Israel criticizes UNESCO

A United Nations committee has voted to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank as a World Heritage Site in Palestine. The decision, which has been criticized by Israel, was made at a meeting of the UN World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Read more…

Quote of the Day

The handful of inbred, power-mad pharaohs who financed the building of the pyramids in pursuit of ego-driven immortality, or the millions of forgotten foragers who accepted without struggle the universal fate of all that lives, their bodies long-since dissolved back into dust without monument or complaint? If death is the Read more…

Break from the Crowd

We cannot contain this virus and people will die.   The earth is overpopulated and standard characteristic of a virus is to remove weaker parts of a group.   America has more deaths than other countries. A sad commentary on the state of our obsess, sedentary, diabetic health.   Get Read more…

Kevin Palmer Arizona

LONG LIVE WINE

2,600-year-old wine ‘factory’ unearthed in Lebanon The oldest press found in the country was used by ancient Phoenicians to manufacture vintages once adored around the Mediterranean. Archaeologists have unearthed new evidence of the extensive overseas trade in wine by the ancient Phoenicians, with the discovery of the oldest wine press Read more…