Ancient “Bed Burial” Enlightens Scholars Archeologists discover seventh-century teenager buried in bed (thespec.com) LONDON Archeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a seventh-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse full of glass beads. Experts say the grave is an example of an unusual Anglo-Saxon funerary practice of which very little is known. Just over a dozen of these “bed burials” have been found in Britain, and it’s one of only two in which a pectoral cross — meant to be worn over the chest — has been discovered. One archeologist said…

Party at Gobekli Tepe I would love to go back in time to visit Gobekli Tepe… ‘World’s oldest temple’ was a happenin’ place Ancient blades of volcanic rock hint that people came from far and wide 11,000 years ago Gobekli Tepe is in southern Turkey near the modern-day city of Urfa. It contains at least 20 stone rings (circles within a circle) that date back more than 11,000 years. T-shaped limestone blocks line the circles and reliefs are carved on them. Long ago, people would fill in the outer circle with debris before building a new circle within. By Owen Jarus (msnbc.com) Ancient blades made of volcanic rock that were…

The Antimatter Puzzle It continues to be one of the most puzzling questions in science – why is the universe made of matter and not equal amounts of matter and antimatter? (From ) HOT on the heels of results from Fermilab, in America, which reported last week on an esoteric phenomenon called charge-conjugation/parity (CP) violation involving equally esoteric subatomic particles known as D0-mesons, a second research group, the Daya Bay Collaboration of more than 40 institutions, mainly from China and America, has found a related result involving neutrinos. CP violation is an asymmetry between matter and antimatter and the experiment, based at a complex of nuclear reactors 50km (30 miles)…