SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 13, 2014 – A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because men with better [ … ]
Insects evolved flight as plants grew taller
Insects developed wings before any other animals so they could keep up with the growing height of land plants, a new study suggests. The discovery, by an international team of [ … ]
Scientists Figured Out How to Make People “Feel” an Otherworldly Presence
A tickle on the back of your neck, a sudden feeling that you are not alone: some believers in the paranormal attribute these sensations to the presence of a ghost, [ … ]
Observtaions on Ancient Egyptian Stone Technology by Flinders Petrie
The following extracts are taken from Chapter VIII entitled “Mechanical Methods” in Petrie’s classic reference work “The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh”. (obtained here via the Global Education project) They [ … ]
Ancient Stone Circles in Middle East Baffle Archaeologists
Huge stone circles in the Middle East have been imaged from above, revealing details of structures that have been shrouded in mystery for decades. Archaeologists in Jordan have taken high-resolution [ … ]
Visit to the Petrie Museum in London
I visited the Petrie Museum in London this week. One of the first things I found intriguing almost as soon as I entered the Petrie Museum were the hieroglyphs and [ … ]
The Boat Pits on the Giza Plateau
While supporting their ideas for how the Great Pyramid was built, Samuel Sampson and Michael Read, in their book Floating Stones, Great Pyramid built with Water Power, (Reviewed on Quantum [ … ]
Mexico archaeologists explore Teotihuacan tunnel | news.net
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A yearslong exploration of a tunnel sealed almost 2,000 years ago at the ancient city of Teotihuacan yielded thousands of relics and the discovery of three [ … ]
Ancient Greek Wine Cup May Show Constellations
A 2,600-year-old two-handled wine cup currently on display at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece has long been thought to depict a random assortment of animals. But the piece of [ … ]
Floating Stones by Samuel Sampson and Michael Read
The book, written by Samuel Sampson and Michael Read, describes the conflict between between the acknowledged magnificence of the Great Pyramid, how giant monoliths were lifted to the upper levels [ … ]
Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals
When humans hooked up with Neanderthals, we could have wooed them with music and fancy jewellery. The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the [ … ]
Baghdad Batteries?
The so called ‘Baghdad batteries’ are clay vases, or jars, inside of which is a copper cylinder and inside the cylinder is an iron bar protruding a stopper made of [ … ]
Tutankhamun Was The Product Of Incest, Scientists Reveal Amid New Clues As To Why The Egyptian Pharaoh Died So Young
Ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaoh, Tutankhamun, was the product of incest, and that contributed to his death at just 19, scientists have confirmed. Theories as to what caused the mysterious death [ … ]
Rare Ancient Bronzes of China’s Sanxingdui
When the mysterious people of China’s Sanxingdui packed up and moved away 3,000 years ago, they left behind no written language and no indication of who they were, where they [ … ]
Rare Ancient Chinese Bronzes Go on Display in US – ABC News
When the mysterious people of China’s Sanxingdui packed up and moved away 3,000 years ago, they left behind no written language and no indication of who they were, where they [ … ]
The Baghdad Vases, Batteries or Scroll Pots?
Nobody really knows for sure what the exact age and purpose of these small vases. The first claim that they were batteries occurred in 1938. See Baghdad Vases were Batteries? [ … ]
Orbs Found In Mexico’s Temple Of The Feathered Serpent
Hundreds of mysterious yellow orbs have been found beneath Mexico’s Temple of the Feathered Serpent. The once-metallic spheres, were discovered by a robot named Tláloc II-TC, which was deployed by [ … ]
Baghdad Vases were Batteries?
When I first came across detail of these items in various articles they spoke assuredly of their being batteries from Baghdad, about 250 BC – 225 AD, a period known [ … ]
Pyramids of Egypt
Here are some images of Egypt’s pyramids – those that remain more prominent and visual within its landscape Djoser’s Step Pyramid, Saqqara Photo credit: Ed Yourdon / Foter / CC [ … ]
The Great Pyramid of Giza, A summary of details
The Great Pyramid: It would be too great an omission for a site such as this to not have detail of the Great Pyramid of Giza, so here is a [ … ]
Cave paintings, 39000 years old on Indonesian Island of Sulawesi.
BBC News – Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art Scientists have identified some of the earliest cave paintings produced by humans. The artworks are in a rural [ … ]
Luminescence used to date 150,000 old Iron pipes in China
The Beijing Institute of Geology has dated iron pipes found in one of China’s pyramids to be about 150,000 by using Luminescence. That by would be an extremely abnormal finding [ … ]
Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: Marine Archaeology Goes High-Tech
Antikythera, Greece — The yellow, torpedo-shaped vehicles glided through the clear Mediterranean water just 10 feet above the 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the bottom. During the weekend of September 20 the [ … ]
Ancient Oregon Caves May Upend Understanding of Humans in Americas
A network of caves in rural Oregon may be the oldest site of human habitation in the Americas, suggesting an ancient human population reached what is now the United States [ … ]
Ancient Pyramid In Indonesia That Is Rewriting History
Stop Press – Latest News From The Excavations At Gunung Padang, The Mysterious Ancient Pyramid In Indonesia That Is Rewriting History by Graham Hancock – GrahamHancock.com articles The archaeological establishment [ … ]
Egyptian Gods, Notes in Brief
It’s difficult to read about ancient Egypt without encountering their various gods, and remembering which is which can get confusing. So here are some prominent ones, in simple summary, as [ … ]
How did they build and position Sarcophagi in the Serrapeum at Saqqara?
On of the most fascinating features of the Serapeum at Saqqara are the astonishing sarcophagi, measuring 4m long, 2.30m wide, 3.30m high and each weighing over 80 tons. The are [ … ]
The Searpeum at Saqqara
There is lots to fascinate about the Serapeum but probably most especially the twenty four enormous sarcophagi, measuring 4m long, 2.30m wide, 3.30m high and each weighing over 80 tons, [ … ]
Serapeum at Saqqara, A Fascinating Place
Sometimes when reading about the Serapeum at Saqqara, or seeing photographs detailing it, the context in which it sits is not seen or realised. So here are some images from [ … ]
5000-Year-Old Water Pipeline Discovered in Western Iran – Iran FrontPage
A 5000-year-old water system has been unearthed during the second season of a rescue excavation project at the Farash ancient historical site at the Seimareh Dam reservoir area in western [ … ]