[Daily Mail] A once-in-a-lifetime lunar event created an super-high tide on January 12, 1912 - setting loose a deadly fleet of icebergs, three months before Titanic sank on April 14, 1912 with the loss of approximately 1,500 lives.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Huge asteroid hit earth 13,000 years ago
[Popular Science] About 13,000 years ago, a chunk of a comet or asteroid hurtled into the atmosphere at a shallow angle, superheating the atmosphere around it as it careened toward the surface. The air grew hot enough to ignite plant material and melt rock below the object’s flight path.
Ancient Road Paved with Marble unearthed in Greece
[iol] Other finds range from hundreds of graves and tombs spanning an 800-year period from the fourth century BC, marble sarcophagi, stone tombs and more than 2,500 square meters of ancient buildings.
Over 2000 ancient Buddha statues discovered in China
[The Economic Times] The 2,895 Buddha statues and fragments dating back to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi period (534-577) were found in the historic site of Yecheng, Linzhang county.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Neanderthals were ancient mariners
[New Scientist] IT LOOKS like Neanderthals may have beaten modern humans to the seas. Growing evidence suggests our extinct cousins criss-crossed the Mediterranean in boats from 100,000 years ago.
Remains of Christ's Disciples?
[The Windsor Star] An amateur archeologist claimed Tuesday to have identified what could be the remains of some of Christ's disciples in a first century burial chamber beneath a block of flats in Jerusalem.
New Mozart Piece Discovered
[The New Age] It is believed that Mozart composed the piece in 1756, just before he embarked on a three-year trip to Italy at the age of 13.
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