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Petubastis IV cartouche found at Dakhla Oasis, reinterprets lost army story
Petubastis IV cartouche found at Dakhla Oasis, reinterprets lost army story. Excavations at Haida in Dakhla Oasis uncovered a cartouche of Petubastis IV in 2005 Further digging in…
Serbian mass grave reveals 9th century BC mass execution
Serbian mass grave reveals 9th century BC mass execution. Mass grave at Galava (Ambleside, Cumbria) in Serbia contained 77 individuals: 24 adults, 12 teenagers, 4 children, 1 baby…
Elephant bone found in Spain linked to Hannibal's war elephants
Elephant bone found in Spain linked to Hannibal's war elephants. Carpal bone from elephant's right front foot found at Hill of the Burned site in Cordoba, Spain Dated to 2300-2200…
Pre-dynastic Egyptian copper drill identified in Cambridge museum
Pre-dynastic Egyptian copper drill identified in Cambridge museum. Pre-dynastic Egyptian copper drill bit found in museum archive at University of Cambridge The object was…
Alexander the Great's Alexandria in the Caucasus located in Iraq
Alexander the Great's Alexandria in the Caucasus located in Iraq. Alexandria in the Caucasus was founded by Alexander the Great around 330 BCE Located 2 km from Gulf Coast at…
World's oldest sewn hide found in Oregon caves, 12,900 years old
World's oldest sewn hide found in Oregon caves, 12,900 years old. Sewn hide cords and twine found in two Oregon caves originally excavated in 1958 Radiocarbon dating places them…
Ewing Documents Abrupt Temperature Change 11,000 Years Ago
Ewing Documents Abrupt Temperature Change 11,000 Years Ago. Maurice Ewing and William L. Dawn published 'Theory of Ice Ages' in Science magazine summer 1956 Their data showed an…
Holocene Epoch Begins 11,600 Years Ago After Younger Dryas
Holocene Epoch Begins 11,600 Years Ago After Younger Dryas. Yan Mangarod was a Norwegian geologist born in 1937 in Oslo Quaternary period covers the Pleistocene and Holocene…
Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism Historical Debate Explained
Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism Historical Debate Explained. Uniformitarianism tagline: 'the present is the key to the past' Early geologists (Buckland, Cuvier, Sedwick,…
Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and Climate Change Relevance
Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and Climate Change Relevance. 2007 hypothesis proposed Younger Dryas events were triggered by extraterrestrial impact This remains controversial…
1960 Paper Reported Evidence of Abrupt Climate Change Near 11,000 Years Ago
1960 Study Confirms Abrupt Climate Change 11,000 Years Ago. 1960 paper by Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heen titled 'Evidence for an abrupt change close to 11,000 years ago' Removed…
Willard Libby Develops Radiocarbon Dating in 1952
Willard Libby Develops Radiocarbon Dating in 1952. Willard F. Libby published his radiocarbon dating paper in 1952 through University of Chicago Press Radiocarbon dating allows…
Historians debunk theory that barbarian recruitment caused Rome's fall
Historians debunk theory that barbarian recruitment caused Rome's fall. The 'Lieuitz thesis' proposes barbarian dominance in the late Roman military led to Rome's collapse…
Battle of Catalaunian Plains 451 marked shift in Roman military tactics
Battle of Catalaunian Plains 451 marked shift in Roman military tactics. The Battle of Catalaunian Plains in 451 featured Aetius commanding a coalition against Attila The…
Late Roman army divided into regular units and federates in 5th century
Late Roman army divided into regular units and federates in 5th century. The late Roman army was divided into regular military units and federates drawn from non-Roman sources…
Civil wars and Huns, not barbarian troops, caused Western Empire's fall
Civil wars and Huns, not barbarian troops, caused Western Empire's fall. The 5th century Western Roman Empire was characterized by constant civil wars and usurptions The arrival…
Dartmoor's Megalithic Complex and New Discoveries
Dartmoor's Megalithic Complex and New Discoveries. Dartmoor contains multiple stone circles, standing stones, long rows, and cairns King Arthur's Hall is a rectangular stone…
Dolmens Worldwide: 19,000 in Korea Alone
Dolmens Worldwide: 19,000 in Korea Alone. Dolmens found globally: Japan, Australia, Indonesia, South America, North America South Korea has approximately 19,000 dolmens Denmark…
Site Preservation Threats and Conservation
Site Preservation Threats and Conservation. Nazca Lines in Peru threatened by mining companies given government rights Gobekli Tepe was threatened by limestone mining for road…
Megalithic Portal: 60,000 Ancient Sites Database
Megalithic Portal: 60,000 Ancient Sites Database. Website founded in 1996, running for 25+ years Over 60,000 megalithic sites documented worldwide Features include Google Earth…
Global Stone Circles: 2,593 Documented Worldwide
Global Stone Circles: 2,593 Documented Worldwide. At least 1,000 stone circles in British Isles 2,593 stone circles documented on Megalithic Portal Japan has Bronze Age and later…
Thornborough Henges: Preservation Victory
Thornborough Henges: Preservation Victory. Three giant henges in Yorkshire joined by avenues One henge was threatened by tarmac and mining development English Heritage intervened…
The Old Stones Book: Guide to UK Megalithic Sites
The Old Stones Book: Guide to UK Megalithic Sites. Published in 2017 by Watkins Books Contributions from archaeologists Mike Parker Pearson and Vicky Cummings Contains hundreds of…
Barnenez Architecture: 11 Tombs and Construction Techniques
Barnenez Architecture: 11 Tombs and Construction Techniques. Barnenez is called a passage tomb but actually comprises 11 passage tombs grouped under one cairn Chambers A, B, C are…
Barnenez Cairn: Dimensions and 1950s Rescue Discovery
Barnenez Cairn: Dimensions and 1950s Rescue Discovery. Barnenez measures 72m long, 25m wide at one end and 19m at the other, 8m high 13 to 14,000 tons of stone used in…
Barnenez Dating Controversy and Chronology
Barnenez Dating Controversy and Chronology. Original dating of 4,800 BC has been questioned because the charcoal used could have come from elsewhere More reliable dates for…
Ancient tongue-and-groove 'Lego-block' technology at Bakong
Ancient tongue-and-groove 'Lego-block' technology at Bakong. Ancient Khmer builders used H-shaped slots carved into giant stone blocks Metal was melted and poured into slots to…
Giant 18-foot Shiva Lingam discovered at Bakong Temple sub-shrine
Giant 18-foot Shiva Lingam discovered at Bakong Temple sub-shrine. Yoni base measures 5 ft tall and 7 ft 4 in long (8 ft 6 in with spout) Inner chamber hole measures 6 ft deep…
Bakong Temple identified as Hindu shrine through Vishnu carvings
Bakong Temple identified as Hindu shrine through Vishnu carvings. Temple features Lord Vishnu sitting on Garuda (half bird, half human figure) Vishnu holds conch in one hand and…
Three blind doors and open fourth entrance at ancient Khmer temples
Three blind doors and open fourth entrance at ancient Khmer temples. Ancient Cambodian temples traditionally had three blind doors on three sides A fourth door was always present…
Pacific Northwest contact and ancient transoceanic contact
Pacific Northwest contact and ancient transoceanic contact. Mainstream academics acknowledge contact up and down the Pacific coast in ancient times Dr. Greg Little has documented…
Esoteric knowledge loss: sniper schools example
Esoteric knowledge loss: sniper schools example. WWII sniper schools were unofficial and closed when budgets tightened One generation later, Vietnam-era snipers had no formal…
Elongated skulls: cranial modification methods and anomalies
Elongated skulls: cranial modification methods and anomalies. Elongated skulls result from cranial headboarding and head wrapping methods used across different cultures and time…
Baghdad Battery: possible use in ancient gold mining
Baghdad Battery: possible use in ancient gold mining. Baghdad Battery may have been used as a galvanic cell for electroplating Using mine runoff (acid) with copper and iron could…
Maya site on magnetic anomaly: planned experiments during blood moonlost_civilization
Maya site on magnetic anomaly: planned experiments during blood moon. Many Maya sites sit on or within magnetic anomalies caused by the Yucatan meteor impact Cody plans to visit a…
Big Dipper navigation technique for direction and time
Big Dipper navigation technique for direction and time. A bright star can be aligned with a fixed object to determine direction - if it moves left you're facing north, right…
Shark tooth club artifact found at Cahokia Mound 34
Shark tooth club artifact found at Cahokia Mound 34. A shark's tooth blade was found at Cahokia in mound 34 by Gregory Perino in 1953 The club had imitation sharks teeth made from…
Yang Shan Stone: Yongle Emperor's 31,000-ton monument abandoned unfinished
Yang Shan Stone: Yongle Emperor's 31,000-ton monument abandoned unfinished. Ordered by Emperor Yongle (Yongdi) in 1405 Would have stood over 240 feet tall, taller than Statue of…
Sabu Disc: 5,000-year-old Egyptian artifact resembling turbine blade
Sabu Disc: 5,000-year-old Egyptian artifact resembling turbine blade. Discovered in 1936 by British archaeologist Walter Emery in Saqqara Necropolis Found in First Dynasty tomb of…
Yap Rai Stones: Giant limestone discs used as currency for 600 years
Yap Rai Stones: Giant limestone discs used as currency for 600 years. Giant limestone discs up to 12 feet across weighing up to 8,000 lbs Heaviest currency in the world Originated…
Kailasa Temple: World's largest single-rock monument carved downward from cliff top
Kailasa Temple: World's largest single-rock monument carved downward from cliff top. World's largest structure carved from a single piece of rock Located at Ellora Caves, India…
Grand Egyptian Museum: $1B Cost, 12 Galleries, 50-100K Artifacts
Grand Egyptian Museum: $1B Cost, 12 Galleries, 50-100K Artifacts. GEM construction started in 2005 with initial costs around $500 million Final construction cost was $1-1.2…
Old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square: 1902, Hosts Royal Mummies
Old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square: 1902, Hosts Royal Mummies. Located in Tahrir Square in central Cairo Opened in 1902, over 100 years old Commissioned by Khedive Abbas Helmi II
Khufu's Solar Boats: 2500 BC Ships Built Without Nails
Khufu's Solar Boats: 2500 BC Ships Built Without Nails. Dating back to around 2500 BC Uncovered in sealed pits on the southern side of the Great Pyramid Ships were built without…
King Tutankhamun's Tomb: Only Intact Royal Burial with 5,000+ Artifacts
King Tutankhamun's Tomb: Only Intact Royal Burial with 5,000+ Artifacts. Discovered in November 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter The only known intact royal burial from ancient…
Aurignacian culture: first modern humans in Europe 43,000 years ago
Aurignacian culture: first modern humans in Europe 43,000 years ago. Aurignacian culture existed from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago First European culture of modern humans Created…
Vogelherd cave yields hundreds of Ice Age animal figurines
Vogelherd cave yields hundreds of Ice Age animal figurines. Y-shaped cave with three galleries meeting in center Excavated in 1930s, majority of Aurignacian figurines found here…
40,000-year-old proto-writing discovered on Ice Age artefacts
40,000-year-old proto-writing discovered on Ice Age artefacts. Markings on Aurignacian artefacts have statistical complexity comparable to protocuneform This is the first…
Lion Man: oldest zoomorphic statue discovered in Germany
Lion Man: oldest zoomorphic statue discovered in Germany. 35-40,000-year-old statue carved from mammoth ivory Stands 31.1 cm high, one of the oldest known statues in the world…
Adorant plaque: 88 notches may represent astronomical timekeeping
Adorant plaque: 88 notches may represent astronomical timekeeping. Small rectangular mammoth ivory plaque measuring 38mm x 14mm x 4.5mm Has 39 notches on edges in groups of 6, 13,…
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