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Friday, February 14, 2014

Back on Country: Ancient Star Map Reveals Orion, Gemini & More

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Secrets of the Ancient Empires The First Merchants - History Documentary

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Proof of Ancient Aliens in the National Museum of Iraq?

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Teotihuacan: City of the Gods - Ancient History Documentary


Teotihuacan: City of the Gods – Ancient History Documentary The City of the Gods (Teotihuacan) is home to the third-largest pyramid in the world; is many tim…
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Ancient Treasures Discovered In Bolivia"s Lake Titicaca

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Monday, December 23, 2013

ANCIENT KINGS OF PERSUASION (Documentary) Art/History

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT STORYTELLING (documentary) history/entertainment/art

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Ancient Aliens S01 E00 - Full Documentary part 1

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Monday, December 9, 2013

Bettany Hughes - The Ancient Worlds 1 of 7 Alexandria The Greatest City

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ancient Aliens - Alien Operations : Season 6 Episode 6


Mysterious surgeries performed by early humans… Strange beings with miraculous powers… And a cover up–destroying centuries of scientific knowledge. Are recent breakthroughs in medicine the result of years of research? Or does the knowledge of healing really come from an otherworldly source? Evidence of advanced medical procedures practiced in the ancient world has been found everywhere from carvings on the walls of temples to actual skeletal remains. But just who were the practitioners of this extraordinary science?





And where did their knowledge of the human body come from? Accounts from various cultures describe similar divine, birdlike figures that brought advanced medical knowledge to mankind thousands of years ago. Who–or what–were these ancient surgeons? Is it possible that these Gods may have been extraterrestrial beings that came to Earth to teach humans how to heal themselves?




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Monday, October 21, 2013

Boy Scout leaders proudly knock over ancient rock formation: “It was a crazy, exciting moment”


In case you thought the Boy Scouts weren’t just trying to protect our innocent children from gay people, this week we learned that a rogue group of them have also isolated a different menace – really, really old rocks.


In a video that appeared Friday on Facebook – and might as well have been titled “People Are the Worst” — a group of Scout leaders who’d been on a trip to Utah’s Goblin Valley State Park with a group of 14 to 16-year-old Boy Scouts can be seen toppling a boulder and then whooping it up. The formation the men knocked around was estimated to be about 170 million years old.


Dave Hall, the scoutmaster who filmed the video, told reporters this weekend, “This is about saving lives, one rock at a time.” Hall claims that some of the boys had been climbing and jumping on the rocks when they noticed a large boulder was loose. “My conscience won’t let me walk away knowing that kids could die,” he said. “The thought that went through our minds was if this would have fallen while they were coming up that valley, up that very well-used walkway, numerous fatalities would have happened.” He also boasted, by the way, that “It was a crazy, exciting moment.” And Glenn Taylor, the leader who pushed the rock, echoed the sentiment. While he admits he wishes he’d contacted a ranger first, “As it is, I feel guilty because I have a conscience,” he told reporters this weekend. “But my conscience also says I did the right thing…. We did something right the wrong way.” State Park authorities are now conducting a criminal investigation into the incident.





In the video, the men don’t carry the gravitas of a group of concerned adults protecting their young charges. Instead, after Hall motivates them by singing “Wiggle It,” they high five and cheer. “We have now modified Goblin Valley,” Hall says. “A new Goblin Valley exists with this boulder down here at the bottom. Muscles over here pushed it off…. Some little kid was about ready to walk down here and die, and Glenn saved his life by getting the boulder out of the way. It’s all about saving lives here in Goblin Valley.” Taylor responds with a manly “Grrrr.”


Taylor, by the way, filed a personal injury lawsuit just last month in which he claimed “great pain and suffering, disability, impairment, loss of life” stemming from a 2009 car accident. Alan Macdonald, one of the individuals Taylor is suing, told ABC News this weekend that “In the video I see a big strong guy who steps up to a 2,000 pound rock and dislodges it and I just think to myself, that guy doesn’t have a bad back.”


You could isolate the video, with no other commentary or context, and it’d be a tremendous exhibit in the Hall of Human Hubris Gone Terribly Wrong. Nothing like a bunch of guys in shorts congratulating themselves for altering nature’s Jurassic-era handiwork to make you question whether we really deserve our place in the food chain. Throw in the men’s subsequent clueless comments, their tenacious insistence that they did the right thing, and you get Bonus Added Feature Stupidity. You certainly don’t get a sense that these are Boy Scout leaders who’ve familiarized themselves with the organization’s famed Leave No Trace policy. 


But if you haven’t had your fill of despair for our species, you’ll never be disappointed reading the comments on YouTube. Right now there’s a fight going on in the video’s comments over atheism and whether or not evolution is a thing. SPOILER: The word “Nazi” makes several appearances. Adding extra stupid to the fire,  Taylor and Hall have been receiving death threats. Because of course they have. Hall said this weekend that “I’ve got over 100 death threats on the Internet already.” Reminder to the trolls: anonymously offering to murder people is not the moral high ground. Continuing to not get it, however, Hall added, “I’ve got people all over the world telling me they are going to kill me because I made the decision that lives are more important than this rock staying here a few more hours.” Yeah, what’s a few more hours when you’re 170 million years old?


In welcome glimmers of appropriateness, Boy Scouts Deron Smith said Friday that “We are shocked and disappointed by this reprehensible behavior. The isolated actions of these individuals are absolutely counter to our beliefs and what we teach,” Smith said. “We are reviewing this matter and will take appropriate action.” And Eugene Swalberg, a spokesman for the Utah park system, said, “This is highly, highly inappropriate. This is not what you do at state parks. It’s disturbing and upsetting… This is not behavior that is appreciated or should exist in state parks. This has been formed for literally millions of years, and it’s supposed to last for a long time. It doesn’t need individuals doing the work of Mother Nature.”


What those Scout leaders did in Goblin Park was unquestionably dumb, arrogant and dangerous. It’s just dismaying that a vocal portion of the reaction has been even dumber, more arrogant and more dangerous. And if they handed out badges for being obnoxious, Taylor and Hall wouldn’t be the only ones with patches on their chests today.





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Saturday, October 12, 2013

The First Ancient Human Artists Were Women

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Did women invent art? National Geographic reports:


Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological dogma.


Archaeologist Dean Snow analyzed hand stencils found in eight cave sites in France and Spain. Snow determined that three-quarters of the handprints were female. Women tend to have ring and index fingers of about the same length, whereas men’s ring fingers tend to be longer than their index fingers.


“People have made a lot of unwarranted assumptions about who made these things, and why,” said Snow, whose research was supported by the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration.


Because many of these early paintings showcase game animals, many researchers have proposed that they were made by male hunters. The new study suggests otherwise.



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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Hundreds of strange metallic spheres found in ancient Mexican temple


Hundreds of strange metallic spheres found in ancient Mexican temple
2013 05 03

By Rossella Lorenzi | Discovery News




Hundreds of mysterious spheres lie beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, an ancient six-level step pyramid just 30 miles from Mexico City.


The enigmatic spheres were found during an archaeological dig using a camera-equipped robot at one of the most important buildings in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan.


“They look like yellow spheres, but we do not know their meaning. It’s an unprecedented discovery,” said Jorge Zavala, an archaeologist at Mexico’s National Anthropology and History Institute.





The Mesoamerican ruins of Teotihuacan, a World Heritage Site, represent one of the largest urban centers of the ancient world. Thought to have been established around 100 B.C., the pyramid-filled city had more than 100,000 inhabitants at its peak, but was abandoned for mysterious reasons around 700 A.D. — long before the Aztecs arrived in the 1300s.

The excavation at the temple focused on a 330-foot-long tunnel which runs under the structure. The conduit was discovered in 2003 when heavy rain uncovered a hole a few feet from the pyramid.




The excavation focused on a 330-foot-long tunnel which runs under the structure. The conduit was discovered in 2003 when heavy rain uncovered a hole a few feet from the temple.



Exploring the tunnel, which was deliberately filled with debris and ruins by the Teotihuacan people, required several years of preliminary work and planning.

“Finally, a few months ago we found two side chambers at 72 and 74 meters (236 and 242 feet) from the entrance. We called them North Chamber and South Chamber,” archaeologist Sergio Gómez Chávez, director of the Tlalocan Project, told Discovery News.


The archaeologists explored the tunnel with a remote-controlled robot called Tlaloc II-TC, which has an infrared camera and a laser scanner that generates 3D visualization of the spaces beneath the temple.


“The robot was able to enter in the part of the tunnel which has not yet been excavated yet and found three chambers between 100 and 110 meters (328 and 360 feet) from the entrance,” Gómez Chávez said.


The mysterious spheres lay in both the north and south chambers. Ranging from 1.5 to 5 inches, the objects have a core of clay and are covered with a yellow material called jarosite.


“This material is formed by the oxidation of pyrite, which is a metallic ore,” Gómez Chávez said. “It means that in pre-hispanic times they appeared as if they were metallic spheres. There are hundreds of these in the south chamber.”



According to archaeologists, the spheres would have appeared metallic to those who placed them here.



According to George Cowgill, professor emeritus at Arizona State University and the author of several publications on Teotihuacan, the spheres are a fascinating find.

“Pyrite was certainly used by the Teotihuacanos and other ancient Mesoamerican societies,” Cowgill told Discovery News. “Originally the spheres would have shown brilliantly. They are indeed unique, but I have no idea what they mean.”


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