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The events of July 16th - 22nd 1994, when the remnants of a fragmenting comet, P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, bombarded the
surface of Jupiter causing fireballs many times the size of our own planet, were an abrupt wake-up call even for those
who were aware of them. The historical sciences generally, and archæology in particular, have collectively painted
a picture of the past as if our planet 'stands alone in empty space'. Nothing could be further from reality. Our
restless planet exists in a solar system that has had a very dynamic history over the past 20,000 years or so
and it is only from this wider solar system perspective that the true history of human civilisation can ever
be fully understood. Therefore, The Morien Institute archive contains information from many disciplines

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"Mystery Marden Henge set to rival Stonehenge and Avebury with six-week excavation ritual"
Culture24 (UK)
"Ancient site near Nablus 'too problematic' to open"
Ha'aretz (Israel)
"David Livingstone letter deciphered at last"
Yahoo News / AP (USA)
"Hawass uncovers secret tunnel in tomb of Seti I"
Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt)
"Roman Mystery Woman Discovered Near Hereford: Not a Female Gladiator"
Heritage Key (UK)
"First Century Iron Industry Site Found In Jeniang"
Bernama (Malaysia)
"Secret tunnel found in pharaoh tomb"
Press TV (Iran)
"Tibetans adapted to altitude in under 3,000 years: study"
Yahoo News / AFP (USA / France)

"The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project"
Cardiff/Athens Universites (Cymru/Greece)
[In October 1900, Captain Dimitrious Kondos was leading a team of sponge divers near the the island of Antikythera off the coast of Greece. They noticed a shipwreck about 180 feet below the surface and began to investigate. Amongst the artifacts that they brought up was a coral-encrusted piece of metal that later archaeologists found was some sort of gear wheel.

The rest of the artifacts, along with the shape of the boat, suggested a date around 2000 years ago, which made the find one of the most anomalous that had ever been recovered from the Greek seas. It became known as The Antikythera Mechanism.

In 2006 the journal "Nature" published a letter, and another paper about the mechanism was published in 2008, detailing the findings of Prof. Mike G. Edmunds of Cardiff University. Using high-resolution X-ray tomography to study the fragments of the anomalous Antikythera Mechanism, they found that it was in fact a bronze mechanical analog computer that could be used to calculate the astronomical positions and various cycles of the Moon - as seen from the Earth: - Ed]

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Nature (UK)
"World’s First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years"
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