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The so called Richard III skeleton dug up in an ex-monastery may actually have been an abbot and not the former king. To keep up

The comes from Current World Archaeology 55 (november 2012 issue) see www.world-archaeology.com, and 'Redating Ice Age Art: were Neanderthals the first artists in Europe?' which

Tom Findlay, who has talked at various Thunderbolts conferences, has written a book, and at the moment you can download it for free - go

the media haven't seen fit to hardly mention the latest paper on the Clovis comet hypothesis, assuming it is a dud call, but apparently students

At http://phys.org/print272565880.html ... we learn that supercomputer simulation has revealed that dim supernovae are duds - like penny bangers that crack with a wimper instead

Mesolithic people are now on the radar of archaeologists. Sidelined for decades they are now so popular Amazon have a very long list of books

Len Saunders, see www.stonehenge-info.org, had some real hefty tomes on Stonehenge and excavations that took place in the 20th century, as well as some smaller

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn22509-pumpkin-pie-craters-on-mercury-are-... ... the link was forwarded by member Gary and the story is derived from data sent back by NASAs Messenger spacecraft. The weird

At www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2012/11/14/an-ancient-city-1200-100-bc-comes... ... a chance to test a revision of history might come to light as well. An investigation of a town known to have

At http://phys.org/print272208228.html ... we learn that in the Ordovician era, which is a very long time ago, the equator ran down the western side of

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2012/article/stone-tipped... ... a Canadian team of anthropologists say they have found evidence humans were using stone tipped weapons to hunt as long ago as

High frequency flux transfer events have been detected near Mercury - is this evidence of the magnetic reconnection process? - see http://phys.org/print272050738.html ... the discovery

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2012/is-the-harappan-civili... ..... is the Indus Civilisation much older than generally thought. It must be as it was so near the early farming zone that

Evidence of glaciation in tropical regions appears to have spawned the idea of Snowball Earth. This is dated to the remote geological past, the Neoproterozoic

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/11/solar-activity-past-present-future/ ... is a post by Dr Leif Svalgaard, solar scientist and presumably an establishment figure but one that has taken part in the

At http://phys.org/print271939550.html ... dark energy remains hypothetical, used to explain the expanding universe, and other anomalies of the universe. Scientists are divided. Is it static

At http://phys.org/print271928022.html ... what would happen if the Earth's axis suddenly tilted? Geological records, apparently, record large shifts in tilt on several occasions throughout the

At http://phys.org/print271927309.html ... NASA launched twin satellites in August 2012, the Van Allen probes. The idea is to study the magnetosphere and how the solar

Professor Garel Rhys of Cardiff University, writing of the Dark Ages, says that 5th and 6th century Britain was not dominated by Anglo Saxon culture

At http://phys.org/print271445295.html ... according to Big Bang theory and a computer simulation of the evolving universe the rate of formation of new stars has declined