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2/11/10 Surprisingly, the long-dead man appears to have originated in Siberia and is unrelated to modern Greenlanders, Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues found. "This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit," the researchers wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature......the rest of the story at the link 2/9/10 2/4/10 Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC. Professor Anvita Abbi said that the death of Boa Sr was highly significant because one of the world's oldest languages - Bo - had come to an end. She said that India had lost an irreplaceable part of its heritage. Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be 70,000 years old. The islands are often called an "anthropologist's dream" and are one of the most linguistically diverse areas of the world. "The Andamanese are believed to be among our earliest ancestors." ..the rest of the story at the link Pictures: "Mythical" Temple
Found in Peru A thousand-year-old temple complex (including
a tomb with human sacrifice victims, shown in
a digital illustration) has been found under
the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru,
archaeologists say...the rest of the story at the link Could museum's gold be from ancient Troy? The scientist had traveled from Germany to examine the ancient items that lay before him on the University of Pennsylvania laboratory table, and he was dazzled. Earrings with cascades of golden leaves. Brooches adorned with tightly coiled spirals. A necklace strung with hundreds of gold ringlets and beads. The jewelry bore a striking resemblance to objects from one of the world's great collections - a controversial treasure unearthed long ago from the fabled city of Troy. Were the objects on the lab table also from the city that inspired Homer's epic poem of war?..the rest of the story at the link Egypt
set to unveil Tutankhamun DNA results One
of the great remaining mysteries from ancient Egypt, the
ancestry of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, may
soon be solved, the country's antiquities supremo
hinted on Sunday.Zahi
Hawass told AFP he has scheduled a news conference
for February 17 in the Cairo
Museum."It is about the results of research into DNA
samples" taken from the remains of the world's
most famous pharaoh.The tomb of the boy king,
who reigned from the age of nine and died under
as yet unknown circumstances at about 19,
was unearthed by British archaeologists in the
Valley of the Kings in
1922, causing an international sensation...the rest of
the story at the link
The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World LiveScience Image Gallery..the rest of the story at the link The
400-year-old map that shows China as the centre
of the world A rare 17th Century map that shows China
as the as the centre of the world went on display
yesterday in Washington.The map, created in
1602 by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci,
was the first in Chinese to show the Americas,
and identifies Florida as 'the Land of Flowers'.The
12ft by 5ft document, printed on six rolls of rice paper,
is on show at the Library of Congress. It is one of only
two copies in existence in good condition, and was coined
'the impossible black tulip of cartography' by experts
strugging to track it down...the rest of the story
at the link The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world ate meat regularly, worked in three months shifts and were given the honor of being buried in mud brick tombs within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they worked on.The newly discovered tombs date to Egypt's 4th Dynasty (2575 B.C. to 2467 B.C.) when the great pyramids were built, according to the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass...the rest of the story at the link Graves of the pyramid builders were first discovered in the area in 1990, he said, and discoveries such as these show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves of popular imagination...the rest of the story at the link
Now, however, the doomed dreamers have been proved right: there was a great civilisation. New satellite imagery and fly-overs have revealed more than 200 huge geometric earthworks carved in the upper Amazon basin near Brazil's border with Bolivia. Spanning 155 miles, the circles, squares and other geometric shapes form a network of avenues, ditches and enclosures built long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the new world. Some date to as early as 200 AD, others to 1283.Scientists who have mapped the earthworks believe there may be another 2,000 structures beneath the jungle canopy, vestiges of vanished societies...the rest of the story at the link Four-legged Creature's Footprints Force Evolution Rethink Four-legged creatures were mucking around a muddy basin in what is now Poland about 397 million years ago. And they left behind distinctive footprints, which have turned back the clock on the evolution of these landlubbers. ..the rest of the story at the linkScientists discovered the fossilized prints, which included various trackways and isolated prints, in the Holy Cross Mountains in southeastern Poland. Analyses suggest most if not all of them came from different tetrapod species - which are four-legged animals that had backbones, such as amphibians - with some possibly belonging to juveniles and adults of the same species.The land creatures likely had bodies shaped somewhat like crocodiles, with fin-like tails and stumpy legs. And some of them were pretty big, reaching up to about 10 feet (3 meters) in length, the researchers said...the rest of the story at the link Discovery of 4.4 million-year-old 'Ardi' named Breakthrough of the Year The journal Science has named the discovery of "Ardi," the oldest hominid skeleton ever found, its "Breakthrough of the Year 2009." ..the rest of the story at the link First Tongue: An Ancient Global Language Introduction: In the last part of the 20th century, a handful of archaeologists discovered a collection of symbols carved in stone as petroglyphs that appeared to be writing. Initial dating of these symbols showed that they were made over an extended period time, beginning around 1700 BC, and located on as many as five continents. ..the rest of the story at the link
Part
of Cleopatra-era temple found in Egypt A huge granite
block, part of a stone pillar from a temple in
a sunken Cleopatra-era city off Alexandria, was lifted by crane
from the Mediterranean off the Egyptian port on Thursday...the
rest of the story at the link A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and built sizable towns, a few with as many as 2,000 dwellings. They mastered large-scale copper smelting, the new technology of the age. Their graves held an impressive array of exquisite headdresses and necklaces and, in one cemetery, the earliest major assemblage of gold artifacts to be found anywhere in the world The striking designs of their pottery speak of the refinement of the culture’s visual language. Until recent discoveries, the most intriguing artifacts were the ubiquitous terracotta “goddess” figurines, originally interpreted as evidence of the spiritual and political power of women in society...the rest of the story at the link Endangered cultural treasures around the world In an effort to preserve cultural sites around the world, the World Monuments Fund releases a list of endangered sites every two years. This year's list includes 93 sites drawn from 47 countries, from well-known attractions to obscure ruins. Here are the spots from the list that sparked our interest, including some that you may want to visit....slide show..the rest of the story at the link Japans Mysterious Underwater Megaliths Underwater discoveries of giant structures off the coast of Japan . Video..the rest of the story at the link
ON TV Lost Cave Temples of the Himalayas and Secrets of Shangri-La premiere Wednesday, November 18, on PBS (check local listings.). ..the rest of the story at the link
Divers probe Mayan ruins submerged in Guatemala lake Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters.Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins excavated in Guatemala, were discovered accidentally 12 years ago by a diver exploring picturesque Lake Atitlan, ringed by Mayan villages and popular with foreign tourists. Researchers believe this area, 50 feet below the lake's surface, was once an island until a catastrophic event, like a volcanic eruption or landslide, raised water levels.The rising lake drowned the buildings around 250 A.D., before the height of the Mayan empire, and ceramics found intact there suggest the inhabitants left in a hurry...the rest of the story at the link The Forgotten city of Mirador..the rest of the story at the link World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago — at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought...the rest of the story at the link Bolivia pyramid archaeological makeover disappoints Eager to attract more tourists, the town of Tiwanaku in the Bolivian Andes has spruced-up the ancient Akapana pyramid with adobe instead of stone, in what some experts are calling a renovation fiasco.Now, the Akapana pyramid risks losing its designation as a U.N. World Heritage Site, and there is concern the makeover could even cause its collapse...the rest of the story at the link 10/9/09
10/7/09 Numerous evidence of Pre-Historic Nuclear War exists by Brad Steiger.Ancient Indian Epics, especially the Mahabharata, document apparent pre-historic nuclear devastation and destruction, that is being verified by diverse scholars. “Then the Lord rained down fire and tar from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and utterly destroyed them….” Genesis 19:24. My previous article in The Canadian , in which I reflected upon my book Worlds Before Our Own, provoked dozens of inquiries from readers. LINK Some stated that one of the cable channels -- some thought it was the History Channel; others, Discovery; still others, National Geographic -- had presented “proof” that the “fused green glass” to be found in various areas had been created by meteoric air blasts rather than prehistoric nuclear wars. read the story at the link 10/3/09 English archaeologists find new prehistoric site Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric (believed to date back 5,000 years) site near Britain's Stonehenge.Researchers have dubbed the site "Bluehenge," after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared but the path of holes remains...the rest of the story at the link 10/1/09 Our Stone Age ancestors wore bright and garish clothes They are normally pictured wearing drab furs and skins. But an astonishing new discovery suggests that our Stone Age ancestors had a taste for garish, colourful clothes.Archaeologists have uncovered an extraordinary haul of pink, turquoise and black fibres that were used to make thread more than 34,000 years ago.The flax fibres, which were buried in a cave in the hills of the Republic of Georgia, were discovered by an international team of fossil hunters...the rest of the story at the link 9/24/09 Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure found in UK An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, a massive seventh-century hoard of gold and silver sword decorations, crosses and other items, British archaeologists said Thursday...the rest of the story at the link 9/22/09
9/17/09 Lady Dai tomb among richest finds in China history Lady Dai was a Chinese nobleman's wife in her mid-50s when she died of a heart attack. She was overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, liver disease, gallstones and her arteries were almost totally clogged.She didn't live the healthiest life but she left behind one of the most perfectly preserved bodies in history. She was buried about 2,100 years ago. Her tomb was found in the early 1970s on Mawangdui, a hill in Changsha, near the capital of Hunan Province in China. More than 1,400 equally well-preserved artifacts found around her were designed to help her in the afterlife...the rest of the story at the link 8/16/09 Ancient royal tomb found in Scotland Hidden beneath a four-ton slab of rock and surrounded by ancient carved symbols of prehistoric power, a spectacular high-status potentially royal tomb, dating back 4,000 years, has been discovered by archaeologists in Scotland.he find – of international importance – is unique in Britain. The excavations at Forteviot, near Perth, have yielded the remains of an early Bronze Age ruler buried on a bed of white quartz pebbles and birch bark with at least a dozen personal possessions – including a bronze and gold dagger, a bronze knife, a wooden bowl and a leather bag. ..the rest of the story at the link 8/3/09 Scientists uncover lost Venetian city Venice, the floating city, owes a curious debt to Attila the Hun. " The Scourge of God" sent the Venetians fleeing in 452 A.D. from their city, Altinum, to found Venice deep in the marshes on the edge of the Adriatic. But despite the best efforts of Attila (and the Venetians, who carted away the stones of their sacked home to build Venice), archaeologists have mapped the lost city, detailed in the current Science...the rest of the story at the link 7/28/09
7/26/09 Fishing boat finds oldest underwater human bone A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.Anthropologists from the University of Leipzig in eastern Germany confirmed that the forehead bone was "at least 40,000 years old and therefore the oldest ever found underwater," according to August's edition of GEO magazine. When he lived, the Netherlands and Britain were one land mass...the rest of the story at the link 7/21/09 EXPERTS DISCOVER SIX KILOMETERS OF CAVES IN EASTER ISLAND A team of experts recently discovered a six-kilometer-long lava cave system on Easter Island thought to have been used as a refuge by the island’s inhabitants during the 16th century. The team confirmed it is the largest cave on the island and the 11th-largest in the world in terms of area. The expedition, which began in 2005 and focused on the Roiho sector in the east of the island, uncovered 45 caves with a host of archaeological finds, including arrowheads, spears, axes, utensils, petroglyphs (rock engravings), and some 30 human skeletons. Cave experts, or speleologists, confirmed the caves were used by inhabitants of the island as refuge from tribal wars at a time when society was on the verge of collapse as a result of infighting, severe environmental degradation caused by deforestation, droughts, and famine. ..the rest of the story at the link 7/3/09 Remnants of the lost continent found on a Greek Island Archeologists make discoveries in Greece on a regular basis. Yet the latest news regarding the find on Andros, the most northern island of 56 islands comprising the Cyclades, is quite a sensation, according to specialists. A team of scientists discovered the ruins of a city at the excavation site on Andros. The ruins date back to 1900 B.C., the Bronze Age...the rest of the story at the link 6/26/09
6/17/09 CU-Boulder study shows Maya intensively cultivated manioc 1,400 A University of Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago.Evidence shows the manioc field -- at least one-third the size of a football field -- was harvested just days before the eruption of the Loma Caldera volcano near San Salvador in roughly A.D. 600, said CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Payson Sheets, who is directing excavations at the ancient village of Ceren. The cultivated field of manioc was discovered adjacent to Ceren, which was buried under 17 feet of ash and is considered the best preserved ancient farming village in all of Latin America...the rest of the story at the link Report of the 2009 Maya Agriculture Project, South of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador ..the rest of the story at the link 6/16/09 Ancient mass grave found on Olympics site LONDON (Reuters) – An ancient burial pit containing 45 severed skulls, that could be a mass war grave dating back to Roman times, has been found under a road being built for the 2012 British Olympics.Archaeologists, who have only just begun excavating the site, say they do not yet know who the bones might belong to."We think that these dismembered bodies are likely to be native Iron Age Britons. The question is -- how did they die and who killed them," said dig head, David Score, of Oxford Archaeology."Were they fighting amongst themselves? Were they executed by the Romans? Did they die in a battle with the Romans?..the rest of the story at the link NOW IF YOU WANT TO GET REALLY REALLY OLD...THE TOP
STORY OF THE DAY MAY 23, 2009 35,000-year-old ivory carving found Maria Malina, scientific employee, presents the photo of a carved ivory female figurine during its presentation in Tuebingen, southern Germany, Wednesday, May 13, 2009. The figurine, found in 2008 in a cave in Schelklingen, southern Germany is allegedly the world's oldest reproduction of a human with an estimated age of at least 35,000 years...the rest of the story at the link
New ancient Egypt temples discovered in Sinai Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed four new temples amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city that could have been used to impress foreign delegations visiting Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Tuesday.Among the discoveries was the largest mud brick temple found in the Sinai with an area of 70 by 80 meters (77 by 87 yards) and fortified with mud walls 3 meters (10 feet) thick, said Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.This undated hand out picture released Tuesday April 21, 2009, by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities shows Pharaonic King Ramses II, right and Geb, god of earth, carved on a wall at one of four recently unearthed new temples in Qantara amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city that could have been used to impress foreign delegations visiting Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Tuesday April 21, 2009...the rest of the story at the link
Study: China's Great Wall is longer than thought BEIJING – The Great Wall of China is even greater than once thought.A two-year government mapping study has uncovered new sections of the ancient Chinese monument that total about 180 miles (290 kilometers), according to a report posted on the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Web site...the rest of the story at the link
Scotland's
most ancient home found – at 14,000 years old AMATEUR
archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Scotland's
oldest human settlement, dating back 14,000 years.The
team dug up tools that have been shown to date from
the end of the last Ice Age.
It is the first time there has been proof that
humans lived in Scotland during the upper paleolithic
period. This was a time when nomadic humans hunted
giant Elk and reindeer using bows and arrows, and
when mammoth and rinos roamed the land. ..the rest of the
story at the link Spirit Cave man skull and reconstruction..the rest of the story at the link Giants
of Peru,India,Turkey and China ..the rest of the story
at the link
Ancient Finds Gallery photo gallery of recent archological finds of ancient civilizations ..the rest of the story at the link Were dinosaurs contemporary with humans?..the rest of the story at the link Ancient Egyptian City Spotted From Space Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say. (article June 2007) ..the rest of the story at the link Ancient
Mayan Canals Possibly Spotted in Satellite Images (excerpts)
The vibrant "Classic
Period" of Mayan civilization thrived for six centuries.
Then, for some reason, it collapsed. Sever suspects
that these ancient canals were part of a system
devised by the Maya to manage water in the bajos
so that they could farm this land.(16 November
2004) ..the rest of the story at the link
HISTORY OF PALESTINE Palestine is one of the most ancient homelands of humankind. There is evidence that Palestine was inhabited almost two hundred thousand years ago. With the beginning of the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic period) circa 12,000 BC, humans in Palestine began to raise animals, to farm and produce handcrafts. For example, the skull of a dog, a picture of a bull carved into a bone and a sculpted piece of human skull, all dating back to that period, were found in the caves of Carmel. ..the rest of the story at the link Ainu, First People of Japan, The Original & First Japanese Ainu, First Peoples of Japan. The Ainu arrived in Japan maybe 14,000 years ago, 10,000 years before the Japanese. They were killed, enslaved and driven off their lands, taking refuge in the norther... ..the rest of the story at the link Stonehenge in Lake Michigan? ..the rest of the story at the link
The iconic Stonehenge in the UK is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world, but it is not the only stone formation of its kind. Similar stone alignments have been found throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales… and now, it seems, in Lake Michigan. According to BLDGBLOG, in 2007, Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon—an elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago...the rest of the story at the link Mystery surrounds north Ga. ruins FORT MOUNTAIN STATE PARK, Ga. -- The remains of the 855-foot stone wall that gives Fort Mountain its name wind like a snake around the northeast Georgia park, and its very presence begs a question: Who put them there? A Cherokee legend attributes the wall to a mysterious band of "moon-eyed people" led by a Welsh prince named Madoc who appeared in the area more than 300 years before Columbus sailed to America. A plaque at the wall says matter-of-factly it was built by Madoc and his Welsh followers, but most professional archeologists give no credence to the legend. ..the rest of the story at the linkThe Baigong Pipes- Nature or OOPart? We're all familiar with the concept of modern technology having ancient Chinese analogues. But a 2002 discovery in remote Qinghai province is anachronistic enough to constitute an OOPart. Out-of-place-artifacts are so unusual, or found in such improbable contexts, that mainstream science has no plausible explanation for them. The crystal skulls of Mexico referenced in the latest Indiana Jones movie, the iron pillar of Delhi, and the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism are examples of OOPart yet to be explained. Like these, the pipes of Qinghai's Mount Baigong suggest a level of technology simply inconceivable for the apparent era of their manufacture. Those open-minded enough to think "extraterrestrial" when searching for a theory, while often dismissed out-of-hand, have like-minded souls in some of the Chinese scientists investigating....more 2008/04/08
An
extraordinary discovery of a place of worship dating back to 9000
B.C. In search of lost time - the Antikythera mechanism deciphered The complex mechanism of this ancient astronomical clock has been reconstructed thanks to high-resolution X-ray tomografy analysis. The result, obtained by a British, Greek and American interdisciplinary team unveiled a mechanism even more sophisticated that formerly believed. This is nothing less than the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest mechanical instrument ever discovered, which has led historians to reconsider their views concerning the technological knowledge possessed by the ancient Greeks. The most important result, however, has been the discovery of a new and surprising operational feature of the artifact - a mechanism designed to calculate solar and lunar eclipses - according to Babylonian astronomical knowledge, together with and an ingenious mechanical verification of the irregularities of the Moon’s orbit in keeping with the theory of Hipparchus of Nicea....more
THE WINDOVER STORYAn exhibition of Archaic Man
1,800-year-old chariot found in Bulgaria
The Neolithic art - found at several sites across Durham and Northumberland - includes a series of intricate designs of concentric circles, interlocking rings and hollowed cups...the rest of the story at the link
Researchers open secret cave under Mexican pyramid Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities. The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site about an hour outside Mexico City, were discovered by the ancient Aztecs around 1500 AD, not long before the arrival of Spanish explorers to Mexico. Teotihuacan is Mexico's oldest major archeological site and during its heyday in 500 AD, the city was home to some 200,000 people, rivaling the size of ancient Rome at that time, according to archeologists...the rest of the story at the link
The Origins of Man, who are we really, where did we come from? Achievements of Black Civilizations
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History
in the Remaking
Ancient
Greenland gene map has a surprise
Evidence
of Ancient Amazon Civilization Uncovered
Amazon
explorers uncover signs of a real El Dorado
Cao
Cao: Chinese archaeologists uncover vast tomb
of infamous 3rd century ruler
More
from Caribbean site .. New detail images just
released
"Shangri-La" Caves
Yield Treasures, Skeletons
Ancient
Human Metropolis Found in Africa 
Discovery
sheds new light on Stonehenge
An
Ancient Fortress on the Island
Mysterious
ancient altar found in Roman fort
Ancient
flutes more than 35,000 
Artificial
Intelligence Cracks 4,000 Year Ol
Is
this Cleopatra's skull? The thrilling finds at
the dig to discover Egypt's lost queen
Cleopatra,
Mark Antony's tombs may have been found
Irish
Independent: Wood you believe it? Stonehenge find
at Tara
Underwater
stones puzzle archeologists
Canada's
Stonehenge: scientist says Alberta sun temple has 5,000-year-old
calenda
U.S.
archeologists find possible mastodon carving on Lake Michigan
rock
YONAGUNI
MONUMENT
The
Windover Archaelogical Research Project
The
pond has proved to be one of the most important
and productive "wet" archaeological
site in the history of the nation. Scientists from
around the world have taken part in the study,
preservation, and analysis of materials taken from
the pond....
A
part of a 1,800-year-old bronze chariot, seen,
at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Karanovo, east
of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Archaeologists
have unearthed a well-preserved 1,800-year-old bronze chariot
at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria,
the head of the excavation said Friday. Along with
the chariot, which was decorated with scenes from
mythology, the team unearthed well-preserved wooden
and leather objects, some of which the archaeologists
believe were horse harnesses
A
handout photo given by the Greek Culture Ministry
shows the remains of a rare Stone Age homestead
left undisturbed for nearly 6,000 years. 
Alpine
melt reveals ancient life
Cemetery
remains show that now-barren Sahara Desert was once green and populated
Revealed:
Britain's secret treasure trove of stone age rock art
Head
of Roman empress unearthed
The
statue of the emperor Hadrian was unearthed last year
