I walked the hill to the fort above the Goa Resort and the Russians didn’t like it. “It is too hot. Get on.” Scooter after scooter passed me, stopped, waited for me to reach them then offered me a ride. It was very kind but, “I’d really like to walk.” “You will die.” “I won’t [...]
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Famous People Dead : Five Incorrupt Saints You Have to Meet
Of course the Portuguese had gotten all out of control. Timayya had done his work well and the Bijapur kings were out of the way. Goa belonged to Portugal and everyone was rich from slaving and spices. Other than to wait for next year’s spice fleet, there was not much to do beyond bearing the [...]
The End of the World – Time to Panic?
Ok. We might indeed be screwed. Or not. Archaelogists at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have announced that a second reference the end of the world in 2012 exists on a carved fragment. Until now, we’ve known of only one reference to the 2012 date in Mayan glyphs. The Tortuguero tablet from Tabasco. [...]
Johnny Rotten is a Cave Artist and Other Silliness
A tempest in a teapot has erupted over the proposed preservation of some graffiti drawn Photograph: National News and Pictures and AP by members of the band The Sex Pistols in the 1970s that was recently found in a central London flat. That’s right. The drawings, mostly done by Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) were discovered [...]
Castles in the Desert
The benefits to ending the rule of a twisted and bloody dictator are endless. Often, the science of archaeology is a beneficiary: The fall of Gaddafi has opened the way for archaeologists to explore the country’s pre-Islamic heritage, so long ignored under his regime. Archaeologists from the University of Leicester have used satellites and airplane [...]
Stolen History: The Getty STILL Doesn’t Get It
After all the trouble they’ve gotten themselves into, The Getty clings desperately to the statute of limitations in a silly attempt to keep part of a stolen sacred Armenian manuscript. The J. Paul Getty Trust failed Thursday to derail a lawsuit by the Armenian Orthodox Church that accuses the museum of harboring stolen illuminated medieval [...]
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