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South Indian granaries feature polygonal masonry bases dated to 500s AD
South Indian granaries feature polygonal masonry bases dated to 500s AD. Granaries have doors placed above a belt of finer polygonal stonework, with the bottom part apparently…
Indian polygonal fortifications dated to ~1400 AD differ from global cyclopean works
Indian polygonal fortifications dated to ~1400 AD differ from global cyclopean works. Indian polygonal masonry is dated to approximately 1400 AD, roughly 2,000 years younger than…
Vijayanagara Empire built polygonal forts along the Krishna Line border, with capital at Castle Hill, Hampshire
Vijayanagara Empire built polygonal forts along the Krishna Line border, with capital at Castle Hill, Hampshire. The Krishna Line divides North and South India, corresponding to…
Discovery of sealed wooden box in western serdab passageway of Königinnenpyramide G III-a
Discovery of sealed wooden box in western serdab passageway of Königinnenpyramide G III-a. A second descending passageway on the western side (serdab) was discovered by chance in…
Interior layout of Königinnenpyramide G III-a's main chamber and passageways
Interior layout of Königinnenpyramide G III-a's main chamber and passageways. The descending passageway was approximately 11.5 m (22 cubits) long Main chamber measured 7.86 m long…
Königinnenpyramide G III-a on Giza Plateau: structure, dimensions, and excavation history
Königinnenpyramide G III-a on Giza Plateau: structure, dimensions, and excavation history. Königinnenpyramide G III-a is a satellite pyramid on the Giza Plateau associated with…
Theories and unresolved questions about Königinnenpyramide G III-a's purpose and history
Theories and unresolved questions about Königinnenpyramide G III-a's purpose and history. It is unclear why the pyramid had two descending passageways on different axes The serdab…
Cosmogram code found in temples worldwide suggests shared lost civilizationlost_civilization
Cosmogram code found in temples worldwide suggests shared lost civilization. Research team includes Dr. Robert Schoch, Hans Orberg, Omar Tanyurek, and Mohamed Ibrahim.…
India's ancient sites challenge conventional dating through inscription reliance
India's ancient sites challenge conventional dating through inscription reliance. The Archaeological Survey of India protects more than 3,600 monuments of national importance…
Banabela Gommateshvara statue: 1,000-ton monolith with unexplained origin
Banabela Gommateshvara statue: 1,000-ton monolith with unexplained origin. The Bahubali/Gommateshvara statue at Banabela weighs approximately 1,000 tons It is described as the…
Copperplate researcher plans 12-day expedition to 104 sites near Castle Hill, Hampshire
Copperplate researcher plans 12-day expedition to 104 sites near Castle Hill, Hampshire. The expedition is 12 days long, focused within a six-hour radius of Bangalore and Castle…
Airburst modeling at Tall el Hammam (Jordan) suggests cosmic destruction without crater
Airburst modeling at Tall el Hammam (Jordan) suggests cosmic destruction without crater. Airburst modeling was conducted at Tall el Hammam (Jordan) in Syria Archaeologists believe…
Baffin Bay deep ocean cores confirm Younger Dryas impact proxies beyond anthropogenic contamination
Baffin Bay deep ocean cores confirm Younger Dryas impact proxies beyond anthropogenic contamination. Baffin Bay marine cores were collected from nearly a mile deep, ruling out…
Candidate 6-mile-wide Younger Dryas crater identified in Indian Ocean; 8-km crater in Bolivia under study
Candidate 6-mile-wide Younger Dryas crater identified in Indian Ocean; 8-km crater in Bolivia under study. Researchers identified a candidate 6-mile-wide crater in the Indian…
Perkins site in Louisiana identified as first geological evidence of airburst plume outside Tunguska
Perkins site in Louisiana identified as first geological evidence of airburst plume outside Tunguska. The Perkins site in Louisiana contains hundreds of billions of spherules and…
Critique of archaeology's scientific status: replicability vs. prediction
Critique of archaeology's scientific status: replicability vs. prediction. Radiocarbon dating (carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14) is cited as a replicable, foundational scientific…
Biblical giant of Gath had six fingers and six toes
Biblical giant of Gath had six fingers and six toes. 2 Samuel 21:20 describes the giant of Gath as having six fingers, six toes, 24 digits in total The Bible contains 23 accounts…
Marowunga site has 4-foot polydactyl footprints linked to giant beings
Marowunga site has 4-foot polydactyl footprints linked to giant beings. In 2022, Professor Paul Tacon led a Griffith University study that deciphered the Marowunga site…
Karahan Tepe excavation revealed 16-fingered statue and ancient giant iconographygiants
Karahan Tepe excavation revealed 16-fingered statue and ancient giant iconography. A 16-fingered statue was discovered at Karahan Tepe, located 25 miles from Göbekli Tepe in…
Emperor Valerian's captivity and death under Shapur I of Persia
Emperor Valerian's captivity and death under Shapur I of Persia. Roman Emperor Valerian was captured by Persian King Shapur I in 260 AD. Christian author Lactantius claimed…
Codex Gigas: the 800-year-old Devil's Bible of Bohemia
Codex Gigas: the 800-year-old Devil's Bible of Bohemia. The Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible, first appears in the historical record in 1295. It was created at…
Jacques Cartier kidnaps Chief Donnacona and the myth of the Kingdom of Saguenay
Jacques Cartier kidnaps Chief Donnacona and the myth of the Kingdom of Saguenay. In 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed into Gaspé Bay, and erected a 30-foot cross,…
Khara-Hora shaft: location, local lore, and 17 Hz humming phenomenon
Khara-Hora shaft: location, local lore, and 17 Hz humming phenomenon. Khara-Hora shaft is located on the border of Georgia, Turkey, and Iran in the Caucasus Mountains Locally…
Nazi swastika dated 1942 found near shaft entrance; Arthur claimed 72 km tunnel system
Nazi swastika dated 1942 found near shaft entrance; Arthur claimed 72 km tunnel system. German forces were documented in the Khara-Hora region in October 1942 as part of Operation…
Natural karst and volcanic fracturing offer geological explanation for shaft features
Natural karst and volcanic fracturing offer geological explanation for shaft features. Alexander Sploshnov explored the site in 2021 and produced 3D mapping and clearer images…
Merer Papyrus links to Khufu's pyramid construction
Merer Papyrus links to Khufu's pyramid construction. The Papyrus of Merer (Diary of Merer) documents an overseer of workmen who went to Tura to cut white fine limestone for the…
Radiocarbon dates from Giza pyramids run 200-300 years older than written records
Radiocarbon dates from Giza pyramids run 200-300 years older than written records. Initial radiocarbon studies suggested Old Kingdom dates 200+ years older than historical records…
The Egyptian word for pyramid and its Greek etymology
The Egyptian word for pyramid and its Greek etymology. The English word "pyramid" derives from Greek, meaning a cake shaped like a pyramid The ancient Egyptian word for pyramid is…
2025 multi-author paper resolves Old and Middle Kingdom chronology debate
2025 multi-author paper resolves Old and Middle Kingdom chronology debate. Paper published May 28, 2025 with 10 co-authors Co-authors include Stuart Manning (Santorini/Thera…
High vs low chronology debate affects Egyptian Bronze Age synchronisms
High vs low chronology debate affects Egyptian Bronze Age synchronisms. The high vs low chronology debate has persisted for over a century Offsets between the two chronologies can…
Bayesian modeling used to reconcile radiocarbon dates with king lists
Bayesian modeling used to reconcile radiocarbon dates with king lists. Bayesian statistical modeling uses prior information to weight radiocarbon dates The 2025 paper eliminated…
Radiocarbon calibration curves and dendrochronology as dating tools
Radiocarbon calibration curves and dendrochronology as dating tools. C14 decays with a half-life of approximately 5,730 years Radiocarbon dating can measure up to about 50,000…
Neanderthals performed dental drilling 59,000 years ago in North Asian cave
Neanderthals performed dental drilling 59,000 years ago in North Asian cave. Cave in North Asia contains over 70 Neanderthal fossils and 26 dental specimens A lower second molar…
37 human remains found inside jar at Laos Plain of Jars Site 75
37 human remains found inside jar at Laos Plain of Jars Site 75. Dr. Nicholas Scopel (James Cook University) is co-director of the Archaeology of Northern Laos project Site 75 is…
CT scans identify Roman doctor among Pompeii plaster cast victims
CT scans identify Roman doctor among Pompeii plaster cast victims. In 1961, archaeologists at Pompeii identified an outdoor garden with 14 adults and children killed at the…
Seismic study reveals how the The Great Pyramid of Giza resists earthquake damage
Seismic study reveals how the The Great Pyramid of Giza resists earthquake damage. The 4,600-year-old Great Pyramid of King Khufu has lost only about 10 m (33 ft) of height since…
Earliest known shipwreck found in Singapore waters, dated to 1340-1352 CE
Earliest known shipwreck found in Singapore waters, dated to 1340-1352 CE. A 4-year excavation on the coast of Singapore produced the earliest known shipwreck in the country's…
Ancient rock-cut roadway leads to pyramid face with no entrance
Ancient rock-cut roadway leads to pyramid face with no entrance. Each pyramid has its own ancient rock-cut roadway leading to its face The original roadway shows significant…
Proposed Second Sphinx location features megalithic enclosure and solid core
Proposed Second Sphinx location features megalithic enclosure and solid core. Area is described as a proposed location for a second sphinx Structure features huge megalithic rocks…
Four granite pillars guard deep pit within megalithic enclosure
Four granite pillars guard deep pit within megalithic enclosure. Four granite pillars guard an entrance to a large pit area Multiple deep vertical shafts cut into the bedrock…
Massive granite pillars from 900 miles away found at restricted Giza site
Massive granite pillars from 900 miles away found at restricted Giza site. Broken granite pillars approximately 50 feet high found at the site Granite is described as transported…
Bonampak Acropolis architecture and dynastic subordination to Yaxchilan
Bonampak Acropolis architecture and dynastic subordination to Yaxchilan. The Grand Plaza formed the primary public ceremonial space, originally surfaced with plastered stone…
Bonampak murals: true fresco technique, calcification preservation, and 1996 infrared imaging
Bonampak murals: true fresco technique, calcification preservation, and 1996 infrared imaging. Structure 1, known as the Temple of the Murals, has exterior surfaces originally…
Bonampak murals depict heir presentation and graphic warfare, with 2010 tomb discovery
Bonampak murals depict heir presentation and graphic warfare, with 2010 tomb discovery. Room 1 depicts a ceremony dated December 12, 790, in which Chan Muwaan II presents his…
Room 3 murals reveal human sacrifice and Maya bloodletting rituals
Room 3 murals reveal human sacrifice and Maya bloodletting rituals. Room 3 depicts ceremonial celebrations after military victory, including ritual bloodletting and elaborate…
1691 Zapotec map from Santa Catarina Tepuxiula to be repatriated to Mexico
1691 Zapotec map from Santa Catarina Tepuxiula to be repatriated to Mexico. Manuscript map dates to 1691 and 1709, made in Mexico Created to regularize land titles and ownership…
Florida panthers: surviving cougar lineage with South American genetic ties
Florida panthers: surviving cougar lineage with South American genetic ties. Florida panthers are cougars from puma lineage with ancestors likely originating in the Americas North…
Mount Piska relics: archaeologists divided on authenticity of North Carolina artifacts
Mount Piska relics: archaeologists divided on authenticity of North Carolina artifacts. Mount Piska site contains 300 bear figurines, 93% identical to Smithsonian examples One…
Clan symbols evolved across North America from 5000 BC to 1540 AD
Clan symbols evolved across North America from 5000 BC to 1540 AD. 5000-1000 BC Late Archaic: Great Lakes bears/ducks/fish, Ohio Valley deer/turkey/snakes, Southwest turtles/fish…
Southern Ojibwe birch bark scrolls: types and ritual functions documented
Southern Ojibwe birch bark scrolls: types and ritual functions documented. Scrolls were engraved birch bark using flint burins, not ink Depicted animals: deer, bear, wolf, loon,…
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