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The Morien Institute - The events of September 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

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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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Top September 2010 New Discoveries


“Egyptian Desert Expedition Confirms Spectacular Meteorite Impact”

   

“Archaeologists find ‘tomb of tribal king’ hidden on moor”

   

“Perthshire burial chamber is Scotland’s ‘Valley of the Kings'”

   

“Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth 7000-Year-Old Village”

   

“Ancient Egypt’s Pyramids: Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets”

   

“Largest stone age settlement found near Chennai”

   

“There was no Jesus”

   

“Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought”

   

“Scientists explain parting of Red Sea”

   

“Peru rewrites history books once more with ancient archaeological find”

   

“1200 yr old empress’ coffin suggests deep cultural exchange on Silk Road”

   

“Nefertiti, recipient of the world’s first successful facelift”

   

“Ceremonial Temples 4,000 Years Old Found in Peruvian Jungle”

   

“Best preserved Viking settlement found in Ireland”

   

“Study shines light on Indigenous star-gazing”

   

“Astrological Scene Found on Egyptian Tomb Ceiling”

   

“Researchers unearth 8,500-year-old bodies near Bursa”

   

“600 year old Chinese coins dating back to the Ming Dynasty discovered in Africa”

   

“Ancient burial chamber discovered on Luxor’s west bank”

   

“As the arctic melts, archaeologists discover a lost civilization”

   

“King Herod’s royal theater box uncovered at Herodium”

   

“Rare Roman helmet found near Appleby”

   

“The oldest sculpture of hawk in the world discovered in Syria”

   

“Rare Roman suit of armour found at Caerleon dig”

   

“Nature’s Incredible Cover-Up: An Ancient Amazonian Civilization”

   

“New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended”

   

“Tombs from 2nd Millennium B.C. unearthed in Syria”

   

“Bow and arrow invented in Africa?”

   

“Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog”

   

“In Amazon, traces of an advanced civilization”

   

“New research suggests our human ancestors ate other humans”

   

“Prehistoric baby sling ‘made our brains bigger'”

   

“Parts of Ilkhanid era city unearthed in Central Province”

   

“Archeological evidence suggest origins of ‘first’ Americans”

   

“Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable”

   

“Discovery of cerebral cortex in marine worm offers insights into evolution”

   

“Ancient arrows and Africa’s place as the cradle of technology”

   

“3,000-year-old Moabite temple unearthed near Dhiban”

   

“Discovery Ages Antibiotics 2,000 Years”

   

“5,000-year-old village ruins found in China”

   

“Human Civilization Began With ‘Funeral Baked Meats'”

   

“Cupid cameo found at City of David”

   


 




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Period Ending Sunday September 30 2010


“‘Hobbit’ Was an Iodine-Deficient Human, Not Another Species, New Study Suggests”

Science Daily (USA)


“1,000-year-old tomb found at Anhui construction site”

People’s Daily (China)



“Egyptian Desert Expedition Confirms Spectacular Meteorite Impact”

Scientific Computing (USA)


“German court order return of stolen Cypriot treasures”

Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)


“Amazon Road Workers Find Ancient Earth Carvings”

TreeHugger (USA)


“The earliest image of kuker found in Perperikon ancient Thracian city”

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria)


“Stonehenge boy ‘was from the Med'”

BBC News (UK)


“2010 excavations end in Turkey’s ancient Aizanoi”

World Bulletin (Turkey)


“Yemen, Germany review archaeological survey in Khawlan”

Yemen News Agency SABA (Yemen)


“Angers’ Mithraeum: Sanctuary dedicated to Persian god Mithras discovered in France”

Heritage Key (UK)


“Online initiative opens ancient texts to world”

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)



“One of the world’s most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the web in recent years.

The British Library said yesterday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike.

Although the manuscripts – highlights of which include a famous collection of Aesopic fables discovered on Mt Athos in 1844 – have long been available to scholars who made the trip to the British Library’s reading rooms, curator Scot McKendrick said their posting to the web was opening antiquity to the entire world.”

[Full Story]


“Work unearths previously unknown Roman road in Kent”

BBC News (UK)


“National Museum getting E4.2m facelift”

Times of Swaziland (Swaziland)


“Prehistoric Remains Found in Aceh Town”

Jakarta Globe (Indonesia)


“Massive meteor crater discovered by scientist scanning Google Earth”

Mail Online (UK)


“China Summons Past to Advance Into Africa”

Inter-Press Service Africa (South Africa)


“German court orders Cypriot treasures return”

Famagusta Gazette (Cyprus)



“Archaeologists find ‘tomb of tribal king’ hidden on moor”

Wharfedale and Airedale Observer (England)


“Pediamenopet’s Curse by Dr. Zahi Hawass”

Asharq Al-Awsat (UK)



“Perthshire burial chamber is Scotland’s ‘Valley of the Kings'”

The Courier (Scotland)


“Neanderthals’ Tools Were Their Own Work”

The New York Times (USA)



“Neanderthals living in southern Italy 42,000 years ago developed bone and stone tools, decorative ornaments and pigments on their own, not through interactions with Homo sapiens, according to Julien Riel-Salvatore, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Until now, tools and ornaments used by Neanderthals were thought to have come about because of contact with the species that replaced them.



Neanderthals used tools that they had developed on their own


an image of Neanderthal tools that they had developed on their own, which is also a clickable link directly to The New York Times story



Julien Riel-Salvatore / The New York Times

But Dr. Riel-Salvatore said his paper in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ‘counters the persistent idea about Neanderthals and shows that they were really able to innovate.’.

Riel-Salvatore spent several years studying artifacts from Neanderthal communities in southern and central Italy as well as human artifacts from the same time period in northern Italy.”

[Full Story & picture]



“Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth 7000-Year-Old Village”

Novinite (Bulgaria)


“120 experts claim Cao Cao’s tomb authentic”

People’s Daily (China)


“More discoveries lie ahead at Annagassan viking site”

Dundalk Democrat (Ireland)


“Archaeology in 1930s”

Times of Malta (Malta)


“Remains of Neolithic village discovered in SW Budapest”

Caboodle (Hungary)


“Greek archaeologists begin work to restore ancient Aristotle school”

M & C News (Scotland)


“Unique Mosaic Dating Back to 1st Century AD Found in Apamea”

Global Arab Network (Syria)


“Public taking hands-on interest in archaeology”

The Japan Times (Japan)



“Ancient Egypt’s Pyramids: Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets”

Science Daily (USA)



“Scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians erected their giant pyramids. Now, an architect and researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology says he has the answer to this ancient, unsolved puzzle.

Researchers have been so preoccupied by the weight of the stones that they tend to overlook two major problems: How did the Egyptians know exactly where to put the enormously heavy building blocks? And how was the master architect able to communicate detailed, highly precise plans to a workforce of 10,000 illiterate men?

These were among the questions that confronted Ole J. Bryn, an architect and associate professor in NTNU’s Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art when he began examining Khufu’s Great Pyramid in Giza.

Khufu’s pyramid, better known as the Pyramid of Cheops, consists of 2.3 million limestone blocks weighing roughly 7 million tons. At 146.6 meters high, it held the record as the tallest structure ever built for nearly 4000 years.”

[Full Story]


“Dig Days by Zahi Hawass: Seti, please tell us your secret III”

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)



“Largest stone age settlement found near Chennai”

The Times of India (India)


“French scientists discover new Sumerian temple in southern Iraq”

Azzaman (Iraq)


“Archaeologist says council is destroying historic site”

The Western Mail (Cymru)


“Fish trap may be Mesolithic find”

Irish Times (Ireland)


“Dig begins at area’s smallest hill fort, Moel y Gaer”

BBC News (UK)


“Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests”

National Geographic News (USA)


“From legend to drama queen”

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)


“Archeologists Unearth Ancient Monetary Treasure in Tobolsk”

Russia-InfoCentre (Russia)


“New discoveries hint at 5,500 year old fratricide at Hamoukar, Syria”

The Independent (UK)


“‘Neanderthals could adapt, evolve own technology’”

The Asian Age (India)


“634 lost Iraq artefacts finally found”

Gulf News (Qatar)


“Taken from below: A painted burial chamber of the 25th Dynasty priest Karakhamun”

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)


“Prehispanic Roadway Explored by Archaeologists in Xochicalco”

Art Daily (USA)


“Horny find uncovers Triceratops’ ancestors”

ABC Science News (Australia)



“Two enormous heads arrayed with horns are the first striking images of a pair of newly discovered dinosaur species announced today.

The ornate heads belong to Kosmoceratops richardsoni and the Utahceratops gettyi, two species of dinosaur found in southern Utah’s Grand-Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

The research team describe them in the online journal PLoS ONE.

Both Kosmoceratops and Utahceratops were plant-eating inhabitants of the long lost continent of Laramidia about 76 million years ago, says Dr Eric Roberts, one of the scientists involved in the discovery, who is now based at James Cook University in Townsville.”

[Full Story]


“Roman circus uncovered at Outlane”

Huddersfield Examiner (England)


“Historic wall uncovered at Caernarfon shop”

Caernarfon & Denbigh Herald (Cymru)


“400-year-old letter reveals ‘lost’ native Peruvian language”

NewsTrack India (India)


“Koxinga portrait to be exhibited in mainland China”

T@iwan Today (Taiwan)



“There was no Jesus”

Modern Ghana (Ghana)


“Clues to child sacrifices found in Inca building”

Science News (USA)



“The remains of seven children apparently killed in a ritual and buried beneath a 500 to 600-year-old building in Peru’s Cuzco Valley have given scientists new glimpses of the sketchily understood Inca practice of sacrificing select children in elaborate ceremonies.

The children were buried at the same time, apparently after having been killed in a sacrificial rite that honored Inca deities and promoted political unity across the far-flung empire, say anthropologist Valerie Andrushko of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven and her colleagues.


Six children killed in a ritual Inca sacrifice between 500 and 600 years ago were buried together, accompanied by gold, silver and shell figurines of men and llamas


an image of the gold, silver and shell figurines of men and llamas buried alongside six children sacrificed in an Inca ritual, which is also a clickable link directly to the Science News story



G. McEwan / Wagner College

Chemical analyses of the bones indicate that at least two of the children came from distant parts of the Inca realm, Andrushko’s group reports in a paper published online September 15 in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Archaeological evidence of Inca child sacrifices has come mainly from youngsters’ naturally mummified bodies found frozen on several Andean peaks. Human figurines and other valuable objects lay near those bodies.”

[Full Story]


“Long-Sought Viking Settlement Found”

Science Now (USA)


“Ancient tomb rediscovered in Luxor”

Press TV (Iran)


“Russian scientist says America was discovered by Siberians”

Kyiv Post (Ukraine)


“History faces the bulldozer”

The Dominion Post (New Zealand)


“Human eye evolved to see dark world”

ABC Science News (Australia)


“1,500-year-old Samaritan synagogue exposed”

Ynet News (Israel)



“Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought”

EurekAlert (USA)



“For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed ‘modern’ tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research from the University of Colorado Denver now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own.

The findings by anthropologist Julien Riel-Salvatore challenge a half-century of conventional wisdom maintaining that Neanderthals were thick-skulled, primitive ‘cavemen’ overrun and outcompeted by more advanced modern humans arriving in Europe from Africa.

‘Basically, I am rehabilitating Neanderthals’, said Riel-Salvatore, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Denver. ‘They were far more resourceful than we have given them credit for.’.

His research, to be published in December’s Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, was based on seven years of studying Neanderthal sites throughout Italy, with special focus on the vanished Uluzzian culture.”

[Full Story]


“Stone age settlements revealed in Azerbaijan”

News AZ (Azerbaijan)



“Scientists explain parting of Red Sea”

The Independent (UK)


“Did Nefertiti’s bust have a ‘botox’ and ‘nose job’?”

The Hindu (India)


“Parting the waters: Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape route”

UCAR (USA)


“Diss torc set to sell for thousands”

Diss Mercury (England)


“Turkish farmer finds Roman settlement in backyard”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Latest season of archaeologists research in Vigol led to discovery of a Sasanian fire temple… “

CAIS (Iran)


“Study: More credit due to Neanderthals”

UPI (USA)


“New light on Tasman’s first contact with Maori”

ABC Radio Australia (Australia)


“Archaeology: ancient Bulgar burial ground found”

The Sofia Echo (Bulgaria)



“Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a circular mound which they believe used to serve as a burial ground for the ancient Bulgars in pre-Christian times, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on September 21 2010

The site, unique in South Eastern Europe, was found near the north coast of the Black Sea, where the Bulgars first settled after arriving from the east.

Thus, the scientists have ascribed the origin of the site to the ancient Bulgars, ‘about whom very little is known’ the report said.”

[Full Story]


“Two tumuluses found in Turkey’s ancient Daskyleion”

World Bulletin (Turkey)


“Lost treasures were in Iraqi PM’s kitchen”

The Independent (UK)


“Experts search Egypt’s pharaonic past for climate change fix”

Zawya / AFP (Jordan / France)


“Iraq Museum recovers ancient artefacts”

Alsumaria Satellite TV News (Iraq)


“1500 Year Old Samaritan Synagogue Discovered In Israel”

IndyPosted (USA)


“8,000-year-old seal unearthed in western Turkey”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Stone tools ‘change migration story'”

BBC News (UK)


“Antiques officials detain black market dealer”

Ma’an News Agency (Palestinian Territories)


“Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Roman Highway, Fortress”

Novinite (Bulgaria)



“Peru rewrites history books once more with ancient archaeological find”

en Peru (Peru)


“Russian and South Korean Archeologists Unearth Two Rooms of Palace of Balhae Kingdom”

Russia-InfoCentre (Russia)


“Genocide Wiped Out Native American Population”

Discovery News (USA)


“Apollo discovery tells a new story”

University of Haifa (Israel)



“A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern Israel, by University of Haifa diggers.

‘A piece of high-quality art such as this, doubtlessly created by a top-of-the-line artist, indicates that local elites developing a taste for fine art and the ability to afford it were also living in provincial towns, and not only in the capital cities of the Hellenistic kingdoms’, explains Dr. Ayelet Gilboa, Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, who headed the excavations at Dor along with Dr. Ilan Sharon of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

When the ring was recovered from a waste pit near Hellenistic structures, it was covered with layers of earth and corrosion, and the archaeologists had no indication whatsoever that it would reveal the shape of a legendary figure.

Only after the ring was cleaned up at the Restoration and Conservation laboratory at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology, was the profile of a beardless young male with long hair, clean shaven and adorned with a laurel wreath, revealed.”

[Full Story]


“Revealing the Western Isles ancient history”

Stornoway Gazette (Scotland)


“Researchers discover ancient herbal plants”

Ceylon Daily News (Sri Lanka)



“1200 yr old empress’ coffin suggests deep cultural exchange on Silk Road”

Thaindian News (Thailand)


“Legal fight ends over Leander’s Ice Age archaeological site”

Austin American-Statesman (USA)


“‘Teeth took 400 mn yrs to evolve’”

Zee News (India)


“Origin of Daur people in China”

Global Times (China)


“Archeological digs in North unearth rare signet ring”

The Jerusalem Post (Israel)


“Iron Age human and animal remains unearthed in new London school site”

Times of Malta (Malta)


News Headlines Digest
Period Ending Sunday September 19 2010



“Nefertiti, recipient of the world’s first successful facelift”

The Independent on Sunday (UK)


“Renowned archeologists agree on tomb of ancient Chinese legendary ruler”

XinhuaNet (China)


“Last Bishop’s Palace dig uncovers rare bottle seal”

The Aberdeen Press & Journal (Scotland)



“Ceremonial Temples 4,000 Years Old Found in Peruvian Jungle”

Latin American Herald Tribune (Venezuela)



“A team of Peruvian archaeologists have discovered two ceremonial temples more than 4,000 years old in Peru’s northern jungle, which makes them the most ancient in the country and identifies them with the Bracamoros culture, the daily El Comercio said on Saturday.

On both sites were found 14 burial vaults that typically contain the skeletons of newborns and adolescents placed there as offerings at different times in the course of the 800 years these buildings were in use, the newspaper said.

The Bracamoros culture occupied part of the current Ecuadorian province of Zamora Chinchipe and the Peruvian regions of Amazonas and Cajamarca, where the temples were found, the daily said.”

[Full Story]



“Best preserved Viking settlement found in Ireland”

Irish Central (Ireland)


“81 dancing sculptures discovered in Big Temple only in 1956”

The Times of India (India)


“Gaza’s archaeological treasures under threat”

Middle East Monitor (UK)


“Diriyah: The City that Gave Birth to Saudi Arabia”

Asharq Alawsat (Egypt)


“Caerleon dig sheds light on time when Romans left”

South Wales Argus (Cymru)


“Archaeologists: 4th Century B.C. Statue Unearthed in Syria”

Global Arab Network (Syria)


“British archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites”

The Guardian (UK)


“Roman villa excavated in Sofia borough”

The Sofia Echo (Bulgaria)


“Australian Aborigines ‘world’s first astronomers'”

Yahoo News / AFP (USA / France)


“Fortress uncovered: Co Louth Viking site of international importance”

Irish Times (Ireland)


“Hadrian’s Wall: Another world beyond the wall”

The Daily Telegraph (UK)



“Study shines light on Indigenous star-gazing”

ABC News (Australia)



“Ancient Aboriginal people may have been the world’s first astronomers, a CSIRO study says.

Professor Ray Norris, who will deliver his findings at an astronomy, space and science lecture in Townsville in north Queensland today, says Indigenous Australians used the rising and setting of particular stars to read tides and harvest food.

He says they may also have been the first to explain solar eclipses.”

[Full Story]


“Temple of Athena Nike on Acropolis restored”

Athens News Agency (Greece)


“One of Europe’s best preserved Viking settlements found in Ireland”

Belfast Telegraph (N.Ireland)


“Goddess of Fortune found at Sussita”

University of Haifa (Israel)



“Astrological Scene Found on Egyptian Tomb Ceiling”

Discovery News (USA)


“Archaeologists excited by rare furnace find”

The Scotsman (Scotland)



“Researchers unearth 8,500-year-old bodies near Bursa”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“Dig uncovers six bodies”

EADT24 (England)


“A land lost in time”

Express Buzz (India)



“600 year old Chinese coins dating back to the Ming Dynasty discovered in Africa”

Paul Fraser Collectibles (UK)


“No bodies exhumed by Chinese in Malindi excavation project”

Coast Week (Kenya)


“What a history lesson Iron Age remains found at new school site”

London Evening Standard (England)



“Ancient burial chamber discovered on Luxor’s west bank”

Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt)



“The Egyptian Ministry of Culture on Wednesday announced that archaeologists had discovered a 2600-year-old burial chamber while restoring the tomb of a priest of the ancient Egyptian god Amun on the west bank of Luxor, some 700 km south of the capital.

The chamber, which was discovered by an Egyptian-American archaeological mission, belonged to a priest by the name of Car-Akh-Amon who lived during the 25th dynasty (755-656 BC).

Amun–god of the sun, wind and fertility–was one of the chief deities in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. His name means ‘The Invisible One’.”

[Full Story]


“Ancient Egyptian tomb of Karakhamun at Assasif: a major tomb for a minor priest?”

Heritage Key (UK)


“Egyptian relics found in antique shop”

ABC Online (Australia)


“Ancient burial chamber found in Egypt”

The Voice of Russia (Russia)


“Turkmen president orders scholars to reexamine Turkmen history”

Central Asia NewsWire (Turkmenistan)


“Hadrian’s Wall child murder: estimated time of death pre-367AD”

The Guardian (UK)


“Palmyra – Unique Archaeological Theatre Echoes History of Syria”

Global Arab Network (Syria)


“New finds suggest Romans won big North Germany battle”

M & C News (Scotland)


“Archaeologists unearth 2,800-year-old burial chamber”

CTV News (Canada)



“As the arctic melts, archaeologists discover a lost civilization”

io9 (UK)



“As the northern ice sheets retreat, perishable items from millennia-old cultures are emerging.

Researchers in Norway have discovered everything from shoes to weapons, giving them a glimpse of everyday life thousands of years ago, before the Vikings.



This isn’t the first time melting glaciers have led to archaeological finds. Earlier this summer, a group of researchers uncovered a 10,000 year-old atlatl, or hunting weapon, that had recently emerged in an ice thaw.”

[Full Story]


“Rescuing Afghanistan’s Buddhist History”

The Wall Street Journal (USA)



“King Herod’s royal theater box uncovered at Herodium”

The Jerusalem Post (Israel)


“Talmudic Medicine and Halakhah”

New Voices (USA)



“Rare Roman helmet found near Appleby”

The Westmoreland Gazette (England)


“New Chachapoyan archaeological site discovered”

en Peru (Peru)


“Home of “Ice Giants” thaws, shows pre-Viking hunts”

Reuters (UK)


“One hundred guards for 1,200 archaeological sites in southern Iraqi province”

Azzaman (Iraq)


“Taking molecular snaps of ancient crops”

Nature (UK)



“RNA molecules could help to reveal plant breeding in action hundreds of years ago.

Archaeologists interested in the genetics of ancient organisms have a new molecular tool at hand — RNA.

Two teams of scientists have decoded RNA from ancient crops in the hope of understanding the subtle evolutionary changes that accompanied the process of plant domestication.”

[Full Story]



“French archaeologists: The oldest sculpture of hawk in the world discovered in Syria”

Global Arab Network (Syria)


“Ancient Medical Kit Held Veggie Pills”

Discovery News (USA)


“National Museums Defends the Digging Up of Ancient Kingdom”

AllAfrica News (Kenya)


“How Halley’s Comet sightings changed history over the past 2500 years”

io9 (UK)


“Skellig Michael’s first sea steps found”

Irish Times (Ireland)



“Rare Roman suit of armour found at Caerleon dig”

BBC News (UK)


“Herbal teas steeped in ancient medical know-how”

The Hindu (India)


“Chinese team get acquainted with Buddha’s birthplace”

The Himalayan Times (Nepal)


“In ‘Canyon of the Crescent Moon,’ 2,000-Year-Old Paintings Re-Emerge”

Fox News (USA)


“1,000 years later a royal tribe is set to gather to remember a Welsh king”

The Western Mail (Cymru)


“Russian Tsar Ivan VI tomb found”

The Voice of Russia (Russia)


“Religious Ceremony Forces Fish to Evolve or Die”

Live Science (USA)


“Hopes high of unearthing Roman and medieval relics”

Leicester Mercury (England)


“Cave served as home of early human found”

VNS (Viet Nam)


“The pristine Amazon – a zone of contention”

Discover (USA)


News Headlines Digest
Period Ending Sunday September 12 2010


“BP well threatens ancient Libyan sites”

Independent on Sunday (UK)


“Cyrus Cylinder finally comes home”

Tehran Times (Iran)


“Theban Desert Road Survey finds Egyptian relics”

San Francisco Chronicle (USA)


“New Avebury henge walk could rival Hadrian’s Wall”

North Wiltshire and Kennet Gazette & Herald (England)


“Team unearths ancient bison”

Statesman Journal (USA)


“Al-Turaif Quarter: A World Heritage Site”

Asharq Al-Awsat (UK)


“2000-year-old pills found in Greek shipwreck”

New Scientist (UK)


“Nara tomb said that of seventh century empress”

The Japan Times (Japan)


“Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Artifact in Nessebar”

Novinite (Bulgaria)



“Nature’s Incredible Cover-Up: An Ancient Amazonian Civilization”

Discovery News (USA)


“Moa fathers looked after fragile eggs”

Australian Geographic (Australia)


“Halley’s comet ‘was spotted by the ancient Greeks'”

BBC News (UK)


“Terracotta army emerges in its true colors”

People’s Daily (China)


“Gold bracelets found in huge treasure trove”

This is Kent (England)


“Lara Croft’s Amazon Forerunners Amputated Breasts, Bumped Off Boys”

Bloomberg (USA)


“Experts date Scone Palace’s mysterious mound”

The Courier (Scotland)


“The ancient quarries of Thassos”

Athens News Agency (Greece)



“New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended”

Science Daily (USA)



“As the last ice age was ending, about 13,000 years ago, a final blast of cold hit Europe, and for a thousand years or more, it felt like the ice age had returned.

But oddly, despite bitter cold winters in the north, Antarctica was heating up.

For the two decades since ice core records revealed that Europe was cooling at the same time Antarctica was warming over this thousand-year period, scientists have looked for an explanation.

A new study in Nature brings them a step closer by establishing that New Zealand was also warming, indicating that the deep freeze up north, called the Younger Dryas for the white flower that grows near glaciers, bypassed much of the southern hemisphere.”

[Full Story]



“Tombs from 2nd Millennium B.C. unearthed in Syria”

Global Arab Network (Syria)


“Roman burial chamber unearthed near Faversham”

Kent Online (England)


“Iraq recovers many valuable artifacts”

Malaysia News (Malaysia)


“Egypt to open ancient port city”

Press TV (Iran)



“Bow and arrow invented in Africa?”

Digital Journal (UK)


“Book on man who led excavations at Mohenjo-Daro”

Deccan Herald (India)


“Mediterranean Shipwrecks Reveal Shift to Modern Shipbuilding”

Live Science (USA)


“Lambayeque archaeological treasures to be available in books soon”

Andina (Peru)


“Sasanian city of Rustam-Kavadh, newest victim of development projects in Kuzestan Province”

CAIS (Iran)



“Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog”

PhysOrg (USA)


“Undersea Excavation off Cyprus Confirms Mediterranean Diet”

CRI English (China)


“Desert Roads Lead to Discovery in Egypt”

The New York Times (USA)



“Over the last two decades, John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah, hiked and drove caravan tracks west of the Nile from the monuments of Thebes, at present-day Luxor.

These and other desolate roads, beaten hard by millennial human and donkey traffic, only seemed to lead to nowhere.

In the practice of what they call desert-road archaeology, the Darnells found pottery and ruins where soldiers, merchants and other travelers camped in the time of the pharaohs.

On a limestone cliff at a crossroads, they came upon a tableau of scenes and symbols, some of the earliest documentation of Egyptian history.

Elsewhere, they discovered inscriptions considered to be one of the first examples of alphabetic writing.”

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“Prehistoric bone hats found in Inner Mongolia”

People’s Daily (China)


“The 12th-century facebook of Angkor Wat”

The Independent (UK)


“An aesthetic desert”

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)



“In Amazon, traces of an advanced civilization”

The Washington Post (USA)


“Archaeological exhibition showing stone artefacts found in Palmyra”

Global Arab Network (Syria)



“New research suggests our human ancestors ate other humans”

Sky Valley Chronicle (USA)


“Historic find in the heart of the Broads”

Great Yarmouth Mercury (England)


“Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt’s resorts”

The Associated Press (USA)


“Following in the footsteps of giants”

People’s Daily (China)



“Prehistoric baby sling ‘made our brains bigger'”

The Independent (UK)



“Parts of Ilkhanid era city unearthed in Central Province”

Tehran Times (Iran)


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

Scientific American (USA)


“Watch a video explaining the Antikythera mechanism”

Nature (UK)


“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)


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“Archeological evidence suggest origins of ‘first’ Americans”

Helium (USA)


“Classical Hebrew degree”

Ynet News (Israel)


“Silver coins testify to ancient global trade reaching northern Germany”

The Local (Germany)


“Llandudno to bid farewell to Neolithic skeleton Blodwen”

BBC Wales News (Cymru)


“Shroud a ‘radiation photo’ of resurrection?”

WorldNet Daily (USA)


“2,000-year-old Cupid found in Jerusalem”

The Times of Malta (Malta)


“Saxon boat uncovered in Norfolk’s River Ant”

BBC News (UK)


“History beckons Mubende stone mysteries”

Saturday Monitor (Uganda)


“Shipwreck ‘list’ includes local treasures”

Cape Cod Times (USA)


“Ancient boat discovered on Norfolk Broads”

EDP24 (England)



“Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable”

The Washington Post (USA)



“To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial.

Archaeologists, many of them Americans, say the opposite is true: This patch of forest, and many others across the Amazon, was instead home to an advanced, even spectacular civilization that managed the forest and enriched infertile soils to feed thousands.

The findings are discrediting a once-bedrock theory of archaeology that long held that the Amazon, unlike much of the Americas, was a historical black hole, its environment too hostile and its earth too poor to have ever sustained big, sedentary societies.

But scientists now believe that instead of stone-age tribes, like the groups that occasionally emerge from the forest today, the Indians who inhabited the Amazon centuries ago numbered as many as 20 million, far more people than live here today.

Outside, Manaus, Brazil, Eduardo Neves, a renowned Brazilian archaeologist, and American scientists have found huge swaths of ‘terra preta’, so-called Indian dark earth, land made fertile by mixing charcoal, human waste and other organic matter with soil.

In 15 years of work that is still ongoing they have also found vast orchards of semi-domesticated fruit trees, though they appear like forest untrammeled by man.

Along the Xingu, an Amazon tributary in Brazil, Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida has found moats, causeways, canals, the networks of a stratified civilization that, he says, existed as early as A.D. 800.

In Bolivia, American, German and Finnish archaeologists have been studying how pre-Columbian Indians moved tons of soil and diverted rivers, major projects of a society that existed long before the birth of Christ.”

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“Archaeologist unearths secrets from Blackstone”

The Kidderminster Shuttle (England)


“It’s old… but you can drink it”

IOL (South Africa)


“History of Peru series – part 5: the Pucllana period”

Peruvian Times (Peru)


“Ancient city does not actually exist, says Turkish minister”

Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)


“The iron men of Jinci”

China.org (China)


“Priceless gold bracelets from 700bc are unearthed”

The Daily Express (UK)



“Discovery of cerebral cortex in marine worm offers insights into evolution”

OneIndia (India)


“First Roman watermill discovered in West Cumbria”

Times & Star (England)



“Ancient arrows and Africa’s place as the cradle of technology”

Afrik-News (South Africa)


“Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution”

Wired Science (USA)



“A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution’s existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life’s preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths.

Some scientists have suggested the former. Rates of species diversification — the speed at which groups adapt and fill open ecological niches — seemed to predict what’s flourished in the aftermath of past planetary cataclysms.

But according to the calculations of Macquarie University paleobiologist John Alroy, that’s just not the case.

‘Mass extinction fundamentally changes the dynamics. It changes the composition of the biosphere forever. You can’t simply predict the winners and losers from what groups have done before’, he said.”

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“Oak tracks at 10th century road site leave archaeologists puzzled”

Irish Times (Ireland)


“Bulgarian Police Bust Illegal Treasure Hunting Group”

Novinite (Bulgaria)



“3,000-year-old Moabite temple unearthed near Dhiban”

The Jordan Times (Jordan)


“Rare Roman lantern found in farmer’s field”

Reuters (UK)



“5,000-year-old village ruins found in China”

Thaindian News (Thailand)



“Discovery Ages Antibiotics 2,000 Years”

LabNews (USA)



“Human Civilization Began With ‘Funeral Baked Meats'”

MedIndia (India)


“Gate to Viking ‘Great Wall’ Unearthed”

Der Spiegel / Newser (Germany / USA)


“Royals discovered predating the Incas”

3 News (New Zealand)



“Peruvian archaeologists have discovered the remains of three ancient elites believed to have been buried more than 1,600 years ago in northern Peru.

The remains are of an adolescent believed to be male who was about 13-years-old, a woman, and a man who still remains largely underground.



The historically significant find was discovered by Peru’s Walter Alva
who had previously discovered the tomb of the Great Lord of Sipan


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3 News, New Zealand

The three are thought to belong to the Mochica community which ruled the northern coast of Peru from the time of Christ to the eighth century A.D.

The adolescent, buried in a coffin made of cane, was surrounded by vessels and offerings including peanut remains and figures representing peanuts as well as copper offerings.”

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“Top Bulgarian Archaeologist Stumbles Upon 2 Ancient Thrace Tombs”

Novinite (Bulgaria)


“3,000 year old rice current variety”

Saigon GP Daily (Viet Nam)


“Archaelogical dig at Orce, Granada, reveals riches”

Typically Spanish (Spain)


“Palaeolithic funeral feast unearthed in Northern Israel”

BBC News (UK)


“Human activity has caused shellfish size to increase: Study”

Sify News (India)


“Valuable historical materials found in Agdam”

News.AZ (Azerbaijan)


“Petroglyphs Vandalized”

Williams Grand Canyon News (USA)



“Cupid cameo found at City of David”

Israel 21C (Israel)


“Menu of oldest feast: 71 tortoises”

The Calcutta Telegraph (India)


“Scientist Smackdown: No Proof That a Comet Killed the Mammoths?”

Discover Magazine (USA)


“Plato in pre-Columbian Colombia”

Colombia Reports (Colombia)


Academic archaeologists and historians are publicly confident that they understand all aspects of prehistory. When and where the first settled communities appeared. When and where agriculture began. And they paint a picture of a gradual development from small hunter-gather tribal groups to the eventual big cities of Mesopotamia and Egypt.


But numerous discoveries being made all over the world are questioning this established wisdom. The 12,000-year-old megalithic complex at Göbekli Tepe is just one of them


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“The Mines that Built Empires: For 5,000 years, Spain’s mineral riches created cash economies… “

Archaeology (USA)


“Absolute chronology for major Pleistocene advances of the Laurentide Ice Sheet”

Geology (USA)


“Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta”

PLoS ONE (USA)


“King Tut’s Family Secrets: DNA evidence reveals the truth about the boy king’s parents”

National Geographic (USA)


“The Lost City: A discovery in the desert could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt”

Yale Alumni Magazine (USA)


“Myra: The Sunken Metropolis of St Nicolas”

Current World Archaeology (UK)


“Punctuated eustatic sea-level rise in the early mid-Holocene”

Geology (USA)


“Archaeologists attack BP’s drilling plans: Damage feared to underwater sites off the coast of Libya”

The Art Newspaper (USA)


“More Than Man’s Best Friend: Dogs have been an integral part of human culture for 15,000 years”

Archaeology (USA)


“Post-Cranial Skeletons of Hypothyroid Cretins Show a Similar Anatomical Mosaic as Homo floresiensis”

PLoS ONE (USA)


“Traces of a Lost Language and Number System Discovered on the North Coast of Peru”

American Anthropologist (USA)


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“Resurrecting the Maize King: Figurines from a Maya tomb bring a royal funeral to life”

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