June 29, 2008
Canopus in Al-Ahram

Assem Deif has featured Canopus and my conclusions about this star in his regular contribution to the Al-Ahram Weekly. I am especially pleased as this is an Egyptian newspaper, and Deif is a professor of mathematics at Cairo University and Misr University for Science and Technology. Let us hope that the item generates some interest, so that Canopus one day can be restored to its proper place in the night’s sky.

June 29, 2008
Knollapalooza

I am pleased to have been invited to attend a cyber conference – the Knollapalooza – hosted by the Anomaly Audio Network. The event is a 13-hour marathon that will be held Saturday, July 5, beginning at 2 pm and ending Sunday, July 6, at 3 am. Admission for Knollapalooza is $10. Those who register will be given a username and password the day of the marathon that will provide access to the stream. It is definitely a novel method of conference organisation.

June 27, 2008
A new light on the life of Otto Rahn

New Dawn Magazine is devoting a large portion of their latest issue (no. 109, July-August) to Agarttha and related subjects. I have contributed an article on Otto Rahn and the obsession with the search for the Holy Grail that was dear to the heart of Heinrich Himmler. Though this is a very popular subject, I believe that the article is able to provide new insights, and place the entire saga within its proper framework.

June 2, 2008
Mitchell-Hedges and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls

The latest issue of NEXUS Magazine carries my article on the circumstances in which the Mitchell-Hedges skull was likely discovered. The article was written over six months ago, but was held back to coincide with the release of the movie.
It is a remarkable coincidence how this article corresponds with part of the plotline of the new Indiana Jones movie. Note how in the movie, Indiana Jones explains how he once rode – “well, technically I was kidnapped” – with Pancho Villa. It is then learned that Harry Oxley and Indiana Jones have been obsessed with the skull – in the movie, actually the Mitchell-Hedges skull – since university, and the plot of the film is actually around Indy trying to find out where Oxley has disappeared to – which leads them to the kingdom of the crystal skull. Well, make this the story of Mitchell-Hedges – who rode – i.e. was kidnapped – by Pancho Villa and Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared somewhere in Mexico… and you might have the true story of how the Mitchell-Hedges skull was discovered. Or how art…?
Want to know more? NEXUS Magazine says it all – or at least opens the way that will lead to the truth.

May 27, 2008
The Palace of the Ark?

The Ark of the Covenant continues to intrigue. The discovery of the remains of the palace of the Queen of Sheba by Professor Helmut Ziegert, of the archaeological institute at the University of Berlin, in Aksum, northern Ethiopia, is the latest twist in the tale. “From the dating, its position and the details that we have found, I am sure that this is the palace,” Ziegert said. After she died, her son and successor, Menelek, allegedly born out of the union of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, replaced the palace with a temple dedicated to Sirius. The German researchers believe that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem by the Queen and built into the altar to Sirius.
“The results we have suggest that a Cult of Sothis developed in Ethiopia with the arrival of Judaism and the Ark of the Covenant, and continued until 600AD”. Sothis is the ancient Greek name for the star Sirius.
As can be expected, many archaeologists are somewhat upset with Ziegert, as they believe that their profession should not be in the business of myth-chasing. Indiana Jones, they do not want to be… seen as.

May 19, 2008
Archaeology versus living traditions

The crystal skulls war, waged in the shadow of the new Indiana Jones movie, has brought about a divide, which only few journalists seem to have noticed: that between archaeologists and their claims/interpretations, and that of anthropology/living traditions. For example: archaeologists stick around Jane Walsh, who almost single-handedly leads the archaeologists’ assault, claiming that all crystal skulls are 19th century fabrications. Yet it is clear that Mayans in Middle America have a living tradition about a gathering of the skulls. Indeed, social beliefs change over time, but the Guatemalan shamans were uttering these beliefs before the crystal skulls achieved any notoriety whatsoever, suggesting their opinions were genuinely their own – which implies also that archaeologists have it dead wrong.
For example, in the jungles of southern Mexico, the Lacandon, the last unassimilated Mayas, still have communities that worship crystal skulls. In the shadow of the Palenque ruins, Lacandon priest K'in Garcia fans copal incense and holds a heavy crystal skull above his head during ceremonies for Hacha'kyum, the Mayan god of creation. Garcia, the son of the Lancandon's most respected elder, Chan Kin, believes the skull has special powers, including the ability to stave off sickness and deforestation in the rain forest where the last Lacandon still live. "When I am alone at night, at about 2 a.m., it starts to glow, it emits light, and it stays like that for about a minute," says Garcia, underlining that in his eyes, the skull has otherworldy, if not supernatural, connotations.

In the run-up to the movie, I highlighted in certain interviews that whatever is occurring, as we head towards 2012, there is one clear new development, which is that the Mayans, after centuries of oppression, are now becoming ever stronger, ever more socially sure about their self-identity, and their desire to have social respect. A most remarkable change for the better occurred on April 23, when a television station that once was the voice of the Guatemalan military dictatorship that had massacred thousands of Mayans, showed the glyph of the day from the millennial Mayan calendar and announced itself as ''TV Maya: Guatemala's multi-cultural station.''
The station, funded by the Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages (ALMG), broadcasts for 30 minutes, three times a day, showing programs that teach Mayan culture, worldview and language. Its programs are broadcast in indigenous languages with Spanish subtitles.
The station will be of particular importance in healing the wounds of the past and creating unity in Guatemala, a country that is sixty percent indigenous, with 22 different linguistic groups of Maya, as well as Garifuna and Xinca. It continues the country's commitment to peace accords made in 1996, after the Guatemalan military adopted a ''scorched earth'' policy in its efforts to fight leftist guerillas. That policy left more than 200,000 people dead, most of them rural Mayans. It is a massacre that has, as is usual for Central and Southern America, hardly received any attention from the international media – not even from those who claim to help Mayan knowledge enter the West.
With the rise of the Maya, there might be an interest clash on the horizon, once they have the self-assurance to “pick a fight” with the archaeologists who, from their ivory towers in “Colonial Headquarters” seem to continue to dictate what the truth should be – rather than is.

May 13, 2008
Put faces to names

Some months ago, a friend of mine forcefully “told” me I “really” “should be” on Facebook – so I did. Sceptical about social networking sites as such (friends have your phone numbers and email address, right?), Facebook did turn out to be a one-stop access to know what friends are up to. And I also discovered that friends of friends could quickly become your friends too.
Take, for example, Susanne Waitt, who was a friend of Jack Sarfatti. As I would be in Malta, and I saw that she was listed as living in Malta, we easily arranged to meet up, and then found out – even before meeting – that we had more friends in common, as well as her being the co-organiser of a conference in Malta, together with Peter Lloyd, whom I met – with Jack – at Uri Geller’s house.
It gets even weirder when one of her best friends – though not something you can find out via Facebook – is Karen Allen, the actress who plays – how to put it – Indiana Jones’ “love interest”, and who also makes a reappearance in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Not only does Facebook seem to prove you truly are only six people removed from the rest of Mankind, it also reveals that there is no such thing as a coincidence… like us ending up after dinner in front of the church of Saint Lawrence.

May 9, 2008
New Dawn covers Moon Wars

The May-June 2008 issue of New Dawn Magazine is carrying my article on “Moon Wars” as its feature article. The article queries what is going on with NASA: whether there is evidence of faked moon landings, or extra-terrestrial contact – and what precisely the role of the military-industrial complex is in all of this. Like NEXUS, New Dawn is Australian, but not available at newsstands in the UK or US. By sheer coincidence - or is that synchronicity? - when taking out a subscription to the magazine now, you will receive a copy of The Templar Revelation!

April 30, 2008
Pyramid concrete

There are three phases to new ideas. At first, there is a refusal or denial, then ridicule or mockery, before there is acceptance. There is a fourth, in which everyone pretends they were all onboard from the very start. Something similar is currently occurring on the “are the blocks of the pyramid hewn or poured, like concrete?” debate.
First proposed by Joseph Davidovits, one of the world authorities on geopolymers, the cause is now also taken up by Linn W. Hobbs, professor of materials science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hobbs is building a scale-model pyramid in his sixth-floor lab, a construction made of quarried limestone as well as concrete-like blocks cast from crushed limestone sludge fortified with dollops of kaolinite clay, silica, and natural desert salts - called natron - like those used by ancient Egyptians to mummify corpses.
In newspaper reports, Hobbs has stated that he believes that mainstream archaeologists have been too contemptuous of work by “other scientists” – read: Davidovits – suggesting the possibility of concrete. “The degree of hostility aimed at experimentation is disturbing,” Hobbs said. “Too many big egos and too many published works may be riding on the idea that every pyramid block was carved, not cast.”
Though Egyptologists continue to pretend their paradigm is safe, in 2006, research by Michel W. Barsoum at Philadelphia's Drexel University found that samples of stone from parts of the Khufu Pyramid were microstructurally different from limestone blocks. Barsoum, a professor of materials engineering, said microscope, X-ray, and chemical analysis of scraps of stone from the pyramids “suggest a small but significant percentage of blocks on the higher portions of the pyramids were cast” from concrete.
When Barsoum, a native of Egypt, went public with these findings, he said he was unprepared for the onslaught of angry criticism that greeted the peer-reviewed research by himself and scientists Adrish Ganguly of Drexel and Gilles Hug of France's National Center for Scientific Research. “You would have thought I claimed the pyramids were carved by lasers,” Barsoum said. Take for example Zahi Hawass’ reaction to Hobb’s announcements, stating “It's highly stupid. The pyramids are made from solid blocks of quarried limestone. To suggest otherwise is idiotic and insulting.”

For more on the “concrete debate”, see my book “The New Pyramid Age”. To meet Joseph Davidovits, come to the Histories & Mysteries Conference 2008, sponsored by Nexus Magazine, in Edinburgh, Saturday November 22.

April 25, 2008
Ever older Peruvian pyramids

Archaeologists have found a 5,500-year-old ceremonial plaza at Sechin Bajo, in Casma, 229 miles north of Lima, the capital. It contained a platform pyramid that was originally possibly up to 100 metres tall. Carbon dating shows it is one of the oldest structures ever found in the Americas. Nearly 2,000 years later, another structure measuring 180 by 120 metres was added onto it.
The discovery at Sechin Bajo means this pyramid complex is now even older than Caral – and both are much older than the first Egyptian pyramid of Zoser at Saqqara. The discovery occurred by a team of the Latin American Institute at the Freie University in Berlin, under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Peter Fuchs. According to Dr. Juergen Golte, “The pyramids served both as prestige objects, but they were mainly built to signify a pathway to the gods.”

April 20, 2008
Indiana Jones in the land of pet theories

It is Indiana Jones, but you would think it is Don Quichote. In the run-up to the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, the establishment media has launched its crusade against crystal skulls. Archaeology has published a particularly bad article (no doubt because it had to be rushed into print) by Jane Walsh of the Smithsonian, while the Paris and British Museum skulls are being brought out with the specific notion that they are “fake”.
On April 18, the Quai Branly museum felt it had to release a press statement that the skull was “probably” made in the 19th century. Still, from May 20, coinciding with the Indiana Jones movie, the Paris skull goes on view. In the statement, the Quai Branly said results of an analysis of its skull in 2007-2008 by the country's C2RMF research and restoration centre "seem to indicate that it was made late in the 19th century." Note the word “seem”. Another article read: “The London skull was examined twice, in 1996 and 2004, and both studies tended to prove it was a fake, though the final conclusions have not been made public.” What are we to make of statements like “tended to prove”? There is either proof, or there isn’t.
All of the articles sing from the same hymn-sheet: how evidence of wheels “proves” they are not pre-Columbian; the Boban connection; the speculation about possible German origins. All of this “evidence” has been countered conclusively in my current article in NEXUS Magazine 15.3. Furthermore, the “German connection” is so unsubstantiated that even the newspaper and magazine articles use words like “may” or “could” – but there is no evidence for it. It is purely a theory by Jane Walsh, unsupported by any evidence.

The various stories that have been published, and no doubt will be published in the near future, highlight how badly one-sided the debate has become. And what are we to make of the “Skull of Doom” – also known as the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull – being labelled the “skull of destiny”?
AFP also decided it would invent its own variation of the “gathering of the skulls” legend, highlighting it either got that from a new age webpage, or just invented it altogether. Note no-one is quoted: “Each skull was supposed to correspond to 12 worlds in which human life was present. They were brought by the Itza, the ancient people of Atlantis, to their civilisation in order to pass on their knowledge to man. The 13th world, the land, also had its own crystal skull, and all 13 skulls were kept in a great pyramid by the Olmecs, the Mayas and ultimately the Aztecs. The Aztecs are said to have been responsible for the dispersal and loss of the skulls, which when brought together possessed great powers, including being lined up on the last day of the Maya calendar - December 21, 2012 - to prevent the earth from tipping over.” And one wonders why no-one is buying newspapers anymore!

On an altogether happier note, it appears, based from the press material that has gone out, that the Indiana Jones movie will be using the Akakor legend. For those familiar with the story, Akakor was indeed a “lost civilisation”, which was also linked with extra-terrestrial mythology, another theme that runs central in the new Indiana Jones movie.

April 18, 2008
Skullmania

Due to illness, BBC documentary presenter Gordon Hillman is unable to appear at next month’s Megalithomania in Glastonbury. I have been asked to fill his place and, seeing the weekend of the conference (May 17-18) will see the world premiere of the new Indiana Jones movie in Cannes, crystal skulls seem to be an appropriate theme for my lecture – also in light of a series of articles of mine that are currently running in NEXUS Magazine.
Megalithomania normally has an excellent line-up, and this year is no exception, with speakers like John Michell, Dave Furlong, David Hatcher Childress, Sam Osmanagich, Peter Marshall, Tom Graves, etc. So despite the late notice, I hope to see you in the shadow of the Tor! Also check out my Lectures section for other lectures so far confirmed for 2008.

April 4, 2008
Philip Coppens and the Origins of the Crystal Skull

Issue 15.3 of NEXUS magazine (April-May edition) is running my article “Origin & Symbolism of the Crystal Skulls”, which also formed the inspiration for the magazine’s cover. The article tackles the crystal skulls, arguing that they were most likely created in Central America and may have played an important role in the Mayan priests' re-enactment of their creation myth. I also address the sceptics’ pet theory that they were late 19th century creations. The next issue of NEXUS magazine will carry an article on how the Mitchell-Hedges skull may really have been discovered. Expect loud bangs and explosions when that article will come out – perhaps not coincidentally around the time when the Indiana Jones movie hits the big screen.

March 23, 2008
Covering the Grail

I think Easter Weekend is an appropriate time to “unveil” the full title and cover design of my next book, to be published January 24, 2009: “Servants of the Grail. The real-life characters of the Grail legend identified.” Indeed, this book will argue that Perceval and co. were real people – not fictional characters.
It will explain the true origins of both Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Grail accounts, and reveal what real events are at the foundation of these “stories”. It will also show the secondary, moral story that was woven into the account, which in itself is equally very enlightening. As patience is a virtue, it is therefore virtuous to tell you that you need to be patient for a further ten months before all will be revealed.

February 29, 2008
Seeing the whole pyramid

Giulio Magli of the mathematics department at Milan's Polytechnic University has largely agreed with conclusions previously drawn by Zahi Hawass that astronomical alignments and the landscape of the Giza plateau indicate that the two main pyramids, those identified with Pharaohs Khufu and Khafre, were not built in different stages, but planned as a single, grand project, “to state forever that his soul had joined the sun god”.
The study suggests that Khufu planned the construction of two pyramids, exactly as his father, Snefru, did in Dahshur. "What better way to prove this relationship than making the sun, himself, talk about it", said Magli. This particular fact is seen during the summer, when observers standing by the Sphinx can see a spectacular sunset between the two pyramids. "The sun setting between the two pyramids forms an ideal, giant replica of the hieroglyph Akhet," Magli said. Meaning "horizon", the hieroglyph held deep symbolic meaning for the ancient Egyptians. It was composed by the hieroglyph "djew", meaning "primeval mountain", and the sun setting or rising in between – adding further insight to a conclusion drawn in The New Pyramid Age, which is that the Giza plateau itself was an expression of the primeval hill.

February 22, 2008
Histories & Mysteries Conference

I have the pleasure to announce a new event for the UK: “The Histories & Mysteries Conference, sponsored by Nexus Magazine.” The conference will be held in Edinburgh, on Saturday, November 22, 2008. So far, confirmed speakers include: Sam Osmanagic, of Bosnian pyramids fame; Joseph Davidovits, of Great Pyramid fame; Stan Hall, of Gold Library fame; Harry Oldfield, of crystal and other technology fame; and I, of no fame whatsoever.
Not only do I hope that you will agree that this is an excellent line-up, but the venue too is magnificent. Not only is it right in the very centre of Edinburgh (just off Edinburgh Castle), but (apart from one venue in Bern) this is by far the most bedazzling venue of any conference I’ve attended or spoken at – and these include five star hotels. Worth the entry prize alone!

February 9, 2008
The end of times question posed by New Dawn

I was honoured to be invited to contribute an article for “Special Issue 4” of New Dawn Magazine, devoted to Prophecies and Predictions, asking whether the countdown has begun.
I am honoured that “Crop circles: Messages from the Timewave?” features with articles contributed by John Major Jenkins, José Argüelles, Barbara Hand Clow and many others.

February 8, 2008
Peacekeeping vandals

Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal and human figures created up to 6,000 years ago on Western Saharan rocks have been vandalised by United Nations peacekeepers, part of a mission that is known by its French acronym, Minurso, within the past two years.
Graffiti, some of it more than a metre high and sprayed with paint meant for use for marking routes, now blights the rock art at Lajuad, an isolated site known as Devil Mountain, which is regarded by the local Sahrawi population as a mystical place of great cultural significance.
Many of the UN “graffiti artists” signed and dated their work, revealing their identities and where they are from. One Croatian peacekeeper scrawled “Petar CroArmy” across a rock face that is otherwise covered with millennia old rock paintings. Officers from Russia, Egypt and Kenya were amongst the other “artists”. Julian J. Harston, head of Minurso, said that he had been shocked by the scale of the vandalism. After visiting two of the sites, including Devil Mountain, he said: “I was appalled. You’d think some of them would know better. These are officers, not squaddies.”
The extent of the damage is revealed in a report by Nick Brooks, of the University of East Anglia (UK), and Joaquim Soler, of the University of Gerona (Spain), which was passed to British newspaper The Times. It outlines the “severe vandalism”, saying that it “now appears to be an essentially universal practice when Minurso staff visit rock art sites . . . Minurso staff have felt entitled to destroy elements of Western Sahara’s and the Sahrawis’ cultural heritage, despite being aware of UN ethics in peacekeeping, and in breach of legislation enshrined in the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.”

February 3, 2008
Ancient Nazca iron ore mine found

Purdue University archaeologist Kevin J. Vaughn has discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine near Nazca that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore. "Archaeologists know people in the Old and New worlds have mined minerals for thousands and thousands of years. Iron mining in the Old World, specifically in Africa, goes back 40,000 years. And we know the ancient people in Mexico, Central America and North America were mining for various materials. There isn't much evidence for these types of mines. What we found is the only hematite mine, a type of iron also known as ochre, recorded in South America prior to the Spanish conquest. This discovery demonstrates that iron ores were important to ancient Andean civilizations."
In 2004 and 2005, Vaughn and his team excavated Mina Primavera, which is located in the Ingenio Valley of the Andes Mountains in southern Peru. The researchers determined that the mine is a human-made cave that was first created around 2,000 years ago. An estimated 3,710 metric tons was extracted from the mine during more than 1,400 years of use. The mine, which is nearly 700 cubic meters, is in a cliffside facing a modern ochre mine.

Vaughn hypothesizes that the Nazca people used the red-pigmented mineral primarily for ceramic paints, but they also could have used it as body paint, to paint textiles and even to paint adobe walls. Vaughn and his team discovered a number of artifacts in the mine, including corncobs, stone tools, and pieces of textiles and pottery. The age of the items was determined by radiocarbon dating, a process that determines age based on the decay of naturally occurring elements.
“Now that there is archaeological evidence that ancient cultures in the Andes were mining iron ore, it is important to give credit to New World civilizations”, Vaughn said. "Even though ancient Andean people smelted some metals, such as copper, they never smelted iron like they did in the Old World," he said. "Metals were used for a variety of tools in the Old World, such as weapons, while in the Americas, metals were used as prestige goods for the wealthy elite."

January 11, 2008
New arrivals

It is with great pleasure that just ahead of the fourth anniversary of this site, I announce two new arrivals: one is the birth of my godson, Daan. The other is the future publication – on January 24, 2009 – of my next book, “Servants of the Grail”, showing that the birthing process of a book takes longer than the gestation of a child.
The – very – few who know what the outline of this book is, are all in agreement that it is nothing short of spectacular. Alas, as my bad timing would have it, it was written some years ago in the immediate aftermath of “The Da Vinci Code”, which meant that finding a publisher was problematic, trying to find a niche in a market that was more interested in quick-wins and re-editions than anything new and substantial that would detract from the main offering: Da Vinci Brownies. But with “The Da Vinci effect” now gone, the market is apparently looking for new challenges – and let’s hope that Servants of the Grail will be as spectacular as those who know its outline have agreed it is.
Daan’s arrival into this world was a matter of hours after I had completed the final revision of the manuscript – how about that for timing.

January 5, 2008
Egyptians in the Sahara desert

In “The Tassili n’Ajjer: birthplace of ancient Egypt?”, I queried whether the Sahara might be the birthplace of ancient Egypt – in line with the conclusions drawn by my good friend Wim Zitman, in his “Egypt, Image of Heaven”.
The crux of the problem is that Egyptologists have stubbornly refused to look west, and claim that Egypt was not only civilised from the east, but never even penetrated so far west – just like their ships never sailed on the Mediterranean Sea.
The consensus among Egyptologists is that the Egyptians did not penetrate the desert any further than the area around Djedefre’s Water Mountain, a sandstone hill about 80 kilometres south west of the Dakhla Oasis that contains hieroglyphic inscriptions. Its discovery in 2003 by the German explorer Carlo Bergmann already caused a sensation as it extended the activities of the Pharaonic administrations an unprecedented 80 kilometres further out into the unknown and waterless Western Desert.
Now, that dogma has been shattered by the recent discoveries made by Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai, from Malta and Egypt respectively, when surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the Libyan desert, some 700 kilometres west of the Nile Valley – 630 kilometres further than the previous frontier of Egyptian exploration.

Though the precise location of the site has not yet been revealed (a standard practice, especially as Egyptologists and journalists will only be invited to visit the site in February 2008), Borda and Marai have stated they discovered engravings on a large rock consisting of hieroglyphic writing, a Pharaonic cartouche, an image of the king and other Pharaonic iconography.
As soon as he emerged from the desert, Borda flew to London to discuss the find with Maltese Egyptologist Aloisia De Trafford from the Institute of Archaeology (University College London). She immediately facilitated a preliminary decipherment of the text via Joe Clayton, an ancient languages specialist who lectures on hieroglyphic writing at Birkbeck College at the same university.
Within a matter of days the short text was yielding astonishing revelations. In the annals of Egyptian history there are references to far off lands that the pharaohs had traded with, but none of these have ever been positively located. Borda states that the decipherment reveals that the region of their find is none other than the fabled land of Yam, one of the most famous and mysterious nations that the Egyptians had traded with in Old Kingdom times; a source of precious tropical woods and ivory.
“Its location has been debated by Egyptologists for over 150 years but it was never imagined it could be 700 kilometres west of the Nile in the middle of the Sahara desert.”
With the dogma now shattered, it is clear that the field is laid wide open for further explorations, but, of course, such explorations are also reliant on the right political conditions, which continue to stop further exploration of the Tassili region.

January 1, 2008
Best Wishes

First of all, I would like to add my name to the list of people wishing you the best for 2008. I would especially like to thank those courageous unknowns who climbed North Berwick Law at night, in order to provide for a quite spectaclar fireworks display in the wee hours of 2008. Little did they no doubt know that such primordial hills (see Land of the Gods) were seen as places of a "new fire ceremony", whereby... on New Year... new fires were lit... to welcome in a new age. Furthermore, they were probably unaware that some have theorised that these hills might also have had a link with Vulcan's fire, visualised as volcanic eruptions. In the case of Berwick Law, an ancient volcano, the event was therefore all the more symbolic!
In 2007, I was able to bring you 52 new and a few additional updated articles. I hope you enjoyed at least some of them – and though we will continue as before in 2008.

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