In the News

At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/qatnas-royal-palace-reveals-further-archaeological-treasures/ ... current excavations of Qatna by a joint German/ Syrian archaeological team have unearthed jewellery, gemstones, alabaster vases, ivories, and various other burial

At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/fiery-pool-maya-mythic-sea-and-turtle/ ... the Maya had a complex religion, meaning not properly understood by scholars, and a pictorial writing system composed of more than 800

At http://geology.com/records/largest-meteorite/ ... in 1920 a farmer's plough struck a lump of metal in a field near Grootfontein in Namibia. It was an iron meteorite

At http://news.scotsman.com/news/39Birth-certificate-of-Scotland39-unearthed.6521243 ... archaeologists excavating at the Moot Hill in the grounds of Scone Palace have been able to use C14 dating methodology from a

At www.decodingtheheavens.com/blog/post/2010/09/08/Halley-and-the-ancient-Greeks/ (see also BBC News September 10th) ... in 466BC a large meteortie, described as the size of a wagon load, fell in northern Greece.

SIS member Dr Peter Paget has provided this link to a video slide show of the sky - at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11213528  

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908132214.htm a new paper in Nature seems to indicate that New Zealand was not affected by the Younger Dryas cooling event. Antarctic ice cores

It seems that some European scholars have recognised there might be a connection between a comet or meteor and the end of the Late Bronze

At www.technology.review.com/blog/arxiv/25699/ Sept 1st ... 'The extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials' is the title but the shortish piece on the blog does

At www.physorg.com/print202991457.html Sept 6th ... there is a report that says Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an

At www.physorg.com/print202971192.html Sept 6th ... for a second time evidence has been found the magnetic poles have flipped over in a very rapid manner. Geologists

Also on the New Chronology Yahoo Group forum in August has been a discussion of tawannas, a title used by Hittite queens, and the spread

At http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewChronology/message/29214 ... there are a lot of emails to wade through on this lively and very active Yahoo Group (requires a membership to read

At www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100903fire.htm the Greeks and Romans had a variety of theories on what might power the Sun and surprisingly, the notion they had in the

At www.physorg.com/print202639164.html there is a story on a relic coral reef 600km off SE Australia - 20 times bigger than the modern coral reef nearby.

Again, at www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/mass-extinction-dynamics/ this story is a repeat - but worth repeating. A reappraisal of the fossil record, it is thought, reveals that global mass

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-286&cid=release_2010-286 we have a report that seems to suggest that NASAs Viking Mars Lander mission in 1976 may actually have examined soil that contained

At www.physorg.com/print202733904.html a report on a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that was prompted by physicists who struggled to understand

At www.physorg.com/print202724011.html there is another ESA report - this time on the role of the Amazon and the Orinoco in the Ocean Circulation system in the

At www.physorg.com/print202577650.html there is a report from ESA (the European Space Agency) that the Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a