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RobertBast, December 11, 2003 at 7:25:00 AM AEDT
Ch'orti - lost Mayan language found Great news, lots of potential for new decipherings and understandings.... "Linguists have discovered a still-surviving version of the sacred religious language of the ancient Maya... The language, Ch'orti - spoken today by just a few thousand Guatemalan Indians - will become a living "Rosetta Stone", a key to unravelling those aspects of Maya hieroglyphic writings which have so far not been properly understood. Over the next few years dozens of linguists and anthropologists are expected to start "mining" Ch'orti language and culture for words and expressions relating to everything from blood-letting to fasting."
link me 2012, December 3, 2003 at 9:46:00 PM AEDT New discovery under Irish hill "An enormous temple that was once surrounded by 300 towering oak posts lies directly underneath the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Irish archaeologists recently announced. " They don't really explain what they mean by "under" - is the hill artificial? Learn more about this busy Hill at Mythical Ireland and Modern Antiquarian (strangely I was listening to Julian Cope when I read the article)
link me RobertBast, November 20, 2003 at 11:27:00 AM AEDT Camp fire in Brazil, 56,000 years ago This isn't a new story, but there is new evidence that the dating is accurate. So much for the old "they walked from Russia to Alaska" theory! "Earlier tests on charcoal from the deepest layers of the excavations suggested that it was at least 40,000 years old, the traditionally accepted accurate "barrier" limit of radiocarbon dating." "The new study says that thermoluminscence testing of the hearthstones showed that they "were heated independently from the stones found outside the hearths in the same layer; thus, refuting the possibility that the stones were heated by natural fires". ...The procedure is known as ABOX (acid-base-wet-oxidation) and involves chemically scouring a fine layer off the charcoal surface."
link me RobertBast, October 30, 2003 at 9:40:00 PM AEDT Pyramid shafts to be opened again? Robert Bauval says: "I have it from very reliable sources that National Geographic Channel and Dr. Zahi Hawass will do another live TV broadcast in December in an attempt to explore further the "doors" in the GP. Apparently the 'stunt' is to coincide with the launching of Hawass's latest book, a sort of autobiography of his work at Giza."
link me RobertBast, September 12, 2003 at 4:40:00 PM AEST British Stone-Age Settlement Found "A team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England say they found flint artifacts including tools and arrowheads off the coast near Tynemouth during a training session to prepare them for dive searches elsewhere. They say the items pinpoint two sites dating as far back as 10,000 years ago which would once have been on dry land but were gradually submerged as sea levels rose after the end of the last Ice Age." If they keep looking, the might find some non-stone age settlements from back then....
link me RobertBast, September 10, 2003 at 4:09:00 PM AEST Secret Chambers in Mexican Pyramid? A clever experiment is taking place under the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Artuto Menchaca is installing a cosmic ray detector in an ancient tunnel directly beneath the pyramid. If there is variation in the number of muons getting through from different directions, that will inidicate different densities and quite possibly a secret chamber. Once pin-pointed it could be excavated! The results should be available mid-2004. A similar project he undertook found no evidence of chambers in the Pyramid of Kephren in Egypt. More information in the July 26 2003 edition of New Scientist, or via the link below (translated from Spanish by Google).
link me RobertBast, June 24, 2003 at 9:20:00 AM AEST Inca binary books? It's been accepted for quite a while that their knotted strings (khipu) were more than just decorative. Now a scholar is suggesting they contain complete books, like simplistic braille. "Gary Urton, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, has re-analysed the complicated knotted strings of the Inca - decorative objects called khipu - and found they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying more than 1,500 separate units of information. In the search for definitive proof of his discovery, which will be detailed in a book, Professor Urton believes he is close to finding the "Rosetta stone" of South America, a khipu story that was translated into Spanish more than 400 years ago."
link me RobertBast, June 19, 2003 at 8:53:00 AM AEST New 2012 Book Cosmic Locusts by Joel Keene "Cosmic Locusts is the story of an apocalyptic vision of humankind's approaching traumatic rebirth based on a pattern of numerous Nostradamus' quatrains, the biblical book of Joel, and the Mayan calendar. These diverse ancient sources converge in the tale of a scientist turned reluctant prophet in which the end of everththing is only the beginning. With a one-two punch, earth's close encounter with a comet and an energy burst from the Milky Way's black hole center ends life, as it was known before. All of man's technological devices are gone. With old distractions removed and new gifts bestowed in the form of spiritual acuity, man is left to develop a new worldview." Lots of joy for doomsday aficionados! link me RobertBast, May 23, 2003 at 9:13:00 AM AEST Six more Stonehenge bodies Archaeologists who last year unearthed the remains of a Bronze Age archer at Stonehenge said this week that they have found the remains of four adults and two children, about half a mile from that of the archer. "The grave contained four pots belonging to the Beaker Culture that flourished in the Swiss Alps during the Bronze Age, some flint tools, one flint arrowhead and a bone toggle for fastening clothing, Wessex Archaeology said."
link me RobertBast, April 18, 2003 at 7:27:00 PM AEST Egypt and MesoAmerica: Extraordinary Parallels Richard R. Cassaro presents a lot of photographic evidence of how two ancient cultures must have had close ties, despite what most university scholars tell us. Pyramids, mummies, obelisks, elongated skulls, corbeled arches and lots more... Follow the link below.
link me RobertBast, March 18, 2003 at 11:46:00 PM AEDT Universal Mummies? Pyramids around the globe = coincidence? Now you can add mummies to the argument. No longer just found in Egypt and the Americas, they were once fashionable in the UK as well: "The 3,000-year-old bodies are believed to be the first ever discovery of mummification in Britain.... While the Egyptians used hot sand and natural salts to preserve their dead and ancient Peruvians cured their dead in dry mountaintop winds, Parker-Pearson believes Britons used naturally-occurring acids in peat bogs." More science than primitive ritual, I believe.
link me RobertBast, February 21, 2003 at 10:36:00 PM AEDT There's that date again... "A suddenly cold climate about 5,500 years ago coincided with the advent of ancient Chinese civilization, implying some relationship between the two events." 5,500 years ago is very close to the end of the previous Mayan age, and the beginning of this one (3114 BC). Most archaeological news that catches my eye these days is associated with either 3000-3500 BC, or 10,000-12,000 BC. These were each eras of massive change. "About 5,500 years ago, a global climate change occurred and the average temperature dropped by two to three degrees centigrade due to solar activity and the orbit of the earth... Weapons became popular funeral objects, which means that wars were common at that time. And then castles appeared. All of these are deemed as signs of emerging civilization, said archaeologists."
link me RobertBast, February 21, 2003 at 8:00:00 AM AEDT More South American arrivals "New archaeological evidence points to an independent origin of agriculture in coastal Ecuador 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Suddenly, the remains of larger squash plants appear in the record. The Las Vegas site... may predate plant domestication sites in the Mesoamerican highlands. The fertile and amazingly diverse lowland tropics seem like a likely place for agriculture to develop." Yes, well, a lowland coastal area seems to be a likely place for cataclysm survivors to land!
link me RobertBast, February 15, 2003 at 4:09:00 PM AEDT Ancient Amazonians 
While the (supposed) first Americans were working their way south, (supposedly) killing all the mega-fauna for food, some folk were already living in the Amazon.
They had non-Clovis arrowheads. In the cave found by archaeologist Anna Roosevelt, carbon-14 dating for the organic matter and thermoluminescence dating for the stone artifacts and sediment, date the original occupation of the cave between 10,900 and 11,200 years ago. Survivors of the cataclysm!
link me RobertBast, February 12, 2003 at 8:26:00 AM AEDT Stonehenge designed by a Swiss guy? Archeologists studying the remains of a wealthy archer found in a 4,000-year-old grave exhumed last year near the renowned landmark said Monday he was originally from the Alps region, probably modern-day Switzerland, Austria or Germany. Tests on the enamel of his teeth revealed he was born and grew up in the Alps region. "Different ratios of oxygen isotopes form on teeth in different parts of the world and the ratio found on these teeth prove they were from somebody from the Alps region," said Tony Trueman from Wessex Archeology. What does this mean? It adds to the growing evidence of communication between ancient people's worldwide. It suggests that rather than a local cult thing, the purpose of Stonehenge is far more important. Perhaps the location of Stonehenge is deliberate, and not "just because that's where they lived..."
link me RobertBast, January 31, 2003 at 8:28:00 AM AEDT American megaliths 
This dolmen can be seen in North Salem, USA. Others exist near Boston, and in Brazil.
Truly a worldwide phenomenon!
link me RobertBast, December 22, 2002 at 6:29:00 PM AEDT Petroglyph Mania! 
The good folk at ViewZone have put together a compilation of ancient rock art from around the world. The above image is from Pakistan, and they have pictures from another 20 countries...
link me RobertBast, December 21, 2002 at 6:20:00 PM AEDT East & West traded 5,000 years ago That's 3,000 years earlier than previously thought. Relics, including a dozen mace heads extremely similar to those used by kings of ancient Egypt, have been excavated along the famous Silk Road in northwest China.
link me RobertBast, December 19, 2002 at 10:53:00 AM AEDT Ancient NZ visitors I've found a site which details theories and evidence supporting visitors to New Zealand prior to the Maori and Morioris. Click on "radical" when you get there, to read about how prior visitors may have included: The Phoenicians c 666BC Mauryans c 240BC Ptolemaic Greeks c 180BC The Celts c 300 The Arabs c 790 Waitaha c 850 Tamils c 1170
link me RobertBast, December 18, 2002 at 5:58:00 PM AEDT Ancient News Giant 200kg geese fossils found in Australia Germany: 32cm bronze-and-gold disc is a star map from 3600 years ago Humans drank beer in 9000 BC, before they invented bread! link me |
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