– terrestrial archaeology and solar system history – news headlines archive – January 2002 – new discoveries about ancient civilisation under ancient skies –

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January 30 –

“Asteroid impact hazards ‘greatly overstated'” –

New Scientist (UK)

January 30 –

“Joshua – Jericho ‘impact event’ debate” –

CCNet Post #16 (UK)

January 29 –

“Egyptian tombs may be oldest yet” –

Ananova (UK)

January 29 –

“Intact Pterosaur Fossil with Long ‘Feather’ Discovered in China” –

People’s Daily (China)

January 29 –

“3,000 year-old area discovered in Suez” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 28 –

“After 80 years Egypt recovers Akhenaton’s sarcophagus” –

State Information Service (Egypt)

January 27 –

“Egypt recovers missing sarcophagus” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 27 –

“Jellyfish jackpot found on fossil beach” –

New Scientist (UK)

January 27 –

“Sun king’s sarcophagus goes back home” –

IOL (South Africa)

January 27 –

“Ethiopian artefact returning home” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 27 –

“Egypt receives stolen sarcophagus from Germany” –

Ananova (UK)

January 25 –

“Living museum to save heritage” –

China Daily (China)

January 24 –

“Mystery trench on Snowdon sparks meteorite theory” –

Ananova (UK)

January 23 –

“Shipwreck network launched” –

Nature (UK)

January 23 –

“Continued dance with tomb robbers” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 22 –

“Al-Farma, the oldest Abbassyan monument” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 22 –

“Egypt restores Akhenaton sarcophagus after 90 year-old absence” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 21 –

“New and old notes on the Joshua ‘impact event'” –

CCNet Post #11 (UK)

January 21 –

“Stop Pillage of Congo Art” –

The East African (Kenya)

January 21 –

“China Begins Three Gorges Reservoir Bed Clean-up” –

People’s Daily (China)

January 21 –

“When did Earth get its first drink of water” –

Astronomy.com USA)

January 21 –

“Terrestrial impact craters” –

CCNet Post #8 (UK)

January 21 –

“King of the Pharaohs coffin set to return home” –

Ananova (UK)

January 19 –

“Lost city ‘could rewrite history'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 18 –

“Meteoric iron and impacts – 2nd Millennium BCE” –

CCNet Post #10 (UK)

January 18 –

“Nations squabble over antiquities” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 18 –

“Over 2,000-Year-Old Bamboo Article Discovered in NW China” –

People’s Daily (China)

January 18 –

“‘Cursed’ exhibition makes visitors sick” –

Ananova (UK)

January 17 –

“The perils of losing your marbles” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 17 –

“Roman tomb unearthed in Bourg Al-Arab” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 17 –

“Doctors in the dark over mummy’s curse” –

Independent Online (South Africa)

January 17 –

“Indian site suggests ancient civilisation” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 17 –

“7500 BC “lost river” civilisation discovered off India’s western coast” –

TerraNet Plus (Lebanon)

January 16 –

“Indian civilisation ‘9,000 years old'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 16 –

“Lost civilisation from 7,500 BC discovered off Indian coast” –

Ananova (UK)

January 16 –

“MPs launch campaign to return Elgin Marbles” –

Ananova (UK)

January 15 –

“New campaign to send Elgin Marbles home” –

Ananova (UK)

January 15 –

“Iceman may have been ritually murdered” –

IOL (South Africa)

January 15 –

“Robbers lead archaeologists to tomb near Zeus’ oracle” –

Ananova (UK)

January 15 –

“Did ‘Iceman’ of Alps die as human sacrifice?” –

National Geographic News (USA)

January 15 –

“Iceman ‘was sacrifice to Alpine gods'” –

Ananova (UK)

January 14 –

“Impact imagery in ancient Mesopotamian omens” –

CCNet Post #14 (UK)

January 14 –

“Neanderthal superglue ‘was world’s first chewing gum'” –

Ananova (UK)

January 13 –

“Blashford-Snell under fire for ‘worthless’ expedition” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

January 11 –

“Scientists uncover 70,000-year-old ornaments in South African cave” –

Ananova (UK)

January 11 –

“Man’s earliest ideas are written on ochre” –

Cape Argus/IOL (South Africa)

January 11 –

“There’s more to Ice Ages than Main Theory explains” –

CCNet Post #3 (UK)

January 11 –

“19 million-year-old elephant fossil found in Japan” –

Ananova (UK)

January 11 –

“The Universe is turquoise, say astronomers” –

New Scientist (UK)

January 10 –

“SA artists beat Europe by 35 000 years” –

IOL (South Africa)

January 10 –

“Stonehenge: an early impact warning device?” –

CCNet Post #16 (UK)

January 09 –

“Ancient fort makes way for development by bin Laden family” –

Ananova (UK)

January 09 –

“Archaeological find in Menya leads to discovering Ptolemaic city” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 09 –

“Asteroid misses Earth by 4 hours” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

January 09 –

“Saudis hit back over Mecca castle” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 07 –

“Move to dismiss denied in Shultz antiquities case” –

Archaeology.org (USA)

January 07 –

“Clay Musician Figures Unearthed at West Han Dynasty Mausoleum” –

People’s Daily (China)

January 07 –

“Earth was just four hours from devastation” –

IOL (South Africa)

January 07 –

“Volatile markets were also a thing of the past” –

Ananova (UK)

January 06 –

“More dances with tomb robbers” –

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)

January 06 –

“Neanderthals clever enough to make ‘superglue'” –

Ananova (UK)

January 05 –

“Archaeological fort in northern coast” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 04 –

“Archaeologists to survey condition of Afghanistan antiquities” –

Ananova (UK)

January 04 –

“Search for “Lost” Atlantis centers on Strait of Gibraltar” –

National Geographic News (USA)

January 03 –

“Lost Buddhist temples found in China” –

Ananova (UK)

January 03 –

“Roman town unearthed in north Sinai” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 03 –

“Archaeologist in touch with Midas?” –

Independent Online (South Africa)

January 03 –

“Civilization lost? – 120 miles north of Lima, Peru” –

Christian Science Monitor (USA)

January 02 –

“‘One in 20’ risk of ice sheet collapse” –

SciDev.Net (UK)

January 02 –

“Ancient tablet on ecological protection discovered in north China” –

XinhuaNet (China)

January 01 –

“Jupiter, under the influence of the Sun, puts on a glowing performance” –

The Independent (UK)

January 2002 –

“Lost Kingdoms of the Desert” –

Fate Magazine (USA)