New piece of Dead Sea Scrolls jigsaw discovered after 60 years
Reuters | Mar 16, 2021 03:42 PM EDT
A recently-discovered scroll fragment of an ancient biblical text is seen at Israel Antiquities Authority laboratories in Jerusalem (Photo : REUTERS/Ammar Awad)
Israeli archaeologists racing against treasure hunters to search caves near the Dead Sea have discovered a trove of artefacts, including fragments of a biblical text, the like of which has not been seen for decades.
The finds, preserved by the hot, dry air of the Judean desert, also include the 6,000-year-old partly mummified skeleton of a child, and a perfectly intact, finely woven basket dating back 10,500 years that the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Tuesday was likely to be the oldest in the world.
Ynys Fraser obituary: 103-year-old Rotorua legend dies
15 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM
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An important piece of Rotorua history is gone with the death of 103-year-old treasure Ynys Fraser QSM.
The gracious and dignified Fraser has been described as a one-off who had a wonderful sense of fun.
Her family said she was born to dance and she lived so long simply because she loved life.
Among Fraser s long list of community services was being a patron of the Friends of QE Health, Charter member of Zonta, a member of various U3A groups and an active member of Friends of the Rotorua Museum.
Sideswipe: March 16: A west end town, a dead end world?
15 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Edible evidence Imagine the indignation of returning to your home to find that not only has it been ransacked, but the perpetrator took a massive bite out of that lovely sausage you were saving (is nothing sacred?!). That s exactly what happened to a homeowner in the Rocholzalle in Gevelsberg, Germany, back in 2012. Nine years on, police finally have the identity of the perpetrator thanks to evidence of their guilt all over the remaining sausage. Officers took DNA from a half-eaten sausage but a search returned no matches at the time and the guilty party went free. That was, until they committed an unrelated crime and the arresting officers took a sample of their DNA. At last, an automated piece of tech was able to find a match for the Great Sausage Case of 2012 - a 30-year-old Albanian citizen. Unfortunately for the victim of the burglary, the statute of limitati
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There s sponge gunge and packed plug holes, but damp, used towels are also a source of bacteria in the bathroom and the kind of fungi that causes athlete s foot can live on towels and even cause infections in cut or sensitive skin. So, if you don t want to wash your bathroom towels every single day, are heated towel racks the way to go, do they really do what they re supposed to do and are they really worth it?
Dr Cameron Jones is the Director of Biological Health Services and he s chatting with ABC Radio Brisbane Afternoons presenter Kat Feeney.
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