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Welcome to Digest number 65. We're going back to the nicer format, and **** the torpedoes.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #65 Saturday, October 15, 2005
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Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical palace found (?) near Old City (King David's Palace)
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 10/15/2005 4:51:06 PM PDT · 37 replies · 1,460+ views Ynetnews | 10/14/05 | David Hazony The field of biblical archeology has been rocked, so to speak, by dramatic new finds in the heart of ancient Jerusalem. For the last few years, a number of respected archaeologists have posited that the biblical accounts of Jerusalem as the seat of a powerful, unified monarchy under the rule of David and Solomon are essentially false. The most prominent of these is Israel Finkelstein, chairman of Tel Aviv Universityís archeology department, whose 2001 book, "The Bible Unearthed," written together with Neal Asher Silberman, became an international best seller. The lynchpin of his argument was the absence of clear evidence...
Radiocarbon Dates Reveal That New Guinea Art Is Older Than Thought
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/13/2005 1:44:56 PM PDT · 22 replies · 372+ views Eureka Alert/ UA | 10-13-2005 | Lori Stiles Contact: Lori Stiles lstiles@u.arizona.edu 520-626-4402 University of Arizona Radiocarbon dates reveal that New Guinea art is older than thought When the de Young Museum reopens in a new, earthquake-resistant building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park next Saturday, Oct. 15, it will debut what curators consider the largest and most important private collection of New Guinea art in the world. Gregory W. L. Hodgins and A. J. Timothy Jull of The University of Arizona will attend the gala event. The scientists have radiocarbon dated some of the collection that New York-based entrepreneur John Friede and his wife, Marcia, are giving...
Phoenicians
History Lies In The Silt Of Tyre
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/10/2005 3:23:10 PM PDT · 7 replies · 458+ views The Times (UK) | 10-10-2005 History lies in the silt of Tyre By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre THUS Kipling saw the end of Empire. Nineveh is now a collection of dusty mounds on the Tigris near Mosul, endangered by looting in the lawlessness of modern Iraq, but Tyre survives as a modest port on the coast of Lebanon. It is also an archaeological site of immense potential importance, a study concludes. The silting up of its ancient northern harbour ìmeans that the heart of the Bronze Age, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Byzantine ports...
Ancient Egypt
Egyptomania (originally 'Egyptomania')
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/08/2005 7:25:02 AM PDT · 3 replies · 121+ views Metro West Daily News | Sunday, October 2, 2005 | Chris Bergeron Yet for years Hollywood and pop culture too often reduced one of the world's great civilizations to stereotypes of Boris Karloff's mummy, King Tut's curse and The Rock's "Scorpion King." ...Like the earliest travelers to the kingdom on the Nile, visitors will see the Great Sphinx sprawling across the sands, Queen Nefertiti in her palace and Bedouin crossing the desert.
Ancient Rome
Roman Finds Re-Write History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/14/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT · 53 replies · 1,579+ views Isle Of Wight County Press | 10-14-2005 | Suzanne Pert ROMAN FINDS RE-WRITE HISTORYBy Suzanne Pert AMAZING finds by archaeologists during recent excavations at Brading Roman Villa mean history will have to be re-written, not just there but at other important mosaic sites around the country.Archaeologist Kevin Trott with some of the pieces of pottery found at the Brading Roman Villa site. Picture by PETER BOAM Although his findings are still to be published, archaeologist Kevin Trott has compiled a 400-page report, which has dispelled some long-held myths and is set to take the archaeological world by storm. This week he gave the County Press an insight into the archaeologically-explosive...
Ancient Europe
A 6,000-Year-Old Dales Story Of Ritual And Cannibalism...
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/08/2005 4:40:03 PM PDT · 42 replies · 892+ views Yorkshire Post | 10-8-2005 | Sally Cope A 6,000-year Dales story of ritual and cannibalism... Bone finds in Yorkshire caves finally throw light on stone age life after breakthrough in radio-carbon dating. Sally CopeFarmer Tom Lord pictured at the entrance to the caves in Giggleswick THEY roamed the earth almost 6,000 years ago, performing rituals on animal remains and devouring human body parts. But these are not the strange creatures of film or fiction ñ they were farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. New research on bones discovered in six Dales caves has revealed that farming in the area dates back thousands of years ñ and with it...
Footsteps From The Past: The Ancient Village Of Skra Brae
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/12/2005 5:23:11 PM PDT · 24 replies · 575+ views Scotsman | 10-12-2005 | Caroline Wickham-Jones Footsteps from the past: the ancient village of Skara Brae CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES SCOTLAND'S towns and settlements are proud of their roots, but few can boast the antiquity of Skara Brae on the Orkney Islands. Originally built around 3100BC to house a small group of Neolithic farming families, the abandoned houses with their stone dressers, beds and hearths provide a remarkable glimpse of a lifestyle that has long disappeared. Of course the village developed slowly, as any village today, but Skara Brae is notable for the quality of its remains. The historic site still provides a powerful message, even for the...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Bones Of Dismembered Warriors Unearthed At Ancient Tul Talesh (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/12/2005 6:04:13 PM PDT · 9 replies · 267+ views Mehr News | 10-12-2005 Bones of dismembered warriors unearthed at ancient Tul Talesh TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (MNA) -- Archaeologists recently unearthed a great number of skeletons at the ancient site of Tul Talesh which are believed to be the remains of warriors who were dismembered and killed in battle, the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported on Tuesday. The skeletons were found without heads, feet, and hands in the cemetery of Tul Talesh, which covers an area of 350 hectares. Located 140 kilometers northwest of Rasht in Gilan Province, the cemetery is one of Iranís unique ancient burial grounds. Tul...
Five ancient inscriptions unearthed at Haft-Tappeh
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/10/2005 2:24:50 PM PDT · 8 replies · 151+ views Tehran Times | October 10 2005 | staff writer ...several seal impressions and clay inscriptions found at Haft-Tappeh contain the name Kabnak, and it is possible that this was the original name of the city. The team has also been tasked with discovering the exact location of Kabnak, where the Elamite king Tepti-ahar built a temple complex in the fifteenth century BC and was buried at the site. Tepti-ahar, the last ruler of the Kidinuid period (1460-1400 BC), known from inscribed bricks and a sale contract from Susa and a text said to be from Malamir (in Lorestan Province), is mentioned on approximately 55 tablets of Haft-Tappeh, bearing the...
Winged Goddesses Flew Over Iran
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/12/2005 5:04:06 PM PDT · 24 replies · 776+ views CHN | 10-12-2005 10/12/2005 2:49:00 PM Winged Goddesses Flew over IranThe first ever icons of winged goddesses have been discovered northwest of Iran. Tehran, 12 October 2005 (CHN) ñ The recent excavations in Rabat Teppe archaeological site in Sardasht, Northwestern Iran, led to discovery of four icons of winged goddesses on bricks which belong to 3000 years ago. These are the first ever winged goddesses found in Iran. In initial measures, the area of the archaeological site was believed to be 14 hectares but recent studies extend its measures to 25 hectares. ìThis season of the excavations has led to discovery of four...
Ancient Greece
Andritsa Cave's Chamber Of Secrets
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/09/2005 2:24:01 PM PDT · 11 replies · 595+ views Athens News | 10-9-2005 | Christy Papadopoulou Andritsa Cave's chamber of secretsLate 6th-century finds retrieved from the Argolid cave and exhibited at theByzantine and Christian Museum begin to unfold the story of a group of peoplewho sought refuge there and slowly starved to death CHRISTY PAPADOPOULOU A large number of transporting and storage vessels from clay were found in the cave (above). Bronze processional cross with the Sunday prayer engraved on both its sides A NATURAL shelter in case of inclement weather and dangerous situations, and occasionally the place to practise cult rituals, caves often keep their secrets hermetically sealed. The Andritsa Cave in the Municipality of...
Greek Cave Puzzles Archaeologists
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 10/14/2005 6:31:41 AM PDT · 53 replies · 1,715+ views Moscow Times | October 14, 2005 | Nicholas Paphitis ATHENS -- Deep under a quiet valley in southern Greece, archaeologists are struggling to unravel a 1,400-year-old tragedy that wiped out a rural Byzantine community. Sometime in the late 6th century, a group of at least 33 young men, women, and children sought sanctuary from an unknown terror in a sprawling subterranean network of caves in the eastern Peloponnese. Carrying supplies of food and water, oil-lamps, a large Christian cross and their small savings, the refugees apparently hunkered down to wait out the threat. But experts believe the sanctuary became a tomb once supplies ran out. "In the end, they...
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/09/2005 8:29:26 PM PDT · 29 replies · 496+ views PRNewswire | Sep. 14, 2005 | Melanie Pope of Renault Communications While Hughes explores the Late Bronze Age reality behind the story of Helen, she takes in some of the most beautiful scenery of the ancient world, from the magnificent citadel at Mycenae to the spectacular site of the shrine to Helen, high in the hills above Sparta. She also tastes the food of the ancient world -- based on the latest archaeological research -- and discovers how the conflict in Helen's name would really have been fought. Working with weapons experts and accurate replicas of chariots pulled by local gypsy horses, Hughes experiences firsthand how chariots and archers battled beneath...
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
	Posted by Valin On General/Chat 10/15/2005 4:22:57 PM PDT · 19 replies · 390+ views New York Times | October 13, 2005 | William Grimes What the First World War was for Europe, the Peloponnesian War was for the ancient Greeks. It was also their Napoleonic Wars and their American Civil War. The protracted, ruinous conflict between Athens and Sparta, which dragged on for nearly 30 years (431 B.C. to 404 B.C.), prefigured, in one way or another, nearly every major conflict to come, right up the present war on terror. The "war like no other," as Thucydides called it, continues to fascinate because it always seems pertinent, and never more so than in Victor Davis Hanson's highly original, strikingly contemporary retelling of the superpower...
Dionysus
Cyprus 'first to make wine'
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 05/17/2005 1:17:27 AM PDT · 28 replies · 454+ views Dcanter | May 16, 2005 Cyprus was the first Mediterranean country to make wine, an Italian archaeologist has claimed. Maria-Rosaria Belgiorno said she uncovered evidence, during an archaeological dig near the southern coastal town of Limassol, that Cypriots produced wine up to 6,000 years ago, AFP reports. 'At Pyrgos we found two jugs used for wine and the seeds of the grapes. And at Erimi, of the 18 pots we looked at, 12 were used for wine between 3,500BC and 3,000BC,' Belgiorno was quoted as saying in the Cyprus Weekly newspaper. It was previously believed that the Mediterranean wine-making tradition originated in what is now...
Asia
Aerial photography sheds light on Kublai Khan's capital (Marco Polo was right)
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 10/09/2005 9:56:09 AM PDT · 22 replies · 1,364+ views Xinhuanet | 10/8/05 | Xinhuanet BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Aerial photography has helped shed new light on the capital of Kublai Khan's empire, also known as Xuanadu in Marco Polo's Travel Notes. The description of the metropolis Shangdu (Xuanadu) by Marco Polo some 700 years ago has somewhat been confirmed by aerial photography, Yang Lin, director of the center of remote sensing and aerial photography of China's National Museum, told Xinhua on Saturday. "We can see the spectacular city with its scale and the density of buildings," Yang said. The ruins have been overgrown with grass for more than 600 years. Archaeologists have taken...
Inner Mongolia - Aerial photography sheds light on Kubla Khan's capital (Xanadu)
	Posted by HAL9000 On General/Chat 10/08/2005 10:34:49 PM PDT · 10 replies · 263+ views Xinhua News Agency (China) Aerial photography sheds light on Kublai Khan's capital BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Aerial photography has helped shed new light on the capital of Kublai Khan's empire, also known as Xuanadu in Marco Polo's Travel Notes. The description of the metropolis Shangdu (Xuanadu) by Marco Polo some 700 years ago has somewhat been confirmed by aerial photography, Yang Lin, director of the center of remote sensing and aerial photography of China's National Museum, told Xinhua on Saturday. "We can see the spectacular city with its scale and the density of buildings," Yang said. The ruins have been overgrown with...
Chinese Archaeologists Find New Cultural Relics Of Ancient Loulan City
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/08/2005 4:00:40 PM PDT · 8 replies · 263+ views Xinhuanet/China View | 10-8-2005 Chinese archeologists find new cultural relics of ancient Loulan city www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-08 22:36:44 URUMQI, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of Chinese archeologists have discovered new cultural relics in the ruins of the ancient Loulan city, which is supposed to be the capital of the Loulan Kingdom and is part of Chinese ancient civilization that vanished 1,500 years ago. The findings, located underground northwest of an ancient government office site, include camel feces, fodder, charcoal and bestial bones under a 70-centimeter-thick layer dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 AD to 220 AD). "The discovery provides another important evidence...
New cultural relics of ancient Loulan city found (China- 1,500 Years Old)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 10/09/2005 12:14:20 AM PDT · 2 replies · 157+ views Xinhua | 2005-10-08 URUMQI, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of Chinese archeologists have discovered new cultural relics in the ruins of the ancient Loulan city, which is supposed to be the capital of the Loulan Kingdom and is part of Chinese ancient civilization that vanished 1,500 years ago. The findings, located underground northwest of an ancient government office site, include camel feces, fodder, charcoal and bestial bones under a 70-centimeter-thick layer dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 AD to 220 AD). "The discovery provides another important evidence for the controversy whether Loulan city was the capital of the Loulan Kingdom,"...
Oldest noodles unearthed in China
	Posted by bigmac0707 On News/Activism 10/12/2005 1:36:46 PM PDT · 76 replies · 960+ views BBC News | 9/12/05 | BBC News Oldest noodles unearthed in China Late Neolithic noodles: They may settle the origin debate The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old. Scientists tell the journal Nature that the noodles were made using grains from millet grass - unlike modern noodles, which are made with wheat flour. The discovery goes a long way to settling the old argument over who first created the string-like food. Professor Houyuan...
Chinese Scientists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Noodle Dish (Suggests Pasta Invented In China)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 10/15/2005 3:55:18 PM PDT · 44 replies · 421+ views KTVU | October 13, 2005 Ancient Finding Suggests Pasta Invented In ChinaBEIJING -- Who invented noodles first? A discovery in western China could bolster the argument that the Chinese came up with pasta before the the Italians. Researchers have found a 4,000-year-old clump of yellow noodles inside an overturned bowl in China. The noodles had been made from a dough of two local varieties of millet. The bowl had become sealed with clay, so the noodles were preserved. The findings are published in this week's issue of the journal Nature. A Chinese researcher said they're definitely the earliest noodles ever found. The researcher said the...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Camden tool could be 5,000 years old
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/12/2005 9:18:35 AM PDT · 9 replies · 144+ views VillageSoup.com (Greater Portland Region, Maine) | Oct 12, 2005 | Lynda Clancy Bruce Borque, an archeologist at the Maine State Museum who is well acquainted with the Red Paint People... visited Rainville and Mannion last week and wondered if the tool had been left behind at the site by early Red Paint boatbuilders, who had hiked up from the shore to find suitable trees from which to make canoes. He estimated the tool, used for gouging, to be 5,000 years old.
Q Marks the Spot: Recent find fingers long-sought Maya city
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 10/09/2005 12:27:28 AM PDT · 2 replies · 318+ views Science News | Oct. 8, 2005 | Bruce Bower Scientists working at a Guatemalan archaeological site that's more than 1,400 years old have reported finding a hieroglyphic-covered stone panel that, they say, conclusively identifies the ancient settlement as the enigmatic Site Q, a Maya city about which researchers have long speculated. Yale University archaeologist Marcello Canuto found the well-preserved panel last April at a site called La Corona. "[The] writing on the panel opens up a new chapter in Maya history," says anthropologist David Freidel of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, codirector of the expedition. "This new panel provides the critical test for establishing that La Corona is Site...
Prehistory and Origins
More bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered
	Posted by aculeus On General/Chat 10/11/2005 8:34:12 AM PDT · 84 replies · 1,058+ views Reuters | October 11, 2005 | By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Australian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered more remains of hobbit-sized humans which belong to a previously unknown species that lived at the end of the last Ice Age. Professor Mike Morwood, of the University of New England, in Armidale, Australia, stunned the science world last year when he and his team announced the discovery of 18,000-year-old remains of a new human species called Homo floresiensis. The partial skeleton discovered in a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 was of a tiny adult hominid, or early human, only one meter (3...
Anthropologists Uncover Ancient Jawbone
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/11/2005 9:47:00 AM PDT · 19 replies · 510+ views ap on Yahoo | 10/11/05 | Joseph B. Verrengia - AP Scientists digging in a remote Indonesian cave have uncovered a jaw bone that they say adds more evidence that a tiny prehistoric Hobbit-like species once existed. The jaw is from the ninth individual believed to have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. The bones are in a wet cave on the island of Flores in the eastern limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia. The research team which reported the original sensational finding nearly a year ago strongly believes that the skeletons belong to a separate species of early human that shared Earth with modern humans far more recently...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Ideas About Fossil Horses Undergo Evolution In Thinking
	Posted by Aquinasfan On News/Activism 05/05/2005 5:17:03 AM PDT · 37 replies · 622+ views Science Daily | 2005-03-21 | University of Florida Press Release GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The old gray mare, she ainít what she used to be, says a University of Florida researcher whose findings show that the evolution of horses had more twists and turns than previously thought. University of Florida paleontologist Bruce MacFadden momentarily turns his attention away from a prehistoric horse skeleton on Tuesday, March 15, that is on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus. Conventional notions about how horses evolved are now outmoded, said MacFadden, who describes these changes in an article in the March 18 Science magazine. Horses did not uniformly get...
Loss of Musk Ox Genetic Diversity at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/10/2005 5:13:17 PM PDT · 4 replies · 59+ views BioMed Central via Eureka Alert | 5-Oct-2005 | Juliette Savin The authors identified two groups of haplotypes (haploid genotypes, or gene sets associated on single chromosomes) within the analysed sequences. 'Extinct haplotypes' (EHs), or haplotypes which no longer occur in modern muskoxen, were recovered only in northern Asia where the muskox is now extinct. Such haplotypes were found in a number of specimens dated from ~44,000 to ~18,000 years ago.
Climate
Invisible Rivers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/16/2005 4:47:06 PM PDT · 20 replies · 668+ views Science News Online | 10-15-2005 | Sid Perkins Invisible RiversFresh water also flows to sea through the ground Sid Perkins About 2,000 years ago, the Roman geographer Strabo wrote about the residents of Latakia, Syria, who rowed their boats 4 kilometers out into the salty Mediterranean, dove a few meters to the ocean floor, and collected fresh drinking water in goatskin containers for their city. No miracle, thisómarine boaters could do the same today at a spot about 10 km east of Jacksonville, Fla. In fact, similar freshwater springs erupt on the seafloor near many shores. These flows of water originate on land and end up in the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mass Extinctions: The New Catastrophism in the History of Life
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/10/2005 4:50:02 PM PDT · 4 replies · 80+ views LORE magazine, Milwaukee Public Museum | 1996 | Peter M. Sheehan, Curator of Geology Perhaps the most telling evidence that gradualism alone can not explain sudden mass extinction events, is that the sudden events effected organisms both in the oceans and on land. Only global events that effect both terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems are capable of causing these extinctions. Whatever killed the dinosaurs also devastated marine habitats, because the extinction event was just as severe in the oceans as on land... Lamarck and Darwin were not wrong; life evolved continuously on Earth. But Cuvier also was partially correct--there were catastrophic events that redirected the history of life. Cuvier was mistaken only in his belief...
Moses' Comet
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/09/2005 4:25:36 PM PDT · 33 replies · 1,010+ views Troubled Times/Discovering Archaeology | 8-1999 | Mike Baillie Moses' Comet Mosesí Comet, by Mike Baillie Discovering Archeology, July/August 1999 Moses called down a host of calamities upon Egypt until the pharaoh finally freed the Israelites. Perhaps he had the help of a comet impact coupled with a volcano. A volcano destroyed the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea (between today's Greece and Turkey) around the middle of the second millennium B.C. Researchers Val LaMarche and Kathy Hirschboeck suggest the volcano might be associated with tree-ring evidence for several years of intense cold beginning in 1627 B.C. Could that form the basis for strange meteorological phenomena recorded in...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Machu Picchu Rescue Underway (1400 Trapped by Mudslide)
	Posted by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island On News/Activism 10/14/2005 6:17:10 AM PDT · 20 replies · 353+ views BBC | 14 Oct 2005 | Staff The Peruvian authorities have begun to evacuate at least 1,400 people - many of them tourists - stranded at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu by a mudslide. On Wednesday, the railway line leading up the Andes mountains to Machu Picchu was covered by a mudslide more than three metres (9.8ft) deep. Peruvian officials said the slippage of mud and rocks was caused by snow melting on a nearby mountain peak. A spokeswoman for Peru Rail said no-one was hurt in the incident. The trapped people were being brought to safety by bus. Many of those trapped at the site...
Technology Helps Unravel Archaeological Mysteries
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 10/15/2005 1:08:08 AM PDT · 5 replies · 388+ views Sci-Tech Today | October 13, 2005 In going high-tech, "archaeologists have to stop thinking like jacks-of-all-trades," University of Pennsylvania researcher Larry Coben says. Instead, assembling specialists expert with each technology becomes a priority. Hidden atop the Andes, the mysteries of the lost Inca Empire are yielding to today's technology. "We're adding a symphony of instruments to our efforts, which lets us just see more than we ever imagined," says archaeologist Fred Limp of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Archaeological advances and ongoing work in the Andes demonstrate the growing role of high-tech tools, he says. Along the way, archaeologists are gaining a new appreciation for...
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In The Beginning Was The Vowel. (Homo heidelbergenis could talk)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #66 Saturday, October 15, 2005
Anatolia
Helen Of Troy Existed?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/18/2005 11:08:43 AM PDT · 106 replies · 2,044+ views The Discovery Channel | 10-18-2005 | Jennifer Viegas Helen of Troy Existed? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery NewsWas a Queen of Sparta Helen of Troy? Oct. 17, 2005ó Helen of Troy, described in the epic poem The Iliad, was based on a real woman, according to a new book that weaves history, archaeology and myth to recreate the famous ancient Greek beauty's life. According to the new theory proposed by Bettany Hughes, Helen's mythological character was inspired by a wealthy Bronze Age leader from the southern mainland of Greece. Hughes, a former Oxford University scholar who has conducted research in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor, was unavailable for...
Unique Flagstones Of Rabat Tepe Raise Questions
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2005 4:53:40 PM PDT · 4 replies · 199+ views CHN | 10-20-2005 Unique flagstones of Rabat Tepe Raise QuestionsThe discovery of 3000-year-old flagstones in Rabat Tepe has surprised archaeologists. Tehran, 20 October 2005 (CHN) -- The first season of archaeological excavations in Rabat Tepe led to the discovery of 3000-year-old 180x180 cm flagstone, which have never been seen before in any Urartu historical sites. Similar flagstones have been found in Ancient Rome and Ancient Iran historical sites. Rabat Tepe is located near the town of Sardasht in West Azarbaijan province of Iran. It is believed that hill used to be the capital of Musasir government about 3000 years ago. Before setting on...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Winged Man Must Fly From Pasargadae To Safe Haven
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/17/2005 4:52:39 PM PDT · 10 replies · 249+ views Tehran Times | 10-17-2005 Winged Man must fly from Pasargadae to safe haven Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- Experts have recently said that the Winged Man of Pasargadae stone bas-relief should be transferred to a museum in order to prevent it from being damaged by the elements, the director of the Pasargadae Research Base announced on Sunday. 'Our experts have made efforts to restore and protect the unique bas-relief over the years, and if you compare it with the photos taken of the monument in 1963, you will acknowledge that the monument is in better condition. But we have to transfer it to...
Epigraphy and Language
5,000-Year-Old Treasure Rediscovered In Library Storage Room (Valdosta, Ga)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/19/2005 4:21:03 PM PDT · 61 replies · 1,294+ views Valdosta.edu/News | 10-19-2005 | Charles Harmon Charles Harmon Director of University Relations Sementha Mathews Manager of Public Information and Media Relations 5,000-year-old treasure rediscovered in library storage room Dr. Melanie Byrd, professor and coordinator of planning and program review in the History Department, holds a piece of the treasure in the palm of her hand. Valdosta State University Odum Library has uncovered an ancient treasure that excites even the mildest Indiana Jones wanna-be. The treasure is a collection of 5,000-year-old Babylonian cuneiform clay tablets, dating back from 2300 BC to 500 BC. Cuneiform is one of several writing systems of the ancient East, in which wedge-shaped...
Ancient Rome
Golden Land For Finding Roman Treasure
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2005 3:37:25 PM PDT · 7 replies · 424+ views Golden land for finding Roman treasure Oct 21 2005 Aled Blake, Western Mail MORE Roman gold is found in Britain than anywhere else - and now a Welsh academic has come up with an intriguing theory explaining why. Thousands of gold and silver artifacts from the Roman period, especially when the conquerors finally left these islands in the 4th and 5th centuries. Dr Peter Guest, of Cardiff University's School of History and Archaeology, is the leading expert on the biggest ever Roman gold treasure discovered in Britain. In 1992, 15,000 gold and silver coins were found at Hoxne in Suffolk...
Ancient Europe
Under Downtown Prague (Archaeology)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/19/2005 4:47:25 PM PDT · 9 replies · 357+ views Archaeology Magazine | November/December 2005 | Nick Holdsworth Under Downtown Prague Volume 58 Number 6, November/December 2005 by Nick Holdsworth The Czech Republic's biggest excavation reveals layers of history.(Courtesy Archaia) Every Czech school child knows the story. Prague was a crowded medieval city bursting at the seams when, in 1348, its problem was solved at a stroke by the brilliance of Charles IV. The greatest of Czech kings ordained that a massive swathe of farmland around the walled city should become a new urban space called Nove Mesto, or New Town. The Prague we know today is said to be largely a product of Charles IV's effort at...
Asia
Chinese Archaeologists Find Ancient Tombs (1,700 YO)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/18/2005 10:57:32 AM PDT · 17 replies · 451+ views Yahoo/AP | 10-18-2005 Chinese Archaeologists Find Ancient Tombs Mon Oct 17,11:31 PM ET BEIJING - Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old complex of tombs in eastern China that contain bronze mirrors, porcelains and ancient money, a news report said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The tombs near the port city of Ningbo were uncovered by a forklift operator working at a construction site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The report didn't say who was buried in the tombs or how many bodies had been found. Inscriptions in the tombs indicate they were built in 256 A.D., the report said, citing Ding Youfu, a member of the...
Tomb Scan Reveals Buried Treasure (China's First Emperor)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2005 1:13:14 PM PDT · 1 reply · 152+ views CNN | 10-20-2005 Tomb scan reveals buried treasure Thursday, October 20, 2005; Posted: 1:02 a.m. EDT (05:02 GMT) Some of the terra cotta soldier statues found around Qin's tomb. BEIJING, China (AP) -- A magnetic scan of the unopened tomb of China's first emperor has detected a large number of coins, suggesting Emperor Qin was buried with his state treasury, a news report said Thursday.
Tomb Scan Reveals Buried Treasure (China's First Emperor)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2005 1:13:28 PM PDT · 35 replies · 753+ views CNN | 10-20-2005 Tomb scan reveals buried treasure Thursday, October 20, 2005; Posted: 1:02 a.m. EDT (05:02 GMT) Some of the terra cotta soldier statues found around Qin's tomb. BEIJING, China (AP) -- A magnetic scan of the unopened tomb of China's first emperor has detected a large number of coins, suggesting Emperor Qin was buried with his state treasury, a news report said Thursday.
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ophthalmologist To Examine Ancient Chilean Mummy Eyes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2005 3:50:04 PM PDT · 12 replies · 186+ views Newswise/UC Davis | 10-20-2005 Ophthalmologist to Examine Ancient Chilean Mummy Eyes Over the next week, UC Davis ophthalmologist William Lloyd will dissect and examine the eyes of two North Chilean mummies for evidence of various diseases and medical conditions. Newswise ó Over the next week, UC Davis ophthalmologist William Lloyd will dissect and examine the eyes of two North Chilean mummies for evidence of various diseases and medical conditions. One of the eyes belonged to a boy who was 2 years old when he died 1,000 years ago, and the other is from a female, who was approximately 23 years old when she died...
Genetic Marker Tells Squash Domestication Story
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/10/2002 5:23:02 AM PST · 1 reply · 82+ views Eureka Alert | 01-07-2002 | Oris Sanjur Contact: Oris Sanjur sanjuro@naos.si.edu 202-786-2094 x8824 Smithsonian Institution Genetic marker tells squash domestication story In the January 8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), The Cucurbit Network and the University of Puerto Rico establish mitochondrial DNA analysis as a powerful tool for understanding relationships among flowering plants. A comparison of mtDNA from cultivated squash, pumpkins, gourds and their wild ancestors strongly supports hypotheses based on archeological and ethnobotanical evidence for six, independent domestication events in the New World. Even Oris Sanjur, who conducted the genetic analysis was "surprised by the resolution" ...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mammoth, Tusks Found by Los Angeles-Area Builders
	Posted by billorites On News/Activism 04/10/2005 5:48:12 AM PDT · 15 replies · 373+ views Reuters | April 8, 2005 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Construction crews in a town near Los Angeles have uncovered the fossilized skeleton of a mammoth, with tusks, believed to between 400,000 and 1.4 million years old, a paleontologist said on Friday. The mammoth, up to 75 percent complete, may be a member of the first species of the elephant-like animals that reached North America. Paleo Environmental Associates of Altadena, California, was called in last week to dig out the skeleton in Moorpark, 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and expects to complete the task on Friday, Bruce Lander, a partner in the firm, told Reuters....
Supernova debris found on Earth
	Posted by Phsstpok On News/Activism 11/24/2004 1:22:08 PM PST · 59 replies · 5,111+ views NEWS@NATURE.COM | 02 November 2004 | Mark Peplow Published online: 02 November 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041101-5 Supernova debris found on Earth Mark Peplow Ancient explosion may have affected climate and, possibly, human evolution. Cosmic fallout from an exploding star dusted the Earth about 2.8 million years ago, and may have triggered a change in climate that affected the course of human evolution. The evidence comes from an unusual form of iron that was blasted through space by a supernova before eventually settling into the rocky crust beneath the Pacific Ocean. Gunther Korschinek, a physicist from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, leads a team who in 1999 found...
Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
	Posted by planetesimal On News/Activism 10/04/2005 11:47:27 PM PDT · 76 replies · 1,385+ views Discovery News | 09/28/05 | Jennifer Viegas A supernova blast 41,000 years ago started a deadly chain of events that led to the extinction of mammoths and other animals in North America, according to two scientists. If their supernova theory gains acceptance, it could explain why dozens of species on the continent became extinct 13,000 years ago.
Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
	Posted by Fzob On News/Activism 10/17/2005 8:57:32 AM PDT · 76 replies · 1,613+ views Discovery News | Sept. 28, 2005 | Jennifer Viegas Sept. 28, 2005ó A supernova blast 41,000 years ago started a deadly chain of events that led to the extinction of mammoths and other animals in North America, according to two scientists. If their supernova theory gains acceptance, it could explain why dozens of species on the continent became extinct 13,000 years ago. Mammoths and mastodons, both relatives of today's elephants, mysteriously died out then, as did giant ground sloths, a large-horned bison, a huge species of armadillo, saber-toothed cats, and many other animals and plants. Richard Firestone, a nuclear scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National...
Prehistory and Origins
'Hobbit' tools found near remains
	Posted by nickcarraway On General/Chat 10/17/2005 2:56:37 PM PDT · 25 replies · 240+ views physorg.com | October 17, 2005 Researchers say they have found "Hobbit" tools on an Indonesian island near where the remains of nine ancient individuals were found. The researchers have excavated more than 500 stone tools within several miles of the remains of Homo floresiensis, believed to have inhabited the site from an estimated 95,000 to 12,000 years ago, the BBC reported Friday. "At Mata Menge there are hundreds and hundreds of in situ stone artifacts with Stegodon fossils," Mike Morwood, of the University of New England, director of the excavations, told the BBC News. Last year, the announcement that a partial skeleton about three feet...
Evolution through the Back Door
	Posted by Alamo-Girl On News/Activism 06/15/2003 10:36:08 AM PDT · 673 replies · 438+ views Various | 6/15/2003 | Alamo-Girl Evolution through the back door - musings of an Alamo-Girl What Mathematics brings to the Table I do very much love the epistemological zeal that mathematicians bring to the "evolution biology" table. For one thing, to a mathematician the "absence of evidence IS evidence of absence." For another, mathematicians and physicists accept axioms of the level evolutionary biologists do not, such as taking life as an axiom. According to Sir Karl Popper, when given two theories an experiment will decide one true and one false. But in wave-particle duality one experiment proves the electron is a wave, another proves it...
Biology and Cryptobiology
New Cellular Evolution Theory Rejects Darwinian Assumptions (Actual Title)
	Posted by Nebullis On News/Activism 06/17/2002 4:40:34 PM PDT · 275 replies · 309+ views University of Illinois News Release | 6/17/02 | Jim Barlow CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, evolving in a communal way that aided one another in bootstrapping into the three distinct types of cells by sharing their evolutionary inventions. The driving force in evolving cellular life on Earth, says Carl Woese, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been horizontal gene transfer, in which the acquisition of alien cellular components, including genes and proteins, work to promote the evolution of...
Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur Found in Wyoming
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 10/17/2005 7:25:41 PM PDT · 48 replies · 761+ views LiveScience.com on yahoo | 10/17/05 | Robert Roy Britt Tracks of a previously unknown swimming dinosaur have been found along the shores of an ancient sea in Wyoming, scientists announced today. The tracks reveal an event 165 million years ago when a six-foot-tall, two-legged dinosaur waded into the inland sea and gradually lost touch with the ground. "It was about the size of an ostrich, and it was a meat-eater," said Debra Mickelson, a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student. "The tracks suggest it waded along the shoreline and swam offshore, perhaps to feed on fish or carrion." Mickelson was scheduled to present her team's findings at the...
Evidence of Swimming Dinosaur Found
	Posted by Junior On News/Activism 10/18/2005 7:19:16 AM PDT · 238 replies · 2,400+ views AP - Science | 2005-10-18 | BOB MOEN CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Researchers have found tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur with birdlike characteristics in northern Wyoming and are looking for bones and other remains in order further identify and name it. "It was about the size of an ostrich, and it was a meat-eater," said Debra Mickelson, a University of Colorado graduate student in geological sciences. "The tracks suggest it waded along the shoreline and swam offshore, perhaps to feed on fish or carrion." The tracks indicate a dinosaur that was about 6 feet tall and lived about 165 million years ago along an ancient inland...
Ichthyosaur bones found off U.K. coast
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 10/17/2005 2:52:36 PM PDT · 43 replies · 753+ views New Kerala | 15 Oct 2005 LYME REGIS, England: The snout, teeth, vertebrae and ribcage of a 15-foot reptile that lived off the coast of England 190 million years ago have been found. Geologist Paddy Howe, who is monitoring work on the site in Lyme Regis, says the ichthyosaur looked a bit like a dolphin but was a reptile that swam in the sea at the same time dinosaurs roamed the land, the BBC reported Friday. The remains were found during work to prevent landslides along the coastline and took months to painstakingly remove. "Now it's a case of waiting to identify the exact species and...
Supernatural sightings worth $1 million (Nessie, Yeti& Elusive Viable Democrat Candidate?)
	Posted by hispanarepublicana On News/Activism 10/17/2005 8:51:30 PM PDT · 35 replies · 425+ views CBC News | 10/17/05 Seen a sasquatch, ogled an abominable snowman or looked at the Loch Ness monster? If so, you could be in line for a $1-million reward. Loren Coleman, a professor at the University of Southern Maine, says anyone with a photo that leads to the live capture of one of the legendary creatures will get the money. Some believe this to be a female Sasquatch. Image from 16mm film taken in 1967, Six Rivers National Forest, California. (AP Photo/Sasquatch Research Project, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin ) † INDEPTH: Fact or Fiction? †He plans to release details of the reward...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Letters Of Trafalgar Warrior, Aged 11
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/19/2005 4:29:55 PM PDT · 14 replies · 518+ views The Times (UK) | 10-19-2005 | Dalya Alberge October 19, 2005 Letters of Trafalgar warrior, aged 11 By Dalya AlbergeBoy told his mother of Admiral Nelsonís bravery A REMARKABLE series of unpublished letters written by an 11-year-old midshipman who was at the Battle of Trafalgar has been acquired for the nation. The vivid eyewitness account of George James Perceval, who served on HMS Orion, a 74-gun battleship that played a key role in the closing stages of the battle, has been purchased by the National Maritime Museum. In more than 40 letters, many written to Lord and Lady Arden, his parents in London, George painted a portrait of...
Treasure trove sparks gold fever on Crusoe island (Follow up)
	Posted by Candor7 On News/Activism 10/21/2005 5:28:45 PM PDT · 14 replies · 429+ views Yahoo News UK and Ireland | Wednesday September 28, 2005 | AFP SANTIAGO (AFP) - The claimed discovery of a 10 billion dollar 18th century treasure trove on Chile's Robinson Crusoe island has touched off an epidemic of gold fever among treasure hunters, residents and officials. The modern-day gold rush began Monday when Chilean security firm Wagner announced that its ground-scanning robot had located a legendary pirate hideaway containing a lost bounty of jewels and gold coins. Robinson Crusoe lies 600 kilometers (372 miles) west of Chile's central ADVERTISEMENT coast in the Pacific, and was a refuge for corsairs crossing the ocean as well as the home of Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk,...
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