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Olmec E-Groups Tracked Astronomical Events, 260-Day Calendar Dated to 1100-750 BCE
Olmec E-Groups Tracked Astronomical Events, 260-Day Calendar Dated to 1100-750 BCE. E-groups are architectural formations with western pyramid facing eastern platform across a…
El Manatí Sacrificial Bog: Earliest Olmec Evidence Dating to 1600 BCE
El Manatí Sacrificial Bog: Earliest Olmec Evidence Dating to 1600 BCE. First evidence of Olmec culture found at El Manatí sacrificial bog dating to about 1600 BCE Ritual offerings…
Elongated skull shapes across multiple continents may emulate other hominid species
Elongated skull shapes across multiple continents may emulate other hominid species. Some elongated skulls were initially mistaken for Homo erectus but later confirmed as…
Disc rings identified as feminine counterparts to masculine axeheads
Disc rings identified as feminine counterparts to masculine axeheads. Axeheads were identified as male and disc rings as female The distribution of disc rings did not match the…
PADIE project discovers jadeite sources at 2,400m altitude in Italian Alps
PADIE project discovers jadeite sources at 2,400m altitude in Italian Alps. Professor Pia Petrika led the international interdisciplinary PADIE project, originally funded with one…
Modern threats to Alpine jadeite sites after publication of Petrika's research
Modern threats to Alpine jadeite sites after publication of Petrika's research. Since the PADIE team's 2003 discovery, jadeite sources in the Italian Alps have been placed in a…
Jadeite axeheads deliberately deposited in rivers and wetlands as ritual offerings
Jadeite axeheads deliberately deposited in rivers and wetlands as ritual offerings. The Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels was constructed in 3,826 or 3,827 BC (determined by…
Spectra radiometry traces axehead from Monte Viso to County Mayo (3,700 km total journey)
Spectra radiometry traces axehead from Monte Viso to County Mayo (3,700 km total journey). Axeheads traveled up to 1,800 km from source areas in either direction One extraordinary…
Jadeite axeheads first appear in mid-6th millennium BCE, travel across Europe
Jadeite axeheads first appear in mid-6th millennium BCE, travel across Europe. Jadeite axeheads first appeared around the middle of the 6th millennium BCE (5,300-5,500 BC) The…
Djemila's Forum: Capitolium temple and civic buildings developed over a century
Djemila's Forum: Capitolium temple and civic buildings developed over a century. The forum occupied nearly a tenth of the space within Djemila's original walls It took nearly a…
Fractal miniature temples discovered at Baphnom, Cambodia
Fractal miniature temples discovered at Baphnom, Cambodia. Miniature fractal temples were found next to larger temple structures at Baphnom in Cambodia The smaller temples…
Hermeticism's suppression and transmission to Renaissance Europe
Hermeticism's suppression and transmission to Renaissance Europe. Hermeticism is based on the oldest knowledge about natural law and how the universe functions In the 1400s during…
70,000-year-old python cave ritual site discovered in Botswana
70,000-year-old python cave ritual site discovered in Botswana. Python Cave is located in the Sadillo Hills, Botswana Archaeologist Sheila Coulson led the study of this site The…
Khoisan creation beliefs feature underground emergence through sacred trees
Khoisan creation beliefs feature underground emergence through sacred trees. The San bushmen say people lived underground until they climbed up through the roots of a great tree A…
Khoisan sky god Sui as wounded creator versus evil Gaunab
Khoisan sky god Sui as wounded creator versus evil Gaunab. Sui (also called Utixo) is the supreme sky god whose name means wounded knee He is seen as a benevolent creator and…
San bushmen python mythology describes serpent creating rivers and life
San bushmen python mythology describes serpent creating rivers and life. The San bushmen have stories of the great python that created rivers by slithering across dry land The…
San trance dance rituals mirror global spiritual practices
San trance dance rituals mirror global spiritual practices. The great healing dance or trance dance is among the most widely practiced San rituals in southern Africa today Women…
20-foot submerged Vishnu carving discovered at Phnom Kulen, Cambodia's largest
20-foot submerged Vishnu carving discovered at Phnom Kulen, Cambodia's largest. 20-foot-long submerged Vishnu carving is the largest Vishnu carving in Cambodia Carved 800-1000…
Cyclopean walls built without metal tools; purpose was privacy and display, not defense
Cyclopean walls built without metal tools; purpose was privacy and display, not defense. Cyclopean walls were built before iron/bronze age without metal tools; stones were slowly…
Pyramid construction involved skilled workers, not enslaved peoples
Pyramid construction involved skilled workers, not enslaved peoples. Excavations at The Great Pyramid of Giza uncovered mastaba tombs of high-ranking nobility including pharaoh's…
Egyptians focused on life and afterlife, not death itself
Egyptians focused on life and afterlife, not death itself. Egyptian tomb paintings depict everyday life activities: fishing, hunting, family time, and boating on the Nile The…
Camels absent from Egypt until 500 BC, 2000 years after pyramids built
Camels absent from Egypt until 500 BC, 2000 years after pyramids built. Camels were not introduced to Egypt until around 500 BC By that time, the pyramids had already been…
Cats were protected but not worshipped as deities in Ancient Egypt
Cats were protected but not worshipped as deities in Ancient Egypt. The goddess Bastet was depicted as a cat or lioness, representing protection, fertility, and the home Domestic…
Archaeoastronomer Fabio Silva presents Stonehenge lunar standstill research
Archaeoastronomer Fabio Silva presents Stonehenge lunar standstill research. Fabio Silva runs the Skyscape Academy at Bournemouth University He researches the 18.6-year lunar…
Scan Pyramids North Face Corridor aligns with proposed ramp system
Scan Pyramids North Face Corridor aligns with proposed ramp system. The North Face Corridor discovered by the Scan Pyramids mission aligns with one of the ramps proposed in the…
Critiques: Ramps unverified, model oversimplifies pyramid structure
Critiques: Ramps unverified, model oversimplifies pyramid structure. The proposed ramps may never be testable because in the model they were back-filled with limestone The model…
New paper proposes Integrated Edge-Ramp System for Great Pyramid construction
New paper proposes Integrated Edge-Ramp System for Great Pyramid construction. Vicente Luis Rosell Roig published a new paper in NPJ Heritage Science journal proposing an…
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) reveals catastrophic extinction event with whale fossils
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) reveals catastrophic extinction event with whale fossils. Petrified forest contains hundreds of massive 40-million-year-old tree logs Logs aligned and…
Grand Gallery construction reveals tilted architecture and potential voids
Grand Gallery construction reveals tilted architecture and potential voids. Grand Gallery has all masonry tilted at same angle as chamber itself Bottom two courses are not…
Queen's Chamber floor in Great Pyramid shows unexplained sockets
Queen's Chamber floor in Great Pyramid shows unexplained sockets. Queen's Chamber floor contains multiple unexplained sockets Floor likely had additional stone layer (possibly…
KV5 tomb in Valley of Kings shows evidence of multiple catastrophic floods
KV5 tomb in Valley of Kings shows evidence of multiple catastrophic floods. KV5 is one of the largest tombs in Valley of the Kings with 120 chambers Tomb suffered multiple flood…
Ancient road of petrified wood and basalt discovered in Faiyum
Ancient road of petrified wood and basalt discovered in Faiyum. Ancient road constructed from limestone base topped with basalt and petrified wood Road extends from basalt quarry…
10,000-year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site found at Mount Sinai
10,000-year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site found at Mount Sinai. Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site documented at Mount Sinai (Mount Moses) area PPNA site is approximately 10,000…
Basketmaker II Agriculture: Maize Domestication and Introduction of Squashes, Beans, Turkeys
Basketmaker II Agriculture: Maize Domestication and Introduction of Squashes, Beans, Turkeys. Carbon-13 isotope ratios show EAP diets lacked maize; by Basketmaker II period,…
Maize Arrival: Domestication in Mexico and Spread to Southwest by 2400-1900 BCE
Maize Arrival: Domestication in Mexico and Spread to Southwest by 2400-1900 BCE. Maize was domesticated in Mexico around 7000 BCE from the teosinte plant, likely in the Balsas…
Archaic Period: 20,000 Years of Human Presence in the Southwest
Archaic Period: 20,000 Years of Human Presence in the Southwest. Humans have inhabited the Southwest region for roughly 20,000 years, back to the late Pleistocene Between 5000 and…
Basketmaker II Cultural Divisions: Eastern vs Western Groups and Linguistic Origins
Basketmaker II Cultural Divisions: Eastern vs Western Groups and Linguistic Origins. Basketmaker II culture is divided into Eastern and Western groups with distinct differences…
Basketmaker III: Emergence of Villages, Kivas, and Transition to Ancestral Puebloan Culture
Basketmaker III: Emergence of Villages, Kivas, and Transition to Ancestral Puebloan Culture. Basketmaker III period began at approximately 500 CE Full sedentary villages emerged…
Excavation History: De Morgan's 1892 Tunnels and Arnold's 1980s Completion
Excavation History: De Morgan's 1892 Tunnels and Arnold's 1980s Completion. Jacquès de Morgan first excavated the site in 1892 De Morgan dug over 200 meters of tunnels over 100…
Tomb Theory Challenged: Granite Plug Blocks Prevented King Burial Access
Tomb Theory Challenged: Granite Plug Blocks Prevented King Burial Access. Granite plug blocks currently in place could not have allowed king burial procession Blocks too large to…
Black Pyramid at Dashur: Mud-Brick Middle Kingdom Monument Built circa 1850 BC
Black Pyramid at Dashur: Mud-Brick Middle Kingdom Monument Built circa 1850 BC. Black Pyramid located at Dashur, 21 km south of Giza Plateau Attributed to Pharaoh Amenemhat III of…
Structural Collapse: Mud Brick Weight Causing Substructure Instability
Structural Collapse: Mud Brick Weight Causing Substructure Instability. Poor quality limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid Weight of mud brick pyramid pressing down and slowly…
Subterranean Design Built for Humans: Wide Passages with Stairs
Subterranean Design Built for Humans: Wide Passages with Stairs. Descending passage designed for upright walking with stairs cut into floor Contrasts sharply with megalithic stone…
Granite Boxes with Sliding Lids Found in Queen's and King's Apartments
Granite Boxes with Sliding Lids Found in Queen's and King's Apartments. Multiple granite boxes found in chambers beneath the pyramid First box examined features palace facade…
Basalt Pyrammidion: 4.5-Ton Capstone Found 1900, Likely Never Installed
Basalt Pyrammidion: 4.5-Ton Capstone Found 1900, Likely Never Installed. Basalt pyrammidion (capstone) housed in Cairo Museum Found nearby the Black Pyramid in 1900 by Gaston…
Recurring cycle of radar claims without follow-up excavation
Recurring cycle of radar claims without follow-up excavation. The same pattern has repeated multiple times over decades with different technologies Scans are relatively…
35m circular water basin temple discovered at Pelusium with 8 centuries of use
35m circular water basin temple discovered at Pelusium with 8 centuries of use. 35m diameter circular structure discovered at Pelusium in North Sinai Structure is a water basin…
Pelusium's historical battles and biblical connection in Ezekiel
Pelusium's historical battles and biblical connection in Ezekiel. Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC transferred throne of pharaohs to Persian King Cambyses II City attacked and taken…
Younger Dryas impact theory involves comet fragmentation
Younger Dryas impact theory involves comet fragmentation. Younger Dryas impact event occurred approximately 12,800 years ago Multiple theories exist: comet impact, solar flare, or…
Gunung Padang Megalithic Site construction phases dated to 16,000-27,000 years old
Gunung Padang Megalithic Site construction phases dated to 16,000-27,000 years old. Unit 3 dates to 16,000-27,000 years old, making it the oldest construction phase Unit 2 dates…
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