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Saturday, November 4, 2006
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Modern Humans, Neanderthals May Have Interbred
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/31/2006 8:28:44 PM EST · 91 replies · 1,590+ views
Yahoo - HealthDay | 10-30-2006 | E J Mundell
Modern Humans, Neanderthals May Have Interbred By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter Mon Oct 30, 5:03 PM ET MONDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- There may be a little Neanderthal in all of us. That's the conclusion of anthropologists who have re-examined 30,000-year-old fossilized bones from a Romanian cave -- bones that languished in a drawer since the 1950s. According to the researchers, these early Homo sapien bones show anatomical features that could only have arisen if the adult female in question had Neanderthal ancestors as part of her lineage. The findings may answer nagging questions: Did modern humans and Neanderthals...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Missouri Ice Age cave reveals ancient secrets
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/31/2006 2:43:39 AM EST · 13 replies · 282+ views
Seattle Times | Monday, October 30, 2006 | Marcus Kabel (AP)
The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the Earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800-pound body at up to 45 mph in a snarling dash for prey... Remains in the cave date back at least 830,000 years and possibly more than 1 million years. At some point at least 55,000 years ago, it was sealed by rocks and mud until a construction crew blasted a hole in one end while building a road in 2001... Peccary tracks are...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Massive Sculpture of Decapitated Women Found in Mexico
Posted by winodog
On News/Activism 10/30/2006 9:45:28 PM EST · 32 replies · 1,066+ views
Fof News | Oct 6 2006 | AP
MEXICO CITY -- Researchers said Thursday they have unearthed what may be one of the earliest calendar entries in Meso-America, a massive stone sculpture that suggests women held important status roles in pre-Hispanic culture. The monolithic design depicts two decapitated women. 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," Ahuja said. ï Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Archaeology Center. The...
Epigraphy and Language
Cambridge closes door on Sanskrit, Hindi
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/31/2006 2:51:01 AM EST · 21 replies · 229+ views
Organiser | November 05, 2006 | Rashmee Roshan Lall
Cambridge has finally closed the door on Sanskrit as a hallowed subject of undergraduate study, nearly one-and-a-half centuries after it first established a chair in the 3,000-year-old language. The Times of India sought -- and received -- confirmation of the university's decision within hours of Cambridge honouring Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a doctor of law degree, in what some scholars believe to be the most cynical form of "tactless academic marketing"... Dr John Smith, reader in Sanskrit at Cambridge, told TOI that it is "not a trivial decision...this is a decision about letting the subject wither on the vine....
Asia
Underground Passages Reveal Power Struggle In Ancient Han Capital
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/01/2006 6:21:44 PM EST · 7 replies · 229+ views
Peoples Daily - Xinhua | 11-1-2006 | Xinhua
Underground passages reveal power struggle in ancient Han capital Chinese archaeologists said underground passages in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital near Xi'an might have been dug during complex power struggles in the Han Dynasty 2,200 years ago. "The underground passages are the first ever discovered in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital," said Liu Qingzhu, a researcher with the Chinese Institute of Archaeology in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "The tunnels were mostly discovered under the palaces where the royal women lived, including the emperor's mother, the empress and the emperor's concubines," Liu said. Historical...
Central Asia
Central Asia's Lost Civilization
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/02/2006 2:47:33 AM EST · 12 replies · 206+ views
Discover Magazine | November 2006 | Andrew Lawler
Where others see only sand and scrub, Sarianidi has turned up the remnants of a wealthy town protected by high walls and battlements. This barren place, a site called Gonur, was once the heart of a vast archipelago of settlements that stretched across 1,000 square miles of Central Asian plains. Although unknown to most Western scholars, this ancient civilization dates back 4,000 years -- to the time when the first great societies along the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow rivers were flourishing. Thousands of people lived in towns like Gonur with carefully designed streets, drains, temples, and homes.
Ancient Egypt
Geological feature key to finding, protecting tombs [ Fracture traces ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/29/2006 1:48:54 PM EST · 4 replies · 40+ views
EurekAlert | 22-Oct-2006 | A'ndrea Elyse Messer / Penn State
The idea that fracture traces could bare some connection to the rock cut tombs found in Egyptian valleys came to Katarin A. Parizek as she toured Egypt. K. Parizek, the daughter of Richard R. Parizek, professor of geology and geo-environmental engineering at Penn State, is a digital photographer, graphic designer and geologist. In 1992, on a Nile cruise to the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, she recognized the geological structures. "Many of the tombs were in zones of fracture concentration revealed by fracture traces and lineaments," says K. Parizek, an instructor in digital photography. "I knew that these fractures...
Australia and the Pacific
Scientists find new species in Hawaii
Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 10/31/2006 8:40:09 PM EST · 30 replies · 631+ views
AP on Yahoo | 10/31/06 | AP
HONOLULU - Researchers on a three-week mission to remote French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands discovered 100 species never seen in the area before, including many that may be entirely new to science. "There were lots of organisms that people were saying, 'Wow! What's that?'" said Joel Martin, a zoologist in charge of invertebrates for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Researchers returned from the voyage Sunday with at least 1,000 species of invertebrates, including worms, crabs and sea stars. About 160 unique species of limu were also found. Among the discoveries are: multicolored worms, a...
Faith and Philosophy
Muslims need to be sensitised to their own material past [ op-ed ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/02/2006 11:29:28 AM EST · 3 replies · 62+ views
The Art Newspaper | Thursday, November 2, 2006 | Alastair Northedge
At the end of August, The Art Newspaper revealed the stunning news that Donny George, president of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq, had been forced to flee the country in fear of his life and take refuge in Damascus. In recent months, Dr George sealed up the treasures of the National Museum in Baghdad behind concrete walls, as it was too dangerous to leave them exposed. He was replaced by a relation of the Minister of Tourism, who comes from the party of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia cleric and leader of the resistance movement... Dr George...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Is Clava crow find a Hallowe'en sacrifice?
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/02/2006 11:33:47 AM EST · 8 replies · 152+ views
Highland News | November 2, 2006 | Graham Crawford
The bird was found at a standing stone surrounding one of the burial chambers at the Clava Cairns, just south of Culloden. But the unusual way the bird was laid out and the choice of standing stone raised alarm bells for John Ray, of Inverness, who came across the crow on Sunday. Mr Ray, who has a strong interest in mythology and archaeology, told the Highland News: 'Of all the stones surrounding the three cairns, it had been placed at the one that is connected to the Samhain/Halloweíen festival. 'It did spook me, and left me with a negative feeling....
Oh So Mysteriouso
"Ancient Pyramids of Bosnia?" Things to make you go 'hmmm'
Posted by thubb
On News/Activism 10/29/2006 6:29:49 PM EST · 25 replies · 1,037+ views
ABC News | Oct. 29, 2006 | unknown
Ancient Pyramids of Bosnia? Many Are Believers Updated 5:46 PM ET October 29, 2006 Egypt has pyramids, China has a wall and Greece has the Parthenon -- all evidence of ancient and great civilizations. Ever heard of ancient Bosnians? Probably not. But some are seeing pyramids towering above a drab Bosnian town -- perhaps pyramids bigger than the Egyptians built. Tourists are flocking to buy trinkets, to eat pyramid pizza and pyramid cake, and stay at the local hotel, re-named the Pyramid of the Sun. "Last year here, we had 20,000 tourists in the whole summer," Davor Pekic, owner of...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Swedish Teens Find Viking-Age Silver Treasure
Posted by winodog
On News/Activism 10/30/2006 9:34:11 PM EST · 19 replies · 1,131+ views
Fox News | Oct 30 2006 | AP
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Archeologists said Monday they found more than 1,000 silver coins in a Viking-age hoard discovered by chance on the Swedish island of Gotland. The treasure, believed to have been buried in the 10th century, also included several silver bracelets and weighed about 7 pounds, local curator Majvor Ostergren told Swedish news agency TT. Edvin Sandborg, 20, and his 17-year-old brother Arvid said they found the hoard last week when they were helping a neighbor with some yard work. Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Archaeology center. "By coincidence, I happened to find an Arabic silver coin that's about...
Longer Perspectives
Can science get by without your tax money?
Posted by Logophile
On News/Activism 10/31/2006 10:19:14 PM EST · 39 replies · 436+ views
Times Online | 5 June 2006 | Terence Kealey
Can science get by without your tax money? Just ask them over at IBM Science Notebook by Terence Kealey SCIENCE POLICY across the globe is but a series of footnotes to Vannevar Bushís 1945 book Science: The Endless Frontier. Before the Second World War the US Government spent little on applied science and nothing on pure science. In 1940 its total research budget was only $74 million, mainly for defence and agriculture, when the private sector was spending $265million, of which $55 million was for pure science. Yet by 1940 America had long been the richest country in the world,...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Ancient Jewish Treasures In Monastery, Book Says
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/30/2006 7:37:37 PM EST · 24 replies · 786+ views
SF Gate | 10-23-2006 | Matthew Kalman
Ancient Jewish treasures in monastery, book says Gold, silver vessels reportedly in West Bank caves Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service Monday, October 23, 2006 (10-23) 04:00 PST Mar Theodosius, West Bank -- Until today, the main claim to fame of this sleepy monastery on the edge of the Judean wilderness was the tradition that the Three Wise Men slept in the caves here after visiting the infant Jesus in Bethlehem. But a new book claims that the Greek Orthodox Monastery Mar Theodosius was the last hiding place of one of the greatest treasures of antiquity: the gold and silver vessels...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Biology and Cryptobiology
BONES TELL STORY OF THAI ORIGIN Posted by JimSEA
On General/Chat 11/04/2006 10:22:03 PM EST · 20 replies · 344+ views
Bangkok Post | Sunday November 05, 2006 | ANCHALEE KONGRUTDNA tests on ancient skeletons in the Northeast suggest our ancestors may have migrated to this part of the region long before we first thought. The tests were conducted by scholars and archaeologists at the Fine Arts Department in a bid to find the origins of Thai people. The team started its work in 2003, using the testing of mitochondrial DNA on skeletons in selected graveyards in Nakhon Ratchasima and groups of living people in China, and some countries in Southeast Asia. Mitochondria are small energy-producing organelles found in egg cells which, unlike nuclear DNA that is equally inherited from...
Prehistory and Origins
Early human relative ate prehistoric smorgasbord Posted by Pharmboy
On General/Chat 11/09/2006 7:22:34 PM EST · 12 replies · 156+ views
Reuters | Thu Nov 9, 2006 | Will DunhamThe skull of a bipedal hominid Paranthropus robustus is pictured in this undated photograph. The early human relative from 1.8 million years ago dined on the prehistoric equivalent of a smorgasbord -- fruit, nuts, roots, leaves and perhaps meat, according to a study that casts doubt on a key theory about its demise. (Journal Science/Handout/Reuters) An early human relative from 1.8 million years ago dined on the prehistoric equivalent of a smorgasbord -- fruit, nuts, roots, leaves and perhaps meat, according to a study that casts doubt on a key theory about its demise. The four-foot-tall, 100-pound (45-kg) bipedal...
Dental Detectives Reveal Diet If Ancient Human Ancestors Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/09/2006 7:59:40 PM EST · 14 replies · 382+ views
National Geographic | 11-9-2006 | Sean MarkeyDental Detectives Reveal Diet of Ancient Human Ancestors Sean Markey for National Geographic News November 9, 2006 Paranthropus robustus, a dead-end branch of the early human family tree, has been described as a "chewing machine" that was mostly jaws and not much brains. While the label may still apply, pioneering dental detective work has revealed unexpected news about the species' dietary variety. Using lasers to vaporize tiny particles of tooth enamel, researchers in the United States and Great Britain analyzed the chemical makeup of 1.8-million-year-old fossil teeth from four individuals unearthed in the Swartkrans cave site in South Africa. Different...
Ancient creature wasn't picky eater, research shows Posted by Graybeard58
On General/Chat 11/09/2006 8:26:21 PM EST · 11 replies · 124+ views
Denver Rocky Mountain News | November 9, 2006 | Jim EricksonAn upright, ape-like creature that lived alongside ancestral humans in Africa more than a million years ago had a far more diverse diet than once believed. The finding casts doubt on the long held belief that the creature was driven to extinction by its picky eating habits, University of Colorado researchers conclude. The new study shows that Paranthropus robustus, once thought to be a "chewing machine" specializing in tough, low-quality plant foods, instead had a diverse diet ranging from fruits and nuts to sedges, grasses, seeds and perhaps even animals, according to CU anthropologist Matt Sponheimer. That conclusion is based...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Could our big brains come from Neanderthals? Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 11/07/2006 10:27:55 PM EST · 53 replies · 815+ views
Reuters via Yahoo | Tue Nov 7, 2006 | AnonNeanderthals may have given the modern humans who replaced them a priceless gift -- a gene that helped them develop superior brains, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. And the only way they could have provided that gift would have been by interbreeding, the team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago said. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides indirect evidence that modern Homo sapiens and so-called Neanderthals interbred at some point when they lived side by side in Europe. "Finding evidence of mixing is not all that surprising. But...
Did Modern Humans Get a Brain Gene from Neandertals? Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On General/Chat 11/08/2006 10:57:13 PM EST · 7 replies · 127+ views
Science Now | November 6, 2006 | Michael BalterFor decades, human evolution researchers have debated whether Neandertals and modern humans interbred. Most scientists have come down on the side that any romances between these hominid cousins must have been fleeting at best. But a new study suggests that a few of these passing dalliances might have had a major impact on the evolution of the Homo sapiens brain. If so, Neandertals, although long extinct, may have left humanity a lasting genetic gift. Some anthropologists have argued that a handful of hominid skeletons show features of both Neandertals and modern humans (Science, 11 February 2005, p. 841). But so...
Neanderthals in Gene Pool, Study Suggests Posted by indcons
On News/Activism 11/09/2006 10:13:31 AM EST · 57 replies · 1,266+ views
NYTimes.com | November 9, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORDScientists have found new genetic evidence that they say may answer the longstanding question of whether modern humans and Neanderthals interbred when they co-existed thousands of years ago. The answer is: probably yes, though not often. In research being published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists reported that matings between Neanderthals and modern humans presumably accounted for the presence of a variant of the gene that regulates brain size. Bruce T. Lahn of the University of Chicago, the report's senior author, said the findings demonstrated that such interbreeding with relative species, those...
Asia
Peinan Archaeological Site Gives Prehistoric Insight (Taiwan) Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/10/2006 6:14:03 PM EST · 6 replies · 121+ views
Taiwan Journal | 11-10-2006 | Alexander ChouPeinan archeological site gives prehistoric insight By Alexander Chou, Taiwan Journal staff writer Until recently, little was known about the histories and cultures of Chinese Taipei's Austronesian aborigines and, in particular, about their relationships with the island's ancient inhabitants. Discovery of the Peinan site in southeastern Taiwan, and the associated artifacts unearthed and interpreted by archaeologists, have proved invaluable in making up some of this deficiency. To help educate visitors about the island's prehistoric past, many of the key finds are now exhibited in the National Museum of Prehistory. Located in Taitung City, a major aboriginal conurbation, the NMP also...
Let's Have Jerusalem
4,000-year-old cemetery uncovered in Jerusalem Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 11/09/2006 9:33:16 AM EST · 44 replies · 849+ views
Jerusalem Post | Nov. 9, 2006 | Jason TaitzContainers for ritual offerings, weapons and jewelry are among the finds uncovered this week after builders in Jerusalem's Bayit Vagan neighborhood stumbled upon a 4,000-year-old Canaanite cemetery. The Israel Antiquities Authority was alerted back in July when builders working on apartment buildings in the Holyland Park Project found evidence of ancient tombs. The remarkable finds were only discovered this week. The dig's director, Yanir Milevsky, said that "the quantity of items and their particularly good state of conservation will allow us to enlarge our knowledge of farming villages during the Canaanite era." The authority said the site covered more than...
[Journey to the Copper Age] City to replace roofs at museums, Old Globe Theatre Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2006 10:04:07 PM EST · 3 replies · 15+ views
San Diego Union-Tribune | November 5, 2006 | Jeanette SteeleWhile the San Diego Natural History Museum will host the much-touted Dead Sea Scrolls next summer, just down the Prado will be a companion exhibit at the Museum of Man. The Museum of Man is partnering with the National Geographic Society to present a display of pre-biblical archaeology from Israel. Called "Journey to the Copper Age," it will consist of artifacts never before seen outside of Israel, the museum says. The exhibit is based on a National Geographic expedition led by San Diego archeologist Thomas Levy, a professor at the University of California San Diego. Levy assembled a group of...
Navigation
Ancient anchorage found at Netanya Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/08/2006 2:28:13 AM EST · 7 replies · 91+ views
Jerusalem Post | Wednesday, November 8, 2006 | Etgar LefkovitsThe lifeguard, Ofer Harmoni, 37, summoned the archeologists to the scene after noticing the iron anchor near the Netanya shore during a swimming workout two weeks ago. The authority's marine unit subsequently uncovered five large stone anchors dating back 4,000 years during an underwater survey at the site. The anchors, which archeologists date to the late Middle Bronze Age, have a single perforation, are 0.9m high and 0.6m wide and weigh 150 kilograms each. Two smaller stone anchors for small boats and two iron anchors which date to the Byzantine period (5th-7th centuries CE), were also removed from the seabed....
Rome and Italy
Graves Hint At Contact With Romans (Sweden) Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/09/2006 6:36:23 PM EST · 15 replies · 254+ views
The Local | 11-8-2006Graves hint at contact with Romans Published: 8th November 2006 19:18 CET Archaeologists excavating ancient graves in western Sweden have found shards from ceramic vessels made in the Roman Empire, in a find that could challenge assumptions about contacts between people in Sweden and the Romans. The graves in Stenungsund, around 45 kilometres north of Gothenburg, have been dated to between the years 1 and 300 AD. The remains of burned bones from two people were found, along with the pieces of ceramic. "There are pieces from four or five vessels in each grave, and we have never previously found...
Elam, Persian, Parthia, Iran
Persian Gulf Shipwreck Continues To Remain Mystery Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/10/2006 5:49:18 PM EST · 5 replies · 453+ views
Payvard | 11-9-2006 | Maryam TabeshianPersian Gulf Shipwreck Continues to Remain a Mystery By Maryam Tabeshian (Credits to Hasan Zohouri, CHN Persian service) Persian (Iranian) archeologists are determined to take the remains of the recently discovered Partho-Sassanid shipwreck and its cargo out of the waters of the Persian Gulf; however, there are many challenges and obstacles along the way. View Movie Tehran, 9 November 2006 (CHN) -- ?Death Trap!? This is what archeologists call the area 70 meters below the waters of the Persian Gulf where nearly two months ago the remains of a merchant ship belonging to either of the two superpowers of Ancient...
Skulls Of Various Races Discovered At Ancient Cemetery Near Semnan (Iran) Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/07/2006 6:17:43 PM EST · 28 replies · 730+ views
Mehr News | 11-7-2006Skulls of various races discovered at ancient cemetery near Semnan TEHRAN, Nov. 7 (MNA) -- A team of Iranian archaeologists working at the Gandab ancient cemetery near the city of Semnan have unearthed skulls of various shapes during the third phase of excavations, which is currently underway at the site. The team discovered dolichocephalic (long skulls), mesocephalic (medium skulls), and brachycephalic (short-headed or broad skulls). "Humans are classified based on the shapes of their skulls, which determine the race of the ethnic groups living in a certain region. We discovered humans with long skulls, medium skulls, and short-headed (skulls), which...
Underwater Archaeology
Scientists Seek Indian History Underwater[North America] Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 11/07/2006 4:28:01 PM EST · 51 replies · 719+ views
The Day | Joe WojtasMashantuckets, Ballard To Explore Ancient Coastline They are questions that have intrigued scientists, archaeologists and historians for centuries: When did Native Americans first arrive on the North American continent, and where did they settle? Now, Robert Ballard, president of the Institute for Exploration at Mystic Aquarium, and Kevin McBride, research director of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, and other researchers hope to answer that question. On Wednesday, Ballard, McBride and Dwight Coleman, the IFE's research director, outlined plans for a multiyear expedition to chart the location of ancient coastlines now underwater, identify sites of Native American settlements and find artifacts to...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Raiding For Women In The Pre-Hispanic Southwest? Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/10/2006 6:04:51 PM EST · 16 replies · 425+ views
Eureka Alert - UChicago | 11-10-2006 | Suzanne WuContact: Suzanne Wu swu@press.uchicago.edu 773-834-0386 University of Chicago Press Journals Raiding for women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest? Study finds more female remains in graveyards during times of political influence A portion of the large 12th and 13th-century A.D. site of Aztec, near the contemporary town of Aztec, New Mexico. An important new archaeological study from the December issue of Current Anthropology is the first to document interregional movement of women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest. Using an analysis of grave sites, the researchers found more female remains during periods of political influence, providing an interesting insight into the ways warfare may...
Epigraphy and Language
Isai Tamil inscription in ruins Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/08/2006 2:24:19 AM EST · 1 reply · 1+ viewThe Hindu | Monday, Nov 6, 2006 | Karthik MadhavanThe inscriptions are tala notes (adavu) that a Bharatnatyam dancer dances to. It has five lines and as many rows, resembling a five-row - five-column matrix. It has been arranged in such a way that read either from left to right or top to bottom it reads the same. It is a palindrome as well. Close by is another inscription, which is also in Tamil Brahmi. It talks about the person who chiselled the above-mentioned lines. Most of it is damaged. The third inscription is equally bad... [T]he inscriptions came to light only about five decades ago, when Prof. S....
Possible Third Jellinge Stone Found (Viking Era) Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/06/2006 1:35:51 PM EST · 21 replies · 564+ views
Jyllands-Posten/Copenhagen Post | 10-31-2006Possible third Jellinge stone found By The Copenhagen Post Archaeologists believe they have found a new Viking-era stone engraved with ancient Danish Rune writing Archaeologists from Vejle Museum think they may have found a third 'Jellinge stone' - a large rock with carved runes and considered the first examples of written language in Denmark. The researchers have found seven stones in all, which they believe date from the 10th century. Jellinge stones tell of the founding of Denmark and of Christianity's arrival in the country. Even if the stones do not yield a true Jellinge stone, the find is still...
Ancient Art
Ancient Venus gets an X-ray checkup Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2006 9:59:46 PM EST · 3 replies · 116+ views
Associated Press / MSNBC | Nov. 2, 2006 | Giovanna Dell'OrtoDelta Air Lines maintainance inspectors moved the hulking engine case of a Boeing 757 from beneath the giant scanner in a lead-enclosed X-ray room and gingerly replaced it with the head of a 1,900-year-old Roman marble statue of Venus. Thursday's X-ray scans at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are the first step in a months-long process to reunite the late first-century statue of the goddess of love with its head. Conservators at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, which bought both pieces in June, will study the X-rays to see just in how many points -- besides the neck...
Ancient Greece
Unique Mycenaean suit of armor due for conservation Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2006 12:34:39 PM EST · 22 replies · 240+ views
Kathimerini English Edition | November 3, 2006 | Iota SykkaThe only complete example of a Mycenaean suit of armor ever found is to be sent for conservation work, 46 years since its discovery at Dendra in the Argolid, the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) has decided... [I]t is made up of four pieces: a neckpiece, two epaulettes, a breastplate and an articulated section with three straps to protect the rest of the warrior's torso. Broad strips of metal were fastened to a leather lining which appears to have covered the body from neck to knee. At 15 kilos, its weight must have made it hard to move in and it...
Ancient Egypt
Today in history: Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen (11/04/1922) Posted by yankeedame
On General/Chat 11/04/2006 8:09:50 AM EST · 12 replies · 79+ views
Answers.comThe British Egyptologist Howard Carter (employed by Lord Carnarvon) discovered Tutankhamun's tomb (since designated KV62) in The Valley of The Kings on November 4, 1922 near the entrance to the tomb of Ramses VI, thereby setting off a renewed interest in all things Egyptian in the modern world. Carter contacted his patron, and on November 26 that year both men became the first people to enter Tutankhamun's tomb in over 3000 years. After many weeks of careful excavation, on February 16, 1923 Carter opened the inner chamber and first saw the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun. Lord Carnarvon financed Carter's search...
Anatolia
Georgia, Azerbaijan Debate Control Of Ancient Monastery's Territory Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/05/2006 9:52:54 PM EST · 7 replies · 32+ views
Eurasia Insight | November 3, 2006 | Diana Petriashvili and Rovshan IsmayilovSet in semi-desert some 70 kilometers southeast from Tbilisi along the Georgian border with Azerbaijan and within Azerbaijan proper, the complex, which contains a rich collection of cave frescoes, has been a site for conflict as well as for contemplation, ever since construction began in the 6th century. The best-known part of the complex, the Udabno cave monastery, which contain frescoes dating approximately from the 8th to the 13th centuries, as well as the monastery headquarters at Lavra, are located within Georgia. Additional monasteries, some nearly inaccessible and largely ruined, are also on Georgian territory. Azerbaijan contains the monastery of...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Spain Digs For Its Once-Hidden Jewish Heritage Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/06/2006 2:08:52 PM EST · 16 replies · 322+ views
International Herald Tribune | 11-5-2006 | Renwick McLeanSpain digs for its once-hidden Jewish heritage By Renwick McLean / The New York TimesPublished: November 5, 2006 TOLEDO, Spain: Spain has sometimes been slow to recognize its own treasures. Miguel de Cervantes was slipping into obscurity after his death until he was rescued by foreign literary experts. El Greco's paintings were pulled from oblivion by the French. The Muslim palace of Alhambra had fallen into neglect before the American author Washington Irving and others wrote about it in the 1800s. Now, more than 500 years after expelling its Jews and moving to hide if not eradicate all traces of...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Wrecks to riches (White House plunder - War of 1812) Posted by grjr21
On News/Activism 11/05/2006 5:15:14 PM EST · 8 replies · 613+ views
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Sun, Nov. 05, 2006 | Thomas GinsbergTaking a company public is risky. Searching for buried treasure is chancier. Staking a claim on government artifacts may be plain lunacy. Put them together, however, and you have the makings of a viable treasure-hunting business. Or so hopes a group of Bucks County entrepreneurs, who took their shipwreck salvage business public last year and now have an international fracas on their hands. Sovereign Exploration Associates International Inc., of Newtown, believes it has pinpointed off the coast of Nova Scotia a trove of 19th-century artifacts and coins from the White House and U.S. Treasury that the British plundered during the...
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Weekly Digest #122
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Africa
Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past
Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 11/10/2006 5:19:31 PM EST · 22 replies · 584+ views
Reuters via Yahoo | Fri Nov 10, 2006 | Nick Tattersall
A Malian walks out of the Great Mosque in Djenne, Mali in this August 10, 2003 file photo. Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance. (Yves Herman/Reuters) Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance. Private and public libraries in the fabled Saharan town in Mali have already collected 150,000 brittle manuscripts, some of...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Experts Say Tomb May Be Under Monolith (Aztec)
Posted by decimon
On News/Activism 11/16/2006 7:24:08 PM EST · 15 replies · 574+ views
Associated Press | November 16, 2006 | Unknown
MEXICO CITY - Mexican archaeologists said on Thursday there are indications that the tomb of an Aztec emperor could lie beneath a recently-uncovered carved stone monolith showing a fearsome, blood-drinking god. Researchers hope to begin removing the stone to explore a pit that lies beneath. A date carved on the stone and its unusual placement suggest it contains the remains of emperor Ahuizotl, the father of Moctezuma, the Aztec ruler defeated by the Spaniards. Archaeologist Eduardo Matos said it would be the first burial ever found of a leader of the 1427-1521 Aztec empire.
Epigraphy and Language
West Virginia's petroglyphs being erased by man and nature
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/12/2006 11:02:54 PM EST · 11 replies · 179+ views
Charleston Gazette | November 12, 2006 | Rick Steelhammer
Ghostly human images, intriguing geometric designs, and the likenesses of turtles, beavers, birds, snakes and tracks made by game animals are fading at an alarming rate from the stone surfaces on which they were carved 400 to 1,000 years ago... Photos of the rock taken decades ago clearly show the carved images of a long-legged, long-billed bird, several other bird-like figures and a beaver. Today, a few faintly etched lines can be seen on the boulder's surface, but it's virtually impossible to discern what they represent... According to Maslowski, archaeologists believe most West Virginia petroglyphs date to the Late Prehistoric...
Ancient Egypt
American Drugs In Egyptian Mummies
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/11/2006 6:14:05 PM EST · 55 replies · 943+ views
Colorado State Edu | S A Wells
American Drugs in Egyptian MummiesS. A. Wells www.colostate.edu Abstract: The recent findings of cocaine, nicotine, and hashishin Egyptian mummies by Balabanova et. al. have been criticized on grounds that: contamination of the mummies may have occurred, improper techniques may have been used, chemical decomposition may have produced the compounds in question, recent mummies of drug users were mistakenly evaluated, that no similar cases are known of such compounds in long-dead bodies, and especially that pre-Columbian transoceanic voyages are highly speculative. These criticisms are each discussed in turn. Balabanova et. al. are shown to have used and confirmed their findings with...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Sea Peoples
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 11/11/2006 7:12:45 PM EST · 46 replies · 554+ views
U Colorado Edu
THE SEA PEOPLES All at once, they were on the move, scattered in war. They laid their hands upon the lands to the very circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting; Our plans will succeed... " (Ramesses III). The name "Peoples of the Sea" comes directly from the Egyptian records, describing the Sea Peoples' exploits. As their collective name tells us, they were tribes who had developed a life style almost totally dependent upon the sea. They perfected boats, sailing and navigational techniques for fishing offshore as well as long distance travel and explored much of the Atlantic...
Elam, Persian, Parthia, Iran
Ancient rock tombs discovered at Jiroft
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/14/2006 3:15:29 AM EST · 1 reply
Mehr News Agency | November 12, 2006 | unattributed
Two tombs carved out of rock were recently discovered at the Qal'eh Kuchak mound by the team of archaeologists working at the Jiroft ancient site. The team began the fifth phase of excavations of Jiroft, which is located in the Halil-Rud River cultural area, in late October. Due to their magnificent structure, the archaeologists believe they may be the tombs of kings who ruled the region. "The ancient inhabitants of the region constructed a place like an orthogonal room measuring 2.5x2.5 meters. The place has some stairs leading to two cave-like tombs," team director Yusef Majidzadeh told the Persian service...
Central Asia
Building 1 is "almost certainly" ancient Burnt City's lost temple: Sajjadi
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/12/2006 10:53:32 PM EST · 9 replies · 95+ views
Mehr News Agency | November 12, 2006 | unattributed
"There is a high probability - we are almost certain - that the building is a 5000-year-old temple. However, to prove the hypothesis in the world of archaeology, we need to search for further evidence," he added... The Burnt City is located 57 kilometers from the city of Zabol in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan Province and covers an area of 150 hectares. It was one of the world's largest cities at the dawn of the urban era. It was built circa 3200 BC and destroyed some time around 2100 BC. The city had four stages of civilization and was burnt down three...
India
India enshrines Buddha's remains after 2000 years
Posted by CarrotAndStick
On News/Activism 10/31/2006 10:16:59 AM EST · 30 replies · 620+ views
The Scotsman | Sun 29 Oct 2006 | The Scotsman
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhists gathered in India's western city of Mumbai on Sunday to lay to rest part of the ashes and bones of Lord Buddha in a ceremony resurrected after almost 2000 years. Monks in flowing orange robes chanted hymns from scriptures as the remains were lowered into a shallow pit on top of a 90-ft (27 metres) high stone dome, as part of celebrations to mark the 2250th anniversary of the spiritual leader's enlightenment. Organisers of the ceremony said this was the first time in around 2,000 years that Buddha's mortal remains were being enshrined. "The...
Faith and Philosophy
Afghanistan - Secret sutra found in rubble of Bamiyan Buddha: report
Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 11/12/2006 12:23:15 AM EST · 13 replies · 653+ views
Agence France-Presse (excerpt) | November 11, 2006
Excerpt - TOKYO (AFP) - A part of a Buddhism sutra was found inside one of the two giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, providing a hint for unveiling the mystery surrounding the creation of the statues, a Japanese news agency has reported. The fragment of the scripture was believed to be the original Sanscrit document, written with the letters often used in the sixth and seventh century, according to a Kyodo news dispatch from Kabul. A German team of researchers from the International Council on Monuments and Sites found the sutra in July inside the rubble of the remains of the...
Ancient Art
Ancient bronze drum found in Vietnam
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/17/2006 12:55:37 PM EST · 2 replies · 5+ views
Thanh Nien | November 2006 | Nguyen Cong Khe, editor
Parts of a bronze drum thought to be at least 2,000 years old was discovered recently by a resident in Vietnam's Phu Yen province who turned it over to the authorities. Director of the provincial museum, Phan Dinh Phung, identified the drum Thursday as belonging to the Dong Son Culture (1000 BCE-200 CE) based in its design and vignettes. Only the surface of the drum, found near the Ba River in Tay Hoa district, remains, measuring 43 centimeters across. According to the Institute of Archaeology, the date or purpose of the Dong Son drums are unknown but they are generally...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/14/2006 3:20:10 AM EST · 10 replies · 195+ views
EurekAlert / University of North Carolina at Charlotte | November 13, 2006 | James Hathaway
"The graveyard at Qumran is the unhealthiest group that I have ever studied in over 30 years and this is readily apparent," said Zias, who has done previous work on the Qumran burials. "For example, 2,000 years ago in Jericho, 14 kilometers to the north, the chances of an adult male dying after 40 were 49 percent. But when you go to Qumran, the figure for people surviving to 40 falls to six percent -- the chances of making to 40 differ by a factor of eight! "And yet we are told that these men arrived very healthy -- they...
Latrines of the Essenes?
Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 11/14/2006 11:21:04 AM EST · 32 replies · 707+ views
The New York Times | November 14, 2006 | By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Archaeologists, it seems, will dig anything, even latrines. Sometimes this uncovers the stuff of scholarly evidence. Over a hill, a discreet distance from and out of sight of the ruins of Qumran, near the Dead Sea, a broad patch of soil appeared to be discolored. Two archaeological sleuths had reasons to suspect this may have been Qumran's toilet. Soil samples yielded the desiccated eggs of human intestinal parasites. The researchers say this could well be evidence supporting the controversial view that Qumran was occupied by an ascetic Jewish sect, the Essenes, and that they probably wrote the Dead Sea scrolls...
Toilet Evidence Links Dead Sea Scrolls To Sect (Essenes)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/14/2006 2:43:50 PM EST · 27 replies · 1,031+ views
Seattle Times | 11-14-2006 | Thomas H Maugh II
Toilet evidence links Dead Sea Scrolls to sect By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times Following directions found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologists have discovered the latrines used by the sect that produced the scrolls, discovering that efforts to achieve ritual purity inadvertently exposed members to intestinal parasites that shortened their lifespan. The discovery of the unique toilet area provides further evidence linking the scrolls to Qumran -- an association that recently has been called into question by a small but vociferous group of archaeologists who have argued that the settlement was a pottery factory, a country villa...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Space Impact 'Saved Christianity'
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/13/2006 1:29:21 AM EST · 82 replies · 1,976+ views
BBC | 6-23-2003 | David Whitehouse
Space impact 'saved Christianity'By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Did a meteor over central Italy in AD 312 change the course of Roman and Christian history? About the size of a football field: The impact crater left behind A team of geologists believes it has found the incoming space rock's impact crater, and dating suggests its formation coincided with the celestial vision said to have converted a future Roman emperor to Christianity. It was just before a decisive battle for control of Rome and the empire that Constantine saw a blazing light cross the sky and attributed...
Prehistory and Origins
Stone Age Babies Buried With Love
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/15/2006 10:07:09 PM EST · 53 replies · 936+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 11-16-2006 | Roger Highfield
Stone Age babies buried with love By Roger Highfield Last Updated: 1:28am GMT 16/11/2006 The image of Stone Age man as a heartless brute will have to be revised after the discovery of an ancient grave where babies had been carefully buried and ritually decorated. Although childhood mortality may well have been high more than 20 millennia ago, the use of red ochre, as well as the grave gifts -- a chain of ivory beads -- shows that babies were even then considered full members of society. The burials in Krems-Wachtberg in Lower Austria are the first findings of such...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Scientists Create Neanderthal Genome
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 11/09/2006 2:15:23 AM EST · 42 replies · 721+ views
Life Style Extra | 08 Nov 2006 | National News
Scientists are reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals - the close relations of modern man. The ambitious project involves isolating genetic fragments from fossils of the prehistoric beings who originally inhabited Europe to map their complete DNA. 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. Lead researcher Dr Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said: "This would be the first time we have sequenced the entire genome of an extinct organism." But the prospect...
DNA from Neanderthal leg shows distant split
Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 11/15/2006 5:09:22 PM EST · 54 replies · 1,172+ views
Reuters | Wed Nov 15, 2006 | Maggie Fox
An undated photograph shows the inside of the Vindija cave in Croatia, where a leg bone from a male Neanderthal was found and and used to sequence DNA by researchers who on Wednesdauy said it shows that Neanderthals are truly distant relatives of modern humans who interbred rarely, if at all, with our own immediate ancestors. (Johannes Krause- Max- Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology/Handout/Reuters) Researchers have sequenced DNA from the leg bone of a Neanderthal man who died 38,000 years ago and said on Wednesday it shows the Neanderthals are truly distant relatives of modern humans who interbred rarely,...
What happened to the Neanderthals? Check their DNA.
Posted by Graybeard58
On General/Chat 11/15/2006 11:36:11 PM EST · 32 replies · 315+ views
Christian Science Monitor | November 16, 2006 edition | Peter N. Spotts
Humans' closest cousins, the Neanderthals, vanished 30,000 years ago after sharing turf with humans for millenniums. But why they disappeared remains a mystery. Two research teams decided to try a new approach: Instead of studying tiny fragments of DNA from one of these cousins, they looked for ways to string fragments together to get a more complete source of potential genetic clues. Conventional wisdom held that this task was impossible for material this old. But using the 38,000-year-old remains of a 38-year-old male, found in a Croatian cave, each group now says it has rebuilt, or sequenced, long segments of...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Stonehenge 'No Place For The Dead' Says BU Expert
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/16/2006 5:14:42 PM EST · 26 replies · 520+ views
Alpha Galileo | 11-16-2006 | Timothy Darvill
16 November 2006 Stonehenge 'No Place for the Dead', Says BU Expert Professor Timothy Darvill, Head of the Archaeology Group at Bournemouth University, has breathed new life into the controversy surrounding the origins of Stonehenge by publishing a theory which suggests that the ancient monument was a source and centre for healing and not a place for the dead as believed by many previous scholars. After publication of his new book on the subject - Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape (Tempus Publishing) - Professor Darvill also makes a case for revellers who travel to be near the ancient monument...
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Weekly Digest #123
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Biology and Cryptobiology
Humans Show Big DNA Differences
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/23/2006 10:09:00 PM EST · 35 replies · 1,158+ views
BBC | 11-23-2006
Humans show big DNA differences DNA comparisons: Gains (green), losses (red), the same (yellow) Scientists have shown that our genetic code varies between individuals far more than was previously thought. A UK-led team made a detailed analysis of the DNA found in 270 people and identified vast stretches in their codes to be duplicated or even missing. A great many of these variations are in areas of the genome that would not damage our health, Matthew Hurles and colleagues told the journal Nature. But others are - and can be shown to play a role in a number of disorders....
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Wheat's lost gene helps nutrition
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/24/2006 10:34:31 PM EST · 11 replies · 139+ views
BBC News | Friday, 24 November 2006 | unattributed
Turning on a gene found in wheat could boost levels of protein, iron and zinc, scientists have discovered. The gene occurs naturally in wheat, but has largely been silenced during the evolution of domestic varieties. Researchers found evidence that turning it back on could raise levels of the nutrients in wheat grains. Writing in the journal Science, they suggest that new varieties with a fully functioning gene can be created through cross-breeding with wild wheat... The researchers identified a gene called GPC-B1, GPC standing for Grain Protein Content... The UC Davis team is already making such varieties, not by genetic...
Navigation
Early Roman Shipwreck Carried Fish Sauce
Posted by dbehsman
On News/Activism 11/14/2006 5:47:35 AM EST · 21 replies · 659+ views
Breitbart.com | 11-13-06 | DANIEL WOOLLS
A shipwrecked first-century vessel carrying delicacies to the richest palates of the Roman Empire has proved a dazzling find, with nearly 2,000-year-old fish bones still nestling inside clay jars, archaeolgists said Monday. Boaters found its cargo of hundreds of amphoras in 2000 when their anchor got tangled with one of the two-handled jars. After years of arranging financing and crews, exploration of the site a mile off the coast of Alicante in southeast Spain began in July, said Carles de Juan, a co-director of the project, who works for the Valencia regional government. The ship, estimated to be 100 feet...
2,000-year-old shipwreck yields hundreds of jars
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/19/2006 11:08:23 PM EST · 26 replies · 316+ views
Knoxville News Sentinel | November 19, 2006 | Daniel Woolls
THE FIND: The wreck of a first-century vessel carrying delicacies to the wealthy during the Roman Empire lay for 20 centuries in waters just off the Spanish coast, until it was discovered in 2000.THE CARGO: Its cargo of an estimated 1,500 well-preserved clay amphoras has been found to have contained fish sauce - a prized condiment for wealthy Romans - and includes traces of fish bones, archaeologists said.SIGNIFICANCE: The size of the ship, good condition of its cargo and its easy accessibility in just 80 feet of water are providing important insights.
Giant Roman Shipwreck Yields "Fishy" Treasure
Posted by Lorianne
On News/Activism 11/20/2006 7:14:08 PM EST · 45 replies · 1,144+ views
National Geographic | 20 November 2006 | James Owen
Sunken treasure with a distinctly fishy flavor has been recovered from a huge Roman shipwreck in the Mediterranean. The 2,000-year-old vessel, discovered off the Spanish coast, was described by marine archaeologists last week as "a jewel of the Old World." However, it wasn't gold or silver that the ship was carrying but hundreds of jars of a foul-smelling fish sauce. The ancient delicacy, known as garum, was usually made from fermented fish guts and blood. Wealthy Romans, experts say, couldn't get enough of the stuff. The sailing ship, dating from the first century A.D. lies about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers)...
Giant Roman Shipwreck Yields "Fishy" Treasure
Posted by Red Badger
On News/Activism 11/21/2006 12:41:03 PM EST · 28 replies · 1,085+ views
National Geographic | 11/20/2006 | James Owen
Sunken treasure with a distinctly fishy flavor has been recovered from a huge Roman shipwreck in the Mediterranean. The 2,000-year-old vessel, discovered off the Spanish coast, was described by marine archaeologists last week as "a jewel of the Old World." Jars found in Roman shipwreck photo However, it wasn't gold or silver that the ship was carrying but hundreds of jars of a foul-smelling fish sauce. The ancient delicacy, known as garum, was usually made from fermented fish guts and blood. Wealthy Romans, experts say, couldn't get enough of the stuff. The sailing ship, dating from the first century A.D....
Prehistory and Origins
Archeologists to Excavate the 14000-Y-Old Island of Khark
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/23/2006 8:00:40 PM EST · 3 replies · 146+ views
Cultural Heritage News Agency | November 23, 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Archeologists of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department of Bushehr province are about to start their excavations to identify historic sites of the southern Iranian Island of Khark, located in the Persian Gulf. Based on the available historic accounts and archeological evidence, about 14000 years ago Khark Island emerged from the depth of the Persian Gulf. The same documents suggest the existence of human settlements on this island as far back as the mid third millennium BC. Remaining evidence from different historic periods, from the Achaemenid dynastic era (550 BCñ330 BC) to the Islamic period, abounds in this Island. Head...
Elam, Persian, Parthia, Iran
Elements Of Forgotten Empire (Sassanids)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/17/2006 6:55:37 PM EST · 21 replies · 395+ views
Al-Ahram | 11-16-2006
Elements of forgotten empire While the Sassanids are perhaps best known for their defeat at the hands of Arab forces in 642 CE, a new exhibition reveals more about their empire than its sudden final collapse, writes David Tresilian in Paris Sassanid king Shapur III (reigned 383-388) shown spearing a leopard, fourth century (St Petersburg: Hermitage Museum) Occupying the ground-floor rooms of the Musee Cernuschi in Paris until 30 December, Les Perses Sassanides, Fastes d'un empire oublie (The Sassanid Persians: Splendours of a Forgotten Empire) is an exhibition that brings together items from major European and North American museums and...
Unprecedented Jar Burial of a Dog Observed in Gohar Tepe
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/24/2006 10:21:51 PM EST · 7 replies · 101+ views
Payvand's Iran News | 11/15/06 | Soudabeh Sadigh
Discovery of a jar containing the skeleton of a dog in a human grave for the first time in Gohar Tepe, northern Iran, has puzzled archeologists. The two skeletons are dated to the 1st millennium BC... Human burials in jars have commonly been observed in different historic sites of Iran. Similar examples of jar burials of humans have also been found in Gohar Tepe. However, this is the first time that the skeletons of a dog are found in a jar. This is why the new discovery has astounded the archeologists... According to Mahforouzi, three daggers and eight arrowheads all...
Holy Cow Statue Discovered in Iran
Posted by F14 Pilot
On News/Activism 09/30/2005 4:09:46 PM EDT · 66 replies · 2,557+ views
Iran News | 9/29/05
Tehran, 28 September 2005 (CHN) -- Archaeological excavations in Gohar Tepe, in Mazandaran province in Iran, has led to the discovery of the remains of the statues of some cows which were most probably used in religious ceremonies. The discovery of these sculptures indicates that the people of the region worshiped cows 3000 years ago. Mazandaran is one of the most ancient provinces in Iran. Archaeological excavations indicate that the province has been inhabited by human beings since 400,000 years ago until the present time, and that around 5000 years ago, urbanization flourished in the area. Gohar Tepe is a...
British Isles
3,000-year-old tools to museum
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/24/2006 9:02:43 PM EST · 1 reply · 1+ view
BBC | Monday, 20 November 2006 | unattributed
A man with a metal detector who came across a hoard of prehistoric bronze tools and weapons has handed over his find to the National Museum Wales. Phil Smith came across the Bronze Age haul on land in Llanbadoc in Monmouthshire and reported his find. Dating between 1,000 and 800 BC, the haul contains axes, fragments of swords and a spearhead as well knives and harvesting tools. The 3,000-year-old pieces are being studied by experts. The treasure was thought to have been buried together in the ground, probably in a small pit, as a ritual gift to the pagan gods...
Let's Have Jerusalem
The Largest City In The Ancient World (Tel Megiddo)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/20/2006 2:19:01 PM EST · 15 replies · 920+ views
Haaretz | 11-20-2006 | Ran Shapira
Last update - 00:12 20/11/2006 The largest city in the ancient world By Ran Shapira The Early Bronze Age temple was initially discovered at Tel Megiddo a decade ago. When part of it was first unearthed in 1996, the researchers realized this was a very impressive structure. Since then, evidence accumulated supporting the estimated dimensions: In 2000, two large column bases were excavated. Then last summer, most of the structure was excavated, and the researchers were surprised. The temple, it emerged, was built on a larger area than had been previously assumed, and is an artful construction of excellent materials....
Special Report: Ekron Identity Confirmed [ from 1998 ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/21/2006 12:03:51 AM EST · 10 replies · 130+ views
Archaeology | January/February 1998 | Seymour Gitin, Trude Dothan, and Joseph Naveh
An inscription carved into a limestone slab found at Tel Miqne, 23 miles southwest of Jerusalem, confirms the identification of the site as Ekron, one of the five Philistine capital cities mentioned in the Bible. The inscription is unique because it contains the name of a biblical city and five of its rulers, two of whom are mentioned as kings in texts other than the Bible. The only such inscription found in situ in a securely defined, datable archaeological context, it has far-reaching implications for our understanding of the history of Ekron and Philistia... The inscription was found in the...
Ancient Art
At Mideast holy site, what is treasure? (Discoveries at Temple Mount)
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 11/18/2006 10:04:03 AM EST · 34 replies · 999+ views
AP | November 17, 2006 | MATTI FRIEDMAN
Off an East Jerusalem side street, between an olive orchard and an abandoned hotel, sit a few piles of stones and dirt that are yielding important insights into Jerusalem's history. They come from one of the world's most disputed holy places -- the square in the heart of Jerusalem that is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.The story behind the rubble includes an underground crypt, a maverick college student, a white-bearded archaeologist, thousands of relics spanning millennia and a feud between Israelis and Palestinians which is heavily shaped by ancient history.Among finds that...
The Mediterranean
The Real Prehistoric Religion Of Malta
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/18/2006 1:39:32 PM EST · 9 replies · 456+ views
The Malta Independent | 11-17-2006 | Noel Grima
The real prehistoric religion of Malta by NOEL GRIMA Forget the goddess theory, which you hear every tourist guide trying to explain the huge statues at the National Museum of Archaeology or while touring Hagar Qim. That may not have been the original religion of Malta. This was the startling starting point in a lecture "Ritual, Space and Structure in Prehistoric Malta and Gozo: New Observations on Old Matters", given by Dr Caroline Malone, co-director, Xaghra Stone Circle excavation during the recent Heritage Malta international conference held at the Grand Hotel in Gozo. Dr Malone is senior tutor at Hughes...
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt
Posted by cogitator
On General/Chat 11/22/2006 11:44:38 AM EST · 18 replies · 202+ views
Terra Daily | 11/22/2006 | Staff Writers
An environmental drama played out on the world stage in the late 18th century when a volcano killed 9,000 Icelanders and brought a famine to Egypt that reduced the population of the Nile valley by a sixth. A study by three scientists from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a collaborator from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, demonstrates a connection between these two widely separated events. The investigators used a computer model developed by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies to trace atmospheric changes that followed the 1783 eruption of Laki in southern Iceland back to their point...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Sky disc of Nebra shines in Basel
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/23/2006 7:45:15 PM EST · 13 replies · 174+ views
SwissInfo | November 22, 2006 | Urs Maurer
Made out of bronze with gold embossing, the 3,600-year-old object is an astronomical clock. It connects the sun and the moon calendars together, with the sun giving the day and year and the moon, the month. The moon year is, however, 11 days shorter than the sun year. This was taken into account in ancient times by adding an extra month, leading experts to believe that people in the Bronze Age were already making sophisticated astronomical observations similar to those written about by the Babylonians around 1,000 years later. The disc is thought to be a depiction of the Bronze...
Oh So Mysteriouso
21st century technology cracks alchemists' secret recipe
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/23/2006 7:35:30 PM EST · 3 replies · 140+ views
EurekAlert! | November 22, 2006 | Judith H Moore et al
Now, writing in Nature, the researchers reveal using petrographic, chemical and X-ray diffraction analysis that Hessian crucible makers made use of an advanced material only properly identified and named in the 20th century. Dr Marcos MartinÛn-Torres, of the UCL Institute of Archaeology, who led the study, explains: "Our analysis of 50 Hessian and non-Hessian crucibles revealed that the secret component in their manufacture is an aluminium silicate known as mullite (Al6Si2O13)... This material was only first described in the 20th century, though Hessian crucible makers were already taking advantage of this peculiar aluminium silicate 400 years earlier: they synthesised mullite...
India
Talakad, a legend buried in time
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/20/2006 11:23:16 PM EST · 7 replies · 110+ views
IBN Live | Monday, November 20, 2006 | Deepa Balakrishnan
The five Shiva temples in Talakkad have always been submerged in sand. And the ancient legend revolving around them begins with Srirangaraya, a local chieftain... Alamelamma instead committed suicide by jumping into River Cauvery. But locals believe before dying, she cursed the town - Talakadu Maralagili, malangi maduvagali, wodeyar doreyarige makkalagidirali (May Talakad be filled with sand, may Malangi become a whirlpool, May the Wodeyars never have children). Strangely, it's all come true. But is there a scientific explanation for this? ...Ever since this happened, temple authorities in Talakkad have conducted the Panchalingadarshana festival, which takes place every seventh or...
Carved rocks, wall found under sea
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/19/2006 11:34:01 PM EST · 11 replies · 270+ views
Chennai Online | Sunday, November 19, 2006 | unattributed
Rocks with step-like cuttings, a wall and carved blocks found under the sea in the southern coast near the heritage site of Mahabalipuram are believed to be evidence of an early settlement or a port. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) came across the remains while recently conducting excavations underwater at the site in Tamil Nadu. "Mahabalipuram is a historical place. We started detailed excavation 500 metres from the shore in the sea and recently came across different types of rocks which indicate human activity. We have also found a wall running from the shore into the sea," Alok Tripathy,...
Tsunami throws up India relics - The Tides of Spirituality
Posted by Red Sea Swimmer
On News/Activism 02/12/2005 9:11:11 PM EST · 6 replies · 736+ views
BBC News, Delhi | Soutik Biswas
The relics have been buried under the sand for centuries. The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city off the coast in southern India. Archaeologists say they have discovered some stone remains from the coast close to India's famous beachfront Mahabalipuram temple in Tamil Nadu state following the 26 December tsunami. They believe that the "structures" could be the remains of an ancient and once-flourishing port city in the area housing the famous 1200-year-old rock-hewn temple. Three pieces of remains, which include a granite lion, were found buried in the sand after the coastline receded...
Asia
Archaeologists Dig Deep To Revive 2,200 Year-Old Ancient (Han) City
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/20/2006 2:35:43 PM EST · 3 replies · 290+ views
Peoples Daily - Xinhua | 11-20-2006
Archaeologists dig deep to revive 2,200 year-old ancient capitalFifty years of excavation work on the ancient city of Chang'an, situated in the northwestern part of Xi'an, have now passed and archaeologists have been able to map out a clear layout of the former capital of the Han Dynasty. But there is still much work to be done. Experts, such as Liu Qingzhu, a veteran archaeologist with the Institute of Archeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), insist that only one thousandth of the total ruins has been unearthed. "Like the ancient site of Pompeii, the study of large-scale...
Corruption alive in China 2800 years ago(court document dug up?)
Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 11/19/2006 9:36:53 AM EST · 15 replies · 291+ views
China Daily | 11/19/06
Corruption alive in China 2800 years ago (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-11-19 16:07 XI'AN -- Much has been made of the corruption that has tarnished the image of Chinese local government officials but it seems bribery among the country's authoritative ranks was in full swing more than 2,800 years ago. The inscriptions on two bronze urns unearthed recently in northwest China's Shaanxi province tell the story of how, in 873 B.C., a noble man managed to bribe the judiciary in order to dodge charges of appropriating farmland and slaves. The inscriptions on each urn contain 111 ancient Chinese characters, which detail the...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
11,000-Year-Old Texans Are Stars Of The Bosque Museum
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/18/2006 1:15:51 PM EST · 19 replies · 508+ views
Dallaq Morning News | 11-17-2006 | Mary G Ramos
11,000-year-old Texans are stars of the Bosque Museum 01:31 PM CST on Friday, November 17, 2006 By MARY G. RAMOS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News A special new exhibit at the Bosque Museum in Clifton, Texas, features the lives of some extremely early Texans. Prehistoric people (called Paleo-Americans by archaeologists) lived in a cave shelter on the western bank of the Brazos River a bit downstream from the Lake Whitney Dam in Bosque County about 11,000 years ago. Paleo-Americans were using the 150-foot by 30-foot shelter before ancient Egyptian civilization began. A Texas archaeologist discovered the shelter,...
Peruvian archaeologists excavate tombs
Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 11/22/2006 1:09:04 PM EST · 22 replies · 418+ views
Associated Press via Yahoo | Wed Nov 22, 2006 | MARTIN MEJIA
Peruvian workers clean graves containing a trove of pre-Inca artifacts in Ferrenafe, Peru, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. Archaeologists in northern Peru said Tuesday they have unearthed 22 artifact-rich graves containing a trove of pre-Inca artifacts, including the first 'tumi' ceremonial knives ever excavated scientifically. The more than 900-year-old tombs were found next to a pyramid in the Pomac Forest Historical Sanctuary, about 680 kilometers (420 miles) northwest of the capital, Lima. They are from the Sican culture, which flourished on Peru's northern desert coast from A.D. 750 to 1375. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) Archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed 22...
Tomb find reveals pre-Inca city
Posted by csvset
On General/Chat 11/22/2006 8:12:38 PM EST · 3 replies · 25+ views
BBC | 22 Nov 2006 | BBC
Tomb find reveals pre-Inca city The discover of tumis in situ is particularly exciting to scientists Archaeologists working in northern Peru have discovered a spectacular tomb complex about 1,000 years old.The complex contains at least 20 tombs, and dates from the pre-Inca Sican era. Among the discoveries are 12 "tumis", ceremonial knives which scientists have not been able to study in a burial site before, as well as ceramics and masks. The Sican culture flourished from approximately AD 800-1300, one of several metalworking societies which succumbed to drought and conquest. Archaeologists working on the project say the find will...
Faith and Philosophy
Announcing a New Book by Alamo-Girl and betty boop
Posted by betty boop
On News/Activism 11/13/2006 10:34:14 PM EST · 323 replies · 5,534+ views
Alamo-Girl and betty boop | November 13, 2006 | betty boop
Table of Contents Authors' Foreword Prologue Dramatis Personae The Scene The Dialogue The so-called "Cartesian Split" What is "all that there is?" Pure, blind chance? First reality and second realities What is knowledge? Does science "have it in" for God? Is Intelligent Design science? What is matter? What lies at the beginning of "all that there is?" Aristotle's Four Causes What is "randomness?" First Adam, Second Adam Is science "killing the soul?" The Public Square: a "values-neutral zone?" What is science? What is the universe? What is life? What is reality? Endnotes Appendix Nuts and Bolts Numbers Big and Small Combinatorics,...
Longer Perspectives
How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims
Posted by FreeKeys
On General/Chat 11/18/2006 3:29:36 PM EST · 28 replies · 379+ views
The Hoover Digest (The Hoover Institution's r | Jan. 1999 | Tom Bethell
When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story. There are three configurations of property rights: state, communal, and private property. Within a family, many goods are in effect communally owned. But when the number of communal members exceeds normal family size, as happens in tribes and communes, serious and intractable problems arise.[...]Thirty years old when he arrived in the New World, Bradford became the second governor of Plymouth ... and the most important figure in the...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Whether Moon-gods Were The High-gods In South Arabian Religions
Posted by allahisamoongod
On General/Chat 11/18/2006 2:58:32 AM EST · 10 replies · 195+ views
Yoel Natan Books Yoel.info | October 2006 | Yoel Natan
I. Introduction. This piece is written in response to "Reply to Robert Morey's Moon-God Allah Myth: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence," dated 26 Jun 2006, authored by Saifullah, Juferi & David and published on the Islamic Awareness website. This response is more focused on the issues in question rather than on defending Morey's scholarship. While a few of Saifullah's criticisms of Morey's work are addressed, Morey may wish to issue another pamphlet like the one he wrote answering a prior critic, Shabir Ally.[1][snip] VIII. Conclusion. Most of this essay is extracted from the "Critique of the Revisionist View on...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
The Trial of Akhenaten [ a play ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/22/2006 12:09:48 AM EST · 4 replies · 65+ views
Philadelphia City Paper | Nov 21, 2006 | Rachel Frankford
God's been on trial a whole lot lately, poor fellow. Now it's even going on retroactively. For proof, check out Vagabond Acting Troupe's The Trial of Akhenaten, a 25-minute play written specifically to be performed in the Penn Museum of Art and Architecture's exhibit "Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun." The city of Amarna was built by the pharaoh Akhenaten (believed to be the father of King Tut), and razed just a generation later. His legacy turned to rubble so quickly because he angered the Egyptian people by replacing the traditional pantheon of gods with worship of just one,...
Was An Ancient Egyptian City Found In the Grand Canyon?
Posted by Bill_o'Rights
On News/Activism 11/20/2006 3:01:14 PM EST · 60 replies · 2,466+ views
Raiders News Network | Nov 19th, 2006 12:51 PM | David H. Childress
An Egyptian tomb in the Grand Canyon similar to the Valley of Kings in Luxor, Egypt? An article published on the front page of the Phoenix Gazette on April 5,1909, claimed that just such an Egyptian rock-cut cave was found! The Gazette article, dated April 5,1909, starts with four headlines, "Explorations in Grand Canyon", "Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light", "JORDAN IS ENTHUSED" and "Remarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People Migrated From Orient." From the Gazette article: "...the explorer who found this great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a trip from Green River, Wyoming, down the...
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Australia and the Pacific
Art From The Island Of The Hobbits
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 11/28/2006 6:06:23 PM EST · 11 replies · 194+ views
The Epoch Times | 11-21-2006 | Reuters
Art From the Island of Hobbits Indonesian statue reshapes Australian gallery Reuters Nov 21, 2006 (National Gallery of Australia)CANBERRAóAn Indonesian weaver and her suckling baby are reshaping Australia's national art gallery. The Bronze Weaver, a tiny 1,400 year-old Indonesian statue, has gone on exhibition at the Australian National Gallery in Canberra in an attempt to lure art-wary Australians away from traditional European masterworks and educate them in Asian forms. "With its intriguing sixth-century dating, The Bronze Weaver may be the most striking, rare and important object of Indonesian ancestral art in existence," Robyn Maxwell, the gallery's senior curator of Asian...
Ancient Art
Prepare to receive the terracotta Chinese soldiers [ if vacationing in Malta ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/26/2006 4:03:36 PM EST · 1 reply · 1+ view
Malta Independent Online | Sunday, November 26, 2006 | unattributed
Heritage Malta is organising two lectures in collaboration with the China Cultural Centre as a preview to the exhibition of terracotta soldiers that will open early next year. The lectures are being held on 30 November and 1 December at the National Museum of Archaeology, Republic Street, Valletta at 6pm. In the first lecture on 30 November, Dr Song Xinchao, Director-General of the Department of Museums in China will speak about "The Archaeological Finds of the Yangtze River" and the "Three Gorges Project"... In the second lecture on 1 December, Prof. Li Xiuzhen, from the Archaeological Department of the Museum...
Asia
Teams Explore Roots Of Angkor Civilization
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 3:53:10 PM EST · 8 replies · 216+ views
Newswise - Earthwatch | 11-29-2006
Teams Explore Roots of Angkor Civilization Newswise ó Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research at this great moated site, led by anthropologist Dr. Charles Higham of University of Otago (New Zealand), gives clues to the roots of the famous Angkor civilization. A Year On Earth, a new film about students making a difference through participation in scientific research, features some of these discoveries. ìThe earliest graves, dating to about 2000 BC, contain the remains of the first rice farmers...
India
US museum to showcase Kashmiri art
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2006 3:53:46 PM EST · 3 replies · 53+ views
Hindustan Times | Saturday, November 25, 2006 | Rashid Ahmad
Two historical sculptures of Hindu deities Lord Vishnu and Goddess Kali of ninth century Kashmir have been selected for exhibition of Kashmiri art in America, next year. The exhibition would be held under the aegis of Asia Society and Queens Museum of Art, New York in October 2007 and 2008. Dr Pratapaditya Pal, scholar and curator of Indian art, Asia Society... is the author of a masterly book on Kashmir's bronze art - Bronze Art in Kashmir... The Zurhama is the 8th finding of the state's Archaeology department in the past three years. The most attractive of these findings was...
ASI survey reveals Delhi's lost heritage toll
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/26/2006 12:13:10 AM EST · 2 replies · 49+ views
Indian Express | Sunday, November 26, 2006 | Ravleen Kaur
New Delhi, November 25: More than 200 monuments, most belonging to the Mughal period, have vanished in the Capital, a survey conducted by the Department of Archaeology has found. Among them are a garden in front of Krishi Bhavan and a domed building in front of Jantar Mantar, where the NDMC building stands now... A senior Archaeology Department official says that many gates, wells, mosques and shivalays mentioned on the list as being located in the Walled City and elsewhere cannot be traced... Among the missing monuments are Rang Mahal, built by descendants of Bairam Khan, and Chandni Mahal, which...
Elam, Persian, Parthia, Iran
British Experts Started Studies On Zajan's Salt Men In Iran
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/27/2006 2:15:40 PM EST · 13 replies · 510+ views
CHN Press | 11-26-2006
British Experts Started Studies on Zanjan's Salt Men in Iran Salt Man No. 1 found in Zanjan's Chehr Abad salt mine in 1993 ñ Picture Courtesy of CAISTwo archeologists from universities of Oxford and York started their studies on the salt mummies found in western Iran. The salt men's diet, health and age before death will particularly be studied by these experts. Tehran, 26 November 2006 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- After months of negotiations between Iran's Archeology Research Center and the British universities of Oxford and York, a team consisting of two archeologists from these universities came to Iran to...
Ancient Egypt
Pyramids were built with concrete rather than rocks, scientists claim
Posted by Rodney King
On News/Activism 12/01/2006 6:55:23 PM EST · 85 replies · 1,760+ views
UK Times Online | Today | Chalres Bremner
The Ancient Egyptians built their great Pyramids by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site rather than hauling up giant stones, according to a new Franco-American study. The research, by materials scientists from national institutions, adds fuel to a theory that the pharaohs' craftsmen had enough skill and materials at hand to cast the two-tonne limestone blocks that dress the Cheops and other Pyramids. Despite mounting support from scientists, Egyptologists have rejected the concrete claim, first made in the late 1970s by Joseph Davidovits, a French chemist. The stones, say the historians and archeologists, were all carved from nearby...
Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun [ U Penn exhibit, open now ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2006 11:41:47 PM EST · 10 replies · 78+ views
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | November 2006 | unattributed
Tutankhamun, ancient Egypt's famous boy pharaoh, grew up 3,300 years ago in the royal court at Amarna, the ancient city of Akhet-aten, whose name meant the "Horizon of the Aten." This extraordinary royal city grew, flourished -- and vanished -- in hardly more than a generation's time. Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, a new exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, offers a rare look at the meteoric rise and fall of this unique royal city during one of Egypt's most intriguing times. The exhibition, the centerpiece of the Museum's event-filled "Year...
Pharaoh's curse or coincidence?[King Tut]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 11/28/2006 3:29:32 PM EST · 26 replies · 758+ views
Chicago Sun-Times | 28 Nov 2006 | JIM RITTER
Researchers studying Tut hit by huge storm, CT malfunction Scientists who recently conducted a high-tech examination of King Tut's mummy insist they don't believe in the "Curse of the Pharaohs." Still, some awfully strange things happened when the team X-rayed the boy king's body with a medical CT scanning machine. On the way to the Egyptian site, one researcher's vehicle nearly hit a child. Then a huge storm hit. The CT machine, usually reliable, wouldn't work at first. And when researchers finally began the CT scan, one scientist came down with such a violent coughing attack he had to leave....
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8,000 Years Ago
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 6:03:09 PM EST · 75 replies · 1,005+ views
Science Daily | 11-28-2006 | American Geophysical Union
Source: American Geophysical Union Date: November 28, 2006 Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8000 Years Ago Geological evidence indicates that the eastern flanks of Mt. Etna volcano, located on Italy's island of Sicily, suffered at least one large collapse nearly 8,000 years ago. Pareschi et al. modeled this collapse and discovered that the volume of landslide material, combined with the force of the debris avalanche, would have generated a catastrophic tsunami, which would have impacted all of the Eastern Mediterranean. Simulations show that the resulting tsunami waves would have destabilized soft marine...
British Isles
Roman Sarcophogus Found at London Site
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/01/2006 2:36:10 AM EST · 11 replies · 189+ views
NewsDay | November 30, 2006 | Associated Press
Archaeologists discovered a rare Roman limestone sarcophagus containing a headless skeleton at the site of an historic London's church, authorities said Friday. The find dates to about 410 A.D. and lay 10 feet below the grounds of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields church near central London's busy Trafalgar Square, outside the boundaries researchers had established for London's Roman city walls. "The find has opened up an exciting new area of Roman London for study," said Taryn Nixon, director of the Museum of London Archaeology Service. Excavators and archaeological teams discovered 24 medieval burial sites in the area above and around the Roman...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Early sketch of Stonehenge found
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 7:27:10 PM EST · 85 replies · 2,083+ views
The Guardian | 27 Nov 2006 | Maev Kennedy
The oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, found in a 1440 manuscript, the Scala Mundi They got the date wrong by some 3,000 years, but the oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, apparently based on first hand observation, has turned up in a 15th century manuscript. The little sketch is a bird's eye view of the stones, and shows the great trilithons, the biggest stones in the monument, each made of two pillars capped with a third stone lintel, which stand in a horseshoe in the centre of the circle. Only three are now standing, but the drawing, found in Douai, northern...
Stonehenge Was A Site For Sore Eyes In 2300BC
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/27/2006 1:51:42 AM EST · 30 replies · 964+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 11-27-2006 | Nic Fleming
Stonehenge was a site for sore eyes in 2300BC By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 2:48am GMT 27/11/2006 Stonehenge was the Lourdes of its day, to which diseased and injured ancient Britons flocked seeking cures for their ailments, according to a new theory. For most of the 20th century archaeologists have debated what motivated primitive humans to go to the immense effort of transporting giant stones 240 miles from south Wales to erect Britain's most significant prehistoric monument. Druids gather at Stonehenge for sunrise on the summer solstice. A new book suggests the gathering should take place in December...
Epigraphy and Language
A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/01/2006 1:05:16 PM EST · 3 replies · 37+ views
New York Times | November 27, 2006 | Felicia R. Lee
An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eyes of Hyperides... What is slowly coming to light, scholars say, represents the most significant discovery of Hyperides text since 1891, illuminating some fascinating, time-shrouded insights into Athenian law and social history... [T]here is more to the palimpsest than Archimedes' work, including 10 pages of Hyperides, offering tantalizing and fresh insights into the critical battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., in which the Greeks defeated the Persians, and the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C., which spelled the beginning of...
Ancient Greece
Ancient calculator was 1,000 yrs ahead of its time
Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 2:17:09 PM EST · 68 replies · 1,589+ views
Reuters | 11/28/06 | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - An ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC was amazingly accurate and more complex than any instrument for the next 1,000 years, scientists said on Wednesday. The Antikythera Mechanism is the earliest known device to contain an intricate set of gear wheels. It was retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901 but until now what it was used for has been a mystery. Although the remains are fragmented in 82 brass pieces, scientists from Britain, Greece and the United States have reconstructed a model of it using...
An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists (2200yo Roman computer!)
Posted by Alter Kaker
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 2:41:47 PM EST · 102 replies · 2,495+ views
New York Times | November 29, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone. But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and planetary motions, in the second century B.C. The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes called the world's first computer, has now been examined with the latest in high-resolution imaging systems and three-dimensional X-ray tomography. A team of British, Greek and...
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Greek Machine
Posted by Redcitizen
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 6:44:39 PM EST · 41 replies · 1,542+ views
Live Science | Wed Nov 29, 1:25 PM ET | Ker Than
Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism [image], a clock-like machine consisting of more than 30 precise, hand-cut bronze gears, show it to be more advanced than previously thoughtóso much so that nothing comparable was built for another thousand years. "This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind," said study leader Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University in the UK. "The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly rightÖIn terms of historical and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as...
In search of lost time (Antikythera Mechanism)
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 9:54:37 PM EST · 14 replies · 598+ views
Nature | 29 November 2006 | Jo Marchant
The ancient Antikythera Mechanism doesn't just challenge our assumptions about technology transfer over the ages ó it gives us fresh insights into history itself.
Enigma of ancient world's computer is cracked at last
Posted by ConservativeMind
On General/Chat 11/29/2006 11:07:20 PM EST · 7 replies · 127+ views
Physorg.com | Nov, 29, 2006 | AFP
A 2,100-year-old clockwork machine whose remains were retrieved from a shipwreck more than a century ago has turned out to be the celestial super-computer of the ancient world. Using 21st-century technology to peer beneath the surface of the encrusted gearwheels, stunned scientists say the so-called Antikythera Mechanism could predict the ballet of the Sun and Moon over decades and calculate a lunar anomaly that would bedevil Isaac Newton himself. Built in Greece around 150-100 BC and possibly linked to the astronomer and mathematician Hipparchos, its complexity was probably unrivalled for at least a thousand years, they say. "It's beautifully designed....
Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical past unearthed in Holy Land construction
Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 6:37:19 AM EST · 13 replies · 616+ views
YNet | Nov. 29, 2006
Ancient cemeteries, burial caves from biblical times and centuries-old artefacts unearthed during construction work in Israel, forcing contractors by law to call in archaeologists and sometimes halt building projects Reuters Published: 11.29.06, 11:05 Building a housing complex or a road in the Holy Land can often have grave implications. Ancient cemeteries, burial caves from biblical times and centuries-old artefacts have been unearthed during construction work in Israel over the years, forcing contractors by law to call in archaeologists and sometimes halt building projects. In Holyland Park, a complex of apartments being built on a hill in Jerusalem, archaeologists will soon...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2006 6:34:53 PM EST · 41 replies · 283+ views
PhysOrg | November 23, 2006 | Field Museum
The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than eliminate species: it fundamentally changed the basic ecology of the world's oceans... Specifically, the data and analyses concern models of relative abundance found in fossil communities throughout the Phanerozoic. The ecological implications are striking. Simple marine ecosystems suggest that bottom-dwelling organisms partitioned their resources similarly. Complex marine ecosystems suggest that interactions among different species, as well as a greater variety of ways...
Humpback whales have "human" brain cells
Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On General/Chat 11/27/2006 11:43:10 AM EST · 27 replies · 333+ views
Reuters | 11/27/06
Humpback whales have "human" brain cells Mon Nov 27, 1:40 AM ET Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in humans, the great apes, and other cetaceans such as dolphins, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. This might mean such whales are more intelligent than they have been given credit for, and suggests the basis for complex brains either evolved more than once, or has gone unused by most species of animals, the researchers said. The finding may help explain some of the behaviours seen in whales, such as intricate communication skills, the formation of alliances, cooperation, cultural...
Prehistory and Origins
Lucy's U.S. Tour: Ape-like female who died 3.2 million years ago may be coming
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2006 3:47:20 PM EST · 28 replies · 330+ views
Evansville Courier | Saturday, November 25, 2006 | unattributed
A deal between the Ethiopian Natural History Museum and the Houston Museum of Natural Science would bring Lucy, accompanied by 190 other fossils and relics, to the United States next September for a six-year tour. She would stay in Houston until August 2008, and then on to six or more other cities. Some scientists oppose the trip, arguing that Lucy's remains are irreplaceable and too fragile to be moved. They say that her remains would be better saved for scientific study rather than put on display as a tourist attraction. But, as has been noted, other fragile and priceless artifacts...
UGA STUDY OF RETROVIRUSES SHOWS HUMAN-SPECIFIC VARIETY DEVELOPED WHEN HUMANS, CHIMPS DIVERGED
Posted by forsnax5
On News/Activism 08/02/2002 2:44:30 PM EDT · 42 replies · 786+ views
The University of Georgia news bureau | Thursday, August 1, 2002 | Phil Williams
ATHENS, Ga. ó Scientists in the past decade have discovered that remnants of ancient germ line infections called human endogenous retroviruses make up a substantial part of the human genome. Once thought to be merely "junk" DNA and inactive, many of these elements, in fact, perform functions in human cells.
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
When killer flu struck [ "Spanish Lady" flu, 1918 ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2006 3:00:07 PM EST · 35 replies · 307+ views
News & Observer | http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/514837.html | Jim Nesbitt, with contributions by David Raynor and Denise Jones
With a fast-striking and deadly reach that spanned the globe, the worst influenza outbreak of the 20th century is more than a sepia-toned and horrific sidebar of history. It is also a harbinger for a future influenza disaster that medical researchers say is inevitable and long overdue, a grisly example of the worst nature has to offer... Mabel Allen Boyd was one of at least 13,703 North Carolinians killed by this hyper-lethal flu virus, a mutation that still baffles modern-day scientists. Eighty-eight years after her death, she is still the face of the Spanish flu pandemic for Leon Spencer, 101,...
Faith and Philosophy
Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual
Posted by LibWhacker
On News/Activism 11/30/2006 2:14:15 PM EST · 52 replies · 1,409+ views
LiveScience | 11/30/06 | Robert Roy Britt
A startling discovery of 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals. Scientists had thought human intelligence had not evolved the capacity to perform group rituals until perhaps 40,000 years ago. But inside a cave in remote hills in Kalahari Desert of Botswana, archeologists found the stone snake [image] that was carved long ago. It is as tall as a man and 20 feet long.
World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago
Posted by snarks_when_bored
On General/Chat 12/01/2006 2:26:00 AM EST · 15 replies · 157+ views
The Research Council of Norway (via ScienceDaily) | 30 Nov 2006
World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago A startling archaeological discovery this summer changes our understanding of human history. While, up until now, scholars have largely held that man's first rituals were carried out over 40, 000 years ago in Europe, it now appears that they were wrong about both the time and place. Python stone. (Photo Credit: Sheila Coulson) Associate Professor Sheila Coulson, from the University of Oslo, can now show that modern humans, Homo sapiens, have performed advanced rituals in Africa for 70,000 years. She has, in other words, discovered mankind's oldest known ritual.The...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Will sue to avoid goblins[Norway]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On General/Chat 11/29/2006 4:54:20 PM EST · 10 replies · 221+ views
Aftenposten | 29 Nov 2006 | Aftenposten
HÂkon Robertsen has refused to tear down a condemned barn for fear of reprisals from 'little people' and is ready to sue local authorities to protect the building. Robertsen continues to resist a local order to tear down the derelict structure, and is currently being fined NOK 300 (USD 47.50) a day until he flattens the barn. Local authorities first ordered the barn demolished in February 2005 after complaints from Robertsen's neighbors and a new order was passed this autumn. Robertsen fears the consequences of tearing the building down. "I don't believe in ghosts, but underworld creatures have taken up...
Longer Perspectives
Was Patriarchy a Women's Scheme to Control Men?
Posted by SauronOfMordor
On News/Activism 10/30/2002 9:58:08 AM EST · 566 replies · 2,309+ views
self | 10/30/2002 | SauronOfMordor
Does Patriarchy Benefit Women? Much has been said in feminist circles about how women are oppressed by patriarchy. Patriarchy literally means ìrule by fathersî and is a system where men effectively are in control of property and decision-making. An important characteristic of patriarchal systems is that they are generally also patrilineal (a child's descent is described by who his father, and father's father were, rather than through the mother's line). The question I'm putting forth here is: Does the patriarchal/patrilineal system act more to oppress women, or is it actually more a way for women to tap and control...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Kulikovo Field Mystery Is Finally Solved [ Russia, 1380 ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2006 2:36:02 PM EST · 1 reply
Russia-IC | October 31, 2006 | Anna Kizilova
The Kulikovo field mystery ñ the lack of burial grounds ñ has generated many incredible hypotheses: starting with denial of the very fact of this historical battle and ending with suggestion that the battle took place near the walls of Moscow Kremlin. Recent survey by means of a ground-penetrating radar, as well as reconnaissance archeological diggings of the discovered underground heterogeneity, reveals a new approach to the problem... The researchers suggest the objects, discovered by means of the "LOZA" geo-radar, to be the burial grounds of people killed in the Kulikovo battle. Bodies of the deceased were buried in the...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
DNA Tests Help Uncover Forgotten History ("slave ancestors had been raped by their owners")
Posted by flowerplough
On News/Activism 09/23/2006 7:24:32 PM EDT · 95 replies · 2,693+ views
DiversityInc.com | September 22, 2006 | "Compiled" by the DiversityInc staff
After two years of digging and testing, Alternet.org contributing columnist Christopher Rabb discovered that there is more to a person's heritage than their ancestry. In order to learn more about his black ancestors, Rabb and his family began a series of DNA tests, which unveiled several things he found troubling. "I quickly realized that the more intently I sought to learn about my black ancestors, the more I would have to research the white people who owned them," he says. "A notable subset of the slave owners were also my ancestors." Rabb discovered that some of his slave ancestors had...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
Destroying Jerusalem ["Too many Jews in Jewish Quarter"]
Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 12/06/2006 7:36:05 AM EST · 14 replies · 470+ views
YNet | Dec. 6, 2006 | Nurit Pletter
Wave of illegal building threatens Jewish Quarter of Old City. Jewish residents of Old City are part of biggest danger to identity of Israel's historic capital. Interior Ministry: Expanding houses and building awnings damages remains of 2000 years of Jewish existence in quarter. Antiquities Authority: Difficulty enforcing law within buildings Nurit Pletter Published: 12.06.06, 14:06 Changes in the Jewish Quarter's population makeup are threatening historical buildings and rare archeological remains, which are testimony to the thousands of years of Jewish presences in the holy city. The Jewish Quarter is the only place in the world in which some private houses...
Ancient Jewish-Christian settlement found in Mishmar David
Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 12/03/2006 5:15:51 PM EST · 21 replies · 470+ views
Jerusalem Post | 12-3-06 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS
The remains of an ancient Jewish and Christian settlement, which later became Muslim, dating back to the Early Islamic period and the Crusader Period have been uncovered between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday. The large six-dunam settlement, which was found in Mishmar David, located between Rehovot and Latrun, was discovered during an archeological salvage excavation in the area ahead of planned construction work at the site. The archeologists digging at the site discovered the remnants of residential buildings, villas, public buildings, streets and alleys, as well as an industrial zone, which housed agricultural installations. Two...
Hungarian archaeologist discovers tablet mentioning Masada's destroyer
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 1:14:32 AM EST · 12 replies · 284+ views
Haaretz | November 5, 2006 | Nadav Shragai
In 73 CE, the Roman governor of Judea, Flavius Silva, laid siege to Masada with Legion X Fretensis. When the walls were broken down by a battering ram, the Romans found the fortress' defenders had set fire to all the structures and preferred mass suicide to captivity or defeat. Masada has since become part of Jewish mythology, as has the name Silva, who Josephus Flavius mentions in his writings. It is therefore no great surprise that Hungarian archaeologist Dr. Tibor Grull, studying in Israel three years ago, was excited to discover a stone tablet during a visit to the Temple...
Shrouded bones could be crucifixion witness
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/07/2006 1:28:27 AM EST · 3 replies · 144+ views
Ananova | Friday 29th March 2002 | unattributed, probably Ann N. Nova
Archeologists believe a 2,000-year-old shrouded body found in a tomb near Jerusalem may have been a witness to Christ's crucifixion. The bones, and a well-preserved clump of hair, were wrapped in the only shroud from Christ's time to have been found in Israel. They were discovered by a British archaeologist as he showed students around 1st-century tombs in the Hinnom Valley. The shroud has been carbon dated to the first 50 years of the 1st century AD. DNA tests on the remains indicate the body was that of a male who died of acute tuberculosis... The area is believed to...
Ancient Art
Thieves Vandalize Ancient Fresco at Israel's Masada
Posted by presidio9
On News/Activism 12/22/2003 10:10:39 AM EST · 6 replies · 114+ views
Reuters | Sun Dec 21, 2003
Souvenir-hunting thieves have stolen part of an ancient fresco from the Israeli archaeological site of Masada, Israeli officials said on Sunday. The thieves removed a 15 cm (6 inch) square section of a fresco that decorated the ancient Roman headquarters at Masada, located on a barren mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, the National Parks Authority said in a statement. Masada was originally a palace built by the Jewish King Herod on a desert mountain whose sheer sides served as a natural fortress. After the Romans conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the Jewish Temple in AD 70, Jewish fighters took refuge there....
Faith and Philosophy
Jews revive ancient synagogue
Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 05/24/2004 7:07:22 PM EDT · 64 replies · 209+ views
The Australian | May 25, 2004
A GROUP of ultra-Orthodox Jews brought a Torah scroll to the mountain-top fortress of Masada today to rededicate one of the oldest synagogues in the world, which has been unused since the Romans destroyed it nearly 2000 years ago. Almost 1000 religious Jews gathered at the foot of the fortress overnight before hiking up the steep path which leads to the top of the mountain that overlooks the Dead Sea. The foreign-donated scroll was placed in a room of the partially renovated synagogue on the edge of the site which the Romans attacked from a sloping ramp in 73 AD...
Byzantine arch found at site of renovated Jerusalem synagogue [ Hurva Synagogue ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 1:25:23 AM EST · 5 replies · 108+ views
Haaretz | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | Nadav Shragai
A high arch which had been part of the skyline of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City in Jerusalem since the Six Day War has recently disappeared. It belonged to the Hurva Synagogue, Israel's grandest, most important synagogue until the War of Independence. The arch, a remnant of the synagogue bombed by the Jordanians in 1948, was removed due to the renovation and reconstruction of the synagogue now in progress. Excavations at the site, directed by archaeologists Hillel Geva and Oren Gutfeld, have exposed findings from various periods of the synagogue's history. The most significant is an entire arch...
'Church of the Ark' found on West Bank (Israel)
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 12/04/2006 9:07:52 AM EST · 85 replies · 2,430+ views
Telegraph | December 4, 2006 | Harry de Quetteville
Archaeologists claimed yesterday to have uncovered one of the world's first churches, built on a site believed to have once housed the Ark of the Covenant.The site, emerging from the soil in a few acres in the hills of the Israeli occupied West Bank, is richly decorated with brightly coloured mosaics and inscriptions referring to Jesus Christ. † Archaeologists look over a mosaic discovered at Shiloh According to the team, led by Yitzhak Magen and Yevgeny Aharonovitch, the church dates to the late 4th century, making it one of Christianity's first formal places of worship."I can't say for sure at...
Vatican City
Vatican archaeologists unearth St. Paul's tomb
Posted by NYer
On Religion 12/06/2006 9:18:21 AM EST · 498 replies · 5,224+ views
Pravda | December 6, 2006
Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica. The sarcophagus, which dates back to at least 390 A.D., has been the subject of an extended excavation that began in 2002 and was completed last month, the project's head said this week. "Our objective was to bring the remains of the tomb back to light for devotional reasons, so that it could be venerated and be visible," said Giorgio Filippi, the Vatican archaeologist who headed the project at St. Paul Outside the Walls basilica....
Remains of Apostle Paul May Have Been Found
Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 12/06/2006 7:29:58 PM EST · 371 replies · 6,766+ views
Associated Press (excerpt) | December 6, 2006
Excerpt - ROME (AP) - Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica. The sarcophagus, which dates back to at least A.D. 390, has been the subject of an extended excavation that began in 2002 and was completed last month, the project's head said this week. ~ snip ~
Remains of St. Paul may have been found
Posted by TaraP
On Religion 12/07/2006 2:08:06 PM EST · 28 replies · 410+ views
Religion News | Dec 6th, 2006
ROME -- Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica. The sarcophagus, which dates back to at least A.D. 390, has been the subject of an extended excavation that began in 2002 and was completed last month, the project's head said this week. "Our objective was to bring the remains of the tomb back to light for devotional reasons, so that it could be venerated and be visible," said Giorgio Filippi, the Vatican archaeologist who headed the project at St. Paul Outside the Walls...
Rome and Italy
Emperor Maxentius insignia found in Rome
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 2:57:26 PM EST · 12 replies · 201+ views
AP on Yahoo | 12/3/06 | Marta Falconi - ap
ROME - Archaeologists have unearthed what they say are the only existing imperial insignia belonging to Emperor Maxentius -- precious objects that were buried to preserve them and keep them from enemies when he was defeated by his rival Constantine. Excavation under Rome's Palatine Hill near the Colosseum turned up items including three lances and four javelins that experts said are striking for their completeness -- digs usually turn up only fragments -- and the fact that they are the only known artifacts of their kind. Clementina Panella, the archaeologist who made the discovery, said the insignia were likely hidden...
Epigraphy and Language
Experts reconstruct Leonardo fingerprint
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/02/2006 11:59:39 PM EST · 6 replies · 101+ views
Yahoo! AP | Fri Dec 1, 2006 | Marta Falconi
The research was based on a first core of photographs of about 200 fingerprints -- most of them partial -- taken from about 52 papers handled by Leonardo in his life... The artist often ate while working, and Capasso and other experts said his fingerprints could include traces of saliva, blood or the food he ate the night before. It is information that could help clear up questions about his origins... "The one we found in this finger tip applies to 60 percent of the Arabic population, which suggests the possibility that his mother was of Middle Eastern origin," Capasso...
British Isles
University of Leicester archaeologists unearth ancient curse [ Maglus ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 12:23:59 AM EST · 10 replies · 90+ views
EurekAlert | November 30, 2006 | University of Leicester
One of the most interesting finds from a site on Vine Street was a 'curse' tablet -- a sheet of lead inscribed in the second or third century AD and intended to invoke the assistance of a chosen god. It has been translated by a specialist at Oxford University, and reads: 'To the god Maglus, I give the wrongdoer who stole the cloak of Servandus. Silvester, Riomandus (etc.) ... that he destroy him before the ninth day, the person who stole the cloak of ServandusÖ' Then follows a list of the names of 18 or 19 suspects. What happened to...
Scotland Yet
Barra bone find dates back to Bronze Age [ Scotland ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 12:35:36 AM EST · 6 replies · 78+ views
Stornoway Today | December 1, 2006 | unattributed
After many months of investigation by Historic Scotland, the AOC Archaeology Group and local archaeologists, the final data has been compiled which concludes that the bones all date between 1880 and 1490 BC... [T]he bones were exposed near Allasdale on the west side of the island, a site which has long been considered of archaeological interest... Describing the final conclusions of the project, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar archaeologist Mary Macleod, who initiated the investigation said: "The team excavated four small, stone lined graves, which contained the remains of 13 individuals, of all ages from new born babies up. It may...
Ancient Greece
Rare Greek antiquities go on display
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 12/05/2006 7:33:38 PM EST · 8 replies · 93+ views
AP on Yahoo | 12/5/06 | David Minthorn - ap
NEW YORK - Warned that the barrage of Persian arrows would hide the sun at Thermopylae, the Spartan hero Dienekes replied with cool bravado, It will be pleasant to fight in the shade. Known for their terse, unflinching way of speaking, these consummate warriors from the Lakonia region of Greece were known as laconic, or sparing of words. The term also applies to their art. "Athens-Sparta," opening Wednesday at the Onassis Cultural Center, presents 289 archaeological artifacts from the paramount city states of ancient Greece to illustrate their very different social and artistic legacies. Athens lavishly encouraged artistic creativity, which...
Longer Perspectives
Jay Ambrose: Thank The Ancient Greeks For Civilization As We Know It
Posted by steve-b
On News/Activism 08/09/2006 9:58:13 AM EDT · 35 replies · 869+ views
DC Examiner | 8/9/06 | Jay Ambrose
True or false? Eight hundred years ago, a monk did his best to erase a copy of some of Archimedes' most important work, putting some prayers on the parchment instead, and the words of the great Greek mathematician were then gone forever. False. At Stanford University in California, some scientists are using X-ray technology to make the older ink shine through the later scribbling, thereby recovering a remarkable piece of history and doing something else to boot. They are giving us an illustration among many of how a civilization made great in part by the Greeks of antiquity remains great...
A New Picture Of Ancient Ethnic Diversity (Egypt)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/08/2006 8:21:36 PM EST · 31 replies · 822+ views
The State | 12-8-2006 | Tom Avril
Posted on Fri, Dec. 08, 2006A new picture of ancient ethnic diversity By Tom Avril The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) PHILADELPHIA - Scholars have long believed that ancient Egypt was a genetic stew of ethnicity, as the fabled kingdom was both a center of international trade and often the victim of foreign invasions. Now, new evidence suggests that may have been true even in the upper echelons of society, according to researchers who have used a blend of art and science to re-create what the ancients looked like in real life. They have used CAT scans to model the skulls of...
Ancient Egypt
Egypt Farmer Digs up Ancient Temple
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/08/2006 1:28:01 AM EST · 8 replies · 147+ views
Prensa Latina | December 4, 2006 | unattributed (possibly "sus ymr jcd mf")
An Egyptian farmer found under his residence an over 3,000-year old temple with important inscriptions and drawings from that time, belonging to the New Kingdom (1539-1075 BC). The site, in the locality of Sohag, 500 kilometers south of Cairo, was found six meters deep in a place where it is thought that there are other temples of pharaohs of the 18th and 19th centuries. According to local Al Ahram daily, on the walls are written names of kings, inscriptions and drawings. Archeologists continue with excavations to find new buildings devoted to divinities Anoris and Miht of the New Kingdom.
Egypt finds 4,000-year-old doctor's mummy
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/06/2006 1:32:09 AM EST · 16 replies · 156+ views
Ya-hooooo! | Tue Dec 5, 11:59 AM ET | Reuters
The upper part of the tomb was discovered in 2000 at Saqqara, 20 km (12 miles) south of Cairo, and the sarcophagus came to light in the burial pit during cleaning work, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday, quoting Egyptian government antiquities chief Zahi Hawass. The doctor, whose name was Qar, lived under the 6th dynasty and built his tomb near Egypt's first pyramid. The 6th dynasty ruled from about 2350 to 2180 BC. Hawass said the lid of the wooden sarcophagus had excellent and well-preserved decoration and the mummy itself was in ideal condition. "The linen wrappings and...
Egypt to dig up pharaonic tombs
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 12:29:17 AM EST · 3 replies · 66+ views
BBC News | Saturday, 2 December 2006 | Heba Saleh
Bulldozers have moved in to demolish houses in the Egyptian village of Qurna which sits on top of dozens of pharaonic tombs in Luxor. The Egyptian government is determined to move the 3,200 families of the village to an alternative settlement it has built a few kilometres away. Officials say emptying out the village will enable them to explore the tombs and to protect them from water damage. An official ceremony was held and the bulldozers moved in. They demolished four uninhabited mud brick houses in the village of Qurna, very near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. Many...
Amarna period
Study: King Tut Wasn't Bludgeoned to Death
Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 12/02/2006 12:01:58 PM EST · 30 replies · 603+ views
Live Science.com | November 27, 2006 | By E.J. Mundell, Health Day Reporter
Dead men don't tell tales, but dead pharaohs might. CT scans of King Tutankhamun's mummy may put the world's oldest "cold case" to rest, refuting the notion that the ruler's enemies bludgeoned him to death. Instead, a festering leg wound may have led to the boy-king's early demise at 19, more than 3,300 years ago, researchers say. The scans, the first ever performed on an identified royal Egyptian mummy, "finally lay to rest this rather loosely based conjecture about a murder plot. I don't think that anyone who reads the findings as they are written can believe that any longer,"...
King Tut Died From Broken Leg, Not Murder, Scientists Conclude
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/04/2006 9:31:46 PM EST · 34 replies · 919+ views
National Geographic Society | 12-1-2006 | Stefan Lovgren
King Tut Died From Broken Leg, Not Murder, Scientists Conclude Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News December 1, 2006 King Tut probably died from a broken leg, scientists say, possibly closing one of history's most famous cold cases. A CT scan of King Tutankhamun's mummy has disproved a popular theory that the Egyptian pharaoh was murdered by a blow to the head more than 3,300 years ago. Instead the most likely explanation for the boy king's death at 19 is a thigh fracture that became infected and ultimately fatal, according to an international team of scientists. The team presented its...
Anatolia
Bodrum's restored ancient theater to promote cultural tourism [ Halicarnassus ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/06/2006 1:49:50 AM EST · 2 replies · 23+ views
Turkish Daily News | Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | unattributed
The restoration of backstage rooms and tunnels discovered three years ago underneath the 2,500-year-old theater in the ancient city of Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum) has been completed, with the opening of the rooms to visitors planned for the coming tourism season... Three huge backstage rooms as well as two long tunnels -- one measures 30 meters and the other 150 -- used by spectators and artists to pass underneath the theater were restored... There are three nearly 40-square-meter backstage rooms carved out of the rock in the area, and archeologists estimate that there are at least 10 more backstage rooms underneath...
Elam, Persian, Parthia, Iran
Lorestan's Excavations Delayed, Illegal Diggers Smash Artifacts
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 1:03:46 AM EST · 1 reply · 45+ views
Cultural Heritage News Agency | 30 November 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Heavy rainfall forced archeologists abandon Lorestan's ancient cemetery of Babajilan while illegal diggers continue to destroy the region's invaluable bronze relics... [A]fter only 18 days during which archeologists were busy collecting the broken pieces of bronze artifacts dug out by illegal diggers, they had to return since heavy blizzard made continuation of their work almost impossible. The Iron Age cemetery of Babajilan has many times been plundered by illegal diggers and, according to Ata Hassanpour, archeologist of Lorestan's Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department, the cemetery is now full of ancient artifacts destroyed as a result of illegal activities... [M]any of...
India
'Farming in India began much earlier'
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/06/2006 1:59:05 AM EST · 13 replies · 86+ views
Hindustan Times | December 3, 2006 | HT Correspondent
Professor VD Mishra said that new researches have revealed that agricultural practices in India started in Mesolithic period (6-7,000 BC), much before the Neolithic period (4000 BC) as is generally believed. This discovery has proved that agriculture in India started simultaneously with other parts of the world. He said that Sativa rice, discovered from excavations at Chopni in Belan valley, has proved that India did not lag behind in agriculture... Joshi said that encroachments around historical monuments should be stopped because it harms our heritage. Citing an example, he said that Gwalior Fort could not be declared World Heritage due...
Climate
Scientists Study Ancient Gulf Stream
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/05/2006 6:11:40 PM EST · 19 replies · 438+ views
UPI | 12-4-2006
Scientists study ancient Gulf Stream PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined the Gulf Stream was weaker during the Little Ice Age -- a time of unusually cold conditions in the North Atlantic. That finding by David Lund and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology suggests changes in Atlantic Ocean circulation might have had a significant impact on climate during historical times. The researchers analyzed sediment cores from the Florida Straits -- the region where the Gulf Stream enters the North Atlantic Ocean. They discovered the Gulf Stream was about 10 percent weaker during the...
Agriculture
Why Altruism Paid Off For Our Ancestors
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/07/2006 5:24:36 PM EST · 22 replies · 501+ views
New Scientist | 12-7-2006 | Richard Fisher
Why altruism paid off for our ancestors 19:00 07 December 2006 NewScientist.com news service Richard Fisher Humans may have evolved altruistic traits as a result of a cultural "tax" we paid to each other early in our evolution, a new study suggests. The research also changes what we knew about the genetic makeup of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The origin of human altruism has puzzled evolutionary biologists for many years (see Survival of the nicest). In every society, humans make personal sacrifices for others with no expectation that it will be reciprocated. For example, we donate to charity, or care for...
Prehistory and Origins
Stone Age Revolution: Modern Humans May Have Divided Labor To Conquer
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/04/2006 3:38:58 PM EST · 40 replies · 814+ views
Science News | 11-4-2006 | Bruce Bower
Stone Age Role Revolution: Modern humans may have divided labor to conquer Bruce Bower Chalk up modern humanity's rise and the extinction of Neandertals to a geographic accident. That's the implication of a new analysis of material from previously excavated Stone Age sites. Homo sapiens evolved in Africa's resource-rich tropics. As a result, a division of labor arose beginning around 40,000 years ago that roughly corresponds to the arrangement found in most foraging societies today, say Steven L. Kuhn and Mary C. Stiner, both archaeologists at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Men in these societies hunt small and large...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Did Starving Neanderthals Eat Each Other?
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/04/2006 8:01:47 PM EST · 46 replies · 1,012+ views
New Scientist | 12-4-2006 | Rowan Hooper
Did starving Neanderthals eat each other? 22:00 04 December 2006 NewScientist.com news service Rowan Hooper Neanderthals lived a desperately tough life, sometimes so close to starvation that when one of them died their compatriots would fall upon the body and devour it, according to new research. Scorned as clumsy, idiotic brutes with little in the way of developed culture, our pitiless modern view of Neanderthals may be tempered by new findings that provide insight into the terrible life our evolutionary cousins faced. Antonio Rosas, of the National Museum for Natural Sciences in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues studied 43,000-year-old Neanderthal remains...
...or by opposing, thumb them?
Ancient ape ruled out of man's ancestral line [ Sterkfontein "Little Foot" ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/08/2006 2:08:09 PM EST · 4 replies · 66+ views
PhsyOrg | Thursday, December 7, 2006 | University of Leeds
Ancient remains, once thought to be a key link in the evolution of mankind, have now been shown to be 400,000 years too young to be a part of man's family tree. The remains of the apeman, dubbed Little Foot, were discovered in a cave complex at Sterkfontein by a local South African team in 1997. Its bones preserved in sediment layers, it is the most complete hominid fossil skeleton ever found. Little Foot is of the genus Australopithecus, thought by some to be part of the ancestral line which led directly to man. But research by Dr Jo Walker...
Lucy's ancient bones to tour US
Posted by annie laurie
On General/Chat 10/25/2006 10:01:56 PM EDT · 23 replies · 200+ views
BBC | 25 October 2006 | Unattributed
The skeleton of the fossilised, 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy, will go on display in the US, Ethiopian officials say. After four years of negotiations with the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas, Ethiopia agreed to lend the bones for scientific study until 2013. It is hoped Lucy's 11-leg tour will boost tourism and increase Ethiopia's profile as the "home of all humanity". She will leave her country of origin - and the origin of mankind - in June. As well as Lucy, the travelling exhibition will also include about 190 other Ethiopian artefacts including humankind's earliest...
Closer to man than ape
Posted by Ma3lst0rm
On News/Activism 01/24/2006 12:02:50 AM EST · 43 replies · 731+ views
The Guardian | Tuesday January 24, 2006 | Ian Sample
They already use basic tools, have rudimentary language and star in TV commercials, but now scientists have proof that chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than other great apes. Genetic tests comparing DNA from humans, chimps, gorillas and orang-utans reveal striking similarities in the way chimps and humans evolve that set them apart from the others. The finding adds weight to a controversial proposal to scrap the long-used chimp genus "Pan" and reclassify the animals as members of the human family. The move would give chimps a new place in creation's pecking order alongside humans, the only survivor of...
Small changes separate man from ape
Posted by Ma3lst0rm
On News/Activism 01/22/2006 12:24:06 PM EST · 61 replies · 844+ views
Aljazeera.net | Wednesday 26 May 2004 | Reuters
Genetic code They looked for differences that would help separate the human sequence from the chimp sequence. Fujiyama's team found just 1.44% of the DNA was different at the level of single letters of genetic code. These letters, A, C, T and G, stand for the nucleotides that make up the DNA of all living creatures. The nucleotides match up to make amino acids, which in turn string together into genes that control the proteins made by cells. There are vast stretches of DNA that do not make up genes and scientists are struggling to understand their importance. Fujiyama's team...
Giant Asian Ape and Humans Coexisted, Might Have Interacted
Posted by Red Badger
On News/Activism 12/09/2005 2:40:31 PM EST · 42 replies · 954+ views
National Geographic | 12/8/2005 | Ben Harder (than what, I don't know)
Stalking through the forest, an early human hunter might have glimpsed an oversize ape through a thicket of bamboo. We may never know the outcome of such a prehistoric encounter -- or even if a meeting occurred. The mysterious ape, called Gigantopithecus blacki, has long since vanished from the Earth, and so has the early human species. But researchers have determined that the giant ape -- which might have been the closest thing to a real King Kong -- did in fact live at the same time and in roughly the same place as early humans. In China 300,000 years ago the two species might well...
Giant ape lived along-side humans
Posted by Brilliant
On News/Activism 11/14/2005 8:54:54 AM EST · 33 replies · 1,351+ views
McMaster University | Nov. 7, 2005 | McMaster University
Hamilton, ON - A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered. Using a high-precision absolute-dating method (techniques involving electron spin resonance and uranium series), Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago. This was known as the Pleistocene period, by which time humans had already existed for a million years. "A missing piece of...
Origin Of Bipedalism Closely Tied To Environmental Changes
Posted by Salman
On News/Activism 05/29/2002 5:11:46 PM EDT · 104 replies · 1,823+ views
Space Daily | 05-01-2002 | staff writer at Space Daily
Origin Of Bipedalism Closely Tied To Environmental Changes Champaign - May 01, 2002 During the past 100 years, scientists have tossed around a great many hypotheses about the evolutionary route to bipedalism, to what inspired our prehuman ancestors to stand up straight and amble off on two feet. Now, after an extensive study of evolutionary, anatomical and fossil evidence, a team of paleoanthropologists has narrowed down the number of tenable hypotheses to explain bipedalism and our prehuman ancestors' method of navigating their world before they began walking upright. The hypothesis they found the most support for regarding the origin of...
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Ancient Crash, Epic Wave
Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 11/14/2006 7:07:33 AM EST · 64 replies · 2,211+ views
NY Times | November 14, 2006 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Dallas Abbott The Fenambosy chevron, one of four near the tip of Madagascar, is 600 feet high and three miles from the ocean. At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high. On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. snip... The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet,...
Meteorite yields life origin clue
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/03/2006 12:09:57 AM EST · 12 replies · 251+ views
BBC | Friday, 1 December 2006 | unattributed
Hollow spheres found in a primordial meteorite could yield clues to the origin of life on Earth. Scientists say that "bubbles" like those in the Tagish Lake meteorite may have helped along chemical processes important for the emergence of life. The globules could also be older than our Solar System - their chemistry suggests they formed at about -260C, near "absolute zero"... Analysis of the bubbles shows they arrived on Earth in the meteorite and are not terrestrial contaminants... Dr Lindsay Keller of Nasa's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, told BBC News that some scientists believed such structures...
Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than The Sun, Study Says
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/07/2006 5:46:55 PM EST · 17 replies · 511+ views
National Geographic Society | 11-30-2006 | Brian Henwerk
Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than the Sun, Study Says Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News November 30, 2006Organic globules found in a meteorite that slammed into Canada's Tagish Lake may be older than our sun, a new study says. The ancient materials could offer a glimpse into the solar system's planet-building past and may even provide clues to how life on Earth first arose. "We don't really look at this research as telling us something about [the meteorite itself] as much as telling us something about the origins of the solar system," said Scott Messenger of the NASA Johnson Space...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mammoth bones found, reburied
Posted by Dysart
On General/Chat 12/08/2006 11:15:53 PM EST · 4 replies · 66+ views
Star-Telgram | 12-8-06 | BILL TEETER
GRAPEVINE -- These bones won't talk -- at least not until they're unearthed again. Still smarting over the theft of dinosaur footprints this spring, the Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Grapevine have reburied parts of a Columbian mammoth that were found along the receding shore line. Visitors came across a jawbone and part of a tusk, and there may be more bones in the area, but there are no plans to study the location that is somewhere on 1,200 acres of Corps property under lease to the city, said Dale King, a conservation specialist with the corps. The find...
S.Korea scientist says [he] paid Russia mafia for mammoth
Posted by yankeedame
On News/Activism 10/24/2006 10:18:24 AM EDT · 6 replies · 237+ views
Reuters | 24 October 2006 | staff writer
S.Korea scientist says paid Russia mafia for mammoth 24 Oct 2006 09:26:03 GMT Source: Reuters | Email this article | RSS [] [] SEOUL, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said on Tuesday he spent part of private donations for research to pay the Russian mafia for mammoth tissues to clone extinct elephant species. Hwang, once celebrated as a national hero, was indicted in May on charges of fraud and embezzlement after prosecutors said he was the mastermind of a scheme to make it look like his team had produced stem cells through...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Today's Birthday girl: Mary, Queen of Scots [12/08/1542]
Posted by yankeedame
On General/Chat 12/08/2006 7:24:18 AM EST · 2 replies · 48+ views
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Mary Stuart, aka Mary Queen of Scots, was born on this date in 1542. She was only 6 days old when her father, James V, died and she became Queen of Scotland. Mary, a Catholic, was accused of scheming to murder her husband and was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle in 1567. A year later, she escaped and fled to England. Elizabeth I initially provided refuge and then had Mary imprisoned when she was implicated in additional plotting, including a scheme to murder Elizabeth. Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587. When Elizabeth died, she was succeeded by...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Revenge of the killer fairies[500 Year-old Death Records][UK]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 12/04/2006 3:22:50 PM EST · 135 replies · 2,411+ views
Metro | Nov 29, 2006 | SARAH GETTY
The 500-year-old death records from Lamplugh which revealed some peculiar demises. Forget knife-carrying hoodies, people in the mid-17th century had far more dangerous opponents to worry about... such as spirits and fairies. Also, pitchforks, stools or even a trusty frying pan were the weapons of choice when it came to street fights, a newly unearthed burial register has shown. The document reveals the deeply superstitious -- and often brutal -- side of life in Oliver Cromwell's England. Covering deaths from 1656 to 1663 -- the manuscript reveals no less than four people were 'Frighted to Death by faries' while another...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
The Real Lost World Dec TV Primere Documentary
Posted by restornu
On News/Activism 12/03/2006 4:25:43 AM EST · 24 replies · 750+ views
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Saturday, December 16, 2006
Climate
Scientists drill back in time in Antarctica
Posted by jimtorr
On News/Activism 12/16/2006 6:34:54 AM EST · 35 replies · 576+ views
Reuters | Friday, Dec 15, 2006 | Deborah Zabarenko
ROSS ICE SHELF, Antarctica (Reuters) - From a distance, the ANDRILL operation appears out of nowhere like a mirage: a white-draped tower amid giant blue boxcars laid out on a frozen sea. But this mammoth venture to drill through ice, ocean and back through time is as real as a science lab and as practical as an oil rig: hard-hatted drillers and scientists work in concert to find clues to a time when Antarctica was warm and wet. Because the researchers are convinced that a warmer age is in prospect as a result of human-spurred global climate change, they want...
Extremophiles
Cave snot carves out its home
Posted by grjr21
On General/Chat 12/13/2006 8:03:06 PM EST · 11 replies · 170+ views
MSNBC | 12/13/2006 | Jeanna Bryner
Cave-dwelling bacteria are interior designers of sorts, forming mucus-like chandeliers that hang from cave ceilings and coat the floors with thick mats. Now scientists are finding the tiny critters can also help turn a meager underground residence into an ever-expanding dark palace. By rappelling into the Frasassi cave system in Italy, for the first time, scientists have revealed clearly the role of cave bacteria in actually forming caves, as reported this week here at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union. "We really are able to implicate microorganisms in speeding up cave formation," said Jennifer Macalady of Pennsylvania State University.
Biology and Cryptobiology
Tiny Bones Rewrite Texbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/15/2006 1:39:34 PM EST · 16 replies · 323+ views
University South Wales | 12-15-2006
TINY BONES REWRITE TEXTBOOKS: first New Zealand land mammal fossil Part of the fossilised jaw< Part of the fossilised femur Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as well. The tiny fossilised bones - part of a jaw and hip - belonged to a unique, mouse-sized land animal unlike any other mammal known and were unearthed from the rich St Bathans fossil bed, in the Otago region of South Island. But the real shock to...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Neanderthal Women Joined Men in the Hunt (Eat your heart out, feminists)
Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On News/Activism 12/07/2006 8:42:12 AM EST · 100 replies · 1,555+ views
The New York Times | December 5, 2006 | NICHOLAS WADE
A new explanation for the demise of the Neanderthals, the stockily built human species that occupied Europe until the arrival of modern humans 45,000 years ago, has been proposed by two anthropologists at the University of Arizona. Unlike modern humans, who had developed a versatile division of labor between men and women, the entire Neanderthal population seems to have been engaged in a single main occupation, the hunting of large game, the scientists, Steven L. Kuhn and Mary C. Stiner, say in an article posted online yesterday in Current Anthropology. Because modern humans exploited the environment more efficiently, by having...
Neanderthals' Tough Stone Age Lives
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/15/2006 6:28:42 PM EST · 9 replies · 385+ views
Science News | 12-16-2006 | Bruce Bower
Neandertals' tough Stone Age lives Bruce Bower Neandertals that 43,000 years ago inhabited what's now northern Spain faced periodic food shortages and possibly resorted to cannibalism to survive, according to a new investigation. CAVE FINDS. A block of sand and clay from El Sidrun cave in Spain holds Neandertal foot bones (left) and ribs and a backbone (right). Rosas These Neandertals evolved shorter, broader faces with a less pronounced slope than northern European Neandertals did, say Antonio Rosas of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid and his colleagues. Since 2000, the researchers have recovered more than 1,300 Neandertal...
British Isles
ARCHAEOLOGY: Stone Age World Beneath the Baltic Sea
Posted by Lessismore
On News/Activism 12/09/2006 5:50:42 PM EST · 48 replies · 1,179+ views
Science Magazine | 2006-12-08 | Andrew Curry
As they map Germany's changing coastline, members of a research team called SINCOS are learning about settlements that were covered by water 6000 to 8000 years ago On a warm afternoon in September, archaeologist Harald L¸bke looked out from the pilot house of the Goor, a bright red dive boat moored 200 meters off Germany's Baltic seacoast. Three meters below the water's glassy surface, divers in bulky drysuits were excavating a prehistoric hunting camp. A deafening motor mounted on the Goor's deck powered a pressure pump, which they were using to suck sediment from the sea bottom into mesh bags....
Astronomy and Catastrophism
GEOPHYSICS: Ancient Cataclysm Marred the Med
Posted by Lessismore
On News/Activism 12/09/2006 5:24:21 PM EST · 17 replies · 550+ views
Science Magazine | 2006-12-08 | Jacopo Pasotti
It's a terrifying vision: A violent eruption of Italy's Mount Etna triggers a massive collapse of one flank of the volcano, sending 35 cubic kilometers of debris--the equivalent of 10,000 Cheops pyramids--hurtling at 400 kilometers an hour into the Ionian Sea. The Big Splash unleashes a 50-meter-tall wall of water that, within a few hours, wipes out coastal settlements across the Mediterranean. This catastrophe happened 8000 years ago--and a Mediterranean monster of similar magnitude could happen again. That's the scenario invoked in an analysis in last week's Geophysical Research Letters. "It was an extraordinary event, probably the largest tsunami unleashed...
Anatolia
Europe Seeks Its Origins In Catalhoyuk
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/12/2006 7:05:38 PM EST · 16 replies · 290+ views
The Anatolian Times | 12-11-2006
Europe Seeks Its Origins In Catalhoyuk KONYA - Sociologist Jon T. Oplinger of the U.S. Maine University said that the data found in the archaeological site of Catalhoyuk could enlighten origins of Europe. In an exclusive interview with the A.A, Oplinger said that Prof. Dr. Waleck Dalpour and he wrote an article about communication and interaction among societies. "In our article, we referred to the figures on earthenware pots which were unearthed during the excavations in Catalhoyuk. Those figures can shed light on our history," he said. Highlighting importance of the findings regarding the development of genetic archaeology, Oplinger said...
Epigraphy and Language
Second Iron Age Cuneiform Inscription Discovered in Rabat Tepe
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 4:04:04 PM EST · 5 replies · 75+ views
Cultural Heritage News Agency | Monday, December 11, 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Continuation of excavations by a team of archeologists in Rabat Tepe 2, northwest Iran, led into discovery of the second enameled brick inscription written in Assyrian cuneiform script. A few weeks ago, the team succeeded in discovering the first such inscription written in white glaze in the same area. Archeologists believe that studying the two inscriptions could shed light on the prehistoric civilizations of northwest Iran. The newly discovered brick inscription is measured 33x34x8 centimeters in dimension... Second season of archeological excavations at Rabat Tepe started in late October this year with the aim of finding traces of invasion of...
88 Cuneiform Inscriptions Discovered At Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/27/2006 2:28:05 PM EDT · 26 replies · 713+ views
The Tehran Times | 7-27-2006
88 cuneiform inscriptions discovered at Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- Eighty-eight brick inscriptions were recently discovered at the 3250-year-old Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat in southwestern Iran's Khuzestan Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday. A team of experts restoring the middle section of the ziggurat discovered the cuneiform inscriptions on the northeastern and southeastern walls. "Only a few of the inscriptions are intact. The inscriptions were discovered when the workers were removing rubble from the bases of the walls," team director Bijan Heidarizadeh said. French archaeologist Roman Ghirshman had said nothing about the inscriptions in...
Elam, Persian, Parthia, Iran
3rd Millennium BC Artificial Eyeball Discovered in Burnt City
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 4:57:59 PM EST · 26 replies · 315+ views
Cultural Heritage News Agency | December 10, 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Archeologists in Burnt City announced unprecedented discovery of an artificial eyeball, dated to 4800 years ago, in this historic site... [D}irector of Burnt City archeology excavation team, Mansour Sajadi, said that this eyeball belongs to a sturdy woman who was between 25 to 30 years of age at the time of death. Skeletal remains of the woman were found in grave number 6705 of Burnt City's cemetery. Regarding the material used to make this artificial eyeball, Sajadi said: "The material this artificial eyeball is made of has not yet been determined and will be assessed through later testing. However, at...
French Archaeologists Says Ur Tomb Artifacts Came From Burnt City
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/15/2006 1:46:47 PM EST · 15 replies · 439+ views
Mehr News | 12-15-2006
French archaeologist says Ur royal tomb artifacts came from Burnt City TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) -- French archaeologist Michele Casanova said that the artifacts unearthed from the royal tombs in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur came from Iran's 5200-year-old Burnt City, the Persian service of CHN reported on Friday. "Now, we are almost certain that the beautiful artifacts discovered in the city of Ur had been brought from the Burnt City, Jiroft, and Central Asia. This fact raises many questions, including why trade relations were established between the regions," Casanova said. Casanova, who is also an expert on ornamental...
India
'India's Pompeii' uncovered
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 12:17:06 PM EST · 3 replies · 77+ views
Hindustan Times | December 9, 2006 | Chitrangada Choudhury
The first construction boom began about 2,000 years ago, when Ashoka the Great was founding the first Indian empire, when Julius Caesar reigned over Rome, when traders from the Mediterranean found their way to what is now an obscure Maharastra village... But another construction boom threatens the existence of an area they say could well reveal itself as "the Pompeii of India", the legendary Roman city buried by a volcano and lost for 1,600 years... A dusty village museum houses a treasure-trove of 23,852 pieces of stone and terracotta sculptures, replicas of Roman coins and lamps, miniature inkpots, jewellery and...
Asia
70 ancient tombs of noble families unearthed in SW China
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 4:46:08 PM EST · 1 reply
People's Daily Online | December 11, 2006 | Xinhua
Archaeologists have unearthed more than 70 ancient tombs of noble families in Jintang County of Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. Investigations show the region has over 40 tombs dating back to the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.), more than 20 tombs to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and over 10 tombs to the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties. To date, all the tombs have been unearthed with the aim of cultural relics protection. Standing at a construction site covering an area of 800 mu (about 53 ha), the tombs were built in brick form or earthen structures. The...
2,500-Year-Old Boat Coffin To Reveal Mysterious Chinese Kingdom
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/14/2006 2:33:13 PM EST · 8 replies · 484+ views
Peoples Daily - Xinhua | 12-14-2006
2,500-year-old boat coffin to reveal mysterious Chinese kingdom With abundant cultural relics, a boat-shaped coffin dating back nearly 2,500 years has unearthed recently in southwest China's Sichuan Province, giving expectation to reveal true history of a mysterious kingdom in the area. Located in a construction site in Feilong Village of Heshan Town in Pujiang County, the coffin was discovered on Dec. 5 by workers when they were conducting mud-digging 1.5 meters deep underground. The Pujiang County was part of the Shu Kingdom, which has kept mysterious because no written record about its history and culture left over in the past...
Faith and Philosophy
Troves Of Scholarship (1,500-Year-Old Coptic Library)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/15/2006 2:00:57 PM EST · 7 replies · 470+ views
Ahram | 12-15-2006 | Jill Kamil
Troves of scholarship For 1,500 years, Deir Al-Surian has had a working library. Active steps are now being taken to conserve this rich heritage, says Jill Kamil One of the most well preserved texts is this New Testament Coptic manuscript, 13th century The Coptic monastery known as Deir Al-Surian, or the Monastery of the Syrians, contains more than 3,000 books as well as a vast number of texts in Syriac, Aramaic (the language of Christ), Coptic, Arabic and Ethiopic. They date upwards from the fifth century and today, as a result of the revival in Coptic monasticism in recent years,...
Rome and Italy
Eternal Pompeii
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 3:28:33 PM EST · 5 replies · 57+ views
Universitas Helsingiensis | winter issue 2006 | Reetta Vairimaa
Ancient Rome is now in vogue. The popular television series produced by the BBC and HBO has stirred interest in many of the viewers about how the Romans really lived. Public libraries receive numerous queries on the subject every day... Paavo Castren, a professor emeritus in classical philology... has headed the Expeditio Pompeiana Universitatis Helsingiensis (EPUH), the Pompeii Project of the University of Helsinki, for five years, leading the group's investigative work on Pompeian excavations. This September, Castren also published his book Pompejilaisia kohtaloita, 'Pompeian Lives', later probably to be published in English and Italian... Despite the welcome attention, Castren...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Restoration unveils Roman 'Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages'
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 4:39:52 PM EST · 9 replies · 138+ views
CBC | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | unattributed
A series of medieval frescoes painstakingly restored over nearly a decade was unveiled to the public in Rome Tuesday. Visitors, including Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli, were on hand to take a first glimpse at the 13th-century frescoes in the Santi Quattro Coronati monastery, which sits atop a hill in Rome. The secluded area was formerly a closed community where the Augustinian nuns had maintained cloistered lives since the 16th century. While the monastery is not usually open to the public, Rutelli said the area where the†frescoes are located will be opened in the spring so everyone can enjoy them....
Life-Size Sketch Of Giant (St Peter's) Dome Uncovered
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/12/2006 9:52:44 PM EST · 27 replies · 1,393+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 12-13-2006 | Malcom Moore
Life-size sketch of giant dome uncovered By Malcolm Moore in Rome Last Updated: 2:35am GMT 13/12/2006 Archaeologists digging to reach the tomb of St Paul have stumbled across a life-size "sketch" of the dome of St Peter's produced by one of its architects in the 16th century. The excavation of St Paul's tomb at the church of St Paul's Outside-the-Walls in Rome is now complete, and the sarcophagus will be on view from the beginning of next year. However, three feet below the floor of the enormous church, which is the second-largest in the city, the project's team came across...
Vatican City
Vatican may open St Paul's tomb
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/11/2006 3:44:45 PM EST · 18 replies · 304+ views
The Scotsman | Monday, December 11, 2006 | Philip Pullella
The Vatican said on Monday it was studying the possibility of opening a thick marble sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the 1st century apostle St Paul to study its contents. The prospect was raised at a news conference at which Vatican officials unveiled the results of an archaeological dig which has made part of the sarcophagus in Rome's Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls visible to pilgrims... Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the basilica on Rome's outskirts... belittled some media reports that the apostle's tomb had only now been discovered. "There has been no...
Ancient Art
Field Museum Scientists Solve Riddle Of Mysterious Faces On South Pacific Artifacts
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/13/2006 6:34:03 PM EST · 42 replies · 408+ views
Eureka Alert | 12-12-2006
Field Museum scientists solve riddle of mysterious faces on South Pacific artifacts Decipher their hidden meaning and religious significance John Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at the Field Museum, and Esther M. Schechter, a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the Field Museum, have pieced together... CHICAGO -- The strange faces drawn on the first pottery made in the South Pacific more than 3,000 years ago have always been a mystery to scientists. Now their riddle may have been solved by new research done by two Field Museum scientists to be published in the February 2007 issue of the Cambridge...
Australian and the Pacific
Aboriginal Language Had Ice Age Origins
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/13/2006 6:00:25 PM EST · 16 replies · 167+ views
ABC Science | 12-13-2006 | Judy Skatssoon
Aboriginal language had ice age origins Judy Skatssoon ABC Science Online Wednesday, 13 December 2006 A researcher has suggested that the origin of Aboriginal language can be traced back to a time when Australia and New Guinea were one (Image: Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water) Aboriginal languages may be much older than people think, argues a linguistic anthropologist who says they originated as far back as the end of the last ice age around 13,000 years ago. This challenges existing thinking, which suggests Aboriginal languages developed from a proto-language that spread through Australia 5000 to 6000 years ago....
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ohio's Stonehenge
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/12/2006 7:26:26 PM EST · 26 replies · 796+ views
Ohio.com | 12-12-2006 | Bob Downing
Ohio's Stonehenge Fort Ancient is largest, best preserved earthwork of its kind in America. Its purpose is not known By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer A sign identifies one of the prehistoric earthworks at Fort Ancient State Memorial. Ohio law forbids walking off trail or on any mound or earthwork.OREGONIA - Fort Ancient remains a mystery. The extensive earthen mounds and walls in southwest Ohio are unlikely a fortress, although they might have been used for social gatherings and religious ceremonies and astronomical viewings. The site, atop a wooded bluff 235 feet above the Little Miami River in Warren County,...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
4,000-Year-Old Seahenge To Rise Again - But Not Until 2008
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/13/2006 6:56:16 PM EST · 12 replies · 128+ views
Lynn News.co.uk | 12-13-2006 | Alex Hoad
4,000-year-old Seahenge to rise again -- but not until 2008Pieces of Seahenge, the mysterious Bronze Age monument uncovered on the beach at Holme in 1998, will be renovated and transported to Lynn Museum over the next few months, where a permanent display will be painstakingly created for them. CONSERVATION work on the Seahenge wooden circle is continuing apace -- but it will be at least a year before the Bronze Age monument will be on display in Lynn. The 4,000-year-old structure was uncovered by waves on the beach at Holme in 1998, sparking frenzied interest from the archaeological community. In...
Ancient Egypt
Riddle Of The Great Pyramids Of Giza: Professor Finds Some Building Blocks Were Concrete
Posted by Maelstorm
On News/Activism 12/09/2006 7:41:35 PM EST · 38 replies · 1,054+ views
www.sciencedaily.com | December 9, 2006 | Drexel University
Riddle Of The Great Pyramids Of Giza: Professor Finds Some Building Blocks Were Concrete In partially solving a mystery that has baffled archeologists for centuries, a Drexel University professor has determined that the Great Pyramids of Giza were constructed with a combination of not only carved stones but the first blocks of limestone-based concrete cast by any civilization. Picture of the Great Pyramid (Kheops pyramid). (Taken by Alex lbh in April 2005 / Courtesy of Wikipedia) Ads by Google Michel Barsoum, professor of materials engineering, shows in a peer-reviewed paper to be published Dec. 1 in the Journal of...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Today's Birthday Boy: Nostradamus [12/14/1503]
Posted by yankeedame
On General/Chat 12/14/2006 10:08:51 AM EST · 7 replies · 69+ views
Answers.com
Nostradamus, Physician / Prognosticator Born: 14 December 1503 Birthplace: St. Remy, France Died: 2 July 1566 (gout) Best Known As: The guy who made all those predictions Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on...
Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries'
Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 03/02/2003 7:06:31 PM EST · 15 replies · 444+ views
BBC News | Thursday, 27 February, 2003, 13:48 GMT | Editorial Staff
Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries' Arran Frood investigates what could have been the very first batteries and how these important archaeological and technological artefacts are now at risk from the impending war in Iraq. I don't think anyone can say for sure what they were used for, but they may have been batteries because they do work Dr Marjorie Senechal War can destroy more than a people, an army or a leader. Culture, tradition and history also lie in the firing line. Iraq has a rich national heritage. The Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel are said to...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Shortcuts: How To Make It As An Archaeologist
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/12/2006 7:36:47 PM EST · 27 replies · 573+ views
CNN.com | 12-11-2006 | Paul Sussman
Shortcuts: How to make it as an archaeologist POSTED: 7:01 a.m. EST, December 11, 2006 By Paul Sussman for CNN (CNN) -- Following news that archaeologists in Rome have discovered a sarcophagus containing what they believe to be the mortal remains of St. Paul the Apostle, we offer a few tips on how to get in on the world of excavation. Forget the bull whip It might have got Indiana Jones out of a scrape or two, but then Indiana Jones has little if anything to do with real archaeology. Excavators these days are far more likely to be armed...
end of digest #126 20061216
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