In the News

At www.spaceweather.com 16th december     polar stratospheric clouds (clouds in the stratosphere but situated above the polar circle) are colourful - not like the grey

This is a second look at Gobekli Tepe within a couple of days - the link was sent in by Bill Thompson. It was previously

One influence that Marxist and Socialist historians have had, in league with the idea of Gradualist Evolution of society, has been in our understanding of

Recommended web site of an SIS member - www.thebookblog.co.uk

At http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/december/archaeol... ....   Archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services have unearthed remains from Roman and Medieval Leicester in two areas of the former

This article acknowledges the idea that a huge outflow of cold meltwaters from the Laurentide ice sheet was not responsible for the Younger Dryas period

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/12/quantum-conundrum-some-aspects-of-... ... Alan Turing is famous, in books, urban myth and in a film, for cracking the Enigma Code - but among mathematicians and

  Geomagnetic storms as a result of the solar wind buffeting the atmosphere are well known - but here we have an image of a

I've been reading Graham Hancock's latest book, 'Magicians of the Gods' which is an update on his successful 'Fingerprints of the Gods' which was very

The Times feature, 'Weather Eye' discussed the warm November weather in Britain this year, as December threatened to follow in the same vein. It does

The Times, December 2nd 2015, has a report on the discovery of dinosaur footprints on the island of Skye, which is situated off the west

The Times (December 2015) has a piece on Gilgal Refaim, the 'Wheel of the Giants' which is situated on the Golan Heights (and currently on

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35049323     we hear that a group of archaeologists walking along the coastline of Sanday, one of the Orkney islands, were on the way

At http://phys.org/print368697672.html ... we learn that Mike Parker Pearson is involved in a new project, also with an impact on Stonehenge, in Pembrokeshire on the

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-35008564  ... excavations for a new building in the grounds of Lincoln University have turned up a Mesolithic camp site dating back up to

You've heard of 'two brains' Willetts (who never rose above the froth) but here we have a comet sporting two tails.       This is

One for the grandchildren. Lots of teeth. Crocodiles and Dinosaurs (go to http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/fossil-hunters-unea...).   Fossil hunters are a breed apart and get excited over the

The works of the old men is a bedouin term referring to thousands of stone structures in the Jordanian and Arabian deserts. Two wheels, or

The BBC has finally caught up with the news that a seal of King Hezekiah has been found by Israeli archaeologists.   At www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/king-hezekiahs-seal-discovered-in...... and

  At www.spaceweather.com (December 3rd, 2015) - coronal holes are where the Sun's magnetic field opens and allows the solar wind to escape. Hot plasma