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11.11.2009
Remains of what appears to be Queen Himiko's palace found in Nara Donegal brain surgeon at work in AD 800, burial site reveals
MARESE McDONAGHBRAIN SURGERY was being carried out in Ireland more than 1,000 years ago – and patients survived
Read the rest on the Irish Times. 11.10.2009
Digitized inscriptions reveal ancient messages Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet. Read the rest on the San Francisco Chronicle.Secrets from a sunken Egyptian city
11.09.2009
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
By Rossella Lorenzi
![]() Hundreds of bleached bones and skulls found in the desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert may be the remains of the long lost Cambyses' army, according to Italian researchers. Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers. Read the rest on Discovery.Priestess of Cahuachi Tomb discovered of an elite child dating to the early Nasca Period. With the mummy were various pieces of jewellery made from gold, silver and precious stones. 2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News The end of the world is near—December 21, 2012, to be exact—according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie. Read the rest on National Geographic.11.06.2009
Reassessing Artworks of Ancient Rome Vatican Museums: "The Aldobrandini Marriage," one of the works featured in "Rome: The Painting of an Empire." ROME — Painting was more prized than sculpture by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and easel paintings more than frescoes, which were considered essentially decorative. Yet not a single easel painting of the kind described by Pliny the Elder in his encyclopedic “Natural History” of the first century A.D. has come down to us. PICTURES: "Extraordinary" Ancient Skeletons Found Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast ScienceDaily — Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere. 11.05.2009
More on novice metal detector man who discovers 'stunning' treasure hoard David Booth, first-time treasure hunter Read the rest here. In the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunamis From an Ancient Eruption Read the rest on the NYT. 11.04.2009
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory by Phil McKenna The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa. Read the rest on The New Scientist.Iron age gold treasure found in Scotland A metal-detecting enthusiast has unearthed a 2,000-year-old treasure hoard worth an estimated £1m, it was revealed today. Read the rest here.11.03.2009
British holidaymaker discovers lost underwater 'city' Michael Le Quesne, 16, was swimming off a popular beach in Montenegro with his parents and his ten-year-old sister Teodora when he spotted an odd looking 'stone' at a depth of around two metres. Read the rest on The Telegraph.Riddle of 200-year-old Irish grave in New York Workers uncovered a young Irishman's grave in New York's Greenwich Village more than 200 years after he died. Cromwell's legacy damages tomb of Black Prince
By Harriet Alexander
Stained glass windows overlooking the tomb of Edward, Prince of Wales, were destroyed by Puritan iconoclasts in the 1640s, allowing damaging UV rays to enter the cathedral unfiltered. Since then, clear replacements have been installed and the deterioration of the paintwork on the 14th century canopy surrounding the prince's resting place has continued. Read the rest here.11.02.2009
Remains of 1,000 people recovered at medieval site THE skeletal remains of more than a thousand people have been recovered from what experts believe was one of the country’s largest medieval cemeteries. Read the rest on the Irish Examiner.14th century Cairo mosque restored to glory CAIRO — Developers unveiled the restoration of a 650-year-old mosque in Cairo's old city, part of an effort to revitalize the impoverished district and boost tourism to the country's treasure trove of Islamic sites. Read the rest here.Secret tunnels and ancient mysteries
When the famous explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I in 1817, he knew that it represented a very developed example of a New Kingdom royal tomb. Not only was it the longest, deepest and most completed tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings, but its walls were painted with fine scenes in full colour featuring the great pharaoh in various positions before the gods and with his family. Inside the burial chamber Belzoni found a calcite anthropoid sarcophagus and a fragment of a canopic chest that used to hold the internal organs, and is now on display at Sir John Soane's Museum in London. Newfound Dinosaur Armored Like a Tank
A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana.Read the rest here.
10.30.2009
Austrian archaeologists make Babylonian find in Egypt
Austrian archaeologists have found a Babylonian seal in Egypt that confirms contact between the Babylonians and the Hyksos during the second millennium B.C.
Read the rest here. 10.29.2009
Unique Stone Age burial items unearthed in central Sweden ![]() Swedish archaeologists are marveling over a collection of 9,000 year old artifacts recently uncovered at an excavation site central Sweden. Read the rest here. The Whisper of Tombs Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- In my opinion, the Israelite Exodus from Egypt will remain a point of controversy amongst scientists and researchers until the Day of Judgment or until new archaeological evidence is unearthed that is able to settle this issue. However in light of the information currently available to historians and archaeologists, we can do no more than practice moderation and caution. 10.28.2009
The map that changed the world ![]() An annotated guide to the 1507 map Drawn half a millennium ago and then swiftly forgotten, one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun.Read the rest on the BBC. 10,000-year-old flint found on Coventry allotment BUDDING archaeologist Samuel Owens uncovered a 10,000 year old piece of history when he found a segment of flint in his dad’s allotment. Battle of Bosworth: dig finally pins down long disputed site Martin Wainwright Five centuries of searching for one of Britain's most significant battlefields has finally ended with the discovery of "extraordinary and unexpected" pieces of artillery in a Leicestershire field. 10.27.2009
At Ur, Ritual Deaths That Were Anything but Serene
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
A new examination of skulls from the royal cemetery at Ur, discovered in Iraq almost a century ago, appears to support a more grisly interpretation than before of human sacrifices associated with elite burials in ancient Mesopotamia, archaeologists say. Read the rest on the NYT.Skull of huge sea monster that could have eaten T. rex found in Dorset ![]() (Dorsetcc/PA) Sam Scriven, of the Jurassic Coast team, sits inside the jaws of the pilosaur Read the rest here. 10.26.2009
Neanderthals ‘had sex’ with modern man
Modern humans and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to a leading geneticist who is overseeing a project to compare their genomes. Read the rest on the Times Online. |
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