[SunkenCiv]

Neandertals a.k.a. Neanderthals were on the march all this week.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #110 Saturday, August 26, 2006
Let's Have Jerusalem
Ancient biblical waterworks found in Israel
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/23/2006 5:29:21 AM EDT · 35 replies · 1,019+ views Scotsman | 23 Aug 2006 | Corinne Heller RAMAT RACHEL, Israel (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed an ancient water system which was modified by the conquering Persians to turn the desert into a paradise. The network of reservoirs, drain pipes and underground tunnels served one of the grandest palaces in the biblical kingdom of Judea. Archaeologists first discovered the palace in 1954, a structure built on a six-acre (2.4 hectare) site where the communal Ramat Rachel farm now stands. Recent excavations unearthed nearly 70 square metres (750 square feet) of a unique water system. "They had found a huge palace ... even nicer than the palaces...
Ancient Egypt
'Exodus Decoded' seeks 'plausible explanation' for Biblical events
	Posted by NYer On Religion 08/19/2006 9:32:10 AM EDT · 23 replies · 404+ views The Tidings | August 18, 2006 | David DiCerto Did Moses really part the Red Sea like it says in the Old Testament? What about the Nile turning blood red or the plagues that finally compelled Pharaoh to free the Israelites from slavery? Did those things actually happen? These are among the questions Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici attempts to answer in "The Exodus Decoded" which premieres Aug. 20, 8-9:30 p.m. (check local listings) on cable's History Channel. Challenging opinions that dismiss those events as myth, the thought-provoking documentary uses investigative journalism aided by modern science to examine archaeological and geological evidence in separating historical fact from fiction. Jacobovici...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/23/2006 8:58:47 PM EDT · 102 replies · 1,494+ views University Rhode Island | 8-23-2006 | Todd McLeish Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed Media Contact: Todd McLeish, 401-874-7892 Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed; likely had significant impact on civilization KINGSTON, R.I. ñ August 23, 2006 ñ An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed. During research expeditions in April and June, the scientists from the University of Rhode Island and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research found deposits of volcanic pumice and ash 10 to 80 meters thick...
A few thoughts on Mass Extinctions [ 2003 ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/20/2006 6:09:15 PM EDT · 3 replies · 66+ views NASA Astrobiology Institute / SpaceRef | February 21, 2003 | Madalyn Edwards and Daniella Scalice Officially there have been five big mass extinction events over the past 540 million years. What is often not mentioned is that up to five other mass extinctions occurred between 650-500 million years ago. These little publicized events mainly involved microorganisms, and marine animals and plants. They each took place before the Cambrian Explosion (between 543 and 490 million years ago) during which time life forms on Earth exploded into previously unseen levels of diversity... The Earth has not seen the same type of diversification of life forms since the Cambrian Explosion, so the percentage of species lost with these...
Prehistory and Origins
Creating a cupboard for our skeletons
	Posted by JimSEA On General/Chat 08/25/2006 11:08:21 PM EDT · 4 replies · 30+ views Bangkok Post | Saturday August 26, 2006 | VASSANA CHINVARAKORN Some of the skulls are ovoid, others are more like wedge-shaped. The eye sockets are rather narrow, almost rectangular; and anthropologists think the nose was probably quite flat with wide nostrils. Of medium height for an average contemporary Asian, the men are thought to have been slightly taller than the women. From today's perspective, the people who roamed what is now Thailand thousands of years ago may not have been particularly handsome - but interpretation of their appearance, and the ramifications for archaeology, could be very striking indeed. Comparing the skeletons could unravel some of the myths, and settle some...
Neandertal
How Modern Were European Neanderthals?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/25/2006 3:05:53 PM EDT · 42 replies · 791+ views Eureka Alert | 8-25-2006 | Hannah Johnson Contact: Hannah Johnson hannah.johnson@bristol.ac.uk 44-117-928-8896 University of Bristol How modern were European Neanderthals? Neandertals were much more like modern humans than had been previously thought, according to a re-examination of finds from one of the most famous palaeolithic sites in Europe by Bristol University archaeologist, Professor Joao Zilhao, and his French colleagues. Professor Zilhao has been able to show that sophisticated artefacts such as decorated bone points and personal ornaments found in the Ch‚telperronian culture of France and Spain were genuinely associated with Neandertals around 44,000 years ago, rather than acquired from modern humans who might have been living nearby....
Are you part Neanderthal?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/23/2006 1:25:51 AM EDT · 52 replies · 476+ views Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Wednesday, 23 August 2006 | Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News People of European descent may be 5% Neanderthal, according to a DNA study that counters the view that modern humans left Africa and replaced all other existing hominids. The same study, published in the latest issue of the journal PloS Genetics, also says West Africans could be related to an archaic human population... "Instead of a population that left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced all other archaic human groups, we propose that this population interacted with another population that had been in Europe for much longer, maybe 400,000 years," says Vincent Plagnol... Using statistics and computer modelling, the researchers...
Neanderthal or Cretin? A Debate Over Iodine
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/25/2006 2:13:28 AM EDT · 19 replies · 146+ views New York Times | December 1, 1998 | John Noble Wilford In a study already drawing the fire of controversy, an American geographer has pointed out evidence suggesting, in his view, that little more than the amount of iodine in their diets may have been responsible for the physical differences between Neanderthals and modern humans and that this might solve the mystery of what happened to the Neanderthals. According to this interpretation, the skeletons of Neanderthals bear signs of physical deformities and possibly impaired mental health, which could be a result of iodine-deficient diets... It may even mean that Neanderthals could actually have been anatomically modern humans who were pathologically altered...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Paper reignites hobbit debate
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/23/2006 1:17:42 AM EDT · 9 replies · 122+ views Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Tuesday, 22 August 2006 | unattributed [T]wo of the original Australian discoverers of the hobbit, Professor Peter Brown and Professor Mike Morwood from the University of New England, have lashed out at the researchers, rejecting arguments put forward in the latest paper. Professor Brown also criticises the journal itself for publishing the research. He says the paper's conclusions are "unsupported by any published evidence" and that the paper makes "misleading comments" about previously published papers. Australian National University taxonomist Professor Colin Groves, who was not involved in the research, also rejects the PNAS paper. "Most of their claims of pathology are not substantial," says Professor Groves,...
Ancient Europe
Archaeologists Dig Up More Ice Age Remains At Creswell Crags
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/24/2006 7:18:32 PM EDT · 39 replies · 633+ views 24 Hour Museum | 8-23-2006 | Graham Spicer ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIG UP MORE ICE AGE REMAINS AT CRESWELL CRAGS By Graham Spicer 23/08/2006 Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge containing important evidence of Ice Age life. Photo Creswell Heritage Trust Archaeologists searching for clues about Ice Age artists have completed a major excavation in Nottinghamshire, unearthing more than 1,000 finds. A team from the University of Sheffield and The British Museum conducted the dig in Church Hole cave at Creswell Crags between August 7 and 18 2006, the site of the only British discovery of Ice Age rock art. The rock art discoveries, made in 2003 and 2004, are...
Navigation
Bronze age canoe stops pipeline(UK)
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/24/2006 2:25:40 PM EDT · 20 replies · 578+ views BBC | 24 Aug 2006 | BBC Archaeologists working on a gas pipeline near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire have unearthed what they believe to be a 3,400-year-old canoe. Work has stopped on a section of the pipeline near St Botolphs to allow the Bronze Age oak relic to be recovered. It is the first such discovery in Wales and only 150 exist across Europe. Senior archaeologist Neil Fairburn said: "You could never have expected to find anything like this in this small wetland area, it's just awesome." The team has also found evidence of a small settlement, a small amount of property and other items, such as...
Phoenicians
Phoenician Tombs Found In Sicily
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/23/2006 9:12:18 PM EDT · 18 replies · 425+ views ANSA | 8-23-2006 Phoenician tombs found in Sicily 40 sarcophagi unearthed at necropolis near ancient colony (ANSA) - Marsala (Trapani), August 23 - Archaeologists have unearthed 40 sarcophagi in what was once the sacred Phoenician burial grounds of Birgi, near the ancient colony of Motya . The tombs were discovered by chance by a group of construction workers excavating the foundations of a house close to the westernmost tip of Sicily near Marsala, culture officials said . Archaeologists said the sarcophagi were made of simple stone slabs and resembled those found on display outside the museum on the neighbouring island of Motya (present-day...
Ancient Rome
Ancient Indian port linked to Roman Empire faces extinction(India)
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/22/2006 5:26:29 AM EDT · 19 replies · 447+ views AFP | 21 Aug 2006 | Jeemon Jacob PATTANAM, India -- Pottery shards, beads, Roman copper coins, and ancient wine bottles litter the strata beneath this small seaside village in India's southern Kerala state. The 250 families, mostly agricultural laborers, who live in Pattanam, 260 kilometers (161 miles) north of Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram, find the objects pretty, but would rather dig up the ground and build larger homes. But according to archaeologists K.P. Shajan and V. Selvakumar, they may be destroying the remnants of Muziris, a well-documented trading port where Rome and India met almost 3,000 years ago. They say that, based on remote sensing data, a river...
Agriculture and Domestication
This Old House
	Posted by Valin On News/Activism 08/20/2006 11:18:54 AM EDT · 11 replies · 338+ views Hatural History | Ian Hodder At Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic site in Turkey, families packed their mud-brick houses close together and traipsed over roofs to climb into their rooms from above. By Ian Hodder Every summer since 1993 I have returned to central Turkey to work on the archaeological excavation of a mound nearly seventy feet high. As I tread over its soil, I feel a tingling in my feet, knowing that buried beneath me are the abundant remains of a town inhabited from 9,400 until 8,000 years ago. Rising just 500 feet to my west is a second, smaller mound, which was occupied from about...
A Weaver's View of the Catal Hoyuk Controversy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/25/2006 3:32:24 AM EDT · 10 replies · 77+ views Marla Mallett: Textiles | August/September 1990 | Marla Mallett In was enlightening to read Mellaart's excavation reports from the 1960s [2] as well as other early writings. Contradictions between those texts and the current work indicated more than a runaway kilim theory and an overly fertile imagination at work. Technical and stylistic problems now combined with incriminating disclosures to reveal what seemed to be careless, poorly conceived fabrications -- possibly a deliberate hoax... The current controversy is not the first instance in which James Mellaart has offered flimsy evidence as the sole "proof" of revolutionary archaeological findings. In the mysterious Dorak Affair... Mellaart claims to have uncovered a cache...
Anatolia
Archaeologists Discover More Than 70 Ancient Settlement Areas In Yozgat (Turkey)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/24/2006 7:41:34 PM EDT · 5 replies · 183+ views Turkish Daily News | 8-24-2006 Archaeologists discover more than 70 ancient settlement areas in Yozgat Thursday, August 24, 2006 ANKARA - Turkish Daily News Archaeologists working at the ancient settlement of Tavium located in what is today Yozgat have discovered more than 70 previously unknown ancient settlements in the area. The Central Anatolian province, mostly famous for the Chalcolithic Period discoveries at its Ali?ar Tumulus and the Hittite era artifacts at Kerkenes, is likely to hold much more archaeological wealth than previously believed, and archaeologists say the new studies will shed more light on history. Austrian archaeologist Professor Karl Strobel, who is currently heading surveys...
Excavations along the Black Sea coast to unearth historical wealth of region
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/19/2006 9:50:56 PM EDT · 3 replies · 81+ views Turkish Daily News | Saturday, August 19, 2006 | unattributed Atasoy said that they conducted a study to ascertain in which geographical area the ancient city of Teion was established by examining remains close to the surface, adding that they had outlined port walls, an aqueduct, theater and defensive walls as well as a port and a breakwater. "We have calculated that the city dates back to 700 B.C., and excavations indicate that the ancient city was an important trade center in the region that hosted numerous civilizations including Persians, Romans, Genoans and Ottomans. Its inhabitants sold forest products and mackerel. We uncovered an ancient Roman theater with a 2,000-person...
Ancient Greece
Cavemen had their own sheds
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/25/2006 1:50:46 AM EDT · 24 replies · 252+ views Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Friday, 25 August 2006 | Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Dr Panagiotis Karkanas, who conducted the excavation of the Kouveleiki caves, located on the cliffs of a shallow valley in the southern Peloponnese... came to this conclusion after studying objects uncovered within the caves and after performing a detailed microanalysis of the cave sediments... The complex consists of two caves, the first of which is divided into two chambers by several rock blocks that appear to have fallen from the roof before the caves were inhabited. The cavemen used this natural divide to their advantage, since one of the fallen rocks was curved and straightened to resemble a wall, which...
Celts
Origin Of The Celts - Caucasian, Not European
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 08/20/2006 8:01:46 PM EDT · 35 replies · 482+ views Angelfire Origin of the Celts - Caucasian, not European The Celts are Circaesir from Circaesya, who lived on the Sea of Grass in what is now west Kazakhstan until late in the second millennium B.C. They were by their own definition a linguistic group, but now they are a culture. Contrary to popular belief, they had nothing to do with European inhabitants known to archaeologists as the 'Beaker folk' and 'Battle Axe people'. The 'Urnfield people' farther east were Circaesir, and obviously related to the Celts. Their descendants integrated with Celts in central Europe. Tradition suggests that the Celts left the...
Asia
Archaeologists Find 2,500-Year-Old Mummy In Mongolia, Tattos And All (Blonde Headed Scythian)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/25/2006 3:14:30 PM EDT · 50 replies · 1,743+ views Yahoo News | 8-24-2006 Archaeologists find 2,500-year-old mummy in Mongolia, tattoos and all Thu Aug 24, 2:18 PM ETAFP/DDP/GAI-HO Photo: This undated picture released by the German Archaeological Institute (GAI) shows a mummified body from... BERLIN (AFP) - An international group of archaeologists has unearthed a well-preserved, 2,500-year-old mummy frozen in the snowcapped mountains of Mongolia complete with blond hair, tattoos and a felt hat. The president of the German Archaeological Institute, Hermann Parzinger, hailed the "fabulous find" at a press conference to present the 28-member team's discovery in Berlin. The Scythian warrior was found in June at a height of 2,600 meters (8,500...
Central Asia
Earthenware Statuette of a Woman Discovered in Boukan
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/21/2006 12:35:45 AM EDT · 4 replies · 120+ views Persian Journal | Aug 19, 2006 | unattributed Archeological excavations in Qalaichi Tepe in Boukan led to discovery of an earthenware statuette of a woman. This naked earthenware statuette is 20 centimeters in height.... "All the discovered evidence show that most probably this statuette was an oblation to the temple," said Reza Heidari, archeologists of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department of West Azarbaijan province and member of Qalaichi Tepe excavation team... "This is the first time that archeological excavations have been carried out on Manian ethnic groups in Qalaichi Tepe and some important evidence including the architectural style of Manian ethnic groups and the materials and colors...
China
The Chinese Chariot (221BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/19/2006 9:56:21 PM EDT · 13 replies · 731+ views Sunday Express | 8-18-2006 The Chinese chariot (221BC) 18/08/06 A team of horses lay frozen at the gallop, revealed to the world after thousands of years. Archaeologists digging at Luoyang, in China's central Henan province, were astonished to find the animals' perfectly preserved remains laid out in eerie symmetry, still tethered to the chariot they had been pulling. Historians believe the remains date from the Eastern Zhou dynasty, which ended in the year 221BC. If that is correct, it would make the chariot with its delicately spoked wheels, a marvel of engineering for its time. Theories about how the horses came to be entombed...
Epigraphy and Language
Iran Show Off 4500-Year-Old Anobanini Relief Soon
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/21/2006 12:40:37 AM EDT · 4 replies · 18+ views Persian Journal | Aug 20, 2006 | unattributed Anobanini bas relief belongs to Anobanini, king of the Lolobi tribes.... Anobanini bas relief is located 120 kilometers of Kermanshah in city of Sar-e Pole Zahab. This relief was carved during the third millennium BCE at the height of 16 meters from the ground. The relief is consisted of the figures of Anobanini, Nini Goddess and nine prisoners. The surface on which the relief was carved is divided into two parts. The figure of Anobanini with his left leg on the chest of a war prisoner can be seen on the left part of the relief. Many historians believe that...
Elam, Media, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Kurdistan: Zoroastrian Temple discovered in Duhok
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/23/2006 1:33:40 AM EDT · 8 replies · 110+ views Kurdish Globe | August 22, 2006 | unattributed Duhok's Director of Antiquities, Hasan Ahmed Qassim, has announced the discovery of a Zoroastrian temple near Jar Ston Cave, a famous ancient site. The temple is believed to be the most complete to have been unearthed in the region. It is also said that it was a Metherani temple... "This new discovery will alter the history of the region due to its unique architectural style, which differs considerably from Zoroastrian temples previously discovered," explained the Director of Antiquities. "The temple's style which looks toward the four-directions is a unique style ever discovered in the area; thus it becomes an entry...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Extraordinary Nazca Prehistoric Balloon
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/20/2006 5:15:39 PM EDT · 16 replies · 260+ views Airship dot com (this domain for sale) | before Nov 2004 | Julian Nott and Jim Woodman Julian Nott and Jim Woodman tested their theory that manned smoke balloons of cotton and reed not only controlled these designs but may also have been used for ceremonial/religious festivals in which important members of the society who had died were transported on a ritualistic journey to the sun, the god they worshipped... "To our surprise," says Nott, "the quality of the smoke was crucial. Modern historians--laughing at the Montgolfiers, who believed that what was being burned to heat the balloon was important--claim that all that mattered was the heat. However, this balloon showed that it is essential to have...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Prehistoric Tools, Weapons Discovered In Peruvian Andes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/21/2006 8:16:01 PM EDT · 23 replies · 402+ views Middle East Times | 8-20-2006 Prehistoric tools, weapons discovered in Peruvian Andes AFP August 20, 2006 LIMA -- A team of Peruvian and US archaeologists have discovered prehistoric stone tools and weapons some 10,000 years old in an Andean town, the National Institute of Culture announced Friday. Stone axes, spearheads, and weapons were found in the main square of San Pedro de Chavin de Huantar, an Andean town some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Lima, officials said. "This discovery represents exceptional evidence of the presence of inhabitants in the Pleistocene era," the Institute said in a statement. The Pleistocene went from about 1.6 million...
Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/23/2006 12:54:02 PM EDT · 85 replies · 2,042+ views Reuters | 23 Aug 2006 | Catherine Bremer CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people travelling with invading Spanish forces in 1520. Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site near Mexico City show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or scraped clean, experts say. The findings support accounts of Aztecs capturing and killing a caravan of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children travelling with them in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king...
Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders
	Posted by WmShirerAdmirer On News/Activism 08/23/2006 6:46:48 PM EDT · 101 replies · 1,612+ views Reuters via Yahoo News | August 23, 2006 | Catherine Bremer CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520. Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site near Mexico City show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or scraped clean, experts say. The findings support accounts of Aztecs capturing and killing a caravan of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children traveling with them in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king...
Artifacts found on Gulf Coast(MS)
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/24/2006 10:24:36 AM EDT · 25 replies · 1,084+ views McClatchy Newspapers | 26 July 2006 | Ryan LaFontaine BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. ó Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient village, possibly dating back to the time of Christ, that once thrived along the shores of this Gulf Coast community. The artifacts were unearthed during recent efforts to rebuild a thoroughfare and major bridge heavily damaged last year by Hurricane Katrina. Marco Giardino, an archaeologist acting as the city's liaison on a dig to preserve the ancient remains, said as many as 400 people may have lived in the village. "That area was very strategic and would have allowed them to travel, fish and hunt," he...
Climate
Polar History Shows Melting Ice-Cap may be a Natural Cycle
	Posted by West Coast Conservative On News/Activism 03/09/2005 1:28:29 PM EST · 26 replies · 856+ views Scotsman | Wed 9 Mar 2005 | IAN JOHNSTON THE melting of sea ice at the North Pole may be the result of a centuries-old natural cycle and not an indicator of man-made global warming, Scottish scientists have found. After researching the log-books of Arctic explorers spanning the past 300 years, scientists believe that the outer edge of sea ice may expand and contract over regular periods of 60 to 80 years. This change corresponds roughly with known cyclical changes in atmospheric temperature. The finding opens the possibility that the recent worrying changes in Arctic sea ice are simply the result of standard cyclical movements, and not a harbinger...
Longer Perspectives
How Britain bypassed history
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/24/2006 1:44:18 AM EDT · 5 replies · 87+ views Times | August 24, 2006 | Clive Aslet It was where King Harold inflicted his devastating surprise attack on Harold Hardrada, the giant of a Norseman who had sided with William the Conqueror, along with Harold's brother Tostig. The Viking force was annihilated. King Harold showed great qualities as a general. It is an essential element in 1066. Unfortunately part of the battlefield is now under a housing estate. As I toured 500 historical sites for my book Landmarks of Britain, I couldn't help reflecting on the way we treat our past. Battlefields, in particular, have fared badly. In 1982, I visited Naseby, not only the decisive battle...
British Isles
Rare find for metal detector(Anglo Saxon Misc. Treasures-UK)
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/22/2006 11:17:34 PM EDT · 18 replies · 823+ views EveningStar | 22 Aug 2006 | EveningStar AN Ipswich metal detecting enthusiast has found treasure trove expected to be worth thousands of pounds in a farmer's field. John McLaughlin, 54, discovered silver gilt brooches, Anglo Saxon dress ornaments, silver studs, rings, knives, a spearhead and amber beads in Mark Partridge's north Ipswich field. The treasure was from disturbed burial sites from the Sixth and Seventh Century Anglo Saxon and Pagan periods. Mr McLaughlin said the landowner, Mr Partridge gave him permission to metal detect over his land after it was ploughed. He said he had been finding treasure there for the last three years. "This is my...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Time Team to seek buried treasure at Buckingham Palace
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/19/2006 9:45:52 PM EDT · 58+ views Telegraph | August 19, 2006 | Caroline Davies They will also be trying to find out whether Buckingham Palace's garden contains the remains of defences built around London and Westminster by the Roundheads to keep out the King's forces. "It really amuses me that there is the possibility there might be a Roundhead garrison actually within the confines of Buckingham Palace," said Robinson... "The gardener thinks he knows where the canal is from the land pattern," said Simon Raikes, the series producer... At Windsor Castle one of the aims is to locate the remains of a building, said to be 200ft wide, which it is believed was built...
Africa
Experts find site of Zulu siege
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 08/22/2006 1:26:50 PM EDT · 107 replies · 2,505+ views BBC | 22 Aug 2006 | Stephen Stewart British soldiers fighting the Zulus experienced appalling conditions similar to the muddy killing fields of World War I, it has emerged. Archaeologists have revealed details of soldiers' battle for survival during a bloody siege in the Anglo-Zulu War. The colonial war in 1879 was dramatised by Michael Caine in the film Zulu. Historians lacked detailed evidence of the troops' daily lives, but a team of experts from Glasgow have now uncovered a forgotten British fort. The site at KwaMondi, Eshowe, in South Africa, has been hailed as a treasure trove of historical information which sheds light on the heroism and...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Movie makers interested in Hannah Duston story
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 08/24/2006 6:02:10 PM EDT · 120 replies · 1,711+ views Eagle-Tribune | August 23, 2006 | Shawn Regan HAVERHILL - Several independent movie makers and script writers are interested in bringing controversial Colonial heroine Hannah Duston to the big screen. Scott Baron, CEO of Los Angeles-based Dynamo Entertainment, a new film-making company that seeks to produce as many as five low- to mid-budget movies per year, said his writers have already started developing a script about Duston "to see if we can do her story justice while creating a moving and exciting film." Duston made history March 15, 1697, when she was kidnapped by Abenaki Indians, who killed her infant daughter by bashing the baby's head against a...
Spanish galleon wreckage found?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/24/2006 2:25:49 PM EDT · 1 reply · 1+ view Charlotte Observer | Thursday, August 24, 2006 | Steve Lyttle Underwater archaeologists found an object, perhaps 100 feet long, buried under sand in water near South Island, off Georgetown County... the object could be part of the wreckage from the Chorruca, a Spanish galleon that sank in 1526 in Winyah Bay. The Chorruca was a lead vessel in the expedition headed by Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon, a conquistador born in 1475 in Toledo, Spain... De Ayllon tried to find such a passage along the Carolinas coast and is thought to have landed in the Cape Fear area. He also is credited as being the first European to discover Chesapeake Bay....
Archeologists discover remains of Jacques Cartier settlement
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/21/2006 1:06:52 AM EDT · 8 replies · 180+ views Canadian Press | Sunday, August 20, 2006 | unattributed The site of one of North America's first settlements will be the object of an extensive archeological dig ahead of the city's 400th anniversary celebrations... Archeologists discovered the site accidentally when preliminary work for a planned lookout point turned up artefacts which carbon dating later proved to be from the 16th century. The discovery was kept secret for several months before Friday's announcement. Historians suspect the fort was built by Jacques Cartier between 1541 and 1543, making it the oldest European settlement to be discovered north of Mexico.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Extra! Monday, August 28, 2006
The Exodus
Scientist Defends Account Of Exodus
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/11/2003 4:52:30 PM EDT · 48 replies · 836+ views Washington Post | 4-10-2003 | Richard N. Ostling Scientist Defends Account of Exodus By RICHARD N. OSTLING The Associated Press Thursday, April 10, 2003; 12:18 PM A British scientist is making two claims about Jewish history this Passover season that could surely spark discussion over the Seder meal. Colin J. Humphreys of Cambridge University has concluded that science backs traditional beliefs that the Israelites' exodus from Egypt was led by Moses pretty much the way the Bible and the Haggadah ritual tell it. He also says that Mount Sinai, where Scripture says Moses received God's Law, is located in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt's Sinai Peninsula - moving a...
Mount Sinai Was A Volcano In Saudi Arabia, Says Scientist (Exodus)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/12/2003 9:15:39 PM EDT · 94 replies · 781+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-13-2003 | Roger Highfield Mount Sinai was volcano in Saudi Arabia, says scientist By Roger Highfield Science Editor (Filed: 13/06/2003) Mount Sinai, where Scripture says Moses received God's Law, is located in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt's Sinai Peninsula - moving a key site for Judaism into the nation where Islam was founded, according to a Cambridge professor. Science also backs traditional beliefs that the Israelites' exodus from Egypt was led by Moses, roughly the way that the Bible tells it, according to Prof Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University. Prof Humphreys, a churchgoing Baptist and materials scientist, outlines his ideas in his forthcoming book: The...
Pharaoh's chariots found in the Red Sea? ( Holy Moses! )
	Posted by UnklGene On News/Activism 06/21/2003 1:52:07 PM EDT · 142 replies · 3,095+ views World Net Daily | June 21, 2003 | Joe Kovacs MUCH ABOUT HISTORY Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea? 'Physical evidence' of ancient Exodus prompting new look at Old Testament -- Posted: June 21, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joe Kovacs © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." (Exodus 14:21) One of the most famous stories of the Bible is God's parting of the Red Sea to save the Israelites from the Egyptian army and the subsequent...
Egyptian Jurists Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation...of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt
	Posted by adam_az On News/Activism 08/21/2003 3:48:59 PM EDT · 110 replies · 983+ views Memri.org | 8/09/03 | Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq The August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi featured an interview with Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq who, together with a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland, is preparing an enormous lawsuit against "all the Jews of the world." The following are excerpts from the interview: [1] Dr. Hilmi: "Ö Since the Jews make various demands of the Arabs and the world, and claim rights that they base on historical and religious sources, a group of Egyptians in Switzerland has opened the case of the so-called 'great exodus...
Reparations for the Exodus?
	Posted by JohnHuang2 On News/Activism 08/22/2003 4:05:06 AM EDT · 15 replies · 119+ views FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 22, 2003 | By MEMRI Raparations for the Exodus?By MEMRIMEMRI.org | August 22, 2003 The August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi featured an interview with Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq who, together with a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland, is preparing an enormous lawsuit against "all the Jews of the world." The following are excerpts from the interview: [1] Dr. Hilmi: "Ö Since the Jews make various demands of the Arabs and the world, and claim rights that they base on historical and religious sources, a group of Egyptians in Switzerland...
Group of Egyptians to Sue 'All Worldwide Jews' Over "Theft of Pharoah's Gold" (No Joke)
	Posted by AmericanInTokyo On News/Activism 08/22/2003 9:13:30 AM EDT · 41 replies · 1,010+ views MEMRI (Middle East News Monitor/Translation) | 9 August 2003 (in Arabic) | MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) Special Dispatch - Egypt August 22, 2003 No. 556 (Translated from Arabic Language Sources) Egyptian Jurists to Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation for 'Trillions' of Tons of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt The August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi featured an interview with Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq who, together with a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland, is preparing an enormous lawsuit against "all the Jews of the world." The following are excerpts from the interview: (1) Dr. Hilmi: "... Since the Jews...
Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus
	Posted by yhwhsman On News/Activism 08/22/2003 8:35:19 PM EDT · 30 replies · 186+ views WorldNetDaily.com | August 22, 2003 | Joseph Farah LAW OF THE LANDJews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus Egyptians to seek compensation for 'tons' allegedly taken Posted: August 22, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As attorneys and politicians grapple over the validity of slave reparations, a group of Egyptians have trumped the debate with a claim against Jews that dates back thousands of years. Dr. Nabil Hilmi, a dean at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, said Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland are mounting a massive lawsuit against "all Jews around the world" that seeks compensation for "tons" of gold they claim was stolen during the Jews' exodus out...
The Exodus fraud: Joseph Farah debunks latest Arab hoax demonizing Jews
	Posted by JohnHuang2 On News/Activism 08/26/2003 3:26:13 AM EDT · 2 replies · 79+ views WorldNetDaily.com | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 | Joseph Farah It's tempting to laugh off the claim by a dean of an Egyptian university preparing to sue the Jews of the world for looting Egypt during the Exodus thousands of years ago. Dr. Nabil Hilmi is rallying attorneys and politicians around the idea of reverse slave reparations -- suing the Jews who suffered in slavery in Egypt for 400 years because, he claims, they stole tons of gold before they left. One might suggest it's a little late for such a claim. One might remind the Egyptians it's normally the slave who asks for recompense, rather than the slaveholder. One...
In defense of Moses-Egyptians may sue Jews over the Exodus.
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 08/28/2003 8:42:12 AM EDT · 16 replies · 218+ views Jerusalem Post | 8-28-03 | Moshe Kohn The dean of Al-Zaqaziq University's School of Law, Dr. Nabil Hilmi, and a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland are preparing to sue "all the Jews of the world and the Jews of Israel in particular" for compensation for the wealth the Bible says the Jews "stole" when Moses led them out of Egypt 34 centuries ago (Jerusalem Post, August 22). Hilmi kindly offered to let us pay in installments over 1,000 years with interest, of course. It seems that where it suits Bible-deniers like Muslims who deny that the Jews have a history whose first stages are described in...
Sue the Jews!
	Posted by UnklGene On News/Activism 09/02/2003 6:06:45 PM EDT · 19 replies · 165+ views Townhall.com | September 2, 2003 | Mona Charen Sue the Jews Mona Charen (archive) September 2, 2003 Many have expressed doubts that America can influence the Middle East. But I submit that our cultural sway is already in evidence. Just when you thought that no lawsuit could be more preposterous than the one filed by families who tried to sue McDonalds for making them fat, along comes evidence that lawsuit madness has taken hold in Egypt in a truly unique fashion. Thanks to the Middle East Media Research Institute, we learn that the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi recently featured an interview with Dr. Nabil Hilmi, dean of the...
A lawsuit in the extreme?
	Posted by JohnHuang2 On News/Activism 09/04/2003 1:50:30 AM EDT · 121+ views Washington Times | Thursday, September 4, 2003 | Mona Charen <p>Many have expressed doubts America can influence the Middle East. But I submit that our cultural sway is already in evidence.</p> <p>Just when you thought no lawsuit could be more preposterous than the one filed by families who tried to sue McDonalds for making them fat, along comes evidence that lawsuit madness has taken hold in Egypt in a truly unique fashion.</p>
Egyptian Lawyer to Sue Jews for Biblical 'Plunder'
	Posted by jern On News/Activism 09/11/2003 1:21:57 PM EDT · 17 replies · 99+ views Reuters | Sept. 11, 2003 | Opheera McDoom Lawyer to Sue Jews for Biblical 'Plunder' 2 hours, 57 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Opheera McDoom CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian lawyer said Wednesday he was planning to sue the world's Jews for "plundering" gold during the Exodus from Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the Bible. Nabil Hilmi, dean of the law faculty at Egypt's al-Zaqaziq University, said the legal basis for the case was under study by a group of lawyers in Egypt and Europe. "This is serious, and should not be misread as being political against...
Digging Out The Truth Of Exodus
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/12/2003 1:27:46 PM EDT · 6 replies · 327+ views USN&WR | 10-20-2003 | Helen Fields Science & Society 10/20/03Digging out the truth of Exodus By Helen Fields Egyptologist Manfred Bietak was reading a 60-year-old report of a dig near Luxor in Egypt when a surprising find caught his eye. Near a mortuary temple from the 12th century B.C., archaeologists had uncovered a grid of shallow trenches, which they guessed was the base of a workers' hut. Bietak, head of the Institute of Egyptology at Vienna University, recognized the floor plan as that of the four-room houses used by almost all Israelites from the 12th to the sixth century B.C. What was it doing in Egypt?...
Digging out the truth of Exodus: New Evidence of Biblical Exodus
	Posted by nwrep On News/Activism 10/12/2003 7:59:10 PM EDT · 44 replies · 331+ views US News | October 20, 2003 | nwrep By Helen Fields Egyptologist Manfred Bietak was reading a 60-year-old report of a dig near Luxor in Egypt when a surprising find caught his eye. Near a mortuary temple from the 12th century B.C., archaeologists had uncovered a grid of shallow trenches, which they guessed was the base of a workers' hut. Bietak, head of the Institute of Egyptology at Vienna University, recognized the floor plan as that of the four-room houses used by almost all Israelites from the 12th to the sixth century B.C. What was it doing in Egypt? If Bietak is right, the trenches could be...
Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea?
	Posted by truthfinder9 On Religion 10/30/2003 3:06:14 PM EST · 14 replies · 2,352+ views WorldNetDaily.com Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea? 'Physical evidence' of ancient Exodus prompting new look at Old Testament http://wnd.com By Joe Kovacs © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." (Exodus 14:21 ) One of the most famous stories of the Bible is God's parting of the Red Sea to save the Israelites from the Egyptian army and the subsequent drowning of soldiers and horses in hot pursuit. But...
Scientist claims to explain parting of the waves
	Posted by presidio9 On News/Activism 01/21/2004 2:38:00 PM EST · 66 replies · 327+ views Ananova | Wednesday 21st January 2004 A Russian mathematician says he's come up with a logical explanation for Moses' parting of the waves. Naum Wolzinger says it had more to do with the changing of the tide than divine intervention. The scene where Moses parts the waves and leads the Israelites across the Red Sea is one of the most well known stories in the Bible. But Mr Wolzinger, from St Petersburg, said it was not a miracle. He says there is a riff six or seven metres under the water that runs from one bank of the Gulf of Suez to the other at the...
Scientist: Parting of Red Sea Was Possible
	Posted by Conservomax On News/Activism 01/23/2004 8:21:14 AM EST · 34 replies · 389+ views Washington Times ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Russian mathematicians have determined the legendary parting of the Red Sea that let the Jews flee Egypt was possible, the Moscow Times reported. The study, published in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, focused on a reef that runs from the documented spot where the Jews escaped Egypt, which in Biblical times, was much closer to the surface, according to Naum Volzinger, a senior researcher at St. Petersburg's Institute of Oceanology, and a colleague based in Hamburg, Alexei Androsov. The mathematicians calculated the "strong east wind that blew all that night"...
Study: Red Sea Parting Possible!
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/03/2004 6:12:10 PM EST · 18 replies · 364+ views Discovery Channel | Feb. 2, 2004 | By Jennifer Viegas Study: Red Sea Parting Possible By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Feb. 2, 2004 ? The parting of the Red Sea and the subsequent escape of thousands of Jewish slaves, which is described in the Bible's book of Exodus, can be explained by science, according to two Russian researchers. The study, published in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the first to examine the event using oceanography, weather patterns, and mathematical calculations. Naum Volzinger, senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of Oceanology, and colleague Alexei Androsov of Hamburg, determined that a reef runs from Egypt...
Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/01/2004 11:17:17 PM EDT · 38 replies · 515+ views Reuters | 6-30-2004 Battlements Found at Egypt's Ancient East Gateway Wed Jun 30, 2004 01:52 PM ET CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian archaeological team has uncovered battlements from Pharaonic times at the ancient eastern gateway to Egypt in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, the Culture Ministry said Wednesday. The find includes three fortifications built in the area of Tharu, an ancient city which stood on a branch of the Nile that has long since dried up, a ministry statement said. The battlements stand on the ancient Horus Road, a vital commercial and military artery from ancient Egypt to Asia. The discoveries,...
Books, Magazines, Movies, Music
	Posted by SunkenCiv On Bloggers & Personal 07/12/2004 12:34:44 AM EDT · 133 replies · 8,204+ views Amazon | March 2004 | Anatoly T. Fomenko History: Fiction or Science? by Anatoly T. Fomenko
Did Nefertiti have 'love affair' with Moses?
	Posted by wagglebee On Religion 04/09/2005 6:15:38 PM EDT · 22 replies · 562+ views Middle East Online | 4/8/05 | Sophie Claudet A Hollywood flick on an alleged love affair between pharaonic Queen Nefertiti and the Biblical Prophet Moses is soon to begin shooting in Egypt, renowned British producer John Heyman has revealed. "Nefertiti married perhaps one of the first monotheists in history and the film will tell their story, which logically enough should be set in Egypt" said Heyman on a brief visit to Cairo. "One can find in the Old Testament that Moses and Nefertiti had a relationship," he added. The movie will also deal "with the return to the worship of the sun god," said Heyman. He was referring...
Director posits proof of biblical Exodus
	Posted by timsbella On News/Activism 04/14/2006 8:58:16 AM EDT · 142 replies · 2,333+ views The Globe and Mail | 14 April 2006 | Michael Posner A provocative $4-million documentary by Toronto filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici claims to have found archeological evidence verifying the story of the biblical Exodus from Egypt, 3,500 years ago. Religious Jews consider the biblical account incontrovertible -- the foundation story of the creation of the nation of Israel. Indeed, they celebrated the Exodus Wednesday night and last night with the annual Passover recitation of the Haggadah. But among scholars, the question of if and when Moses led an estimated two million Israelite slaves out of pharaonic Egypt, miraculously crossed the Red Sea ahead of the pursuing Egyptian army and received the Ten...
Documentary Sets New Date For Exodus
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/03/2006 5:26:25 PM EDT · 25 replies · 867+ views Jerusalem Post | 7-3-2006 | Etgar Lefkovits Jul. 3, 2006 0:15 | Updated Jul. 3, 2006 4:57Documentary sets new date for Exodus By ETGAR LEFKOVITS A new documentary by a Canadian Jewish filmmaker argues that the Exodus did happen, but that it took place a couple of hundred years before the commonly-accepted time frame. The Exodus Decoded, a two-hour documentary by award-winning Israeli-born filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, suggests that the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt as recounted in the Bible occurred around 1500 BCE, about 230 years before the date most commonly accepted by contemporary historians. The 10 plagues that smote the Egyptians, according to the Bible,...
Volcanic eruption 'triggered biblical parting of Red Sea'
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 08/07/2006 11:23:28 AM EDT · 137 replies · 2,437+ views Times Online | August 6, 2006 | Tony Allen-Mills THE greatest story ever told has acquired a Hollywood twist. James Cameron, the director of Titanic, is the executive producer of a new documentary that claims to have uncovered fresh evidence confirming one of the most dramatic episodes in the Old Testament -- the parting of the Red Sea and the Jewish exodus from Egypt. In The Exodus Decoded, a 90-minute documentary that will be shown in America this month, Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici, the Canadian film producer, claim a volcanic eruption on the Greek archipelago of Santorini triggered a chain of natural catastrophes recorded in the Bible as the...
'Exodus Decoded' seeks 'plausible explanation' for Biblical events
	Posted by NYer On Religion 08/19/2006 9:32:10 AM EDT · 23 replies · 404+ views The Tidings | August 18, 2006 | David DiCerto Did Moses really part the Red Sea like it says in the Old Testament? What about the Nile turning blood red or the plagues that finally compelled Pharaoh to free the Israelites from slavery? Did those things actually happen? These are among the questions Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici attempts to answer in "The Exodus Decoded" which premieres Aug. 20, 8-9:30 p.m. (check local listings) on cable's History Channel. Challenging opinions that dismiss those events as myth, the thought-provoking documentary uses investigative journalism aided by modern science to examine archaeological and geological evidence in separating historical fact from fiction. Jacobovici...
Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/23/2006 8:58:47 PM EDT · 102 replies · 1,494+ views University Rhode Island | 8-23-2006 | Todd McLeish Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed Media Contact: Todd McLeish, 401-874-7892 Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed; likely had significant impact on civilization KINGSTON, R.I. -- August 23, 2006 -- An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed. During research expeditions in April and June, the scientists from the University of Rhode Island and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research found deposits of volcanic pumice and ash 10 to 80 meters thick...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #111 Saturday, September 2, 2006
Sole Music
Oregon shoe, possibly world's oldest, hits the bigtime
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/27/2006 10:42:17 PM EDT · 46 replies · 406+ views KGW-TV | 8/27/2006 | Associated Press University of Oregon archaeologist Pam Endzweig escorted what may be the oldest shoe on earth to Washington, D.C., recently to be featured in the current edition of the National Geographic... On page 79, a sandal woven of sagebrush bark more than 300 generations ago sits softly lit on a sheet of coarse brown paper, one of 11 examples of footwear illustrating the article "Why Every Shoe Tells a Story." ...The story of the Fort Rock sandals is well known, at least in Oregon. The U of O's Museum of Natural and Cultural History houses a cache of the ancient sandals...
Prehistoric 'Shoes' Better Than Modern Hiking Boots (Iceman/Otzi)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  06/22/2003 12:40:50 PM EDT · 16 replies · 391+ views Ananova | 6-20-2003 Prehistoric 'shoes' better than modern hiking boots Prehistoric 'shoes' made out of bearskin and hay are better for mountain walks than modern hiking boots, claims an expert. Shoe specialist Petr Hlavacek has been studying the shoes found on the feet of a prehistoric iceman whose mummified body was found in an Alpine glacier in 1991. Mr Hlavacek, who reconstructed a pair of the shoes, said they kept the foot at an optimal temperature, allowed sweat to evaporate and dried quickly if they got wet. The footwear engineer's version went on display this week at the Leather Museum in Offenbach. Christian...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Christian zealots destroy ancient Arctic petroglyphs [s/b Inuit zealots]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/26/2006 12:17:50 PM EDT · 13 replies · 259+ views CanWest News Service | Saturday, August 26, 2006 | Randy Boswell For years, heritage advocates have sought special protection for the ancient etchings at Qajartalik Island, located about one hour by boat from the 500-resident village of Kangiqsujuaq. Experts believe they were created by the extinct Dorset culture, an artistically advanced civilization that occupied much of the eastern Arctic before they were killed or driven away by the Thule ancestors of modern Inuit... [T]he site has been dubbed "the Island of the Stone Devils" because some of the faces -- possibly depicting a Dorset shaman in religious costume -- appear to be adorned with horns. In the past, crosses have been...
Prehistoric skeleton found along Lake Travis
	Posted by ValerieUSA On News/Activism  08/28/2006 3:11:13 AM EDT · 40 replies · 1,098+ views austin american-statesman | Monday, August 28, 2006 | Marty Toohey An archaeology crew excavated what its members think is a prehistoric skeleton from the banks of Lake Travis on Sunday. Evidence at the site indicates that the skeleton is between 700 and 2,000 years old, most likely dating back about 1,000 years, members of the excavation crew said. The nearly intact skeleton is being donated to the University of Texas for further study. The skeleton was found Aug. 9 by an Austin man riding a personal watercraft on Lake Travis. David Houston had pulled onto the sloped southern bank, admiring a nearby house, when he saw a jawbone, teeth and...
Navigation
Polynesian Sailing Myth All At Sea
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/30/2006 1:20:42 PM EDT · 14 replies · 592+ views ABC Science News | 8-30-2006 | Judy Skatssoon Polynesian sailing myth all at sea Judy Skatssoon ABC Science Online Wednesday, 30 August 2006 Archaeolgists believe structures like the Tevaitau fort reflect hostility between population groups competing for resources (Image: Douglas Kennett) The Polynesians had trouble reaching remote South Pacific islands, according to a new study that dents their reputation as great seafarers. An archaeological study shows they settled Rapa, an island southeast of Tahiti, more recently than anyone thought. Professor Atholl Anderson, of the Australian National University, and international colleagues publish their research in the current issue of the journal Antiquity. Dating of charcoal from archaeological sites on...
Climate
Little Ice Age: Big Chill (History Channel's "Inconvenient Truth" About Global Cooling)
	Posted by PJ-Comix On News/Activism  08/31/2006 8:13:46 PM EDT · 52 replies · 1,417+ views History Channel | August 31, 2006 Not so long ago, civilization learned that it was no match for just a few degrees drop in temperature. Scientists call it the Little Ice Age--but its impact was anything but small. From 1300 to 1850, a period of cataclysmic cold caused havoc. It froze Viking colonists in Greenland, accelerated the Black Death in Europe, decimated the Spanish Armada, and helped trigger the French Revolution. The Little Ice Age reshaped the world in ways that now seem the stuff of fantasy--New York Harbor froze and people walked from Manhattan to Staten Island, Eskimos sailed kayaks as far south as Scotland,...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Viewer Beware: The Exodus Decoded [ Jacobovici response to BAR review]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/31/2006 1:25:09 PM EDT · 14 replies · 202+ views Biblical Archaeology Review | August 29, 2006 | Simcha Jacobovici In the second part, he lists what he says are my so-called "discoveries." You would think that the good professor knows how to use the rewind button on his DVD player and confirm statements that he attributes to me. You can find a copy of the transcript of my film at "Simcha's explorations": www.theexodusdecoded.com. A word search can confirm that I claim to "reveal" the meaning of other people's discoveries by providing a new context for looking at various artifacts, inscriptions, mountains etc. The fact is that I never once claim to "discover" anything..
Volcanic eruption 'triggered biblical parting of Red Sea'
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism  08/07/2006 11:23:28 AM EDT · 142 replies · 2,500+ views Times Online | August 6, 2006 | Tony Allen-Mills THE greatest story ever told has acquired a Hollywood twist. James Cameron, the director of Titanic, is the executive producer of a new documentary that claims to have uncovered fresh evidence confirming one of the most dramatic episodes in the Old Testament -- the parting of the Red Sea and the Jewish exodus from Egypt. In The Exodus Decoded, a 90-minute documentary that will be shown in America this month, Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici, the Canadian film producer, claim a volcanic eruption on the Greek archipelago of Santorini triggered a chain of natural catastrophes recorded in the Bible as the...
Digging out the truth of Exodus: New Evidence of Biblical Exodus
	Posted by nwrep On News/Activism  10/12/2003 7:59:10 PM EDT · 46 replies · 381+ views US News | October 20, 2003 | nwrep By Helen Fields Egyptologist Manfred Bietak was reading a 60-year-old report of a dig near Luxor in Egypt when a surprising find caught his eye. Near a mortuary temple from the 12th century B.C., archaeologists had uncovered a grid of shallow trenches, which they guessed was the base of a workers' hut. Bietak, head of the Institute of Egyptology at Vienna University, recognized the floor plan as that of the four-room houses used by almost all Israelites from the 12th to the sixth century B.C. What was it doing in Egypt? If Bietak is right, the trenches could be...
Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea?
	Posted by truthfinder9 On Religion  10/30/2003 3:06:14 PM EST · 15 replies · 2,402+ views WorldNetDaily.com Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea? 'Physical evidence' of ancient Exodus prompting new look at Old Testament http://wnd.com By Joe Kovacs © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." (Exodus 14:21 ) One of the most famous stories of the Bible is God's parting of the Red Sea to save the Israelites from the Egyptian army and the subsequent drowning of soldiers and horses in hot pursuit. But...
Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Ramses Gets a New Home Among Pyramids
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism  08/26/2006 4:19:40 PM EDT · 20 replies · 428+ views VOA | Aug. 25, 2006 | Leslie Boctor Engineers on Friday moved a 3,200-year-old statue of Ramses II. The pharonic statue had stood for more than 50 years in a congested square in downtown Cairo. Its new home will be at a tranquil spot next to the Great Pyramids. Thousands came out to watch the statue makes its 20 kilometer journey. Onlookers crowded along the street around the statue of Pharaoh Ramses II which was surrounded by a convoy including 1,500 soldiers, during the final leg of its journey It took 10 hours for the 11 meter, 83 ton statue to travel through downtown Cairo and cross the...
China
3000-year-old "pyramid" discovered in NE China
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism  08/31/2006 1:57:52 AM EDT · 27 replies · 930+ views Xinhua | 21 June 2006 | Xinhua CHANGCHUN, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have discovered a group of ancient tombs shaped like pyramids, dating back at least 3,000 years, in Jiaohe City of northeast China's Jilin Province. The tombs, covering an area of 500,000 square meters (1,000 meters long and 500 meters wide), were found after water erosion exposed part of a mountain, revealing two of the tombs. Six smaller tombs had eroded away leaving no indications of their original scale and appearance, but the biggest tomb, located on the south side of the mountain, could clearly be discerned as a pyramid shape with three layers...
Asia
S. Korea: Mounted Archers Training in a Mongol Plateau
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism  09/01/2006 2:40:49 AM EDT · 79 replies · 1,058+ views muye24ki.com | 08/04/06 Mounted Archers Training in a Mongol plateau Some S. Koreans dug up old military training manuals from 18th century and are trying to restore the art of ancient warriors.Here, they are practicing once-lost art of mounted archery. They went to Mongol steppe to do their summer training.It†was done this August on Arkhangel Aimac, a plateau which is 1,000 km from its capital Ulan Bator and 1,700 m (5660 feet) above sea-level .The uniform they are wearing is from Chosun(1392~1910) era.A trainee practicing so-called 'Parthian Parting Shot'This is†a favorite†technique of Northen steppe warriors in the past. Koreans†also used to use it....
Central Asia
Ancient Gold Coins Found In Kyrgyz Mountain Lake
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/30/2006 1:29:12 PM EDT · 45 replies · 1,175+ views Novosti | 8-30-2006 Ancient gold coins found in Kyrgyz mountain lake 16:34 | 30/ 08/ 2006 BISHKEK, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - Possibly the world's most ancient gold coin has been discovered in a high mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan, the chief of an archeological expedition said Wednesday. Academic Vladimir Ploskikh said an expedition from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University found a 70-gram octagonal gold artifact on the northern side of Lake Issuk-Kul. "This is probably the earliest form of metal money found in Central Asia, and may have served as an archetype for later gold coins," he said. "If this [hypothesis] is confirmed, the...
Ancient Greece
Archeologists find unique Thracian gold near seaside
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/29/2006 1:42:02 AM EDT · 2 replies · 16+ views Bulgarian News Network | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 | unattributed A unique gold treasure from Thracian times was found on Sunday near the town of Sinemorets at the Bulgarian seaside, news agencies reported. The excavations near the mouth of Veleka River continued during the day and the field is guarded by the police. Local people have dug the hill for inert materials and later archeologists discovered the gold treasure, Darik radio announced. There are lots of gold and silver vessels and cult clay tiles with the image of Mother Earth Goddess. Up to the Sunday evening an extremely valuable wreath and a set of golden earrings have been brought out...
British Isles
Uncovering the burial mounds of Bronze Age Scots
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism  08/27/2006 11:12:18 PM EDT · 11 replies · 484+ views Scotsman | 28 Aug 2006 | CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES FOUR thousand years ago work began to erect the great earthen burial mounds that comprise the Bronze Age barrow cemetery at the Knowes of Trotty, in Harray, Orkney. There are at least 16 barrows - or graves - in two rows, nestling between the edge of the farmlands and the foot of the moorland. Many were raised upon natural mounds to enhance their prominence. It is a spectacular site, even today, and there are indications that in the Bronze Age the Knowes of Trotty was a cemetery of special significance. The barrows were built to honour the dead of the...
Neandertal
Implications for the Behavioral Modernity of Neandertals
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/29/2006 1:33:27 AM EDT · 25 replies · 203+ views Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | August 15, 2006 | J. Zilh„o, F. díErrico, J. Bordes, A. Lenoble, J. Texier, and J. Rigaud Abstract: The Ch‚telperronian is a Neandertal-associated archeological culture featuring ornaments and decorated bone tools. It is often suggested that such symbolic items do not imply that Neandertals had modern cognition and stand instead for influences received from coeval, nearby early modern humans represented by the Aurignacian culture, whose precocity would be proven by stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates. The Grotte des FÈes at Ch‚telperron (France) is the remaining case of such a potential Chatelperronian-Aurignacian contemporaneity, but reanalysis shows that its stratification is poor and unclear, the bone assemblage is carnivore-accumulated, the putative interstratified Aurignacian lens in level B4 is made up...
There is a little Neanderthal in a lot of us
	Posted by patton On General/Chat  09/01/2006 11:36:50 AM EDT · 24 replies · 118+ views The Telegraph UK | 29/08/2006 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor People who have large noses, a stocky build and a beetle brow may indeed be a little Neanderthal, according to a genetic study. But the good news is that other research concludes that Neanderthals were much more like us than previously thought. People of European descent may be five per cent Neanderthal, according to a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, which suggests we all have a sprinkling of archaic DNA in our genes. "Instead of a population that left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced all other archaic human groups, we propose that this population interacted with another...
Ancient Europe
Rewriting Human History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  08/26/2006 8:38:14 PM EDT · 19 replies · 624+ views Rolex Awards | 8-25-2005 Rewriting Human History Discoveries In Georgia Are Transforming Our View Of Human Evolution Looking out across a verdant lake valley alive with game, in a land to be known as Georgia at some remote future time, the diminutive, small-brained, ape-faced creature seems hardly destined for planetary conquest. Yet, from 1.75 million years ago, the slender little hominid -- pre-human -- is rewriting the story of who we are, where we came from and how we got here. Translating this epic tale is an energetic and enthusiastic Georgian scientist, David Lordkipanidze, who has waged a decade-long struggle to uncover, substantiate and protect...
Biology and Cryptobiology
A Pregnant Man (BREAKING NEWS?)
	Posted by Alter Kaker On General/Chat  08/23/2006 3:32:30 PM EDT · 72 replies · 2,458+ views ABC News | 23 August 2006 | ABC News Aug. 23, 2006 -- Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. Living in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry. An ambulance rushed the 36-year-old farmer to the hospital. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate and remove the source of the bulge in his belly. "Basically, the tumor was so big that it was pressing on his diaphragm...
Breast Milk May Not Be Enough (Vitamin D)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat  08/27/2006 2:34:48 PM EDT · 6 replies · 117+ views Science News | 8-27-2006 | Janet Raloff Breast milk may not be enough Janet Raloff A new study finds a high incidence of vitamin D deficiency in breast-fed babies, mostly during winter. Such a deficiency limits the body's use of calcium, which is essential for healthy bones and teeth. As part of a trial of iron supplementation, Ekhard E. Ziegler of the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his colleagues regularly took blood samples over 2 years from 84 newborns who were initially breastfed exclusively. The researchers noticed that few infants were getting supplemental vitamin D. The scientists evaluated vitamin D in the infants' blood. They...
Agriculture and Domestication
Italy festival honors forgotten fruits (Casola Valsenio near Faenza)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat  08/29/2006 11:27:26 PM EDT · 12 replies · 120+ views AP on Yahoo | 8/29/06 | AP FAENZA, Italy - Environmentalists, foodies and travelers, unite! You have nothing to lose but your boring supermarket produce. The Festival of Forgotten Fruits -- scheduled for Oct. 14-15 in the town of Casola Valsenio, Italy -- is an event designed to bring attention to little-known and sometimes ancient varieties of wild fruit that are still cultivated locally. The festival will feature pomegranates, vulpine pears, rose apples, jujubes (also known as red dates or Chinese dates), quince apples, sorb apples, cornelian cherries and unusual types of berries, as well as medlars, which are used as an ingredient in desserts, jelly and...
Ancient Rome
CA: Getty Curator on Trial for Acquiring Stolen Antiquities
	Posted by BurbankKarl On News/Activism  07/18/2005 6:57:33 PM EDT · 3 replies · 200+ views LA Times a paper hardly read... | 7/18/05 | Tracy Wilkinson ROME -- In a case with broad implications for the art world, the trial of a senior curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum who is accused of illegally acquiring antiquities opened today in Rome, and was almost immediately suspended to await translation of key documents into English. The prosecution of Marion True, the Getty's curator for antiquities and director of the Getty Villa, will resume Nov. 16, a three judge panel decided. True, 56, is accused of criminal conspiracy to receive stolen goods and illicit receipt of archeological items purportedly dug up in Italy. The case involves 42 allegedly...
Documents: Getty had clues it was obtaining possibly looted art
	Posted by BenLurkin On News/Activism  09/25/2005 3:57:18 PM EDT · 19 replies · 534+ views AP | Sunday September 25, 2005 LOS ANGELES (AP) Lawyers for the J. Paul Getty Museum have determined that half the masterpieces in its antiquities collection were bought from dealers suspected of selling artifacts embezzled from Italy, according to a published report Sunday. Getty officials knew as early as 1985 that several of their suppliers were selling artworks that probably had been looted, but the museum continued the acquisitions, according to hundreds of documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times. Italian authorities are demanding the return of 42 objects in the Getty collection they believe were stolen, including ancient urns, vases and a 5-foot marble statue...
Getty Had Signs It Was Acquiring Possibly Looted Art, Documents Show
	Posted by Republicanprofessor On News/Activism  10/01/2005 3:34:07 PM EDT · 21 replies · 405+ views LATimes.com | 9/25/05 | Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, Attorneys for the J. Paul Getty Museum have determined that half the masterpieces in its antiquities collection were purchased from dealers now under investigation for allegedly selling artifacts looted from ruins in Italy. Italian authorities have identified dozens of objects in the Getty collection as looted, including ancient urns, vases and a 5-foot marble statue of Apollo. The Italians have Polaroid photographs seized from a dealer's warehouse in Switzerland that show Getty artifacts in an unrestored state, some encrusted with dirt -- soon after they were dug from the ground, Italians officials say. In response to the Italian investigation, Getty...
Getty to return three ancient pieces to Italy
	Posted by woofie On News/Activism  10/04/2005 2:00:34 PM EDT · 8 replies · 254+ views La Times | Jason Felch Italian authorities have agreed to accept an offer from the J. Paul Getty Museum to return three ancient objects allegedly stolen from Italy, but say they jhuwill continue to pursue dozens more artifacts in a separate criminal case against the museum's former antiquities curator. The Getty's offer came after protracted negotiations with Italian authorities, and it figures prominently in the museum's strategy of building goodwill with the Italian government, records show. The Italians have presented evidence that each of the three items was looted from Italian tombs or taken from collections in Italy, in violation of the country's patrimony laws....
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Scientists seek Copernicus' uncle's remains to confirm finding
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism  08/26/2006 3:02:29 PM EDT · 13 replies · 191+ views Ireland Online | 5/28/06 | Ireland Online Polish archaeologists have launched a search for the grave of an uncle of Nicolaus Copernicus in hopes the relativeís DNA can confirm that remains they found last year are indeed those of the 16th-century astronomer, the head of the research team said today. "We are almost sure we found Copernicusís remains last year, but we still need to confirm it through comparison with the DNA of someone related on the female side," said Jerzy Gassowski, who is head of the Archaeology and Anthropology Institute in Pultusk in central Poland. The team began its search this week for the coffin of...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Korea's ancient vessels found in eastern China [ s/b medieval ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/29/2006 1:37:19 AM EDT Yonhap | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 | unattributed Ancient vessels assumed to be 14th-century Korean trade boats have been found in an eastern Chinese port, a discovery that will help retrace the history of marine exchanges between Korea and China from that era, archaeologists involved in the find said Monday. They are the first Korean ancient vessels found overseas and stand as evidence that Koreans engaged in international trade before they curbed such exchanges centuries later, said the archaeologists of the National Maritime Museum.
Africa
Africans Invented Arithmetic and Algebra [double bagger barf alert]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  08/30/2006 1:41:19 PM EDT · 72 replies · 582+ views Black Voice News | Sunday, 27 August 2006 | Joseph A. Bailey, II M.D., F.A.C.S. The earliest treatise on algebra is the Egyptian Rhind Papyrus (c.1700 BC). But in c.3000 BC Egyptians called it "aha Calculus" because "Aha," "Ahe," or "Ahau" was the name of the second pharaoh of the first dynasty. Meaning mass, quantity, or heap (a pile of many things), it was used as an abstract term for the unknown in an equation. Originally, the word "algebra"-("al" "from Egypt"--"al-Kemit")--meant the reuniting of broken parts and was later defined by the Arabs as "restoration", including "bone setting". Note that Yin and Yang are also about the union of separate parts... Africans found a place...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Evidence found of ancient tribute to King Arthur's Round Table
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism  08/28/2006 11:01:39 AM EDT · 58 replies · 2,355+ views Daily Mail | 28 Aug 2006 | BEN CLERKIN & CHARLOTTE GILL It is a legendary artefact of British history - albeit one for which there is no evidence. In 1344, King Edward III supposedly built a huge round hall to house a table for his 300 knights. His aim was to recreate the Arthurian legend of the Knights of the Round Table. The only problem was that - much like King Arthur's original Table at Camelot - many historians doubted whether it actually existed. Until now that is. For archaeologists digging up the Queen's front lawn at Windsor Castle yesterday unearthed a spectacular find. Below the turf of one of the...
Scotland's Whirling Goddess or the Holy Grail?
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism  08/28/2006 11:16:53 AM EDT · 39 replies · 1,432+ views Scotsman | 24 Aug 2006 | DAVID MCDOWELL STARING into the terrifying thunderous tumult of the Corryvreckan whirlpool, it's easy to see why its sheer primal energy has fascinated people for centuries. Now Edinburgh folklorist Stuart McHardy has suggested a startling new theory - that the awe-inspiring natural vortex between the islands of Scarba and Jura in Argyll and Bute was the true origin of the Holy Grail. At its wildest, some say the whirlpool forms a spectacular swirling cauldron 300 feet wide and 100 feet deep. The cause is hidden beneath the waves -- a giant rock pinnacle rising from the depths to within 95 feet of...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Taller people are smarter: study (Daschle "Deeply saddened..."
	Posted by presidio9 On General/Chat  08/25/2006 7:30:35 PM EDT · 62 replies · 669+ views Reuters | 08/24/06 While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it's not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequality -- tall people are just smarter than their height-challenged peers, a new study finds. "As early as age three -- before schooling has had a chance to play a role -- and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests," wrote Anne Case and Christina Paxson of Princeton University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The findings were based primarily on two British studies that followed children born in...
700-year-old letters going home to Poland
	Posted by Lukasz On News/Activism  08/29/2006 1:24:54 PM EDT · 19 replies · 568+ views Pioneer Press | Aug. 27, 2006 | DINESH RAMDE A collection of letters written by popes and kings some 700 years ago will be returned to Poland's national archives after a man in Milwaukee found them among the belongings of his father, a World War II veteran. The letters, some of which were displayed at a news conference Thursday, are remarkably preserved, the gracefully flowing letters still legible on the vellum, or animal skin, on which they were written. The 17 letters date back as far as 1256 and primarily record real-estate transactions, said Wanda Zemler-Cizewski, the Marquette University theology professor who authenticated them in 2003. The documents were...
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