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First Denisovan leg bones found in Taiwan Strait, suggesting large stature
First Denisovan leg bones found in Taiwan Strait, suggesting large stature. Two new Denisovan leg bones - a femur called Pangu 2 and a tibia called Pangu 3 - were dredged from the…
Buried megaliths and structures detected at Carnac Stones via drone survey
Buried megaliths and structures detected at Carnac Stones via drone survey. A team led by archaeologist Guérin Bruno conducted a geophysical survey of approximately 2.5 hectares…
Video contains no substantive archaeological narration
Video contains no substantive archaeological narration. The transcript for this segment consists entirely of [music] tags with no spoken content or archaeological facts. The only…
Historical photographs of Egypt mid-section lacks narration
Historical photographs of Egypt mid-section lacks narration. The transcript for this segment consists entirely of [music] tags with no spoken content or archaeological facts.…
Latter portion of Egypt photo documentary contains no speech
Latter portion of Egypt photo documentary contains no speech. The transcript for this segment consists entirely of [music] tags with no spoken content or archaeological facts. No…
Final segment of 1860–1900 Egypt photo compilation is silent
Final segment of 1860–1900 Egypt photo compilation is silent. The transcript for this segment consists entirely of [music] tags with no spoken content or archaeological facts. The…
Western Han tomb discovery reveals paper predates Cai Lun by 250-300 years
Western Han tomb discovery reveals paper predates Cai Lun by 250-300 years. Cai Lun presented paper to Emperor He of Han in 105 CE, made from tree bark, hemp waste, cloth, and…
Judeir-jo-daro skeletons show no evidence of Aryan massacre; Harappan decline was gradual
Judeir-jo-daro skeletons show no evidence of Aryan massacre; Harappan decline was gradual. Judeir-jo-daro lies beside the Indus River in present-day Pakistan and was one of the…
Karnak evidence shows Hatshepsut erasure was selective and gradual, not vengeful purge
Karnak evidence shows Hatshepsut erasure was selective and gradual, not vengeful purge. Hatshepsut died around 1458 BCE; Thutmose III's systematic erasure was delayed by at least…
Battle of Kadesh was near-defeat for Ramesses II, not a crushing Egyptian victory
Battle of Kadesh was near-defeat for Ramesses II, not a crushing Egyptian victory. Battle occurred in Ramesses II's 5th year, around 1274 BCE, as Egyptian forces marched to…
Babylonian tablets show Pythagorean theorem preceded Pythagoras by over 1,000 years
Babylonian tablets show Pythagorean theorem preceded Pythagoras by over 1,000 years. Pythagoras lived in the 6th century BCE and left no writings The earliest surviving proof of…
Ancient Olympics never included a marathon race; modern event was a 19th-century invention
Ancient Olympics never included a marathon race; modern event was a 19th-century invention. The modern marathon distance is 42.195 km / 26.2 miles The ancient Olympic stadion race…
Turkey pilgrimage links Göbekli Tepe, Mount Nemrut pyramid, and Shroud of Turin to Edessa
Turkey pilgrimage links Göbekli Tepe, Mount Nemrut pyramid, and Shroud of Turin to Edessa. William Henry's September 1-12 Turkey tour visits Istanbul, Ephesus, Cappadocia,…
Karnak Temple Complex sacred lake frames palm tree, 750-ton obelisk as cosmic axis symbols
Karnak Temple Complex sacred lake frames palm tree, 750-ton obelisk as cosmic axis symbols. At Karnak Temple Complex in Luxor, William Henry identifies a palm tree beside the…
Hugh Nibley theory links Shroud of Turin burn marks to Byzantine angel iconography
Hugh Nibley theory links Shroud of Turin burn marks to Byzantine angel iconography. The Hungarian Pray Codex depicts the Shroud of Turin with a herringbone weave pattern matching…
Tunnel under Teotihuacan's Temple of the Feathered Serpent yields 120,000+ artifacts
Tunnel under Teotihuacan's Temple of the Feathered Serpent yields 120,000+ artifacts. Tunnel discovered after a 2003 sinkhole, averaging 2.5 m (8 ft) floor to ceiling, large…
Subterranean aqueduct flooded Teotihuacan tunnel; design mirrors Pyramid of the Sun tunnel
Subterranean aqueduct flooded Teotihuacan tunnel; design mirrors Pyramid of the Sun tunnel. A charcoal water line approximately 6 ft high runs the entire length (~100 m) of the…
Mauryan stone polish traced to Achaemenid craftsmen displaced after 330 BCE
Mauryan stone polish traced to Achaemenid craftsmen displaced after 330 BCE. Mauryan polish appears on Ashokan pillars including the Lion Capital at Sarnath and the Didarganj…
Laser scans reveal Barabar Caves are precise but not mathematically perfect
Laser scans reveal Barabar Caves are precise but not mathematically perfect. French research teams BAEHM and AGP performed full 3D laser scanning on the Barabar Caves In Lomas…
Sitamarhi Cave challenges lost-civilation theory with matching Mauryan technique
Sitamarhi Cave challenges lost-civilation theory with matching Mauryan technique. Sitamarhi Cave is located about 15 miles from the Barabar Hills, carved inside a single massive…
Unfinished Lomas Rishi cave preserves textbook Mauryan construction sequence
Unfinished Lomas Rishi cave preserves textbook Mauryan construction sequence. Lomas Rishi has the most elaborate exterior facade, imitating timber architecture with a frieze of…
Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus: Istanbul's oldest continuously functioning sacred building
Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus: Istanbul's oldest continuously functioning sacred building. Little Hagia Sophia (Küçük Hagia Sophia) is Istanbul's oldest continuously…
Magnaura Palace ramp tower and Sphendone foundations survive in Istanbul
Magnaura Palace ramp tower and Sphendone foundations survive in Istanbul. The Magnaura was the part of the Great Palace where ambassadors were customarily received. The Magnaura…
Corsican menhirs carved with Shardana helmets and Mycenaean swords
Corsican menhirs carved with Shardana helmets and Mycenaean swords. Corsican menhirs are sharp, characterful standing stones often arranged in alignments or rows The Alignement de…
Carbon-14 dating shows Torrean towers predate Sardinian Nuraghi
Carbon-14 dating shows Torrean towers predate Sardinian Nuraghi. The Nuraghic period in Sardinia runs from 1800 BC to the Roman arrival in 300 BC About 9,000 Nuraghi were built in…
Early discovery of Machu Picchu traced to hunters following a mountain spring
Early discovery of Machu Picchu traced to hunters following a mountain spring. Prehistoric Andean Amazonian hunters may have discovered Machu Picchu by tracking game along the…
Southern hemisphere archaeoastronomy and Huayna Picchu's ceremonial role explored
Southern hemisphere archaeoastronomy and Huayna Picchu's ceremonial role explored. The Inca Empire is the only great ancient civilization located in the southern hemisphere,…
Machu Picchu's purpose debated: ceremonial site rather than military fortification
Machu Picchu's purpose debated: ceremonial site rather than military fortification. One proposed theory holds that Machu Picchu served as a military barrier or immigration…
New Göbekli Tepe excavations uncover rectangular domestic buildings
New Göbekli Tepe excavations uncover rectangular domestic buildings. New excavations have begun in an area of roughly 1,500 square metres directly north of the famous oval…
Excavations begin at Yoğunburç, large Pre-Pottery Neolithic sister site
Excavations begin at Yoğunburç, large Pre-Pottery Neolithic sister site. Excavations have begun at Yoğunburç, another Pre-Pottery Neolithic Taş Tepeler site near Şanlıurfa, Turkey…
Boscawen-Un stone circle features leaning monolith and hidden carvings
Boscawen-Un stone circle features leaning monolith and hidden carvings. Stone circle in Cornwall with a central monolith that is not at the center but off to one side The monolith…
Formby Beach preserves prehistoric footprints of humans and animals in mud
Formby Beach preserves prehistoric footprints of humans and animals in mud. Prehistoric footprints preserved in mud (not rock) on a beach near Liverpool Footprints were made in…
Coldrum megaliths reportedly hold England's oldest Neolithic human remains
Coldrum megaliths reportedly hold England's oldest Neolithic human remains. Medway tombs in Kent include Coldrum, which reportedly has the oldest human Neolithic remains in…
The Hurlers is a triple stone circle complex on Bodmin Moor
The Hurlers is a triple stone circle complex on Bodmin Moor. Triple stone circle located on the edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall Adjacent natural rock formation called the Cheese…
Maumbury Rings: Neolithic henge converted into a Roman amphitheatre
Maumbury Rings: Neolithic henge converted into a Roman amphitheatre. Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge located in the middle of Dorchester The Romans later converted the henge…
Billy Carson's first visit to Kukulkan pyramid at Chichén Itzá
Billy Carson's first visit to Kukulkan pyramid at Chichén Itzá. Billy Carson traveled to Cancun, Mexico about 30 years ago with a $500 budget He visited Chichén Itzá when dirt…
Tiwanaku's water technology and hydraulic systems
Tiwanaku's water technology and hydraulic systems. Tiwanaku in Bolivia was built on water-storing gravel and functioned as an irrigation hub for 60 surrounding miles The site used…
Channeled Scablands and the Missoula flood hypothesis
Channeled Scablands and the Missoula flood hypothesis. Dan Richards lives near the Channeled Scablands in Spokane area Dry Falls is a notable geological feature there Randall…
Denisovan bones, elongated skulls, and ancient giant skeletonsgiants
Denisovan bones, elongated skulls, and ancient giant skeletons. Protein sequencing confirmed Denisovan bones found about 15 years prior Denisovans were 6 to 8 inches taller than…
Engineering scale of Angkor Wat's's moat
Engineering scale of Angkor Wat's's moat. Angkor Wat's's moat channels water from a distant mountain underground The moat both sustains its water level and pumps water to…
Kailasa Temple carved from a single mountain with extreme precision
Kailasa Temple carved from a single mountain with extreme precision. The Kailasa Temple at Ellora was carved directly downward into a solid basalt mountain An estimated 200,000 to…
Aboriginal oral tradition preserves 10,000-year-old Kangaroo Island flooding event
Aboriginal oral tradition preserves 10,000-year-old Kangaroo Island flooding event. Aboriginal groups including Goana, Narungga, and Ramindjeri call Kangaroo Island "Karta," the…
Griffin claims Neolithic eclipse record carved on Knowth passage tomb Cairn L
Griffin claims Neolithic eclipse record carved on Knowth passage tomb Cairn L. Archaeoastronomer Paul Griffin argued carvings inside the Knowth passage tomb Cairn L depict a…
Sealed cave in Mexico yields crystal skulls and polymer artifacts dated to ~17,000 yearsancient_astronauts
Sealed cave in Mexico yields crystal skulls and polymer artifacts dated to ~17,000 years. Artifacts recovered from a sealed cave in Mexico include crystal skulls, cone-head…
Paper 'American Horse Mystery' introduces late-surviving horse hypothesis
Paper 'American Horse Mystery' introduces late-surviving horse hypothesis. Paper titled 'The American Horse Mystery: Survival, Adaptation, Human Association, and The Possibility…
Indigenous peoples referred to native horses as 'big dogs'
Indigenous peoples referred to native horses as 'big dogs'. Indigenous peoples had their own names for native horses before European contact Some natives called horses 'big dogs'…
Ice Age North America had multiple genetically distinct horse species
Ice Age North America had multiple genetically distinct horse species. North America possessed several forms of horse including robust caballine horses The stilt-legged horse,…
2017 genetic studies reclassified Ice Age horse taxonomy
2017 genetic studies reclassified Ice Age horse taxonomy. Barrón-Ortiz and colleagues (2017) examined tooth morphology and ancient mitochondrial DNA from late Pleistocene horses…
2021 Yukon study detects horse DNA thousands of years post-extinction
2021 Yukon study detects horse DNA thousands of years post-extinction. Tyler Murchie and colleagues published 2021 study in Nature Communications titled 'Collapse of the Mammoth…
Rancho Carabanchel fossil evidence extends horse survival to AD 1165
Rancho Carabanchel fossil evidence extends horse survival to AD 1165. W.D. Miller and colleagues published a 2020 study 'Post-Pleistocene Horses from Mexico' in the Texas Journal…
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