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Solon's Egyptian travels and Sais (Egypt) as source of Atlantis story
Solon's Egyptian travels and Sais (Egypt) as source of Atlantis story. Solon the Elder traveled to the Egyptian city of Sais (Egypt) while in exile Egyptian priests translated the…
Atlantis megafauna compared to Doggerland and Sundaland
Atlantis megafauna compared to Doggerland and Sundaland. Plato's text mentions a great number of elephants on the island of Atlantis Megafauna referenced was already extinct on…
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis backed by 65 published forensic evidence papers
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis backed by 65 published forensic evidence papers. The Younger Dryas cosmic impact is hypothesized to have occurred approximately 12,800 years ago…
Storm exposes 12,000-year-old human marks and elephant bones near Cadiz, Spainlost_civilization
Storm exposes 12,000-year-old human marks and elephant bones near Cadiz, Spain. A severe winter storm stripped sand from a beach near Rota/El Puerto de Santa María in the Cadiz…
Pastoral landscape vs ritual landscape: Stonehenge cattle herding at 3,700 BC
Pastoral landscape vs ritual landscape: Stonehenge cattle herding at 3,700 BC. Speakers reject the framing of Wiltshire as a 'ritual landscape' or 'sacred landscape', preferring…
Embedded ritual in everyday prehistoric life vs South American indigenous parallels
Embedded ritual in everyday prehistoric life vs South American indigenous parallels. Speakers argue ritual and practical everyday living may not have been separated in the deep…
Language and worldview: Perea tribe with no past or future tense
Language and worldview: Perea tribe with no past or future tense. A South American tribe referred to as 'Perea' has a language without number, color, past tense, or future tense…
Shamanic burials and the origin of ritual specialists in prehistory
Shamanic burials and the origin of ritual specialists in prehistory. Burials show individuals interred with toothed costume, feather headdress, cowhide, and a red deer frontlet…
Longyou Grottoes: nearly 200 cliff caves with colossal clay figures in Gansu
Longyou Grottoes: nearly 200 cliff caves with colossal clay figures in Gansu. The Longyou Grottoes are located in Gansu, China, on a mountain with steep, nearly vertical walls…
Yungang Grottoes: 252 caves with 51,000 statues carved into Shanxi cliff
Yungang Grottoes: 252 caves with 51,000 statues carved into Shanxi cliff. The Yungang Grottoes are located near Datong in China's Shanxi province The complex contains 252 caves…
Etymology and origins of the Xiongnu/Hun term in Central Asia
Etymology and origins of the Xiongnu/Hun term in Central Asia. The Chinese term Xiongnu was likely pronounced something like "honnu," "hungu," or "hungai" The term "Hun" is best…
Kidarite Hun coins and numismatic evidence for their rise
Kidarite Hun coins and numismatic evidence for their rise. Coins reference a king named Khadara, providing the primary Central Asian evidence for the Kidarites Kidarites appear to…
Swat Bowl: silver artifact depicting Alchon and Kidarite Hun kings
Swat Bowl: silver artifact depicting Alchon and Kidarite Hun kings. The Swat Bowl was discovered in 1912 in Gandhara and is crafted from silver The artifact dates to approximately…
Showyan Copper Scroll documents Alchon political hierarchy and Buddhist patronage
Showyan Copper Scroll documents Alchon political hierarchy and Buddhist patronage. The Showyan Copper Scroll was authorized by the Alchon Huns and references four Alchon kings The…
Three Lakes Canyon yields ancient wall, stone box, and underwater artifact
Three Lakes Canyon yields ancient wall, stone box, and underwater artifact. Dan's family has investigated Three Lakes Canyon for decades An ancient wall with an ancient stone box…
Uto-Aztecan linguistics and chocolate residue link Utah to Mexico
Uto-Aztecan linguistics and chocolate residue link Utah to Mexico. Uto-Aztecan language chain connects tribes in Utah (Ute, Paiute, Shoshone) to speakers of Nahuatl in Mexico…
Eleusis ritual: procession, sacred play, and the revealed ear of grain
Eleusis ritual: procession, sacred play, and the revealed ear of grain. Initiates walked approximately 22 km from Athens to Eleusis along the Sacred Way, calling out the name…
Historical initiates and secrecy oath of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Historical initiates and secrecy oath of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Notable historical initiates included Sophocles, Plutarch, Cicero, and Roman emperors Augustus and Hadrian All…
The 1978 'Road to Eleusis' ergot hypothesis and its critics
The 1978 'Road to Eleusis' ergot hypothesis and its critics. The kykeon drink contained barley, water, and pennyroyal (a wild mint) The ceremony password was 'I have fasted, I…
2026 experiment shows ancient method could produce LSA from ergot
2026 experiment shows ancient method could produce LSA from ergot. In the 1990s, Spanish archaeologists excavated Mas Castellar de Pontus near a Greek trading colony in Catalonia…
Robert Schoch's weather erosion dating places Sphinx at end of humid period ~8,000 years ago
Robert Schoch's weather erosion dating places Sphinx at end of humid period ~8,000 years ago. Geologist Robert Schoch proposed weather erosion dating of the Sphinx based on…
Plato's Timaeus recounts Solon learning Atlantis story from Egyptian priests at Sais
Plato's Timaeus recounts Solon learning Atlantis story from Egyptian priests at Sais. Plato's primary source is the Socratic dialogue Timaeus, first in a planned trilogy followed…
Tale of two industries in ancient Egypt: sophisticated vs primitive
Tale of two industries in ancient Egypt: sophisticated vs primitive. Two distinct technological levels exist in Egyptian artifacts: sophisticated megalithic work and primitive…
Erosional evidence suggests megalithic structures predate Old Kingdom
Erosional evidence suggests megalithic structures predate Old Kingdom. Valley Temple and Sphinx enclosure limestone show significant erosion from prolonged water/rainfall exposure…
Cataclysm theories and global precursor civilization myths
Cataclysm theories and global precursor civilization myths. Younger Dryas (~12,800 years ago) proposed as cataclysm ending precursor civilization Last Interglacial (Eemian/Marine…
Logistical challenge of transporting 1,000-ton stone statues
Logistical challenge of transporting 1,000-ton stone statues. Single-piece granite statue at Tanis (Egypt) estimated at minimum 1,000 tons, transported ~1,000 km from Aswan Red…
Researcher launches Lost Civilisations Database with strict scientific criteria
Researcher launches Lost Civilisations Database with strict scientific criteria. Database called LCD (Lost Civilisations Database) launched the day before recording Strict…
Sphinx and Valley Temples at Giza designed as step pyramid and T-shaped cosmograms
Sphinx and Valley Temples at Giza designed as step pyramid and T-shaped cosmograms. Sphinx Temple from above designed as a three-level step pyramid combined with T-shapes on its…
Ayanis Kalesi altar in Van, Turkey features repeating flame and circle symbols
Ayanis Kalesi altar in Van, Turkey features repeating flame and circle symbols. Site located in Van region, eastern Turkey, west of Mount Ararat, above Lake Van Altar and floors…
New underground chamber detected beneath Karahan Tepe main enclosure
New underground chamber detected beneath Karahan Tepe main enclosure. Ground-penetrating radar detected an underground chamber beneath the square enclosure at Karahan Tepe Chamber…
Underground chambers and caves documented at nearby Göbekli Tepe hill
Underground chambers and caves documented at nearby Göbekli Tepe hill. Göbekli Tepe is a hill north of Karahan Tepe containing caves and rock-cut features Underground chambers…
Carved underground chamber found behind narrative panel at Sayburç
Carved underground chamber found behind narrative panel at Sayburç. An underground chamber exists behind the main enclosure at Sayburç containing the famous narrative panel The…
New excavations at Göbekli Tepe northern sector uncover Layer B enclosures
New excavations at Göbekli Tepe northern sector uncover Layer B enclosures. New excavation activity is underway in the northern depression of Göbekli Tepe, previously covered by…
Turkish-Chinese excavation begins at Yoğunburç with early finds
Turkish-Chinese excavation begins at Yoğunburç with early finds. Yoğunburç is one of the 12 Taş Tepeler sites being excavated through a Turkish-Chinese collaboration Head…
Turkish-Japanese excavation begins at Ayanlar Höyük, reported larger than Göbekli Tepe
Turkish-Japanese excavation begins at Ayanlar Höyük, reported larger than Göbekli Tepe. A Turkish-Japanese team began excavating Ayanlar Höyük in late 2025, one of the 12 Taş…
Azores microcontinent proposed as Atlantis based on Plato's 11,600-year date
Azores microcontinent proposed as Atlantis based on Plato's 11,600-year date. Plato's account places Atlantis's sinking 9,000 years before Solon's journey to Egypt (~600 BC) 9,000…
Egyptian pyramids used rose granite transported 500 miles from Aswan
Egyptian pyramids used rose granite transported 500 miles from Aswan. Rose granite used in the Great Pyramid and megalithic temples came from Aswan quarry, 500 miles away Granite…
Templars returned from Middle East in 1128, Amiens Cathedral begun 1130 AD
Templars returned from Middle East in 1128, Amiens Cathedral begun 1130 AD. First Templar expedition left France for the Middle East in 1118 AD Templars returned approximately 10…
Marine geology reveals continental sand and vegetation on mid-Atlantic floor
Marine geology reveals continental sand and vegetation on mid-Atlantic floor. Maurice Ewing published 'New Discoveries on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge' in National Geographic in 1949…
Maya monumental architecture was originally painted brilliant red
Maya monumental architecture was originally painted brilliant red. Maya monumental structures were originally covered in smooth limestone plaster and painted in brilliant colors,…
Tikal's Great Plaza and Temple of the Great Jaguar described
Tikal's Great Plaza and Temple of the Great Jaguar described. The Great Plaza at Tikal was paved with carefully cut limestone blocks and aligned with cardinal directions to mark…
Palenque's Temple of Inscriptions hid Pakal's tomb and the Red Queen
Palenque's Temple of Inscriptions hid Pakal's tomb and the Red Queen. The Temple of the Inscriptions was built during the reign of Pakal the Great in the 7th century AD, rising…
Bonampak murals and Maya Blue pigment among Maya craftsmanship achievements
Bonampak murals and Maya Blue pigment among Maya craftsmanship achievements. The best preserved Maya murals are found at Bonampak in Chiapas, Mexico, painted approximately 1,230…
Tikal's hydraulic engineering included advanced water filtration systems
Tikal's hydraulic engineering included advanced water filtration systems. Tikal had no nearby rivers or lakes, requiring construction of elaborate reservoirs, dams, and filtration…
Chichén Itzá's El Castillo functions as a 365-day solar calendar
Chichén Itzá's El Castillo functions as a 365-day solar calendar. El Castillo (Temple of Kukulkan) at Chichén Itzá rises approximately 30 m (nearly 100 ft) with nine stepped…
Denisovan bones from Penghu Strait reveal they towered over contemporaries
Denisovan bones from Penghu Strait reveal they towered over contemporaries. In 2010, bones were dredged up from the sea floor near Taiwan in the Penghu Strait A mandible was…
Economic and social factors behind the decline of Roman concrete
Economic and social factors behind the decline of Roman concrete. The heyday of Roman concrete occurred in the 1st–2nd centuries AD, supported by economic prosperity, resource…
Roman concrete composition and earliest surviving structures
Roman concrete composition and earliest surviving structures. Roman concrete was composed of water, lime, pozzolana (a volcanic sand), and aggregate (gravel, stone fragments, or…
Göbekli Tepe tree removal reveals structures below, vindicating Corsetti
Göbekli Tepe tree removal reveals structures below, vindicating Corsetti. Olive trees planted at Göbekli Tepe were removed, revealing residential structures beneath them Tree…
Biondi's 2022 pyramid radar paper retracted by MDPI
Biondi's 2022 pyramid radar paper retracted by MDPI. Filippo Biondi's 2022 paper titled "Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Reveals Details of Undiscovered…
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