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Pergamon (Aiolis)'s cultural legacy and political bequest to Rome
Pergamon (Aiolis)'s cultural legacy and political bequest to Rome. Attalus III wrote a treatise on agriculture quoted by Roman authorities for centuries Attalus III died after a…
Building of Pergamon (Aiolis) under the early Attalid rulers
Building of Pergamon (Aiolis) under the early Attalid rulers. Philetaerus (r. 281–263 BC) built sanctuaries and transformed Pergamon (Aiolis) into a monumental capital in the…
Submerged prehistoric landmasses like Doggerland lost to post-Ice Age sea level rise
Submerged prehistoric landmasses like Doggerland lost to post-Ice Age sea level rise. At the peak of the last ice age approximately 20,000 years ago, sea levels were roughly 120…
2023 radar study reveals ancient river drainage network beneath East Antarctica
2023 radar study reveals ancient river drainage network beneath East Antarctica. In 2023, a research team published findings from radar surveys covering a vast section of East…
Ancient Egyptian concept of self as composite spiritual components
Ancient Egyptian concept of self as composite spiritual components. Ancient Egyptians understood the self as a composite of several spiritual components: ka (vital life force), ba…
Woodroffe’s 1919 ‘The Serpent Power’ explains the six chakras
Woodruff's 1919 'The Serpent Power' describes six body centers. "The Serpent Power" is a 1919 book by Sir John Woodruff about the ascent of Kundalini through six centers of the…
Plato's chariot allegory and Aristotle's empirical soul concept
Plato's chariot allegory and Aristotle's empirical soul concept. Plato envisioned the self as a duality with the soul embodying the eternal and the body representing the transient…
Ancient Norse, Maya, and Zoroastrian afterlife beliefs compared
Ancient Norse, Maya, and Zoroastrian afterlife beliefs compared. For the Norse, the self continued in afterlife realms of Valhalla or hell depending on one's deeds The Maya…
Fred and Germaine Pigeon's 30-year indigenous site preservation effort
Fred and Germaine Pigeon's 30-year indigenous site preservation effort. Fred and Germaine Pigeon have spent 30+ years successfully saving a site important to multiple tribes and…
Step Pyramid proposed as methane fermentation chamber
Step Pyramid proposed as methane fermentation chamber. Land of Chem hypothesis claims the Step Pyramid at Saqqara was designed to produce methane gas Three components identified:…
Pyramids at Saqqara and Dahshur connected by subterranean shafts
Pyramids at Saqqara and Dahshur connected by subterranean shafts. Land of Chem claims the Red and Bent Pyramids at Dahshur are connected below ground via subterranean shafts to…
Steam generation claim questioned as scientifically implausible
Steam generation claim questioned as scientifically implausible. Land of Chem claims increased temperature and pressure inside Red Pyramid chambers would cause water to transform…
Lightning strike hypothesis for pyramid chemical reactions disputed
Lightning strike hypothesis for pyramid chemical reactions disputed. Land of Chem proposes lightning striking the pyramid as a mechanism for generating steam and kickstarting…
Red Pyramid reservoir system and three-chamber ammonia synthesis theory
Red Pyramid reservoir system and three-chamber ammonia synthesis theory. Land of Chem claims Red Pyramid's three internal chambers were used for ammonia synthesis via steam…
Ammonia smell and wall staining inside Red Pyramid chambers
Ammonia smell and wall staining inside Red Pyramid chambers. Jeffrey Drum claims an intense chemical smell of ammonia remains in Red Pyramid chambers with chemical staining on…
The stream Chirima flows from the place of the fall and formed a great waterfall
The stream Chirima flows from the place of the fall and formed a great waterfall. The stream Chirima flows from the place of the fall and formed a great waterfall One theory holds…
Eyewitness Semanov thrown 20 feet by blast at Vanavara trading station
Eyewitness Semanov thrown 20 feet by blast at Vanavara trading station. Eyewitness Semanov was sitting on the porch at the Vanavara trading station when the sky split in two He…
Tunguska blast flattened over 2,150 square kilometers of Siberian forest
Tunguska blast flattened over 2,150 square kilometers of Siberian forest. Over 2,000 square kilometers of forest were flattened by the blast The devastation zone is referred to as…
Construction methods and multi-period burials revealed at Jabal al-Tayr, Minya
Construction methods and multi-period burials revealed at Jabal al-Tayr, Minya. Parts of the first tomb were damaged with stone removed and reused elsewhere Oxide lines on stone…
5,000-year-old early dynastic tombs at Jabal al-Tayr show tapering walls linked to pyramid origins
5,000-year-old early dynastic tombs at Jabal al-Tayr show tapering walls linked to pyramid origins. Two early dynastic tombs discovered at Jabal al-Tayr in the Minya region of…
Carpathian Basin archaeology shows Hun elite intrusion without population replacement
Carpathian Basin archaeology shows Hun elite intrusion without population replacement. Settlements and cemeteries in Carpathian Basin show continuity with local pottery, housing…
Noin-Ula Xiongnu elite burials contrast architecturally with simpler European Hun graves
Noin-Ula Xiongnu elite burials contrast architecturally with simpler European Hun graves. Noin-Ula Xiongnu elite burials in Mongolia are large and architecturally complex,…
Ancient DNA studies reveal heterogeneous Xiongnu and mixed Hun genetic ancestry
Ancient DNA studies reveal heterogeneous Xiongnu and mixed Hun genetic ancestry. A 2018 Nature paper analyzed ancient genomes across Mongolia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe,…
400-year gap prevents direct linking of Xiongnu collapse to European Hun appearance
400-year gap prevents direct linking of Xiongnu collapse to European Hun appearance. Approximately 400 years separate the collapse of the Xiongnu Confederation and the appearance…
Carbon dating places Atzlan artifacts at approximately 8,600 years old
Carbon dating places Atzlan artifacts at approximately 8,600 years old. Organic inclusions in the artifacts carbon dated to approximately 8,600 years ago Dating was performed at…
Ongoing excavation underway at the legendary Labyrinth of Hawara in Egypt
Ongoing excavation underway at the legendary Labyrinth of Hawara in Egypt. Archaeologists are currently excavating the legendary lost labyrinth at Hawara, Egypt Most of Egypt's…
Musicologist Ernest McClain proposed Atlantis numbers encode musical tuning system
Musicologist Ernest McClain proposed Atlantis numbers encode musical tuning system. Ernest McClain was a musicologist who studied ancient tuning systems McClain argued the numbers…
Possible granite room and hollow structures discovered inside Abu Rawash pyramid
Possible granite room and hollow structures discovered inside Abu Rawash pyramid. A hollow granite structure was found inside the pyramid with evidence of deeper chambers below…
Mud brick settlement surrounds Abu Rawash pyramid and 'boat pit' challenged
Mud brick settlement surrounds Abu Rawash pyramid and 'boat pit' challenged. Later mud brick dwellings and walls were built around the pyramid, representing a decrease in…
Abu Rawash pyramid core: limestone blocks with granite casing attributed to early dynasties
Abu Rawash pyramid core: limestone blocks with granite casing attributed to early dynasties. The pyramid's exposed core consists of limestone blocks attributed to the first or…
Ancient precision tool marks found on granite blocks at Abu Rawash
Ancient precision tool marks found on granite blocks at Abu Rawash. Straight, precise tool marks are visible on large granite stones at the site Tool marks show flat, smooth…
Granite casing stones with knobs found scattered around Abu Rawash
Granite casing stones with knobs found scattered around Abu Rawash. Large piles of demolished granite casing stones surround the pyramid exterior Some granite stones display…
Explorers descend into Abu Rawash pyramid's open stone core
Explorers descend into Abu Rawash pyramid's open stone core. The pyramid interior is accessible through a ramp descending into the center The main core is constructed of limestone…
Maya collapse: multi-factor drought beginning ~820 CE and highland resilience
Maya collapse: multi-factor drought beginning ~820 CE and highland resilience. The Maya collapse was not caused by any single factor but multiple stresses interacting to create…
Chinkultic's Agua Azul cenote, Acropolis, and Postclassic survival to the 13th century
Chinkultic's Agua Azul cenote, Acropolis, and Postclassic survival to the 13th century. The Agua Azul Cenote is a natural sinkhole approximately 164 feet (50 meters) deep The Maya…
Tenam Puente: highland Maya trade center with three ball courts and tiered acropolis
Tenam Puente: highland Maya trade center with three ball courts and tiered acropolis. Tenam Puente sits on a high elevation with panoramic views across the Comitán plain; the name…
Chinkultic's Classic period rise and ball court marker linked to Chan Ao dynasty
Chinkultic's Classic period rise and ball court marker linked to Chan Ao dynasty. Earliest human occupation at Chinkultic dates to the Late Preclassic period, around the 3rd…
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site's five-mile palisade walls defended main plaza with bastions and guard towers
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site's five-mile palisade walls defended main plaza with bastions and guard towers. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site had palisade walls surrounding…
Rockford tablet cast 7193 cataloged by Smithsonian's Cyrus Thomas in 1882
Rockford tablet cast 7193 cataloged by Smithsonian's Cyrus Thomas in 1882. Cast model number 7193 accessioned in 1882 by Cyrus Thomas at the Smithsonian Three different tablets…
LiDAR reveals Angkor Wat as center of massive pre-industrial metropolis
LiDAR reveals Angkor Wat as center of massive pre-industrial metropolis. Angkor Wat complex covers more than 400 acres, three times the area of Vatican City Constructed from…
Sigiriya - Peak fortress shows advanced ancient engineering in Sri Lanka
Sigiriya - Peak fortress shows advanced ancient engineering in Sri Lanka. Area surrounding Sigiriya - Peak shows signs of Mesolithic habitation ~5,000 years ago King Kashyapa…
Kailasa Temple at Ellora carved top-down from single basalt rock
Kailasa Temple at Ellora carved top-down from single basalt rock. Kailasa Temple is the world's largest monolithic sculpture carved from a single rock Located within Ellora cave…
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…
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…
Vijayanagara Empire collapsed by 1500s after Portuguese arrival in 1498
Vijayanagara Empire collapsed by 1500s after Portuguese arrival in 1498. The Vijayanagara Empire was crumbling by the 1500s and the capital city of Castle Hill, Hampshire was…
Pyramid G2-A on Giza Plateau: structure, dimensions, and excavation history
Pyramid G2-A on Giza Plateau: structure, dimensions, and excavation history. Pyramid G2-A is a satellite pyramid on the Giza Plateau associated with Pharaoh Khafre of the 4th…
Discovery of sealed wooden box in western serdab passageway of Pyramid G2-A
Discovery of sealed wooden box in western serdab passageway of Pyramid G2-A. A second descending passageway on the western side (serdab) was discovered by chance in 1960 A…
Theories and unresolved questions about Pyramid G2-A's purpose and history
Theories and unresolved questions about Pyramid G2-A's purpose and history. It is unclear why the pyramid had two descending passageways on different axes The serdab passageway is…
Interior layout of Pyramid G2-A's main chamber and passageways
Interior layout of Pyramid G2-A's main chamber and passageways. The descending passageway was approximately 11.5 m (22 cubits) long Main chamber measured 7.86 m long by 2.63 m…
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…
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