kristen | Shared With: Everyone - 29 days ago | ocean, travel, preservation, archaeology
A really interesting and fair article about tourism on Easter Island.
Quoted: It's earth's most remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World."
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Today, in addition to a few cruise ships, there are eight flights a week from Santiago, Chile's capital, and Papeete, Tahiti. During low season, late March through July, the number of weekly flights drops to four, but packed planes have brought record numbers of tourists.- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 02 2008 | news, science, archaeology
This sounds like crap. Determining genetic mutations from stone carvings and statues? Why don't we consider that there was some artistic license taken? Or should we next determine that the anubis carvings were real people that had the mexican wolf boy mutation? Crap.
Quoted: Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 15 2007 | archaeology, news
Cool ... I hope they preserve this as an intact wreckage for divers to explore.
Quoted: A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2007 | egypt, news, archaeology
Quoted: The linen wrapped mummy of King Tut was put on public display for the first time on Sunday -- 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings.
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