TODAY'S HEADLINES INCLUDE: Unique Hittite sculpture found, Ice avalanches on Saturn moon, Archaeologists reopen Egyptian tombs, U.S. border patrols find rare artifacts, Colorblind man can 'hear' colors and more...
Unique sculpture found at excavation
Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuðrul Günay has presented a newly discovered Hittite sculpture in Hatay’s Reyhanlý district. “There is no other similar piece in the world, it is unique,” Günay said of the sculpture that was found during excavations at the Tell Tayinat ancient site.
Günay was visiting the area to analyze the excavation works, and the presenting event took place at Hatay Archaeology Museum. The excavation works are being conducted under Toronto University Archaeology professor Timothy Harrison. The excavations have been ongoing since 2004 at the Tell Tayinat Tumulus, said Günay, who also thanked the excavation team for uncovering such a valuable piece. Noting that in June the team also found a number of other very valuable Anatolian figures... |  |
"Ice avalanches" found on Saturn moon
It's always cool when something new is discovered, especially when it's about 750 million miles away from Earth. Such is the case with one of Saturn's moons known as Iapetus. Scientist Kelsi Singer was looking over images of the celestial body, which was already known to be very icy in its composition, found something no one had previously discovered.
There are massive avalanches that Singer describes as being similar to the ones that occur here on Earth. It's significant because of the vastly different composition of Iapetus. "The landslides on Iapetus are a planet-scale experiment that we cannot do in a laboratory or observe on Earth. They give us examples of giant landslides in ice, instead of rock, with a different gravity, and no atmosphere. |  |
Physicists Mine Cosmic Answers Deep Underground
LEAD, S.D.—At 7:30 a.m. on a recent Tuesday, about a dozen scientists pulled on steel-toed boots and filed into a steel cage that once ferried hundreds of gold miners to work.
Their destination: a new laboratory 11 minutes and a mile beneath the earth's surface that could deliver answers to some cosmic questions. While scientists at CERN in Europe have been grabbing headlines recently by using an enormous accelerator in a hunt for the Higgs boson particle, the team here at the Sanford Underground Research Facility have lofty goals of their own but a very different approach. |  |
In Egypt, archaeologists reopen tombs to woo tourists
GIZA, Egypt — More than 4,500 years since the paint was first applied, the reds, yellows and blues still stand out on the walls of the tomb of Queen Meresankh III. A hunter throws a net to catch water birds, craftsmen make papyrus mats while a stream of people carry baskets filled with offerings for the afterlife.
Decorating the walls all around are paintings, reliefs and statues of Meresankh, draped in a leopard-skin cloak, standing beside her mother in a boat, pulling papyrus stems through the water or being entertained by musicians and singers. Egypt’s tourism industry has been battered since last year’s revolution, but here, beside the pyramids of Giza, officials are trying to attract the visitors back. |  |
U.S. border patrols find rare artifacts
At a conservation center in Tucson, archaeologists are studying several ancient Native American pots discovered earlier this year deep in the remote desert mountains of southern Arizona.
The archaeologists believe the pots are hundreds of years old but still haven't determined their exact age or who made them. That could take a year or more. But what they do know is that the discovery of the pots was a rare and unusual find. The reddish-brown pots, which likely stored water and food, were intact when they were found in mountainous alcoves of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which lies just north of the U.S.-Mexico border and west of the Tohono O'odham Reservation. Most of the ancient pottery found these days are shards. |  |
Colorblind man can "hear" colors
(CBS News) A man who has never been able to see color before is now able to perceive it thanks to a device that lets him listen to colors.
Artist Neil Harbisson suffers from a visual condition called achromatopsia or total color blindness. Harbisson can only see things in shades of grey. So, he partnered with some computer scientists at the in 2003, who created an "electronic eye" for him. The device - which Harbisson wears on his head - detects the color frequency of the item that is passed in front of it, turns it into a sound frequency and passes the information to a chip installed at the back of Harbisson's head. |  |
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