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Dig Club Archaeologist Trading Figures. Dig Egyptian artifacts out of the block with the included wooden pick and brush. Easy to dig substrate. There are 6 different sets of artifacts. Each box contains at least two sets of artifacts.

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Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of the United States. It identified an array of native peoples, spectacular places, fascinating creatures, and extraordinary flora unknown in civilized America. It defined the American nation as a land stretching from coast to coast--and it launched the spread of population in a mighty frontier migration unlike anything ever witnessed in America before or since.

Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery contains 19 chapters, detailing the expedition chronologically. A museum in a book, this fascinating volume contains re-creations of original documents such as diary entries, letters, maps, and sketches--all meticulously reproduced so that the reader can actually handle and examine them.

Among the documents included in the book are:

• The actual letter of credit Jefferson wrote to Lewis committing the U.S. government to pay for the expedition.
• The code Thomas Jefferson provided to Lewis for sending secret messages.
• Clark's sketch of the technique some Indians used to flatten their heads, a sign of prestige.
• Clark's letter of gratitude to Sacagawea, a Shoshone teenager who helped the expedition.
• A newspaper account of the expedition's return to St. Louis.

Author: Rod Gragg
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Author: Anatoly Fomenko
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Being a hero is a lot to live up to and for Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt), and George (Pa Grape), working as cabin boys in the local dinner theater's pirate show looks like it may be as close to heroic as any of them ever get. Back in the 17th century, heir to the throne Prince Alexander has been captured by his evil uncle Robert and his sister Princess Eloise is determined to rescue him. A magical ball bequeathed by Eloise's father magically transports Elliot, Sedgewick, and George back in time via rowboat in answer to the Princess's request for heroes, but their timidity, laziness, and lack of self confidence looks like it will prevent the trio from fulfilling their heroic mission. As the three friends struggle with their own shortcomings, they eventually discover that being heroic may be as simple as just doing what is right. Still, can they possibly live up to the expectations of the Princess and fulfill their apparent heroic destiny? This is a captivating pirate movie full of adventure, cute characters, funny moments, and catchy music that imparts a wholesome message without being either preachy or overtly religious. Best of all, this swashbuckling film won't scare even the most sensitive young viewer. (Ages 2 and older) --Tami Horiuchi

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Director:  Mike Nawrocki
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/14/2008 Run time: 86 minutes Rating: G

Director:  Mike Nawrocki
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While The Godfather was making moviegoers an offer they couldn't refuse, La Vallée was wowing art-house crowds with its flower-powered search for paradise in the jungles of New Guinea. It's there that an adventurous diplomat's wife (Bulle Ogier), hoping to find the forbidden feathers of a rare exotic bird, embarks on a deeper, more personal quest when she encounters a makeshift family of hippies seeking an unmapped valley from which visitors are said never to return. Like the structurally similar cult films from its era (including Walkabout and Aguirre: The Wrath of God), La Vallée dazzled the post-'60s subculture with free-spirited adventure and enigmatic beauty, captured here through the peerless lens of cinematographer Néstor Almendros. The hippie vibe seems mildly dated but its sensual context is timeless, and a climactic encounter with the primitive Mapuga tribe retains an intense cross-cultural mystique. Pink Floyd's celebrated soundtrack is mostly heard as background ambience, but it effectively enhances the film's compelling atmosphere of mystery and expectation. --Jeff Shannon

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Deep in the heart of northern Syria, close to the banks of the Euphrates River, archaeologists have uncovered a series of startling 11,000-year-old wall paintings and artifacts. (more...)

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Photos of artifacts recovered from the Titanic. ... In the recovery effort, artifacts are immediately put into water after being removed from the basket they're brought up ... (more...)

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When Philippine police confiscated 22 bags of broken pottery from antiquity... ... Artifacts discovery might lead to lost tribe A local government official shows samples of the ... (more...)

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Congressman: I rejected Blagojevich offer: Ill. governor names Burris to replace Obama ... by John David. OAKVILLE, Iowa -- Depending on perspective, it's either a remarkable ... (more...)

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BLUEFIELD, Va. ? A historic discovery near Bluefield, Va., could delay the start of work on the Bluestone Regional Business and Technology Park. Several Native American sites ... (more...)

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Scientists said yesterday that stone artifacts found with remains of ancient, tiny "Hobbit"-like people on a remote Indonesian island are similar to much older island artifacts ... (more...)

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By Manny Mogato ... MANILA - By Manny Mogato. When Philippine police confiscated 22 bags of broken pottery from antiquity smugglers near an area where Muslim rebels operated ... (more...)

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1 ASSIGNMENT DISCOVERY ONLINE CURRICULUM Lesson title: What Artifacts Reveal about the Past Grade level: 6-8 Subject area: Archaeology and American History Duration: One class ... (more...)

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Titanic - The Artifacts ... The best collection of pre-discovery artifacts are displayed by the Titanic Historical Society in Massachusetts,USA. (more...)

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pretend that you have been hired to complete a layout for an issue of dig it magazine that highlights the archaeological discoveries made at harappa and mojeno daro your layout should clearly address this question what was daily life like in the indus valley, india, or china support your answer by describing and analyzing artifacts found at both harappa and mojeno daro some examples might include jewelry games statues or buildings. Please help me I'm so stuck! (more...)

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1. Which of the following best characterizes the New Kingdom? It was a time of renewed political strength and cultural change in Egypt. It represents the period when Egyptian culture began to decline. t was a period during which the arts thrived despite the political decline of the Egyptian nation. It refers to present-day Egypt and the revival of Egyptology spawned by the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen. 2. Who was the greatest of the female pharaohs? Nefertiti Hatshepsut Sobeknofru Cleopatra 3. Why is the ?boy king? Tutankhamen famous? He was one of the most accomplished pharaohs, responsible for building two pyramids and many obelisks. His tomb survived undisturbed into the 20th century, preserving an amazing array of ancient artifacts. He destroyed the temples of the old Egyptian gods and instituted a monotheistic religion. He had the longest reign of any pharaoh because he took the throne at such a young age. 4. The pharaohs of the New Kingdom were typically buried ____________________. in stone chambers in the Valley of the Kings in the Pyramids at Giza above ground in temples dedicated to the gods at the foot of an obelisk dedicated to the king 5. What is significant about the contents of the tomb of King Tutankhamen? They included a detailed map of all other tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The hieroglyphics on the walls provided a key that allowed scholars to decode other ancient Egyptian texts. They were discovered intact, undisturbed by grave robbers, in the 20th century. The king?s corpse was missing, leading some to speculate that he is a god. 6. Which of the following pharaohs was responsible for a radical change in Egyptian religion? Akhenaton Hatshepsut Nefertiti Tutankhamen 7. One of the most well-known pieces of Egyptian art is the famous bust of Queen ____________. Nefertiti Hatshepsut Sobeknofru Cleopatra 8. Which of the following pharaohs was responsible for building 134 Columns at Karnak, two magnificent tombs at Abu Simbel, and various other large-scale structures? Seti I Ramesses II Akhenaton Tutankhamen 9. Which of the following most accurately represents the historical significance of Queen Nefertiti? She was a powerful pharaoh, one of only three female pharaohs in three thousand years. She was the wife of King Akhenaton. She had a famous love affair with the Roman Mark Antony. She was the daughter of Hatshepsut. 10. What types of objects are typically found in the tombs of Egyptian rulers? commonplace items for everyday use rare objects and books from foreign lands only objects made of gold colossal stone figures of threatening figures, such as lions, thought to ward off evil spirits (more...)

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The Archeology of The Middle East The religion of Islam has as its focus of worship a deity by the name of "Allah." The Muslims claim that Allah in pre-Islamic times was the biblical God of the Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. The issue is thus one of continuity. Was "Allah" the biblical God or a pagan god in Arabia during pre- Islamic times? The Muslim's claim of continuity is essential to their attempt to convert Jews and Christians for if "Allah" is part of the flow of divine revelation in Scripture, then it is the next step in biblical religion. Thus we should all become Muslims. But, on the other hand, if Allah was a pre- Islamic pagan deity, then its core claim is refuted. Religious claims often fall before the results of hard sciences such as archeology. We can endlessly speculate about the past or go and dig it up and see what the evidence reveals. This is the only way to find out the truth concerning the origins of Allah. As we shall see, the hard evidence demonstrates that the god Allah was a pagan deity. In fact, he was the Moon-god who was married to the sun goddess and the stars were his daughters. Archaeologists have uncovered temples to the Moon-god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world was the worship of the Moon-god. In the first literate civilization, the Sumerians have left us thousands of clay tablets in which they described their religious beliefs. As demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-god who was called many different names. The most popular names were Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His symbol was the crescent moon. Given the amount of artifacts concerning the worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that this was the dominant religion in Sumeria. The cult of the Moon-god was the most popular religion throughout ancient Mesopotamia. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and the Akkadians took the word Suen and transformed it into the word Sin as their favorite name for the Moon-god. As Prof. Potts pointed out, "Sin is a name essentially Sumerian in origin which had been borrowed by the Semites. " In ancient Syria and Canna, the Moon-god Sin was usually represented by the moon in its crescent phase. At times the full moon was placed inside the crescent moon to emphasize all the phases of the moon. The sun-goddess was the wife of Sin and the stars were their daughters. For example, Istar was a daughter of Sin. Sacrifices to the Moon-god are described in the Pas Shamra texts. In the Ugaritic texts, the Moon-god was sometimes called Kusuh. In Persia, as well as in Egypt, the Moon- god is depicted on wall murals and on the heads of statues. He was the Judge of men and gods. The Old Testament constantly rebuked the worship of the Moon-god (see: Deut. 4:19;17:3; II Kngs. 21:3,5; 23:5; Jer. 8:2; 19:13; Zeph. 1:5, etc.) When Israel fell into idolatry, it was usually the cult of the Moon-god. As a matter of fact, everywhere in the ancient world, the symbol of the crescent moon can be found on seal impressions, steles, pottery, amulets, clay tablets, cylinders, weights, earrings, necklaces, wall murals, etc. In Tell-el-Obeid, a copper calf was found with a crescent moon on its forehead. An idol with the body of a bull and the head of man has a crescent moon inlaid on its forehead with shells. In Ur, the Stela of Ur-Nammu has the crescent symbol placed at the top of the register of gods because the Moon-god was the head of the gods. Even bread was baked in the form of a crescent as an act of devotion to the Moon-god. The Ur of the Chaldees was so devoted to the Moon-god that it was sometimes called Nannar in tablets from that time period. A temple of the Moon-god has been excavated in Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. He dug up many examples of moon worship in Ur and these are displayed in the British Museum to this day. Harran was likewise noted for its devotion to the Moon-god. In the 1950's a major temple to the Moon-god was excavated at Hazer in Palestine. Two idols of the moon god were found. Each was a stature of a man sitting upon a throne with a crescent moon carved on his chest . The accompanying inscriptions make it clear that these were idols of the Moon-god. Several smaller statues were also found which were identified by their inscriptions as the "daughters" of the Moon-god. What about Arabia? As pointed out by Prof. Coon, "Muslims are notoriously loath to preserve traditions of earlier paganism and like to garble what pre-Islamic history they permit to survive in anachronistic terms." During the nineteenth century, Amaud, Halevy and Glaser went to Southern Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean, Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions which were subsequently translated. In the 1940's, the archeologists G. Caton Thompson and Carleton S. Coon made some amazing discoveries in Arabia. During the 1950's, Wendell Phillips, W.F. Albright, Richard Bower and others e (more...)

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The Archeology of The Middle East The religion of Islam has as its focus of worship a deity by the name of "Allah." The Muslims claim that Allah in pre-Islamic times was the biblical God of the Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. The issue is thus one of continuity. Was "Allah" the biblical God or a pagan god in Arabia during pre- Islamic times? The Muslim's claim of continuity is essential to their attempt to convert Jews and Christians for if "Allah" is part of the flow of divine revelation in Scripture, then it is the next step in biblical religion. Thus we should all become Muslims. But, on the other hand, if Allah was a pre- Islamic pagan deity, then its core claim is refuted. Religious claims often fall before the results of hard sciences such as archeology. We can endlessly speculate about the past or go and dig it up and see what the evidence reveals. This is the only way to find out the truth concerning the origins of Allah. As we shall see, the hard evidence demonstrates that the god Allah was a pagan deity. In fact, he was the Moon-god who was married to the sun goddess and the stars were his daughters. Archaeologists have uncovered temples to the Moon-god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world was the worship of the Moon-god. In the first literate civilization, the Sumerians have left us thousands of clay tablets in which they described their religious beliefs. As demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-god who was called many different names. The most popular names were Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His symbol was the crescent moon. Given the amount of artifacts concerning the worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that this was the dominant religion in Sumeria. The cult of the Moon-god was the most popular religion throughout ancient Mesopotamia. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and the Akkadians took the word Suen and transformed it into the word Sin as their favorite name for the Moon-god. As Prof. Potts pointed out, "Sin is a name essentially Sumerian in origin which had been borrowed by the Semites. " In ancient Syria and Canna, the Moon-god Sin was usually represented by the moon in its crescent phase. At times the full moon was placed inside the crescent moon to emphasize all the phases of the moon. The sun-goddess was the wife of Sin and the stars were their daughters. For example, Istar was a daughter of Sin. Sacrifices to the Moon-god are described in the Pas Shamra texts. In the Ugaritic texts, the Moon-god was sometimes called Kusuh. In Persia, as well as in Egypt, the Moon- god is depicted on wall murals and on the heads of statues. He was the Judge of men and gods. The Old Testament constantly rebuked the worship of the Moon-god (see: Deut. 4:19;17:3; II Kngs. 21:3,5; 23:5; Jer. 8:2; 19:13; Zeph. 1:5, etc.) When Israel fell into idolatry, it was usually the cult of the Moon-god. As a matter of fact, everywhere in the ancient world, the symbol of the crescent moon can be found on seal impressions, steles, pottery, amulets, clay tablets, cylinders, weights, earrings, necklaces, wall murals, etc. In Tell-el-Obeid, a copper calf was found with a crescent moon on its forehead. An idol with the body of a bull and the head of man has a crescent moon inlaid on its forehead with shells. In Ur, the Stela of Ur-Nammu has the crescent symbol placed at the top of the register of gods because the Moon-god was the head of the gods. Even bread was baked in the form of a crescent as an act of devotion to the Moon-god. The Ur of the Chaldees was so devoted to the Moon-god that it was sometimes called Nannar in tablets from that time period. A temple of the Moon-god has been excavated in Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. He dug up many examples of moon worship in Ur and these are displayed in the British Museum to this day. Harran was likewise noted for its devotion to the Moon-god. In the 1950's a major temple to the Moon-god was excavated at Hazer in Palestine. Two idols of the moon god were found. Each was a stature of a man sitting upon a throne with a crescent moon carved on his chest . The accompanying inscriptions make it clear that these were idols of the Moon-god. Several smaller statues were also found which were identified by their inscriptions as the "daughters" of the Moon-god. What about Arabia? As pointed out by Prof. Coon, "Muslims are notoriously loath to preserve traditions of earlier paganism and like to garble what pre-Islamic history they permit to survive in anachronistic terms." During the nineteenth century, Amaud, Halevy and Glaser went to Southern Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean, Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions which were subsequently translated. In the 1940's, the archeologists G. Caton Thompson and Carleton S. Coon made some amazing discoveries in Arabia. During the 1950's, Wendell Phillips, W.F. Albright, Richard Bower and others e sourse http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/moongod.htm a muslim with self-respect will read it! sorry, but i think that muslims pray to moon-god! (more...)

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First I would like the FBI screen writers email contact address if I want to make a movie. Second the FBI have a tape or a web site of some incident that happen many years ago I want it who do I contact on getting it? Please don't ask me to do another FOBIA they well not provide such information. Another: Can you get me a email address for the L.A Police Department Discovery section? (more...)

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Single-celled giant upends early evolution G. sphaerica's traces are spitting image of the old, Precambrian fossils By Michael Reilly Discovery Channel updated 1:23 p.m. PT, Thurs., Nov. 20, 2008 Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth. A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at the bottom of the Arabian Sea. But when Mikhail Matz of the University of Texas at Austin and a group of researchers stumbled across a group of G. sphaerica off the coast of the Bahamas, the creatures were leaving trails behind them up to 20 inches long in the mud. The trouble is, single-celled critters aren't supposed to be able to leave trails. The oldest fossils of animal trails, called 'trace fossils', date to around 580 million years ago, and paleontologists always figured they must have been made by multicellular animals with complex, symmetrical bodies. But G. sphaerica's traces are the spitting image of the old, Precambrian fossils; two small ridges line the outside of the trail, and one thin bump runs down the middle. At up to 1.2 inches in diameter, they're also enormous compared to most of their microscopic cousins. "If these guys were alive 600 million years ago, and their traces got fossilized, a paleontologist who had never seen this thing would not have a shade of doubt attributing this kind of trace to the activity of a big, multicellular, bilaterally symmetrical animal," Matz said. "This is a very important discovery," Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Polytechnic Institute said. "The fact that protists can make traces has important implications for how we interpret many trace fossils." The finding could overturn conventional thinking on a mysterious time in the evolution of early life known as the Cambrian Explosion. Until about 550 million years ago, there were very few animals leaving trails behind. Then, within 10 million years an unprecedented blossoming of life swarmed across the planet, filling every niche with hard-bodied, complex creatures. "IT WASN?T A GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEXITY," Matz said. "NSTEAD THESE THINGS SUDDENLY SEEMED TO BURST OUT OF A MAGIC BOX." Charles Darwin first noticed the Cambrian Explosion and thought it was an artifact of a poorly preserved fossil record. The precambrian trace fossils were left by multicellular animals, he reasoned, so there must be some gap in fossils between the nearly empty Precambrian and the teeming world that quickly followed. BUT, IF THE FIRST TRACES WERE INSTEAD MADE BY G. SPHAERICA, IT WOULD MEAN THE EXPLOSION WAS REAL; IT MUST HAVE BEEN A DIVERSIFICATION OF LIFE ON A SCALE NEVER BEFORE SEEN. GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE WATER-FILLED G. SPHAERICA CELLS ALSO REVEALS TANTALIZING CLUES THAT IT COULD BE THE LODES LIVING FOSSIL ON THE PLANET. "There's a 1.8 billion-year-old fossil in the Stirling formation in Australia that looks just like one of their traces, and with a discoidal body impression similar to these guys." Matz said. "We haven't proved anything, but we might be looking at the ultimate living macroscopic fossil." © 2008 Discovery Channel URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27827279/ (more...)

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he said atlantis will rise, land did rise his year given, and artifacts were found there in the bimini islands, if you thought atlantis was going to appear with atlanteans walking around your ignorant. knowledge is only useful with wisdom, all his predictions came true, and his credibility is 100%, his psychic readings about god are also credible. Foretold the discovery of the land from Atlantis Cayce revealed that new land will appear in 1968 or 1969 off the east coast of North America, the so-called "rising of Atlantis". It was in that timeframe that the Bimini Road was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean. Whether this is actually a road or natural, geologic erosion is being hotly debated. Many people believe this to be the actual portion of Atlantis that Cayce was referring to. Foresaw the rebirth of the nation of Israel In 1932, Cayce advised the Jews to regard the advent of Fascist anti-Semitism in Europe as the time to fulfill the biblical prophecy which foretold that the Jews would return to Israel. In May of 1948, the nation of Israel was re-established just as Cayce predicted. This was followed by war between Israel and the Arab countries around it. Foresaw the deaths of Presidents FDR and JFK In 1939, Cayce predicted the deaths of two presidents in office: "You are to have turmoil -- you are to have strife between capital and labor. You are to have a division in your own land, before you have the second of the Presidents that next will not live through his office ... a mob rule!" http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html for more future and past predictions from cayce (more...)

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The Many Purposes of Stonehenge Stonehenge has been subjected to many theories about its origin, ranging from the academic worlds of archaeology to explanations from mythology and the paranormal. It will never be known exactly who constructed the ideas and built Stonehenge because the builders left no written records of this information. The only ideas that are known are those found in the rocks themselves and in the artifacts that have been recovered from underneath the ground. What is known is that the builders of the magnificent monument were not just common people you crossed on the street everyday. They had to have been very talented to discover this ?intellect and empirical mathematical discoveries? in Stonehenge (Johnson 1). It is believed that three tribes constructed Stonehenge in three phases, all at different times. The first phase was constructed from 1900-1700 BC, the second from 1700-1600 BC, and the third phase from 1500-1400 BC. It is said that the first people to work on Stonehenge were Neolithic agrarians. They were a combination of the Neolithic tribe members from Eastern England and the local peoples. They dug a mound and had collective burials in large stone tombs. They were one of the first groups who held a strong respect for circles and symmetry. The second group of people that worked on Stonehenge is the Beaker people. They came from Europe at the end of the Neolithic Period and invaded Salisbury Plain. These people were extremely organized, used sophisticated mathematical concepts, and were most likely sun worshipers who aligned Stonehenge more exactly with certain important sun events, such as the mid summer and winter solstices. The Wessex Peoples are considered the third and final group of people who worked on the Stonehenge site. They arrived at the peak of the Bronze Age, around 1500 BC. They were considered one of the most advanced groups outside the Mediterranean during this time. The bronze dagger carving found on one of the stones is thought to have been from them. They used their talents such as, being an exceptionally smart culture, being wealthy, and using great precision in their calculations and constructions, to finalize what we see today of Stonehenge. Stonehenge was derived from the leftover pieces of a single stone building. It was originally built from one hundred and sixty-two stone blocks, and was not very large at all. It was only thirty-five paces across and would all but fit inside the dome of Saint Paul?s Cathedral. The five parts that made up the monument are, from the outside inwards: the sarsen circle with continuous lintels, the bluestone circle, the sarsen horseshoe of trilithons, the bluestone horseshoe, and the Altar Stone. The most talked about theory of Stonehenge had to do with astronomical purposes. Stonehenge was probably used to ?predict the summer and winter solstices, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and eclipses of both the sun and moon? (Aubrey 2). The reason that so many people believed that it was built for astronomical reasons was because certain stones were thoughts of as being aligned with certain astronomical phenomena. This monument was thought of as being used to help keep track of the motions of the Sun, as well as the Moon, and stars. The trilithons used in the monument lie along the southwest-northeast line. They line up with the exact spot on the northeastern line, which is where the sun rises on the longest day of the year, which is called the summer solstice. As Colgate University archaeostronomer Anthony Aveni said, Stonehenge was probably ?a Sun temple from its very inception? (3). (Make a note card) There is a small opening that is right above the main entrance of Stonehenge that sunlight comes through on the morning of the winter solstice and lights up the back of the tomb. It is said that people use to gather at the site at intervals of 18 ½ years, because this was when the moon had reached its southern most position in the sky. Stonehenge was also a religious monument, where religious belief and practice helped to construct it. Stonehenge was most definitely a ceremonial center where men and women could gather and pay honor to their ancestors (Falk 6). ?Stonehenge was a cosmic temple dedicated to all twelve gods of the Zodiac? (Knowles 5). It is more likely for it to have been a temple for rituals with the living people rather than burials. The ceremonies were more than likely about renewal, by both the gods and by the humans. In Neolithic times, the rituals took place in midwinter, which was when the days started getting longer. Since cremated remains have been found in Stonehenge, it was probably used as a burial site for at least five hundred years. Stonehenge being used as a burial site five thousand years ago is a major component of all of Stonehenge?s main phases. People were buried here around 2,700 BC until the large stones, called sarsens, were p (more...)

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Please, don't tell me "the bible" because that, to me, is just a book. It may have some true history but it is a book and non of that stuff can be proven. I want a picture from an article or report. Something factual. Archeoligical articles usually have pictures and so forth. There are those who claim that archeoligical discoveries have proved the existence of God but where are the articles then? Where are the pitcures and what artifact was it that they found and how the heck does it prove the existence of God? Remember Jesus Christ and God, in the mind of a non-believer like myself, are two TOTALLY different things. SO please don't post an article with a discovery on the sandals Jesus wore when he allegedly walked on water os something about Jesus (or was he barefoot? who cares...). I want an archeological proof on GOD not Jesus Christ - he may have been a righteous leader but he still was just a MAN who probably DID have a child with that one woman, and probably even had baby mamma drama lol. My goodness. I offiially believe most Christians are retarded. I SPECIFICALLY asked not to include bible references because it is just a book and still I see several lame comments with "bible" pasted all over them. Fools. "You can see god all around you"...oh really? How about if I say you can see Tinker Bell all around you everytime you see a house-fly because she is the essence of every flying insect and lives in each and every fly! Listen to how ridiculous you sound! My word!......lol, f**k it. I'm thru with Christians... (more...)

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Professor Quantum was on a dig for fossils and other artifacts in the far north. While digging through the layers of snow and forzen tundra he came accross a perfectly preserved body of a man. Upon closer examination, Quantum leaped for joy at the magnitude of his discovery. The frozen body was none other than that of Adam from the Bible. What was it about the body that convinced the professor that this was Adam? (more...)

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