There is so much left to be discovered about the past. This is a good example. These previously unrecorded petroglyphs show a rare depiction of obelisks being cut and loaded onto boats 3,000 years ago.
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New Egyptian survey of ancient quarries near Aswan reveal…
- Tuesday, 16 June 2015 21:20
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Hopi tribe demands French stop sale of historic katchina masks.
- Saturday, 13 June 2015 19:20
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http://hyperallergic.com/213418/hopi-tribe-fights-to-halt-french-sales-of-sacred-artifacts-for-good/
So, here’s the question: If your great-great-great grandfather sold a crucifix he made, and it was legally bought and sold by people around the world for generations–can you today demand that it be given back to you because its a sacred artifact? Should sacred artifacts be treated differently under the law?
What do you think?
Archaeologists and criminologists are working together to try and stop the illicit trade in artifacts.
- Wednesday, 10 June 2015 04:52
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For those keeping track of the global warming debate! New NOAA report…
- Tuesday, 09 June 2015 14:16
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Global temperatures, especially ocean temperatures, which a key to this discussion, wobble around. There’s a lot of “chaos” in the system right now. But the upward trend in temps looks persuasive. What do you think?
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/noaa-analysis-journal-science-no-slowdown-in-global-warming-in-recent-years.html
Before its untimely end the city of Nimrud was a vast and powerful center…
- Tuesday, 09 June 2015 13:19
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This is the kind of history ISIS is destroying in its fanatical pursuit to cleanse the world of pre-Islamic evidence.
