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Cave of the Warrior     This exhibition features a rare find from the fourth millennium BC. The Cave of the Warrior, near Jericho, held a unique burial assemblage including the oldest bow known to be preserved in the Near East. The exhibition also presents objects found in other regional burial sites of the time. From Cave of the Warrior | American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/cave/

Return of the Looted Treasures     Five cardboard boxes showed up at the Geographic one morning. Their contents: priceless Maya artifacts to be returned to Mesoamerica. Get the story and eye treasures long locked away from public view. From Looted Treasures @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/treasures/index.html

Ballard and the Black Sea     The search for Noah's flood. Almost every culture on Earth includes an ancient flood story. Details vary, but the basic plot is the same: Deluge kills all but a lucky few. From Black Sea @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/

Savage earth online     From the legendary fury of Mt. Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D. to the devastating convulsion of Kobe, Japan, in 1994. Scientists struggle to understand, and the people whose lives are forever changed. From SAVAGE EARTH Online http://www.wnet.org/savageearth/

Amber: Window to the Past     For more than 11,000 years, people have collected, traded, carved, and examined amber; yet much about the substance remains a mystery. For example, no one is certain how amber manages to preserve the organisms entrapped in it (called "inclusions") so exquisitely. It is thought that terpenes, compounds that become linked as the resin hardens, help to preserve the inclusions by dehydrating the organisms and killing any bacteria that might cause decay. From American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/amber/

Chauvet-Pont-d'arc Cave     Exceptional archeological discovery of a decorated cave. In 1995, fantastic Paleolithic Period cave paintings in the Ardèche gorges of France. Includes photos of several paintings and a discussion of the archaeological importance of the discovery. Also lists other significant French prehistoric finds. From ERROR http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/

Strange Science     The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology. A collection of misguided attempts to explain natural history, including honest and dishonest mistakes about dinosaurs, mammals, sea monsters and prehistoric beasts. Includes a timeline of important events, biographies of early scientists and artists, and references. From Strange Science: The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology http://www.strangescience.net/

Talk.origins     Collection of articles written by various evolution vs. creationism devotees. Articles are selected from Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology. From Browse the Talk.Origins Archive http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs.html