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• Lost in the desert for 2,500 years.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  It appears that the Lost Army of Cambyses has been found. Cambyses II expanded the Persian empire into Egypt. Most accounts depict him as a lousy, drunken tyrant. According to Herodotus , he sent his army, 50,000 strong, into Egypt where the encountered a sand storm near the Siwa Oasis and were buried ...
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• Christianization in the Geneva area (in French)

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Title: Christianization in the Geneva area (in French) Location: Musée d’art et d’histoire , Rue Charles-Galland 2, Geneva (old town) Link out: Click here Description: Geneva’s archeologist, Jean Terrier, will hold a short talk on Christianization in the lake Geneva region. Entry free, no ...
  15 hours ago

• Surrogate Parenthood/Types of Polygamist Marriages (Daynes Part 3)

  
  Mormon Heretic — Authority: 110
  Kathryn Daynes tells a really interesting story about an infertile couple in her book More Wives than One .  The Church Handbook of Instruction was leaked onto the internet a few years ago, and the church sued to stop it’s publication.  The only reference I could find indicates that the Church strongly ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Lauren Axelrod’s Archeology Review

  
  Brilliant Photography — Authority: 122
  I met Lauren at Daytona State College in the fall of 2008 at one of my math classes. She’s a dedicated blogger and archeology student who is attending DSC with the goal of becoming a Doctor of Archeology. In fact, she is so sure she will accomplish this that she’s calling herself a doctor already! That is ...
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• Rochester hopes to develop unused lot along Genesee River

  
  New York Outdoors Blog — Authority: 139
  by Brian Sharp • Democrat & Chronicle, link to full post & picture Fenced off, overgrown and largely forgotten, a patch of land bordering the Genesee River and Dinosaur Bar B Que is getting a closer look. City officials want to hire a consultant to create a site plan and preliminary design mixing ...
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• Museum Junkie: Oxfords Ashmolean reopens today

  
  Gadling — Authority: 700
  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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• Sat Map question (what is this)

  
  Treasure Quest Metal Detecting Forum — Authority: 163
  What causes these white areas on a sat map? This is a hay field but it MIGHT have been something else in the past. I have looked at the field and there is nothing there but grass so I dont have a clue.
  3 days ago

• Syriac Inscription Found in Edessa

  
  The Aramaic Blog — Authority: 108
  Gazetteport.com reports that farmers ploughing a field at Urfa in South-East Turkey struck something and when they went to dig it out which turned out to be a tablet inscribed with Syriac in Estrangela. Talk about a beautiful find, though. :-) Other Links: Roger Pearses blog Peace, -Steve
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• Canoe trip results in historical discovery

  
  New York Outdoors Blog — Authority: 139
  This gets filed under “things you’ll never find from a car.”
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• Amateur treasure hunter finds £1m hoard of ancient golden jewellery. AWESOME FIND !

  
  Barking Moonbat Early Warning System — Authority: 512
  This kind of thing is so mind bending.  IRON AGE and take a look at the workmanship. Look how intricate that tiny chain is. I would never have thought they could do that in the Iron Age. And that little chain that hooks things together. My gosh, it’s up to date modern. Be sure and see all the photos at the link ...
  4 days ago

• Jesse James Hidden Treasure

  
  Treasure Quest Metal Detecting Forum — Authority: 163
  History Channel is running a special on the search for the Treasure of Jesse James. Check out the link below for details. Jesse James Hidden Treasure
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• On this day in history: Entrance to the tomb of King Tutankhamun discovered, 1922

  
  The Modern Historian — Authority: 127
  In 1891, at the age of just seventeen, Howard Carter arrived in Egypt to work as an artist tracing the scenes on the walls of newly discovered tombs. While working for the passionate archaeologist W. M. Flinders Petrie at the excavation at el-Amarna, Carter first felt the inspiration to become an archaeologist ...
  6 days ago

• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
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• Programmer-Archeologists Needed

  
  Continuations — Authority: 562
  I love Vernor Vinge ’s concept of a “programmer-archeologist” ( A Deepness In the Sky, he also coined “programmer-at-arms”) as someone who digs through the layers of existing systems to understand why and how stuff works.  I was reminded of this over the weekend, as I worked through some old code of my ...
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• Afghanistan: Why Dr. Abdullah Abdullah Is Right To Force a Delay in the Afghan Election — and Why Washington Should Back Him

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 633
  It is as if the entire Washington press corps has forgotten everything any of them knew in 2001 and early 2002 and have no perspective on what is going on in Afghanistan now.In late September of 2002 newspapers were flooded with glorious tales about the Northern Alliance – and the NA deserved every bit of [...]
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• Diner Hotline Weblog 2 years old today!

  
  Weblog — Authority: 113
  From  a 1991 Yankee magazine article called “Devoted to Diners” Today marks the 2 year anniversary of this blog being on the internet! The time has gone by so fast. Of course the blog follows just about 19 years of the hardcopy version of Diner Hotline featured as a regular column in  the SCA’s (Society for ...
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• ARTIFACTS: BIG STONES (Part 4)

  
  prairiemary — Authority: 127
  TIPI RINGS Only a few miles north of Valier along Birch Creek which is the southern boundary of the Blackfeet Reservation, is a place called “ Willow Rounds. ” Via Google you can find some wonderful photos of the place because the ranch called that is currently for sale. You’ll see other info related to real ...
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• The Lurking Fear

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master of Scifi-Horror . For more detailed insights into each of Lovecrafts tales in publication order you might want to follow the H.P.Lovecraft Literary Podcast . For another story-by-story guide to Lovecraft you might want to check out Kenneth Hites Tour De Lovecraft (also ...
  1 week ago

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