A 245-year-old mummy has been giving a non-invasive CT scan to determine his state of preservation and see what injuries or disease he must have suffered from. The mummy, Michael Orlovits, was born in Vac, Hungary, in 1765. He is currently one of a three-member mummy family on loan to the California Science Center in [...]
A pair of Han Dynasty tombs have been discovered in Central China’s Henan province. The tombs were found by construction workers when digging sewer lines on June 24. A seven-story miniature clay building and more than 70 other items including jars, clay warehouses, clay dogs, clay basins and clay cups have been unearthed by archaeologists. [...]
Four gigantic stones salvaged from the bottom of the Yangtze River may be the remnants of a carved inscription that is more than 1,000 years old. Three of the stones – weighing 60 tonnes, 10 tonnes and 450 tonnes – were pulled from the deep water, while another stone which broke during its salvage was [...]
A researcher has uncovered a hidden code in the writings of the philosopher Plato. Dr Kennedy, whose findings are published in the leading US journal Apeiron, reveals that Plato used a regular pattern of symbols, inherited from the ancient followers of Pythagoras, to give his books a musical structure. A century earlier, Pythagoras had declared [...]
The excellently-preserved Thracian chariot found in the village of Karanovo in November 2008 is going on display where it was found. The entire excavation site is part of a new archaeological complex called “The Eastern Mound – Chariot and Tomb of a Thracian Aristocrat from 1st Century AD.”
The four-wheeled wooden chariot, its intricately carved [...]
Life magazine has posted some never-before-seen photographs from the Korean War that are worth a look. In Korea, it’s known as the “6-2-5 (yug ee oh) War,” a reference to June 25, 1950, when the North Korean People’s Army invaded the South. Among North Koreans, it’s “the Fatherland Liberation War.” In America, however, the Korean [...]
75-million-year-old bite marks from mammals have been found on the skeletons of dinosaurs. The bite marks are about 75 million years old from near the end of the age of dinosaurs. They are the oldest mammalian tooth marks found yet. Though small mammals existed in the dinosaur era, it was the fall of dinosaurs that [...]
A well-preserved first century Roman road dating back to the first century has been found in south-eastern Serbia. The Roman military road, or Via militaris, near the town of Dimitrovgrad used to connect the western parts of the Roman empire with the eastern parts, archaeologists said. ‘This road was one of the main roads of [...]
An auction house in Germany is putting up on the block a collection of 500 documents from the prison which held Adolf Hitler in 1924. [Thanks Frank!] The papers were discovered by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father. Hitler spent nine months in prison after an abortive coup attempt known as [...]
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The government wants to regulate and in some instances start taxing blogs and other websites. Great! More government cuz you know it does such a good job regulating and taxing and dealing with oil spills and hurricanes…. yea, more government can’t wait for government run health care! But I digress.
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It took place 100 years ago and was much bigger than the current BP spill [though it still needs to be totally played out.] It is known as the “The Lakeview Gusher” and began in 1910 when an oil line in California failed and exploded releasing a geyser of 90-100,000 barrels of oil [...]