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  • Reply to: The Saint Croix Basin, an Irrigation Marvel for a Forgotten Civilization?   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: zeek wolf0e

    This speculation has less evidence than that promoted for the existence of LemurIa or Mu. The author has too much time on his hands.

  • Reply to: History of the 12,000-Year-Old Swastika: Origin, Meaning and Symbolism   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Jamie R

    Are you a Witness?

  • Reply to: Jayabaya — The Seer King of Java who Predicted the Dutch and Japanese Occupation of Indonesia   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Bilbo

    All YOU are doing is being lazy. Read the references if it's that important to you that you feel it necessary to be rude. One of them even has the English translations http://www.infoanda.com/resources/jayabaya.php

  • Reply to: The Establishment Has Already Acknowledged A Lost Race of Giants - Part 1   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Logan

    Are bigCats giant Cats?, iLoveMy Cat.
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  • Reply to: Ancient Humans Bred with Completely Unknown Species   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Ravisadana

    If your observations regarding Adam and Eve are correct, then we are all products of incest.

    No wonder there’s so much disease around!

  • Reply to: 36,400 BC: The Historical time of the Zep Tepi Theory   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Solaris03

    I am open to this new information but since the pole star Thuban was important to the alignment also, what was the pole star in 36,400BC?

    Can Armando find this out?

  • Reply to: Ancient Humans Bred with Completely Unknown Species   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Ravisadana

    As an informed observer, I find it difficult to understand various commentaries on the DNA investigations in discussion in this article. The reason is that we don’t know the functions of 90+ % of the content of the human genome, the socalled “garbage or blank areas”.  I think geneticists are getting ahead of themselves by only comparing markers between different DNA groups. It’s a dangerous practice to apply conclusions based on a study of a fraction, to the whole.

    And then to attempt to measure socalled “TIMELINES”  by mutation markers is even a bigger folly. Time, per se,  doesn’t exist; it’s only mutation at biological, consciousness and mental levels. That which has come into existence can never be annihilated. That which has not existed before cannot come into existence. Yet the public at large thinks that time is the sole agent of change in the universe. That’s what scientific findings have succeeded in doing to the human mind. Lead it astray!

    There were no alien visitors manipulating human DNA as some people have noted above. 

    The truth is that people of prescience periods were neuropsychically more advanced because their minds were not insidiously conditioned over 200-300 years, by the scientific inventions of “Time”, “Money’ and “Mathematics”, like we currently are. Whether this is good or bad for society in the long run, future generations will find out. They’ll either laugh or cry at their misfortune.

    Why can science not explain how the pyramids of Egypt  were built? How was precision cutting of rock achieved with soft copper chisels, if they were at all used? How were the 35 million pieces of heavy stone blocks lifted?

    Another question:  Say the universe exists with all the galaxies, blackholes and dark matter. But there is no intellegence around, to  see it and know it.

    Does the universe exist? Science says “yes”. In whose mind or intelligence does the universe exist? Isn’t Mathematics a blessing for science?

    Ravi Sadana

    //ournewscience.com/

    [email protected]

  • Reply to: Did Ancient People Really Have Lifespans Longer Than 200 Years?   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Ravisadana

    Conditioning of the human mind caused by “Time”, “Money” and “Mathematics” since the time of Newton has changed the Brain-mind complex in fundamental ways. People of pre-science periods had special mental capabilities which we don't have today.  Science, today cannot build  structures like, The Pyramids (Egypt),  Pumu Punku (Bolivia) and Gobekli Tepe (Turkey). These structures were built during the copper age. Science is completely baffled  and can't offer any explanation. Mindsets have changed  and we can't apply modern science principles to explain  the achievements of pre-science period.

    For more on the subject pl. read: //Ournewscience.com/     Ravi Sadana

  • Reply to: Ancient Tomb Reveals Cultural Entanglement between Egypt and Nubia   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Osiris Tours

    The Nubians are still in West of Aswan, until today they still hold to their own languages, culture, and their own life style.
    The Nubians used to live in the south between Egypt and Sudan but they had to move when the Egyptians built the High Dam in 1970.

  • Reply to: Spanish Leak Reveals Hidden Chamber in Tutankhamun Tomb is Full of Treasures   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Osiris Tours

    What exciting news! After thousands of years, King Tut still didn’t gave away all of his secrets yet. The boy king, King Tut was very famous and his region was one of the most documented regions on the walls of Luxor temples and tombs. Not only because he is the only one who ruled Egypt when he was 9 years old but there are much more facts confirms the doubts that there are more to be coming from his tomb. Here are some more facts about King Tut: His father, King Akhenaten had a major issue with the priests of Thebes (Luxor) during his life. King Akhenaten is the first and only king who rebelled against the main god during the New Kingdom, god Amun Ra. When Akhenaton (King Tut’s father and Nefertit’s husband) had his religious revolution against God Amun Ra, the priests kicked him out of Thebes and he had to leave to a new capital, Tell Al Amaran, which is located about 300 miles north of Luxor. When King Akhenaten had to leave, his wife Nefertiti left with him and they both lived there worshipping the new god Aton and there he got King Tut from his second wife Kiya.When he was born, he was called “Tut Ankh Aton” (after his father’s new God Aton). When king Akhenaten died, King Tut who changed his name to be “Tut Ankh Amun” (after the God Amun Ra’s name” returned to Luxor and returned the Glory back to Amun Ra and changed his name to be more related to him. King Tut was 9 years old when he took over because he was the only son for his father so the priests played a major role in the political life then. The Ancient Egyptian documented his region to show his loyalty to God Amun Ra and tried to fix what his father ruined. Finally, the tomb of King Tut is the only one that wasn’t robbed because it is located underneath of another tomb, tomb of King Ramses VI. The tomb robbers didn't look there, they never expected there is a tomb underneath of another tomb. That's why King Tut's tomb waited until Carter found it in 1922.

  • Reply to: New study says humans have inhabited the Stonehenge landscape for ten millennia   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Lewis Hales

    This is remarkable, but not surprising that the people of the area goes back that far. I would like to see archaeologist David Jacques continue this research and write a book on his findings.

  • Reply to: The Legacy of Zecharia Sitchin: The Shifting Paradigm   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Ab Asaff

    Sitchin and Nibiru: The truth is:

    Those of us who research and write about fringe topics like UFOs, the paranormal, and lost civilizations like to think that the so-called "skeptics" who accept conventional views on everything without question are actually true believers in the status quo, and those of us on the fringe, who question conventional ideas, are the true skeptics. But if we are truly skeptical, we must also question and feel free to criticize fringe beliefs that do not seem to be based on facts or logic. An example would be the books of Zechariah Sitchin. Sitchin (7/11/1920-10/9/2010) was an economist, not an archaeologist, and most certainly not an astronomer. He taught himself to read ancient Sumerian, studied Sumerian myths, and constructed an elaborate theory devoid of logic or any real factual foundation.

    Sitchin believed that, long ago, a large planet called "Nibiru" entered our Solar System from somewhere else and somehow went into a very erratic orbit around our Sun. It collided with a planet called "Tiamat" orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, creating the asteroid belt with roughly half of Tiamat and sending the other half closer to our Sun, where it magically went into a near circular orbit on the ecliptic, becoming our own world, Earth. Nibiru itself then settled into a highly eccentric orbit going out as far as just beyond the orbit of Neptune, and returning to the inner Solar System every 3,600 years.

    An intelligent race somehow appeared on Nibiru, and visited Earth to mine gold, which they needed to somehow protect their atmosphere. Tiring of the work, they combined their DNA with that of Earth’s Homo erectus to produce Homo Sapiens, our own species, to be slaves for them. They created the Sumerian culture, and Sitchin believed that all human languages descended from Sumerian. He wrote in great detail about the history of the people of Nibiru, which he called the "twelfth planet," counting Pluto, the Sun, and our Moon as "planets," as did ancient astrologers. In his history he named their kings and princes and described their politics.

    There are so many problems with this that it is hard to know where to begin. First of all, a planet entering our system from interstellar space would be unlikely to settle into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit; it would either be ejected from the Solar System or settle into a more nearly circular orbit. If, at its greatest distance from the Sun, it was closer than Pluto (as well as larger) it would long ago have been spotted by our astronomers, and also would noticeably perturb the orbit of Neptune. For an orbit to have a period of 3,600 years it would have to extend far, far beyond Pluto. If Earth was the result of the collision described by Sitchin it would have a much more eccentric orbit than it does.

    Advanced life forms on planetary surfaces tend to exist only if the planet is in the "Goldilocks zone," not too hot or too cold. Even as far out as Jupiter, the moons of the outer planets are frozen solid on the surface; farther out, even hydrogen freezes solid. During most of its orbit, Nibiru would be so bitterly cold and dark that nothing could live, save perhaps extremophile bacteria far below the surface. Sitchin "explained" life on Nibiru by claiming that the planet is volcanically active, and, somehow, warmth seeps up from its interior. First of all, that would still not provide the sunlight needed for photosynthesis, which produces the oxygen needed for what we call advanced life forms. And volcanic heat does not seep up evenly, but in the form of deadly eruptions that devastate some areas and leave others cold and frozen. I have stood near the Yellowstone geysers, shaking with cold (don’t go there in winter). A very few years out of every 3,600 would not allow advanced surface life forms to develop.

    Professional archaeologists and experts in ancient languages have criticized Sitchin’s translation as being inaccurate, and have been skeptical of his interpretation of Sumerian mythology. They have pointed out (and I agree with them) that it is dangerous to interpret myths and legends in too literal a fashion. For example, some Christians believe that Noah literally had two of every land animal species on Earth plus food for all on his tiny ark. I have the utmost respect for Christians, but this is simply impossible. Some also believe that the Biblical flood literally covered the entire Earth, including even today’s mountains... if so, where did the water come from, and where did it go, and why is there no geological evidence for such a flood? In fact, the Bible is essentially correct; there was a global flood giving rise to the Biblical legend and the legend of Atlantis. Sea levels were lower during the last major glaciation because so much water was locked up in the vast continental ice sheets; when the Earth warmed and they melted, sea levels rose some 400 feet, flooding the continental shelves which had been dry land but are now submerged. In like manner, many of the Sumerian legends (including the original flood legend) were probably inspired by real people and real events, but much has been lost in the telling and retelling and the copying and recopying, and even the original stories may have referred, not to beings from another planet, but to paranormal entities. Also, many of the stories may have been intended from the start to be parables or to have a symbolic meaning.

    Sitchin considered Sumer to be Man’s oldest civilization, but the evidence shows Sumer to be less than six thousand years old. On the submerged continental shelves off the coast of India and elsewhere, small cities over nine thousand years old have been found; elsewhere, the walled city of Jericho is about ten thousand years old; and the massive, extensive, and elaborate stone structures of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey are nearly twelve thousand years old.

    Sitchin believes that the people of Nibiru created our own species less than half a million years ago, by genetically altering Homo Erectus. In fact, there is no hard evidence that Homo erectus was a different species ancestral to modern Man; it is more likely that they were fully human and were merely a different race rather than a different species. I have discussed this at some length in an article in Atlantis Rising magazine. Homo erectus is well over a million years old, and researchers Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson have uncovered massive evidence that people like us were alive on this Earth at least one or two million years ago, and probably five or ten million years before the present. There is even some evidence for still earlier dates.

    And then there is the matter of the gold the people of Nibiru allegedly wanted to somehow protect their atmosphere... from what? And how? None of this makes any sense. If these people wanted to mine gold it is almost certainly found in asteroids, particularly nickel-iron asteroids, rich in heavy metals. And, assuming that they could only get gold on Earth, why go to the trouble of creating a new species as slaves? If the people of Nibiru could travel about the Solar System, surely they could create machines to do the work. And what menaced Nibiru’s atmosphere, frozen solid out there in the cold darkness beyond Neptune? Did they want the gold to be suspended as dust for a reflective shield? Even if the atmosphere existed in gaseous form (it couldn’t), gold, being heavy and dense, would not stay suspended as easily and as long as many lighter (and more abundant) materials. From beyond Neptune our Sun would appear as little more than a very bright star; the last thing anyone on a dark and frozen world could possibly want would be to reflect the pathetically little sunlight and warmth available.

    And Sitchin imagines that this advanced race could fly all over the Solar System with rockets, and even use them to transport massive amounts of gold from Earth to Nibiru. Rocket technology, especially the chemical rockets we are presently using, has very limited capabilities, which is why we have to use multiple stages to get large payloads even into orbit around Earth, let alone beyond. We can imagine some combination of nuclear powered scramjets and rockets and ion drive, but even this would be limited in its capabilities. Something on the order of gravity control would be needed to do the planetary mining and transport Sitchin describes.

    People like Sitchin, along with people who believe in a hollow Earth, give all alternative thinkers a bad name. And, ironically, Sitchin is not guilty of being overly imaginative as much as not being imaginative enough. His too-literal interpretation of myths and his failure to conceive of anything better than primitive rocket technology all indicate a mind that in many ways was unable to break free from conventional ideas. And his belief that the gods described in myths could not have been paranormal entities but had to have been flesh and blood aliens in nuts and bolts spacecraft shows him to have been limited by the materialist mindset so prevalent in the modern world.

  • Reply to: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Marion Lathem

    I can never find the adobe for my linux 15.10 the latest Ubuntu so I basically quit trying and do without seeing what it is

  • Reply to: Why do Ice Ages occur? A New Paradigm Shift on a Prehistoric Problem   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: ralph elli

    >>Now if they could just find powdered Gobi desert yak dung ...

    Perhaps they will. ;-). But this does indeed seem to be Gobi dust, as it has been isotopically identified as comming from that region. See the full paper, in the references section.

    R

  • Reply to: The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of Mesopotamian Kingship   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Mahalingam Santhri N

    In my opinion the sumerian texts were mis interpreted. They meant only days. so by dividing the figures by 360 you will get the real age of the kings and the duration of their rein.

  • Reply to: City of the Dead: The Mysterious Village of Dargavs, Russia   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: WillowRaven

    Thankyou for a fascinating article. Ocko, thankyou for a wonderful and informative discussion after-most informative, thorough and helpful.

  • Reply to: The Shigir Idol - A wodden statue twice as old as the Pyramids of Egypt   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Derek Cunningham

    Hi Ivan, do you know where I could find images of the linear geometrics drawn on this idol?

  • Reply to: As the Bulldozers Continue, Will the Recently Discovered Ruins of a Byzantine Church Be Lost Forever?   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Lung Chuan CHEN

    The symbol in the first picture (a circle with a cross therein) - "吉" (Chinese)

    a circle + a cross over the top
    a circle + a cross therein
    a circle + a cross connected on top
    (different variants)

    "吉" (Fortunate, lucky, good fate, ... )

  • Reply to: Work Begins to Retrieve Nazi Gold Train Believed to Contain Lost Amber Room of Charlottenburg Palace   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: T. Hammer

    It doesn't sound like they have received or get to keep anything yet. According to the article, nothing has been revealed so far. Beyond the munitions talked about, all else is just speculation at this point. If it is a train load of munitions, that will likely be rusted junk today. Assuming it all doesn't explode in their faces tomorrow. Articles like this are a dime a million on the net today, rumor, myth, legend, and speculation mixed in to titillate the reader. When we see what actually comes out, then the celebration may begin.

  • Reply to: Work Begins to Retrieve Nazi Gold Train Believed to Contain Lost Amber Room of Charlottenburg Palace   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: T. Hammer

    History and treasure, the history of treasure, treasure history, two great topics. Years ago both were combined in one great website, which is now gone. Many topics here touch on those two topics often, and the challenge to to separate the wheat from the chaff.
    Norman, Please contact me via email, I may have a few things that will help you in your alien quest.
    mowk @ myself.com

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