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Explorers discover huge 'lost' ice cave with 3 floors, walkways and giant hall in Antarctica


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:34 UTC
Ice cave
© Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Polar explorers have discovered a monumental "lost" ice cave with three floors, a giant hall, 200 meters of walkways, several lakes and a river hidden in Antarctica.

The mysterious cave was found on Galindez Island, where explorers from the Ukranian Antarctic Expedition (UAE) are based. There was a known entrance to the cave opposite the island's shore station, however several years ago the opening was blocked when a glacier shifted into the ocean.
Ice cave in Antartica
© Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
The team searched tirelessly to find another entrance into the cave. After several unsuccessful attempts, they found an opening at an old British base - only to discover that the cave is actually three times larger than the team previously thought.
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Ruins suggest Britons had bathhouses before Roman occupation

Sam Blanchard
Daily Mail
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:11 UTC
bath house
© University of Reading
Bathing may not have been a strictly Roman introduction to Britain, according to archaeologists. Pictured, the researchers potential trench locations
Bathing may not have been a strictly Roman introduction to Britain, according to archaeologists.

Baths and bathhouses have long been top-of-the-list of what the Romans did for us.

But an excavation near Reading has found evidence of a bathhouse which may have existed before the Empire invaded in AD43.

In fact, ruins suggest ancient Britons may have already had saunas in the Iron Age, decades before the Romans arrived.

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Neanderthal footprints found in France offer snapshot of their lives

Kim Willsher
The Guardian
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:55 UTC
neanderthal
© Dominique Cliquet/AFP/Getty Images
The excavation site of the footprint layer in Le Rozel, France.
Scientists have found hundreds of perfectly preserved footprints, providing evidence that Neanderthals walked the Normandy coast in France.

The prints suggest a group of 10-13 individuals, mostly children and adolescents, were on the shoreline 80,000 years ago.

Neanderthals, the closest evolutionary cousins to present-day humans and primates, have long been thought to have lived in social groups, but details have been hard to establish.

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Large '1,400-year-old Pictish cemetery' uncovered in Scotland's Highlands


BBC
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:42 UTC
Pictish
© Andy Hickie
The possible Pictish cemetery is being excavated in a field in the Black Isle
What could turn out to be one of Scotland's largest Pictish burial grounds is being excavated on the Black Isle in the Highlands.

Archaeologists have confirmed the presence of a number of barrows, or burial mounds, near Muir of Ord.

Enclosures ranging in size from about 8m (26ft) to more than 40m (131ft) across have also been uncovered.

Archaeologists said the possible Pictish barrow cemetery could be about 1,400 years old.

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How the murder of a top scientist exposed the CIA's barbaric mind control experiments

Stephen Kinzer
The Guardian
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:00 UTC
cia experiments
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Frank Olson died in 1953, but, because of clandestine US government experiments, it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.
Glass shattered high above Seventh Avenue in Manhattan before dawn on a cold November morning in 1953. Seconds later, a body hit the sidewalk. Jimmy, the doorman at the Statler hotel, was momentarily stunned. Then he turned and ran into the hotel lobby. "We got a jumper!" he shouted. "We got a jumper!"

The night manager peered up through the darkness at his hulking hotel. After a few moments, he picked out a curtain flapping through an open window. It turned out to be room 1018A. Two names were on the registration card: Frank Olson and Robert Lashbrook.

Police officers entered room 1018A with guns drawn. They saw no one. The window was open. They pushed open the door to the bathroom and found Lashbrook sitting on the toilet, head in hands. He had been sleeping, he said, and "I heard a noise and then I woke up."

"The man that went out the window, what is his name?" one officer asked.

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Demythologizing the roots of the New Cold War

Ted Snider
Antiwar.com
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:09 UTC
coldwarposter
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When Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev received his peace prize in 1990, the Nobel Prize committee declared that "the two mighty power blocs, have managed to abandon their life-threatening confrontation" and confidently expressed that "It is our hope that we are now celebrating the end of the Cold War." Recently, U.N. General Secretary António Guterres funereally closed the celebrations with the realization that "The Cold War is back."

In a very short span of history, the window that had finally opened for Russia and the United States to build a new international system in which they work cooperatively to address areas of common interest had slammed back closed. How was that historic opportunity wasted? Why was the road from the Nobel committee's hope to the UN's eulogy such a short one?

The doctrinal narrative that is told in the U.S. is the narrative of a very short road whose every turn was signposted by Russian lies, betrayal, deception and aggression. The American telling of history is a tale in which every blow to the new peace was a Russian blow. The fact checked version offers a demythologized history that is unrecognizably different. The demythologized version is also a history of lies, betrayal, deception and aggression, but the liar, the aggressor, is not primarily Russia, but America. It is the history of a promise so historically broken that it laid the foundation of a new cold war.

But it was not the first promise the United States broke: it was not even the first promise they broke in the new cold war.
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Earliest direct evidence of milk consumption found in prehistoric British farmers


University of York
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 04:02 UTC
Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption anywhere in the world in the teeth of prehistoric British farmers.
Researcher
© University of York
The study represents the earliest identification of the milk whey protein BLG so far.
The research team, led by archaeologists at the University of York, identified a milk protein called beta lactoglobulin (BLG) entombed in the mineralised dental plaque of seven individuals who lived in the Neolithic period around 6,000 years-ago.

The human dental plaque samples in the study are the oldest to be analysed for ancient proteins to date globally and the study represents the earliest identification of the milk whey protein BLG so far.
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Russia, WWII and the forgotten liberation of Majdanek concentration camp

Martin Sieff
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
concentration camp
On July 22, the world should have remembered the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Majdanek, the first of Hitler's infamous extermination camps to be captured and shut down. But of course the brave Russian - and Ukrainian, Kazakh and other Soviet nationalities - soldiers of the Red Army got no credit across the West for doing so.

It was one of the most important liberations of World War II. On that day in 1944, troops of the Soviet Second Tank Army liberated the notorious death camp near Lublin in Poland.

What happened at Majdanek dwarfed the future discoveries of at Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and the other well-publicized German concentration camps uncovered by the Western allies. Probably close to a quarter of a million people were killed there. First estimates at the time put the figure as high as 1.5 million. (Current conventional estimates of 78,000 victims are simply ludicrously low, as respected Polish historian Czeslaw Rajca has rightly pointed out)

The horrific facts of Majdanek were reported around the world almost immediately. Alexander Werth of the British Broadcasting Corporation, one of the greatest of Western war correspondents sent graphic reports which ran on BBC News. But they were virtually totally ignored in the West as (supposedly) communist propaganda.
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Burned buildings reveal sacking of ancient Turkish city 3,500 years ago

Louise Lerner
University of Chicago News
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:35 UTC
Zincirli
© Henrik Brahe
Turkish student Menekşe Türkkan, at left, and Assistant Director of the Chicago-Tübingen Expedition to Zincirli and OI postdoctoral fellow Kathryn Morgan, at right, work on the excavation of an ancient city called Sam'al. Photo by
More than 3,500 years ago, a rising kingdom called the Hittite Empire was expanding, testing the limits of its strength. It would soon destroy Babylon, but first, its army sacked and burned a city nestled in the mountains of modern-day Turkey called Sam'al — located on a major route of trade between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean Sea.

The charred ruins from that fateful day were uncovered for the first time in millennia during an excavation by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The excavation is part of the OI's mission to understand the ancient Middle East, which has helped shape our picture of Western civilization.

"It's an incredibly lucky find. Every archaeologist hopes for an intact destruction layer because it gives you a snapshot of a day in the life of this town," said David Schloen, a professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a leading scholar of the ancient Middle Eastern world who co-directs the excavation. "Pottery is still sitting inside the buildings where the inhabitants left it in 1650 B.C. You know that everything is where it would be on a typical day, which is really valuable cultural knowledge."

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Earliest spread of millet agriculture outside China linked to herding livestock

Kiel University
Phys.org
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
Dzhungar
© Paula Dupuy
Herding sheep and goat in the Dzhungar Mountains of Kazakhstan c. 2011
5000 years before the modern rise of millet as a popular grain, this Chinese crop was spread far and wide by ancient food aficionados, not for their plates but instead for their animals, suggests new research from an international collaboration led by Kiel University (Germany) and Washington University in St. Louis (USA).

At the newly discovered Dali settlement, ancient DNA from the skeletal remains of sheep and goats show that animals first domesticated in the Near East had reached eastern Kazakhstan by 2700 BC. Stable isotope analysis illustrates that these animals were fed millet spreading westward from its center of domestication in China to help them survive the punishingly cold winters of Inner Asia.

"A thriving pastoralist economy using Chinese millets at 2700 BC is a massive leap forward in understand the earliest food globalization processes in Eurasia," said Taylor Hermes, lead author of the study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, who is a post-doctoral researcher at Kiel University.

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