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Literacy is a terrible thing to waste.
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Weekly Digest #127
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Ancient Rus: trade and crafts
Posted by eastern
On News/Activism 12/20/2006 8:41:36 AM EST · 17 replies · 478+ views
Russia-InfoCenter ^ | December 20, 2006 | Olga Pletneva
Ancient Russia (Rus) occupied the territory of Eastern Europe and lay on trade routes running from Christian West to Muslim East and back. So far treasures have been found on the ways where caravans moved along. Western travelers thought Medieval Rus as a country of vast woods and plains with settlements and villages widely separated, though Vikings took Rus differently: the most popular Volga Trade Route connecting countries lying to the North and the South was called the Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks. Old Scandinavian sagas mention 12 big towns of Ancient Rus, among them: Novgorod, Kiev,...
Ancient Europe
A River's Gifts (Romans - Celts)
Posted by blam
On Bloggers & Personal 12/16/2006 8:49:07 PM EST · 30 replies · 906+ views
National Geographic Society ^ | 12-16-2006 | CarolKaufmann
By Carol Kaufmann Photographs by Arne Hodalie Why did Romans, Celts, and even prehistoric settlers submerge their personal belongings, from swords to dishes, in a shallow river in Slovenia? Archaeologist Andrej Gaspari is haunted by pieces of the past. His hometown river, the Ljubljanica, has yielded thousands of them -- Celtic coins, Roman luxuries, medieval swords -- all from a shallow 12-mile (19 kilometers) stretch. Those who lived near and traveled along the stream that winds through Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana considered it sacred, Gaspari believes. That would explain why generations of Celts, Romans, and earlier inhabitants offered treasures -- far too many to be...
British Isles
How A Manuscript Found In An Irish Peat Bog Was Saved (Psalms)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/18/2006 6:12:17 PM EST · 22 replies · 783+ views
The Art Newspaper ^ | 12-18-2006 | MartinBailey
How a manuscript found in an Irish peat bog was saved Restorers are hoping to separate the pages of the ninth-century psalter and recover some of the ancient text By Martin Bailey | Posted 18 December 2006 Conservators are unravelling the congealed pages LONDON. An astonishing discovery in an Irish bog is posing an unusual conservation challenge. A chance find by a peat cutter last summer in County Tipperary, southern Ireland, turned out to be a psalter, which has been dated to around 800 AD. The discovery has been described as the Irish equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls. National...
Epigraphy and Language
Ancient Egyptian Carving Sheds Light On Karnak
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/18/2006 5:58:26 PM EST · 20 replies · 620+ views
Yahoo News ^ | 12-17-2006
Ancient Egyptian carving sheds light on Karnak temple Sun Dec 17, 5:11 PM ET CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt announced the discovery of a carving dating back to the 12th century BC which could hold the key to valuable information on Karnak temple, the largest ancient religious site in the world. The large quartzite stone, carved with 17 lines of hieroglyphics, highlights the achievements of high priest Bak En Khonso and his contributions to the grand hall at Karnak. The 170 cm by 80 cm carving (5.5 by 2.5 feet), unearthed by a team of archeologists in the southern Nile city...
Amarna
'They Show No Respect for Their Caesars'
Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 12/18/2006 8:49:10 PM EST · 21 replies · 855+ views
Arutz Sheva ^ | 12-18-06 | Gerald A. Honigman
'They Show No Respect for Their Caesars' by Gerald A. Honigman Dec 18, '06 / 27 Kislev 5767 The year was 1887. An Egyptian woman discovered a treasure trove of over three hundred clay cuneiform tablets that would shake the world of religion and the study of ancient history. Named for a local Bedouin tribe, the Tel El-Amarna tablets (which can now be found mostly in the Berlin and British Museums) were mostly the official correspondence between Pharaoh Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten - and his governors and vassals from places such as Canaan, Syria, Babylonia, etc. They date mostly from...
Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Sunken Treasures reveals lost world
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/16/2006 6:33:15 PM EST · 4 replies · 136+ views
Halifax Herald ^ | Saturday December 16, 2006 | Jenny Barchfield
The great port of Alexandria was a bustling trade hub, a transit point for merchandise from throughout the ancient world, at least until much of it vanished into the Mediterranean Sea... [A]n exhibit at Paris' Grand Palais brings together 500 ancient artifacts recovered from the area by underwater archaeologists using sophisticated nuclear technology. Egypt's Sunken Treasures features colossuses of pink granite, a 17-tonne slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, a phalanx of crouching sphinx, pottery, amulets and gold coins and jewellery -- all painstakingly fished out of the Mediterranean. Some of the oldest artifacts are estimated to have spent 2,000 years underwater....
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Mysterious Egyptian Glass Formed By Meteorite Strike, Study Says
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/22/2006 2:19:39 PM EST · 24 replies · 698+ views
National Geographic | 12-21-2006 | Stefan Lovgren
Mysterious Egyptian Glass Formed by Meteorite Strike, Study Says Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News December 21, 2006 Strange specimens of natural glass found in the Egyptian desert are products of a meteorite slamming into Earth between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago, scientists have concluded. The glass -- known locally as Dakhla glass -- represents the first clear evidence of a meteorite striking an area populated by humans. At the time of the impact, the Dakhla Oasis, located in the western part of modern-day Egypt, resembled the African savanna and was inhabited by early humans, according to archaeological evidence (see Egypt map.) "This meteorite...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Discovered Stone Slab Proved to be Gate of Cambyses' Tomb
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/16/2006 6:16:46 PM EST · 7 replies · 74+ views
Payvand ^ | Thursday, December 14, 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Agricultural activities by local farmers near the world heritage site of Pasargadae last year resulted in the accidental discovery of a big stone slab bearing some carvings typical of Pasargadae monuments. The discovered slab was recently proved by archeologists to have been the entrance gate to the mausoleum of Cambyses II, son and successor of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achameneid Empire (550-330 BC). "A huge stone slab measuring 1.60 meters in height comprised of 5 broken pieces was discovered last March by farmers at a distance of 100 meters from Tall-e Takht and was immediately transferred to Parse-Pasargadae...
Lost Achaemenid City Rising from Bam Historic Site
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/18/2006 5:50:05 PM EST · 7 replies · 214+ views
CHN Press ^ | 12-18-2006
Lost Achaemenid City Rising from Bam Historic Site Bam Citadel, Kerman province where the Achaemenid city of Paishiyauvada was found Discovery of the Achaemenid city of Nashirmeh in the historic site of Bam has called to challenge the political history of the early Achaemenid era as the city had previously been expected to have been the same as Pasargadae, thereby disproving the theory that suggested Darius the Great was a usurper who occupied the throne. Tehran, 18 December 2006 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- Studies by a team of archeologists from Bam Archeological Research Institute led into discovery of a vast...
1700-Y-Old Palmyrene Rock Graves Discovered in Khark Island
Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 12/20/2006 9:45:46 AM EST · 10 replies · 359+ views
Cultural Heritage News.ir ^ | December 16, 2006 | by Maryam Tabeshian
Archeologists at the Persian Gulf Island of Khark discovered two Sassanid era tomb-temples belonging to Palmyra tribes, each used for the temporary keeping of 42 corpses. Tehran, 16 December 2006 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- Archeologists at the Persian Gulf Island of Khark recently came across a catacomb containing two tomb-temples dated to the Sassanid dynastic period (224-651 AD). The tombs belong to Palmyra tribes and were used for the temporary keeping of corpses. Palmyra was a trading community near the margin of the Roman and Persian empires. Palmyra is the Roman name for a city called Tadmor in its people's...
Burnt City
4800-Year-Old Artificial Eyeball (Pics)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2006 6:23:49 PM EST · 71 replies · 2,150+ views
Med Gadget | 12-20-2006
December 20, 2006 4800-Year-Old Artificial Eyeball From the announcement by the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies, an educational and research group out of UK: Archaeologists in Burnt City announced unprecedented discovery of an artificial eyeball, dated to 4800 years ago, in this historic site. Announcing this news, director of Burnt City archaeology excavation team, Mansur 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...
Shrouded 5000-Year-Old Child Unearthed In Southeastern Iran
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/19/2006 5:38:42 PM EST · 24 replies · 800+ views
Mehr News ^ | 12-19-2006
Shrouded 5000-year-old child unearthed in southeastern Iran TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) -- The skeleton of a 5000-year-old child wrapped in a winding sheet was discovered at the foot of a wall in the Taleb Khan Mound, which is located near the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchestan Province. ìThe skeleton was discovered in a room of a house, while remnants of a white cloth were found around it. The cloth shows that the child had been shrouded before burial,î Mehdi Miri, the director of the archaeological team working at the site, said on Tuesday. ìIt was common for children to be buried...
India
Hanuman bridge is myth: Experts
Posted by jimtorr
On News/Activism 10/19/2002 7:25:58 PM EDT · 6 replies · 909+ views
THE TIMES OF INDIA ^ | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2002 | No Author listed
NEW DELHI: After Nasa, it's the turn of Indian experts to declare that there is no evidence linking the mythical Lanka bridge built by Hanuman to the chain of sandbanks captured by the US space agency's cameras across the Palk Strait. Eminent astrophysicist J V Narlikar, when contacted in Pune, said he had seen reports claiming about the mythical bridge, but there was no evidence to suggest that what had been located had links with the bridge mentioned in the Ramayana. "There is no archaeological or literary evidence to support this claim," eminent historian R S Sharma told The Times...
Central Asia
DNA of Samartan Amazon Warrior Women
Posted by Proteos
On General/Chat 12/17/2006 3:16:15 PM EST · 23 replies · 450+ views
Results of Dr. Joachim Burger's DNA Comparison between Samartan Amazon Warrior Women and Meiregul, Kazakh child.
Asia
Archaeologists Find Cradle Of China In North China
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/18/2006 5:42:12 PM EST · 7 replies · 188+ views
People's Daily - Xinhua ^ | 12-18-2006 | Xinhua
Archaeologists find cradle of china in north China Archaeologists have unearthed three high-temperature ceramic kilns dating back about 2,000 years in a North China village, which shows North China was also the cradle of porcelain, against the conception that porcelain only originates from south China. The archaeologists from the Hebei provincial cultural relic research institute drew the conclusion on the basis that analysis on wares in the kilns suggests they were made at more than 1,100 Celsius degree, exceeding the temperature of 800-900 Celsius degree required for pottery-making. Although built during the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 24), the kilns...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Mysterious Rings Found At Tomb Of Chinese Only Empress
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2006 5:55:55 PM EST · 35 replies · 1,321+ views
People's Daily - Xinhua | 12-22-2006
Mysterious rings found at tomb of Chinese only empress Chinese archaeologists have found a group of huge rings at the site of the 1,300-year-old tomb of Wu Zetian, China's only empress, but they are unable to explain their existence. At least 10 rings appeared on aerial photographs taken by experts from the Xi'an Preservation and Restoration Center of Cultural Relics and Qianling Museum in a survey of Qianling. Most of the rings were 30 to 40 meters in diameter and were in a zone four kilometers long from east to west and two kilometers from south to north, said Qin...
Australia and the Pacific
Timor Cave May Reveal How Humans Reached Australia
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2006 5:37:16 PM EST · 15 replies · 437+ views
The Age | 12-22-2006 | Dedorah Smith
Timor cave may reveal how humans reached Australia Jerimalai shelter in East Timor, where Dr Su O'Connor of ANU has discovered the oldest evidence of occupation by modern humans on the islands that were the stepping stones to Australia. Deborah Smith December 22, 2006 AN AUSTRALIAN archaeologist has discovered the oldest evidence of occupation by modern humans on the islands that were the stepping stones from South-East Asia to Australia. A cave site in East Timor where people lived more than 42,000 years ago, eating turtles, tuna and giant rats, was unearthed by Sue O'Connor, head of archaeology and natural...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Penon Woman
Posted by blam
On Bloggers & Personal 12/17/2006 7:21:22 PM EST · 43 replies · 985+ views
Taos Trading Place ^
Penon WomanPenon WomanScientists in Britain have identified the oldest skeleton ever found on the American continent in a discovery that raises fresh questions about the accepted theory of how the first people arrived in the New World. The skeleton's perfectly preserved skull belonged to a 26-year-old woman who died during the last ice age on the edge of a giant prehistoric lake which once formed around an area now occupied by the sprawling suburbs of Mexico City. Scientists from Liverpool's John Moores University and Oxford's Research Laboratory of Archaeology have dated the skull to about 13,000 years old, making it...
Archaeological dig shows Spokane was inhabited 8,000 years ago
Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 12/20/2006 10:21:07 AM EST · 59 replies · 1,110+ views
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^ | December 14, 2006 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A new archaeological dig shows the Spokane area to be one of the oldest areas of continuous human habitation in the state. According to evidence verified by radiocarbon dating, people may have lived at the confluence of the Spokane River and Latah Creek for some 8,000 years, said Stanley C. Gough, archaeology director at Eastern Washington University in nearby Cheney. "This documents for the first time people actually living here at this age," said Gough, who has been excavating a 25-by-60-foot site downstream from Spokane Falls. The oldest known habitation site in Washington is thought to be...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Jews ponder Moses [ Encyclopaedia Judaica ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/16/2006 7:25:13 PM EST · 62 replies · 416+ views
North County Times ^ | Thursday, December 14, 2006 | Richard Ostling
Rabbi S. David Sperling, isn't certain that Moses even existed or, if he did, whether the Bible provides much reliable information about him. Sperling contends that if traditional accounts of the origins of Judaism had not recorded a founder, "analogy would have required postulating him; and that is probably what happened" when ancients wrote the Bible... The introduction to Moses' life from another writer says "we cannot really reconstruct a biography of Moses. We cannot even be sure that Moses was a historical character." ...Conservative Judaism's official Torah commentary (2001) states that what should concern Jews is "not when, or...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
HYMS Researchers Focus On Human Evolution (Neanderthals)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2006 6:16:21 PM EST · 10 replies · 314+ views
University Of York ^ | 12-21-2006 | David Garner
21 December 2006 HYMS researchers focus on human evolution A Hull York Medical School (HYMS) researcher has played a key role in a study which has cast important new light on Neanderthals. Dr Markus Bastir was part of an Anglo-Spanish team which studied 43,000-year-old Neanderthal remains at El SidrÛn in Spain, revealing significant physical differences between those from northern and southern Europe. Dr Bastir, who was based in the functional morphology and evolution research unit of HYMS (fme) for the last two years, analysed the mandibles of Neanderthals discovered at El SidrÛn. The analysis revealed north-south variations, with southern European...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mastodon tusks tell of brutal battles
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/16/2006 5:17:43 PM EST · 13 replies · 170+ views
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | Friday, 27 October 2006 | Jennifer Viegas
Battle scars on male mastodon tusks show these Ice Age giants were not the peaceful creatures once thought... The scars reveal they fought in brutal combat each year during seasonal phases of heightened sexual activity and aggression. The discovery, announced at a recent Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Ontario, counters the view that now-extinct mastodons were peaceful, passive creatures that rarely engaged in battles. It also strengthens the link between mastodon and modern elephant behaviour, since male bull elephants also fight seasonal, hormonally-charged battles to show their dominance and win desired mates... "Mastodon tusks curve upward strongly at the...
Extremophiles
Shotgun sequencing finds nanoorganisms
Posted by WestVirginiaRebel
On News/Activism 12/22/2006 10:30:06 PM EST · 6 replies · 227+ views
spaceref.com | 12-22-06 | WestVirginiaRebel
Berkeley-For 11 years, Jill Banfield at the University of California, Berkeley, has collected and studied the microbes that slime the floors of mines and convert iron to acid, a common source of stream pollution around the world.Imagine her surprise, then, when research scientists Brett Baker discovered three new microbes living amidst the bacteria she thought she knew well. All three were so small-the size of large viruses-as to be virtually invisible under a microscope, and belonged to a totally new phylum of Archaea, microorganisms that have been around for billions of years.
Climate
Germs Found In Amber Lived With First Dinosaurs
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/18/2006 6:43:14 PM EST · 37 replies · 907+ views
National Geographic ^ | 12-13-2006 | Brian Henwerk
Germs Found Trapped in Amber Lived With First Dinosaurs Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News December 13, 2006 Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of 220-million-year-old life trapped in tiny drops of ancient amber. The fossilized plant resin preserved bacteria, fungi, algae, and microscopic animals known as protozoans some 220 million years ago -- the era when the very first dinosaurs began to appear. Surprisingly, these microscopic organisms look quite familiar to today's scientists. Alexander Schmidt and colleagues from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, report that the microbes have undergone few or no physical changes since the Triassic period -- from 245 million to...
Glaciation
The Mississippi's Curious Origins
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/19/2006 12:18:28 AM EST · 38 replies · 480+ views
Scientific American ^ | January 2007 issue | Roy B. Van Arsdale and Randel T. Cox
A mountain range once separated the continental interior of the U.S. from the Gulf of Mexico. Some clever geologic sleuthing has revealed how that barrier was breached, allowing the river to reach the Gulf... [S]omehow the once continuous Ouachita-Appalachian range was cleaved in two, leaving room for the Mississippi River to flow into the Gulf of Mexico. The explanation for the split, which the two of us have been investigating for most of the past decade, touches on many other mysteries of North American geology, too -- such as why you can find diamonds in Arkansas and why the largest...
end of digest #127 20061223
For a second successive week, we have *two* brand new "Burnt City" topics, and they deserved a dedicated header for the first time.
Blue Christmas
Silver Bells
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Weekly Digest #128
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Australia
Scientific debate heats up over fate of Australia's dinosaurs (aborigines killed them)
Posted by Paddlefish
On News/Activism 12/27/2006 12:09:56 PM EST · 37 replies · 892+ views
MonstersandCritics.com | 12/27/06
Palaeontology's angriest argument was given another nudge Tuesday with the release of research that claims Australia's giant prehistoric animals were killed off by Aborigines rather than climate change. Flinders University's Gavin Prideaux said the fossil record showed that the megafauna - giant marsupials the size of small trucks - were able to survive floods and droughts. They perished within 20,000 years of sharing the continent with humans, suggesting it was spears that did them in, rather than habitat changes. The giant kangaroos, 2.5-ton diprotodons vanished around 50,000 years ago. 'Climate change was certainly not the main culprit in the extinctions,'...
Climate
Discovery of Constant, Sun Spot Induced, Harmless 1500 Years Global Warming Cycles
Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 12/26/2006 1:36:26 PM EST · 114 replies · 3,036+ views
LifeSiteNews | 12/22/06 | Steve Jalsevac
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The general warming of global temperatures in recent decades appears to mostly be the result of a regular, sunspot induced climate cycle that has been occurring roughly every 1500 years for at least the past one million years. Climate physicist S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, discussed the substantial evidence for their new book "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years," at a Hudson Institute book forum in Washington, D.C. last month.† The book is said to make a very powerful case that the current climate trends...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Turning Back The Clock 10,000 Years (Great Lakes)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2006 5:45:15 PM EST · 36 replies · 1,201+ views
South Bend Tribune | 12-21-2006
December 21. 2006 6:59AM Turning back the clock 10,000 yearsScientists explore land bridge, petrified trees in Lake Huron. PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- Scientists hope to learn more about what the Great Lakes' shorelines looked like about 10,000 years ago. They explored a limestone land bridge that went from Alpena, Mich., to Goderich, Ontario -- a distance of about 125 miles -- and an underwater forest of petrified trees in Lake Huron. The 2006 research, in which more than 500 dives were made, is the subject of a documentary film, "Great Lakes, Ancient Shores, Sinkholes." It premiered recently at the Cranbrook...
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Huge Eruption May Have Been Bigger (Super-Volcano)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/23/2006 6:54:50 PM EST · 96 replies · 1,546+ views
Discovery Channel | 12-21-2006 | Larry O'Hanlon
Eruption May Have Been Bigger Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News Dec. 21, 2006 -- One of the largest volcanic eruptions on record just got bigger. The Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand appears to have had twin eruptions only 20 miles apart within days of each other a quarter-million years ago. Each eruption belched out more than 25 cubic miles (100 cubic kilometers) of rock and volcanic ash. This is the first evidence of twin supervolcanic eruptions. "It's possible one of these triggered the other," said geologist Darren Gravley of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. But exactly how the...
Africa
Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/29/2006 6:48:38 PM EST · 37 replies · 732+ views
National Geographic Society | 12-14-2006 | Stefan Lovgren
Humans Migrated Out of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News December 14, 2006 Humans first moved out of Africa about 70,000 years ago, but 30,000 years later some of them moved back. That's according to a new study based on DNA evidence from ancient human remains found in Africa. The study shows that a small group of early humans returned to Africa after migrating to the Middle East. In addition, the research suggests that the humans' return occurred around the same time that another group of humans left the Middle East and moved...
Anatolia
Plastered Syrian Skulls From The Dawn Of Civilisation 9,500 YO)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/29/2006 2:34:38 PM EST · 18 replies · 510+ views
Minerva Magazine | 12-29-2006 | Dr Mark Merrony
Plastered Syrian Skulls from the Dawn of Civilisation In the Neolithic period the Levantine Fertile Crescent ushered in one of the most profound cultural revolutions in the history of the Mediterranean basin. This environmentally blessed cradle of civilisation played host to modern humans as they made the crucial transition from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers to emerge as proto-urban societies. A conspicuous enigma of the world's first 'city dwellers' was the most extraordinary ritual practice of plastering human skulls, which is attested at several major Neolithic sites, such as Jericho in the Palestinian Territories, Catalhuyuk in Turkey, and Ain Ghazal in...
Ancient Greece
Parthenon sculptures removed due to pollution
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/29/2006 12:35:39 AM EST · 3 replies · 64+ views
Yahoooooooo | Thu Dec 21, 3:00 PM ET | AFP
Seven sculptures on the Parthenon will be removed to protect them from the ravages of pollution and replaced by facsimiles, a Greek restoration expert said. The metopes, carved into the Doric friezes which extend in a band below the roof and above the structure's columns, are among the temple's few remaining original sculptures. Once removed, the metopes will be exhibited in the new Acropolis Museum, said Maria Ioannidou, director of the Acropolis restoration services. Greek archeologists decided to remove the sculptures to "save the metopes, threatened by acid rain caused by atmospheric pollution and natural erosion," she said. The operation...
Shattered clues for solving Greek island's riddle
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/29/2006 12:49:42 AM EST · 10 replies · 150+ views
CNN | December 26, 2006 | Associated Press
Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea, Keros is a tiny rocky dump inhabited by a single goatherd... more than half of all documented Cycladic figurines in museums and collections worldwide were found on Keros. Now, excavations by a Greek-British archaeology team have unearthed a cache of prehistoric statues -- all deliberately broken -- that they hope will help solve the Keros riddle... British excavation leader Colin Renfrew now believes Keros was a hugely important religious site where the smashed artwork was ceremoniously deposited.
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
The Wines And Herbs In The Land Of Pan
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 12/29/2006 7:56:39 PM EST · 3 replies · 21+ views
Kathimerini | 12-28-2006 | Stavroula Kourakou
The wines and herbs in the land of Pan A survey of ancient Greek sources reveals the surprising properties of certain wines that continue to provoke the curiosity of scholars today A parody of Circe offering Odysseus wine that contains a magical herb that will make him behave like an animal. Hermes has given the ancient Greek hero another herb called moly so that Odysseus is not seduced by Circe. Medical historian Sevasti Karahaliou says moly must have been an anti-aphrodisiac. (From an early 4th century BC Boeotian cup, Ashmolean Museum.) By Stavroula Kourakou (1) In early December, the interdisciplinary...
British Isles
Boat Provides Historical Insight (3,000 YearsOld)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/28/2006 8:41:39 PM EST · 6 replies · 432+ views
BBC | 12-28-2006
Boat provides historical insight The boat would have been powered by up to 12 men A Bronze Age logboat which had lain unseen in the River Tay for 3,000 years is being studied by archaeologists. It is hoped the find will yield important new information about how human ancestors lived. Although the boat, made from the trunk of a single oak, was found five years ago, it was only lifted out of the Tay during the summer. Repairs carried out on the 30ft vessel have already given experts an insight into Bronze Age technology. The boat, which would have been...
The Pacific
Ancient trade in the East Sepik islands
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/29/2006 12:53:51 AM EST · 1 reply · 1+ view
The National | December 27, 2006 | unattributed
Oral history suggestions that Koil Islanders used to trade their galip nuts in return for clay pots. In recent times, about 20kg of galip would fetch one clay pot. Exchange for clay pots is not the only interaction the Koil people had with the Wewak coast... Although Koil Islanders had a similar religion and also traded with the mainland their language is remarkably different. The Koil people speak an Austronesian language most similar to their island neighbours on Vokeo and Viai. The most recent origin of these languages can be traced back through the islands to the east, through Manam,...
Epigraphy and Language
The Other Mystery of Easter Island[Language of Rongorongo]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 12/28/2006 1:27:03 AM EST · 44 replies · 1,211+ views
Dam Interesting | 26 Dec 2006 | Stephanie Benson
Easter Island is branded into popular consciousness as the home of the mysterious and towering moai statues, but these are not the only curiosity the South Pacific island holds. Where the moai are fascinating for their unknown purpose and mysterious craftsmen, the island's lost language of Rongorongo is equally perplexing. The unique written language seems to have appeared suddenly in the 1700s, but within just two centuries it was exiled to obscurity. Known as Rapa Nui to the island's inhabitants, Rongorongo is a writing system comprised of pictographs. It has been found carved into many oblong wooden tablets and other...
Prehistory and Origins
China Striving For (Caucasian) Mummy Identification (2,800-YO)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/24/2006 7:43:09 PM EST · 41 replies · 1,346+ views
Science Daily | 12-24-2006 | Xinhua
China striving for mummy identification URUMQI, China, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A group of Chinese scientists are attempting to identify a 2,800-year-old mummy of an apparent Caucasian man found in an ancient tomb. The well-preserved mummy, that experts said is likely of a shaman in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has been under examination since being found in 2003, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Especially intriguing to the scientists was the presence of a sack of marijuana leaves that archaeologists found buried with the leather-coat bound mummy. "From his outfit and the marijuana leaves, which have been confirmed by...
Asia
Gengis Khan Basecamp Found In China
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/28/2006 8:22:34 PM EST · 14 replies · 561+ views
Physorg/Xinhua | 12-26-2006
Gengis Khan basecamp found in China Chinese scholars have found a series of ancient wells they believe provided water for Genghis Khan's legendary hordes during their campaign in Western Xia. The find led them to conclude Genghis Khan did indeed march through the city of Ordos on his expedition into Western Xia. China's Xinhua news service said Monday more than 80 wells spaced 10 meters (33 feet) apart that were apparently used by the expedition's thousands of soldiers and horses. The wells are believed to be part of the "100 Wells" cited in the ancient classic history, "The Untold Story...
Mural Of Genghis Khan's Funeral Found
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On News/Activism 12/27/2006 8:27:07 PM EST · 67 replies · 1,168+ views
Washington Times | 12-26-2006
Mural of Genghis Khan's funeral found Dec. 26, 2006 at 12:09PM A painting of a Mongolian funeral ceremony in the Arjai caves in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region might depict Genghis Khan's funeral. The mural in one of the caves at the Arjai Grotto is about 20 inches long and 14 inches wide, the Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The painting depicts a Mongolian funeral where a man is held above a funeral pit by white cranes, said Pan Zhaodong, a researcher from the Social Science Academy of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. One well-dressed onlooker could very well...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Tuscan Church Reveals Answer To Mystery Of Medici Deaths
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/29/2006 2:40:57 PM EST · 13 replies · 1,109+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 12-28-2006 | John Hooper
Tuscan church reveals answer to mystery of Medici deaths John Hooper in Rome Thursday December 28, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Picking through centuries-old rubbish, masonry and discarded body parts beneath an abandoned Tuscan church, an Italian historian believes she has solved one of history's great crime mysteries. For more than four centuries, researchers have puzzled over the fact that Francesco I Medici, the son of the first Grand Duke, Cosimo, died within hours of his wife in October 1587. Legend had it they were poisoned by his brother and successor, a cardinal. Modern historians have tended to settle for the...
Near East
Buried Treasure That's Kept In The Dark
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/25/2006 6:37:02 PM EST · 17 replies · 1,452+ views
Haaretz | 12-23-2006 | MeronRapoport
Buried treasure that's kept in the dark By Meron Rapoport The first 10 minutes at the excavation site passed in silence. The moment we saw the high walls and the large, well-preserved rooms dug into the ground between the olive trees, the archaeologists in the group started to bound from wall to wall, to delve into the rooms. "This is one of the biggest MBs I've seen," Dr. Rafi Greenberg, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv University, mumbled. "It really is a very impressive MB," another of the archaeologists in the group agreed. Because of their excitement, it took a bit...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Joshua's Altar Leads to Deepening National Consciousness
Posted by APRPEH
On Religion 12/27/2006 11:11:51 AM EST · 1 reply · 2+ views
Israel National News | Dec 27, '06 / 6 Tevet 5767 | Hillel Fendel
A reminder of the historic significance of the Jewish People's first day in the Holy Land was provided by a trip for Russian-speaking Israelis to Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal outside Shechem. The story began just before this past Chanukah, when two busloads of Russian-speaking Israelis - new immigrants, veteran immigrants, and some tourists - made their first visit to the site known as Joshua's Altar near Shechem (Nablus). Security concerns notwithstanding, the visitors - many of whom had never been to the area - came away greatly inspired, and some were even moved to tears. Secular Jews found themselves...
Potty Break
The Hidden Latrines of The Essenes
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/23/2006 12:41:35 PM EST · 12 replies · 679+ views
Haartz | 12-23-2006 | Ran Shapira
The hidden latrines of the Essenes By Ran Shapira In one of his detailed accounts of the Essenes, Flavius Josephus (Yosef Ben Matityahu), described one of the many laws that shaped the Jewish sect's way of life during the Second Temple period. While the Essenes sat in a circle, Josephus wrote, it was forbidden for them to spit into its center. Like many other laws outlined by Josephus, the details of this law appear in the Dead Sea Scrolls found in caves along the northern end of the Dead Sea. These scrolls are attributed to the Essenes. The resemblance between...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Guinefort: the Sainted Dog of France
Posted by BlackVeil
On General/Chat 12/28/2006 5:52:50 AM EST · 6 replies · 107+ views
Florileguim | Mevanwy verch Tuder de Courtecadeno
All over the world, threading through a multitude of diverse cultures, and as some scholars assert, perhaps originating in prehistoric times, there has been passed down a legend of a heroic, selfless greyhound[1]. The beloved companion to a nobleman, chief or king, and the guardian of this esteemed person's only heir. And always the story ends in tragedy, with a case of hasty judgment, rash actions, inconsolable regret, and lifelong penance. But, only in Medieval France did this story take such a hold upon the hearts of its people and grow roots so deep into the Gallic soil and soul,...
"Mysteries Of The Middle Ages'
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/24/2006 7:09:04 PM EST · 20 replies · 1,280+ views
NYT | 12-24-2006 | Thomas Cahill
'Mysteries of the Middle Ages' By THOMAS CAHILL Published: December 24, 2006 The Cult of the Virgin and Its Consequences In the first decade of the twelfth century, a little girl from the Rhineland town of Bermersheim, near Mainz, was offered by her parents as a sacrifice to God. Her name was Hildegard; her parents were Hildebert and Mechthild, a pious knight and his pious, well-born wife. Hildegard was eight years old when she was left for life with an anchorite named Jutta von Sponheim, who lived alone in a cell attached to the abbey church of Saint Disibod. (Disibod was...
Longer Perspectives
Ancient Italian Decree: 'No Dumping'
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/23/2006 2:58:30 PM EST · 5 replies · 107+ views
Discovery News | December 23, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi
Using infrared reflectography, a non-destructive technique commonly used to peek beneath the surface of paintings, Italian researchers have brought to light two inscriptions against garbage dumping in the ancient Roman town Herculaneum... The finding shows that even before the eruption buried Herculaneum under 75 feet of ash, local authorities were already trying to reign in trash. Luciano Rosario Maria Vicari, director of an applied optics laboratory at Naples University, and colleagues analyzed Herculaneum's notice board, which was found on the eastern side of the city's water tank. The board for public notices consisted of a plastered rectangular area that housed...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Top 10 (Archaeology) Discoveries Of 2006
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On News/Activism 12/28/2006 2:38:46 PM EST · 25 replies · 1,283+ views
ArchaeologyMagazine | January/February 2007
Top 10 Discoveries of 2006 Volume 60 Number 1, January/February 2007 How do you know it's been an extraordinary year in archaeology? When the discovery of the earliest Maya writing and a 2,500-year-old sarcophagus decorated with scenes from the Iliad don't crack ARCHAEOLOGY's Top 10 list: 1. Valley of the Kings Tomb KV63 was the first tomb to be excavated in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun's in 1922. The chamber held seven 18th Dynasty coffins. 2. 3-Million-Year-Old Child After years of chiseling tiny bones out of sandstone blocks from Ethiopia's Rift Valley, paleontologists announced the discovery of a...
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Prehistory and Origins
Curious About Your Genealogical Origins? UA Can Help Trace Them
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/03/2007 12:54:46 AM EST · 41 replies · 1,064+ views
Arizona Daily Star | 12-26-2006 | Dan Sorenson
Curious about your genealogical origins? UA can help trace them By Dan Sorenson arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.26.2006 Human history is unfolding one cheek swab at a time in a cluttered, windowless laboratory deep in the University of Arizona's Biological Sciences West Building. Although geneticists and anthropologists long ago determined that we all have origins in Africa, there is much to be learned from our DNA about where we went from there. A cast of about 30 undergraduate UA biology students, technicians and the lab manager deftly dance around one another in the cramped space, like waiters...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Reunited At Last! This Is David, The Brother I Lost Just 1,000 Years Ago
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/31/2006 5:56:02 PM EST · 44 replies · 1,186+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 12-31-2006 | Robin McKie
Reunited at last! This is David, the brother I lost just 1,000 years ago Gene study is throwing a new light on our nation's history - and our personal ancestry, reports science editor Robin McKie Sunday December 31, 2006 The Observer (UK) A scientific revolution is taking place in the study of our ancient past. Once the preserve of academics who analysed prehistoric stones and crumbling parchment, the subject has been transformed by the study of our genes by scientists who are using the blood of the living to determine the actions of men and women centuries ago. In the...
Another source of genetic variability mapped
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 08/12/2006 11:23:15 PM EDT · 6 replies · 387+ views
news@nature.com | 10 August 2006 | Richard Van Noorden
Close window Published online: 10 August 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060807-15 Another source of genetic variability mapped Researchers chart out insertions and deletions in the genome.Richard Van NoordenThe way that some pieces of DNA are chopped and changed within individual genomes has been mapped for the first time. The catalogue of insertions and deletions in the human genome could eventually help scientists to find treatments for diseases, tailored to the genetic makeup of individuals. We share some 97 to 99% of our DNA in common. The remaining 1 to 3% in the 'book of life', the human genome, reads differently in...
Africa
Lactose Tolerance in East Africa Points to Recent Evolution
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 12/11/2006 3:43:08 PM EST · 30 replies · 724+ views
NY Times | December 11, 2006 | NICHOLAS WADE
A surprisingly recent instance of human evolution has been detected among the peoples of East Africa. It is the ability to digest milk in adulthood, conferred by genetic changes that occurred as recently as 3,000 years ago, a team of geneticists has found. The finding is a striking example of a cultural practice -- the raising of dairy cattle -- feeding back into the human genome. It also seems to be one of the first instances of convergent human evolution to be documented at the genetic level. Convergent evolution refers to two or more populations acquiring the same trait independently....
Ancient Egypt
King Tut hit by the curse of the dome
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/31/2006 12:03:00 AM EST · 17 replies · 165+ views
Sunday Times | December 24, 2006 | Dipesh Gadher
Plans for a grand exhibition of the teenage pharaoh's treasures at the venue have been thrown into doubt because Egyptian officials will not allow the artefacts to be displayed next to a proposed casino... "If there is a casino in the dome, I will not send the exhibits to London," declared Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "It's insulting. These Egyptian artefacts have dignity and therefore we should keep this dignity. I will never -- [even] if they give us a billion dollars -- show an Egyptian exhibit next door to a casino." ...The venue cost...
India
Harappan Period Cemetery Unearthed In Uttar Pradesh
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On News/Activism 01/04/2007 5:34:08 PM EST · 12 replies · 287+ views
Hindustan Times | 1-4-2007 | Satyen Mohapatra
Harappan period cemetery unearthed in UP Satyen Mohapatra New Delhi, January 4, 2007 The largest Harappan Necropolis (city of the dead or burial ground) the Indian subcontinent has known so far has been found near village Sanauli on the banks of Yamuna in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. These findings have been reported in the latest issue (No 36) of Puratattva, the journal of the Indian Archaeological Society. Chairman of the Society Dr SP Gupta said, "Never before a site like Sanauli was found and excavated in India. An absolutely plain ground with thick deposit of sand and silt harbouring lush green...
Ancient Greece
Experts Prepare Excavation on Greek Island
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 01/10/2006 12:36:16 AM EST · 11 replies · 200+ views
AP on Yahoo | 1/9/06 | Nicholas Paphitis - ap
ATHENS, Greece - British and Greek archaeologists are preparing a major excavation on a tiny Greek island to try to explain why it produced history's largest collection of Cycladic flat-faced marble figurines. Artwork from barren Keros inspired such artists as Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore but also attracted ruthless looters. Now experts are seeking insight into the island's possible role as a major religious center of the enigmatic Cycladic civilization some 4,500 years ago. Excavations will run April through June. "Keros is one of the riddles of prehistoric archaeology," said Peggy Sotirakopoulou, curator of the Cycladic collection at the Museum...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
The evil empire
Posted by Khashayar
On News/Activism 09/08/2005 12:23:06 AM EDT · 10 replies · 556+ views
The Guardian | Thursday September 8, 2005
Persia's kings are history's great villains. Does the British Museum's show do them justice? By Jonathan Jones The title of this exhibition is a bit misleading. Forgotten Empire, the British Museum calls its spectacular resurrection of ancient Persia. Yet the Persians are as notorious in their way as Darth Vader, the Sheriff of Nottingham, General Custer, or any other embodiment of evil empire you care to mention. They are history's original villains. In its day, which lasted from the middle of the 500s BC until the defeat of Darius III by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, the Persian empire...
Rome and Italy
Why Covet Ancient Chariots. . .
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On News/Activism 01/05/2007 3:05:03 PM EST · 18 replies · 539+ views
The Times (UK) | 1-5-2006 | Richard Owen
Why covet ancient chariots... Richard Owen ITALY Conservationists are campaigning for the return of a unique Etruscan "golden chariot" which is due to form the centrepiece of a new exhibition this Spring at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The chariot, found in 1902 by a farmer at Monteleone near Spoleto in Umbria, and sold to the Met the next year, dates back to the 6th century BC. It is the star attraction in a collection of antiquities to go on show at the $155 million (£80million) Leon Levy and Shelby White Court at the museum. Villagers in Monteleone (population...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Scientists may have found Medici murder
Posted by NYer
On Religion 01/04/2007 8:51:08 PM EST · 14 replies · 164+ views
Yahoo News | January 3, 2006 | MARIA SANMINIATELLI
Italian scientists believe they have uncovered a 400-year-old murder. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife Bianca Cappello did not die of malaria but were poisoned -- probably by Francesco's brother, Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, who was vying for the title.Now, forensic and toxicology experts at the University of Florence report evidence of arsenic poisoning in a new study published in the British Medical Journal.As rulers, art connoisseurs and financiers of kings, the Medici family flourished for centuries in the rough and tumble alliances of old Europe, providing four popes and...
Ancient Vishnu idol found in Russian town
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On General/Chat 01/04/2007 4:29:08 AM EST · 31 replies · 598+ views
PTI | 4 Jan, 2007 1109hrs IST | PTI
MOSCOW: An ancient Vishnu idol has been found during excavation in an old village in Russia's Volga region, raising questions about the prevalent view on the origin of ancient Russia. The idol found in Staraya (old) Maina village dates back to VII-X century AD. Staraya Maina village in Ulyanovsk region was a highly populated city 1700 years ago, much older than Kiev, so far believed to be the mother of all Russian cities. "We may consider it incredible, but we have ground to assert that Middle-Volga region was the original land of Ancient Rus. This is a hypothesis, but a...
On This Day in History: Muslim Granda surrenders to Los Reyes Catulicos [January 2,1492]
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On General/Chat 01/02/2007 9:07:25 AM EST · 11 replies · 80+ views
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Los Reyes Catulicos en Granada y Boabdil (´El Chicoª) The Reconquista (English: Reconquest) was the process encompassing almost eight centuries, by which the Christian kingdoms of northern Hispania (modern Portugal and Spain) reconquered the Iberian peninsula from the Muslim and Moorish states of Al-¡ndalus. The Umayyad conquest of Hispania from the Visigoths occurred during the early 8th century, and the Reconquista is commonly considered to have begun almost immediately in 722, with the Battle of Covadonga, and completed in 1492, with the Conquest of Granada. In 1236 the last Muslim stronghold of Granada under Mohammed ibn Alhamar was subjugated by...
Faith and Philosophy
The Virgins and the Grapes: the "Christian" Origins of the Koran (Surprise!)
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 04/16/2004 6:38:37 PM EDT · 38 replies · 1,365+ views
Chiesa. com | Sandro Magister
ROMA -- That Aramaic was the lingua franca of a vast area of the ancient Middle East is a notion that is by now amply noted by a vast public, thanks to Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ," which everyone watches in that language. But that Syro-Aramaic was also the root of the Koran, and of the Koran of a primitive Christian system, is a more specialized notion, an almost clandestine one. And it's more than a little dangerous. The author of the most important book on the subject -- a German professor of ancient Semitic and...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Ancient toilet may be new evidence of Jewish sect
Posted by SJackson
On General/Chat 01/04/2007 11:28:52 AM EST · 24 replies · 264+ views
Chicago Tribune | 1-4-06
QUMRAN, West Bank -- Researchers say their discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world's most important archaeological sites sheds new light on whether the ancient community was home to the authors of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In a new study, three researchers say they have discovered the outdoor latrine used by the ancient residents of Qumran, on the barren banks of the Dead Sea. They say the find proves the people living here two millennia ago were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect that left Jerusalem to seek proximity to God in the desert. Qumran and...
British Isles
Solved At Last: The Burning Mystery Of Joan Of Arc
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On News/Activism 12/17/2006 2:08:36 PM EST · 53 replies · 2,445+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 12-17-2006 | Alex Duval
Solved at last: the burning mystery of Joan of Arc France's favourite saint was martyred by her English foes, who ordered her remains to be cast into the Seine. Now scientists believe they have established the facts surrounding her execution Alex Duval Smith in Paris Sunday December 17, 2006 The Observer (UK) Catholic saint, national icon and one of the world's most famous military leaders, Joan of Arc has been a subject of fascination for the French for almost six centuries. Now academics believe they are close to proving that controversial relics are actually those of the real-life Maid of...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Dating A Massive Undersea Slide (8,100 Year Ago)
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On News/Activism 01/05/2007 7:42:11 PM EST · 23 replies · 588+ views
Science News | 1-5-2006 | Sid Perkins
Dating a massive undersea slide Sid Perkins From San Francisco, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union Pieces of moss buried in debris deposits along the Norwegian coast have enabled geologists to better peg the date of an ancient tsunami and the immense underwater landslide that triggered it. Carbon dating of the newly unearthed moss suggests that the landslide occurred about 8,100 years ago. Sometime after the end of the last ice age, the largest landslide known to geologists took place off the coast of Norway. Called the Storegga slide, this slump of seafloor sediments included about 3,000 cubic...
Ancient Europe
The Men of the North
Posted by PghBaldy
On Bloggers & Personal 07/14/2006 5:26:16 AM EDT · 5 replies · 206+ views
The Gates of Vienna | July 12 | Baron Bodissey
For the tens of thousands of years of the W¸rm glaciation, Paleolithic hunting tribes lived at the southern edge of the ice fields in Europe and Asia. About 10,000 years ago, as the last of the glaciers receded, some groups chose to follow the retreating ice northwards. While their cousins in the warmer regions to the south were smelting metal, these hardy tribes were knapping flint. While the southerners were inventing agriculture, slavery, and the ziggurat, the northerners were hunting large game in the chilly grasslands and forests of Central Asia and Northern Europe.
Paleontology
Squirrels That Predict the Future -- Sauropod Mystery Stones
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/03/2007 1:04:31 PM EST · 21 replies · 285+ views
New York Times | January 2, 2007 | Henry Fountain
The sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land creatures ever, with some specimens tipping the scales at up to 60,000 pounds. They were vegetarians, however, and scientists have long wondered how they could have eaten enough to grow so big. They had small heads and pointy teeth, ill-suited to mashing up the large quantities of vegetation needed. So some scientists have suggested that the dinosaurs must have swallowed stones and used them to grind up the food, much the way modern birds do in their gizzards. Such stones, or gastroliths, have been found in fossil sauropods. But a new study by...
Longer Perspectives
Tattoos - The Ancient And Mysterious History
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 01/03/2007 6:20:58 PM EST · 14 replies · 253+ views
Smothsonian Magazine | 1-3-2007 | Cate Lineberry
Tattoos - The Ancient and Mysterious History By Cate Lineberry Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. These permanent designs -- sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal -- have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment. Joann Fletcher, research fellow in the department of archaeology at the University of York in Britain, describes the history of tattoos and their cultural significance to people around the world, from the famous " Iceman," a 5,200-year-old frozen mummy, to today's Maori. What is the earliest evidence of tattoos? In terms of tattoos...
Navigation
Viking Longships' Last Voyage Strikes Fear Into The Heart Of Archaeologists
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On News/Activism 01/01/2007 6:06:17 PM EST · 37 replies · 1,908+ views
Scotsman | Walter Gibbs
Viking longships' last voyage strikes fear into the heart of archaeologists WALTER GIBBS IN OSLO A ROW has broken out in Norway over a decision to move three ancient Viking ships, which may not survive the journey. The University of Oslo has decided to move three longships, probably by lorry and barge, to a new museum, despite dire warnings that the thousand-year-old oak vessels could fall apart en route. A retired curator of Oslo's current Viking Ship Museum has said that the delicately preserved ships, two of which are nearly 80ft long, were almost equal in archaeological importance to the...
Climate
Global warming biggest since Viking era
Posted by presidio9
On News/Activism 02/12/2006 11:49:59 PM EST · 73 replies · 1,243+ views
Cox News Service | Friday, February 10, 2006 | MIKE TONER
The warming of the world during the last century is greater -- and more widespread -- than any other shift in the global climate in the last 1,200 years, researchers reported Thursday. The analysis of data from tree rings, fossil shells, ice cores and actual temperature measurements from 14 locations on three continents shows that the current warming trend is the most extensive change -- warm or cold -- since the time of the Vikings. In their report in the current issue of the journal Science, climatologists Timothy Osborn and Keith Briffa of the University of East Anglia, home to...
Collapse Of Civilisations Linked To Monsoon Changes
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/04/2007 1:32:54 PM EST · 12 replies · 273+ views
New Scientist | 1-4-2007 | Catherine Brahic
Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes 11:13 04 January 2007 NewScientist.com news service Catherine Brahic The downfall of the one of the greatest Chinese dynasties may have been catalysed by severe changes in climate. The same climate changes may have simultaneously led to the end of the Maya civilisation depicted in Mel Gibson's new film Apocalypto. So says Gerald Haug of the GeoForschungsZentrum in Germany and colleagues, who studied geological records of monsoons over the past 16,000 years. They have found a startling correlation between climate extremes and the fall of two great civilisations: the Tang dynasty in China...
The Pacific
Easter Islanders Wonder How Many Statues Are Enough
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On News/Activism 01/05/2007 2:55:25 PM EST · 15 replies · 651+ views
International Herald Tribune | 1-4-2007 | Larry Rohter
Easter Islanders wonder how many statues are enough By Larry Rohter Published: January 4, 2007 RANU RARAKU, Easter Island: As remnants of a vanished culture and a lure to tourists, the mysterious giant statues that stand as mute sentinels along the rocky coast here are the greatest treasure of this remote island. For local people, though, they also present a problem: What should be done about the hundreds of other stone icons, many of them damaged or still embedded in the ground, that are scattered around the island? Commercial and political interests, as well as some archaeologists, would like nothing...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Missouri Man Reels In Ancient FishHook (300-12,000 Years Old)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/02/2007 6:24:53 PM EST · 95 replies · 2,723+ views
Kansas City Star | 1-2-2007 | AP
Missouri man reels in ancient fish hook<Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. - A man hunting for American Indian artifacts with his sons along a gravel bar on the Missouri River has uncovered an ancient fishhook that is making collectors envious. "The first thing I thought is, 'I hope this isn't metal,'" said Eric Henley, who found the hook last month near McBaine. "When I picked it up, there was a pretty good jump for joy and a couple of 'whoops' and yells. It's the cream of the crop." The hook is made of bone and covers his entire palm, making it...
Inca justice system eyed by Morales may use whipping
Posted by 3AngelaD
On News/Activism 11/29/2006 10:38:33 AM EST · 24 replies · 653+ views
The Washington Times | November 29, 2006 | Anton Foek
THE HAGUE -- Bolivian President Evo Morales, on a state visit to the Netherlands, said he is searching for a new model of democracy that could include reviving the ancient tradition of whipping petty criminals as an alternative to jail. "When I was a kid I was punished several times, being whipped and lashed," the leftist president said Monday... "Whenever I did something wrong, I received punishment with a chicote [the loose end of a rope], and always believed that the system our ancestors used was better than the system in the northern justice system....," he said. Meanwhile, some 5,000...
Epigraphy and Language
S. Korea: Oldest Movable Metal Hangul Type Found
Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 01/05/2007 8:06:06 AM EST · 13 replies · 280+ views
Chosun Ilbo | 01/05/07
Oldest Movable Metal Hangul Type Found Scholars say they have identified the earliest metal type in Hangul, the Korean alphabet. The movable type dates back to the mid-15th century. The National Museum of Korea said Thursday the museum recently rearranged the 752 oldest out of hundreds of thousands of letters in its collection. Among them, 30 letters were probably used for the "Neungeomgyeong Eunhae" published in 1461 during the time of King Se-jo, a Korean translation of the Shurangama Sutra Buddhist text, and for the "Dusieeonhae", a translated poety book published in 1481. Movable Hangul metal type probably dating...
Treasure Emerges From The Mud Of History (Psalter - Ireland)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/02/2007 6:18:34 PM EST · 19 replies · 547+ views
Times On Line | 1-2-2007 | Dalya Alberg
Treasure emerges from the mud of history Dalya Alberg, Arts CorrespondentConservators say the psalter can be restored, although the centres of all the pages have rotted To the untutored eye, it looks like a lump of mud, but experts say that an 8th-century psalter found in an Irish peat bog is exceptionally significant. Even though the vellum pages of the early Book of Psalms are a crumpled mass, they are likening it to the Book of Kells, one of the world's most beautiful illuminated manuscripts. As the find is thought to date from the late 8th century, the illuminators of...
Dying Languages
Posted by Valin
On News/Activism 01/02/2007 9:25:46 AM EST · 66 replies · 1,327+ views
NY Sun | 12/28/06 | JOHN McWHORTER
In the rush of the holiday season you may have missed that a white buffalo was born at a small zoo in Pennsylvania. Only one in 10 million buffalo is born white, and local Native Americans gave him a name in the Lenape language: kenahkihinen, which means "watch over us." They found that in a book, however. No one has actually spoken Lenape for a very long time. It was once the language of what is now known as the tristate area, but its speakers gradually switched to English, as happened to the vast majority of the hundreds of languages...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Purging the Classics From the Local Library
Posted by rellimpank
On News/Activism 01/04/2007 2:35:12 PM EST · 123 replies · 2,034+ views
American Spectator | 04 Jan 07 | G. Tracy Mehan, III
My mother never had the opportunity to attend college. Yet, on her nightstand, next to her bed, could always be found books by the likes of a Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, or Robert Louis Stevenson. The product of parochial schools and an America that still treasured high-quality literature, my mother breathed the healthy air of culture not yet polluted by the corrosive effects of the radicalism of the 1960s, rampant egalitarianism, consumerism, or postmodernism. My mother's literary tastes, an inheritance, really, of the society into which she was born and raised, came to mind as I read of the purging...
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Weekly Digest #130
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Biology and Cryptobiology
Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 C, may offer clues to evolution of nitrogen fixation
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/09/2007 3:29:24 AM EST · 9 replies · 78+ views
University of Washington | December 14, 2006 | Office of News and Information
Archaea are single-celled organisms that live under extreme environmental conditions, such as the high temperatures and crushing pressures below the seafloor. If heat-loving archaea were the first life on the planet, they would have needed a usable source of nitrogen, Baross says. Known as FS406-22 because of the fluid and culture samples it came from, the archaeon discovered by the UW researchers is the first from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent that can fix nitrogen, says Mehta, first author on the Science paper. It was collected at Axial Volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of Washington and...
Africa
Climate Key To Sphinx's Riddle
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/08/2007 2:27:02 PM EST · 42 replies · 1,344+ views
Scotsman | 1-7-2006 | Jeremy Watson
Climate key to Sphinx's riddle JEREMY WATSON GLOBAL warming is one of the greatest threats to present day civilisation but work by a team of Scots scientists suggests the ancient Egyptians may have been earlier victims of climate change. The pharaohs ruled their empire for hundreds of years, spreading culture, architecture and the arts before it collapsed into economic ruin. Why that happened is one of the great mysteries of history. Now a team of scientists from Scotland and Wales believe the answer lies beneath the waters of Lake Tana, high in the Ethiopian Highlands, and the source of the...
Climate
Small Organisms, Great Proxies
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/12/2007 1:47:54 AM EST · 5 replies · 36+ views
University of Arkansas | Monday, October 23, 2006 | Melissa Lutz Blouin
The present and past compositions of communities of single-celled algae in several Canadian lakes and their relationship to the known climate record suggest that these organisms and the lakes they reside in are highly influenced by sun spot cycles, says a University of Arkansas researcher. In addition, the paleorecord of the fossilized organisms from one of the lakes reflects a climate-changing event at the end of the last Ice Age more than 8,000 years ago. Together, these findings indicate that fossil diatoms in lake sediments provide a strong proxy for paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental change... The fossil record at lac du...
Climate change killed golden civilisations
Posted by melt
On News/Activism 01/06/2007 9:21:49 PM EST · 60 replies · 1,276+ views
The Sunday Times | 1/07/07 | Michael Sheridan
NEW research suggests that climate change led to the collapse of the most splendid imperial dynasty in Chinaís history and to the extinction of the Maya civilisation in Central America more than 1,000 years ago. There has never been a satisfactory explanation for the decline and fall of the Tang emperors, whose era is viewed as a highpoint of Chinese civilisation, while the disappearance of the Maya world perplexes scholars. Now a team of scientists has found evidence that a shift in monsoons led to drought and famine in the final century of Tang power. The weather pattern may also...
Prehistory and Origins
Archaeologist's Find Could Shake Up Science (Topper Site)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/08/2007 2:14:54 PM EST · 82 replies · 2,541+ views
SP Times | 1-7-2007 | Heather Urquides
Archaeologist's find could shake up science By HEATHER URQUIDES Published January 7, 2007 Archaeologist Albert Goodyear is working on the find of his life. Based on radiocarbon tests and artifacts he's found along the Savannah River in South Carolina, Goodyear believes that humans existed in North America as many as 50,000 years ago, shattering the long-held notion that the earliest settlers arrived here about 13,000 years ago in Alaska via a lost land bridge. Not everyone is convinced, but Goodyear believes further excavation and testing at the South Carolina location, known as the Topper site, will confirm his findings. He's...
New Signposts On The Path Of Early Human Migration
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/11/2007 7:14:12 PM EST · 19 replies · 349+ views
New Scientist | 1-11-2007 | Jeff Hecht
New signposts on the path of early human migration 19:00 11 January 2007 NewScientist.com news service Jeff Hecht The resemblance of the South African skull to European finds suggests early humans arrived relatively lat in Europe (Image: Luci Betti-Nash)Related Articles The Big Questions: What comes after Homo sapiens? Finds from the Paleolithic site in Russia including possible art and shells imported from more than 500 kilometres away (Image: Science)An old South African skull and an ancient settlement along the Don River in Russia lend crucial support to the idea that modern humans spread from Africa across Eurasia only 50,000 years...
Spread of modern humans occurred later than previously thought, profs say
Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On General/Chat 01/12/2007 12:30:39 AM EST · 16 replies · 142+ views
EurekAlert! News | January 11, 2007 | Staff
The spread of modern humans out of Africa occurred 40,000 to 50,000 years later than previously thought, according to researchers including one Texas A&M University anthropologist. Ted Goebel, associate director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M, is the author of the paper titled "The Missing Years for Modern Humans" that appears in the Jan. 12 (Friday) issue of Science. Goebel's paper is one of three published in the current issue of Science dealing with the origins and dispersals of modern humans during the Ice Age. A fourth paper appeared in a previous issue...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Tools Found In Walker, May Be 14,000 Years Old
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/12/2007 11:34:52 AM EST · 22 replies · 306+ views
WCCO-TV | Friday, January 12, 2007 | Associated Press
Archaeologists have discovered stone tools atop a hill in this northern Minnesota town that may be 13,000 to 14,000 years old, according to a published report... Britta Bloomberg, Minnesota's deputy historic preservation officer, said it may be among the oldest known archaeological sites in North and South America. A half-dozen archaeologists, soil scientists and others who have examined the site all said the artifacts are genuine, she said... Mattson said the objects were found underneath a band of rock and gravel that appeared to have been deposited by melting glaciers and then covered by windblown sediment, Mather said... [T]he site...
Ancient burial ground discovered during duck hunt[Oklahoma]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 01/11/2007 2:02:36 AM EST · 26 replies · 649+ views
Benton County Daily Record | 09 Jan 2007 | Jeff Della Rosa
SILOAM SPRINGS ó Bryan Austin of Siloam Springs thought heíd found a crime scene when he spotted a human skull under a pile of rocks while he was duck hunting in northeast Oklahoma. Looking for a good place to set up a camouflage hunting screen Nov. 19 on a mud flat in the Spavinaw Creek drainage area, Austin found what turned out to be an ancient skull. He later learned that the site is an ancient Indian burial ground. ì Itís absolutely amazing, î Austin said. ì Iím incredibly interested in this kind of stuff. Itís in my line of...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Moment 600 years ago that terror came to Mummies of the Amazon
Posted by Rodney King
On News/Activism 01/11/2007 4:17:32 PM EST · 58 replies · 1,215+ views
thisislondon.co.uk | yesterday | staff
Hands over her eyes and her face gripped with terror, the woman's fear of death is all too obvious. The remarkable mummy was found in a hidden burial vault in the Amazon. It is at least 600 years old and has survived thanks to the embalming skills of her tribe, the Chachapoyas or cloud warriors. Eleven further mummies were recovered from the massive cave complex 82ft down. The vault - which was also used for worship - was chanced upon three months ago by a farmer working at the edge of northern Peru's rainforest. He tipped off scientists who uncovered...
Theory for mass deaths roils Mexico (Not just the Conquistadors,, how about Rats?)
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 01/08/2007 12:19:25 AM EST · 20 replies · 282+ views
AP on Yahoo | 1/7/07 | Mark Stevenson - ap
MEXICO CITY - Mexicans have long been taught to blame diseases brought by the Spaniards for wiping out most of their Indian ancestors. But recent research suggests things may not be that simple. While the initial big die-offs are still blamed on the Conquistadors who started arriving in 1519, even more virulent epidemics in 1545 and 1576 may have been caused by a native blood-hemorrhaging fever spread by rats, Mexican researchers say. The idea has sparked heated debate in Mexican academic circles. One camp holds that the epidemics could have been spread by rats migrating during a drought cycle; others...
Ancient Europe
Ancient DNA (Cheddar Man, Otzi, Etc)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/07/2007 8:11:17 PM EST · 49 replies · 1,034+ views
International Society Of Genetic Geneology | 1-7-2007
To see the DNA results of some of the ancient people click here. You'll have to scan around to find this exact page but it contains many links of interest. A compilation of DNA haplotypes extracted from ancient remains Cheddar ManIn 1903, skeletal remains were found in a cave in Cheddar, England. The remains of a 23 year-old man, who was killed by a blow to the face, were discovered to be at least 9,000 years old. Ninety-four years after the discovery of "Cheddar Man", scientists were able to extract mitochondrial DNA from his tooth cavity. Name Haplo Haplotype Cheddar...
British Isles
Girl power in the Tower
Posted by markomalley
On General/Chat 01/04/2007 9:12:42 AM EST · 10 replies · 169+ views
Reuters | 1/4/2007
LONDON: The guardians of the historic Tower of London are enlisting girl power for the first time in their 522-year history. The Tower's Yeoman Warders, commonly known as Beefeaters -- whose ceremonial dress is a distinctive scarlet and gold tunic, white ruff, red stockings and black patent shoes -- have appointed the first female member to their ranks. "There were six candidates -- five were male and she was the only female," spokeswoman Natasha Woollard said. "She was the best candidate for the job." Woollard said the woman, whose name has not yet been made public, was serving in the...
Central Asia
Ancient 'Warrior' Found In Permafrost (Altai Mtns)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/10/2007 6:32:52 PM EST · 77 replies · 1,887+ views
News.com.au | 1-10-2007
Ancient 'warrior' found in permafrostFrom correspondents in Moscow January 10, 2007 11:48pm RUSSIAN archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the official Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily says. The warrior was blond had tattoos on his body. He was wearing a felt coat with sable fur trimmings and was buried in a wooden frame containing drawings of mythological creatures with an icepick beside him, the paper said. Local archaeologists believe the man was part of the ruling elite of a local nomadic tribe known as the Pazyryk. Numerous other Pazyryk tombs...
China
Luban King I mausoleum excavated
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/10/2007 2:26:23 PM EST · 1 reply
Anhui News | January 8, 2007 | Zhang Yanlin
The grand ceremony of the No.1 Hang Dynasty mausoleum excavation was held yesterday at Shuangdun in Luban City of Anhui Province. After 9 months hard work, archaeologists will display their achievements to the public. Experts have made certain the owner of the mausoleum is the Luban King I of Liu Qing. It is the largest-scale one in Anhui Province in recent years. The excavation brings us the vivid picture of the social, economic and cultural development of that period; especially a lot of pottery and bronzes from the mausoleum can make great contributions to the archaeological research.
Rome and Italy
Ancient Roman Road Found In Netherlands
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/06/2007 3:30:02 PM EST · 25 replies · 657+ views
Yahoo News | 1-5-2007 | Toby Sterling
Ancient Roman road found in Netherlands By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 5, 3:19 PM ET AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Archaeologists in the Netherlands have uncovered what they believe is part of the military road Roman soldiers patrolled nearly 2,000 years ago while guarding against hostile Germanic tribes at the Roman Empire's northern boundary. Known in Latin as the "limes," the road was in use from roughly A.D. 50 to A.D. 350, before it fell into disrepair and eventually disappeared underground, said archaeologist Wilfried Hessing, who is leading the excavations in Houten, about 30 miles southeast of Amsterdam. The...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
ET Gems: Black Diamonds Come From Outer Space
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 01/09/2007 5:37:49 PM EST · 13 replies · 243+ views
Yahoo/Live Science | 1-8-2006 | Jeanna Bryer
ET Gems: Black Diamonds Come from Outer Space Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Mon Jan 8, 7:20 PM ET If youíre looking for a space-age way to propose marriage, a black-diamond ring might be the way to go. Long baffled by their origin, scientists now have evidence that these charcoal-colored gems formed in outer space. Stephen Haggerty and Jozsef Garai, both of Florida International University, analyzed the hydrogen in black diamond samples using infrared-detection instruments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and found that the quantity indicated that the mineral formed in a supernova explosion. Also called carbonado diamonds, meaning...
The world's biggest meteor crater [ Vredefort Dome, South Africa ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 12/07/2006 1:50:15 AM EST · 17 replies · 313+ views
South Africa Info | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 | Mary Alexander
Two billion years ago a meteorite 10km in diameter hit the earth about 100km southwest of Johannesburg, creating an enormous impact crater. This area, near Vredefort in the Free State, is now known as the Vredefort Dome... The meteorite, larger than Table Mountain, caused a thousand-megaton blast of energy. The impact would have vaporised about 70 cubic kilometres of rock - and may have increased the earth's oxygen levels to a degree that made the development of multicellular life possible... The original crater, now eroded away, was probably 250 to 300 kilometres in diameter. It was larger than the Sudbury...
Burnt City
Anthropologists identify professional rider at Burnt City
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/10/2007 1:12:11 PM EST · 9 replies · 153+ views
Mehr News Agency | January 1, 2007 | unattributed
A team of Iranian and British anthropologists working on human remains discovered at the 5200-year-old Burnt City have identified a male rider who they believe was a messenger in ancient times... ìThe marks indicate that he had gathered his right leg while riding. Thus the riding was carried out on a big animal like a camel or ox,î Foruzanfar explained. There is evidence that draft animals were used in the Burnt City in ancient times, but gathering a leg while riding is something someone does while riding a camel over long distances. Thus, it is surmised that the man was...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Quest for Median Evidence at Ecbatana Hill Turns Hopeless
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/10/2007 1:59:07 PM EST · 3 replies · 45+ views
Cultural Heritage News Agency | December 30, 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Contrary to what archeologists and historians had previously believed about the existence of Medians at Ecbatana Hill, latest archeological studies at this ancient hill have so far revealed no single evidence from the Median Empire (728 BC-550 BC)... Masoud Azarnoush told CHN that stratigraphy works and dowsing operations in five places on the hill have only revealed evidence of the Parthian civilization (248 BCñ224 AD)... "The present theory is proposed based on findings in the area in which soundings were made and it is possible to find evidence of the Medes somewhere else on the hill," said team director Azarnoush......
Anatolia
Lost city of Pteria found in Yozgat
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/10/2007 1:48:25 PM EST · 12 replies · 106+ views
Turkish Daily News | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | unattributed
"Kerkenes is supposed to be a part of Phrygian culture. The ancient city of Pteria implied a date later than that of the Phrygian period in Kerkenes; however, the establishment of the ancient city couldn't be wholly realized and it served as a settlement area only for a period of 50 years. The founder of the city chose this particular location due to its geographical convenience for defense and travel routes. The administrative, religious and military structures in the city indicate that it was originally established for long-term settlement. But archaeological surveys show that the city was burned, destroyed and...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Unearthing the mystery of the priestly city of Nob
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/10/2007 2:10:07 PM EST · 17 replies · 177+ views
Haaretz | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | Ran Shapira
The first biblical reference to the city of Nob is in Samuel I. During King Saul's reign, after the destruction of Shiloh, priests from the house of Eli resided in Nob, and the tabernacle was located there. After Saul discovered that one of the priests, Ahimelech ben Ahituv, gave David Goliath's sword, which was also kept in Nob, and that David had managed to escape, the king ordered all of Nob's inhabitants killed... Despite Saul's vengeance, the city remained intact for hundreds of years. The prophet Isaiah mentions it in his description of a journey taken by King Ashur of...
Longer Perspectives
Tomb-raiding tradition thriving in West Bank
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/10/2007 12:57:32 PM EST · 3 replies · 34+ views
Boston Globe | December 31, 2006 | Matthew Kalman
"The mountains and valleys in this area are full of caves. All the boys and men in the village search the caves to look for antiquities, and they bring whatever they find to me, because I am the mukhtar, the leader of the village, and I know about all these things," the 50-year-old Abu Moussa told visitors to his tiny village southeast of Jerusalem, which residents call Herodion after the archeological site nearby. He displayed a table full of artifacts, including a 3,000-year-old Canaanite earthenware jug, several oil lamps and decorated bowls, and fistfuls of ancient coins, weights, and arrowheads......
400-Year-Old Telescopes Appear In The Strangest Of Places
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/06/2007 3:39:59 PM EST · 65 replies · 1,844+ views
Red Ordit | 1-5-2007
Posted on: Friday, 5 January 2007, 06:15 CST 400-Year-Old Telescopes Appear in the Strangest of Places CHICAGO -- Like cell phones or the Internet in recent history, the telescope's introduction in the early 17th Century had a swift and lasting impact on the world. Telescopes revolutionized military strategy and within months showed the father of astronomy, Galileo Galilei, that Earth is not the center of the universe. Until recently, scholars thought only 8 or 10 of these important early telescopes _ made between 1608 and 1650 of tightly rolled paper and crudely ground lenses _ had survived to the present...
Navigation
New Viking Treasures Found (Norway)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/08/2007 1:56:12 PM EST · 22 replies · 826+ views
Aftenposten | 1-7-2007
New Viking treasures found Archaeologists have made a major discovery in Western Norway, unearthing well-preserved Viking graves from the 9th century full of riches.Glass beads covered with gold are among the items found in the Viking graves. PHOTO: JONAS HAAR FRIESTAD Workers at the excavation site are awed by what they've found. PHOTO: JONAS HAAR FRIESTAD The Viking treasures were found at Fr¯yland in Rogaland County. Local newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad reported Monday that items recovered from the graves indicate they belonged to wealthy Vikings of the time. In one of the graves, belonging to a woman, archaeologists found jewellery, many...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Dracula's Castle's Up for Sale
Posted by lowbridge
On News/Activism 01/11/2007 10:40:48 AM EST · 89 replies · 1,493+ views
AP | January 11, 2007
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - You might think the owners of Dracula's castle are out for blood. The family that owns the Transylvanian castle wants $78 million dollars for it. The castle was home to the 15th century medieval ruler who inspired the novel about the blood- sucking Count Dracula. Dominic Habsburg is a member of the castle-owning family and an architect in upstate, New York. He insists his family is being reasonable. He says the family wants the castle preserved and selling it to local authorities is the best way to do it. The Transylvanian castle is now a tourist...
Ancient Egypt
Minnesota Court Rules on Internet Libel
Posted by ppaul
On News/Activism 07/12/2002 2:11:50 AM EDT · 8 replies · 392+ views
AP | 7/11/02 | Brian Bakst
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Minnesota woman who wrote a message on the Internet critical of an Alabama scholar cannot be sued for libel in the scholar's home state. The woman's lawyer said the ruling shows that free-speech rules covering newspapers, magazines or television also apply to a new medium like the Internet. The high court vacated a $25,000 judgment against Marianne Luban, whose criticism on an Internet newsgroup devoted to Egyptology was directed at Katherine Griffis, a scholar living in Alabama. The Internet posting mentioned that Griffis had ties to Alabama,...
Iberia
Today in History: Catherine of Aragon RIP [Jan. 07,1536]
Posted by yankeedame
On General/Chat 01/06/2007 9:30:26 AM EST · 8 replies · 119+ views
Answers.com
Catherine of Aragon The recently-widowed youngCatherine of Aragon, by Henry VII's court painter, Michael Sittow, c. 1502 Born: 16 December 1485 Birthplace: Alcala de Henares, Spain Died: 7 January 1536 (natural causes) Best Known As: First wife of Henry VIII Katharine of Aragon, 1485ñ1536, first queen consort of Henry VIII of England; daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. In 1501 she was married to Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII. He died in 1502, and the marriage of Katharine to his brother, Henry, was projected. A papal dispensation was obtained, but the marriage was delayed...
Ancient Autopsies
Scientists Recreate (Less Ugly) Face Of Dante
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 01/11/2007 9:56:50 PM EST · 6 replies · 151+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 1-12-2007 | Malcom Moore
Scientists recreate (less ugly) face of Dante By Malcolm Moore in Florence Last Updated: 2:26am GMT 12/01/2007 Dante Alighieri did not, after all, have bulging eyes or a pointed chin ó but his enormous nose was true to life, according to scientists who have created a replica of the poet's face by measuring the remains of his skull. The 3D reconstruction, based on skull measurements, alongside Botticelli's portrait of Dante Alighieri The researchers at the University of Bologna have pieced together the "true face" of Florence's favourite son and discovered that it was very different from the portraits of him...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
NEW FOR 2007: UPDATED MASTER List of FReeper PING LISTS; Vol. VII - JANUARY Edition!
Posted by cgk
On News/Activism 01/11/2007 11:59:37 AM EST · 83 replies · 619+ views
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one of those old-fashioned topics, with a catastrophism focus:
The Origin of Sex: Cosmic Solution to Ancient Mystery
Source: Reuters
Published: Tuesday July 10 09:57 AM EDT
Author: Robert Roy Britt, Senior Science Writer, SPACE.com
Posted on 07/11/2001 09:23:06 PDT by Junior
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b4c7d6a4873.htm
[original, dead link]
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/space/20010710/sc/the_origin_of_sex_cosmic_solution_to_ancient_mystery_1.html
[also at http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/origin_sex_010710.html ]
Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #131
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Africa
Out of Africa... and into Russia
Posted by texas booster
On News/Activism 01/14/2007 12:58:33 AM EST · 7 replies · 280+ views
PhysOrg.com | 01/12/2007 | Staff
New research published on Friday backs the theory that modern humans spread out of Africa relatively recently, around 50,000 years ago, on the first step of our species' conquest of the planet. The "Out of Africa" scenario is well known but only a few hominid fossils or artefacts have emerged to explain when the great trek began and how humans dispersed. A find in Russia, though, and a fresh look at a skull discovered in South Africa more than half a century ago, offer new clues, scientists say. An international research team, delving into a site of ancient volcanic ash...
Neanderthal / Neandertal
Skull suggests human-Neanderthal link (found in a cave in Romania)
Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 01/15/2007 7:48:07 PM EST · 57 replies · 1,126+ views
AP on Yahoo | 1/15/07 | Randolph E. Schmid - ap
WASHINGTON - A skull found in a cave in Romania includes features of both modern humans and Neanderthals, possibly suggesting that the two may have interbred thousands of years ago. Neanderthals were replaced by early modern humans. Researchers have long debated whether the two groups mixed together, though most doubt it. The last evidence for Neanderthals dates from at least 24,000 years ago. The skull bearing both older and modern characteristics is discussed in a paper by Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis. The report appears in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The...
Ancient Skull Has Both Neanderthal, Modern Characteristics (Evolution Alert!)
Posted by scottdeus12
On News/Activism 01/16/2007 1:54:23 PM EST · 34 replies · 884+ views
Foxnews | 1/16/07 | Robert Roy Britt
A strange ancient skull recently uncovered adds to mounting evidence that humans and Neanderthals interbred and suggests that humans evolved considerably after settling the European continent some 40,000 years ago. Modern humans emerged from Africa about 150,000 years ago, according to the leading theory (which has been challenged in recent years). The newfound skull is thought to be from sometime in the first 5,000 years of human habitation of Europe. The skull is unlike anything previously dug up.
European Skull's Evolving Story (Neanderthal/Modern Hybrid?)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/17/2007 8:53:35 PM EST · 3 replies · 168+ views
BBC | 1-17-2007
European skull's evolving story The specimen was found along with bear remains The earliest modern humans in Europe were short of being the complete article, according to a study of a fossilised skull from Romania. The 35,000-year-old cranium discovered in Pestera cu Oase in the west of the country shows an interesting mix of features, say scientists. Whilst undeniably a Homo sapiens specimen, it has some traits normally associated with more ancient species. The skull is reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr Helene Rougier, from Washington University in St Louis, US, and colleagues say the fossil...
Prehistory and Origins
Hobbit Like Humans Show Indonesia Was "Middle Earth"
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/15/2007 10:38:13 AM EST · 33 replies · 755+ views
Northern Daily Leader - Moora | 1-15-2007 | Anna Henderson
Monday, 15 January 2007 Hobbit like humans show Indonesia was "middle earth" Anna Henderson In a world first, a book detailing the discovery of a lost species of hobbit-like people who lived on a remote tropical Indonesian island less than 20,000 years ago was launched in Armidale in northern NSW on Saturday. According to research completed by University of New England Professor, Mike Moorwood, the artefacts his group unearthed during a 2003 archaeological dig on Flores Island suggest a kind of "middle earth" existed there, with metre-high humans hunting miniature elephants, giant rodents and Komodo dragons. Professor Moorwood wrote "The...
Ancient Europe
Archaeological finds 'up by 45% (UK)
Posted by xcamel
On News/Activism 01/17/2007 8:58:45 PM EST · 5 replies · 275+ views
BBC | Wednesday, 17 January 2007 | unattributed
Archaeological finds in the UK have risen by 45% as a result of continuous work by metal detector enthusiasts, according to a report. In 2005/2006, there were 57,566 finds reported to the government-funded Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) compared with 39,933 in 2004/2005. Culture Secretary David Lammy praised the "responsible approach" of amateur metal detectorists in reporting finds. He said they were the "unsung heroes of the UK's heritage". Speaking at the British Museum on Wednesday, he said: "Thanks to the responsible approach they display in reporting finds and the systems we have set up to record them, more archaeological material...
British Isles
Paviland Cave And The Red Lady
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/17/2007 3:39:44 PM EST · 16 replies · 481+ views
Wales On Line
Paviland Cave and The Red Lady Paviland Cave, on the south coast of the Gower peninsula, South Wales, is an Early Upper Palaeolithic (Early Stone Age) archaeological site, dating to roughly 30,000 - 20,000 years ago. It is the richest site of its kind in Britain, with four and a half thousand finds, including worked bone and stone (lithic) tools. The Red Lady of Paviland was a fairly complete human skeleton dyed in red ochre that was discovered in 1826 by the Reverend William Buckland in one of the Paviland limestone caves at )Goat's Hole Cave). The "lady" has since...
Anatolia
Unique Rock Paintings Reveal Traces Of Prehistoric Human Settlement In Anatolia
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/18/2007 4:56:25 PM EST · 19 replies · 401+ views
Turkish Daily News | 1-18-2007
Unique rock paintings reveal traces of prehistoric human settlement in Anatolia Thursday, January 18, 2007 ANKARA ñ Turkish Daily News On the shores of Lake Bafa in southwest Turkey, prehistoric rock paintings found on Mt. Latmos in the Five Fingers Mountains have been classified as unique anthropological works because of their use of language and social themes. Archaeologist Annelise Peschlow has been conducting a survey of the area, the ancient city of Miletusare, since 1974 as part of the Latmos Project to find early traces of human settlements in the area. The city's evolution extended from prehistoric times to the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
A Culture Shaped By Natural Disasters (Thera/Akrotiri)
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On News/Activism 01/16/2007 6:33:09 PM EST · 12 replies · 248+ views
Kathimerini | 1-16-2007 | Christos Doumas
A culture shaped by natural disasters Archaeologist Christos Doumas says ancient Thera's civilization was influenced by its response to chronic earthquakes and volcanic explosions Part of a frieze depicting a naval battle in Room 5 of the Western House at Akrotiri. It shows warriors with helmets and rectangular shields. The submerged first floor of a house buried beneath the pumice at Akrotiri. Residents tried to retrieve their belongings and goods after an earthquake, foraging through the ruins. On some occasions, the island's volcano erupted before Therans could gather anything and so those belongings were buried under pumice. Archaeologists have unearthed...
Australia and the Pacific
Toba in Sumatra a candidate for super volcano ???
Posted by Beowulf9
On News/Activism 01/14/2007 6:28:48 PM EST · 53 replies · 1,366+ views
India Daily | Jan 6 2007 | India Daily Technology Team
The devastating Tusnami was precursor to what is coming in 2012. Toba in Sumatra can explode 100 times more violently than what happened 74,000 years back. The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe dramatically affecting life on Earth. Scientists now find through extrapolation cycle study that the 74,000 years back super volcano in Toba, Sumatra was the warm up for what may be coming in 2012. Around Toba, increasing harmonic tremors have started after the Tsunami two years back. It would devastate...
Asia
Japan:Huge rock below earth's crust may have caused catastrophe millions of years ago
Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 01/15/2007 6:20:43 AM EST · 57 replies · 1,707+ views
Mainichi Daily News | 01/15/07
Huge rock below earth's crust may have caused catastrophe millions of years ago A huge rock called a "megalith," which lies deep below the earth's crust, may have played a part in a global catastrophe that is believed to have occurred 40 to 50 million years ago, researchers said. A megalith is supposed to have caused the sinking of the Japanese archipelago in the popular film, "Nihon Chinbotsu" ("The Sinking of Japan"). Researchers say a catastrophe on a greater scale than the sinking of Japan may have occurred 40 to 50 million years ago, noting that a megalith collapsed below...
Climate
Going Under Down Under: Early People At Fault In Australian Extinctions
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On News/Activism 01/19/2007 7:06:20 PM EST · 14 replies · 221+ views
Science News | 1-19-2007 | Sid Perkins
Going Under Down Under: Early people at fault in Australian extinctions Sid Perkins A lengthy, newly compiled fossil record of Australian mammals bolsters the notion that humanity's arrival on the island continent led to the extinction of many large creatures there. Archaeological evidence suggests that people arrived in northern and western Australia about 50,000 years ago (SN: 3/15/03, p. 173: Available to subscribers at http://www.sciencenews.org By 5,000 years later, about 90 percent of the continent's mammals larger than a house cat had gone extinct, says Gavin J. Prideaux, a paleontologist at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. Casualties of that...
Fertile Crescent
Ruins in Northern Syria Bear the Scars of a City's Final Battle
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/16/2007 10:36:52 AM EST · 7 replies · 125+ views
New York Times | January 16, 2007 | John Noble Wilford
Archaeologists digging in Syria, in the upper reaches of what was ancient Mesopotamia, have found new evidence of how one of the world's earliest cities met a violent end by fire, collapsing walls and roofs, and a fierce rain of clay bullets. The battle left some of the oldest known ruins of organized warfare. The excavations at the city, Tell Hamoukar, which was destroyed in about 3500 B.C., have also exposed remains suggesting its origins as a manufacturing center for obsidian tools and blades, perhaps as early as 4500 B.C... Expanded excavations at Tell Brak, Habuba Kabira, Hamoukar and elsewhere...
Ancient Weapons Found In RuinsIn Syria
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On News/Activism 01/16/2007 6:46:37 PM EST · 12 replies · 564+ views
Yahoo News | 1-16-2007 | Tara Burghart
Ancient weapons found in ruins in Syria By TARA BURGHART, Associated Press Writer Tue Jan 16, 12:29 PM ET CHICAGO - It was the ancient version of a last stand: Twelve clay bullets lined up and ready to be shot from slings in a desperate attempt to stop fierce invaders who soon would reduce much of the city to rubble. The discovery was made in the ruins of Hamoukar, an ancient settlement in northeastern Syria located just miles from the border with Iraq. Thought to be one of the world's earliest cities and located in northern Mesopotamia between the Tigris...
New Details of First Major Urban Battle Emerge
Posted by Valin
On News/Activism 01/17/2007 9:03:09 AM EST · 6 replies · 353+ views
CCNews | 1/17/07
New details in the tragic end of one of the world's earliest cities as well as clues about how urban life may have begun there were revealed in a recent excavation in northeastern Syria that was conducted by the University of Chicago and the Syrian Department of Antiquities. "The attack must have been swift and intense. Buildings collapsed, burning out of control, burying everything in them under vast pile of rubble," said Clemens Reichel, the American co-director of the Syrian-American Archaeological Expedition to Hamoukar. Reichel, a Research Associate at the University's Oriental Institute, added that the assault probably left the...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Jiroft Is Lost Link Of Chain Of Civilization: Majidzadeh
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On News/Activism 01/13/2007 6:15:01 PM EST · 10 replies · 337+ views
Mehr News | 1-12-2007
Jiroft is lost link of chain of civilization: Majidzadeh TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologist Yusef Majidzadeh believes that Jiroft is the lost link of the chain of civilization and says it has such a significant civilization that he would be proud to be named an honorary citizen of the ancient site. In a seminar entitled ìJiroft, the Cradle of Oriental Civilizationî held in Kerman on Thursday, he said, ìThe history of civilization in Jiroft dates back to 2700 BC and the third millennium civilization is the lost link of the chain of civilization which archaeologists have long sought....
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Stonehenge Didn't Stand Alone, Excavations Show
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/13/2007 6:00:37 PM EST · 70 replies · 1,502+ views
National Geographic | 1-12-2007 | James Owen
Stonehenge Didn't Stand Alone, Excavations Show James Owen for National Geographic News January 12, 2007 Recent excavations of Salisbury Plain in southern England have revealed at least two other large stone formations close by the world-famous prehistoric monument. One of the megalithic finds is a sandstone formation that marked a ritual burial mound; the other, a group of stones at the site of an ancient timber circle. The new discoveries suggest that many similar monuments may have been erected in the shadow of Stonehenge, possibly forming part of a much larger complex, experts say. The findings were part of the...
Ancient Egypt
'Ancient Artefacts Brought Over By Egyptians, Not By Traders' (Malta)
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On News/Activism 01/13/2007 6:08:47 PM EST · 15 replies · 297+ views
Times Of Malta | 1-13-2007 | Natalino Fenech
'Ancient artefacts brought over by Egyptians, not by traders' Natalino Fenech The triad discovered at an abandoned archaeological site in Gozo in 1713. Two members of the Egyptological Society of Malta are promoting the theory that the many ancient Egyptian artefacts unearthed in Malta were brought over by the Egyptians themselves, and not, as commonly thought, by traders. In an article titled Did The Ancient Egyptians Ever Reach Malta?, published in the Egyptian Egyptological journal, Anton Mifsud and Marta Farrugia analysed Egyptian artefacts found here and went through old and recently published material on which to base their conclusions. Dr...
Chain Reaction [nuke plant a shock - rimshot! - to Zahi Hawass]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/18/2007 1:55:52 PM EST · 3 replies · 38+ views
Egypt Today | January 2007 | unattributed
News of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy's plan to set up a nuclear power plant in the North Coast Daba'a region has come as a shock to Dr. Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), who identified the area as one recognized in antiquated maps as the site of the ancient city of Zefrium. According to Hawass, the entire stretch between Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh, including Daba'a, is riddled with ruins covering the Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman eras. The SCA head was also quick to point out that when the Daba'a area was...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Of Manimals and Humanzees
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 01/18/2007 12:58:32 AM EST · 28 replies · 545+ views
Science & Spirit | 17 Jan 2007 | Cindy Kuzma
The idea that humans and chimps interbred causes discomfort in some circles, even as science explores the potential benefits of hybrids and the blurring of what was once a bright line between species. In 1997, developmental biologist Stuart Newman did something relatively unusual for a scientist: He submitted a patent application for a technology he hoped never to use. In it, he laid claim to the humanzee, a chimera made by combining the embryonic cells of humans with those of chimpanzees. Though it was hypothetically possible to manufacture such a creature, he vowed to put the patent in a drawer...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Bering land bridge theory disputed
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 01/15/2007 10:49:20 AM EST · 102 replies · 1,981+ views
Express-News | 12 Jan 2007 | Melissa Ludwig
University of Texas at Austin researcher says the first Americans arrived earlier than previo Schoolchildren can recite the story of the first Americans. About 12,000 years ago, prehistoric humans walked out of Siberia, trekked across the Bering land bridge and down an ice-free corridor into inner North America, where they hunted Ice Age elephants and peopled the new world. But mounting evidence is slowly turning that story to fiction, said Michael Collins, an archaeologist with the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. For more than 20 years, Collins and other scientists have been digging up...
Pre-Columbian Ruin Discovered In Peru
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On News/Activism 01/17/2007 8:43:55 PM EST · 5 replies · 192+ views
Eureka Alert | 1-17-2007 | Joshua Weinberg
Contact: Joshua Weinberg joshua_weinberg@discovery.com 240-328-3988 Discovery Channel Pre-Columbian ruin discovered in PeruFind to be featured in Discovery Channel's new series Chasing Mummies Silver Spring, Md. -- Explorer Keith Muscutt has announced the existence of a previously unknown pre-Columbian ruin in Peru: the Huaca La PenitenciarÌa de la Meseta, which will be featured in Discovery Channel's new series, CHASING MUMMIES, premiering January 2008. Located in the cloud-forested eastern slope of the Andes mountains, the ruin is believed to belong to the ancient Chachapoya -- a civilization that flourished in the upper Amazon, between its Huallaga and the MaraÒÛn tributaries, from about...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Temple Aqueduct and Ritual Bath Excavated Opposite Temple Mount
Posted by Esther Ruth
On News/Activism 01/14/2007 9:40:55 PM EST · 24 replies · 808+ views
Arutz Sheva | Monday, January 15, 2007 / 25 Tevet 5767
Temple Aqueduct and Ritual Bath Excavated Opposite Temple Mount Monday, January 15, 2007 / 25 Tevet 5767 Excavations being conducted opposite the Western Wall Plaza have uncovered an aqueduct that brought water to the Holy Temple, as well as a ritual bath from that period. The never-before-excavated area is situated behind the Western Wall police station, adjacent to the plaza where millions of worshipers and tourists come each year to visit the Western Wall and Temple Mount. The new archaeological find uncovers a missing link in the ancient water system, known as the "Lower Aqueduct" which channeled water from Solomon's...
Longer Perspectives
From Baghdad to New York: an Assyrian Archaeologist's Journey
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/17/2007 12:45:04 AM EST · 1 reply
Assyrian International News Agency | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 | Nina Burleigh, NY Magazine
Donny George, man of history, had vowed never to leave Baghdad, where he was the keeper of the keys to the looted Iraqi National Museum. Then his teenage son opened a letter with a bullet inside and a threat to cut off his head because his father "worked for the Americans." An estimated 1.8 million Iraqis have fled their country since the U.S. invasion, but George, an archaeologist, along with his wife, Najat, and 17-year-old son, Martin, are some of the very few -- only 500 a year -- who've been granted a visa to live in the U.S... His...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Hunt for Da Vinci painting will resume[Missing "Battle of Anghiari"]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 01/14/2007 6:33:39 AM EST · 9 replies · 433+ views
AP | 13 Jan 2007 | ARIEL DAVID
A real-life Da Vinci mystery, complete with tantalizing clues and sharp art sleuths, may soon be solved, as researchers resume the search for a lost Leonardo masterpiece believed to be hidden within a wall in a Florence palace. Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli and officials in the Tuscan city announced this week they had given approval for renewed exploration in the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of power for various Florence rulers, including the Medici family in the 16th century. There, some researchers believe, a cavity in a wall may have preserved Leonardo's unfinished painted mural of the "Battle of Anghiari" for...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Book says Smith came from Jesus' family tree
Posted by Utah Binger
On General/Chat 01/17/2007 9:19:25 PM EST · 71 replies · 730+ views
The Salt Lake Tribune | 01/17/2007 | Brandon Griggs
Vern G. Swanson, longtime director of the Springville Museum of Art, knows some readers will think he's crazy. Others will be intrigued, and still others may be offended. That's because Swanson has written a provocative new book theorizing that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene, that they bore children and that LDS Church founder Joseph Smith was their direct descendant. Swanson also suggests that this heavenly birthright gave Smith spiritual authority as a prophet and affirms the historical legitimacy of the LDS Church. Titled Dynasty of the Holy Grail: Mormonism's Sacred Bloodline, the book was published in November by...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Napoleon's Mysterious Death Unmasked
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On News/Activism 01/16/2007 7:07:54 PM EST · 49 replies · 1,761+ views
Science Daily | 1-16-2007 | UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern Medical Center Date: January 16, 2007 Napoleon's Mysterious Death Unmasked Science Daily -- A new investigation into Napoleon Bonaparte's cause of death might finally put to rest nearly 200 years of lingering mysteries about the illness that killed the French emperor during his island exile, a UT Southwestern Medical Center scientist reports. Dr. Robert Genta, professor of pathology and internal medicine, helped investigate the cause of Napoleon Bonaparte's death nearly 200 years ago by applying modern pathological and tumor-staging methods to historical accounts. (Image courtesy of UT Southwestern Medical Center) American, Swiss and Canadian researchers applied modern pathological...
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Archaeology Team Helps Find Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwrecks
Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/18/2004 12:02:20 AM EDT · 4 replies · 263+ views
Harvard Gazette | September 16, 1999 | Alvin Powell
They were found 1,000 feet down in June by a team made up of Harvard archaeologists led by Lawrence Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, and a crew from the Connecticut-based Institute for Exploration, headed by oceanographer Robert Ballard. The ships are the oldest ever found in the deep sea and may change the understanding of ancient Mediterranean commerce. Because many shallow-water wrecks have been found, historians and archaeologists believed that ancient sailors preferred routes that hugged the coastline. Modern technology, however, is opening a new field of deep-water archaeology, which is showing that ancient sailors did indeed...
Believers In The Lost Ark (Noah's)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/08/2003 9:56:40 PM EDT · 18 replies · 265+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 8-9-2003 | Karen Armstrong
Believers in the lost Ark Treating myth as fact misunderstands the meaning of religion Karen Armstrong Saturday August 9, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The explorer who discovered the Titanic beneath the Atlantic in 1985 is setting out on another underwater expedition to document Noah's flood. The Black Sea was originally a freshwater lake that in ancient times became inundated by the salty Mediterranean. Robert Ballard believes that this was a cataclysmic event that occurred about 7,500 years ago, and was possibly the deluge described in the Bible. Ballard's critics are sceptical: they argue that the infiltration of the Black Sea...
Expedition Seeks Clues To Lost Bronze Age Culture (Minoans - Robert Ballard)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/04/2006 7:05:30 PM EDT · 8 replies · 448+ views
Yahoo | 6-1-2006 | Richard C. Lewis
Expedition seeks clues to lost Bronze Age culture By Richard C. Lewis Thu Jun 1, 4:11 PM ETReuters Photo: Deep-sea explorer Robert Ballard speaks at the National Geographic Society in an undated file photo.... PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - An underwater explorer who found the Titanic and a team of international scientists will soon survey waters off the Greek island of Crete for clues to a once-powerful Bronze Age-era civilization. The expedition about 75 miles northwest of Crete aims to learn more about the Minoans, who flourished during the Bronze Age, and seeks to better understand seafaring four millennia ago,...
Expert Says Iraq Could Rewrite Archaeology Books
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On News/Activism 03/05/2004 5:51:50 PM EST · 46 replies · 959+ views
Reuters/Yahoo | 3-4-2004 | Luke Baker
Expert Says Iraq Could Rewrite Archaeology Books Thu Mar 4,10:15 AM ET By Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq, torn apart by years of war and sanctions, remains so rich in hidden ancient wonders that a leading expert believes the world's archaeology books will have to be rewritten over the next decade. Reuters Photo As security improves to allow excavation, evidence may emerge that advanced societies existed in the area much earlier than previously thought, said Dr John Russell, professor of archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. "A decade of research in Iraq could rewrite the books...
Explorer Ballard heads exploration of undersea volcano
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 05/19/2006 3:42:02 PM EDT · 8 replies · 140+ views
Narragansett Times | 5/19/2006 | Chris Church
University of Rhode Island professor Robert Ballard... was slated to... meet up with the crew of the... 185-foot-long research vessel Endeavor... Ballard, notably known for his 1985 discovery of the Titanic, will be heading up a team of scientists from URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, the Institute for Exploration, and the Institute of Oceanography of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Athens. Scientific operations for the expedition began on Apr. 26 and will continue through June 18... The first leg of the expedition will be to the Greek island of Thera, also known as Santorini, to study the sea...
Explorer Will Search for JFK's PT-109
Posted by Pern
On News/Activism 05/04/2002 7:22:09 AM EDT · 4 replies · 317+ views
AP via Yahoo.com | May 3, 2002 | Diane Scarponi
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The undersea explorer who found the Titanic will search the Pacific around the Solomon Islands for the remains of PT-109, John F. Kennedy's World War II boat. Robert Ballard plans to use remote cameras to find for the 80-foot, wooden-hulled patrol torpedo boat that was commanded by Kennedy. National Geographic (news - web sites) is working with Ballard on the search, set for this month. It may prove a difficult task. PT-109 sank on Aug. 2, 1943, after it was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer. Two members of Kennedy's crew died in the...
Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/23/2004 7:42:34 PM EDT · 74 replies · 1,390+ views
BBC | 6-23-2004
Farming origins gain 10,000 years Wild types of emmer wheat like those found at Ohalo were forerunners of today's varieties Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say. These grasses included wild emmer wheat and barley, which were forerunners of the varieties grown today. A US-Israeli team report their findings in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The evidence comes from a collection of 90,000 prehistoric plant remains dug...
Minoan ship to ply Greek seas for first time in 3,500 years
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/25/2004 10:54:47 PM EDT · 4 replies · 375+ views
Discovery Channel | Fri Oct 3, 2003 4:41 AM ET | editors
Since no wreck of a Minoan ship has ever been found, Apostolos Kourtis has had to start from scratch, relying on ancient drawings and using the same methods as the Minoans... With no wreck to provide a model, his four-strong team had to turn to historical sources for help. Frescos unearthed in excavations on the nearby volcanic island of Santorini proved valuable... The 17-metre long and 3.80-metre wide ship with its round-shaped trunk looks like a traditional fishing boat as it emerges in a dockyard in the Cretean city of Chania. It is due to be launched for the...
Object off Alaska coast may be WWII sub
Posted by El Gran Salseron
On News/Activism 10/03/2006 3:15:01 PM EDT · 14 replies · 1,444+ views
Yahoo News | 03/10/2006 | Yahoo News
News of the Grunion. Someone please ping the steely-eyed killers. Thanx.
Quest for the Phoenicians (National Geographic special)
Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 10:53:23 AM EDT · 20 replies · 1,598+ views
PBS | Oct 20 2004 | National Geographic
In "Quest for the Phoenicians," three renowned scientists, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and oceanographer Robert Ballard, geneticist Spencer Wells and archaeologist Paco Giles, search for clues about the Phoenicians in the sea, in the earth and in the blood of their modern-day descendents... Ballard looks at ancient shipwrecks along Skerki Bank off the island of Sicily... Paco Giles excavates a cave at the bottom of the rock of Gibraltar... Spencer Wells collects DNA from a 2,500-year-old Phoenician mummy's tooth, to extract its unique genetic code and compare it with DNA samples collected from men and women from Lebanon to Tunisia.
Replica of 3,300-year-old shipwreck arrives in Bodrum [ Uluburun II ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/02/2006 9:51:33 PM EDT · 9 replies · 298+ views
Turkish Daily News (thanks, curmudgeonII) | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 | unattributed
The Uluburun II, which is on display in Bodrum and sponsored by the Bodrum Peninsula Promotion Foundation started to be built in 2004 using late Bronze Age techniques and was launched in 2005... The [original] Uluburun sank in the 14th century 8.5 kilometers southeast of Kafl in Uluburun Bay while carrying copper and tin from Alexandria to Crete. It was discovered in 1982 by a diver. The remains of the shipwreck were unearthed by an excavation team consisting of archaeologists and divers and the process has lasted over 20 years. Considered to be one of the most significant archaeological finds...
Robots take scientists into sea depths
Posted by LibWhacker
On News/Activism 08/02/2005 3:42:11 PM EDT · 4 replies · 409+ views
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 7/29/05 | Tom Paulson
Think of it as the Mars Rover but at the bottom of the ocean, remotely exploring our own planet's most alien landscape for scientists back at mission control. "This is how the science is going to be done," said Deborah Kelley, a University of Washington oceanographer. In 2000, Kelley led an expedition using a manned submersible to explore the deep Atlantic Ocean. Her team stumbled upon something never seen before. The researchers discovered a startlingly massive collection of limestone towers located miles away from the tectonic "spreading" cracks in the seafloor that typically produce such structures. Some of these hydrothermal...
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/28/2004 7:49:39 PM EDT · 12 replies · 495+ views
George Washington University | 1994 | Eric H. Cline
The traditional circular sea route by which merchants are thought to have sailed around the ancient Mediterranean runs counter-clockwise: from the Greek Mainland to Crete, south to Egypt, up to Syro-Palestine and Cyprus, west to the Aegean via the southern coast of Anatolia, then to Rhodes and the Cycladic Islands, and ending up again at Crete and Mainland Greece. Longer routes incorporated the Central and Western Mediterranean as well. Merchants may, of course, have started in on this route at any point, for instance in Italy or Syro-Palestine rather than Crete. Recent evidence has demonstrated that a clockwise route...
Scientists Discover Lost World (8,000 Years Old)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/15/2004 7:03:44 PM EST · 86 replies · 959+ views
BBC | 2-15-2004
Scientists discover lost world A prehistoric lost world under the North Sea has been mapped by scientists from the University of Birmingham. The team used earthquake data to devise a 3D reconstruction of the 10,000-year-old plain. The area, part of a land mass that once joined Britain to northern Europe, disappeared about 8,000 years ago. The virtual features they have developed include a river the length of the Thames which disappeared when its valley flooded due to glaciers melting. This is the most exciting and challenging virtual reality project since Virtual Stonehenge. Professor Bob Stone Professor Bob Stone, head of...
Scientists Seek Indian History Underwater[North America]
Posted by FLOutdoorsman
On News/Activism 11/07/2006 4:28:01 PM EST · 53 replies · 932+ views
The Day | Joe Wojtas
Mashantuckets, 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...
Scientists Unveil New Discoveries At Titanic wreck
Posted by ZGuy
On News/Activism 12/05/2005 3:02:23 PM EST · 145 replies · 3,744+ views
BostonChannel | 12/5/05
The discovery of two large pieces of the Titanic's hull is changing the story of how the luxury ocean liner sank 93 years ago. Undersea explorers said Monday that the Titanic broke into three pieces, not two pieces as commonly believed and portrayed in James Cameron's 1997 film version of the catastrophe. That means the ship likely sank faster than believed. The hull pieces were found this summer by an expedition sponsored by the History Channel. Its leaders called it the most significant find at the site since undersea explorer Robert Ballard discovered the wreck 20 years ago and declared...
Ship from 8th Century Found in Mediterranean (off Dor Beach in a shallow lagoon)
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 01/23/2007 1:58:00 PM EST · 8 replies · 139+ views
LiveScience.com on yahoo | 1/23/07 | Live Science
A ship from the 8th century discovered off Dor Beach in the Mediterranean is thought to be the only vessel from that era ever found in the region. "We do not have any other historical or archaeological evidence of the economic activity and commerce of this period at Dor," said Ya'acov Kahanov from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and the Department Of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa. "The shipwreck will serve as a source of information about the social and economic activities in this area." The wreck [image] was found almost a decade ago but only...
Titanic explorer to seek shipwrecks in Aegean: Greek officials
Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 06/09/2006 5:23:58 PM EDT · 18 replies · 356+ views
PhysOrg | 6/8/06 | AFP
The explorer who discovered the Titanic's resting place is to undertake a search for ancient shipwrecks off the southern Greek island of Crete, the Greek foreign ministry said Thursday. The search, by American oceanographer Robert Ballard, will be conducted in international waters, with the Greek culture ministry hoping to send a representative to observe operations, a ministry official said. "Deep-sea research will be conducted in the area between Santorini and Crete, for the purpose of locating (ancient) Mediterranean sea trade routes, recording ancient shipwrecks etc," culture ministry general secretary Christos Zahopoulos told a news conference this week. "The necessary steps...
U.N. constitution for the oceans ñ a done deal: how scientists using Titanic to push global treaty
Posted by JohnHuang2
On News/Activism 06/25/2004 2:47:16 AM EDT · 39 replies · 445+ views
WorldNetDaily.com | Friday, June 25, 2004 | Joan Veon
The very controversial Law of the Sea Treaty, LOST, which is still in committee, is a done deal, according to a senior White House official. Of the 145 countries that have ratified this United Nations treaty, the U.S. is the only major power not to have ratified it. Various groups of countries that have signed it include all of the G8 countries with the exception of the U.S., almost two-thirds of the countries in our hemisphere that are members of the Free Trade Areas of the Americas, as well as both NAFTA partners. The Law of the Sea was placed...
U.S. signs treaty to protect Titanic wreck
Posted by Indy Pendance
On News/Activism 06/18/2004 9:24:56 PM EDT · 5 replies · 173,286+ views
UPI | 6-18-04
WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The United States has signed a treaty that designates the Titanic as an international maritime memorial. The pact with Great Britain still needs approval by the Senate. The treaty limits visits to the Titanic, now resting on the ocean floor 225 miles from Newfoundland, and regulates the taking of artifacts from the ship. The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in April 1912, killing hundreds of people. Oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered the ship in 1978, hopes France, Canada and Russia will also sign the treaty. With the United State and Great Britain, they are...
USS Grunion: Lost submarine found off Alaska
Posted by llevrok
On News/Activism 08/18/2006 7:55:24 AM EDT · 44 replies · 2,398+ views
The Seattle P-I (Newspaper) | 8/18/06 | RALPH RANALLI
There was no distress call, no indication of enemy depth charges exploding or bulkheads breached, just a dead silence that stretched from a few days into 60 years. The USS Grunion disappeared in July 1942, leaving 70 American families grieving and the three sons of skipper Mannert L. "Jim" Abele without a father. Abele's boys -- who were 5, 9 and 12 and lived in Newton, Mass., when their father disappeared -- grew up and built their own lives. But they dwelt on the fate of their father. At 2 a.m. Wednesday, a grainy sonar picture e-mailed via satellite appeared...
Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #132
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Neanderthal / Neandertal
Guys & Their Ladders
Posted by Dallas59
On General/Chat 01/25/2007 5:44:29 PM EST · 68 replies · 688+ views
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Ancient Egypt
Human Remains In Ancient Jar A Mystery
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/26/2007 5:38:22 PM EST · 19 replies · 447+ views
Discovery.com | 1-26-2007 | Jennifer Viegas
Human Remains in Ancient Jar a Mystery Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Jan. 23, 2007 -- For over 100 years, four blue-glazed jars bearing the nametag of Rameses II (1302-1213 B.C.) were believed to contain the Egyptian pharaoh's bodily organs. But analysis of organic residues scraped from the jars has determined one actually contained an aromatic salve, while a second jar held the organs of an entirely different person who lived around 760 years later. Now the question is, who was this individual? "We do believe that the unknown person was of importance for at least two reasons," said Jacques Connan,...
Epigraphy and Language
Deciphering of earliest Semitic text reveals talk of snakes and spells
Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 01/23/2007 10:40:26 AM EST · 131 replies · 1,982+ views
Jerusalem Post | Jan. 23, 2007 | Etgar Lefkowitz
A 5,000-year-old Semitic text dealing with magical spells and snakes has been deciphered from an ancient Egyptian pyramid inscription, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced Monday. The texts, which were first discovered a century ago in a 24th Century BCE Egyptian pyramid, are the earliest continuous Semitic texts ever to have been deciphered, said Semitic languages Prof. Richard Steiner of New York's Yeshiva University in a premiere presentation at the Hebrew University. The passages, serpent spells written in hieroglyphic characters, are estimated to have been written between the 25th to the 30th centuries BCE. Steiner, a former fellow of the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Meteorites From Under The Pyramids
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/20/2007 6:42:23 PM EST · 23 replies · 1,184+ views
PAP | 1-20-2007 | Science And Scholarship In Poland
Meteorites from under the pyramids Samples of rock and fragments of pyramid walls brought from Egypt are being examined at the AGH University of Science and Technology. It is very likely that meteorites had dropped near the pyramids. The material was collected during the December expedition of geologists. Another aim of the expedition was to study some geoglyphics, i.e. gigantic pictures drawn on the ground. According to "Dziennik Polski", the scientists were intrigued by some unusual structures, which resembled craters formed after meteorites hit the ground. They noticed them when analysing satellite pictures of areas north of the great pyramids...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Mathematics In Ancient Egypt
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/26/2007 6:09:50 PM EST · 28 replies · 674+ views
Al-Ahram | 1-26-2007
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt the Ancient Egyptians possess an ingenious skill for calculation? Assem Deif* works out an ancient problem The Greeks developed mathematics as a deductive science that reached its climax with Euclid of Alexandria in his masterpiece The Elements. Before that, during the ancient Egyptian era, mathematics was an inductive discipline of a utilitarian nature used to perform practical tasks such as flood control or land measurement using rope. It has been suggested that mathematics then amounted to no more than the two-times table and the ability to find two-thirds of any number. The whole structure of Egyptian...
Africa
Swiss Archaeologist Digs Up West Africa's Past
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/20/2007 6:55:34 PM EST · 9 replies · 357+ views
NZZ Online | 1-19-2007 | Simon Bradley
19. January 2007, Swissinfo Swiss archaeologist digs up West Africa's past A Swiss:led team of archaeologists has discovered pieces of the oldest African pottery in central Mali, dating back to at least 9,400BC. The sensational find by Geneva University's Eric Huysecom and his international research team, at Ounjougou near the Unesco:listed Bandiagara cliffs, reveals important information about man's interaction with nature. The age of the sediment in which they were found suggests that the six ceramic fragments : discovered between 2002 and 2005 : are at least 11,400 years old. Most ancient ceramics from the Middle East and the central...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain
Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 01/25/2007 7:39:21 AM EST · 45 replies · 622+ views
Wellcome Trust via Eureka Science News | Jan 24, 2007 | Craig Brierley
New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst "indigenous" British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their black ancestry. The University of Leicester study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and published today in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, found that one third of men with a rare Yorkshire surname carry a rare Y chromosome type previously found only amongst people of West African origin. The researchers, led by Professor Mark Jobling, of the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, first spotted the rare Y...
British Isles
Hunting For Hadrian
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/25/2007 6:26:10 PM EST · 14 replies · 347+ views
News And Star | 1-25-2007
Hunting for Hadrian Published on 25/01/2007 HISTORIANS hope to unearth evidence that Roman emperor Hadrian once stayed in a fort along the magnificent wall bearing his name. Archaeologists will be digging along Hadrian's Wall this summer in an attempt to confirm speculation about why and when it was built. They hope their work at Vindolanda in Northumbria will prove that the emperor once stayed there on a visit to the wall, as well as unlocking secrets about the Roman army and people's political and social lives. The 73-mile stone barrier -- stretching east to west from the River Tyne to...
Ancient Rome
Rome's Palatine Hill shows new treasures
Posted by Dysart
On News/Activism 01/23/2007 8:07:37 PM EST · 39 replies · 718+ views
AP via Yahoo! | 1-23-07 | ARIEL DAVID
ROME - Work on Rome's Palatine Hill has turned up a trove of discoveries, including what might be the underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a wolf nursed the city's legendary founders Romulus and Remus. ADVERTISEMENT Archaeologists gathered Tuesday at a conference to save crumbling monuments on the Palatine discussed findings of studies on the luxurious imperial homes threatened by collapse and poor maintenance that have forced the closure of much of the hill to the public.While funds are still scarce, authorities plan to reopen some key areas of the honeycombed hill to tourists by the end of the year,...
Sacred Cave Of Rome's Founders Discovered, Archaeologists Say
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/26/2007 5:52:55 PM EST · 20 replies · 787+ views
National Geographic | 1-26-2007 | Maria Cristina Valsecchi
Sacred Cave of Rome's Founders Discovered, Archaeologists Say Maria Cristina Valsecchi in Rome for National Geographic News January 26, 2007 Archaeologists say they have unearthed Lupercale -- the sacred cave where, according to legend, a she-wolf nursed the twin founders of Rome and where the city itself was born. The long-lost underground chamber was found beneath the remains of Emperor Augustus' palace on the Palatine, a 230-foot-tall (70-meter-tall) hill in the center of the city. Archaeologists from the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Rome Municipality came across the 50-foot-deep (15-meter-deep) cavity while working to restore the decaying palace. "We were drilling...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
'Mona Lisa' died in 1542, was buried in convent
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 01/20/2007 9:18:40 AM EST · 23 replies · 623+ views
Yahoo News | January 20, 2007
An expert on the "Mona Lisa" says he has ascertained with certainty that the symbol of feminine mystique died on July 15, 1542, and was buried at the convent in central Florence where she spent her final days. Giuseppe Pallanti found a death notice in the archives of a church in Florence that referred to "the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, deceased July 15, 1542, and buried at Sant'Orsola," the Italian press reported Friday. Born Lisa Gherardini in May 1479, she is thought to have been the second wife of Del Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant, with whom she had...
Ancient Europe
Railway Construction Unearths Ancient Artifacts In Germany
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/22/2007 1:30:07 PM EST · 27 replies · 914+ views
Boston.com | 1-21-2007 | Colin Nickerson
Railway construction unearths ancient artifacts in Germany By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff | January 21, 2007 COLOGNE, Germany -- Genialinius Gennatus was one fine duck hunter. Alerts In the third century , he recorded his prowess in high Latin on a stone tablet that he dedicated to Jupiter. That and a hefty donation probably ensured that the tablet won display in the temple to the Roman god in the settlement then called Colonia. Five or six centuries later, Cologne's early Christians, perhaps offended by the tablet dedicated to a pantheist god, chucked it into the silting channel between the Rhine...
Navigation
Ship from 8th Century Found in Mediterranean (off Dor Beach in a shallow lagoon)
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 01/23/2007 1:58:00 PM EST · 10 replies · 157+ views
LiveScience.com on yahoo | 1/23/07 | Live Science
A ship from the 8th century discovered off Dor Beach in the Mediterranean is thought to be the only vessel from that era ever found in the region. "We do not have any other historical or archaeological evidence of the economic activity and commerce of this period at Dor," said Ya'acov Kahanov from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and the Department Of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa. "The shipwreck will serve as a source of information about the social and economic activities in this area." The wreck [image] was found almost a decade ago but only...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Fancy Temple Era Street Found in Jerusalem
Posted by Esther Ruth
On News/Activism 01/24/2007 5:10:28 PM EST · 6 replies · 276+ views
Arutz Sheva | 22:53 Jan 24, '07 / 5 Shevat 5767
Fancy Temple Era Street Found in Jerusalem 22:53 Jan 24, '07 / 5 Shevat 5767 Archaeological excavations being carried out in Ir David, near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, have uncovered what is said to be one of the most impressive finds in the site: a magnificent terraced street from the Herodian era, which served pilgrims and extended 600 meters from the Shiloah (Siloam) Pool to the Temple. The store fronts and the splendid appearance of the remains have led researchers to conclude it was Jeruslem's main street in the Second Temple era. Drainage canals were exposed under the street....
Fertile Crescent
Ancient Iraqi Art Determined Poisonous (Arsenic)
Posted by blam
On General/Chat 01/23/2007 10:53:44 AM EST · 25 replies · 347+ views
Discovery News | 1-22-2007 | Jennifer Viegas
Ancient Iraqi Art Determined Poisonous Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Jan. 22, 2007 -- Some ninth century Iraqi artists may have literally died for their art, suggests new analysis of Iraqi stucco fragments from this period. A fragment, taken from the ancient palace-city of Samarra, contains three arsenic-based pigments that are known to be poisonous and may cause cancer upon exposure. Although the findings will not be published until May in the Journal of Archaeological Science, curators at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, where the fragments are housed, have already taken special handling precautions. "The fragments are stored in a locked...
India
Metallurgy In Ancient India Was Advanced
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/26/2007 5:44:05 PM EST · 11 replies · 271+ views
Hindustan Times | 1-25-2007 | Varanasi
Metallurgy in ancient India was advanced HT Correspondent Varanasi, January 25 EMINENT METALLURGICAL engineer and former rector of the Banaras Hindu University Prof TR Anatharaman said that ancient India contributed a lot in the field of metallurgy. He was delivering a lecture on 'Metallurgical Marvels of Ancient India' on the third-day of four-day seminar on 'History of Indian Science and Technology' at Swatantrata Bhawan in BHU here on Thursday. Prof Anatharaman, also former director of Institute of Technology (IT-BHU) and presently Chancellor of Ashram Atmadeep (Gurgaon) said that recent historical studies and scientific researches have thrown considerable new light on...
Asia
Perforated Skulls Provide Evidence Of Craniotomy In Ancient China
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/26/2007 6:00:58 PM EST · 8 replies · 193+ views
China Economic Net | 1-26-2007
Perforated skulls provide evidence of craniotomy in ancient China Last Updated(Beijing Time):2007-01-26 11:11 The modern technology of craniotomy, a surgical operation which is performed on the brain through an incision in the skull, may have been in use in China nearly 3,000 years ago. Scientists made the conclusion after a detailed study of 13 perforated skulls that had been unearthed in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The skulls were found in a cluster of more than 2,000 ancient tombs in the desert outside Turpan, 200 kilometers east of the regional capital Urumqi, said Lu Enguo, a researcher with the Xinjiang...
Australia and the Pacific
Caverns give up huge fossil haul (AUS)
Posted by csvset
On News/Activism 01/24/2007 7:50:55 PM EST · 14 replies · 459+ views
BBC | 24 January 2007 | BBC
An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists. The creatures were found in limestone caves under Nullarbor Plain and date from about 400,000-800,000 years ago. The palaeontological "treasure trove" includes 23 kangaroo species, eight of which are entirely new to science. Researchers tell Nature magazine that the caves also yielded a complete specimen of Thylacoleo carnifex , an extinct marsupial lion. It appears the unsuspecting creatures fell to their deaths through pipes in the dusty plain surface that periodically opened and closed over millennia. Most of the animals were killed instantly but others initially...
Southern Australia throws up treasure trove of fossils
Posted by NormsRevenge
On General/Chat 01/25/2007 2:19:53 AM EST · 4 replies · 61+ views
AFP on Yahoo | 1/24/07 | AFP
PARIS (AFP) - Caves in the Sun-scorched, treeless wilderness of southern Australia's Nullarbor plain have revealed one of the world's most remarkable collections of fossils, including species of now-extinct kangaroos that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. The three Thylacoleo caves, located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the coast, were uncovered by potholers in 2002. The find "is without precedent in Australia. Several new and previously incompletely known species are represented by whole skeletons," enthuse a team of researchers, reporting on the treasure trove in Thursday's issue of Nature. The fossils date back to the Middle Pleistocene era,...
Hobbit Cave Digs Set To Restart
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/25/2007 1:46:09 PM EST · 8 replies · 318+ views
BBC | 1-25-2007
Hobbit cave digs set to restart Researchers had not been able to excavate at the cave Archaeologists who found the remains of human "Hobbits" have permission to restart excavations at the cave where the specimens were found. Indonesian officials have blocked access to the cave since 2005, following a dispute over the bones. But Professor Richard "Bert" Roberts, a member of the team that found the specimens, told BBC News the political hurdles had now been overcome. The researchers claim that the remains belong to a novel species of human. But some researchers reject this assertion, claiming instead that the...
Climate
Deep In Arctic Mud Geologists Find Strong Evidence Of Climate Change
Posted by cogitator
On General/Chat 01/22/2007 1:07:29 PM EST · 40 replies · 475+ views
TerraDaily | 01/22/2007 | Staff Writers
Jason P. Briner is looking for an answer buried deep in mud dozens of feet below the surface of lakes in the frigid Canadian Arctic. His group is gathering the first quantitative temperature data over the last millennium from areas in extreme northeastern sections of the Canadian Arctic, such as Baffin Island. Every spring, Briner, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, travels to the region to sample Arctic lake sediments and glaciers and analyzes them to reconstruct past climates. "As paleoclimatologists, we want to study Earth under conditions similar...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Archaeologists Explain Significance Of The Walker Site (Minnesota)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/25/2007 6:47:01 PM EST · 36 replies · 872+ views
The Pilot-Independent | 1-24-2007 | Molly MacGregor
Archaeologists explain significance of the Walker site Find does not affect Walker Area Community Center project by Molly MacGregor, Pilot Contributor The Pilot-Independent Last Updated: Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 05:28:25 PM Photos provided by Heritage Sites Director Thor Olmanson Archaeologists dug down about two meters. The 20-some tools were found between 20 and 30 centimeters below the surface. If you are puzzling about news of an archaeological find at the City of Walker's Tower Avenue project, then you should meet Matt Mattson. He's a volunteer who helped a team of archaeologists uncover what might be the oldest intact site of...
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Olmec-Influenced City Near Mexico City
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/25/2007 6:20:10 PM EST · 11 replies · 261+ views
SignonSanDiego | 1-25-2007 | Mark Stevenson
Archeologists discover ancient Olmec-influenced city near Mexico City By Mark Stevenson ASSOCIATED PRESS 12:16 a.m. January 25, 2007 MEXICO CITY -- A 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs -- often referred to as the 'mother culture' of Mesoamerica -- has been discovered hundreds of miles away from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory, archaeologists said. The remains of Zazacatla are providing insight into the early arrival of advanced civilizations in central Mexico, while also providing lessons about the risks to ruins posed by modern development that now cover much of the ancient city. Archaeologist Giselle Canto said Wednesday that two statues...
Trophy Skull Sheds Light on Ancient Wari Empire
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/24/2007 7:48:10 PM EST · 25 replies · 477+ views
Newswise | 1-24-2007
Trophy Skull Sheds Light on Ancient Wari Empire Earthwatch volunteers working with Dr. Mary Glowacki (Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research) in Peru unearthed a previously unknown cemetery and found a trophy skull from the Wari civilization. The finds give researchers further insight into the rise and fall of the Wari Empire that lived high in the Andes 1,500 to 1,000 years ago. Courtesy of Mary Glowacki Earthwatch-supported archaeologist Dr. Mary Glowacki (Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research) holds a vessel excavated from an elite cemetary at the ancient Wari site of Cotocotuyoc. Spectacular finds include the "trophy" skull of a warrior...
Longer Perspectives
Article about Tribal, Institutional, Market and Network Societies
Posted by sociotard
On General/Chat 01/23/2007 6:59:51 PM EST · 7 replies · 44+ views
RAND Corporation | David Ronfeldt
I just finished a (long) article by David Ronfeldt called "IN SEARCH OF HOW SOCIETIES WORK; Tribes -- The First and Forever Form" Here, I'll post the Abstract: The latest in a string of efforts to develop a theoretical framework about social evolution, based on how people develop their societies by using four forms of organization -- tribes, hierarchical institutions, markets, and networks -- this installment focuses on the tribal form. The tribal form was the first to emerge and mature, beginning thousands of years ago. Its main dynamic is kinship, which gives people a distinct sense of identity and...
Faith and Philosophy
American's donation lets pope peruse oldest copy of St. Luke's Gospel
Posted by siunevada
On Religion 01/25/2007 1:59:47 PM EST · 12 replies · 280+ views
Catholic News Service | January 23, 2007 | Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A donation to the Vatican by a U.S. businessman enabled Pope Benedict XVI to peruse a few pages of the oldest existing copy of the Gospel of St. Luke and one of the oldest copies of the Gospel of St. John. The Catholic businessman, Frank J. Hanna III, and his family were present in the pope's library Jan. 22 when Pope Benedict got his first look at pages from the famous Bodmer Papyrus XIV-XV. Hanna is the Atlanta-based chief executive officer of HBR Capital Ltd., an investment management company, and co-chairman of President George W. Bush's...
Anatolia
Believers In The Lost Ark (Noah's)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/08/2003 9:56:40 PM EDT · 23 replies · 366+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 8-9-2003 | Karen Armstrong
Believers in the lost Ark Treating myth as fact misunderstands the meaning of religion Karen Armstrong Saturday August 9, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The explorer who discovered the Titanic beneath the Atlantic in 1985 is setting out on another underwater expedition to document Noah's flood. The Black Sea was originally a freshwater lake that in ancient times became inundated by the salty Mediterranean. Robert Ballard believes that this was a cataclysmic event that occurred about 7,500 years ago, and was possibly the deluge described in the Bible. Ballard's critics are sceptical: they argue that the infiltration of the Black Sea...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Georgia's copy of Declaration of Independence found in archives
Posted by Vote 4 Nixon
On News/Activism 01/21/2007 8:28:38 PM EST · 22 replies · 771+ views
Associated Press | Jan. 19, 2007
ATLANTA - An archivist was going through historical records at the state archives when he came across a forgotten piece of history. Gregory Jarrell was looking at microfilm Wednesday when the date, "March 2, 1777" jumped out at him. He went to the vault and pulled out the bound volume that had the original document. Jarrell had found what archivists think is Georgia's only official recording of the Declaration of Independence. State Archives Director David Carmicheal said the handwritten document was probably recorded by a scribe or clerk after Congress dispatched a copy of the original document from Philadelphia to...
1585 trip may have aided later voyagers
Posted by Pharmboy
On General/Chat 01/24/2007 10:47:11 AM EST · 13 replies · 186+ views
Wilmington Star | Jan. 22, 2007 | Anon
The Roanoke Voyages ended dismally with the entire colony disappearing, never seen again after 1587. But a lesser-known yearlong expedition to Roanoke Island in 1585 may have provided valuable lessons for the colonists who came to Jamestown 22 years later, three researchers said recently in a paper presented at the annual conference of the Society of Historical Archaeology in Williamsburg, Va. "They don't really learn a lot from the Lost Colony, except to be careful," Phil Evans, president of the First Colony Foundation, said in a telephone interview. "Hope you get lucky - and be better prepared." But the 108...
American Family Vacation Italy - Rome, Venice, Milan Spring 2006
Posted by schwing_wifey
On Bloggers & Personal 06/19/2006 5:32:40 PM EDT · 19 replies · 950+ views
Personal letters home to US friends and family | Monday June 19th, 2006 | schwing_wifey
Here we go yet again. This time we were off for a week in Italy - Rome, Venice, and Milan with our Rick Steve's Travel Guides in hand. Of all the places we've been so far, the books paid off handsomely in Italy. And next to the Swedes up in Kiruna, the Italians are some of the nicest Europeans we've met to date. No wonder so many Americans were there at the same time as we were. We land in Rome in the evening and catch a cab to the hotel. What can you say about Italian cab drivers? After...
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