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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:06:30 GMT

clipped by: cosmic_kitten1
clipper's remarks: I only found this the other day and mostly I'm clipping it for my own uses; however, it's a great resource and I thought I'd share. The site itself has pretty cool info too. 'Hope you guys like the clip.

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World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:47:43 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

A view of a painting uncovered at Djade al-Mughara Neolihic site, northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, in this September 2007 handout photo. The painting was discovered by a team of French archaeologists, who described the painting as the oldest in the world. (Handout/Reuters)

Tags: archaeology, syria, art, rock art, prehistory

Amazing Photos - Nature and Archaeology

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:59:38 GMT

clipped by: quickstar

Clip Source: www.kennethparker.com

Blossoms and Cliffs

Tags: pictures, photos, pics, nature, archaeology

Write Like an Egyptian

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:52:56 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: enjoy

Clip Source: www.upennmuseum.com

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
www.upenn.edu/museum
presents

Write Like an Egyptian

your name in hieroglyphs,
the way an Egyptian scribe might have written it.

1:
Type your first name
(maximum 16 letters)

Tags: fun

Caral: The first city in the New World

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:25:35 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: A brief article on a stunning archaeological discovery in South America. About six years ago, Peruvian/American archaeologist Ruth Shady, introduced the "oldest city in America" to the world. It was Caral; an ancient city on the Pacific coast of Peru, with trade centers, temples and a pyramid complex not less impressive than its counterparts in Mexico and Guatemala. The most exciting thing about Caral was its age: The city was carbon dated to ca. 3000 BCE, which strongly suggested a radical change in history textbooks. All evidence show Caral was not an exception in the region and there are many more ancient towns, waiting to be discovered. Another interesting thing about Caral is, its surprisingly peaceful social order. Archaeologists found no city walls, no forts, no signs of an army and even not a single weapon in Caral. Once again, thanks to Ruth Shady for this fantastic discovery.

Clip Source: www.helium.com

For years it was believed that the first city built in the Americas was in the Andes of South America. More recently, however, archaeologists are excavating a site over a thousand years older than anything previously discovered in an unlikely place: the desert plains of the Supe Valley in Peru

Situated near a river, this site known as Caral has been dated to approximately 2627 B.C. This would mean that the city, which has an extensive complex of pyramids and public buildings, predates even the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt.

Caral was occupied roughly from 3000 BC to 2000 BC, when for some reason the city was abandoned.

One singularly unique thing about Caral is the lack of signs of conflict.

The city had no walls, no fortifications, no signs of any military whatsoever. Even more significant, they found no weapons anywhere.

Carbon dating of sites near Caral have revealed dates as old as 2950 BC, indicating that Caral might have been the culmination of hundreds of years of complex building

Tags: archaeology, peru, caral, ruth shady, south america

A "Second Sphinx" at Giza?

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:03:34 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: omega.wordpress.com

After analyzing the elements of the Ancient Egyptian belief system, Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa comes up with a very unorthodox view that would shake the established Egyptology and most likely, trigger a swarm of fresh debates on the origins of the monuments at Giza. Pointing out the dualist essence of the Ancient Egyptian cosmology, El Shammaa argues the very likely existence of a “Second Sphinx” on the Giza plateau, next to the one we know as The Great Sphinx.

“Whenever we have to deal with the solar cult, we should speak of one lion and one lioness facing each other, posing parallel to each other or sitting in a back-to-back position,” says El Shammaa. He draws our attention to the Egyptian creation myth, where the almighty Atum gives birth to his son Shu and his daughter Tefnut, in the form of a lion and lioness. He also points out that the Dream Stela carved by Thutmosis IV and found between the paws of the giant statue, clearly depicted two sphinxes.

Tags: archaeology, egypt, giza, sphinx

The 5000 year hug

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:08:06 GMT

clipped by: tpq62
clipper's remarks: Aaaaaaw! Although actually it is kind of cool.

Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

Couple hug for 5,000 years

The grave is the first Neolithic period double burial found. Photo / Reuters

ROME - Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other.

"It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova.

"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging - and they really are hugging."

Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down.

"I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited. I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites," she said.

"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."

A laboratory will now try to determine the couple's age at the time of death and how long they had been buried.

Tags: archaeology, anthropology, science

Doomsday - The Mayan Prophesy

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:13:34 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: December 21st, 2012. I probably won't be home that day, but I'll catch it later on youtube, I reckon. Jokes aside, they say the Mayan (or Atzec) calender is the most accurate ever made. Their doomsday is not so much about the end of time, but of the beginning or dawn of a new age of enlightenment. I think it's worth a gander.

This video explains the Mayan calender pretty well. Part one of three;
The Mayan Calender Unveiled

Clip Source: viewzone.com

There is a common belief that the calendar holds a prophecy that the end of the world will happen in 2012. At the time, I knew very little about the whole topic and when I began doing the research. I like to think I had an open mind. My investigation began with mainstream archaeology and the expert interpretations of the calendar. But it soon took a turn that made my hair literally stand on end. I am now convinced that these prophecies are true.

To understand what is likely to happen to Earth and it's people, you will need to remain calm and try to follow the facts. It's not as simple as some people describe. It requires an understanding of some fairly complicated scientific realities, but I think I can explain them in a way that you will easily understand.

Tags: mayan, calender, future, 2012, cosmos, evolution, prophesy, time, noosphere, quickening, consciousness

Free Online Courses from Great Universities

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:04:48 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug
clipper's remarks: Goody

Clip Source: www.oculture.com

Free Online Courses from Great Universities

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Introduction to Archaeology - Feed - MP3s - Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

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Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) - iTunes - Jan Wampler, MIT

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Economic Geography of the Industrial World - Feed - MP3s - Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.

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Geography of World Cultures - iTunes - Martin Lewis, Stanford University

History

African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle - YouTube - Clay Carson, Stanford

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Shakespeare - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley

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Introduction to Logic - iTunes - Feed - Patricia Churchland, UCSD

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Operating Systems Principles - iTunes - Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame

Operating Systems and System Programming - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley

The Future of the Internet - iTunes - Ramesh Johari, Stanford

Understanding Computers and the Internet - iTunes - Feed - David Malan, Harvard University

Japanese ruins - 5000 years older than the Pyramids

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:25:13 GMT

clipped by: JDomingues
clipper's remarks: If true it´s amazing.

Clip Source: www.damninteresting.com

The Relics of Mu

After years of searching, and combing the Pacific for a possible lost land that could have been the root of one of these legends, it is clear that there is no extra continent in the sea. However, in 1986, a SCUBA diver, Kihachiro Aratake, diving off the coast of the island of Yonaguni-jima discovered something that may lend credence to the existence of Mu or Lemuria. On the sea floor he found vast geometric structures cut out of the rock. There was evidence of stairs, and improbable angles in the stone. He marked the location for future divers, and in the intervening years these undersea ruins have come to be known as the "Yonaguni Monuments".

Efforts to date the monument are derived from the last time the area was above sea level, which would have been approximately 8,000-10,000 years ago– about 3-5 millennia before Egypt's pyramids were erected. If the monuments were indeed built by humankind, it would require some dramatic revisions to the accepted chronological history of humanity.

Not far from a set of cliffs called "Iseki Point", the main structure of the Yonaguni Monuments lies under about two hundred feet of water. It is about 240 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 45 feet tall. There appear to be clear cut stairs, and to many there are distinct similarities to ancient buildings found on Okinawa, or even heiau temples on Hawaii. Various structures surround the main building, and they seem to stretch out into a road spanning approximately 311 miles leading to Okinawa and its neighboring islands.

Tags: lemuria, ruins, japan, pyramids, archaeology

Skeleton Shows Ancient Brain Surgery

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:12:55 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Archaeologists have unearthed the skull of a young woman in northern Greece who is believed to have undergone head surgery in the third century, Greek news media reported Wednesday.

A Greek team discovered the skeleton at an ancient cemetery in Veria, with the skull including an injury that led them to conclude the surgery had been performed.

"We think that there was a complex surgical intervention that only an experienced doctor could have performed," said Ioannis Graikos, the head of the archaeological dig.

"Medical treatment on the human body in the Roman Veria is part of a long tradition that began with Hippocrates up to Roman doctor Celsus and Galen," he said, cited in the Ta Nea newspaper.

Hippocrates is believed to have lived in the fifth century BC, Celsus between 25 BC to 50 AD, and Galen from 131 to 201.

Tags: archaeology, greece, brain surgery, ancient science, medicine, science

"Zeus Altar" is older than Zeus

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:10:23 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

“On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lykaios, and from it most of the Peloponnesos can be seen,” wrote Pausanias, in his famous, well-respected multi-volume Description of Greece. “Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles. On this altar they sacrifice in secret to Lykaion Zeus. I was reluctant to pry into the details of the sacrifice; let them be as they are and were from the beginning.”

What would surprise Pausanias—as it is surprising archaeologists—is how early that “beginning” actually may be. New pottery evidence from excavations by the Greek-American, interdisciplinary team of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project indicates that the ash altar—a cone of earth located atop the southern peak of Mt Lykaion where dedications were made in antiquity— was in use as early as 5,000 years ago—at least 1,000 years before the early Greeks began to worship the god Zeus.

Tags: archaeology, greece, zeus, minos

Lost land discovered below the North Sea

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:59:17 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Maybe another Atlantis candidate?

Clip Source: www.stonepages.com

Prehistoric landscape found below the North Sea waves

A lost landscape where early humans roamed more than 8,000 years ago has been discovered beneath the British North Sea. A map of the underwater world reveals criss-crossing rivers, giant lakes and gentle hills around which hunter-gatherers made their homes toward the end of the last ice age.

The region was inundated between 18,000 and 6000 BCE, when the warming climate melted the thick glaciers that pressed down from the north. As the water rose, the great plain vanished, and slowly the contours of the British Isles and the north-west European coastline were established. Now the primitive landscape is submerged and preserved, tens of metres beneath one of the busiest seas in the world.

Tags: archaeology, prehistory, undersea, lost land, england

Rosslyn Chapel's "secret code" cracked

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:39:49 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Team cracks chapel's music 'code'

Rosslyn Chapel was built in the 15th Century

A father and son team from Edinburgh think they have found a secret piece of music hidden in carvings at a famous medieval chapel in Midlothian.

Stuart Mitchell, 41 and his father Tommy, 75, said they had deciphered a musical code locked in the stones of Rosslyn Chapel for more than 500 years.

They will perform the music in May at a concert in the 15th Century chapel.

Visitor numbers to the chapel have increased rapidly since it featured in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

Stuart Mitchell discovered a series of figures which he calls an "orchestra of angels" at the base of elaborate arches round the altar, with each angel holding a musical instrument.

He worked with his father to decipher the patterns on cubes which jut out from the arches.

Tommy Mitchell said the markings concealed a tune which they were determined to crack.

Tags: rosslyn chapel, edinburgh, music, secret code, archaeology

"The most ancient star map ever found"

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:32:41 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Pleiades depiction from prehistoric Italy.

Clip Source: www.stonepages.com

Two groups of man-made cup markings carved on a pair of boulders found in the Italian Alps may represent the Pleiades star cluster, according to the archaeo-astronomer Guido Cossard. The carvings have been found near the Plan des Sorcières - literally 'The witches' plateau' - at Lillianes, in Val d'Aosta (Italy). According to Mr Cossard, who made the discovery, the series of cup markings have the same shape as the famous star cluster, and it may represent 'the most ancient star map ever found'. "Even the archaeo-astronomical orientation of the site is a confirmation, because it's clearly aligned to the rising point of the Pleiades," added Cossard.

Although the Pleiades are popularly termed the Seven Sisters, only six stars are easily visible to the naked eye, and a considerable mythology has grown up to account for the 'missing' Pleiad, since the times of Eratosthenes (276 BCE - 194 BCE). Additional details of the discovery will be presented in Lillianes City Council on January 17th

Tags: archaeology, archaeoastronomy, pleiades, star charts, prehistory, science