City Under the Sea
B.K. Parthasarathy
...Who would have thought a city that could be older than the Harappan civilization could be lying beneath water right off the coast of Mahabalipuram?

5,000-year history of writing
By Apostolos Lakasas - Kathimerini
...Neolithic symbols, ideograms, ancient civil codes, shards bearing the identities of those about to be ostracized, papyrus containing comments on Euripides' ancient tragedies, divinations of Chinese oracles, Latin translations, historic accounts of Byzantium, Slavic, Native American and Runic script and music symbols are just some of the exhibits in the exhibition "History of Writing Around the World since 3000 BC" currently on show in Athens.

Mystery of the Calendar
Vladimir Pakhomov
...The calendar which Julius Caesar adopted was identical to the Alexandrian Aristarchus' calendar of 239 B.C., and consisted of a solar year of twelve months and of 365 days with an extra day every fourth year.

The Amazing Cures of a Brazilian Miracle Man
by Robert Pellegrino-Estrich
...Thoughts of our origins and the purpose of our existence most often occur in that brief moment before we slide into sleep state.

Ancient, Giant Images Found Carved Into Peru Desert
Gonzalo Castillero
...Human and animal likenesses, a knife, and a sundial are among the "geoglyphs," or giant figures etched into the earth and discernible from the sky, most recently discovered in the Peruvian desert.

Archaeological Cover-ups: A Plot to Control History?
by Will Hart c 2002
...The scientific establishment tends to reject, suppress or ignore evidence that conflicts with accepted theories, while denigrating or persecuting the messenger. (290 miles) south of Lima.

800,000-year-old Stoneware Unearthed in South China
China - People's Daily
... Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a site inhabited by ancient people in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, containing more than 1,000 stone tools dating back about 800,000 years.

Indian cave art saved from wreckers
timesonline.co.uk
... Inside a cave complex hidden beyond the rock face, the archaeologists discovered further treasures, more red-paint sketchings stretched across the walls, with further scenes from prehistoric life as well as detailed diagrams of the internal organs of animals.

Experts claim discovery of oldest Great Wall section
Xinhuanet
... The oldest section of the Great Wall was built during ancient China's Chu Kingdom, during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.), experts said at an academic conference held last week in Lushan County, central China's Henan Province

8,200-year-old village
abc.net.au
... The remains of a village thought to date back 8,200 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in China's Inner Mongolia region.

Shifting Sands
Sid Perkins
... The shifting sands of dunes, the archetype of transience, might seem an unlikely place to search for long-lasting records of environmental conditions.

The Real Lord of the Rings
NASA
... Using his primitive telescope he had found new worlds orbiting Jupiter, watched planet-sized spots crossing the Sun, and explored craters on the Moon. But when Galileo turned his telescope toward Saturn in 1610, even he was amazed.