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New Egyptian survey of ancient quarries near Aswan reveal…

There is so much left to be discovered about the past.  This is a good example.  These previously unrecorded petroglyphs show a rare depiction of obelisks being cut and loaded onto boats 3,000 years ago.

https://flipboard.com/article/pharaonic-carving-discovered-in-egypt/a-IwZxX5_VSi25eDh-74upGw%3Aa%3A40895463-b1a712a3e3%2Farchaeology.org

Egypt-Pharoah-Depiction

A Future World of our own making…

Tambora eruption 200 years ago caldera 

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/06/human-climate-interactions-exploring-a-future-world-of-our-own-making/

Hopi tribe demands French stop sale of historic katchina masks.

Hopi Katchinashttp://hyperallergic.com/213418/hopi-tribe-fights-to-halt-french-sales-of-sacred-artifacts-for-good/

So, here’s the question:  If your great-great-great grandfather sold a crucifix he made, and it was legally bought and sold by people around the world for generations–can you today demand that it be given back to you because its a sacred artifact?  Should sacred artifacts be treated differently under the law?  

What do you think?

 

Ancient DNA and the Indo European Question.

http://dlc.hypotheses.org/807dna 

Culture and the costs of poverty…

povertyhttp://www.citylab.com/work/2015/06/how-poverty-alters-the-young-brain/395390/ 

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