The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook
Edited by Victor J. Katz
Section Authors: Annette Imhausen, Eleanor Robson, Joseph W. Dauben,
Kim Plofker & J. Lennart Berggren

Whatever Happened to Sumerian Beer?
Feature Article by Horst Dornbusch

From here

Anthropologists and archaeologists believe that the first humans ever to make the great leap from a nomadic and tribal into a civilized and sedentary existence were the Sumerians, some eight to ten thousand years ago. The place was Mesopotamia (now the southern portion of

Aron Pinker, "A Goat to Go to Azazel"

Abstract:

Significant evidence suggests that biblical עזאזל was originally the homophone עזזאל “Powerful God,” whose abode on earth was in the desert. The ritual described in Lev 16:5-26 was to the same God, potentially being at two locations -- the Temple or the desert, and identified as יהוה and עזזאל respectively. On the unique Day of Atonement God (as יהוה and עזזאל) was approached at both locations. In later times, God’s abode in the Temple or Jerusalem completely displaced God’s desert abode, relegating it to evil forces as was the belief in Near-Eastern cultures. In this process עזזאל, or a derivative of this name, became a satanic figure.

June 12, 2007
More Clues in the Legend (or Is It Fact?) of Romulus
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

From here

The story of Romulus and Remus is almost as old as Rome. The orphan twins were suckled by a she-wolf in a cave on the banks of the Tiber. Romulus grew up to found Rome in 753 B. C.

Just an advance note:

There is to be a native Pow-wow in Waterloo this fall--keep your eyes peeled!

"2007 SUNDANCe Pow Wow:
Friday September 28th and Saturday September 29th, St.Paul's College, University of Waterloo, hosts the 4th Annual SUNDANCe Pow Wow in partnership with the University of Waterloo Office of Alumni Affairs, Homecoming Events and University of Waterloo's 50th Anniversary.

Discovery Channel
News - Archaeology
Snake Cults Dominated Early Arabia
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

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May 17, 2007 - Pre-Islamic Middle Eastern regions were home to mysterious snake cults, according to two papers published in this month's Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy journal.

Ancient riddle of the Great Pyramid's construction is turned inside out
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 30 March 2007

From here

BRAZIL'S PIRAHÃ TRIBE
Living without Numbers or Time

By Rafaela von Bredow

From here

The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world -- and also one of the most hotly debated by linguists.

In Sinai desert, no trace of Moses
By Michael Slackman
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

From here and here

From here

Caveat lector: the usual exaggeration found in sensational reporting also occurs here....
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Has the DNA of Jesus Christ been found?

MICHAEL POSNER

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