution
	Posted by GarySpFc On News/Activism 05/08/2005 1:20:27 PM EDT · 134 replies · 1,737+ views The Kansas City Star | May 8, 2005 | Jonathan Witt Study strengths, weaknesses of evolution By Jonathan Witt Special to The Star Biology textbooks diligently paper over the fact that biologists have never observed or even described in credible, theoretical terms a continually functional, macroevolutionary pathway leading to fundamentally new anatomical forms. It seems the Darwinists in Kansas are living in the past. Not the past of, say, the fossil record. The history written there tells of the abrupt appearance of major animal forms, nothing like the gradually branching tree of life that Darwin envisioned. The past that some evolutionists are living in, rather, is the Kansas science curriculum battle...
Where do Human Beings Come From?
	Posted by wallcrawlr On General/Chat 08/04/2005 10:23:17 AM EDT · 23 replies · 538+ views Yahoo news | August 3, 2005 It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The search for the ultimate answer has taken a number of twists and turns, with careers made and broken along the way. APE TO MAN is the story of the quest to find the origins of the human race -- a quest that spanned more than 150 years of obsessive searching. APE TO MAN...
Africa
Ancient fossils fill gap in early human evolution
	Posted by Sofa King On General/Chat 04/12/2006 3:21:23 PM EDT · 136 replies · 1,785+ views Yahoo | 4/12/06 | Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution. The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of Australopithecus known as Au. anamensis, an ape-man creature that walked on two legs.
Ancient Europe
Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 02/19/2002 10:53:03 AM EST · 45 replies · 608+ views University Of Toront | 19 February 2002 | Staff University of Toronto anthropologist David Begun and his European colleagues are re-writing the book on the history of great apes and humans, arguing that most of their evolutionary development took place in Eurasia, not Africa. In back-to-back issues of the Journal of Human Evolution, Begun and his collaborators describe two fossils, both discovered in Europe. One comes from the oldest relative of all living great apes (orangutans and African apes) and humans; the other is the most complete skull ever found of a close relative of the African apes and humans. In the November 2001 issue, Begun and colleague Elmar ...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Fossil Remains Show The Merging Of Neandertals, Modern Humans
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/12/2006 2:22:03 PM EDT · 140 replies · 1,961+ views Washington University | 10-12-2006 | Neil Schoenherr Fossil remains show the merging of Neandertals, modern humans By Neil Schoenherr The early modern human remains from the Pestera Muierii (Cave of the Old Woman), Romania, which were discovered in 1952, have been poorly dated and largely ignored. But recently, a team of researchers from the Anthropological and Archaeological Institutes in Bucharest, Romania, and from WUSTL has been able to directly date the fossils to 30,000 years ago. The fossils prove that a strict population replacement of the Neandertals did not happen. "What these fossils show is that these earliest modern humans had a mosaic of distinctly modern human...
Delving Deep Into Britain's Past
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:18:29 PM EDT · 6 replies · 273+ views BBC | 10-1-2006 | Paul Ricon Delving deep into Britain's past By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Neanderthals probably made this hand axe from Swanscombe in Kent Scientists are to begin work on the second phase of a project aimed at piecing together the history of human colonisation in Britain. Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Phase two has now secured funds to the tune of £1m and will run until 2010. Team members hope to find out more about Britain's earliest settlers and perhaps unearth their fossil remains. They...
Scientists Bid To Take Neanderthal DNA Sample
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:00:57 PM EDT · 23 replies · 420+ views Scotsman | 10-1-2006 | Kark Mansfield Scientists bid to take Neanderthal DNA sample KARL MANSFIELD SCIENTISTS are attempting to extract DNA for the first time from the fossilised bones thought to be of a Neanderthal man who roamed Britain 35,000 years ago. Experts plan to use a tooth from an upper jaw to establish whether the closest relative of modern humans lived on the British Isles later than it was once thought. The fragment of an upper jaw, which was found in 1926 at Kent's Cavern in Devon, was originally thought to be human, but experts now think it could date back even further. Chris Stringer,...
Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years
	Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism 09/02/2005 5:31:25 PM EDT · 84 replies · 1,788+ views ABC NEWSonline | Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST) Last Update: Thursday, September 1, 2005. 3:29pm (AEST) A reconstruction of the face of a young female Neanderthal who lived about 35,000 years ago in France. (AFP) Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals co-existed with anatomically modern humans for at least 1,000 years in central France.The finding suggests Neanderthals came to a tragic and lingering end.Few chapters in the rise of Homo sapiens, as modern mankind is known, have triggered as much debate as the fate of the Neanderthals.Smaller and squatter than Homo sapiens but with larger brains, Neanderthals lived in Europe,...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Oxford Archaeologists Want To Join Studies On Iran's Salt Men
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/01/2006 12:40:31 AM EDT · 8 replies · 521+ views Payvand | 9-27-2006 Oxford archaeologists want to join studies on Iran's salt men TEHRAN, Sept. 27 (Mehr News Agency) -- The director of an archaeological team working at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Hamzehlu region near Zanjan said that a group of Oxford University archaeologists is interested in participating in the study on the salt men found at the mine. "A group of Oxford University archaeologists has prepared a plan, asking to participate in the study, and the Center for Archaeological Research is investigating the plan," Abolfazl Aali told the Persian service of CHN on Wednesday "The archaeologists will be invited to...
Faith and Philosophy
Zoroastrians struggle for survival in Iran
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 10/12/2006 8:40:31 PM EDT · 45 replies · 591+ views Zee News | 10/12/06 | Zee News Flicking through photographs of immigrant Zoroastrian friends in sunny California, 40-year-old Farzad Dehnavizadeh sighs and wishes the young people of his faith would stop leaving Iran for the west. His 40,000-strong Zoroastrian community has survived centuries of conquest, oppression and forced conversion to keep their 3,200-year-old monotheistic faith alive and guard ancient traditions in Shiite Muslim majority Iran. Having withstood the ravages of history, the community is now threatened by emigration, which is day by day robbing the Zoroastrians of their precious youth. Precise figures on the scale of the exodus are not available but sources in the community estimate...
Maps and Legends
For Sale: World's first printed atlas
	Posted by Pokey78 On News/Activism 10/07/2006 3:50:05 PM EDT · 7 replies · 292+ views Daily Mail (U.K.) | 10/06/06 It was based on the tales of travellers who roamed the seas the best part of 2000 years ago. So it is not surprising, perhaps, to find a few inaccuracies in the world's first printed atlas. Scotland, for example, is pushed way out east, into the "German Sea," and England looks long and spindly, jutting out into the Bay of Biscay. The undiscovered Americas were absent. And the ancient map makes the earth too small, as well as overestimating the size of China. Next week the 529 year old atlas - based on the findings of 2nd century geographer Claudius...
Epigraphy and Language
Dighton Rock markings debated by historians
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/09/2006 12:21:22 AM EDT · 5 replies · 121+ views Taunton Gazette | Sunday, October 8, 2006 | Scott Spitler As the theory goes, Portuguese navigator Miguel Cortereal sailed to the new world in 1502 in search of his brother who never returned from a trip here. Miguel Cortereal also failed to return to Portugal, but the Dighton Rock, some say, proves that the sailor and his crew survived a shipwreck and marked his landing in Massachusetts. Portuguese symbols in the form of a coat of arms and uniquely drawn crosses can be seen on the rock face, da Silva and other say. Cortereal's name and 1511, the date of its inscription, are also visible. Delabarre wrote that a Latin...
Navigation
Early Humans Followed Coast
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/07/2006 1:14:08 PM EDT · 43 replies · 567+ views BBC | 10-7-2006 | Paul Ricon Early humans followed the coast By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Coastlines were rich in resources for early humans Learning how to live off the sea may have played a key role in the expansion of early humans around the globe. After leaving Africa, human groups probably followed coastal routes to the Americas and South-East Asia. Professor Jon Erlandson says the maritime capabilities of ancient humans have been greatly underestimated. He has found evidence that early peoples in California pursued a sophisticated seafaring lifestyle 10,000 years ago. Anthropologists have long regarded the exploitation of marine resources as a recent...
Prehistory and Origins
Did first Americans come from Europe?
	Posted by minus_273 On News/Activism 02/20/2006 3:01:38 AM EST · 137 replies · 1,887+ views MSNBC | 2/20/06 | By Bjorn Carey ST. LOUIS - The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago. The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska began receding around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving very little chance that...
Peru
Peru finds ancient burial cave of warrior tribe - Chachapoyas, white-skinned aka "Cloud People"
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/05/2006 11:11:48 PM EDT · 25 replies · 948+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 10/5/06 | Robin Emmott LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday. After a tip-off from a farmer in Peru's northern Amazon jungle, archeologists from Peru's National Culture Institute last week found the 820-feet-(250-meter)deep cave that was used for burial and worship by the Chachapoyas tribe. So far archeologists have found five mummies, two of which are intact with skin and hair, as well as ceramics, textiles and wall paintings, the expedition's leader and regional cultural director Herman Corbera told...
Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/07/2006 6:43:02 PM EDT · 61 replies · 1,414+ views kuelap Peru.com | 10-7-2006 Kuelap -- the Machu Picchu of Northern Peru.The mysterious super fortress of the Chachapoyan Cloud PeopleKuelap is the largest building structure of the Americas. It is estimated to contain 3 times more material than Egyptís largest pyramid. Peru considers Kuelap to be as good as Machu Picchu and is trying to make this its equal 2nd major destination. It is twice as old as the Incas and in remarkably better condition before restoration. Kuelap is an unknown giant just waking up. Peru is a huge country the size of the 5 west coast states, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Montana....
Belize
Ancient Canoe Found On Belize Research Dig
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/10/2006 8:39:38 PM EDT · 7 replies · 339+ views Ascribe | 10-10-2006 | Keith Prufer Ancient Canoe Found by Wichita State University Professor on Belize Research Dig WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An ancient canoe -- more than likely the oldest canoe ever uncovered in Mesoamerica -- was discovered this summer in a cliff-top cave in Belize by an excavation team being led by Wichita State University archaeologist Keith Prufer. Prufer estimates that the canoe very likely dates to 200 to 800 AD, based on previous findings in the area. Carbon testing is currently being wrapped up to confirm that the canoe is indeed the oldest found in Mesoamerica, the geographical region from...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit (9,400 YO American Mummy)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/04/2006 8:24:51 PM EDT · 26 replies · 562+ views Friends Of The Past | 9-25-2006 The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit NEWS: The Court has remanded the matter back to the Bureau of Land Management for further proceedings. See Order (posted 9/25/06) -- The text of the Conclusion In July 2000 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a determination that the Spirit Cave Man could not be culturally linked to the claiming Fallon-Paiute Shoshone tribe. The tribe filed a lawsuit asking the Federal Court to review their claim under NAGPRA. In their determination, the BLM assumed that the Spirit Cave Man was Native American based solely on his age. In the Kennewick Man lawsuit, the...
Cuban Colonists Traded Bootlaces For Gold
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/09/2006 7:16:32 PM EDT · 21 replies · 363+ views The Guardian (UK) | 10-9-2006 | Maev Kennedy Cuban colonists traded bootlaces for gold Maev Kennedy Monday October 9, 2006 Guardian Unlimited (UK) El Chorro de Maita cemetery; and an artist's impression of the jewellery made by the Cubans from the Europeans' shoelaces. Images: Courtesy Institute of Archaeology The people of El Chorro de Maita, a fishing and farming village on the east coast of Cuba, were buried with their greatest treasures: jewellery made of stone, coral, pearl, gold and silver alloy, and odd little tube shaped metal beads. Meanwhile the first Europeans to make contact with the island were sailing home, well pleased with their barter: they'd...
Columbus
Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/09/2006 8:44:39 AM EDT · 157 replies · 2,291+ views The Guardian | 07 Aug 2006 | Giles Tremlett Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document uncovered by Spanish historians. As governor and viceroy of the Indies, Columbus imposed iron discipline on the first Spanish colony in the Americas, in what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic. Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses, parading women naked through the streets and selling them into slavery. "Columbus' government was characterised by a form of tyranny," Consuelo Varela, a Spanish historian who has seen...
Some of Columbus' Bones Buried in Spain
	Posted by freepatriot32 On News/Activism 05/20/2006 5:47:22 PM EDT · 9 replies · 355+ views comcast.net | 5 20 06 | DANIEL WOOLLS MADRID, Spain - Scientists said Friday they have confirmed that at least some of Christopher Columbus' remains were buried inside a Spanish cathedral, a discovery that could help end a century-old debate over the explorer's final resting place. DNA samples from 500-year-old bone slivers could contradict the Dominican Republic's competing claim that the explorer was laid to rest in the New World, said Marcial Castro, a Seville-area historian and high school teacher who devised the study that began in 2002. However, some of Columbus' remains also could have been buried in the Dominican Republic, he said. The announcement came a...
Did Muslims Visit America Before Columbus?
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 05/09/2006 12:55:41 PM EDT · 154 replies · 2,894+ views History News Network | 5/8/06 | Rebecca Fachner Is it possible that there were Muslims in the Americas before Columbus? Some claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Are the claims true? Every elementary school student knows the story of Christopher Columbus; that he set sail from Spain and mistakenly discovered America in 1492, landing on an island in the Caribbean. Columbus encountered native inhabitants of this new world, and thinking that he had landed in India, he called them Indians. While many of the details have been mythologized or fabricated over the ensuing 500 years, Columbusís expedition represents...
Chinese map claims to back theory that China discovered America
	Posted by presidio9 On News/Activism 01/17/2006 8:00:33 PM EST · 52 replies · 792+ views AFP | 1/17/06 Chinese map collecter has found a copy of an ancient map he claims proves controversial theories that famed Chinese mariner Zheng He was the first person to discover America and circumnavigate the world. Liu Gang said the map supports the recent theories that Chinese discovered America before Christopher Columbus and charted parts of the world such as Antartica and northern Canada long before Western explorers. "The map shows us that Chinese discovered the world 70 years before Columbus," Liu said in a public unveiling of the chart. "The map tells us that Zheng He discovered the world." The map is...
Columbus' Purported Remains Are Still Bones of Contention
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 05/05/2005 4:06:24 AM EDT · 1 reply · 215+ views Tapohilia | May 2, 2005 | Carol J. Williams It's been nearly two years since Spanish scientists asked to examine the contents of this Caribbean nation's most celebrated tomb to determine whether the centuries-old bones are actually those of Christopher Columbus. They've been told yes, no and maybe. The protracted deliberation through two Dominican administrations has deepened suspicions that authorities here don't really want a definitive answer for fear that the mammoth lighthouse mausoleum they've built into a tourist draw isn't the bona fide resting place of the explorer. Even those who favor letting modern science settle the matter are loath to concede that they might have invested millions...
Move over Christopher Columbus, Admiral Zheng He is here
	Posted by MikeEdwards On Bloggers & Personal 03/11/2005 11:19:24 AM EST · 38 replies · 958+ views CFP | March 11, 2005 | Judi McLeod Thatís the day when the United Nations will begin trying to convince the world that Christopher Columbus did not discover North America, a Chinese-Muslim explorer discovered us a half century before C.C. No, this is not science fiction. It is todayís cover story in Canada Free Press. That the Canadian government has been selling off our natural resources, including the Alberta tar sands to the Chinese government ought to be worry enough for any with the sovereignty of our nation in mind. Now we have a yet to be identified "respected Canadian architect" headed to the United Nations to tell...
Christopher Columbus' Remains
	Posted by TexasTaysor On News/Activism 01/18/2005 8:29:56 AM EST · 33 replies · 1,042+ views Netscape News | 1/17/05 | DANIEL WOOLLS MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish researchers said Monday they've won permission to open a tomb in the Dominican Republic purported to hold remains of Christopher Columbus, edging closer to solving a century-old mystery over whether those bones or a rival set in Spain are the real thing.
De Soto
Scholars study lost city of Mabila at UA
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:31:55 PM EDT · 7 replies · 152+ views Tuscaloosa News | September 29. 2006 3:30AM | Adam Jones It's believed to be the largest battle between Europeans and Native Americans north of the Rio Grande, but the city of Mabila remains lost... A team of historians, archeologists and geologists have come to the University of Alabama for three days to study the battle.. Their aim, though, isn't to find the city, but to compile everything known, for possible future excavations, said Jim Knight, a UA anthropology professor who helped organize the conference... Finding Mabila means addressing a host of problems ranging from suspect accounts of De Soto's expedition to the possibility that modern dams may have flooded the...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Possible ancient calendar entry found [ Tantoc ruins, San Luis Potosi state, Huasteco culture ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:53:42 AM EDT · 3 replies · 70+ views Cleveland Plain Dealer | Friday, October 06, 2006 | Mark Stevenson (AP) Markings on top of the figures appear to depict an entry from, or part of, a 13-month lunar calendar, said archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja, who led the excavation of the monument. "This would be the first depiction of a calendar or calendar elements in such an early time period," he said. The monolith, which measures more than 25 feet and weighs about 20 tons, was found in March 2005 at the Tantoc ruins in San Luis Potosi state, near Mexico's northern Gulf coast, by construction workers. Ahuja theorized that the stone's glyphlike inscriptions were carved sometime around 700 B.C., likely by...
Radical solution proposed for Stonehenge
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/07/2006 11:57:51 AM EDT · 16 replies · 168+ views Guardian Unlimited | Saturday October 7, 2006 | Maev Kennedy Last night Professor Peter Fowler, an internationally acknowledged expert on the Stonehenge landscape and on World Heritage Sites management, washed his hands of the whole argument. The A303, a main artery to the south west that narrows to a grinding two-lane traffic jam where it passes the stone circle, should be closed and replaced with a tunnel, and the smaller A344 which actually clips the heel stone of the monument, should also go, he said, adding, "But since no sort of a tunnel is going to be built, the A303 should be kept exactly as and where it is, because...
British Isles
Bathed in controversy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/05/2006 1:25:11 PM EDT · 7 replies · 135+ views Guardian | Wednesday October 4, 2006 | Helena Smith The ruins of Allianoi are among the few "asclepions" - or therapeutic centres - ever discovered. Testimony to the extraordinary sophistication of urban planning and hydrological engineering during the Roman era, archaeologists believe that with its curative waters, the spa city complemented the legendary asclepion at nearby Pergamon. There, patients were healed through psychotherapy to the accompaniment of music. Artefacts found on the site, including bronze surgical instruments, suggest it was a prominent health centre from the second century BC to the 11th century AD. Having survived earthquakes in AD 178 and 262, the site has been spectacularly preserved beneath...
Roman mosaics found on Quantocks
	Posted by george76 On News/Activism 10/05/2006 10:47:50 PM EDT · 3 replies · 128+ views BBC NEWS | 4 October 2006 | bbc Archaeologists working on the Quantock Hills in Somerset have uncovered evidence of a substantial Roman villa with a mosaic floor in the main room. The findings are part of a six-year study carried out on six separate sites around the area. The dig team said the villa at Yarford is one of the most westerly villas with mosaic floors found in Roman Britain. It was subjected to three seasons of excavation but has since been buried again to protect it for the future. "If there is one villa, then the chances are that others will be found in due course."...
Pupils who dig their Latin lessons [ could uncover a Roman camp ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 4:19:44 PM EDT · 10 replies · 128+ views Leeds Today | Saturday, September 30, 2006 | Ian Rosser Today it's home to a Leeds school with more than 1,000 students. But backtrack 2,000 years and the site of Allerton High in Moortown could have been occupied by soldiers from one of history's largest empires... According to Ordnance Survey maps dating back to 1847, the existing school was built on a site called Camp Town. In the south-east corner of the grounds, which was once a sandstone quarry, there is a clearly-marked historical camp. The school's deputy head Heather Scott... said, a mention in the "Mannour Books of Leeds" from 1709 of a "garth named Campo" and the existence...
York's Viking Gold Armband Goes On Display At Yorkshire Museum
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:20:19 PM EDT · 16 replies · 183+ views 24 Hour Museum | September 29, 2006 | unattributed A rare piece of Viking gold that was discovered in the possessions of a deceased builder from York has finally gone on display at the Yorkshire Museum. The pure gold armband weighing three quarters of a Kilogram is only the third of its type ever to be found in Britain and Ireland and experts at the museum believe it would have been worn by one of the richest people living in Viking York, then called Jorvik... "This is only the second arm ring of this type to be found in England and for us to have it is exceptional," said...
Ancient Rome
ANCIENT NECROPOLIS FOUND BENEATH VATICAN
	Posted by NYer On Religion 10/09/2006 12:03:15 PM EDT · 56 replies · 1,241+ views Yahoo News | October 9, 2006 The history of this dig may be found here. AP - Mon Oct 9, 10:40 AM ET In this undated photo provided Monday, Oct. 9, 2006 by the Vatican Museums, a general view of an ancient necropolis unearthed at the Vatican is seen. Vatican Museums officials and archaeologists on Monday unveiled the necropolis, which was unearthed three years ago during the construction of a parking lot for Vatican City employees and vehicles. Visitors to the Vatican will soon be able to step into the newly unveiled necropolis likened by archaeologists to a ''little Pompeii'' of cemeteries which were the final...
How TV is wiping out the movies -- again
	Posted by Keltik On News/Activism 09/27/2006 2:04:53 PM EDT · 71 replies · 1,632+ views The New Republic | 09.19.06 | Christopher Orr There's a gag in one of the old "Treehouse of Horror" episodes of "The Simpsons," in which Homer and Marge attend a parents meeting at Springfield Elementary School on the "thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month." The meeting, of course, is to discuss misprinted calendars; as Homer walks in from the wintry outdoors he glances at one hanging nearby and grouses, "lousy Smarch weather." Well, the DVD calendar now has its very own Smarch. Until recently, video releases have followed essentially the same schedule as theatrical openings, just shifted forward three or four months: The studios'...
Generating Buzz in All the Right Places, 'Entourage' Fills a Gap for HBO
	Posted by Mr. Blonde On General/Chat 08/29/2006 11:34:36 AM EDT · 12 replies · 203+ views New York Times | August 28 | Bill Carter On the elegant office set representing the headquarters of Ari Goldís new palatial Hollywood talent agency, Doug Ellin sat in the glass-walled ersatz conference room, about where the fictional ¸ber-agent Ari might sit, talking about the utterly unexpected phenomenon of the series he created, HBOís "Entourage."
Two and Out for 'Rome' January will begin final season for 'Rome' and 'Sopranos'
	Posted by Snickering Hound On News/Activism 07/12/2006 5:01:51 PM EDT · 42 replies · 972+ views Zap to it.com LOS ANGELES -- The fall of "Rome" will happen sometime in early 2007. HBO announced Wednesday that the second season of its epic series set in the time of Caesar will debut Jan. 7. At the same time, the network says next season will be the last for the show. Filming on season two is currently taking place at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome and will wrap in October. Once that's done, though, the show -- a co-production with the BBC -- will call it quits. "Rome" was one of the most expensive projects in TV history -- reports pegged...
Which character on "Rome" are you most like?
	Posted by Perdogg On General/Chat 12/30/2005 3:02:47 PM EST · 7 replies · 235+ views 12/30/05 | Perdogg Warning: this thread will contain talk of sex, nudity, and violence. If any of this is offensive please read on. Which Character on "Rome" Are most like? Men: Julius Caesar - Strong, never in doubt, decisive. Plus the women love him. Has slept with Servilia and Cleopatria. Nice job. Lucius - Duty always comes before self. Must be a strong willed man to have resisted Cleopatria. Titus Pullo - A Man's Man; personnal demons and obsession with a slave girl may be his own end. Oh so willing to use violence. Mark Antony. Male version of Atia. Willing to do...
Anatolia
Magnificent ruins brought to light in Turkey
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/10/2006 1:56:02 AM EDT · 5 replies · 170+ views Times Colonist | Saturday, October 07, 2006 | Mike Karapita Ephesus dates back to the 11th century BC as a port city on the Aegean, but its golden history under Rome began in 133 BC. From that point on, it was transformed into the cultivated capital for all of Asia Minor. Things stayed that way for centuries until power shifted to Constantinople, now Istanbul. Ephesus's harbour silted up and it gradually became a ghost town... The ruins of Ephesus are about two kilometres long, so allow time for your visit (and bring a hat and sunscreen -- it can be baking hot)... Archeologists estimate that only one-third of the city...
Troy, Homer, the Trojan War
Schliemann's search for the 'first city'
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 09/30/2006 3:46:09 PM EDT · 18 replies · 195+ views Athens News | Friday, 22 September 2006 | Jonathan Carr In his new novel, 'The Fall of Troy', Peter Ackroyd recreates the19th-century excavation of one of antiquity's greatest sites which was led byan archaeologist whose methods have always provoked controversy.. Some details about Heinrich Schliemann's life are documented but not too much should be taken for granted about a man so adept at presenting grand conclusions based on dodgy evidence. The location of the Homeric Ithaca remains in dispute and what Schliemann did find on modern Ithaca was no palace; the treasure he unearthed at Troy has since been dated to more than a thousand years before Homer's Trojan war;...
Drill hole begins Homeric quest
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/11/2006 12:53:43 PM EDT · 9 replies · 160+ views BBC News | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 | Jonathan Amos Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location. But geologists are this week sinking a test borehole on nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of Paliki is the real site. The scientists hope to find evidence that the peninsula once stood proud, separated from Kefalonia by a narrow, navigable marine channel. It is only within the last 2,500-3,000 years - and long after Homer's time - that the channel has been filled in, the team contends. "We can't prove the story of the Odyssey is true, but we can test whether...
Geologists Show Homer Got It Right
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/29/2003 7:58:53 PM EST · 24 replies · 389+ views Nature | 1-29-2003 | Philip Ball Geologists show Homer got it right Trojan geography in Homer's Iliad matches sediment record of Dardanelles coastline. 29 January 2003 PHILIP BALL The ruins of Troy now perch on the edge of a plateau overlooking a river flood plain. © Uni. of Oxford Homer knew his geography, say US researchers. The ancient Greek writer's description of the war fought around Troy is consistent with a new reconstruction of the way the region looked about three millennia ago1. In his Iliad, Homer recounts how the city of Troy was besieged and finally conquered by the army of the Spartan king Menelaus, who...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/03/2006 6:09:36 PM EDT · 48 replies · 1,026+ views National Geographic | 10-2-2006 | Erica Lloyd Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says Erica Lloyd for National Geographic News October 2, 2006 It's no secret that in the past few centuries people in Western nations have been getting taller and living longer. But now experts say that today's Westerners are the product of an accelerated spate of growth that is unique in human history. People in the developed world are taller and more robust than their great, great, great grandparents probably ever imagined. Robert Fogel, director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago, notes that Westerners are about 50 percent larger...
Goats Key To Spread Of Farming, Gene Study Suggests
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/12/2006 2:38:58 PM EDT · 28 replies · 416+ views National Geographic | 10-10-2006 | James Owens Goats Key to Spread of Farming, Gene Study Suggests James Owen for National Geographic News October 10, 2006 Goats accompanied the earliest farmers into Europe some 7,500 years ago, helping to revolutionize Stone Age society, a new study suggests. The trailblazing farm animals were hardy and highly mobile traveling companions to ancient pioneers from the Middle East who introduced agriculture to Europe and elsewhere, researchers say. The onset of farming ushered in the so-called Neolithic Revolution, when settled communities gradually replaced nomadic tribes and their hunter-gatherer lifestyles between 8000 and 6000 B.C. A team of archaeologists and biologists has traced...
Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate
	Posted by martin_fierro On General/Chat 10/07/2006 4:17:17 PM EDT · 11 replies · 187+ views EurekAlert! | 10/3/06 | Joseph Blumberg Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Genome Research's cover story for Oct. 2 tells a tale of "genome archaeology" by genetic researchers who dug deeply into the long history of maize and rice. Their resulting insights into plant genomic evolution may well fuel the fires of the genetically modified organism (GMO) controversy. "Our findings elucidate an active evolutionary process in which nature inserts genes much like modern biotechnologists do. Now we must reassess the allegations that biotechnologists perform 'unnatural acts,' thereby creating 'Frankenfoods,'" said Professor Joachim Messing, project leader and director of the Waksman Institute...
Scientists Trace Corn Ancestry from Ancient Grass to Modern Crop
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 06/15/2005 12:41:56 PM EDT · 138 replies · 1,723+ views National Science Foundation | 27 May 2005 | Staff Researchers have identified corn genes that were preferentially selected by Native Americans during the course of the plant's domestication from its grassy relative, teosinte, (pronounced "tA-O-'sin-tE") to the single-stalked, large-eared plant we know today. The study revealed that of the 59,000 total genes in the corn genome, approximately 1,200 were preferentially targeted for selection during its domestication. The study, by University of California, Irvine's Brandon Gaut and his colleagues, appears in the May 27 issue of the journal, Science. Understandably, a primary goal of teosinte domestication was to improve the ear and its kernels. A teosinte ear is only 2...
Introns Stump Evolutionary Theorists
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 03/10/2006 9:12:05 AM EST · 81 replies · 1,488+ views Creation-Evolution Headlines | March 9, 2006 | Staff This story is not about Enron and Exxon, but about introns and exons. The proportions of the scandals they are causing in evolutionary theory, however, may be comparable. Introns are spacers between genes. For several decades now, it has been a puzzle why they are there, and why a complex machine called a spliceosome takes them out and joins the active genetic parts -- the exons -- together. Only eukaryotes have spliceosomes, though; mitochondria have "group II introns" and some mRNAs may have them. Their presence and numbers in various groups presents a bewildering array of combinations. Figuring...
Diet, Food, Health
New Insights Into Healthful Compounds In Native American Diets
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/10/2006 10:17:41 PM EDT · 47 replies · 629+ views Science Daily | 10-10-2006 New Insights Into Healthful Compounds In Native American Diets In an advance toward understanding the early California Native American diet, food scientists have identified the full range of phytochemicals in tanoak acorns. Acorns were a staple in the diet of early Native Americans in California, comprising up to 50 percent of total food intake, Alyson E. Mitchell and colleagues note in a report in the current (Oct. 4) issue of the ACS biweekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Acorns are still used by Californian Native Americans -- special processing is needed to make the nuts edible -- to make...
Ancient brain surgery
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/10/2006 1:31:24 AM EDT · 16 replies · 162+ views Ananova | October 2006? | unattributed Bulgarian archaeologists claim to have unearthed evidence that brain surgery was carried out more than 4,000 years ago. Georgi Nehrizov, heading a team digging near the city of Svilengrad, said a skull belonging to a man who lived in Thracian times had been found with a hole in it that had been carved out with surgical precision. He said: "The skull dates back to 2500-1800 BC and the hole had clearly been made for medical reasons. It is the first such discovery from Thracian times." The Thracians were a nation made up of numerous tribes that developed from a mixture...
The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 03/07/2002 9:16:05 PM EST · 128 replies · 1,861+ views Chet Day | Unknown | An Interview with Loren Cordain Adapted from:The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications An Interview with Loren Cordain, PhD by Robert Crayhon, MS Reprinted by permission from Life Services Can hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution be wrong? What are we really "designed" to eat? Are high carbohydrate "Food Pyramid" diet standards a health disaster? What do paleolithic fossil records and ethnographic studies of 180 hunter/gatherer groups around the world suggest as the ideal human diet? Find out in nationally acclaimed author and nutritionist Robert Crayhon's interview with paleolithic diet expert, Professor Loren Cordain, Ph.D. Robert Crayhon, M.S. is a clinician, researcher and ...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Has King David's spa been uncovered?
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 10/08/2006 12:52:21 PM EDT · 34 replies · 938+ views Ynet | 10/7/06 | Ofer Petersburg There's a buzz of excitement among archeologists. In recent days, archeological digs in Jerusalem revealed a tunnel that, according to a number of estimates, leads to a pool used by King David. The digs, which have been underway for years, are located in David's City, west of the Wailing Wall. A year ago, archeologists discovered a pool from the days of the Second Temple that had been used by pilgrims to Jerusalem, to refresh them after their long journey. Recently, the edge of a tunnel was discovered in the digs. Archeologists posit that it leads to a pool, originally located...
A Second Look at the "Alexander Son of Simon" Ossuary: Did It Hold Father and Son?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/01/2006 12:03:49 AM EDT · 6 replies · 167+ views Biblical Archaeology Review | September 26, 2006 | Tom Powers The ossuary was discovered in 1941 by archaeologists Eliezer L. Sukenik and Nahman Avigad of Jerusalem's Hebrew University and came to light through a systematic survey of tombs in the Kidron Valley, south of Jerusalem's Old City and the Arab village of Silwan. This ossuary and ten others were found as an intact assemblage in a tomb chamber that had survived the centuries untouched by tomb robbers, with its blocking stone still in place. In short, there is absolutely no question about this object's provenance and authenticity... The burial cave was a single, rock-hewn chamber without niches of any sort,...
No historical evidence of Jesus
	Posted by ambrose On News/Activism 05/18/2004 2:54:58 AM EDT · 112 replies · 524+ views Toronto Star | 5.16.04 | Tom Harpur May 16, 2004. 08:48 AM No historical evidence of Jesus TOM HARPUR Ever since the publication of The Pagan Christ, literalist clergy and others have been hammering away at the theme of the alleged historicity of the Gospels. Yet, Bible scholars today know that the Gospels never were historical biographies even though they may appear to be such. Listen to the genius Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his landmark book The Quest Of The Historical Jesus: "The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of...
Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals: Apostle Simon Peter buried in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
	Posted by OrthodoxPresbyterian On Religion 11/23/2003 6:39:24 AM EST · 512 replies · 977+ views Jerusalem Christian Review | 11-23-2003 | OP Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals:Names, Testimonies of First Christiansby Jean Gilman JERUSALEM, Israel - Does your heart quicken when you hear someone give a personal testimony about Jesus? Do you feel excited when you read about the ways the Lord has worked in someone's life? The first century catacomb, uncovered by archaeologist P. Bagatti on the Mount of Olives, contains inscriptions clearly indicating its use, "by the very first Christians in Jerusalem."If you know the feeling of genuine excitement about the workings of the Lord, then you will be ecstatic to learn that archaeologists have found first-century dedications with the names...
Not a shard of truth (No proof of John the Baptist.)
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/03/2003 8:00:10 PM EST · 14 replies · 691+ views wwwHaaretz | 2-3-3 | By Dalia Shehori w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Not a shard of truth Sensational claims have been made about bonesfound in Qumran, but no, this is not John the Baptist,say the heads of the dig. In August 2002, Time Magazine carried a headline that aroused curiosity: "Digging for the Baptist." The reference was to an archaeological dig being carried out for the past two years or so in Qumran, near the shore of the Dead Sea. The dig is headed by Prof. Hanan Eshel, head of the...
Israeli Experts Examine Ancient Tablet
	Posted by afraidfortherepublic On News/Activism 01/13/2003 4:14:31 PM EST · 15 replies · 342+ views Guardian Unlimited (UK) | 1-13-03 Monday January 13, 2003 7:10 PM JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli geologists said Monday they have examined a stone tablet detailing repair plans for the Jewish Temple of King Solomon that, if authenticated, would be a rare piece of physical evidence confirming biblical narrative. The find - whose origin is murky - is about the size of a legal pad, with a 15-line inscription in ancient Hebrew that strongly resembles descriptions in the Bible's Book of Kings. It could also strengthen Jewish claims to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City that is now home to two major mosques. Muslim...
"Brother of Jesus" bone-box plot thickens [Israeli Scholars: Jesus' 'Brother' Box Fraud]
	Posted by Polycarp On News/Activism 11/06/2002 2:11:35 PM EST · 119 replies · 311+ views Israel Insider | November 5, 2002 | Ellis Shuman "Brother of Jesus" bone-box plot thickens By Ellis Shuman November 5, 2002 An ancient burial box believed to have belonged to James, the Biblical brother of Jesus, was damaged while being sent for display at a Toronto museum. The museum is awaiting word from the ossuary's owner before attempting to repair the box, but the owner is being questioned by police as the burial box may actually belong to the State of Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli scholars insist that the inscription on the box is a fraud. Staff at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto discovered numerous cracks Friday in the...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Today in History: The Battle of Tours 10/10/732 [Charles Martel C in C]
	Posted by yankeedame On General/Chat 10/10/2006 2:20:34 PM EDT · 32 replies · 242+ views Answers.com The Battle of Tours Charles de Steuben's Battaile de Poitiers en Octobre 732 depicts a triumphant Charles Martel (mounted) facing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi (right) at the Battle of Tours. Date: October 10, 732 Location: near Tours, France Result: Decisive Frankish victory CombatantsCarolingian Franks v. Umayyad Caliphate Commanders Charles Martel v.Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi Abd er Rahman Strength 15,000-75,000 v. 60,000-400,000 Casualtiesabout 1500 reported in western history, but probably far heavier unknown, but reported massive, notably Emir Abd er Rahman. The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers and also called in Arabic...
Celebrating Genghis Khan's Big Year
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/13/2006 6:52:54 PM EDT · 15 replies · 296+ views Archaeology Magazine | 9-29-2006 | Eric Powell Celebrating Genghis Khan's Big Year September 29, 2006 by Eric Powell Eight centuries on, the Mongolian conqueror continues to influence culture worldwide. Mongolians love their Khan. Before I traveled to Mongolia last year to report a story on Bronze Age nomads, I'd read about the country's devotion to a man known throughout the rest of the world as the most ruthless and bloodthirsty conqueror in the planet's history. But I was still surprised by the ubiquity of his presence in the capital city Ulaanbaatar (sometimes spelled Ulan Bator, or "Red Hero" in Mongolian). Not only is his visage (sometimes benevolent,...
Longer Perspectives
Poisoning has long history of use as means of removing human obstacles
	Posted by bedolido On News/Activism 12/27/2004 9:33:57 AM EST · 14 replies · 915+ views charlotte.com | 12/27/2004 | CHARLES LEROUX CHICAGO - (KRT) - One imagines the Persian queen smiling warmly as she passes the food down the table to her daughter-in-law. Queen Parysatis, during the reign of her son, Artaxerxes II (405 to 359 B.C.), was trying to influence a power struggle within the kingdom and had felt the need to be rid of her daughter-in-law. She poisoned one side of a knife that then was used to bisect a roast bird at dinner. Taking the untainted half for herself, she passed the rest, knowing - hence the smile - that her problem was all but solved. Recorded instances...
Crumbling cathedral held together by tape [Canterbury, England, 900+ years old]
	Posted by Mike Fieschko On News/Activism 10/05/2006 6:48:50 AM EDT · 190 replies · 1,896+ views Daily Telegraph | Oct 4, 2006 | Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent Canterbury Cathedral is falling apart at the seams, with chunks of masonry dropping off its walls and a fifth of its internal marble pillars held together by duct tape. ¬ An art student paints in the cloisters, but trustees say parts of the building may have to be closed to visitors for safety reasons The extent of the building's disrepair was revealed yesterday at the launch of a global campaign to raise ¬£50 million over five years for urgent and long-term renovation and conservation.The cathedral, the mother church of worldwide Anglicanism which was founded in 597 by St Augustine,...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Treasures Lby Rome 'Are Back In The Holy Land'
	Posted by Iam1ru1-2 On News/Activism 09/30/2006 11:56:23 PM EDT · 22 replies · 562+ views TimesOnline.Co.UK | Dalya Alberge By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent A COLLECTION of sacred artefacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist. Sean Kingsley, a specialist in the Holy Land, claims to have discovered what became of the collection, which is widely regarded as the greatest of biblical treasures and includes silver trumpets that would have heralded the Coming of the Messiah. The trumpets, gold candelabra and the bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence were among pieces shipped to Rome...
British Historian Claims to Have Found the Temple Treasures
	Posted by M. Espinola On News/Activism 10/09/2006 3:29:32 AM EDT · 55 replies · 1,814+ views Arutz Sheva Israel Broadcasting Networ | Oct 08, '06 | Gil Zohar What happened to the 50 tons of gold, silver and sacred treasures looted from Herod's Temple following the Roman legionnaires' sack of Jerusalem on Tisha b'Av in the year 70 CE? The Arch of Titus in Rome, erected shortly after the death of Titus who reigned as emperor from 79 to 81, clearly depicts Roman soldiers bearing on their shoulders the golden candelabrum, silver trumpets and bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence which the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus carted back to Rome as trophies of war. Between 75 CE and the early 5th century, the treasure...
British Historian Claims to Have Found the Temple Treasures
	Posted by Fred Nerks On News/Activism 10/09/2006 11:46:29 PM EDT · 21 replies · 910+ views Arutz Sheva website | 16:42 Oct 08, '06 / 16 Tishrei 5767 | Gil Zohar What happened to the 50 tons of gold, silver and sacred treasures looted from Herod's Temple following the Roman legionnaires' sack of Jerusalem on Tisha b'Av in the year 70 CE? The Arch of Titus in Rome, erected shortly after the death of Titus who reigned as emperor from 79 to 81, clearly depicts Roman soldiers bearing on their shoulders the golden candelabrum, silver trumpets and bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence which the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus carted back to Rome as trophies of war. Between 75 CE and the early 5th century, the treasure remained...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Sydney 'survivor' exhumed on island (HMAS Sydney - sunk in battle), November 19th 1941)
	Posted by naturalman1975 On News/Activism 10/04/2006 8:37:13 PM EDT · 16 replies · 655+ views The Australian | 4th October 2006 | Tony Barrass THE remains of the unknown sailor believed to be the sole survivor of Australia's most enduring wartime mystery - the sinking of HMAS Sydney off Western Australia - have been unearthed on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The Defence Department last night confirmed that bones had been discovered in the island's Old European Cemetery by a navy-led team of experts and, once removed, would be taken to Sydney for further forensic tests in an attempt to establish identity. The discovery is yet another piece to a puzzle that has fascinated and frustrated historians for more than half a century....
Bobblehead Muhammed?
	Posted by Behind Liberal Lines On News/Activism 10/01/2006 2:23:03 PM EDT · 173 replies · 5,188+ views All contents © 2006 Daily News, L.P. | Originally published on October 1, 2006 | BY TINA MOORE A ceramic bobblehead doll of the Prophet Muhammed - created to resemble the infamous caricature published by a Danish newspaper - is being hawked online for $22.99 a pop by an ex-Marine. The unapologetic creator, Timothy Ames, 28, said the bobblehead is similar to "dashboard Jesus" figurines that can be stuck with adhesive to flat surfaces. "I thought, 'If they flipped out over some cartoons what will they do with a dashboard Muhammed?'" Ames said from his home in Hawaii. But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet....
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Neandertal / Neanderthal
Bending The Branches (Archaeology - Neanderthals)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2006 1:22:23 PM EDT · 19 replies · 482+ views Archaeology Magazine | 10-19-2006 | Erij Trinkaus Bending the Branches October 18, 2006 A new study of human fossils asks, what if we are the odd ones? (Washington University, St. Louis) Most people think of humans as the top, the apex of the family tree. But new research suggests this quintessentially human infatuation with ourselves may have impaired our judgment. Erik Trinkaus, a paleontologist and Neandertal expert at Washington University in St. Louis, believes that modern human features are unusual enough, compared with ancestral members of the genus Homo, to make us a side branch of the family tree. Neanderthals have generally been seen as evolutionary outcasts,...
Genes and Morphology
Are we ALL neanderthals?
	Posted by JTN On News/Activism 09/20/2006 6:49:12 PM EDT · 60 replies · 1,019+ views The Daily Mail | 15th September 2006 | MICHAEL HANLON Their very name has become a byword for all that is brutish, stupid and crude. In the popular imagination, these were the violent, shambling, grunting apemen of legend. If you accuse someone of being a Neanderthal, you are not paying them a compliment. But Neanderthal Man, who represented one of the oddest and most mysterious chapters in the history of humanity, has been undergoing something of a makeover in recent years. We now know that these extinct cousins were not the brutes of legend but a sophisticated and intelligent species, capable of creating fire, fashioning delicate tools, burying their dead...
Prehistory and Origins
Scientists scuttle new evolution claims of 'Hobbit' Fossil (Or, "Why never to jump to conclusions")
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On General/Chat 10/18/2006 5:58:43 PM EDT · 25 replies · 249+ views African News Dimension | October 18, 2006 | Staff When scientists found 18,000-year-old bones of a small, humanlike creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, they concluded that the bones represented a new species in the human family tree that they named Homo floresiensis. Their interpretation was widely accepted by the scientific community and heralded by the popular press around the world. Because of its very short stature, H. floresiensis was soon dubbed the "Hobbit." But now, a new research has comprehensively and convincingly rubbished the case that the small skull represent a new species of hominid, as was claimed in a study published which was published...
Australia and the Pacific
Relic of the Stone Age found within cooee of the city (Australia)
	Posted by Fred Nerks On News/Activism 10/14/2006 7:07:55 PM EDT · 29 replies · 551+ views The Sydney Morning Herlad | October 14, 2006 | James Woodford October 14, 2006 Latest related coverage The lost world on our doorstep AN astonishing artefact of Stone Age Sydney has been discovered less than 100 kilometres from the CBD. A team of archaeologists and bushwalkers on an expedition in the Wollemi National Park discovered an almost-complete hafted stone axe, hidden on a ledge at the back of a rock shelter. It is thought to be the first time that such an item has been found in place anywhere in the Sydney region and possibly in south-eastern Australia. The team was taken to two remote ridge tops in the Wollemi by...
Epigraphy and Language
'Earliest Chinese Characters' Unearthed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2006 1:51:02 PM EDT · 17 replies · 321+ views Xinhua News | 10-19-2006 'Earliest Chinese Characters' Unearthed Archaeologists have discovered pottery bearing inscriptions dating back 4,500 years, which could prove to be China's earliest example of written language. These pottery fragments, found in the ruins of an ancient city in Huaiyang County of Henan Province, are believed to be parts of a spinning wheel, according to a report released by the county government. A photo, posted on the local government's website, showed a piece of black pottery bearing white strokes. The fragment formed half of a round spinning wheel, with a diameter of 4.7 centimeters and a thickness of 1.1 centimeters. The inscriptions...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Ignorance To Ruin Bisotun's Inscription (Darius)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/17/2006 6:07:16 PM EDT · 8 replies · 139+ views Payvand | 10-16-2006 | Soudabeh Sadigh Ignorance to Ruin Bisotun's Inscription By Soudabeh Sadigh Lack of funding and general ignorance by cultural heritage authorities is to destroy the inscription of Bisotun. Tehran, 16 October 2006 (CHN) -- Studies conducted by the executive committee of Bisotun world heritage site revealed the existence of several springs inside the mountain on which several ancient reliefs and friezes including an inscription denoted to Darius the Great, the Achaemenid king, have been carved, posing serious threats to this archeological site. This is while Iran's Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) has not yet considered any budget to protect these historic evidences....
Anatolia
Ancient Stamp Dating To 5,000 BC Unearthed In Harran (Turkey)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/16/2006 9:02:09 PM EDT · 19 replies · 515+ views Turkish Daily News | 10-16-2006 Ancient stamp dating to 5,000 BC unearthed in Harran Monday, October 16, 2006 ANKARA - Turkish Daily News Excavations in the Harran district of fianliurfa have uncovered a stamp dating back to 4,000-5,000 B.C., said the excavation leader on Saturday, reported the Anatolia news agency. Harran excavation team leader Nurettin Yardimci said the excavations have been ongoing since 1983 and that recent work in the area has focused on the Harran tumulus and Ulu Cami as well as the Neolithic settlement of Tellidris. "Our work has indicated that the first inhabitants of Harran lived in Tellidris, dating back to around...
French Explorer's Bad Luck In Syria Avenged At Last (Hittites)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/17/2006 5:57:17 PM EDT · 6 replies · 492+ views Reuters | 10-17-2006 | Khaled Yacoub Oweis French explorer's bad luck in Syria avenged at last Tue 17 Oct 2006 11:45 AM ET By Khaled Yacoub Oweis ALEPPO, Syria, Oct 17 (Reuters) - First the 1920s French archaeologist ran out of money to uncover the treasures he suspected hidden under a Syrian castle, and then he ran out of time to see others finish the work. Twelve years too late for Georges Ploix de Rotrou, a German team has now revealed the full glory of the 500 square metre (5,400 sq ft) Temple of the Storm God that lay under the vast citadel in Aleppo. Ploix de...
Ancient Egypt
Coptic Language's Last Survivors
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2006 1:41:26 PM EDT · 21 replies · 506+ views dailystaregypt.com | 10-20-2006 | Joseph Mayton Coptic language's last survivors By Joseph Mayton First Published: December 10, 2005 Coptic is a combination of the ancient Egyptian languages Demotic, Hieroglyphic and Hieratic. CAIRO: Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic Church in Egypt. The ancient language that lost in prominence thanks largely to the Arab incursion into Egypt over 1300 years ago remains the spoken language of the church and only two families in Egypt. Coptic is a combination of the ancient Egyptian languages Demotic, Hieroglyphic and Hieratic, and was the language used by the...
Navigation
5,000-year-old graffiti at Tarxien Temples to be saved
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/20/2006 4:21:30 PM EDT · 9 replies · 87+ views Malta Independent Online | Friday, October 20, 2006 | unattributed Heritage Malta is currently undertaking the preservation of two unique megaliths at Tarxien Temples as part of the BOV Tarxien Temples Project. These megaliths are significant because they bear witness to the vessels that transported the very first people to the Maltese Islands, and may well be the oldest representations of ships or boats ever discovered. The Tarxien Temples, dating back to around 3600BC, hold an impressive number of prehistoric works of art, consisting mostly of megaliths carved in relief to depict various animals, spirals and other intricate designs... The so-called ship graffiti megaliths were not removed from the site...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Stonehenge makes list in new seven wonders vote
	Posted by WinOne4TheGipper On News/Activism 10/17/2006 3:19:29 PM EDT · 72 replies · 1,135+ views Reuters via Yahoo | 10/17/2006 | N/A LONDON (Reuters) - Only one of the ancient wonders of the world still survives -- now history lovers are being invited to choose a new list of seven. Among 21 locations shortlisted for the worldwide vote is Stonehenge, the only British landmark selected. The 5,000-year-old stones on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, will be up against sites including the Acropolis in Athens; the Statue of Liberty in New York; and the last remaining original wonder, the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo.
Ancient Europe
Ancient Stonehenge Houses Unearthed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/14/2006 3:29:58 PM EDT · 33 replies · 1,099+ views Discovery Channel | 10-13-2006 | Jennifer Viegas Ancient Stonehenge Houses Unearthed Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Oct. 13, 2006 -- Nine Neolithic-era buildings have been excavated in the Stonehenge world heritage site, according to a report in the journal British Archaeology. The structures, which appear to have been homes, date to 2,600-2,500 B.C. and were contemporary with the earliest stone settings at the site's famous megalith. They are the first house-like structures discovered there. Julian Thomas, who worked on the project and is chair of the archaeology department at Manchester University in England, said Stonehenge could have been a key gathering place at the Neolithic era's version of a...
British Isles
Iron Age remains hailed as crucial [ Inverness Scotland ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/18/2006 2:40:40 AM EDT · 6 replies · 116+ views Inverness Courier | 17 October, 2006 | Gerard Burke The remains of a 2000-year-old city have been discovered under Inverness and it is being hailed as one of the most important recent discoveries in Scotland. The find near Inverness Royal Academy was uncovered by a team who spent almost a year excavating the remains of seven large roundhouses and almost a dozen iron kilns... the ancient city's "industrial estate" where iron was smelted, bronze was cast and glass was produced... Among the items found below a site near Inverness Royal Academy, now being developed by Tulloch Homes, were part of a bronze horse harness, an enamelled bronze brooch, dozens...
Ancient Rome
Not for sale yet - the 'cursed' 14 pieces of silver worth £100m [ the Sevso treasure, Hungary
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/18/2006 2:22:12 AM EDT · 12 replies · 192+ views The Guardian | Tuesday October 17, 2006 | Maev Kennedy Although Bonhams auction house, which will display the Sevso Hoard, insists no sale is planned, the Marquess of Northampton who bought the silver for an undisclosed sum in the 1980s recently said he "hopes" the silver will be sold, and that it has "cursed" his family. It now belongs to a trust he founded... The marquess, whose estates include more than 30,000 acres and magnificent stately homes in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, sued his legal advisers after the Sotheby's auction was abandoned, and received a substantial but undisclosed settlement out of court. The 14 pieces of fabulous silver include four enormous...
Let's Have Jerusalem
First Temple artifacts found in dirt removed from Temple Mount
	Posted by Esther Ruth On News/Activism 10/19/2006 10:29:17 AM EDT · 96 replies · 1,869+ views www.haaretz.com | 09:31 19/10/2006 | Nadav Shragai Last update - 09:31 19/10/2006 First Temple artifacts found in dirt removed from Temple Mount By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent The project of sifting layers of Temple Mount dirt has yielded thousands of new artifacts dating from the First Temple period to today. The dirt was removed in 1999 by the Islamic Religious Trust (Waqf) from the Solomon's Stables area to the Kidron Stream Valley. The sifting itself is taking place at Tzurim Valley National Park, at the foot of Mount Scopus, and being funded by the Ir David Foundation. Dr. Gabriel Barkai and Tzachi Zweig, the archaeologists directing the...
Africa
DNA tests of black families promise ancestry answers
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/20/2006 3:12:12 PM EDT · 19 replies · 185+ views Washington Post | Thursday, October 19, 2006 | unattributed When DNA testing was offered as a way to trace black family heritage three years ago, it seemed, at long last, that African Americans whose histories were lost in the trans-Atlantic slave trade had found a way home... But ever since the tests began in 2003, questions have been raised about their accuracy: specifically whether tracing mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from the mother's side of the family, can reliably pinpoint tribal origins... [A]n article in a British peer review journal... said ... that fewer than 10 percent of black Americans whose mitochondrial DNA was identified matched perfectly with a...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
New Land-Bridge Evidence Adds To Mystery Of First Americans
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/19/2006 7:54:13 PM EDT · 55 replies · 945+ views National Geographic | 10-18-2006 | Adrianne Appel New Land-Bridge Evidence Adds to Mystery of 1st Americans Adrianne Appel for National Geographic News October 18, 2006 The long-gone land bridge between Asia and Alaska -- a route possibly followed by the first humans to reach the Americas -- flooded about 12,000 years ago, a new study suggests. That's about a thousand years earlier than previously thought, adding to evidence that humans may have reached the Americas by other means. "I think we're on the verge of rewriting the whole history of the region," said study leader Lloyd Keigwin of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The new evidence from the Arctic also...
Ancient Remains Causing Problems
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/18/2006 11:13:09 PM EDT · 12 replies · 465+ views Contra Costa Times | 10-18-2006 | Matt Krupnick Ancient remains causing problems By Matt Krupnick CONTRA COSTA TIMES The unheralded removal of hundreds of ancient bodies at a Brentwood construction site this year illustrated how secretive -- and political -- American Indian excavations can be. When Shea Homes dug up about 500 bodies to make way for a road through its new Trilogy subdivision, the developer set in motion a governmental process steeped in confidentiality. State policymakers have spent years fine-tuning what must be done after such discoveries, but many tiptoe around volatile questions. "The politics are interesting and are such that it behooves me not to say...
Aztecs et al
Mexican Archaeologists Find Largest Aztec Figure
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/14/2006 3:22:36 PM EDT · 19 replies · 654+ views Yahoo News | 10-13-2006 | Gunter Hamm Mexican archeologists find largest Aztec figure By Gunther Hamm Fri Oct 13, 7:39 PM ET MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican archeologists unveiled the largest Aztec idol ever discovered on Friday and said it could be a door to a hidden chamber at a ruined temple under the heart of Mexico City. The Aztecs, a warlike and deeply religious people who built numerous monumental works, ruled an empire stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and encompassing much of modern-day central Mexico. The 12.4 tonne stone slab, 46 feet in surface area, was partially uncovered this month at...
Monolith perhaps largest found in Mexico
	Posted by Flavius On News/Activism 10/15/2006 9:14:02 AM EDT · 14 replies · 629+ views ap | Oct 13, 11:06 PM ET | ap MEXICO CITY - Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered earlier this month near Mexico City's main square is perhaps the largest ever unearthed in the city's center. ADVERTISEMENT The monolith, found on Oct. 2, is rectangular and measures nearly 13 feet on its longest side. The largest monolith from the city's center until this latest discovery -- the circular Piedra del Sol, or Aztec Calendar, unearthed in 1790 -- has a diameter of 12 feet. "At this time, the most important thing about this is its size," said the lead archaeologist on the excavation project, Alvaro Barrera. The 24-ton...
Mexican archeologists make major Aztec find
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/04/2006 11:25:18 PM EDT · 33 replies · 767+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 10/4/06 | Gunther Hamm MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican archeologists have made the most significant Aztec find in decades, unearthing a 15th century altar and a huge stone slab at a ruined temple in the throbbing heart of Mexico City. The works were uncovered last weekend at the Aztec empire's main Templo Mayor temple, near the central Zocalo square, which was used for worship and human sacrifice. It was the most meaningful find since electricity workers stumbled upon an eight-tonne carving of an Aztec goddess at the same site in 1978. "It is a very important discovery, the biggest we have made in 28...
Whitewashing (Aztec) Terrorism
	Posted by forty_years On News/Activism 08/24/2006 9:50:58 AM EDT · 9 replies · 667+ views netwmd.com | 8/24/2006 | Andrew Jaffee I don't know how many of you are fans of archeology, let alone that of Meso-America, but there are certainly those of you interested in the politically-correct whitewashing of terrorism. How are the two subjects related? Let me explain. The whitewashing of current-day terrorism is advocated by the same ilk, those who would rewrite the modern-day cause of terrorist atrocities, as well as those who would rewrite, for example, the pre-Columbian history of Mexico. I recently watched a History Channel "documentary" which either 1) rationalized the Aztec tribe's insatiable appetite for human sacrifice on the grounds that they were "deeply...
Wal-Mart Wins Battle for Store Near Mexico Pyramids
	Posted by Westlander On News/Activism 11/04/2004 11:05:54 PM EST · 12 replies · 307+ views Reuters | 11-4-2004 | Lorraine Orlandi TEOTIHUACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Bargain-hungry shoppers flocked to a new Wal-Mart-owned store half a mile from ancient Mexican pyramids on Thursday, ending a bitter fight by opponents who said U.S.-style consumerism would mar the ruins. "This is progress," said shopper Jesus Cabrera, who like many neighbors welcomed the store for the low prices and jobs it brings. "People need the well-being of their families more than they need culture."
Underwater Archaeology
History hunter down below [ Marek E. Jasinski ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/20/2006 4:18:33 PM EDT · 2 replies · 17+ views Marek E. Jasinski | October 20, 2006 | interview by Hege J. Tunstad Our field, maritime archaeology, is not only a spoon and brush affair, especially not deep-water archaeology. We collaborate with the oil and gas industry, and take part in developing new technology. The sea is not an easily accessible place, so we have to think modern to be able to map the bottom... You know, Poland under communism was a different place than it is now. Political opposition was not allowed. I had the wrong opinions. I was more or less urged to leave my country. Norway was one of the places I had friends, so I came here on what...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Viking Ship Found In Larvik
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/17/2006 4:40:48 PM EDT · 31 replies · 961+ views AftenPosten | 10-16-2006 Viking ship found in Larvik Archaeologists found the remains of a ship from the Viking Age on Tuesday, in a burial mound on a farm outside the coastal city of Larvik.Knut Paasche, shown here with the famous Oseberg Viking ship, is among the archaeologists who found another Viking ship near Larvik on Tuesday. PHOTO: JAN TOMAS ESPEDAL The discovery was made during archaeological examinations of the Nordheim Farm, which is near the Hedrum Church in Larvik. The examinations were ordered in connection with the pending expansion of the cemetery around Hedrum Church, which is located a few hours' drive south...
Today in History: The Battle of Hastings [10/14/1066]
	Posted by yankeedame On General/Chat 10/14/2006 9:46:02 AM EDT · 34 replies · 675+ views Answers.Com THE BATTLE OF HASTINGSDate: 14 October 1066 Location: Hastings, England Result: Decisive Norman victory Combatants Normans, supported by Bretons, Flemings & French v. Anglo-Saxons Commanders William of Normandy, v. Odo of Bayeux Harold GodwinsonStrength 7,000-8,000 v. 7,000-8,000 Casualties -- Unknown, thought to be around 2,000 killed and wounded -- Unknown, but significantly more than the Normans View from Battle Abbey to the field where the Battle of Hastings took place. (Oct. 14, 1066) Battle that ended in the defeat of Harold II of England by William, duke of Normandy, and established the Normans as rulers of England. On his deathbed...
Near East
Did we plough up the Garden of Eden?
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 10/17/2006 9:10:35 AM EDT · 155 replies · 3,132+ views First Post | October 17, 2006 An archaeological dig may have uncovered "Eden" in Turkey, says sean thomas I am standing above an archaeological dig, on a hillside in southern Turkey. Beneath me, workmen are unearthing a sculpture of some sort of reptile (right). It is delicate and breathtaking. It is also part of the world's oldest temple. If this sounds remarkable, it gets better. The archaeologist in charge of the dig believes that this artwork once stood in Eden. The archaeologist is Klaus Schmidt; the site is called Gobekli Tepe. In academic circles, the astonishing discoveries at Gobekli Tepe have long been a talking...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Human species 'may split in two'
	Posted by Sopater On General/Chat 10/18/2006 11:41:09 AM EDT · 47 replies · 500+ views BBC News | 2006/10/17 08:47:57 GMT Humanity may split into an elite and an underclass, says Dr Curry Human species 'may split in two' Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology. People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added. The descendants of the genetic...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Match Frame San Antonio Helps KPI Depict the Wonders of Ancient Egypt
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/17/2006 1:52:03 AM EDT · 3 replies · 28+ views Broadcast Newsroom | October 11, 2006 | none Fifteen minutes of 3D animation, compositing and graphics by Match Frame San Antonio illustrating the amazing architectural feats of the ancient Egyptians appear in "Egypt: Engineering an Empire," premiering October 9 on The History Channel. Match Frame created full 3D animations, blueprint and map animations plus the title sequence and legacy graphics for the two-hour program, which launches Kralyevich Productions, Inc.'s (KPI) 13-episode "Engineering an Empire" series. Last year Match Frame teamed with KPI on the special, "Rome: Engineering an Empire," a double primetime Emmy Award winner.
Study Reveals Why Blue Frescoes Fade
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/17/2006 5:04:35 PM EDT · 20 replies · 538+ views Discovery Channel | 10-16-2006 | Rossella Lorenzi Study Reveals Why Blue Frescoes Fade Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery NewsKeeping Blue Bright Oct. 13, 2006 -- Medieval and Renaissance Madonnas will no longer risk their vibrant blue mantels turning into yellowish grey robes, according to U.S. researchers who have discovered why natural ultramarine blue sometimes fades in frescoes. Known as "ultramarine sickness," the irreversible form of discoloration has been observed in frescoes at the Church of Saint Augustine in San Gimigniano, near Siena, and in the Basilica of Assisi. "Our studies explain for the first time the process of fading in ultramarines and may lead to the design of proper...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #119 Saturday, October 28, 2006
Climate
Why Did Monongahela Indians Disappear From Western Pennsylvania?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/03/2002 5:54:16 PM EDT · 34 replies · 910+ views Northern Light | 10-2-2002 Why Did Monongahela Indians Disappear From Western Pennsylvania? Massive Droughts May Be Answer to Mystery, Says Anthropologist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History Story Filed: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:31 PM EST PITTSBURGH, Oct 01, 2002 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) -- For decades, anthropologists have struggled to explain why the once thriving Monongahela Indian culture disappeared from southwestern Pennsylvania by 1635 - well in advance of European settlement. Jim Richardson, Curator of Anthropology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, believes he may finally have the answer. In a study published in the journal Archaeology of Eastern North America, Richardson and...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient footprints found in Mexico valley
	Posted by FLOutdoorsman On News/Activism 10/27/2006 9:10:16 PM EDT · 29 replies · 624+ views AP | 26 Oct 2006 | IOAN GRILLO MEXICO CITY - A trail of 13 fossilized footprints running through a valley in a desert in northern Mexico could be among the oldest in the Americas, Mexican archeologists said. The footprints were made by hunter gatherers who are believed to have lived thousands of years ago in the Coahuila valley of Cuatro Cienegas, 190 miles (306 kms) south of Eagle Pass, Texas, said archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutierrez of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. "We believe (the footprints) are between 10,000 and 15,000 years old," De la Rosa said in a news release Wednesday. "We have...
Satellites Pinpoint Stands of Old Trees
	Posted by fella On News/Activism 11/17/2002 10:43:31 PM EST · 14 replies · 533+ views Northwest Arkansas Times | 17 Nov. 2002 | ROBERT S. BOYD Satellites Pinpoint Stands of Old Trees BY ROBERT S. BOYD KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON -- Recent images from space satellites reveal hundreds of littleknown primeval forests and stands of ancient trees scattered across the United States. Scientists say these trees -- some dating before the rise of the Roman Empire -- provide an unequaled record of droughts and floods that can help them understand historic disasters and predict environmental changes. In addition to California?s famed redwoods and giant sequoias, researchers have discovered that millions of very old trees remain in their pristine state in dozens of states from New England...
For Archaeology Buffs, Caral Is A Chance To Begin At The Beginning
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/23/2006 3:14:18 PM EDT · 38 replies · 635+ views Macon.com | 10-22-2006 | Leslie Josephs For archeology buffs, Caral is a chance to begin at the beginning By Leslie Josephs ASSOCIATED PRESS A sudden wind gust blows eerily down from rocky Andean foothills, kicking up a cinnamon-colored cloud over the moonscape of ruins that is the oldest city in the Americas. The sky is a crisp blue. All around in the Supe River Valley are lush fields of onion and corn. We are in Caral, three hours and nearly 5,000 years from contemporary Lima, Peru's bustling capital, and we've spent the last half-hour or so on a bumpy drive from the coast, along a dirt...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Area youth's toothy find spurs archaeological inquiries
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/26/2006 1:35:28 AM EDT · 24 replies · 317+ views Waco Tribune-Herald | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | Cindy V. Culp The story began Sunday afternoon, when 14-year-old Monty Huffman went searching for Lexi, his cow dog. She had disappeared, and he thought she might have wandered into the dirt and gravel pits behind his home in Asa... As it turned out, Lexi was nowhere to be found. But what Monty ended up discovering was much more interesting. As he was walking around the bottom of one of the pits, Monty said, something caught his eye. It was sticking out of the side of the dirt wall and looked a little like a rock. But something about it was odd. Monty...
Paleontology
Largest "Terror Bird" Fossil Found in Argentina
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 10/27/2006 11:27:42 PM EDT · 35 replies · 773+ views National Geographic.com | October 25, 2006 | by Sean Markey Just in time for Halloween, paleontologists have dug up a truly scary creature -- Big Bird's bad, buff brother. The real-life fossils belong to a new species of phorusrhacid, giant predators also known as terror birds that once dominated South America. Terror birds were the biggest birds the world has ever seen, and the new species is by far the largest terror bird yet, says paleontologist Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California. "Some of these birds had skulls that were two and a half feet [almost a meter] in length. [They]...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Domestication Event: Why The Donkey And Not The Zebra?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/23/2006 3:00:01 PM EDT · 88 replies · 1,165+ views The State | 10-23-2006 | Eric Hand Domestication event: Why the donkey and not the zebra? By Eric Hand St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) ST. LOUIS - A few years ago, Egyptologists found a new Pharaonic burial site more than 5,000 years old. They opened up a tomb. "They're expecting to find nobles, the highest courtiers," said Washington University archaeologist Fiona Marshall. "And what do they find? Ten donkey skeletons." "The ancient Egyptian burial shows how highly valued (donkeys) were for the world's first nation state. After the horse came, they became lower status. Of course, they're the butt of jokes and all the rest of it. That...
Horses First Domesticated In Kazakhstan
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 10/21/2006 8:13:17 PM EDT · 17 replies · 174+ views Discovery Channel | 10-20-2006 | Larry O'Hanlon Horses First Domesticated in Kazakhstan? Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery NewsBotai Village Oct. 20, 2006 -- New evidence from soil inside the remains of a 5,600-year-old corral indicates that the ancient Botai people of Kazakhstan were among the earliest to domesticate horses. But equine romantics might be disappointed to learn that the Botai probably ate and milked their horses as often as they rode them. The corrals are part of an archeological site in northern Kazakhstan known as Krasnyi Yar, once a large village occupied by the Copper-Age Botai, said Sandra Olsen, curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Penn....
Africa
Dying Trade Of The Sahara Camel Trade
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/22/2006 6:19:43 PM EDT · 28 replies · 776+ views BBC | 10-22-2006 | John Pilkington Dying trade of the Sahara camel train By John Pilkington BBC News, Mali A thousand years ago Sahara salt was worth its weight in gold In Timbuktu, camel trains, that for millenia have been trudging around the Sahara with their valuable cargoes, are being replaced by the much less exotic lorry. I have always been fascinated by the Sahara - so when I heard that camel caravans still make the 450-mile journey from the Taoudenni salt mines to Timbuktu, I decided to go and see if this was true. What I found there was the stuff of dreams. Every week...
Ancient Egypt
Thieves lead to discovery of Egypt tombs (Royal dentists)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/22/2006 10:23:40 PM EDT · 16 replies · 578+ views AP on Yahoo | 10/22/06 | Sierra Millman - ap SAQQARA, Egypt - The arrest of tomb robbers led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt's most ancient pyramid, officials announced Sunday. The thieves launched their own dig one summer night two months ago but were apprehended, Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters. That led archaeologists to the three tombs, one of which included an inscription warning that anyone who violated the sanctity of the grave would be eaten by a crocodile and a snake,...
Near East
Artifacts Unearthed in Syria Hint at Ancient Burial Rituals of Elite
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/27/2006 1:50:02 AM EDT · 2 replies · 36+ views New York Times | October 24, 2006 | John Noble Wilford Six years ago, archaeologists uncovered a solitary, undisturbed tomb in the ruins of an ancient city in northern Syria. Now, in subsequent excavations, they have exposed seven more tombs at the site, making this the only known elite, possibly royal, cemetery in Syria in the Early Bronze Age, from about 2500 B.C. to 2200 B.C... The modern name of the ruins is Umm el-Marra, about 35 miles east of Aleppo and 200 miles northeast of Damascus. Scholars think this is the site of ancient Tuba, the capital of a small kingdom that thrived on the east-west trade route connecting Mesopotamia...
Ancient Greece
Greek archaeologists discover Aristotle bust near Acropolis
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/25/2006 1:22:04 PM EDT · 26 replies · 267+ views Monsters and Critics | Oct 25, 2006 | Sapa-AFP A Roman-era bust of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle found beneath the Acropolis in Athens has confirmed some contemporary reports attesting to his hooked nose, a senior archaeologist told AFP on Tuesday. The 46cm marble bust of the famous philosopher who lived over 2300 years ago and taught Alexander the Great is "the best-preserved likeness ever found", archaeologist Alkestis Horemi said. "This is the only bust portraying the philosopher with a hooked nose in line with ancient descriptions," said Horemi, who supervises archaeological and conservation work at the Acropolis site. Out of 19 other known Roman-era busts of Aristotle in...
Ancient Rome
Ancient Brothel Restored in Pompei
	Posted by wildbill On News/Activism 10/27/2006 11:48:45 AM EDT · 84 replies · 1,923+ views San Francisco Examiner | 10-27-2006 | Marta Falconi It was the jewel of Pompeii's libertines: a brothel decorated with frescoes of erotic figures believed to be the most popular in the ancient Roman city. The Lupanare -- which derives its name from the Latin word "lupa," or "prostitute" -- was presented to the public again Thursday following a yearlong, $253,000 restoration to clean up its frescoes and fix the structure.
Let's Have Jerusalem
PA Television: Western Wall's Real Name is Al Buraq Wall (named after mohamhed's horse)
	Posted by Esther Ruth On News/Activism 10/22/2006 11:12:53 PM EDT · 27 replies · 543+ views www.israelnationalnews.com | 02:32 Oct 23, '06 / 1 Cheshvan 5767 PA Television: Western Wall's Real Name is Al Buraq Wall 02:32 Oct 23, '06 / 1 Cheshvan 5767 (IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority (PA) television has broadcast programs teaching viewers that Jews' first connection to the Western Wall was in the 16th century, and that the site actually is called the Al Buraq wall. The programs state it was named after the horse of the Muslim prophet Mohamed, according to a dispatch from Palestine Media Watch (PMW). "The Jewish connection to this site is a recent connection, not ancient, like the roots of the Islamic connection. Who would have believed that the...
Faith and Philosophy
Bin Laden's fingerprints seen on ruins of Bamiyan Buddhas
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/21/2006 3:59:28 PM EDT · 34 replies · 1,100+ views AFP on Yahoo | 10/21/06 | Selim Saheb Ettaba BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (AFP) - In a huge cavity dug into the side of a cliff, workers search through the rubble to exhume the remains of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. At the scene of the crime carried out in 2001 all evidence points to Osama bin Laden as the mastermind. "This is the terrorism of the Taliban," says Rahim, an official at the work site in front of the empty niche of the biggest of the two statues, one of which stood 55 metres (182 feet) tall and the other 38 metres. Wearing a hard hat and a mask over...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Japanese Jesus Trail
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/10/2006 6:49:34 PM EDT · 30 replies · 937+ views BBC | 9-10-2006 | Duncan Bartlett The Japanese Jesus trail By Duncan Bartlett BBC News, Japan A Japanese legend claims that Jesus escaped Jerusalem and made his way to Aomori in Japan where he became a rice farmer. Christians say the story is nonsense. However, a monument there known as the Grave of Christ attracts curious visitors from all over the world. The Grave of Christ has become an international tourist attraction To reach the Grave of Christ or Kristo no Hakka as it is known locally, you need to head deep into the northern countryside of Japan, a place of paddy fields and apple orchards....
Middle Ages and Renaissance
'Psalm in a bog' Linked To Israel's Current War - Scripture find in Ireland
	Posted by Iam1ru1-2 On News/Activism 07/29/2006 10:36:51 PM EDT · 93 replies · 1,840+ views WorldNetDaily.com | By Joe Kovacs 'Psalm in a bog' linked to Israel's current war By Joe Kovacs © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com The "miraculous" find of ancient psalms in an Irish bog has some wondering if there's any special modern relevance, since the discovery dealt with the enemies of Israel attempting to destroy the nation. A construction worker in Ireland came across the ancient 20-page book dated to the years 800-1000 A.D. while driving his backhoe's shovel into the mud last week. Experts say it's impossible to say how the manuscript ended up there, but speculate it may have been lost in transit or dumped after a...
Genes and Morphology
Nuture Takes The Spotlight
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/25/2006 9:13:14 PM EDT · 2 replies · 409+ views Science News | 6-25-2006 | Christen Brownlee Nurture Takes the SpotlightDecoding the environment's role in development and disease Christen Brownlee Identical twin sisters Elizabeth and Eleanor (not their real names) say that when they entered the world on November 19, 1939 -- Elizabeth first, then Eleanor 8 minutes later -- their mother was rather shocked. She'd been expecting just one baby, not two. But that day, she made a vow: The girls would always be treated the same, so that there would be no competition between them. POSTER CHILDREN. Illustrating how epigenetics can control physical traits, the slimmer and browner of these mice, carrying a gene called agouti, were born to...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
History buff searches for Lost Colony[Roanoke]
	Posted by FLOutdoorsman On News/Activism 10/26/2006 12:13:12 AM EDT · 68 replies · 912+ views The News & Observer | 25 Oct 2006 | Catherine Clabby MANTEO - At an archaeological dig at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Phil Evans stepped into a meticulously measured pit and started shoveling dirt. The Durham lawyer is no scientist. But he couldn't miss this. After 30 years of searching, he still wants to pinpoint where the English failed to establish their first permanent colony in North America. Nearly every North Carolinian knows that a band of English settlers vanished from Roanoke Island about 1589, creating the legendary Lost Colony. No one knows where they went. An outdoor production replays the mystery year after year. But the full story is...
Fleshing Out a Founding Father: Mt Vernon Additions Provide New Entree to George Washington's World
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 10/24/2006 8:27:57 PM EDT · 44 replies · 610+ views Washington Post | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 | Jacqueline Trescott Mount Vernon officials want to reinvigorate the public perception of the Founding Father, which they fear is that of the stodgy, stern face on the dollar bill. They commissioned life-size sculptures--at a cost of more than $1 million--to serve as a centerpiece for a new $95 million visitors' center to open on the estate grounds in October. (AP) A decade ago, the people who run Mount Vernon noticed many of their visitors knew little more about George Washington than that he was the country's first president. Beginning Friday, visitors there will be able to learn much more about him...
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