Ephraimite Forum-44
Date: 19/February/08 23th Adar-1 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 10.44
2. Paul Eidelberg:  Scientific Progress Dependent on Monotheism?
3. Archaeologists Discover Largest Parthian Fortress in Iran-Proper

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 10.44
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 10.44

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explorator 10.44 February 24, 2008
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AFRICA
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The latest guy looking for the Ark of the Covenant:

http://tinyurl.com/yp2ytd (Daily Mail)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on an Iron Age site in Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43524&sectionid=351020105

Jewelry and makeup in Ancient Persia:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43514&sectionid=3510304

The oldest known use of oil paint has been found in Afghanistan:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/19/oldest-oil-painting.html


The Zoroastrian community in Iran is shrinking:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-iran-zoroastrians.html

More coverage of the discovery of the 'Red Snake':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080218155534.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2pwkqu
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=24804
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/great-wall-gorgan

More coverage of that 'warrior tomb' find at Luxor:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15166.shtml
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/885/he1.htm

More coverage of the politics of archaeology in Israel:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/17/MNILV017H.DTL
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19&SecId=19&AId=58045

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Bronze Age whistle/toy from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?LocalNewsID=437

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Sarsen stones under Silbury Hill?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/the-mystery-of-silbury-hill


More coverage of that possible Druid burial:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,536402,00.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15425

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More coverage of that big city find in India:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7250316.stm

... and a spinoff piece on how archaeologists estimate populations:

http://www.slate.com/id/2184814


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NORTH AMERICA
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A presidential 'firsts' quiz:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148447

... and the answers:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148465

The "Mount" faces foreclosure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/books/23moun.html

OpEd piece on George Washington as lame duck:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18hogeland.html

History and borders and the Tennessee River:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/22water.html

Review of Alan Guelzo, *Lincoln and Douglas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/books/20grimes.html

Review of Jerome Charyn, *Johnny One Eye*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Schiff-t.html

Review of Gretchen Holbrook, *Mr and Mrs Prince*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Waldstreicher-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Satellite images have helped to locate some temples in Guatemala:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2021122720080220
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/sc_nm/guatemala_maya_nasa_dc_1
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080221/tsc-uk-guatemala-maya-nasa-a337f0f.html
http://tinyurl.com/3at8ky (Gazette)
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=23282045

A pyramid complex in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080220-vicus-pyramids.html
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=160856
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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DNA and 'out of Africa' again:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220132608.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/22/MN5RV6L1C.DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_sc/out_of_africa

Columbus' eclipse:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080218/sc_afp/spaceastronomyeclipsemoon_080218152911


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NUMISMATICA
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Nice price fetched for a penny collection:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19141322


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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/23/america/NA-GEN-US-Museum-Armor.php


Inquisition:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-20_120184433.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_en_ot/vatican_rare_documents


Nazi loot:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL189719620080218
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7255353.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/arts/design/20muse.html


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ON THE WEB
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Texas Beyond History:

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/index.html

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2. Paul Eidelberg:  Scientific Progress Dependent on Monotheism?
From: eidelberg@foundation1.org
Subject: China and Science

Some readers took exception to my statement that science did not develop among the Chinese.  This is the position advanced by philosopher-scientist Alfred North Whitehead.  In his marvelous book, Science and the Modern World, he writes:
 
" there have been in China acute and learned men patiently devoting their lives to study. Having regard to the span of time, and to the population concerned, China forms the largest volume of civilization which the world has seen.  There is no reason to doubt the intrinsic capacity of individual Chinamen for the pursuit of science.  And yet Chinese science is practically negligible.  There is no reason to believe that China if left to itself would have ever produced any progress in science.  The same may be said of India."
 
Whitehead credits monotheism as the original source of science -that is to say, of a coherent conception of the universe, one that seeks to explain the fleeting phenomena of existence to lawfulness.  Judaism must therefore be credited with contributing enormously to science. Indeed, no less than Nietzsche has written that it has been the task of the Jews to being mankind to raison.

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3. Archaeologists Discover Largest Parthian Fortress in Iran-Proper
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/February2008/27-02.htm

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