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	America before Columbus special
	Listeros, The National Geographic Channel is running a 2 hour HD special repeating it all week this next week called "America before Columbus." It is about the evidence that is now accumulating of the much more vast populations in the Pre-Columbian Americas. Mike Ruggeri Mike Ruggeri's The Ancient Americas Breaking News... more » By Mike R - Nov 21 - 1 new of 1 message

	Scotland already has more identified Roman camps than any other European country
	[link] "It helps explain why Scotland has more than 200 military camps against an estimated 150 in England, and only about 30 in another frontier region, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia." ----- David Christainsen By crunch - Nov 21 - 2 new of 2 messages

	Hammurabi Seal Discovered
	[link] "Bietak noted that the two seals also indicate that the Hyksos, known as the shepherd kings and had been notorious Asiatic invaders, had trade relations with the Far East that stretched to Babylonia." ----- Dr. Thiering on the Hyksos... more » By crunch - Nov 21 - 8 new of 8 messages

	Radio Show Discusses Vatican Conference on Extraterrestrial Life
	Former U.S. Army Intelligence officer Sweeps Fox talks about the Vatican conference last Thursday and the reality of Star Visitors. He believes that the Vatican is getting the Catholic faithful psychologically ready for the world-wide acknowledgment of UFO / Star Visitor reality soon. [link]... more » By Searching For The Truth - Nov 21 - 1 new of 1 message

	OT and silly: Death certificate is imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican scholar
	From Times Online November 20, 2009 Death certificate is imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican scholar Richard Owen in Rome A reproduction of the Shroud is displayed in the Shroud museum in Turin (Claudio Papi/Reuters) A reproduction of the shroud. The original is regarded by many as a medieval forgery... more » By Jack Linthicum - Nov 20 - 7 new of 7 messages

	Sophisticated hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction
	[link] "The rise of the Clovis culture was thought to coincide with the demise of the woolly mammoth and other slow-moving giants on the continent, leading many researchers to suspect the animals died at the ends of the hunters' spears.... more » By crunch - Nov 20 - 2 new of 2 messages

Scuba diving to the depths of human history

49 years ago George Bass was hired to do an underwater examination of a ship off Cape Geledoniya in Turkey. The equipment and the methods have improved and now there are serious looks at the area where the sea is now but used to be dry land. The area between the present shoreline and 50 to 150 meters down is where people lived prior to the... more »

By Jack Linthicum - Nov 20 - 2 new of 2 messages

	Did the Greeks build their temples to face the rising sun?
	[link] The debate rages on with a new study by Alun Salt of the University of Leicester. “There are quite a few temples in Greece which don’t face sunrise, so a few archaeologists have published that there’s nothing significant about the number that do face East. The problem is that no... more » By crunch - Nov 19 - 27 new of 27 messages

	"Shangri-La" Caves Yield Treasures, Skeletons
	[link] "Still, the researchers were able to collect and document manuscripts from about 30 volumes, which were then moved for safekeeping to Mustang's central monastery. Preserved by the mountain region's cool, arid climate, the ancient... more » By crunch - Nov 19 - 1 new of 1 message