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| · | "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers (0) |
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| Tuesday, July 06 |
| · | China says it can't remember the Dalai Lama's birthday (0) |
| · | Baby deaths link to Roman 'brothel' in Buckinghamshire (0) |
| Friday, June 18 |
| · | Pagan-Cult Objects found in rock hollow (0) |
| Wednesday, June 16 |
| · | Bright Green Comet Easy to See This Week (0) |
| · | Swarm Of Toxic Jellyfish Found Off UK Coast (0) |
| Monday, June 14 |
| · | Wiltshire vicar revives ancient archery law (0) |
| · | Sudden oak death spreads across channel to south Wales (0) |
| · | Experts In A Spin Over Nero's Rotating Room (0) |
| Friday, June 11 |
| · | Taliban hang 7 year old child (0) |
| Thursday, June 10 |
| · | Gladiator Cemetery Uncovered In York (0) |
| · | The oldest, old world leather shoe (0) |
| Saturday, May 29 |
| · | Viking Weather returns to Greenland (0) |
| · | Pagan Burial Altar Found in Israel (0) |
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| · | Noah's Ark Found in Turkey (0) |
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| Saturday, March 27 |
| · | "Goddess" Glacier Melting in War-Torn Kashmir (0) |
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| · | Nemesis (0) |
| · | Windermere's 'black hole' (0) |
| Wednesday, February 10 |
| · | First results from Large Hadron Collider published (0) |
| Friday, February 05 |
| · | Teenage Turkish Girl Buried Alive For Talking To Boys (0) |
| · | Vast "Cloud Warrior" Ruin Found in Amazon (0) |
| Tuesday, January 19 |
| · | India's Lost Nomads (0) |
| · | Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara (0) |
| Wednesday, December 16 |
| · | Jesus-era' burial shroud found (0) |
| · | Boy has Arabic script from the Koran appear on skin (0) |
| · | Viking Weapon-Recycling (0) |
| Saturday, December 12 |
| · | Decoded Ancient Tablets Shed Light on Assyrian Empire (0) |
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About 127 light-years away there's a star like our sun that hosts at least five planets, each roughly the same mass as Uranus or Neptune, astronomers announced today. The planets were found via what's called the radial velocity method, aka the Doppler wobble. This method of planet hunting looks for periodic shifts in starlight caused by the gravitational pull of orbiting worlds. Using an instrument dubbed the HARPS spectrograph on a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile, the team saw five strong wobbles corresponding to planets between 13 and 25 times Earth's mass orbiting the star HD 10180. For comparison, Uranus is roughly 14 times Earth's mass, and Neptune is about 17 times Earth's mass. By contrast, Saturn is 95 Earth masses, and Jupiter tips the scales at almost 318 Earth masses. What's more, there are hints that the planetary system also hosts a world roughly the mass of Saturn, with at least 65 Earth masses, and another more like Earth itself. The Saturn-like world would be farther out, taking about 2,200 days to complete an orbit. The Earthlike planet, meanwhile, would be closer in than all the rest, and it would be the least massive exoplanet yet found, at just 1.4 Earth masses. If confirmed, the two additions would make this planetary system the most like our own yet discovered, at least in terms of number and general layout...
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Long dismissed as accidental additions to Viking graves, prehistoric "thunderstones"—fist-size stone tools resembling the Norse god Thor's hammerhead—were actually purposely placed as good-luck talismans, archaeologists say. Using fire-starting rock such as flint, Stone Age people originally created the stones to serve as axes. But the Vikings, whose Iron Age heyday lasted from about A.D. 800 to 1050, saw the primitive tools as lightning repellent.m Because the axes predate the Viking age by thousands of years, archaeologists have long seen the stones as random artifacts, perhaps stirred up from earlier, lower burials or dropped in centuries after the Viking era. But now "we have made enough discoveries of Stone Age artifacts in younger graves to say that they make a clear pattern," archaeologist Eva Thäte, of the University of Chester in the U.K., said in a statement...
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They date back to at least ancient Roman times, but Friday the 13th superstitions won't be getting much of a workout this year. Luckily for triskaidekaphobia sufferers, today is 2010's only Friday the 13th. That must come as a relief, after 2009's nine Friday the 13ths—the maximum possible in a year, at least as long as we continue to mark time with the Gregorian calendar, which Pope Gregory XIII ordered the Catholic Church to adopt in 1582. "You can't have any [years] with none, and you can't have any with four, because of our funny calendar," said Underwood Dudley, a professor emeritus of mathematics at DePauw University in Indiana, and author of Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought. The calendar works just as its predecessor, the Julian calendar, did, with a leap year every four years. But the Gregorian calendar skips leap year on century years except those divisible by 400. For example, there was no leap year in 1900, but there was one in 2000. This trick keeps the calendar in tune with the seasons. The result is an ordering of days and dates that repeats itself every 400 years, Dudley noted. As time marches through the order, some years appear with three Friday the 13ths. Other years have two or, like 2010, one...
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Just northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2,000-year-old ceremonial site. Among their latest finds: Like Stonehenge, the Ohio timber circles were likely used to mark astronomical events such as the summer solstice. Formally called Moorehead Circle but nicknamed "Woodhenge" by non-archaeologists, the site was once a leafless forest of wooden posts. Laid out in a peculiar pattern of concentric, but incomplete, rings, the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide. Today only rock-filled postholes remain, surrounded by the enigmatic earthworks of Fort Ancient State Memorial (map). Some are thousands of feet long and all were built by Indians of the pre-agricultural Hopewell culture, the dominant culture in midwestern and eastern North America from about A.D. 1 to 900. This year archaeologists began using computer models to analyze Moorehead Circle's layout and found that Ohio's Woodhenge may have even more in common with the United Kingdom's Stonehenge than thought—specifically, an apparently intentional astronomical alignment. The software "allows us to stitch together various kinds of geographical data, including aerial photographs and excavation plans and even digital photographs," explained excavation leader Robert Riordan, an archaeologist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. The researchers had known, for example, that an opening in the rings; a nearby, human-made enclosure; stone mounds; and a gateway in a nearby earthen wall are all aligned. But the model revealed that the alignment is such that, during the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice—the longest day of the year—the sun appears to rise in the gateway, as seen from the center of the circle, Riordan said. In much the same way, and on the same day, the sun appears to rise alongside Stonehenge's outlying Heel Stone, casting a beam on the monument's central altar...
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The recent decoding of a cryptic cup, the excavation of ancient Jerusalem tunnels, and other archaeological detective work may help solve one of the great biblical mysteries: Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The new clues hint that the scrolls, which include some of the oldest known biblical documents, may have been the textual treasures of several groups, hidden away during wartime—and may even be "the great treasure from the Jerusalem Temple," which held the Ark of the Covenant, according to the Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered more than 60 years ago in seaside caves near an ancient settlement called Qumran. The conventional wisdom is that a breakaway Jewish sect called the Essenes—thought to have occupied Qumran during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.—wrote all the parchment and papyrus scrolls. But new research suggests many of the Dead Sea Scrolls originated elsewhere and were written by multiple Jewish groups, some fleeing the circa-A.D. 70 Roman siege that destroyed the legendary Temple in Jerusalem. "Jews wrote the Scrolls, but it may not have been just one specific group. It could have been groups of different Jews," said Robert Cargill.The new view is by no means the consensus, however, among Dead Sea Scrolls scholars. "I have a feeling it's going to be very disputed," said Lawrence Schiffman, a professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU)...
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