The Ancient Girl with
the Golden Eye: 5,000 Year Old Priestess Found
Daily Mail
The body of a strikingly tall
5,000-year-old woman with an artificial golden eye has been
discovered in Iran.
Archaeologists said the woman was a
female soothsayer or priestess and would have transfixed those
around her with her eyeball, making them believe she had occult
powers and could see into the future.
The 25-30-year old Persian woman, who
was almost 6 feet tall, was also buried with an ornate bronze hand
mirror so she could check her startling appearance.
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Freeze 'Condemned
Neanderthals'
BBC News
A sharp freeze could have dealt the
killer blow that finished off our evolutionary cousins the
Neanderthals, according to a new study.
The ancient humans are thought to have
died out in most parts of Europe by about 35,000 years ago.
And now new data from their last known
refuge in southern Iberia indicates the final population was
probably beaten by a cold spell some 24,000 years ago...
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The Hollow Earth
Explorer has a New Champion
Advanced Planetary
Explorations, LLC staff writer
Brooks A. Agnew, PhD has been elected
to lead the North Pole Inner Earth Expedition (NPIEE). He is a
scientist and an engineer with more than 20 years of experience as a
launch manager. The religious and scientific idea that the Earth is
hollow has been around for more than 600 years, carved into the
celing of places like Rosslyn Chapel and reaching serious notoriety
with the likes of Edmond Halley in 1692.
Now, after more than half a millennia,
the first civilian expedition is being mounted to reach what the
best historians in the world have determined to be the most likely
location for an opening through the crust into the interior of the
Earth...
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Astronauts Should 'Ski
the Moon'
By Jonathan Fildes, BBC News
Astronauts heading to the Moon
should learn the art of cross-country skiing, a scientist who flew
on the last lunar Apollo mission claims.
Harrison Schmitt, part of the 1972
Apollo 17 crew, said it would allow them to explore faster and more
easily.
Addressing scientists in San
Francisco, he said his knowledge of Nordic skiing had allowed him to
glide effortlessly across the dusty lunar surface.
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Underground Plumbing System Discovered on Mars
By Kerr Than, Space.com
A Mars-orbiting spacecraft has spotted a
subterranean natural
plumbing system that might have
ferried water beneath the surface of the red planet in the distant
past.
New images taken by the
HiRISE camera on NASA’s
Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show hills and plateaus with
alternating layers of dark and light colored rocks in
Candor Chasma, one of several
canyons that make up
Valles Marineris, a sprawling Martian rift valley that is longer
than the contiguous United States and up to seven times deeper than
the
Grand Canyon in places.
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