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Skeleton of Irish Giant, Charles Byrne, to be Removed from Public Display
... 2017. After long deliberations during the shutdown its Board of Trustees decided to remove the skeletal remains of ...
Nathan Falde - 13/01/2023 - 01:00
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Hi-Tech Levitation Devices Used To “Float” Ancient Egyptian Sphinx
... was relocated in what Live Science call “a monumental move.” The Sphinx rested in the Penn Museum courtyard for ... and it’s been in the Egypt Gallery since 1926. This new move was a mere 250 feet (76 meters) but museum ... in the main entrance hall. ( Penn Museum ) Pre-Sphinx Move Logistics A question that was asked often in ancient ...
ashley cowie - 14/06/2019 - 23:03
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BREAKING NEWS: New Telescope Observes Otherwise Invisible Terrestrial Entities with Intelligent Movement
... is the fact that these entities have been observed to move ‘intelligently’ in the night sky in a manner ... of lights of different colors that are pulsating and move synchronously according to a complex trajectory during ... Currently, Dr. Santilli is the Chairman of the Board and Head Scientist of the new publicly traded company, ...
aprilholloway - 26/01/2016 - 16:50
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15th Century Treasures Revealed in British Stately Home Attic
In Britain, an attic in a historic home has revealed a trove of 15th century treasures. The rare items were uncovered during the recent COVID-19 lockdown and were discovered thanks to the hard work of a lone archaeologist. These 15th century treasures are expected to provide insights into the history of English Catholicism during the period when it was heavily persecuted by successive royal governments.
Ed Whelan - 17/08/2020 - 22:57
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Fertilizer Giant Blocked from Removing Aboriginal Indigenous Rock Art
... issued. Raelene Cooper, a Mardudhunera woman and former board member of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, said ...
ashley cowie - 19/03/2022 - 13:57
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Musick Moves Inanimate by Magick Numbers and Persuasive Sound
In 1697, William Congreve, a British playwright, wrote that: “Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, and, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, by Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound.” The study of the magical, mathematical properties in music goes all the way back to an ancient Greek mathematician named Pythagoras, the ‘father’ of modern geometry.
jim willis - 09/07/2018 - 15:31
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Roman Coins Discovered at Japanese Castle Raise Questions of Ancient Connections
... artifacts found at Katsuren Castle: A Roman coin ( Uruma Board of Education ) and an Ottoman coin. ( Uruma Board of Education ) Japan Times reports that the coins ... and Nekomata – Part 1 Excavations at the site. ( Urama Board of Education ) Katsuren Castle was built sometime in ...
Alicia McDermott - 29/09/2016 - 00:45
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Tragedy at Sea: The Brutal Reality of Slave Ships (Video)
During the transatlantic slave trade, life aboard a slave ship was a nightmarish ordeal. European merchants built vessels to transport enslaved Africans, subjecting them to horrifying conditions. Enslaved individuals were stripped, shaved, and confined to the ship's deck before boarding.
Robbie Mitchell - 30/06/2023 - 20:51
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Hiding to Avoid Hanging: Priest Holes, Hidden Chambers, and Secret Passages
... searching a house for days or even weeks. They would move furniture, lift floorboards, bang the walls for sounds ... not the priest holes were tiny with no room to stand or move. Priests sometimes had to stay for days at a time with ...
Joanna Gillan - 08/09/2018 - 03:43
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Playing the 4,500-Year-Old Royal Game of Ur (Video)
... the British Museum curator at one of history’s oldest board games? What happens when a popular Youtuber takes on the British Museum curator at one of history’s oldest board games? That’s just what happened when Tom Scott ... fate's hand, dictated moves. Scott's pieces traversed the board , striving to outpace Finkel's. Yet, the aged contest ...
Robbie Mitchell - 05/08/2023 - 01:55
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Rare Roman Game Die Unearthed At Norwegian Burial Cairn
... a rare, elongated, Roman Iron Age (100-400 AD) die and board game playing pieces. Historically, the nearby ... only the elites, local aristocracy or upper classes played board games, displaying they had “the time, profits and ... players, who are finally cornered and made unable to move” and in his Phaedrus we are told all such games ...
ashley cowie - 29/05/2020 - 03:25
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Deathbed Revelations: Extraterrestrial Spacecrafts Powered by Mind. Sounds Crazy, But Tech is Real
... perception) and psychokinesis (the ability to move objects with the power of thought). Naturally, the ... mechanical devices, telling them where or how to move, or telling them to perform some other type of action. ... Visual feedback was provided by the helicopter’s on-board camera, and by following images projected on a screen ...
Nathan Falde - 13/07/2019 - 07:05
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Was Neolithic Silbury Hill Designed as a Welcoming Home for Omnivorous, Upwardly-Mobile Earthworms?
... park, where one is greeted by a helpful, open air display board. Fig. 4: Silbury Hill: visitors’ observation area with display board, summarizing results of centuries of archaeological ... (Photograph courtesy writer). Fig. 5: Close up of display board artwork (Judith Dobie). The three panels above show the ...
Colin Berry - 07/04/2016 - 21:26
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Unravelling the mystery behind the megalithic stone walls of Saksaywaman
... and it needs to be filled with another stone. A wooden board is secured in the opening and spanned to two sides of ... performed for each edge of the void space. Each template board is tested against the shape that it copied to verify ... accurately and is accomplished by using a narrow scribe board held firmly against the side of the template. This ...
aprilholloway - 22/03/2014 - 12:13
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The Shock Discovery of the Nakovane Zodiac
... that these pieces formed an ancient astrology horoscope board. Of the recovered ivory pieces, the best preserved are ... was killed in the 3rd century BC. So where did this zodiac board originate from? There are no elephants in Dalmatia, or ... most likely from Greece, and was used to create the zodiac board. But even so, it pushes the date for the earliest ...
Aleksa Vučković - 09/02/2021 - 17:32
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Elizabeth Brownrigg: Child Abuse and Murder in the 18th Century
... to pullies by a horse, tapped the horse’s flanks to move forwards, pulling her up to swing, choke, and suffocate ...
B. B. Wagner - 05/11/2019 - 23:02
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Kofun Burial Chamber and Two Iron Swords Uncovered in Parking Lot Shrubbery
... by scholars from Nara University and the Ikaruga municipal board of education. Interestingly, the absence of a stone ... meters (4.92 ft). However, experts from the educational board had harbored long-standing suspicions that this ... in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture. Source: Ikaruga Municipal Board of Education By Sahir Pandey References Altuntas, L. ...
Sahir - 18/09/2023 - 18:48
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Orbs in Space: An Unconventional Phenomenon, and the Tether Experiment
... shuttle Aurora 7, the images obtained by James McDivitt on board Gemini 4, and then confirmed by the film made by ...
valdar - 29/11/2015 - 01:00
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8000-Year-Old Shipyard Located off English Coast is World’s Oldest
Marine archaeologists have published stunning images of what they think is an 8000-year-old shipyard located just off the coast of England. They have just found a large number of timber boards that may have once been a platform on the seafloor. Researchers believe that the submerged structure may provide new insights into Stone Age technology and society.
Ed Whelan - 20/08/2019 - 23:01
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Tricking and Treating Has a Long History
... Although there is disagreement about whether the move was made purposely so as to absorb the pagan practice, ...
ancient-origins - 31/10/2017 - 17:57