Sunday, January 24, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tools point to early Cretan arrivals - Times Online
Tools point to early Cretan arrivals - Times Online
Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent, writes:
Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent, writes:
"Evidence for the world’s earliest seafaring has emerged from an archaeological survey in Crete....
What sort of water-craft might have been used remains a matter of speculation, but it seems that our forebears were forging their way across Homer’s “wine-dark sea” tens of millennia earlier than anybody had supposed."
Friday, January 15, 2010
Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Texts Suggests
Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Texts Suggests
"Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing — an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David's reign....
'It indicates that the Kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research,' said Gershon Galil, a professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, who deciphered the ancient text."
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