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The View From Space Hinted at a New Viking Site in North America. Archaeologists check it out.

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A “high-tech Indiana Jones” may have just done what no one else has been able to for 55 years: find a second Viking settlement in North America, the Washington Post reports. “Typically in archaeology, you only ever get to write a footnote in the history books, but what we seem to have at Point Rosee […]

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Beads Found in 3,400-year-old ‘Nordic Graves’ Were Made by King Tut’s Glassmaker

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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 […]

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There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections

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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 […]

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Was an ancient ‘Vimana’ really unearthed in 2012??

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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...

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Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life

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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 […]

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