DigiPast
Blog URL http://www.digipast.com
Located New York, New York USA
Tags archaeology, archeology, history, ancient history, pyramids, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Rome, discovery
Digipast- Archaeology for the new century: smart, accessible, and fun!
Latest Blog Posts
- Ideas: Humans and Neanderthals: Kissing Cousins? on Oct 27, 2009 in Ideas
Inter-species love in the Late Pleistocene? Modern humans and Neanderthals did indeed get it on, according to Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and director of the project to decode the Neand...
- Current Affairs: Grisly Deaths For Illegal Diggers on Oct 14, 2009 in Current Affairs Egypt
An interesting, albeit sad article from Gulf News on the surprising number of fatalities among illegal antiquities hunters in Egypt: Cairo: Early this month, rescue teams spent four days desperately trying to save six Egyptians, who had been trapped...
- Current Affairs: Russian Monstrosity Is Archaeological Tragedy on Oct 13, 2009 in Current Affairs Europe
Energy behemoth Gazprom: marking their territory on the St. Petersburg skyline St. Petersburg, Russia's proposed 400-meter-high Gazprom skyscraper has gotten a lot of flack from architects, cultural preservationists, and even Unesco, and now it appea...
- Current Affairs: Egypt- No Love for the Louvre on Oct 8, 2009 in Current Affairs Egypt
The Louvre holds five mural fragments illegally chipped off the walls of a Theban tomb in the 1980s and has yet to return them despite promising to do so, according to Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities director Zahi Hawass. Since...
- Current Affairs: Archaeologists + Beavers = Controversy on Oct 6, 2009 in Americas Current Affairs
Archaeologists are finding themselves in the middle of a beaver battle in Minnesota, where there's an argument going on about whether to reintroduce the toothy creatures to the state's blufflands. Environmentalists support the plan, saying beaver dam...
- Discovery: "Mini-Stonehenge" Found on Oct 5, 2009 in Discovery Europe
Archaeologists from Sheffield University have announced the discovery of the remains of a "mini-Stonehenge" located a mile from the world-famous monument on the Salisbury Plain. Dubbed "Bluehenge" after the color of the 27 dolerit...
- Discovery: World's Oldest Brain Found In Cave on Sep 30, 2009 in Discovery
It sounds like a bad science fiction story, but mass spectometry analysis performed at the University of California, Irvine seems to confirm that remains of THE WORLD'S OLDEST BRAIN have been found in Armenia. According to the report, a 9x7...
