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Sampling DNA From a 1,000-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript

... A group of archaeologists and geneticists in the United Kingdom have now analyzed the remarkably rich DNA reservoir of the York Gospels. They found DNA from humans who swore oaths on its pages and from bacteria likely originating on the hands and mouths of those humans. Best of all though, they found 1,000-year-old DNA from the cows and sheep whose skin became the parchment on which the book is written. ...



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Fearing End of World, Thief Returns 2,000-Year-Old Artifact After 15 Years
TEL AVIV – An Israeli man returned a 2,000-year-old catapult bolt to the Israel Antiquities Authority some 15 years after he took off with it while visiting the archaeological site of the Jerusalem Walls National Park in the City of David, saying he wanted to clear his conscience before the end of the world....
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The Ancient Peruvian Mystery Solved From Space
The puquios were a “sophisticated hydraulic system constructed to retrieve water from underground aquifers,” says Rosa Lasaponara of the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, in Italy. And they transformed this inhospitable region....
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DISCOVERED: 20 Sealed Ancient Egyptian Coffins Near Luxor In Egypt
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Amazing. These all came from the same workshop. In the ground 3000 years.

Oh come on. Nobody believes this fake story. 3,000-year-old wooden caskets well preserved ? Good for some elite archaeologist's career. There are plenty of ways to make convincing fakes.

DWill wrote:Oh come on. Nobody believes this fake story.

It sounds pretty convincing to me. I've been reading reports from sources such as The Smithsonian, the Washington Post and the BBC. I've yet to hear of anyone expressing any doubt as to the authenticity of this find.

LevV wrote:

DWill wrote:Oh come on. Nobody believes this fake story.

It sounds pretty convincing to me. I've been reading reports from sources such as The Smithsonian, the Washington Post and the BBC. I've yet to hear of anyone expressing any doubt as to the authenticity of this find.

That was a way of making a point...maybe it didn't come through.

Skeletons discovered in Bamburgh Castle reveal how people travelled from across Europe during the 'Northumbrian enlightenment' 1,400 years ago to visit the northern Kings
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A very odd story:

Cerne Abbas Giant is NOT prehistoric and may have been created just a few hundred years ago before becoming a propaganda tool for William of Orange, snail shells reveal
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"... A third theory proposes that the giant was carved in the 17th Century by then land-owner Lord Denzil Holles, perhaps as a parody of Oliver Cromwell, with the club a reference to his repressive rule and the phallus to mock his Puritanism. ..."

Inca offering containing a gold bracelet and llama figurine discovered in Bolivian lake was used more than 500 years ago in human sacrifice rituals
mr-mehra.com/2020/08/inca-offering-cont ... celet.html



Shipwreck of 18th century floating gin palace bound for Tsarist St Petersburg is discovered in Gulf of Finland stacked high with bottles of booze and botanicals
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After 13 Years of Digging, Archaeologists Said 'Cosmic Airburst Event' Wiped Sodom and Gomorrah Off the Map
yourdestinationnow.com/2020/08/after-13 ... gging.html

Interesting piece. A paper mentioned in the article is at the link below:

The 3.7kaBP Middle Ghor Event: Catastrophic Termination of a Bronze Age Civilization
3182d453b68388416980-71bc4c8fd3e50b4ee0 ... -proof.pdf

A meteor.

Genesis 19:24-25, Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.