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Happy Halloween 2006 : This is our Pharaonic Cat Pumpkin The ancient Pharaohs revered cats HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2006. The ancient Pharaohs revered cats Take a look at The Role of Cats in Ancient Egypt

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We are all familiar with the famous bust of Nofretete (Nefertiti in neo-Egyptological garble). Who was this woman? Who was she? Mark Rose in "Where's Nefertiti?", a book review of Joann Fletcher's The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery, William Morrow & Co., comments on the alleged find of Nefertiti's mummy in tomb KV35, where Joann Fletcher has allegedly identified the

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Traveling to Berlin? In case you missed the report from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (report in English), the Nofretete has been moved to Berlin's Museum Island.

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I received an inquiry relating to Agoza which indicated that I needed to post some more information about it. Agoza is merely the site of ancient ruins which have thus far not been dated. For background, see my postings at Megaliths.co.uk and Archaeopundit Please note that Arabic Qasr means "fortification" and that this word was used to mark ancient border points. Qasr has become Agoza by loss

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Heritage Malta and a Monumental Mandate Mark Rose, Executive Director of Archaeology Magazine, together with photographer Andrew Lowell Slayman has just published an article A Monumental Mandate, in which Rose discusses the fact that: "Heritage Malta has taken up the challenge of managing unparalleled cultural treasures." .

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Megaliths and Evidence : Stones but no Evidence of Sedentary Villages Here is a typical example of WHY the mainstream has not moved forward on megalithic research. They are bogged down in their own unproven theories which are not supported by any evidence. Catherine Perles and Gerard Monthel in their book: The Early Neolithic in Greece: The first farming communities in Europe, Cambridge

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Mount Sainai Har Karkom Mount Gerizim Ancient Survey of Egypt Peter Tompkins in Secrets of the Great Pyramid, Galahad Books, N.Y., 1971, writes: "According to Hebrew historians the original Jewish center of worship was not Jerusalem, but Mount Gerizim, a strictly geodetic point 4° [4 degrees] east of the main axis of Egypt. It was only moved to Jerusalem after 980 B.C. Mount Gerizim = Har

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At Loot | Along the Antiquities Trail: An Illicit Journey Out of Egypt, Only a Few Questions Asked a February 23, 2004 article by BARRY MEIER and MARTIN GOTTLIEB explores the world of illicit antiquities traffic. It is a great read, providing deep insight into this age-old international trade in art and artifacts. It really is quite like Indiana Jones.

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Panama Megalith Deciphered As already noted in the previous posting to Archaeopundit, the recently discovered Miami Circle is equally distant - on a straight line - from both the Peterborough Petroglyphs in Canada and the just found gigantic Panama Megalith. It appears that these markers are the major Eastern triangulation points for the ancient (ca. 3000 BC) survey of North America by the

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Panama Megalith with Rock Art Found BBC NEWS carries a February 2, 2004 story at Rock discovery causes excitement about a large megalith covered with rock drawings just found in Panama by Julian Chenoweth of Cornwall, England. The megalith is dated to ca. 3000 BC, weighs 30 tons and is ca. 17 feet (5.18 metres) high. The linked page at BBC has a photo of the rock, showing a large lizard, and -

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Faked Japanese Paleolithic Archaeology An article which we missed some months ago in the The Scotsman refers to the recent story of a Japanese archaeologist who faked top finds of artifacts to make his archaeological reputation. Much of Japanese paleolithic history will have to be "rewritten" as a result. The archaeologist was only caught by a hidden camera as he himself "pre-buried" a

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Via ArchaeologyOnline we are directed to a list of links on federal US historic preservation laws, regulations, standards and guidelines.

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Here is an interesting article by Pat Shipman at American Scientist Online - We Are All Africans. The "out-of-Africa" theory has been around a long time, but it is only recently that the "multi-regionalists" are beginning to have to bow to the overwhelming evidence.

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Historic Scotland - News writes that Frank McAveety, Scotland's Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, has launched a 3-month consultation by "Historic Scotland" on protection, preservation and presentation of the carved stones in Scotland. The consultation document is available here at Historic Scotland and comment can be submitted pursuant to these guidelines.

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Look at this beautiful website about Geometry from the Land of the Incas. Problems, theorems, proofs, quizzes, with animations and sounds. Euclidean Geometry.

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The BBC has a story by Jonathan Amos, BBC News Online science staff, entitled Neanderthal 'face' found in Loire As written there: >font color="#6D87A2">"A flint object with a striking likeness to a human face may be one of the best examples of art by Neanderthal man ever found, the journal Antiquity reports."

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BBC News has a story by Dr David Whitehouse, BBC News Online science editor, entitled Ancient carved 'faces' found. The article states: "A keen-eyed archaeologist claims to have found some of the oldest artwork ever - carved faces 200,000 years old." The dating is preposterous, but we agree that the human images are actualy carved onto these stones. There is also more on rock art in the

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Stone Pages Archaeo News: Japanese rock image a fake What is disturbing about this report is the archaeologist's statement that this artifact had never been investigated "since it was considered an important historical object". Is that the standard in archaeology? The more important an object, the less it is studied? I have several times recommended the reexamination of the Turin Canon

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Cronaca, by David Nishimura, an art historian by training, has the motto "Past Imperfect, Present Subjunctive, Future Conditional" and is a blog which describes itself as follows: "Cronaca is a compilation of news concerning art, archeology, history, and whatever else catches the chronicler's eye, with the odd bit of opinion and commentary thrown in. Since history does not seem to have come to

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In an article of November 3. 2003 by Stephen Stewart in the The Herald entitled "Was Orkney the ceremonial capital of ancient Britain?, one thankfully sees some progress in the archaeologists beginning - finally - to see ancient megalithic locations to be cohesive systematic wholes put up by intelligent beings rather than isolated bunches of stones put up by savages. On one score, however, the

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My newest book has appeared at Trafford Publishing. This is for general information. Stars Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy by Andis Kaulins 420 pages; perfect bound; catalogue #03-1722; ISBN 1-4120-1344-5; US$35.99, C$45.99, EUR29.99, £20.99 Go to Trafford Publishing Read at that order page: a) About the Book b)

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A Web Project Removal Notice from Argos at evansville.edu has recently posted that the following specialized search engine has been take offline due to a lack of resources Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet (argos.evansville.edu) This news is not surprising. Who needs specialized search engines when you have all-encompassing tools such as Google or AllTheWeb?

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This posting refers to an online article of the Washington Post entitled Moon Watch Resurfaces In Court (washingtonpost.com): "Moon Watch Resurfaces In Court - Astronaut, Smithsonian, Collector Claim Rights To Lost Timepiece", by Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, October 17, 2003; Page C01 The same criminal problems attendant to archaeology - greed, and more greed -

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Yahoo! Groups : Explorator Explorator is a fine newsletter service which Dave Meadows runs under the name of "Explorator" at Yahoo groups. The Explorator newsletter appears once a week in your mailbox if you subscribe to it and contains copious links to current archaeology news around the world. One can also access the Exporator newsletter online at the link given above. Take a look at it. At

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ArchaeoPundit is a weblog - also called a blog - focused on archaeology and related disciplines, e.g. studies of the megaliths of Ancient Britain and elsewere, research or finds concerning Pharaonic Civiliization as well as studies of the history of the ancient near east, including matters relating to Old Testament scholarship. As we find materials on the web which we find to be of interest,

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