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Of Bunyips and Other Beasts: Evidence of Extinct Megafauna Displayed in Art and Stories
... Bunyip, reproduced from The Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science. ( Public Domain ) In most of Australia, megafauna ... underpin many stories that we have generally regarded as fiction. Top image: A saber-toothed cat stands atop a boulder ...
ancient-origins - 08/05/2019 - 23:00
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How Ancient Horse-Dung Bacteria is Helping Locate Where Hannibal Crossed the Alps
... like we may just have cracked it – all thanks to modern science and a bit of ancient horse poo. As a microbiologist, ... like we may just have cracked it – all thanks to modern science and a bit of ancient horse poo. As a microbiologist, ...
ancient-origins - 05/04/2016 - 03:49
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A travel guide to Yorkshire's Weird Wolds: The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle
... the greatest heroes and villains of recent pulp, crime and science fiction which may, or may not, be connected to the day a ... Newton Triangle. Its a place where fact is weirder than fiction! A travel guide to Yorkshire's Weird Wolds: The ...
ancient-origins - 06/05/2016 - 23:53
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Golem: A Legendary Clay Beast Created to Protect Jewish People
... golem is said to be made from clay. Additionally, it was science that gave life to the Frankenstein monster, whereas ...
dhwty - 03/07/2020 - 23:52
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The Golden Thread of Time: A Quest for the Truth and hidden knowledge of the Ancients
... a crude understanding of time. What if the war between science and religion has psychologically obscured an obvious ... our ancestors could measure time accurately, then all our science and technical achievements would have been inherited ... The theory is published in several books by other non-fiction authors. As an entrepreneur, Crichton put this ...
ancient-origins - 14/11/2020 - 04:11
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The Sagas of the Icelanders May Not be Myth After All
... Iliad, in which he meant to convey a truth. As the age of science and philosophy began questioning truth itself, the ...
aprilholloway - 02/10/2013 - 03:33
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Origins of Gold Spill the Secret of a Lost Culture. Does the Treasure of El Carambolo Lead to Atlantis?
... a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science , the gold was locally sourced, and wasn’t imported ... mounting that suggests the story of Atlantis was not mere fiction, fable or myth, but a true story as Plato always ...
lizleafloor - 10/04/2018 - 22:58
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Bronze Age Romeo and Juliet Buried in Loving Embrace in Tomb in Armenia
... tomb at the Metsamor necropolis in Armenia. Photo Credit: Science in Poland. Tracing the History of Metsamor and its ...
Nathan Falde - 03/04/2023 - 14:57
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Chupacabra: Legend of a Blood-Sucking Cryptid in Latin America
... and documented in his book The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore in 2011. It showed how eyewitness ... given by Tolentino was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species . The alien creature, ... Than, Ker. "Chupacabra Science: How Evolution Made a Mythical Monster." National ...
Bryan Hill - 06/10/2020 - 20:41
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Robots Guarded Buddha’s Relics in a Legend of Ancient India
... building real mechanical robots and machines. And such science fictions and historical technologies were not ... the universal and timeless link between imagination and science. Top image: Two small figures guard the table holding ...
ancient-origins - 18/03/2019 - 12:59
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Magic, Scandal and Promiscuity, All in a Day’s Work for a Maltese Inquisitor
... of the Renaissance who preferred to die defending science and humanism than go along with the religious dogma ... of the Renaissance who preferred to die defending science and humanism than go along with the religious dogma ... foul of the Inquisition. High Stakes but no Fire Popular fiction certainly makes it look as though reading forbidden ...
Laura Tabone - 19/09/2021 - 14:44
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Operation Mummy's Curse Repatriates 2,800-Year-Old Mummified Hand That Had Been Used as Hollywood Prop
... in a parcel at Los Angeles International Airport. Live Science reports that it was registered as a sci-fi movie ... the hand to the North American market as a film element of science fiction. Fortunately, the hand was voluntarily surrendered by ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 05/12/2016 - 14:43
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The Aurora Airship Incident: UFO Crash, Mars Fever or Hoax?
... during a time of optimism regarding progress through science and technology. By the late 19th century, inventions ... power, had created confidence that humanity could use science and technology to create a better future and do ever ... space. Flying machines, as well as more realistic science fiction, began to make the idea of humans and other creatures ...
Caleb Strom - 09/08/2020 - 23:00
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The Alien Agenda: Myth, Underground Bases & Extraterrestrials
... and the Skull and Bones. It Need Not Be Religion VS Science: Extra-Terrestrial Life and Religious Beliefs Combine ... that come from the UFO community, is treated more like science fiction rather than fact. Traditional mythologists contend ...
Rita Louise - 09/12/2021 - 00:58
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Werewolf Hunting #101 – In Search of Legends, and Busting Folklore Myths
... 1930s movies plots and novels (in other words the world of fiction) than to folklore traditions, with an added ... are no werewolves (or even their remains) known to modern science. All we have are fractured, ambiguous, and generally ... in folklore (although it is a popular trope in fantasy fiction) that werewolves fear or are repelled by any form of ...
Charles Christian - 14/07/2016 - 02:20
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Waipio Valley: Home of Demons, Demi-Gods, and Despots
... there may be some significant synchronicity here between science and superstition. As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle’s science editor David Pearlman, scientists from the Berkeley ... are irrefutable. The so-called “prophet of science fiction,” Jules Verne, also speculated that volcanic tubes ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 15/11/2020 - 13:59
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Were Vikings in South America Over 400 Years Before Columbus?
... area whose walls and roof are built of concrete unknown to science and cannot be opened but are believed to conceal a ... Scotia before 1492 AD is not even hypothetical but pure fiction. In order to maintain this pretense, historians have ... material harder than reinforced concrete and unknown to science." After further attempts in 1944 were thwarted for ...
Geoffrey Brooks - 10/05/2020 - 22:58
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Sadistic Vlad the Impaler Cried Real Tears of Blood, Study Reveals
... tears of blood. (Analytical Chemistry / CC BY 4.0 ) How Science Reveals Evidence About Vlad the Impaler’s Tears But ...
Nathan Falde - 15/08/2023 - 22:52
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Living in a Man's World: The Untimely & Brutal Death of Hypatia
... perfect human being”, so when he saw her interest in science and math he educated her on these subjects and likely ...
Riley Winters - 01/03/2019 - 01:59
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Study Says that Hobbits of Flores Island Are Not Homo Sapiens
... has been one of the most important problems of modern science since 2003, when a team of Australian and Indonesian ... led by Yousuke Kaifu of the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Japan, claimed that the Homo floresiensis ...
Natalia Klimczak - 17/02/2016 - 14:53