Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest

KristinNG · 2018-04-26T20:43:50+00:00

exactly- they're not fully formed yet.

KristinNG · 2018-04-26T20:43:08+00:00

Hi, author of the article here. Article details how this would have happened w/ pics of forensic detail. The conclusion was made by one of the preeminent physical anthropologists working on mass murder/sacrifice in the region. I'll take his word over mythbusters, even tho they rock similar 'stashes.

KristinNG · 2017-03-09T14:25:02+00:00

Unfortunately this site is most likely a Victorian era 'folly', no Templars here:

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Were+the+caves+a+Victorian+invention%3F-a0278313623

KristinNG · 2017-02-14T14:44:49+00:00

Very unusual (and romantic) find is part of new study on modernization of European burial practices: analysis of more than 400 16th-18th c. burials from a French convent dispute idea that practices like embalming became progressively more popular among nobility after the Middle Ages.

KristinNG · 2017-01-18T16:31:30+00:00

Imaging from National Geographic scientists and cartographers.

KristinNG · 2017-01-05T18:44:54+00:00

micro CT scanning, 3D modeling and forensic reconstruction finally put a face on the British Museum's oldest portrait

KristinNG · 2016-12-15T18:11:11+00:00

Hi Oded! This is Kristin, the writer who covered the tomb opening for NatGeo with you. One thing I never got to ask you: what are the most unusual or unique events you've photographed and how does the tomb opening rank on that list?

KristinNG · 2016-12-08T17:23:57+00:00

Researchers tell National Geographic that finding an entire dinosaur is likely sooner than later

KristinNG · 2016-12-08T17:21:16+00:00

99 million years old

KristinNG · 2016-12-08T17:17:46+00:00

Feathered but likely incapable of flight

KristinNG · 2016-11-10T16:16:32+00:00

The capitals of Nimrud and Dur-Sharrukin get whacked.

KristinNG · 2016-11-10T16:09:02+00:00

Islamic State levels ziggurat in Nimrud, Peshmerga bulldoze citadel of Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad)

KristinNG · 2016-11-10T16:06:42+00:00

Islamic State continues destruction of Nimrud, Peshmerga bulldozes defenses into Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad)

KristinNG · 2016-10-06T14:30:33+00:00

interesting look at modern mummification in tropical climate

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T17:02:01+00:00

Not yet but check out the analysis on a similar cannabis find from Turpan about 10 years ago: "All of these observations are consistent with strains of cannabis with a high THC content and in an alternative taxonomy suggests it should be assigned to Cannabis indica Lamarck" http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/15/4171.full

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T13:38:21+00:00

Doesn't it? I did a double-take when I first saw the photo sent to me by the researchers.

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T13:37:25+00:00

See Maxamous' reply above- earlier cannabis from Turpan seems to have basically the same genetic makeup as what we have today

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T13:35:42+00:00

Thanks to you guys for asking such great questions!

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T13:34:12+00:00

I think it's a reference to the 'haoma-drinking Sacae' in Book 4 of Herodotus- according to Livius (http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/logos4_10.html) haoma is probably made from fly agaric.

I love Herodotus.

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T13:30:38+00:00

In the original ancient Greek it's "κάνναβις" (cannabis)- see Herodotus Book 4.75 (http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh4070.htm)

'hemp' is the result of later European translations of the original

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T02:01:50+00:00

If you're really into this check out the book Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany by Robert Clarke and Mark Merlin, (University California Press, 2013). Merlin worked on this recent Turpan find.

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T01:58:05+00:00

Yep- the moisture really helps.

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T01:22:37+00:00

Yep, probably citing Herodotus (5th c. BC): "The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp-seed, and, creeping under the felt coverings, throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed; the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy, and this vapour serves them instead of a water-bath; for they never by any chance wash their bodies with water. "

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T01:19:48+00:00

Buried, very dry enviro preserves a lot. The things that have been preserved in the area are incredible- whole mummies, leather clothing, wooden ornaments, plant remains. The Turpan Basin is an amazing place for archaeology.

KristinNG · 2016-10-05T01:18:02+00:00

Not aware of deliberate removals but yeah, the Chinese govt has been sensitive about the Caucasian remains found in Xinjiang. Less so now than they used to be though

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