In the News

In the news section (written by Mike Pitts) of British Archaeology magazine (January 2018) we have the discovery of a big piece of flint at

I posted a story on the Chesil Beach a few years ago but now Gary has sent in a link to his web site that

At www.q-mag.org/the-salon-noir-the-cave-of-niaux.html ... the cave of Niaux was never used as a dwelling but it has a lot of cave paintings. Anne Marie provides the

At www.livescience.com/61441-search-for-king-tut-wife.html ... Zahi Hassan announced (January 16th 2018) that excavations in the Valley of the Kings where the tomb of Tutankhamun's wife may be

At http://spaceweather.com (17th January 2018) we learn that a meteor exploded over Michigan with a sonic boom and a bright flash of light over the

Robert sent in this link at https://crev.info/2018/01/hidden-volcano-comes-light/ ... a deep ocean silicic volcano erupted under the waves 5 years ago but hardly anyone noticed. In

Two stories on the Black Death - one at https://phys.org/print435308864.html ... and https://phys.org/print435312986.html ... at the first one we learn about analysis of thousands of

William sent in this excellent link - research refutes theory regarding the dispersal of humans in Europe - go to https://phys.org/print435307967.html ... and you can

Robert also sent in this link - go to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5274051/Mount-Etna-NOT-proper-vo... ... Mount Etna, an Italian geologist claims, is not a real volcano - but a

Sent in by Jovan - interesting claim - go to www.livescience.com/61409-extraterrestrial-hypatia-stone.html ... a space rock known as the Hypatia Stone, is diamond encrusted. It was

Sent in  by Robert - https://crev.info/2018/01/astronomical-theories-totally-wrong-upside/ ... which concerns a couple of admissions that have already been aired on the News. Space exploration is throwing

Dating the 100,000 year Ice Age cycle depends on oxygen isotope changes in plankton shells taken from the sediment cores of the ocean bottoms. At

Anyone who can remember Isaac Vail's idea of a vast ring of ice around the earth (that subsequently collapsed leading to lots of water falling

This story is at https://phys.org/print434905088.html ... a black hole caught burping. This rather strange tone of language goes on all the time in cosmological wonder

At www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/ancient-henge-discovered-in-yorkshire-1-893... ... excavations at a quarry in East Yorkshire have come across what was a henge (without the stones) - one made with tree

At https://phys.org/print434879707.html ... diluvicursors were turkey sized herbivorous dinosaurs. These are orthinopods but diluvicursors are a sub species and the new find is of a

At http://spaceweather.com we have 3 stories on comets currently visible with binoculars (posts dated 10th and 11th January). One concerns a strange blue comet beyond

See https://smithsonianmag.com/history/search-lost-hammer-led-largest-cache-... ... the story of how a lost hammer in a field led to the discovery of the Hoxne Hoard in Suffolk. The farmer

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/cheops-pyramid-... ... is there an iron throne in the newly discovered chamber of Cheops pyramid? This refers to the discovery by Japanese researchers of

At http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/12/mike-rowe-destroys-woman-who-wanted-hi... ... Funny old world. Apparently, if you do not studiously follow the mainstream in science you should be shut up and and sacked.