tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28986614331640692772011-12-13T19:02:56.334-08:00Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comBlogger18001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-40359229941475165252011-12-13T18:59:00.000-08:002011-12-13T19:02:56.521-08:00I'm really *REALLY* excited to announce that in celebration of <a href="http://www.michellemoran.com/index.html">Madame Tussaud's</a> release in paperback, there will be a <a href="http://www.wizehive.com/contests/heads-will-roll-giveaway"><b>HEADS WILL ROLL GIVEAWAY</b></a> starting on December 15th. <div><br /></div><div>Anyone with a photo of themselves (or a friend!) at any Madame Tussauds location around the world can upload their photo for a chance to WIN! There will be 10 WINNERS in all!</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm really looking forward to the photos :)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4035922994147516525?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-18217500185237005532011-11-01T21:59:00.000-07:002011-11-28T18:24:40.749-08:00for Best Historical Fiction of 2011!!! Thank you to everyone involved in this :) To see all of the fabulous categories and books, click below!<br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 5px 0 0; width: 50px;vertical-align: top;"><br /><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011#56955-Best-Historical-Fiction"><img alt="Choice_logo_90x107" border="0" src="http://d16kthk4voxb3t.cloudfront.net/images/award/2011/choice_logo_90x107.png?1320185819" style="width:40px" /></a><br /></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><br /><div><br /><big><br /><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011#56955-Best-Historical-Fiction" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011#56955-Best-Historical-Fiction">2011 Goodreads Choice Awards</a><br /></big><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1821750018523700553?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-32335669301990441242011-10-26T19:54:00.000-07:002011-10-26T19:56:06.600-07:00When the 13th cannon raised from Blackbeard's flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, came to the surface this morning, researchers at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources had one question: Was it loaded?<p></p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/us/north-carolina-blackbeard-ship/index.html?hpt=hp_c2">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3233566930199044124?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-23850667959395313072011-10-19T23:50:00.000-07:002011-10-19T23:51:54.915-07:00When it was built, it was hailed as one of the finest buildings of its age – only to be destroyed 150 years later.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050919/Scale-model-recreates-Nonsuch-Palace-300-years-destroyed.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2385066795939531307?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-35769648788445683062011-10-19T17:58:00.001-07:002011-10-19T17:58:54.475-07:00British archaeologists have discovered the 1,000-year-old boat burial of a Viking warrior in the Scottish Highlands.<p></p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/world/europe/uk-viking-boat-burial/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3576964878844568306?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-31953268224471160802011-10-17T23:43:00.000-07:002011-10-17T23:44:36.018-07:00The study of a tiny fossil at the Natural History Museum in London has lead scientists to believe the pterosaurs was far bigger than first thought.<div><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2049419/Pterosaurs-bigger-previously-thought-scientists-discover-fossil-tooth.html">Read the rest here.</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3195326822447116080?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-49232509369869915132011-10-08T17:44:00.000-07:002011-10-08T17:45:12.004-07:00In 1897, a time capsule was sealed up and hidden away in the cornerstone of what was Bellevue Hospital Medical College in Manhattan. Now, it has been found.<p></p><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/07/time-capsule-found-at-former-bellevue-hospital-medical-college/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4923250936986991513?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-42067170739559556682011-10-07T13:55:00.000-07:002011-10-07T13:57:49.679-07:00Four to five thousand years ago, a wealthy teenage girl was laid to rest in a grave at what archaeologists believe is a newly found henge in Kent, England.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://news.discovery.com/history/perhistoric-teen-grave-henge-111006.html">Read the rest here.</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4206717073955955668?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-35750818425218606412011-10-03T18:22:00.001-07:002011-10-03T18:22:54.670-07:00It's long been rumored that an ancient, isolated people in what's now northern Mexico ate their own kind, in the hopes that they'd be able to eat corn later. <p></p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/news/2011/11/110930-cannibalism-cannibals-mexico-xiximes-human-bones-science/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3575081842521860641?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-20921348041791799302011-10-03T18:17:00.000-07:002011-10-03T18:18:32.579-07:00<p>The face of a 14th-century former Archbishop of Canterbury has been revealed 630 years after he was beheaded by angry peasants.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/history/reconstructed-face-of-simon-of-sudbury-111003.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2092134804179179930?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-83630031640742101152011-09-13T18:03:00.000-07:002011-09-13T18:11:52.390-07:00Just had some seriously amazing news! My fourth novel, MADAME TUSSAUD, has been <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118042633">optioned for a miniseries</a>!!! Michael Hirst, who wrote the TUDORS for Showtime (and the movie ELIZABETH), will be <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/gaumont-launches-u-s-based-division-run-by-katie-oconnell-sets-projects-from-bryan-fuller-and-michael-hirst/">adapting the book</a>, and I could not be more excited!!! Hopefully... more news to come :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8363003164074210115?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-17981584373273129172011-07-14T18:35:00.000-07:002011-07-14T18:43:31.000-07:00I would like to apologize for the seriously long (okay, <span style="font-style: italic;">insanely </span>long!) radio silence these past few months. This blog is still active, but I'm on a fierce deadline right now for my fifth book, THE SECOND EMPRESS, and won't be able to resume regular blogging until October.<br /><br />Until then, my fellow history buffs, enjoy the archives and know that I haven't abandoned the ancient world yet...!!!!! In fact, I believe a great adventure is on the horizon sometime very soon, in the fair city where Cézanne was born, Fitzgerald wrote <span style="font-style: italic;">Gatsby</span>, and the Romans defeated the Oxybii. When I am back, I promise many pictures and much blogging!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1798158437327312917?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-16150801554155652472011-05-27T17:47:00.000-07:002011-05-27T17:48:35.816-07:00AP:<cite class="vcard"> By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press <span class="fn org">Martha Waggoner</span></cite><abbr title="2011-05-27T11:01:10-0700" class="timedate"></abbr> <p>MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – An anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship has been raised from the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast.</p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_re_us/us_blackbeard_s_ship">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1615080155415565247?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-48497603646770277562011-05-19T13:35:00.002-07:002011-05-19T13:36:53.864-07:00Scientists have found that our cousins the Neanderthal employed sophisticated hunting strategies similar to the tactics used much later by modern humans. The new findings come from the analysis of subtle chemical variations in reindeer teeth. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-clues-neanderthal-tactics-hidden-reindeer.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4849760364677027756?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-32771374607119224242011-05-19T13:35:00.001-07:002011-05-19T13:35:54.594-07:00<p id="first"><span class="date">ScienceDaily</span> — A University of Utah study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when hitting downward rather than upward, giving tall, upright males a fighting advantage.<br /></p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110518171343.htm">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3277137460711922424?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-85125705200986491902011-05-18T23:06:00.001-07:002011-05-18T23:06:39.814-07:00<p>The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 BC and who is now known to be first person in human history with diagnosed coronary artery disease, lived on a diet rich in vegetables, fruit and a limited amount of meat from domesticated (but not fattened) animals. Wheat and barley were grown along the banks of the Nile, making bread and beer the dietary staples of this period of ancient Egypt. Tobacco and trans-fats were unknown, and lifestyle was likely to have been active.<br /></p><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/esoc-epw051611.php">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8512570520098649190?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-15703071915178890432011-05-18T23:05:00.001-07:002011-05-19T13:37:09.511-07:00<p class="intro"><span class="dropcap">H</span>istorians from the University of Glasgow have found evidence to show that, as far as the English were concerned, Scots patriot and hero William Wallace aspired to be King of Scotland.<a href="http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/05/2011/did-william-wallace-aspire-to-be-king-of-scotland"><br /></a></p><p class="intro"><a href="http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/05/2011/did-william-wallace-aspire-to-be-king-of-scotland">Read the rest here.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1570307191517889043?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-77320933583552193982011-05-10T12:17:00.001-07:002011-05-10T12:17:56.036-07:00<p>Charles Darwin shook the world with his theory of evolution, but he couldn't figure out what ailed him.<br /></p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576313043723708936.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_Third">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7732093358355219398?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-70477922733015323832011-05-10T11:47:00.000-07:002011-05-10T11:48:01.212-07:00<p>Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-egypt-crocodile-god-110509.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7047792273301532383?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-10664060653923496402011-05-10T11:46:00.000-07:002011-05-10T11:47:12.756-07:00<a><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph"><p><span class="articleLocation">ROUEN</span> (Reuters Life!) - France on Monday handed back the tattooed, mummified head of a Maori tribesman to New Zealand authorities, marking the end of a years-long struggle by the Maori people to bring home their dead and lay them to rest.</p> </span></span></a><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/09/us-france-new-zealand-maori-idUSTRE7483QM20110509">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1066406065392349640?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-346308737506155072011-04-26T10:04:00.000-07:002011-04-26T10:05:08.591-07:00<p>AP: CAIRO – Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday.</p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110426/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-34630873750615507?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-31377261592042364822011-04-25T00:13:00.000-07:002011-04-25T00:14:04.790-07:00By Ann Gibbons<br /><br /><b>MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA—</b>Finding one partial skeleton of an ancient member of the human family is the rarest of rare discoveries in human evolution. So, paleoanthropologists murmured in surprise at a meeting here Saturday when South African researchers announced that they had found at least four individuals of a new species of early human, <i>Australopithecus sediba</i>.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/four-individuals-caught-in-death.html?ref=hp">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3137726159204236482?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-41098645639689313052011-04-18T14:33:00.001-07:002011-04-18T14:33:37.755-07:00<p class="introduction">Academics at Dundee University have helped recreate the face of a Viking woman whose skeleton was unearthed in York more than 30 years ago.<br /></p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-13064786">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4109864563968931305?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-7460470434826071122011-04-18T14:31:00.000-07:002011-04-18T14:32:50.107-07:00by Kate Wong<br /><br />MINNEAPOLIS—In August 2010 archaeologists announced that they had discovered evidence that pushed back the origin of butchery nearly 800,000 years.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=did-lucys-species-butcher-animals-2011-04-13">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-746047043482607112?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-62801500531955271572011-04-06T00:22:00.000-07:002011-04-06T00:23:06.569-07:00<p>by Rossella Lorenzi</p><p>The bone of a large extinct creature, once treasured by the ancient Greeks, has finally found a permanent home in England.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/fossil-ancient-greeks-mammal-110331.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6280150053195527157?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-87222527460689774782011-04-06T00:13:00.000-07:002011-04-06T00:21:52.362-07:00by John Noble Wilford<br /><br />An archaeologist digging in the rubble of a distant past counts on the conqueror’s havoc, nature’s upheavals and plain human negligence to have left legacies of unintended value — like a fragment of a clay tablet bearing archaic writing from an early period of state formation in Greece, more than 3,400 years ago. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/science/05archeo.html?_r=1">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8722252746068977478?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-45593772120902675262011-04-04T16:28:00.001-07:002011-04-04T16:28:44.853-07:00<p class="firstParagraph">by Dan Vergano</p><p class="firstParagraph">SACRAMENTO — The image of a "Jester god," a symbol of royalty among the ancient Maya, may have done just the trick. Discovered on a buried incense burner, the Jester god identifies what archaeologists report is the oldest tomb of an ancient Maya ruler.<br /></p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2011-04-03-mayan-tomb_N.htm">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4559377212090267526?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-26716926776218805352011-04-04T16:27:00.001-07:002011-04-04T16:27:54.789-07:00<p>Lisa Grossman</p><p>The world’s oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry, as well as flashy gears to track celestial bodies’ motion through the heavens.<br /></p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/antikythera-mechanism/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2671692677621880535?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-73553319996515473822011-04-04T16:26:00.000-07:002011-04-04T16:27:11.465-07:00by Heather Pringle<br /><p> In the ancient tomb paintings of the Nile Valley, Egypt's nobility often appears lithe, beautiful, and, above all, healthy. But researchers have long doubted that life at the top of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt was quite so rosy.<br /></p><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/the-curse-of-the-mummies-arteries.html?ref=hp">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7355331999651547382?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-52888138331130787152011-04-03T12:35:00.000-07:002011-04-03T12:36:54.760-07:00Nick Pryer<br /><br />The image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine. But in a certain light it is not difficult to interpret the marks around the figure’s brow as a crown of thorns.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372741/Hidden-cave-First-portrait-Jesus-1-70-ancient-books.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5288813833113078715?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-91141307214930975722011-03-28T20:10:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:11:15.271-07:00By Jason Palmer<br /><br /><p>Striking discoveries in archaeology are being made possible by strong beams of X-rays, say researchers. A report at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, showed how X-ray sources known as synchrotrons can unravel an artefact's mysteries.</p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12820302">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-9114130721493097572?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-25451460842752264812011-03-28T20:09:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:10:21.075-07:00<p> A 2,500-year-old human skull uncovered in England was less of a surprise than what was in it: the brain. The discovery of the yellowish, crinkly, shrunken brain prompted questions about how such a fragile organ could have survived so long and how frequently this strange type of preservation occurs.<br /></p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110325/sc_livescience/2500yearoldhumanpreservedbraindiscovered">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2545146084275226481?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-72585729070237776482011-03-25T17:31:00.000-07:002011-03-25T17:34:18.825-07:00By Rossella Lorenzi <p>King Tut's grandmother, the powerful and beautiful Queen Tiye, might have had an unattractive flat wart on her forehead, according to a mummy expert.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/king-tut-grandmother-mummy-wart-110322.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7258572907023777648?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-16506669091712878032011-03-25T17:30:00.000-07:002011-03-25T17:31:04.884-07:00<p>God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/history/god-wife-yahweh-asherah-110318.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1650666909171287803?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-68021453989859658022011-03-24T15:57:00.000-07:002011-03-24T15:58:22.676-07:00<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian. The leaf-crunching animal — about the size of a large dog — lived 260 million years ago in what is now Brazil, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Its upper canine teeth were nearly 5 inches long.<br /></p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g05uqGgmzFxjWUlmSDLDG47ro1QQ?docId=8c901445283e474da0eff84bc76786bb">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6802145398985965802?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-62759501165294907652011-03-21T11:37:00.001-07:002011-03-21T11:37:35.453-07:00<p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1">Two rare, carved altar stones found in East Lothian could shed new light about the Roman period in Scotland, it has been claimed.<br /></p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-12771243">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6275950116529490765?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-59129932885630684692011-03-21T11:36:00.001-07:002011-03-21T11:36:59.452-07:00by Josh Green<br /><p>NORTH PORT - Archaeologists hope a major find in a spring an hour and a half south of Tampa helps piece together how Florida's earliest inhabitants lived.<br /></p><a href="http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/mar/19/PMENEWSO6-10000-year-old-spear-is-an-archeological/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5912993288563068469?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-36366648440819372932011-03-19T22:42:00.000-07:002011-03-19T22:43:11.746-07:00<p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1">The disappearance of Rome's Ninth Legion has long baffled historians, but could a brutal ambush have been the event that forged the England-Scotland border, asks archaeologist Dr Miles Russell, of Bournemouth University.<br /></p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12752497">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3636664844081937293?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-40938133193598814132011-03-19T22:41:00.000-07:002011-03-19T22:42:02.783-07:00<p>Lauren Effron</p><p>Those who recognize St. Patrick's Day celebrate it very differently depending on where they're from, and believe it or not, it's the United States that has turned the Emerald Isle's namesake tradition into a huge party scene, when its original intent was to be observed as a religious holiday.</p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/history/who-was-st-patrick.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4093813319359881413?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-27702251857959260422011-03-19T22:40:00.001-07:002011-03-19T22:40:43.360-07:00<div class="cnnByline">By <b>Laura Allsop</b> for CNN</div><p><b>London, England (CNN)</b> -- Though they sit quietly beneath the waves, shipwrecks are a cause of much wrangling above the surface. The issue of underwater archaeology is clouded by concerns about treasure hunting, the safety of wrecks, and the sale of finds.<br /></p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/indonesia.wreck.smithsonian.row/index.html?hpt=C2">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2770225185795926042?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-79743840303197967252011-03-15T19:19:00.001-07:002011-03-15T19:19:39.903-07:00<p>REMNANTS of what appears to have been a medieval mill, including “very well-preserved” timber beams, pottery and leather shoes, have been found underneath Meeting House Square in Temple Bar, Dublin.<br /></p><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0315/1224292163264.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7974384030319796725?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-66512322143203042752011-03-15T19:18:00.000-07:002011-03-15T19:19:09.199-07:00AP: WASHINGTON — A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long path to civilization.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/science-friction-study-questions-how-long-ago-ancient-ancestors-learned-to-use-fire/2011/03/14/ABitlXV_story.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6651232214320304275?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-15087959455960513482011-03-11T00:33:00.002-08:002011-03-11T00:34:36.485-08:00by Rossella Lorenzi<br /><br />Concerned archaeologists called today on Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to return police to archaeological sites. The move is required to put an end to illegal excavations and wild looting of storehouses and tombs.<p></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/egypts-archaeological-sites-stand-unguarded-110309.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1508795945596051348?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-53495312065700372542011-03-11T00:33:00.001-08:002011-03-11T00:33:31.765-08:00<p class="introduction">Two Bronze Age burial pots containing human remains have been found at the base of a standing stone in Angus.<br /></p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-12689919">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5349531206570037254?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-56276622924110445302011-03-11T00:31:00.000-08:002011-03-11T00:32:38.167-08:00A trip across the desert of southwest Egypt is not for the faint of heart. Modern day travellers departing southwest from the Dakhla Oasis will find themselves hitting their flasks as they traverse the Egyptian wilderness. Water sources are scarce, the area is sparsely populated and the lack of landmarks means you’ll want to keep your GPS system in good order.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/03/ancient-egyptians-made-arduous-trek-to.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5627662292411044530?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-1651943965012692742011-03-09T18:34:00.000-08:002011-03-09T18:35:23.545-08:00<p>A study has begun into items found in an archaeological dig near Stroud. The excavation at a site at Ebley Road in Stonehouse has revealed evidence of some of the earliest Roman activity known in the Stroud Valleys.</p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-12676843">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-165194396501269274?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-28145572513785557082011-03-09T18:33:00.000-08:002011-03-09T18:34:48.728-08:00<p>by Benjamin Radford</p><p>When visitors to museums see artifacts from cultures all around the world, an uncomfortable question sometimes arises: Why are they here?<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/who-owns-history-egyptian-looting-raises-thorny-issues-110307.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2814557251378555708?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-48824999498796345582011-03-07T17:55:00.000-08:002011-03-07T17:56:19.082-08:00<p>by Rossella Lorenzi<br /></p><p>A married couple from Pompeii have been reunited with the recovery of a missing piece of a 2000-year-old marble puzzle made of several inscribed fragments.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/pompeii-vesuvius-inscription-110307.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4882499949879634558?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-1956164607250970712011-03-07T17:54:00.000-08:002011-03-07T17:55:30.881-08:00In a significant discovery, archaeologists have stumbled upon an ancient rain water harvesting site having 13 rock-cut reservoirs, in central Maharashtra, which they say is the largest one in the country.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_archaeologists-discover-ancient-rain-water-harvesting-site-in-maharashtra_1516236">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-195616460725097071?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-6928983641695196382011-03-05T12:59:00.000-08:002011-03-05T13:00:55.572-08:00<p> These incredible pictures show a 700-year-old mummy, which was discovered by chance - by road workers - in excellent condition in eastern China.</p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362957/700-year-old-mummy-road-workers-east-China-excellent-condition.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-692898364169519638?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-27191145796144118782011-03-04T12:44:00.000-08:002011-03-04T12:46:43.365-08:00<span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="L8"><span class="oldL8"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:100%;" >By HAMZA HENDAWI<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span id="article"><span style="color:black;"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT">CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's top archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, warned that the country's antiquity sites were being looted by criminals amid the country's political upheaval as he announced he would no longer serve in his ministerial post in the government.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110304/D9LOBKA00.html">Read the rest here.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2719114579614411878?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-46322985275943211482011-03-02T22:54:00.001-08:002011-03-02T22:54:42.675-08:00by Phil Gast<br /><p><b>(CNN)</b> -- The fate of famed aviator Amelia Earhart remains a mystery after DNA tests on one of three bone fragments discovered on a Pacific island proved inconclusive.<br /></p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/03/earhart.dna.research/index.html?hpt=T1">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4632298527594321148?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-75730570373332698572011-03-01T18:42:00.000-08:002011-03-01T18:43:09.726-08:00<p>A citizen in the island province of Gotland has submitted a Roman cavalry-officer's helmet mask to the County Archaeologist.<br /></p><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/02/roman_cavalry_mask_found.php">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7573057037333269857?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-77300207874439690052011-02-27T23:42:00.001-08:002011-02-27T23:42:34.001-08:00<span style="font-size:85%;"> <div id="byline">By Paul Duggan</div></span><br />Frank W. Buckles died early Sunday, sadly yet not unexpectedly at age 110, having achieved a singular feat of longevity that left him proud and a bit bemused.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022800165.html?hpid=topnews">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7730020787443969005?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-40329728687730829292011-02-25T09:55:00.000-08:002011-02-25T09:56:02.642-08:00<p class="byline">By CASEY GROVE<a href="mailto:%20casey.grove@adn.com"></a></p><p class="first story_readable">Fairbanks researchers say they've uncovered the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in northern North America at a site near the Tanana River in central Alaska.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p><p class="first story_readable"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.adn.com/2011/02/24/1720567/ice-age-childs-remains-found-in.html">Read the rest here.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4032972868773082929?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-21439619708999781112011-02-21T12:31:00.000-08:002011-02-21T12:32:26.817-08:00<p> Little is known about the archaeology of Saudi Arabia, as the government has historically forbid aerial photographs of the landscape and religious sensitivities have made access tricky. But Google Earth is changing that.<br /></p><a href="http://www.livescience.com/12864-google-earth-saudi-archaeology-tombs.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2143961970899978111?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-79599297523786878142011-02-21T12:29:00.000-08:002011-02-21T12:30:18.194-08:00AFP:<br /><p>BOLZANO, Italy — Iceman Oetzi, whose mummified body was famously found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, will get a new face for the 20th anniversary of his discovery.</p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i4883L_nydGLPqMuZ5dTbcHoRuWw?docId=CNG.ebe418f776b796d7181bfac7af8f16d1.3c1">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7959929752378687814?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-48095396002115193432011-02-17T14:29:00.000-08:002011-02-17T14:30:19.467-08:00<p>CAIRO — A Cairo teenager found a priceless statue of Pharaoh Akhenaton near a garbage bin after it had been stolen from the Egyptian Museum during anti-regime protests, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Thursday.<br /></p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jj3ioa5ja1qs7wlEbilJuBo8I12A?docId=CNG.ed01c1f733f7929c0e0ee596f28a0c53.351">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4809539600211519343?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-73475040226742798502011-02-17T02:22:00.001-08:002011-02-17T02:22:58.751-08:00<p>That human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the most deeply-entrenched assumptions about our species. This assumption is often expressed in popular media by showing cavemen speaking in grunts and monosyllables (the GEICO Cavemen being a notable exception). But is this assumption correct? Were the earliest humans significantly different from us? </p><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/uocp-ehn021411.php">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-7347504022674279850?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-36885302544802544062011-02-17T02:21:00.002-08:002011-02-17T02:22:14.714-08:00<h2><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" > Two thousand-year-old footprints left by a Roman child playing by the side of a road have been found in North Yorkshire.</span><br /></h2><a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/2000-Year-Old-Roman-Childs-Footprints-Discovered-By-Archaeologists-In-North-Yorkshire/Article/201102315931164?f=rss">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3688530254480254406?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-41691218503008370042011-02-17T02:21:00.001-08:002011-02-17T02:21:43.492-08:00<p>A 6,000-year-old axe head and an Anglo-Scandinavian sword handle are among hundreds of archaeological treasures unearthed in Scotland since 2009.<br /></p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gN4zee0iWNi1cLl4q6uzusfc4ZWg?docId=N0771721297853226501A">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4169121850300837004?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-42069191758579885672011-02-14T13:40:00.000-08:002011-02-14T13:41:18.551-08:00<p><b>Cairo, Egypt (CNN)</b> -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday.<br /></p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/13/egypt.museum/index.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4206919175857988567?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-162274862850819722011-02-12T15:26:00.000-08:002011-02-12T15:27:17.022-08:00<p><b>(CNN)</b> -- In an instance of truth being stranger than fiction, American author Herman Melville turned to a horrifying ordeal as inspiration for his 19th-century classic "Moby-Dick."</p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/12/hawaii.shipwreck/index.html?hpt=C1">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-16227486285081972?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-83019060518640370262011-02-12T01:05:00.000-08:002011-02-12T01:06:38.506-08:00Part of the mystery behind an 'alien' book no one can read has at last been unraveled. Found in a chest of books outside Rome by a dealer in antique books, the Voynich manuscript is among literature's great mysteries. The book of aging parchment is written in alien characters, some resembling Latin letters, others unlike anything used in any known language, and arranged into what appear to be words and sentences -- except they don't resemble anything written or read by human beings. <p></p><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/11/history-mystery-scientists-age-voynich-manuscript/?test=faces">Read the rest here.</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8301906051864037026?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-20310673137305693012011-02-05T22:07:00.000-08:002011-02-05T22:08:31.228-08:00<p class="author"> By Clifford Coonan in Beijing<br /> </p><div id="article" class="article-new"><p> </p><div class="body"> <p class="font-null"> </p><p class="font-null">For her advanced years, she looks remarkable. Despite nearing the ripe old age of 4,000, long eyelashes still frame her half-open eyes and hair tumbles down to her remarkably well-preserved shoulders.</p></div></div><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-mummys-chinese-travel-ban-2205033.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2031067313730569301?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-88757680576085220542011-02-04T06:13:00.001-08:002011-02-04T06:13:58.130-08:00Researching your family tree can only go back so far in time before records become patchy. Now genealogists from the University of Leicester are using DNA tests to trace Manx ancestry back to the Viking era. <b><br /><br /></b><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/isleofman/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9386000/9386448.stm">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8875768057608522054?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-33230064270873504772011-02-04T06:12:00.000-08:002011-02-04T06:13:09.600-08:00<p><strong></strong>Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Wednesday the remnants of a newly discovered Byzantine-era church they suspect is concealing the tomb of the biblical prophet Zechariah.<br /></p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/zechariah-tomb-old-testament-110203.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3323006427087350477?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-50761251413659568492011-01-29T17:03:00.002-08:002011-01-29T17:04:10.385-08:00<p class="arcticle_text">Cairo - Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum during anti-government protests late on Friday and destroyed two Pharaonic mummies, Egypt's top archaeologist told state television.<br /></p><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/looters-destroy-mummies-in-egyptian-museum-1.1018724">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5076125141365956849?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-8288182951940874322011-01-29T17:03:00.001-08:002011-01-29T17:03:40.759-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This morning Dr. Gerry Scott, director of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), gave a telephone interview from Cairo itself.</span></span><br /></div><a href="http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/01/news-from-cairo-arce-director-dr-gerry.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-828818295194087432?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-43151682009490227442011-01-27T14:34:00.000-08:002011-01-27T14:35:13.486-08:00by Chris Arnot<br /><p>Cutting-edge space science technology of the sort used to analyse moon rock is being applied to fragments of 16th-century tombs. Scientists from the Space Research Centre in Leicester are working with an art historian from the nearby university as well as academics from Oxford and Yale in a three-year project that hopes to shed new light on our understanding of the Tudor Reformation.</p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jan/25/research-space-technology-history?INTCMP=SRCH">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4315168200949022744?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-9584172686375215162011-01-27T14:33:00.000-08:002011-01-27T14:34:17.692-08:00<p><strong></strong>Talk about revisionist history. Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, Va., has confessed to altering the date on a pardon issued by President Abraham Lincoln, which is currently part of the permanent records collection of the U.S. National Archives.</p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/history/lincoln-pardon-altered-forgery-110125.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-958417268637521516?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-5508572284428567982011-01-21T00:37:00.000-08:002011-01-21T00:38:12.042-08:00<div class="byLine" id="byLineTag">By <span class="linkedBylineName">Dan Vergano</span>, USA TODAY<br /><br /></div> <div class="inside-copy">Scholars have long tried to make sense out of one of the oddities of the archaeological world —bodies pulled from ignominious burials in cold water bogs everywhere from Ireland to Russia.</div><br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2011-01-16-bog-bodies_N.htm">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-550857228442856798?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-11365369718380956302011-01-21T00:36:00.001-08:002011-01-21T00:36:57.148-08:00by Tom Kington<br /><p>The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site.</p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/17/caligula-tomb-found-police-statue">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1136536971838095630?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-63677500997505463142011-01-21T00:35:00.000-08:002011-01-21T00:36:09.020-08:00<p>Time is running out to visit the tomb of Tutankhamen, as officials with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities have announced plans to close it to tourists by the end of the year.<br /></p><a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1980424/tutankhamens_tomb_to_be_closed_to_visitors/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6367750099750546314?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-59346658923921220042011-01-18T09:25:00.000-08:002011-01-18T09:26:05.341-08:00Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park. A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/scientists-trying-to-clone-resurrect-extinct-mammoth/?hpt=T2">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5934665892392122004?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-22457074540376245872011-01-14T12:59:00.000-08:002011-01-14T13:00:24.130-08:00<p>It's likely Edward Teach didn't need much to scare his enemies. After all, the notorious pirate better known as Blackbeard boasted a thick mass of facial hair so intimidating that it got immortalized in history.<span id="more-43675"></span></p><a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/14/a-pirates-life-have-archaeologists-found-blackbeards-sword/?hpt=C2">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2245707454037624587?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-63755306874979560932011-01-14T11:59:00.000-08:002011-01-14T12:00:01.233-08:00<p class="intro"><span class="dropcap">A</span> new study by a Washington University in St. Louis suggests life expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans and did not factor in the extinction of Neanderthals.<br /></p><a href="http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/01/2011/longevity-unlikely-to-have-aided-early-modern-humans">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6375530687497956093?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-58408214655304636582011-01-14T11:57:00.000-08:002011-01-14T11:58:39.027-08:00South Cadbury Castle is well known for its suspected association with King Arthur as the site of his infamous castle, Camelot. Excavations have shown that the site was indeed strengthened in the period formally known as the Dark Ages, at the time of the legendary Arthur. However, there is one question that remains an enigma – why was the site abandoned?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4616-did-famine-destroy-%E2%80%98camelot%E2%80%99%3F.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5840821465530463658?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-27226278262583454682011-01-13T18:21:00.000-08:002011-01-13T18:23:15.330-08:00By Charles Q Choi<br /><p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;">What may be the earliest known relative of T. rex and all meat-eating dinosaurs has been discovered. </span><br /></p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/13/dinosaur-graveyard-reveals-oldest-t-rex-relative/?test=faces">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2722627826258345468?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-88769617329478820782011-01-12T13:28:00.001-08:002011-01-12T13:28:55.193-08:00by Brian Walker<br /><p><b>(CNN)</b> -- Forget France. It turns out, the real birthplace of wine may be in a cave in Armenia. An international research team says it has found the world's oldest winery in a paper published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science.</p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/01/12/oldest.winery/index.html?hpt=Sbin">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8876961732947882078?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-52634189313775136262010-12-31T11:01:00.000-08:002010-12-31T11:02:05.159-08:00Here's to a happy and prosperous 2011!!!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5263418931377513626?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-67131998975681834472010-12-30T12:42:00.001-08:002010-12-30T12:42:57.628-08:00<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">WASHINGTON: Neanderthals were not just meat-eaters, say researchers who believe the ancient near-human creatures cooked a variety of plants. </span><br /><br /></strong><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/dental-exam-shows-neanderthals-cooked-and-ate-vegies/story-e6frg6nf-1225977466442">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6713199897568183447?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-10448141521882809992010-12-30T12:40:00.000-08:002010-12-30T12:41:41.874-08:00<div class="spott"><div class="PADRT10"><img class="imgb" src="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/2010_12_19/1219122200169-2010-12-19_l.jpg" alt="The accidentally found mosaics led to the unearthing of the Roman-era city of Germenicia in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş. When the work is complete, the area will become an open-air museum. " /><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic;" class="captionphoto PADB10 PADR5">The accidentally found mosaics led to the unearthing of the Roman-era city of Germenicia in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş. When the work is complete, the area will become an open-air museum. </div><br />The ancient city of Germenicia, which has been underground for 1,500 years, is being unearthed thanks to mosaics found during an illegal excavation in 2007 under a house in Southeast Turkey. Excavations are ongoing in the area, with authorities aiming to completely reveal the mosaics and the city, and then turn the site into an open-air museum.<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=1219122200169-2010-12-19">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1044814152188280999?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-6676542346918024532010-12-30T12:24:00.000-08:002010-12-30T12:40:31.108-08:00By Rossella Lorenzi<br /><p> Broken pieces of clay pottery have revealed the names of dozens of Egyptian priests who served at the temple of a crocodile god, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced.</p><br /><a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-priests-names-preserved-in-pottery.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-667654234691802453?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-64802419907322634552010-12-27T16:41:00.001-08:002010-12-27T16:41:27.105-08:00by Daniel Estrin<br /><p>JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it could upset theories of the origin of humans.<br /></p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_teeth">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6480241990732263455?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-344324028421727272010-12-23T12:35:00.001-08:002010-12-23T12:35:43.473-08:00<p><b>(CNN)</b> -- An overlooked female pinkie bone put in storage after it was discovered in a Siberian cave two years ago points to the existence of a previously unknown prehistoric human species, anthropologists say.<br /></p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/23/siberia.human.ancestor.discovery/index.html?hpt=C1">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-34432402842172727?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-1709656351393905102010-12-20T11:57:00.000-08:002010-12-20T11:58:54.290-08:00<p class="publication">Mason Inman in San Francisco<br />for National Geographic News</p> An ancient mummified forest, complete with well-preserved logs, leaves, and seedpods, has been discovered deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists say.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101217-mummified-forest-canada-science-environment/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-170965635139390510?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-44757981031205881052010-12-20T11:56:00.000-08:002010-12-20T11:57:40.170-08:00<div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hailemariam Dessalegn said that although Africa is the poorest continent economically, it has a wealth of cultural heritage.<span><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.pasthorizons.com/shop" target="_blank"></a></span></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/preserving-ancient-manuscripts-in-africa">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4475798103120588105?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-60682935435622713082010-12-17T21:39:00.000-08:002010-12-17T21:41:58.196-08:00<div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span class="dateline">NORMAN, Okla. – </span>The three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished. Nearby were several tantalizing artifacts: some old makeup, some glass bottles and shells that had been cut open.<span><br /></span></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/17/bones-island-amelia-earharts/">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6068293543562271308?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-63877706633766371742010-12-17T17:37:00.000-08:002010-12-17T17:38:17.656-08:00<p>by Laura Allsop</p><p><b>(CNN)</b> -- Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.</p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/17/old.babylonian.math/index.html?hpt=C2">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-6387770663376637174?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-89440153899418654652010-12-15T10:15:00.000-08:002010-12-15T10:16:04.469-08:00By Maria Cheng<br /><br /><p>LONDON—After nine months of tests, researchers in France have identified the head of France's King Henry IV, who was assassinated in 1610 aged 57.<br /></p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/907223--forensics-reunites-french-king-and-his-head">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8944015389941865465?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-50681762442961598562010-12-14T17:04:00.000-08:002010-12-14T17:05:16.915-08:00By Theunis Bates<br /><br />Wondering what to do with those slowly molding Thanksgiving leftovers festering at the back of your fridge? Well, if you let them rot for another few thousand years, they could become an important archaeological treasure.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/14/2-400-year-old-pot-of-soup-found-in-chinese-tomb/?test=latestnews">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-5068176244296159856?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-42145147796301626922010-12-14T15:26:00.000-08:002010-12-14T15:27:30.273-08:00(Reuters) - A Roman statue that had been buried for centuries has been unearthed by the winter gales that have raked Israel's coast. The white-marble figure of a woman in toga and sandals was found in the remains of a cliff that crumbled under the force of winds, waves and rain at the ancient port of Ashkelon, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Tuesday.<p></p><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BD3CW20101214?rpc=401&amp;feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=lifestyleMolt&amp;rpc=401">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-4214514779630162692?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-84032118923402523752010-12-12T10:22:00.001-08:002010-12-12T10:22:46.677-08:00<div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Art historians are probing a real-life Da Vinci Code style mystery after discovering tiny numbers and letters painted into the eyes of the artist's enigmatic Mona Lisa painting.<span><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337976/Real-life-Da-Vinci-Code-Tiny-numbers-letters-discovered-Mona-Lisa.html#ixzz17vI55S5a">Read the rest here.</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-8403211892340252375?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-37287403022061357892010-12-11T10:27:00.001-08:002010-12-11T10:27:25.175-08:00<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">An intact, sealed, jar has been discovered at Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in nearby caves.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2010/12/whats-inside-sealed-jar-discovered-at.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-3728740302206135789?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-19552552344936502222010-12-10T23:43:00.000-08:002010-12-10T23:44:12.843-08:00<p>LONDON (Reuters) – Maybe being a serf or a villein in the Middle Ages was not such a grim existence as it seems. Medieval England was not only far more prosperous than previously believed, it also actually boasted an average income that would be more than double the average per capita income of the world's poorest nations today, according to new research.<br /></p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101206/lf_nm_life/us_britain_medieval">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1955255234493650222?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-23477871629545881752010-12-10T23:41:00.000-08:002010-12-10T23:42:32.464-08:00The fight to save the Roman Museum has been won thanks to public support and better marketing. Canterbury council sparked outrage last year when it said three of the city’s museums, including the Roman Museum in Butchery Lane, would have to close as part of a round of budget cuts.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/uk-archaeology/4198-roman-museum-saved-in-canterbury-kent-uk.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2347787162954588175?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-14110155576069033202010-12-09T19:49:00.000-08:002010-12-09T19:50:02.260-08:00Luke Salked<br /><br />Standing proudly on the side of an English hill, its religious roots go back 2,000 years. But a single night of vandalism has left an ancient site of pilgrimage in splinters.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337159/Glastonburys-2000-year-old-Holy-Thorn-Tree-hacked-vandals.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-1411015557606903320?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-27411514637333497102010-12-07T01:10:00.001-08:002010-12-07T01:10:47.551-08:00<p id="spIntroTeaser"><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Scientists are still trying to explain how the gray wolf could evolve into over 400 breeds of dogs, ranging from the pug to the pinscher. One aid in solving this riddle has been found in an unlikely place: a giant animal shrine from ancient Egypt.</strong><br /></p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732654,00.html">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2741151463733349710?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898661433164069277.post-24940355498555124532010-12-07T01:09:00.001-08:002010-12-07T01:09:32.793-08:00<p> <span style="font-size:100%;">A burial took place in Reykjanesbaer municipality in southwest Iceland yesterday. The news wouldn’t have had any special significance if not for the fact that the person buried, an ancient heathen, passed away 1,100 years ago and the ceremony took place inside the Viking World museum.</span><br /></p><a href="http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&amp;ew_0_a_id=370909">Read the rest here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2898661433164069277-2494035549855512453?l=michellemoran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michelle Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10497613149977132385noreply@blogger.com