Analysis

By Ferrell Jenkins Because the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek it is necessary that someone translate it into English and other languages so that it can be read by those with little or no knowledge of the original languages. Most of us realize this. Perhaps we do not see as readily that the...
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Man has a great desire to learn about the past.  Determination of how old relics from the past are is of great importance to everyone involved in studying the past, and as a consequence scientists have developed numerous methods to determine the age of old things.  Many of these methods depend upon "radioactivity", which...
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Dr Rosalie David and her colleagues at the Manchester University Museum in the United Kingdom are studying ancient mummies in order to trace the origin and progress of diseases. What has not been apparent before is the scope of this ambitious project: the museum has written to eight thousand other musea around the world,...
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Some people have easy jobs – the post of taster in an ice-cream factory springs to mind as one that would be the envy of every small boy. Other people have exotic jobs – fruit fly inseminator, for example, or the man whose task it is to grade llama wool. I suppose the ideal...
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It is thought that the first vehicles of transportation invented were in the arctic north of Europe, where composite wooden sledges were dragged across the frozen tundra by sheer brute strength. The first Middle-Eastern evidence of the use of a vehicle to carry a load comes from the Linear Script of Mesopotamia and our...
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Pula, in Istria, has a splendid collection of Roman remains – the Zlatna Vrata or Golden Gate, the sixth largest amphitheatre in the world, several splendid mosaics and a hill-top crowned with a maze of ruins that include a lovely theatre and various other buildings. At the bottom of the hill, however, is the...
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