Beads Found in 3,400-year-old ‘Nordic Graves’ Were Made by King Tut’s Glassmaker
An elaborate glass bead with amber embedding found in a 3400-year old Danish grave turns out to have come from ancient Egypt. (Credit: Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem) Cobalt glass beads found in Scandinavian Bronze Age tombs reveal trade connections between Egyptians and Mesopotamia 3,400 years ago — and similar religious rituals. Stunning glass beads […]
There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Travis Rathbone) As a nomadic cultural historian, my subjects have led me in wildly different directions. I spent every Friday for five years in a dim, dusty reading room in West Orange, New Jersey, formerly a laboratory on the second floor of Thomas Edison’s headquarters, deciphering […]
Was an ancient ‘Vimana’ really unearthed in 2012??
An ancient “flying machine” (or parts thereof) reportedly were discovered in a cave in Afghanistan and retreived in 2012, and the news was immediately hushed. The hushed report of the ‘find’ did attracted the attention of world leaders including Barack Obama. Source and Banner Artwork: Credit – The Ancient Astronaut Archive The Vimana (a flying machine often […]
Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life
Rosetta’s comet in August 2015, when it was closest to the sun and when most of the glycine was detected. Ingredients crucial for the origin of life on Earth, including the simple amino acid glycine and phosphorus, key components of DNA and cell membranes, have been discovered at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. May 27, 2016 – The […]
Dragons, aliens, bugs? Scientists may have solved the mystery of the desert’s ‘fairy circles’
A fairy circle in the Western Australian outback. Researchers report the discovery of fairy circles in the western Australian outback that are nearly identical to those found in southwestern Africa. Fairy circles are circular patches of bare soil in grasslands that form a uniform hexagonal pattern. The enigmatic circles of sand — burnt orange, almost […]
Tutankhamun’s dagger ‘originated’ from outer space.
According to a revised study, the dagger that once belonged to Pharaoh Tutankhamun has a curious extraterrestrial composition. Researchers stress that the working of metal has played an extremely important role in the evolution of human civilization that historians conventionally divide into ancient eras known as “metal” ages. Historians take into account the use of […]
Searching for the next Dead Sea Scrolls ahead of thieves: Dust to dust as archaeologists and volunteers keep up the pace.
One day in 2009, rumors of an extremely rare archaeological artifact began circulating the antiquities black market: a papyrus bearing 15 lines of Hebrew writing. If it actually existed, the artifact must have been looted from an archaeological site somewhere in the Judean Desert. Always keeping its ear close to the ground, so to speak, the […]
Mysterious Mass Graves Hold Prisoners of Bloody 17th-Century Battles of the English Civil Wars
Two mass graves holding an estimated 1,700 skeletons were found underground at the southern tip of Durham University’s Palace Green Library. – Credit: North News Three years ago, archaeologists at Durham University began excavating a site on campus for a proposed addition to the school’s library, but work was unexpectedly halted when the researchers uncovered […]
Scientists Finally Crack The Code Of The Ancient ‘Phaistos Disk? They say ‘Yes’…
Minoan art, Crete, Phaistos Disc, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium B.C.), Side A: Fired clay, It has 45 hieroglyphic characters engraved on both sides, along with mobile elements in spiral arrangement from the outside toward the center, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. (Photo by Prisma/UIG/Getty Images) The very mysterious […]
Count St. Germain – The Man and the Mystery
He was a mysterious person who refused to discuss his origin, fortune, and civil status and we know him first of all as Count de St. Germain. He claimed to have lived for several centuries. “…equalled the greatest of the personages who move across the canvas of history. He towered above them all, kings, nobles, […]