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Blessing of Sheba - The Obelisk Returns

This week the people of Ethiopia had reason to celebrate as one of their culture’s most significant monuments was finally restored. The Axum Obelisk, a 1700 year old remnant of the Kingdom of Axum (and ancient Ethiopian civilization), was restored to its traditional resting place. The obelisk was stolen and taken to Italy in the [...]

5Sep2008 | Phil | 2 comments | Continued
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Neanderthals Were Smart, Researchers Say

Neanderthals vanished from Europe more than 28000 years ago, but they lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 10000 years.
There are no clear answers to why they vanished. For many years the explanations were reduced to Homo sapiens were more intelligent and more advanced than Neanderthals and they survived by producing better tools.
New research shows [...]

27Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 13 comments | Continued
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Did Tutankhamen Have Children?

There’s something not many knew about King Tut: he was buried with two female fetuses which, since their discovery in Tutankhamen’s tomb back in 1922 have been stored at the Cairo University’s Faculty of Medicine.
Robert Connolly from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology has recently declared for Discovery News:
“I studied [...]

19Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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No Pure Scandinavian Race

New research from the University of Copenhagen refutes the “pure Scandinavian race” myth.
According to news from the University of Copenhagen, scientist Linea Melchior and other forensic scientists analyzed DNA from 18 individuals buried on two ancient burial grounds (Bøgebjerggård and Skovgaarde). They found that there was enough genetic variation in their remains as one would [...]

10Jul2008 | Mihaela Lica | 5 comments | Continued
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Stonehenge Cursus Is Older than Stonehenge

The Cursus is a long rectangular area, with widths varying from 100 to 150 meters that runs about500 meters north of Stonehenge.
Previous researches showed that the Cursus was built around 3100BC, but recent discoveries date in at about 3500BC. This makes the Cursus 500 years older than the Stonehenge itself.
The discovery was made by a [...]

27Jun2008 | Mihaela Lica | 1 comment | Continued
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Stonehenge Unravelled - Burial Of The Mighty

Stonehenge has been a place of mystery and interest for millennium. Recently archaeologists at the University of Sheffield studied radio carbon dated human cremation remains indicating that the monument was used as a cemetery around 3000 B.C. The archaeological team of Professor Mike Parker-Pearson and Professor Andrew Chamberlain believe that the cremation burials studied [...]

31May2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued