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This paper by Peter van der Veen, well known to SIS, with co-authors C Thies and Manfred Gorg, was published in the Journal of Egyptian

At http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/12/david-and-solomon/draper-text/ ... Robert Draper in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic has an article on the controversy around David and Solomon - was

At www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732654,00.html 'Egyptian dog bones could help solve canine conundrum'. Scientists are trying to work out how the wolf evolved into 400 breeds of dog

A paper in Quaternary Science Review (see www.physorg.com/print210875954.html ) claims Aborigines were not responsible for landscape fires and other environmental impacts shortly after their arrival,

These two stories come from www.dailygalaxy.com December 7th ... and one begins by claiming comet data over the last hundred years suggests there is a

The NASA website and various blogs such as http://wattsupwiththat.com December 7th have video clips of a massive flare on the surface of the Sun (see

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13429 ... Tel Aviv University archaeologists have explored Naukritis, a Greek trade emporium in Egypt during the 7th and 6th centuries BC. It existed

There are currently a succession of very good posts at http://chiefio.wordpress.com. EM Smith (December 6th) begins by bemoaning the constant bleating about the hottest year

Again, can be found at www.physorg.com/print210777849.html ... a geological conumdrum as rivers form steep inner gorges in some broad glacial valleys in the Alps. The

At www.physorg.com/print210618120.html ... astronomers have been looking at the waxing and waning light of exploding stars and have seen patterns that aren't yet accounted for

November 26th ... a 20 mile long reef of chalk has been found by divers offshore of Sheringham in Norfolk. It consist of arches and

At www.physorg.com/print210529446.html there is a press release on a paper from the December 2nd issue of Science and it seems that Antarctic ice cores have

At www.geology.com/press-release/soom-shale/ ... a site near Table Mountain in South Africa has a rock layer a few metres thick that contains the petrified remains of

The NASA web site had a collection of images as Deep Impact approached Comet Hartley2 and locked its cameras onto the comet nuclei. At www.physorg.com/print208086038.html

At www.dnaindia.com/print710.php?cid=1474879 .... we learn that the Indus Valley civilisation covered a region that included Baluchistan in the west to the Upper Ganga-Yamuna Daub in the

At www.physorg.com/print210426748.html we learn that research at Southampton University is looking at the rate of sea level rise at the end of the Ice Age.

This story keeps popping up from different sources and it looks like there are a number of archaeological explorations of the Brazilian rainforest going on

The big news on sceptic blogs is the acceptance in Journal of Climate of a paper by O'Donnell, Lewis, Condon and McIntyre that refutes a

Member Gary Gilligan whose web site is at www.gks.uk.com has added new information on a new page, and this time has concentrated on the fire

At www.stonepages.com/nes/archives/004126.html there is a bit of speculation that might be just imagination. A standing stone in S Wales which has 75 cup marks gouged