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Updates From The Giza Plateau
... Pierces The Heavens. ) After this he continued exploring Polynesia, visiting the Cook Islands, Tahiti, and later on ... . His ongoing work is showing ancient connections between Polynesia and the west coast of Peru. As of September 2013 he ...
ancient-origins - 12/10/2013 - 09:28
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Matariki: Mythology, Astronomy and Warring Gods of the Maori New Year
The Māori, or the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, use a special word Matariki, which identifies the cluster of stars known to astronomers as the Pleiades, and to mythologists and folklorists as the
ashley cowie - 19/02/2021 - 13:39
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Archaeologists Reveal Details about Lifestyle of First New Zealanders
... individuals from a site in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, with both sets of people sharing a low diversity ...
aprilholloway - 20/05/2013 - 13:21
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Pindai Caves, Once Home to the Lapita People and Extinct Species
New Caledonia, in the South Pacific, is a special collectivity of France. Not only does it have a fascinating history and unique culture, the islands also have one of the most important archaeological sites in all of Oceania, the Pindai Caves.
Ed Whelan - 21/02/2020 - 01:36
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Chief Lapu-Lapu - Warrior and Hero of the Philippines
In the early 16th century, Spain was becoming a global superpower due to innovations in navigation and seafaring. At the end of the previous century, Christopher Columbus, whose voyage had been funded by the Spanish Crown, arrived in the New World, ushering in a period of Spanish colonization in the Americas.
dhwty - 20/03/2015 - 02:25
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700-Year-Old Moai Statues Irreparably Damaged by Fire on Easter Island
... off the west coast of Chile , in the area known as eastern Polynesia, and is home to more than 1,000 stone statues with ...
Sahir - 09/10/2022 - 19:00
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Photos Reveal Giant Easter Island Moai Statues are Covered in Mysterious Symbols
Images from the 2012 excavation of Easter Island’s iconic statues reveal the renowned heads are not only connected to giant bodies, but the bodies are covered in mysterious designs and symbols, which researchers have likened to tattoos.
With a study last week which claimed to have definitively worked out just how the Easter Islanders managed to lift the hats to the heads of the Moai statues, the next puzzle to solve is what exactly these body designs are all about.
lizleafloor - 12/06/2018 - 00:41
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Easter Island and the Mysteries of the Moai
... the sweet potato on the island which was a staple crop in Polynesia. The Easter Island moai statues are believed to ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 06/03/2022 - 14:00
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Hieroglyphics Deciphering The Origin Of The One God
... IA or ІU in Greece, Jupiter in Italy, ІHO-ІHO in Polynesia and IAU in America were each and all of them Jews ...
Calumy - 25/05/2020 - 19:10
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Gene Flow and Counter Current—Hopi Sea Voyages From the Lost Continent of Mu
... Hopi migration route from west to east (that is, from Polynesia to North America) is manifested by the condition of ...
garydavid - 17/08/2014 - 00:25
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Oldest City Found on a Pacific Island Was Constructed in 300 AD in Tonga
With the assistance of data obtained in 2011 with advanced laser scanning technology, archaeologists have been able to identify the remains of a 1,700-year-old lost city on the island of Tongatapu in the Tonga island chain. Using the LiDAR remote sensing system, a popular tool for archaeologists performing aerial surveys, researchers spotted and mapped nearly 10,000 mounds upon which individual or family residences had been constructed in many cases, and where the buried tombs of elites had been located in others.
Nathan Falde - 16/04/2024 - 22:43
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European Dolmens in Colombia - The Mysterious Ruins of San Augustin
The San Augustin region is located in the upper Magdalena River valley and is framed by the Central and Eastern Cordilleras, raising to 2000m (6560ft) high (1). There are several sites to explore in the San Augustin area covering some 250 square miles, but the most important one is Parque Archaeological, a 78-hectare site with around 130 statues on display.
Hugh Newman - 25/03/2014 - 12:00
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The awesome, terrible, and unknowable creator gods through history
All throughout history people have invoked gods of various kinds, including incomprehensibly strange creators. Crediting an almighty god as the creator of the universe is an acknowledgement that the universe is so complex and beautiful that only a being much greater than human could create it.
Mark Miller - 02/01/2015 - 12:09
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Waipio Valley: Home of Demons, Demi-Gods, and Despots
... Islands: Cosmic Sharks and Whale Riders Ghost Beliefs in Polynesia: When Spirits Return and Possess The Menehune of ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 15/11/2020 - 13:59
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The Cataclysm of Easter Island - The Museum in Hanga Roa (Part 6)
Our last stop was the archeological museum in Hanga Roa. Our group made a walk to the museum at the far end of town. We bought our tickets to museum and trailed in to look at the various exhibits in the two room, one-floor museum.
davidchildress - 13/07/2013 - 06:52
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DNA Study Unravels Mystery Behind Origins of First Pacific Islanders
More than 3,000 years ago, a group of people set out from the Solomon Island chain in the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean and steered their outrigger canoes toward the horizon, with no land as far as their eyes could see. These people and their descendants were the first to cross more than 350 kilometers stretches of open ocean into a region known as Remote Oceania.
ancient-origins - 05/10/2016 - 00:40
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The Truth Behind 5 Disney Movies That Are Based On Real Histories
Many of us grew up watching Disney movies and their tales of fairy princesses and evil queens are undeniably a part of the modern zeitgeist.
Sarah P Young - 11/04/2019 - 23:02
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Constructing an Obelisk: How the True Rocks of Eternity were Made
... example, just because it is theoretically possible that Polynesia was settled by voyagers from South America ...
Caleb Strom - 03/09/2017 - 23:05
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Ten Mythical Creatures in Ancient Folklore from Around the World
... people who lived in Hawaii before settlers arrived from Polynesia. Many scholars attribute ancient structures found ...
Joanna Gillan - 14/01/2023 - 01:03
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Riding Peruvian Waves for 2000 Years on the Totora Reed Raft
... extensive history of ocean travel by groups of people from Polynesia and along the coasts of the Americas. The totora in ... testimony to travels from south America westbound, to Polynesia. In the Lambayeque valley of northern Peru, the ...
george fery - 09/10/2019 - 23:25