Archaeology News Headlines November 2014

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 Archaeology 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 resilient 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 wider solar system perspective that the true history of human civilisation will ever be fully understood. The Morien Institute archive therefore contains relevant material from many disciplines.

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As we enter the 21st century technological advances are coming to the aid of scientists of all descriptions. But it will likely be the Marine Archaeologists, whose discoveries on the continental shelves that were once the coastal plains of the archaic world that will most significantly change our picture of the past. We cannot go on thinking of the past from the scant knowledge available to us from excavations of the remains of ancient peoples discovered solely on the dry land we now live on.


This dry land comprises around 29% of the total surface area of our planet and the remaining 71% is currently ocean. Over the last 17 years or so The Morien Institute has been carefully documenting as much information about new discoveries underwater as we can find, and The Morien Institute Marine Archaeology Archive gives just a glimpse of the many recent discoveries showing evidence of sometimes ‘vast coastal settlements’ that were inundated by rising seas in ancient times.


During the last Ice Age the ‘sea-levels were more than 300 feet lower than they are today’, and a wide band either side of the equator enjoyed a pleasant enough climate for human civilisation to have flourished in many parts of the world. When the sea levels rose as the ice sheets melted ‘many coastal settlements disappeared under the waves’ – forgotten except in the oral traditions of peoples in every land. These oral traditions represent an invaluable archive of knowledge from the archaic world, but they are almost always dismissed by academic archaeologists and prehistorians who have traditionally regarded them simply as ‘quaint myths’ which they collectively claimed have no bearing on reality.


But that is a very foolish perspective. What remains of the oral traditions of the many ancient societies that once developed on our planet must be preserved at all costs so that future peoples can study the wisdom of ancient peoples with an open mind that was sadly absent from past academic thinking. These oral traditions are now acknowledged as being the invaluable ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ of ancient peoples, and represent a collective understanding of the natural world that had developed through careful observation over countless millennia. Despite the scepticism expressed in some academic disciplines, we cannot afford to let this ancient knowledge die out simply because the supposed “experts” of today cannot understand it.


Neither can we continue to look at the prehistory of human societies and civilisations as if our planet somehow stands alone in empty space. Nothing could be further from reality. Our immediate solar system environment is more of a ‘cosmic shooting gallery’ than a vast expanse of emptiness, and a great body of evidence is building which shows that the environmental impact of encounters with comets, asteroids and cometary debris has been responsible for ‘the destruction of numerous ancient civilisations’ on several occasions in the archaic world over the past 10 to 20 millennia.


Alongside this our planet orbits a very dynamic star, which we call the Sun, and modern research is showing that our weather, and its long-term trends we refer to as our climate, is very much determined by its moods. Sometimes the sun is quiet, with few sunspots and few solar storms. At other times it is very active with many sunspots, many solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) of charged particles that impact our geomagnetic field with sometimes disastrous consequences for all organisms on Earth, including humans and their societies.


Many scientists are coming to realise that these strong, X-class CMEs can, and have had, catastrophic effects on our climate, abruptly ending Ice Ages and bringing with them solar radiation that can threaten all life on Earth. Exactly how many times this has happened in the past is unknown at present, but scientists are beginning to recognise their “fingerprints” in a variety of proxy data records, and in the near future we will know more for certain.


Throughout the last few hundred years, and quite probably before that, individual researchers ranging from the eccentric ‘Gentleman Antiquarians’ of the 17 & 1800s to the so-called ‘dissident professors’ of the 20th century have pursued lines of enquiry which has horrified general academia. Those individuals were ridiculed and their ideas vociferously opposed by academic archaeologists and prehistorians who had often invested a lifetime’s work in what the more honest amongst them might reluctantly admit in private company to have been a totally inaccurate view of human prehistory.


Theories that many ‘megalithic sites’ began life as some form of observatories acting as ‘early-warning systems’ for imminent impacts of cosmic debris from the break up of a giant comet have been emerging over the last 30-50 years or so. Evidence supporting these theories is helping not only to date some of these monuments, but also illustrates how well their builders were oriented in time and space. A new appreciation that our ancestors were acutely aware that the Earth orbited the Sun, and that it periodically encountered streams of cometary debris, suggests that ancient peoples understood the dynamics of the solar system to a far greater degree than has previously been acknowledged.


Dr. Duncan Steel, then of Spaceguard Australia, presented a paper to the Society for Inter-Disciplinary Studies conference at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in July of 1997, in which he gave details of his research suggesting that the earlier ‘henge circle’ which preceded the stone circles at Stonehenge could have been deliberately constructed to function as a ‘cosmic impact early warning system’. His paper, “Before the Stones: Stonehenge I as a Cometary Catastrophe Predictor” makes for interesting reading for all serious students of ancient astronomy, astro-archaeology, archaeoastronomy and prehistory.


The Cambridge Conference focussed primarily on the effects of ‘natural catastrophes resulting from the impacts of cometary debris’. These impacts were presented as being the likely causes of the sudden collapse and in many cases the total destruction of various Bronze Age civilisations, giving rise to radical cultural changes, and to a number of new religions with accompanying astro-mythologies that had hitherto been impossible for academia to understand.


The simultaneous collapse of these civilizations has long puzzled archaeologists and prehistorians as the vast areas affected ran right across the ‘fertile crescent’ destroying the most advanced societies of the time, ranging in distance from Greece and Anatolia through to Mesopotamia and Afghanistan and continuing eastwards to encompass India and Central Asia.


The cause of the most perplexing ‘Bronze Age Event’ around 2350 – 2300 BC has only recently become clear as a wide variety of ‘ologists from various disciplines have begun reviewing the mythologies of the time. What they have found throughout numerous inter-disciplinary studies are the accurate observations of ancient skywatchers describing cosmic bombardment and flooding which in every case, and in every region, came directly from the ancient skies.


These ‘natural cosmic catastrophes’ were recorded by all ancient societies and passed down through countless generations to become the oral traditions that are held sacred by the peoples whose ancestors directly experienced them, but which are often dismissed as being ‘quaint myths that have no bearing on reality’ by so-called scholars who have never even tried to understand them. Bombardment of our planet by cosmic debris is, like all things in the natural world, a cyclical phenomena. If ancient traditions are any indication it has happened many times in the past, and if we dismiss the records kept by ancient peoples simply because they were recorded in a language that our modern scientists cannot understand, then we will not be prepared when it happens again.


The sophistication and unprecedented accuracy of ‘the astronomical phenomena that was an integral part of almost all of the megalithic structures’ that have been discovered on most continents suggests a long period of development, yet academic archaeologists and prehistorians have been at a loss to explain them. Most have simply ignored the astronomy, or made idiotic statements about ancient peoples not being capable of that level of understanding, but ‘there they are for all the world to see’.


In October 1900, Captain Dimitrious Kondos was leading a team of sponge divers near 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 world’s seas. It became known as ‘The Antikythera Mechanism’.


In 2006 the journal “Nature” published a letter, and a full 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 positions and various cycles of the Moon – as seen from the Earth.


This incredible discovery is indisputable evidence that ancient peoples were far more capable of understanding the cyclical nature of the movements of celestial bodies and various temporary celestial phenomena than they have previously been given credit for, and
‘The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project’ has definitively shown that they were also more than capable of constructing devices which could predict them. There was much discussion about its supposed anomalous nature, but it is only anomalous if viewed in isolation or in the context of a completely inaccurate view of prehistory. In the context of the astronomical knowledge embedded into the siting and construction of megalithic structures a long period of development becomes evident, and is deserving of radical review in light of The Antikythera Mechanism.


Over the past 17 years or so The Morien Institute has archived new archaeological discoveries as well as new interpretations of old archaeological discoveries. In our news pages we list many items that may not seem directly related to a better understanding of what our ancestors saw and experienced in ancient skies. But ‘astro-mythology’ and its interpretation, and constant review of our currently poor appreciation of the scientific achievements of our ancestors remains the common theme that we feel ties most of them together. It is only an open-minded approach to prehistory, and a willingness to accept what is found rather then attempting to make new discoveries fit into some pre-conceived paradigm, that will help us gain a better understanding of our ancient past than is currently taught in our schools, colleges and universities.


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November 2014


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“World’s oldest computer is more ancient than first thought… “

The Daily Mail Online (UK)


“Bathonea excavations shed light on Istanbul’s history”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Limestone ‘Venus’ 23,000 years old dug up in France”

PhysOrg (USA)



A person points to a 23,000 year-old chalk statue of
a woman called the “Venus of Renancourt” which was found
at the paleolithic site of Renancourt, France November 27 2014


an image of a person pointing to a 23,000 year-old chalk statue of a woman called the 'Venus of Renancourt' which was found at the paleolithic site of Renancourt, France, November 27, 2014 , which is also a clickable link to the PhysOrg story


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“Poznan’ archaeologists studied a monumental mound”

Nauka w Polsca (Poland)


“Four Crimean museums to go to court for return of treasures in Amsterdam”

DutchNews (Netherlands)


“1,700 Year Old Cemetery Discovered Along Ancient Trade Route”

International Business Times AU (Australia)


“Tombs with mythical carvings found in Chinese city that was once along the Silk Road”

PhysOrg (USA)


“Secrets of a Celtic princess”

Deutsche Welle (Germany)


“Genghis Khan era coins found in Mongolia”

Business Standard (India)


“Researchers: Polish ‘vampire graves’ contain cholera victims”

UPI (USA)


“Ancient rock art discovery across Asia”

Griffith University (Australia)


“Domestic cereals in evidence 7,000 years ago in Sudan”

Past Horizons (UK)



“Humans in Africa already exploited domestic cereals 7,000 years ago and thus several centuries earlier than previously known.

Researchers have successfully verified ancient barley and wheat residues in grave goods and on teeth from two Neolithic cemeteries in North and Central Sudan.

The results of the analyses were recently published (online) in the journal PLoS ONE.

Dr. Welmoed Out from the University of Kiel was involved in the investigation. ‘With our results we can verify that people along the Nile did not only exploit gathered wild plants and animals but even crops of barley and wheat.'”

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“Ancient house with floor heating unearthed in southern Turkey”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Retreating glacier provides clues to the lives of Iron Age horsemen and hunters”

HorseTalk (New Zealand)


“Stone age axe found with wood handle”

BBC News (UK)


“Complete relics of ancient mining and metallurgy discovered in Beijing”

China.org (China)


“Second Temple Era Military Outpost Discovered, Possibly Destroyed by Alexander the Great”

Algemeiner (Israel)


“Scientific methods shed new light on evolution of kinship patterns”

PhysOrg (USA)


“Lidar reveals Roman goldmines in Spain”

Eksma Optics (Cymru)


“Ancient tomb helps restore pride to recession-hit Greece”

Malay Mail Online (Malaysia)


“Norfolk Bronze Age dagger ‘doorstop’ saved”

BBC News (UK)


“Scientists Find Chicken Bones Dating Back to 10,000 Years Ago in Northern China”

Yibada (China)


“People ate mammoth; Dogs got reindeer”

Science Daily (USA)


“Scientists expand excavation of ancient Amphipolis”

Neos Kosmos (Greece)


“Incredible underwater city thought to have been lost for centuries”

Irish Mirror (Ireland)


One of the 16-foot statues found underwater at
Thonis-Heracleion off the coast of Egypt


an image of one of the 16-foot statues found underwater at Thonis-Heracleion off the coast of Egypt, which is also a clickable link to the Irish Mirror story


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“Paintings discovered in ancient tomb depict life during Alexander the Great’s reign”

The Malay Mail Online (Malaysia)


“The Race to Save a Neanderthal Site”

New Historian (UK)


“Chinese archaeological treasure unearthed using 3D imaging”

The Times of India (India)


“Ancient Egyptian Handbook of Spells Deciphered”

Live Science (USA)


“Ancient sculptures crumbling due to lack of attention”

Dawn (Pakistan)


“Double burial and warrior body discovered: 21 Saxon skeletons in Suffolk village”

Culture24 (UK)


“Could rare sword have belonged to Ivan the Terrible?”

The Siberian Times (Russia)


“Small ‘Underwater Pompeii’ Found Off Greek Island”

Discovery News (USA)


“Ancient Aboriginal rock art site discovered in suburban Sydney”

ABC News (Australia)


“Prehistoric Farming on the Tibetan Plateau”

Popular Archaeology (USA)


“Headstone from 400 B.C. Found in Kerameikos”

Greek Reporter (Greece)


“Exploring Kahoolawe: Saving an ancient Hawaiian sundial”

KHON 2 (Hawai’i)


“Who Built This Unusual 1,300-Year-Old Siberian Palace… and Why?”

The Epoch Times (China)


“The history of the Temple Mount: Where gods collide”

Ha’aretz (Israel)


“Archaeologists race against time to explore Neanderthal site”

PhysOrg (USA)


“US hands over 554 ancient artifacts to Thailand”

Thailand National News Bureau (Thailand)


“Climate Change Not a Cause of Bronze Age Collapse”

Popular Archaeology (USA)



“Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers prove definitively that climate change – commonly assumed to be responsible – could not have been the culprit.

Archaeologists and environmental scientists from the University of Bradford, University of Leeds, University College Cork, Ireland (UCC), and Queen’s University Belfast have shown that the changes in climate that scientists believed to coincide with the fall in population in fact occurred at least two generations later.

Their results, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that human activity starts to decline after 900BC, and falls rapidly after 800BC, indicating a population collapse.

But the climate records show that colder, wetter conditions didn’t occur until around two generations later. Fluctuations in levels of human activity through time are reflected by the numbers of radiocarbon dates for a given period.

The team used new statistical techniques to analyse more than 2000 radiocarbon dates, taken from hundreds of archaeological sites in Ireland, to pinpoint the precise dates that Europe’s Bronze Age population collapse occurred.”

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“Archaeologists unearthing treasures just meters from ISIL”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Prehistoric basket saved from the waves on North Uist beach”

Aberdeen Press and Journal (Scotland)


“Utah Cave Full of Children’s Moccasins Sheds Light on Little-Known Ancient Culture”

Western Digs (USA)


“Viking treasure found in Scotland”

The Copenhagen Post (Denmark)


“Turkey’s immortal city gets new lease on life”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Ears of Ancient Chinese Terra-Cotta Warriors Offer Clues to Their Creation”

National Geographic News (USA)


“Is this what Siberian men used to shave in 2,000BC?”

The Siberian Times (Russia)


“Rubbish dig casts new light on pre-Columbian village”

News & Observer (USA)


“Danish archaeologists find 5,000-year-old human footprints”

ScienceNordic (Denmark)


“Glass dish unearthed in Nara came from Roman Empire”

Asahi Shimbun (Japan)


“Unlooted tomb discovered in Aigai necropolis”

eKathimerini (Greece)


“Secrets in stone: Art historian cracks the code of an ancient temple”

Science Daily (USA)


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“Study: Insects first to inhabit land 400 million years ago”

The Independent Florida Alligator (USA)


“2,500-year-old furnace unearthed in Scots forest”

The Scotsman (Scotland)


“Who built this Siberian summer palace… and why?”

The Siberian Times (Russia)


“9,000-year-old man yields secrets of America’s earliest inhabitants”

Fox News (USA)


“Egypt court says Germans stole artifacts”

The Local (Germany)


“Scientists Discover 47-million-year-old Horse Fossils With Foal Inside”

States Chronicle (USA)


“Sofia is the only capital in Europe which has revealed archaeological structures of 8,000-yr-old”

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria)


“Skeletal remains found in Greek tomb from Alexander the Great’s era”

The Malay Mail Online (Malaysia)


“The cave paintings of Valltorta-Gassulla could be dated in absolute terms thanks to new analyses”

Heritage Daily (UK)


“A dying form of hunting with eagles could be resurrected”

The Siberian Times (Russia)


“Race to save prehistoric basket found in Western Isles”

The Press & Journal (Scotland)


“Archaeologists Discover Remains of Ice Age Infants in Alaska”

Alaska Native News (Alaska)



“The remains of two Ice Age infants, buried more than 11,000 years ago at a site in Alaska, represent the youngest human remains from that era ever found in northern North America, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The site and its artifacts provide new insights into funeral practices and other rarely preserved aspects of life among people who inhabited the area thousands of years ago, according to Ben Potter, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the paper’s lead author.

The researchers worked closely with local and regional Native tribal organizations as they conducted their research. The National Science Foundation funded the work.

Potter and his colleagues note that the human remains and associated burial offerings, as well as inferences about the time of year the children died and were buried, could lead to new thinking about how early societies were structured, the stresses they faced as they tried to survive, how they treated the youngest members of their society, and how they viewed death and the importance of rituals associated with it.”

[Read The Full Story]


“More-Than-2,000-Year Pyramid Discovered in Bolivia”

Prensa Latina (Cuba)


“Cappadocia’s 11,000-year-old settlement thrills experts”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“1,500-Year-Old ‘Lost Gospel’ Suggests Jesus Was Married With Children”

io9 (USA)


“Alexander the Great claimed by both sides in battle over name of Macedonia”

Dawn (Pakistan)


“Was the world’s oldest secret code found in Urals?”

The Siberian Times (Russia)


“Mycenean artifacts found in Bodrum”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Europe Was a Melting Pot From the Start, Ancient DNA Reveals”

National Geographic News (USA)


“Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old footprints”

The Copenhagen Post (Denmark)


“Aerial survey uncovers 2,000 archaeological sites on Exmoor”

Western Morning News (England)


“1,000-Year-Old Tomb Reveals Murals, Stars & Poetry”

Live Science (USA)


“Road work unearths Phoenician grotto in south Lebanon”

The Daily Star (Lebanon)


“‘Prehistoric basket’ uncovered by tide on North Uist”

BBC News (UK)


“For first time, Joseon-era sunken ship is found”

Korea JoongAng Daily (South Korea)


“2,000-year-old youth organization”

Science Daily (USA)


“Archaeologists Uncover Veliki Preslav’s Eastern Gate”

Novinite (Bulgaria)


“Archaeologists Investigate Underground Pyramidal Structure Beneath Orvieto, Italy”

Popular Archaeology (USA)



“Archaeologists are scratching their heads about an underground pyramid-shaped structure they have been excavating beneath the historic medieval town of Orvieto in Italy.

But it may not be a mystery forever. They hope to find answers as they continue to tease artifacts and architectural materials from the soil.

“We discovered it three summers ago and still have no idea what it is,” write Prof. David B. George of Anselm College and co-director Claudio Bizzarri of PAAO and colleagues about the site.

“We do know what it is not. It is not a quarry; it’s walls are too well dressed. It is not a well or cistern; its walls have no evidence of hydraulic treatments.”

Calling it the “cavitá” (‘hole’ or ‘hollow’ in Italian), or hypogeum, the archaeologists have thus far excavated about 15 meters down.”

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“Arid climate decimated ancient devils”

ABC Science News (Australia)


“Population boom, droughts contributed to collapse of ancient Assyrian Empire”

PhysOrg (USA)


“Children from lost civilisation ‘helped build’ geoglyph some 6,000 years ago”

The Siberian Times (Russia)


“Investors unveil Saifi Crown project”

The Daily Star (Lebanon)


“Archaeologists Uncover Massive Fortifications in Ancient City of King Midas”

Popular Archaeology (USA)


“Gut microbes changed rapidly as humans evolved”

ABC Science News (Australia)


“UNESCO to register Shush in World Heritage Lis”

Mehr News (Iran)


“Illegal excavation leads to discovery of 3400-year-old pharaonic temple in Egypt”

Vancouver Desi (Canada)


“Decline and fall of Assyrian Empire a timely warning”

The Irish Times (Ireland)


“Ancient DNA shows earliest European genomes weathered the Ice Age”

EurekAlert (USA)


“Mega wave hit Oman’s coast 4,500 years ago”

Times of Oman (Oman)


“Farewell ‘J’, hello Agilkia”

ESA News (France)



“Details about ‘Yunatsite’ mound and the oldest European civilization”

BNR News (Bulgaria)



“More and more evidence confirm a very brave thesis, according to which the Balkan Peninsula, rather than ancient Mesopotamia, is the cradle of our civilization.

The evidence of a little known culture which preceded the Egyptian and even the Sumerian cultures attracts the attention of the scientists, thus turning the perceptions of antiquity upside down.

Remains of this ancient society have been gradually emerging from the ashes of the human history to take us some 6-7 millennia back in time when a highly-developed unknown civilization flourished on our lands.

We are talking about a period which preceded the Sumerian one at least one millennium.

One of the most emblematic evidences of this mysterious civilization is the gold of the Chalcolithic Necropolis of Varna (from 4,400-4,100 BC), also known as the oldest processed gold worldwide.”


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“Archaeologists uncover remains of pre-Columbian village in central Colombia”

Colombia Reports (Colombia)


“Tomb raiders go wild in Jordan”

HeraldNet (USA)


“New mosaics unearthed in ancient city of Zeugma”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Ancient tomb found in northern Greece”

CCTV (China)


“Complete 9,000-year-old frozen bison mummy found in Siberia”

EurekAlert (USA)


“Shipwreck thought to date back to Joseon found”

The Korea Herald (South Korea)


“New evidence: Balkan Peninsula instead of Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization”

Standart News (Bulgaria)


“Archaeologists encounter extraordinary alfresco gallery of prehistoric art in the Altai Mountains”

Mail Online (UK)


“From Ancient DNA, a Clearer Picture of Europeans Today”

Alaska Dispatch News (Alaska)


“Aussie dinosaurs – more Argentinean or Asian?”

ABC Radio National – The Science Show (Australia)


“Pre-Columbian Muslims in Ohio?”

Ohio History (USA)


“Archaeologists Unearth Lion’s Head, Tablet With Nymphs In Hisarya”

Novinite (Bulgaria)



“UNESCO chief slams Iraq heritage damage by ISIL”

PressTV (Iran)



“Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the destruction of Iraq’s cultural heritage by ISIL Takfiri terrorists.

In her visit to Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Sunday, Irina Bokova slammed the ‘barbaric’ damage dealt to Iraq’s cultural heritage, saying the international community must immediately act and prevent the ISIL from destroying age-old sites in the areas under its control.

Iraq has ‘thousands of temples, of buildings, of archaeological sites, of objects, that represent a treasure for all humanity…. We cannot agree that this treasure, that this legacy of human civilization, is being destroyed in the most barbaric matter’, she said.

The UNESCO chief also said the terrorist group is trying to destroy the identity and history of the Iraqi people.”

[Read The Full Story]


“Hunt for fourth chamber”

The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)


“Study: Ice Man has traces of bacteria that undermined his health”

BetaWired (USA)


“Restoring Pakistan’s Buddhist past”

Dawn (Pakistan)



“Aerial images shed light on mysterious Middle East stone circles”

The Independent (UK)



“50,000 treasures found in tunnel under Mexico’s Teotihuacan temple”

Standart News (Bulgaria)


“Mysterious ‘Big Circles’ Discovered in Middle East”

BetaWired (USA)


“Roman skeletons found in Worcestershire”

Worcester News (England)


“Looters raid Jordanian crypts in search of gold, jewels and artefacts”

Helsinki Times (Finland)


“Ancient Greek Port Revealed Near Corinth, Peloponnese”

Greek Reporter (Greece)



“Pharaoh Thutmosis-era temple found by accident in Egypt”

The Daily Telegraph (UK)


“Archaeologists from Poland to work at Tabuk excavation site”

Arab News (Saudi Arabia)



“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]


Part of the Antikythera Mechanism


an image of Part of the Antikythera Mechanism, which is also a clickable link directly to the Lichfield Blog story



Antikythera Mechanism Research Project


2000-year-old analog computer recreated


More Antikythera Mechanism Information & Commentary:


“New international mission ready to explore Antikythera shipwreck”

eKathimerini (Greece)


“Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found”

The Guardian Science Blog (UK)


“In search of lost time”

Nature (UK)


“World’s First Computer Displayed Olympic Calendar”

Wired Gadget Lab (USA)


“Antikythera Mechanism – World’s earliest existing analogue computer”

HotnHit News (India)


“In search of lost time”

Nature (UK)


“Imaging the Antikythera Computer”

Wired Gadget Lab (USA)


“Decoding an Ancient Computer: Greek Technology Tracked the Heavens”

Scientific American (USA)


“2,000 Year Old Computer Yields Her Secrets”

Wired Gadget Lab (USA)


“Watch a video explaining the Antikythera mechanism”

Nature (UK)


“Antikythera mechanism”

Wikipedia (USA)


“World’s First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years”

Wired Gadget Lab (USA)


“Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life”

The Guardian Science Blog (UK)


Google image search results for The Antikythera mechanism

Google (USA)

 


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Local Cosmos”

Edited by

Carolus J. Schrijver
&
George L. Siscoe



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“This volume, the first in a series of three heliophysics texts, integrates such diverse topics for the first time as a coherent intellectual discipline.


It emphasizes the physical processes coupling the Sun and Earth, allowing insights into the interaction of the solar wind and radiation with the Earth’s magnetic field, atmosphere and climate system.


It provides a core resource for advanced undergraduates and graduates, and also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in heliophysics, astrophysics, plasma physics, space physics, solar physics, aeronomy, space weather, planetary science and climate science.”


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Additional online resources
including lecture presentations
and other teaching materials
will become available towards
the end of 2014 at:

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“Heliophysics II:

Space storms and radiation:

causes and effects”


Edited by


Carolus J. Schrijver

&

George L. Siscoe



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“The Sun is a magnetically variable star and for planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, planets with atmospheres, or planets like Earth with both, there are profound consequences.


This 2010 volume, the second in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrates the many aspects of space storms and the energetic radiation associated with them – from causes on the Sun to effects in planetary environments.


It reviews the physical processes in solar flares and coronal mass ejections, interplanetary shocks, and particle acceleration and transport, and considers many space weather responses in geospace. In addition to its utility as a textbook, it also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in fields from heliophysics to climate science.”


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“Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids”

by

Michael J. S. Belton (Editor)
Thomas H. Morgan (Editor)
Nalin H. Samarasinha (Editor)
Donald K. Yeomans (Editor)



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“It is known that large asteroids and comets can collide with the Earth with severe consequences.


Although the chances of a collision in a person’s lifetime are small, collisions are a random process and could occur at any time.


This book, which was first published in 2004, collects the latest thoughts and ideas of scientists concerned with mitigating the threat of hazardous asteroids and comets. It reviews knowledge of the population of potential colliders, including their numbers, locations, orbits, and how warning times might be improved.


The structural properties and composition of their interiors and surfaces are reviewed, and their orbital response to the application of pulses of energy is discussed. Difficulties of operating in space near, or on the surface of, very low mass objects are examined.


The book concludes with a discussion of the problems faced in communicating the nature of the impact hazard to the public.”




“Philip’s Planisphere:
Northern 51.5 Degrees
British Isles, Northern Europe, Northern USA and Canada”

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Philip’s Astronomy Publishing



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“Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets”

by

Peter Jenniskens



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“Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts.

Spectacular displays of ‘shooting stars’ are created when the Earth’s orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at high speed.

Jenniskens, an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth.

He includes the findings of recent space missions to comets and asteroids, the risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have seeded the Earth with ingredients that made life possible.

All known meteor showers are identified, accompanied by fascinating details on the most important showers and their parent comets.

The book predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the next 50 years, making it a valuable resource for both amateur and professional astronomers.”


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“The 2300 BC Event – Vol. 1:

Archaeology and Geophysics

& The Meteoroid Stream”


by


M. M. Mandelkehr



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“The 2300 BC Event takes a new look at an old puzzle: what happened
at this date to cause the various advanced societies on the Earth to simultaneously collapse?

Civilizations in Anatolia and Greece, through Egypt and the Middle East, and eastward to India and Central Asia were at their height. The collapse of these civilizations due to earthquakes and climatic changes has been mirrored by similar interruptions on all continents, in the Arctic, and extending to the Pacific.

The discontinuities have long puzzled archaeologists and historians. New religions and accompanying mythologies appeared at this time in all cultural regions describing bombardment and flooding from the skies.

Strangely, the dominant aspect of the mythologies, however, is the observation and worship of a ring appearing to surround the Earth, oriented to the two Ursa (Bear) constellations.”


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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 2:

Mythology

The Eyewitness Accounts”


by


M. M. Mandelkehr



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“Some time around 2300 BC the Eath encountered a dense clustering of space debris, the early Southern & Northern
Taurid meteoroid stream. The result was an intense fall of meteoroids, some of them sufficiently large to cause surface destruction.

Simultaneous with the meteoroid fall was a huge downpouring of water which caused flash flooding. Extensive destruction and loss of life resulted. An astonishing aspect of the event was the formation of a ring surrounding the Earth, reflecting sunlight during the day, hiding some stars at night, and moving around the sky through a 24-hour period.

Following the ‘main event’, there were crustal movements which shifted the location of water sources, and caused earthquakes which destroyed settlements. Abrupt severe climate changes occurred.”


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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 3:

Mythology

The Eyewitness Accounts 2″


by


M. M. Mandelkehr



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“The Northern/Southern Taurid meteoroid stream is identified as the specific meteoroid stream that the Earth encountered at 2300 BC.

The Earth’s encounter with a dense cluster of large objects would produce atmospheric phenomena very different from the pleasant and interesting night displays of meteor trails that are within our own experience.

The rain of objects would have generated extraordinary visual and auditory effects combined with ground vibrations; and under extreme conditions would bring about severe surface destruction and loss of life.

The overall event was associated by the people with powerful deities and formed the basis for major religions. The mythologies and traditions are, in large part, the residues of those religions.”


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November 2014
Monthly, Quarterly, Periodical Magazines & Journals



“The Neolithic Toolkit: How experimental archaeology is showing that Europe’s first farmers were also its first carpenters”


Archaeology Magazine


“Dynamic ups and downs of the Himalaya”


Geology


“The socioeconomic status of Iron Age metalworkers: animal economy in the ‘Slaves’ Hill’, Timna, Israel”


Antquity


“Letter From Montana: The Buffalo Chasers”


Archaeology Magazine


“The Geomorphological Context of Medieval Juslibol Castle in the Middle Reaches of the River Ebro, Spain”


Geoarchaeology


“The Hasanlu (Iran) Gold Bowl in context: all that glitters… “


Antquity


“Microanalyses link sulfur from large igneous provinces and Mesozoic mass extinctions”


Geology


“From The Trenches: Heart Attack of the Mummies”


Archaeology Magazine


“Patterns in the Landscape and Erosion of Cultural Sites Along the Colorado River Corridor in Grand Canyon, USA”


Geoarchaeology


“Time-scale uncertainty of abrupt events in the geologic record arising from unsteady sedimentation”


Geology


“Identifying ceramic production and exchange in the Valley of Puebla, Mexico: a multifaceted approach”


Antquity



“From The Trenches: Ice Age Lion Made Whole Again”


Archaeology Magazine


“Latest Permian chars may derive from wildfires, not coal combustion”


Geology


“Holocene Paleo-Geographic Reconstructions of Ramore Head Area, Northern Ireland, Using Geophysical & Geotechnical Data”


Geoarchaeology


“From the Iron Age to Angkor: new light on the origins of a state”


Antquity


“Holocene Indian Ocean tsunami history in Sri Lanka”


Geology


“World Roundup of Recent Archaeological Discoveries – November/December 2014”


Archaeology Magazine

 



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