Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

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

[SunkenCiv]

• 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 #86 Saturday, March 11, 2006
Climate
Solar Minimum has Arrived
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 03/07/2006 5:30:00 AM EST · 33 replies · 1,270+ views NASA | 03.06.2006 | Dr. Tony Phillips Solar Minimum has Arrived 03.06.2006 March 6, 2006: Every year in February, the students of Mrs. Phillips's 5th grade class in Bishop, California, celebrate Galileo's birthday (Feb. 15th) by repeating one of his discoveries. They prove that the sun spins. It's simple. Step 1: Look at the sun. Galileo did this using a primitive telescope; Mrs. Phillips's students use the internet. Step 2: Sketch the sunspots. Step 3: Repeat daily. After only a few days, it's obvious that the sunspots are moving and sun is spinning, performing one complete turn every 27 days. This procedure worked fine in 1610. But...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mass Extinctions - A Threat From Outer Space Or Our Own Planet's Detox?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/09/2006 2:57:34 PM EST · 20 replies · 517+ views University Of Leicester | 3-9-2006 | Andy Sanders Mass Extinctions - A Threat from Outer Space or Our Own Planet's Detox? University scientists suggest extraterrestrial theories are flawed and that more down to earth factors could have accounted for past mass extinctions Earth history has been punctuated by several mass extinctions rapidly wiping out nearly all life forms on our planet. What causes these catastrophic events? Are they really due to meteorite impacts? Current research suggests that the cause may come from within our own planet -- the eruption of vast amounts of lava that brings a cocktail of gases from deep inside the Earth and vents them...
Ancient Europe
Think Pompeii Got Hit Hard? Worse Eruptions Lurk
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/07/2006 2:10:23 PM EST · 18 replies · 751+ views Yahoo - Reuters | 3-6-2006 Think Pompeii got hit hard? Worse eruptions lurk By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Mon Mar 6, 5:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The preserved footprints and abandoned homes of villagers who fled a giant eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,800 years ago show the volcano could destroy modern-day Naples with little warning, Italian and U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The eruption buried entire villages as far as 15 miles (25 kilometres) from the volcano, cooking people as they tried to escape and dumping several feet (metres) of ash and mud. New excavations show far more extensive damage than that...
The ancient-humans-in-europe controversy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/04/2006 11:22:44 PM EST · 7 replies · 105+ views Science Frontiers | January/February 1990 | William R. Corliss The most controversial site is Saint Eble, just below Mont Coupet, in southcentral France. Here one finds quartz fragments that look manmade to some archeologists, but seem products of natural fracturing to others. These crude objects are what some American archeologists call "Carterfacts," after G. Carter, who has found similar rock fragments in the Americas and dates them much, much earlier than 12,000 B.P. In Europe, there is little argument about the 2.5-million-year-date for the stratum in which the controversial rocks are found. The debate is over whether they are natural or products of human manu facture. The French champion...
Kennewick Man
Time, Science, and Spin. (Kennewick Man - or not?)
	Posted by xcamel On General/Chat 03/08/2006 6:09:40 PM EST · 63 replies · 375+ views The Web | Today | Me OK, You pick: Depiction by a renowned forensic scientist, or hideous, androgenous, mix-mash cartoon, pandering to the unrelated Northwest Natives? Or.. IMHO: Time should be ashamed. (not that it would ever happen, mind you.)
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Rediscovering the New World -- Ancient bones offer glimpse into how earliest settlers lived
	Posted by barj On News/Activism 03/05/2006 12:44:37 PM EST · 14 replies · 421+ views Cnn | 5 Mar | CNN (excerpt) One of the big unanswered questions was whether Kennewick Man was Caucasian. The answer, it turns out, is probably no. He's more likely Polynesian or closer to Ainu, an ethnic group that is now found only in northern Japan but in prehistoric times lived throughout coastal areas of eastern Asia, say researchers http://www.cnn.com
Ancient Andean Maize Makers: Finds Push Back Farming, Trade In Highland Peru
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/05/2006 6:43:23 PM EST · 13 replies · 282+ views Science News | 3-5-2006 | Bruce Bower Week of March 4, 2006; Vol. 169, No. 9 , p. 132 Ancient Andean Maize Makers: Finds push back farming, trade in highland Peru Bruce Bower Nearly 4,000 years ago, large societies emerged in the Andes Mountains of southern Peru that would culminate 1,500 years later in the rise of the Inca civilization. Now, scientists have the first evidence that these Inca predecessors cultivated maize and imported plant foods from lowland tropical forests located 180 miles to the east. HIGH TIMES. Researchers excavate Waynuna, a site in Peru's Andes Mountains that has yielded evidence of early agriculture and food...
Archeology And Genetics Team Up To Put A Much Earlier Date On South American Agriculture
	Posted by restornu On General/Chat 03/08/2006 8:18:19 PM EST · 17 replies · 55+ views UMaine researcher | Posted: March 5, 2006 | Dan Sandweiss Research by UMaine researcher Dan Sandweiss places cornmeal on the menu for native Americans much earlier than previously believed. Working with colleagues from Ithaca College and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Sandweiss discovered evidence of cultivated corn in the Cotahuasi Valley of southern Peru that dates back to nearly 4,000 years before the present, suggesting that corn was an important crop in that region more than 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. "Smithsonian researcher Linda Perry's analysis of starch grains extracted from sediment samples and stone tools discovered at the site revealed two kinds of corn that had...
First Amazon -Andean Crop Plant Transfer And Corn Processing In Peru 3600-4000 Years Ago
	Posted by restornu On General/Chat 03/08/2006 8:27:21 PM EST · 3 replies · 30+ views Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute | Posted: March 7, 2006 Mouthwatering Peruvian cuisine like causa (mashed yellow potatoes layered with avocado and seafood) and carapulcra (dried potatoes and pork/chicken in peanut sauce) combine food crops from Amazon basin rainforests and Andean highlands. Smithsonian archaeologists and colleagues presenting in the prestigious journal, Nature1, uncover the first definitive evidence for this culinary, cultural link: 3600-4000 year-old plant microfossils and starch grains. Heading to the supermarket to pick up some corn flour, a couple of tomatoes or a can of beans usually doesn't conjure up the notion of 10,000 years of agricultural development in the Americas--a transition from hunter-gatherer cultures to agricultural cultures...
Smoldered-Earth Policy: Created By Ancient Amazonian Natives, Fertile, Dark Soils. . .
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/05/2006 6:53:54 PM EST · 7 replies · 504+ views Science News | 3-5-2006 | Ben Harder Week of March 4, 2006; Vol. 169, No. 9 , p. 133 Smoldered-Earth Policy: Created by ancient Amazonian natives, fertile, dark soils retain abundant carbon Ben Harder Shortly after the U.S. Civil War, a research expedition encountered a group of Confederate expatriates living in Brazil. The refugees had quickly taken to growing sugarcane on plots of earth that were darker and more fertile than the surrounding soil, Cornell University's Charles Hartt noted in the 1870s. The same dark earth, terra preta in Portuguese, is now attracting renewed scientific attention for its high productivity, mysterious past, and capacity to store carbon....
Prehistory and Origins
Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story
	Posted by CobaltBlue On News/Activism 03/06/2006 10:29:42 PM EST · 53 replies · 767+ views New York Times | 3/7/06 | Nicholas Wade Providing the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving, researchers have detected some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection, a principal force of evolution, within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years. Skip to next paragraph Readers Forum: Human Origins The genes that show this evolutionary change include some responsible for the senses of taste and smell, digestion, bone structure, skin color and brain function. Many of these instances of selection may reflect the pressures that came to bear as people abandoned their hunting and gathering way of life for...
UD Anthropologist Finds Signs Of Evolution In Ancient Skeleton (Brain Size)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/06/2006 2:23:27 PM EST · 21 replies · 394+ views University Of Delaware | 3-6-2006 | Martin Mbugua UD anthropologist finds signs of evolution in ancient skeleton Karen Rosenberg, chairperson and associate professor of anthropology at UD 10:03 a.m., March 2, 2006--Recent analysis of a Stone Age skeleton shows that human brain size relative to body size had increased dramatically from ancestors by the Middle Pleistocene, about 260,000 years ago, Karen Rosenberg, chairperson and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware, said. Rosenberg, who analyzed the fossil with L¸ ZunÈ of Peking University in Beijing and Chris B. Ruff, director of the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
Early Humans Were Prey, Not Predators,
	Posted by ZULU On News/Activism 03/07/2006 2:13:14 PM EST · 50 replies · 912+ views National Geographic News | March 7, 2006 | Anne Minard Early Humans Were Prey, Not Predators, Experts Say Anne Minard in St. Louis, Missouri for National Geographic News March 7, 2006 Prehistoric people were cooperators, not fighters. That's the new theory proposed in two recent books and at a talk last month during an annual scientific meeting. The theory is part of a movement to debunk a long-running scientific bias that early humans were warlike. "It developed from a basic Judeo-Christian ideology of man being inherently evil, aggressive, and a natural killer," said Robert W. Sussman, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis. "In fact, when you really examine...
British Isles
Tools 'May Be 250,000 Years Old (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/07/2006 1:56:25 PM EST · 58 replies · 768+ views BBC | 3-7-2006 Tools 'may be 250,000 years old' Archaeologists found the flint tools in Pan last summer Stone tools found at one of the South's most important early prehistoric sites could date back 250,000 years, archaeologists claim. The historic finds were uncovered at a former gravel quarry on the Isle of Wight during digs last summer. Flint axes found near Great Pan Farm, Newport, are thought to be of the sort used by Neanderthal man. Elephant teeth from the same period were also found. Specialists are now to carry out further investigations of the site. The Great Pan Farm site now looks...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Basque Country horses
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/09/2006 2:24:47 AM EST · 18 replies · 186+ views Basque Research | March 7, 2006 | Elhuyar Fundazioa 417 animals were analysed in all: 147 pottokas, 163 Basque mountain ponies, 62 Jacas Navarras and 45 of the Burguete horse breed. Two of these breeds are heavy or given over to meat production (Jaca Navarra and Burguete); on the other hand, the other two are considered to be lightweight breeds... one can observe a gradient between the autochthonous breeds: the pottoka has had the least external influence and the Burguete breed the most... The results show that the four native breeds are related to each other; above all there are geographical relations: the pottoka with the Basque mountain pony...
Australia and The Pacific
Did Humans Decimate Easter Island On Arrival?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/09/2006 8:21:22 PM EST · 46 replies · 951+ views New Scientist | 3-9-2006 | Bob Holmes Did humans decimate Easter Island on arrival? 19:00 09 March 2006 NewScientist.com news service Bob Holmes Early settlers to the remote Easter Island stripped the island's natural resources to erect towering stone statues (Image: Terry L Hunt)The first humans may have arrived on Easter Island several centuries later than previously supposed, suggests a new study. If so, these Polynesian settlers must have begun destroying the island's forests almost immediately after their arrival. Easter Island has often been cited as the classic example of a human-induced ecological catastrophe. The island -- one of the most remote places on Earth -- was...
Africa
100-Mile-Long Wall in Africa [Sungbo's Eredo]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/04/2006 10:38:26 PM EST · 17 replies · 203+ views Science Frontiers | March/April 2000 | William R. Corliss Sungbo's Eredo, as it is called, is really an earthen embankment with an accompanying ditch. Whatever you call it, it does enclose an area 25 miles north-to-south and 22 miles east-to-west. That's a lot of earth-moving, for at some spots the "wall" measures 70 feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the embankment. Today, this impressive structure is mostly concealed by the Nigerian jungle. A thousand years ago it enclosed a flourishing African kingdom.
Mediterranean
Ancient Cypriots fed olive oil to furnaces-study
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/09/2006 2:33:58 AM EST · 2 replies · 30+ views Reuters via Yahoo! | March 8 2006 | Michele Kambas long before olive oil made it into the Mediterranean diet Cypriots used it as fuel to melt copper, archaeologists say. Italian researchers have discovered that environmentally friendly olive oil was used in furnaces at a site in southern Cyprus up to 4,000 years ago, instead of the fume-belching charcoal used in industry for hundreds of years since... Cyprus was famed in antiquity for its copper and is believed to have given its name to the Latin term for the metal, Cuprum... "It is the first time this has been discovered ... and in Europe it's only recently that industry has...
Tarxien Temples: past, present and future
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/09/2006 2:19:23 AM EST · 2 replies · 3+ views 217.145.4.56 | Katya Stroud Although the Tarxien Temples may not be the most photogenic archaeological site of the Maltese Islands, they nonetheless offer a stimulating experience for visitors. The temples in fact hold the largest number of exceptional examples of prehistoric art and attest to an extraordinary society that produced astounding advances in art, technology and architecture, some 5,000 years ago... Excavations started by exposing the South Temple of the Tarxien complex, excavating the cremation cemetery inserted into the ruins in the Early Bronze Age, then continuing successively with the Central, East and Early Temples. Further limited excavations were also conducted in various parts...
Let's Have Jerusalem
EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah's Ark Mystery
	Posted by steel_resolve On News/Activism 03/09/2006 1:33:53 PM EST · 69 replies · 2,779+ views Space.com | 09 March 2006 | Leonard David High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions. Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity. But whether the anomaly is some geological quirk of nature, playful shadows, a human-made structure of some sort, or simply nothing at allóthat remains to be seen. Whatever it is, the anomaly of interest rests at 15,300 feet (4,663 meters) on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat, and is nearly submerged in glacial ice. It would...
EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah's Ark Mystery
	Posted by loganphive On News/Activism 03/09/2006 5:04:32 PM EST · 39 replies · 1,422+ views LiveScience | 3-9-06 | Leonard David High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions. Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity. But whether the anomaly is some geological quirk of nature, playful shadows, a human-made structure of some sort, or simply nothing at allóthat remains to be seen. Whatever it is, the anomaly of interest rests at 15,300 feet (4,663 meters) on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat, and is nearly submerged in glacial ice. It would...
Carbon dating backs Bible on Edom
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On Religion 02/17/2005 12:33:16 PM EST · 19 replies · 555+ views South Bend Tribune | February 17, 2005 | Richard N. Ostling The Mideast's latest archaeological sensation is all about Edom. The Bible says Edom's kings interacted with ancient Israel, but some scholars have confidently declared that no Edomite state could have existed that early. The latest archaeological work indicates the Bible got it right, those experts got it wrong and some write-ups need rewriting. The findings also could buttress disputed biblical reports about kings David and Solomon. Edom was a rugged land south and east of the Dead Sea in present-day southern Jordan. The Bible reports that Edom had kings before Israel (Genesis 36:31, 1 Chronicles 1:43) and that they barred...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Giant Human Remains - From records and sources all over the world.
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/26/2003 8:48:11 PM EST · 65 replies · 2,553+ views Stan Grist Resources | FR Post 1-25-03 | John Williams Giant Human Remains -- From records and sources all over the world. -submitted by John WilliamsGiant Skeletons: In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John Haywood describes "very large" bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1821. In White County, Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic stature averaging at least 7 feet in length. Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N. DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae "larger than those of the present type" in Wisconsin mounds in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered skull bones "of great size...
Australian Pyramids
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/04/2006 11:17:15 PM EST · 15 replies · 169+ views Science Frontiers | September/October 1985 | William R. Corliss The claim that these admittedly crude structures are Egyptian is based upon the discovery of artifacts in the area with Egyptian and Phoenician characteristics; i.e., a stone idol resembling a squatting ape, an onxy scarab beetle, and cave paintings with Egyptian symbols. Aborigine legends also tell of "culture heros" arriving at Gympie in large ships shaped like birds... Comments. Professional archeologists are very wary of anything R. Gilroy claims. Further, our Australian readers warn that Australian newspapers are not always as skeptical as they should be about radical claims.
Ancient Egypt
Deterioration of Egypt archeological sites deplored
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/04/2006 10:17:49 AM EST · 7 replies · 69+ views Yahoo! | February 15 2006 | Agence France Presse The governor of Cairo, Abdul Azim Wazir, said "certain government agencies degrade archeological sites ... as happened with the higher education ministry and (Cairo's) Taz Palace, which it has turned into a depot for books and old desks." For his part, Hawas said as many of 90 percent of the caretakers of sites allow improper activities in exchange for bribes. In another example, he said "residents of the village of Gourna have built mosques atop an archeological site to stop us from tearing down the village and relocating them." Hawass said part of the problem is that the current law...
Malaysian plan to cover Great Pyramid with Muslim nation flags hits snag
	Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism 12/29/2005 5:38:03 AM EST · 30 replies · 674+ views Associated Press | December 28, 2005 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian authorities suffered a setback Wednesday in their plan to send a 35-member team to drape Egypt's Great Pyramid at Giza with the flags of the world's 57 Muslim countries. The chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, the body responsible for the Giza site, said in Cairo that he would not allow it to be draped. "This cannot take place," chairman Zahi Hawass said. "The pyramid cannot be draped by any person in this world. Nobody is allowed to do this." Malaysia's Defense Minister Najib Razak announced the project during a ceremony Tuesday, when...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Coffin from Civil War uncovers mystery
	Posted by rastus macgill On News/Activism 08/06/2005 11:19:37 AM EDT · 42 replies · 1,969+ views AP WASHINGTON - The rusty iron coffin stubbornly resisted hammer and chisel as researchers in a warm Smithsonian laboratory sought a glimpse of an American who lived more than a century and a half ago. An electric drill, its orange cord snaking around the pre-Civil War artifact, finally freed the lid. "This is a person and we want to tell this person's story. She is our primary obligation," anthropologist Doug Owsley said as the lid was lifted to reveal a young body wrapped in a brown shroud. Story continues below ↓ advertisement The scientists hope to identify the remains so they...
Peru to sue Yale for Inca treasure 'theft'
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 03/05/2006 1:40:21 PM EST · 42 replies · 484+ views Scotsman.com | 3/5/06 | CLAUDIA PARSONS PERU plans to sue Yale University to recover thousands of artefacts excavated from Machu Picchu more than 90 years ago. The South American country is seeking the return of some 4,900 artefacts from the Inca citadel, including ceramics, cloths and metalwork. Peru says they were lent to Yale for 18 months in 1916 but that the university in New Haven, Connecticut, has held on to them ever since. "Yale does not recognise the Peruvian state's ownership of these artefacts," Peru's ambassador to Washington, Eduardo Ferrero, said in a statement. He complained that after three years of talks, Yale officials were...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #87 Saturday, March 18, 2006
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Birdman Tablet Discovered during Excavations at the East Lobe of Monks Mound [1971]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/16/2006 12:46:13 PM EST · 19 replies · 233+ views Cahokia Mounds Museum Society | subsequent to 1971 This is the only such artifact found in an excavation by professional archaeologists, but a half dozen or more similar sized sandstone tablets have been discovered near Cahokia. Several were known to have near identical cross-hatching on one side, but were plain on the other. A couple of these have been found in the northern portions of Cahokia and around Horseshoe Lake.
The Lost City of Cahokia
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism 01/17/2006 5:01:14 PM EST · 62 replies · 1,440+ views Humanities | September/October 2004 | Emmett Berg The Lost City of Cahokia Ancient Tribes of the Mississippi Brought to Life By Emmett Berg The city of Cahokia, in modern-day Illinois, had a population of twenty thousand at its pinnacle in the 1300s. With pyramids, mounds, and several large ceremonial areas, Cahokia was the hub of a way of life for millions of Native Americans before the society's decline and devastation by foreign diseases. Representatives from eleven tribes are working alongside archaeologists and anthropologists to assist the Art Institute of Chicago in developing an exhibition that explores artistic and cultural themes of a major branch of pre-Columbian civilization--the...
National Myth of the American Indian (National Museum of American Indian's exhibits are explored)
	Posted by Stoat On News/Activism 03/08/2005 6:53:07 PM EST · 63 replies · 1,930+ views The Claremont Institute | March 4, 2005 | Diana Muir National Myth of the American Indian By Diana Muir The National Museum of the American Indian is an architectural triumph. Walking close to the walls conveys the vertiginous sense of hiking the rock canyons of the American West. The galleries inside are punctuated by windowed spaces offering spectacular views of the National Gallery and the United States Capitol, and prism windows near the top of the dome paint rainbows on the walls of the atrium. Step a hundred yards away from NMAI, however, and the building turns into a yellow sandstone affront to the white granite unity of the...
Jeffers Indian Mound may date as far back as 400 B.C.
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/14/2003 4:37:49 PM EST · 7 replies · 220+ views This Week in NEWS | Thursday, February 13, 2003 | CANDY BROOKS Jeffers Indian Mound may date as far back as 400 B.C.Thursday, February 13, 2003CANDY BROOKSThisWeek Staff Writer Controversy over the placement of a historical marker has stirred up interest in a local historic site that far precedes the founding of Worthington in 1803. The Jeffers Mound is located on a bluff overlooking the Olentangy River. Plesenton Drive is the first road north of West Dublin-Granville Road off Olentangy River Road. Some of the city's most expensive homes are located around the perimeter of Plesenton Drive. In the center is a 30-ft. high, 150-ft. diameter mound. According to the most popular...
How were the Native Indians when Columbus arrived?[Angels?, Savages?,etc]
	Posted by electron1 On News/Activism 12/03/2001 2:18:01 PM EST · 144 replies · 2,250+ views Myself | 12-3-01 | electron1 I have a question. I was discussing Native Indians with a friend of mine, and she seems to believe that Indians were nature loving angels and our ancestors totally ruined their harmonious relationship with nature. Is this true? This may very well be true, but since it fits perfectly into the liberal propaganda, I have my suspicions. Since liberals are known for supressing the truth to further their cause. I have also seen posts on here where a person has briefly mentioned that the way we currently imagine the Indians of the time is not true to how they actually ...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeologists Find Ancient Israel Tunnels (used during revolt against Romans 66 to 70 A.D.)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 03/13/2006 9:55:03 PM EST · 20 replies · 602+ views AP on Yahoo | 3/13/06 | Laura Resnick - ap JERUSALEM - Underground chambers and tunnels used during a Jewish revolt against the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago have been uncovered in northern Israel, archaeologists said Monday. The Jews laid in supplies and were preparing to hide from the Romans during their revolt in A.D. 66-70, the experts said. The pits, which are linked by short tunnels, would have served as a concealed subterranean home. Yardenna Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority said the find shows the ancient Jews planned and prepared for the uprising, contrary to the common perception that the revolt began spontaneously. "It definitely was not spontaneous,"...
Battles of the Bible: A Military History of Ancient Israel
	Posted by truthfinder9 On Religion 02/28/2006 9:41:13 AM EST · 38 replies · 327+ views search.barnesandnoble.com This is an excellent book that is both a detailed military history and a historical apologetics book. The authors' foundational point is that the military campaigns of the OT are so detailed that they couldn't have been fabricated and are not fables like some skeptics and liberal scholars would like us to believe. The authors do an incredible job at drawing out details from the English and Hebrew texts. This coupled with their own knowledge and experience in warfare, they paint a detailed picture of the Israeli campaigns. They also make many comparisons to later battles, leaders and campaigns in...
Ancient Jewish Town Discovered Beneath Arab Village in Galilee
	Posted by Sabramerican On News/Activism 03/13/2006 10:27:51 AM EST · 27 replies · 837+ views Arutz Sheva | March 13, 2006 | Arutz Sheva Ancient Jewish Town Discovered Beneath Arab Village in Galilee Monday, March 13, 2006 / 13 Adar 5766 An ancient Jewish town from the time of King Solomon has been uncovered beneath the Arab village of Kafr Kana, north of Nazareth, in the Galilee. The discovery, unearthed by Israelís Antiquities Authority, also includes remnants of Jewish settlement during the Roman period. Among the findings are underground tunnels excavated by Jews who defended the city against Roman legions during the Great Revolt of the year 66 CE. During the course of the excavations, a section of the city wall and remains of...
Ancient city found at 'Kana of the Galilee'
	Posted by afraidfortherepublic On News/Activism 03/13/2006 6:01:00 PM EST · 36 replies · 948+ views Jerusalem Post | 3-13-06 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS In a rare find, remnants of an ancient Israelite city that dates back three thousand years have been uncovered during excavations in the Israeli Arab village of Kfar Kana in the Lower Galilee, Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday. The area, located north of Nazareth, is revered by Christians as the site where Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle. The settlement being unearthed existed at the time of the United Kingdom of King Solomon and the Kingdom of Israel following the split between Israel and Judah, in the 10-9th centuries BCE. A section of the ancient city wall...
Excavations in Kfar Kana [Israel] reveal settlements from time of King Solomon and Roman period
	Posted by anotherview On News/Activism 03/16/2006 1:56:50 AM EST · 7 replies · 174+ views Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs | 13 March 2006 Excavations in Kfar Kana reveal settlements from time of King Solomon and Roman period 13 Mar 2006New excavations reveal findings from the Jewish settlement of ìKana of the Galileeî dating from the Roman period. Excavating one of 11 storage jars (Israel Antiquities Authority)Salvage excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Kfar Kana (north of Nazareth), have uncovered remains of a settlement that existed at the time of the United Kingdom of King Solomon and the Kingdom of Israel (following the split between Israel and Judah, from the 10-9th centuries BCE). During the course of the excavations, a section of...
Anatolia
Archaeologists Unearth 9,000-Year-Old Settlement In Seydiþehir (Turkey)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/16/2006 5:05:58 PM EST · 22 replies · 516+ views Turkish Daily News | 3-16-2006 Archaeologists unearth 9,000-year-old settlement in Seydi?edir Thursday, March 16, 2006 As a result of four years of painstaking excavation, a settlement dating back 9,000 years was discovered in central Anatolia. The tumulus is unique for the region as it is surrounded by walls ANKARA - Turkish Daily News A settlement dating back 9,000 years was discovered during archaeological excavations in Seydi?ehir, a district of the central Anatolian province of Konya. Following a visit to Gˆkh¸y¸k, where the settlement was unearthed, Konya's Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Abd¸ssettar Yarar told the Anatolia news agency that excavations have been conducted for the...
The Phoenicians
Phoenician City Not Destroyed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/15/2006 2:40:56 PM EST · 12 replies · 407+ views Ansa | 3-15-2006 Phoenician city not destroyedLife after supposed death for Motya near Trapani (ANSA) - Palermo, March 14 - An ancient Phoenician city unearthed in Sicily was inhabited after its supposed destruction, the head of an Italian dig team claims . "Our finds, including cooking pans, Phoenecian-style vases, small altars and pieces of looms, show Motya had a thriving population long after it is commonly believed to have been destroyed by the Ancient Greeks," said Maria Pamela Toti . The continued life of Motya had been put forward by various archaeologists over the years but until now no proof had been found...
Archaeologists take up research on Essaouira Island [Morocco]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/13/2006 1:49:16 AM EST · 2 replies · 78+ views Morocco Times | 3/10/2006 Thanks to archaeological research undertaken in the 1950s, a great deal is already known about the ancient occupation of the island. Phoenician merchants established a trading counter there in the 7th or 6th century BC, followed later by more temporary stays on the island during the reign of the Mauretanian King Juba II. According to a statement made to the press by Abdeslem Mikdad, co-director of the current research programme, the Romans were also present on the island towards the end of the 3rd century AD. The programme also envisages prospections in the Essaouira region, in order to discover the...
Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Sphinx to get facelift
	Posted by Justice On News/Activism 03/14/2006 4:02:03 PM EST · 37 replies · 469+ views AFP - Yahoo | March 14, 2006 | AFP General view of the Sphinx and pyramids at Giza. The Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the most famous monuments of Pharaonic Egypt, is to get a facelift, the Egyptian ministry of culture said.(AFP/File/Amr Nabil) CAIRO (AFP) - The Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the most famous monuments of Pharaonic Egypt, is to get a facelift, the Egyptian ministry of culture said. Restoration work on the noseless creature undertaken by the High Council for Antiquities is to focus on the beast's neck and chest, rendered fragile by the erosion of desert winds. Egyptian antiquities boss Zahi Hawas said...
Ancient Greece
The "Pyramid" of Hellenikon
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/17/2006 12:46:44 PM EST · 8 replies · 99+ views Hellenic Ministry of Culture | 1995-2001 According to evidence from the excavations and the typical features of the structure which dates to the end of the 4th century B.C. and not to the prehistoric period, as some scientists have been recently willing to demonstrate. During the later years of Antiquity, the "Pyramid" was considered as a burial monument , a "polyandreion", while nowadays there is no doubt that it was a fort of the type of small strong-holds which controlled the arterial roads and which are known from other regions of the Argolid... Excavations of the monument whose stone structure had remained stable for 2400 years,...
Near East
Investigating Canals Across Time, From Space
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/17/2006 3:28:23 PM EST · 3 replies · 112+ views The Gazette - Harvard | 3-17-2006 | Alvin Powell Investigating canals across time, from space Ur takes a step back to see ancient networks By Alvin Powell Harvard News Office Jason Ur: 'If you press your nose against a Monet, all you see is a blur. If you take a few steps back, you see lilies, you see bridges. For this reason, remote sensing data is really irreplaceable.' (Staff photos Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office) The view from space of an ancient canal network is recasting archaeologists' understanding of the Assyrian capital of Nineveh and of the farming economy that supported it at its height of power almost 3,000 years...
Australia and The Pacific
Aboriginal People Built Water Tunnels
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/15/2006 2:29:36 PM EST · 46 replies · 732+ views ABC Net | 3-15-2006 | Judy Skatssoon Aboriginal people built water tunnels Judy Skatssoon ABC Science Online Wednesday, 15 March 2006 The rainbow serpent, a key Aboriginal Dreamtime creation symbol, is closely connected with Indigenous knowledge of groundwater systems (Image: Reuters) Indigenous Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research shows. The study, which is the first of its kind, indicates Aboriginal people had extensive knowledge of the groundwater system, says hydrogeologist Brad Moggridge, knowledge that is still held today. Some 70% of the continent is covered by desert or semi-arid...
Prehistory and Origins
Anthropologists: Early Humans Probably Pretty Peaceful
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/17/2006 2:57:05 PM EST · 28 replies · 514+ views Fox News | 3-17-2006 | Heather Whipps Anthropologists: Early Humans Probably Pretty Peaceful Friday, March 17, 2006 By Heather Whipps Depending on which journals you've picked up in recent months, early humans were either peace-loving softies or war-mongering buffoons. Which theory is to be believed? A little bit of both, says one archaeologist, who warns against making generalizations when it comes to our long and varied prehistory. The newest claim concerns Australopithecus afarensis, who lived approximately five million years ago and is one of the first hominids that can be linked directly to our lineage with some certainty. Scientists say the small and furry creature was hardly...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Mystery of Markawasi
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/17/2006 12:08:10 PM EST · 4 replies · 98+ views Circular Times | Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. "I interpret the monuments of Markawasi as incredible simulacra - - that is, in this case, natural objects that in the mindís eye take the shape of forms of other entities, such as human faces and animals.† I believe they were recognized as such even in very remote ancient times. The weathering and erosion of the granodiorite of which the plateau is composed gives rise to rounded anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features that, with a little imagination and insight, can be seen as very convincing sculptural forms."
Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah's Ark Mystery
	Posted by S0122017 On News/Activism 03/15/2006 8:01:38 AM EST · 47 replies · 1,354+ views space.com | 09 March 2006 | Leonard David EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah's Ark Mystery By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 09 March 2006 06:34 am ET High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions. Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity. But whether the anomaly is some geological quirk of nature, playful shadows, a human-made structure of some sort, or simply nothing at all -- that remains to be seen. Whatever it is, the anomaly of interest...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Columbus Mystery Nearly Solved 500 Years After Death
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/11/2006 2:30:40 PM EST · 50 replies · 1,512+ views Yahoo - Reuters | 3-10-2006 | Phil Stewart Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death By Phil Stewart Fri Mar 10, 11:30 AM ET ROME (Reuters) - Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really born? And where the devil are his bones? Debate about origins and final resting place of Columbus has raged for over a century, with historians questioning the traditional theory that he hails from Genoa, Italy. Some say he was a Spanish Jew, a Greek, a Basque or Portuguese. Even the location of his...
Archaeologist cool on Mahogany Ship claim
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/13/2006 1:44:22 AM EST · 4 replies · 160+ views Warrnambool Standard | March 10, 2006 | Matt Neal The Federal Government-commissioned Great Southern Land was written by historian and archaeologist Michael Pearson. It suggests the Portuguese theory is an "interesting story" but nothing more... Mahogany Ship Committee chairman Pat Connelly said it was not the first time the Portuguese theory had been dismissed. He said the idea, popularised by Kevin McIntyre's 1977 book The Secret Discovery of Australia, attracted critics right from the start... "But by the same token it has not been disproved." Dr Pearson said much of the Portuguese theory was based on the so-called Dieppe maps, which Mahogany Ship enthusiasts claimed to be of the...
Out Of The Sand
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/11/2006 7:30:58 PM EST · 3 replies · 114+ views The Guardian (UK) | 3-11-2006 | Rory McCarthy Out of the sand It was built in 1504, but abandoned 13 years later and left to crumble. Now, after a huge restoration project, Yemen's Amiriya palace is considered the world's most beautiful mosque. By Rory McCarthy Saturday March 11, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Amiriya palace ... the exterior during restoration and (right) paintings inside one of the domes. Photographs: Yahya Arhab/EPA There is a photograph of a small town in Yemen taken a century ago by a German photographer called Hermann Burchardt. It is one in a series of remarkable pictures taken during an expedition through the southern tip...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Polish director Wajda makes film on Katyn atrocity
	Posted by lizol On General/Chat 02/15/2006 4:13:42 PM EST · 29 replies · 325+ views Reuters | Wed 15 Feb 2006 | Erik Kirschbaum Polish director Wajda makes film on Katyn atrocity Wed 15 Feb 2006 1:43 PM ET By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda said on Wednesday he aims to finish a film close to his heart this year about the 1940 Soviet massacre of 15,000 Polish soldiers, including his own father, in the Katyn forest. Wajda, in Berlin to collect a lifetime achievement award from the Berlin Film Festival, said most Poles always knew it was a Soviet atrocity even though propaganda during World War Two and afterwards wrongly tried to pin the blame on...
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Australia and The Pacific
History Between The Cracks (Vanuatu)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/24/2006 7:42:19 PM EST · 4 replies · 104+ views The Sydney Morning Herald | 3-25-2006 | Deborah Smith History between the cracks Ancient pottery from Vanuatu might shed light on the last great human migration, writes Deborah Smith. TAKARONGA KUAUTONGA carefully examines the shape, colour and patterns on the ancient fragments of pottery. "It's like a big jigsaw puzzle," he says, as he patiently pieces them together. The 3000-year-old pot he is reconstructing was unearthed, along with 25 headless human skeletons, at a burial site in Vanuatu - the oldest graveyard discovered so far in the South Pacific. Intricately decorated, it is one of four rare, well-preserved items of Lapita pottery - three pots and a dish -...
Secrets Of The Dunes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/21/2006 5:36:17 PM EST · 39 replies · 945+ views Time.com | 3-19-2006 | Lisa Clausen Secrets of the DunesEXCLUSIVE: At Australia's WIllandra Lakes, TIME's Lisa Clausen Visits the site of the world's largest repository of ice-age human footprints Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006 They were in the wrong place, but Steve Webb's archaeology class decided to stay anyway. A colleague had mistakenly taken them to a site they'd never visited before, a nondescript-looking claypan lost among the pale dunes in the Willandra Lakes region of far western New South Wales. Luckily, Webb thought it would still make good practice fieldwork for his Aboriginal students after a week of classes in the nearby town of Mildura. He...
Asia
Bangladesh discovers ancient fort city
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/19/2006 12:46:53 AM EST · 6 replies · 83+ views Yahoo! | Wednesday March 15, 2006 | Nizam Ahmed Archaeologists in Bangladesh say they have uncovered part of a fortified citadel dating back to 450 B.C. that could have been a stopping off point along an ancient trade route... Artefacts found in the 600 x 600 meter (1,800 x 1,800 ft) include metal coins, metallic chisels, terracotta missiles, rouletted and knobbed pottery, stone hammers and bangles. Ornaments suggested Buddhism dominated life in the urban centers. Mostafizur said the citadel was believed to be a part of Harappan civilization and a prime trade center might have flourished there, possibly serving as a link between contemporary South Asian and Roman civilizations.
Before Scandinavia: These Could Be The First Skiers (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/18/2006 5:39:45 PM EST · 79 replies · 709+ views Christian Science Monitor | March 15, 2006 | Robert Marquand Before Scandinavia: These could be the first skiers By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BEIJING -- Move over Bode. You may have competition you don't know about - among a sturdy skiing clan in northwest China. They are central Asians, Mongols, and Kazaks, living in the remote Altay mountains of Xinjiang province, where some claim skiing was first conceived. Using curved planks whose design dates back 2,000 years, the Altaic peoples are formidable skiers. They might not win a medal on perfectly groomed Olympic trails. But they can break their own paths, track elk for...
Epigraphy and Language
Pottery Offers Clues To Origin Of Chinese Characters
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/22/2006 7:10:44 PM EST · 21 replies · 317+ views Xinhuanet - China View | 3-22-2006 | China View Pottery offers clues to origin of Chinese characters www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-22 21:10:18 HEFEI, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists claim that pottery utensils dating back 7,000 years ago which bear inscriptions of various symbols are probably one of the origins of Chinese characters. They made the conclusion on the basis of several years' study into the symbols carved on over 600 pottery ware items unearthed from the New Stone Age site in Shuangdun village, Xiaobengbu town of Bengbu, a city in East China's Anhui Province. The symbols include rivers, animals and plants, and activities such as hunting, fishing and arable farming,...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Israel's Archaeological Council Condemns Antiquities Authority
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/22/2006 1:12:10 AM EST · 3 replies · 34+ views Biblical Archaeology Review | Jan/Feb 2006 | editors As we reported on page 62 of the January/February BAR, the prominent Israeli Dead Sea Scroll scholar Hanan Eshel is being pursued criminally at the instigation of Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) director Shuka Dorfman for purchasing (with funds provided by his university) looted fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls from Judean Desert Bedouin. Eshel promptly published the scroll fragments in a scholarly journal and donated the fragments to the IAA. This was no deterrence to Dorfman, a retired general without any archaeological experience or background prior to his political appointment as director... According to a recent article in the Israeli magazine...
Ancient alphabet offers clue to biblical history
	Posted by Daralundy On Religion 03/18/2006 1:23:47 PM EST · 11 replies · 335+ views Cleveland Jewish News | March 18, 2006 | TED S. STRATTON Archaeologists led by a Bible professor from Pittsburgh made an extraordinary discovery in Israel last summer. Their excavation team found the oldest example of the Hebrew alphabet ever seen. The inscription, from the 10th century B.C.E., is written in the same script as early parts of the Hebrew Bible. ìAnything written in the days of Solomon,î would have been written in this alphabet, says Dr. Ron Tappy, professor of Bible and archaeology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Tappy presented his findings at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History March 8. The discovery was made at Tell Zeitah (Tel Zayit in Hebrew),...
Ancient Egypt
Oldest wooden statues found in Egypt
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/23/2006 11:29:38 AM EST · 10 replies · 116+ views Yahoo! | Wed Mar 22, 11:01 AM ET | AFP Archeologists in Egypt have unearthed two 5,000-year-old wooden statues, complete with gold wrapping paper... which depict two nude men with precious stones around their eyes... in the northern Nile Delta region of Daqahliya, said a statement by chief archaeologist Krzysztof Cialowicz. The effigies are believed to date from Egypt's predynastic era (3,700-3,200 BC)... the team has found warehouses and tombs in the same Tel al-Farkha area, said the statement issued by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Rock the Oasis
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/23/2006 12:20:13 PM EST · 7 replies · 143+ views Archaeology | March 13, 2006 | Jennifer Pinkowski [Salima Ikram] "This is a teeny weeny little pharaonic inscription here (see photo, right). It's a very crudely carved inscription--you can see 'coming' and then 'Nefru,' which is beautiful, and then this is man with his hand to his mouth. It's a glyph again. Who the hell knows what's going on there."
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Great pyramid entrance tunnel not astronomically aligned
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/20/2006 1:54:35 PM EST · 55 replies · 449+ views Science Frontiers | Nov-Dec 1985 | William R. Corliss Early in the Nineteenth Century, astronomer John Herschel speculated that the ancient Egyptians had constructed the Great Pyramid so that the downwardly slanting entrance would be aligned precisely with the pole star, Thuban (Alpha Draconis), when the star was at its lowest culmination. Over 70 years ago Percival Lowell ran through the calculations and found that Thuban was not near the tunnel's line of sight when the pyramid was constructed (about 2800 BC). No one seems to have listened to Lowell, even though he was quite correct. Most books on the Great Pyramid still insist on the fancied pole star...
Ancient Rome
Languages
	Posted by Madamoiselle On General/Chat 03/22/2006 11:50:27 PM EST · 16 replies · 156+ views I need some expertise on reading the greek language, or greek translated to latin. . . to english. I'm a bit lost.
Rare Pre-Greek Site To Be Explored (Italy)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 03/23/2006 6:12:34 PM EST · 1 reply · 52+ views Ansa | 3-23-2006 Rare pre-Greek site to be exploredEnotrians ('wine lovers') renamed their kingdom 'Italia' (ANSA) - Palinuro, March 20 - A very rare example of surviving pre-Greek settlement in southern Italy is to be excavated and explored. The site, at Molpa in the hills above Palinuro south of Naples, is believed to contain the remains of a large village of the Enotrians, the earliest known inhabitants of Calabria and southern Campania. The Greeks who settled across southern Italy from 700BC to create Magna Graecia had an idealised vision of the Enotrians ("wine lovers") as coming from the Eden-like land of Arcadia ....
Ancient Greece
Alexander the Great
	Posted by sit-rep On General/Chat 03/19/2006 8:57:40 PM EST · 20 replies · 211+ views Oliver Stone | 03/19/06 | Me I refused to go see it at the movies, because of the rumor of the gay thing. Just watched the DVD from blockbuster, and being I swing a hammer for a living, I missed this part of my formal education....Ancient Persia. Now, there were a couple scenes where "you thought maybe..." or, was there a possible slant in my own mind that they were switch hitters? IOW, is my bigoted outlook showing me they were indeed pillow biters, or was I seeing true love in friendship back in the day? The came unglued when his Persian wife killed his life...
Mediterranean
Ancient coffin with scenes from Homer's poems unearthed in Cyprus
	Posted by Daralundy On News/Activism 03/20/2006 1:31:31 PM EST · 30 replies · 1,049+ views Associated Press via Canoe | March 20, 2006 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - A 2,500-year-old stone coffin with well-preserved colour illustrations from Homer's epics has been discovered in western Cyprus, archeologists said Monday. "It is a very important find," said Pavlos Flourentzos, director of the island's antiquities department. "The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colours used." Only two other similar sarcophagi have ever been discovered in Cyprus. Both are housed in New York's Metropolitan Museum, but their colour decoration is more faded. The limestone sarcophagus was accidentally found by construction workers last week...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mayan Underworld Proves Researchers' Dream
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/20/2006 7:09:06 PM EST · 27 replies · 866+ views Yahoo News - Reuters | 3-20-2006 Mayan underworld proves researchers' dream By Tim Gaynor Mon Mar 20, 8:49 AM ETReuters Photo: Divers make their way through a freshwater sinkhole, known as a cenote, in Mexico's Yucatan... " TULUM, Mexico (Reuters) - The ancient Maya once believed that Mexico's jungle sinkholes containing crystalline waters were the gateway to the underworld and the lair of a surly rain god who had to be appeased with human sacrifices. Now, the "cenotes," deep sinkholes in limestone that have pools at the bottom, are yielding scientific discoveries including possible life-saving cancer treatments. Divers are dipping into the cenotes, which stud the...
Missouri Cherokee Tribes proclaim Jewish Heritage
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/21/2003 4:42:37 PM EST · 245 replies · 823+ views Christians Unite dot com | February 7, 2003 | Editorial Staff Missouri Cherokee Tribes proclaim Jewish Heritage by Staff February 7, 2003 The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory has recently shocked the world by claiming their ancient Oral legends tell of a Cherokee migration made to America from the area known as Masada. This startling evidence is being offered to the public by Beverly Baker Northup whom is the spokesperson for their organization. The evidence offered in support of this connection to Cherokees escaping the mountain fortress of Masada is based in part of what Northup claims is stories passed down from elders and the similarity between ancient...
Faith and Philosophy
Church put to DNA test: Instructor risks expulsion with his claim that Book of Mormon is racist
	Posted by ppaul On Religion 01/14/2003 3:02:30 AM EST · 425 replies · 877+ views The Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 1/13/03 | M.L. LYKE LYNNWOOD -- The unassuming instructor with the soft voice holds a phone to each ear, juggling cell and land lines. The desktop in his office pings with endless incoming e-mails. One may laud him as intellectual dissident, another rip him as religious heretic. He apologizes for the interruptions. "The phone hasn't stopped ringing," says Thomas Murphy, the cultural anthropologist whose challenge of Mormon doctrine has landed him in hot water with his church and thrown his name into headlines across the country.Not that it has cramped his style. "I think it's fair to conclude that the Book of Mormon is...
DNA vs. The Book of Mormon
	Posted by johnk On Religion 01/18/2006 2:50:52 PM EST · 233 replies · 1,825+ views Living Hope Ministries | Mar 1, 2003 | Director / Producer: Joel Kramer http://video.google.com "DNA vs. The Book of Mormon" presents the evidence from DNA researchers, including Mormon scientists, who are wrestling with the DNA dilemma that now faces Mormonism. Participants: Thomas W. Murphy; Dr. Simon Southerton; Dr. Randall Shortridge, and others. Director / Producer: Joel Kramer Director / Producer: Jeremy Reyes Editor: Scott Johnson Narrator: Ken MacHarg
Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted
	Posted by tbird5 On Religion 02/16/2006 2:43:27 PM EST · 82 replies · 1,312+ views latimes.com | February 16, 2006 | William Lobdell DNA tests contradict Mormon scripture. The church says the studies are being twisted to attack its beliefs. From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago. "We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. "It not only made me feel special, but it gave me...
DNA tests shake the Book of Mormon's foundations
	Posted by Cato1 On Religion 03/18/2006 12:48:03 PM EST · 50 replies · 1,041+ views LA Times | March 2006 | Lobdell From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago. "We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. ... Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East....
Biology and Cryptobiology
Sorenson compiling huge DNA database
	Posted by restornu On General/Chat 03/19/2006 12:16:38 AM EST · 24 replies · 243+ views Deseret Morning News, | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 | By George Anders James LeVoy Sorenson loved his 1999 trip to Norway retracing the steps of distant ancestors. When he got home, he invited geneticist Scott Woodward to his office and told him, "Let's analyze all of Norway's DNA!" James Sorenson The scientist gulped. Both men recall that Woodward stared across a conference table and declared, "That would cost $500 million. I don't think you can afford it." Sorenson shot back, "Oh, yes I can." The 83-year-old Salt Lake resident and entrepreneur is a billionaire several times over thanks to his development of plastic catheters and heart-monitoring equipment plus a half-century of wise...
Prehistory and Origins
Evolution Persisted In Agricultural Era
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/19/2006 6:22:32 PM EST · 68 replies · 794+ views Science News | 3-18-2006 | Bruce Bower Evolution persisted in agricultural era Bruce Bower Natural selection continued to sculpt humanity's genetic identity after the Stone Age gave way to farming around 11,000 years ago, according to a new DNA analysis. A team led by Jonathan K. Pritchard of the University of Chicago identified survival-enhancing gene variants that began spreading through human populations between roughly 10,800 and 6,600 years ago. The scientists scanned the genomes of 89 East Asians, 60 Europeans, and 60 Africans to find DNA stretches recently affected by natural selection. Their technique exploits the tendency of DNA regions containing advantageous genes to spread quickly through...
Skull discovery could fill origins gap
	Posted by The_Victor On General/Chat 03/24/2006 2:47:46 PM EST · 355 replies · 3,192+ views Yahoo (Reuters) | Fri Mar 24, 11:02 AM ET ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A hominid skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race, a scientist said on Friday. The cranium, found near the city of Gawis, 500 km (300 miles) southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, is estimated to be 200,000 to 500,000 years old.The skull appeared "to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens," Sileshi Semaw, an Ethiopian research scientist at the Stone Age Institute at Indiana University, told a news conference in Addis Ababa.It was discovered two months ago in a small...
Climate
London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea -- Media selling....we're doomed.
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On News/Activism 03/23/2006 9:30:43 PM EST · 106 replies · 1,021+ views The Times UK | March 24, 2006 | ark Henderson, Science Correspondent in charge of propaganda DOZENS of the world's cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought. The first study to combine computer models of rising temperatures with records of the ancient climate has indicated that sea levels could rise by up to 20ft (6m) by 2100, placing millions of people at risk. The threat comes from melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, which scientists behind the research now believe are on track to release vast volumes of water...
Warnings rise over rising seas - fresh predictions
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 03/24/2006 9:38:41 AM EST · 7 replies · 73+ views nature.com/news | 23 March 2006 | Michael Hopkin Published online: 23 March 2006 | doi:10.1038/news060320-8 Warnings rise over rising seas Fresh predictions about climate change prompt news@nature.com to ask what we know about the future of our oceans. Michael Hopkin Greenland is melting: water streams from glaciers in the south. © Science/Courtesy of Richard B. Alley The polar ice caps may melt far faster under the pressure of global warming than experts previously thought. New predictions suggest that, without efforts to curb the rise of greenhouse gases, the world's ice sheets could retreat farther by the year 2100 than they have in the past 130,000 years, leading to...
Salt And Dust Help Unravel Past Climate Change
	Posted by cogitator On General/Chat 03/24/2006 10:54:42 AM EST · 2 replies · 42+ views Terra Daily | 03/23/2006 | Staff Writers Tiny amounts of salt and dust trapped in the Antarctic ice sheet for the last 740,000 years shed new light on changes to the Earth's climate. The results, published this week in the journal Nature, come from the team who extracted a 3 km long ice core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica's plateau - the oldest continuous climate record obtained from ice cores so far. Since reporting in 2004 that the Earth experienced eight climate cycles (each consisting of an ice age and warm period) the team have been analysing the chemical impurities in the cores to unravel...
Global Warming Journalism
	Posted by saganite On News/Activism 03/24/2006 8:58:08 PM EST · 6 replies · 380+ views SITNEWS | March 23, 2006 | Bill Steigerwald Wonder why Fox News polls show 60 percent of Americans think global warming is either a crisis (16 percent) or a major problem (44 percent)? It's because for almost 20 years Americans have been under-informed and effectively brainwashed by mainstream liberal media. A recent example of how one-sided the journalism of global warming is occurred after research scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder released a new study alleging that Antarctica's ice is melting faster than previously thought. As the school's March 2 press release stated, according to a study of satellite data, Antarctica's massive ice sheet is not...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
New clues to 2bn-year-old murder
	Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism 05/14/2004 11:45:55 AM EDT · 20 replies · 81+ views The Guardian | Friday May 14, 2004 | Tim Radford New clues to 2bn-year-old murder Tim Radford, science editor Friday May 14, 2004 The Guardian Scientists believe they are on the track of the biggest mass murderer in the two-billion year history of life. A buried crater off Australia could be the first direct evidence of a celestial assassin that wiped out more than 80% of life on Earth 250m years ago. Luann Becker, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, reports in Science online today on extensive evidence for a 125-mile wide crater called Bedout off the northwestern coast of Australia. The clues match the date of an event...
Headless Comets Survive Plunge Through Sun's Atmosphere
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/18/2003 1:00:38 PM EDT · 25 replies · 104+ views Science Daily | 6-18-2003 | NASA Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Date: 2003-06-18 Headless Comets Survive Plunge Through Sun's Atmosphere A run through the jungle is too easy; for the ultimate reality show contest, try a race through the Sun's atmosphere, where two comets recently lost their heads. The tails from a pair of comets survived a close encounter with the Sun, even after the Sun's intense heat and radiation vaporized their heads (nuclei and coma), an extremely rare event photographed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. On May 24, 2003, a pair of comets arced in tandem towards the Sun, their paths taking...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Did Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/06/2004 5:15:32 PM EST · 36 replies · 479+ views Discovery | 3-6-2004 | Irene Mona Klotz Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? By Irene Mona Klotz, Discovery News The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 March 5, 2004 -- Perhaps it was not Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern that sparked the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed the downtown area and claimed 300 lives. New research lends credence to an alternative explanation: The fire, along with less-publicized and even more deadly blazes the same night in upstate Wisconsin and Michigan, was the result of a comet fragment crashing into Earth's atmosphere. The comet theory has been around -- and most often discarded...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Navy Uncovers Centuries-Old Spanish Ship
	Posted by Daralundy On News/Activism 03/24/2006 2:44:13 AM EST · 11 replies · 594+ views Associated Press via Yahoo | March 23, 2006 | MELISSA NELSON Navy construction crews have unearthed a rare Spanish ship that was buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, archaeologist confirmed Thursday. The vessel could date to the mid-1500s, when the first Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was founded here, the archaeologists said. But the exposed portion looks more like ships from a later period because of its iron bolts, said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida. "There are Spanish shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay," Benchley said. "We have worked on two -- one from 1559 and another...
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[fanfan]

I love the new logo!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fanfan! There are some other examples further up the page, all of which were generated freebies from one of those online logo generator sites. :')

Rest assured that I won't use it for pings, for fear of alienating the bandwidth conscious, or those who don't like long messages pushing out the length of their "comments" screen here on FR.

[fanfan]

I won't use it for pings, for fear of alienating the bandwidth conscious



That's a concern for me too, with my Canada ping list.

I started using this great graphic, and then a bunch of people dropped out.

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[SunkenCiv]

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[zeugma]

I'd bet a considerable amount of money that the site that is generating these logos is a web front-end to the GIMP. I've played with logo stuff like that quite a bit with it.

[SunkenCiv]

No bet. ;') I think there's a reference to that on the page, which is:

http://www.flamingtext.com/

[zeugma]

Pretty cool site. They have a few more fonts than I do though :-)

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it's a long, long list. I went through all of them a few nights ago.

[SunkenCiv]

This is more or less how it will work. The idea is to alter the main tag to point to the current digest -- assuming of course that it works out to be a good idea. The "digest" link opens a window to join the digest; "keyword" opens a window with the GGG keyword topic list; "join" opens a window to join the regular ping list. Otherwise it opens a window showing the digest topic (okay, I've altered it to point to issue #88). :') Thoughts?

[SunkenCiv]

Well, well, I stupidly reposted one of Blam's topics. I guess that's appropriate somehow, because this is the first-ever April Fools Day edition of the GGG digest. Your shoe's untied.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #89 Saturday, April 1, 2006
Ancient Agriculture
Early Farming Communities Often Ate Weeds, Other Wild Plants, UCLA Archaeologist Finds
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/31/2006 11:40:59 AM EST · 19 replies · 136+ views UCLA | March 30, 2006 | Meg Sullivan Thousands of years after the advent of agriculture, ancient farmers in India routinely foraged for wild plants -- even weeds -- when times got tough, a UCLA archaeologist has found. In fact, they may have eaten a flower now used today in Hawaii for leis, a weed considered invasive in the American West and a relative of the acacia plant that now grows beside Southern California freeways, said Monica L. Smith, the article's author and an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Anthropology and who also heads the South Asian archaeology laboratory at UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Taming Wheat Took Time
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/31/2006 12:49:10 PM EST · 9 replies · 127+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 30 March 2006 | Michael Balter Archaeobotanist George Willcox of the National Center for Scientific Research in Lyon, France, and plant geneticist Ken-ichi Tanno of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan, examined nearly 10,000 wheat spikelets -- the flowering part of the wheat plant that is dispersed when it reproduces -- that were unearthed during archaeological excavations. The researchers focused on four settlements of various ages in northern Syria and southeastern Turkey, where wheat was first domesticated. They could only tell for sure whether the spikelets were domesticated or wild in 804 of the samples. Nevertheless, there was a clear trend: Over nearly 3000 years, the...
Prehistory and Origins
Scientists Find Skull of Human Ancestor
	Posted by Alter Kaker On General/Chat 03/25/2006 11:18:09 PM EST · 20 replies · 212+ views Associated Press | Sat 25 March | DAGNACHEW TEKLU Scientists in northeastern Ethiopia said Saturday that they have discovered the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus and modern man. The hominid cranium -- found in two pieces and believed to be between 500,000 and 250,000 years old -- "comes from a very significant period and is very close to the appearance of the anatomically modern human," said Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Ethiopia. Archaeologists found the early human cranium five weeks ago at Gawis in Ethiopia's northeastern Afar region, Sileshi said. Several stone...
Neanderthal 'face' found in Loire
	Posted by Virginia-American On News/Activism 03/28/2006 8:27:57 PM EST · 26 replies · 743+ views BBC News | 2 December, 2003 | Jonathan Amos A bone splinter forms the eyes A flint object with a striking likeness to a human face may be one of the best examples of art by Neanderthal man ever found, the journal Antiquity reports. The "mask", which is dated to be about 35,000 years old, was recovered on the banks of the Loire in France. It is about 10 cm tall and wide and has a bone splinter rammed through a hole, making the rock look as if it has eyes. Commentators say the object shows the Neanderthals were more sophisticated than their caveman image suggests. "It should...
Climate
Life waxes and wanes with bobbing of the Solar System (Also effects planet temp)
	Posted by Mikey_1962 On News/Activism 03/30/2006 12:04:29 PM EST · 23 replies · 713+ views New Scientist | 3/30/06 | Mikey_1962 The solar system's up-and-down motion across our galaxy's disc periodically exposes it to higher doses of dangerous cosmic rays, new calculations suggest. The effect could explain a mysterious dip in the Earth's biodiversity every 62 million years. snip Previous research had suggested this motion might affect Earth's climate as the solar system passes through the giant hydrogen clouds concentrated in the galaxy's spiral arms. Some researchers have said these clouds could be dense enough to sprinkle the Earth's atmosphere with dust, blocking out sunlight and cooling the planet. snip This timescale coincides with the 64 million years it takes for...
Epigraphy and Language
Italians Find Ancient Ur Tablets (Iraq)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/28/2006 1:53:21 PM EST · 42 replies · 936+ views ANSA | 3-28-2006 Italians find ancient Ur tablets Writings could lead to buried library (ANSA) - Rome, March 28 - Italian archeologists working in Iraq have found a trove of ancient stone tablets from the fabled civilisation of Ur . The tablets bear around 500 engravings of a literary and historical nature, according to team leader Silvia Chiodi . "This is an an exceptional find," she said, noting that the area in question had previously only yielded prehistoric artefacts . She said the tablets, made of clay and bitumen, were discovered by chance at an archaeological site not far from the location of the...
Italians find ancient Ur tablets
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/31/2006 11:50:22 AM EST · 8 replies · 149+ views ANSA | March 28, 2006
Old Egypt investigator identifies to mysterious Hyksos kings [sic]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/29/2006 1:58:04 AM EST · 21 replies · 162+ views Rowley Regis Online | Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:47 pm | mariafvp Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, scriptologist and Egyptologist amateur, has been able to identify the names of the Hyksos kings like pertaining to the group of languages and proto-Greek or Mycenaean's dialects. The true ethnic origin of the mysterious Hyksos that were able to take control of the power of a considerable part of Old Egypt, during centuries XVII to the XVI before Christ, has been always a true challenge for the Egyptologists. However, the generalized opinion more for a long time has been that the Hyksos would be Semitic towns, fundamentally coastal inhabitants of the strip Syrian-Palestine, that is, Canaanites or proto-Phoenicians....
Ancient Egypt
Hatshepsut mummy found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/26/2006 11:43:05 PM EST · 31 replies · 579+ views Egyptian State News Service | Friday, March 24, 2006 | unattributed The true mummy of ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was discovered in the third floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Secretary General of Supreme Council for Antiquities Zahi Hawwas revealed on Thursday. The mummy was missing among thousands of artifacts lying in the museum, he said during his lecture at the New York-based Metropolitan Museum of Arts. He said for decades archaeologists believed that a mummy found in Luxor was that of the Egyptian queen. It was a streak of luck, he said, to find this mummy. The Metropolitan is hosting a Hatshepsut exhibition that displays 270 artifacts on the...
Hatshepsut mummy found (Another glimpse at Islamic museum curatorship)
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism 03/31/2006 7:06:54 PM EST · 13 replies · 324+ views Egyptian State Information Service | March 24, 2006 Hatshepsut mummy found The true mummy of ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was discovered in the third floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Secretary General of Supreme Council for Antiquities Zahi Hawwas revealed on Thursday. The mummy was missing among thousands of artifacts lying in the museum, he said during his lecture at the New York-based Metropolitan Museum of Arts. He said for decades archaeologists believed that a mummy found in Luxor was that of the Egyptian queen. It was a streak of luck, he said, to find this mummy. The Metropolitan is hosting a Hatshepsut exhibition that displays 270...
Amarna Princess a forgery [Egyptian statue in forgery claim]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/27/2006 2:09:33 PM EST · 18 replies · 147+ views BBC | Monday, 20 March 2006 | staff Two men have been bailed by police investigating the alleged forgery of a valuable Egyptian statue. The 3,300-year-old Amarna Princess was bought by Bolton Museum nearly three years ago for £440,000 to add to its existing Egyptology collection. The 52cm-high sculpture is believed to be one of the daughters of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen, Nefertiti. Metropolitan Police Art & Antiques Unit arrested two Bolton men aged 83 and 46 on suspicion of forgery last week. They have been bailed until May pending further inquiries. The statue, which was acquired in September 2003, has been removed from public view....
Surface evidence [ Al-Qasr in the Dakhla Oasis ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/25/2006 10:30:23 PM EST · 7 replies · 125+ views Al-Ahram | 23 - 29 March 2006 | Jenny Jobbins What caught his eye was an outcrop of what had always been thought -- if any thought was given to it at all -- to be an outcrop of dried mud beneath a disused mosque on the edge of the old town. One morning this February Leemhuis was walking past the "rock" when he noticed that the sun caught a distinct line that appeared to be a course of brickwork. He called in the project's chief restorer, Rizq Abdel-Hay Ahmed, and local inspector Affaf Saad Hussein, and together they examined it more closely. Under the veneer of sun-baked mud they...
Anatolia
Palace Of Homer's Hero Rises Out Of Myths
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/28/2006 1:59:23 PM EST · 32 replies · 796+ views The Times (UK) | 3-28-2006 | John Carr Palace of Homer's hero rises out of the myths From John Carr in Athens ARCHAEOLOGISTS claim to have unearthed the remains of the 3,500-year-old palace of Ajax, the warrior-king who according to Homerís Iliad was one of the most revered fighters in the Trojan War. Classicists hailed the discovery, made on a small Greek island, as evidence that the myths recounted by Homer in his epic poem were based on historical fact. The ruins include a large palace, measuring about 750sq m (8,000sq ft), and believed to have been at least four storeys high with more than thirty rooms. Yannos...
Archaeologist Links Ancient Palace, Ajax
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 03/29/2006 8:35:29 PM EST · 4 replies · 29+ views AP on Yahoo | 3/29/06 | Nicholas Paphitis - ap ATHENS, Greece - Among the ruins of a 3,200-year-old palace near Athens, researchers are piecing together the story of legendary Greek warrior-king Ajax, hero of the Trojan War. Archaeologist Yiannis Lolos found remains of the palace while hiking on the island of Salamis in 1999, and has led excavations there for the past six years. Now, he's confident he's found the site where Ajax ruled, which has also provided evidence to support a theory that residents of the Mycenean island kingdom fled to Cyprus after the king's death. "This was Ajax' capital," excavation leader Lolos, professor of archaeology at Ioannina...
Ancient Greece
Typhoid May Have Caused Fall Of Athens, Study Finds
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/27/2006 6:41:19 PM EST · 25 replies · 520+ views National Geographic | 2-27-2006 | Nicholas Bakalar Typhoid May Have Caused Fall of Athens, Study Finds Nicholas Bakalar for National Geographic News February 27, 2006 An ancient medical mystery -- the cause of a plague that wracked Athens from 426 to 430 B.C. and eventually led to the city's fall -- has been solved by DNA analysis, researchers say. The ancient Athenians died from typhoid fever, according to a new study. Scientists from the University of Athens drew this conclusion after studying dental pulp extracted from the teeth of three people found in a mass grave in Athens' Kerameikos cemetery. The mass grave was first discovered in 1994 and was dated...
Ancient Rome
Lucca's Roman past revealed
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/30/2006 12:34:39 PM EST · 23 replies · 182+ views ANSA | March 30 2006 Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a Roman presence long before the traditonal date of Roman settlement in 180 BCE - corroborating Roman historian Livy's account of the great Carthaginian general Hannibal passing through Lucca in 217 BCE... The discovery came after other finds last year which highlighted how Lucca thrived because of its strategic position on the main road that led towards Gaul. Among the treasures turned up were the remains of a well-preserved 2nd-century BC Roman house. Other digs have traced Lucca's beginnings under the Etruscans, a people who once ruled much of central Italy including Rome. Lucca's foundation...
Statue reveals Roman lady with her make-up still on [ Herculaneum ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/25/2006 11:14:20 PM EST · 7 replies · 231+ views The Times | March 25, 2006 | Richard Owen in Herculaneum The nose and mouth were missing, but the hair, pupils and eyelashes were "as pristine as they were when Herculaneum was overwhelmed by the eruption", Monica Martelli Castaldi, the restorer of the team, said. "Those eyes are alive, looking at us from 2,000 years ago," she said. "To find this much pigment is very, very special." Although it had been known that Roman statues were painted, only faint traces of pigment had been found before now. It had also been assumed that classical statues were painted brightly. In fact, the colouring on the head is a delicate shade of orange-red,...
British Isles
A Cemetery of Secrets (Headless Roman graveyard has been dug up in York)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/27/2006 2:43:01 AM EST · 14 replies · 1,165+ views The Sunday Times (U.K.) | March 26, 2006 | Richard Girling A Roman graveyard has been dug up in York. The skeletons all belonged to tall, strong men -- and most are headless. Were they gladiators killed in the arena or victims of a deranged dictator?Like nobody else before or since, Caracalla had it coming. On April 8, AD217, four days after his 29th birthday, appropriately on his way to a Moon Temple in modern-day Turkey, this irredeemable lunatic dismounted from his horse, pulled down his breeches and surrendered to the demands of diarrhoea. It was one of his own bodyguards who stepped forward and stabbed him to death. Even for...
Oxford Archaeology Unearths Saxon Settlement In Southampton
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/25/2006 7:14:41 PM EST · 4 replies · 263+ views 24 Hour Museum | 3-24-2006 | Roz Tappenden OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGY UNEARTHS SAXON SETTLEMENT IN SOUTHAMPTON by Roz Tappenden 24/03/2006 Excavated 19th century cellar. © Oxford Archaeology An archaeological dig in Southamptonís medieval city centre has unearthed Saxon structural remains and a WWII pharmacy. Archaeologists were called in last November to investigate the 0.5-hectare site in the centre of bustling Southampton after an evaluation by the City Council. The plot, between the cityís High Street and French Street has been earmarked for redevelopment, but the discovery of medieval vaults and structural remains dating from the late Saxon period prompted developers, Linden Homes, to delay building work while investigations take...
India
Rare Artefacts Found (India - 'Kuravai Koothu')
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/28/2006 2:11:20 PM EST · 11 replies · 277+ views The Hindu | 3-28-2006 | TS Subramanian Rare artefacts found T.S. Subramanian Plaque belonging to 2nd century A.D. depicts `kuravai koothu' NEW DISCOVERIES: The terracota plaque with five dancers, and a figurine of Ganesha. (Below) A `vel' found in front of the sanctum sanctorum of the Muruga temple near the Tiger Cave near Mamallapuram. -- Photo: S. Thanthoni CHENNAI: Several artefacts have been unearthed from the ruins of a Muruga temple that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has been excavating since July 2005 on the beach at Salavankuppam close to the Tiger Cave, near Mamallapuram. The ASI's discoveries this year include a terracotta plaque that depicts...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Study Backs Tradition of Loreto House - Stones in Altar Match Those in Nazareth, It Says
	Posted by NYer On Religion 03/30/2006 8:01:26 PM EST · 8 replies · 158+ views Zenit News Agency | March 30, 2006 LORETO, Italy, MARCH 30, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The stones in the Grotto of the Annunciation in Nazareth have the same origin as those of an altar at the Holy House of Loreto, says an archaeological study. Architect Nanni Monelli and Father Giuseppe Santarelli, director of the General Congregation of the Holy House of Loreto, led the study. Their finding has reopened discussion of the historicity of the mysterious transfer of the Holy House of Nazareth to Loreto. According to tradition, the house was translated miraculously from Nazareth to Tersatto (in present-day Croatia) in 1291 and then to Loreto. Giorgio Nicolini, author...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Did Carolina Dogs Arrive With Ancient Americans?
	Posted by RegulatorCountry On General/Chat 03/28/2006 2:00:20 PM EST · 45 replies · 318+ views National Geographic | March 11, 2003 | Brian Handwerk Humans and dogs enjoy a prehistoric relationship, a longstanding bond with its origins in a time when dogs as we know them evolved from wild animals into our domesticated companions. Now, a canine living in a manner similar to that of dogs from those ancient days may have been discovered in isolated stretches of longleaf pines and cypress swamps in the American Southeast. The Carolina Dog, a familiar-looking animal long known in the rural South as the "yaller dog," may be more than the common mutt that immediately meets the eye. I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr., Senior Ecologist at the University...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Navy Uncovers Centuries-Old Spanish Ship
	Posted by Daralundy On News/Activism 03/24/2006 2:44:13 AM EST · 16 replies · 681+ views Associated Press via Yahoo | March 23, 2006 | MELISSA NELSON Navy construction crews have unearthed a rare Spanish ship that was buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, archaeologist confirmed Thursday. The vessel could date to the mid-1500s, when the first Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was founded here, the archaeologists said. But the exposed portion looks more like ships from a later period because of its iron bolts, said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida. "There are Spanish shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay," Benchley said. "We have worked on two -- one from 1559 and another...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Colonial Skeleton Stumps Archaeologists (Jamestown)
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 03/26/2006 7:31:47 PM EST · 18 replies · 653+ views Newsfactor | 3/24/06 | AP Results from other recent tests on bone samples confirmed that the Jamestown skeleton was an immigrant to America, showing that he ate a diet rich in wheat as opposed to an American corn diet, researchers said. The quest to identify a nearly intact skeleton found at Jamestown continues. Jamestown officials said this week that without DNA proof, researchers are doing other studies to test their theory that the skeleton discovered in 2002 belongs to Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, a founder of the first permanent English settlement in North America, established almost 400 years ago. The announcement came after The Church of...
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