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Baphuon contains extensive carvings of ancient healing practices and medical treatments
Baphuon contains extensive carvings of ancient healing practices and medical treatments. Carvings depict doctor administering herbs and massage to patient Treatments align with…

Baphuon depicts ancient bird-trapping technique using drugged food
Baphuon depicts ancient bird-trapping technique using drugged food. Carvings show two figures offering food to tree branches Bird shown upside down (fainted) after eating laced…

Baphuon carving illustrates Mahabharata episode of Jayatrada's decapitation
Baphuon carving illustrates Mahabharata episode of Jayatrada's decapitation. Carving shows figure in namaste position with flying severed head wearing crown and long ears Head has…

Dating established through precession of the equinoxes (zodiacal ages), where Earth's axial wobble causes facing of different constellations every 2,100 years across a 25,920-year Great Year cycle
Dating established through precession of the equinoxes (zodiacal ages), where Earth's axial wobble causes facing of different constellations every 2,100 years across a 25,920-year…

No funerary equipment, burial remains, or sarcophagi were uncovered at the Bent Pyramid.,
No funerary equipment, burial remains, or sarcophagi were uncovered at the Bent Pyramid.,. No funerary equipment, burial remains, or sarcophagi were uncovered at the Bent…

Ollantaytambo features megalithic granite ashlars in the 80-90 ton range scattered across steep mountain slopes
Ollantaytambo features megalithic granite ashlars in the 80-90 ton range scattered across steep mountain slopes. Ollantaytambo features megalithic granite ashlars in the 80-90 ton…

Granite quarry located 4.5 kilometers in straight line from Sun Temple, actual transport route approximately 10 kilometers crossing steep terrain and Urubamba River
Granite quarry located 4.5 kilometers in straight line from Sun Temple, actual transport route approximately 10 kilometers crossing steep terrain and Urubamba River. Granite…

Tepe Gawra settlement occupied 5,000 years spanning pre-writing and early writing periods
Tepe Gawra settlement occupied 5,000 years spanning pre-writing and early writing periods. Tepe Gawra occupied roughly 6,500 BCE to 1,500 BCE Town seemingly burnt down to ground…

Token shapes evolved into cuneiform symbols, possibly inspiring board games
Token shapes evolved into cuneiform symbols, possibly inspiring board games. By 3,500 BCE, more complex token shapes and relationships to writing became obvious Cone-shaped tokens…

Clay tokens predate writing by thousands of years in Mesopotamia
Clay tokens predate writing by thousands of years in Mesopotamia. Thousands of clay tokens found across Mesopotamia Earliest tokens may be as old as 11,000 years old At Tepe…

Medieval Warm Period was warmer than present day, enabling Viking farming in Greenland
Medieval Warm Period was warmer than present day, enabling Viking farming in Greenland. Medieval Warm Period reached temperatures possibly 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer than current…

Comets are fundamental to understanding evolution of life on Earth and climate change
Comets are fundamental to understanding evolution of life on Earth and climate change. Comets are the parent source objects of meteor streams Evidence indicates comets are…

H-chondrite stony meteorites are 70 times more abundant than iron asteroids in near-Earth space
H-chondrite stony meteorites are 70 times more abundant than iron asteroids in near-Earth space. H-chondrite is a species of meteorite inhabiting near-Earth space Stony meteorites…

1908 Tunguska event released 20 megatons of energy, equivalent to largest US nuclear warhead
1908 Tunguska event released 20 megatons of energy, equivalent to largest US nuclear warhead. Tunguska event occurred in 1908 in Siberia Explosion devastated approximately 2,000…

Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragmented into 21 pieces, demonstrating comets break apart in space
Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragmented into 21 pieces, demonstrating comets break apart in space. Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet broke apart into 21 separate objects in 1993 Single comet…

Göbekli Tepe dates to approximately 9,600 BC, predating farming, cities, and conventional writing
Göbekli Tepe dates to approximately 9,600 BC, predating farming, cities, and conventional writing. Göbekli Tepe dates to approximately 9,600 BC, predating farming, cities, and…

Kofun culture emerged around 300 AD from Korean Peninsula migrants
Kofun culture emerged around 300 AD from Korean Peninsula migrants. Kofun culture emerged around 300 AD from Korean Peninsula migrants Kofun period burial mounds (keyhole-shaped)…

Nazca mummies introduced to Maussan in 2017 through grave robber network and Inkarri Institute
Nazca mummies introduced to Maussan in 2017 through grave robber network and Inkarri Institute. In 2017, specimens were introduced to Jaime Maussan through Terry Hamin of the…

Monetization scheme generates revenue through paywalls, Gaia TV subscriptions, and merchandise sales
Monetization scheme generates revenue through paywalls, Gaia TV subscriptions, and merchandise sales. Gaia TV series on Nazca mummies available through Amazon, Roku, and Apple…

Roswell Slides hoax (2015) used identical experts and methods as Nazca mummies (2017)
Roswell Slides hoax (2015) used identical experts and methods as Nazca mummies (2017). 2015 Roswell Slides hoax involved paid event advertising alien photograph from Roswell crash…

Spanish conquest of Inca Empire through capture of Atahualpa and civil war
Spanish conquest of Inca Empire through capture of Atahualpa and civil war. Atahualpa was engaged in civil war with his brother Wascar over succession to the Sappa Inca throne…

Infectious diseases and spiritual demoralization caused Inca Empire collapse
Infectious diseases and spiritual demoralization caused Inca Empire collapse. A dozen infectious diseases accompanied Spanish to the New World and spread across the Andes Inca…

Traditional assumption: Great Pyramid contains 2.3 million blocks of cut limestone, each weighing ~3 tons
Traditional assumption: Great Pyramid contains 2.3 million blocks of cut limestone, each weighing ~3 tons. Traditional assumption: Great Pyramid contains 2.3 million blocks of cut…

The Pyramide von 1810 (Mire), hist. Nullmeridian von Mannheim (Kurpfalz) volcanic eruption occurred 13,077 years ago (11,077 BC), recently redated 126 years earlier than previously thought
The Pyramide von 1810 (Mire), hist. Nullmeridian von Mannheim (Kurpfalz) volcanic eruption occurred 13,077 years ago (11,077 BC), recently redated 126 years earlier than…

Ancient Egyptian stone vases made from hard stone granite were manufactured before pyramid construction
Ancient Egyptian stone vases made from hard stone granite were manufactured before pyramid construction. Ancient Egyptian stone vases made from hard stone granite were…

Menkaure Pyramid contains four shafts with associated structureslost_civilization
Menkaure Pyramid contains four shafts with associated structures. Menkaure Pyramid contains four shafts with associated structures Khafre Pyramid contains eight shafts with five…

Vienna Devil in Glass: 400-Year-Old Artifact and Its Evolving Description
Vienna Devil in Glass: 400-Year-Old Artifact and Its Evolving Description. The artifact is housed in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, dated to early 1600s It measures 6.6…

Sulzdorf, Kaisheim Legend: Devil Exorcised and Trapped in Glass (1483-1543)
Sulzdorf, Kaisheim Legend: Devil Exorcised and Trapped in Glass (1483-1543). Cistercian monk Johan Canable's wrote chronicle of Sulzdorf, Kaisheim in early 1500s documenting the…

Storm Harry exposes Neapolis. ruins on Tunisia beach
Storm Harry exposes Neapolis. ruins on Tunisia beach. Storm surge pushed seawater several meters inland, flooding roads and damaging homes Coastal erosion accelerated when waters…

Neapolis garum production and underwater archaeology
Neapolis garum production and underwater archaeology. House of Nymphs had 20 colorful mosaic lane rooms arranged around a central garden Garden featured semicircular basin with…

Bronze Age Collapse led to cultural disappearance
Bronze Age Collapse led to cultural disappearance. Around 1500-1000 BC, new populations invaded and replaced cyclopean builders across Europe The Bronze Age Collapse was followed…

Cyclopean polygonal walls found across southern Europe and beyond
Cyclopean polygonal walls found across southern Europe and beyond. Polygonal walls are mysterious ancient constructions built with odd-shaped stones fitted together without mortar…

Excarnation practices identified at cyclopean sites
Excarnation practices identified at cyclopean sites. Excarnation (secondary burial) involves exposing dead bodies to remove flesh before bone storage Three methods: reburial…

Mystery of missing bones in cyclopean structures
Mystery of missing bones in cyclopean structures. Major archaeological problem: No human bones found inside the pedestals or towers Elephant skull theory (cyclops from elephant…

New Sayburç statue has sewn-up mouth and shell eyes
New Sayburç statue has sewn-up mouth and shell eyes. A new statue was found at Sayburç with pronounced ribs Archaeologists report the mouth is sewn up The eyes are made from…

Sayburç bull leaping scene oldest known example worldwide
Sayburç bull leaping scene oldest known example worldwide. Sayburç contains a figure holding privates flanked by leopards A large bull scene shows a figure in bull leaping…

Giant southern enclosures uncovered at Sayburç
Giant southern enclosures uncovered at Sayburç. New excavations revealed giant enclosures at the southern part of Sayburç Seven to eight T-pillars found in one configuration A…

Human face carving and bones found at Sayburç
Human face carving and bones found at Sayburç A T-pillar was found with a human head/face carved at its base The carving is similar in style to other discoveries in the Taş…

Phaistos Disc: 45 distinct symbols, 242 total occurrences analyzed
Phaistos Disc: 45 distinct symbols, 242 total occurrences analyzed. The disc contains 45 distinct signs occurring 242 times total 123 symbols on one side, 119 on the other Symbol…

New theory proposes Phaistos Disc as Bronze Age board game
New theory proposes Phaistos Disc as Bronze Age board game. Constantinos Ragaz proposes the disc is a Bronze Age board game, not writing Spiral board games known in ancient Egypt…

Aurignacian Culture: 43,000-20,000 Year Old Toolkit and Art
Aurignacian Culture: 43,000-20,000 Year Old Toolkit and Art. Aurignacian culture existed from 43,000 to 20,000 years ago Geographic spread from Spain to Italy to France to Germany…

Venus of Laussel: 13 Marks Connect Moon to Reproduction
Venus of Laussel: 13 Marks Connect Moon to Reproduction. Venus figurine from abri de Laussel - site de fouilles préhistoriques, France Depicts woman with exaggerated reproductive…

Abri Blanchard Moon Bone Shows Lunar Phases
Abri Blanchard Moon Bone Shows Lunar Phases. Artifact is a bone from Abri Blanchard shelter in France Age: over 30,000 years old Shows two figures with general outline similar to…

Aurigny Lartet Bone: 11-Month Lunar Cycle Notation
Aurigny Lartet Bone: 11-Month Lunar Cycle Notation. Bone plaque from Abri en construction shelter, France Age: over 30,000 years old Face 1 has 37 lines and 87 pits

1491 aerial men encounter documented by Cardano
1491 aerial men encounter documented by Cardano. On August 13, 1491, seven beings made of air appeared in a scholar's study in northern Italy The witness was Girolamo Cardano,…

Enclosure E: Göbekli Tepe's unique pillar-less structure
Enclosure E: Göbekli Tepe's unique pillar-less structure. Located on the western plateau of Göbekli Tepe, away from main excavations Described in 2017 as lacking any…

Four theories explaining Enclosure E's missing T-pillars
Four theories explaining Enclosure E's missing T-pillars. First theory: Robbed of pillars and walls for reuse in other enclosures, dated to 9500-8800 BC Second theory: Older than…

Turkish Neolithic artifacts show 9,000-year-old precision
Turkish Neolithic artifacts show 9,000-year-old precision. Polished stone plates from Karahan Tepe in southeast Turkey date to around 9,400 BC Obsidian ring from Çatalhöyük shows…

Flinders Petrie first noticed ancient precision in 1800s
Flinders Petrie first noticed ancient precision in 1800s. Flinders Petrie first noticed tubular drill holes and striations on drill cores in late 1800s Only during the industrial…

Turkish and Peruvian sites show similar precision marks globally
Turkish and Peruvian sites show similar precision marks globally. Scoop marks at Stonehenge parallel similar marks at Asan Kroy, Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu Similar…
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