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The ancient Egyptians mummified a number of different animals, from bulls to crocodiles. They also mummified the sacred Ibis bird - but did they harvest

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-photos-evidence-life-mars-ohio.html ... it seems insect might have lived on Mars. Are they the vermin of Velikovsky? An Ohio University professor says we already have

At www.thevintagenews.com/2019/11/14/florida-native-american-settlement/ ... a LiDAR survey of Florida has thrown up evidence of a huge Native American settlement on Raleigh Island - going back to

Interesting link at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/19/the-measurements-of-the-expansion... ... which concerns the different measurements of the expansion of the universe that have been a feature of angst amongst cosmologists.

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-earth-magnetic-song-solar-storm.html ... ESAs Cluster mission has provided a recording of the song which Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm. It

This story is at https://phys.org/news/2019-11-sugars-meteorites-clues-life.html ... virtually anything organic in comets and meteors is deemed to be a clue to the origin of life -

A fascinating discussion on the route of Exodus at the Eric Aitchison email thread. Anyone wanting to join in send an email to the contact

At www.vice.com/en_uk/article/j5wnx7/ancient-bone-crushing-hyena-roamed-the... ... hyenas, during the Ice Age, lived between Mexico and the Yukon, in the far north. Ice Age hyenas are said to have

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-crumble-ancient-world-powerful.html ... and https://phys.org/news/2019-11-felled-great-assyrian-empire-team.html ... and even https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-fueled-demise-neo-assyrian-empire.... ... which is basically three separate takes on one paper published in Science Advances (Nov 2019)

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/11/15/stardust-in-the-antarctic-sno... ... in a story related to https://astronomynow.com/2016/04/07/supernovae-showered-earth-with-radio... ... scientists find radioactive iron-60 in sediment and crust sample taken from the Pacific, Atlantic and

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-oldest-carnivorous-dinosaur-fossil-unearth... ... the oldest carnivorous dinosaur found to date has been unearthed in Brazil. It has been dated 233 million years ago -during the

William sent in the link https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/display.php?year=2019&phase=All&dat... ...which may or may not work for you. If not go to https://spaceweather.com and key down to 12th November

In one of those, I wonder what they can be moments, we have another interesting link provided by Gary - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmj76pw/theres-growing-evidence-that-... ... scientists are discovering

This link was sent in by Gary - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7680651/ ... NASA scientists are said to be baffled after a portable chemistry lab on the Curiosity

Scientists are expanding the universe it would seem - via state of the art technology and technique. See https://phys.org/news/2019-11-scientists-refine-quickly-universe.html ... what we have is another

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/researchers-didnt-think-humans-attacked-175224059.html ... which concentrates on the fact that scientists, until now, didn't think humans targeted mammoths as a food

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/11/results-of-recent-ex... ... excavations at Gla in Boeotia are ongoing. The prime stage of occupation dates back to the Mycenaean era (LB age) and it

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-newly-motifs-art-tumlehed-seafaring.html ... newly discovered motifs in rock art in Sweden show stone age seafaring was a fact. We know that Mesolithic people used boats

I quite like this one. At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-planck-space-observatory-universe-sphere.html ... researchers from the universities of Manchester, Rome and Paris have sparked a debate amongst cosmologists by claiming

This seems a strained theory as they do not actually have evidence of this happening but reason it might have happened - and anything can