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I'm sorry I could not generate a better image than this. But even blown up and cropped you'll have to squint to see the eye-sockets in question.But the interesting thing is that the National Museum of Scotland is asking sculptors and artisans to see if they can determine if...

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GreatGreat photo, huh.Okay, I am a proselytizer for History.Thus, I'm taking out time to point out this great picture and the great article by Laura Leigh Davidson that goes with it.The article appears on the Scholastic Online site in a section for Teachers. But really...

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A new find in Tanzania is pushing back the origins of dinosaurs at least ten million years.The Asilisaurus kongwe, which NationalGeographic describes as a "Labrador retriever-size creature [was] a silesaur, the closest relatives to true dinosaurs. The new found animal lived 243 million years ago, during the middle Triassic period."The...

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DiscoveryNews is reporting an astonishing find near Rome. Italian archeologists are reporting that:The remains of what might have been the residence of the Etruscan prince Sextus Tarquinius, son of the last legendary king of Rome Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), have been found on the slopes of an...

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Wow! Amazing Discovery. I can scarcely keep my enthusiasm under control. This is so very cool.Thanks Mother Nature for preserving this one for us. The skeleton of the 3.5 metre (11ft) snake, named Sanajeh indicus, was found inside a dinosaur nest in India, coiled around a crushed...

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Usually we don't do modern history but this was just amazing, imho.“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7...

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Olympic fever must have caught hold of the world of archeology, because it's not clear to me how the absence of household rubble would otherwise lead one to conclude that a ring fort was used as a bronze age sports arena. And yet this is precisely the claim that the...

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Say "Hello" to our guest blogger, Pamelia Brown.She writes on a variety of topics for her site Associates Degree.I grew up playing with the same dinosaur toys as everyone else, from Tyrannosaurus Rex to Stegosaurus. But it seems there's a new addition to the familiar ranks of dinosaurs.Paleontologists...

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Fan of History???Think you might be interested in a lecture?You can check out the Archaeological Institute of America's Spring Schedule.1. See if there's a location near you...2. See if there's a topic that interests you...3. Sign up...Couldn't be easier....

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In a bay named Wash Gully, near Salcombe (south Devon), in a few meters of water, a team of amateur marine archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age Wreck.According to OneIndia.com: The cargo recovered includes 259 copper ingots and 27 tin ingots. Also found was a bronze leaf sword,...

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By now you have probably read that the boy-king Tutankhamun suffered from a club foot and died from complications of malaria (TimesOnLine).According to the examination, the actual disorder that he suffered from was Köhler disease II. And because it's rather rare I thought I'd gather and share some...

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This is important.A new curve -- called INTCAL09-- extends the radiocarbon calibration back 50,000 years, providing improved numbers for the earlier times.Science Daily reports the results initially published in the journal Radiocarbon.Dr Ron Reimer of the Queen's School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology said: "The new radiocarbon calibration curve will...

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Around Stonehenge there was a Hedge.18th and 19th Century Watercolor paintings gave a clue. But it was not until April 2009 that high-resolution surface lasers were used to examine the land around Stonehenge.The results... apparently a hedge meant to keep the ceremonies secret....

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In an interesting stroke of symmetry...On February 5th, I posted about a 2,000 year-old skeleton unearthed in Mongolia (link here) that had "western" DNA.Now today, I'm going to link you to a unique set of bones, found at the Roman Vagnari site (see S. Illinois Carb link below),...

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IrishTimes.com is reporting that "[T]hree crates of Scotch whisky and two crates of brandy buried under Antarctic ice for more than 100 years have been recovered by a heritage team restoring Irish-born explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut."Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922), according to...

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IOne of the reasons DNA studies are so interesting is that they expose information that wouldn't immediately be available through other means. And even when physiological remains do speak clearly, it is not with the same sort of accuracy. In this article from DiscoveryNews for example, it's clear...

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IGeesh. Ever since I can remember --which is a long time -- the primordial soup theory (wikipedia) has reigned supreme as an explanation for the origins of life. Now however, a team from University College London is calling it into question.Arguing that UV radiation fails to...

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Neanderthal artifacts have been found in Poland before, but never any actual body parts... UNTIL recently when three "teeth were unearthed in the Stajnia [this should be Stajna] Cave, north of the Carpathian Mountains, along with flint tools and the bones of the woolly mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros, both...

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The Diary of Antera Dukean Eighteenth-Century African Slave TraderDescription::: In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant.A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town,...

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Can't help it. I want to be there and join in the fun. Here's a few pictures from the Shetland Isles, courtesy of Boston.com.Some wonderful costumes don't you think....

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Well, you know how I am about Vikings. I'm hoping they find a whole community. Or at least some delicious jewelry or tools. Maybe some weapons.From The IrishTimes.com :DUBLIN’S NORTHSIDE is revealing its own Viking past with the first evidence of 11th-century Dubliners choosing to settle on...

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From The Guardian.UK an absolutely fascinating piece of information.Most men in Britain are descended from the first farmers to migrate across Europe from the Near East 10,000 years ago, scientists say.Ancient farmers left their genetic mark on modern males by breeding more successfully than indigenous hunter-gatherer men as they made...

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A lovely find.Egyptian archeologists have uncovered what they believe is the 2,200-year-old temple dedicated to the ancient cat god Bastet (Alexandria).Bastet started out as a lion-headed goddess, but as time went along became more diminutive as contacts with other civilizations, such as the Greeks, affected the local religion.Wikipedia says::: ...

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I want to thank Anthony F. Lewis at The Idle Mind for bringing my attention to this fascinating video. As you can see this bird has claws at the end of it's little wings. I think the video illustrates what's possible for such features...

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