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July 2008
Goddess of luck turns Stratonikeia
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
When the Yatağgan thermal power plant started to excavate coal, the ramparts of the ancient city and other historical artifacts were damaged due to dynamite ...
Ancient bow located by local resident
Clanton Advertiser - Clanton,AL,USA
Kellie and her father took the artifact to Tuscaloosa to have archeological research director, Robert Crouse, examine the bow for authenticity. ...
Mysterious noise plagues parents of Ariz. man
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
They know it's not caused by any health problem the two might share, because when they leave the house, they don't hear it. The couple said it started two
AP IMPACT: Buried loot a mystery for authorities
The Associated Press -
Money petrifies after sitting underground that long and Felhaber said it looked like a brick of adobe. The Treasury will exchange even badly damaged money, ...
Scientists Expose Mystery Behind Aurora Borealis Spectacle Of Light
eFluxMedia - USA
With the help of the NASA THEMIS satellites, short for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, researchers identified the ...
More mysterious lights spotted over Basingstoke
this is hampshire.net - Winchester,England,UK
By Eleanor Stride THE GAZETTE has been receiving reports that mysterious orange lights have again been spotted in the skies above Basingstoke. ...
The price is right when everything is free
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
"It's a community of people that are using the local resources to give what you're no longer using," said Leace Hughes, 43, of Safety Harbor, who uses
’’Archaeologists unravel Perus mysterious mummy
Fresh News - Delhi,Delhi,India
By ANI on Sunday, July 20, 2008 A team of archaeologists is unraveling a mummy bundle found in Peru’’s historic Huaura Valley. The mummy is believed to have ...
Mysterious State of Matter Linked to High Temperature ...
Azom.com - USA
MIT physicists believe they have identified a mysterious state of matter that has been linked to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity
’Jimmy Westlake: Julys mysterious meteors
Steamboat Pilot - Steamboat Springs,CO,USA
For the present time, the source of the July Delta Aquarid meteors remains a mystery. To watch the Delta Aquarid meteor shower, you’ll need to set your ...
—Footloose: The treasure of Derawar Fort Salman Rashid
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
The chief asked his man to lead him to the treasure and down the stairs they descended into the dimly lit maze of tunnels. But in that maze, ...
Castles and tunnels and gasping for air
Murphysboro American - Murphysboro,IL,USA
The castle itself has stairs going up and down all over the place, ramps, hallways, ladders, and even secret doors and a long dark tunnel. ...
Hidden Newnes Forest storage has added to military puzzle
Lithgow Mercury - Lithgow,New South Wales,Australia
... of their experiences it became more of an open secret about the clandestine activities focused largely on storage in old railway tunnels at Marrangaroo, ...
Find hidden treasures deep underground
Republican & Herald - Pottsville,PA,USA
In 1976, Penn’s Cave and the Penn’s Cave House were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. A sweater or jacket is recommended because the
Killer bees found in Evangeline Parish
Opelousas Daily World - Opelousas,LA,USA
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry has estimated that at their current rate of expansion, Africanized bees will likely cover the entire ...
ISRAEL: Underwater archaeology
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Last month, inspectors seized dozens of ancient artifacts stolen from underwater antiquities sites in northern Israel. Among the artifacts found in a Haifa ...
Mount Vesuvius scrolls, scanned at Richland hospital, still an enigma
Seattle Times - United States
What's written on some of the ancient scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in Italy in AD 79 still is a mystery, despite the best. ...
Secret chamber may solve Mexican pyramid mystery
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... are to open a long-sealed cave under a Mexican pyramid in the hope that it will unlock the mystery of one of ancient civilisation's greatest cities. ...
Report: Object In Central Texas Sky Was Headed Toward Bush Ranch
KWTX - Waco,TX,USA
(July 12, 2008)—An extensive new report based on witness accounts and an analysis of FAA and National Weather Service radar data concludes that a mysterious ...
Serial rabbit killer 'uses Google Earth to find victims'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
One woman, Julia Perkun, has even built a secret bunny bunker for her 13 rabbits in woodland on the edge of Witten. "This place isn't visible from the ...
Israeli lifeguard discovers ancient artifact while taking morning swim
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
By AP accidentally discovered an ancient talisman against the evil eye, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Sunday. The object the lifeguard turned over ...
US, island in tug of war over who has control of the artifacts
Houston Chronicle - United States
By FRANCES ROBLES SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — The lady carved on the ancient rock is squatting, with froglike legs sticking out to each side. ...
Bits of Ancient Earth Hidden on the Moon
Space.com - USA
By John Ruley Some scientists believe that at least one meteorite found in Antarctica preserves evidence of ancient life on Mars. ...
’Mystery Behind Mars Lopsided Shape Revealed
eFluxMedia - USA
... The mystery behind the lopsided shape of Mars lies in its Borealis basin, whose elliptical shape led scientists to believe that the theory of an ancient ...
The Sirius lore
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
... The Sirius Mystery, which suggested the Dogons might have taken their knowledge from the ancient Egyptians for they had initiated the worship of Sirius ...
Ancient gold chalice recovered off Key West
Easier (press release) - Chester,UK
The search for Santa Margarita artifacts was begun more than a quarter-century ago by the late Key West treasure hunter Mel Fisher.
Archaeologists unearth ancient stone tools in SC
Baltimore Sun - United States
In 1998 - thanks to Beaufort County resident David Topper - Goodyear found artifacts at this ancient rock quarry near the Savannah River that indicate ...
Jordan discovers what could be first church on earth
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand
The chapel, which lies directly underneath the Saint Georgeous Church, was dug in an underground cave, the exterior outlet of which leads to a cluster of ...
A temple to mystery and imagination
guardian.co.uk - UK
Photograph: Cern The huge underground complex of Cern is almost entirely hidden from sight. The presence of this wonder of the modern world is,
New theory emerging on 100th anniversary of mysterious event
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
By John Hollenhorst At 5:14 pm, we passed the 100th anniversary of one of the most astounding and mystifying events of recorded history. ...
Niagara Falls' Dual Nature
MLive.com - MI,USA
Munching scones bursting with blueberries, we chatted with locals who shared tales of rum-running tunnels, the region's long heritage with France and ...
Tunnellers of Gaza come into the light
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... flutter in the hot desert winds above at least 50 tunnels under construction. What was once an unspeakable secret is now a burgeoning cottage industry.
Trail Of The Unexpected: King of the castles, turrets, towers and ...
Independent - London,England,UK
... and an incredible labyrinth of Second World War tunnels. It was from these secret passages, built deep into the cliffs to house the wartime Military
June 2008
Rising to the occasion
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
By Steve Stephens Serpent Mound, the largest ancient serpent effigy in the world, has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ...
Ancient burials likely in transit path
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... commuter rail has a high potential of encountering Native Hawaiian burials and other archaeological artifacts once construction enters urban Honolulu. ...
Katzie heritage site being bulldozed for bridge
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
The 10-month excavation ended in April and some artifact types had never been previously encountered. But its most extraordinary impact is the change in
Soma's ancient treasures in coma
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Smugglers are plundering the ancient town of Soma, whose artifacts bear traces of Lydian, Pergamon, Roman and Byzantine civilizations, while district ...
Archaeoligists continue searching for clues to Cahokia
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
But every once in a while, someone digs up an artifact that gets an archaeological crew really excited. That's what happened to Susannah Fulling and Rita ...
Behold: Charlotte's chicken underground
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
but most are hidden, behind garages, in custom-made coops or converted doghouses, forming a kind of chicken underground. Raising backyard chickens is ...
‘’Deity statue dug up as possessed lady sees underground
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... after a lady claiming to have been possessed by Goddess Dakshin Kali and Manakamna marked the place where the Statue was found 14-16 feet underground. ...
’TVs Not-So-Great Pyramid
Newsweek - USA
... deep into bedrock, and seeing it fully exposed is a window into ancient engineering feats that are possibly the most enduring mystery of the pyramids.
Vanishing sand puts Cornwall surf beach in danger
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
by Richard Savill Tons of sand have been swept from the shoreline of Britain's main surfing beach exposing rocks covered in green slime. ...
Mysterious Canadian Dinosaur May Be New Species
FOXNews - USA
What the Sustut dinosaur may have looked like 70 million years ago, with existing bones indicated in white. What the Sustut dinosaur may have looked like 70 ...
Mysterious disease still killing bats
Addison County Independent - Middlebury,VT,USA
Youngbaer joined between 80 and 90 other scientists, wildlife specialists and conservationists in Albany, NY, last week to discuss the mysterious syndrome ...
Spectacular caves and rare 'hellbenders' offer adventure
Carmi Times - IL, United States
The region is rich with underground exploration opportunities, with two remarkable caves in the area; Marengo Cave and Wyandotte Caves. ...
Little Faith for "Oldest Church" Find in Jordan
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
A Jordanian archaeologist's announcement this week that he had uncovered the world's first Christian church in an underground cave drew surprise and ...
–Exclusive: A Slice of Life in Israel Today Best Friends and Bedouins
Family Security Matters - Ridgewood,NJ,USA
Then they served tortilla-like bread baked over the open fire and olive oil home made on a press in their camp from nearby trees. ...
Mounds signify ancient majesty
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
Artifacts from Hopewell Mound, what Lepper calls "a national treasure," are on display at OHS. Seip Mound near Bainbridge, built for burials, ...
burrowed time
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Catching moles is a rare and ancient skill cloaked in mystery. The catcher is traditionally a solitary figure who was historically given free board and ..
'Ancient' gold cup goes to mystery buyer
guardian.co.uk - UK
He believes, as some experts have suggested, it was made in the Achaemenid empire centred on ancient Persia. He secretly hoped it might go to a museum in
The 2000-year-old 'supertanker'
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Why the vessel sank is a mystery – the result of a collision, storm-tossed seas or perhaps structural failure. There is speculation, however, that similar ...
Ancient Clump Reveals Greenland Eskimos' Roots
NPR - USA
... 2008 · A 3000-year-old clump of human hair found frozen in Greenland may have solved a scientific mystery: Where did all the ancient Eskimos come from? ...
Ancient manuscript to be restored
Irish Times - Ireland
The psalter was unearthed by a turf cutter from the Faddan More bog in Tipperary in July 2006 but its origins remain a mystery. Analysis by John Gillis, ...
Leave these stones their eternal secrets
guardian.co.uk - UK
The value of Stonehenge lies in its mystery - so why do we persist in presenting it as low-rent tat? There was a familiar ring to last week's media fanfare ...
Mike Conley's Tales of the Weird: Crystal skulls do exist
McDowell News - Marion,NC,USA
Boban supposedly tried to sell it to Mexico's national museum as an Aztec artifact, but was unsuccessful. He then later moved his business in ancient relics ...
In Utah, a dust-up over ancient rock carvings
Chicago Tribune - United States
"There are those out there trying to create a false paradox, that you must either protect the artifacts or allow for oil and gas development," Felton said
’Hetch Hetchy: Yosemites Flooded Treasure
Sierra Mountain Times - Twain Harte,CA,USA
Historians believe that the first white man to discover this astonishing Sierra secret was either Nate or Joe Screech, who stumbled upon it during a bear ..
May 2008
Huge "sturgeon ball" in Columbia a mystery
Seattle Times - United States
Sturgeon are ancient survivors that have changed little since the time of the dinosaurs. They can weigh more than 1500 pounds and live well over 100 years. ...
Spirit of the hill
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
THIS story is about the Cave Djinn who lived in Bukit Puteri in Johor. There are so many stories about her. Dulu-dulu (in the old days) … she would lend her ...
British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house
guardian.co.uk - UK
There was controversy five years ago when a similar Aladdin's cave built up by the surrealist poet André Breton at his home in Paris was broken up and 5500 ...
’Worlds second-largest cave to boost tourism
The National - Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
... in the cave that followed its opening, with Omanis in particular arriving in large numbers for their overall first glimp-ses of life underground. ...
Land of top hats and fairy chimneys
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
“My two sons think I’m crazy to live in a cave after my retirement! But how can you get bored with these mountains? They change colour every day and season. ...
To ISRU or Not to ISRU, This is the Dumbest Question
Space Ref (press release) - USA
However, Shackleton crater has significant disadvantages over the lunar north pole. Recent orbital and radar studies have shown that the terrain at the ...
Caver who uncovered Priest's Grotto in Ukraine to speak in Ithaca ...
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
In the spring of 1943, a group of Jewish families fled the horrors of the Third Reich by disappearing into Priest's Grotto, a mammoth underground cave in ...
–Dracula's got a lot to answer for but could you give a bat a home?
Scotsman - United Kingdom
In August and September, bats usually leave roosts in houses for colder hibernation sites, such as derelict buildings, caves and disused tunnels. ...
Ancient poem found on wood strip
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
On one side of the strip is a poem about Mt. Asaka, in present-day Fukushima Prefecture, while the other side bears a poem about Naniwazu, an ancient port
Crystal skull comes to Nanaimo
Nanaimo Daily News - BC, Canada
Such an ancient artifact, that's been carved hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, is priceless, said Seid. Though it's rare to see one offered up,
Nanotechnology Risks: How Buckyballs Hurt Cells
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... hollow molecules Buckminsterfullerene after renowned American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the geodesic dome. ...
Two-Year-Old Bear Hides Out In Tree House
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
The tree house was built for children to enjoy, but on Friday morning, a different kind of youngster decided to hide underneath it. For over four hours, ...
Six decades and half a world away
Boston Globe - United States
The team would be happy to find even the smallest piece of tooth or bone - anything that can solve the mystery of what happened to the two pilots.
Southern Utah tortoise continues decline
The Associated Press -
Desert tortoises spend up to 95 percent of their time in underground burrows, can have shells 15 inches across, bob their heads oddly during courtship and ...
This year 25th anniversary of the '12-mile yard sale'
Morning Sentinel - portland,maine,USA
BY ALAN CROWELL BIG OL' YARD SALE: Anita Wentworth sorts items for sale this weekend at her home on the West Ridge Road in Cornville. ...
Theatre stages mystery of the vanishing ice-cream
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
I am traumatised by the very thought of visiting the theatre. This stems from incidents in the past. One, for example, involved ice-cream, a fur coat and my ...
Crystal clear?
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
“Some things just catch your eye and imagination,” he says, slowly turning the artifact. “You can see it in a book or magazine, but it’s nothing like seeing ...
Passage to Indy
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
Indy is called on to thwart an evil scheme to rule the world by capturing an ancient artifact with mythical powers that has the potential to destroy mankind
—Raise the Spitfire or let it be?
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
While humans have done no damage thus far, Cohn continues to worry that some determined artifact hunter will vandalize the remains. ...
Mysterious blob falls from sky at Souhegan High
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
By DAVID BROOKS Staff Writer It wasn't exactly a close encounter of the third kind, but a mysterious visitor from the sky came to Souhegan High School this ...
CO2 shape shifts and moves about on mysterious Iapetus
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
By Eric Schwartz Recent data from the Cassini mission to Saturn have shed new light on the surface of the saturnian moon Iapetus, particularly the presence ...
Mysterious Stingray Deaths Shake Calgary Zoo
CHQR - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
The Calgary Zoo has shutdown its brand new stingray exhibit after the sudden and mysterious death of almost all of the stingrays.
USD prof hopes summer vacation is spent underground
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
By Nick Hytrek, Journal staff columnist VERMILLION, SD -- So what are your summer vacation plans? A trip to the beach? The lake? ...
Astronomers begin search for 'vanishing' stars
Hindu - Chennai,India
A team, led by Christopher Kochanek of the Ohio State University in Columbus, is watching for the vanishing stars in 30 nearby galaxies using a 8.4-metre ...
Canyon Country family linked to iceman
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
After the discovery, the tribe - along with government groups - convened a discovery committee and led the culture, artifact and DNA studies.
Computed Radiography System Helps Uncover Secrets From The Past
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Additionally, an image of a Peruvian "false head" (falsa cabeza) revealed the surprising presence of shells inside the artifact. ...
Digitized manuscripts: a call to the mysterious world of old books
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey
Some time later the books were found buried in the garden of an infamous smuggler of historical artifact in İIstanbul. The books were brought to the National
'Broken Heart' Image the Last for NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Polar orbits from Earth’s North Pole to its South Pole to study how solar wind particles and their energy enter Earth’s magnetosphere, the area surrounding ...
Reno quake activity lessens but threat still exists
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The number of earthquakes in a nine-week-long swarm of temblors that has shaken Reno has leveled off in recent days, but the threat of a major earthquake ...
The Yellowstone Special put our town on the map
West Yellowstone News - West Yellowstone,MT,USA
The effects of damage caused by the Hebgen Lake Earthquake of 1959, and the diminishing popularity of train travel in favor of cars, led to the demise of ...
Rome's Secret Gems Revealed
ABC News - USA
By CLARK BENTSON Rome just celebrated its 2761st birthday and keeps on spilling out its ancient clues and secrets. The city was founded near the Palatine ...
Dinosaur dung, other ancient finds go up for auction in NYC
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The priciest item up for sale is the Fukang Meteorite, weighing almost a ton. It was discovered in Fukang, China, in 2000, and Bonhams says it's expected to ...
Ancient meteorite goes unsold in NY as dung sells
International Herald Tribune - France
NEW YORK: Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top the sale went unsold. ..
April 2008
Into Xanadu
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
By Neil Miller Two Tucson cave explorers — Gary Tenen and the late Randy Tufts — discovered majestic Kartchner Caverns southwest of Benson in 1974. ...
Banwell's once famous bone caves
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,England,UK
The bones included the remains of cave bear, cave lion, reindeer, wolf, hyaena, bison, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. The ornamental cottage built by Bishop ...
Mysterious ocean currents discovered
United Press International - USA
SAN DIEGO, April 28 (UPI) -- US scientists say they've discovered striped patterns of currents in every ocean on the planet, although what causes them is a ...
Lodge Marks 130th Anniversary
Centralia Chronicle - Centralia,WA,USA
Secondly, he must believe in a supreme being, often referred to in Masonic lingo as the Grand Architect of the Universe, and generally he must be in good
Log Road Might Offer Path Back to 1680s
Washington Post - United States
"And certainly to find something that might be from as early as the city's charter in 1708 is pretty remarkable." The researchers have found about four feet ...
Kansas City up to date with new museums of art, WWI
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
The museum is in an underground complex below the Liberty Memorial, an obelisk atop a downtown hill that was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge in 1921. ...
Apr 22 Cold War QRP: A Case of "Discone Fever"?
ARRL - Hartford,CT,USA
Below ground, one can traverse tunnels and various chambers including the command and control room. Huge steel springs suspend these compartments from the ...
City of David website wins global UN award
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
Visitors can click on an interactive aerial map of the city to visit key sites and explore ancient hiding places and secret tunnels: The Gihon Spring and ...
Ancient ways
The South African Star - Johannesburg,South Africa
Some of the churches are connected by chiselled rock alleyways and others by secret underground tunnels. As you step inside the auspicious rock churches, ...
The Fairfield Gorget: The little white disk with a big, big history
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
Accelerated Mass Spectrometry, or AMS dating, is a newer, more accurate form of radiocarbon dating that requires less material from an artifact to discern a ...
Elegy for Britain's vanishing village way of life
Daily Mail - UK
A couple of years ago, I became mildly obsessed with the idea that rural England was vanishing. It started abruptly. I was standing in our village ...
Quincy man sinks his teeth into the quest to date a fossil
Quincy Herald Whig - Quincy,IL,USA
By EDWARD HUSAR LIMA, Ill. -- Thousands of years ago, the seed of a mystery was planted when a hulking, furry creature the size of a modern-day elephant ...
Bluestones could help answer Stonehenge mystery
CTV.ca - Canada
The ancient quarry, located in west Wales, was believed to be a healing site, Wainwright told CTV.ca in an interview from London, England. ...
Vanished: A pueblo mystery in Colorado
International Herald Tribune - France
By George Johnson Perched on a lonesome bluff above the dusty San Pedro River, about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the
The Island Garden
Jamestown Press - RI, USA
A proper organic gardener uses natural materials to sustain plants in his or her garden. Materials such as bone meal, blood meal, compost, animal manure, ...
This Arctic archipelago is where the bears are
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
At about 78 degrees north latitude, it is less than 620 miles from the North Pole. Polar bears are so elusive that British researcher Tony van Eyken, ...
Teenager reaches sub-zero North Pole
United Press International - USA
Camilla Hempleman-Adams said she was among 11 people who donned skis and traveled 80 miles in frigid temperatures to reach the North Pole. ...
’Awesome Or Off-Putting: Kinkaids Ancient Egyptian Grand Canyon Cave
hecklerspray - Los Angeles,USA
In it lay the remains of an underground civilisation long since dead. The article goes on to state that the Smithsonian - the museum-iest museum in all the
Guanziling: A hot spring town that keeps on giving
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
The first site you arrive at, the Water and Fire Cave (水?火?洞?), is perhaps Guanziling's most famous. The underground springs contain huge amounts of methane ...
What Lies Beneath DC
Washington Post - United States
nBaltimore's Fort McHenry, whose de-sign included underground features meant to prevent a catastrophic munitions explosion. nWest Virginia's Organ Cave, ...
5 Extraordinary Uses Of Caves
Environmental Graffiti - London,England,UK
The region is famous, for its unique geological and historical wonders, such as underground cities, cave temples and cave hotels. It is a haven for tourists
New cave find linked to ancient burial jars
Philippine Information Agency - Philippines
"I feel happy that we've found another valuable artifacts that would help us understand more our history as a people not only in the Philippines but
Palawan underground river in 7 new wonders search
Inquirer.net - Philippines
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—The Puerto Princesa Underground River National Park, a cave complex set in a vast karst formation some two hours north of the city
Secret tunnel unearths new Jerusalem conflict
AFP -
"Nobody knows how long these tunnels are and how far they have excavated so far," Mizrachi says. "Nobody knows anything."
Uncertain future for ancient spa
BBC News - UK
"By development-led excavations we rescue the most precious artifacts." The Bakircay river basin project was originally planned in the 1960s, ...
Fishermen concerned over mysterious death of fish
The News - International - Pakistan
By By our correspondent Fishermen have expressed concern over the large-scale death of fish at the Karachi coast. They demanded of the concerned authorities ...
Mysterious sky fireball video explained by experts
TV3 News - Auckland,New Zealand
A bright shining light that streaked across the Canterbury sky at sunset earlier this week has now been identified by the experts. ...
’‘’Catalonias Champagne Country
New York Times - United States
Hopping on a Disneyesque mini-train, we rocketed through basements and underground warehouses until we careened back upstairs to taste the cava. ...
Past Catches Up With the Queen of Roads
New York Times - United States
The ruins of the Villa of the Quintili, seen from the Appian Way, the ancient Roman highway. By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO ROME — In ancient times the Appian Way, ...
Tourists raiding ancient Rome
Times Online - UK
Archeologists in Rome have warned that poor security is allowing souvenir-hunting tourists to strip the Eternal City’s ancient monuments bare. ..
Crews dig into past at former farm site
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
One artifact they recovered - the shower head - surprised Rogers because plumbing in a rural house was unheard of at that time, she said. ...
Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold necklace, made nearly 4000 years ago, ...
Cat burglar strikes library
Baruch College The Ticker - NY,USA
Unbeknownst to students and faculty, the Newman Library has an underground climate-controlled bunker used to preserve the college's rare book collection.
Seahenge still stays a mystery
Lynn News - King's Lynn,UK
Another theory suggests the circle was an ancient calendar, as its alignment ties in with the rising sun on midsummer’s day shining directly through an ...
The lesser-spotted butterfly
Independent - London,England,UK
But essentially, the decline remains a mystery. It is all the more so in that, although more than 70 per cent of Britain's 55 resident butterfly species
Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent British scientists have deciphered a mysterious ancient clay tablet and believe they have solved a riddle over a giant ...
Dry shampoos do the dirty work for hair
Times Online - UK
They have a secret weapon, of course – dry shampoo. Well, perhaps, it’s not quite so secret any more. Boots reports a 45% rise in sales of dry shampoo in ...
Alien UFO Mission - Roswell
UFODigest - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... truck and covered during the night and taken to be hidden. The intact had been to Area 51 and later to White Sands to a secret underground facility. ...
Seeking UFOs, deep underground
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
It is Davenport's door, which opens into a tunnel leading below ground to what was once a nuclear missile complex here in the desert of eastern Washington. ...
A mysterious series of tunnels have been discovered underneath St ...
Petersfield Today - Petersfield,England,UK
The three tunnels, which are built with stone walls and have a 6ft brick vault ceiling, are big enough for people to crawl around in. ...
New Theory Explains Mercury's Mysterious Cliffs
Space.com - USA
By Dave Mosher Mercury's surface is not only peppered with impact craters, but also wrinkled with mysterious chains of cliffs. Scientists think the "lobate ...
The other Indians...
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
There was also the Spruce Tree house which contained 130 rooms and 8 kivas. We saw extensive smoke blackening of the roof of the dwellings and asked one of ...
March 2008
Noah's Ark;Is It Lost Due To It's Shape and Design ? Part I
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
In summer of 2006 they initially came up with their claim to the ark being a frozen iced cave on Greater Mt. Ararat in far eastern Turkey. ...
Signs of Hidden Ocean Underneath Titan's Crust
Scientific American - USA
Now investigators say the best explanation is a moon-wide underground ocean that disconnects Titan's icy crust from its rocky interior. ...
Sticky trail of deceit stings beekeepers
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The antibiotic is used to control disease in prawns and bees, as well as to treat diseases in humans, including typhoid fever. It has a rare but potentially
The Monarch butterfly's mysterious migration to Mexico
Inquirer.net - Philippines
... known as Danaus plexippus, but exactly why they take their flight of instinct to the volcanic hills of the state of Michoacan is shrouded in mystery. ...
Mysterious ailment hits county bats
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
The mysterious sickness has been dubbed "white-nose syndrome" due to one of the symptoms that can be spotted with the eye — white, powdery fungus coating a ...
God works in mysterious ways
Trumann Democrat - Trumann,AR,USA
One of my friends commented, “God works in mysterious ways,” after hearing the story. I think he does. And I’m so glad the three of them weren’t injured.
Shroud mystery 'refuses to go away'
BBC News - UK
Mr Jackson has developed a new hypothesis that could explain how a genuinely ancient piece of linen could produce a distorted younger date. ...
Petra -- How living rock became a Home
Media Monitors Network - CA,USA
The ancient stone city of Petra is the most famous attraction in Jordan. It is nestled in the mountains south of the Dead Sea, about 260 kms west of Amman
Ancient Druids show and tell?
Amherst Bulletin - Amherst,MA,USA
Still, daily life in Iron-Age Britain is pretty much a mystery. A new book by herbalist and present-day Druid Ellen Evert Hopman of Belchertown aims to fill ...
Now, that stings! Escapee bees swarm am commute
CNN International - USA
... Collapse Disorder," or CCD. Beekeepers throughout the United States have been mysteriously losing thousands of their bees, perplexing scientists,
Saturn moon's mysterious vapour plumes could be key to alien life
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand
Hamburg - Scientists on NASA's Cassini mission are counting on the probe's next fly-by to provide them with possible clues to alien life following discovery
What lies beneath: Mossdale caving disaster
Independent - London,England,UK
John Ogden's parents renamed their house Mossdale. Frank Barnes walks to the cave every anniversary: "A bit of us all drowned with them down there. ...
Web surfer spots mysterious crater
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
By ETHAN WILENSKY-LANFORD A Pembroke man was playing with Google Earth - an online digital map of the planet - when he came across something that seemed out ...
Mysterious meteorites may be remnants of destroyed dwarf planet
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
London, March 14 (ANI): A pair of mysterious meteorites discovered in Antarctica in 2006, may be remnants of a dwarf planet that was smashed apart early in ...
Bee Movie Sparks Creation of Unusual Honey Bottle
Earthtimes - London,UK
Bees are nature's greatest pollinator, increasing the yield and quality of national agriculture by billions of dollars annually. ...
NASA puzzles over mysterious debris that struck shuttle
AFP -
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Endeavour astronauts inspected the space shuttle's heat shield Wednesday, while NASA puzzled over a mysterious piece of debris that may ...
Mysterious Meteorites Stymie Scientists
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
A pair of mysterious meteorites discovered in Antarctica is baffling scientists who are struggling to determine the origin of the space rocks. ...
Tests show bees in Pascagoula attack not 'killer' strain
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
State Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell ordered testing of about 100 samples of the bees after they were killed by a pest control company. .
“”Queen Bee has no money for honey
South Asian Post, Canada - Richmond,British Columbia,Canada
Last year, she received the “Best Bee-Farming” award from Rajendra Agriculture University (RAU), Pusa, in Samastipur. But now Anita, who was hailed as a ...
Imperiled bees to be coaxed from oak
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
The decline is a cause of great concern because bees are so important to agriculture, pollinating about a third of the food people eat.
Another mysterious sunken safe is found
Info4Security - London,England,UK
By Alan Hyder Specialist safe and vault company Insafe International has again been called in to help solve the mystery of a second old sunken safe. ...
Mystery of the polar bear whose remains were found in Scotland
Independent - London,England,UK
Now Ceiridwen Edwards, an ancient-bear specialist at Trinity College Dublin, is hoping to get permission to take small samples of bone from the skull to ...
Uncovering the mystery of Grand Canyon's age
MSNBC - USA
... to date mineral deposits in cave formations in one layer of the canyon's rock and arrived at the more ancient age of 16 million to 17 million years old. ...
Flint-area students pose the scientific question: Can olive oil ...
The Flint Journal - MLive.com - Flint,MI,USA
by Beata Mostafavi | The Flint Journal The three Genesee County students were among finalists of the Flint Area (Regional) Science & Engineering Fair today ...
Mysterious iron-filled mammoth tusks intrigue scientists
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
Embedded iron particles surrounded by carbonized rings in the outer layer of a mammoth tusk from Alaska. The inset photo shows how an object ripped through ...
Mysterious pits shed light on forgotten witches of the west
Times Online - UK
Evidence of pagan rituals involving swans and other birds in the Cornish countryside in the 17th century has been uncovered by archaeologists. ...
UWM lab crunches data to seek mysterious gravitational waves
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
To find them would shed light on some of the universe's most violent and mysterious processes. Yet almost a century later, observation has yet to catch up ...
Pearl Cornioley, WWII Secret Agent, Dies
The Associated Press -
She parachuted into France in September 1943 to work as a courier for an underground unit. It was believed the Nazis were less likely to suspect a woman, ...
Mysterious Pygmy Hippo Caught on Camera
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
"The pygmy hippo is an extraordinary, mysterious creature that has almost never been seen in the wild... we were delighted to discover that a population ...
What's Killing The Bats Of The Northeast?
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
In this photo released by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, this undated photo shows bats photographed in a cave near Albany
Mysterious goings-on in Luton skies leave onlookers baffled
Bedford Today - UK
By dave burke Mysterious goings-on in the skies above Luton and Houghton Regis have been baffling onlookers over the past week. Two seperate "UFO" sightings ...
Remote Ontario Lake Reveals Mysterious Ancient Structure
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Initially, this is what was considered to be the origin of the Haliburton Forest mystery rock formation. When several geologists and archaeologists saw ...
Mysterious object no UFO: expert
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
One thing's for sure when it comes to a mysterious object over the skies of Prince Edward Island: No one knows what it was -- not even the UFO experts
White nose ailment threatens Northeast bats
Medill Reports - Washington,DC,USA
Last year, tens of millions of bees suddenly disappeared, costing the national farming industry an estimated $8 billion to $12 billion in losses due to lack ...
Nazi gold hunt ends amid disagreement
CNN - USA
The two treasure hunters had said geological surveying had revealed an underground cave holding large amounts of precious metal. ...
Digging too deep?
Jerusalem Post - Israel
"It was built to direct rainwater to the upper city of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period and is part of one massive underground water system.
Maya blue mystery made clear
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Chicago archaeologists have solved the mystery of how the ancient Maya produced Maya blue, ...
Chaco and Mesa Verde: Southwest parks are stark opposites
Seattle Times - United States
Most call them the Anasazi, but that label comes from the Navajo and is translated as ancient foreigners, ancient enemies or simply ancient ones
Making the most of the Mekong Delta
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
Two kilometres from Hon Trem is the ancient Hang (Cave) Pagoda, which utilises the limestone range running along the seas as natural interior design
Cannibalism may have killed Neanderthals
ABC Online - Australia
Gory evidence uncovered in a French cave in 1999 reveals Neanderthals probably practiced cannibalism too. The 100000-120000 year-old bones discovered at the
Splendor at Sage Cliffe
Daily Record - Ellensburg,WA,USA
More than 100 acres of grapevines surround Cave B Winery and the outlying buildings hewn into the stony cliffs above the Columbia.
Touch Of Americana Vanishing
Tecumseh Countywide News - Tecumseh,OK,USA
By Lori Goat “It's bittersweet for us. Not exactly something we wanted, but we have faith in God's plan,” said Barney Shirey's wife, Carolyn, ...
Going beyond building green
Sudbury Star - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
Energy savings will be achieved by using a geothermal heating and cooling system. In the winter, heat pumps will collect the natural heat beneath the ...
Deer become prime suspects in German panda death probe
Earthtimes - London,UK
Nuremberg, Germany - Dainty muntjac deer are now the prime suspects in an inquiry into the mysterious deaths of two rare red pandas at Nuremberg Zoo in ...
Mysterious Fortress Woodstock castle an exotic conundrum
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
By Gerard F. Russell TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF WOODSTOCK— People around town aren’t sure if the “castle” being built on Brickyard Road is for exotic women, .
Mysterious 'lightning' spotted as 'quake hit Louth
Louth Today - Louth,England,UK
By Sean Topham MYSTERIOUS types of lightning were seen by people in Louth during Wednesday's earthquake. A woman in Westgate said she saw what she thought ...
NASA Stumped by Mysterious Force Affecting Space Probes
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany
Five spacecraft that have flown past the Earth have displayed unexpected anomolies in their motion through space, and NASA can't explain it.
Japanese find mysterious 'Planet X'
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Japanese astronomers believe a mysterious new planet dubbed 'Planet X' is orbiting in the outer reaches of the Earth's solar system. ...
Scientists baffled by mysterious bat deaths in Northeast
Brattleboro Reformer - VT, United States
According to Darling, any bat that is outside of a cave this time of year is sick and probably dying of the mysterious disease. The disease, white nose ...
February 2008
Plants and furniture abound at home and garden show
Temple Daily Telegram - Temple,TX,USA
“I want to collect enough rain off my roof to be able to water my garden for free,” he said. Lauri Shoemaker has been attending for about six years and ...
Iwo Jima 1995
By Taco Bell(Taco Bell)
It was incredible to walk for what seemed like miles through these caves. While we were there, they had discovered a medical cave with thirty dead mummified Japanese Soldiers who all wrote letters home to their families knowing that
Turkey's ancient sites draw faithful
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
A lone guard walks behind the simple altar and the stone chair dedicated to Peter and points to a niche dug into the cave wall. "This passageway was used ...
The guide to Bhutan
Times Online - UK
It was on this spot that the guru subdued the local demon, Singey Samdrup, and then meditated in a cave for three months. Legend has it that the building is
Mysterious Haze Found on Venus
Space Com - USA
The transient dark markings on the VMC images are even more of a mystery. They are caused by something that absorbs UV radiation, but scientists don't yet
Mysterious web of "dark matter" found
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA - Canadian and French scientists have found enormous chunks of super-mysterious dark matter each 270 million light-years wide, stretching across the ...
Scientists unravel secret behind Saturns moons mysterious plumes ...
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
However, the dynamics and the origin of the plume itself have remained a mystery. Now, Brilliantov, along with his team, has developed a new theory to
Biochemists reveal details of mysterious bacterial microcompartments
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
UCLA biochemists and colleagues have answered an important question about the structure of microcompartments — the mysterious molecular machines that seem
Mysterious material found on Saturn moons
United Press International - USA
"It's a mystery, which makes it intriguing," said Clark. "The data keep getting better and better. We're ruling things out and figuring out pieces.(EH Most likely oil. Saturn is the sea of it)
Mysterious Pyramid Complex Discovered in Peru
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
The remnants of at least ten pyramids have been discovered on the coast of Peru, marking what could be a vast ceremonial site of an ancient, little-known ...
New Expedition to Study Mysterious Deep-Sea Corals
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
Some of Earth's most mysterious organisms—ancient corals that can be found 9186 feet (2800 meters) below the ocean's surface—will be the subject of an ...
Disease killing brown bats across the region
Waterbury Republican American - Waterbury,CT,USA
Scientists don't know why it's afflicting the cave bat species -- little brown, northern long-eared, eastern pipistrelle, and the small-footed bats -- but ...
Pabna Jorbangla temple in ruins, terracotta falling apart
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
The outer walls of the beautiful brick structure that resembles the traditional hut of ancient Bengal is covered with amazing terracotta artworks depicting ...
–A RIVERSIDE VIEW ADANA
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Adana province is filled with ancient ruins, from castles to mosaics to old stone bridges. Two castles in particular offer ideal daytrips and a glimpse at ...
Lost Achaemenid city of Lidoma may have loomed into sight
Tehran Times - Iran
... which has been named in a collection of ancient tablets previously unearthed at Persepolis. Recent digs have exposed the ruins of an enormous building
The wonders of the Andes Mountains
Pembroke Daily Observer - Ontario, Canada
That night, we stayed at an eco-lodge located in the Peruvian Cloud Forest in a village below the ancient ruins. Throughout the resort there are Hummingbird ...
God of mystery: Gaps in Apollo statue's history make it a focus of ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
If so, one artwork would have to be considered a prime suspect, at least in the popular imagination: the large and rare ancient bronze statue of the Greek ...
Series of mudslides entombed ancient marine animals
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Now, a team of British and Canadian scientists has solved the long-standing mystery of how the UNESCO World Heritage Site near the BC-Alberta border was ...
Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Caterpillar that Looks Like ...
Environmental Graffiti - London,England,UK
Scientists in Japan have at last cracked the most ancient and mysterious of scientific secrets. That secret, of course, is how a baby caterpillar manages to
Walking China's Great Wall
Times Online - UK
In fact, the Great Wall is not a single wall, and not all its many bits are great, because much of it is made of rammed earth that is easily eroded, ...
What's happening to our climate?
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Northern Ireland this year has seen bees in January, puffins starving in Rathlin and the early appearance of new species of butterfly. .
Talkers: Bullet from Spanish Civil War extracted from man
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
A sheriff’s deputy was stuck for 14 hours in an underground tunnel used to move jail inmates to a courthouse because no one was there to unlock the door. ...
Last of the ancient wonders: II- The Great Pyramid
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
As centuries unfold, their mystery becomes more and more puzzling, not only in how the ancient Egyptians were capable of building such colossal monuments, ...
Brittany's ancient stones a mystery
Brantford Expositor - Canada
The rows of ancient standing stones stretch more than 900 metres amid the rolling countryside of southern Brittany. Jutting out of the ground in a variety ...
Found at last: the world's oldest missing page
Independent - London,England,UK
Now, after an extraordinary piece of detective work, that page has been rediscovered among ancient fragments in the Deir al-Surian monastery in Egypt. ...
EGYPT: Copyright the Pyramids?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... to reclaim history by not allowing commercialization and the ubiquity of reproduced artifacts to cheapen the marvel and mystery of the ancient wonders. ...
Southern Indiana plagued by mysterious, rank odor
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
AP BLOOMINGTON — The cause of a rank, rotting-garbage-like odor that wafted across large swaths of southern Indiana remains a mystery after investigations ...
Another mysterious right foot floats ashore in Gulf Islands
CBC British Columbia - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
For the third time in six months, a right foot wearing a sneaker has washed up on the shores of the Gulf Islands, in the Strait of Georgia. ...
Why Are Thousands of Bats Dying in NY?
The Associated Press -
But — like the mysterious mass die-offs around the country of bees that pollinate all sorts of vital fruits and vegetables — the bat deaths could have ...
Mysterious 'figure' seen by Mars rover (+video)
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
An image from Mars taken by NASA's Sprint Rover shows an image that resembles a figure walking among the planet's rocks. A magnified version of the image ...
History fills mysterious scrapbook
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
She paid only $25 for it, but when she got it home, she knew she had a mystery to solve. The scrapbook once belonged to Margaret ''Peggy'' Hetzel. ...
A mysterious dark energy fills the universe...
FirstScience - UK
Future space missions hope to solve this mystery and shake up our current understanding of the universe. In 1998 two rival groups of scientists embarked on ...
Mysterious bat disease confirmed in Dorset cave
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
“Until the extent of deaths is known, all known agency actions that are likely to adversely affect the Gray bat, Indiana bat, Ozark big-eared bat and
Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved
St.Petersburg Times.ru - St. Petersburg,Russia
The deaths, which occurred 49 years ago on Saturday, remain one of the deepest mysteries in the Urals. Records related to the incident were unsealed in the ...
Scientists find mysterious creatures in Antarctic waters
The Canadian Press -
SYDNEY, Australia - Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures, including giant sea spiders ...
Black History Month
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
Gorin, Bishop's first owner, had assigned Bishop, then 17, to be a cave guide. Bishop discovered the cave's underground rivers and its previously unknown ...
Underground Cavern Tour Offers Surprises
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
(CBS4) ―? A trip to Glenwood Springs offers plenty of ways to enjoy Colorado, but one attraction will take you underground and into the caverns. ...
Museum to shed light on diggers' world
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
World War I Kiwi tunnellers are to be remembered in a new museum in the French town of Arras - appropriately built 22m underground. ...
Animal Camera
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Another memorable story is that of a troop of South African baboons who head underground each night, slowly feeling their way through pitch-black caves ...
Grand Ancient Indian City Unearthed
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - Leesburg,VA,USA
14, 2008 (EIRNS)—A team of Indian and American archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of an ancient city, estimated as 2500 years old, in the Sishupalgarh ...
Life in ruins
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A little further round the corner are the ruins of the gate to the ancient Greek city, and they are fenced off, almost as a nuisance that gets in the way of
BRIEF CASE: Magical Ephesus
Times of India - India
The buildings may be in ruins, but even what remains after centuries of weathering and earthquakes is awe-inspiring. Ephesus, one of these cities in the ...
Cistern found to have been ancient tomb
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
In later years, the shaft was refashioned into a bell-shaped cistern to collect rainwater. The tomb was cut into the soft limestone that outcrops in this ...
The Mysterious Chicken of the Apocalypse
Informative Post - Toledo,OH,USA
by Richard Sweeney Since the man started looking for signs of divinity in the world around him there have been those who claimed the end was coming and
Mysterious Energy Linked to Blaze
Korea Times - South Korea
... Oriental topography experts said the fire at Seoul's 600-year-old structure may have something to do with the mysterious ``fire-torching'' energy from a ...
Pictures of Oregon Coast Unusual Moments, Oddities
Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
2007 saw some strange weather on the Oregon coast, and this one was particularly wild. Just south of town, a churning, bulbous mass of strange looking
Bat deaths tied to warm temperatures
Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
“Strange weather has occurred in the last two years … it weakened [the bats] and put them into a starvation state. That has created this situation,” Stone ...
'Mysterious' bird flu baffles Indonesian scientists
AFP -
JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian scientists and officials said they were baffled by the "mysterious" behaviour of the bird flu virus here, which has already ...
ANCIENT LAND IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA PROVIDES MODERN-DAY EXAMPLE OF ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
This sun-swept national monument features soaring rock walls, Anasazi ruins and historic sites of both past tragedies and spiritual significance. ...
Movie clip to be shown in Metro tunnel
Times of India - India
DMRC has 12 km of underground tunnels in Phase I and another 30 km will be added in Phase II. The debut section is reportedly taken by over four lakh people ...
The Dh367 million island of your dreams
Emirates Business 24/7 - Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates
You can swim through this cave and it opens to an underground cavern that is full of stalactites and quartz crystals. I can’t imagine anything more
Does a cave prove Romulus and Remus are no myth?
USA Today - USA
Mayor says more study has to be done before drawing conclusions about the underground chamber. Experts have been investigating the cave with endoscopes and ...
CDOD hears research site update
Carlsbad Current Argus - Carlsbad,NM,USA
Karst refers to a type of topography that is characterized by closed depressions or sinkholes, caves and underground drainage. Plans for the institute's ...
Uncensored: France's erotic art
Times Online - UK
Now this secret archive of erotica has been opened up to the public. So has the anticipation been worth the wait? Lesley White heads off to Paris to sneak a ...
Sudan: Sailing Down the Mysterious White Nile
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
We are on the White Nile, once the greatest mystery of the world. Even the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt who built the magnificent pyramids 4500 years ago, ...
Area is rich with ancient history and discovery
Montrose Daily Press - Montrose,CO,USA
What Patterson sees in the canyons are the faces, visions and stories of ancient culture that can be seen in petroglyphs and inscriptions that go back ...
Mayan Calendar
ABC30.com - Fresno,CA,USA
One authority on ancient astronomy is Ed Krup. He's Director of the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles, and acknowledges the accuracy...and mystery of .
Go underground at Kartchner Caverns
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Millions of dollars were spent to preserve Kartchner as a living cave, whose stalactites, stalagmites and other formations grow and change as water ...
Special to the Express-News
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
This mythical beast surrounded by an artificial aurora borealis is the central feature of the cave. I barely meet the requirements for admission to the
NASA Spots Mysterious 'Spider' on Mercury
FOXNews - USA
"It's a real mystery, a very unexpected find," said Louise Prockter, an instrument scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, ...
Epidemic of mysterious illness kills thousands of bats in US
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
By Margarita Snegireva. An epidemic of some strange illness spread among bats in northeastern US and caused death of thousands of animals. ...
Mysterious illness is killing bats
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
The mysterious malady has also attacked the Indiana bat, designated an endangered species by the state and federal government. "Most bat researchers would ...
Mysterious light puzzles Albany man
Albany Democrat Herald - Albany,OR,USA
By Cathy Ingalls Brian Wright of Albany saw a circular, bright light in the eastern sky about a year ago, and he’s wondered about it ever since. .
Peeks of mysterious Mercury beamed to CU
Daily Camera - CO,USA
New data beamed back from space to the University of Colorado will help scientists better understand the mysterious and rarely visited planet Mercury. ...
Taylor on TV: Delve into History Channel
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA
“Cities of the Underground” is big on secret societies, too — episodes I’ve seen dealt heavily with the Knights Templar and the Freemasons — giving the ...
Just Back From: Santorini, Greece
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Don't miss: The Koutsogiannopoulos Winery, with its unique underground cave tour that explains the history of winemaking in Santorini from 1500 BC to ...
How animals gauge the weather
MSNBC - USA
They do this spontaneously while they're underground, but there are no external signals." During hibernation, Carey's ground squirrels lower their internal ...
Balboa Park catfish is time-tested survivor
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
The catfish lives in the Lily Pond at the heart of the park and has resided there for as long as seven years. No one is certain how long because,
Inane Visitor Center Will Wreck Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial
Bloomberg - USA
Absurdly, it was supposed to lie entirely underground and essentially disappear. That was a political compromise to avoid sullying a sanctified landscape ...
January 2008
Photographer captures ancient identity of Maya people
Natick Bulletin and Tab - Framingham,MA,USA
Martin visited the Yucatan peninsula on his first trip, focusing mainly on photographing ruins. "Look Close, See Far" includes images of everything from
4000 years of history ... Rhodes
The Sun - London,UK
... and now lies submerged in the harbour. Well, with all Rhodes’s glorious food, one ancient mystery has been solved – we now know how the Colossus got so big.
‘’Mystery mound to be saved from the sea
Shetland News - Vidlin,Scotland,UK
Barbara Anderson, of Bressay Heritage Centre, said it was highly unusual to be allowed to tamper with an ancient monument in this way.
Did Giant Reptiles Share the Earth with Giant Humans?
Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Early in January, 1970, the London Express Service carried an item relating the discovery of a set of cave paintings which had been found in the Gorozamzi ...
City Battles Giant Blob
WMTW - Auburn,ME,USA
LEWISTON, Maine -- A large, mysterious blob has taken over a major sewer line in the city of Lewiston, leaving public works crews stumped as to how to budge ...
The mysterious boat
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
The mysterious boat could sail during the day, fly during the night and could disappear when ever we wanted it to. During the summer holidays my family with
Distinctive croc falls prey to mysterious disease
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... the bodies of gharials, an extremely rare river crocodile which appears to have fallen victim to a mysterious disease that is puzzling the experts. ...
Tasmanian Devils Plagued with Mysterious Cancer
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
... the tumor cells didn't seem to originate within the tissue of individual animals but were passed, like mystery cancers, in devil-to-devil contact. ...
A mysterious woman on Mars in NASA's image
Newstrack India - Delhi,India
John Grey’s Women are from Venus while Men are from Mars seems to be contradicting with the new images of NASA which showed a woman sitting with her ...
Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle
Daily Mail - UK
There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a crop circle. About 100 of the woolly creatures formed an ...
Fight against apple moth to resume
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
Agriculture officials say fighting the pest is crucial to protecting the state's agricultural industry. Nearly 10400 light brown apple moths have been ...
Mysterious antimatter in Milky Way might originate from tiny black ...
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
... has suggested that tiny black holes at the centre of our galaxy could be a possible source of the mysterious antimatter present in the Milky Way. ...
NASA Captures Mysterious Sounds From the Solar System
Voice of America - USA
And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by taking
Still stung: Beekeepers share angst in industry
Greater Milwaukee Today - WI, USA
By KATHERINE MICHALETS - GM Today Staff BIG BEND - The death of the majority of his bees in recent years has left Andy Hemken, Big Bend beekeeper and ...
Newly Designed Bee-Box Boosts Pollinators' Readiness
Agricultural Research - Beltsville,MD,USA
Bee experts with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Pollinating Insects Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit in Logan, Utah,
What's at the bottom of mysterious Alberta hole?
Globe and Mail - Canada
EDMONTON — Maybe it's a meteorite and maybe it isn't, but it's unlikely the source of a mysterious hole at an Alberta golf course will be discovered any
Alta golf course neighbours dive into mystery hole, come up with balls
The Canadian Press -
Aaron Soos and Derek Zienowicz used a chainsaw to cut through the ice that had refrozen over the pond since last week's mysterious event, which many in the ...
Evolution of the sexes, fungus-style
Australian Life Scientist - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Some of the earliest evolved forms of fungus contain clues to how the sexes evolved in higher animals, including that distant cousin of fungus, the human. ...
‘’Farmer discovers ancient elixir of life in Chinese mountains
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, Jan 17 (ANI): A Chinese farmer recently came across a giant glossy ganoderma, a rare type of fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine, ...
Ruins discovered in southern Peru might be of ancient "lost city"
DailyIndia.com - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Washington, Jan 17: Archaeologists have discovered ruins in southern Peru that could be the ancient "lost city" of Paititi.
’Khonas tongue
Hindu - Chennai,India
The ruins that bear her name lie about 40 km northeast of Kolkata, at a place called Berachampa near the town of Barasat. These ruins have not yet been ...
Mysterious radio taunts dog Navy ships
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Since at least 1982, US Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, ...
Underground Volcano May Be Melting Antarctica's Ice
Voice of America - USA
By VOA News British scientists say an underground volcano that erupted more than 2000 years ago may be partly responsible for Antarctica's receding ice
Has the man behind 'Lost' found himself a monster hit?
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The first trailer consisted of shaky footage of young people at a party, brief scenes of panic outside, an explosion, what sounds like a roar and the head ...
Turok Son of Stone DVD
MoviesOnline - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Turok will face his greatest battle as he fights man-eating dinosaurs, merciless cave dwellers, and the darkness inside himself to take revenge on his sworn ...
Would-be astronaut has high hopes
Owen Sound Sun Times - Owen Sound,Ontario,Canada
His doctoral thesis involves development of sensors for use in remote greenhouses expected to form an essential part of the life support system for future ...
Into the wild
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The sky darkens as a tropical shower threatens and we shelter in a cave. There are paintings on the walls and Gordon tells their story. ...
Green Notes
Builder Magazine - Washington,DC,USA
Its eco features include a green roof, two solar power systems (one generating electricity; the other, hot water), two rainwater collection systems ...
Ancient kiln sheds light on Cham architecture
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Neighboring Quang Ngai Province also has a large number of Champa ruins. The Chau Sa Citadel, once a prosperous center of culture and commerce, ...
Apocalypse 2012? Some say ancient records foretell end of the world
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
The ancient Mayan civilization thrived between roughly 1800 BC and 1450 AD in Central and South America where the ruins remain of the cities they built, ...
The Parthenon reigns over a changing Athens
Seattle Times - United States
It may be 2500 years old, and partly in ruins, but it retains the power to strike awe into its viewers. It's a very simple structure on first glance: eight ...
Indoor waterpark is a taste of summer in winter
Buffalo News - NY, United States
At Fort Mackenzie (a giant tree house) we soon discovered that all bets are off when it comes to the “kid-adult” pecking order. Pay attention, unless you ...
5 trends that will change how you travel
MSNBC - USA
During the Mediterranean Olive Scrub Massage — an exfoliation with crushed olive seeds and an olive-oil massage — guests are given time in the room’s ...
Africanized Honeybees Found in Louisiana
The Associated Press -
The US Department of Agriculture laboratory in Tucson, Ariz., confirmed that bees trapped in Tioga were hybrids of European and African species, ...
Baumgartner's Kartchner Caverns Tour
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
It wasn't until 1988 that the cave's existence became public knowledge. The cavers kept it a secret 14 years before it was approved as an Arizona State Park ...
Awesome Or Off-Putting: Mexican Roswell
hecklerspray - Los Angeles,USA
In August of 1974, the USA military was tracking a mysterious object over Mexico; then suddenly it disappeared from radar near Coyame. ...
Digging the Bible
Slate - USA
I had been scraping the floor of this Israeli cave when I spotted its sharp edge. I fished the piece out of the dirt and pushed on it, as instructed, ...
It's getting easier to retrace Paul's steps as mass-market tours ...
Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USA
The main attraction on the Greek island of Patmos is the Cave of the Apocalypse, where it is believed John received and wrote the Book of Revelation. ...
Message in a 2400-year-old bottle
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
These amphoras were the cargo containers of the ancient world, used for shipping all kinds of things, from wine to olive oil. ...
Batman Bat Cave Home Theater, Pictures
2SNAPS.TV - San Francisco,CA,USA
A retired naturalist who particularly loves bats had a batcave home theater installed in his cellar. DC Audio Video Systems in New Hampshire was responsible
Bush Unveils Top-Secret Government Renewable Geothermal Energy Source
Unconfirmed Sources (satire) - USA
Bush yesterday toured the deep underground facility with its primary administrator Stan Redman. Mr. Redman, an entrepreneur and a deeply religious
’Travellers Tales
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Drivers stop to look, some stop to ask what on earth ... That is more or less how I got to see it over a year ago when Manie showed me around the building ...
French president tours Jordan's Petra with girlfriend Carla Bruni
International Herald Tribune - France
AP PETRA, Jordan: French President Nicolas Sarkozy toured the ancient Jordanian ruins of Petra Saturday, hand-in-hand with his new girlfriend, ...
Graveyard at centre of road plan 'still contains 3000 bodies'
Lancashire Evening Telegraph - UK
But it has now emerged that there are hundreds of underground gravestones that were hidden from view 50 years ago. The council has now admitted that there ...
Into the dark
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Caves always have an aura of mystery about them. They are portals to a little- seen underground world. This is especially true of sea caves — grottos carved ...
The Grind: Contractor keeps popular trail in shape
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
... who's been building trails for about 15 years, and started his own trail-building company, Rare Earth Recreational Development, three years ago.
Dust may have life building blocks
The Press Association -
The disc appears to contain large complex organic molecules of the type believed to have given birth to life on Earth. It is the first time evidence of ...
Denton typed top secrets before 1944 Normandy invasion
The Times-Herald - Newnan,GA,USA
She was housed in the third level of an underground bomb shelter. British military personnel occupied the second level. The first level, closest to the ...
House Church run by Salem Voice Ministries demolished by Muslim ...
ChristianNewsToday.com - USA
By Michael Ireland MALABAR, INDIA (ANS) -- An underground house church of Salem Voice Ministries was demolished by Muslim extremists at Sunnam Potty in
50 years ago, fire-ant fight came to Southeast Texas
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USA
... store-bought granules and agriculture officials developing biological weapons - continues. Like the Africanized bees, fire ants came from South America.
The Secrets of Oak Island
Skeptical Inquirer - USA
Ever afterward known as the "Cave-in Pit," it was located just over a hundred yards east of the Money Pit and directly above the "flood tunnel" (O'Connor
Where Peru's wild things are
The Observer - UK
From virgin rainforest to Andean peaks and Inca ruins, Peru has an incredible natural and cultural heritage. Jane Dunford discovers how one local ...