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• in Travel
  Anubis Comes to Life After an Off-Limits Excursion
  An interesting, if off-limits, exploration at the Karnak Temple near Luxor, Egypt
  by kitherring / on Oct 5, 2010
• in Travel
  Timing is Right to Visit Paestum
  It's a great time to see southern Italy with good deals and beautiful sights
  by toddwrightnow / on Feb 9, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “archeology”

 

• DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All

  
  Karst Worlds — Authority: 420
  A view above the Denisova cave, where clues to prehistoric interbreeding were found. Faster technology is aiding research. The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly ...
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• Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave: 33,000 Years Old

  
  Karst Worlds — Authority: 420
  The 33,000-year-old skull of a domesticated dog was extraordinarily well preserved in the Razboinichya cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient ...
  1 week ago

• Book review: The Archaeology of Greece, An Introduction

  
  Midlist Writer — Authority: 85
  The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction by William R. Biers My rating: 4 of 5 stars I recently reread this old university textbook of mine in preparation for an assignment in Greece. Biers was one of my professors and his book was assigned for the class. This well-illustrated book is a clear, general ...
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• Jewish Temple Menorah Found In Jewish Country

  
  Israellycool — Authority: 623
  But of course, this is Palestinian land and the Jews are just recent occupiers. More bad news for the neighbours. It’s time to stop appeasing and start digging properly. h/t  Emet m’Tsiyon: Jewish Temple Menorah Found Illustrated on Ancient Bread Stamp . The tiny stamp was used to identify baked products ...
  2 weeks ago

• Snacks of Ancient America

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 415
  People were eating popcorn in Peru thousands of years ago, say scientists. They did it without accompanying movies, cardboard tubs, or even pottery. Corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels from 6,700 to 3,000 years ago were found at mound sites on Peru’s northern coast. Read about it in an upcoming issue of the ...
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• Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 121
  Researchers have uncovered corncobs dating back at least 3,000 years ago in two ancient mound sites in Peru according to a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The ancient corn remnants, which proved residents were eating both popped corn and corn flour, are the earliest ever ...
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• Jewish Temple Menorah Found Illustrated on Ancient Bread Stamp

  
  Emet m'Tsiyon — Authority: 395
  Another sensational archeological find!! The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the finding of a Byzantine era bread stamp showing the menorah [candelabrum] of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The seven-branched menorah was a common Jewish symbol in the centuries after destruction of the Temple by Roman and ...
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• Leakey’s Luck—or Leakey’s Laughingstock?

  
  Skepticblog — Authority: 533
  Last Saturday, January 14,  our Skeptic Society field trip “Viva Mojave” passed by a freeway exit marked “Calico Early Man Site”. On the bus, I briefly discussed the story behind the sign, but it an interesting object lesson about science and skepticism that bears repeating here. If you drive up the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gritty, inspiring, action-packed: My review of "Waterfall" by Lisa T. Bergren

  
  Christian Fiction Addiction — Authority: 117
  Publisher: David C. Cook I must admit that Im a bit late to the game. Recently, I was introduced to Lisa Bergrens latest trilogy for teens, the River of Time Series , a series released throughout 2011, and one that first hit the market back in February 2011. Although the books appear to primarily be written for ...
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• help wanted: really bad housekeeper

  
  Barking Moonbat Early Warning System — Authority: 471
  Darwin’s Lost Fossils Found Missing specimens were in a cabinet in a room that hadn’t been cleaned in 165 years Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London , said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had ...
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• Oldest-Known Astrologers Board Discovered in Croatian Cave

  
  Karst Worlds — Authority: 420
  A research team has discovered what may be the oldest astrologers board, engraved with zodiac signs and used to determine a persons horoscope. Dating back more than 2,000 years, the board was discovered in Croatia, in a cave overlooking the Adriatic Sea. The surviving portion of the board consists of 30 ivory ...
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• Egyptian Singer Discovered

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 415
  The tomb of an early chick singer  female vocalist has been discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings .  University of Basel archeologists found the remains of the chanteuse in a coffin identifying her as Nehmes Bastet, singer of the god Amun Re. Her vocal gifts were discovered after an extensive talent ...
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• Can we distinguish human v. natural excavations?

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  Large geometric shapes are being discovered beneath the Amazon forest. Have the discoverers evaluated their origins correctly? If so, why? Is there any way to distinguish between artifacts caused by human and extraterrestrial agents? Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World By SIMON ...
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• 2900 year old Lady Gaga found in the Valley of the Kings

  
  The Church of Jesus Christ — Authority: 518
  In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 2,900-year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings, an antiquities official said Sunday. It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found in the Valley of the Kings, said Mansour ...
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• Ancient Bones or Political Correctness on Drugs?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 577
  10,000 year old bones unearthed on the Southern California coast in 1976, some of the oldest skeletons in the Western Hemisphere and a scientific treasure, are also bones of contention. A local tribe claimed that the bones were their direct ancestors and demanded them back a few years ago. A recent federal regulation ...
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• archaeologists find another tomb in egypt

  
  Barking Moonbat Early Warning System — Authority: 471
  Of the three papers we got today, this was the only one the story appeared in. And then with no photos. But I’m still fascinated by this and hope they publish photos. If archaeologists are still finding things after all this time, I can just imagine how much more there has to be. We had a friend (passed away in ...
  2 weeks ago

• experimental archeology / history at its best

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 722
  Victorian Farm | Edwardian Farm -- 18 hours of BBC experimental archeology/historical documentaries, online. Archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman spend two years living the life of rural country farmers.
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• Rare tomb of woman found in Egypt

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 130
  In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1100-year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found in the Valley of the Kings, said Mansour Boraiq, the top government official for the ...
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• The Sultan of the Samma dynasty in Thatta

  
  Pakistan Travel & Culture — Authority: 94
  Driving through the largest necropolis in the world — the historical Makli graveyard in Thatta — is like driving through different eras of ancient history: great kings representing several dynasties are buried here as along with great saints, scholars, philosophers and common men. As we reached the far end of the ...
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• Belize’s Secret Treasure :Cahal Pech

  
  Cheap Flights — Authority: 117
  Each year, thousands of tourists flock to the lush jungles of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula to visit the spectacular Mayan ruins that dot the landscape. Some are so well-traveled you might be reluctant to make the journey; most tourists’ images of stately pyramids and ancient stone-works don’t include ...
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