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Archive for the ‘Ancient civilization’ Category

June 1st, 2008

Stonehenge - a long-term cemetery or neolithic ‘Lourdes’?

 
Stonehenge, UK 
(Photo credit: www.activemind.com)
A topical article for me as I will be passing Stonehenge today.  It is an amazing feat of 4,500 year old primitive engineering and still provokes feelings of wonder and awe everytime I pass by, especially on solstice and equinox days.
Stonehenge served as a burial ground for much longer than had previously […]

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May 24th, 2008

Egyptian pharoah Akhenaten’s feminine appearance suggest gene defects

King Akhenaten (photo credit www.usu.edu) 
The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt’s King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis, reports Yale School of Medicine dermatology Professor Irwin Braverman, M.D.
Akhenaten, a pharaoh during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty credited with starting the practice of worshipping one God, fathered six children. […]

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May 23rd, 2008

Indiana Jones - crystal skulls are ‘modern’ fakes

(Photo credit: British Museum, crystal skull) 
Without giving too much of the plot away, the focus of the latest ‘Indiana’ movie is about crystal skulls thought to have been produced by early American civilizations.
But experts say examples held at the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC are anything but genuine.  Their results show […]

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