In the News

At http://westerndigs.org/epic-fire-marked-beginning-of-the-end-for-ancient... ... there is a fascinating story that the mounds (ancient earthen pyramids) and plazas of a typical Meso-american town/city ritual layout, at what

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/03/milky-ways-red-dwarf-stars-a-hotsp... ... and http://phys.org/print313126310.html ... a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, by astronomers from the University of Hertfordshire,

At http://phys.org/print312636171.html ... a team at University of Cambridge has demonstrated that the event around 2300BC involved a movement of the summer monsoon rains which

At www.spaceweather.com for March 3rd (2014) there is some nice information on the recent aurora that could be seen as far south as the Channel

At  www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2014/caribbean-ecosystem-re... ... a study of plant and animals life in one part of the Caribbean, in the north of the Bahamas, and possibly representing

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140226-wales-borth-bronz... ... is about the petrified trees of Borth, and asks if they are linked to the legendary kingdom of Cantre'r Gwaelod. I can

A controversy has developed over the remains of Richard III - some people not keen on DNA testing. A rift has broken out between different

Gunnar Heinsohn has been eager to expand on Illig's lost early AD centuries, and has expanded the theory by creating an even bigger lost age,

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2014/early-christians-in-vi... ... refers to excavations at Ribe in Denmark and what this means for the spread of early Christianity amongst the Vikings. Evidence of

The Chinese aren't supposed to be cheese eaters as they are largely lactose intolerant and yet researchers have found lumps of yellow staff associated with

Gerald Hawkins, who recently died, generally had a bad press in mainstream. They never liked the theory in his book 'Stonehenge Decoded' and neither am

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/prehistoric-rock-ar... ... where a boulder decroated with cup and ring marks was found, decorated on both sides. It was found at Heights of Fadderty

  Excellent piece on Earth Light at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/02/28/earth-lights/ ... which is largely about research by Dr Friedemann Freund, who wrote an article, 'Rocks that Crackle

I know the Royal Society is one of those organisations that is all about holding up the nose and feeling important but incredibly they are

At http://phys.org/print312472375.html ... a PNAS paper has shown aquatic algae can detect colours such as orange, green, and blue, spectrums of light. In contrast, land

The Chelyabinsk meteor appears to have woken up some bods in various space agencies - on the threat from space posed by Near Earth Objects

NASA image of a big solar flare going off today, Tuesday the 25th. The story is at www.spaceweather.com and at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/25/strongest-x-class-solar-flare-sinc... However, the Wiki entry

William Thompson advises ... Donald Scott, author of 'The Electric Sky', and heavily criticised by Tom Bridgman, has a Bachelor's and Masters degrees in electrical

The story behind the flooding of the Somerset Levels goes back to the 1990s - as extracted by the fingernails of Richard North and Christopher

In 1912 Franz Xaver Kugler discovered a reference to year 8 of Ammisaduga (see Peter James, Centuries of Darkness, 1991, appendix 3) in some fragmentary