– terrestrial archaeology and solar system history – news headlines archive – September 11 – 20 2003 – new discoveries about ancient civilisation under ancient skies –

we strive to update them daily …

September 20 –

“Roman artefacts dug up from housing site” –

Press & Journal (Scotland)

September 20 –

“Finding Nemo 5: Diving The Abyss” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 20 –

“Historic space mission nears end” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 20 –

“Strong quake rocks Tokyo, some injuries” –

China Daily (China)

September 20 –

“Amazonian find stuns researchers” –

The Seattle Times (USA)

September 20 –

“Abominable Snowman ‘just a bear'” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 20 –

“Ancient river found beneath Toronto” –

Reuters (UK)

September 20 –

“Fossil of giant guinea pig found” –

Taipei Times (Taiwan)

September 20 –

“Galileo: End of mission sequence of events” –

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

September 20 –

“Swiped national treasure safe, sound” –

China Daily (China)

September 20 –

“Fossil reveals world’s oldest genitals” –

New Scientist (UK)

September 20 –

“Scholars shed light on ancient residents” –

Mercury News (USA)

September 20 –

“Warrior Queen is Unearthed” –

Lincolnshire Echo (England)

September 20 –

“Earthquake hits Tokyo” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 20 –

“Greeks, Romans and the cult of victory” –

International Herald Tribune (USA)

September 20 –

“Moon Brings Novel Green Power to Arctic Homes” –

Reuters (UK)

September 20 –

“Scientists unlock Monte Rosa’s secret history” –

SwissInfo (Switzerland)

September 20 –

“Goodbye Galileo” –

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

September 20 –

“Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Tokyo, vicinity” –

XinhuaNet (China)

September 20 –

“Space veteran Galileo heads for fiery finale on Jupiter” –

The Age (Australia)

September 20 –

“Scientists date ancient Siloam’s Tunnel using Carbon-14” –

Amarillo Globe-News (USA)

September 20 –

“Hurricane Isabel kills 23” –

Reuters (UK)

September 19 –

“Valuable Sumerian Relic Recovered In Orchard Outside Baghdad” –

The Day (USA)

September 19 –

“The ESA Launchers Kids’ Quiz is now available in 11 European languages” –

ESA (France)

September 19 –

“Amazon was settled before Columbus’ time” –

Nature (UK)

September 19 –

“Finding Nemo 4: Aliens Among Us” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 19 –

“700kg monster rodent discovered” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 19 –

“Remains of Cities Found in Amazon Basin” –

Newsday (USA)

September 19 –

“5000-year-old axe head found on Stonehenge World Heritage site” –

24Hour Museum (UK)

September 19 –

“Archaeological sites to be free on Tourism Day” –

TerraNet (Lebanon)

September 19 –

“Ancient Relatives of Algae Played Key Role Early CO2 Rich Atmosphere” –

SpaceDaily (USA)

September 19 –

“Ancient skeletons found on site” –

Yorkshire Post (England)

September 19 –

“No discrimination: Zahi Hawass on the mummy of Queen Nefertiti” –

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)

September 19 –

“SMART-1 ready for launch” –

ESA (France)

September 19 –

“Row erupts over asteroid press scare” –

Nature (UK)

September 19 –

“Pre-Columbus Amazon Basin Bustled, Researchers Say” –

Tampa Tribune (USA)

September 19 –

“Hurricane Isabel wreaks havoc along US east coast” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

September 19 –

“Ancient Amazon Villages Unearthed” –

CBS News (USA)

September 19 –

“Galileo goes out with a bang” –

Nature (UK)

September 19 –

“‘Buffalo sized’ rodent found to be guinea pig’s ancestor” –

ABC News Online (Australia)

September 18 –

“Ancient Iraqi sculpture found” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 18 –

“Abominable Snowman really a bear, Japanese mountaineer states” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

September 18 –

“Global change: Ancient atmospheres” –

Nature (UK)

September 18 –

“Iraq recovers “Mona Lisa of Mesopotamia” looted from museum” –

TerraNet (Lebanon)

September 18 –

“Ancient Amazon Settlements Uncovered” –

Kansas City Star (USA)

September 18 –

“Toning down the scale” –

The Scotsman (Scotland)

September 18 –

“Lithuanian resident tries to smuggle 2 ancient coins in bra” –

InterFax (Russia)

September 18 –

“Gulp! Earth on Sun’s menu” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 18 –

“Central province begins upgrade of historic relics” –

VOV News (Viet Nam)

September 18 –

“‘Pristine’ Amazon Hosted Large Cities, Study Finds” –

Reuters (UK)

September 18 –

“Scientists unearth ancient ‘Big Daddy'” –

Press & Journal (Scotland)

September 18 –

“Hurricane Isabel – the view from space” –

Science@NASA (USA)

September 18 –

“Oldest willy in world: Scots fossil from 400m years ago” –

Daily Record (Scotland)

September 18 –

“Simultaneous earthquakes in Pacific could kill 28,000” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

September 18 –

“Ancient Amazon Settlements Uncovered” –

ABC News (USA)

September 18 –

“Valuable Sumerian Relic Recovered in Iraq” –

The Guardian (UK)

September 18 –

“Indians end protest over ancestral land flooding in Chile” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

September 18 –

“Secrets of ancient psalter” –

Herts Advertiser (England)

September 18 –

“Finding Nemo 3: Ancient White Shark” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 18 –

“End of the world is not nigh. Asteroid will miss by (millions of) miles” –

The Scotsman (Scotland)

September 18 –

“Archaeologists tout major ‘Sun God’ find in Tyre” –

Daily Star (Lebanon)

September 18 –

“First supernovae seeded universe with stuff of life” –

SpaceFlight Now (USA)

September 18 –

“Lung Leng, a unique prehistoric culture in Northern Central Highlands” –

VNA News (Viet Nam)

September 18 –

“The 2-billion-year-old song” –

International Herald Tribune (USA)

September 18 –

“ERS-2 peers into Hurricane Isabel’s heart” –

ESA News (France)

September 18 –

“UoF Researchers Find Amazon Once Home to Large, Complex Settlements” –

AScribe (USA)

September 18 –

“When plants conquered land – 475 million years ago” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 18 –

“Blaze at ancient Nara temple kills 1” –

Mainichi Daily News (Japan)

September 18 –

“Galileo To Taste Jupiter Before Taking Final Plunge” –

SpaceDaily (USA)

September 18 –

“Isabel closes in on US east coast” –

ABC News Online (Australia)

September 17 –

“Man finds Roman tablet in garden” –

Ananova (UK)

September 17 –

“Missing Buddha: Cops suspect an inside job” –

Times of India (India)

September 17 –

“The Last Thousand Years of Climate Change in Antarctica” –

CO2 Science Magazine (USA)

September 17 –

“World’s Oldest Genitals Found in Scotland” –

Reuters (UK)

September 17 –

“Chandra Solves Mystery of Moon’s Dark Side” –

Scientific American (USA)

September 17 –

“Giant hail and mini tornadoes hit West Coast” –

Stuff (New Zealand)

September 17 –

“Ancient Algae Yield New Insights Into Role of CO2 in Early Atmosphere” –

AScribe (USA)

September 17 –

“‘Human Figure’ found at Floodworks site” –

Wellington Weekly News (England)

September 17 –

“Gamma-ray bursts: are we safe?” –

ESA News (France)

September 17 –

“Stolen petroglyphs found in Reno” –

Las Vegas Sun (USA)

September 17 –

“China’s earliest paper painting discovered in NW China” –

China Daily (China)

September 17 –

“Giant star caught swallowing three planets” –

New Scientist (UK)

September 17 –

“Fossils Show Evidence of Ancient Plants” –

Yahoo News/AP (USA)

September 17 –

“Tens of thousands flee hurricane” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 17 –

“Ancient spores finger humans in Madagascar extinctions and other stories” –

ENN (USA)

September 17 –

“Painful recovery at Baghdad’s war-scarred museum” –

Zawya.com (Syria)

September 17 –

“Slow Variations in Solar Luminosity” –

CO2 Science Magazine (USA)

September 17 –

“Ancient Welsh recipe enters the microwave age” –

icWales (Cymru)

September 17 –

“More splatters from the sky reported” –

Stuff (New Zealand)

September 17 –

“Archaeologists find clues in remains of a disaster” –

San Luis Obispo (USA)

September 17 –

“A single brain puts all computers to shame” –

Times of India (India)

September 17 –

“Quake hits northern Luzon” –

ABS-CBN News (Philippines)

September 17 –

“X-rays provide new theory on moon’s mysterious formation” –

ABC News Online (Australia)

September 17 –

“Ancient monster marsupial’s weight gain” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 17 –

“All about asteroids” –

The Independent (Bangladesh)

September 17 –

“Scientists Bid Farewell To Galileo” –

SpaceDaily (USA)

September 17 –

“Archaeologists on verge of finding ‘3rd Buddha’” –

The Peninsula (Qatar)

September 17 –

“Stolen Native American Artifact Is Recovered” –

CBS2 News (USA)

September 17 –

“Thousands told to flee Hurricane Isabel” –

Stuff (New Zealand)

September 17 –

“Little Ice Age (North America) — Summary” –

CO2 Science Magazine (USA)

September 16 –

“Exploding star hunters make history” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 16 –

“Earthquake hits Buryatia” –

InterFax (Russia)

September 16 –

“Beijing to repair Ming Tomb” –

XinhuaNet (China)

September 16 –

“Grand Canyon born on East coast” –

Nature (UK)

September 16 –

“Afghanistan close to resolving mystery of lost Buddha of Bamiyan” –

ANN (Afghanistan)

September 16 –

“Factory may have weapons link to Roman army” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 16 –

“First Supernovae Quickly Seeded Universe With Stuff Of Life” –

SpaceDaily (USA)

September 16 –

“Dig throws light on ‘third Buddha'” –

iAfrica.com (South Africa)

September 16 –

“China nears first human space flight” –

New Scientist (UK)

September 16 –

“Galileo’s suicide dive into Jupiter” –

Times of India (India)

September 16 –

“Museums return the sacred” –

Pittsburg Tribune-Review (USA)

September 16 –

“Hurricane Isabel churns toward US coast” –

The Peninsula (Qatar)

September 16 –

“Call to extend alien life search” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 16 –

“Preparation for manned space launch going smoothly” –

China Daily (China)

September 16 –

“Archaeologists to hear program on Erickson Ranch dig” –

Amarillo Globe-News (USA)

September 16 –

“Scientists forecast a large earthquake every 10 years” –

Taipei Times (Taiwan)

September 16 –

“Mars rocks Beagle team” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 16 –

“NASA readies Galileo spacecraft for Jupiter disintegration” –

ABC News Online (Australia)

September 16 –

“Pa. Museums working to restore artifacts to tribes” –

Philadelphia Inquirer (USA)

September 16 –

“Chotila excited as ancient Jain idols are unearthed” –

Times of India (India)

September 15 –

“Early villages hold the key to war” –

New Scientist (UK)

September 15 –

“Astronomer tips major Tokyo quake” –

CNN News (USA)

September 15 –

“Moderate earthquake rattles central Italy” –

Toronto Star (Canada)

September 15 –

“Galileo’s death leap onto Jupiter” –

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

September 15 –

“Mohicans oversee dig into their past” –

Times Union (USA)

September 15 –

“Greeks ‘borrowed Egyptian numbers'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 15 –

“Early Mars Was Frozen But Habitable: Part I” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 15 –

“Quake shakes Italy” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 15 –

“Big bang prompts search for meteor” –

myTELUS (Canada)

September 15 –

“Inca wall pulled down to build hotel” –

SwissInfo (Switzerland)

September 15 –

“Optical Detection Of Anomalous Nitrogen In Comets” –

SpaceDaily (USA)

September 15 –

“Science may dispel curse of pharaohs” –

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

September 15 –

“Astronomer Predicts Major Earthquake for Japan, Others Express Doubts” –

Space.com (USA)

September 15 –

“Meteorite displays has solar system’s oldest rocks” –

CTV News (Canada)

September 15 –

“Is This What Killed The Dinosaurs? – Volcanic Eruption Theory” –

Science Daily (UK)

September 15 –

“Archaeologist uses craft to scour disaster sites” –

Greenwich Time (USA)

September 15 –

“Inca wall falls for ‘Archaeologist’ hotel” –

ABC News Online (Australia)

September 15 –

“Crete, Dodecanese shaken by moderate earthquake” –

Kathimerini (Greece)

September 15 –

“Archaeologists unearth remains at a Mohican burial site” –

CBS2 News (USA)

September 15 –

“Jupiter probe nears fiery end” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 15 –

“NASA to crash Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 15 –

“Egyptian history leaps into digital age” –

CTV News (Canada)

September 15 –

“Asteroid 2003 QQ47 joins NEOs removed from impact list tables” –

NASA/JPL (USA)

September 15 –

“Archaeologist builder needs lessons” –

IOL/Reuters (South Africa)

September 14 –

“Indonesian earthquake felt in Phuket, Thailand” –

XinhuaNet (China)

September 14 –

“Archaeological study finds more graves than expected” –

Savannah Now (USA)

September 14 –

“Abominable Snowman is really bear, says mountaineer” –

Japan Today (Japan)

September 14 –

“Spaceguard: Five Years and Counting” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 14 –

“Abu Seir archeological site to be inaugurated late in the year” –

SIS (Egypt)

September 14 –

“World set to end at 10pm on May 19, 2031” –

The People (UK)

September 14 –

“Old fossils and new learning tools” –

The Roanoke Times (USA)

September 14 –

“Reflecting the rich heritage of the Rajarata” –

Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)

September 14 –

“Spaceguard: Five Years and Counting” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 14 –

“Japan signs agreement on protecting Bamyan remains” –

Japan Today (Japan)

September 14 –

“Utah’s Wasatch Front waiting – and is due – for big quake” –

The Desert Sun (USA)

September 14 –

“The Rosetta Stone will stay in London, say trustees” –

The Art Newspaper (UK)

September 14 –

“Finding Nemo 2 Creatures With No Name” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 13 –

“British Atlantis found on sea bed” –

Herald Sun (Australia)

September 13 –

“Iron Age fort blaze sparks fear for relics” –

Edinburgh News (Scotland)

September 13 –

“Aftershock of 1994 quake shakes Simi” –

VC Inside (USA)

September 13 –

“3rd century BC inscription discovered” –

Times of India (India)

September 13 –

“A Low Note in Cosmos: Sounding out a new role for black holes” –

Science News (USA)

September 13 –

“Moderate earthquake rattles southern Greece” –

Saudi Press Agency (Saudi Arabia)

September 13 –

“‘Prehistoric Tusk’ is actually Drainpipe” –

Daily Mirror (UK)

September 13 –

“Ancient ‘Unani’ medicine system still popular in India today” –

Channel NewsAsia (Singapore)

September 13 –

“Finding Nemo 1: Originating Species” –

Astrobiology Magazine (USA)

September 13 –

“Force of a Reliant Robin could save the world” –

The Scotsman (Scotland)

September 13 –

“Asbestos find halts archaeological dig” –

Oxford Mail (England)

September 13 –

“Ancient Inca road in desperate need of protection” –

EurekAlert (USA)

September 13 –

“Scientists find a sound bass to haunted house stories” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

September 12 –

“Coolest thing in the Universe revealed” –

New Scientist (UK)

September 12 –

“Egypt to use science to falsify ‘the curse of the pharaohs'” –

Hindustan Times (India)

September 12 –

“U.K. Academic Finds Stone Age Settlement in North Sea” –

Bloomberg (USA)

September 12 –

“Prehistoric archaeological monument in excavations in Sverdlovsk region” –

Novosti (Russia)

September 12 –

“Supermarket molluscs reveal Roman secret” –

BBC News Online (UK)

September 12 –

“DNA research provides wider insight into life, evolution of moa” –

Stuff (New Zealand)

September 12 –

“Small earthquake rumbles northwest of Los Angeles” –

Monterey Herald (USA)

September 12 –

“Kew finds love match for rare ancient plant” –

Richmond & Twickenham Times (England)

September 12 –

“Egypt uses science to dispel pharaonic curse” –

Reuters/Yahoo News (USA)

September 12 –

“Room for tomb boom” –

China Daily (China)

September 12 –

“Light pollution threatens night sky” –

SwissInfo (Switzerland)

September 12 –

“Appalachian Sands Covered N. America” –

Discovery Channel News (USA)

September 12 –

“Find unearths Stone Age settlement beneath the North Sea” –

The Scotsman (Scotland)

September 12 –

“Mideast artifacts moved to new home” –

The Detroit News (USA)

September 12 –

“SCWB to send team of historians to Ayodhya” –

Central Chronicle (India)

September 12 –

“Sonic boom likely caused by meteor” –

CBC News (Canada)

September 12 –

“Marine Picks First Public Mars Global Surveyor Image” –

NASA/JPL (USA)

September 12 –

“Prehistoric settlements found under North sea” –

The Guardian (UK)

September 12 –

“Dinosaur dropping reveals dietary evidence” –

Canada.com (Canada)

September 12 –

“Solar Flares on Steroids” –

Science@NASA (USA)

September 12 –

“Sound of silence gives you that eerie feeling” –

IOL (South Africa)

September 12 –

“Stone Age site found by trainee diving team” –

The Independent (UK)

September 12 –

“Surprising Impacts on Mars and Europa” –

Astronomy Magazine (USA)

September 12 –

“Will Russians and Americans fly to Mars together?” –

Novosti (Russia)

September 12 –

“Meteor Crater is stand-in for Mars in NASA tests” –

Tucson Citizen (USA)

September 12 –

“Could gold be gift from Caesar” –

Hampshire Chronicle (England)

September 12 –

“Antiquities Exhibit Explores Childhood in Ancient Greece” –

National Geographic News (USA)

11 –

“Big black hole sings low cosmic song” – Sydney

Morning Herald (Australia)

11 –

“Islam had specialist medicine in Dark Ages” – The

11 –

“Bridging the Gap: Part III” – Astrobiology

11 –

“Dental research reopens debate over Black Death” –

Times of Oman (Oman)

11 –

“Tunnel dates from biblical times” – JTA

11 –

“Potentially Hazardous Near Earth Objects” – Lords

11 –

“Web site on archaeology launched” – Times

11 –

“Mission to Meteor Crater” – Arizona

11 –

“Moderate quake jolts Hokkaido” – Mainichi

11 –

“Government Warned on Nature’s WMDs” – The

11 –

“Jerusalem Tunnel Linked to Bible” – National

11 –

“Is this what killed the dinosaurs?” – Prifysgol

11 –

“Recovering Iraq’s stolen treasures” – International

11 –

“Stone Age settlements found in North Sea” – Reuters

11 –

“The Kyoto Protocol: A Skeptic’s Opinion” – Pravda

11 –

“Black hole in B flat” – Herald

11 –

“MIT Reassess Asteroid Hazards” – SpaceDaily

11 –

“Case reopens on Black Death cause” – New

11 –

“Court battle resumes between tribes, scientists over ancient remains”

– News Tribune (USA)

11 –

case” – Zawya (Syria)

11 –

“Mysterious blast shakes Nanaimo – sonic boom or asteroid?”

– Globe & Mail (Canada)

11 –

“Court ponders ancient skeleton” – The

11 –

“Ancient temple gets branded” – Hindustan

11 –

“Astronomy: Asteroid family’s starring roll” – Nature

11 –

“Stone Age Settlements Found Underwater in Britain”

– Reuters/Yahoo News (USA)

11 –

“Masons return Aboriginal bones” – Herald

11 –

“Did Earth Blow Up The Dinosaurs?” – SpaceDaily

11 –

“Undersea Stone Age site found” – BBC

11 –

“Different Dinosaur Death Theory Erupts” – Science

11 –

“No more IAS for ASI, Jagmohan wants Archaeology Service”

– Indian Express (India)

September 2003 –

“Debating ‘Illegal Archeology’” –

Art News (USA)

September 2003 –

“Ransoming Iraqui Artifacts” –

Archaeology Odyssey (USA)

September 2003 –

“Saving the Timbuktu Manuscripts” –

Science in Africa (South Africa )

September 2003 –

“Faking Biblical History” –

Archaeology Magazine (USA)

September 2003 –

“The Egyptian origin of the Greek alphabetic numerals” –

Antiquity (UK)

September 2003 –

“Great Mysteries of Human Evolution” –

Discover Magazine (USA)

September 2003 –

“Solstice at the Stones” –

Archaeology Magazine (USA)

September 2003 –

“A replica of an ancient ship goes to sea” –

Time Asia Magazine (USA)

September 2003 –

“3,000-year-old huts of Israelites found in Egypt” –

Biblical Archaeology Review (USA)

September 2003 –

“Zahi Hawass fights to recover Egypt’s plundered treasures” –

Egypt Today (Egypt)

September 2003 –

“Incoming: Earthbound Asteroids – the future of Spaceguard” –

Popular Science (USA)