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From the News Section.Deep within the wind-swept Atacama desert in northern Chile, the remnants of a forgotten civilisation rise from the sand.
At first the ruins are barely visible, just small ridges that cast short shadows. But where the sand has been stripped away, circular clay structures can be clearly seen.
These are the 3,000-year-old remains of Tulor, one of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic villages in South America.
Almost 2 million ancient documents. That's a lot of reading.
TREASURE: Out of the five million Indian manuscripts, 1.8 million have been documented so far.
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New Delhi: The government has created an online database of 1.8 million ancient texts to promote them as treasures of the country and to preserve millions of neglected manuscripts. Out of the five million manuscripts, 1.8 million have been documented.
As the manuscripts were lying neglected, the ministry had set up a National Mission for Manuscripts with the aim to locate them through a nation-wide surveys and then to document and catalogue them.
Article has no pics, doesn't say what kind of wood, etc. Maybe more news later.CAIRO (Reuters) - A rare double wooden statue of an ancient Egyptian scribe and his wife has been found in their tomb south of Cairo, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Monday.
The double statue, dating from around 2300 BC, was among a total of five wooden statues found at the tomb in Sakkara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, said Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Ask and you shall receive! Here's a pic...Beagle wrote:http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... 2920070219
Article has no pics, doesn't say what kind of wood, etc. Maybe more news later.CAIRO (Reuters) - A rare double wooden statue of an ancient Egyptian scribe and his wife has been found in their tomb south of Cairo, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Monday.
The double statue, dating from around 2300 BC, was among a total of five wooden statues found at the tomb in Sakkara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, said Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
*Slow holiday weekend. Plenty of news today though.
Another Amazonian "stonehenge" found. From the News Section.SAO PAULO, Brazil - A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find that archaeologists say shows early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.
The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet (2.75 meters) tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter.
Either that or her arm was ritualistically torn off in a fit of jealous rage by her husband.Fantastic - thanks Michelle.
I suppose the female became unattached at some point. Pretty good wood sculpture.
This girl must have been something to see.The body of a strikingly tall 5,000-year-old woman with an artificial golden eye has been discovered in Iran.
Archaeologists said the woman was a female soothsayer or priestess and would have transfixed those around her with her eyeball, making them believe she had occult powers and could see into the future.
The 25-30-year old Persian woman, who was almost 6 feet tall, was also buried with an ornate bronze hand mirror so she could check her startling appearance.
From the News Section.MADRID - A Spanish scientific team found one of the world's oldest cities, thought to be about 5,500 years old, in Syria.
The discovery, based on pottery fragments and other ceramics found at the site, was announced in Madrid by two of the scientists in charge of the investigation, Ignacio Marquez of Spain's CSIC scientific research council and Juan Luis Moreno of the Universidad de La Coruña.
According to reports, the find is of "the highest level" of scientific importance because of its ramifications for the understanding of history and for the multiple lines of future research it opens up in many fields.
