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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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Dragons, aliens, bugs? Scientists may have solved the mystery of the desert’s ‘fairy circles’

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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 […]

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Tutankhamun’s dagger ‘originated’ from outer space.

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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 […]

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