A report from South Korea's Yonhap news agency stated that a ranking North Korean embassy official in Beijing has defected and could be seeking asylum in the Japanese mission in the Chinese city, according to The Washington Post. Yonhap quoted an anonymous source that was "familiar with Pyongyang affairs," explained the official stationed in the Beijing embassy and North Korean health ministry had disappeared mid-September....
Four mysterious golden rings found in a Bronze Age tomb appear to offer insights into the origins of Ancient Greek civilization, IFLScience reports ... Stretched out on his back, he was adorned with golden daggers with ivory hilts, gilded cups, and thousands of beads of precious gems ... Just recently, an archaeologist claimed to have found the throne of the legendary Mycenaean ruler Agamemnon, but this remains debatable ... WN.com, Jim Berrie....
The “October surprise” WikiLeaks promised to deliver failed to materialize yesterday because of ongoing security concerns at the Ecuadorian embassy where founder Julian Assange is holed up, a published report Wednesday said. A confidante of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told the Boston HeraldRadio’s “HeraldDrive” show yesterday the damning data dump against Hillary is still on the way ... ....
Harold ThomasMartin, who worked at same consulting firm as EdwardSnowden, may have stolen codes developed to hack foreign governments. The FBI has arrested a National Security Agency contractor on suspicion of the theft of top secret classified data and documents in an alleged security breach at the same intelligence agency whose spy secrets were exposed by Edward Snowden ...The JusticeDepartment confirmed ... ....
ba - soul is the closest word we have - was kicked loose from your body and freed to roam the lands. This freedom came with limitations, however ... As above, so below ... Nesperennub was a priest and advisor to a pharaoh - possibly Osorkon 2 - and when he died in Thebes somewhere around 800 BC, the people tasked with embalming him stuck a small clay pot to the back of his head ... ....
It’s 70 feet tall, 220 tons and the city’s oldest artifact — but many New Yorkers don’t know it exists. Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old obelisk from Ancient Egypt, survived a voyage to Central Park more than a century ago and has been a park treasure ever since ...PharaohRamesses II, who reigned from 1279 to 1212 BC, inscribed his praises and left little room for Osorkon I, who crammed his moniker on a lower edge ... ... On Jan ... ... ....