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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Ancient Warning

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Does the 9,000-year-old painting -- found on a wall buried in the ancient Turkish settlement of Çatalhöyük -- show a village in front of an erupting volcano? Researchers now believe, through the use of mineral dating and geochemical tests, that the volcano shown in the painting is the nearby Mt. Hasan, found 70 miles from the settlement site.

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