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Thanks for the link Min. Sometimes I can read a linked article on Haaretz, sometimes not. On this occasion, I got to read the article. I think that if the Israeli Antiquity Authority would give cash rewards for artifacts, they wouldn't have such a big problem with looting. The only people making an...

Other hints that the remains were of somebody of wealth and/or importance is the fact that he/she was buried in a lead coffin, underneath one of the most important cathedrals in Europe. That type of honor was accorded to few. Usually remains found in lead coffins are found to be in a fairly good st...

Vestiges of the 17th-20th century paternalistic, colonialist mentality. The same way they decided that Great Zimbabwe 'couldn't' have been built & peopled by sub Saharan, non white people. I'd love to get a hold of Belzoni & horsewhip him. He did irreparable damage wherever he went & he...

He's fairly down to earth & open minded. He just wants to see some more substantial evidence. He also acknowledges that new info crops up so often that any of his videos can become obsolete at any time. I like his videos because he doesn't set himself up to be the all knowing authority on that ...

We now live in a culture where 'cheats' are considered acceptable. What a shame. I can remember when books explaining Nintendo game cheats first came out. I could only shake my head. What good is it playing a game if you need to cheat to complete it or win it? That pretty much defeats the purpose o...

A thought provoking & controversial article about using both ancient & modern human DNA to trace the origins & migrations of humanity. Be sure to watch the very brief video in the article. It shows modern human lineages on a world map, regressing back through time to a single point of o...

This article is fairly recent. It's not a slow news day regurgitation either. There's nothing really new to report. However, it is a bid to solicit funds for the next series of scans. They got permission to conduct the tests, now they need to drum up the support. Even if they got the funds today, t...

Well, this is fairly up to date... Remember how archaeologists finally acknowledged that admixture of modern humans with archaic humans had occurred? And how they wondered where the admixture events, aka boinking, occurred? Okay then... Maybe one or two events happened here, about 54kya. Or maybe n...

Interesting article on a 'problematic' issue. This article has some photos of good examples of pareidolia. It's fun sometimes when your eyes play tricks on you, and you see a face that isn't really there, staring back at you from a power plug or a potato. This phenomenon is called face pareidolia, ...