Archäologie

Apache Junction, AZ-- Charles Lindbergh is best known for his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane The Spirit of St.

Archaeology is also technology. This digital arm records the archaeological remains of a medieval cog, in order to make a 3D model, Cog of Doel, Antwerp, Belgium.

A codex-style flask from Mexico, dated to the year 700, bears Mayan hieroglyphics reading "y-otoot 'u-may," translated as "the home of its/his/her tobacco." Researchers have identified traces of nicotine inside a 1,300-year-old Mayan flask, confirming the vessel's ancient use and providing the earliest chemical evidence of tobacco in Maya culture.

Researchers have appealed for information relating to Fetternear, which was the scene of a major 16-year archaeological excavation, which ended last year.

For the Mayans, a famously wise and advanced civilisation which was at its height between 250 and 900AD in the present-day Mexican state of Yucatan and Guatemala, have grabbed everyone's attention.

Excavation directors say find is important because it proves Jewish community existed in region that was Christian at the time.

A DECISION on the controversial Polegate wind farm plans will now be made in the spring so planners can get archaeological information.