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02/10/08 // Link:: The Ancient Indus Valley This is great site for anyone interested in seeing what south Asia looked like circa 1900-1920. Actually it’s a good bit more than that, but since I happen to be writing about that area, at that time, that’s what I’ve …continue reading »
12/14/07 // Link:: Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at Oak Island There’s really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that depends on your childhood, but for me that’s what happens when I read about buried treasure, which admittedly isn’t often. …continue reading »
10/18/07 // Link:: Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Laos A must have for me. I was a bit sketched out by the low-budget look of the site at first, but it turns out that the owners are friends of friends, so don’t let it bother you, should you want …continue reading »
08/03/07 // Link:: Virtual Egyptian Museum Found via Neatorama: “The Virtual Egyptian Museum has an excellent online collection of everything related to Egyptian antiquities.” “This one to the left is a Falcon sarcophagus with an Osiris mummy (which actually isn’t a real mummy but a figurine …continue reading »
06/25/07 // Link:: Museum’s Broken Treasure Not Just Any Old Shit Somewhere in these link archives there’s story about people that collect weird things and how it’s about time they let them go. Well, this would probably qualify by that author’s yardstick, but I dunno, poop is almost always entertaining. From …continue reading »
06/25/07 // Link:: Obsidian Knives Sharper Than Surgical Scalpels. The folks over at Neatorama have a nice reminder that sometimes technology really doesn’t have any room to improve what it tries to replace. Yes, it’s true obsidian blade can be much sharper than surgical scalps: “A scientific study showed …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:: No Hurry in JC: Bam, Iran From the always excellent blog of Marie Jarvis, cartoonist and traveller: “I came across a photo CD of images from my 1998 overland truck trip from Kathmandu to Damascus. This trip went through Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, and …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:: Libya | MetaFilter The more time I spend on Digg, the more I really appreciate Metafilter, here’s a recent collection of links about Libya which high on my list of travel destinations: “Libya is a desert, yes, but if you trace your fingers …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:: Sacred texts that reveal a common heritage British Library exhibition celebrates the links between three monotheistic faiths. For the first time, the oldest and most precious surviving texts of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths have gone on display side by side at the British Library. They …continue reading »
04/21/07 // Link:: Predictions From The Learned, 1900 As Told To The Ladies Home Journal The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. Mr. Watkins wrote: “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from …continue reading »
01/23/07 // Link:: Ship from 8th Century Found in Mediterranean A ship from the 8th century discovered off Dor Beach in the Mediterranean is thought to be the only vessel from that era ever found in the region. “We do not have any other historical or archaeological evidence of the …continue reading »
06/26/06 // Link:: Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Standing Up to Dance and Sing — How we became hominid, then human “Essential to both bipedal locomotion and music, rhythm plays a pivotal role as well in language. Music and language share other intriguing attributes. Both can move or manipulate us. Both can be spoken, written or gestured…”continue reading »
06/13/06 // Link:: Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a 27,000-year-old drawing of a face The image has only now been made public after scientific testing by French archaeologists that has apparently convinced them of its authenticity and age - they claim the drawings in it were done 27,000 years ago…continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:: Sex in the Stone Age: Pornography in Clay - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE New pornographic figurines from the Stone Age have been discovered in Germany. But researchers can’t agree on what the 7,000-year-old sculptures mean. Were our ancestors uninhibited sex fiends, or was reproduction strictly controlled to improve mobility? An increasing number of …continue reading »
05/19/06 // Blog Post from Downtown Ljubljana // Ljubljana // Slovenia: Ghost From Dubrovnik we returned north toward Slovenia, stopping along the way to spend one night in the peaceful, almost backwater, Croatia fishing village of Trogir. Like Dubrovnik, Trogir was a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir’s wall has … continue reading » Topics: Archaeology, Europe, Ghosts, Memory, Round The World Trip, Writing

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