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At www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-... ... which refers to an article in Biblical Aarchaeology Review, 'Egyptian Papyrus Sheds New Light on Jewish History' ... (July/August 2018 issue BAR).

The Canadian climate scientist, now retired, Dr Timothy Ball, has a guest post at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/12/the-major-change-in-the-global-wa... ... which discusses differences in the IPCC reports of 1990

Sent in by William. At https://phys.org/print453352412.html ... a new investigation into Easter Island (2300 miles off the coast of Chile). This is where society is

I've put this under archaeology as we don't have a genetics thread. It could equally come under anthropology - accept that we are dealing with

In Science Reports (August 2018) we have dinosaur tracks found in Alaska - see https://phys.org/print452768549.html ... and now it is proposed Alaska was the gateway

At https://phys.org/print452857190.html ... on a quiet Sunday two astronomers in Australia came across a supermassive black hole. It is so big it can chomp up

In Chris Catling's 'Sherds' column in Current Archaeology (Aug/Sept 2018) he makes a reference to a recent discovery at Tintagel in Cornwall. This is the

Migration routes into the Americas from Siberia are discussed in a new paper in the journal Science Advances (August, 2018) - see https://phys.org/print453017515.html ... The

Space weather is the term used to describe interactions of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere. Nothing to do with climate. At https://phys.org/print453099984.html ...

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/earthquakes-can-systematicall... ... a big earth quake can generate after shocks (or a succession of earthquakes in the same general location) - but it can

At http://spaceweather.com (August 6th, 2018) the annual Perseid meteor shower is under way. Each year the Earth passes through a stream of debris left behind

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-last-hominin-standing .. the last hominin standing - modern humans. This is a useful study and quite interesting but it suffers from certain assumptions. For

At http://spaceweather.com (August 4th, 2018) Comet PanSTARRS was supposed to become a naked eye object in August as it swooped past Mercury - but its

At https://phys.org/print452150037.html ... a carbon leak may have warmed the planet beginning in around 11,000 years ago, encouraging human civilisation to develop. The oceans are

At https://phys.org/print452330358.html ... mass burial sites in the Pacific, Mediterranean, and in Scotland were possibly related to catastrophic tsunami waves, according to research published in

Sent in by William - bizarre rogue planet discovered wandering in our galaxy - see https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/04/bizarre-rogue-planet-discovered-w... ... a rogue planet without a star roaming the

Like a runner bean left on the vine too long black holes are getting a bit stringy - go to https://phys.org/print451826969.html ... black holes are

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05760-3 ... (25th July 2018)an analysis of ancient coral from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia reveals that global sea levels 'fell rapidly' at

There is going to be a National Geographic documentary on Tall el-Hammam in October. One to look out for as astrophysicist Malcolm La Compte is

Much ado in the media - water on Mars. However, when you dig into the story the water is a mile deep and unavailable for