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Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:23:11 +0000

"Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed."

Tags: #anthropology #archaeology #culture #evolution #history #prehistory #religion #ruins #science

It is the death of history - Independent Online Edition Robert Fisk

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:24:17 +0000

"Humankind is losing its history for the pleasure of private collectors living safely in their luxurious houses and ordering specific objects for their collection."

Tags: #archaeology #history #iraq #war

Sploid: Lion-headed goddess found in Egypt!

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:51:12 +0000

"According to the Book of Re, Sekhmet destroyed all of humanity once before. Ever since, Egyptians have lived in terror that She would eventually return."

Tags: #archaeology #egypt #sekhmet