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• Masked Monday

  
  Letters Home — Authority: 108
  Monday, November 9, 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. As life-changing that event has been for this country and for the world, as much as life for millions has changed in the two decades since the old order fell, 20 years is but an afternoon in Europe. This year is the 2,000th anniversary ...
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• Early symbol depicting Judaism found in Galilee

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday, reports Michael Ireland, сhief сorrespondent, ASSIST News Service.The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago ...
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• Evangelical archeologists skeptical about ‘Joseph coins’

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Two evangelical archeologists have expressed caution in evaluating reports that ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph have been discovered among unsorted artifacts at the Museum of Egypt, reports Baptist Press.“The scholarly community will need to see the full report and images of ...
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• Missing legs of 900-year-old statue spotted in Cambodian jungle

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 145
  An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle. The missing giant legs belongs to an eight-headed, three-metre high sandstone statue of Hevajra, the war-like, tantric Buddhist deity. According to a report in The Independent, the professor in ...
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• UK scholars linked to stolen bowls of Babylon

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf war A secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent attempt to cover up UK academic connections to a potentially deadly trade in stolen Iraqi antiquities. The findings ...
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• The Monthly Correction

  
  Torch Lake Views — Authority: 424
  Fresh from my humiliation over the State Record Muskie , I am preparing another crow pie. However, this one I’m going to put in the freezer until Norton Bretz gets back from Hong Kong, because he knows more about all this than I do anyway, and I cling to the hope that I’m not altogether wrong, just, probably, ...
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• Another hoard!

  
  Antiquarian's Attic — Authority: 112
  From another one of my roving reporters. From Scotland this time – dated between 300-50BC: £1m golden hoard rewrites history of ancient Scotland An enthusiast with a metal detector has unearthed a £1 million hoard of Iron Age gold necklaces from a field near Stirling in a discovery that is set to ...
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• Archaeology in the Taguatinga Valley – The Archaeology Channel

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 543
  Although I haven’t been able to catch this latest offering from TAC, this video and the previous two, first aired a few weeks back should definitely be worth setting aside some time for over this (or any other) weekend – here’s a description of the first,  Archaeology in Taguatinga Valley , from TAC’s ...
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• Museum Junkie: Oxfords Ashmolean reopens today

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , United Kingdom The long wait is finally over for the grand reopening of Oxfords Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology . After being partially or completely closed for the past three years, the museums vast collection is finally open to the ...
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• Oldest Artifact in the Americas Unearthed

  
  Page in History — Authority: 122
  Its being reported that archaeologists have found the oldest known artifact in a cave in Oregon. The tool is some sort of scraper and is said to date back 14,230 years."Scientific American writes, "[W]hether the cave dwellers were Clovis people or belonged to an earlier culture is uncertain. None of the Clovis ...
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• AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 609
  To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution. read more
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• Skeuomorphs of Nature

  
  Wilson's Blogmanac — Authority: 134
  Sydneys Hyde Park and New Yorks Central Park are skeuomorphs of Nature. A skeuomorph is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Arguably, permaculture is also a skeuomorph. Im still working on this question, as, I have no doubt, are many others. ...
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• Colonel P.H. Fawcett, Inc.

  
  Beyond Stone and Bone — Authority: 406
  In 1925, the British explorer and surveyor Percy Fawcett set off into the Brazilian jungle in search of a remnant of Atlantean civilization. Along with him in this ill-fated mission were his son Jack and his son’s best friend. None of them returned. A Hollywood version of this pathetic story—due out next year and ...
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• Even Kids Are Being Subjected to Archaeological Misinformation

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 637
  As the good people at ASOR demonstrate today, pointing out this bit of misrepresentation of the field of archaeology: Maybe she should be renamed Dora the Dilettante? Posted in Archaeology
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• XYZ

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 127
   Taking a moment from time to time to examine and attempt to define your intentions in your writing activities produces more questions than answers, which is surely Natures way of reminding you you are still alive.  There were times when, to be sure, you were not alive, bored instead or wallowing not so much in the ...
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• No Thanks to Marco Polo: An Encyclopedia of Italy’s Pasta Shapes

  
  Gherkins & Tomatoes — Authority: 425
  Photo credit: Annie Schlechter Marco Polo returned to Italy from his Chinese travels in 1296. The myth, legend, what have you, credits him with introducing pasta into Italy’s culinary repertoire. But Marco Polo did NOT bring pasta to Italy. And 73-year-old Italian author Oretta Zanini de Vita wants you to know ...
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• And Iran, Iran so far away

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 628
  I have a very generous offer for a place to stay and Farsi-speaking guides should I choose to visit Iran. Ergo, I have some questions about post-election Iran and the best way to organize this trip, if I go. Ive looked through the history, but the latest question about visiting Iran was asked before this summers ...
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• Anthro Blog Carnival

  
  Aardvarchaeology — Authority: 470
  The seventy-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Anthropology.net . Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Colleen at Middle Savagery . All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for ...
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• BARBADIAN INDIANA JONES MAKES DISCOVERY OF LIFETIME IN GUYANA REMOTE INTERIOR

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 438
  Word has leaked out to a select few local, regional and International media sources that Barbados born Damon Gerard Corrie ( of paternal Trinidadian and maternal Guyanese Amerindian descent ) - well known to Barbadians as " the Snake Man , may soon be well known throughout the Caribbean as Barbadiana Jones ...
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