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Excarnation ritual in Mesoamerica matches Bronze Age European practiceconspiracy
Excarnation ritual in Mesoamerica matches Bronze Age European practice. Human sacrifice was rare in Mesoamerica; the Olmecs did not engage in it The Olmecs practiced…
Largest known Natufian structure, 14m oval, identified at Wadi Hammeh 27
Largest known Natufian structure, 14m oval, identified at Wadi Hammeh 27. Structure 2 at Wadi Hammeh 27 is the largest known Natufian structure ever discovered The oval structure…
T-shaped pillars debated as roof supports at PPNA enclosures
T-shaped pillars debated as roof supports at PPNA enclosures. T-shaped pillars at Pre-Pottery Neolithic enclosures are argued by some to be roof supports rather than astronomical…
14,500-year-old Natufian settlement Wadi Hammeh 27 identified in Jordan
14,500-year-old Natufian settlement Wadi Hammeh 27 identified in Jordan. Wadi Hammeh 27 is a Late Epipalaeolithic archaeological site located in Pella, Jordan The site dates to…
Mycenaean Archaeology Contradicts Homeric Depictions of Iron Age Practices
Mycenaean Archaeology Contradicts Homeric Depictions of Iron Age Practices. In Homer, chariots are used as taxis to ferry warriors to battle, an Iron Age practice Homer depicts…
Archaeological and Textual Evidence for the Trojan War Remains Speculative
Archaeological and Textual Evidence for the Trojan War Remains Speculative. Many classicists still doubt that there was a historical Trojan War Hittologists are more inclined to…
Memnon and Sub-Saharan Africans in the Greek Epic and Archaic-Period Artistic Tradition
Memnon and Sub-Saharan Africans in the Greek Epic and Archaic-Period Artistic Tradition. Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, brought troops to assist the Trojans in the Trojan War The…
Odysseus's Journey Locations Cannot Be Linked to Real Archaeological Sites
Odysseus's Journey Locations Cannot Be Linked to Real Archaeological Sites. The majority of the places Odysseus visits on his travels are mythical Efforts to link these places…
Dukes of Medina Sidonia archives reveal pre-Columbian transatlantic knowledge
Dukes of Medina Sidonia archives reveal pre-Columbian transatlantic knowledge. The Dukes of Medina Sidonia maintain one of the oldest and most important archives in Europe,…
Southwestern Iberia holds 35,000 megalithic structures and ancient cave habitation evidence
Southwestern Iberia holds 35,000 megalithic structures and ancient cave habitation evidence. There are 35,000 megalithic dolmen structures in Europe, with the majority…
Mercury found at base of pyramids across multiple ancient civilizations
Mercury found at base of pyramids across multiple ancient civilizations. Mercury has been found in ancient rock-carved structures across multiple civilizations The base of the…
Sacred Well of Santa Cristina features conical tholos and lunar alignment
Sacred Well of Santa Cristina features conical tholos and lunar alignment. The Sacred Well of Santa Cristina in Sardinia has a round opening at the top and a conical shape below…
Laser measurements reveal basalt steps cut to sub-centimeter precisionlost_civilization
Laser measurements reveal basalt steps cut to sub-centimeter precision. Step depth measurements using a laser tool consistently read between 24.7 and 24.9 cm across multiple steps…
Why China refuses to excavate the tomb: preservation risks drive 'protect first, dig later' policy
Why China refuses to excavate the tomb: preservation risks drive 'protect first, dig later' policy. When terracotta warriors were first unearthed, they were originally painted in…
Mausoleum of the Atilii: scale, terracotta army, and mercury evidence confirmed by remote sensing
Mausoleum of the Atilii: scale, terracotta army, and mercury evidence confirmed by remote sensing. The mausoleum complex took approximately 38 years to build, with construction…
Colonel Norris documents 7'6" skeleton with copper gorget in Adena mound
Colonel Norris documents 7'6" skeleton with copper gorget in Adena mound. Colonel P.W. Norris, a Civil War veteran and spy, was hired by the Smithsonian to excavate burial mounds…
Emmert's Tennessee mound giant bones and the Bat Creek Stone hoax
Emmert's Tennessee mound giant bones and the Bat Creek Stone hoax. John Emmert replaced Norris after Norris's death in 1885 as a Smithsonian mound exploration agent Emmert…
Hrdlicka's racial motivations behind debunking giant bone reports
Hrdlicka's racial motivations behind debunking giant bone reports. Ales Hrdlicka repeatedly published debunkings of giant bone claims starting in the 1930s Hrdlicka transitioned…
1958-1959 Crescent Mound excavation yields 7'2" Adena skeleton
1958-1959 Crescent Mound excavation yields 7'2" Adena skeleton. Dr. Don Drago, curator of the section of man at the Carnegie Museum, excavated the Crescent Mound in 1958-1959…
First named Maya astronomer identified at Xultun, Guatemala
First named Maya astronomer identified at Xultun, Guatemala. Researchers identified the first named ancient Maya astronomer/mathematician in history: Sakon Wash, meaning…
Ohalo II diet evidence shows year-round occupation and heavy cereal use
Ohalo II diet evidence shows year-round occupation and heavy cereal use. 150,000 seeds and fruits analyzed, representing around 150 different species Heavy reliance on large-grain…
Ohalo II: 23,000-year-old permanent settlement on Sea of Galilee shore
Ohalo II: 23,000-year-old permanent settlement on Sea of Galilee shore. Located on the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (ancient fluctuating Lake Kineret) in northern…
World's oldest brush dwellings found at Ohalo II with grass bedding
World's oldest brush dwellings found at Ohalo II with grass bedding. Huts measured up to 4.5 meters long with floor areas ranging between 5 and 13 square meters Three huts had…
Ohalo II shows earliest known plant cultivation, 11,000 years before agriculture
Ohalo II shows earliest known plant cultivation, 11,000 years before agriculture. 2015 research paper identified 12 known weeds mixed with seeds of wild emmer barley and oats at…
Unique Yali carvings show elephant and tiger parents alongside hybrid creature
Unique Yali carvings show elephant and tiger parents alongside hybrid creature. Yali sculptures at this site are taller than an average person Yali is a composite creature derived…
Destroyed Shiva temple on Mahendra Parvata features three guardians mirroring Sri Kalahasti legend
Destroyed Shiva temple on Mahendra Parvata features three guardians mirroring Sri Kalahasti legend. The temple is guarded by three species: a spider, an elephant, and a…
1971 Australian JIO report 'Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem'
1971 Australian JIO report 'Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem'. Report titled 'Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem' was prepared on 27 May…
CIA Robertson Panel of January 1953 recommended Project Blue Book as cover
CIA Robertson Panel of January 1953 recommended Project Blue Book as cover. CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) convened the Robertson Panel in mid-January 1953 Panel was…
Plato attributes ancient catastrophe quote to Solon
Plato attributes ancient catastrophe quote to Solon. Quote attributed to Critias speaking to Solon in Plato's Timaeus References many past destructions of humanity from fire,…
Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter in 1994 affirmed catastrophism
Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter in 1994 affirmed catastrophism. Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994 The comet fragmented into a chain of pieces pulled in by…
Catastrophism vs uniformitarianism as opposing geological worldviews
Catastrophism vs uniformitarianism as opposing geological worldviews. Catastrophism is presented as a counterpoint to uniformitarianism's slow, gradual processes Catastrophism…
Georges Cuvier founded paleontology through catastrophist fossil studies
Georges Cuvier founded paleontology through catastrophist fossil studies. Georges Cuvier was an early 19th century naturalist and paleontologist known as the father of…
Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions contributed to mass extinctions
Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions contributed to mass extinctions. The Deccan Traps in India are a vast region of volcanic rock These massive eruptions altered global climate and…
Black Sea deluge hypothesis links Burkle crater to Noah's flood
Black Sea deluge hypothesis links Burkle crater to Noah's flood. The Black Sea deluge hypothesis suggests a massive flood around 7,000 years ago from breaching of the Bosporus…
FOIA documents reveal Monks Mound backhoe excavation exceeded permit depth
FOIA documents reveal Monks Mound backhoe excavation exceeded permit depth. FOIA request from Illinois yielded 1,400+ pages about Cahokia Mounds, with 1,200 additional pages…
Pendejo Cave presents evidence of 75,000-year-old American human occupation
Pendejo Cave presents evidence of 75,000-year-old American human occupation. Pendejo Cave (Spanish for 'pubic hair') contains evidence of human occupation at 75,000, 50,000, and…
Biological evidence challenges Clovis-first migration theory
Biological evidence challenges Clovis-first migration theory. DNA study indicates Native Americans' mitochondrial and nuclear DNA split from the rest of humanity roughly 35,000…
Pompeii mural from 15-30 AD depicts pineapple and chili pepperslost_civilization
Pompeii mural from 15-30 AD depicts pineapple and chili peppers. A mural in Pompeii dated 15-30 AD depicts a pineapple, a tropical fruit not native to the Mediterranean region A…
First named Maya astronomer identified at Xultun
First named Maya astronomer identified at Xultun. Franco Rossi of MIT used spectral scanning methods to read previously illegible texts on the walls of Xultun Text 19 is one of…
Xultun Text A contains Maya super number of 1,195,740 days predicted years earlier
Xultun Text A contains Maya super number of 1,195,740 days predicted years earlier. The 819-day cycle was a Late Classic Maya invention created at Palenque in the late 600s CE…
6 km sunken harbor discovered in Sunda Strait via bathymetric survey
6 km sunken harbor discovered in Sunda Strait via bathymetric survey. Speaker proposes Sundaland (Sunda Shelf) as a possible match for Plato's Atlantis description Sundaland was a…
Gunung Padang Megalithic Site unit 2 dated to ~8,000 years; full restoration planned
Gunung Padang Megalithic Site unit 2 dated to ~8,000 years; full restoration planned. Gunung Padang Megalithic Site ("mountain of light") constructed from basalt columns weighing…
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) flame has burned since 1964; 10 million paper cranes arrive yearly
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) flame has burned since 1964; 10 million paper cranes arrive yearly. The peace flame has burned continuously since 1964, lit in hope of a…
Nara was Japan's first permanent capital starting 710 AD, with sacred deer protected since 768 AD
Nara was Japan's first permanent capital starting 710 AD, with sacred deer protected since 768 AD. Nara was Japan's first permanent capital established in 710 AD, before Tokyo and…
US ABCC studied Hiroshima survivors without treating them; press suppressed reporting for 7 years
US ABCC studied Hiroshima survivors without treating them; press suppressed reporting for 7 years. The United States established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in 1946…
Itsukushima (Miyajima) island considered divine ground since 593 AD
Itsukushima (Miyajima) island considered divine ground since 593 AD. Itsukushima means "island dedicated to the gods" The entire island functions as the shrine, not just a…
Hiroshima atomic bombing on August 6, 1945 killed estimated 140,000 by December
Hiroshima atomic bombing on August 6, 1945 killed estimated 140,000 by December. A uranium bomb detonated 600 meters above the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall at…
Daishoin temple complex and sacred fire burning continuously since 806 AD
Daishoin temple complex and sacred fire burning continuously since 806 AD. Daishoin is a Buddhist temple complex on Miyajima Kobo Daishi, one of Japan's most revered Buddhist…
Göbekli Tepe enclosures deliberately buried around 8000 BC with more still underground
Göbekli Tepe enclosures deliberately buried around 8000 BC with more still underground. Located in southeastern Turkey, dating back more than 11,000 years Considered the world's…
Tomb of the Red Queen discovered at Palenque sealed for 13 centuries
Tomb of the Red Queen discovered at Palenque sealed for 13 centuries. Discovered in 1994 inside Temple 13 at the ancient Maya city of Palenque Located beside the Temple of the…
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