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Thursday Treasures: Ancient Coins at the MFA

Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston is a treasure in and of itself. It is stunningly beautiful, and absolutely packed with some of the most incredible examples of art, from pre-history to the modern era. They have a new gallery of ancient coins which is apparently “the only permanent exhibition space for ancient coins in [...]

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Another Earthquake in Iran, 600-year-old Murder Mystery, and Armor Piercing Cannonballs

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

  Today, the news is rightfully dominated by the marathon bombings in Boston, but while we’re mourning, reading about news in other parts of the world might be a helpful distraction. Here’s your weekly round-up of rock-related news. Geology For the second week in a row, a major earthquake strikes Iran, this time in the southern [...]

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Thursday Treasures: The Great Torc

Thursday, April 11, 2013

What kid doesn’t dream of finding buried treasure? In 1948, in an obscure area of England called Snettisham, that dream came true for a plowman who literally happened upon a treasure hoard. Over the next several decades (through the early 1990′s) hundreds of gold and silver artifacts were unearthed from that same farmland. Coins, bracelets, and other [...]

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Topical Tuesday: Archaeology and Geology News

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

There is so much rock news going on in the world, it’s hard to keep up with it all. So from now on, on Tuesdays, I’m going to try to aggregate some of the rock-based stories that may or may not be making headlines, but are all worth taking at least a brief look at.

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Context, Calcite and Vikings

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The vikings are in the news again, and not just for their new show on the History Channel. I’ve talked about calcite’s amazing optical properties before, but completely failed to mention* the theory that calcite is potentially the same as a tool called the sunstone, rumored to be used by viking navigators to navigate the [...]

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