On Smooth Cuts

And now for a bit of history.
It has oftentimes been the stuff of legend that the Muslims had a weapon that supposedly gave them the advantage over Christian counterparts during the crusades. The former is said to have swords strong enough to cut “through European swords and even rock.” That is, the Damascus sword prided [...]

The World’s Oldest Wall Painting

About 2 weeks ago the world’s oldest wall painting was supposedly unearthed in Syria. According to one of the French archaeologists, Eric Coqueugniot carbon dating dates the find from 9,000 B.C. Furthermore according to him:
It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw it have likened it to work by (Paul) Klee.

A Little Bit of the News

Virginia Tech Four Months After
In April 16 this year, Virginia Tech got the world’s attention not as a prominent institution of the US academe but because of the rampage involving Korean student, Sueng-Hui Choi. The said student killed 30 people in all including himself so after the incident, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appointed 8 members [...]

Blog of the Day: 6 Things to Consider

I first mentioned Steve Atkinson’s 6 Things to Consider here when I referred to his 6 Common Energy Saving Myths. And just an entry before I used his iPhone pros and cons entry to wrap up an entry on the hyped gadget.
The blog in itself presents 6 different lists for different stuff 6 times a [...]

The Mystery of China’s Celtic Mummies

A certain blog entry of the same title bearing the same contents from this article by the UK independent got my attention over the weekend. The same content about the discovery can be found all throughout a lot of other blogs including this Uyghur American Association page.
That is the mummies found in China are strangely, [...]

Unearthing Ancient Egypt

Last weekend, I encountered three Yahoo news bits regarding archaeological discoveries in Egypt. The first one is the discovery of a 3000 year-old mummy. It was identified as a high priest to the god Amun in the southern city of Luxor, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass told the official MENA news agency on Saturday.
The next is [...]