Celestial Gateways: Do Ancient Egypt's Pyramids Actually Line up with Stars? - The Nation

A propos the very first of the 24 "Other" Questions I [Christopher Alan Plain] Would Ask E.T. we profiled yesterday, Anadolu deals with some of the outstanding "whys" behind elements of the Gizeh monuments' construction. Some recent research is highlighted. Bruce Bower pushes back the genesis of funeral practices in the Middle East 10,000 years with A Body Burned inside a Hut 20,000 Years Ago Signaled Shifting Views of Death. Bower also notes that year-round settlements and pottery making, traditionally thought initiated by Neolithic farmers, actually originated with hunter-gatherers. And re-examination of a find from the Judaean Mountains raises New Thoughts on Neanderthal Range and Tool Use. In this case we've learned more about Neanderthal tool employment and spread southwards, but have to scrap a practice "used to track modern human migrations in southwest Asia in the absence of fossils." David Keys has a complete win-win situation with A Vanished Empire: Major New Discovery Exposes Long-lost Medieval Kingdom. A remarkable find, well-described with fascinating background information. (WM)

_{-- Delivered by Feed43 service}

from THE ANOMALIST https://bit.ly/3c1govg