Michelle Moran's Blog, page 117
November 11, 2009
Donegal brain surgeon at work in AD 800, burial site reveals
Read the rest on the Irish Times.
November 10, 2009
Digitized inscriptions reveal ancient messages
Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times
Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet.
Read the rest on the San Francisco Chronicle.
Secrets from a sunken Egyptian city
Scholars unveiled inscriptions discovered in a sunken Egyptian city on Monday.
November 9, 2009
Priestess of Cahuachi
Tomb discovered of an elite child dating to the early Nasca Period. With the mummy were various pieces of jewellery made from gold, silver and precious stones.
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
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Hundreds of bleached bones and skulls found in the desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert may be the remains of the long lost Cambyses' army, according to Italian researchers. Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries...
2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked
The end of the world is near—December 21, 2012, to be exact—according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie.
Read the rest on National Geographic.
November 6, 2009
Reassessing Artworks of Ancient Rome
Vatican Museums: "The Aldobrandini Marriage," one of the works featured in "Rome: The Painting of an Empire."Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast
ScienceDaily — Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere.
