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A bit of nationalism and wishful thinking is apparent in this story from www.panarmenian.net/eng/society/news/50844/ where it claims Mesopotamian civilisation originated in Armenia. It does however

www.epochtimes.com July 5th ... stone age surgeons (4900BC) in France performed an amputation operation on a man whose skeleton was found 40km south of Paris

This is probably an old story but it pops up at http://newsminer.com/printer_friendly/8387910 - researchers at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks claim there is an

www.livescience.com/history June 28th ... Greek inventor Archimedes is said to have used mirrors to burn the ships of an attacking Roman fleet advancing on Syracuse.

There is an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on 'The Lost World of Old Europe' - basically, Europe between 6000 and 3000BC, the

The big news is that Wal Thornhill is addressing an SIS meeting next week - at the Harlequin theatre in Redhill, Surrey (just off the

http://news.yahoo.com the journal Science (July 2nd) claims Tibetans and Han Chinese separated from each other just 2750 years ago. The group that moved into Tibet

www.physorg.com/print197125900.html ... Proba-2 is a small member of ESAs fleet of satellites but it is full of experimental technology. It has returned 90,000 images of

www.physorg.com/print1997132957.html June 30th ... supernovae are stellar explosions that can be seen across the entire universe. Type 1a supernovae are used by researchers to observe

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news July 1st ... from a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17 astronauts 40 years ago scientists have detected and dated carbon on the

At www.dailygalaxy.com June 30th, Casey Kazan is stirring things up again and needling some of his readers. The title is what they find upsetting, 'The

This story is interesting as it involves melting mountain glaciers - alleged to be the result of global warming. A new field of archaeological investigation

Go to www.physorg.com/print196926270.html June 28th ... to discover the latest attempt to explain magnetic stripes on Mars. It is not getting much support at the

From the nature of the title it is obvious this is a study with a focus on North America - and basically, it has been

At http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2010/1003/heritage.htm there is a report of a plan by Zahi Hawass to introduce museums that specialise - including one housing artifacts of the Pre-dynastic

Excellent but long article on Ice Age Homo sapiens and Neanderthal interaction prompted by a Russian restoration of the facial features of a 30,000 years

www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/60568/ June 25th ... Neutrino experiments in an underground laboratory in Minnesota suggest neutrinos and anti neutrinos do not weight the same which might indicate

www.physorg.com/print196687173.html June 25th ... scientists know the consensus theory is inadequate - which may come as a surprise to some. All  the textbooks are emphatic

www.thunderbolts.info June 21st has an excellent post by Rens van der Sliujs on the scholarly evidence of similarities between cultures - sometimes from opposite sides

http://news.yahoo.com June 25th reports on a German theory that rejects malaria as the cause of death but blames sickle cell disease (quoting a letter written