8 hours ago by Jim

Having mentioned now numerous times the upcoming NOVA special titled ‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets’, we hear today that the redoubtable Aren Maier is one of the folk who appear in it. … if you watch [the trailer] and you are quick, you can see a few spots which were taken at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Most ob ...

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9 hours ago by John

Logo for the New Brighton Archeological Society. The logo is by Paul Conrad, and you find a high res version here. "The New Brighton Archeological Society" is a comic book by Mark Andrew Smith and Matthew Weldon that can be preordered at Amazon. *Previously: Elephant skull indicates how cyclops myth ...

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11 hours ago by Neko

I’ve not posted much this month. I am not going to make apologies: I’ve mostly been using up my will to write on getting reports to English Heritage for the Scheduled Monuments I’ve used as case studies, which is a major obligation (and I think it’s immoral to do survey work and NOT report it). But ...

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22 hours ago

Five Healthful Hints for Good Nutrition . Iron Women especially need to regularly include iron-rich foods such as meat, shellfish, beans, and enriched cereals in our diet due to the depletion of iron caused by out monthly cycle and the ... Continue here: Hints for Good Nutrition

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1 day ago by megalithix

Stone Circle (destroyed) : OS Grid Reference - NJ 267 600 Archaeology & History Fred Coles ( PSAS 40, 1906:204-5) described this site in his essay on the megaliths of Banffshire, where once could be found perhaps five stone circles close to each other - but all are now gone! Bloody disgraceful reall ...

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1 day ago by megalithix

Stone Circle (destroyed) : OS Grid Reference - TG 524 035 Several local history records describe there being a circle of ten standing stones in a field called ‘Stone-field’ or ‘Stone-piece’ - now covered by a housing estate. In 1875, C. J. Palmer said, “there is a tradition that the Druids had a tem ...

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1 day ago by megalithix

Cairn: OS Grid Reference - NN 143 477 Getting Here As you enter the top eastern end of Glencoe, take the only tiny road to your left (south) into Glen Etive, past the great Buachaille Etive Mor (she kills four or five folk a year, so a local told me, as if to remind me who’s boss!), past Dalness for ...

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1 day ago by megalithix

Cairns: OS Grid Reference - SD856733 Getting Here Easy enough to get to - and a lovely place to behold for an amble! From Settle, take the B6479 road up to Horton-in-Ribblesdale (ask a local if you’re too dumb to find it!), turning right at Stainforth and up the single-track road towards Pen-y-Ghent ...

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1 day ago by erin

Although it's not a "blockbuster" release like the latest hotly anticipated Mystery Case Files or Azada title, the folks at MumboJumbo have struck gold with Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena, a superb hidden object game that introduces some fresh ideas into the popular genre. Samantha Sw ...

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1 day ago by Luigi

I’ve blogged before about the myth of the pristine forest, at least as it applies to the Amazon, and a long feature in the University of Chicago Magazine entitled Can’t See the Forest for the Trees does a good job of summarizing that argument. But it does a lot more by putting it in a global context ...

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