[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 9-18-09

Sat Sep 19 09:49:50 PDT 2009

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Below is this week's edition.  Enjoy!

Steve Detwiler

Weekly Science Report
September 18, 2009

“The true meaning of Islam will not only focus on how Muslims worship but also on who we are: mothers, fathers, spouses, students, neighbors, friends.  People who smile with pride at their child’s first step; laugh with friends over the old times; worry about exam results; cry at the sight of our children in pain.  People just like you!”
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Kingdom of Jordan on being Muslim

News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Ancient bones seized, returned to China 
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/09/14/china.fossils.returned/index.html

Appalachian geologist investigates Homo sapiens’ oldest known trackways
http://www.news.appstate.edu/2009/09/15/geologist-homo-sapiens/

African Origin of Anthropoid Primates Called Into Question With New Fossil Discovery
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915101355.htm

‘Early man used crude version of sat-nav system’
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/science/Early-man-used-crude-version-of-sat-nav-system/articleshow/5016042.cms

Researchers find molecular support for Darwin's theory
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/science/Researchers-find-molecular-support-for-Darwins-theory-/articleshow/5013845.cms

Reptiles stood upright after mass extinction
http://www.physorg.com/news172221271.html

Want Your Own Dinosaur? Place Your Bids
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/gallery_dinoauction/

Life existed in the oceans 200 million years before oxygen appeared on Earth
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6181928/Life-existed-in-the-oceans-200-million-years-before-oxygen-appearerd-on-Earth.html

Tiny T. rex fossil discovery startles scientists
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/09/17/tiny.t-rex.dinosaur.discovered/index.html

Neolithic carving raises eyebrows 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8260611.stm

Archaeologist: Rice Existed 4,000 Years Ago in Yangtze Basin
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22580/

HIV's ancestors 'plagued first mammals'
http://www.physorg.com/news172500779.html

Ancient and General History

The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1922179,00.html

Our unending fascination with secrecy
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-conspiracies,0,936184.story

Aussie War-Crimes Probe over Five Slain Journalists
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1922063,00.html

The picnic that brought down the Berlin Wall
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-meyer13-2009sep13,0,6751343.story

UA-Led Team Documenting Early Hopi-Spanish Relations
http://uanews.org/node/26832

Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8248334.stm

Oldest Medal of Honor recipient, 100, downplays 'hero' talk
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/15/finn.medal.of.honor/index.html

World War II POW, now 75, feels urgency to share story
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/16/boy-pow-world-war-ii-hopes-increase-awareness/

Big day for museums, parks on Sept. 26
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32881301/ns/travel-tips/

Indus Valley Civilization: Who were they?
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/18-indus-valley-civilisation-who-were-they-am-04

John Brown's Day of Reckoning
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day-of-Reckoning.html

A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Digs-Paper-Trail.html

German POWs on the American Homefront
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/German-POWs-on-the-American-Homefront.html

Archaeology

Ancient Aphrodite Figures Hint at Pagan Resistance
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/ancientaphroditefigureshintatpaganresistance

Southern California universities acquire rare religious texts
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs14-2009sep14,0,1891298.story

Bulgaria: Archaeologists Discovered Unique Vessel Fragment in Trapezita
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1459

A rare discovery: An engraved gemstone carrying a portrait of Alexander the Great
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/uoh-ard091509.php

Discovery of fourth century skeleton puzzles archaeologists
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED14%20Sep%202009%2016%3A44%3A12%3A220

Ancient Book of Buddhism Chantings Found
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/09/135_51857.html

Second Temple Pilgrimage Route Uncovered
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133405

Archaeologists delve into Hadrian Wall’s past
http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/14393619/archaeologists-delve-into-hadrian-walls-past.html

Archaeological Findings - A mass cemetery carved in rocks discovered in Syria
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200909122670/Culture/archaeological-findings-a-mass-cemetery-carved-in-rocks-discovered-in-syria.html

Buried treasure
http://dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/09/13/buriedtreasure.html?sid=101

Pre-hispanic citadel found in Peru
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=HLK1a7ortFk=

Loo unflushed for 500 years is archeologists’ goldmine
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/loo-unflushed-for-500-years-is-archeologists-goldmine-1.919426

Montreal Underground
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/montreal/

Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos
http://www.physorg.com/news172241228.html

Harrison Ford Up For 'Indiana Jones 5'... 'If The Script Is Good'
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/access-hollywood-indiana-jones-5.html

Finds unearthed at necropolis in Pella shed light on social status of warriors
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2009/09-09-18_1.apeen.html#01

2000 year old amphitheatre discovered near Tiberias
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115642.html

Ancient objects found on remote Mokumanamana 'an archaeological mystery'
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090918/NEWS01/909180346/Ancient+objects+found+on+remote+Mokumanamana++an+archaeological+mystery+

Bones discovery 'extremely rare' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8261343.stm

Stimulus money means work for state archaeologists
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=2&a=416813

Hundreds of Saxon graves unearthed on new pub site
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Hundreds-of-Saxon-graves-unearthed-on-new-pub-site-newsinkent28172.aspx

New finds at rich ancient cemetery in Greece
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iGh1VYGTj9D9WCvA3CgmA8Q_t8jgD9AP65T85

Decapitated bodies - were they Vikings?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8250295.stm

Gothic architectural treasures found in Hungarian monastery
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/gothic_archi/?cHash=0633b7f63e

12 sepulchers found in Teghut
http://www.a1plus.am/en/regions/2009/09/16/teghut

Roman military camp sites found
http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4082&Alias=wzo&cob=438600

Bulgaria Archaeologists Find Unique Cult Complex at Perperikon
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=107916

Bulgaria Archaeologist Finds Unique Golden Chariot from Ancient Thrace
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=107904

4,000-year-old arrowhead found in Burren excavation
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0917/1224254720000.html

1617 village is near Jamestown
http://www.vagazette.com/articles/2009/09/16/news/doc4ab0384a03385778594361.txt

Qld archaeologists' discovery sheds new light on settlement
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/09/16/2688191.htm

Moray field could explain why Romans did not conquer Scotland
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/north/123531-moray-field-could-explain-why-romans-did-not-conquer-scotland/

"Unexpected" Man Found Amid Ancient Priestesses' Tombs
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090918-peru-tomb-moche-male-priestesses.html

The Patuxent's Hidden Treasure
Archaeologists Hope to Excavate Shipwreck That Dates to War of 1812
By Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 14, 2009 
Aboard a pontoon boat chugging past the marshland of Maryland's upper Patuxent River on a recent Saturday, Ralph Eshelman pointed to the spot where the muddy brown water hides a shipwreck nearly two centuries old, part of the American flotilla that defended the Chesapeake Bay when the British burned Washington during the War of 1812. 
Nearly 30 years ago, Eshelman helped direct a team of marine researchers who discovered the wreck, one of the war's most significant artifacts. 
After a limited, month-long excavation of the site east of Upper Marlboro in 1980, the wreck was reburied under four feet of mud and sediment to protect it from decay. The hope was that archaeologists with more funding could one day return to excavate the 75-foot vessel, tentatively identified as the Scorpion, flagship of Commodore Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Flotilla. Now, supporters are hoping the time is ripe. 
The Navy, which still owns the flotilla, is considering whether to excavate the site and possibly raise the vessel as part of its plans to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. 
"It's on the agenda to be discussed," said Capt. Patrick Burns, director of Navy commemorations, who is leading the Navy's plans for remembering the war with a three-year-long series of events beginning in 2012. "There are a lot of ideas being bantered about." 
No funding has yet been allotted, but Navy archaeologists have done preliminary site work and are intrigued by what might be found. 
"It's an important part of history," said Robert Neyland, head of the Navy's Underwater Archaeology Branch at the Naval History and Heritage Command at the Washington Navy Yard. 
In July, archaeologists with the office surveyed the site with a magnetometer and thought they identified the wreck's exact location. "We found a strong magnetic anomaly where the site is presumed to be," said underwater archaeologist Alexis Catsambis. 
The vessel, which is under about five feet of water, "very well could be intact," added George Schwarz, a Navy archaeologist who participated in the survey. "There's a lot of the wreck that could be buried." 
If funding can be found, archaeologists might build a coffer dam around the site, which would allow water to be pumped out and excavation to be done in a dry environment, said Neyland, who directed the recovery of the Confederate submarine Hunley from South Carolina's Charleston Harbor in 2000. 
Marine researchers think the nearby marshland may hold other flotilla boats, which were sunk to avoid British capture but are likely no longer in the Patuxent because of changes in the river's course over the years. 
"It's very likely that more vessels are buried under marsh like this, and if so, their preservation could be spectacular," Eshelman, co-author of a forthcoming guide to the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake, said during a tour of the site Sept. 5. 
In the summer of 1813, Barney, a Revolutionary War naval hero, proposed building a flotilla of shallow-draft gunboats and barges that could harass the British, whose far-larger warships controlled the Chesapeake Bay and who were raiding plantations and small towns at will. After being assembled in Baltimore, the flotilla set sail in the spring of 1814, clashing with the British at St. Leonard's Creek in June and escaping up the Patuxent. 
The British advanced up the Patuxent in August 1814 and landed an invasion force, trapping Barney's flotilla in the river's upper reaches. Under orders from the Secretary of the Navy, Barney scuttled the fleet with rigged explosives just ahead of the British. He escaped with most of his men and cannons to defend Washington, and they played a heroic but ultimately futile role in trying to stop the British, who captured the city and burned the Capitol, the White House and almost all other government buildings. 
"Not only did an army of invasion lay their boots on American soil, they burned our capital, and this fleet was trying to stop it," said Marine archaeologist Donald G. Shomette, author of "Flotilla," a history of the Patuxent naval campaign. Shomette also helped lead the flotilla search three decades ago. "Here we have the presumed flagship 16 miles from the White House, in shallow water. In terms of historical value, this is extremely significant." 
"We think we have the Holy Grail," said J. Rodney Little, chief historical preservation officer for the state of Maryland, which wants to partner with the federal government to assess the site. 
This month, the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program turned down the state's request for about $300,000, leaving the state and the archaeologists to hope that the Navy or another federal agency will support the project. 
The cost of the project would depend largely on its scale, with an attempt to raise the entire vessel far costlier than a more limited excavation. Moreover, the price of conserving what is raised would likely be significantly more than the excavation, so without guaranteed funding, the flotilla should be left alone, archaeologists said. 
The 1980 excavation raised more than 150 artifacts, many of them well-preserved and unique. Some of the pieces, including medical equipment and a cook's tin grog cup, point to the vessel being the flagship. 
After the artifacts were preserved, most were kept at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md., which co-sponsored the search. Last year, asserting ownership, the Navy took possession of most of the pieces, leaving about 30 on loan with the museum. 
At the Navy's underwater archaeology laboratory at the Navy Yard last week, Schwarz and Catsambis displayed the artifacts, many of them pieces of everyday shipboard life often not recorded in history books: the tools the flotilla men used, buttons from their clothes and pharmaceutical vials that once held their medicine. 
"What's interesting about pieces like this is that there's a human element to it," Schwarz said. "It gets you thinking." 
By all indications, they said, the artifacts raised nearly 30 years ago represent only a small fraction of what lies in the Patuxent mud. 

General Science

Nanotech safety: Smaller particles may be riskier
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090913/sc_nm/us_nanotech_environment

Electronics 'missing link' united with rest of the family
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17783-electronics-missing-link-united-with-rest-of-the-family.html

Lockheed Debuts New Stealth Drone Concept 
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-09/lockheed-debuts-new-stealth-drone-concept

'Sky Pod' to Offer Personalized Ride
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/18/sky-pod-train.html

A 360-Degree Virtual Reality Chamber Brings Researchers Face to Face with Their Data
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=allosphere-ucsb

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Congressional panel blasts criticism of Constellation moon program
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-nasa-committee-hearing-091509,0,6607789.story

Return-to-moon plan gets boost on Capitol Hill
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-09-15-return-to-moon_N.htm

Exploring A Moon By Boat
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112835248

Spot makes strange dwarf planet even stranger
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32868532/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Kepler and the Search for Life in Our Galaxy
http://www.physorg.com/news172242543.html

Craters on Vesta and Ceres Could Hold Key to Jupiter's Age
http://www.physorg.com/news172242235.html

Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
http://www.physorg.com/news172144911.html

Jupiter had temporary moon for 12 years
http://www.physorg.com/news172133465.html

Thunderstorm on Saturn is a record-buster
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090915/sc_afp/astronomysaturnstorm_20090915082120

Laser-Propelled Spaceships Could Transform Transportation
http://www.space.com/entertainment/090904-laser-ships.html

Launch System Skepticism Grows at Space 2009: Guest Analysis
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4330793.html

'Ice explorer' ready for launch 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8255605.stm

Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_sc/us_sci_cold_moon

The Real Problem with a Human Trip to Mars: Radiation
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/09/17/the-real-problem-with-a-human-trip-to-mars-radiation/

'Quiet' Sun can also hit Earth with wild winds-study
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/science/Quiet-Sun-can-also-hit-Earth-with-wild-winds-study/articleshow/5025715.cms

Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes
http://www.physorg.com/news172485915.html

Reconstruct Mars automatically in minutes
http://www.physorg.com/news172494043.html

It's a grind to make Mars red
http://www.physorg.com/news172481192.html

NASA Rocket to Create Clouds Tuesday
http://www.livescience.com/space/090914-mm-noctilucent-clouds.html

DARPA Wants A Few Good Space Debris Cleaners
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-09/darpa-wants-few-good-space-debris-cleaners

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

"Green revolution" Nobel winner Norman Borlaug dies
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-13-bolaug-obit_N.htm

Segway inventor takes aim at thirst with Slingshot
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/11/kamen.water.slingshot/index.html

7 green energy hot spots
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32789713/ns/technology_and_science-green_innovation/

Renault Touts Electric-Car Prospects 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125301053667811531.html

To Save the Planet From Global Warming, Turn the Sahara Green
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/09/15/to-save-the-planet-from-global-warming-turn-the-sahara-green/

Could Exotic Matter Provide an Infinite Source of Energy?
http://www.physorg.com/news172225206.html

Salt and Paper Battery May One Day Replace Lithium Batteries
http://www.physorg.com/news172241467.html

Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source
http://www.physorg.com/news172162391.html

New method to produce drinking water from storm water
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/science/New-method-to-produce-drinking-water-from-storm-water/articleshow/5025794.cms

Portable and precise gas sensor could monitor pollution and detect disease
http://www.physorg.com/news172497785.html

Arctic ice pack at third lowest extent since 1979: US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090918/sc_afp/climatewarmingiceus_20090918172346

Oil Rig of the Future: A Solar Panel That Produces Oil
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biofuel-diatoms

5 Realistic Lessons in Radical Consumption From No Impact Man
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4331135.html

Water Measured From the Sky
Satellites Track Land's Consumption
By Kari Lydersen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 14, 2009 
Water management is serious business in the American West, where precipitation is scarce, irrigated agriculture is a major industry, new housing subdivisions spread across arid landscapes and water rights are allocated in a complicated seniority system. 
"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it," water officials are fond of saying. 
But measurement has been an inexact and expensive science, trying to determine how much water is diverted from rivers and how much is pumped from hundreds of thousands of wells. 
Now a tool developed by the Idaho Department of Water Resources and the University of Idaho is changing the face of water management and conservation by efficiently offering specific measurements of the water consumed across a large region or single field. 
Using surface temperature readings from government satellites, air temperature and a system of algorithms, the new method lets officials measure how much water is "consumed" on a certain piece of land through evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration is a combination of the evaporation of water into the atmosphere and the water vapor released by plants through respiration -- basically, a measurement of the water that leaves the land for the atmosphere, not water that is diverted or pumped onto land but then returned quickly to the water table or river for other users. 
Water resource management agencies in Idaho and other states see this as the best way to measure water consumption, since it is a more exact definition of how much water is being removed from the system by a given individual or entity. The program, called METRIC for Mapping EvapoTranspiration with High Resolution and Internalized Calibration, was launched in 2000 with a NASA/Raytheon Synergy Project grant and is used by 11 states. (Though researchers do measure the evapotranspiration rates of residential developments, the method is mainly relevant to the management of agriculture, fish farms and forest or wetland conservation.) 
"There's not enough water for all uses, so you use METRIC to see exactly where water is being consumed," said Tony Morse, manager of geospatial technology at the Idaho Department of Water Resources. "How much for agriculture, how much on the Indian reservation, how much by native cottonwoods, how much by saltcedars." 
METRIC uses images from the two Landsat satellites, which orbit Earth every 16 days, meaning an image of a given field is available every eight days unless cloud cover interferes. Until this year users had to pay the U.S. Geological Survey $600 for each 185-by-180-kilometer "scene." Starting in 2009 the government satellite images, which are also used for Google Earth, are free to the public. METRIC developers have published their algorithms for anyone to use, though agencies must write their own computer codes. 
The data has already been used to help settle a century-long fight between Colorado and Kansas over water in the Arkansas River and a dispute between Idaho irrigation districts. Previously, officials had to look at well-pumping records and electricity use to estimate each irrigation district's usage. Water managers say the data help to settle and avoid litigation. 
"This tool would allow the state of Wyoming or Colorado to independently verify what's going on in California," said Tony Willardson, executive director of the Western States Water Council. "It probably wouldn't be safe for someone in a Colorado Department of Natural Resources truck to drive around in California to see how much water they're using." 
In Oregon, METRIC data helped conserve water in Klamath Basin salmon habitats by helping scientists work with ranchers to withhold irrigation from certain cattle pastures. In California, the program eased fears that water transfers to Los Angeles and San Diego would increase the salinity of Imperial Valley farmland. In Texas, METRIC revealed that invasive saltcedar trees were using less water than expected, indicating an expensive eradication of the trees was likely not necessary. 
Willardson said the system can allow irrigation districts or other entities to conserve water and save the surplus for drier times. For example, if Southern California's Imperial Valley irrigation district can prove that it used less water than it has rights to, it can use more water from the Colorado River the following year. In the past Imperial Valley farmers would have had little incentive not to use their full water rights. 
The same principle applies to farmers who can "bank" their rights to consumer water and lease or sell those rights to other users. The data are also crucial to government programs that buy back water rights -- essentially paying farmers to let their land dry -- so the water can flow into streams where steelhead trout and salmon spawn. 
Recently the program's future has been in jeopardy because NASA was not planning to include the $100 million thermal infrared sensor needed to record surface temperature in the next Landsat satellite, scheduled to launch in 2012. The currently orbiting Landsat 5 and 7 were launched in 1984 and 1999, and were designed to last only three to five years. 
After much pressure from Western politicians, it appears NASA will include the sensor in Landsat 8. A final decision is expected by the end of the year, according to Jim Irons, a project scientist for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission based at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. 
"Due to their demonstration of the value of the data, we are doing our utmost to make sure we can include the instrument," Irons said. 
The project is a finalist for the Harvard Kennedy School's Innovations in American Government Awards, to be announced Monday. James Levitt, director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University, said METRIC is among the most remarkable of hundreds of applications he has reviewed. He thinks it will help Western states adapt to climate change, as more extreme heat and less precipitation are expected. 
"The water conflicts that are brewing are intense," he said. "If you don't have water you can't farm. Climate change is actually happening now. This will allow government and farmers to adapt. Not every farmer in Idaho subscribes to global warming as a proven theory. But they want to know where their water is." 

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Forget Schrodinger’s Cat. Could We Make Schrodinger’s Virus?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/09/15/forget-schrodingers-cat-could-we-make-schrodingers-virus/

Studying ancient man to learn to prevent disease
http://www.physorg.com/news172251831.html

Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals
http://www.physorg.com/news172160987.html

When Nature Is Freakier Than Sci-Fi
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/when-nature-is-freakier-than-sci-fi

Prostate cancer may be caused by virus, study indicates
http://www.physorg.com/news172482392.html

Other

Israeli film on '82 Lebanon war wins Venice prize
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_italy_venice_golden_lion

Unseen "Muck Monster" might become Florida's Loch Ness
http://scifiwire.com/2009/09/move-over-loch-nessflorid.php

Freemasons await Dan Brown novel `The Lost Symbol'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/ap_en_ot/us_books_brown_masons

Mystery creature found dead- Video
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/09/18/sot.panama.mystery.creature.cnn

Additional Informational

Entangled (New Book by Graham Hancock)
http://www.grahamhancock.com/entangled/

IKLAINA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, 2009 Season Report
http://www.umsl.edu/~cosmopoulosm/IKLAINA04/docs/2009report.pdf

Mysteries of the Ancient World
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Mysteries-of-the-Ancient-World.html

EGYPT PICTURES: Ancient Animal Graves from Private Zoo?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/animal-tombs-ancient-egypt-missions/index.html

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