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Events: Competition: Find a megalith* on Google Street View
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 12 March 2010 (191 reads)
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A competition to find megaliths*, earthworks and other ancient sites on Google Street View via the Megalithic Portal, with lots of prizes on offer.
On Thursday 11th March 2010 Google rolled out its Street View service to include 95% of the roads in the UK. Many prehistoric sites are in mundane roadside locations, and I'm not talking about Stonehenge here. There are thousands of obscure and unloved standing stones, earthworks etc in roadside locations all over the world. |
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Text Pages: Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 (189 reads)
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Possible stone circles, stone alignments and burial chambers in Syria. Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (the monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian has stood at the eastern fringes of the Anti-Lebanon mountains since at least the sixth century. Thought to have been built on the remnants of a Roman watchtower, today it resembles a storybook castle perched on the edge of a steep precipice overlooking the Syrian desert. |
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| Look, it's "Syria's Stonehenge" (give me strength) Report of "early example of the stone landscapes seen at places like Stonehenge" (or probably not)
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Photo Pages: London Stone
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 (5955 reads)
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 Standing Stone in Greater London
Once considered to be the guardian of the City and the place where all distances from London were measured, the London Stone now sits almost forgotten in a little glass box set into the wall of 111, Cannon Street opposite Cannon Street Station at TQ326809. |
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| London Stone talk "Making a Myth" at the Museum of London, April 13, 2010
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Books/Products: Northern Earth 121
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 07 March 2010 (115 reads)
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Northern Earth 121 is out now. In this issue:
The Ness Gardens Contemporary Henge.
John Hill’s ongoing experimental project on Stonehenge goes public on the Wirral... |
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Text Pages: Diepkloof
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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 05 March 2010 (311 reads)
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Rock Outcrop in South Africa.Two large rock shelters on the west bank of the Verlorenvlei River. Excavations have found hearths, tool fragments, decorated eggshell, and plant and animal remains dating to 55,000 to 65,000 years ago. |
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| Engraved Ostrich Eggs Suggest Early Early Man's Symbolic Thought. See comment.
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Photo Pages: Palace of Amenhotep III
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 (1588 reads)
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 Ancient Palace in Upper Egypt. The 18th Dynasty palace of Amenhotep III was built by simply placing stone blocks and columns on the ground without building foundations. It was therefore completely annilliated by an earthquake and all remaining blocks were used by succesive dynasties for their temples. |
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| Head of statue of Amenhotep III found intact, see comment
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Cuneiform tablets, Seals and Tombs Unearthed in Syria
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 (173 reads)
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According to Syrian media, archaeological expeditions working at North-eastern Syria (Hasaka Province) have discovered several collective tombs and parts of seals with different shapes in addition to 27 cuneiform tablets dating back to 2500 BC. |
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| Summary of Multiple International Excavations of Mounds and ancient cemeteries in Syria.
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News: Degrees for Bournemouth Archaeology students who mix up Neolithic and Mesolithic
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 28 February 2010 (499 reads)
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The university professor who stood up against dumbing down of degrees. When Professor Paul Buckland settled down in his garden one summer's evening to mark exam papers from his second-year archaeology students, he was expecting the usual range of responses. But it soon became clear that the scripts had plummeted to new depths of ignorance. |
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Text Pages: Temple Mount
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 28 February 2010 (414 reads)
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Ancient Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple Mount is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem. According to Jewish tradition, it was from here that the world expanded into its present form and from where God gathered the dust used to create the first man, Adam. It was the place God chose to "dwell", hence the construction of two Jewish Temples at the site. Traditionally, it is believed that a Third and final Temple will also be located here. The Mount is considered the holiest site in Judaism and due to this, many Jews will not set foot on the Mount itself. |
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| Unrest as two sites in Palestinian territory are declared Israeli heritage sites - and English Heritage think they have problems!
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Photo Pages: Ur.
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 27 February 2010 (4611 reads)
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 Ancient Settlement in Iraq.Remains of early Sumerian city and royal cemetery. |
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| "This site will become perhaps more important than Giza." Unearthing the splendour of Ur in Iraq
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Photo Pages: Nemi Temple of Diana
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Submitted by ivanjohnson on Saturday, 27 February 2010 (3226 reads)
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 Ancient Temple in Lazio/Roma.This is the famous Temple of Diana at Lake Nemi about 25km southeast of Rome. Its modern fame comes largely from the descriptions and analysis in both James Frasier's "Golden Bough" and in Robert Graves' "The White Goddess" (both recommended).
According to those books this temple complex is the epicentre of the Mediterranean pre-Christian matriarchal cult of Danae (Diana, or the Tuatha de Danaan) and along with Diana it is also the home of "Rex Nemorensis" the "King of the Wood" - always an escaped slave that must slay the old Rex Nemorensis in order to become the new King of the Wood. Needless to say the King of the Wood could apparently look forward to a lifetime of sleeping with one eye open. |
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| Golden Bough from Roman mythology 'found in Italy'. See comment.
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DNA Evidence Tells 'Global Story' of Human History
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Submitted by coldrum on Saturday, 27 February 2010 (212 reads)
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DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past. Now, a collection of reviews published by Cell Press in a special issue of Current Biology published online on February 22nd offers a timely update on how new genetic evidence, together with archaeological and linguistic evidence, has enriched our understanding of human history on earth. |
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| "To understand what it is to be human, it is essential to understand the human past,"
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Researchers Uncover Pictured Rocks History
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Submitted by coldrum on Saturday, 27 February 2010 (137 reads)
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Researchers recently completed a three-year project at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore that uncovered 23 new archaeological sites and reconstructed the Nipissing shoreline as it looked about 4,500 years ago.
John Anderton, said the National Park Service supported the effort to locate cultural resources so they remain protected in future plans for road improvements and other developments. |
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| Modeling Known Archaeological Sites Against Lake Superior Topography Finds New Ancient Sites.
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Text Pages: Mezyad graves
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 25 February 2010 (475 reads)
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Tombs cast light on origins of UAE. Before the time of the three monotheistic religions that now dominate the world, there once ruled different gods with many names, shapes and sizes. Of these, one reigned high above in the sky, casting her holy light on her people – the sun. Inside a small, ancient beehive of a building, a single ray from the sun creeps in through a tiny opening. It is the only light inside. Once it has passed there is only the dark and the damp. |
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Photo Pages: Göbekli Tepe
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Thursday, 25 February 2010 (34682 reads)
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 Ancient Temple in South Eastern Turkey, in Province of Sanliurfa on the Harran plain towards Syria near one of the Euphrates arms. |
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| Long article on Göbekli Tepe in Newsweek magazine, see latest comment
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Text Pages: Museum of Culture and History, Randers
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Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 25 February 2010 (351 reads)
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Museum in Aarhus. The museum was founded in 1872, making it one of the oldest and biggest local museums in Denmark. The exhibitions tell the story of life in the area from the first inhabitants around 100,000 years ago up to present day. |
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| 2000 year-old bog woman given a face, see comment
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Text Pages: Chilonche
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 25 February 2010 (719 reads)
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Ancient Settlement in Peten, Guatemala. Archaeologists have discovered a huge Mayan sculptured head in Guatemala that suggests a little-known site in the jungle-covered Peten region may once have been a significant city.
The stucco sculpture, which is more than three metres wide by four metres high, was buried for centuries at the Chilonche ruins, close to the border with Belize. |
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| Find at Mayan Center Leads to book on Mayan Pictographs.
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Text Pages: Kituwah
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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 25 February 2010 (358 reads)
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Artificial Mound in Swain County, North Carolina. Kituwah is considered the "mother town" of the Cherokee, and was so important that the Cherokee sometime called themselves "Ani-Kituwah - a" (The people of Kituwah.) The mound site was the location of the town's Council House (used for political and religious meetings) and the location of a sacred hearth. The ancient town was razed by the Army in mid 1700's during the Anglo-Cherokee War, but the site continued to be venerated. |
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| Cherokees oppose Duke Energy work near sacred site
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Text Pages: Vero Beach
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Submitted by andy b on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 (509 reads)
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Ancient Settlement in Florida. Historical society looks to fund professional dig of 'Vero Man' site. An old archeological site in Vero Beach is getting more attention as archeologists grow eager to excavate and learn more about artifacts that may be lying beneath the surface. |
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Photo Pages: Cahokia - Ramey Group
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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 (491 reads)
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 Ancient Town in Madison County, Illinois.A group of flat topped and conical mounds grouped around a plaza to the immediate east of Monk's Mound. This area was outside the cental stockade that surrounded Monk's Mound and the great plaza. |
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| Copper men: Archaeologists uncover Stone Age copper workshop near Monk's Mound
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