Website offers virtual tour of latest SFU archaeology theories
SFU's museum of archaeology and ethnology is taking the archaeology out of its gallery exhibits and onto the web.
A new virtual exhibition, entitled A Journey To A New Land, presents current theories about the peopling of the New World and archaeological research in a readable, interactive format for a wide range of viewers, from primary age children to university students and armchair surfers.
Link to the museum site is here.
It's not only Microsoft Ancient Egyptians Sold Fake Cats
Ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings hide a number of frauds and flaws, which a high-tech, digital X-ray machine recently exposed among the collections at Chicago's Field Museum.
The machine saw through a mummified cat dated to approximately 500 B.C. that contained only twigs and cotton. It also revealed mummification tools that someone accidentally left inside a real mummy, and it solved a 15,000-year-old mystery surrounding what is believed to be the world's oldest known mummy.
This sort of bait-and-switch is fairly common in Egypt. Bob Brier goes into this in his book "Egyptian Mummies" and mentions a passage from J.D. Ray (The Archive of Hor) wherein Hor tried to regulate the selling of ibis mummies as offerings since many of the supposed mummies were simply bones wrapped up to look like the real animal. This article looks at some other possible mummy studies too, from outside of Egypt.
Hmmmmmm. . . . New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus; Los Alamos Scientist Proves 1988 Carbon-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin Used Invalid Rewoven Sample
Hmmmmmm. . . . New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus; Los Alamos Scientist Proves 1988 Carbon-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin Used Invalid Rewoven Sample
The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), a scientific organization dedicated to research on the enigmatic Shroud of Turin, thought by many to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, announced today that the 1988 Carbon-14 test was not done on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch creating an erroneous date for the actual age of the Shroud.
We'll wait for other reactions. There are so many other problems with this thing it's not exactly fatal to the shroud-as-fake hypothesis.