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Getting Wiped In Egypt

Written on 22 Apr, 2011 at 15:21 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Commentary, Editorials, Featured, Middle East, News, Op-Eds, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

04-22-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Once upon a time in ancient Egypt, there was a female Pharaoh named Hatshepsut, who died in 1458 B.C.E. She was a very successful Pharaoh who built several very impressive temples and ruled wisely and well.... (Continue reading)

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Tax Inequities Explored

Written on 18 Apr, 2011 at 10:22 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Business & Economics, Family & Children, Featured, News, Politics | viewed times | 0 Comments

04-18-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Happy Tax Day everyone, though I still haven’t figured out how we got an extension when the 15th was a Friday, not a weekend. The problem with anything that explores “income taxes” is the way those stories... (Continue reading)

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Democracy Begins With Fairness

Written on 14 Apr, 2011 at 16:23 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Commentary, Featured, History, Middle East, News, Op-Eds, World | viewed times | 6 Comments

04-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell For many years, I assumed that Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass was unmarried. The first time I saw him on television he spoke of the pyramids as his wife. His passion for finding the truth of the... (Continue reading)

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Stolen Artifacts, Including Statue Of Tutankhamun, Recovered In Egypt

Written on 13 Apr, 2011 at 12:20 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News | viewed times | 0 Comments

04/13/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Roughly one thousand pieces went missing from the Cairo Museum in Egypt, but this weekend, Minister of State for Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass announced that some of those artifacts had been recovered from a bag in an... (Continue reading)

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Understanding Islam, Part II

Written on 12 Apr, 2011 at 14:17 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Commentary, Featured, History, Religion, Women's Rights | viewed times | 0 Comments

04-06-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Author’s note: I grew up at the junction of Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism and Judaism. While I am fairly well versed in all of those, I have only been learning about Islam for the past few years.... (Continue reading)

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Science or Scienterrific – Caveman Outed through Ancient Prague Burial Site

Written on 12 Apr, 2011 at 3:11 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Europe, Featured, News, Special Reports, World | viewed times | 3 Comments

Melanie Nathan – April 11, 2011 Scientists Find Evidence of ’Gay Caveman’ – An ancient graveyard has been discovered in the Czech Republic city of Prague, with experts estimating the site to go back to the third ... (Continue reading)

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Don’t Know Much About History- Italian History Professor Claims Gays Caused Downfall Of Roman Empire

Written on 11 Apr, 2011 at 14:52 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News | viewed times | 0 Comments

04/11/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It would be news to the pre-Christian barbarians that they did not have homosexuals among them, but that is what devout Roman Catholic history professor Roberto De Mattei is claiming along with the idea that, somehow, the... (Continue reading)

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Archaeologists Find Third Gender Skeleton In Czech Republic, Media Calls Him A Cave Man Erroneously

Written on 7 Apr, 2011 at 11:51 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News | viewed times | 7 Comments

04/07/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire To a certain degree, the anti-LGBT activists are correct about the fact that homosexuality has never existed throughout the history of the world, and gay marriage never actually existed. This is because the term homosexual and... (Continue reading)

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Understanding Islam, Part One

Written on 1 Apr, 2011 at 17:05 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Commentary, Editorials, Featured, History, News, Religion, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

04-01-2011 by L. S. Carbonell For almost ten years, the mainstream media has been throwing around the words Shi’ite, Sunni and occasionally Sufi as though Americans had any idea what they meant. About 95% of us don’t. What we factually know... (Continue reading)

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Capitalism Killed Mars Civilization

Written on 22 Mar, 2011 at 17:01 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Environment, Featured, Humor and Satire, Latin America, News, People, Weather, World | viewed times | 1 Comment

03-22-2011 by L. S. Carbonell There are days when one really needs a story like this one….. In a speech marking World Water Day, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said “I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there... (Continue reading)

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Report: Egyptian Museum On Fire

Written on 2 Feb, 2011 at 13:06 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

02/02/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire News has come down via FOX and Al-Jazeera that the Egyptian Museum been the victim of a Molotov cocktail that appears to have come from the protesters. It is unclear if it came from anti-Mubarak or... (Continue reading)

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Egyptian Youth And Military Defend Egyptian Museum In Cairo

Written on 29 Jan, 2011 at 19:43 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

01/29/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It may seem like the strangest of all things to see or hear about, but young Egyptians surrounded the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in order to protect it from looters. They were partially successful with a... (Continue reading)

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As Chaos Reigns In Cairo, Egypt & Germany Battle Over Nefertiti’s Bust

Written on 26 Jan, 2011 at 20:23 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News | viewed times | 0 Comments

01/26/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Germany and Egypt are battling over the bust of a woman who died some 3,400 years ago. Specifically, the diplomatic row between the two nations concerns the bust of the fabled Queen Nefertiti. Berlin has... (Continue reading)

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Age Estimated For Earliest Known Female Ancestor Of All Humans

Written on 20 Aug, 2010 at 16:06 in Archaeology & Anthropology, Featured, News | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/20/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire “You always know who your mother is, but you only have her word on who your father is.”- Celt-Iberian saying. 200,000 a woman lived who is, today, the ancestor of all modern humans.  This Mitochondrial Eve- not to... (Continue reading)

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