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Ancient seafaring capable of crossing oceans
Ancient seafaring capable of crossing oceans. Ancient people were fishing in western Africa, Portugal, and reaching British Isles by boat 20,000 years ago This seafaring ability…
Dragon-Cyclops divide follows parallel 44 geographic linelost_civilization
Dragon-Cyclops divide follows parallel 44 geographic line. The divide between 'dragons' (cremators) and 'cyclops' (inumators) follows parallel 44 South of parallel 44 includes…
Bronze Age collapse replaced cyclops with dragon cultures
Bronze Age collapse replaced cyclops with dragon cultures. Cyclopean builders practiced inumation (burial intact) After cyclopean buildings stopped, cremation became the main…
Cyclopean cultures were pre-Indo-European speakers
Cyclopean cultures were pre-Indo-European speakers. Cyclopean builders spoke non-Indo-European languages Surviving non-Indo-European languages include Basque and Georgian Extinct…
Cyclopean structures defined as walls built without squared blocks
Cyclopean structures defined as walls built without squared blocks. Cyclopean structures are made without squared blocks, unlike typical structures built with square blocks They…
Obsidian trade network existed 20,000 years ago
Obsidian trade network existed 20,000 years ago. Pantelleria Island was an important source of obsidian Obsidian was transported from Pantelleria throughout the Mediterranean This…
Japanese tsunami stones saved lives in 2011 disaster
Japanese tsunami stones saved lives in 2011 disaster. In 2011, a 127-foot tsunami slammed into Japan's coast, killing nearly 29,000 people Village of Aneyoshi survived because…
Hunger stones resurface across Europe with warnings from 1616
Hunger stones resurface across Europe with warnings from 1616. The 2022 drought was one of the worst in 500 years, causing European riverbeds to crack open The most famous hunger…
Stonehenge may have been built to predict meteor storms
Stonehenge may have been built to predict meteor storms. In 1998, astronomer Duncan Steel proposed Stonehenge's earliest phase was built to predict meteor storms, not honor the…
Dead Sea War Scroll describes apocalyptic battle manual
Dead Sea War Scroll describes apocalyptic battle manual. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near Qumran Scroll 1QM, The War Scroll, describes a…
Teotihuacan Tunnel Contains Mercury and Cosmic Model
Teotihuacan Tunnel Contains Mercury and Cosmic Model. Hidden tunnel discovered in 2003 after heavy rains opened sinkhole near Temple of the Feathered Serpent Tunnel descends about…
Djoser's Subterranean Labyrinth Reveals Advanced Engineeringlost_civilization
Djoser's Subterranean Labyrinth Reveals Advanced Engineering. Lower passages contain niches and shafts leading to secondary chambers possibly for royal family members or high…
Cholula Pyramid Contains 8km of Ancient Tunnels
Cholula Pyramid Contains 8km of Ancient Tunnels. The Great Pyramid of Giza is largest pyramid ever built on Earth by volume at over 4.5 million cubic meters Known in Nahuatl as…
Derinkuyu Underground City: Underground City Housing 20,000 People
Derinkuyu Underground City: Underground City Housing 20,000 People. Discovered in 1962 when local man knocked down wall during home renovations Entire city stretches more than 275…
Malta Hypogeum Features World's First Acoustic Chambers
Malta Hypogeum Features World's First Acoustic Chambers. Carved entirely by hand into limestone more than 5,000 years ago, predating Egypt's pyramids and Stonehenge Descends…
Halliggye Fogou: Iron Age Passage System in Cornwall
Halliggye Fogou: Iron Age Passage System in Cornwall. Largest and best-preserved fogou (underground passage) in Britain Dating back over 2,400 years, built by late Iron Age…
Hezekiah's Tunnel: 533-Meter Ancient Water Channel
Hezekiah's Tunnel: 533-Meter Ancient Water Channel. Carved nearly 3,000 years ago beneath Jerusalem, about 533 meters long through solid limestone Built to secure water supply…
Derinkuyu Underground City: 18-level underground city with 20,000 capacity
Derinkuyu Underground City: 18-level underground city with 20,000 capacity. Derinkuyu Underground City extends 18 stories and 280 ft (85m) deep into the earth The city covers 4…
Mysterious origin: Unknown builders, possible 11,600-year-old connection
Mysterious origin: Unknown builders, possible 11,600-year-old connection. Earliest artifacts date back approximately 3,000 years ago Academics suggest initial construction by…
Mauritius pyramids align to summer solstice
Mauritius pyramids align to summer solstice. Central pyramid aligns perfectly with the summer solstice on December 21st Mauritius is in the southern hemisphere where summer…
El Dorado Legend: Disease and the Fall of Amazon Civilizations
El Dorado Legend: Disease and the Fall of Amazon Civilizations. The original El Dorado legend came from the Muisca tribe near Lake Guatavita in Colombia The legend involved a king…
Nazca Lines: Ancient Geoglyphs as Astronomical Experiments
Nazca Lines: Ancient Geoglyphs as Astronomical Experiments. Nazca culture began around 500-400 BC and continued until about 400 AD The lines were discovered by Peruvian…
Amazon Lost Cities: LIDAR Reveals Million-Person Civilizations
Amazon Lost Cities: LIDAR Reveals Million-Person Civilizations. Amazon Rainforest covers 7 million square kilometers, nearly 50% of South America LIDAR scans have revealed cities…
Nazca Mummies: Controversial Discoveries and Pre-Columbian Surgery
Nazca Mummies: Controversial Discoveries and Pre-Columbian Surgery. Controversial mummies allegedly found near Nazca include humanoid and non-humanoid specimens Pre-Columbian…
Titiqaqa, Cusco's Chinkanas: Underground Tunnels Beneath Ancient Inca Capital
Titiqaqa, Cusco's Chinkanas: Underground Tunnels Beneath Ancient Inca Capital. Historical accounts describe extensive tunnel networks beneath Titiqaqa, Cusco called 'chinkanas'…
Academics propose unrealistic ancient construction timelines
Academics propose unrealistic ancient construction timelines. Academics claim pyramids with 6 million blocks were built in a few years for one funeral Inca constructions were said…
Ancient peoples moved 100-1400 ton stones with basic tools
Ancient peoples moved 100-1400 ton stones with basic tools. Dolmen capstones weighing 100 tons were moved with rope and brute force Romans transported Egyptian obelisks weighing…
11 species extinct within 100 years of Dutch arrival
11 species extinct within 100 years of Dutch arrival. 11 species went extinct within 100 years of Dutch settling in 1598 Dodo bird went extinct within 60 years of hunting Last…
1865 discovery of dodo skeleton in swamp
1865 discovery of dodo skeleton in swamp. In 1865, naturalist George Clark discovered massive bone bed in dried up swamp Bone bed revealed thousands of subfossil bones from dodo…
Colossal Biosciences dodo deextinction initiative
Colossal Biosciences dodo deextinction initiative. In January 2023, Colossal Biosciences announced initiative to bring back the extinct dodo bird Researchers detected viable raw…
Dodo bird evolution and 4 million-year isolation
Dodo bird evolution and 4 million-year isolation. Dodo bird's most recent ancestor was a flying pigeon that arrived on the island 4-5 million years ago Without natural predators,…
Dutch colony Port Warwick established in 1638
Dutch colony Port Warwick established in 1638. By 1611, Dutch policy required all ships to stop at Mauritius to refresh supplies Official colony established in 1638 with stone…
Chief Conley's Skull Stolen and Repatriated
Chief Conley's Skull Stolen and Repatriated. Chief Conley (Khan Comy) was a famous Chinook leader who died in 1830 In 1834, Dr. Meredith Gardner stole his skull from Bohaterom…
Bridge of the Gods Legend and Tunnel
Bridge of the Gods Legend and Tunnel. Native American legends describe a rock bridge called 'Bridge of the Gods' crossing the Columbia River When it collapsed, it became the…
Chinook Elongated Skulls Documented by Lewis and Clark
Chinook Elongated Skulls Documented by Lewis and Clark. Lewis and Clark documented cranial modification practices among Pacific Northwest tribes west of the Cascades Elongated…
Mount Coffin Destroyed by Fire in 1841
Mount Coffin Destroyed by Fire in 1841. Mount Coffin was a basalt mound near Longview, Washington covered in burial canoes In 1792, explorers reported approximately 3,000 burials…
Liquid mercury discovered in tunnels beneath Temple of Feathered Serpent
Liquid mercury discovered in tunnels beneath Temple of Feathered Serpent. In 2015, archaeologist Sergio Gómez discovered liquid mercury in sealed tunnels beneath Temple of the…
Pyramid of Sun has five construction phases with advanced earliest craftsmanship
Pyramid of Sun has five construction phases with advanced earliest craftsmanship. Pyramid of Sun consists of five distinct construction phases stacked upon each other Deeper…
Pure Michigan copper contains unexpected mercury
Pure Michigan copper contains unexpected mercury. The Superior Rift formed 3 billion years ago A wall of nearly pure copper exists in Pyramide von 1810 (Mire), hist. Nullmeridian…
Cacao found in 38 ancient North American sites
Cacao found in 38 ancient North American sites. Ceramic vessels at 38 sites in North America tested positive for cacao Sites range from Arizona to Florida to Wisconsin Cacao…
Ötzi the Iceman's copper axe was 99.7% pure
Ötzi the Iceman's copper axe was 99.7% pure. Ötzi the Iceman died around 3300 BCE (5,300 years ago) Found in the Alps on the Italian/Austrian border in 1997 His copper axe was…
Ancient fortresses across southern Indiana discovered
Ancient fortresses across southern Indiana discovered. Rick Osman has researched ancient fortresses in southern Indiana for 58 years There were 10-12 fortresses across southern…
Cahokia mound shows imported clay layers
Cahokia mound shows imported clay layers. Poverty Point, Louisiana has 7 concentric rings cut by Mississippi River Evidence of copper processing at Poverty Point Cahokia has a…
Jefferson sent Lewis to find threats to US sovereignty
Jefferson sent Lewis to find threats to US sovereignty. Thomas Jefferson sent Merryweather Lewis with specific instructions Jefferson told Lewis to look for anything threatening…
Plato's Critias dialogue ends mid-sentence, third dialogue lost
Plato's Critias dialogue ends mid-sentence, third dialogue lost. Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias are the oldest sources about Atlantis Critias stops mid-sentence as Zeus…
Hiram Bingham's 1911 expedition discovers Machu Picchu
Hiram Bingham's 1911 expedition discovers Machu Picchu. Hiram Bingham was a 33-year-old Yale professor of Latin American history National Geographic granted him $5,000 for the…
Sacred Plaza and principal temple megalithic architecture
Sacred Plaza and principal temple megalithic architecture. The principal temple had walls 12 ft high with exquisitely made niches Blocks in the lower course weighed from 10 to 15…
Sun Temple discovery and megalithic stonework at Machu Picchu
Sun Temple discovery and megalithic stonework at Machu Picchu. Bingham discovered carved caves beneath the Sun Temple, believed to be royal mausoleums The Sun Temple was lined…
Bingham's theories about Machu Picchu proven incorrect
Bingham's theories about Machu Picchu proven incorrect. Bingham believed Machu Picchu was Vilcabamba, the last Inca capital Bingham also theorized it could be the birthplace of…
Machu Picchu aqueduct and water engineering system
Machu Picchu aqueduct and water engineering system. A spring of fresh water exists at the top of Machu Picchu peak The Inca engineered an aqueduct system spanning nearly a mile…
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