Role of freedom fighters Dr Diwan Singh Kalepani, Baba Prithvi Singh Azad discussed at symposium


Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 2
The roles and experiences of Dr Diwan Singh Kalepani and Baba Prithvi Singh Azad were highlighted during a symposium titled ‘Cellular (Kalepani) Jail: Experiential Narratives’, organised by Shaheed Dr Diwan Singh Memorial Trust in association with Baba Prithvi Singh Azad Chair, Panjab University.
Highlighting the role of Punjabis in the freedom…
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Source: https://m.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/role-of-freedom-fighters-discussed-at-symposium-549870

Valley News – Archeologists seek clues to the past at Ely Mine site in Vershire 

VERSHIRE — For much of the 19th century, plumes of sulfur dioxide settled over the community of workers living at Vershire’s Ely Mine. Heavier than air, the toxic smoke produced from copper mining sunk to the valley floor, withering vegetation and scorching the lungs of the miners who breathed it day in, day out.Today, waste rock and tailings from the extraction process have drawn the Environmental Protection Agency, or the EPA, back to the site for a federally-funded cleanup, which…
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Source: https://www.vnews.com/Ely-Mine-Archaeology-52373440

‘An Archeology of Silence’ Exhibit at De Young Museum is Something to Talk About

By Daisha WilliamsPost Staff
Kehinde Wiley’s new exhibit “An Archeology of Silence” made its U.S. premiere at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco. The exhibit, which opened in March, runs through Oct. 18, and is free to all Bay Area residents on weekends.
According to his website, Kehinde Wiley is an American artist born in Los Angeles in 1977 and is best known for his portraits that render people of color in the traditional settings of Old Master…
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Source: https://www.postnewsgroup.com/an-archeology-of-silence-exhibit-at-de-young-museum-is-something-to-talk-about/amp/

LiDAR leads to locating Roman roads

The ruins of an ancient Roman bridge. ©stock.adobe.com/au/shpak

A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall in the UK and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties, as well as wider Britannia, has been discovered.

Archaeologists at the University of Exeter have used laser scans collected as part of the Environment Agency’s National LiDAR Programme to identify new sections of road west of the previously understood…
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Source: https://www.spatialsource.com.au/lidar-leads-to-locating-roman-roads/

War elephants: How Carthage used a ‘psychological’ weapon the Romans failed to master | Culture

Mythology, literature, painting, art, scientific studies… Everything is intermingled in the story of the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca (247-183 B.C.) and his legendary passage through the Alps with 37 African elements to launch his attack on Rome. The recent discovery in Córdoba of a carpal (hand bone) — possibly from one of Hannibal’s specimens or from one of the pachyderms that also accompanied Julius Caesar on his campaigns in Hispania — has placed new focus on a scientific…
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Source: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-02/war-elephants-how-carthage-used-a-psychological-weapon-the-romans-failed-to-master.html?outputType=amp

The dead of Nagarjuna Sagar tell why India needs greater adoption of ‘salvage archaeology’

In the 1950s, salvage (or rescue) archaeology helped not only in collection of ancient relics or documentation of monuments and buildings but in the case of Nagarjunakonda paved the way for transplantation and replication of now submerged relics. Today, on an island in the middle of the reservoir, there is an open-air museum of salvaged ruins and replicas of the monuments and structures unearthed during the excavation.
The resurfacing of 200 burials at Nagarjuna Sagar are a reminder that…
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Source: https://theprint.in/opinion/the-dead-of-nagarjuna-sagar-tell-why-india-needs-greater-adoption-of-salvage-archaeology/1786242/?amp

HC Moragoda bids farewell to Indian Finance Minister

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Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda who is to complete his tenure in Delhi shortly, paid a farewell call on India’s Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Finance Ministry in New Delhi.
The High Commissioner expressed his appreciation to Minister Sitharaman for the support and guidance she provided during his tenure. HC Moragoda thanked the Minister for her personal intervention in providing Sri Lanka with close to US$ 4 billion to…
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Source: https://www.dailynews.lk/2023/10/02/local/148100/hc-moragoda-bids-farewell-to-indian-finance-minister/

Archaeologists stunned by nest of ancient humans found inside cave | Science | News

French cave home to earliest drawings wins World Heritage status France is home to many ancient caves whose war shelter once protected ancient humans from the elements.Several breakthrough discoveries have been made at caves like the world-famous Lascaux.But another cave, Grotte de Cussac, previously caught headlines after the remains of prehistoric hunter-gatherers were found inside its intricate system of tunnels.Located in the southwest of the country, the remains were some 30,000 years…
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Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1817499/archaeology-ancient-humans-history-spt/amp