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Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Meandering track: Spacemind - Memory Hole [youtube.com/watch?v=uL0mvPZuklM]
Space News
[astrobio.net]
* "Water worlds can support life – we don’t need another ‘Earth,’ study finds" (2018-09-04, rt.com/news/437576-water-world-support-life/) [archive.is/4cADH]
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* "Life on Mars? 40 Years Later, Viking Lander Scientist Still Says 'Yes' " (2018-08-31, space.com/41689-nasa-viking-mars-life-search-gil-levin.html) [archive.is/GkkGH]
- image caption: NASA's Curiosity rover used an instrument called SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars ) to detect seasonal changes in atmospheric methane in Gale Crater. The methane signal has been observed for nearly three Martian years (nearly six Earth years), peaking each summer.
* "Dr. Gil Levin’s NASA experiment found PROOF of life on Mars in 1976… but it was memory-holed by the government" (2018-09-06, naturalnews.com/2018-09-06-dr-gil-levins-nasa-experiment-found-proof-of-life-on-mars-in-1976.html) [archive.is/yQfgC]:
Gilbert Levin served as the lead investigator of the Labeled Release life detection experiment that was carried out on the two Viking Landers that NASA sent to Mars in 1976. Although his instrument ultimately yielded positive results at both locations, the finding has been largely memory-holed.
In a video posted to REAL.video (www.real.video/5824685615001), Levin talks about how his job working for the Health Department of the State of California determining water health inspired him to create his revolutionary approach using radioactive tagging. This eventually led to him being awarded a NASA contract in 1958 to develop a method to find extraterrestrial life, and his method was used in the Viking Missions in 1976.
In the video, he details how the experiment worked (gillevin.com/mars.htm) [archive.is/oPwiK]. Essentially, it entailed adding a drop of specially engineered radioactive food into a small cup of soil from Mars and monitoring the air above it to look for any radioactive gas that microorganisms would breathe out if present.
Few believed this would be successful on Mars, but with the first drop of the nutrient on Martian soil, a big amount of gas came out and was present for the full week of the experiment. Similar results were seen at the other landing site 4,000 miles away.
Could it have been related to chemicals in the soil rather than microorganisms? Just in case, they had an experiment ready to figure this out. They took a duplicate sample of the same soil and heated it to 160 degrees C to kill any microorganisms – a temperature that would at least kill those known on Earth – but not so high that it would destroy any oxidizing chemicals that would give a false positive. This “control” was carried out more than once and replicated on Viking 1 and Viking 2, ruling out the possibility that chemicals were responsible. In addition, the active sample was held in a chamber and after a few months, nothing showed up on the test, likely indicating that the microorganisms had died.
Naysayers first said the effect must be due to ultraviolet light, but when they sent out an arm to move a rock and take a sample from underneath it, the result was the same – yet for some reason, NASA wrote it off as containing “no organic matter.”
For the next 37 years, NASA and other scientists have been trying to explain away Levin’s results, but none have succeeded, nor have they reproduced any chemical that would explain away those results in a lab or even in theory.
Since his experiment, NASA has refused to send in similar life-finding experiments and rejected his proposals to carry out additional missions. Ambiguous answers would hurt their program, he believes, saying that this is motivated by politics and not science. After all, scientists who get positive results replicate and expand them, and NASA is clearly uninterested in doing that.
If there is life on Mars, he believes it must exist throughout the universe, but NASA and the government are doing everything they can to keep this information under wraps. Recently, he told The Space Show: “I am certain that NASA knows there is life on Mars” adding that there is “substantial and circumstantial evidence for extant microbial life on Mars.”
Lots of signs point to life on Mars
There are plenty of signs to support that notion. For example, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered that methane on Mars has cyclical and seasonal spikes. With more than 90 percent of Earth’s atmospheric methane being created by living organisms like microbes, this is pretty solid evidence of life. Not surprisingly, team members on the Curiosity mission have already tried to explain it away, saying that water rock chemistry could be responsible.
In July, the Mars Express orbiter from the European Space Agency found an underground lake under a mile of ice toward the south pole of Mars. Although evidence of water has been seen on the planet before on a smaller scale, an underground lake it pretty hard to ignore.
In fact, Levin says that with everything we know about the planet now, it would be more surprising to prove that there isn’t life on Mars than that there is life on the Red ?Planet. He said that “it’s getting to the point where the shoe is on the other foot. It’s very hard to image a sterile Mars.”
* "RESEARCH ON MARS – Papers by Gilbert V. Levin, Ph.D." (retrieved 2018-09-08, gillevin.com/mars.htm) [archive.is/6pX5f], introduction:
In 1952, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin invented a rapid, highly sensitive method to detect microbial contamination of water and food. In 1958, he obtained a NASA contract to develop the method to seek extraterrestrial life. The method was selected in 1969 for use on NASA’s 1976 Viking Mission to Mars. Originally named “Gulliver,” for the Lilliputians (microorganisms) it was seeking, it was renamed the “Labeled Release (LR)” experiment by NASA to indicate the technology used – the release of radioactive gas from radio-labeled compounds in the event they were metabolized by microorganisms in the Martian soil. Simply put, the LR squirted a drop of carefully designed radioactive food onto a tiny cup of Martian soil and monitored the air above the soil to detect radioactive gas that any microorganisms present might breathe out. Levin and his co-workers, notably Dr. Patricia Ann Straat, then spent the next decade developing the experiment and instrument, and in analyzing the results obtained from its successful operation on Mars. At both landing sites, some 4,000 miles apart, the LR returned evidence of living microorganisms. Initially discounted by NASA and most space scientists, the results of this milestone project have, nonetheless, been causing excitement and controversy ever since. In 1997, after 21 years of study of the Mars LR results, of new information scientists obtained about environmental conditions on Mars, and of the extreme environments in which life was found on Earth, Dr. Levin published his conclusion that the LR had, indeed, discovered living microorganisms on the Red Planet.
Levin first presented his conclusion in an invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) on July 30, 1997, in San Diego. On July 20, 1998, he presented another paper with new findings supporting that conclusion. Many attempts have been made since then by other authors to explain the Mars LR results as having been caused by chemical or physical reactions between the LR nutrients and the soil. No one, however, has duplicated the full experimental results the LR obtained on Mars. In recent years, there have been many important converts to the life theory, possibly the fore-runner of a major paradigm shift in humanity’s continual search for its place in the universe.
Below are his publications related to Mars. They are presented in chronological order, from the early up to the latest scientific findings by him and others related to this intriguing issue, the resolution of which, as termed by NASA, would be “the greatest experiment in the history of science.”
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* "Cassini’s parting gift: Hexagonal vortex hundreds of kilometers high discovered on Saturn" (20187-09-04, rt.com/news/437607-cassini-saturn-hexagonal-vortex/) [archive.is/v1h25]
- image caption: The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm
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Ancient News
Music for your perusal (via beatport.com) [is.gd/2MzlEd]
* "Stone Age Toilets" (toilet-guru.com/neolithic.php) [archive.is/orqKs]
* "Egypt inaugurates Old Kingdom tomb near Cairo" (2018-09-08, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/09/c_137454903.htm) [archive.is/dbacy]
* "Egypt opens 4,000-year-old tomb to the public; Egypt has allowed the public to visit a 4,000-year-old tomb in the Saqqara necropolis near Giza for the first time to promote tourism" (2018-09-08, presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/08/573574/Egypt-tomb-tourism) [archive.is/MaGe3]
* "Egypt inaugurates Old Kingdom tomb near Cairo" (2018-09-09, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d7a67444d7a457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/uJPDB]
* "Ancient rocky cemetery unearthed in Egypt's Giza" (2018-09-05, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/05/c_137447506.htm) [archive.is/P2pIH]
* "Workers find intricate Roman mosaic in western Switzerland" (2018-09-05, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/06/c_137447790.htm) [archive.is/WR4st]
* "There Is More to the Sphinx Creature Than You Find at Giza" (2018-09-06, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/sphinx-creature-0010658) [archive.is/F6JAH]
* "Brazil museum fire ruins 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts" (2018-09-06, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/07/c_137450404.htm) [archive.is/IZ96G]
* "Man Intent on Fixing Toilet Uncovers Centuries-Old Subterranean World Beneath his Basement" (2015-04-15, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/man-intent-fixing-toilet-uncovers-centuries-old-subterranean-world-020299) [archive.is/fc8oF]
- image caption: The ruins and chambers discovered due to the excavations of Luciano Faggiano.
* "Archeologists find one of Christianity’s most important sites & plan to open underwater museum" (2018-09-07, rt.com/news/437896-archeologists-christianity-site-underwater/) [archive.is/ZIkDX]
* "Ultraviolet light reveals hidden text in ancient book of Arthurian stories" (2015-04-05, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ultraviolet-light-reveals-hidden-text-ancient-book-arthurian-stories-002864) [archive.is/PlVcX]
- image caption: Under UV light, verse and images show up
* "Mind Games of the Forgotten Russian Knight" (2018-09-08, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/russian-board-game-0010667) [archive.is/DsnzB]
- image caption: The Nine Men’s Morris Game, the Russian board game found in a crypt in Vyborg Castle
- image caption: Men playing Nine Men's Morris with dice, pictured in Grunfeld, Frederic V.
- [begin excerpt]: World’s oldest game claims -
While archaeologists were arguing over which nation holds the prestigious title of having yielded the “oldest game in the world,” five years ago Turkish officials delivered a devastating upper-cut and grabbed the title belt, undisputedly. Reported by Discovery News in August 2013, Haluk Sağlamtimur, a researcher with Ege University was part of the team in southeast Turkey who unearthed “an old board and 49 intricately carved tokens depicting pigs, dogs, and pyramids, others feature round and bullet shapes.” The archaeologists also found “dice and circular tokens among the pieces, which were painted in colors” all of which dated to an incredible 5,000 years old.
What all these early board games have in common is that they were generally the reserve of the educated classes in history. And by educated, I do not only refer to the ‘elites’ who had been educated in the seven liberal arts. Archaeologists believe the boards discovered in Roman temples were used by architects, measuring specialists and stonemasons, who had developed spatial awareness and had a grasp of square mathematics, which is all Nine Men’s Morris really is an exercise in.
The board discovered carved on the stone in the crypt of Vyborg Castle has not yet been associated with any of the castle’s past inhabitants, and all that is known at this time is that someone in the last 800 years had dedicated some time off the sword towards pursuits of the mind.
- image caption: Gaming tokens found in Başur Höyük, Turkey
* "The Silk Railroad: Trades of the Past" (2018-09-08, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e7a55444d7a457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/IX9m2]
* "Longquan Celadon Tour kicks off at UN headquarters" (2018-09-10, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/11/c_137460430.htm) [archive.is/fb0Vu] [begin excerpt]: With a history of more than 1600 years, Longquan celadon started in the Three Kingdoms (220-280 AD), flourished in the Song (9601279) and Yuan dynasties (1279-1368), and resurged in the contemporary era. Longquan has thus been one of the most famous ceramics capitals in China.
In 2009, Longquan celadon's traditional firing technique was listed by UNESCO in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the only ceramic project appearing in list so far. [end excerpt]
* "Ancient Glories: Preserving Guge Kingdom ruins in Tibet Autonomous Region" (2018-09-09, news.cgtn.com/news/7763544d77494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/share_p.html) [archive.is/IA9QY]
* "China's long-lost national treasures put on display" (2018-09-10, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d336b444d7a457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/QpWFf]
* "Three 500-year-old Holy Statues Damaged in Botched Restoration Job" (2018-09-10, ancient-origins.net/news-general/holy-statues-damaged-0010679) [archive.is/C7Zjs]
- image caption: Ecce Hommo by Elias Garcia Martinez was destroyed in 2012 by a failed restoration attempt.
“Folks, there’s nothing left from the Linguistics division. We lost all the indigenous languages collection: the recordings since 1958, the chants in all the languages for which there are no native speakers alive anymore, the Curt Niemuendaju archives: papers, photos, negatives, the original ethnic-historic-linguistic map localizing all the ethnic groups in Brazil, the only record that we had from 1945. The ethnological and archeological references of all ethnic groups in Brazil since the 16th century… An irreparable loss of our historic memory. It just hurts so much to see all in ashes.”
Cinda Gonda, translated by Diogo Almeida, about the fire at Brazil’s National Museum.
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Meandering track: Spacemind - Memory Hole [youtube.com/watch?v=uL0mvPZuklM]
Space News
[astrobio.net]
* "Water worlds can support life – we don’t need another ‘Earth,’ study finds" (2018-09-04, rt.com/news/437576-water-world-support-life/) [archive.is/4cADH]
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* "Life on Mars? 40 Years Later, Viking Lander Scientist Still Says 'Yes' " (2018-08-31, space.com/41689-nasa-viking-mars-life-search-gil-levin.html) [archive.is/GkkGH]
- image caption: NASA's Curiosity rover used an instrument called SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars ) to detect seasonal changes in atmospheric methane in Gale Crater. The methane signal has been observed for nearly three Martian years (nearly six Earth years), peaking each summer.
* "Dr. Gil Levin’s NASA experiment found PROOF of life on Mars in 1976… but it was memory-holed by the government" (2018-09-06, naturalnews.com/2018-09-06-dr-gil-levins-nasa-experiment-found-proof-of-life-on-mars-in-1976.html) [archive.is/yQfgC]:
Gilbert Levin served as the lead investigator of the Labeled Release life detection experiment that was carried out on the two Viking Landers that NASA sent to Mars in 1976. Although his instrument ultimately yielded positive results at both locations, the finding has been largely memory-holed.
In a video posted to REAL.video (www.real.video/5824685615001), Levin talks about how his job working for the Health Department of the State of California determining water health inspired him to create his revolutionary approach using radioactive tagging. This eventually led to him being awarded a NASA contract in 1958 to develop a method to find extraterrestrial life, and his method was used in the Viking Missions in 1976.
In the video, he details how the experiment worked (gillevin.com/mars.htm) [archive.is/oPwiK]. Essentially, it entailed adding a drop of specially engineered radioactive food into a small cup of soil from Mars and monitoring the air above it to look for any radioactive gas that microorganisms would breathe out if present.
Few believed this would be successful on Mars, but with the first drop of the nutrient on Martian soil, a big amount of gas came out and was present for the full week of the experiment. Similar results were seen at the other landing site 4,000 miles away.
Could it have been related to chemicals in the soil rather than microorganisms? Just in case, they had an experiment ready to figure this out. They took a duplicate sample of the same soil and heated it to 160 degrees C to kill any microorganisms – a temperature that would at least kill those known on Earth – but not so high that it would destroy any oxidizing chemicals that would give a false positive. This “control” was carried out more than once and replicated on Viking 1 and Viking 2, ruling out the possibility that chemicals were responsible. In addition, the active sample was held in a chamber and after a few months, nothing showed up on the test, likely indicating that the microorganisms had died.
Naysayers first said the effect must be due to ultraviolet light, but when they sent out an arm to move a rock and take a sample from underneath it, the result was the same – yet for some reason, NASA wrote it off as containing “no organic matter.”
For the next 37 years, NASA and other scientists have been trying to explain away Levin’s results, but none have succeeded, nor have they reproduced any chemical that would explain away those results in a lab or even in theory.
Since his experiment, NASA has refused to send in similar life-finding experiments and rejected his proposals to carry out additional missions. Ambiguous answers would hurt their program, he believes, saying that this is motivated by politics and not science. After all, scientists who get positive results replicate and expand them, and NASA is clearly uninterested in doing that.
If there is life on Mars, he believes it must exist throughout the universe, but NASA and the government are doing everything they can to keep this information under wraps. Recently, he told The Space Show: “I am certain that NASA knows there is life on Mars” adding that there is “substantial and circumstantial evidence for extant microbial life on Mars.”
Lots of signs point to life on Mars
There are plenty of signs to support that notion. For example, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered that methane on Mars has cyclical and seasonal spikes. With more than 90 percent of Earth’s atmospheric methane being created by living organisms like microbes, this is pretty solid evidence of life. Not surprisingly, team members on the Curiosity mission have already tried to explain it away, saying that water rock chemistry could be responsible.
In July, the Mars Express orbiter from the European Space Agency found an underground lake under a mile of ice toward the south pole of Mars. Although evidence of water has been seen on the planet before on a smaller scale, an underground lake it pretty hard to ignore.
In fact, Levin says that with everything we know about the planet now, it would be more surprising to prove that there isn’t life on Mars than that there is life on the Red ?Planet. He said that “it’s getting to the point where the shoe is on the other foot. It’s very hard to image a sterile Mars.”
* "RESEARCH ON MARS – Papers by Gilbert V. Levin, Ph.D." (retrieved 2018-09-08, gillevin.com/mars.htm) [archive.is/6pX5f], introduction:
In 1952, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin invented a rapid, highly sensitive method to detect microbial contamination of water and food. In 1958, he obtained a NASA contract to develop the method to seek extraterrestrial life. The method was selected in 1969 for use on NASA’s 1976 Viking Mission to Mars. Originally named “Gulliver,” for the Lilliputians (microorganisms) it was seeking, it was renamed the “Labeled Release (LR)” experiment by NASA to indicate the technology used – the release of radioactive gas from radio-labeled compounds in the event they were metabolized by microorganisms in the Martian soil. Simply put, the LR squirted a drop of carefully designed radioactive food onto a tiny cup of Martian soil and monitored the air above the soil to detect radioactive gas that any microorganisms present might breathe out. Levin and his co-workers, notably Dr. Patricia Ann Straat, then spent the next decade developing the experiment and instrument, and in analyzing the results obtained from its successful operation on Mars. At both landing sites, some 4,000 miles apart, the LR returned evidence of living microorganisms. Initially discounted by NASA and most space scientists, the results of this milestone project have, nonetheless, been causing excitement and controversy ever since. In 1997, after 21 years of study of the Mars LR results, of new information scientists obtained about environmental conditions on Mars, and of the extreme environments in which life was found on Earth, Dr. Levin published his conclusion that the LR had, indeed, discovered living microorganisms on the Red Planet.
Levin first presented his conclusion in an invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) on July 30, 1997, in San Diego. On July 20, 1998, he presented another paper with new findings supporting that conclusion. Many attempts have been made since then by other authors to explain the Mars LR results as having been caused by chemical or physical reactions between the LR nutrients and the soil. No one, however, has duplicated the full experimental results the LR obtained on Mars. In recent years, there have been many important converts to the life theory, possibly the fore-runner of a major paradigm shift in humanity’s continual search for its place in the universe.
Below are his publications related to Mars. They are presented in chronological order, from the early up to the latest scientific findings by him and others related to this intriguing issue, the resolution of which, as termed by NASA, would be “the greatest experiment in the history of science.”
---
* "Cassini’s parting gift: Hexagonal vortex hundreds of kilometers high discovered on Saturn" (20187-09-04, rt.com/news/437607-cassini-saturn-hexagonal-vortex/) [archive.is/v1h25]
- image caption: The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm
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Ancient News
Music for your perusal (via beatport.com) [is.gd/2MzlEd]
* "Stone Age Toilets" (toilet-guru.com/neolithic.php) [archive.is/orqKs]
* "Egypt inaugurates Old Kingdom tomb near Cairo" (2018-09-08, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/09/c_137454903.htm) [archive.is/dbacy]
* "Egypt opens 4,000-year-old tomb to the public; Egypt has allowed the public to visit a 4,000-year-old tomb in the Saqqara necropolis near Giza for the first time to promote tourism" (2018-09-08, presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/08/573574/Egypt-tomb-tourism) [archive.is/MaGe3]
* "Egypt inaugurates Old Kingdom tomb near Cairo" (2018-09-09, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d7a67444d7a457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/uJPDB]
* "Ancient rocky cemetery unearthed in Egypt's Giza" (2018-09-05, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/05/c_137447506.htm) [archive.is/P2pIH]
* "Workers find intricate Roman mosaic in western Switzerland" (2018-09-05, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/06/c_137447790.htm) [archive.is/WR4st]
* "There Is More to the Sphinx Creature Than You Find at Giza" (2018-09-06, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/sphinx-creature-0010658) [archive.is/F6JAH]
* "Brazil museum fire ruins 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts" (2018-09-06, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/07/c_137450404.htm) [archive.is/IZ96G]
* "Man Intent on Fixing Toilet Uncovers Centuries-Old Subterranean World Beneath his Basement" (2015-04-15, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/man-intent-fixing-toilet-uncovers-centuries-old-subterranean-world-020299) [archive.is/fc8oF]
- image caption: The ruins and chambers discovered due to the excavations of Luciano Faggiano.
* "Archeologists find one of Christianity’s most important sites & plan to open underwater museum" (2018-09-07, rt.com/news/437896-archeologists-christianity-site-underwater/) [archive.is/ZIkDX]
* "Ultraviolet light reveals hidden text in ancient book of Arthurian stories" (2015-04-05, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ultraviolet-light-reveals-hidden-text-ancient-book-arthurian-stories-002864) [archive.is/PlVcX]
- image caption: Under UV light, verse and images show up
* "Mind Games of the Forgotten Russian Knight" (2018-09-08, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/russian-board-game-0010667) [archive.is/DsnzB]
- image caption: The Nine Men’s Morris Game, the Russian board game found in a crypt in Vyborg Castle
- image caption: Men playing Nine Men's Morris with dice, pictured in Grunfeld, Frederic V.
- [begin excerpt]: World’s oldest game claims -
While archaeologists were arguing over which nation holds the prestigious title of having yielded the “oldest game in the world,” five years ago Turkish officials delivered a devastating upper-cut and grabbed the title belt, undisputedly. Reported by Discovery News in August 2013, Haluk Sağlamtimur, a researcher with Ege University was part of the team in southeast Turkey who unearthed “an old board and 49 intricately carved tokens depicting pigs, dogs, and pyramids, others feature round and bullet shapes.” The archaeologists also found “dice and circular tokens among the pieces, which were painted in colors” all of which dated to an incredible 5,000 years old.
What all these early board games have in common is that they were generally the reserve of the educated classes in history. And by educated, I do not only refer to the ‘elites’ who had been educated in the seven liberal arts. Archaeologists believe the boards discovered in Roman temples were used by architects, measuring specialists and stonemasons, who had developed spatial awareness and had a grasp of square mathematics, which is all Nine Men’s Morris really is an exercise in.
The board discovered carved on the stone in the crypt of Vyborg Castle has not yet been associated with any of the castle’s past inhabitants, and all that is known at this time is that someone in the last 800 years had dedicated some time off the sword towards pursuits of the mind.
- image caption: Gaming tokens found in Başur Höyük, Turkey
* "The Silk Railroad: Trades of the Past" (2018-09-08, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e7a55444d7a457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/IX9m2]
* "Longquan Celadon Tour kicks off at UN headquarters" (2018-09-10, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/11/c_137460430.htm) [archive.is/fb0Vu] [begin excerpt]: With a history of more than 1600 years, Longquan celadon started in the Three Kingdoms (220-280 AD), flourished in the Song (9601279) and Yuan dynasties (1279-1368), and resurged in the contemporary era. Longquan has thus been one of the most famous ceramics capitals in China.
In 2009, Longquan celadon's traditional firing technique was listed by UNESCO in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the only ceramic project appearing in list so far. [end excerpt]
* "Ancient Glories: Preserving Guge Kingdom ruins in Tibet Autonomous Region" (2018-09-09, news.cgtn.com/news/7763544d77494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/share_p.html) [archive.is/IA9QY]
* "China's long-lost national treasures put on display" (2018-09-10, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d336b444d7a457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/QpWFf]
* "Three 500-year-old Holy Statues Damaged in Botched Restoration Job" (2018-09-10, ancient-origins.net/news-general/holy-statues-damaged-0010679) [archive.is/C7Zjs]
- image caption: Ecce Hommo by Elias Garcia Martinez was destroyed in 2012 by a failed restoration attempt.
“Folks, there’s nothing left from the Linguistics division. We lost all the indigenous languages collection: the recordings since 1958, the chants in all the languages for which there are no native speakers alive anymore, the Curt Niemuendaju archives: papers, photos, negatives, the original ethnic-historic-linguistic map localizing all the ethnic groups in Brazil, the only record that we had from 1945. The ethnological and archeological references of all ethnic groups in Brazil since the 16th century… An irreparable loss of our historic memory. It just hurts so much to see all in ashes.”
Cinda Gonda, translated by Diogo Almeida, about the fire at Brazil’s National Museum.
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* "Alien, military experiment, or simple reflection? Strange object spotted over NC" (2018-09-04, rt.com/usa/437572-ufo-north-carolina-hill/) [archive.is/AFVkG]
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