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The notion that slaves, or the lower orders of society, from any origin (foreign or inigenous) built the pyramids is given another blow by recent

Is this a bit of Daily Wail fluff or a piece of spin on a string - or is there something important to be learned

At http://phys.org/print285836945.html .... speculates on a supernova explosion in AD1006 as texts from the time mention a space light so bright it cast shadows at

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130417092013.htm ... some new work on the early settlement of the Americas by the University of Barcelona (with an emphasis on South America) which

The BBC television had a programme on Stonehenge and environs last week fronted by a very over excited presenter. I lost track of how many

Another important paper put online by George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/courty-2013/ ... which I will probably get back to later as far as commenting is concerned.

Brian Sherwood Jones sent in this link on the Maya calendar - go to http://cryptome.org/2013/03/nsa-mayan-astronomy.pdf

Interesting post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/4/11/crop-yields-and-dumb-farmers.html ... where it is assumed in an academic paper that rising co2 levels would have an adverse effect on crop yields

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/ps-mlc041113.php ... the Maya long count calendar has been linked directly into the European calendar by C14 dating methodology. The idea of this arose

Yes, one thousand black holes have been seen. In reality, beams of light have been captured and these are assumed to mark black holes -

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (March issue) there is also a letter by Peter M James of Tasmania, and he updates some of the information and data pertaining

This story is at www.space.com/20580-black-hole-eats-giant-planet.html ... so what was actually seen, a feasting event, some munching and consuming, or what? Not a great deal it

In a letter to the NCGT journal of March 2013, see www.ncgt.org, Karsten Storetvedt describes his experiences trying to get geology articles published that do

This story has already featured on Eric's email thread so we are a bit late coming to the party. This version can be found at

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Environmental_change_triggers_rapid_... ... is a University of Leeds study published in the journal, Ecology Letters, and provides evidence of rapid evolution as a result of

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/04/saturns-ring-system-rains-water-in... ... a 'rain' of charged water particles falls over large areas of Saturn according to NASA funded research at the University of Leicester.

In the latest issue of the New Concepts in Global Tectonics journal which can be accessed at www.ncgt.org and the articles are well worth browsing.

At http://phys.org/print284724127.html .... research in Belize at a smaller Mayan community has provided evidence on how they conserved water during the rainy season to sustain

Prior to 3000BC the Sahara was a verdant landscape, a rich grassland with a typical African fauna - see http://phys.org/print284364895.html ... and went back through

The Djehuty Project (Spanish) has said it has discovered, near Luxor, four burials from dynasty 17 - see http://phys.org/print284379880.html See also www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/snrc-dpd040513.php Akhenaton (Egypt) and