I'm behind on replies and I apologize. On-going Mason Anxiety has eaten a fair amount of my brain.

I can offer some cool geekage on some lovely work being done with fancy technology and really, really old stuff, though. Behold!

What's inside Tonga's ancient tombs? Remote sensors probe Tu'i Tonga's graveI really had to fight the urge to add a ( Read more... )

Qing Dynasty female mummy found in Chongqing

I'm looking for more information on this since the estimated age of the tomb doesn't reconcile with the Qing Dynasty period. [ETA: I'm guessing that it's an error in the translation, rather than a deeply weird entombment in the early 1900s.Still, very cool that this amazing mummy was found in such a ( Read more... )