There have been a couple of interesting finds dug up recently that might be of interest to anyone with kids who like that sort of stuff. Personally, this news will intrigue my older one. My younger one, just likes to dig. I mean really. Give her a bald patch of grass, the reddish dirt of a baseball diamond (lovely to get out of clothing as I'm sure many of you know!), or a sandbox and some sort of digging tool (stick, rock, shell, bottle cap, bottle, her fingers) and she's diggin'! She's done this since she was two and now she's seven and shows no signs of stopping. I figure if we take my sons interest in history and her interest in getting dirty, they could make a great archaeology team one day. I can see it now... My cell phone rings. It's Kyle: "Hi Mom! Yeah, so we just found the Ark of the Covenant! No, really! It's on the scopes. It'll be a while, though. Yeah, Mandy insists on reaching it using a spoon. Oh, and those brand new jeans you bought her for Christmas? Yeah, well, they're toast."
Anyway, an older child won't have trouble making sense of this article that talks about how they just found Hebrew text on a shard near an ancient excavated home. It appears to be older than the Dead Sea Scrolls. You might want to help out younger archaeology enthusiasts, though. http://www.physorg.com/news144596633.html
I had to laugh at this article: Dinosaur Dance Floor I had visions of T-Rex's doing the tango, and Apatosaurus doing the Macarena. It's actually about new areas of concentrated dinosaur tacks.
And, when it comes to dinosaurs...everything old is new again (http://www.livescience.com/technology/081008-pterodactyl-revival.html) Live Science talks about how they're designing flying drones that resemble pterosaus in flight. We're talking morphing wings and flying between buildings. Celebrities better hope the paparazzi don't get hold of these things one day!
One day, I hope to include the discovery of something my daughter has unearthed. So far, she's only found a few coins, some ticked off worms, some strange bug that made her run away screaming (still don't know what that was,) and additions to her "rock collection."
Anyway, if your kids wind up intrigued by these stories, let me know!
