Atlantis Found Yet Again, This Time at Mt. Girnar in India - Jason Colavito Blog

Jason Colavito effectively disproves this week's Atlantis origin claim, yet notes "a small grain of truth" behind one element within it. Colavito thinks that E.B. Ralbadisole's contorted new theory suffers from basically poor scholarship that included temporally misplacing an ancient Greek literary habit of moving mythical event sites around to areas not yet well known at that time. Going beyond archaeology into palaeontology, The New York Times writers William J. Broad and Kenneth Chang tell the staggering story of how a Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs. The well-illustrated and referenced article relates that a graduate student found and worked a North Dakota fossil site, revising cherished preconceptions as he did, and eventually enlisted better-known researchers to publish a collaborative article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The result: a breath-taking description of how the famous Chicxulub meteor impact may have ended the lives of countless creatures in the briefest of prehistorical moments. On a smaller but still interesting scale, Live Science's Owen Jarus tells us about 100 Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site. It's an interesting find which, as usual, raises additional questions, such as whether the folks doing the mining were slaves or free, and the possible logistics of keeping a 1,000-plus workforce supplied with water. (WM)

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