Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

Gods, Graves, Glyphs ^ | 7/17/2004 | various

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• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan  ^ 6 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#6]
• Achaemenid, Worldís First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:45:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)  ^ 27 posted on 07/06/2004 7:23:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#27]
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane  ^ 21 posted on 05/31/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by farmfriend [#21]
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements  ^ 22 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#22]
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Archaeologists tackle China mystery  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:43:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 16 posted on 07/11/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#16]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 2 posted on 07/11/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#2]
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway  ^ 5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)  ^ 32 posted on 05/31/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by farmfriend [#32]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 17 posted on 07/14/2004 12:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#17]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 11 posted on 07/11/2004 9:53:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#11]
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered  ^ 24 posted on 05/26/2004 9:32:54 AM PDT by farmfriend [#24]
• Catapult-Makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 3:22:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares  ^ 25 posted on 07/03/2004 4:45:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#25]
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins  ^ 8 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• China: Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago(more on Western Zhou Dynasty)  ^ 9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:10:43 AM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting  ^ 5 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises  ^ 6 posted on 06/02/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Forgotten culture  ^ 21 posted on 07/04/2004 12:32:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#21]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)  ^ 18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#18]
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages  ^ 8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found  ^ 22 posted on 05/31/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by farmfriend [#22]
• Humanity's Strange Face  ^ 19 posted on 05/25/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.) [#19]
• Keeping Up With The Empire (Romans In Netherlands)  ^ 4 posted on 05/26/2004 9:28:27 AM PDT by farmfriend [#4]
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?  ^ 6 posted on 05/28/2004 1:08:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Plan to Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory  ^ 64 posted on 07/14/2004 10:51:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#64]
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older  ^ 3 posted on 06/29/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by NukeMan [#3]
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d tour Capital of Persian Empire]  ^ 5 posted on 07/11/2004 10:11:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites  ^ 3 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• The Poop On Ancient Man  ^ 4 posted on 07/02/2004 7:51:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Quarries Providing Stone for Persepolis Discovered  ^ 3 posted on 07/11/2004 10:13:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration  ^ 5 posted on 06/08/2004 2:09:28 PM PDT by farmfriend [#5]
• Remains Of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'  ^ 35 posted on 07/14/2004 10:53:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#35]
• Replica Of Roman Murder Victim (1,700 Years Old)  ^ 9 posted on 05/26/2004 10:37:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains  ^ 4 posted on 07/14/2004 10:49:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Signs of 8,000-year-old culture found near Bedford  ^ 34 posted on 06/08/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by farmfriend [#34]
• Silk painting, brassiere unearthed from ancient tombs in N. China(1,000 year-old golden brassiere)  ^ 27 posted on 06/08/2004 12:18:58 PM PDT by farmfriend [#27]
• Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed  ^ 15 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#15]
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)  ^ 5 posted on 07/14/2004 10:45:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 154 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#154]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 163 posted on 07/09/2004 11:08:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#163]
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 6:40:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #22
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Mystery Of 'Chirping' Pyramid Decoded
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2004 2:43:44 PM PST · 74 replies · 1,426+ views Nature | 12-14-2004 | Philip Ball Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded Philip BallAcoustic analysis shows how temple transforms echoes into sounds of nature El Castillo's strange echoes have fascinated visitors for generations © Punchstock A theory that the ancient Mayans built their pyramids to act as giant resonators to produce strange and evocative echoes has been supported by a team of Belgian scientists. Nico Declercq of Ghent University and his colleagues have shown how sound waves ricocheting around the tiered steps of the El Castillo pyramid, at the Mayan ruin of Chichen Itza near Cancun in Mexico, create sounds that mimic the chirp of a bird...
The Roman Head From Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca, Mexico: A Review Of The Evidence
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2004 4:26:41 PM PST · 14 replies · 494+ views University Of New Mexico | 4-18/22-2001 | Romeo H. Hristov/Santiago Genoves T. The Roman Head from Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca, Mexico: A Review of the evidence Paper prepared for the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans, Louisiana (April 18-22, 2001). Romeo H. Hristov (b) and Santiago Genoves T. (b) (a) Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 8713 1, U.S.A. (b) Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas-UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria 04510, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO Abstract: Since the publication of the complementary research on the apparently Roman head found in Central Mexico (Hristov, Romeo and Santiago Genoves 1999 "Mesoamerican Evidence of Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts, Ancient Mesoamerica. 10 (2): 207-213) this find...
Ancient Egypt
British, Egyptian Archaeologists Map Out Regions Beneath Pyramids
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/29/2003 9:35:13 AM PDT · 19 replies · 216+ views Zawya | 9-29-2003 British, Egyptian archaeologists map out regions beneath Pyramids CAIRO, Sept 28 (KUNA) -- A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists are excavating beneath the three Pyramids of Giza to find more about the mystery of the Pyramids and their builders. "The British team, which hails from the University of Birmingham, is using the latest and most up-to-date equipment to seek the mystery of the Pyramids," said Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Higher Council for Antiquities in Egypt. The team is employing a special radar that would help create an archaelogical map of the subterranean region beneath the three Pyramids...
Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/16/2003 11:05:23 AM PST · 36 replies · 154+ views The Herald (UK) | 11-11-2003 | Martin Willians Drought that destroyed a civilisation MARTIN WILLIAMS November 11 2003 IT is one of history's biggest mysteries and has confounded experts for hundreds of years. But a team of scientists believe they have discovered why the world's first great civilisation, established in Egypt nearly 5000 years ago, crumbled and plunged into a dark age that lasted for more than 1000 years. The researchers, including one academic from St Andrews University, have produced new evidence linking the demise of the Egyptian Old Kingdom with decades of drought after a study of layers of sediment at the source of the Blue Nile...
Egypt Announces Discovery Of 30,000 Year-Old Skeleton
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/08/2002 3:46:59 PM PDT · 50 replies · 264+ views ABC News Online | 5-8-2002 Egypt announces discovery of 30,000 year-old skeleton Wednesday, 8 May 2002 The skeleton of a human being who lived more than 30,000 years ago has been discovered in southern Egypt by Belgian archaeologists, an Egyptian official announced. "Anthropologists have set his, or her, age to be between 30,000 and 33,000 years ago," Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said. It was the oldest skeleton ever found in northern Africa, Mr Hawass said. A team from the University of Leuven found the skeleton buried in a seated position facing east, with the head turned upward, the director of...
I Have Solved The Riddle Of The Sphinx, Says Frenchman
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2004 5:36:33 PM PST · 66 replies · 2,493+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 12-14-2004 | Nic Fleming I have solved riddle of the Sphinx, says Frenchman By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent (Filed: 14/12/2004) Archaeologists, who are able to tell us who built the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, have puzzled over the riddle of the Sphinx for generations. The identity of the ruler who ordered the building of the 65ft high, 260ft long limestone half-human statue that has guarded the Giza Plateau for 4,500 years has been lost in the sands of time. Workers on the Sphinx in a television reconstruction Now, following a 20-year re-examination of historical records and uncovering new evidence, Vassil Dobrev, a French Egyptologist,...
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine (Coming to the USA in 2005 for 27 month/4 city tour)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 12/03/2004 7:41:03 PM PST · 59 replies · 1,127+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 12/3/04 | Jill Serjeant - Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The gilded treasures of King Tutankhamun are on their way back to the United States in what could prove a gold rush for Egypt and big business. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" starts a 27-month tour of the United States in June 2005 that will mark the first return here in more than two decades of the precious artifacts buried with the mysterious boy king. The exhibit is twice the size of the late-1970s King Tut global tour which launched an era of "blockbuster" museum exhibitions. This year's version will charge up to...
Ancient India
A Civilisation Parallel To Harappa? Experts Wonder
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2004 12:05:39 PM PST · 6 replies · 288+ views Express India | 12-13-2004 | Abhishek Kapoor A civilisation parallel to Harappa? Experts wonder Abhishek Kapoor Vadodara, December 11: Was Gujarat the cradle of an independent civilisation, contemporary of the classical Harappan civilisation around the Indus Valley? This view is gaining academic credence in the community of archaeologists specialising on the subject across the country. The Sorath (present Saurashtra) region civilisation, dating back to 3700 BC at some places, was distinct from the classical Harappan as it developed in the Indus Valley, say researchers in the field. ëëIt maintained its separate identity in many ways even as a cultural, economic and technological exchange took place between the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Death at Halmyris: Two Christian Martyrs at a Roman Outpost on the Danube
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/15/2004 10:07:57 AM PST · 8 replies · 124+ views Archaeology Odyssey | Nov/Dec 2004 | Mihail Zahariade and Myrna K. Phelps In 2001 our team, which had been excavating Halmyris for 20 years, made an extraordinary discovery: a fourth-century C.E. basilica containing the bones of two Christian martyrs previously known only from literary sources. If Halmyris had long been recognized for its role in Roman military history, now it had instant appeal to students of Christianity as well.
Palestinian Genes Show Arab, Jewish, European and Black-African Ancestry
	Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism 12/17/2004 3:05:57 PM PST · 56 replies · 929+ views Global Politician | December 16, 2004 | David Storobin, Esq. A study by the University of Chicago found that Arab populations, including Palestinians, Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Bedouin, have at least some sub-Saharan African genes. Non-Arabs from the region, including Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Azeris, Georgians, and Jews did not have any African roots. [1] A possible explanation is the proximity of the Arabian peninsula to the Black African nations. This conclusion is favored by the fact that Yemenite Arabs have 35% Black African genes in their mtDNA (which passes through the mother), while others have less. Yemen, of course, is very close geographically to several Black African nations. Other Arabs,...
Western Wall Hill - Out; Temple Period Finds - In
	Posted by Alouette On News/Activism 12/13/2004 3:49:45 PM PST · 6 replies · 376+ views Israel National News (Arutz 7) | Dec. 13, 2004 Jerusalem city engineers will take down the hill jutting out from the Western Wall, replacing it with a bridge. Archaeologists expect to find treasures, such as a tall gate from the Second Temple. The Jerusalem Municipality has decided to take down the hill that leads up from the Western Wall (Kotel) entrance to the Temple Mount, for fear that it might otherwise collapse. The walkway up the hill leads to the Mughrabim Gate, which is currently the only entrance for Jews to the Temple Mount. The city plans to replace the hill with a bridge that will lead into the...
Origins and Prehistory
Archaeologists Excited By 500,000-Year-Old Axe Find In Quarry
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2004 11:37:14 AM PST · 140 replies · 2,375+ views 24hourmuseum.org.uk | 12-16-2004 | David Prudames ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCITED BY 500,000-YEAR-OLD AXE FIND IN QUARRY By David Prudames 16/12/2004 This image shows the axe head from different angles. Photo: Graham Norrie, University of Birmingham Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity. A Stone Age hand axe dating back 500,000 years has been discovered at a quarry in Warwickshire. The tool was found at the Smiths Concrete Bubbenhall Quarry at Waverley Wood Farm, near Coventry, which has already produced evidence of some of the earliest known human occupants of the UK. It was uncovered in gravel by quarry manager John Green who took it to be identified by archaeologists at...
Old graves found at school site were possibly pioneers'
	Posted by Excuse_My_Bellicosity On News/Activism 12/18/2004 7:34:16 AM PST · 39 replies · 763+ views Salt Lake Tribune | 12/18/2004 | Matt Canham Five pine coffins discovered on the future site of North Summit Middle School had some students concerned ghosts would haunt their hallways, while others just wondered what would happen to the old bones. The coffins, containing the remains of one man and four children, were found while construction crews finished the footings on the new building. The workers found the first grave on Dec. 10 and the last - the coffin of a 1- to 2-year-old child - was exhumed Friday. "We knew there used to be an old cemetery here," said North Summit Middle School Principal Lloyd Marchant. "But...
Settled Life Speeds Social And Religious Evolution
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/16/2004 3:32:52 PM PST · 3 replies · 94+ views New Scientist | 12-13-2004 | Emma Young Settled life speeds social and religious evolution 13 December 2004 Emma Young The shift from nomadic life to settled village life can lead to a rapid development of religious and social complexity and hierarchy, according to a detailed chronology of the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico. Only about 1300 years separate its oldest ritual buildings - simple ëmenís hutsí - and the first standardised temples of the Zapotec state, an archaeological study suggests. ìThis is the first study to show how the co-evolution of social and religious complexity occurred, and what steps were involved,î says Joyce Marcus at the University...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2004 11:51:06 AM PST · 27 replies · 671+ views Newswise | 12-18-2004 | Jeff Donnelly Catastrophic Flooding from Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period CLIMATE CHANGE, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, JEFF DONNELLY, ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE Newswise ó Imagine a lake three times the size of the present-day Lake Ontario breaking through a dam and flooding down the Hudson River Valley past New York City and into the North Atlantic. The results would be catastrophic if it happened today, but it did happen some 13,400 years ago during the retreat of glaciers over North America and may have triggered a brief cooling known as the Intra-Allerod Cold Period. Assistant Scientist Jeffrey Donnelly of the Woods...
Experts Seek Trail to Mark Ice Age Floods (National Park Service Study)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 11/10/2003 7:55:28 PM PST · 14 replies · 32+ views Yahoo News | 11/10/03 | Joseph B. Frazier - AP THE DALLES, Ore. - The National Park Service has proposed a marked trail to commemorate Ice Age floods through four Western states that left canyons, valleys, lakes and ridges that still dominate the terrain today ó some so dramatic they can be seen from outer space. Picture an ice dam 30 miles wide, forming a lake 2,000 feet deep and 200 miles long, stretching from the Idaho panhandle into western Montana, containing more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined. Now picture that dam giving way, the water thundering out in 48 hours, through four states, across Washington and...
Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself
	Posted by snarks_when_bored On General/Chat 12/17/2004 10:57:17 PM PST · 44 replies · 307+ views Space and Earth Science News | December 16, 2004 † Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself December 16, 2004 Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson worries that he may have found clues that show history repeating itself, and if he is right, the result could have important implications to modern society. Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe. From the mountains of data drawn by analyzing countless ice cores, and...
Sky-High Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-Central Washington
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/05/2003 6:29:54 AM PST · 11 replies · 28+ views Science Daily | 11-4-2003 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Date: 2003-11-04 Sky-high Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-central Washington Seattle -- Geologists have uncovered a scene in the Pasco Basin west of the Columbia River in Washington state that shows how boulders piggybacked icebergs from what is now Montana and came to rest at elevations as high as 1,200 feet. Although glacial deposits of rocks and boulders are common, especially in the upper Midwest, "There probably isn't anyplace else in the world where there are so many rocks that rafted in on icebergs," said Bruce Bjornstad, a geologist at the Department...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Aircraft litter seafloor off S. Oahu
	Posted by Chuckster On News/Activism 12/16/2004 5:30:57 PM PST · 26 replies · 861+ views Honolulu Advertiser | 12-15-04 | Jan Tenbruggencate Aircraft litter seafloor off S. O'ahu Tenbruggencate Jan Staff Advertiser Final Post-WWI biplanes, flying boats among last week's finds BY JAN TENBRUGGENCATE, Advertiser Science Writer An undersea aircraft museum lies on the ocean floor off South O'ahu, and it includes representatives of virtually the entire era of the flying boats - from early post-World War I biplanes to World War II PBY Catalinas and a postwar behemoth that sank in 1950, the Martin Marshall Mars. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday announced a series of discoveries made last week and said agencies are mapping the seafloor to document the...
(Ten) Egypt Archaeologists Face Smuggling Trial
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2004 3:44:30 PM PST · 4 replies · 105+ views The Guardian (UK) | 12-13-2004 Egypt Archaeologists Face Smuggling Trial Monday December 13, 2004 8:16 PM CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Ten Egyptians, including three top archaeologists, will stand trial on charges of stealing and smuggling tens of thousands of antiquities, the nation's chief prosecutor said Monday. Prosecutor-General Maher Abdel Wahid also decided to send the chief of Pharaonic antiquities, Sabri Abdel Aziz, to a disciplinary tribunal on charges of negligence of duty, Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported. The officials were part of a gang that the government accuses of stealing 57,000 artifacts from antiquity warehouses and smuggling thousands of them abroad. The Egyptian officials,...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #23
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
2,300-year-old mummy found in Mexico
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 12/19/2004 1:36:05 AM PST · 15 replies · 499+ views Billings Gazette | DEc. 19, 2004 | AP MEXICO CITY - Mexican archeologists reported Thursday the discovery of a 2,300-year-old mummy of a female child along with some fabric, hair, feathers and plant remains in a dry, cold, high-altitude cave in the central state of Queretaro. Archeologists received a tip about some human remains in the cave in a mountainous area known as the Sierra Gorda. They searched the cave, located about 9,570 feet above sea level, and found the girl's mummified remains, which lacked one arm. "This is one of the oldest mummies to have been found in Mexico," according to a press release from the Templo...
Ancient Peru Site Older, Much Larger
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/23/2004 9:49:50 AM PST · 67 replies · 975+ views Seattle Times | 12-23-2004 | Thomas H. Maugh Thursday, December 23, 2004 - Page updated at 12:03 A.M. Ancient Peru site older, much larger By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times A Peruvian site previously reported as the oldest city in the Americas actually is a much larger complex of as many as 20 cities with huge pyramids and sunken plazas sprawled over three river valleys, researchers report. Construction started about 5,000 years ago ó nearly 400 years before the first pyramid was built in Egypt ó at a time when most people around the world were simple hunters and gatherers, a team from Northern Illinois University...
Archaeologists push back beginning of civilization in Americas 400 years
	Posted by bruinbirdman On News/Activism 12/22/2004 6:09:11 PM PST · 40 replies · 660+ views Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that the oldest civilisation in the Americas dates back 400 years earlier than previously thought, according to research published today. New radiocarbon dating of 95 samples taken from pyramid mounds and houses suggest that by 3100 BC there were complex societies and communal building of religious monuments across three valleys in Peru. This emerging civilisation was the first in the Americas to develop centralised decision-making, formalised religion, social hierarchies and a mixed economy based on agriculture and fishing. The newly uncovered sites in the Fortaleza and Pativilca valleys, along with the nearby previously reported sites in...
Explorers Rediscover Incan City Near Machu Picchu
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/23/2004 10:15:16 PM PST · 3 replies · 74+ views Reuters | Nov 6 2003 | staff Using infrared aerial photography to penetrate the forest canopy, the team led by Briton Hugh Thomson and American Gary Zeigler located the ruins at Llactapata 50 miles northwest of the ancient Incan capital, Cusco... The site was first mentioned by explorer Hiram Bingham, the discoverer of Machu Picchu, in 1912. But he was very vague about its location, and the ruins have lain undisturbed ever since. After locating the city from the air, the expedition used machetes to hack through the jungle to reach it, 9,000 feet up the side of a mountain. They found stone buildings including a solar...
Inca wall falls for 'Archaeologist' hotel
	Posted by bedolido On General/Chat 09/15/2003 1:57:59 PM PDT · 4 replies · 17+ views ABC News | 09/15/03 | Staff Writer A Frenchman has torn down part of an ancient Inca wall to build a hotel that he ironically wanted to call 'The Archaeologist', in the Peruvian city of Cusco, capital of the Inca empire. The El Comercio newspaper said Joel Raymund was planning to slap up a concrete wall in place of the large, finely cut bricks that had been there since before the 16th century Spanish conquest. Peruvian authorities have halted construction of the hotel. The newspaper reported Mr Raymund has apologised but it is not clear what sanctions he could face. The Inca dynasty ruled over a swathe...
Machete-Wielding Team Discover Inca Fastness Lost For Four Centuries
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/05/2002 5:26:53 PM PDT · 21 replies · 87+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-6-2002 | Roger Highfield Machete-wielding team discover Inca fastness lost for four centuries By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 06/06/2002) One of the last Inca strongholds against the conquering Spanish has been uncovered in cloud-forest by a British and American expedition investigating a rumour of lost ruins, the Royal Geographical Society will announce today. Called Cota Coca, after the coca grown there, the site is more than 6,000ft up in a valley near the junction of the Yanama and Blanco rivers in Vilcabamba, one of the least understood and most significant areas in the history of the Incas, rulers of the last great empire...
Machu Picchu Rubbish Dump Found
	Posted by vannrox On General/Chat 06/12/2002 4:10:51 PM PDT · 6 replies · 42+ views Discovery News | June 12, 2002 | Editorial Staff Archaeologists, while clearing away weeds from Peru's Machu Picchu, uncovered more of the ancient site, including a rubbish dump. Machu Picchu Rubbish Dump Found June 10 ó Archeologists doing maintenance at the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu have found new stone terraces, water channels, a rubbish dump and a wall dividing the site's urban sector from its temples, an official said on Friday. "We were clearing away weeds when we were surprised to discover new stone structures, including a wall 6.8 meters (22 feet) high with fine masonry which separates the urban from the sacred zone," Fernando Astete, administrator...
Road to Machu Picchu runs through L.A.(Inca exhibit in LA Natural History Museum)
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 06/30/2003 8:04:23 PM PDT · 11 replies · 103+ views San Bernardino Sun | June 27, 2003 | Steven Rosen Machu Picchu Comes to L.A. Largest U.S. Exhibition of Inca Treasures Makes Only West Coast Stop at Natural History Museum (http://www.nhm.org/) . June 22 to September 7, 2003. This is the first stop on the exhibitionís national tour, after its debut at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Following the Los Angeles presentation, the exhibit will travel to Pittsburgh, Denver, Houston and Chicago. The enduring allure of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Incan ruins nestled into Peru's Andes Mountains, is its mystery. Why and how did the Incas build such an impressive estate -- a five-acre city, really, with 150...
Stained Teapot Reveals An Ancient Love Of Chocolate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/18/2002 8:26:07 AM PDT · 10 replies · 67+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 7-18-2002 | Roger Highfield Stained teapot reveals an ancient love of chocolate By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 18/07/2002) A teapot has provided evidence that our love affair with chocolate began 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists have shown that cocoa was cultivated in the land between the Americas - including what today is Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize - for thousands of years. Now a study of brown stains on 2,600-year-old Mayan pottery from Belize has identified cocoa residues thought to have been left by ancient drinking chocolate. The discovery, reported today in Nature, pushes back the earliest chemical evidence of cocoa use...
Ancient Greece
Khirokitia
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/25/2004 7:20:25 PM PST · 2 replies · 49+ views Cyprus at a Glance | June 26, 2001 | staff The Neolithic preceramic period is represented by the settlement of Khirokitia and about 20 other similar settlements, spread throughout Cyprus... This, the earliest known culture in Cyprus, consisted of a well-organised, developed society mainly engaged in farming, hunting and herding. Farming was mainly of cereal crops. They also picked the fruit of trees growing wild in the surrounding area such as pistachio nuts, figs, olives and prunes. The four main species of animals whose remains were found on the site were deer, sheep, goats and pigs... The village of Khirokitia was suddenly abandoned for reasons unknown at around 6000 BC...
Kourion: The Monuments Of The City
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/25/2004 7:32:09 PM PST · 4 replies · 48+ views Cytop Net | 1998 | staff This private house is viewable while mounting the hill of Kourion at the left turn towards the Theatre. According to the excavators it was constructed in the late 1st or in the early 2nd century. It was remodeled in the mid 4th century and demolished definitely by the big earthquake, which occurred after the mid 4th century A.D. (365 A.C.). The ruins of this house reflect life in the city of Kourion at the moment of the demolition and all the finds are exposed at the local Museum situated in the village of Episkopi.
The Warriors Of Paros
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2004 11:52:54 AM PST · 8 replies · 226+ views Hellenic News | 12-19-2004 | Foteini Zafeiropoulou/Anagnostis Agelarakis The Warriors of ParosEarliest Polyandria (Soldiers' burials) found in Greece offer clues to the rise of Classical Greek City-States and Phalangeal War Tactics. by Foteini Zafeiropoulou and Anagnostis Agelarakis Soldiers' bones in urns-evidence of a forgotten battle fought around 730 BC. Did these men perish on their island home of Paros, at the center of the Aegean Sea, or in some distant land? The loss of so many, at least 120 men, was certainly a catastrophe for the community, but their families and compatriots honored them, putting the cremated remains into large vases two of which were decorated with scenes...
Ancient Europe
Archaeologists Strike Gold In Secret Spot (Norway)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2004 4:19:03 PM PST · 24 replies · 762+ views Aftenposten | 12-20-2004 Archaeologists strike gold in secret spot Eleven small, golden reliefs have been unearthed at an archaeological dig somewhere in eastern Norway. Officials won't say where, because they think more of the 1,400-year-old gold objects will be found at the site. Professor Heid Gj¯stein Resi with one of the small gold reliefs found in eastern Norway. PHOTO: ARASH A. NEJAD The most intact object found in October depicts a couple, maybe the mythological figures Fr¯y and Gerd.PHOTO: ARASH A. NEJAD "This is a tremendously unique and exciting discovery, the kind an archaeologist makes only once in a lifetime," professor Heid Gj¯stein...
Earliest Depiction Of A Rainbow Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/22/2004 10:12:25 AM PST · 48 replies · 862+ views Discovery News | 12-21-2004 | Jennifer Viegas Earliest Depiction of a Rainbow Found? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Dec. 21, 2004 ó An ancient bronze disc that looks a bit like a freckled smiley face may show the world's earliest known depiction of a rainbow, according to a report published in the new issue of British Archaeology magazine. If the rainbow interpretation proves to be correct, the rare image also would be the only known representation of a rainbow from prehistoric Europe. The round bronze object, called the Sky Disc, was excavated in 1999 at Nebra in central Germany. It was said to have been found at...
Out Of The Flames, A Work Of Art From 4,000 Years Ago
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/20/2004 5:45:54 PM PST · 13 replies · 510+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 12-21-2004 | Paul Stokes Out of the flames, a work of art from 4,000 years ago By Paul Stokes (Filed: 21/12/2004) Archaeologists believe a 4,000-year-old stone carving found among the remnants of a devastating moorland blaze could be the world's earliest work of landscape art. Inscriptions on the yard-wide sandstone panel are thought to depict fields and a house with a mountain or seascape in the background. The sandstone panel is thought to depict fields and a house It was discovered last summer after a four-day peat fire exposed a huge chunk of subsoil on Fylingdales Moor, North Yorks. The area of the North...
Women Warriors From Amazon Fought For Britain's Roman Army
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/22/2004 10:29:18 AM PST · 63 replies · 1,661+ views The Times (UK) | 12-22-2004 | Lewis Smith December 22, 2004 Women warriors from Amazon fought for Britain's Roman army By Lewis Smith THE remains of two Amazon warriors serving with the Roman army in Britain have been discovered in a cemetery that has astonished archaeologists. Women soldiers were previously unknown in the Roman army in Britain and the find at Brougham in Cumbria will force a reappraisal of their role in 3rd-century society. The women are thought to have come from the Danube region of Eastern Europe, which was where the Ancient Greeks said the fearsome Amazon warriors could be found. The women, believed to have died...
Ancient Near East
5,000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/24/2004 11:47:31 AM PST · 14 replies · 376+ views Iranian WS | 12-23-2004 5000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran Dec 23, 2004, 11:34 CHN According to the research by an archeological team in the burnt city, women comprised the most powerful group in this 5000-year-old city. The archeological team has found a great number of seals in the women's graves. In ancient societies, holding a seal was a sign of power, and was of 2 kinds: personal and governmental. The burnt city ancient site located in Sistan-Baluchistan province, southeastern Iran, dates back to between 2000 and 3000 BC. "In the ancient world, there were tools used as a means...
Archaeologists Believe They Have Discovered Part Of Throne Of Darius
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2004 3:19:40 PM PST · 20 replies · 569+ views Tehran Times | 12-21-2004 Archaeologists believe they have discovered part of throne of Darius Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologists believe they have found a part of one leg of the throne of Darius the Great during their excavations at Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid dynasty, the director of the team of archaeologists announced Sunday. ìFour archaeologists of the team found a piece of lapis lazuli during their excavations in water canals passing under the treasury in southeastern Persepolis last year,î said Alireza Askari, adding, ìThe studies on the piece of stone over the past year led the archaeologists...
New Studies Show Jiroft Was An International Trade Center 5,000 Years Ago
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/23/2004 9:39:27 AM PST · 2 replies · 94+ views Tehran Times | 12-23-2004 New studies show Jiroft was an international trade center 5000 years ago Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) ñ- Studies by foreign archaeologists and experts on seals recently discovered in the Jiroft area prove that Jiroft was an international trade center 5000 years ago. The head of the excavation team in the region, Yusef Majidzadeh, said on Wednesday that several ancient seals in various shapes were discovered during the most recent excavation at the site. ìThe twenty-five discovered seals show that the regional people made use of seals in their business. They used to put products inside jars, covered the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Israeli Archaeologists Believe They Have Found Site of Jesus' First Miracle
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 12/21/2004 1:20:03 PM PST · 118 replies · 1,793+ views AP | Dec 21, 2004 | Laurie Copans CANA, Israel (AP) - Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of Cana. They believe these could have been the same kind of vessels the Bible says Jesus used in his first miracle, and that the site where they were found could be the location of biblical Cana. But Bible scholars caution it'll be hard to obtain conclusive proof - especially since experts disagree on exactly where Cana was located....
AP: Historical Christian Site Said to Be Found [Jesus's First Miracle]
	Posted by West Coast Conservative On News/Activism 12/21/2004 1:50:05 PM PST · 28 replies · 1,095+ views AP | Dec. 21, 2004 | LAURIE COPANS Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of Cana. They believe these could have been the same kind of vessels the Bible says Jesus used in his first miracle, and that the site where they were found could be the location of biblical Cana. But Bible scholars caution it'll be hard to obtain conclusive proof ó especially since experts disagree on exactly where Cana was located. Christian theologians attach great...
Archaeologists Identify Remains of Site Where Bible Says Jesus Restored Blind Man's Sight
	Posted by Sub-Driver On News/Activism 12/23/2004 11:51:22 AM PST · 30 replies · 716+ views TBO.COM Archaeologists Identify Remains of Site Where Bible Says Jesus Restored Blind Man's Sight By Ramit Plushnick-Masti Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists in Jerusalem have identified the remains of the Siloam Pool, where the Bible says Jesus miraculously cured a man's blindness, researchers said Thursday - underlining a stirring link between the works of Jesus and ancient Jewish rituals. The archaeologists are slowly digging out the pool, where water still runs, tucked away in what is now the Arab neighborhood of Silwan. It was used by Jews for ritual immersions for about 120 years until the year 70, when...
Israel finds Jesus miracle sites
	Posted by kattracks On News/Activism 12/24/2004 1:25:35 AM PST · 21 replies · 504+ views NY Daily News | 12/24/04 | MATTHEW KALMAN JERUSALEM - Just in time for Christmas, Israeli archeologists unveiled ancient sites where Jesus is believed to have performed two of his most celebrated miracles. In Jerusalem, the pool where Jesus is said to have cured a man's blindness has been found under several yards of dirt. According to John's Gospel, Chapter 9, verses 1-12, Jesus performed this miracle at the Siloam Pool in the City of David just south of the Temple Mount. Archeologists revealed yesterday they found an impressively paved assembly area and water channel that brought rainwater to the Siloam Pool in the Second Temple period when...
Burial box of Jesus's brother is hoax, say experts (Hoaxster charged with fraud)
	Posted by AAABEST On Religion 12/24/2004 8:06:54 AM PST · 20 replies · 249+ views The UK Times | December 24, 2004 | Ian MacKinnon AN ISRAELI collector of antiquities who stunned the world with a find that he said was the burial container of Jesusí ìbrotherî, James, is to be charged with forgery. Justice Ministry officials said last night that Oded Golan would be indicted next week on a range of charges that would include forgery over an inscription on the stone container that carried the script in Aramaic reading: ìJames, son of Joseph, brother of Jesusî. Six others are also to be charged. The discovery of the ossuary in October 2002 was hailed as one of the great archaeological discoveries of the age...
Asia
Black & White Ceramics from 10th-14th Century China
	Posted by maui_hawaii On News/Activism 12/21/2004 9:30:48 PM PST · 18 replies · 224+ views artdaily WASHINGTON, D.C.-From the 10th through the 14th centuries, Chinese potters significantly expanded the ceramic repertoire by perfecting a clay body of pristine whiteness and developing a luscious black glaze, leading to the production of innovative, visually striking vessels, dishes, boxes and tomb ceramics. This exhibition presents examples of the most acclaimed ìblack and whiteî ceramics of the period. The range of glaze colors on view includes ìblacksî that shade to brown, and silvery tones and ìwhitesî that range from ivory to pale blue. Objects from diverse kilns demonstrate the inaccuracy of a longstanding assumption that the major kilns of this...
Origins and Prehistory
Dinosaur Swallows Human
	Posted by BenLurkin On General/Chat 12/24/2004 7:37:06 AM PST · 74 replies · 630+ views biblelandstudios.com | 12-24-04 | "Bibleland" Dear Friends, Thank you for your patience and without further delay Bibleland Studios presents The Photos as promised of what appears to be a fossil of a Dinosaur Swallowing a Human. Do these photos provide the necessary evidence that dinosaurs and humans coexisted in our recent ancient past? From our latest poll many of you believe humans and dinosaurs did coexist. But just because we believe it does that make it so? Bibleland Studios is interested in objective; naked, pure unadulterated truth no matter where it leads. Do you believe as I do that the desire to know where we...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Magnificent Seven That Keep Mere Mortals Wondering
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/02/2004 5:20:20 PM PST · 18 replies · 47+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 4-3-2004 | Christopher Howse Magnificent seven that keep mere mortals wondering By Christopher Howse (Filed: 03/04/2004) Only one person out of more than 600 polled could name all Seven Wonders of the World, according to a survey published today. That person's identity is unknown, since the survey was done scientifically by ICM, guaranteeing anonymity. Perhaps it was you. If not, and you want to try getting all seven, look away from this page now. How did you score? If you could name three, you were doing well. Only one person in 10 managed that. Four or more Wonders were named by only a tiny...
Michigan Man May Have Tapped Secrets Of The Ancients
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 03/24/2004 4:56:10 PM PST · 62 replies · 237+ views The Flint Journal (w o r l d w i d e a n o m a l o u s p h e n o m e n a r e s o u r c e) | 3-20-2004 | Kim Crawford But then, the blocks that Wallace T. Wallington moves around near his home in a rural Flint area have weighed up to nearly 10 tons. And by himself, he moves these behemoth playthings, not with cranes and cables, but with wooden levers. "It's more technique than it is technology," Wallington says. "I think the ancient Egyptians and Britons knew this." Last October, a production crew from Discovery Channel in Canada came to Wallington's home to record him as he raised a 16-foot, rectangular, concrete block that weighed 19,200 pounds and set it into a hole. That taping was made into...
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Ancient Navigation
Of Lasting Genes And Lost Cities Of Tamil Nadu
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/05/2003 4:15:36 PM PST · 21 replies · 103+ views Hindustan Times | 1-5-2003 | Papri Sri Raman Of lasting genes and lost cities of Tamil Nadu Papri Sri Raman (Indo-Asian News Service) Chennai, January 5 India's East Coast, especially along Tamil Nadu, is increasingly drawing the attention of archaeologists and anthropologists from across the world for its evolutionary and historical secrets. The focus has sharpened after genetic scientist Spencer Wells found strains of genes in some communities of Tamil Nadu that were present in the early man of Africa. In the "Journey of Man" aired by the National Geographic channel, Wells says the first wave of migration of early man from Africa took place 60,000 years ago...
The Periplus of the Red Sea, edition Megalommatis, a Book Review.
	Posted by Muhammad Shams Megalommatis On Bloggers & Personal 06/16/2004 7:33:33 AM PDT · 3 replies · 219+ views The Books | 15/6/04 | Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis The Periplus of the Red Sea (O Periplous tes Erythras Thalasses) Edition Megalommatis. A Book Review. Published in Greek, in 1994 (STOHASTIS Publishing House, Athens - Greece), 272 p., the book consists in a theoretical approach and analytical presentation of a major historical phenomenon that shaped to a very large extent the World History: the development of the trade between East and West. The text of the Periplus of the Red Sea is by definition the central text in the study of the East - West Trade, an interdisciplinary field where more than two dozens of historical branches have been...
Scientists Discover Ancient Sea Wharf (Marine Silk Road)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/30/2004 11:46:01 AM PST · 12 replies · 428+ views East Day.Com | 12-30-2004 Scientists discover ancient sea wharf 30/12/2004 7:32 Archeologists say that they have found the country's oldest wharf and it is believed to be the starting point of an ancient sea route to Central and West Asia. The discovery has reaffirmed the widespread belief that the ancient trade route started in Hepu County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, archeologists said at yesterday's symposium on the nation's marine silk road. After three years of excavation, archeologists have unearthed a wharf that is at least 2,000 years old in Guchengtou Village, according to Xiong Zhaoming, head of the archeological team. At the same site,...
Ancient Egypt
8 Prehistoric Granaries Found In Egypt (9,000 Years Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/29/2004 8:37:42 AM PST · 20 replies · 542+ views The Ledger | 12-28-2004 Published Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8 Prehistoric Granaries Found in Egypt The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt An American excavation mission has unearthed eight granaries that are relics from agricultural life in the Neolithic era, the Egyptian culture minister said in a statement Tuesday. The granaries were discovered last week in Fayoum, an oasis some 50 miles southwest of Cairo, Farouk Hosni said in the statement. The statement said the granaries date back to the Neolithic era that began around 9,000 B.C., known as a transition point from roaming and hunting societies to an agricultural one. Hosni added that "those granaries...
Egypt demands return of Rosetta Stone!
	Posted by UnklGene On News/Activism 07/20/2003 10:18:03 AM PDT · 228 replies · 929+ views The Sunday Telegraph - UK | July 20, 2003 | Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner Egypt demands return of the Rosetta Stone By Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner (Filed: 20/07/2003) Egypt is demanding that the Rosetta Stone, a 2,000-year-old relic and one of the British Museum's most important exhibits, should be returned to Cairo. The stone, which became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, was found by Napoleon's army in 1799 in the Nile delta, but has been in Britain for the past 200 years. It forms the centrepiece of the British Museum's Egyptology collection and is seen by millions of visitors each year. Now, in an echo of the campaign by Athens for...
Egypt demands return of Rosetta Stone- threatens to pursue its claim "aggressively"
	Posted by yankeedame On News/Activism 07/20/2003 5:58:03 PM PDT · 25 replies · 66+ views The Sydney Morning Herald | July 21, 2003 | staff writer Egypt demands return of ancient Rosetta StoneJuly 21 2003Egypt is demanding that the 2000-year-old Rosetta Stone be returned to Cairo and has threatened to pursue its claim "aggressively" if the British Museum does not agree to give it back. The stone, which became the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, was found by Napoleon's army in 1799 in the Nile delta, but has been in Britain for 200 years. "If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity," said...
A lost city has been descovered in Egypt (The Scots and the lost city of Egypt).
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/12/2003 1:56:18 PM PST · 26 replies · 380+ views The Scotsman | 2-12-03 | JIM MCBETH A SCOTTISH archaeological expedition, operating on a shoestring budget, has uncovered an ancient Egyptian city, buried by the sands of time. The expedition, which scrapes together £10,000 a year to maintain its dig near Memphis, the ancient Pharaonic capital, has written a new page of Egyptís history. For the newly-discovered town, situated near the necropolis of Saqqara, 15 miles from Cairo, is almost certainly where the workmen who built the pyramids lived with their families. The presence of large temples, some nearly 200ft square, a number of tombs and the mix of large and small dwellings indicate a place...
The missing sun temples! (Where are they?)
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/03/2003 3:59:47 PM PST · 35 replies · 275+ views Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) | 2 - 8 January 2003 | Jill Kamil The missing sun temples Six Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty built massive sun temples at Abu Sir in addition to their pyramids, but only two have so far been found.Jill Kamil talks to the head of the Czech archaeological mission In a presentation on Abu Sir given at the American University in Cairo last week head of the Czech mission Miroslav Verner told the audience that his team had recently been focusing on the "vast and remarkable monuments", the sun temples raised by the Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty who ruled from 2494 to 2345 BC. "Their plan (main...
Pharaoh at bat? History throws a curve (Prof claims baseball invented in ancient Egypt)
	Posted by mhking On News/Activism 03/16/2003 4:29:13 AM PST · 20 replies · 191+ views Albany Times-Union | 3.15.03 | BRUCE WEBER Pharaoh at bat? History throws a curve Professor claims earliest bat-and-ball games were played in ancient EgyptBy BRUCE WEBER, New York Times First published: Saturday, March 15, 2003 No disrespect meant to Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright or anybody else who might claim responsibility for the game we call baseball, but Thutmose III had them beat by three millennia or so. Thutmose ruled Egypt during the 15th century B.C., and is the first known pharaoh to have depicted himself in a ritual known as seker-hemat, which Egyptologist Peter A. Piccione has loosely translated as "batting the ball." "The word...
Ancient Egypt -- Amarna
Akhenaten: An Early Egyptian Monotheist
	Posted by restornu On Religion 04/05/2004 8:52:20 PM PDT · 27 replies · 73+ views M E R I D I A N M A G A Z I N E | By Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin Although monotheism is usually associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there have, in fact, been a number of other monotheistic religions in world history. Iran, in particular, was a center for monotheistic thought, being home to both Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. At first glance, ancient Egypt, with its hundreds of exotic gods, would seem the last place for a monotheistic revelation. Yet one of the earliest monotheists known to history was Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt from 1352-1336 BC, who perhaps lived in the generation before Moses. Akhenaten was born of royal parents, raised and trained in the religious traditions of Egypt...
Found: Queen Nefertiti's Mummy
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/08/2003 10:05:51 AM PDT · 72 replies · 719+ views The Sunday Times (UK) | 6-8-2003 | Jack Grinston June 08, 2003 Found: Queen Nefertitiís mummy Jack Grimston BRITISH archeologists believe they may have identified the body of one of the most legendary beauties of the ancient world. They are confident a tattered mummy found in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings is probably Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of the boy king Tutankhamun and one of the most powerful women in ancient Egypt. The conclusion has been made after 12 years of research, using clues such as fragments of a wig and the piercing of the mummyís ears. The breakthrough came after the Egyptian authorities allowed the 3,500-year-old...
Ancient Egypt -- Mummies
Ancient Mummy, Probably Pharaoh, Returns to Egypt
	Posted by presidio9 On News/Activism 10/28/2003 8:11:40 AM PST · 18 replies · 102+ views Reuters | Tue, Oct 28, 2003 A Egyptian mummy, which is probably pharaoh Ramses I who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, returned home from a U.S. museum after a journey that began with a 19th century grave robbery. The body, which like that of other ancient Egyptian rulers would originally have been laid in a decorated tomb, was flown into Cairo airport carefully packed in a plain wooden crate. Witnesses said the box was taken off the plane Saturday draped in an Egyptian flag. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, accompanied the mummy on the flight. The Michael C. Carlos Museum...
Atlanta Sends Mummy Home
	Posted by Chipata On News/Activism 04/30/2003 1:59:07 PM PDT · 10 replies · 95+ views National Geographic | April 30, 2003 | Hillary Mayell U.S. Museum to Return Ramses I Mummy to Egypt Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News April 30, 2003 A 3,000-year-old mummy that many scholars believe is ancient Egypt's King Ramses I is the star attraction of an exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta that will run from April 26 to September 14. How the mummy came to reside in North America for 140 years, and wound up in Atlanta, is a tale that includes the collapse of law and order in ancient Egypt, grave robbers, stolen antiquities, a two-headed calf and a five-legged pig, the wonders of...
Curses! Mummy Tale Not True
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 12/20/2002 6:39:28 PM PST · 11 replies · 99+ views Yahoo! News | 12/20/02 | Amanda Gardner - HealthScoutNews Curses! Mummy Tale Not True Fri Dec 20, 2:53 PM ET By Amanda GardnerHealthScoutNews Reporter FRIDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthScoutNews) -- Tut tut to those who believe in the mummy's curse. Reuters Photo According to a study reported in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, there is no mummy's curse associated with the opening of the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt. The study confirms what other experts have long suspected. "I've never had any weird experience with a mummy, and I've worked with them for 30 years," says Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University's...
Egyptian Busted for Trying to Sell Mummy
	Posted by JohnHuang2 On News/Activism 10/31/2003 12:18:16 PM PST · 25 replies · 50+ views Associated Press | Friday, October 31, 2003 Egyptian Busted for Trying to Sell Mummy .c The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A senior Egyptian official and six other government employees have been arrested for trying to sell a mummy to an undercover officer, police said Friday. The seven, all employed at the Agriculture Ministry, were arrested Thursday while negotiating with an officer posing as an antiquities dealer. They are believed to have excavated the mummy recently in an illegal dig in Beni Suef, 60 miles south of Cairo, and had hidden it in a government-owned truck, police said. Most sales of Egyptian antiquities are illegal under...
Egypt's 'Ramses' mummy returned (Ramses I)
	Posted by Sabertooth On News/Activism 10/26/2003 8:58:18 AM PST · 16 replies · 422+ views BBC | October 26th, 2003 Egypt's 'Ramses' mummy returned The mummy is believed to be that of the Pharaoh Ramses I An ancient Egyptian mummy thought to be that of Pharaoh Ramses I has returned home after more than 140 years in North American museums. The body was carried off the plane in Cairo in a box draped in Egypt's flag. The Michael Carlos Museum gave it back after tests showed it was probably that of the man who ruled 3,000 years ago. The US institution acquired it three years ago from a Canadian museum, which in turn is thought to have bought it...
Ancient Greece
On this Day In History, The Battle of Salamis, 480 B.C.
	Posted by Valin On News/Activism 09/20/2003 2:29:05 PM PDT · 23 replies · 114+ views Hellas net. After the first Persian wars an exceptional rich vein was discovered in the Attic silver mines of Laurium. This gave new opportunities for Athens. One group led by Aristides wanted the profits to be spread out over the population, as it was normal in those days, others who were led by Themistocles wanted something different. He was the only one who had correctly understood the message of the oracle of Delphi that Athens should be protected by a wooden wall: he debated that Athens should built a fleet of 200 triremes. He pointed out to the Athenians that a strong...
(huge # of graphics) USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Ancient Greek Warfare Part III - Ancient Greek Navy ~ NOV 25 2003
	Posted by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub On News/Activism 11/24/2003 9:57:30 PM PST · 368 replies · 257+ views Warfare in Hellas | LaDivaLoca † † For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. † † Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! † † † † ANCIENT WARFAREPart III: Ancient Greek Military: †Lfikrates' Hoplite Greek Navy Ifikrates' hoplite. Ifikrates was an Athenian general during the hegemony of Thebes, but most of all somebody who was not afraid of changes. He noticed the power of the peltasts at an early stage and managed to break down a Spartan phalanx with a group of peltasts during the battle of Lechaeum....
Ancient Near East
Ancient Curse, Modern War Hide Arabian Desert Tombs
	Posted by BlackVeil On News/Activism 12/31/2004 12:11:54 AM PST · 9 replies · 330+ views Yahoo News | 2 Dec 2004 | By Dominic Evans MEDA'IN SALEH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Sheltered from the world by an ancient religious curse and modern Middle East conflict, a spectacular ruined city lies almost hidden in the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia. More than 100 tombs and burial chambers are carved elaborately into rocky outcrops across the sands of this city, still bearing names and ornate religious symbols chipped into the sandstone 2,000 years ago. Nearby volcanic mountains, decorated with the 10,000-year-old art of prehistoric hunters, tower over a palm-filled oasis and an abandoned mud house village. Through them all snake the remains of an Ottoman railway, built...
Persia, Elam, etc
Human Sacrifice Was Common In Burnt City (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/28/2004 3:15:07 PM PST · 18 replies · 421+ views Payvand | 12-27-2004 12/27/04Human Sacrifice Was Common in Burnt City Tehran (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) -- According to archeological research in the 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times. After excavating a number of graves in the cemetery of the burnt city, the Iranian archeological team came across signs of murder and generally beheaded bodies.ìDuring excavations in the burnt city cemetery, we came across a grave with only one skull buried along with gifts and personal items needed for the afterlife. There was also another grave in the form of a...
Parthian Era Subterranean Village Discovered Near Maragheh
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/31/2004 12:19:44 PM PST · 6 replies · 277+ views Teheran Times | 12-31-2004 Parthian era subterranean village discovered near Maragheh Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologists have discovered a Parthian era village under the earth near the Mehr Temple of the northwestern city of Maragheh, the director of the Maragheh Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department said on Wednesday. ìSince the Mehr Temple is one of the little known sites of Iran, our team planned to carry out some excavations around it to ascertain some details about the temple. The excavations resulted in the discovery of an underground village which archaeologists believe dates back to the Parthian era,î Nasser Zavvari added....
Photo Series: Persepolis, Iran - Capital of Persian Empire [History]
	Posted by freedom44 On Bloggers & Personal 08/27/2004 9:42:57 PM PDT · 33 replies · 722+ views Iranian | 8/27/04 | Iranian Cyrus the Great Cylinder, The First Charter of Human Rights By 546 BCE, Cyrus had defeated Croesus, the Lydian king of fabled wealth, and had secured control of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, Armenia, and the Greek colonies along the Levant. Moving east, he took Parthia (land of the Arsacids, not to be confused with Parsa, which was to the southwest), Chorasmis, and Bactria. He besieged and captured Babylon in 539 and released the Jews who had been held captive there, thus earning his immortalization in the Book of Isaiah. When he died in 529, Cyrus's kingdom extended as...
Ancient Rome and Italy
Buried Women 'Were In Amazon Fighting Tribe' (More)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/29/2004 8:57:36 AM PST · 27 replies · 867+ views Cumbria-Online | 12-29-2004 | Pam McClounie BURIED WOMEN ëWERE IN AMAZON FIGHTING TRIBEí Published in News & Star on Wednesday, December 29th 2004 Fierce: Women may have fought in the Roman army By Pam McClounie TWO bodies unearthed from an ancient cemetery at Brougham, near Penrith, have changed expertsí views on Roman Britain. For the 1,750-year-old remains ñ found at the site in the 1960s ñ have been identified as women warriors who may have been from the fabled Amazon fighting tribe of Eastern Europe. The discovery has astonished archaeologists and historians because women were not previously known to have fought in the Roman army, which...
British Isles
Anglo Saxon Brooch Has Oldest Writing In English
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/07/2003 6:14:03 PM PDT · 49 replies · 56+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-7-2003 | Paul Stokes Anglo Saxon brooch has oldest writing in English By Paul Stokes (Filed: 07/06/2003) What is believed to be the oldest form of writing in English ever found has been uncovered in an Anglo-Saxon burial ground. It is in the form of four runes representing the letters N, E, I and M scratched on the back of a bronze brooch from around AD650. The six inch cruciform brooch is among one million artefacts recovered from a site at West Heslerton, near Malton, North Yorks, since work began there in 1978. Dominic Powlesland, the archaeologist leading the excavation team, said: "This could...
Campaign To Bring 'Red Lady' Back To Swansea After 180 Years
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/27/2004 12:05:01 PM PST · 8 replies · 457+ views IC Wales | 12-27-2004 | Robin Turner Campaign to bring 'Red Lady' back to Swansea after 180 years Dec 27 2004 Robin Turner, Western Mail THE chairman of Swansea's tourism association is backing an Elgin Marbles style campaign to secure the return to Wales of the Red Lady of Paviland. The skeleton of the "red lady", complete with jewellery and a mammoth's head grave marker, is regarded as one of the world's most important archaeological finds. It was discovered in 1823 at Paviland Cave on Gower. Later analysis showed the skeleton to be that of a man, probably a chieftain, but the Red Lady tag has stuck....
Looking into Blackheath's mysterious cavern (Huge Cave system under London)
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 03/17/2004 6:04:02 AM PST · 37 replies · 631+ views icSouthlondon | Sep 03.03 | Mandy Little Land around a mysterious cavern underneath Blackheath could soon be under investigation. Parkman's, the surveyors who investigated a six-foot-wide crater that appeared in the A2 at Blackheath Hill last April has said further checks on land stability in the area are needed. Decisions on their report were to be made by Greenwich council last night. But the council, which would apply for a grant from English Partnerships to cover the costs of the investigation, is not yet sure how much it will cost. The collapse of the A2 into chalk pits after subsoil washed away triggered traffic chaos, hundreds of...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeologists Find Ancient Village Near Tel-Aviv
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/27/2004 12:12:04 PM PST · 17 replies · 646+ views Jerusalem Post | 12-27-2004 | AP Dec. 26, 2004 19:29Archeologists find ancient village near Tel-Aviv By ASSOCIATED PRESS Archeologists have discovered a village near the Mediterranean coast dating from the 4th century B.C., the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday - a rare find. The discovery provides an unusual insight into a turbulent period when there were intense struggles for control over the area, said Uzi Ad, who led the dig. During this period the region was under the rule of the Egyptian Ptolemy empire and then the Selucid Greeks from Syria before it was conquered by the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty in the second century B.C. "The...
Eusebius' Onomasticon: Geographical Knowledge in Byzantine Palestine
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/01/2005 1:36:08 AM PST · 1 reply · 50+ views Palestine Exploration Fund | 17 March, 2004, Last modified 30 April, 2004 | Joan E. Taylor and Rupert L. Chapman The most widely held view is that the modern site of Beitin was Bethel, however, the detailed information given by Eusebius did not particularly suit this identification... Eusebius had used Bethel as a central place for identification of the location of other places, second in importance only to Jerusalem, and had given distances from four other locations. The first of these, at the twelfth milestone north of Jerusalem, presented few problems, but the second, 4 milestones east of Gibeon, was more problematic, did not really fit Beitin, and was better suited to el-Bireh... Archaeologically, although both Eusebius and Jerome described...
The Battleground (Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David Or Shishak?)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/23/2003 4:49:06 PM PDT · 13 replies · 132+ views Bibical Archaeology | 10-23-2003 | Timothy P. Harrison The Battleground Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David or Shishak? Timothy P. Harrison Sidebar: Megiddo at A Glance Did King David conquer and destroy Megiddo? Well, that depends partly on the date of Stratum VI. Let me explain why. Most scholars accept David as a historical figure who was an active military ruler in the period portrayed in the Hebrew Bible (the early tenth century B.C.E.). However, there is considerably less agreement on how to interpret the archaeological evidence for this period. Thatís where Megiddo Stratum VI figures in. The dispute is over which archaeological material relates to the time...
Forgery: Museums urged to take a new look at Bible-era relics
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/01/2005 3:03:32 PM PST · 8 replies · 137+ views Winston-Salem Journal | 1/1/05 | AP Experts advised world museums to re-examine their Bible-era relics after Israel indicted four collectors and dealers on charges of forging items thought to be some of the most important artifacts discovered in recent decades. The indictments issued Wednesday labeled many such "finds" as fakes, including two that had been presented as the biggest biblical discoveries in the Holy Land - the purported burial box of Jesus' brother James and a stone tablet with written instructions by King Yoash on maintenance work at the ancient Jewish Temple. Shuka Dorfman, the head of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said that the scope of...
Scientists excited by stone record of Solomon's wisdom
	Posted by MadIvan On News/Activism 01/17/2003 4:03:58 PM PST · 19 replies · 76+ views The Times | January 18, 2003 | Stephen Farrell THE scene is straight from The Maltese Falcon. A secret hotel rendezvous, and a Jewish messenger and his silent Arab accomplice waiting while the learned Israeli academic peers at a black stone tablet. Written in stone: the tablet has been carbon-dated at 2,300 years old but doubts remain about its true origins This was how it began a year and a half ago, the first sighting of what is either a state-of-the-art hoax or an ancient Hebrew inscription ó more than 2,000 years old ó confirming the Biblical account of Solomonís temple. The fragment, 31cm x 24cm x 7cm of...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Tunnels under Cusco
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 12/28/2004 9:45:15 AM PST · 19 replies · 1,087+ views El Comercio Peru | FR Post 12-29-2004 | El Comercio Peru Tunnels under Cusco Early chroniclers reported that by far the greatest amount of treasure in Cusco was in the Sun Temple (Koricancha). However, it disappeared before the conquistadors could get hold of it and melt it down. Despite the use of various forms of persuasion, the Spanish never found this horde. A team of investigators from Spain, using modern technology of radar and software producing 3D images, have suggested that there are tunnels connecting the former Incan temples (over which colonial churches were built) to Sacsahuaman. They have discovered the existence of huge tunnels over 5 metres deep under the...
Origins and Prehistory
A taste for trouble ("Caveman" Beer created - puts hair on your chest)!
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/19/2004 1:35:04 PM PST · 23 replies · 150+ views The Scottsman | Thu 19 Feb 2004 | KEN BARRIE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST recently recreated a neolithic brew based on ingredients excavated in Perthshire. The resulting ale tasted unpleasant, but clearly those who drank it originally were not put off. Ever since, the production and consumption of alcohol has been central to Scotland?s culture. It wasn?t just home-produced brew for which Scots developed a taste. Scotland did brisk international trade exporting a wide range of goods in exchange for claret, imported from France to Leith as early as the 12th century. Subsequently, wines from Spain were landed in Dumbarton, bound for Glasgow. In the other direction, export ales were developed from...
Brewers Concoct Ancient Egyptian Ale ("..tastes very different from today's beer.")
	Posted by yankeedame On News/Activism 08/03/2002 8:09:31 AM PDT · 18 replies · 177+ views BBC On-Line | Saturday, 3 August, 2002 | staff writer Saturday, 3 August, 2002, 10:06 GMT 11:06 UK Brewers concoct ancient Egyptian aleDid King Tut sup on the Old Kingdom recipe?A Japanese beer maker has taken a 4,400-year-old recipe from Egyptian hieroglyphics and produced what it claims is a brew fit for the Pharaohs. The Kirin Brewery Co. has called the concoction Old Kingdom Beer. It has no froth, is the colour of dark tea and carries an alcohol content of 10% - about double most contemporary beers. Sakuji Yoshimura, an Egyptologist at Waseda University in Tokyo, helped transcribe the recipe from Egyptian wall paintings. Kirin spokesman Takaomi Ishii said:...
Chemistry Used to Unlock Secrets in Archeological Remains
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 04/30/2002 6:10:04 PM PDT · 3 replies · 70+ views VOA News | 27 Apr 2002 12:35 UTC | Written by Laszlo Dosa , Voiced by Faith Lapidus Patrick McGovern "The site is very rich archeologically, has been excavated for the last 50 years by the University of Pennsylvania Museum. It has a large palace area with rooms, some of which are thought to have been kitchens for making the food for the palace, with jars of barley and other goods. Also, it has a whole series of tombs in which the burial was done in a special wooden chamber beneath a very large mound. It's almost as if you cut it yesterday and put the structure together. It is the earliest intact human building made of...
The Demon In The Freezer
	Posted by tallhappy On News/Activism 10/29/2001 12:44:48 PM PST · 51 replies · 279+ views New Yorker | 7-12-99 | RICHARD PRESTON A REPORTER AT LARGE THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER How smallpox, a disease of officially eradicated twenty years ago, became the biggest bioterrorist threat we now face. _______________ BY RICHARD PRESTON THE smallpox virus first became entangled with the human species somewhere between three thousand and twelve thousand years ago -- possibly in Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs. Somewhere on earth at roughly that time, the virus jumped out of an unknown animal into its first human victim, and began to spread. Viruses are parasites that multiply inside the cells of their hosts, and they are the ...
Javanese Fossil Skull Provides New Insights into Ancient Humans
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 02/28/2003 3:48:16 AM PST · 67 replies · 44+ views Scientific American | 28 February 2002 | Sarah Graham A routine construction dig has turned up a fossil skull that is giving scientists a better glimpse inside the head of our ancient predecessor, Homo erectus. According to a report published today in the journal Science, the find suggests that the H. erectus population that occupied the island of Java was isolated from other Asian populations and probably made only minimal genetic contributions to the ancestry of modern humans. So far, more than 20 hominid skull fossils have been found at sites in Java. The latest, dubbed Sm 4 (see image), was recovered from the bed of the Solo River...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Experts Says
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/18/2001 1:46:50 PM PDT · 28 replies · 225+ views National Geographic | 10-17-2001 | Hillary Mayall Floods Swept Ancient Nile Cities Away, Expert Says By Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News October 17, 2001 Two cities that lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1,200 years ago, Herakleion and Eastern Canopus, disappeared suddenly, swallowed by the sea. Now, an international team of scientists may have figured out the mystery of why it happened. The researchers have concluded that the two cities collapsed when the land they were built on suddenly liquefied. The cities of Herakleion and Eastern Canopus lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1,200 years ago, but disappeared suddenly when ...
Stark contrast to Environmentalists' Claims - Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists
	Posted by Cincinatus' Wife On News/Activism 04/06/2003 1:53:02 AM PST · 25 replies · 80+ views Daily Telegraph | April 6, 2003 | Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate Impacts Programme said that global temperatures were "the hottest since records began" and added: "We are pretty sure that climate change...
Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today, Say Scientists
	Posted by Ethyl On News/Activism 04/07/2003 8:46:28 PM PDT · 22 replies · 33+ views UK Telegraph | Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent Rush was reading this report today Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 06/04/2003) Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate...
Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years ago: Evidence Suggests That History May Repeat Itself
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/28/2004 3:08:55 PM PST · 79 replies · 2,195+ views Ohio State University | 12-24-2004 | Ohio State University Source: Ohio State University Date: 2004-12-24 Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson worries that he may have found clues that show history repeating itself, and if he is right, the result could have important implications to modern society. Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe. From the mountains of data drawn by analyzing...
Quake May Have Altered Earth's Rotation
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 12/27/2004 6:48:27 PM PST · 152 replies · 3,469+ views Drudge Report | 12/27/04 | Matt Drudge May have shortened the day by 3 microseconds, said gravity expert Richard Gross of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena... On premise a slab slid into core, Gross said he's done calculations 'to see what effect this (earthquake) should have had.' The result: A day shortened... 'We won't know for weeks,' said a geophysicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'So it's a guess, as of now'...
Scientist say that recent earthquake is big enough to effect earth's rotation.
	Posted by alienken On General/Chat 12/27/2004 7:00:43 PM PST · 18 replies · 1,977+ views I heard this at the end of a news break on the radio once. Has anyone else heard anything about this? It sounds important if it's possible. What if the earth's axis or orbit around the sun was changed. I'm looking for links with info on this.
What Happened To The Rare Tribes (Tsunami)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/28/2004 6:34:30 PM PST · 116 replies · 2,995+ views Times Of India | 12-28-2004 | Sanjay Dutta/Chandrika Mago What happened to the rare tribes? SANJAY DUTTA & CHANDRIKA MAGO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 11:19:06 PM NEW DELHI: An enormous anthropological disaster is in the making. The killer tsunami is feared to have wiped out entire tribes ó already threatened by their precariously small numbers ó perhaps rendering them extinct and snapping the slender tie with a lost generation. Officials involved in rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as bearing the brunt of the killer wave. The bigger fear is for the Sentinelese, anthropologically the most...
Update on the "undersea ruins" off Cuba.
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 08/12/2002 7:37:18 PM PDT · 28 replies · 986+ views VAISHNAVA News FROM REUTERS | CUBA, Dec 8 (VNN) | Author: Andrew Cawthorne Explorers View 'Lost City' Ruins Under Caribbean FROM REUTERS CUBA, Dec 8 (VNN) ó Author: Andrew Cawthorne HAVANA (Reuters) - Explorers using a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba said on Thursday they had confirmed the discovery of stone structures deep below the ocean surface that may have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago. Researchers with a Canadian exploration company said they filmed over the summer ruins of a possible submerged ''lost city'' off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula on the Caribbean island's western tip. The researchers cautioned that they did...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
The Poe Toaster to appear on the 19th?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/11/2004 10:41:21 PM PST · 4 replies · 85+ views eapoe.org | 2000 | E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore The Poe Toaster E.A. Poe Society of BaltimoreSince 1949, on the night of the anniversary of Poe's birth, a mysterious stranger has entered this cemetery and left as tribute a partial bottle of cognac and three roses on Poe's grave. The identity of the stranger, referred to affectionately as the Poe Toaster, is unknown. The significance of cognac is uncertain as it does not feature in Poe's works as would, for example, amontillado. The presumption for the three roses is that it represents the three persons whose remains are beneath the monument: Poe, his mother-in-law (Maria Clemm) and his...
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Thanks for joining the GGG list, and for your kind remarks. I spent way too much time this morning fooling with every linked topic listed in this topic, before I abandoned some of the ambition and did a duplication elimination (mechanized, but I dare dream) and alpha sort ignoring "the" "a" "an" and a few odds and ends. Someday I'll fix up the mechanized keyword sort I figured out. Until then, this should be handy, as it's just the topic names:

• 10,000 Ancient Bamboo Documents ("Slips") Unearthed In Hunan
• 13th Century Tablet Could Lead To Lost Archives of Ramses Ii
• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan
• 1421 (Chinese Discovery of America)
• 1491
• 2 Tough Questions
• 2,000 Year Old Wine Found In Communist China
• 2,000-Year-old 6ft 6ins Warrior Giant Discovered
• 2,000-Year-old Corpse Found Intact In Mystery Fluid
• 2,300-Year-old Mummy Found In Mexico
• 2,500-Year-old Charter of Rights To Revisit Iran [Cyrus the Great]
• 2,500-Year-old Hidden Tomb Found In Egypt
• 2004 World Monuments Watch List: 100 Most Endangered Sites Announced
• 2004: Top (Archaeological) Finds On Bolivian Highlands
• 2500 Yr-old Necklace Found In Cave
• [26.7 Mil. Later] Archaeological Find Will Be Reburied
• A 2nd July 2002 Update of the Undersea City Off Cuba! - Involves National Geographic!
• 3,000-Year-old Bodies Studied In Australia
• 35,000 Year Old "Modern Human" Remains Discovered!
• 4,000-Year-old Seal of Egyptian Pharaoh Found In Stable Ruins On Scottish Estate
• 5,000 Year-old Artifacts (Found) Near Texas Coast
• 5,000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran
• 5,000-Year-old Axe Head Found On Stonehenge World Heritage Site
• 50 Ancient Tombs Uncovered (1400BC, Crete)
• 7,000 Year Old Civilisation Site Needs Attention (Pakistan)
• 9,000 Year-old Axe Unearthed At Culmore (Ireland)
• 9th U.s. Circuit Court of Appeals Blocks Study of Kennewick Man Bones! (they Just Won't Let It Go!)
• A.D., B.C. - Not P.C.
• Abraham's Chromosomes?
• Abydos Royal Enclosures
• Achaemenid, World's First Empire To Respect Cultural Diversity
• African Click Language 'Holds Key To Origins of Earliest Human Speech'
• After 5,000 Years, the Mystery of Fritz Just Won't End
• Ahmad Hassan Dani (Indus Valley Script) [Writing]
• Aircraft Litter Seafloor Off S. Oahu
• Alaska Volcano West of Anchorage Stirs After 12-Year Slumber
• Alexander the Great Visits Tomb of Cyrus the Great
• Alexander the Great's Death Debated
• Amazon Warrior Women
• America's Lost Colony: Can New Dig Solve Mystery?
• American Troops Launch 'Exorcist' Tour At Ancient Temple
• Ancestors of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s BC
• Ancestry of Europeans Traced To Middle East
• Ancient (Christian) Graves Found On Cliffs
• Ancient Animal Could Be Human-ape Ancestor
• Ancient Atomic Warfare - Religious Texts and Geological Evidence
• Ancient Bison Done In By Climate, Not Hunters. Conclusion of Study Already Drawing Fire. (Update)
• Ancient Boat Found Buried In Mud
• Ancient Bones Found In Honduras Said To Be Olmec
• Ancient Brewery Discovered On Mountain Top In Peru
• Ancient Buddhist Temple Uncovered In West Afghanistan
• Ancient Chess History Unearthed
• Ancient Cities Discovered In Yangtze Valley
• Ancient Clay Stamp Seals and Sealings of Sri Lanka
• Ancient Corncobs Unlock Riddle
• Ancient Desert Markings Imaged From Orbit (Nasca Lines)
• Ancient DNA May Be Misleading Scientists
• Ancient Dung Reveals A Picture of the Past
• Ancient Egypt ~ Link With Australia
• Archeologists To Unearth Ancient Egyptian City
• Ancient Egyptians Were Jokesters
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)
• Ancient Faces' Haunting Lure
• Ancient Find Raises Worries About Workers
• Ancient Flints Found On Cairngorms (7,000 Years Ago-scotland)
• Ancient Games Were Pagan Entertainment Package
• Ancient Gold Mask To Be Returned To Peru
• Ancient Golden Mask Unearthed (Thracian)
• Archeologists Discover Ancient Graffiti On China's Great Wall
• Ancient Greek Bronze Fished From Sea Dazzes Italy
• Ancient Greek Verses Discovered In Vatican
• Ancient Greeks' Olympics Didn't Start Out In the Nude
• Ancient Hair Gives Up Its DNA Secrets
• Ancient Harp To Play Again
• Ancient Hearths Test Carbon Dating (Humans In Brazil 56k+ Years Ago)
• Ancient Hun Capital Registered For World Cultural Site
• Ancient Illinois Village Unearths Lode of Questions
• Ancient Indian Settlement Found In Remote Utah
• Ancient Inscribed Slab Brought To Light (Another Rosetta Stone - Three Languages)
• Ancient Iranian Site Shows Mesopotamia-like Civilisation
• Ancient Leetsdale Sandbar Reveals History As 8,000-Year-old Stories Come To Life
• An Ancient Link To Africa Lives On In Bay of Bengal
• Ancient Map of Africa Poses Questions
• Ancient Map Shows Egg-shaped England
• Ancient Meditation Cave Discovered In North China
• Ancient Moabite Fort Provides Insight Into History of Weaving
• Ancient Persian Earthernware Sparks Debate In Iran
• Ancient Persian Fleet Surrenders It's Mysteries
• Ancient Peru Site Older, Much Larger
• Ancient Pillboxes In Dainba (Tibet)
• Ancient Pot With Horse-taming Picture Discovered (3,000 YO)
• Ancient Pottery With Plowing Design Unearthed (2, 800BC, China)
• Ancient Pyramids Discovered In Italy
• Ancient Relics Discovered In Kaesong Industrial Complex (Korea - Bull)
• Ancient Remains Found In Central Florida Peat Farm
• Ancient River Found Flowing Beneath Toronto
• Ancient Romans In Texas?
• Ancient Rome's Fish Pens Confirm Sea-level Fears
• Ancient Site Hints At First Us Settlers
• Ancient Superflood Brought Climate Chaos
• Ancient Tomb Discovered On Giza Pyramid Site
• Ancient Tomb Findings Stun Archaeologists (China)
• Ancient Tombs Reveal Bronze Age Civilization
• Ancient Treasure Trove Uncovered
• Ancient Treasures From Golden Age of Mystery (Celtic Coins)
• Ancient Vessel Traces Voyages of the Past
• Ancient Warrior Grave Unearthed In Lebanese Port (Sidon)
• Another Branch of Human Ancestors Reported
• Antarctic Craters Reveal Strike
• The Antikythera Mechanism: Physical and Intellectual Salvage From the 1st Century B.C.
• Ap: Historical Christian Site Said To Be Found [Jesus's First Miracle]
• Are the Arabs, Arab?
• Arafat's 'Archaeology'
• Archaeoligists: Iraqi Dam Threatens City
• Archaeological Cover-ups -- a Plot To Control History?
• Archaeological Discovery In Bulgaria Clue To Ancient Mystery
• Archaeological Evidence Shows Ancient Coastal Life
• Archaeologist Continues To Dig Up History (Meadowcroft, 16k Year Old)
• Archaeologist Discovers Lost Arms of Venus De Milo
• Archaeologist Promises To Return Croatan Ring (N.c. / Lost Colony)
• Archaeologist Roots Out Historical Hooey
• Archaeologist Sheds Light On Pyramid Origin
• Archaeologist's Dig Reveals Solution To Ancient Riddle of Lost Roman Town
• Archaeologists Announce Discovery of Underwater Man-made Wall (Very Old)
• Archaeologists Believe they Have Discovered Part of Throne of Darius
• Archaeologists Dig In Bosch's Garden
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane
• Archaeologists Discover Alma Mater of Archimedes
• Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Ancient Culture In Mexico City
• Archaeologists Discover Pharaonic Temple In Western Desert
• Archaeologists Excited By 500,000-Year-old Axe Find In Quarry
• Archaeologists Find A Wreck of the Kamikaze (Kublai Khan)
• Archaeologists Find Celts In Unlikely Spot: Central Turkey
• Archaeologists Find Coins From Bar Kochva Era In Ein Gedi Reserve
• Archaeologists Find Legendary Icelandic Home
• Archaeologists Find Signs of Ancient Advertisements From Sassanid Era
• Archaeologists Find Silk Road Equal
• Archaeologists FindThousands of 2,000-Year-old Files
• Archaeologists Identify Remains of Site Where Bible Says Jesus Restored Blind Man's Sight
• Archaeologists Make Unique Find In Southern Russia
• Archaeologists Push Back Beginning of Civilization In Americas 400 Years
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements
• Archaeologists Seek Elamite Treasures In Iran
• Archaeologists Split Hairs Over First Arrivals (Oregon, 12k Year Old Non-indian Hair)
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)
• Archaeologists Strike Gold In Secret Spot (Norway)
• Archaeologists Tackle China Mystery
• Archaeologists To Seek Kyrgyz Atlantis
• Archaeologists Tout Major Find In Tyre
• Archaeologists Uncover 12,000-Year-old Settlement (Israel)
• Archaeologists Uncover A Russian "Stonehenge"
• Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Maritime Spice Route Between India, Egypt
• Archaeologists Uncover Ayrshire Village Ancient History (Scotland - 3500BC)
• Archaeologists Unearth 3,000-Year-old Tombs In Northwest China
• Archaeologists Unearth Britain's First Cave Pictures
• Archaeologists Unearth German Stonehenge
• Archaeologists Unearth Tyre's Phoenician Roots
• Archaeologists Unearth Wooden Coffins
• Archaeology / Judging By these Remains, the Tanakhic Description Is Anchored In Reality [Writing]
• Archaeology / When Golan Worshipers Faced South
• Archaeology Find Redefines Fijian History of First Peoples
• Archaeology Paper Reports Meaning of Indian River Names
• Archaeology Team Helps Find Oldest Deep-sea Shipwrecks
• Archaeology: Ancient Sailing On High Seas, Evidence In Ustica
• Archaeology: Dates Boost Conventional Wisdom About Solomon's Splendor
• Archaeology: Site Yields Evidence of Farming (Wisconsin, 12,000 Year Ago Site)
• Archeological Mysteries: Connecticut "Boat" Cairn
• Archeologist Finds Evidence of Humans In North America 50,000 Years Ago
• The Argonaut Epos and Bronze Age Economic History
• An Argument For the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
• 'Arlington Springs Woman', 13,000 Years Old Human Skeleton, California Island
• Arzawa
• Assyrians In Turkey: Disappearance of A Culture? (July,2000)
• 'Astonishing' Skull Unearthed In Africa
• Astronomers Revise Date of Ancient Greek-Persian Battle
• Astronomers Unravel A Mystery of the Dark Ages
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 10-16-02
• The Atlantis Between Spain and Morocco. the Expedition Revealing Discoveries.
• Atlantis Hunt Reveals Structures In Sea Off Cyprus
• Baseball: Ancient Egypt's Favourite Ball Game (New Discoveries In Egypt!)
• Basques
• Battle of Bannockburn Stirrups Unearthed
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway
• Bees, Snakes, Germs - Any Weapon In A Pinch
• Below Ground, Washington's Lost History
• Biblical Archaeology Aims For Contex
• Big Chill Killed Off the Neanderthals
• Bio Warfare Rears Its Head- the Ancient World Used It!!! (Must Read!)
• Bird's-eye View of the Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges the Myth of A Pristine Wilderness)
• Black Pharaoh Trove Uncovered
• Black Pharaoh Trove Uncovered
• Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusion (Noah's Flood?)
• Bones Suggest Women Went To War In Ancient Iran
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music
• Boomtime For Ancient Ireland Traced To Sligo
• Borders Folks May Be Descended From Africans (Hadrian's Wall)
• Bricks With Molded Designs Unearthed In Chongqing (Caucasians In Ancient China)
• Britain and France In Dispute Over Cave Art
• British Archaeologist Discovers 'John the Baptist' Cave Near Jerusalem
• British Israelism - An Expose
• British, Egyptian Archaeologists Map Out Regions Beneath Pyramids
• Britons In USA In 6th Century - Shock Claim (Prince Madoc)
• Bronze Age Observatory To Be Rebuilt In Germany
• Bronze Age Site Discovered At Gas Company (UK)
• Bronze Artifacts Found Off Egypt's Coast
• Bubonic Plague Traced To Ancient Egypt (Black Death)
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered
• Bulgarian Archaeologists Find 3,000 Year-old Pictograms, Say May Be Thracian Script [Writing]
• Burial Box of Jesus's Brother Is Hoax, Say Experts (Hoaxster Charged With Fraud)
• Burial Complex of Mentuhotep Ii
• Burial With the Romans
• Buried Megaliths Discovered At Stone Circle Site (Avebury)
• Burushaski
• Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)
• C.B. Wreck Hunters Reveal Treasures
• Calvin To Show Petra Exhibit
• Camisea Pipeline Unearths Ancient Peru Relics
• Campaigners See Hope For Elgin Marbles' Return
• Can Technology Discover the Ancient City of Gilgamesh?
• Canyon Holds Ancient Civilization Secrets
• Capital City of Ancient Superpower Discovered (Medes)
• The Cat In Ancient Egypt
• Cat's Gravestone Fetches &Pound;200,000 At Sotheby's
• Catapult-makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities
• Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period
• A Catastrophical Scenario For Discontinuities In Human History
• The Cave of Lot's Seduction and the Monestary It Inspired
• Cave Skeleton Is European, 1,300 Years Old (Wyoming)
• Caveful of Clues About Early Humans: Interbreeding With Neanderthals Among theories Being Explored
• Caves Hold Clue To the Riddle of the Three Hares
• Celestial Bronze Age Disc Recovered
• A Celestial Collision
• Celtic Found To Have Ancient Roots
• Black and White Ceramics From 10th-14th Century China
• Chimps Are Not Like Humans - Much Greater Genetic Differences Than Expected
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins
• China Puts Korean Spat On the Map
• China Unearths Ancient Caucasian Tombs
• China Was Drinking Wine 9,000 Years Ago
• China's Golden Age, Over Five Crucial Centuries
• China, Korea Dispute Ancient Kingdom
• China: Cemetery Dig Yields Clues 3000 Years Ago (More On Western Zhou Dynasty)
• China: Mystery of Khitans Solved
• Chinese Ancestors Came From Red Sea Area?
• Chinese Archaeologists Find 'World's Oldest Earrings' (8,000 Year Old)
• Chinese Lady Dai Leaves Egyptian Mummies For Dead
• Christian Designs Found In Tomb Stones of Eastern Han Dynasty
• Christophoros Columbus: a Byzantine Prince From Chios, Greece
• Church's Taxation Enrages Italians [Bishop Reinstates Medieval Church Property Tax]
• City In the Clouds (Sagalassos, Ancient City In Turkey)
• A Civilisation Parallel To Harappa? Experts Wonder
• Area Sites Used To Dispute Clovis/Extinction Link
• Clue Found To Uncover Mystery of Gunpowder Invention
• Clueless About Columbus
• Coalition Troops Asked To Leave Babylon
• Coin Discovery Sparks Treasure Hunt In Norway (Roman and Chinese Coins)
• Coin From An 'Alien Civilization'
• The Cold Snap That Civilised the World
• Colombian Lake Holds Secret of El Dorado Legend
• Data: Columbus Might Be Buried In Spain
• Comets, Meteors and Myth: New Evidence For Toppled Civilizations and Bibical Tales
• A Complex Agricultural Society In Uruguay's La Plata Basin, 4, 800 - 4,200 Years Ago
• Confederate Ironclad May Have Been Found (Css Virginia Aka Merrimac)
• Conservators Speculate On Last Moments of Uss Monitor's Crew
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting
• Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras | Mithraism | Ancient Religion
• Country House Mystery of the Book Lost For 400 Years
• Court Bars Removal of Temple Mount Artifacts
• Court Blocks Study of Ancient Bones Pending Appeal (Kennewick Man)
• Cretan Excavation Sheds New Light On Dark Ages of Greek History
• The Curse of the Red-headed Mummy
• Curtain Raised On Ancient Ethnic Regime In Nw China
• Cyclops Myth Spurred By "One-eyed" Fossils?
• Cyclops Myth Spurred By One-eyed Fossils?
• 'Cyclops' - Like Remains Found On Crete
• The Dark Ages: Were they Darker Than We Imagined?
• The Dark Ages: Were they Darker Than We Imagined?
• Dark Days Doomed Dinosaurs, Say Purdue Scientists
• Data Links Early Settlers To African Diaspora (Taiwan)
• Date Limit Set On First Americans
• Dating Early Man In the Americas
• Dawn of American Religion Found (2,250 BC)
• Death At Halmyris: Two Christian Martyrs At A Roman Outpost On the Danube
• Debate Over A Skull [NYT Letter To Ed.]
• Decision Due On Hill of Tara Motorway (Archaeology)
• Deepest Wreck
• Destination Kabul For Turkish Forces
• Did Asteroids and Comets Turn the Tides of Civilization?
• Did Hardy Ice Age Hunters Find the West?
• Did Humans and Neanderthals Battle For Control of the Middle East?
• Did Injured Brain Betray Red Baron?
• Did Israel's Lost Tribes End Up In Afghanistan?
• Did the Ancient Greeks Make A Computer?
• Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?
• Dietler Discovers Statue In France That Reflects Etruscan Influence
• Dig Discovery Is Oldest 'Pet Cat'
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises
• Dig Unearths Ancient (200AD) Love Affair
• Dig Unearths Bronze Age Sun Disc (Wales, UK)
• Digging Out the Truth of Exodus
• Dingo's Origins Tracked By DNA
• Dino Impact Gave Earth the Chill
• Dinosaur Swallows Human
• Disaster That Struck the Ancients
• Discovered: Europe's Biggest Amphitheatre After the Coliseum
• Discovering Dante's Damsel In Distress
• Discovery Casts Doubt On Bering Land Bridge theory
• Discovery of Ancient Site Stuns Experts (Scotland)
• Discovery Rewrites Chinese Vehicle History
• Discovery Shows Ancient Mining Evidence (300k Ya)
• Dispute Over Classification of New Species of Prehistoric 'Human'
• Divers Find Ancient Skeleton In Mexico
• Divers Find Remains of Six 'Lost Temples'
• The Dixie Dingo
• DNA Results Could Id Columbus
• DNA Study To Settle Ancient Mystery About Mingling of Inuit, Vikings
• DNA Study Traces Ancient Ancestry of Europeans
• DNA Tests To Be Performed On Mozart Skull
• DNA To Reveal Source of Dead Sea Scrolls
• DNA To Reveal Source of Dead Sea Scrolls
• Doctors Link Polio To West Nile Virus
• Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree
• Does Skull Prove That the First Americans Came From Europe? (New)
• Donkey DNA Shows African Asses Were First Tamed
• Door Shuts On Pyramid's Mysteries
• Dozens of Women Want Bronze Age Hunter's Babies
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay
• Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation
• Dumbing Down: the Proof [a Copy of A Test For 11-Year-olds From 1898]
• Dynasty 0 (Egyptian Colonies In Canaan)
• Earliest Depiction of A Rainbow Found
• Earliest Stone Tools and Bones Site Discovered
• Early (Ancient) Hair Sample Raises Questions
• Early Christians Hid the Origins of the Bethlehem Star
• Early Makeup Kit May Confirm Biblical Story
• Early Pilgrimage Site Marks 'Swine Miracle'
• Early Volcano Victims Discovered
• Easter Island, Fools' Paradise
• Eastern Temple Mount Wall May Collapse
• Eclipse Brings Claim of Medieval African Observatory
• Editorial On Wolves
• The Egg Island theory (Where Did Columbus Make Landfall?)
• Egypt - New Tombs Discovered
• Egypt Announces Discovery of 30,000 Year-old Skeleton
• Egypt Announces Discovery of 30,000 Year-old Skeleton
• Egyptian Style Pyramids Discovered In A Remote Region of Uzbekistan!
• Egyptians Spared No Expense On Animal Mummies
• The Eltanin Impact Crater
• Emperor Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus)
• English and Welsh Are Races Apart
• Ethnic Groups In Philistia
• Etruscan Engineering and Agricultural Achievements: the Ancient City of Spina
• Etruscan Ruins Show How Ancients Lived
• The Etruscans: Reopening the Case of the Mute Civilization
• Europe's Oldest Wooden Staircase Found In Austria (3,000 Years Old)
• European DNA Found In 7-8,000 Year Old Skeleton In Florida (Windover)
• Evidence Aquits Clovis People of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say
• Evidence For Major Impact Events In thelate Third Millennium BC
• Evidence of Tunguska-type Impacts Over the Pacific Basin Around the Year 1178 AD
• Excavations At Karnak Temple Complex... With Rewarding Results.
• Excavations Reveal 7,000 Year-old Harappan Sites
• Excavators Discover 20 Mummies In Egypt
• The Executioner's Moat (Interesting Discoveries In the Dirt) !
• Exotic Relics Found In Ancient Nomads' Tombs In Inner Mongolia (Westerners)
• Expedition Hunts Giant Meteor (1500AD - Nz)
• Expert Says Iraq Could Rewrite Archaeology Books
• Experts Question Authenticity of Bone Box For `Brother of Jesus'
• Experts Seek Trail To Mark Ice Age Floods (National Park Service Study)
• Experts Work To Save Easter Island Statues (More)
• Explorer From China Who 'Beat Columbus To America'
• Explorer Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Dies
• Explorers Find Ancient City In Remote Peru Jungle
• Explorers Rediscover Incan City Near Machu Picchu
• Explorers Unearth Lost Inca Stronghold In Peru
• Exploring the Mysteries of Xi'an's Imperial Tombs
• Explosions In the Sky: Supernovae Imminent?
• Extinct Humans Left Louse Legacy (Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens)
• False Bay Cave Shows Signs of Prehistoric Man
• Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years
• Find Stirs Sleeping Buddha Talk
• Finnish Find Sheds New Light On Prehistoric Andean Culture (Tiwanaku)
• First Americans - Homo Erectus In America
• The First Americans May Have Come By Water
• 'First Americans Were Australian'
• 'First Americans' May Be Johnnies-come-lately (Topper Site)
• First Americans
• First Mariners
• The First Persian War - Greek Wars
• First Toilet and Sewer System of Prehistoric Period Found In Van
• Flag Day - What Did the First "Stars and Stripes" Flag Look Like ?
• Flame of the Ancient Faith Still Flickers In Iran
• Florida State Professor Hoping To Find Roman-era Pirate Ships
• Following the Trail of Ancient Louisianians
• Following the Wise Men
• Forgotten Culture
• Fossil Ape May Be Ancestor of All Apes - Report
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)
• Franchthi Excavations: 17,000 Years of Greek Prehistory
• French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid theory
• From Hand-drag To Jumbo: a Millennium of Dredging
• From the Desert, a Wellspring of Ancient Manuscripts [Writing]
• Full Excavation of Irish Viking Village?
• Gallic War Treasure Discovered In Southern France
• Gene Study Identifies 5 Main Human Populations
• Genetic Survey Reveals Hidden Celts of England
• Genghis Khan's Pen As Mighty As His Sword
• Geologist Rebuts Claim of Forged Jesus Inscription On Ossuary
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica of Middle Ages
• German Archeologist Suggests Exploring Ancient Civilization In Pakistani Salt Range
• German Physicist Disputes Atlantis Discovery Claim By American
• The GGG Digest
• Ghost Fleet 'Shows Pisa Was An Ancient Venice'
• Giant Asteroid Rocked Antarctica
• Going Into the Water: a Survey of Impact Events and the Coastal People of South-east North America, the Caribbean, and Central America
• Golden Caldron Evokes Mystery of Hidden Nazi Gold
• Golden Treasures From Cornwall's Past
• (Good News For Democrats) Scientists: Hard Heads A Key To Survival
• Grains Found In Ga. Traced To Asteroid
• A Great Selection of Archaeological Links
• Greek Farmer Finds 2,000-Year-old Monument
• Group Discovers John the Baptist Cave
• Grusome Secret of (Scotland's) Antonine Wall
• Gutenberg Printing Method Questioned
• Halley's Comet Portrayed On Ancient Coin
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found
• Has Genghis' Tomb Been Found?
• Has the Garden of Eden Been Located At Last?
• The Hazard of Near-earth Asteroid Impacts On Earth
• Headless Bodies Found At Mysterious Mexico Pyramid
• Heavenly Wonder of Ancient China Goes On Show (1,300 Year-old Star-chart)
• Hendrick Hamel
• Herculean Task For Modern Scholars - More On the Discovered Roman Literature Being Unearthed.
• Herodotus' History
• The Hidden History of Men (Anthropology)
• The Hidden History of Men
• High-tech Review Confirms Pedigree of Early Bible Source
• Historic Beer Discovery
• Historic Site In Iran Turned Into Garbage Dump, Official Complains
• The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians" - the Israel Report July 2001
• History Channel To Air Ancient Battles [Persians-greeks-romans - Starts 7/23]
• History Haunts the Plain of Jars
• The History of Herodotus
• History Unearthed (Viking Hoard)
• Hobbit Remains Found In Australia
• Holocaust of Giants: the Great Smithsonian Cover-up
• The Holy Grail of Archaeology (Another Search For Atlantis)
• How We Loved the Romans (Scotland Celts)
• Huge Etruscan Road Brought To Light
• Human Ancestors Started Eating Meat, Evolution Served Up A Healthy Bonus.≪ Eata This Peta ≫
• The Human Family Tree: 10 Adams and 18 Eves
• Human Populations Are Tightly Interwoven
• Human Settlements Far Older Than Suspected Discovered In South America.
• Human Tools Found In Antarctica
• Human-Cat Relationship Goes Back Further (then Previously Thought)
• Humanity's Strange Face
• Humans Were Born To Run, Scientists Say
• Hungry Dogs Find 2,500-Year-old Mummy
• Hunt Begins For Civil War Sub [Uss Alligator]
• Hunt For Ancient Human Molecules (Amazing Story!)
• I Have Solved the Riddle of the Sphinx, Says Frenchman
• "I'm Not Arab, I'm Phoenician" -- A Common Phrase, But Flawed Concept
• Iberia, Not Siberia
• Ice Age Coming Into Focus!
• Ice Age Ivory Flute Found In German Cave (35k Years Old]
• Immigrants From the Other Side (Clovis Is Solutrean?)
• An Impact Event In 3114BC? the Beginning of A Turbulent Millennium.
• An Impact Event In 3114BC? the Beginning of A Turbulent Millennium
• Important Discoveries In Jingdezhen (Chinese Archaeology)
• In Ancient Greece, Nudity Was Olympic Games' Great Equalizer
• In Evolutionary Race, Humans Went the Extra Mile, Study Says
• In Israel, a New Highway Leads To An Ancient Christian Past
• In Search of Zarathustra [Pre-islamic Iran Once Again Making A Strong Come Back]
• In the Footsteps of Heyerdahl
• In the Neanderthal Mind
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• Inca Wall Falls For 'Archaeologist' Hotel
• Incan Counting System Decoded? [Writing]
• India's 'Lost Jews' Wait In Hope
• Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up the Family Tree (More - New Human Species)
• Inner Mongolia Yields New Discoveries
• Innovative Software Offers Clues To Age-old Puzzle
• Inscribed Bricks Unearthed South of Iran (1100BC)
• An Interesting World Wide Web Site Containing Ancient Freerepublic Posts and Pages
• Irish, Scots and Welsh Not Celtic - Scientist
• Iron Age Leader and His Chariot Found In Motorway Excavation
• Ishi - the Last Yahi Indian
• Island Hopping To A New World
• Island of the Little People
• Israel Begins Investigation Into Authenticity of Jesus Inscription
• Israel Finds Jesus Miracle Sites
• Israeli Archaeologists Believe they Have Found Site of Jesus' First Miracle
• Israeli Cave Linked To John the Baptist
• It Came From Outer Space?
• It's Green, Prickly and Sour, But This Plant Could Cure Obesity and Save An Ancient Way of Life
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth
• Italy Returns Stolen Oblisk To Ethiopia
• Japanese Shipwreck Adds To Evidence of Great Cascadia Earthquake In 1700
• Jeffers Indian Mound May Date As Far Back As 400 B.C.
• Jewelry From 3rd Millennium BC Discovered In Southwest Iran
• Judge: Group Should Get Skeleton (Kennewick Man)
• A Judgment About Solomon Evidence Supports Hebrew Kingdoms In Biblical Times
• The Kadakkarapally Boat: An Ancient Sailing Barge In India
• Keeping Up With the Empire (Romans In Netherlands)
• Kennewick Man Is Awarded To Scientists
• Kennewick Man Renains Not Protected
• Kennewick Man Speaks
• Kenosha Dig Points To Europe As Origin of First Americans
• The Kensington Runestone; Verified As Proof of Scandinavians In Minnesota In 1362
• Key To An Ancient Tongue
• Khirokitia
• Kiln's 'Ancestor' Found In Greece
• King Midas' Modern Mourners
• King Solomon's Name Lingers At 'Armageddon' Digging Site
• King Tut Exhibit Could Prove To Be Gold Mine (Coming To the USA In 2005 For 27 Month/4 City Tour)
• King Tut Exhibit Could Prove To Be Gold Mine
• King Tut, Part 2
• Kon-tiki Replica To Sail, Study Pacific In 2005
• Kourion: the Monuments of the City
• The Kurdish People: a Background and History
• Lady Eleanor Talbot
• The Lake's Progress (Greeks, Roman, Persians and Arabs)
• The Last Crusade of the Templars
• Latin 1: the Easy Way
• Legacy of Bethlehem: Amazing Intrigue Surrounding Birth of Jesus, Connections To Islam
• Leif Erikson Day, October 9,2004
• Liberal 'History 101' Takes A Hit?
• Library of Alexandria Discovered
• Life In American Samoa
• The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization [Writing]
• The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization [Writing]
• Linguistics: Early Date For the Birth of Indo-european Languages
• Lion Man Takes Pride of Place As Oldest Statue: 30,000-Year-old Carving
• Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Claudius
• London's Last Ancient City Gate Set To Return
• Look What they Found In Old Wild West
• Looking Into Blackheath's Mysterious Cavern (Huge Cave System Under London)
• Looted Art May Go To Wealthy Collectors, Museum Officials Blame Professionals
• A Losing Battle
• Lost Atlantis 'Found Near Cyprus'
• A Lost City Has Been Descovered In Egypt (the Scots and the Lost City of Egypt) .
• Lost Civilisation From 7,500 BC Discovered Off Indian Coast
• Lost No More: An Etruscan Rebirth
• 'Lost River' Could Rewrite History Books
• The Lost Tribes -- Where Are they Today?
• Lucky Break: Study Finds Lewis and Clark Could Have Met Dire Weather
• Luther's Lavatory Thrills Experts
• Luzia - Second Oldest Human Skeleton Ever Found In the Americas
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?
• Machete-wielding Team Discover Inca Fastness Lost For Four Centuries
• Machu Picchu Rubbish Dump Found
• Magnificent Seven That Keep Mere Mortals Wondering
• Maine Coon Cat (Straight Dope Mailbag)
• Maize Reveals Traces of Old Breeding Project
• Majdel Tarshish (Roman Remains - 50 Km From Beirut)
• Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves
• Malta and Bimini (the Learning Channel)
• Malta's Magnificent Hypogeum
• Mammoth Skeleton Found In Russia's Voronzh
• The Mandans
• Many More Graves Discovered At Gospel Pilgrim (Athens, Ga)
• Maori Men and Women From Different Homelands
• Mark Steyn: Looting Iraq's 'Heritage'
• Marsh Arabs, Modern Sumerians
• Maryland Dig May Reach Back 16,000 Years
• Massachusetts Mystery of Carved Stone Faces
• Massive Black Hole Stumps Researchers
• Measure Could Block Kennewick Man Study
• Medici Family Murders Debunked In Italy
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed
• Medieval Black Death Was Probably Not Bubonic Plague
• Medieval Houses of God, Or Ancient Fortresses?
• Melting Ice In Yukon Reveals Ancient Hunting Artifacts
• Men From Early Middle Ages Were Nearly As Tall As Modern People
• Mesoamerican Relic Provides New Clues To Mysterious Ancient Writing System
• Mesopotamian Climate Change (8,000 Years Ago)
• Meteor Clue To End of Middle East Civilisations
• Mexican Tomb Reveals Gruesome Human Sacrifice
• Mexico City Dig Reveals Diversity of PreColumbian People
• Mexico Discovery Fuels Debate About Man's Origins
• Michigan Man May Have Tapped Secrets of the Ancients
• Mindell Has Role In Ancient Shipwreck Discovery
• Minoan Ship To Ply Greek Seas For First Time In 3,500 Years
• Missing Kabul Treasures Found
• Money Talks: Ancient Coins Refute Myths
• A Mormon Confronts His Myths: Faces Expulsion For Refuting Link Between Indians and Israelites
• The Mother of All Palestinian Modern-day Curses (Archaeology)
• Move Over, Pompeii
• The Mummies of Urumchi
• Mummy Hair Reveals Drinking Habits
• Mysterious Giant Human Remains Found In Fiji
• Mysterious Pottery Shows True Face of First Pacific Settlers
• Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge?
• Mystery of 'Chirping' Pyramid Decoded [Maya]
• Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar Unraveled
• Mystery Shrouds Underwater Structures (Off Coast of Cuba)
• Myth of the Hunter-gatherer
• NASA Digital Images Discover Ancient "Ramayana" Bridge Between India, Lanka
• National Museum of the American Indian A Stunning Showcase of History and Culture
• Native American Origins Debated (Now With DNA Analysis)
• Neanderthal DNA Sequencing
• Neanderthal Extinction Pieced Together
• Neanderthal Life No Tougher Than That of "Modern" Inuits
• Neanderthal Man 'Never Walked In Northern Europe'
• Neanderthal Skeleton Rediscovered
• Neanderthals 'Used Violence'
• Nefertiti Mummy 'Found In Egypt'
• Neolithic Ruins (6000 Yrs Old) Found In Romania While Building Highway
• New Astonishing Finds In Aboukir!
• New Dating For Wat's Dyke
• A New Day Surfaces For Deep Sea Archaeology
• New Device Offers A Peek At Our Deeply Buried Past
• New Discoveries In Syria Confirm theory On Spread of Early Civilization
• New Egyptian King Discovered
• New Evidence For Multiregional Origins
• New Evidence of Neanderthal Violence
• New Finds Worldwide Support Flood Myths
• New Four-winged Feathered Dinosaur?
• New Ice-core Evidence Challenges the 1620s Age For the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
• New Likeness of King Tut On Display
• A New Look At Old Data May Discredit A theory On Race
• New Plan To Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum
• New Robot To Uncover Pyramid Mysteries: Egyptologist
• New Studies Show Jiroft Was An International Trade Center 5,000 Years Ago
• New theories On the Anasazi
• New theory On Stonehenge Mystery
• New Twist On Out-of-africa theory
• New World Newcomers: Men's DNA Supports Recent Settlement of the Americas
• Newly Declassified Mi5 Files Finally Tell the Truth of Rudolf Hess's 1941 Flight
• A Noble Find Reveals Life In the Past (Ancient China)
• Norse Stone Authenticity Put To Test (Kensington Runestone)
• Northern Sea Baffles Archaeologists
• Not Just Anti-semitic Lies!-the Essence of the Message No Possibility of Peace With the Jews
• Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History
• Ode To the Code
• Offshore Find Dates To Kind David's Time Archaeologist Hopes 3,000 Year Old Wood Is From Ship
• Ogham Alphabet [Writing]
• Old Graves Found At School Site Were Possibly Pioneers'
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older
• Oldest Human Footprints Discovered In Italy
• 'Oldest Star Chart' Found
• Oldest Swords Found In Turkey (3,300BC)
• (On TV Tonight) Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries To Be Explored Live On TV
• An Origin of New World Agriculture In Coastal Ecuador (12,000 BP)
• Original Sin and Deviant Behavior
• Our Species Mated With Other Human Species, Study Says
• "Out of Africa" In Use Since Ancient Greece
• Out of the Flames, a Work of Art From 4,000 Years Ago
• The Pacific's Pompeii
• Palestinian Genes Show Arab, Jewish, European and Black-african Ancestry
• Parrot's Oratory Stuns Scientists
• Parrot's Oratory Stuns Scientists
• Parrot's Oratory Stuns Scientists
• The Peoples of the Red Book (Anthropology)
• Peopling of the Americas: Late Date For Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway
• The Periplus of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians, ed. Megalommatis, a Book Review.
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d Tour Capital of Persian Empire]
• Petite Skull Reopens Human Ancestry Debate
• Pharoahs and Kings - A Test of Time
• Phoenicians: Ancient Mariners
• Phyrrus
• Pillar Found At Site of India Mosque
• Ping List Envy---How Big Is Your Ping List?
• The Pinta, Santa Maria and A Chinese Junk? (More)
• Playing For All Elgin Marbles
• Police On Meteor Alert After Huge Balls of Fire Light Up Spanish Sky
• The Politics of Dead 'Native Americans'
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets of the Samnites
• Pompeii Pottery May Rewrite History
• Pompeii's Burial Not Its First Disaster
• The Poop On Ancient Man
• The Porticello Wreck: a 5th Century B.C. Merchantman In Italy
• Post Your Favorite Latin Quotes
• Postwar Iraq -- It's Not Just For Bechtel -
• Power of Fire Harnessed For Ancient thera's Daily Needs
• The Powerful Kings of the Van Kingdom
• Pre-Inca Ruins Emerrging From Peru's Cloud Forests (Chapapoyas)
• PreColumbian Ruins Could Be A Pyramid
• PreColumbian Tunnel Complex Discovered In Southeastern Peru
• Prehistoric Forest Discovered Off Key West -- On Sea Bed (Under 40 Feet of Water)
• Prehistoric Images Threatened By Fungi (French Scientists Surrender To Mold)
• Professor Blows New Life Into Ancient Flute (China - 8,000 Years Old)
• Professor Says Mayan Calendar Does Not Portend Earth's Doom (2012AD)
• Professor Turns Mummified Hand Into Teaching Tool
• Professor Works To Unravel Mysteries of Khipu: Colored, Knotted Strings Used By the Ancient Incas [Writing]
• Protecting Iraq's Ancient Treasures: Pentagon Has "No Strike" List
• A Proverbial Heritage
• The Pyramid Mystery
• Quality of Life In the Desert? High Living In Rome's Distant Quarries
• Quarries Providing Stone For Persepolis Discovered
• Quarries Providing Stone For Persepolis Discovered
• Quarry, Setting and Team Marks: the Carian Connection
• Quest For the Phoenicians (National Geographic Special)
• Rainforest Researchers Hit Paydirt (Farming 11k Years Ago In South America)
• Rancher Unveils Indian Site Kept Secret For Years
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle
• Rare Coin Find Stuns Historians
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration
• The Real Esselen (Archaeology)
• The Real History of the Crusades
• The Real Museum Looters
• Recently Discovered Near-earth Asteroid Makes Record-breaking Approach To Earth
• Red Baron Brought Down By A Shot Fired the Previous Year
• Rediscovering America (the New World May Be 20,000 Years Older Than Experts Thought)
• The Relationship Between the Basque and Ainu
• Relics of Ancient Burial Rites Reveal Siberian Trade Route
• Remains of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'
• Remains of Food Shed Light On Ancient Ways
• Archeologists Unearth Remains of Genghis Khan's Palace On Mongolian Steppe
• Replica of Roman Murder Victim (1, 700 Years Old)
• Reputed Columbus Remains In Spain Exhumed
• Researcher Has theory On the 'Star of Bethlehem' -
• Researchers Find (Byzantine) Church In Jordan
• Researchers To Seek Origin of Ancient Chinese Civilization
• Researchers Unearth Ancient Japanese Bible Translation
• Retracing the Footprints of Time
• The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective
• Reviving Two Old Series
• Reworked Images Reveal Hot Venus
• Road To Machu Picchu Runs Through L.a. (Inca Exhibit In La Natural History Museum)
• Road Trip To Babylon Boosts Troops' Morale
• Robot Explores Second Shaft, Discovers Matching Door (Great Pyramid)
• Robot Seeks Answer To Pyramid Mystery!
• Robot To Go Back To Great Pyramid!
• Rock Art Clue To Nomad Ancestors of Egyptian Pyramid Builders
• Rock Art Clue To Nomad Ancestors of Egyptian Pyramid Builders
• Rock Discovery Causes Excitement
• Rocking the Cradle (Older Than Mesopotamia, Iran?)
• Roman Brooch Find In Shetland Extends Ancient Travel Routes
• Roman Comet 5,000 Times More Powerful Than A-bomb
• 'Roman Cosmetics' Found At Ancient Dig
• The Roman Head From Tecaxic-calixtlahuaca, Mexico: a Review of the Evidence
• Roman Roads In Britain
• Roman Vip's Face Reconstructed
• Romans In Brazil During the Second Or Third Century?
• Romans In China?
• The Romans In Ireland
• Romans Went To War On Diet of Pizza, Dig Shows.
• Royal Nubia Lies Under Sand
• Ruins of 4,300-Year-old Prehistoric City Found In China
• Ruins of Manichean Center Discovered In West Azerbaijan
• Running 'Key To Human Evolution' (Body Evolved To Support Long Distance Running)
• Sacred Precincts: a Tartessian Sanctuary In Ancient Spain
• Sacrificial Burial Deepens Mystery At Teotihuacan, But Confirms the City's Militarism (More)
• Safed: Chief Rabbi Questioned For Incitement
• The Samurai and the Ainu (Read This Before Seeing the Movie "the Last Samurai")
• San Antonio, Texas: Bible and Archaeology Fest Vi
• Sand-covered Huns City Unearthed
• Satellite Images 'Show Atlantis'
• Saxon Find Brings Clues To History
• Scholar Claims Oldest Jesus of Nazareth Evidence
• Scholars Decipher A Stunning Find -An Unknown Canon In An Ancient Dialect!
• Science Is Eating His Dust (Adventurer Exploring Chachapoya Civilization of Peru)
• Scientist Says Fossils From Dinosaur Discovered In Southwestern Japan
• Scientist Says Monkey Thought Extinct May Be Swinging Through Trees In Africa
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains
• Scientist: Oldest American Skull Found
• Scientists Discover Lost World (8,000 Years Old)
• Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton
• Scientists Revisit An Aegean Eruption Far Worse Than Krakatoa
• Scientists Say Warfare Began After People Formed Villages
• Scientists Study Ancient Gamma Rays
• Scientists Wait To Examine Kennewick Man (Update)
• Scientists Wrap Up Old Mystery (Archaeology)
• Scrolls, Scripts and Stelae- a Norwegian Collector Shows Bar His Rare Inscriptions [Writing]
• Search For "Lost" Atlantis Centers On Strait of Gibraltar
• The Search For Atlantis 'Ends At Ayia Napa' (Cyprus)
• Second Temple Village Uncovered
• The Secret Doors Inside the Great Pyramid
• Secrets of Old Mask Still Hidden, Duo Say
• Secrets of Old Mask Still Hidden, Duo Say
• Sensational Finding At Samoil Fortress
• Settled Life Speeds Social and Religious Evolution
• Shanghai Two Milleniums Older Than Previously Thought
• Shar-peis, Huskies Are Closest To Wolves
• Shell Beads From South African Cave Show Modern Human Behavior 75,000 Years Ago
• Ship Confirmed As One Used By Christopher Columbus
• The Shipwreck At Assarca Island, Eritrea
• Shipwreck In the Gulf Clings Tenaciously To Its Mysteries
• Siberia Meteorite Flattens 40 Sq Miles
• Siberian Graveyard's Secret (More Redheads)
• Sifting For Clues At W.md. Dig
• Signs of 8,000-Year-old Culture Found Near Bedford
• Signs of An Earlier American
• Silk Painting, Brassiere Unearthed From Ancient Tombs In N. China (1,000 Year-old Golden Brassiere)
• Sistine Chapel of the Ice Age Revealed
• Six More Bodies Found Near 'King of Stonehenge' Site
• Skeletal Remains May Be 11,000 Years Old (Lake Jackson, Texas)
• Skeleton Case Challeges 'Native American'
• The Skeleton In Armor
• Skeletons, Script Found At Ancient Burial Site In Tamil Nadu [Writing]
• Skull Fragment Suggests Evidence of Surgery From Colonial Days
• Sky-high Icebergs Carried Boulders From the Rockies To In South-central Washington
• Small Comets and Our Origins
• Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
• The Solutrean Solution--Did Some Ancient Americans Come From Europe?
• Solving A Riddle Written In Silver
• Something You Didn't Know About Cajuns (Ilenos, Canary Islands)
• (South Carolina) Fire Pit Dated To Over 50,000 Years Old (More)
• Space Dust To Unlock Mexican Pyramid Secrets
• Spider Mite Upsets Evolutionary theory
• Spiral Ring Reveals Ancient Complex Machines (China)
• Split Between English and Scots Older Than Thought
• Stained Teapot Reveals An Ancient Love of Chocolate
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)
• State Plays Orwellian With Columbus
• 'Status' Drives Extinction of Languages
• Stellar Cellar Discovery
• The 'Stick Man' Cometh (Kennewick Man's Cousin?)
• Stone Age Columbus - Questions and Answers
• Stone Age Julia Roberts
• Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC)
• Stone Circles In Saudi Arabia
• Stone Defends Alexander
• Straights Answers: Why Do Priests Use Incense?
• Strange Stories, Weird Facts
• Stranger In A New Land (Archaeology)
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit
• Study: Neanderthals, Modern Humans Same Species
• Study: New World Map Is A Forgery
• Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony
• Submerged City May Be Older Than Mesopotamia
• A Surprising Survival Story In the Siberian Arctic
• Susa, Favorite Residence of Persian King, Darius the Great
• Swallowed By the Sands
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80k Year Old Human Sites)
• Talk of the Town Leads Straight To Discovery
• Tamil Trade
• Tanzania, Ethiopia Origin For Humans
• A Taste For Trouble ("Caveman" Beer Created - Puts Hair On Your Chest) !
• Teasing the Sun (Nefertiti)
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age
• The Ten Lost Tribes: the Case For Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Pakistan
• (Ten) Egypt Archaeologists Face Smuggling Trial
• Tests Reveal Amesbury Archer "King of Stonehenge' Was A Settler From the Alps
• Textbook On Arabs Removes Blunder
• Thor Heyerdahl and the Pyramids of Greece
• Threads of Old
• Three Centuries Before Christ's Birth, People Celebrated 25 December, Archaeologists Claim
• Tiny New Species of Human Unearthed - Most Important Palaeoanthropological Find For 50 Years
• Tomb May Shed Light On 10th Plague (Exodus)
• Tomb With Three Bodies Found In Abandoned City of Teotihuacan
• Tomb With Three Bodies Found In Abandoned City of Teotihuacan
• Translators Unravel Old Scroll's Secrets
• Tribe Challenges American Origins (South Pacific Rim Peoples Were 1st Americans)
• Tribes Fail To Halt Study of Ancient Skeleton (Kennewick Man)
• Tribes, Archaeologists At Odds Over Cemetery
• Troy the Movie
• The True Identity of "Christopher Columbus" - Salvador Zarco, Portuguese With Some Jewish Roots
• Tuscan 'Excalibur' Mystery To Be Unearthed
• U.K. Researchers Find Rare Burial Chariot
• UFO Marathon On the History Channel, Sunday, April 25,2004
• The Ultimate Creation Vs. Evolution Resource (22nd Edition)
• The Ultimate Sidebar Management Thread
• Uncovering Ice Age Archaeology In Jordan
• Uncovering the Secrets of the Great Pyramid
• Unearthed Painting Fragments Point To Ancient Fire In Nara
• Unearthed, the Prince of Stonehenge
• Unearthed: the Humble Origins of World Diplomacy (A Preserved Library From 1340BC Discovered!)
• Unearthed: the Humble Origins of World Diplomacy (a Preserved Library From 1340BC Discovered!)
• Update On Deep Water Megalithic Stones and Structures Near Western Cuba
• Update: Third "Door" Found In Great Pyramid
• Ural Farmers Got Milk Gene First?
• Uso Canteen Freeper Style ~ Julius Caesar: the Gallic Wars ~ September 16,2003
• Utah Canyon Holds Secrets of Ancient Civilization
• Vandals Threaten Italian Monuments
• Victor Davis Hanson: the Ancient Greeks -- Were they Like Us At All?
• Victorian Trousers Left In Personal 'Time Capsule'
• Viking Burial Ground Dispels Myth of Longship Marauders
• Viking Burial Site Found In England
• Viking Map May Rewrite Us History
• The Vikings Knew More About Climate Change Than Today's Eco-activists
• Vikings/Norse In Minnesota
• Vikings/Norse In Minnesota
• Vintage Skulls
• The Virgins and the Grapes: the Christian Origins of the Koran
• Vostok: the Lake of Shadows
• The Voyage Around the Erythraean Sea
• War and Heritage: Is Ancient Iraq Being Protected? (Museums May Not Have Been Looted)
• The Warriors of Paros
• Was America A Phoenician Colony?
• Was Columbus From Chios, Greece?
• Was Columbus Greek?
• Was Orkney the Ceremonial Capital of Ancient Britain?
• Was there A Trojan War?
• Western Wall Hill - Out; Temple Period Finds - In
• What Caused Argentina's Craters?
• What Did Jesus Sound Like?
• What Is A Dead Language Doing In the 21st Century?
• What Made Alexander So Great?
• What the Bible Says About Persia and Persians
• When People Fled Hyenas
• When the Days Were Shorter
• Where Was Atlantis? Sundaland Fits the Bill, Surely!
• Who Killed Homer?
• Who Really Discovered America? (Evidence That the Jews Did!)
• Who Really Discovered America?
• Who Were the Si-te-cah
• Why Humans and their Fur Parted Ways
• Will We Ever Find Atlantis?
• Women Warriors From Amazon Fought For Britain's Roman Army
• A World Ruled By Fungi
• World's Dogs Are Descended From Asian Wolves
• World's Oldest Boat Found In Desert
• World's Oldest Wheel Found In Slovenia, Claim Archaeologists
• X-ray Attempt To Find Out Why Tutankhamen Died
• Xenophon's Retreat
• Y Chromosomes Rewrite British History
• Y Chromosomes Sketch New Outline of British History
• You Say London, they Say Londinium
• Young Bones Lay Columbus Myth To Rest
• Zahi Hawass Searches For the "Hidden" Chamber (Update On the "Door" Found In the Great Pyramid!)
• Zoroastrians Fight Extinction

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #25 January 8, 2005
Ancient Egypt
Egypt Hopes to Solve Riddle of Tutankhamun Death
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 11/14/2004 7:05:30 AM PST · 28 replies · 495+ views Science - Reuters | Sat Nov 13, 2004 | Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt plans to X-ray the mummy of Tutankhamun to find out what killed the king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and died while only a teen-ager. Archaeologists will move Tutankhamun's body from its tomb, which was discovered packed with treasure in 1922, to Cairo for tests which should resolve the mystery over whether he died naturally or was murdered. "We will know about any diseases he had, any kind of injuries and his real age," Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told Reuters. "We will know the answer to whether he died normally or was...
Ancient Europe
Theory: Oetzi Murdered in Power Play
	Posted by SteveH On News/Activism 01/04/2005 12:42:21 PM PST · 30 replies · 641+ views Jan. 4, 2005 | Rossella Lorenzi Theory: Oetzi Murdered in Power Play By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Jan. 4, 2005 ÷tzi the Iceman, the world's oldest and best-preserved mummy, might have been murdered in a struggle for power, according to a new theory that identifies the 5,300-year-old mummy as the powerful leader of a Neolithic community. Discovered in 1991 in a melting glacier in the ÷tztal Alps ó hence the name ó by the German hiker Helmut Simon, ÷tzi is thought to have died at about 45. He was hit by an arrowhead while being assaulted by his enemies, some of whose blood was found on...
Ancient Near East
7,000-Year-Old Artifacts Discovered In Bushehr Region (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/06/2005 11:04:28 AM PST · 15 replies · 423+ views Tehran Times | 1-6-2005 7000-year-old artifacts discovered in Bushehr region Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) ñ- A joint Iranian and British archaeological team recently discovered 7000-year old artifacts and ruins dating back to the Chalcolithic era (7000? to 3500? B.C.) in northern Bushehr. The Iranian director of the team, Hossein Tofiqian, said on Tuesday that the team began the first stage of their activities last month and made significant finds. ìThe team began their work with the aim of discovering the social and economic status of the historical site during the Chalcolithic era in the fifth and sixth millennia B.C., while the previous...
British Isles
'High Status' Viking Site Found (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/07/2005 11:18:48 AM PST · 17 replies · 640+ views BBC | 1-7-2005 'High status' Viking site found A 10th Century Viking merchant's weight has been recovered Archaeologists in Cumbria say they have discovered what could be the country's most important Viking burial site. Experts are so excited about the find and its wealth of treasures, they are keeping its location a secret so they can work undisturbed. All that has been revealed is that it is near Barrow and contains artefacts dating back to the 10th Century. Another burial site has been uncovered in Cumbria, close to Cumwhitton village, near Carlisle. Both sites were found by metal detector enthusiasts. Barrow archaeologist, Steve...
Asia
New Desert Coffins Unearthed In Xinjiang
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/04/2005 4:10:06 PM PST · 16 replies · 418+ views Xinhua News/China.org | 1-4-2004 New Desert Coffins Unearthed in Xinjiang Archeologists found the first wooden coffins with mud cover at Lop Nur Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the regional archeology institute. Excavation of Xiaohe tomb complex began in October in 2003, leading to the discovery of 108 tombs so far. The most recent excavation yielded 33 tombs, including 25 for adults and eight for children. Those buried in coffins with mud cover may be of relatively high social status. But the conclusion can only be made after the coffins are opened, according to scientists with the institute. Archeologists have...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Bison Bone Discovery Turns B.C. History Upside-Down
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/01/2005 9:22:55 PM PST · 45 replies · 1,993+ views My Telus | 12-31-2004 Friday, Dec 31, 2004 Bison bone discovery turns B.C. history upside-down PENTICTON (BC Newspaper Group) ó The year 2004 ends with a major story in archaeology, revealed by the use of new DNA technology on ancient bison bones scattered around western North America. The findings profoundly affect our understanding of how North America was populated by humans, and could have an impact on aboriginal politics as well. The conventional wisdom, taught to generations in school, speaks of a land bridge connecting Asia with Alaska. This now-submerged bridge was created by lower sea levels in the last ice age, which ended...
The giant eagle of Middle Earth
	Posted by Willie Green On General/Chat 01/04/2005 11:58:53 AM PST · 30 replies · 386+ views Innovations-Report | January 4, 2005 For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Peter Jackson¥s JRR Tolkien-inspired film trilogy Lord of the Rings features enormous eagles swooping down to rescue Sam and Frodo from a desolate New Zealand landscape masquerading as Mordor. The image of giant eagles flying around New Zealand, while fanciful, is not so far-fetched as it might appear. New genetic data published in the freely-available online journal PLoS Biology this week from researchers at Oxford and Canterbury Universities shed new light on the evolution of the extinct giant eagle that once ruled the skies in New Zealand. Before human settlement 700...
Origins and Prehistory
Black Death Mutant Gene Resists AIDS, Say Scientists (Virus)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/04/2005 7:21:29 PM PST · 72 replies · 1,471+ views Cheshire Online | 1-4-2005 | Alan Weston Black Death mutant gene resists Aids, say scientists Jan 4 2005 By Alan Weston, Daily Post IT HAS been described as the 'world's greatest serial killer'. The Black Death was a catastrophe which wiped out nearly half the European population, with 20m people dying between 1348 and 1350. But new research being carried out by a team from Liverpool University has shown that the disease may have produced an unexpected side-effect - resistance to the deadly HIV/Aids virus. Professor Christopher Duncan and Dr Susan Scott have already caused shockwaves among historians with their claim that the Black Death was caused...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Comet or Meteorite Impact Events in 1178AD?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/03/2005 3:59:02 PM PST · 62 replies · 1,563+ views SIS Conference | 1-26-2003 | Emilio Spedicato 1. Introduction As related by Clube and Napier in their monograph The Cosmic Winter, see [1], in the year 1178 A.D. four wise men of Canterbury were sitting outside on a clear and calm 18th June night, a half Moon standing placidly in the starry sky. Suddenly they noticed a flame jutting out of a horn of the Moon. Then they saw the Moon tremble and its colour change slowly from light brilliant to a darker reddish tone. Such a colour remained for all the time the Moon was visible during that phase. This story is found in a manuscript...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Air Jets to Protect Michelangelo's David
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/08/2005 1:47:41 PM PST · 33 replies · 546+ views Discovery News | 1/7/05 | Rossella Lorenzi Jan. 7, 2005 ó Michelangelo's David could soon be enveloped in invisible jets of air to protect it from dust and humidity tracked in by streams of sweaty tourists, the custodians of the Renaissance masterpiece in Florence announced. Experts at Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia, where the 500-year-old naked marble man attracts 1.2 million visitors a year, found that the statue was covered with grime just months after it was cleaned with a controversial "wet" technique that used distilled water. "We discovered that the David needs dusting often, every two months during the summer. Tourists bring a large, damaging quantity of dirt...
US Archaeologists Accused Of Plagiarism
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/06/2005 11:17:06 AM PST · 18 replies · 356+ views ABC News | 1-6-2005 Last Update: Thursday, January 6, 2005. 4:00pm (AEDT)US archaeologists accused of plagiarism A Peruvian archaeologist has accused two US archaeologists of plagiarising her work on the Caral complex, recently determined to be the oldest site in the Americas. The official news agency Andina reported Ruth Shady accused Chicago-area archaeologists Jonathan Haas and his wife Winifred Creamer before the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) with taking her work on Caral, Ms Shady told Andina. Mr Haas and Ms Creamer may want to appear as the discoverers of the complex - one of the most important in the world due to its...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #25 January 1st, 2005
Oh So Mysterioso
Hertford, Home Of The Holy Grail (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/09/2005 11:24:21 AM PST · 8 replies · 482+ views The Guardian (UK) | 1-4-2005 Hertford, home of the Holy Grail An ancient secret society; a demand for a papal apology; and a network of hidden tunnels. Strange things have been stirring in Hertfordshire recently. Oliver Burkeman goes in search of the Knights Templar and, perhaps, the cup of Christ Tuesday January 4, 2005 The Guardian (UK) One of the problems with secret societies - especially the kind whose members exert a shadowy influence on the course of world events - is that they can be a bit difficult to track down. Never was this more true than of the Knights Templar, the ancient Catholic...
Spanish investigators have discovered Atlantis's archaeological evidences...
	Posted by Maria Fdez-Valmayor On News/Activism  11/25/2004 6:49:34 PM PST · 37 replies · 2,025+ views Atlantis News's Agency (C.O.S.S.) | 11-25-2004 | Antonio Beltr·n Martinez Spanish investigators have discovered Atlantis's archaeological evidences... Atlantis = Iberia. Atlantis in Gibraltar and Ibero-Morrocian. The Georgeo's theories (I Part) Extracts the Georgeo's theories an hipotesis. (Forum Atlantis-Rising 2001-2004)Official website of the Georgeos's tehories (in spanish)http://Atlantis.sitio.nethttp:// Spanish investigators have discovered archaeological evidences underneath the sea, near the coasts of Gibraltar, that could belong to the Atlantic civilization described by Plato with the name of Atlantis and that the Greek philosopher located exactly in front of the Columns of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), next to the region of Gadeira (Cadiz, Andalusia) and of the Atlas (Morocco). The first findings were...
Those Enigmatic Erratics: Out-of-Place Artifacts or Out-of-Whack Chronology
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  01/12/2005 11:11:11 AM PST · 3 replies · 125+ views Strange | issue #22 | Philip Rife This author personally subscribes to the catastrophic theory of history. Namely, that one or more times prior to our present recorded history, mankind achieved a high level of civilization--only to have nearly all traces of it obliterated by widespread destruction, either natural or manmade.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Attila Descendents Want Recognition
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/11/2005 7:08:28 PM PST · 46 replies · 661+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 1-12-2005 | Kate Connolly Attila descendants want recognition By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 12/01/2005) More than 2,000 Hungarian descendants of Attila the Hun, once described as the "Scourge of God", are demanding official recognition as an ethnic minority. "As a member of the European Union, Hungary should not be suppressing a minority," said Joshua Imre Novak, the group's self-appointed leader. Mr Novak has collected more than 1,000 signatures to pursue the group's claim through Hungary's parliament. Many experts dismiss the group's initiative as bogus, arguing that Hungary has no existing descendants of the barbarians who gave the country its name. Under Hungarian law,...
A Da Vinci Complex? Call It a Hypothesis
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism  01/14/2005 8:26:14 PM PST · 6 replies · 399+ views New York Times | 1/15/05 | JASON HOROWITZ FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 14 - Researchers at a military geography institute here say they have discovered - hiding practically in plain sight in their building - what might have been a workshop for Leonardo da Vinci. They have also homed in on fading frescoes that they think might have been painted by Leonardo or by a workshop student 500 years ago, although that hypothesis has not been put to the test by art historians or by scientific analysis. Italian museum officials are hoping that the discovery of the frescoes and five small rooms where Leonardo might have lived and worked,...
Egypt receives 8.103m tourists (over 8 million)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  01/13/2005 6:51:36 PM PST · 3 replies · 40+ views Trade Arabia | Thursday, January 13, 2005 | Reuters Egypt received 8.103 million tourists last year, a 34 per cent increase on 2003, the Al Ahram newspaper reported. The Tourism Ministry previously reported 6.04 million tourists visited Egypt in 2003, when the Iraq war hurt tourist numbers early in that year. A central bank report showed that tourism revenues were $6.12 billion last year, the newspaper reported... Tourism minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi said last month that Egypt wanted to double the number of tourists that visit the country to 16 million during the next 10 years.
Sakakawea: Myths Abound About Origin, Death Of Woman Who Aided Lewis And Clark
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/11/2005 5:51:00 PM PST · 64 replies · 1,100+ views The Forum | 1-09-2005 Sakakawea: Myths abound about origin, death of woman who aided Lewis & Clark By Patrick Springer, The Forum Published Sunday, January 09, 2005 Sakakawea ambled into recorded history one "clear and pleasant" morning in a way that endeared her to an explorer still getting acclimated to the harsh plains weather. Sgt. John Ordway noted in his journal that two American Indian women visiting the Lewis and Clark Expedition's winter camp, still under construction, came with welcome gifts - four buffalo robes. "I Got one fine one myself," Ordway wrote on Nov. 11, 1804, at Fort Mandan in what is now...
Ancient Egypt
Curse of Tutankhamen finally laid to rest
	Posted by Dallas On News/Activism  12/19/2002 8:28:04 PM PST · 7 replies · 133+ views ABC.net.au After 80 years, the curse of Tutankhamen's tomb - credited with a host of untimely deaths since its discovery - has finally been disproven by an Australian epidemiologist. By comparing the survival of those exposed to the 'Mummy's Curse' to family members who were not, Dr Mark Nelson of Monash University shows there is no epidemiological basis for claims that desecrating the ancient tomb brought about untimely deaths. His analsys is published today in latest issue of the British Medical Journal. "It was just a bit of a fun thing to do," said Nelson, who has recently completed a doctorate...
Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  01/13/2005 8:03:55 PM PST · 11 replies · 104+ views Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al The original page used client side image maps, and that was pretty, but a little search and replace turned it into a usable (I hope) table of links. Enjoy. FR LexiconPosting GuidelinesExcerpt, or Link only?Ultimate Sidebar ManagementHeadlinesDonate Here By Secure ServerEating our own -- Time to make a new start in Free RepublicPDF to HTML translationTranslation pageWayback MachineMy LinksFreeMail MeGods, Graves, Glyphs topicand groupBooks, Magazines, Movies, Music
India, SE Asia
Ancient forest tribe 'all safe' from tide
	Posted by MassRepublicanFlyersFan On News/Activism  01/09/2005 6:36:38 PM PST · 13 replies · 550+ views AP | January 7, 2005 | Neelesh Misra and Rupak Sanyal In a rare meeting with outsiders, the men said all 250 members of the tribe escaped inland and were surviving on coconuts. Even though the Jarawas sometimes meet with local officials to receive government-funded supplies, the tribe is wary of visitors.
Indian Town Sees Evidence Of Ancient Tsunami (1500 ya)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/15/2005 4:03:42 PM PST · 14 replies · 436+ views MSNBC/AP | 1-15-2005 Indian town sees evidence of ancient tsunamiOnce-powerful city on same spot 'swallowed by the sea' Gautam Singh / APThis ancient Thirupallavaneeswaram Temple is one of the few remnants of ancient Poompuhar, which was a thriving capital city until it was "swallowed by the sea" more than 1,500 years ago.The Associated Press Updated: 2:33 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005POOMPUHAR, India - For generations, the people of Poompuhar have spoken of the days when their sleepy fishing town was the capital of a powerful kingdom, and traders came from Rome, Greece and Egypt to deal in pearls and silk. .
King Of Stone Age Tribe To Return To Jungle To Rebuild Lives
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/12/2005 5:00:25 PM PST · 7 replies · 279+ views AFP/Yahoo | 1-12-2005 King of Stone Age tribe to return to jungle to rebuild lives Wed Jan 12, 3:02 PM ET South Asia - AFP PORT BLAIR, India (AFP) - The king and the queen of an endangered aboriginal tribe vowed to rebuild their jungle kingdom on an isolated Indian island which was smashed by tsunamis. King Jirake wields absolute power over his 48 Great Andamanese subjects on Strait Island, 250 kilometres (150 miles) from Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. The 62-year-old king and his queen Surmai shepherded their subjects to the safety of a hilltop as the giant...
Persia, Elam, etc
2500 Year Old Winged Man Of Pasargadae Threatened By Cold And Lichen
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/11/2005 5:32:52 PM PST · 19 replies · 421+ views Tehran Times | 1-11-2005 2500-year-old Winged Man of Pasargadae threatened by cold and lichen Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- The director of the Pasargadae Historical Cultural Complex said here on Sunday that the stone relief of the Winged Man at the ancient site has been seriously damaged by the cold and lichen and other environmental factors. "Experts began to study the detrimental effects two years ago after some cracks were observed on the relief," added Babak Kial. The Winged Man, considered to be Cyrus the Great by some archaeologists and historians, is a relief of a standing man with four wings who...
Three Ancient Romanian Maps Bolster Accuracy Of "Persian Gulf" Name (Arabian Gulf?)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/15/2005 4:35:16 PM PST · 24 replies · 421+ views Tehran Times | 1-15-2005 Three ancient Romanian maps bolster accuracy of "Persian Gulf" name VIENNA (IRNA) -- Three ancient maps kept in a Romanian academy confirm the accuracy of the name Persian Gulf to denote waters off the southern coast of Iran, said an Iranian embassy official in Bucharest Friday. Speaking to IRNA, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that researches made by the Romanian academy uncovered a map called "Asiac Nova Descripto" dating back to 1584 in which the Persian Gulf is historically referred to as "Mar Mesendin Ol Sinus Persicus." The Romanian academy is one of the most important...
Parthian Circular City Found In Khorasan (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/10/2005 3:16:42 PM PST · 8 replies · 273+ views CHN (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) | 1-10-2004 1/10/2005 8:14:00 AM Parthian Circular City Found in Khorasan Tehran, Jan. 10 (CHN)ó Iranian archeologists have found the architectural plan of a Parthian circular city in Nehbandan castle in southern Khorasan. Nehbandan castle is one of the most important ancient cities in Iran that has signs of different historical periods. Though it hasnít been much excavated, archeologists have found remains from Parthian (250 BC ñ 226 AD) to Safavid (1501 ñ 1722) eras. "As this site hasnít been studied much, we began studying the structures in this historical complex 2 years ago and found out that it has a circular...
British Isles
New Prehistoric Rock Carvings Discovered In Northern England
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/14/2005 2:21:48 PM PST · 59 replies · 763+ views University Of Newcastle On Tyne/Eureka | 1-14-2005 | Aron Mazel Contact: Aron Mazel a.d.mazel@ncl.ac.uk 44-191-222-7845 University of Newcastle upon Tyne New prehistoric rock carvings discovered in Northern England Example of rock art at Weetwood Moor, Northumberland (credit, Aron Mazel) More than 250 new examples of England's finest array of prehistoric rock art carvings, sited close to the Scottish border, have been discovered by archaeologists compiling a unique database. Now over one thousand of the 'cup and ring' carvings can be admired on a new website, which carries 6,000 images and is said to be the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. The site, which goes live today, includes...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical Plagues and Parting of Red Sea caused by Volcano
	Posted by Betty Jane On News/Activism  11/11/2002 12:44:06 PM PST · 52 replies · 635+ views News.telegraph.co.uk | 11/11/02 | John Petre Biblical plagues and parting of Red Sea 'caused by volcano' By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 11/11/2002) Fresh evidence that the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea were natural events rather than myths or miracles is to be presented in a new BBC documentary. Moses, which will be broadcast next month, will suggest that much of the Bible story can be explained by a single natural disaster, a huge volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini in the 16th century BC. Using computer-generated imagery pioneered in Walking With Dinosaurs, the programme tells the story of how...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Diving to Prove Indians Lived on the Continental Shelf
	Posted by sarcasm On News/Activism  07/30/2003 4:51:48 PM PDT · 60 replies · 347+ views The New York Times | July 29, 2003 | ROBERT HANLEY ORT HANCOCK, N.J., July 23 ó For most underwater archaeologists, the big dream these days is finding a shipwreck full of gold and antique treasures. But for Daria E. Merwin, the goal has a bit less glitter: discovering a 10,000-year-old heap of shells and some ancient arrowheads, spear points and cutting tools in the waters off New Jersey.Ms. Merwin, a 33-year-old doctoral student in anthropology, says such artifacts would help prove her thesis that prehistoric Indians lived 6,000 to 10,000 years ago on the exposed continental shelf before it was inundated by water from melting glaciers.For the next three weeks,...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Earth's Volcanism Linked To Meteorite Impacts
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  12/13/2002 8:36:39 AM PST · 31 replies · 142+ views New Scientist | 12-13-2002 | Kate Ravilious Earth's volcanism linked to meteorite impacts 14:31 13 December 02 Exclusive from New Scientist Print EditionSpace rocks are blamed for violent eruptions (Image: GETTY) Large meteorite impacts may not just throw up huge dust clouds but also punch right through the Earth's crust, triggering gigantic volcanic eruptions. The idea is controversial, but evidence is mounting that the Earth's geology has largely been driven by such events. This would also explain why our planet has so few impact crater remnants. Counting the number of asteroids we see in the sky suggests that over the past 250 million years, Earth should have...
LSU Researcher Solves Ancient Astronomy Mystery (Farnese Atlas)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/14/2005 2:36:12 PM PST · 27 replies · 907+ views Innovations Report/LSU | 1-14-2005 | Bradley E. Schaefer/LSU Physik Astronomie Louisiana State University 14.01.2005 LSU researcher solves ancient astronomy mystery An ancient mystery may have been solved by LSU Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Bradley E. Schaefer. Schaefer has discovered that the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, which dates back to 129 B.C., appears on a Roman statue called the Farnese Atlas. Hipparchus was one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity and his star catalog was the first in the world, as well as the most influential. The catalog was lost early in the Christian era, perhaps in the fire at the great library in Alexandria. The...
Origins and Prehistory
Aussies Find Bronze Age Canoe
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/15/2005 4:44:46 PM PST · 17 replies · 383+ views The Australian | 1-14-2005 Aussies find bronze age canoe January 14, 2005 AUSTRALIAN archaeologists have unearthed one of the oldest log canoes ever found in South-East Asia. A team from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra and conservators from the National Museum of Australia excavated a 2.5m section of the boat last month at Dong Xa, about 50 kilometres southeast of the capital Hanoi. The boat was used for burial and contained the body of an adult. It would have been about 10m long and was believed to have been used in the Red River delta area around 100BC by a people known...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Lost Apes Of The Congo (TIME Magazine)
	Posted by K4Harty On News/Activism  01/11/2005 7:48:52 PM PST · 36 replies · 1,044+ views Time Magazine | 01/17/05 | Stefan Feris TIME reporter travels deep into the African jungle in search of a mysterious chimp called the lion killer By STEPHAN FARIS Monday, Jan. 17, 2005 Ron Pintier was flying light and low above the northern wilds of the Democratic Republic of Congo when he saw a dark shape racing between two patches of tropical forest. "It was huge," says Pontier, a missionary pilot. "It was black. The skin was kind of bouncing up and down on it." From its bulk and color, Pontier thought it was a buffalo until he circled down for another look. "I saw it again just...
Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism  01/13/2005 5:32:06 PM PST · 33 replies · 658+ views nature.com | 01/12/05 | Michael Hopkin Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast Michael Hopkin Fossil of a surprisingly large, carnivorous mammal is discovered in China. This artist's impression shows how the metre-long mammals might have looked. © Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Archaeologists have dug up a new species of mammal that roamed China during the reign of the dinosaurs. The creature was large enough to feast on young dinosaurs, exploding the myth that all of the mammals living back then were relatively tiny. Repenomamus giganticus, as the creature has been christened, was more than a metre long, about the size...
Scientists To Start DNA Analysis Of Ancient Horse Skeletons
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/10/2005 3:07:32 PM PST · 19 replies · 362+ views China View/Xinhuanet | 1-10-2005 Scientists to start DNA analysis of ancient horse skeletons www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-10 15:19:28 XI'AN, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese and British scientists are planning for the DNA analysis of 12 horse skeletons unearthed from the burial ground of a prominent duke who lived more than 2,500 years ago in northwestern Shaanxi Province. Archeologists with Beijing University and Cambridge University have used a professional database to process data collected from the skeletons, including the size and weight of the skulls, spinalcolumns and limbs. A Cambridge laboratory will be entrusted to carry out the DNA analysis, after the State Administration of Cultural Heritage...
Neandertal et al and Multiregionalism
Anthropologist Claims Humans, Neanderthals, Australopithecines All Variations on One Species
	Posted by bondserv On News/Activism  01/02/2005 9:41:39 PM PST · 81 replies · 1,037+ views Creation-Evolution Headlines | 01/01/2005 | Creation-Evolution Headlines Anthropologist Claims Humans, Neanderthals, Australopithecines All Variations on One Species† †01/01/2005 According to a news story in the UK News Telegraph, all fossil hominims, including modern humans, Australopithecines, Neandertals and the recent Indonesian "hobbit man," belong to the same species: Homo sapiens.† Reporter Robert Matthews wrote about Maciej Henneberg (U of Adelaide) and his argument, based on skull sizes and body weights for 200 fossil specimens, that all known hominim bones fit within the range of variation expected for a single species.† Henneberg made the startling claim in the Journal of Comparative Human Biology, where he said, "All hominims appear...
Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neanderthal Facial Length
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  06/17/2003 6:58:40 PM PDT · 19 replies · 43+ views New Scientist | 6-17-2003 | Washington University Source: Washington University In St. Louis Date: 2003-06-17 About Face: Washington University Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neandertal Facial Length New scientific evidence challenges a common perception that Neandertals -- a close evolutionary relative to modern humans that lived 230,000 to 30,000 years ago -- possessed exceptionally long faces. Instead, a report authored by Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shows that modern humans are really the "odd man out" when it comes to facial lengths, which drop off dramatically compared with their ancestral predecessors....
Blow to Neanderthal breeding theory
	Posted by presidio9 On News/Activism  05/13/2003 9:22:35 AM PDT · 82 replies · 79+ views BBC | Tuesday, 13 May, 2003 Scientists know that Neanderthals and early human ancestors were distinct species, even though they lived during the same period. However, there is controversy over theories that Neanderthals made a contribution to the modern human gene pool. A skeleton uncovered in Portugal appeared to show both Neanderthal and human features. DNA taken The latest research, from the University of Ferrara in Italy, compared genetic material from Neaderthals, Cro-Magnon humans and modern Europeans. The DNA from the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons was taken from their bones. The DNA came from cell structures called mitochondriae rather than the nucleus. They found that while, unsurprisingly,...
Bones of contention(Discovery of a new species of human astounds the world,but is it what it seems?)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism  01/13/2005 1:08:28 AM PST · 21 replies · 913+ views Guardian (U.K.) | Thursday January 13, 2005 | John Vidal The discovery of a new species of human astounded the world. But is it what it seems? John Vidal went to remotest Flores to find out If you want to understand human evolution, it may be worth starting with Johannes Daak from the remote village of Akel in the heavily forested centre of the Indonesian island of Flores. Johannes, from the Manggarai ethnic group, reckons he is 100 years old and says he owes his longevity and enduring strength to having only ever known one woman. He says he owes his stature to his ancestors. Johannes is no more than...
Excalibur, The Rock That May Mark A New Dawn For Man
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/09/2003 9:10:31 PM PST · 28 replies · 116+ views The Guardian (UK) | 1-9-2003 | Giles Tremlett Excalibur, the rock that may mark a new dawn for man Paleontologists claim 350,000-year-old find in Spanish cave pushes back boundary of early human evolution Giles Tremlett in Madrid Thursday January 9, 2003 The Guardian They have called it Excalibur, though it was plucked from a pit of bones rather than the stone of Arthurian legend. To the ordinary eye it is a hand-sized, triangular chunk of ochre and purple rock, its surface slightly scratched. But to the palaeontologists who found this axe-head buried in a deep cavern on a Spanish hilltop, it is proof of a terrible and defining...
Fossils Bridge Gap in African Mammal Evolution
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism  12/03/2003 4:53:26 PM PST · 1,103 replies · 483+ views Reuters to My Yahoo! | Wed Dec 3, 2003 | Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Fossils discovered in Ethiopia's highlands are a missing piece in the puzzle of how African mammals evolved, a team of international scientists said on Wednesday. Little is known about what happened to mammals between 24 million to 32 million years ago, when Africa and Arabia were still joined together in a single continent. But the remains of ancestors of modern-day elephants and other animals, unearthed by the team of U.S. and Ethiopian scientists 27 million years on, provide some answers. "We show that some of these very primitive forms continue to live through the missing years, and...
Fresh debate over human origins
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism  12/26/2002 8:02:36 AM PST · 116 replies · 67+ views BBC News | 24 December 2002 | staff The theory that we are all descended from early humans who left Africa about 100,000 years ago has again been called into question. US researchers sifting through data from the human genome project say they have uncovered evidence in support of a rival theory. Most scientists agree with the idea that our ancestors first spread out of Africa about 1.8 million years ago, conquering other lands. What happened next is more controversial. The prevailing theory is that a second exodus from Africa replaced all of the local populations, such as Europe's Neanderthals. Some anthropologists, however, advocate the so-called multiregional theory,...
Gene for Red Hair May Help Suppress Pain in Women
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism  03/25/2003 5:57:32 AM PST · 28 replies · 162+ views Reuters via Yahoo | March 24, 2003 | Linda Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A gene found in redheads and fair-skinned people may also play a role in the body's natural pain suppression system. But the gene, Mc1r, appears to impact pain suppression only in women, according to the study, published Monday in the advance online publication of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites). The researchers found that redheaded women were able to tolerate more pain than other people when given an analgesic drug called pentazocine. All redheaded men, as well as men and women who did not have red hair, had similar-and...
Genes May Be Reason For Jews' Low Alcoholism Rate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  09/17/2002 8:21:39 AM PDT · 75 replies · 183+ views Ananova | 9-17-2002 Genes may be reason for Jews' low alcoholism rate Genes, and not religious conviction, explain why Jewish people typically have fewer drink problems than non-Jews. Researchers in the US say a genetic mutation carried by at least a fifth of Jews appears to protect against alcoholism. The same inherited trait is fairly common in Asian people, but is much rarer in white Europeans. The Daily Telegraph says the findings could help explain why Israel has one of the lowest levels of alcoholism in the developed world. The mutation, called ADH2*2, is involved in the way the body breaks down alcohol...
How likely is human extinction?
	Posted by Momaw Nadon On News/Activism  04/14/2004 6:15:04 AM PDT · 518 replies · 315+ views Mail & Guardian Online | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 | Kate Ravilious Every species seems to come and go. Some last longer than others, but nothing lasts forever. Humans are a relatively recent phenomenon, jumping out of trees and striding across the land around 200 000 years ago. Will we persist for many millions of years to come, or are we headed for an evolutionary makeover, or even extinction? According to Reinhard Stindl, of the Institute of Medical Biology in Vienna, the answer to this question could lie at the tips of our chromosomes. In a controversial new theory he suggests that all eukaryotic species (everything except bacteria and algae) have an...
The naked ape / As it turns out, clothes do make the man
	Posted by Willie Green On News/Activism  09/02/2003 2:24:40 PM PDT · 9 replies · 16+ views The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 | Editorial <p>The expression "clothes make the man" may be more prescient than imagined. New theories about our evolutionary development are making the rounds in scientific journals that attempt to explain why modern humans shed the fur that characterized earlier hominids.</p> <p>Evidence is mounting that when our ancestors wandered out of the forests and onto the African savannas 1.7 million years ago, they weren't simply leaving leafy trees behind. Many millennia before the heartbreak of psoriasis, early humans had an affliction that surely would've led to an unbearably itchy existence, if not extinction, had we not shed our matted body hair over hundreds of generations.</p>
Neanderthals 'Had Hands Like Ours'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  03/27/2003 3:07:42 PM PST · 23 replies · 56+ views BBC | 3-27-2003 | Helen Briggs Neanderthals 'had hands like ours' By Helen Briggs BBC News Online science reporter The popular image of Neanderthals as clumsy, backward creatures has been dealt another blow. Neanderthals used tools and had a capacity for speech It was always thought they were a somewhat ham-fisted lot. However, computer reconstructions of fossilised bones show their hands had almost the same manual dexterity as ours. Far from being "butter fingered", they would have been adept at using implements such as axes and knives. The finding is important because it casts doubt on the idea that Neanderthals died out because of a physical...
Neanderthal Hunters Rivalled Human Skill
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  09/24/2003 8:19:27 AM PDT · 22 replies · 113+ views BBC | 9-23-2003 | Will Knight Neanderthal hunters rivalled human skills 17:34 23 September 03 NewScientist.com news service Neanderthals were not driven from northern Europe by vastly superior human hunters, suggests an analysis of hunting remains. The study by Donald Grayson of the University of Washington and Francoise Delpech of the University of Bordeaux challenges a popular theory that the primitive peoples died out because they were far less skillful hunters. The pair examined the fossilised remains of butchered animals from a cave in southwest France. Neanderthals inhabited southern France from 65,000 years before the present until roughly 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Neanderthals disappeared from...
New species may have relatives in next villlage
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism  01/12/2005 5:52:22 PM PST · 22 replies · 587+ views The Guardian (UK) | January 13, 2005 | John Vidal A growing number of scientists are challenging the sensational discovery last year of a new species of one-metre-tall intelligent humans whose 13,000-year-old bones were said to have been found in an Indonesian cave. According to some leading anthropologists in Australia, Indonesia and elsewhere, Homo floresiensis is not "one of the most important discoveries of the last 150 years" as was widely reported last October, but a pygmy version of modern Homo sapiens with a not uncommon brain disease. Now a leading critic of the Homo floresiensis theory is to send researchers to a village near the cave where the bones...
Neandertals Not Our Ancestors, DNA Study Suggests (Whewww!!!)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism  05/14/2003 10:49:29 PM PDT · 48 replies · 128+ views National Geographic News | 5/14/03 | Hillary Mayell One more piece of evidence has been added to the debate on whether there was any interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans. Around 50,000 years ago, small groups of anatomically modern humans migrated out of Africa and began to colonize the rest of the world. Known as Cro-Magnons for the site in France where the earliest remains were found, these early humans co-existed with the Neandertals then living in Europe until the Neandertals became extinct roughly 30,000 years ago. What happened and whyódid the two groups war, did they mate, did they even meet?óhas been an enduring puzzle...
Neanderthals Matured Faster Than Modern Man -Study
	Posted by Junior On News/Activism  04/28/2004 12:57:48 PM PDT · 86 replies · 106+ views Science - Reuters | 2004-04-28 | Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Neanderthals may conjure up images of an uncivilized, brutish species but they were surprisingly early developers, researchers said Wednesday. Although Neanderthals disappeared from Europe about 30,000 years ago, scientists at the French research institute CRNS in Paris have uncovered new details about them by studying teeth fossils. The findings, reported in the science journal Nature, suggest Neanderthals reached adulthood by the age of 15 -- about three years before early modern humans -- probably ate a high calorie diet and were a distinct species from modern humans. "Neanderthals, despite having a large brain, were characterized by a...
Oldest member of human family found
	Posted by jennyp On News/Activism  07/11/2002 4:13:07 PM PDT · 62 replies · 161+ views Nature | 07/11/2002 | John Whitfield After a decade of digging through the sand dunes of northern Chad, Michel Brunet found a skull 6-7 million years old. He named it ToumaÔ.ToumaÔ is thought to be the oldest fossil from a member of the human family. It's a dispatch from the time when humans and chimpanzee were going their separate evolutionary ways. A thrilling, but confusing dispatch1,2. Sahelanthropus tchadensis - ToumaÔ's scientific name - was probably one of many similar species living in Africa at that time. "There must have been a group of apes knocking around between 5 and 8 million years ago for which there's...
One million year "Homo-erectus" Found In Iran
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  01/11/2005 11:08:39 AM PST · 12 replies · 245+ views CHN | Jan 5, 2005 | staff In their paleontological studies in Maragheh region, experts have so far found pieces of fossilized horse, giraffe, rhino, and elephant dating back to at least a million years ago. The discovery of these fossils close to the teeth has helped the scientists reach a more precise date for the teeth... Paleontological studies in Maragheh region is done under the supervision of the Natural History Museum with the cooperation of Tabriz University in eastern Azerbaijan that currently holds the 1-million-year teeth for more research.
A Rebuilt Neanderthal
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism  12/31/2002 4:38:20 PM PST · 95 replies · 1,319+ views The New York Times | 12-31-02 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD In a laboratory in the upper recesses of the American Museum of Natural History, away from the public galleries, Dr. Ian Tattersall, a tall Homo sapiens, stooped and came face to face with a Neanderthal man, short and robust but bearing a family resemblance ó until one looked especially closely. A paleoanthropologist who has studied and written about Neanderthals, Dr. Tattersall was getting his first look at a virtually complete skeleton from this famously extinct branch of the hominid family. Nothing quite like it has ever been assembled before, the foot bones connected to the ankle bones and everything else...
Seeking answers to a new Mystery Ape
	Posted by Ahban On News/Activism  08/13/2003 8:47:06 PM PDT · 15 replies · 103+ views CNN | august 9th 2003 | Marsha Walton <p>A skull belonging to a 'mystery ape,' on the left, is placed next to a chimpazee skull for comparison. Researchers say the mystery ape is much more 'flat-faced' and substantially bigger.</p> <p>We cannot rule out the possibility that it is a new species of ape, or a new subspecies or some form of hybrid.</p>
When Humans Faced Extinction
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  06/10/2003 8:05:32 AM PDT · 124 replies · 159+ views BBC | 6-10-2003 | Dr David Whitehouse When humans faced extinction By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Humans may have come close to extinction about 70,000 years ago, according to the latest genetic research. From just a few, six billion sprang The study suggests that at one point there may have been only 2,000 individuals alive as our species teetered on the brink. This means that, for a while, humanity was in a perilous state, vulnerable to disease, environmental disasters and conflict. If any of these factors had turned against us, we would not be here. The research also suggests that humans (Homo sapiens...
London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals...
	Posted by IGBT On News/Activism  01/16/2005 12:47:07 PM PST · 164 replies · 2,396+ views Planet Save.com | 1/14/05 | Planet Save.com London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years old. They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000 years ago. Rosalind Harding, the...
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Oh So Mysterioso
New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus
	Posted by swilhelm73 On News/Activism 01/20/2005 3:16:23 PM PST · 47 replies · 1,069+ views Yahoo | January 19, 2005 DALLAS, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), a scientific organization dedicated to research on the enigmatic Shroud of Turin, thought by many to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, announced today that the 1988 Carbon-14 test was not done on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch creating an erroneous date for the actual age of the Shroud. The Shroud of Turin is a large piece of linen cloth that shows the faint full-body image of a blood-covered man on its surface. Because many believe...
Shroud Of Turin - New Date?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/19/2005 11:46:04 AM PST · 187 replies · 3,804+ views Yahoo | 1-19-2005 | Michael Minor New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus; Los Alamos Scientist Proves 1988 Carbon-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin Used Invalid Rewoven Sample Wednesday January 19, 8:32 am ET DALLAS, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), a scientific organization dedicated to research on the enigmatic Shroud of Turin, thought by many to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, announced today that the 1988 Carbon-14 test was not done on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch creating an erroneous date...
Ancient Greece
East Bulgaria Reveals Minoan Pertainence
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/23/2005 4:25:15 PM PST · 3 replies · 179+ views Novinite | 1-18-2005 East Bulgaria Reveals Minoan Pertainence 18 January 2005, Tuesday. The Eastern Rhodopes revealed an old-times funeral site obviously pertaining to an ancient Crete-Micenae cult dating 3,500 years ago. The demographic researcher Mincho Gumarov of Kardzhali has donated the local museum with unique finds of ceramics, bronze and silver. The artifacts from the late bronze epoch were found in the nearby Samara cave. The find's pertainence to the epoch of legendary Micenae derives from the found labris (short two-face ritual axe, characteristic of that civilisation) and a silver amulet of the cult to Mother Earth, as well as pieces of surgery...
Shrine To Hercules Unearthed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/21/2005 6:30:26 PM PST · 60 replies · 938+ views Kathimerini | 1-21-2005 | AP Valmas Shrine to Hercules unearthedArchaeologists in Thebes discover remains of altar, dwellings used for more than 3,000 years APPanayiotis Valmas, the head restorer at the Museum of Thebes, is pictured last month brushing a tiny ancient bronze statue of the mythological hero Hercules slaying a lion. The figure was found at an ancient prayer site. By Derek Gatopoulos - The Associated Press THEBES - Rummaging in the dirt, Costas Kakoseos pulls up pieces of history steeped in legend. It is an archaeological site dubbed ìHerculesí Houseî ó the place, experts say, that the ancient Greeks may have held to be the...
Ancient Rome
Focus: The search for the lost library of Rome
	Posted by RightWingAtheist On News/Activism 01/23/2005 11:33:31 AM PST · 25 replies · 710+ views The Sunday Times (UK) | January 23 2005 | Robert Harris Even in our age of hyperbole, it would be hard to exaggerate the significance of what is at stake here: nothing less than the lost intellectual inheritance of western civilisation Down a side street in the seedy Italian town of Ercolano, wafted by the scent of uncollected rubbish and the fumes of passing motor-scooters, lies a waterlogged hole. A track leads from it to a high fence and a locked gate. Dogs defecate in the undergrowth where addicts discard their needles. Peering into the dark, stagnant water it is hard to imagine that this was once one of the greatest...
Gladiators - More Showbusiness Than Slaughter
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 01/20/2005 4:46:25 PM PST · 16 replies · 306+ views Scotsman | 1-20-2005 | James Reynolds Gladiators - more showbusiness than slaughter JAMES REYNOLDS SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT Key points ï New theory says Gladiators were pampered stars not abused slaves ï Gladiators earned so much from sport that Emperor capped their salaries ï Study of 158 images of combat shows combatants did not fight to death Key quote "Gladiators were entertainers, sports stars, and they were the privately owned, pampered Beckhams of their day. They did not go into the arena to die, because they cost far too much for that to happen on anything like a regular basis" - Bryn Walters, director of the British Association...
Potholers Discover Ancient Roman Mosaic
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/18/2005 8:27:59 PM PST · 14 replies · 455+ views Telegraph (UK) | 1-19-2005 | Bruce Johnson Potholers discover ancient Roman mosaic By Bruce Johnston (Filed: 19/01/2005) Potholers exploring a site near Nero's palace have discovered a mosaic showing ancient Romans trampling grapes to make wine. The 10ft by 6.5ft mosaic depicts three naked figures crushing the grapes with their feet, while a fourth entertains them by playing a double flute and another man piles the fruit in a basket. Using a remote-controlled camera, the potholers filmed the fragment at the edge of the largely unexcavated, 14-acre bathing complex in Rome built by the Emperor Trajan, itself lying on top of the ruins of Nero's lavish residence,...
Ancient and Medieval Europe
Danish Archaeologists In Search Of Vikings In Iran
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/23/2005 3:35:39 PM PST · 21 replies · 584+ views Payvand | 1-20-2005 1/20/05Danish Archaeologists in Search of Vikings in Iran Tehran, Jan. 20 (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) ñ Researchers from the Copenhagen Museum in Denmark have traveled to the coasts of the Caspian Sea, northern Iran, in search of clues of relationships between Iranians and Vikings. A few years ago, a researcher from the Copenhagen Museum, Nadia Haupt, discovered more than one thousand coins and relics that did not belong to the Danish or other Scandinavian cultures, and therefore set to find out more about the historical roots of the Danish civilization. The ancient items that took the attention of experts...
Genes Promoting Fertility Are Found in Europeans
	Posted by 4mor3 On News/Activism 01/16/2005 5:11:46 PM PST · 25 replies · 682+ views New York Times | January 16, 2005 | Nicholas Wade Researchers in Iceland have discovered a region in the human genome that, among Europeans, appears to promote fertility, and maybe longevity as well. Though the region, a stretch of DNA on the 17th chromosome, occurs in people of all countries, it is much more common in Europeans, as if its effect is set off by something in the European environment. A further unusual property is that the region has a much more ancient lineage than most human genes and the researchers suggest, as one possible explanation, that it could have been inserted into the human genome through interbreeding with one...
The Mysterious End Of Essex Man (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/23/2005 3:16:48 PM PST · 38 replies · 720+ views The Guardian (UK) | 1-23-2005 | Robin McKie The mysterious end of Essex man Archaeologists now believe two groups of early humans fought for dominance in ancient Britain - and the axe-wielders won Robin McKie, science editor Sunday January 23, 2005 The Observer Divisions in British culture may be deeper than we thought. Scientists have discovered startling evidence that suggests different species of early humans may have fought to settle within our shores almost half a million years ago. They have found that two different groups - one wielding hand-axes, the other using Stone Age Stanley knives to slash and kill - could have been rivals for control...
Asia
Poor Ships Saved Japan From Mongolian Army
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/21/2005 10:20:18 AM PST · 17 replies · 734+ views The Star | 1-20-2005 Poor ships saved Japan from Mongolian army PARIS: Science has dealt a blow to a Japanese legend which says the country was twice saved from a Mongolian fleet thanks to a ìdivine wind,î or kamikaze, that destroyed the invaders' ships. A 900-ship fleet, sent by the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan in 1274, met resistance from Japanese samurai before being forced into retreat by bad weather and was then ripped to pieces by the kamikaze. Kublai Khan tried again years later, amassing a vast fleet of 4,400 ships from China and Korea, most of which were sunk by strong winds off...
Origins and Prehistory
Amazing hominid haul in Ethiopia
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 01/19/2005 2:22:02 PM PST · 47 replies · 984+ views BBC News | January 19, 2005 | Unsigned Fossil hunters working in Ethiopia have unearthed the remains of at least nine primitive hominids that are between 4.5 million and 4.3 million years old. The fossils, which were uncovered at As Duma in the north of the country, are mostly teeth and jaw fragments, but also include parts of hands and feet. All finds belong to the same species - Ardipithecus ramidus - which was first described about a decade ago. Details of the discoveries appear in the latest issue of Nature magazine. Scientists say features of a phalanx, or foot bone, unearthed at the site show the hominid...
Prehistoric dwarf astounds scientists / Island discovery could rewrite human evolution
	Posted by Former Military Chick On News/Activism 10/28/2004 5:25:14 AM PDT · 51 replies · 958+ views Deseret News | October 28, 2004 | Joseph B. Verrengia In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical Lost World while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet. Chris Stringer, director of human origins studies at the Natural History Museum in London, holds a cast taken from a skull that is said to be that of a new species in the evolution of humans named Flores Man. Richard Lewis, Associated Press Chris Stringer, director of human origins studies at the Natural History Museum in...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Evidence May Back Human Sacrifice Claims
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/23/2005 2:26:53 PM PST · 88 replies · 1,862+ views My Way News | 1/22/05 | MARK STEVENSON/AP MEXICO CITY (AP) - It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number. Using high-tech forensic tools, archaeologists are proving that pre-Hispanic sacrifices often involved children and a broad array of intentionally brutal killing methods. For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased...
Scientists Can't Examine Columbus' Tomb
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/23/2005 2:21:06 PM PST · 12 replies · 404+ views My Way News | 1/23/05 | JOSE MONEGRO SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Authorities said Saturday that more discussions are needed before a Spanish research team can examine a tomb purportedly holding Christopher Columbus' remains, setting back efforts to determine if claims that he is buried in Spain are true. The government initially had agreed to reopen the tomb on Feb. 15, but authorities later backtracked after the event was heavily publicized. Dominican authorities were upset with reports that researchers would do more than visually inspect the bones. The dispute over which set of remains are authentic has simmered for more than 100 years. The tomb is...
Team Searching For Columbus' Remains
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/18/2005 7:47:22 AM PST · 17 replies · 334+ views AP/Yahoo | 1-17-2005 | Daniels Wools Team Searching for Columbus' Remains Mon Jan 17, 3:19 PM ET Science - AP By DANIEL WOOLLS MADRID, Spain - Spanish researchers said Monday they've won permission to open a tomb in the Dominican Republic purported to hold remains of Christopher Columbus, edging closer to solving a century-old mystery over whether those bones or a rival set in Spain are the real thing. A team of two high school teachers from Seville and a leading Spanish forensic geneticist has been testing 500-year-old bone slivers for more than two years to try to pinpoint the final resting place of the explorer...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Archaeologists excited over old toilets!
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/21/2005 3:50:17 PM PST · 48 replies · 820+ views IAFRICA | Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005 | AFP Archaeologists excited over old toilets Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005 Excited archaeologists are sifting through the contents of 150-year-old New Zealand toilets to get a better understanding of the everyday lives of early settlers. Although there is plenty of oral and written history, there are gaps which can only be answered by lifting the lid on the sanitary habits of pioneering families, they say. About 30 of New Zealand's leading archaeologists arrived in Wellington on Thursday to start a five-week project to collect and document information from historic sites along an inner-city bypass route. The old toilets, locally referred to...
How did Abe Lincoln's assassin really meet his end?
	Posted by churchillbuff On General/Chat 01/18/2005 7:17:10 PM PST · 29 replies · 560+ views washingtontimes | Jan 8 05 | Nofziger THE LEGEND OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH: MYTH, MEMORY, AND A MUMMY By C. Wyatt Evans University Press of Kansas , $24.95, 224 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY LYN NOFZIGER Was John Wilkes Booth really killed by Sgt. Boston Corbett in the barn on the Garrett farm in southern Maryland, or did he escape and spend the rest of his life as a homeless, friendless wanderer, winding up, finally, as a side show mummy in a traveling carnival? Or, on the other hand did he escape to England and die there? And the second question: Why did he murder Lincoln in the...
Hurricane Scientist Leaves U.N. Team. U.S. Expert Cites Politics in a Letter
	Posted by FairOpinion On News/Activism 01/23/2005 12:58:57 PM PST · 36 replies · 710+ views WP | Jan. 23, 2005 | Juliet Eilperin A federal hurricane research scientist resigned last week from a U.N.-sponsored climate assessment team, saying the group's leader had politicized the process. Chris Landsea, who works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's hurricane research division in Miami, said Monday that he would not contribute to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's chapter on atmospheric and surface climate conditions because the lead author had told reporters global warming contributed to intense Atlantic hurricanes last year. "It is beyond me why my colleagues would utilize the media to push an unsupported agenda that recent hurricane activity...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #28 January 29th, 2005
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeologist Unearths Bibical Controversy
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/26/2005 8:44:58 PM PST · 154 replies · 3,072+ views Globe And Mail | 1-25-2005 | Michael Valpy Archeologist unearths biblical controversy Artifacts from Iron Age fortress confirm Old Testament dates of Edomite kingdom By MICHAEL VALPY Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Canadian archeologist Russell Adams's interest is in Bronze Age and Iron Age copper production. He never intended to walk into archeology's vicious debate over the historical accuracy of the Old Testament -- a conflict likened by one historian to a pack of feral canines at each other's throats. Yet by coincidence, Prof. Adams of Hamilton's McMaster University says, he and an international team of colleagues fit into place a significant piece of the puzzle of human history...
Archeologist unearths biblical controversy
	Posted by Catholic54321 On Religion  01/27/2005 10:42:23 PM PST · 8 replies · 216+ views chn | 26 January 2005 Canadian archeologist Russell Adams's interest is in Bronze Age and Iron Age copper production. He never intended to walk into archeology's vicious debate over the historical accuracy of the Old Testament -- a conflict likened by one historian to a pack of feral canines at each other's throats. Yet by coincidence, Prof. Adams of Hamilton's McMaster University says, he and an international team of colleagues fit into place a significant piece of the puzzle of human history in the Middle East -- unearthing information that points to the existence of the Bible's vilified Kingdom of Edom at precisely the time...
Archeologist finds evidence of Old Testament Validity
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism  01/29/2005 6:12:28 AM PST · 357 replies · 3,783+ views Catholic News Agency | January 28, 2005 Hamilton, Ontario, Jan. 28, 2005 (CNA) - Canadian archaeologist Russell Adams, a professor at McMaster University has recently unearthed evidence, which helps to show the historical accuracy of the Bible.Professor Adams and his team of colleagues have found information that points to the existence of the Biblical Kingdom of Edom existing at precisely the time Scripture claims it existed. The evidence flies in the face of a common belief that Edom actually came into existence at least 200 years later. According to the Canadian Globe and Mail, the groupís findings ìmean that those scholars convinced that the Hebrew Old Testament...
Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh Tomb Believed Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/30/2005 2:51:03 PM PST · 87 replies · 2,152+ views AINA/BBC | 1-25-2005 Gilgamesh Tomb Believed Found Posted 01-25-2005 10:02:40 (GMT 1-25-2005 (BBC) -- Archaeologists in Iraq believe they may have found the lost tomb of King Gilgamesh - the subject of the oldest "book" in history. The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a German-led expedition has discovered what is thought to be the entire city of Uruk - including, where the Euphrates once flowed, the last resting place of its famous...
Ancient Egypt
Mysterious Inscription on the Great Pyramid
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  01/29/2005 9:57:01 PM PST · 30 replies · 341+ views RobertSchoch.net | 2004 | Robert Schoch The inscription shown below occurs above the original entrance of the Great Pyramid.† I don't think it is original, but it could be relatively old.† If you have any idea what it may mean, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
Ancient Australia
Arid Australian Interior Linked To Lanscape Burning By Ancient Humans
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/26/2005 12:28:52 PM PST · 50 replies · 691+ views University Of Colorado-Boulder | 1-26-2005 | Gifford Miller/Jim Scott Contact: Gifford Miller gmiller@colorado.edu 303-492-6962 Jim Scott 303-492-3114 University of Colorado at Boulder Arid Australian interior linked to landscape burning by ancient humans The image of a controlled burn in the interior of Australia today, featured on the cover of the January 2005 issue of Geology, illustrates how Australia might have looked 50,000 years ago. Photo courtesy Gifford Miller, University of Colorado at Boulder Click here for a high resolution photograph. Landscape burning by ancient hunters and gatherers may have triggered the failure of the annual Australian Monsoon some 12,000 years ago, resulting in the desertification of the country's interior...
Ancient Greece
Excavation of Sybil's Cave to begin Tuesday
	Posted by restornu On General/Chat  01/16/2005 7:16:21 PM PST · 5 replies · 140+ views The Hudson Reporter | 01/16/2005 | By Tom Jennemann First phase will include benches, historic marker The uncovering of Sybil's Cave, which has long been a dream of local historians and residents, is about to become a reality. Sybil's Cave is located off of Sinatra Drive on the property of Stevens Institute of Technology, across from the Castle Point Park fishing pier. In the cave's storied history, it was a site for picnics, a source of water for health seekers, and the inspiration for an Edgar Allan Poe detective story. Last year, Mayor David Roberts said that after years of hearing old-timers' legends about the cave, it was worth...
Ancient and Medieval Europe
Clay hearths up to 34,000 years old
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat  01/26/2005 11:00:12 PM PST · 6 replies · 112+ views Archaeology magazine | January/February 2005 Volume 58 Number 1 | From the Trenches Now that the Olympics are over, archaeologists in Greece are back to business. They've found the world's oldest clay hearths. According to a report in Antiquity, the more than 70 clay hearths, ranging from 34,000 to 23,000 years old, were identified in a single cave in the northwestern Peloponnese. Remarkably, they've also uncovered four well-preserved 2,500-year-old pomegranates, found inside a sealed bronze vessel during a salvage excavation near ancient Corinth. The oxidation of the bronze prevented microorganisms from growing and destroying the fruit, says the archaeologist who made the find. Scientists are eager to study the remarkable specimens, which are...
Asia
7,000 Year-Old Village Found In Ningbo (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/26/2005 12:17:54 PM PST · 37 replies · 629+ views Peoples Daily/China.org | 1-26-2005 7,000-year-old Village found in Ningbo The Ningbo Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology announced this month that, after a 4-month excavation of 725 square meters, they have confirmed the discovery of a 7,000-year-old village of the early Hemudu culture. The site is at Fujiashan in the Jiangbei District of Ningbo City, in the eastern province of Zhejiang. According to a specialist from the institute, the site is one of the largest-scale, highest-yield and best-preserved sites in the province after the Hemudu site itself. The relics excavated showed it to be a Neolithic site in the early stage of Hemudu culture,...
Archaeologists Find Ancient Musical Instruments
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/27/2005 11:43:50 AM PST · 27 replies · 500+ views Vietnam News Agency | 1-26-2005 Archaeologists find ancient musical instruments (26-01-2005) Musical instruments thought to be about 3,000 years old have been found by a team of Vietnamese archeologists. Known as lithophones, the ancient instruments are typically made of 11 slabs of stone. The lithophones were found in the southern province of Binh Duong in early January at a site that stretches some 20ha near a small hill in My Loc village in Tan My Commune of Tan Uyen District. The broken instruments were buried deep in an 8sq.m pit, said Dr Bui Chi Hoang, deputy director of the Archaeology Centre of the Southern Institute...
Archaeoastronomy
Ancient Mound Used In Summer Moon Ritual (3,500BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/28/2005 8:15:15 AM PST · 18 replies · 639+ views Bangor News | 1-27-2005 Ancient mound used in summer moon ritual Thursday, January 27, 2005 - Bangor Daily News Sacred monuments The "hippie" revolution of the 1960s may have been predated by some 6,000 years if researchers' suspicions about the chambered mound called Gavrinis are correct. The mound, more than 26 feet high, is located on a small island off France's Brittany coast and dates to 3500 B.C., making it older than the pyramids. A passage into the mound extends for 40 feet before ending in a chamber. What immediately catches the eye are the walls that are covered with etchings of concentric rings,...
Archaeologists Find 'Russian Stonehenge' (4,000 Years Old )
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/29/2005 11:51:49 AM PST · 16 replies · 456+ views Big News Network/UPI | 1-28-2005 | UPI Archaeologists find 'Russian Stonehenge' Big News Network.com Friday 28th January, 2005 (UPI) Russian archaeologists have found the site of a 4,000-year-old concentric wooden structure resembling Britain's Stonehenge, the Art Newspaper reported Friday. Evidence of the structure was found near Ryazan southeast of Moscow at the confluence of the Oka and Pronya rivers. The area long known for its archaeological treasures was settled by tribes migrating from Eurasia thousands of years ago. The report quoted Ilha Ahmedov of Moscow's State History Museum as saying a recent dig had uncovered evidence of a circular structure that would have been formed of wooden...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Archaeologists Eagerly Home In On Parker Digs (Colorado - 5K YA)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism  01/27/2005 2:54:35 PM PST · 6 replies · 379+ views Denver Post | 1-27-2005 | Kathy Human Article Published: Thursday, January 27, 2005Archaeologists eagerly home in on Parker digs By Katy Human Denver Post Staff Writer Among the relics found at the Rueter-Hess Reservoir construction site in Parker are, from top to bottom, a Mallory point and McKean Complex points dating back about 4,500 years; a gorget preform, left, with the indication of being drilled; two 2,000-year- old arrowheads; and a bison bone that probably was cut or broken by humans. Parker - Five thousand years ago, a band of ancient people built homes on the edge of a stream in what is now Parker. It was...
Aztecs Cooked, Skinned, Ate Humans (Barbequed long pig)
	Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism  01/27/2005 10:37:51 PM PST · 109 replies · 1,623+ views Discovery News | January 25, 2005 | Jennifer Viegas New finds from an archaeological site near Mexico City support certain written and pictorial evidence concerning Aztec human sacrifice that historians previously doubted because the accounts seemed too exaggerated to be true. The discovery adds to the growing collection of evidence supporting human sacrifice and cannibalism among the founders of the Mexican empire. It also suggests that researchers might now be able to verify some 16th century Spanish accounts on the subject. The Spanish and the Aztecs documented at least four observations of cannibalism in the 16th and 17th centuries. Spanish conquistador Hern·n CortÈs (1485-1547), whose men conquered the Aztecs...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #29 Saturday, February 5, 2005
Origins and Prehistory
High notes of the singing Neanderthals
	Posted by K4Harty On News/Activism 01/30/2005 6:25:53 PM PST · 37 replies · 855+ views timesonline.co.uk | 01/30/05 | Jonathan Leake NEANDERTHALS have been misunderstood. The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices. They may even have sung to each other, writes Jonathan Leake.
'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 02/03/2005 2:27:13 PM PST · 150 replies · 1,773+ views Washington University in St. Louis | February 2, 2005 | By Neil Schoenherr Feb. 2, 2005 ó You wouldn't know it by current world events, but humans actually evolved to be peaceful, cooperative and social animals. In a new book, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis goes against the prevailing view and argues that primates, including early humans, evolved not as hunters but as prey of many predators, including wild dogs and cats, hyenas, eagles and crocodiles. Despite popular theories posed in research papers and popular literature, early man was not an aggressive killer, argues Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences. Sussman's book, "Man the Hunted:...
Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/02/2005 10:06:38 AM PST · 24 replies · 524+ views Discovery | 2-1-2005 | Jennifer Viegas Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Feb. 1, 2005 ó A recent excavation of 400,000-year-old stone tools in Britain suggests that two groups of early humans could have competed with each other for food and turf. In the past, anthropologists have argued that only one group of ancient humans lived in Britain, and that these hominids created and used both axes and flake knives, which were made by flaking off small particles from a larger rock, or by breaking off a large flake that was then used as the tool. Some form of prehistoric human had...
Oh So Mysterioso
Man Offers $10K for Pedro Mountain Mummy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On News/Activism 02/02/2005 10:45:41 PM PST · 27 replies · 327+ views Yahoo | Wednesday, February 2, 2005 | Reuters John Adolfi, of Syracuse, N.Y., said he wants the mummy so it can undergo DNA testing, X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging... Adolfi hypothesizes that modern science would prove that Pedro was an adult at the time of his death ó perhaps one of the "little people" spoken of in Arapaho and Shoshone tales. But George Gill, an anthropology professor at the University of Wyoming, has a different theory. After reviewing X-rays taken of the mummy in the 1950s, Gill concluded that it was an infant with anencephaly, a birth defect in which only the brain stem develops.
Ancient and Medieval Europe
Ancient Church Found (Norway)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/04/2005 4:17:20 PM PST · 42 replies · 698+ views Aftenposten | 2-4-2005 Ancient church found The site of a nearly 1,000-year-old church has been found in Skien, making it likely Norway's oldest. Norway may have been converted to Christianity far earlier than believed. This hole indicates that the site boasted a post church nearly 1,000 years ago. PHOTO: KJELL-HENRIK SEMB Christianity in Norway Christian influence gradually came to Norway via trade, marriage ties, Viking raids, Christian Celtic slaves and eventually missionaries. Olav the Holy (Olav Haraldsson, St. Olav), who lived from 995-1030, officially introduced Christianity to Norway. The first churches in Norway were stave and post churches. The only remains of post...
Treasure Found In Viking Market
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/02/2005 10:15:42 AM PST · 23 replies · 771+ views BBC | 2-2-2005 Treasure found in Viking market A 10th Century Viking merchant's weight was recoveredArchaeologists believe what they originally thought was a Viking burial ground in Cumbria, may actually have been a 10th Century market. Excited experts unearthed a wealth of treasures at the site, near Barrow. They were particularly impressed with a merchant's weight, which is the size of a finger and shows a dragon design with two figures. But after a month of study, experts have moved away from an initial theory that the site was a burial ground. The dig has unearthed several more metal objects which indicate the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Researchers Find Rare Letters From Fifth Century Gaza Strip
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/30/2005 3:49:26 PM PST · 45 replies · 800+ views AFP | 1-24-2005 Researchers find rare letters from fifth century Gaza Strip Mon Jan 24, 3:48 PM ET Mideast - AFP GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss researchers have uncovered a rare exchange of letters written in ancient Greek during the fifth century in what is now the Gaza Strip , the University of Fribourg said. The discovery offers proof of a rich intellectual society in a region that is better known today for a bitter and bloody standoff between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, said one of the researchers, Professor Jacques Schamp. Located amid mounds of manuscripts stored at the Marciana National Library in...
Asia
Lost city believed found in Johor (Malaysia)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 02/03/2005 12:31:50 AM PST · 16 replies · 515+ views The Star (Malaysia) | TEOH TEIK HOONG and AUDREY EDWARDS PETALING JAYA: A 1,000-year-old lost city, possibly older than Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Borobudur in Indonesia, is believed to have been located in the dense jungles of Johor. The discovery of what is thought to be the site of Kota Gelanggi or Perbendaharaan Permata (Treasury of Jewels) by an independent Malaysian researcher has prompted museum officials to plan an expedition to confirm the finding. If indeed the site is that of the lost city , it is set to transform the historical landscape of the region, said Raimy Che-Ross, who spent 12 years researching Malay manuscripts all over the...
Ancient Egypt
Scientists Find Fossil Proof Of Egypt's Ancient Climate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/03/2005 8:54:52 PM PST · 6 replies · 414+ views Washington University At St Louis | 2-2-2005 | Tony Fitzpatrick Scientists find fossil proof of Egypt's ancient climate 'At a snail's pace' By Tony Fitzpatrick Feb. 2, 2005 ó Earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are studying snail fossils to understand the climate of northern Africa 130,000 years ago. While that might sound a bit like relying on wooly bear caterpillars to predict the severity of winter, the snails actually reveal clues about the climate and environment of western Egypt, lo those many years ago. They also could shed light on the possible role weather and climate played in the dispersal of humans "out of Africa"...
Ancient Rome
Focus: The search for the lost library of Rome
	Posted by snarks_when_bored On News/Activism 02/01/2005 10:08:49 AM PST · 25 replies · 817+ views Times Online (U.K.) | January 23, 2005 | Robert Harris Focus: The search for the lost library of RomeRobert HarrisEven in our age of hyperbole, it would be hard to exaggerate the significance of what is at stake here: nothing less than the lost intellectual inheritance of western civilisation Down a side street in the seedy Italian town of Ercolano, wafted by the scent of uncollected rubbish and the fumes of passing motor-scooters, lies a waterlogged hole. A track leads from it to a high fence and a locked gate. Dogs defecate in the undergrowth where addicts discard their needles. Peering into the dark, stagnant water it is hard to...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Giant Pearl Tied to Family Squabbles
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/30/2005 2:31:56 PM PST · 80 replies · 1,175+ views Las Vegas Sun | 1/29/05 | JON SARCHE/AP Legend has it the so-called Pearl of Allah was created as a symbol of peace 2,500 years ago in ancient China. To Victor Barbish, the 14-pound gem has been nothing but a big headache. The football-sized grayish lump has been tied to enough greed, drama and intrigue to rival any Agatha Christie mystery, including two contract killings and a court fight that ended with one of the largest jury awards of its type in Colorado history. "It draws the wrong type of people," said Barbish, the pearl's majority owner who lives in Colorado Springs. "It's only a pearl. It has...
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