From here

January 19, 2007
Sue Leeman
Associated press

LONDON – Mary Martin is 72 now, but still remembers the pain of being labelled "witch-spawn" and "evil eye" by classmates because her grandmother was one of the last people jailed in Britain over witchcraft charges.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.12.36
David Frankfurter, Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and
Ritual Abuse in History. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2006. Pp. 312; 10 halftones. ISBN 0-691-11350-5. $29.95.

Sun 7 Jan 2007
Climate key to Sphinx's riddle
JEREMY WATSON (jwatson@scotlandonsunday.com)

From here

GLOBAL warming is one of the greatest threats to present day civilisation but work by a team of Scots scientists suggests the ancient Egyptians may have been earlier victims of climate change.

The Cyrus Cylinder, discovered in 1879 and now in the British Museum, is a cuneiform document in the shape of a small barrel, commissioned by Cyrus the Great of Persia.

A certain amount of fraudulent material exists on the internet, for example that it confirms what the Bible says (Isaiah 44.23-45.8; Ezra 1.1-6, 6.1-5; 2 Chronicles 36.22-23): that in 539 BCE, the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great had allowed the Jews to return from their Babylonian Exile.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.12.08
Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire:
Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 285. ISBN 0-19-814089-4. $95.00.

Probably some more over-reacting....

From here

Vatican confirms St Paul's coffin has been found
Desmond O'Grady in Rome and agencies
December 9, 2006

After a lot of exaggeration concerning Judas when the Gospel of Judas was published, here is some more exaggeration in the other direction... :) [in other words, with the exception of the press, the inside crowd knew better in the first place...]

From here

provide the Earliest Evidence of Religion--

70,000-year-old African ritual practices linked to mythology of modern Botswanans:

From here

Ancient Moon 'computer' revisited
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

The delicate workings at the heart of a 2,000-year-old analogue computer have been revealed by scientists.

From Here [Go
there for pix]

The Sunday Times - Britain
November 26, 2006
King Tut’s death was a bad break

One of archeology’s most enduring mysteries--how Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy king, met his death -- may finally have been solved after a study of his mummified remains.