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• Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

  
  Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff) — Authority: 557
  A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus’ burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery. Frale, a researcher ...
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• Reading Homer as an anthropologist

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 415
  What happens when you stop thinking of the Iliad as a work of fiction but instead see it as a primary text to help explain an ancient society?That’s what archaeologist Tara Carter does in lecture 21 and lecture 22 of her great UC San Diego course Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (feed).She presents the [...]
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• Fascinating

  
  Contra Celsum — Authority: 134
  Light From the Past Israel has recently put on display coins which archaeologists have recovered from the Temple Mount. These are issues which date from the time of the Roman siege and razing of the Temple in AD 68--70. The destruction of Jerusalem in general and the Temple in particular represented the only ...
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• Museum acquires rare Ansel Adams Smokies photograph

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 136
  The Knoxville Museum of Art recently announced the acquisition of a rare photograph, Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee , taken in the Great Smoky Mountains by Ansel Adams. Adams shot the image in 1948 while taking photographs as part of a Guggenheim Fellowship on America’s national parks ...
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• the hidden valleys of Mustang

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 617
  The Buddhist idea of Shambhala, or spiritual paradise, may have a literal origin. “ Shambhala is also believed by many scholars to have a geographical parallel that may exist in several or many Himalayan valleys ,” Coburn said. “These hidden valleys were created at times of strife and when Buddhist practice ...
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• We Asked For It

  
  Beyond Stone and Bone — Authority: 403
  In our recent cover survey, we also asked for your feedback about what you like and dislike in Archaeology and on Archaeology.org. We received hundreds of responses—thanks to everyone who gave us their input. We are now going through your comments and suggestions, but I thought you might like a quick take.Some ...
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• Downpatrick & cauliflower soup

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 120
  "Thriving, tolerant little town;" "a dismal place"; "the pub scene seems almost inadequate for a town of around 10,000." So Footprint, Moon, and MTV guidebooks weigh in on Patricks home base. There for the first time, I stayed as my hosts commented in "Downpatricks most desirable residential neighborhood," according ...
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• Rats in Easter Island collapse

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 157
  Were rats behind Easter Island mystery?And how. In 2005, Pulitzer-prize winner Jared Diamond revived public awareness of the island with Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. “What were they thinking when they cut down the last palm tree?” he asked in the book. The question had puzzled many scholars ...
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• The Tomb of Cleopatra: The search continues

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 132
  Dr Kathleen Martinez, a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, has been excavating a site near Alexandria in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra. After being given permission to conduct a dig at the site for 2 months, Dr Martinez’s team have discovered two chambers which has won them the right to continue ...
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• Scuba diving...

  
  heaven is...a beer volcano and a stripper factory — Authority: 130
  ... Hagia Sofia would be awesome . Cant wait for this to hit the Discovery Channel.
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• Presentations at the ASOR meeting, Day 1

  
  Luke Chandler's Blog — Authority: 119
  Today was a day to fill the brain. The first reports on Middle Eastern archaeology kicked off at 8:30 a.m. and the last sessions ended at 6:15 p.m. Add two 15-minute coffee breaks and lunch in New Orleans’ French Quarter, and you have a day at the ASOR annual meeting for 2009. There are typically five presentations ...
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• Earthquakes still a problem in the Middle East

  
  Ferrell's Travel Blog — Authority: 126
  The Israel Antiquities Authority and the National Commission for UNESCO say that “Heritage sites in Israel are in danger of being destroyed in the event of natural disasters.” The meeting of international experts took place in the Crusader fortress at Akko. Jerusalem, Masada, Caesarea … are they here to stay? ...
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• Supercrocs Ate Dinosaurs, Ruled the Sahara

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 587
  Sounds like a bad B-Movie (oh look it actually is a B-movie ). Fun stuff. Christine Dell’Amore writes on National Geographic : A “saber-toothed cat in armor” and a pancake-shaped predator are among the strange crocodile cousins whose bones have been found beneath the windswept dunes of the Sahara, ...
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• Will our best works of art survive for 2500 years?

  
  Kevin Burke — Authority: 126
  CM: Well, I don’t know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they’re really good. And there’s just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that’s the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there’s ...
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• Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 609
  Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass ...
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• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm :: New Secondary Profession: Archaeology :: Archaeology Information

  
  Unofficial Wow Guide — Authority: 141
  This video is from a Q&A session at Blizzcon in which a Blizzard employee talks about the new secondary profession, Archaeology. This is the first information we’ve gotten about the new profession in Cataclysm, Archaeology. Duration : 0:0:55
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• Ancient crocodiles came in many forms, and some ate dinosaurs

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 427
  Africa, the National Geographic says, was a land of dinosaurs and crocodiles. Fortunately some of the crocs actually ate dinos so that kept some of their numbers in check. There were crocs with pancake-like heads, and some that ate fish.
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• Tel Kabri, ASOR, Eric Cline, and The News

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 614
  All collected in one spot , today. At the American Schools of Oriental Research meeting in New Orleans, Eric Cline of George Washington (D.C.) University and Assf Yasur-Landau of Israel’s University of Haifa report the intriguing results this year from Tel Kabri, a vanquished Canaanite palace more than 3,500 years ...
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• New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 152
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday. [More]
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• After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 609
  Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North Americas vast assemblage of large animals — including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers — began their precipitous slide to extinction. read more
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