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...through - Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, Crusaders - leaving behind buildings or burial places or artifacts. Which is why there were about 300 active digs this year in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza - an area no bigger than New Jersey. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...Religion, the pre-eminent conference on Bible scholarship in the world, they were out in force. And while there were differences among what individual scholars believed, radical minimalist John Van Seters of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, summed up many of their commonly held positions. The oldest books of the Old Testament, he declared with Pope-like confidence, weren't written until the Israelites were in exile in Babylon, after 587 B.C. There was no Moses, no crossing of the sea, no revelation on Mount Sinai...
Harvard's No. 4 player, sophomore Rishaad Bilimoria, also faced the oldest player currently competing at the collegiate level, 31 year-old Diplomat Patrick Grant. In this case, older and wiser proved to be a little too old and wise--Bilimoria handily defeated Grant 3-0, leaving the old man literally sprawled on the ground afterwards and gasping...
...long animal that flourished in the Cambrian oceans 525 million years ago. From its flexible but sturdy spinal rod, the scientists deduced that this animal - dubbed Yunnanozoon lividum, after the Chinese province in which it was found - was a primitive chordate, the oldest ancestor yet discovered of the vertebrate branch of the animal kingdom, which includes Homo sapiens...
More bad news for Nick Leeson. Two days after the former Barings Bank trader was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for the $1.38 billion in unauthorized trades that brought down Britain's oldest bank, he was hit with a court order seeking to prevent him from making money on his story. The order bars Leeson, his wife and his lawyer from earning money by selling their version of the Barings collapse story while Leeson is in Singapore. A lawyer for Leeson says his client, who has signed a deal reportedly five-figure deal to write his life story...