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Le Petit Chateau Peltzer excavations reveal largest crusader cemetery with non-standard burial orientations
Le Petit Chateau Peltzer excavations reveal largest crusader cemetery with non-standard burial orientations. Templar fortress built starting 1218 on a promontory south of Haifa,…
Unclassified Lee Penny stone carried from Spain to Scotland in 13th century
Unclassified Lee Penny stone carried from Spain to Scotland in 13th century. Semi-transparent stone approximately half an inch across; no gemologist has ever classified it Set…
Lost Crusader high altar rediscovered at Church of the Holy Sepulchre during 2016 restoration
Lost Crusader high altar rediscovered at Church of the Holy Sepulchre during 2016 restoration. Two-ton limestone slab discovered leaning against a wall in the Church of the Holy…
Mythology of Lerna: Hydra, Heracles, and entrance to the underworld
Mythology of Lerna: Hydra, Heracles, and entrance to the underworld. Lerna was a region on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese, south of Argos near the modern village of Milió…
Caskey's excavations reveal Lerna's seven habitation layers spanning 5,500 years
Caskey's excavations reveal Lerna's seven habitation layers spanning 5,500 years. Excavation began in 1952 under John Caskey Caskey's work produced the five-volume report 'Lerna:…
House of the Tiles: two-story Early Bronze Age building with 60 seal types
House of the Tiles: two-story Early Bronze Age building with 60 seal types. The settlement was heavily fortified with a double ring of defensive walls and towers The House of the…
Destruction of House of Tiles c. 2200 BCE and deliberate burial mound
Destruction of House of Tiles c. 2200 BCE and deliberate burial mound. The House of the Tiles was burned down around 2,200 BCE In the following phase (Lerna 4), a deliberate…
Brihadishwara Temple Thanjavur's mysterious inaccessible upper doors suggest lost passages
Brihadishwara Temple Thanjavur's mysterious inaccessible upper doors suggest lost passages. The Brihadishwara Temple Thanjavur features a lingam standing nearly 4 m tall The…
India's ancient stepwells reveal sophisticated underground engineering across Gujarat
India's ancient stepwells reveal sophisticated underground engineering across Gujarat. Around 1500 stepwells exist in Gujarat, where a stepwell is called a "vav" Adalaj stepwell…
Barabar Caves' precision granite chambers echo for 62 seconds at infrasound frequency
Barabar Caves' precision granite chambers echo for 62 seconds at infrasound frequency. Four caves in Barabar Hills and three in Nagarjuni Hills (located 1.5 km northeast), all…
The Vajra superweapon of Hindu texts and its depiction across ancient Asia
The Vajra superweapon of Hindu texts and its depiction across ancient Asia. Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram features caves resembling those of Elephanta, the giant Arjuna's…
Blue Hindu deities depicted across cultures may reflect methemoglobinemia condition
Blue Hindu deities depicted across cultures may reflect methemoglobinemia condition. Blue deities found not only in India but also in Egyptian and Aztec mythology; Egyptian Amun,…
Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara Labyrinth and Herodotus's twin pyramids of Lake Moeris
Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara Labyrinth and Herodotus's twin pyramids of Lake Moeris. Egypt has at least 138 pyramids constructed between approximately 2670 BC (pyramid of…
Pedestals of Biamu identified as source of lost pyramids legend
Pedestals of Biamu identified as source of lost pyramids legend. From Hawara, Herodotus would have seen two colossal seated statues about 10 miles (16 km) away on stone bases The…
British retainer burials with elongated skulls preceded Egyptian practice by ~200 years
British retainer burials with elongated skulls preceded Egyptian practice by ~200 years. When an elongated skull individual (king or high priest) died, lesser skull people were…
Two types of elongated skulls identified in British long barrows
Two types of elongated skulls identified in British long barrows. Maria Wheatley has studied elongated skulls of Britain for 10 years across multiple universities Two distinct…
Microbial life discoveries in Lake Vostok and Antarctica's subglacial lakes
Microbial life discoveries in Lake Vostok and Antarctica's subglacial lakes. Sonar scanning has confirmed over 100 subglacial lakes beneath East Antarctica's polar plateau Lake…
Lion cub mummies discovered at Bubasteion excavation in Saqqara since 2018
Lion cub mummies discovered at Bubasteion excavation in Saqqara since 2018. Excavations at the Bubasteion of Saqqara have been ongoing since 2018 Mummified remains of several lion…
Chapter 9 reading explores ego as servant or master
Chapter 9 reading explores ego as servant or master. The hosts read Chapter 9 from a book subtitled "Ego: An excellent servant, a terrible master." The text uses an allegory of a…
Text references shamanistic wisdom of distant ancestors
Text references shamanistic wisdom of distant ancestors. The reading references distant ancestors who had a strong connection to their surroundings. Ancestral survival practices…
Opening monologue emphasizes truth-seeking over certainty
Opening monologue emphasizes truth-seeking over certainty. The broadcast opens with a poetic monologue emphasizing inquiry, evidence, and science over certainty. The speaker…
Livestream technical issues with Riverside platform discussed
Livestream technical issues with Riverside platform discussed. The hosts experience ongoing problems with the Riverside broadcasting platform during the live show. Chat…
Host shares story of painting daughter's senior parking spot
Host shares story of painting daughter's senior parking spot. Host's eldest daughter Bella/Isabella is starting her senior year of high school. The family paid to paint a…
Hosts share jokes including Scottish backpacker and Portuguese tales
Hosts share jokes including Scottish backpacker and Portuguese tales. The hosts tell several extended jokes including one about a backpacker in Scotland and a Portuguese grocery…
Discussion references Gnostic texts and Dead Sea Scrolls
Discussion references Gnostic texts and Dead Sea Scrolls. Hosts reference the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic gospels during discussion of ego. The Nag Hammadi library is mentioned…
Polynesian rats and drought, not statue carving, drove Easter Island deforestation
Polynesian rats and drought, not statue carving, drove Easter Island deforestation. Polynesian rats arrived with the original settlers and bred rapidly with no natural predators A…
2024 ancient DNA study shows Easter Island population grew steadily until European contact
2024 ancient DNA study shows Easter Island population grew steadily until European contact. In 2024, researchers sequenced the full genomes of 15 ancient Rapa Nui individuals The…
Walking moai theory and 2025 drone survey of Rano Raraku quarry
Walking moai theory and 2025 drone survey of Rano Raraku quarry. Road moai have rounded, D-shaped bases and lean forward, indicating they were moved upright Full-size replica moai…
2024 satellite survey of rock gardens revises Easter Island population downward
2024 satellite survey of rock gardens revises Easter Island population downward. Rapa Nui farmers used rock gardens, spreading broken volcanic rock to hold moisture and shelter…
Epicurean philosophy and its archaeological evidence in the Roman world
Epicurean philosophy and its archaeological evidence in the Roman world. Epicurean philosophers began circulating among the Roman elite in the 2nd century BC. By the final decades…
Diogenes of Oenoanda's great Epicurean inscription in Lycia
Diogenes of Oenoanda's great Epicurean inscription in Lycia. Diogenes of Oenoanda commissioned the great inscription to address the ignorance of his fellow citizens, who largely…
Shamanic altered states linked to rock art at Great Basin Canyon
Shamanic altered states linked to rock art at Great Basin Canyon. Rain shamans traveled over 400 miles to Great Basin Canyon in southernmost Nevada, believed to be the home of a…
Heightened background radiation found at dolmens and Great Pyramid
Heightened background radiation found at dolmens and Great Pyramid. Granite is radioactive; some types more than others At dolmens, background radiation was found to be 4-6 times…
Hiawatha Crater and Greenland ice core evidence for Younger Dryas impact
Hiawatha Crater and Greenland ice core evidence for Younger Dryas impact. 31-kilometer-diameter impact crater detected beneath Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland using ice-penetrating…
Thackeray syllogism links Younger Dryas onset to combined impact and volcanic activity
Thackeray syllogism links Younger Dryas onset to combined impact and volcanic activity. Syllogism proposes: platinum peak is close in time to onset of Younger Dryas cooling (OYD);…
Stone tool changes and megafauna extinctions in South Africa at 12,800-year boundary
Stone tool changes and megafauna extinctions in South Africa at 12,800-year boundary. Three megafauna species went extinct approximately 12,800 years ago in South Africa: giant…
Platinum spike at Wonderkrater in South Africa dated to 12,809 years
Platinum spike at Wonderkrater in South Africa dated to 12,809 years. Wonderkrater is a spring mound with an 8-meter-thick peat deposit in Limpopo Province, South Africa Platinum…
DNA from 132 burials in French megalithic tomb reveals population replacement around 3000 BC
DNA from 132 burials in French megalithic tomb reveals population replacement around 3000 BC. DNA was analyzed from 132 people buried in a large megalithic tomb near Bury,…
Evidence of human habitation: cave, walls, and megalithic blocks
Evidence of human habitation: cave, walls, and megalithic blocks. A wall structure was identified along the site, providing evidence of human habitation A cave or chinkana (Andean…
Geometric glyphs and tiered stone boxes at Q'asa Pata
Geometric glyphs and tiered stone boxes at Q'asa Pata. Geometric drawings and sun-ray designs carved on the sides of square stone boxes at Q'asa Pata One square box has three…
Multi-ton fitted stone lids removed from Q'asa Pata megalithic boxes
Multi-ton fitted stone lids removed from Q'asa Pata megalithic boxes. Round fitted lids sit atop square openings cut into bedrock at Q'asa Pata Most lids have been removed, with…
Olmec-Xicalanca arrival and rise to power in Central Mexico
Olmec-Xicalanca arrival and rise to power in Central Mexico. Mount Popocatepetl erupted around 500 CE, possibly forcing temporary abandonment of Cholula
Patio of the Altars and Murals of the Drinkers at Cholula
Patio of the Altars and Murals of the Drinkers at Cholula. The Patio of the Altars served as the principal entrance to the Great Pyramid and underwent at least six construction…
Great Pyramid of Cholula construction phases from 200 BCE onward
Great Pyramid of Cholula construction phases from 200 BCE onward. Inhabitants are proposed to have been speakers of the Oto-Manguean language family, which also contains Zapotec…
Great Pyramid of Cholula: world's largest pyramid by volume
Great Pyramid of Cholula: world's largest pyramid by volume. The Great Pyramid measures 450 m on each side with a height between 54 and 66 m
Abu Simbel's solar alignment and 1960s relocation to save it from Lake Nasser
Abu Simbel's solar alignment and 1960s relocation to save it from Lake Nasser. Temple stretches more than 200 ft into the mountain, lined with Osiride pillars Originally painted…
Karnak: the largest ancient religious complex, with 134-column hypostyle hall
Karnak: the largest ancient religious complex, with 134-column hypostyle hall. Expanded by pharaohs for more than 2,000 years at Thebes (modern Luxor) Covers more than 200 acres,…
Hatshepsut's terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari, designed by Senmut
Hatshepsut's terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari, designed by Senmut. Built in the 15th century BC at Deir el-Bahari on the west bank of the Nile Designed by the architect Senmut as…
Saqqara necropolis: Djoser's Step Pyramid, 3-mile underground labyrinth, Serapeum
Saqqara necropolis: Djoser's Step Pyramid, 3-mile underground labyrinth, Serapeum. Located about 20 miles south of modern Cairo; principal burial ground of Memphis for more than…
NASA labels nearly two-mile Martian structure as pyramidal mound on its website
NASA labels nearly two-mile Martian structure as pyramidal mound on its website. The structure was discovered by independent researcher Gary Lajeunesse, known as the Mars…
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