Anthropologists looking for 2,000 year old Roman Legion in China

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Anthropologists looking for Roman legion in China New Delhi , Sun, 21 Nov 2010ANI New Delhi, Nov 21 (ANI): Experts at the newly established Italian Studies Center at Lanzhou University in Gansu province are looking into the possibility that some European-looking Chinese in Northwest China are the descendants of a lost army from the Roman Empire. They will conduct excavations on a section of the Silk Road, a 7,000-

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

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The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts By BARRACUDA (Reporter) November 26, 2010 The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as t

Found – Europe’s Pyramids were bigger than Egypt

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Europe and the Middle East Were Equally Advanced The existence of an original civilization on the continent of Europe which predates the civilizations in the Middle East, has to a large degree been ignored by traditional history writers, particularly those who wrote during the dominant Christian era in Europe. This was largely because of a biblical Judeo-Christian bias which held that all civilization started exclu

Iran lays claim to British Museum’s Cyrus Cylinder

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Iran lays claim to British Museum’s Cyrus Cylinder (mentioned in the Bible) Conservative Iranian newspaper raises concern that rare 6th century BC Babylonian artefact may not be returned It was not an easy decision for the British Museum to lend one of its most treasured artefacts to a country which has a notoriously prickly relationship with the UK. So curators in London are paying close attention to an Ira

Cyrus the Great Cylinder artifact to be displayed in Iran

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Cyrus the Great artifact to be displayed in Iran (AP) – 4 hours ago TEHRAN, Iran — A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world’s first human rights charter is to go on display in Iran after the government threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not loan the object. The Cyrus Cylinder is a sixth century B.C. clay object inscribed with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of