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The French mission of the European maritime antiquities institute managed to salvage 16 archaeological pieces that were sunk in the Eastern Port area in Alexandria.
Leprosy may have arrived in Britain 1,500 years earlier than first thought, according to evidence taken from an ancient grave in Scotland.
An archaeological excavation near Tel Aviv has yielded hundreds of Iron Age objects used by the Philistines. The vessels are thought to have been used religious rituals and date back to the 9th and 10th century BC.
Scientists say the Galapagos Islands' famous finches are under threat from parasites. A team from the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Vienna has found infestations of parasitic flies are hitting the island's 13 finch species.
It is a classic mystery of the deep. Why does the hammerhead shark have the bizarrely shaped head from which it gets its name?
Science and precision should be inseparable. But physics professor John Hubisz and others reviewing many U.S. textbooks say that's hardly the case. The information in the books is often unfocused, fragmented, and sometimes downright wrong.
It is now generally accepted that broadly similar cultural patterns can arise independently in separate areas. Donnelly thought otherwise, and proposed that Atlantis was the originator of all ancient civilisations. Conveniently, the material evidence for Atlantis was no longer available, due to the continent being lost in a watery cataclysm (the origin of all Great Flood myths).
Earth's magnetic field - the force that protects us from deadly radiation bursts from outer space - is weakening dramatically. Scientists have discovered that its strength has dropped precipitously over the past two centuries and could disappear over the next 1,000 years.
Graham Hancock is no stranger to controversy. The former journalist, whose books have sold five million copies in the past 10 years, has repeatedly dared to challenge scientific shibboleth, taking a run at entrenched thinking in archeology, geology and astronomy.
In Part I, Deepak Bhattacharya and P. C. Naik argued that monumental structures in India are aligned with a broad range of stars in the Indian night sky, forming a nine-pointed "compass" on the land. In Part II, they show how this nine pointed star-shape could be used to aid navigation over the seas. This article is a MUST READ! [Christopher F. Ash --Web Editor, GrahamHancock.com]
We are on the threshold of further discoveries along the long coastline of India. The efforts of institutions such as NIOT should be encouraged and further efforts made at creating a network of scientists and scholars of a variety of disciplines to collaborate, in a team effort, as a colloquium, under the leadership of NIOT, to unravel the mysteries of the heritage of the country that lie on the sea-bed of the Sindhu sa_gara, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.
[YAHOO REGISTRATION REQUIRED] -- I will provide some background information and add my views: the background information summarized by Dr. SP Gupta of Indian Archaeological Society; a report on the seminar conducted by NIOT given by historian Dr. Nandita Krishna. Asko Parpola, I. Mahadevan and S. Kalyanaraman were together in NIOT and discussed extensively with the scientists there and also presented their views to Frontline editor.
"The idea is to take us beyond what we have been ... brainwashed into believing" declared Speaker Frene Ginwala at the opening of the exhibition, which includes other maps and rock art.
The earth is expanding. All celestial bodies have magnetic fields that are circular or polar dependent on spin. The magnetic north- and south poles are produced by the earthís spin. The magnetic poles are moving but are on the same spot at the same hour. Every galaxy has more or less a "black hole" that is not a hole at all. The universe is not expanding, there was never a "BIG BANG". Electric power can be generated from eather.
The giant figures that sprawl the mountain mesa above Nasca, Peru relate the same events...told to us in the Creation Texts of ancient Egypt, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. These wondrous artifacts have their origin in the Alaskan Era, 30,000 Years Ago from yesterday in the Golden Age of the gods.
Across ocher and salmon colored sandstone a shadow crawls like a shallow pool of water flowing in slow motion. Its fuzzy penumbra gradually slides over the spiral petroglyph pecked into smooth rock. We know this movement is the result of the greater spinning of our planet in relation to a stationary sun. However, for the Hisatsinom...shadows were animate beings whose movements reflected those of the Underworld spirits.
The surface of these rocks...has a varnish that is the result of bacteria and minute organisms which have adhered to the surface. A good black varnish or patina will take thousands of years to discolor and coat each stone. Etching these rocks would have removed the existing varnish, revealing the bare rock. Since these rocks have developed additional varnish in the grooves, it seems likely that they were carved a long time ago. But how long?
In this effort we will attempt to assess the validity of imaging data relating to the purported entrance to the "Martian Glass Tunnel System" which was posted on Johnny Danger's Dangerous Mars Site. As other credible researchers have speculated profusely on the nature of these "tunnel liketubular anomalies" we will not re-iterate their notions or add to the confusion with additional conjecture (however, some degree of speculation is inevitable due to the subject matter).
Native-American legend said that there are 13 of these ancient crystal skulls. "And one day all of these skulls will be rediscovered and they will be brought together for all of their collective wisdom to be made available. But mankind first has to be sufficiently evolved both morally and spiritually so as not to abuse the power."
Perhaps the biggest irony of Canada's obesity crisis is that it began when the government started telling people to eat less fat.
Eighty years before 20th-century cosmologists hammered out the math, [Edgar Allan] Poe...came up with a rudimentary version of contemporary science's best guess for explaining how the universe began. Departing from conventional wisdom of the day, which saw the universe as static and eternal, Poe insisted that it had exploded into being from a single "primordial particle" in "one instantaneous flash."
It may have been the giraffes that turned biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck into a standing joke in science....But in recent years, scientists have noticed something odd. There appears to be much more to heredity than plain old DNA. Now, a startling Swedish study may rehabilitate Lamarck's reputation.
A micro-payload riding a shaft of light streaks for the Moon or Mars. Huge sails are nudged outward on interstellar trajectories. A double-crosser of an asteroid is pulsed out of harms way, saving the Earth from a messy impact.
A respected scholar from the Warburg Institute, London University, who has worked with such distinguished academics as Robert Eisenman (noted expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls), Yuri Stoyanov has here produced a work of major scholarship and erudition on the Dualist and Gnostic traditions from Antiquity to the Cathar heresy.
Western scientists have been skeptical of flood myths, but British TV presenter Graham Hancock was intrigued and at his initiative, a joint Indo-British underwater archaeological expedition sent in divers who have discovered structures under the sea that may be older than the Harappan civilization.
Nasa is to answer conspiracy theories that the US moon landings never happened. The space agency says it will address anomalies which have been identified by cynics in a short book.
Analysis of the condition of the marine environment shows that despite important moves to protect coasts, they are showing signs of "significant stress and low resilience to continuing pressure", says the 80-page document published by English Nature, the Government's wildlife advisers.
American research has shown a widely-used herbicide is causing male frogs to develop female parts. The research was focused on the impact of atrazine on leopard frogs which are the most common native species.
Scientists say the remains of four woolly rhinos found in a quarry in central England will provide important new clues about the Ice Age.
While baboons dig with their hands, chimpanzees sometimes use sticks to dig the holes, Galat-Luong says. That, says primatologist Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, is an intriguing new example of tool use. In other parts of Africa chimps use sticks to fish ants and termites out of their nests or skim algae from ponds.
Do chimpanzee traditions such as Masonic-style handshakes, mutual back scratching and cracking nuts with hammers constitute "culture" in the same way as art, music, poetry and other trappings of the human condition?
When the Spanish invaded South America many artefacts of the Inca people were destroyed. But now research into parasitic worms in fossilised human faeces is shedding light on the lifestyle of this ancient civilisation, says Kate Ravilious
In the 1970s, Uri Geller became a controversial personality; appearing on television, radio and giving many public performances. The Israeli psychic could bend spoons, start broken watches and move objects with his mind. This immediately began a firestorm between believers and nonbelievers. Is he a fraud and a con artist? Or, does he actually have extraordinary abilities?
...the Bogdanov's theses seem like gibberish to me, at least from their abstracts - even though I work on topological quantum field theory, and know the meaning of almost all the buzzwords they use. Their journal articles make the problem even clearer...Some parts almost seem to make sense, but the more carefully I read them, the less sense they make... and eventually I either start laughing or get a headache.
Earthquakes struck various parts of the globe since last week, but the widespread activity was not unusual and the tremors were not related, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
"On any given day, we located about 50 earthquakes throughout the world," said Waverly Person, a USGS geophysicist. "This to us is pretty normal."
The remains of a village thought to date back 8,200 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in China's Inner Mongolia region.
"The remains were found at a depth of between 6.5 and 26 feet on the eastern side of the lake....There are studies that show that the lake used to be ... around 66 to 98 feet lower, and that was where ancient Peruvians built...."
Despite criticism from academics that his theory is no more than "a tower of hypotheses", publisher Transworld paid 500,000 pounds for the rights to "1421 -- The Year China Discovered the World", a huge sum for an unknown author.
"In the United States it's hard for a therapy that represents not only a different paradigm clinically but a different paradigm economically," said Peter Chowka, an investigative journalist who has reported on alternative medicine for 25 years and served as a consultant for the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine.
I believe not only that Mars has harboured life, but it may actually be the cradle of life. This conclusion arises because of the recent discovery that our biosphere extends deep into the bowels of the Earth. Microbes have been found thriving at depths of several kilometres, inhabiting the pore spaces of apparently solid rock.
While studying elevation solitons in mercury to test the new system, Falcon came across an 1895 prediction of the existence of depression solitons, but only in fluids of extremely shallow depth. "It was a surprise to me," he recalls. "When I was a student I followed lectures and read course books that stated that solitary waves cannot be depression waves." So he took on the creation of depression waves as a challenge.
Ever since Copernicus put the Sun, rather than Earth, at the centre of the Universe, scientists and philosophers have suspected that there's nothing special about our cosmic time and place. But two physicists now suggest otherwise.
Combining old-fashioned metal-working techniques with modern nanotechnology, engineers at The Johns Hopkins University have produced a form of pure copper metal that is six times stronger than normal, with no significant loss of ductility.
Two British scientists are seeking £165,000 ($256,000) to carry out a large-scale study to discover if clinically dead people really have out-of-body experiences.
A Sri Lankan widower has attracted the attention of doctors for his ability to breastfeed his young daughter.
A new study from Sweden has found that nutrition during childhood--particularly among boys--may influence the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in later generations.
For decades, a small but loyal legion of Bigfoot hunters has spent countless weekends prowling forests in nearly every state, piling up evidence such as alleged footprints and hair samples that now has a handful of animal experts willing to at least entertain the possibility of his existence.
"Statistically the chances of it being Jesus's brother are low and we will never know the truth because the casket is from an unofficial dig and ended up in the open market."
...Digging into the place where classical civilization flourished represented a daunting challenge. Beneath every famous site where tourists wander today are traces of continuous habitation from the Neolithic period to the present.
...Scientists working in Ukraine have discovered that a well-known but smaller crater, some 15 miles wide, had been inaccurately dated and is actually 65 million years old, making the blast that created it a likely contributor to the end of the dinosaurs.
Scientists at Purdue University are currently pursuing an experiment that, if successful, could prove the existence of other dimensions -- and possibly ghosts.
The following pages are intended to be a round-up of the news and recent developments in various studies of the mysterious pyramid structure that was discovered in 1985 by dive tour operator, Kihachiro Aratake, off the coast of Yonaguni-jima, Japan.
Dr. Brophy hypothesizes after extensive measuring and calculations of star alignments that existed 6,500 to 8,500 years ago, that the surface Nabta stones are a detailed calendar and astrophysical map that tracked the constellation Orion and its belt stars with astonishing accuracy.
If you're planning an expedition to search for the lost continent of Atlantis, or if you're seeking to visit foreign lands to prove that astronauts visited Earth during ancient times, you might want to speak with Kenneth L. Feder before making your travel plans.
Preliminary lab analysis and opposing views from different veterinarians regarding the discovery of the alleged humanoid being have generated controversy and debate not only in Chile, but also throughout Latin America and in Europe. Ever since Mega News Network of Chile first reported the story of the 3-inch long creature found near Concepcion by family members during an outdoors trip, numerous speculations, rumors, and theories about the origins of that creature have begun to spread.
Similar body positioning has also been found in burials at Kaminaljuyu, a Mayan site in the Guatemalan highlands. Archaeologists have, in fact, found indications of noble Teotihuacan visitors and of their possible influence on government in the art and records of a number of Mayan cities, including Tikal and Copan. Some evidence has also been found for the presence of Mayan visitors in the common residential and commercial districts of Teotihuacan.
There is a popular misconception that Middle Eastern deserts were once fertile because the climate was wetter in Roman times and that they lost their fertility because of mismanagement by man. In fact, research by University of Leicester archaeologists, with colleagues from the Universities of Bournemouth and Exeter, shows that...the climate was actually much the same in those days as it is now.
Indian researchers believe they have discovered traces of extraterrestrial life in the shape of microbes in samples they collected outside the Earth's sphere, the Press Trust of India reported on Monday.
Water is the liquid that cut the fresh gullies seen on Mars in 2000, suggests a new analysis - this despite claims that other liquids may be responsible.
The quality and completeness of the fossil record and its credibility as a source of information about the history of life have been debated since before Charles Darwin's time. Now, as part of the Paleobiology Database project, a systematic examination is being conducted with some good news so far.
In the West, Charles Darwin's theories suffered no less egregious distortions at the hands of supposed Darwinian acolytes. It is now a commonplace that evolutionary theory was used to justify capitalist injustice. Illegality and wrongdoing were artfully cloaked as an incontrovertible, science-tested natural law, "the survival of the fittest."
Researchers are embarking on a $100 million effort to identify blocks of DNA that contain common variations in the human genetic structure.
Richard Milton has updated his review of Michael Brass' "The Antiquity of Man" with a response to Brass' recent commentary on the review. Milton submits 10 "challenges" to Brass by which the latter's claims might be substantiated.
Our Author of the Month discussion of Christopher Dunn's "The Giza Power Plant" begins this Friday. If you don't yet have a copy of this book, now's the time to pick one up so you can take part in our month-long discussion.
Christopher's book is a truly fascinating read. His evidence for "advanced machinery" in Ancient Egypt alone is worthy of a book-length treatment. Highly Recommended!
The mysterious creature which caused expectation throughout Chile and which was even reputed to be extraterrestrial in origin turned out to be a mammal known as Monito de Monte (literally, mountain monkey). This was the statement made by veterinarian and professor of the Univ. of Santo Tomas, Arturo Mann, who subjected the specimen to analysis.
Archaeologically, there are mysterious physical linear features. These include straight lines of Bronze Age standing stones in France and Britain which pass through burial cairns, and have "blocking stones" at their ends, vaguely reminiscent of Feng-shui principles.
While dismissed by local academics, "Taiwan -- The Cradle of Civilization" did grab the attention of British journalist and author, Graham Hancock....The unconventional thinker and eyebrow-raising questioner of humanity's prehistory was so impressed by Lin and Ho's work that he flew to Taiwan in order to meet with both men and learn more about Taiwan's past.
Everything points to Atlantis being not far to the west of the straits, which means only the North Atlantic and the western European and African shores are still in the frame. In Part II, we'll examine further, more specific clues and get closer to our goal.
For decades, people have used computers to model present-day realities and fantasies. Engineers and scientists design cars and predict the weather with them, while video gamers have propelled the game The Sims, which allows the design of simulated human lives to play out on a screen, to become the best-selling computer game of the 21st century.
Nibiru doesn't exist. And, like the dire misfortunes that were predicted to follow the recent planetary alignment, serious scientists are certain its supposed effects will come to naught. Here's the story.
In the Oct. 25 Science, the researchers describe ancient camp sites situated next to now-dry lakebeds in the Atacama Desert and nearby occupation sites at lower elevations. "They have verified a link between substantial climate changes and early settlement patterns in South America," remarks archaeologist Betty J. Meggers of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
An ancient burial box recently discovered in Israel that could be the oldest archaeological link to Jesus Christ is likely from a later period, a University of Wyoming religion professor said Thursday.
British archaeologists have discovered a capital city of one of the ancient world's most mysterious superpowers.
For both the G6PD and CD40 ligand gene loci, the haplotypes carrying the proposed protective mutation show a combination of high frequency and long-range linkage disequilibrium that confirms positive selection about 10,000 years ago, in the Neolithic era.
Using sperm-mediated gene transfer, Italian investigators have generated transgenic pigs bearing the human gene for decay accelerating factor (hDAF). They report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Early Edition that the transgene is transferred to the next generation, yielding donor animals whose tissues are more adapted for use in humans.
Twenty thousand hits per day -- that's the average dose of damage sustained by the genes within each cell of our body. How are innumerable mutations avoided? In a study published in the October issue of Molecular Cell, Weizmann Institute researchers have proved the existence of a vital repair mechanism used by cells to correct this damage and showed that it is responsible for about 85% of what are termed "last-resort" repairs.
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new moon of Uranus, boosting the planet's tally of orbiting satellites to 21.
Administrator Sean O'Keefe is dribbling out hints about his vision for NASA and it looks remarkably like the pre-shuttle days when science and exploration ruled instead of maintenance of big hardware like the shuttles and station.
According to the official view there was no contact between the Old World and the New World before Columbus. Yet numerous similarities have been found that suggest a link between Egypt and the Americas.
Locals believe the ghost of a road accident victim from more than 60 years ago could be haunting a stretch of the A465 near Bromyard in Herefordshire.
On October first of 2002, while vacationing in the Southern Chilean city of Concepcion, a group of family members found what appeared to be a small humanoid creature. The miniscule being measures about 7.2 centimeters long. It has a relatively large head, two arms with long fingers, and two legs. The discovery was first reported by Mega News Service, which is the local news channel in the Santiago area.
According to legend, one hundred pyramids in China are proof aliens have visited our planet, reports Pravda online.
A vast missing link from the age of saw-toothed "dragon fish" has been rescued, virtually intact, from crumbling cliffs on the North Sea coast.
Former Chief of Staff John Podesta and a former Capitol Hill staffer this week called on the government to release secret evidence from UFO crash sites.
The following e-mails were sent to me after my news update on COAST TO COAST radio on October 21, about the very large, dark brown bird seen flying by dozens of eyewitnesses, including pilots, in the Manokotak and Dillingham towns north of the Alaska Peninsula since the end of September 2002. See Earthfiles report.
While sightings of Bigfoot have become almost commonplace in the Pacific Northwest, the idea of Bigfoot in Texas is news to most. Cryptids in Texas shouldn't come as a surprise, Woolheater says. His research of Texas folklore uncovered tales of a Bigfoot-like creature--"The Wild Woman of the Navidad"--as far back as 1837.
Eating fish once a week may help reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites) and other forms of dementia, French scientists said Friday.
Researchers have calculated the scale of a giant wave that devastated the north west coast of America 1,100 years ago.
Our only source of information about Moses, the lawgiver of the Jews, is the Old Testament account in Exodus. Jill Kamil puts the emigration of the Canaanites from Egypt in a historical context
Woodburn is a small agricultural town in the US state of Oregon. Next to the high school is Mammoth Park. It sounds cheesy, but Mammoth Park is a paleoarchaeological site whose findings could shake America's view of her history.
"There is no archaeological or literary evidence to support this claim," eminent historian R S Sharma told The Times of India in Patna.
On closer examination of mission photography, mapping, and transcripts, it becomes increasingly evident that there was more involved than was ever stated or written. I intend to show that there is indeed something much more profoundly shocking about this area and mission; something obvious that had been hidden in plain site, hushed up, then back-drawer relegated to a time when it could be rediscovered and brought to attention by some observant and brave mind at a time of greater social acceptability. This side to Apollo 17 has been left unfathomed for decades.
During the second century B.C., a mummy-maker took a scroll of poetry and used it as stuffing for a corpse. The roll of papyrus remained hidden inside the mummy's chest cavity until its rediscovery in the early 1990s. Today, what was once treated like trash survives as the oldest surviving example of a Greek poetry book, as well as an important source of information about the past.
More than 100,000 tourists flocked to a remote part of Thailand to see a mysterious phenomenon in which coloured fireballs shoot into the sky.
Sea lions may have the best memory of all non-human creatures, according to researchers in California.
An archaeologist is claiming an inscription on a burial box is the oldest solid evidence Jesus existed.
A brain tumour turned a 40-year-old schoolteacher into a nymphomaniac and paedophile, experts have claimed.
However they admit there is one drawback. "On the other hand, the drill emits hazardous radiation, which requires safety measures and limits its operating conditions."
Genetically-modified animals can be created simply by washing sperm, swishing it in a centrifuge with an additional gene, and using the altered sperm for artificial insemination, say Italian researchers.
A Chinese admiral's epic voyage around the world may be re-created to promote the theory that China discovered America 71 years before Christopher Columbus.