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  • Reply to: Unique Underground City Adds New Direction to the Ancient Subterranean World of Turkey   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: hawaiiguy

    I think this type of structure was built as protection from plasma discharge when celestial bodies were being thrust about and rearranged by the cyclical events we experience over the great year (26,000 years). To build underground cities as a fortress from "man" would just be signing your death warrant. But it would be ideal to escape plasma arcs scorching the earth and penetrating ones skull and frying its electrical circuit.

  • Reply to: Evidence of Ancient Megalithic Culture in Massachusetts Revealed For the First Time   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: JMB

    In light of recent research establishing modern humans in tNorth America as early as 130,000 years ago, claiming that Native American groups were somehow incapable of these monuments is hubris.

  • Reply to: Evidence of Ancient Megalithic Culture in Massachusetts Revealed For the First Time   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: JMB

    The territory between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers was first called the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason. Maine was a district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until it became a separate state as part of the Missouri compromise in 1820.

  • Reply to: Evidence of Ancient Megalithic Culture in Massachusetts Revealed For the First Time   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: JMB

    The navigatio Santi Brendani describes voyages by Celts to North America, as the saga of Eric the Red describes Norse settlement in Quebec and Newfoundland. Given that there is recently published research showing modern man was in North America as early as 130,000 years ago, these euro-centric theories lose some of their luster. By no means does it discredit some of these theories, but I am more inclined to a belief that all of these sites were built by Native Americans, specifically the ancestors of the colonial era Algonquians whose society was decimated by disease upon contact with Basque and English fishermen in the 1500s (and again by disease brought by English colonists in th 1600s). There is another standing stone right on the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut very similar to the one at Lynn woods.

  • Reply to: 2,000-Year-Old Lost City of Rhapta May Have Been Found in Tanzania   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: JMB

    Based on the pictures this looks like the "Biminy Roads" in the Bahamas. No mention of artifacts at this site. It looks like natural geology and not a town. I would love to see an update on research and new inforation.

  • Reply to: Babak Khorramdin – The Freedom Fighter of Persia   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Babak

    Hey Turk,
    On what historic account are you claiming Babak was a Muslim and was Turkish? Do you even happen to know when Turks, of any sect, invaded GREAT IRAN? Do you have any idea in your right mind what the name of Azerbaijan was 200 years ago?

  • Reply to: Coligny Calendar: The 1,800-Year-Old Lunisolar calendar banned by the Romans   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Maud Flanders
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    I'm interested in my ancestors history and the subjects are related to my research as a student of Celtic ancient culture and related.

  • Reply to: Where the Fairies Dwell: Irish Ringforts in Our World and Theirs   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: kitnkaat

    I disagree that ring forts were constructed for or by fairies. According to the Irish Examiner (http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/scholars-uncover-one-ringfort-to-ru...) a large of the ringfort near Innishannon (Cork) was built by a chieftan/warlord who feared invasion 3,200 years ago. The belief is that the defensive measures employed were unsuccessful, though they do not say who the invaders were

  • Reply to: The Search Is On For Caligula’s Orgy Boats Where His Twisted Fantasies May Have Been Played Out   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: folk cowboy

    Hey isn't this title backwards? Edit: The event took place inside N Koreas Some are saying that these buses are taking NK people back to their respective

  • Reply to: Arguments Why God (Very Probably) Exists   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Hrochnick

    Ancient Origins team; please avoid these kinds of low substance, easily countered articles which do nothing good for the reputation of this site or the advancement of your mission statement.

    Much of the above article can be distilled to "we don't understand, therefore god". This is religious apologetics and is not at all scientific or helpful in the pursuit of answers.

  • Reply to: Mythology in Romania: Exploring Beliefs about Witchcraft and the Devil   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Kasey

    This is a very interesting topic to me. Where did you find your information and can you teach me more about witchcraft?

  • Reply to: Advanced Engineering Discovered at the Maya Observatory at Chichen Itza   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: jennicat73

    The Mayans had wheeled toys.

  • Reply to: The Face of a Beautiful Egyptian Woman Brought to Life from 2,000-Year-Old Mummy   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Ranamen 1

    The only of people who have this Ancient Egyptian issue about race us the orthodox Egyptology field. They want to completely omit the abundance of cultural data that links black Africa to ancient Egypt. There is no cultural connections between ancient Egypt and the Middle East, Europe or Asia. Yet they claim DNA testing put Ancient Egyptian within these same group's. Why is the Melanin dosage test omitted from this DNA report ?.Ancient Egyptian identified themselves within there artwork and literally writings as being a part of the black population of africa. Pharoah TuT is represented as a white Semitic, Yet within his Tomb everywhere Pharoah TuT is represented as a Black African .The bottom line a white lie only goes so far with no cultural data to support this whitewash fantasy .Maat and the end racists propaganda against black African ancient Egypt.

  • Reply to: Burning off the Crust: New Laser Treatment Used to Clean Frescoes in Rome’s Largest 1600-year-old Catacomb Complex   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Art Babs

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  • Reply to: Giants on Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Walter Oppermann

    love some of these theories

  • Reply to: The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness beyond the Brain   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: julia johnson

    I believe this. need more

  • Reply to: Epic Battle Equals Doom or Twilight for Norse Gods? Ragnarök: The Real Message in the Myth   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nregnen

    Very interesting, and similar in lines with other studies performed pointing towards a common ancestry for the world’s ancient civilizations.  Several of the authors I’ve read that have covered this concept have done similar to here and drew parallels between the gods, but what I’d like to see completed-maybe someone could point me there if it exists-is a comprehensive analysis between not only the characters and beliefs of the different religions, but also world events as accepted by ‘mainstream’ academics, thus tying together the difficult to prove pre-ancient civilization theories and modern accepted history.

  • Reply to: The Face of a Beautiful Egyptian Woman Brought to Life from 2,000-Year-Old Mummy   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: milton de luca ...

    I thing you´re missing the poit here. thats not about skin color or " race " . ( whatever that means) . thats about science. this Wonderful recreation of a ancient HUMAN BEEN there is because science made its possible with the purpose of studie how " different " can we be even know we are only one RACE. human race. when people? when ?

  • Reply to: Unravelling the mystery behind the megalithic stone walls of Saksaywaman   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Pao Y.

    Lets look at this through a design thought process of the architect or engineer who built this.

    From a construction planning point of view the wall was made haphazardly and on the fly without prior planning. We can say this by looking in the extremely irregular shapes and differences of the sizes of stones. The way the article shows how the templating of the stones are carefully and meticulously planned before cutting do not match the design thinking process of making the wall.
    If the Killke people were organized and wise enough to build these layered fortifications for defense, why was there less (or even a lack of) organization and planning in the building and design of the walls? Because it was easy for the builders. And no planning was necessary.

    We can assume by points here that the making of the wall was not difficult for the builders:

    1) The size or the weight of the rocks didnt seem to matter. There was no need to cut the rocks to smaller more manageable sizes, also given the fact that the area was mountainous.

    We can hypothesize two things here: The Killke did not build the walls. The workload would be disproportionate to any combined human manpower past or present. The disorganization shows that there were no need of planning needed to ease any difficulty. The precision of the cuts do not match or level to any technology past or present.

    2) No planning was needed to fit the rocks in an orderly way (like a regular brick wall for example). The stones, in whatever size was available, was cut and shaped as needed and fitted one by one, working centrifugal to each stone as they were laid.

    3) There is a striking contrast in the precision of cutting the rocks and the haphazard random fitting of rocks. If the unorganized design of the rock fittings mean it was easy for them to not need an organized plan beforehand, we can then ask the question 'Why was the cutting so precise and clean given they were doing a 'rough' job on the rock fittings?' These two working processes contrast. This can only mean one thing: Cutting the stones to their puzzle part shapes was not difficult for the builder. Otherwise we should see the cuts as rough and disorganized as the design.

    4) The final stone jutting edges that run along the meeting points were smoothed out. The faces of the rocks were also smoothed but the depressed lines of the carving tool used can still be seen on the surfaces. The presence of this marks also seem to indicate the project was no big deal to be given a polished clean finish. So the carving marks were left, like a 'fast and rough' work of someone in a hurry to meet a deadline. Rough, but complete.

    5) If dorite stones were used to grind the stones to finish. This would take an enormous amount of time to accomplish. And that would make the wall important to them and the final work should have no rough workmanships marks. Otherwise it is a conflict on build thought process. But it is present, so we can assume that the process used was not time consuming and it was easy, making the wall unimportant, thus the presence of rough marks. Therefore the difficult process of dorite stone grinding is a far fetched idea.

    These 5 points show that a careful planning or polishing design thought process was not present. Therefore the theory of careful templating is against and counter to the character of the builders way of thinking.

  • Reply to: Mysterious Viking Sword Made With Technology From the Future?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Donald Jones

    Possibly this could be Damascus steel which was produced by process unknown today. What has been called Damascus steel -or Wootz Steel- was superplastic but hard at the same time . Scientist studying it today emphasize the use of carbon introduced through using organic matter in the forging process. How did Damscus Steel end up in Scandanavai. Could Vikings have traveled to the middle East and discovered the process ?

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