British and Italian experts Friday revealed the chance discovery of the source of a 1,900-year-old Roman aqueduct complete with nymphaeum near the Italian capital.
Jan 30, 2010 - 11:46:43 AM
I have received a "warning" from the USGS, Western Coastal and Marine Geology concerning the west coast - from northern Mexico to Alaska. A second thrust of storms is heading towards Northern California and traveling north to Oregon, Washington and Alaska. This storm is bringing jet stream winds of over 200 mph. - Watch the Cascadia Subduction Zone - 'Fluid Displacement'
Jan 25, 2010 - 9:40:54 PM
In teaching my 6th grade class this morning at Weizmann Day School, I decided to talk about Haiti and theology. In searching for answers about why such a terrible thing happens to innocent people, there is a tendency to blame God, challenge God and question what good is religion or prayer if such horrible things can come to bring such destruction to some of the poorest people on the planet. Is this a punishment? Many of our unevolved ancestors would have thought so. Reward and punishment, classic theology in many traditions, is how we understood God and the world around us for generations.
Jan 22, 2010 - 4:33:27 PM
Excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus atop Greece's Mount Lykaion have revealed that ritual activities occurred there for roughly 1,500 years, from the height of classic Greek civilization around 3,400 years ago until just before Roman conquest in 146.
Jan 19, 2010 - 11:51:38 AM
Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday.
Jan 19, 2010 - 10:54:28 AM
VADODARA - While M S University's department of archaeology and ancient history may have grabbed global attention with its possession of Lord Buddha's relics, but few might know that in his lifetime Lord Buddha had visited Gujarat. This startling piece of information was given by professor Anura Manatunga from Sri Lanka, who presented his paper "Buddhism in Gujarat: Some supplementary evidences from Sri Lanka".
Jan 17, 2010 - 1:07:53 PM
The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one. The specialised unit would be charged with recovering the nuclear materials and securing them.
Jan 17, 2010 - 12:45:42 PM
A mystery space object, believed to be an asteroid, is set to pass close by the earth, Nasa has said, as astronomers attempt determine its origins. The object, called 2010 AL30, is set to pass within 76,000 miles (122,000km) of the Earth, or just a third of the distance out to the moon, around lunchtime on Wednesday.
Jan 13, 2010 - 11:40:14 PM
"It Has Begun" - These words keep playing in my mind. As mentioned, the interview with Mayan elder Carlos Barrios, was so intense we are both down with flu-like symptoms. It is suspected today's quake which was centered just 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, may have killed hundreds, and maybe thousands.
Jan 12, 2010 - 6:22:25 PM
There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. Scientists in France are reporting that the alluring eye makeup also may have been used to help prevent or treat eye disease by doubling as an infection-fighter.
Jan 12, 2010 - 11:07:02 AM
No statue of a pharaoh has ever been found further south of Egypt than this one. At the height of his reign, King Taharqa controlled an empire stretching from Sudan to the Levant.
Jan 11, 2010 - 4:22:05 PM
The Great Pyramids were built by free men - paid labourers who worked out of reverence for the pharaohs and were rewarded with burial near the ancient monuments, in graves discovered last week.
Jan 11, 2010 - 4:08:04 PM
Neanderthals used makeup and jewellery challenging the idea that they were cognitively inferior to early modern humans, according to research published in the Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences today. Radiocarbon dating by researchers at Oxford University suggests that pigment-stained and perforated marine shells were almost certainly used as pendants by Neanderthals in Spain 50,000 years old.
Jan 11, 2010 - 4:00:29 PM
Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species -- perhaps Homo erectus -- had used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe via at least some of the larger islands in between, says archaeologist Thomas Strasser of Providence College in Rhode Island.
Jan 11, 2010 - 2:08:02 PM
Recent scientific research confirms a connection between high energy charged particles and earthquakes. Results suggest the importance of coordinated and simultaneous ground-based and space-based investigations specifically dedicated to charged particles and the Earth's core is warrented. NASA has teamed up with ESA (European Space Agency) to investigate a possible space-based early warning system.
Jan 10, 2010 - 11:16:11 PM
