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Caveat lector: the usual exaggeration found in sensational reporting also occurs here....
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Has the DNA of Jesus Christ been found?

MICHAEL POSNER

Globe and Mail Update

From here

January 19, 2007
Sue Leeman
Associated press

LONDON – Mary Martin is 72 now, but still remembers the pain of being labelled "witch-spawn" and "evil eye" by classmates because her grandmother was one of the last people jailed in Britain over witchcraft charges.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.12.36
David Frankfurter, Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and
Ritual Abuse in History. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2006. Pp. 312; 10 halftones. ISBN 0-691-11350-5. $29.95.

Sun 7 Jan 2007
Climate key to Sphinx's riddle
JEREMY WATSON (jwatson@scotlandonsunday.com)

From here

The Cyrus Cylinder, discovered in 1879 and now in the British Museum, is a cuneiform document in the shape of a small barrel, commissioned by Cyrus the Great of Persia.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.12.08
Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire:
Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. Oxford: Oxford University

Probably some more over-reacting....

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Vatican confirms St Paul's coffin has been found
Desmond O'Grady in Rome and agencies
December 9, 2006

After a lot of exaggeration concerning Judas when the Gospel of Judas was published, here is some more exaggeration in the other direction... :) [in other words, with the exception of the press, the inside crowd knew better in the first place...]

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provide the Earliest Evidence of Religion--

70,000-year-old African ritual practices linked to mythology of modern Botswanans:

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Ancient Moon 'computer' revisited
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

The delicate workings at the heart of a 2,000-year-old analogue computer have been revealed by scientists.

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