Although people alive at the time probably didn’t appreciate the benefits to posterity of their contemporary troubles and wars, their efforts to hide and preserve those objects they considered to be of value, have inadvertently become their gift, a legacy of artifacts that have come down through the years, enabling us in many cases to [...]
July 19, 2007
‘Huge Underground Lake’ Find ‘May End Darfur War’
It’s not often we hear much in the way of good news from Africa – for Africans – (n.b. this post has since been amended, please see below) but the news that one of the prime drivers of the civil war in Sudan, namely a scarcity of water, may have been halted, or [...]
July 19, 2007
Megaflood Of 400,000 Years bp Made Britain An Island
Whilst the Mesolithic people living in the huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’ paradise that was Doggerland at the end of the last Ice Age, had little idea of the watery world it would one day become as Britain became cut off from mainland Europe, it’s improbable they realised that similar events had happened in their [...]
