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Malta: A Small Island of Ancient Giants
A small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea contains some of the biggest megalithic monuments. Built before the pyramids by apparently a peace-loving people, the question is who they were and why they disappeared so suddenly. The three small islands of Malta, Gozo and C...
The Forbidden History of the Elongated Skulls — Mark Laplume Interview
Mark Laplume is an artist and independent researcher who has been engaged in making reconstruction drawings of ancient people with elongated skulls. I have already had the pleasure of showcasing his remarkable work in a gallery on fetuses and children with elongated heads, and in...
The Mysterious Man-Made Caves of Longyou: 10 Unanswered Questions
Located near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, China, lies the Longyou caves - an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China as ‘the ninth wonder of the ancient world’. The Longyou grottoes, which are thought to date b...
The Mysterious Civilisation of Hyperborea
Just as Plato had cited the Egyptian legend of the sunken island of Atlantis, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned the Egyptian legend of the continent of Hyperborea in the far north. When ice destroyed this ancient land, its people were said to have migrated south.Writing in ...
The Mysterious and Unexplained Holes in Pisco Valley, Peru
A mysterious site spans the landscape of Pisco Valley, Peru. On the same plateau where the famous Nazca Lines are found, thousands of holes have been carved into rock, creating a band that stretches further than a mile. It is unknown who carved these holes, or why they were creat...
The Bhagavad Gita, Oppenheimer and Nuclear Weapons
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. He is often r...
The Warriors of the Rainbow Prophecy
"One day... there would come a time, when the earth being ravaged and polluted, the forests being destroyed, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, the fish being poisoned in the streams, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it wou...
Stanford University Examines the Biological Entity Found in Atacama Desert
The Neanderthal’s DNA is 99.5 % identical to the human race, a chimpanzee and the DNA of great apes is 96-97% identical to a human being. Our own human history is still in the process of discovery, research and exploration. Most of the information we take in and choose to belie...
The Mysterious 1,300-Year-Old Siberian Lake Fortress
It is one of the most mysterious archaeological sites in Russia – an ancient complex engulfing a small island in the center of a remote lake in the mountains of southern Siberia. At first glance, it appears to be an ancient fortress, its perimeter of high walls constructed to k...
3,000 Years Before the Industrial Revolution: High-tech Pottery Center Discovered in Bronze Age China
High-tech pottery crafting methods have been discovered at the Erlitou Bronze Age site in China, dating the mastery of delicate celadon ceramics back 3,000 years before Europe.This ancient, high-tech center in Henan Province, China was the manufacturing site of the earliest celad...
500,000-Year-Old Engraving Rewrites View Of Human History
A team of researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have discovered what appears to be the oldest known engraving in human history. The geometric marks were found on a fossilized mollusc shell that dates back approximately 500,000 years ago.In colonial-era Indonesia, ...
Astronomer Insists There is a Planet X Four Times the Size of Earth Lurking at the Edge of Our Solar System
Distortion to orbits of asteroids beyond Pluto imply mystery planet is tugging at them, claims astronomerThe evidence for 'Planet X' - the mysterious hypothesised planet on the edge of our solar system - has taken a new turn thanks to the mathematics of a noted astronomer.Rodney ...