Ultimate Places

Having always been fascinated by the life of Ghengis Khan, and the shear magnitude of what he accomplished (for better or worse), I thought I would pass on this recent news article from the BBC, about a man who spent 3 years of his life retracing Khan’s steps, and apparently he didn’t have the easiest […]

Here’s a piece of news you don’t hear every day. From BBC.
“Some 600 people in Peru have required treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say. More >>
From the sounds of it, the meteorite created a pretty serious hole in the […]

To those who don’t believe global warming is real. Today brought more news to the contrary. When are politicians going to get a clue as to the real world implications of this? You have to wonder.
Here’s the headline from BBC News.
Here’s where the Northwest Passage is located, with the ice magically stripped away by Google […]

A very surprising news article came out in the last few days about scientist discovering what appears to be ancient denistry on 6,500 year old teeth from Pakistan. Scientists believe the practice was performed using small bows and pieces of flint, but aren’t sure what the “dentists” were doing, because only a few of the […]

Though not particularly religious, one thing I have always found interesting, is the religious history of the Middle East. Throw into that mix, some ground breaking piece of information, that forces everyone to question what they thought they knew about a particular period or event, and it becomes downright fascinating. That is what I suspect […]

A team of Polish Archeologists have discovered the largest pre-dynastic brewery found so far in Egypt’s Nile Delta. What does this show? Well if prostitution is the oldest profession, being a brewer has to be a close second.
Besides objects from the brewery, it seems they found a number of other interesting objects. Here’s an excerpt […]

A recent article exploring the authenticity of an ancient map, suggests the possibility that the Chinese discovery of America might actually be true. Here is a excerpt.
A map that purports to show Chinese mariners discovered the New World before Christopher Columbus could be genuine, university scientists in New Zealand said yesterday.
The map, said […]

An ancient Greek sarcophagus dating back more than 2500 years has been found on the island of Cyprus. Only two other sarcophagus like it have ever been found. Here is a excerpt from the article.
NICOSIA, Cyprus Mar 20, 2006 (AP)— A 2,500-year-old sarcophagus with vivid color illustrations from Homer’s epics has been discovered in western […]

Here’s an interesting article out of Jakarta, about the illegal salvaging of ancient sea wrecks from Indonesian waters. They say over 463 ship wrecks, some more than a 1000 years old could exist among Indonesia’s islands. I’m assuming many of these ships are the result of Chinese trade fleets that grew in size and […]

Ran across a couple of interesting blog posts dealing with rapid geologic changes occuring on the East Coast of Ethiopa. This section of Ethiopa is part of the Great Rift Valley system that cuts down through much of East Africa, and includes the Red Sea and the Arabian Peninsula.
As the BLDG Blog put it best:
The […]