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The backdrop of the Trojan War is fascinating as in the Iliad we are told the fleeing Trojans reached the head of the river Xanthus

This crops up every year somewhere - this time at http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-story-of-eas... ... Easter is supposed to be derived from the goddess of spring, Oestra. She

No, this is not out of a catastrophist book or part of the Younger Dryas debate but comes straight from the horses mouth at the

The Heritage Journal, see http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-mysterious-m... ... begins with a reference taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the giants of old that brought megaliths to Ireland

At http://phys.org/print283451358.html ... some suprising ideas on the Moon. Apparently, the so called 'lunar cataclysm' began when the gas giants repositioned themselves in the solar

There is a nice post at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/afterlife-of-early-neo... ... with some pictures and diagrams of layout. One can see the trapezoidal design so reminiscent of Early

I posted a link to a TED talk video on 9th March that appeared to delight some people and cause others to grimace. It was

At www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130314_1.html ... Egypt in the first millennium BC, including the Ptolemaic era, has thrown up some surprises. A port city known  as Thonis to

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/astronomical-alignment... ... an attempt to catalogue astronomical alignments at temples in Mesoamerica, 70 per cent of which seem to be focussed on the Sun.

At http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html ... an underwater forest has been found ten miles off shore of Alabama - and scuba divers have come up with pieces of

Keeping the Russian meteor story alive and kicking - another big fireball has been seen, along the east coast of North America - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/another-big-meteor-this-time-o...

The peculiar decision by TED to take down the video talk given by Rupert Sheldrake, apparently due to a faction ganging up on them and

Roger the Tall One, at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/inventors-geim-and-novoselov-h... ... Geim and Novoselov of the University of Manchester were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for their

According to New Scientist - see www.newscientist.com/article/dn23290-farming-has-deep-roots-in-chinese-i... ... it seems three grinding stones have been found in China with traces of plant material that seem

Already up in Wiki ... didn't take long. 13 pages on the February 15th Russian meteor, with lots of mainstream information - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_event. The

The big story this week is undoubtedly the two reports issued by NASA on the Planck images of the universe - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-109&cid=release_2013-109 which concerns

You definitely get some whacky talks at TED ... there was some guy the other day that reckoned temperatures on the earth by AD2300 would

Interesting piece at www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/ann-widdecombe/385446/Even-scientis... ... and see also http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/ann-widdecombe-climate-orthodo...

Hound Tor on Dartmoor is supposed to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. It is a bleak and lonely place, a

The Weather Eye column in The Times informed its readers of a shallow pond basin, 3300 feet by 1300 feet, in a valley between steep