(The Guardian) The ancient empires of the world are remembered for their impressive large-scale feats of engineering: Macchu Picchu in Peru; the pyramids in Egypt; and the Parthenon in Greece to name a few. But the craftsmen of those eras were also skilled at engineering at the opposite end of the spectrum at the nanoscale.
The [...]
(BBC) Scholars from the Universities of Salford, Huddersfield and Bristol used an American replica of the monument to investigate its audio history.
Salford’s Dr Bruno Fazenda said they had found the site reacted to sound “in a way that would have been noticeable to the Neolithic man”.
He said the research would allow a “more holistic” view [...]
(UPI) The man known as Egypt’s Indiana Jones is facing charges for a $17 million deal he made with the American Geographical Society, a prosecutor said.
General Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud said former Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass is accused of wasting public money and stealing antiquities for arranging Tutankhamun exhibitions in the United States and Australia, [...]
In this History Channel Lost Worlds episode, we learn of evidence that Atlantis is located in Crete, Greece. The Palace at Knossos, which is the closest match found yet to Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis, was recently found on the island.
State-of-the-art imaging techniques are used to re-build the pre-historic palace, allowing the viewer to see the [...]
Alan S. Brown
Inside Science News Service
Stone Age cave paintings evoke reverent silence in most people. But David Lubman, Miriam Kolar, and Steve Waller prefer to shout and clap instead.
They are among a growing number of researchers probing the acoustic properties of ancient sites. Their research, presented this week in Vancouver, British Columbia at the meeting [...]
Archeologist and biblical scholar James Tabor and documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobvici claim to have found the tomb of Jesus. The pair discuss the revelation that is detailed in their new book titled The Jesus Discovery.
The Jesus Discovery is the story of a stunning new discovery that provides the first physical evidence of Christians in Jerusalem during [...]
(uc.edu) Meticulous mapping and excavations at an ancient cave in the Yucatan Peninsula are revealing the vitality of the site to the ancient Maya – for both religious ritual and human survival. The University of Cincinnati research will be a key topic of discussion on Feb. 24, at the annual meeting of the Association of [...]
(Past Horizons)
A total of 23 pre-Columbian stone plaques dating back over 550 years were discovered by archaeologists in front of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City, with carvings illustrating Aztec myths including the birth of the god of war Huitzilopochtli.
The sculpted images are carved on slabs of tezontle (a volcanic rock) and feature [...]
In a new video, researcher and explorer Michael Tellinger revisits the alleged giant footprint in South Africa. This time he brings along artifacts researcher and archaeologist, Klaus Dona. After examining the stone impression Dona advised Tellinger to consult a good geologist and possibly a professional doctor in order to further evaluate the foot-like shape in [...]
Following his recent release of a YouTube video depicting an alleged ancient giant’s footprint, researcher and explorer Michael Tellinger has now given a more detailed explanation of this stone mystery, the “Foot Print of GOD.”
“I would like to share with you what could be one of the best pieces of evidence that there were once [...]
In a recently posted Youtube video, explorer and researcher Michael Tellinger shows what looks to be a human-like footprint of giant proportions. Tellinger also claims to have found another footprint in the area of the one depicted in the video, and promises to share this discovery at a later date in order to truly prove [...]
A British company says that they will research a mystery exploring a shaft in the Great Pyramid in 2012 while the Arab Spring has subsided.
A treasure worth $20 billion has been found in the chambers of a Hindu temple in India. Seven court appointed individuals were assigned to take inventory of a royal family temple in Thiruvananthapuram when they began to search six chambers within the temple. So far four of the six chambers have been opened with one [...]
In a recent interview on Coast to Coast AM, archaeologist Semir Osmanagic discussed his work as the primary investigator of the “Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids”, a vast complex of unique and sophisticated pyramids which he initially discovered in April of 2005.
According to Osmanagic, the Bosnian pyramids are “the most sophisticated and the most complex [...]
In the field of acoustic archaeology, high-tech scientific analysis of sound allows archaeologists to gain insight into the invisible sonic properties present at a site. More and more, when evaluating the sophistication of any given civilization, researchers look for evidence of the manipulation and utilization of sound as a clue to how advanced the civilization [...]
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