We were going to post something here about Adrienne Mayor's work on ancient Greek "paleontology" but have not composed anything particularly scintillating yet. Kind of an interesting topic, but there seems to be little serious discussion of it out there on the web that we can find. At this point, we tend towards the idea that she is out on several very long and fragile limbs.

This was prompted by a show on the History Channel last night. It was pretty much a one-sided program, but that may be because there isn't really another side critical of it. Send links to anything if you find it.

Department of Lost Cities Explorers find ancient Peruvian metropolis

An American-led expedition has discovered five new districts in what its leader describes as a massive metropolitan complex spread along a river valley through thick mountainous jungle on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes.

"It is the oldest Chachapoyan find that we know of to date," said 31-year-old expedition leader Sean Savoy, just returned from leading a 21-day return trip to the ruins of Gran Saposoa, located some (335 miles) 540 kilometers north of Lima.

Department of Lost Cities IIDiggers find town on former sea bottom

Kazakh archaeologists have found a medieval town on the dried bottom of the Aral Sea, local media reported Tuesday.

The town, in the northeastern part of Aral, is covered with sand and bottom sediment. It could be Robat-Togan, a prosperous town that existed about 1,000 years ago, the Kazakh Nomad Web site said. Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a levee surrounding the town that fits a description of Robat-Togan.

World peace breaking out, thanks to archaeology Ancient relics found in North Korea

South and North Korean archaeologists, in their first joint excavation, have discovered thousands of pieces of relics from as far back as the Old Stone Age, Xinhua reports.

Various historic sites and remains, up to the Joseon Dynasty, were unearthed from the construction site of an industrial park at Kaesong town in North Korea close to the border with the south.

Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic period is the earliest period of human development and the longest phase of mankind's history. It approximately began about two million years ago and ended 40,000 to 10,000 years ago.