Friday, January 02, 2009


Acoustics Expert: Cavemen Must Have Loved to Sing, Ancient hunters painted the sections of their cave dwellings where singing, humming and music sounded best, a new study suggests.
Step Into the Past With 'Google Rome'

Gladiators to Return to Colosseum After 2,000 Years

Ancient Mass Graves of Soldiers, Babies Found in Italy

Lost Leonardo da Vinci drawings' found on back of one of his paintings in the Louvre ---Italian Anthropologists Claim to Have Reconstructed Leonardo's Fingerprint ------

Pompeii Family's Final Hours Reconstructed ---Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption-----

Rare artifacts uncovered in Roman baths dig

Ancient Roman Oil Lamp 'Factory Town' Found

Limestone altar Discovered at Dalheim Roman Dig

New Species of Bacteria Found in Ancient Roman Tombs

Ancient Roman stadium opens

Rare Roman tombstone goes on show

Tomb of Real 'Gladiator' Found in Rome

Dig at Augustus Temple re-examines remnants of Roman triumphs

Rome workers uncover city of dead ---Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Laborers' Burial Ground Near Rome -----

Archaeologists unearth place where Emperor Caligula met his end

UBC Dig Uncovers Roman Mystery

Unexpected Roman ruin turns history on its head

Archaeologists Unveil Majestic Roman Ruins That Rival Riches of Pompeii (at Ostia)

Famed Roman She-Wolf Statue May Be Medieval Fake


Vatican Opens Pagan Tombs Under St. Peter's
How the barbarians drove Romans to build Venice
Roman skeleton may give TB clues


The ancient Greek historian Herodotus relates how the Scythians, Iranian-speaking nomads who roamed the steppes to the west of the Yuezhi in the first millennium B.C., liked to throw marijuana onto bonfires to induce trancelike states. It's possible the buried shaman followed similar practices.