Scientists discover genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from Morocco

An international team of researchers, led by Johannes Krause and Choongwon Jeong from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany), and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar from the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (Rabat, Morocco) and including scientists from the Mohammed V University in Rabat, the Natural History Museum in London, University of Oxford, Université Mohammed Premier in Oujda and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, have sequenced DNA from individuals from Morocco dating to approximately 15,000 years ago, as published in Science. Continue reading “Scientists discover genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from Morocco” →

First direct dating of Homo antecessor

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led a new international study published in the journal Quaternary Geochronology, about the direct dating of a fossil tooth of Homo antecessor from the unit TD6 of the archaeological site of Gran Dolina in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). Continue reading “First direct dating of Homo antecessor” →

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Saint Mary of Egypt

by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †

Saint Mary of Egypt was a sinner, someone whose sin was known to everyone and not to God alone; perhaps she was the only one who was least of all aware of it because sin was her life. And yet, one day, she wanted to go and venerate an icon of the Mother of God in a church. Continue reading “Saint Mary of Egypt” →

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“If this is how you see Christ, then Holy Week won’t mean a thing to you…”

by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou

Holy Week is the heart of the Christian Orthodox Faith and the centre of the yearly cycle of Christian Feasts. Every year our churches are packed at Holy Week and, come the last three days, they are bursting at the seams with both people who attend church every Sunday and people who attend only on special occasions. Continue reading ““If this is how you see Christ, then Holy Week won’t mean a thing to you…”” →

April 20, 2019 0

Mycenean Technology

Here we present selected parts of the paper titled “Mycenaean Technology“, by T.P. Tassios, taken from the impressive collective work “Science and Technology in Homeric Epics“, edited by S.A. Paipetis (Springer, 2008). Continue reading “Mycenean Technology” →

April 19, 2019 1

Science and Technology in Homeric Epics

Here we present parts of the ‘Preface‘ of the impressive collective work “Science and Technology in Homeric Epics“, edited by S.A. Paipetis (Springer, 2008). Continue reading “Science and Technology in Homeric Epics” →

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Scientists discover genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from Morocco

First direct dating of Homo antecessor

Saint Mary of Egypt

“If this is how you see Christ, then Holy Week won’t mean a thing to you…”

Mycenean Technology

Science and Technology in Homeric Epics

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