The only well-known version of the world’s first telephone book is just now exposed in Connecticut. It would be on auction along with a set of worth mentioning books and other documents related to technology, science, math and also philosophy over six centuries. The 20-page directory was actually published in November of 1878; it was just two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The phone book is having information helpful to 391 subscribers inside the New Haven, Conn., area who were evidently yet learning their way around this fresh communication device.

“Should you wish to speak to another subscriber you should commence the conversation by saying, ‘Hulloa!'” it instructs. The book further goes on telling readers they must leave the “lower lip and jaw free.” They were as well informed never to “use the wire more than three minutes at a time, or more than twice an hour” without first “obtaining permission from the main office.”

The Department of Archaeology and Museums was receiving international backing from UNESCO, the International organization for conservation of cultural heritage (ICCROM), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and from the contributor countries such as the USA, Japan, Korean, Thailand, Germany and Norway. In a meeting it was disclosed that the organization had managed to mobilize world opinion regarding the rich cultural heritage of the area and was now able to organize international exhibitions of cultural heritage abroad.

Team of Israeli archaeologist discovered 2,500 year old fashion garnishes for women along with a jewelry and a make up kit with a small mirror. It was found when they excavate the caves near the Dead Sea. Tsvika Tsuk, Chief archaeologist said that the research confirmed that there was a prosperous and affluent society of returnees living in the area. “These are not the belongings of a simple person,” he said.

Accessories included a necklace made up of 130 beads of costly stones and gold; an agate pendant of Babylonian origin and a silver medallion with an imprinted semi-circular moon.

“This find is very rare. Both for the richness of the find and for that period, it is almost unheard of, and all these finds confirm the (biblical) accounts of Jews returning from exile in Babylon,” Tsuk said. When the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar won the Kingdom of Judah in 597 B.C.E., he sent many Jews into banish in the city Babylon. These Jews and their descendants were further permitted to come back by the Persian monarch Cyrus in 538 B.C.E.

The talk of the town about the death of the famous queen, the Cleopatra was still sustained. The distressed queen who lost her chamber smuggled the poisonous snake into her chamber to die. Cleopatra died along with two ladies waiting in the room by self inflicted snake bite.

According to the Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley, she sustain who would have happened in the room, how the snake entered, where the snake would have gone and still more. As per the historical records, Cleopatra died in Alexandria at around 30 BC and there was no historical evidence for her prior illness. The decision to die in front of the female servants created a practical note that even in her death she required a chaperone.

The Greek historian Plutarch, Roman historian Cassius Dio says that Cleopatra has smuggled snake into her chamber either inside the jar of figs or water, but the Egyptologist believes that she would have died by self administered poison either in a pin or hair comb. With regards to the snake myth, the Egyptologist thinks that the Egyptian fear, respect, worship snakes and therefore Cleopatra might have worn a crown depicted with a snake. Tyldesley says that the artist might have picked up the snake idea and fuelled the speculation that she died by snakebite.

Recently researchers found about 2,000 years old Etruscan Tombs at Tarquinia in Italy’s valley of Dead. They discovered about 27 tombs in that place and all these tombs were dating back to the 7^th century BC. Archaeologists are still excavating the place and it is expected that few other tombs were still there to be discovered.

An archaeologist Maria Tecla Castaldi, stated: “This is the most exciting discovery here in decades. There are frescoes of two figures on the walls, but we need to carry out a proper excavation and search.”