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Göbekli Tepe tree removal reveals structures below, vindicating Corsetti
Göbekli Tepe tree removal reveals structures below, vindicating Corsetti. Olive trees planted at Göbekli Tepe were removed, revealing residential structures beneath them Tree…
Biondi's 2022 pyramid radar paper retracted by MDPI
Biondi's 2022 pyramid radar paper retracted by MDPI. Filippo Biondi's 2022 paper titled "Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Reveals Details of Undiscovered…
Buried megaliths and structures detected at Carnac Stones via drone survey
Buried megaliths and structures detected at Carnac Stones via drone survey. A team led by archaeologist Guérin Bruno conducted a geophysical survey of approximately 2.5 hectares…
First Denisovan leg bones found in Taiwan Strait, suggesting large stature
First Denisovan leg bones found in Taiwan Strait, suggesting large stature. Two new Denisovan leg bones - a femur called Pangu 2 and a tibia called Pangu 3 - were dredged from the…
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Video contains no substantive archaeological narration. The transcript for this segment consists entirely of [music] tags with no spoken content or archaeological facts. The only…
Historical photographs of Egypt mid-section lacks narration
Historical photographs of Egypt mid-section lacks narration. The transcript for this segment consists entirely of [music] tags with no spoken content or archaeological facts.…
Mohenjo-daro skeletons show no evidence of Aryan massacre; Harappan decline was gradual
Mohenjo-daro skeletons show no evidence of Aryan massacre; Harappan decline was gradual. Mohenjo-daro lies beside the Indus River in present-day Pakistan and was one of the…
Karnak evidence shows Hatshepsut erasure was selective and gradual, not vengeful purge
Karnak evidence shows Hatshepsut erasure was selective and gradual, not vengeful purge. Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE; Thutmose III's systematic erasure was delayed by at least…
Western Han tomb discovery reveals paper predates Cai Lun by 250-300 years
Western Han tomb discovery reveals paper predates Cai Lun by 250-300 years. Cai Lun presented paper to Emperor He of Han in 105 CE, made from tree bark, hemp waste, cloth, and…
Battle of Kadesh was near-defeat for Ramesses II, not a crushing Egyptian victory
Battle of Kadesh was near-defeat for Ramesses II, not a crushing Egyptian victory. Battle occurred in Ramesses II's 5th year, around 1274 BCE, as Egyptian forces marched to…
Babylonian tablets show Pythagorean theorem preceded Pythagoras by over 1,000 years
Babylonian tablets show Pythagorean theorem preceded Pythagoras by over 1,000 years. Pythagoras lived in the 6th century BCE and left no writings The earliest surviving proof of…
Ancient Olympics never included a marathon race; modern event was a 19th-century invention
Ancient Olympics never included a marathon race; modern event was a 19th-century invention. The modern marathon distance is 42.195 km / 26.2 miles The ancient Olympic stadion race…
Subterranean aqueduct flooded Teotihuacan tunnel; design mirrors Pyramid of the Sun tunnel
Subterranean aqueduct flooded Teotihuacan tunnel; design mirrors Pyramid of the Sun tunnel. A charcoal water line approximately 6 ft high runs the entire length (~100 m) of the…
Laser scans reveal Barabar Caves are precise but not mathematically perfect
Laser scans reveal Barabar Caves are precise but not mathematically perfect. French research teams BAEHM and AGP performed full 3D laser scanning on the Barabar Caves In Lomas…
Mauryan stone polish traced to Achaemenid craftsmen displaced after 330 BCE
Mauryan stone polish traced to Achaemenid craftsmen displaced after 330 BCE. Mauryan polish appears on Ashokan pillars including the Lion Capital at Sarnath and the Didarganj…
Sitamarhi Cave challenges lost-civilation theory with matching Mauryan technique
Sitamarhi Cave challenges lost-civilation theory with matching Mauryan technique. Sitamarhi Cave is located about 15 miles from the Barabar Hills, carved inside a single massive…
Unfinished Lomas Rishi cave preserves textbook Mauryan construction sequence
Unfinished Lomas Rishi cave preserves textbook Mauryan construction sequence. Lomas Rishi has the most elaborate exterior facade, imitating timber architecture with a frieze of…
Magnaura Palace ramp tower and Sphendone foundations survive in Istanbul
Magnaura Palace ramp tower and Sphendone foundations survive in Istanbul. The Magnaura was the part of the Great Palace where ambassadors were customarily received. The Magnaura…
Carbon-14 dating shows Torrean towers predate Sardinian Nuraghi
Carbon-14 dating shows Torrean towers predate Sardinian Nuraghi. The Nuraghic period in Sardinia runs from 1800 BC to the Roman arrival in 300 BC About 9,000 Nuraghi were built in…
Early discovery of Machu Picchu traced to hunters following a mountain spring
Early discovery of Machu Picchu traced to hunters following a mountain spring. Prehistoric Andean Amazonian hunters may have discovered Machu Picchu by tracking game along the…
Southern hemisphere archaeoastronomy and Huayna Picchu's ceremonial role explored
Southern hemisphere archaeoastronomy and Huayna Picchu's ceremonial role explored. The Inca Empire is the only great ancient civilization located in the southern hemisphere,…
Machu Picchu's purpose debated: ceremonial site rather than military fortification
Machu Picchu's purpose debated: ceremonial site rather than military fortification. One proposed theory holds that Machu Picchu served as a military barrier or immigration…
New Göbekli Tepe excavations uncover rectangular domestic buildings
New Göbekli Tepe excavations uncover rectangular domestic buildings. New excavations have begun in an area of roughly 1,500 square metres directly north of the famous oval…
Excavations begin at Yoğunburç, large Pre-Pottery Neolithic sister site
Excavations begin at Yoğunburç, large Pre-Pottery Neolithic sister site. Excavations have begun at Yoğunburç, another Pre-Pottery Neolithic Taş Tepeler site near Şanlıurfa, Turkey…
Coldrum megaliths reportedly hold England's oldest Neolithic human remains
Coldrum megaliths reportedly hold England's oldest Neolithic human remains. Medway tombs in Kent include Coldrum, which reportedly has the oldest human Neolithic remains in…
Boscawen-Un stone circle features leaning monolith and hidden carvings
Boscawen-Un stone circle features leaning monolith and hidden carvings. Stone circle in Cornwall with a central monolith that is not at the center but off to one side The monolith…
Formby Beach preserves prehistoric footprints of humans and animals in mud
Formby Beach preserves prehistoric footprints of humans and animals in mud. Prehistoric footprints preserved in mud (not rock) on a beach near Liverpool Footprints were made in…
The Hurlers is a triple stone circle complex on Bodmin Moor
The Hurlers is a triple stone circle complex on Bodmin Moor. Triple stone circle located on the edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall Adjacent natural rock formation called the Cheese…
Maumbury Rings: Neolithic henge converted into a Roman amphitheatre
Maumbury Rings: Neolithic henge converted into a Roman amphitheatre. Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge located in the middle of Dorchester The Romans later converted the henge…
Engineering scale of Angkor Wat's's moat
Engineering scale of Angkor Wat's's moat. Angkor Wat's's moat channels water from a distant mountain underground The moat both sustains its water level and pumps water to…
Billy Carson's first visit to Kukulkan pyramid at Chichén Itzá
Billy Carson's first visit to Kukulkan pyramid at Chichén Itzá. Billy Carson traveled to Cancun, Mexico about 30 years ago with a $500 budget He visited Chichén Itzá when dirt…
Channeled Scablands and the Missoula flood hypothesis
Channeled Scablands and the Missoula flood hypothesis. Dan Richards lives near the Channeled Scablands in Spokane area Dry Falls is a notable geological feature there Randall…
Aboriginal oral tradition preserves 10,000-year-old Kangaroo Island flooding event
Aboriginal oral tradition preserves 10,000-year-old Kangaroo Island flooding event. Aboriginal groups including Goana, Narungga, and Ramindjeri call Kangaroo Island "Karta," the…
Paper 'American Horse Mystery' introduces late-surviving horse hypothesis
Paper 'American Horse Mystery' introduces late-surviving horse hypothesis. Paper titled 'The American Horse Mystery: Survival, Adaptation, Human Association, and The Possibility…
Ice Age North America had multiple genetically distinct horse species
Ice Age North America had multiple genetically distinct horse species. North America possessed several forms of horse including robust caballine horses The stilt-legged horse,…
2017 genetic studies reclassified Ice Age horse taxonomy
2017 genetic studies reclassified Ice Age horse taxonomy. Barrón-Ortiz and colleagues (2017) examined tooth morphology and ancient mitochondrial DNA from late Pleistocene horses…
2021 Yukon study detects horse DNA thousands of years post-extinction
2021 Yukon study detects horse DNA thousands of years post-extinction. Tyler Murchie and colleagues published 2021 study in Nature Communications titled 'Collapse of the Mammoth…
Rancho Carabanchel fossil evidence extends horse survival to AD 1165
Rancho Carabanchel fossil evidence extends horse survival to AD 1165. W.D. Miller and colleagues published a 2020 study 'Post-Pleistocene Horses from Mexico' in the Texas Journal…
Younger Dryas climate disruption coincided with horse extinction timeline
Younger Dryas climate disruption coincided with horse extinction timeline. The Younger Dryas lasted approximately 1,200 years, from about 12,900 to 11,700 years ago (roughly…
Human-horse association and assimilation hypothesis challenges extinction model
Human-horse association and assimilation hypothesis challenges extinction model. Hypothesis proposes horses survived not as wild populations but through human association,…
1,240-ton western stone found in second Baalbek quarry
1,240-ton western stone found in second Baalbek quarry. A second monolith weighing 1,240 tons was found in the western quarry at Baalbek The stone was carved into four separate…
Holocene stable climate enabled agriculture 12,000 years ago but theory falters
Holocene stable climate enabled agriculture 12,000 years ago but theory falters. Around 12,000 years ago the Ice Age ended and the Holocene began. The Holocene was the first time…
Early civilizations emerged independently in a narrow time window across the globe
Early civilizations emerged independently in a narrow time window across the globe. For roughly 290,000-300,000 years, anatomically modern humans did not build cities. Agriculture…
Multiple prior interglacials undermine climate as sole trigger for civilization
Multiple prior interglacials undermine climate as sole trigger for civilization. Homo sapiens is roughly 300,000 years old. Humans lived through at least four earlier…
Early Dynastic Sumer city-states centered on Nippur and Ur
Early Dynastic Sumer city-states centered on Nippur and Ur. Early Dynastic period began approximately 2900 BC Approximately 30 city-states existed in southern Mesopotamia with…
Sumerian identified as language isolate unrelated to Akkadian
Sumerian identified as language isolate unrelated to Akkadian. Sumerian is a language isolate, not related to Akkadian (a Semitic language) In the 1850s, scholars speculated…
Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mesopotamia) held 30,000+ cuneiform texts
Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mesopotamia) held 30,000+ cuneiform texts. Amarna site (ancient Akhetaten) was constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th…
Mainstream outlets Daily Mail and NY Post cover Biondi's second sphinx claim
Mainstream outlets Daily Mail and NY Post cover Biondi's second sphinx claim. NY Post article headline: "Second Sphinx buried under sand suggests mega structure below the pyramids…
1120 AD Arabic explorer al-Idrisi reported sighting of second mud-brick sphinx
1120 AD Arabic explorer al-Idrisi reported sighting of second mud-brick sphinx. Arabic explorer Muhammad al-Idrisi (~1120 AD) reportedly claimed to have seen a second sphinx made…
Predicted second sphinx location falls within heavily excavated Giza area
Predicted second sphinx location falls within heavily excavated Giza area. The highlighted area where the second sphinx is predicted to lie is in the middle of an active and…
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