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After the Discovery Channel special on Hatshepsut, they aired a re-run of a 2005 special about Polish archaeologist Mysliwiec and his search for Imhotep's tomb. At the end of the program, they left us with a teaser - Mysliwiec found a tunnel that ran underground at least a couple hundred yards towar...

Their rational for why the "screaming mummy" looked the way it did was pretty lame. Rigor mortis or not, if the person was important enough to justify mumification they would have been positioned according to the standard of the time. The position of the body is puzzle-ing, but to say the ...

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"There are believed to be ten million mammoths buried in permanently frozen soil in Siberia."

Awww .... an "ice age toddler".

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... cture.html

Not unusual at all to find the bones - they wash out of river banks quite often. Rarer to find carcasses of this age. One of the more famous was "Blue Babe", a steppe bison now on display at the U of A museum in Fairbanks. http://www.alaska.edu/opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=180 http://www.mu...

Nurse Ratchet! Stat!!

Many references to possible sitings in N America through Google http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/sep252001/701.pdf http://www.delange.org/M1/M1.htm http://archaeology.about.com/od/poetry/a/paul_young.htm http://www.crystalinks.com/pyrnorthamerica.html Do a “find” for 1054 http://www.regulusastro.com/reg...

I'll bite. Is the first one in Charlie's response from a beach deposit?

Were the skulls molded in infancy to an elongated form? I recall some cultures did this.

Digit:

I don't speak C but I get your drift. I don't speak M either which didn't use to be a problem but is coming up more and more often these days. I think the world is shrinking. Looking ahead, are the Chinese metric?

There are enough discovered but un-excavated resources up here to keep a great many archaeologists busy for a long time if only the funding were available. Often, we just recon a site, provide a summary of the results to the State Archeo Office and move on. It is almost always cheaper/quicker to mov...

Wierd coincidence. Have we become "news leaders"?

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A Canticle for Liebowitz

One of my all-time favs!

I think I first read it in Jr. High. I've read it at least three times since and still have a copy on my bookshelf. (I retire in a couple of years.) Interesting things to say about both the upside and downside roles of religion in society.

Or if the Germans had won WWII, or if Alexander the Great hadn't died when he did, etc.

There's plenty of post-apocalyptic fiction around (A Canticle for Liebowitz, Mad Max, ...)

Or going a little further, remember Planet of the Apes?

Wait a minute .... I think I just de-railed my own thread!

Sometimes we (Homo) loose our smarts too. In The Discoverers, Boorstin pointed out that some Renaissance-era discoveries were actually re-discoveries of knowledge developed in ancient times then lost. For instance, I think he said that the Greeks knew the world was round, knew the circumference with...