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Baalbeck, Lebanon, Largest hewn stone in world.
Divining the News | May 14th 2008 by morris108
BaalBeck has enormous temples and large stone structures. This one shaped stone (thought to be the heaviest in the world) weighs around 1,000 tons. It was partially taken out of its quarry to be taken up to the Sun Temple, where other similar large s read more
Carvings from Angkor Wat - Siem Reap - Cambodia
Photography by Adam Hurley | May 14th 2008 by Adam
If you like this post, then you should: Subscribe to Images By Adam Hurley by Email Visit my other Blog! Vietnam Travel Notes!! Thanks! read more
Srinivasan Sei Intha Vishnuthaasan thaan !!
Scorp Says So | May 12th 2008 by Rajesh G
Ettil Ainthu En Kazhiyum Endrum Ainthil Ettu En KazhiyathuAshta Aksharam erkum Nenju Panja aksharam Paarkathu !! Verasaivargal Munnal Engal Veeravainavam ThorkathuMannan Solluku Anji Enrum Merke Sooriyan UdikkathuRaja Lakshmi Naayagan Srinivasant read more
Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten Had "Androgynous" Build
Biology in Science Fiction | May 10th 2008 by hasan
The ancient Egyptian ruler Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.So concludes a Yale University physician who analyzed ima read more
Did Comets Cause Ancient American Extinctions?
Biology in Science Fiction | May 7th 2008 by hasan
Debate has heated up over a controversial theory that suggests huge comet impacts wiped out North America's large mammals nearly 13,000 years ago.The hypothesis, first presented in May 2007, proposes that an onslaught of extraterrestrial bodies cause read more
Ancient surgery performed nearly 1,800 years ago
Discover Rhodes | May 1st 2008 by nikos
A skull of a young woman found during a dig in northern Greece has revealed that she had undergone head surgery nearly 1,800 years ago. According to an article published by the Greek daily newspaper, Kathimerini, archaeologists who discovered the ske read more
Making Thaats with Tetrachords Part IV
Sangtar's Blog | April 20th 2008 by Sangtar
In the last two posts we have learned to make 32 Thaats from 8 Tetrachords. Now here is an interactive flash movie to put them altogether. Study these three posts, find the pattern of note changes. Once you understand the sequence how notes are movin read more
Babylon exhibition in Paris, Berlin and London
Life Over 30 | April 15th 2008 by Frank Daly
An exhibition on the history and art of Babylon is currently in Paris and will be moving to Berlin and later to London. Archaeologists show that Babylon was a city of innovation, contrary to the reformation Christians description as place dedicated t read more
Staying in Style. By Royston Ellis
HOLIDAYS IN PARADISE | April 14th 2008 by longoff
A rather grand boutique hotel has opened near Kandy that will appeal to guests who like ancient and modern, in this case a touch of aristocratic antiquity with contemporary comforts like air-conditioning, in-room television, free wireless internet ac read more
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Gallery Bulgaria Blog | April 12th 2008 by Picsvet Gallery
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Ancient Trees
Today's Best News - a News Blog | April 11th 2008 by aphniche
Neat. Swedish spruce may be world's oldest living tree read more
Uncovering the Mystery of Stonehenge
Life Over 30 | April 10th 2008 by Frank Daly
Archaeologists are carrying out a dig at the 4500 year old Stonehenge site, to uncover the true reason for its existence. The researchers believe that bluestones, which were originally at the site, indicate that it was originally an ancient healing p read more
Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human…
Our Cultural World | April 10th 2008 by Betty
Article ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2008) — A research team has reconstructed the history of the evolution of human population and answered questions about history, using DNA extracted from skeleton remains. Knowing the history of past populations and an read more
Proto-Indo-European: The Land East of the Asterisk
Henry | April 8th 2008 by Simon G
Wendy Doniger in the London Review of Books: Nineteenth-century German and British linguists, building on some 18th-century hunches, uncovered the connections between members of a large (and rather dysfunctional) family of languages that included anc read more
Mother Nature, Ancient Chinese Secret, Crazy Calls, Micromachines…
It's All About The Blog | April 7th 2008 by Tom Whittaker
When I was a kid I watched a lot of TV...especially on Saturday mornings, weekdays, Sundays, days it rained, holidays...okay, I watched a lot of TV. In a world before DVRs, TV also meant commercials. Here are some funny ones I fondly remember from read more
Rizogalo
Greek Food - Recipes and Reflections | April 7th 2008 by Sam Sotiropoulos
Rizogalo... my Greek rice pudding recipe in all its glory Rice has been known and consumed in Greece since ancient times. The first mention I could find in the historiography is a reference to one of Sophocles’ lost (to us) plays. The Poet is qu read more
Why Should I Learn Hebrew?
Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary | April 7th 2008 by Scott Stiegemeyer
Why Hebrew? It is a well known fact that Hebrew is the “dead” language of the Old Testament. All that backward writing, peculiar scribbling, odd sounding stuff is out of date and fashion since Christ became flesh to dwell among us. What is the po read more
Our Spiritual Natures vs. Influencing Agendas
Surfing the Tao | April 4th 2008 by Angela V. Michaels
Please note a couple of excellent recent articles by two of my esteemed ‘blogeagues’, Kingsley Dennis and Neil Kramer, whose insights and intelligence continue to inspire me here at Surfing the Tao. Neil Kramer has blessed us yet a read more
The Music of the Bible Revealed - Numbers 6:22-27
Points to Ponder On! | April 2nd 2008 by Aryeh ben Abraham
This is Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's restitution of the Priestly or Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6:22-27), as performed by the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble aka SAVAE (http://www.savae.org) on their CD,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs read more
Ayutthaya: The Ancient City
TraveThai : To the Land of Smile | April 1st 2008 by Patrick San
Ayutthaya city, the former capital of Thailand, now it is Ayutthaya province in Central of Thailand. 85 km to the north of Bangkok. The city was founded in 1350 by King U-Thong, who came here to escape a smallpox outbreak in Lop Buri, and proclaimed read more
Ancient Ivory Spirit Pendant
Grizzly Mountain Arts | April 1st 2008 by Grizzly Mountain Arts
A wizened old spirit face was carved on this pendant by Dave from a beautiful piece of ancient ivory. The pendant measures nearly 3 inches in length and 1/2" in width. Very old African trade copper and four carved bone beads accent this piece . The c read more
325: Licinius, Constantine’s last obstacle
Executed Today | April 1st 2008 by Executed Today
On an uncertain date in the spring of 325, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great had his onetime co-emperor — and now prisoner — Licinius executed for a purportedly treasonable plot. In the system of tetrarchy whereby the Roman world wa read more
One of the Known Reasons We Are All Screwed
The Sporadical | March 30th 2008 by thesporadical
The other night, Professor Pikachu was on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell hocking his new book, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel. I will eventually buy Pikach read more
A History of the Island of Sri Lanka
HOLIDAYS IN PARADISE | March 27th 2008 by longoff
“To me the beauty of Ceylon lies not so much in its blue seas and golden beaches, its jungles and its mountain peaks, as in its ancient atmosphere. There is no nation, from Egypt of the Pharaohs to modern Britain, in whose literature this islan read more
Meanwhile in Middle Earth…
ScienceJunkies.com - Teaching kids that science can be FUN! | March 25th 2008 by Linda
A pair of caves on the South Pacific island of Palau has yielded thousands of bones, including the skull of an extinct three-foot-tall people. Excavated in 2006 and 2007, these remains belonged to a race that lived between 2,900 and 1,400 years read more
What do you think: novel presents Jesus Christ not as a peaceful…
IT Blog: gadgets and stuff | March 22nd 2008
‘The Lost Parable of Christ’: What if Jesus came not as a man of peace, but a man of war? What if Jesus was the warrior king MESSIAH that his disciples thought him to be? What if all the powers of God were in one man? What if the Bible read more
Scientists discover signs of ancient life on Mars
Blogging the Singularity | March 22nd 2008 by Chris Williamson
By Dave Mosher updated 1:47 p.m. CT, Thurs., March. 20, 2008 For the first time, satellite imagery reveals thick Martian salt deposits scattered across the planet’s southern surface, which one planetary scientist claims could be sites of ancien read more
10,000 year old structure found in Canadian lake
Odd News | March 21st 2008
Canadian divers conducting a project in MacDonald Lake at the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, came upon an ancient stone structure - 40 feet below the present lake level. Initially the structure was considered to have been ferried by glacier read more
Ancient humans and the Bering strait
Henry | March 19th 2008 by Simon G
“Ancient humans, venturing across the ice bridge to North America, got lost quite often. They found it very hard to keep their Bering Strait….” (I’m sorry, so very sorry). read more
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