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Revised Interpretation: Middle Stone Age Occupation Without Definitive Dating
Revised Interpretation: Middle Stone Age Occupation Without Definitive Dating. Coulson clarified that 2006 media stories were misleading journalism, not from her papers In 2011,…
Python Cave Discovery: 70,000-Year-Old Snake Rock and Ritual Artifacts
Python Cave Discovery: 70,000-Year-Old Snake Rock and Ritual Artifacts. Sheila Coulson of the University of Oslo led excavations at Python Cave in Tsodilo Hills, Botswana A…
Swastika predates Nazi ideology by 12,000 years across global cultures
Swastika predates Nazi ideology by 12,000 years across global cultures. Some of the oldest swastika examples are more than 10,000-12,000 years old Oldest examples found in…
Nowruz and Songkran share common Indo-Iranian New Year origins
Nowruz and Songkran share common Indo-Iranian New Year origins. Nowruz (March 21st) is celebrated on the spring equinox in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,…
2017 Max Planck DNA study reveals ancient Egyptians were genetically distinct from modern populations
2017 Max Planck DNA study reveals ancient Egyptians were genetically distinct from modern populations. The 2017 Max Planck Institute (Germany) DNA study analyzed mummies from…
Thai caves yield 29,000-year-old skeletons taller than average population
Thai caves yield 29,000-year-old skeletons taller than average population. The region has hundreds of caves where ancient skeletons have been found The oldest skeletons in this…
Geopolymer technology for casting artificial stone lost and rediscovered four times
Geopolymer technology for casting artificial stone lost and rediscovered four times. Marcel Foti's 'Natron Theory: proposes ancient cultures knew how to cast artificial geopolymer…
Indo-European language family spans from Sanskrit to Germanic languages
Indo-European language family spans from Sanskrit to Germanic languages. The term 'Aryan' historically refers to Indo-Aryan/Indo-Germanic/Indo-European peoples who brought…
Caucasus tower houses built medieval but on ancient foundations dating to 2nd millennium BC
Caucasus tower houses built medieval but on ancient foundations dating to 2nd millennium BC. Towers over 20m high (six-story buildings) built by the Ingush people and other Nakh…
Vulcansky Dolman: unique monolithic chamber carved from single sandstone block in Caucasus
Vulcansky Dolman: unique monolithic chamber carved from single sandstone block in Caucasus. Vulcansky Dolman is carved from one block of sandstone, not built from slabs like other…
Filippo Biondi announces potential second Sphinx via SAR scan anomaly
Filippo Biondi announces potential second Sphinx via SAR scan anomaly. Filippo Biondi announced discovery of an anomaly hiding a potential second Sphinx at the western end of the…
Geometric grid system and solstice alignments at Giza Plateau
Geometric grid system and solstice alignments at Giza Plateau. Mark Norden) research shows the Great Sphinx and Second Pyramid create the 'horizon' (arket) symbol aligned to…
Tomb of the Birds provides entrance to Giza's cave underworldconspiracy
Tomb of the Birds provides entrance to Giza's cave underworld. Tomb of the Birds discovered in 1837 by Howard Vyse containing bird mummies Serves as official entrance into Giza's…
High Man landscape effigy discovered matching Orion constellation with place names referencing Milky Way
High Man landscape effigy discovered matching Orion constellation with place names referencing Milky Way. Landscape effigy called the High Man (Farard means 'the high man')…
Baltray standing stones discovered with winter solstice alignment to Rockabill Island in 1999
Baltray standing stones discovered with winter solstice alignment to Rockabill Island in 1999. Standing stones at Baltray near Boyne estuary discovered in 1999 Stone axes winter…
Site Q: Large egg-shaped henge with summer solstice alignment discovered in Boyne Valley
Site Q: Large egg-shaped henge with summer solstice alignment discovered in Boyne Valley. Site Q is one of the largest surviving ringed structures in Ireland, egg-shaped with…
Dowth: Sister passage tomb with Stone of Seven Suns and lunar standstill alignments
Dowth: Sister passage tomb with Stone of Seven Suns and lunar standstill alignments. Dowth is the only major Boyne passage tomb not fully excavated in modern times; 1840s…
Brú na Bóinne: Overview of Boyne Valley's 50 passage tombs including Newgrange, Dowth, and Knowth
Brú na Bóinne: Overview of Boyne Valley's 50 passage tombs including Newgrange, Dowth, and Knowth. Three main passage tomb concentrations in Ireland: Brú na Bóinne/Boyne Valley,…
Millmount Fort: Claimed Neolithic passage tomb outside Boyne bend with solstice and equinox alignments
Millmount Fort: Claimed Neolithic passage tomb outside Boyne bend with solstice and equinox alignments. Millmount Fort was a mound (moat) until 1808 when it was fortified, hiding…
Knowth: Largest passage tomb with 25% of Europe's megalithic art and ancient calendar stone
Knowth: Largest passage tomb with 25% of Europe's megalithic art and ancient calendar stone. Knowth is the largest of the three main Boyne passage tombs with 17 satellite tombs…
Göbekli Tepe Porthole Stones Reburied Despite 2010 Theft of Vulture Statue
Göbekli Tepe Porthole Stones Reburied Despite 2010 Theft of Vulture Statue. A unique porthole stone found at Göbekli Tepe is flanked by guardian beasts and features two doors,…
Trillocknath Pandit's 1967-1983 anthropological surveys reveal Sentinel settlement patterns and diet
Trillocknath Pandit's 1967-1983 anthropological surveys reveal Sentinel settlement patterns and diet. Trillocknath Pandit made at least 9-10 trips to North Sentinel Island between…
Andaman Islands settlement dated to 26,000 years ago via genetic analysis
Andaman Islands settlement dated to 26,000 years ago via genetic analysis. Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups M31A and M32 are exclusive to Andaman people Genetic evidence suggests…
Hawara (Humeima) underground labyrinth complex remains unexcavated despite historical significance
Hawara (Humeima) underground labyrinth complex remains unexcavated despite historical significance. Hawara (Humeima) contains a massive underground labyrinth complex mentioned by…
Carbon dating of Great Pyramid shows 250-300 year discrepancy with conventional chronology
Carbon dating of Great Pyramid shows 250-300 year discrepancy with conventional chronology. Carbon dating results for Great Pyramid differ 250-300 years from written records…
Proprietary scanning technology claims second sphinx beneath Giza (Pyramids) plateau
Proprietary scanning technology claims second sphinx beneath Giza (Pyramids) plateau. Italian researchers using proprietary satellite scanning software claim to have detected a…
DNA evidence confirms pre-Columbian contact between South America and Polynesia
DNA evidence confirms pre-Columbian contact between South America and Polynesia. Easter Island contains DNA from South America South American populations contain Polynesian DNA…
Olmec men depicted with shaved heads as religious practice
Olmec men depicted with shaved heads as religious practice. Olmec art consistently shows men with completely shaved heads Female figurines in Olmec ceramics depicted with mohawk…
Olmec Offering Four at La Venta reveals ceremonial arrangement of 16 bald figures
Olmec Offering Four at La Venta reveals ceremonial arrangement of 16 bald figures. Offering Four discovered at La Venta contains 16 jade and stone figures all depicted as bald 12…
Red ochre burials and shell trade networks span North America from 4500-1000 BCE
Red ochre burials and shell trade networks span North America from 4500-1000 BCE. Red ochre burials found across North America from Kentucky and Tennessee to the northern Great…
Bronze Age halbert artifact found in Massachusetts near Mystery Hill dolman concentration
Bronze Age halbert artifact found in Massachusetts near Mystery Hill dolman concentration. Bronze or copper halbert found in Massachusetts near Mystery Hill (America Stonehenge)…
Bronze Age rock art from Scandinavia shows sailboats and maritime hunting scenes 2000-1000 BCE
Bronze Age rock art from Scandinavia shows sailboats and maritime hunting scenes 2000-1000 BCE. Rock art from southern Scandinavia clusters along coasts and depicts boats with…
Gouges and woodworking tools show identical material culture between Baltic and Northeast North America
Gouges and woodworking tools show identical material culture between Baltic and Northeast North America. Gouges are ground stone woodworking tools found along coastlines and…
Old Copper Complex mining pollution detected in Great Lakes lake cores dating to 4500-3400 BCE
Old Copper Complex mining pollution detected in Great Lakes lake cores dating to 4500-3400 BCE. Lake sediment cores from Lake Superior and Isle Royale show lead pollution spikes…
Second sphinx discovered beneath Giza Plateau using ground-penetrating radar
Second sphinx discovered beneath Giza Plateau using ground-penetrating radar. Ground-penetrating radar scans detected a structure mirroring the Great Sphinx beneath the sands near…
Scan Pyramids Mission used multiple geophysical methods to validate muon scan findings
Scan Pyramids Mission used multiple geophysical methods to validate muon scan findings. Scan Pyramids Mission used muography to detect void in Great Pyramid north face corridor…
Biondi submitting Khafre SAR work to peer review after initial journal rejection
Biondi submitting Khafre SAR work to peer review after initial journal rejection. Biondi submitted work to journal for peer review but was unhappy with feedback No specific…
Neolithic farmers from Anatolia expanded westward for 2,000 years before reaching Atlantic coast
Neolithic farmers from Anatolia expanded westward for 2,000 years before reaching Atlantic coast. Neolithic expansion occurred around turn of 5th millennium BC Farmers of…
Mesolithic burials at Téviec and Hoëdic islands show earliest megalithic stone use
Mesolithic burials at Téviec and Hoëdic islands show earliest megalithic stone use. Téviec and Hoëdic are two small islands off the coast of Brittany Burials discovered in late…
Nazca Tridactyl Mummies Exposed as Crude Composites of Human and Animal Remains
Nazca Tridactyl Mummies Exposed as Crude Composites of Human and Animal Remains. Bodies allegedly discovered in 2015 in Nazca region of Peru by tomb robbers Promoted by Alien…
Leather Palestinian Manuscript Confirmed as Modern Forgery via Radiocarbon Dating
Leather Palestinian Manuscript Confirmed as Modern Forgery via Radiocarbon Dating. Manuscript obtained by Palestinian tourism police after arrest of antiquity smuggler Written on…
Zeugma Mosaics Identified as AI-Generated Fabrication
Zeugma Mosaics Identified as AI-Generated Fabrication. Specialists determined mosaics do not resemble authentic ancient mosaics and are historically inaccurate AI detection models…
Catastrophic backwash floods created valley head moraines at south end of Finger Lakes
Catastrophic backwash floods created valley head moraines at south end of Finger Lakes. Valley head moraine found at south end of Finger Lakes Moraine material washed down from…
Lake Ontario basin shows evidence of catastrophic water flows and scoured features
Lake Ontario basin shows evidence of catastrophic water flows and scoured features. Deepest part of Lake Ontario basin approximately 500 feet deep Basin contains scoured features…
Finger Lakes converge radially on single point above Lake Ontario basin
Finger Lakes converge radially on single point above Lake Ontario basin. Finger Lakes' long axes converge radially rather than running parallel Convergence point located directly…
Finger Lakes and Channeled Scablands share identical catastrophic flood origin despite geographic separation
Finger Lakes and Channeled Scablands share identical catastrophic flood origin despite geographic separation. Finger Lakes and Grand Coulee both approximately 20-21 miles long…
Madagascar tsunami deposits show wave heights exceeding 200 meters from Indian Ocean impact
Madagascar tsunami deposits show wave heights exceeding 200 meters from Indian Ocean impact. Tsunami wave deposits found on Madagascar southwest coast at 94 meters elevation…
Nazca Lines cover 500 km² with 800+ lines and 70+ animal figures in southern Peru
Nazca Lines cover 500 km² with 800+ lines and 70+ animal figures in southern Peru. Nazca Lines cover approximately 500 square kilometers Main group of lines covers about 50 km²…
Nazca Lines preservation depends on unique desert climate with minimal rainfall
Nazca Lines preservation depends on unique desert climate with minimal rainfall. Nazca region receives only 1 to 2 millimeters of rainfall per year Almost no wind in the region…
AI and IBM identify 303 previously unknown geoglyphs at Nazca in 2024
AI and IBM identify 303 previously unknown geoglyphs at Nazca in 2024. In 2024, Yamagata University team working with IBM used artificial intelligence to identify geoglyphs 303…
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