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Willie Dansgaard pioneered ice core climate research using oxygen isotopes
Willie Dansgaard pioneered ice core climate research using oxygen isotopes. Willie Dansgaard (1922-2011) was a Danish paleoclimatologist and professor emeritus of geophysics at…
Great Basin lakes: Lake Bonneville was 1,000 feet deep, shrunk dramatically in Younger Dryas
Great Basin lakes: Lake Bonneville was 1,000 feet deep, shrunk dramatically in Younger Dryas. Lake Bonneville, the largest of the Great Basin lakes, was nearly a thousand feet…
Younger Dryas: Catastrophic rapid cooling event 12,900 years ago
Younger Dryas: Catastrophic rapid cooling event 12,900 years ago. The Younger Dryas was not an isolated event; there were events leading up to and following it that were collected…
1960 paper first documented abrupt global climate shift 11,000 radiocarbon years ago
1960 paper first documented abrupt global climate shift 11,000 radiocarbon years ago. The paper 'Evidence for an Abrupt Change in Climate Close to 11,000 Years Ago' by Ewing,…
Dansgaard-Oeschger events: 25 rapid climate fluctuations during last glacial period
Dansgaard-Oeschger events: 25 rapid climate fluctuations during last glacial period. Dansgaard-Oeschger events are rapid climate fluctuations that occurred 25 times during the…
T-clamps and precision hinge mechanisms found at The Ramesseum
T-clamps and precision hinge mechanisms found at The Ramesseum. T-clamps visible throughout the The Ramesseum site Doorway with two slots of the same height for something that…
1,000-ton fallen colossus at The Ramesseum is Earth's largest sculpted granite
1,000-ton fallen colossus at The Ramesseum is Earth's largest sculpted granite. Fallen statue at The Ramesseum is made from one solid piece of red granite Estimated weight: over…
Underground tunnel discovered beneath Hatshepsut Temple
Underground tunnel discovered beneath Hatshepsut Temple. Deep underground tunnel discovered at Hatshepsut Temple area Round formations visible on the ceiling with niches along the…
Alexander Thom's megalithic yard theory and MacKie's supporting research at BROCKS LINN
Alexander Thom's megalithic yard theory and MacKie's supporting research at BROCKS LINN. Alexander Thom proposed the megalithic yard (0.829 meters/32.8 inches) as a standard unit…
MacKie's priesthood hypothesis and academic resistance to sophisticated prehistoric knowledge
MacKie's priesthood hypothesis and academic resistance to sophisticated prehistoric knowledge. MacKie proposes stone circles were ceremonial centers and instruments of a…
53 inscribed oracle bones confirm Zhouyuan Site as Western Zhou capital Shiu
53 inscribed oracle bones confirm Zhouyuan Site as Western Zhou capital Shiu. Chinese archaeologists found 53 inscribed oracle bones at the Zhouyuan Site site in Shaanxi province…
13,000 new ostraca found at Sohag brings total to 43,000 at ancient Akhmim
13,000 new ostraca found at Sohag brings total to 43,000 at ancient Akhmim. An Egyptian-German archaeological team found 13,000 ostraca at Sohag, the site of the ancient city of…
Dutch scholar deciphers cryptic B script from Dead Sea Scrolls after 70+ years
Dutch scholar deciphers cryptic B script from Dead Sea Scrolls after 70+ years. A Dutch scholar cracked the cryptic B script from the Dead Sea Scrolls more than 70 years after…
Silkworm cocoons at Monks Mound awaiting radiocarbon dating
Silkworm cocoons at Monks Mound awaiting radiocarbon dating. Silkworm cocoons were found at Monks Mound (Cahokia) by Sutter in 1920 and donated to the Madison County History…
Burrs Hill burial ground artifacts reinterred in concrete vault in 2017
Burrs Hill burial ground artifacts reinterred in concrete vault in 2017. Burrs Hill Royal Burial Ground in Rhode Island contained over 600 artifacts including Chinese tripod…
Flower pollen and goose feathers discovered in 9,000-year-old burial
Flower pollen and goose feathers discovered in 9,000-year-old burial. Flower pollen identified near the shaman's head suggesting floral adornment at burial Plants include devil's…
Shaman's front teeth deliberately filed down to root canals
Shaman's front teeth deliberately filed down to root canals. Front upper incisors deliberately filed down exposing root canals Filed by third parties with skilled technique Tooth…
Burial contained over 140 animal bones and elaborate grave goods
Burial contained over 140 animal bones and elaborate grave goods. Over 140 animal bones and teeth including 50 pierced incisor pendants from aurochs, wild boar, deer Deer antler…
Shaman had rare spinal malformation and hunter-gatherer phenotype
Shaman had rare spinal malformation and hunter-gatherer phenotype. Physical traits: dark complexion, straight dark hair, blue eyes (common Western European hunter-gatherer…
9,000-year-old burial contains woman and unrelated infant
9,000-year-old burial contains woman and unrelated infant. Dating approximately 9,000 years old, Mesolithic period Two individuals: woman aged 30-40 years, standing 5'1 tall; male…
Burial discovered in 1934 during water pipe installation
Burial discovered in 1934 during water pipe installation. Burial discovered in 1934 during water pipe installation Excavated in a single afternoon (some reports say just hours)…
Ancient artist used white correction paint on 3,300-year-old Egyptian Book of the Dead
Ancient artist used white correction paint on 3,300-year-old Egyptian Book of the Dead. 3,300-year-old Book of the Dead found in tomb at Sedment in Egypt Papyrus originally…
43,000-year-old carved signs suggest earliest information encoding before writing
43,000-year-old carved signs suggest earliest information encoding before writing. Study analyzed 200+ objects adorned with several thousand geometric signs Objects dated to…
Monteverde dating controversy challenges 14,500-year-old pre-Clovis occupation claims
Monteverde dating controversy challenges 14,500-year-old pre-Clovis occupation claims. Monteverde 2 (MV2) in Chile was claimed to be 14,500 years old by Dr. Tom Dillehay in 1977…
34 Samnite graves found under Italian factory with child burials and bronze bells
34 Samnite graves found under Italian factory with child burials and bronze bells. 34 Samnite graves discovered under former tobacco factory in Campania, Italy Dating to…
2,610-year-old Celtic elite burial discovered near Riedlingen, Germany
2,610-year-old Celtic elite burial discovered near Riedlingen, Germany. 2,610-year-old Celtic tomb discovered near Riedlingen, Germany Burial mound 65 m in diameter and at least 6…
100-meter ship graveyard discovered off ancient Greek port of Ptolemais, Libya
100-meter ship graveyard discovered off ancient Greek port of Ptolemais, Libya. Underwater ship graveyard discovered off Ptolemais in Libya Site stretches over 100 m across the…
Recent LiDAR survey reveals previously unknown Maya city in southern Yucatan
Recent LiDAR survey reveals previously unknown Maya city in southern Yucatan. In late previous year, extensive LiDAR surveys were conducted in southern Yucatan An entire…
Mesoamerican ball game played with 8-pound rubber ball bounced off hip
Mesoamerican ball game played with 8-pound rubber ball bounced off hip. The Mesoamerican ball game used an 8-pound rubber ball Players bounced the ball off their hips to score…
Babylon's Ishtar Gate Features Serpent Dragon Mushushu Guardians
Babylon's Ishtar Gate Features Serpent Dragon Mushushu Guardians. Tiamat was the primordial goddess of chaos depicted as an enormous sea dragon in Mesopotamian mythology The god…
Three Theories Attempt to Explain Universal Dragon Mythology
Three Theories Attempt to Explain Universal Dragon Mythology. Fossil hypothesis: Ancient Chinese 'dragon bone' medicine sites correspond with dinosaur fossil deposits Central…
Chichén Itzá Pyramid Creates Serpent Shadow Effect at Spring Equinox
Chichén Itzá Pyramid Creates Serpent Shadow Effect at Spring Equinox. The Maya built a pyramid at Chichén Itzá with precise astronomical engineering At the spring equinox, shadows…
Chinese Long Dragon Symbolized Imperial Power for Over 2,000 Years
Chinese Long Dragon Symbolized Imperial Power for Over 2,000 Years. Only the Emperor of China was permitted to wear the image of the dragon for over 2,000 years The Han dynasty,…
Longyou Caves: 2.5 million tons of rock vanished with zero historical records
Longyou Caves: 2.5 million tons of rock vanished with zero historical records. Discovered 1992 by farmers draining ponds in Yu Jang province, eastern China 24 caverns discovered,…
Senegambian stone circles: over 1,000 laterite monuments spanning 350 km along River Gambia
Senegambian stone circles: over 1,000 laterite monuments spanning 350 km along River Gambia. The Senegambian stone circles comprise over 1,000 monuments in a band 100 km wide and…
Nabta Playa: oldest astronomically aligned structure predating Stonehenge by 1,000 years
Nabta Playa: oldest astronomically aligned structure predating Stonehenge by 1,000 years. Nabta Playa is located 60 miles near the Egyptian-Sudanese border in a 5,000 square…
Great Zimbabwe: 11th century medieval capital with 60-acre stone complex
Great Zimbabwe: 11th century medieval capital with 60-acre stone complex. Great Zimbabwe, meaning 'stone houses' in Shona, is the greatest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa…
Dogon Sirius mystery: 50-year calendar based on Sirius B's orbital cycle
Dogon Sirius mystery: 50-year calendar based on Sirius B's orbital cycle. The Dogon live in southeast Mali along the Bandiagara Escarpment (UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1989)…
Rock Ship of Masuda: 800-tonne megalith carved with mysterious square holes
Rock Ship of Masuda: 800-tonne megalith carved with mysterious square holes. Located near the top of a hill in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan Basalt monolith weighing approximately…
2,000-year-old Ice Maiden discovered in frozen Siberian burial mound
2,000-year-old Ice Maiden discovered in frozen Siberian burial mound. The woman, known as the Ice Maiden or Uk Princess, was discovered in a frozen burial mound in the Alai…
28,000-year-old cave lion cub named Sparta found in Siberian permafrost
28,000-year-old cave lion cub named Sparta found in Siberian permafrost. The cub named Sparta was discovered in 2017 in the Saka Republic, Siberia She was estimated to be only 1-2…
Berezovka mammoth froze instantly with undigested food in stomach
Berezovka mammoth froze instantly with undigested food in stomach. The mammoth was preserved with undigested food in its stomach, indicating it froze instantly Researchers noted…
42,000-year-old prehistoric horse found with liquid blood in Siberia
42,000-year-old prehistoric horse found with liquid blood in Siberia. Scientists extracted actual liquid blood from a prehistoric horse found in the Batagaika crater This…
Moai statues originally full figures; population crashed after contact
Moai statues originally full figures; population crashed after contact. 950 moai statues originally created as full figures Largest moai measured 35 feet or more in height One…
Great Sphinx carved from primordial mound during Green Sahara period 12,000-6,000 years ago
Great Sphinx carved from primordial mound during Green Sahara period 12,000-6,000 years ago. During the Green Sahara period (12,000-6,000 years ago), the Nile often reached the…
Coffrey scan team employs synthetic aperture radar to search Giza Plateau subsurface
Coffrey scan team employs synthetic aperture radar to search Giza Plateau subsurface. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) uses smaller satellite radar antennas to cover wider areas,…
Historical claims of a second Sphinx found unsubstantiated by mainstream Egyptology
Historical claims of a second Sphinx found unsubstantiated by mainstream Egyptology. 14th-century traveler Aladrezi described a smaller mud-brick sphinx faced with stone that was…
Calakmul destroys Palenque in 599 and 611 CE attacks
Calakmul destroys Palenque in 599 and 611 CE attacks. In 599 CE, Calakmul (the Snake Kingdom) attacked Palenque, destroying Lakam Ha (city center) and desecrating temples by…
Pakal crowned king of Palenque at age 12 in 615 CE
Pakal crowned king of Palenque at age 12 in 615 CE. Pakal was born in March 603 CE At age 9, he and his mother Lady Sakuk arrived in Palenque in 612 CE Lady Sakuk took the throne…
Pakal's tomb discovered in Temple of Inscriptions in 1952
Pakal's tomb discovered in Temple of Inscriptions in 1952. Pakal died on August 28th, 683 CE at age 80 His son K'inich K'uk' Bahlam completed the Temple of Inscriptions as his…
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