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Mesa Verde, The Anasasi Legacy--Worldisround
One of the most amazing sites in the deep south west of the USA is Mesa Verde.Mesa Verde National Park, is located above Cortez, in the state of Colorado. Because of the high elevation, this incredible site is open only during the summer months. On a high plateau of the southwestern Colorado mountains, fascinating people settled in alcoves constr
New Species Found in Vietnam, Snake, Orchid, More-Photos
This white-lipped keelback snake is one of 11 new species recently discovered in central Vietnam, the conservation nonprofit WWF announced today.
Photos of Ancient "Cloud Warrior" Skeletons Found in Peru Fort
The remains of 80 members of an ancient civilization have been unearthed in the ruins of a fortress high in the Peruvian Andes, an archaeologist has announced. The skeletons bear evidence of extremely quick deaths, the bodies having been found where they fell.
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80 Ancient "Cloud Warrior" Skeletons Found in Peru Fort 2007-09-26 18:00:00 The remains of 80 members of an ancient civilization have been unearthed in the ruins of a fortress high in the Peruvian Andes, an archaeologist has announced. The skeletons bear evidence of extremely quick deaths, the bodies having been found where they fell, without burial, reported Alfredo Narváez, director of Peru's Kuélap Archaeological Complex Restoration and Conservation project.The remains were discovered in the fortress of Kuélap, a mountain stronghold of the Chachapoya, a culture known as the "cloud warriors" that thrived in Amazonian cloud forests from the 9th to the 15th century A.D."In recent days we have discovered the bones of at least 80 people," Narváez said late yesterday.The bodies belonged to people of all ages and both sexes and were found alongside everyday utensils and tools, he said. "We observed bodies together, dispersed and in positions they seemed to be when they died," he said.The haphazard positioning of the bodies, the presence of everyday artifacts, Read more:Ancient
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Mesa Verde, The Anasasi Legacy--Worldisround 2007-09-26 10:14:00 Worldisround by Rafal K Komierowski Part 1 - *Touring USA* One of the most amazing sites in the deep south west of the USA is Mesa Verde.Mesa Verde National Park, is located above Cortez, in the state of Colorado. Because of the high elevation, this incredible site is open only during the summer months. On a high plateau of the southwestern Colorado mountains, fascinating people settled in alcoves constructed by powerful waters. In great harmony with nature, Anasasi people began to create the first urban dwellings, abandoning nomadic life. The first signs ... (more)
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Angkor's Ancient Enormity Uncovered-Photos (Angkor Wat) Thailand-photos
The largest religious complex in the world, Cambodia's Angkor Wat (pictured) is the jewel in the vast Angkor archaeological site.The lost city was an ancient wonder of urban sprawl, according to a new survey that uncovered 74 temples and more than a thousand artificial ponds in Angkor's "suburbs."
Baby Snapping Turtle Swarm Invades Woman's Yard-Photos
Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers that line her driveway. Solving the mystery this week proved to be a snap - when baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard."They just keep popping up out of the hole,"
Deadly Puffer Fish,Fugu,Sold as Food.--Photos
BANGKOK, Thailand - Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor said Thursday.
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Machu Picchu-Lost City of the Inca-Photos 2007-09-25 10:45:00 Abby and Nile explore the ancient city of the Children of the Sun,the mysterious hidden Inca enclave nestled high in the Peruvian mountains. See More-Learn MoreThe Incas believed that gold was the sweat of the sun. Gold was only valued when it was used to create ceremonial objects, such as containers and jewelry, or when it was used to adorn tombs and temples.
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Huge 'Terror Bird' Fossil Discovered in Patagonia-Photos 2007-09-25 10:32:00 1.The gigantic carnivorous "terror birds" were vicious flightless creatures that could grab dog-sized animals in their mouths. Stephanie Abramowicz2.The "terror bird" stood over 10 feet tall. Stephanie AbramowiczScientists have discovered a skull belonging to a hook-beaked bird that ruled the grasslands of South America. Scientists are calling the bird a "terror bird."The bird didn't fly because it didn't have to. Instead, it put its biological resources into growing bigger and faster than anything else on the continent. It was the largest bird ever and the top predator in South America millions of years ago.Paleontologist Luis Chiappe identified the skull –- the largest on record -– in Argentina. He says this carnivorous bird was ferocious."This is not like a crocodile," says Chiappe. "This was a warm-blooded, enormous [and] very-active bird. With the size of the skull, imagine the damage that skull could have done just by hitting something."The bird is a member of the Pho Read more:Fossil
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Angkor's Ancient Enormity Uncovered-Photos (Angkor Wat) Thailand 2007-09-25 09:40:00 The largest religious complex in the world, Cambodia's Angkor
Wat (pictured) is the jewel in the vast Angkor archaeological site.The lost city was an ancient wonder of urban sprawl, according to a new survey that uncovered 74 temples and more than a thousand artificial ponds in Angkor's "suburbs."The Khmer Empire's King Suryavarman II built Angkor Wat between A.D. 1113 and 1150 to honor the Hindu god Vishnu. Carved from soft sandstone, the temple complex's statues crumbled and toppled in the wake of Angkor's decline. Still guarded by a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) moat, the restored Angkor Wat today fuels a booming tourist trade at the modern town of Siem Reap. If you've read anything at all about Angkor Wat, you'll probably know at least three things: Angkor is one of the most beautiful and suggestive place on the planet, the Angkor Wat Temples area is much bigger than the Angkor Temple alone, and last, nothing is homogeneous, being the temples built in different times, during a four Read more:Ancient
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The Baron's Palace, Fables, Legends and Controversies,Greater Cairo 2007-09-23 11:07:00 It would seem that the Baron
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in Greater Cairo
, after the Great Pyramid and Sphinx of Giza, is subject to more fables, legends and rumors than any other monument in Egypt. I was astounded to hear from a guide, who was very serious, that the old palace was build upon a type of turnstile that would rotate the whole building so that its windows were always facing the sun. Of course, that was urban legend in Cairo, but for many years, this building in Heliopolis has ignited the imagination of the local population with all manner of fables, legends and rumors.Today, the Baron’s Hindu Palace remains the subject of countless rumors. From time to time new rumors spread about this landmark which has been deserted for many years. It’s haunted by bats, stray dogs, and others believe by ghosts. And while the place attracts some architects for it richness, it also seems to have attracted teenagers for their wild parties. They would break into the place on weekends, drink beer and smoke Read more:Controversies
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Ancient Egytians ate Huge Fish, Nile Perch,photos
Most edible fish from the Nile were consumed, though some fish, such as the genera Lepidotus and Phragus and a few others were forbidden because of their connection with the myth of Osiris. In some locations, even the Nile perch was worshipped, and therefore never eaten. While fish were roasted or boiled, most frequently they were salted and preser
Ancient Egyptian Seafaring Ships Discovered,Photos
The first remains of ancient Egyptian seagoing ships ever to be recovered have been found in two caves on Egypt's Red Sea coast, according to a team at Boston University in the US.The team also found fragments of pottery at the site, which could help resolve controversies about the extent of ancient Egyptian trade voyages. But details of the newl
The Kings (Pharaohs) of Ancient Egypt-Photos
Even today, the power that an ancient Egyptian pharaoh commanded in ancient Egypt and the resources under his control can seem staggering. One need only Read more:Digg
Ancient Egypt-Strange Egyptian Beasts,Griffins,Serpopards, photos 2007-09-22 08:45:00 No one would accuse the ancient Egypt
ians of not having very well honed imaginations. Statuary of gods often depicted half animal, half human forms, but the Egyptian
s also found in their creativity fantastic animals of a different sort. Essentially, they took parts of various animals in order to create a whole not found in nature. Hence, here we will consider only creatures without human parts, even though both such creatures, for example, appear in the same context at times such as on magic wands. Usually, such animals were considered demonic according to our modern concepts, though in fact the Egyptians seem not to have made nearly so specific distinctions between demons and gods.The composite animal body was usually only the tentative representation of a divine, supernatural power. The Egyptians seem to have considered these animals to be real, since they were often represented as living in the wild, among antelopes and lions, in the deserts surrounding the Nile River Valley. This i Read more:Ancient
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Thebes-City of Legends, The Defeater of Sparta-Photos 2007-09-22 08:33:00 The ancient name for the city the Greeks called Thebai was Waset, the Scepter nome, and it was the main city of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome. It was close to Nubia and the eastern desert, with their valuable mineral resources and trade routes. The site of Thebes includes areas on both the eastern bank of the Nile, where the temples of Karnak and Luxor stand, and the western bank, where are the large private and royal cemeteries and funerary complexes.Waset was little more than a provincial town in the Old Kingdom. Though two brick-built mastaba tombs dating from the 3rd or 4th dynasty have been found in the Theban area, and a small group of tombs have been found dating from the 5th and 6th Dynasties in the area of the necropolis known as el-Khokha, it is not clear if there was an actual Old Kingdom settlement here. The royal residence and tombs, as well as most of the tombs of the court and government nobles at this time, were primarily built at Saqqara near Memphis, closer to the De Read more:Legends
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Ancient Treasures from Thracian Tombs 2007-09-21 20:58:00 2,400-year old treasure found in Thracian tombSOFIA, Bulgaria - Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,400-year old golden treasure in an ancient Thracian tomb in eastern Bulgaria, the director of the country's History Museum said Monday.The gold-rich burial was discovered late on Saturday by a team of archaeologists, working on excavations near the village of Zlatinitsa, some 180 miles east of the capital, Sofia.The most impressive finds included a golden ring and wreath, finely crafted silver rhytons, or horn-shaped drinking vessels, and many golden and silver pieces of armor and horse trappings, Prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov told the Associated Press in a telephone interview."This was an extremely rich funeral, suggesting that the buried man could have been a Thracian king," Dimitrov said. "Although he was not buried according to Thracian traditions, all objects of art bear Thracian imagery."The king's body was laid in a huge wood-paneled pit together with two horses and a dog, while Thracia Read more:Ancient
DINOSAURS OF ALASKA,Photos 2007-09-21 20:53:00 In 1961, an oil company geologist, Robert Liscomb, found dinosaur bones near Ocean Point along the Colville River. Unfortunately, he died soon thereafter and the bones ended up in a warehouse gathering dust for many years. The bone bed he discovered was later named for him. It was not until 1983 that the find came to the attention of dinosaur experts. About 95% of the bones from this bed have turned out to be Edmontosaurus, which was a large (15 meters long), non-crested duckbill. Largely juvenile bones (some adult) have been found here. (Age: Late Campanian or Maastrichtian) Learn More at the Alaska Museum of Natural History
Velociraptor-This meat-eater had about 80 very sharp, curved teeth 2007-09-21 10:53:00 Velociraptor was a fast-running, two-legged (bipedal) dinosaur. This meat-eater had about 80 very sharp
, curved teeth
in a long, flat snout; some of the teeth were over an inch (2.5 cm) long. This predator had an s-shaped neck, arms with three-fingered clawed hands, long thin legs, and four-toed clawed feet. Velociraptor's head was about 7 inches (18 cm) long.complete info
Velociraptor Had Feathers 2007-09-21 10:49:00 (A) View of right ulna of Velociraptor IGM 100/981. (B) Detail from cast of red box in (A), with arrows showing six evenly spaced feather quill knobs. (C) View of right ulna of a turkey vulture (Cathartes). (D) Same view of Cathartes as in (C) but with soft tissue dissected to reveal placement of the secondary feathers relative to the quill knobs. (E) Detail of Cathartes, with one quill completely removed to reveal quill knob. (F) Same view as in (E) but with quill moved to the left to show placement of quill, knob, and follicular ligament. Follicular ligament indicated with arrow. (Credit: Mick Ellison)Science Daily — A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. The discovery was made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History.Scientists have known for years that many dinosaurs had feathers. Now the presence of feathers has been documented in vel Read more:Feathers
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'Halo' no longer just a game for Microsoft
Microsoft wants video gamers to "finish the fight" when the last chapter of its Halo trilogy comes out next week, but a carefully crafted merchandising strategy will make sure the space-marine protagonist Master Chief lives on for years to come.
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Withlacochee River-Photo
This is the Withlacochee River located at the end of HWY 40 where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.
Tyrannosaurus Rex Could Outrun Humans
Virtual races between prehistoric beasts reveal that one of the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs would have zipped past the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex by a long shot. But even so, the "tyrant lizard king" was no slouch.Turns out, T. rex could have outrun some of the buffest athletes.
Venomous Fish- there are more venomous fish than snakes! photos
A new study finds there are more venomous fish than snakes. Here are a few of them, photographed by William Leo Smith of the American Museum of Natural History. Venomous Pterois Lionfish.
Why Whales Developed Sonar
Some marine biologists think that sonar in toothed whales came about as a better way to find food in the darkness of the deep ocean. But how did the whales, which primarily ate fish, know there was a large supply of food down in the dark? Researchers at the University Read more:Digg
Ancient Roman dies saving Pompeii silver 2007-09-19 09:49:00 A 2000-year-old silver dining service buried in volcanic ash as a resident of the ancient Roman
city of Pompeii tried to escape with it has been unveiled by Italian archaeologists.The hand-crafted goblets, plates and trays had been bundled into a wicker backpack by someone trying to escape in 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted.Hundreds of temples, villas, baths and fleeing Romans were trapped in the fiery deluge."This individual was seeking refuge; he had fled Pompeii trying to save himself and carried 20 pieces of silver with him, trying to save them as well," says Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, the archaeological superintendent of Pompeii."But the eruption caught him and killed him," he says.The wicker basket and silver set were perfectly preserved by the volcanic ash and mud and discovered two millennia later by workers on a new highway that will pass near the Pompeii ruins.Archaeologists then x-rayed the mud-encased basket and have carefully extracted and polished its contents over t Read more:Ancient
Elite Women Made Beer in Pre-Incan Culture 2007-09-19 09:35:00 An ancient brewery from a vanished empire was staffed by elite women who were selected for their beauty or nobility, a new study concludes.The finding adds to other evidence that women played a more crucial role in ancient Andean societies than history books have stated. It may also in some ways reflect modern drinking traditions in the Andean mountains, where women get drunk as much as men, researchers say.The brewery, on a mountaintop in southern Peru, cranked out hundreds of gallons of beer every week. The 1,000-year-old facility was part of the Wari empire, which predated the Incas.The final daysArcheologists have pieced together the last days before the city was evacuated for unknown reasons. A final batch of chicha, as the drink is called, was prepared. A week later, nobility drank the chicha as part of a big feast and ceremony. More than two dozen precious ceramic vessels -- the chicha mugs -- were tossed into embers of a fire and smashed as sacrifices to the gods.Then the resid Read more:Elite
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Top 10 Ancient Capitals-Cuzco, Incan Capital 2007-09-19 09:28:00 All roads in the Incan empire once lead to Cuzco, bustling capital in the Andes Mountains from the early 1400s until its discovery by European explorers in 1532. To retreat from the big city, Incan kings would head to their summer home of Machu Picchu further up in the mountains.
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T. Rex Could Outrun Humans 2007-09-18 11:08:00 Virtual races between prehistoric beasts reveal that one of the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs would have zipped past the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex by a long shot. But even so, the "tyrant lizard king" was no slouch.Turns out, T. rex could have outrun some of the buffest athletes.“The figures we have produced are the best estimate to date as to how fast these prehistoric animals could run,” said Phil Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England.Manning and his Manchester colleague Bill Sellers, a biomechanics expert, used a supercomputer to calculate the top-running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs.T. rex would just barely run past a professional soccer player (footballer) in a race, reaching an all-out speed of about 18 mph (8 meters per second), the results showed. However, chicken-sized bipedal competitor Compsognathus could whip around a race track at nearly 40 mph (18 m/s). That's 5 mph quicker than the computer's estimate for an ostrich, the f
Mammoth dung, prehistoric goo may speed warming 2007-09-18 10:51:00 src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> DUVANNY YAR, Russia -Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better."It smells like mammoth dung," he says.This is more than just another symptom of global warming.For millennia, layers of animal waste and other organic matter left behind by the creatures that used to roam the Arctic tundra have been sealed inside the frozen permafrost. Now climate change is thawing the permafrost and lifting this prehistoric ooze from suspended animation.But Zimov, a scientist who for almost 30 years has studied climate change in Russia's Arctic, believes that as this organic matter becomes exposed to the air it will accelerate global warming faster than even some of the most pessimistic forecasts."This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop," he said.When the organic matter left behind by mammoths and other wildlife is Read more:Mammoth
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Top 10 Ancient Capitals-Thebes 2007-09-16 22:19:00 src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> Most people think of Cairo and the Great Pyramids when they think of ancient Egypt, but the heartbeat of the magical pharaonic dynasties actually beat much further up the Nile at Thebes. Thebes was the ruling capital of ancient Egypt during its most dominant eras, beginning with the Old Kingdom 4500 years ago, and is home to two of its most revered temples at Karnak and Luxor. Most of Egypt's holy rulers are also buried nearby in the famous Valley of the Kings.
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