– terrestrial archaeology and solar system history – news headlines archive – January 1 to 10 2004 – new discoveries about ancient civilisation under ancient skies –

The Morien Institute - The events of July 16th to 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 experienced a very dynamic history over the past 20 to 30 millennia, and it is only from this perspective that the true history of human civilisation will ever be fully understood. The Morien Institute archive therefore contains relevant material from many disciplines

an image of a meteor flashing through the sky

An image of a revolving globe showing the current sea levels since the last ice age, before which many ancient civilisations like Atlantis flourished all over planet Earth on what are now sunken lands.

text translation service for many worldwide languages

 


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 millennia or more
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

some news sources require registration

but this is usually free

all links are active at the time of posting

we strive to update them daily

 

January 11 – 20 |

January 21 – 31

February 2004 |

March 2004 |

April 2004 |

May 2004 |

June 2004 |

July 2004 |

August 2004

September 2004 |

October 2004 |

November 2004 |

December 2004

 

 

10 years ago this year, from July 16 – 22 1994, more than 20 fragments of

Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9

orbited the Sun and crashed into the surface of Jupiter

Comets, Asteroids and SpaceGuard Projects

 

Bookmark this page

 Today is

Sunday, February 26, 2023 

Send this page to a friend

January 10 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Ancient art of blacksmithing still useful, artistic”

News-Press (USA)

“ISS cabin pressure still falling”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Smallest Ancient Coins Appear in Chengdu”

China.org (China)

“Mars ambitions fire space centre”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Kamchatka volcano discharges ash to 7,000 m height”

ITAR-TASS (UK)

“Spirit tests Mars’ temperature”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“T-Rex fossil finder sues over lost rare pearls”

St. Petersburg Times (USA)

“Large ancient basement unearthed in Shaanxi”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Reverse Robotic Origami”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Plan to visit Mars, live on moon”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Mars rover finds minerals that hint of ancient lake”

Arizona Daily Star (USA)

“Kirin re-creates beer of ancient Egypt”

Japan Times (Japan)

“Volcano erupts on French Indian Ocean island”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 09 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Next-generation robots take the plunge”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire spews lava, coats capital with fine ash”

CBS2 News (USA)

“Exhibition Gathering Top Ancient Bronze-ware”

News Guangdong (China)

“The first double-team of pulsars may reveal secrets of gravity”

Nature (UK)

“Water on Mars? Maybe. “

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Discovered: The planet that heats its own sun”

IOL (South Africa)

“When archaeology gets bent”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Pair of volcanoes erupt”

Globe & Mail (Canada)

“Mesoamerican Relic: New Clues to Mysterious Ancient Writing System”

NewsWise (USA)

“Hubble makes mosaic of 10,000 galaxies”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“London & Paris markets flooded with looted Iranian antiquities”

The Art Newspaper (UK)

“Raising the anchor: It may have belonged to King Herod’s yacht”

Ha’aretz (Israel)

“Noah’s Flood: Watery vision of Grand Canyon”

The Guardian (UK)

“Bush Could Announce New Manned Space Missions To Moon And Mars”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Islanders tell of sea terror”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

“Saddam’s secret hoard of Jewish manuscripts”

The Art Newspaper (UK)

“Ancient Jingdezhen Chinaware Bonanza”

China.org (China)

“Space molecules point to organic origins”

New Scientist (UK)

“Mummy’s the word … artifact bought by museum is Egyptian falcon”

Sun-Sentinel (USA)

“New bid fails to raise Beagle”

Ananova (UK)

“‘American astronauts will walk on Mars'”

IOL/Reuters (South Africa)

“Niue ‘flattened’ by tsunami-type waves”

Stuff (New Zealand)

“Moon fever grips US space agency”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Airbag delays NASA’s Mars exploration drive”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“Saints and martyrs in vivid colour”

Al-Ahram Weekly (UK)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 08 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Roman treasures unearthed during subway dig”

IOL (South Africa)

“Beagle 2 Mars probe still lost in space”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“New giant squid predator found”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Death Valley Holds Key to Life?”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“String of galaxies discovered”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Greece’s Olympic treasure hunt”

The Scotsman (Scotland)

“Scientists think sunburst triggered ancient mass extinction”

ENN (USA)

“Ancient forest under attack”

The Western Mail (Cymru)

“First supernova companion star found”

ESA News (France)

“Florence’s Medicis To Be Exhumed”

Discovery Channel News (USA)

“Global warming threatens mass extinctions”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

“Manipulating archaeology”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Subway excavations in Naples turn up ancient Roman ship, amphorae”

myTELUS (Canada)

“Siberian graveyard’s secrets – 1,000-year-old mummies”

“Experts dig out an ancient ironworks”

Hereford Times (England)

“Herbal medicine boom threatens plants”

New Scientist (UK)

“Researchers have found 600,000 year-old DNA material”

Copenhagen Post (Denmark)

“In Colliding Galaxies: Planetary Ore”

Science@NASA (USA)

“Ancient Indian language dying due to neglect”

NewKerala (India)

“Archaeologists mistake 1940s patio for Viking village”

Ananova (UK)

“Airbag delays NASA’s Mars exploration drive”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“Sun’s twin found in Scorpio’s left claw”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

“Borax minerals may have been key to start of Earth life”

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

“Ancient ship marked for world heritage”

News Guangdong (China)

“The Demonic Ape”

BBC Horizon (UK)

“Star map gives scientists a universal surprise”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 07 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Mild Earthquake/Wyoming -2: Followed By Smaller Quakes”

DowJones Newswires (USA)

“House decoration lime used by prehistoric humans comes to light”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Teamwork Brings Egyptian Dig to Web Once Again”

NewsWise (USA)

“Stone Age settlement found on Gulf island”

The Scotsman (Scotland)

“Officials hope to save ancient city devastated by earthquake”

SanLuisObispo (USA)

“Mars Express: no signal from Beagle 2 so far”

ESA News (France)

“Sulfur Smell Easing After Earthquake”

NBC4.TV News (USA)

“Ancient officer’s tomb uncovered in Shaanxi”

XinhuaNet (China)

“NASA Brings Mars Online As 1300 Servers Share The Load”

MarsDaily (USA)

“Greece, Cyprus Donate Funds for Ancient Archaeological Sites in Bulgaria”

Novinite (Bulgaria)

“Alien Textures ‘Weird Stuff’: Geologists Just Scratching Surface”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Moderately Strong Earthquake Shakes Panama, Costa Rica”

DowJones Newswires (USA)

“US scientists study comet data”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“Theory suggests sun’s gamma ray burst triggered ancient mass extinction”

CBS2 News (USA)

“No bark heard from Beagle 2 probe”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Asteroid ‘Itokawa’, Target of ‘Hayabusa’, Comes in Sight”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Photographs of Auroras from Space”

Earth Observatory (USA)

“New big discoveries in Anhui’s prehistoric site”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 06 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Italian archaeologists due in Iran for studies on Bam rebuilding”

Payvand’s Iran News (Iran)

“British book sparks ancient manuscripts destruction”

Ananova (UK)

“Ancient Site Hints at First US Settlers”

BottomQuark (USA)

“Efforts called for salvaging inscriptions on Great Wall bricks”

People’s Daily (China)

“Swimming reptile fossil examined”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Endurance Of Plants Under Quartz Points To Early Earth Life”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Archaeologists uncover ruins of ancient citadel in Hanoi”

CNA News (Singapore)

“Artifact missing from museum recovered at Watertown residence”

WDT (USA)

“Europe’s 10-year mission to catch a comet”

Ananova (UK)

“Spanish police track down meteorite fragments”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“Stardust sailing through calm after cometary storm”

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

“Castle Ruins Must Make Way for M-Way Roundabout”

The Scotsman (Scotland)

“NASA researchers contend with Martian day”

MarsDaily (USA)

“‘Citadel’: A Cosmic guard against asteroids”

Pravda (Russia)

“Iron Age find at business park”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Ancient magistrate’s office museum opens in Henan”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Museum urges reburial of skeletons in its closet”

The Guardian (UK)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 05 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Spain watches ‘fireball shower'”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Mob damages rare manuscripts, books in Pune”

NewKerala (India)

“Close Encounter of a Cometary Kind”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“8th-century replica vessel stranded in Cape”

IOL/The Argus (South Africa)

“Dusty clues caught by NASA”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Professor Works To Unravel Mysteries Of Khipu”

ScienceDaily (USA)

“Official: No specific plan for Mars mission now”

China Daily (China)

“Two Arabs Arrested for Antiquities Smuggling”

Ha’artez (Israel)

“Suns of all ages possess comets, maybe planets”

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

“Sunken ships’ ancient treasures now on display at Viet Nam museum”

CNA News (Singapore)

“Spirit Hits the Sweet Spot”

Science@NASA (USA)

“Project to protect revered cultural relics”

People’s Daily (China)

“Prehistoric cave for sale”

News24 (South Africa)

“Pleiades Pileup”

Discover Magazine (USA)

“Orchard witnesses ancient ceremony”

Evening Advertiser (England)

“Mars: Water Signs”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“7,000-year-old housing units found in Marawah Island”

Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)

“Gangs looting Afghan ‘Pompeii'”

Washington Times (USA)

“Rover sends dramatic pictures from Mars”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 04 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“NASA’s “Spirit” Mars Exploration Rover – Mission Status Center”

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

“It’s last rites for Braveheart… at last”

Scotland on Sunday (Scotland)

“Rare Martian meteorite found”

IRIB News (Iran)

“Ancient Lakebed: Spirit Has Landed”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Still no sign of missing Beagle”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Mars Rover: The Owner’s Manual”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Iran to rebuild ancient citadel destroyed by earthquake: official”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Postcards from Mars”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Media team visits ancient Taxila ruins”

The Peninsula (Qatar)

“Healthy Rover Shows Its New Neighborhood On Mars”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Out of this world snaps of comet”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

“Grade 2: Feeding a dinosaur”

Courier & Press (USA)

“US mission lands safely on Mars”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Students of the ancients set a trap for the young”

San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

“NASA rover lands safely on red planet”

CNN News (USA)

“Secrets of Stirling’s ‘crown jewels’ to be probed”

The Sunday Herald (Scotland)

“Scientists Find Rare Martian Meteorite”

RedNova (USA)

“Closing in on the Red Planet : Mars Express orbit lowered”

ESA News (France)

“Earthquake rates won’t rise, experts say”

The Tribune (USA)

“U.S. spacecraft gathers comet particles”

Japan Today (Japan)

“Tunnelling badgers endanger Britain’s trove of hidden relics”

The Observer (UK)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 03 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Traces of first Home Sapiens discovered by Russian archaeologists”

Pravda (Russia)

“Dig finds could be thousands of years old, state official says”

Winfield Courier (USA)

“Robots set to explore Mars”

Aljazeera (Qatar)

“Mysterious Ice Circle in Michigan”

Earthfiles (USA)

“Has the Endeavour been found?”

The Advertiser (Australia)

“Archaeologists Unearth Clues To Jesus’ Past”

Tampa Tribune (USA)

“The 400BC Ferrari: The oldest Iron Age chariot in Britain”

The Scotsman (Scotland)

“Stardust’s Success”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Valuable oracle bones unearthed in Shaanxi”

XinhuaNet (China)

“US explorer spacecraft speeds toward Mars landing”

Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)

“An ancient people fight to keep their land and their way of life”

The Independent (UK)

“Scientists find evidence of early arctic-dwellers”

ABC News Online (Australia)

“Space probe sent through comet tail”

RTE Online (Ireland)

“Archaeology brings world communities closer: Dr Malik”

Jang News International (Pakistan)

“Stardust Passes Comet Wild-2 As Sample Return Mission Heads Home”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Island yields its ancient secrets”

Daily Echo (England)

“Ancient Ethiopian rock church collapses”

Aljazeera (Qatar)

“Hilo: Living in A Volcanic Rock”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Precious Oracle Bones Unearthed”

China.org (China)

“Current feeding oceans”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 02 2004

news headlines

…………………………………………………………..

“Scientists discover 55 mn-yr-old monkey fossil in China”

Hindustan Times (India)

“Ivan the terribly rude”

Daily Telegraph (UK)

“Evidence of Ice Age humans found”

Sun Journal (USA)

“Stardust survives brush with comet”

Aljazeera (Qatar)

“Mount Fuji steam fuels fears of big eruption”

The Times (UK)

“One killed and 29 others injured in Bali earthquake”

Viet Nam News Agency (Viet Nam)

“Stardust probe makes comet flyby”

BBC News Online (UK)

“‘Dragon Bones’ displays ancient China’s past”

East Valley Tribune (USA)

“Spacecraft enters halo of comet dust”

Herald Sun (Australia)

“Earth’s Speeded Rotation Puzzles Scientists”

Earthfiles (USA)

“Meteorite hits Iran”

Reuters (UK)

“Researchers elated over ancient monkey fossil”

IOL/AFP (South Africa)

“NASA Probes Approach Comet, Mars”

CBS News (USA)

“Ancient remains saved”

Burnham Times (England)

“Solar System Exploration Survey”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Natives say Red Hill mounds are burial sites”

Toronto Star (Canada)

“‘New World’ link to Arctic find”

BBC News Online (UK)

“Renewed interest in the secrets of Aztalan”

Wisconsin State Journal (USA)

“Australia locates possible alien life”

Aljazeera (Qatar)

“Stardust takes close up image of Comet Wild 2”

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

“Time capsule from the deep revealed”

icNorthWales (Cymru)

“Earth changes its spin, baffles scientists”

China Daily (China)

“Siberia site may be clue to America’s ancient roots”

Chicago Sun-Times (USA)

“Stardust set for cosmic interlude with comet”

IOL (South Africa)

“2003 – Year in Review”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“30,000-year-old ancient site hints at first US settlers”

New Scientist (UK)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

January 01 2004

news headlines

……………………………………………………….

“Excavated chinaware gets first show in porcelain province”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Bronze age artefacts unearthed in Oman”

Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)

“Gusev Crater Planet Mars”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old tomb”

The Guardian (UK)

“Isotopic Analysis of Teeth and Bones Solves a Mesoamerican Mystery”

Physics Today (USA)

“Earthquake hits Taiwan”

XinhuaNet (China)

“Top ten stories of 2003”

New Scientist (UK)

“New Year Invites Wild Bash – Stardust reports”

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

“Ancient leper remains found in ‘Hell'”

CTV News (Canada)

“One tenth of stars may support life”

New Scientist (UK)

“Moon a target for next Chinese space programme”

China Daily (China)

“Archaeological dig to begin on Santa Fe Plaza”

KOBTV News (USA)

“Iran quake toll poised to hit 50,000”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

“Comet Hunter Closing On Its Quarry”

SpaceDaily (USA)

“Ancient Egyptian official’s tomb found”

The Independent (UK)

“Evidence of ancient Arctic hunters found in Siberia”

Anchorage Daily News (USA)

“Paleontologists discover 55 million year old monkey fossil”

China Daily (China)

“Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters”

ESA News (France)

“Astronomy Picture of the Day”

NASA (USA)

 


useful books
from our

Self-Sufficiency

Bookshoppe


“Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival”

Jack A. Spigarelli

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

US Edition Only

but available

worldwide


“Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family
Safe in a Crisis”

Peggy Layton

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook”

James Stevens

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“Aboman’s Guide to Survival & Self-Reliance: Practical Skills for Interesting Times”

Joseph A. Bigley

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques
& Recipes”

Eliot Coleman
&
Claude Aubert

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of
North America”

Francois Couplan

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“Edible Wild Plants:
A North American
Field Guide”

Francois Couplan

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“When Technology Fails: A Manual for
Self-Reliance and
Planetary Survival”

Matthew Stein

an image/link direct to this product at amazon.com

EU English Edition


“The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture
of Reality”

Brian Greene

EU English Edition


“The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe”

Roger Penrose

EU English Edition

January 2004

monthly magazine articles

………………………………………………………………………..

“From the Rainforest – Rescuing an Altar from Looters”

Humanities (USA)

“First Toba supereruption revival”

Geology (USA)

“Nubians at Hierakonpolis”

Archaeology – Interactive Dig (USA)

“‘Tertiary Dinosaurs’ in the Nanxiong Basin, Southern China”

Journal of Geology (USA)

“String Theory: A weak sun may have sweetened the Stradivarius”

Scientific American (USA)

“Prolonged wet period in the S.W. United States through the Younger Dryas”

Geology (USA)

“Dubai students revive ancient air-conditioner technology”

Gulf Construction (UAE)

“Isotopic Analysis of Teeth and Bones Solves a Mesoamerican Mystery”

Physics Today (USA)

“A puzzling wreck in India more than 1,000 years old”

Archaeology Magazine (USA)

“Our Growing, Breathing Galaxy”

Scientific American (USA)

“Army of Sand: Cambyses’ 2,500-year-old lost army”

Egypt Today (Egypt)

“Women and Men at Çatalhöyük”

Scientific American (USA)

“Credit The Greeks!”

Archaeology Magazine (USA)

January 11 – 20 |

January 21 – 31

 

February 2004 |

March 2004 |

April 2004 |

May 2004 |

June 2004 |

July 2004 |

August 2004

September 2004 |

October 2004 |

November 2004 |

December 2004

 

 

Google

 

Web

The Morien Institute

 

please take a look at our Ancient Mysteries Bookshoppe for a wide selection of books

that challenge orthodox views of prehistory on every continent


|
|
|
|


Marine Archaeology News 2015 |
Astro-Archaeology News 2015


all material on this page
The Morien Institute