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History

Have long-lost pyramids been found in Egypt?

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By hnn

Mysterious, pyramid-like structures spotted in the Egyptian desert by an amateur satellite archaeologist might be long-lost pyramids after all, according to a new investigation into the enigmatic mounds.

Angela Micol, who last year found the structures using Google Earth 5,000 miles away in North Carolina, says puzzling features have been uncovered during a preliminary ground proofing expedition, revealing cavities and shafts.

“Moreover, it has emerged these formations are labeled as pyramids on several old and rare maps,” Micol told Discovery News….

Source:
Archaeology News Network

Source URL:
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2013/07/have-long-lost-pyramids-been-found-in.html#.UehG7VO9wak

Date:
7-16-13

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

History

Ancient port found in Egypt

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By hnn

An ancient Egyptian harbor has emerged on the Red Sea coast, dating back about 4,500 years.

“Evidence unearthed at the site shows that it predates by more than 1,000 years any other port structure known in the world,” Pierre Tallet, Egyptologist at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and director of the archaeological mission, told Discovery News….

Source:
Discovery News

Source URL:
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-Egypt/worlds-oldest-port-and-egyptian-papyrus-uncovered-130412.htm

Date:
4-12-13

From: http://hnn.us/articles/ancient-port-found-egypt

Science & Technology

Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code!

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By ScottCWaring

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The answer to whether alien life exists may be hiding inside our own body!
According to a new theory, human genetic code is embedded with a “designer label” that may be an indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilisation that preceded us by many millions or billions of years.
Researchers Vladimir I shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan, and Maxim A Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, hypothesise that an intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code would be a mathematical and semantic message that cannot be accounted for by Darwinian evolution.
Calling it “biological SETI”, shCherbak and Makukov argue that the scheme has much greater longevity and chance of detecting alien life than a transient extraterrestrial radio transmission, the ‘Discovery News‘ reported.
“Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales, in fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature.
“Once the genome is appropriately rewritten the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time,” the researchers wrote in the journal Icarus.
They said in order to pass the designer label test, any patterns in the genetic code must be highly statistically significant and possess intelligent-like features that are inconsistent with any natural know process.
Researchers said their detailed analysis of the human genome displays a thorough precision-type orderliness in the mapping between DNA‘s nucleotides and amino acids.”Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language,” said researchers.
The scheme includes the use of decimal notation, logical transformations, and the use of the abstract symbol of zero.
“Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing,” researchers wrote.
This interpretation leads to a far-fetched conclusion that the genetic code, “appears that it was invented outside the solar system already several billions years ago,” endorsing the idea of panspermia – that Earth was seeded with interstellar life.

Source: http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/could-an-alien-message-be-embedded-in-our-genetic-code-130401.htm

From: http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2013/04/alien-message-embedded-in-our-genetic.html

History

Ancient remedies found in shipwreck

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By hnn

An ancient doctor likely knew the composition of the medicines loaded aboard a doomed ship preparing to sail into the Mediterranean. But it would be another approximately 2,200 years until anyone else learned the ingredients of the six grey pills, which were lost beneath the waves along with the rest of the ship, known as the “Relitto del Pozzino.”

A team of Italian archeologists, chemists and biologists deciphered the chemical clues to the composition of an ancient medicine packed in the cargo of a ship sunk in 18 meters (59 feet) of water off the coast of Tuscany.

The six flat disks were held in a tin container which was probably once held in a larger wooden box that rotted away. Other medical implements of the time were found nearby.

Discovery News reported on an earlier study that discovered the medicine contained a mixture of mineral and plant materials, but not exactly which chemicals….

Source:
Discovery News

Source URL:
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-medicinal-ingredients-shipwreck-130107.html

Date:
1-7-13

Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University