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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
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Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
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Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
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10-07-2019
Miners Searching For Gemstones Instead Found Ancient Sea Monster
Miners were looking for the rainbow-colored gemstone ammolite.
Credit: Courtesy of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Canada
Miners Searching For Gemstones Instead Found Ancient Sea Monster
Miners in Alberta, Canada, were searching for the rainbow-colored gemstone called ammolite when they instead discovered a well-preserved fossil of a mosasaur – or more specifically, a Tylosaurus. The marine reptile that lived 70 million years ago with the dinosaurs was unearthed in a part of the province that had previously been underwater many years ago, under the Western Interior Seaway that stretched from the Arctic Sea all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Tylosaurus has been nicknamed the “T-Rex of the sea” because of its large size and frightening nature. They could grow up to 50 feet long with their huge head taking up approximately one-sixth of their entire weight.
Tylosaurus
The workers who found the sea creature were from Enchanted Designs Limited which is a company that makes jewelry out of ammolite that comes from the fossilized shells of ammonites (extinct marine mollusk with a round shell and who were distant relatives of the nautilus).
The crew was mining in the Bearpaw Shale rocks when they came upon the remains of the Tylosaurus. It was pretty well-preserved because it had been inside of a soft black-shale mudstone. Donald Henderson, who is the curator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, told Live Science, “We’ve got everything from the head almost to the tip of the tail, adding, “We don’t have much in the way of flippers. They were lost to decay, or maybe they were bitten off.”
Tylosaurus
The skeleton of the sea creature was approximately 20 to 23 feet in length. Since the contents in its stomach were still well-preserved, it was possible to identify what exactly it feasted on – turtles, fish, ammonites, and other mosasaurs. The Tylosaurushad backwards curving teeth which helped them eat their prey. “Once they grabbed you with their main teeth and started to work you back, those teeth would keep the food from struggling out,” Henderson explained.
It’s unclear whether the Tylosaurus will be displayed for public to view. An illustration of the Tylosaurus as well as a picture of the site where it was discovered can be seen here.
Advanced Ancient Civilizations Before The Egyptians
Advanced Ancient Civilizations Before The Egyptians
The temples near the Sphinx are built from stones weighing up to 150 tons slotted together like a jigsaw puzzle in a way that could not be even be reproduced with today’s technology, he marveled.
While West doesn’t entirely rule out the ancient ET hypothesis, he finds no evidence for it. He believes a lost civilization with advanced skills, predating the known ancient Egyptians, created the Sphinx.
He also talked about how the pyramids at Giza seem to be connected as part of a mysterious grand unified plan or machine. The focus of all Egyptian religion deals with the quest for immortality, he added.
Excavation of ancient Chinese tombs have revealed the oldest human skulls which were intentionally reshaped as part of a ritual to show status and wealth.
At a site called Houtaomuga, scientists unearthed 25 skeletons dating to between 5,000 and 12,000 years ago and 11 had the egg-shaped craniums.
The practice of skull elongation - to signify group affiliation or social status - originally was thought to date back between 9,000 and 10,000 years.
It was common in various tribal cultures around the world, such as the Mayans, North American natives and Aboriginal people.
The team, from Texas A&M University in Dallas, say five of the skulls belonged to adults, including four men and one woman.
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At a site called Houtaomuga, scientists unearthed 25 skeletons dating to between around 12,000 years ago and 5,000 years ago. Of those, 11 featured skulls with artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones at the front and back of the head
The ages of death for all 11 skulls is estimated to range from three years old right up to 40.
According to the study, skull reshaping was reserved for high-status individuals and certain families.
The three-year-old with the elongated skull was buried with pieces of pottery and other artefacts, suggesting he was from a wealthy family.
The woman had a number of shell ornaments placed on her body, which indicates she was also of high status.
'It is too early to tell whether intentional cranial modification first emerged in East Asia and spread elsewhere or originated independently in different places,' paleoanthropologist Qian Wang.
Cranial modification, or skull stretching, occurred over a long stretch of time at the site than at any other archaeological dig the researchers said.
Skull stretching it isn't a new phenomenon. The head moulding styles fell into three groups: flat, round or conical.
Artificially remodeled human skulls unearthed at a site in northeastern China include one of a man from around 12,000 years ago (left in this composite image) and another of a woman from about 5,000 years ago (right), the study found
According to the study, skull reshaping was reserved for high-status individuals and certain families. The three-year-old with the elongated skull was buried with pieces of pottery and other artefacts, suggesting he was from a wealthy family
Specific head modifications may have been used as signs of social status.
Oddly shaped, intentionally stretched skulls have been found in many parts of the world.
Permanent reshaping of a skull early in life, when cranial bones are soft, can be achieved by compressing an infant's head with one's hands.
Binding the head with hard, flat surfaces such as boards or tightly wrapping the head in cloth similarly remodels immature cranial bones.
Houtaomuga was excavated from 2011 to 2015 and the skulls found a the site add to a growing body of evidence of cranial reshaping from the site which stretches back 6,000 years, the study said.
A man's skeleton with a modified skull was found in a tomb dating to between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, based on styles of pottery found in the same sediment layer.
Radiocarbon dating of the skeleton placed it at around 12,000 years old. Two sediment layers dating to between 6,300 and 5,000 years old contained 10 skeletons with reshaped skulls.
The practice of skull elongation - to signify group affiliation or social status - dates back 9,000 years
Common in various tribal cultures around the world (such as Mayans, North American natives and Australian Aboriginal people), the head moulding styles fell into three groups: flat, round or conical.
To achieve the desired shape, the head was wrapped in tight cloth.
In the case of cranial flattening, the head was placed between two pieces of wood.
The technique would usually be carried out on an infant, when the skull is at its most pliable.
The cloth would be applied from a month after birth and be held in place for about six months.
Sometimes, skulls were modified as a sign of social status.
For example, ancient Collagua people, who lived in the Colca Valley of southeastern Peru, likely modified the heads of babies using bandages or special hats, in order to elongate their heads.
Analyses of skull and bone specimens dating from 1150 to 1450 indicate that those with elongated skulls had broader diets as well as fewer signs of physical attacks perpetrated against them.
The oldest human skulls that were intentionally elongated were excavated from ancient Chinese tombs at a site called Houtaomuga from 2011 to 2015 (pictures of the skulls can be seen here). Scientists uncovered 25 skeletons that date back from between 5,000 and 12,000 years ago. Of those 25 that were discovered, 11 of them had elongated egg-shaped skulls with five of those belonging to adults (four men and one woman). The age of death for the eleven skulls was between 3 years of age and 40 years of age. This is significant because it was previously believed that elongated skulls dated back only between 9,000 and 10,000 years ago.
The woman that was uncovered was buried with shell ornaments that were placed on her body which indicated that she was of high social status. Pieces of pottery and several other artifacts were buried with the three-year-old which also indicated that he belonged to a wealthy family. One of the men who were found was buried with pottery that date back between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago.
Copy of a statue showing an elongated skull
The ancients reshaped their skulls in order to demonstrate wealth and social status. It was in fact a quite common ritual in different tribal cultures from different parts of the world, such as Aboriginals, North American natives, and the Mayans. However, it is still uncertain where skull elongation originated from. “It is too early to tell whether intentional cranial modification first emerged in East Asia and spread elsewhere or originated independently in different places,” stated paleoanthropologist Qian Wang.
Cranial modification (or skull stretching) occurred for the longest period of time at the Houtaomuga site, more than any other archaeological site. There were three different types of skull stretching – flat, round, and conical.
(Not one of the elongated skulls found at Houtaomuga)
Skull reshaping was conducted in early childhood when the cranial bones of an infant’s head were soft and the skull was compressed by the hands of an adult. First, the child’s head would be wrapped in a tight cloth. The cloth would stay on the infant’s head beginning when the child was a month old and remained there for around six months. In order to flatten the skull, the head would be placed between two boards.
The research was published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology which can be read here.
Ancient Asian Atlantis Found! This Word May Be Is Name, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Asian Atlantis Found! This Word May Be Is Name, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: July 2, 2019 Location of discovery: Japan Coordinate: 31°52'0.66"N 129°57'15.71"E I was using Google Earth Map when I found this symbol in the ocean. Its about 1-2 meters deep and close to 6 meters across. The symbol looks old, not thousands, but millions of years old. For it to be s visible it must be carved very deep. I tried to match this up ancient Japanese but found nothing that was similar. Its possible that millions of years ago, and an alien culture came down in this location to create a city. Its also possible that this city was Atlantis itself. Its obvious from the evidence world wide that aliens did inhabit the earths surface millions of years ago, but this may be one of the few locations were alien writing has been found. Scott C. Waring
From 1475 BCE to 1275 BCE, the Mitanni Empire ruled over the northern Euphrates-Tigris region in what is now Iraq. It’s only rival at that time was Egypt, but when the Hittite Empire began gaining power, they joined together against it. That wasn’t enough, and Mitanni was eventually defeated by the Hittite and assimilated so completely that very little is known of the dynasty. That may change with the discovery of a MIttani palace in Iraqi Kurdistan after drought exposed it in a reservoir.
A general view of the Mosul Dam Lake north of Mosul, Iraq, May 2, 2018.
Photo: REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily
“The find is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the region in recent decades and illustrates the success of the Kurdish-German cooperation.”
Cooperation is always a good thing, especially at archeological sites in areas of political strife. Kurdish archaeologist Hasan Ahmed Qasim was working with Dr. Hasan Ahmed Qasim and Dr. Ivana Puljiz on a joint research project between the University of Tübingen and the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization (KAO) in cooperation with the Duhok Directorate of Antiquities after a drought caused the water level of the Mosul Reservoir in northern Iraq to drop unexpectedly and substantially, revealing the remains of a Bronze Age palace which is believed to have once stood on the edge of the Tigris River valley in the Mitanni town of Kemune. The site was first discovered in 2010, but the recent drop in water level was the first change archeologists had to do some serious digging
According to the press release by the University of Tübingen, the palace was a solid structure with two-meters thick mud walls, some standing over two meters high. A number of rooms were identified and those contained items that may finally shed some light on the Mitanni empire. One contained ten cuneiform clay tablets which suggest that Kemune may have once be the ancient city of Zachiku, which was thought to have existed in that area 400 years before. (Photos of the site here.) However, it’s what was on the walls that got the archeologists most excited, according to Puljiz.
“We also found remnants of murals in bright shades of red and blue. Mural paintings may have been a typical feature of palaces in the 2nd millennium BC, but they have seldom been preserved. Therefore, the discovery of murals in Kemune is an archaeological sensation.”
This is yet another important archeological site covered by the waters of a dam – in this case, the Mosul Reservoir of the Mosul Dam, the largest dam in Iraq. Completed in 1986, provides electricity to the 1.7 million residents of Mosul … and also some anxiety. The dam was briefly taken over by ISIS in 2014 and it has required constant maintenance and repairs due to being built on top of gypsum, a soft mineral that dissolves in contact with water. Whose bright idea was this? Saddam Hussein.
Mosul Dam hydro power plant
“The Mittani empire is one of the least-explored ancient Near Eastern empires. So far, information about the palaces of the Mittani period has only been found in Tell Brak in Syria and in the cities of Nuzi and Alalach on the outskirts of the empire.”
Saddam may be gone, but instability remains – both in the dam and the region. This appears to be an important central palace of the Mittani Empire, and could help locate its capital, which has remained a mystery in an empire of mysteries.
Will the researchers be able to uncover the secrets of the Mittani Empire and outrace the instability of the governments and the dam? Cooperation will help. So will luck. And don’t forget the climate change that caused the drought.
Did 14-foot giants exist? Did they differ from humans? Author explores these ancient beings
Did 14-foot giants exist? Did they differ from humans? Author explores these ancient beings
Bruce FessierPalm Springs Desert Sun
Everyone knows the first line of the English fairy tale, “Fee Fi Fo Fum.”
But how many know the rest of the verse, which gets a little dark:
“I smell the blood of an Englishman/ Be he alive, or be he dead/ I'll grind his bones to make my bread.”
What the hell kind of bedtime story is that?
Actually, it derives from the early 18th century tale of Jack and a cannibalistic giant called “Jack the Giant Killer.” The origins of that can be traced through oral histories to prehistoric England, when giants may have roamed not just the UK, but the Earth.
The 16th century scribe, Raphael Holinshed, wrote in “Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland,” that Britain’s oldest acknowledged name was taken from a prehistoric king named Albion, who ruled a race of giants that dominated the UK for hundreds, possibly thousands of years B.C.
Hugh Newman, author of the book, "Giants On Record," will discuss the prevalence of ancient giants Friday, May 31 at Contact in the Desert in Indian Wells.
Courtesy of Hugh Newman
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The Bible is filled with stories of Middle Eastern giants, including the Nephilim tribe that spawned the Amorites, Emim and Anakim, who the Sumerians called the Annunaki.
Marco Polo wrote of encountering giants in Zanzibar who were “so strong they can carry as many as four ordinary men.” Mid-20th century journalist Glenn D. Kittler said of the Watusi tribe east of the Congo, “Men towering 7 or 8 feet are a common sight.”
Reputable accounts of giants come from all over the world, says Hugh Newman, co-author with Jim Vieira of “Giants On Record: America’s Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files." An extinct, genetically distinct subspecies of Homo sapienswas discovered just a decade ago in a Denisova Cave in Siberia. Called the Denisovans, they lived from 50,000 to 300,000 years ago and “are known to be very, very tall,” says Newman. And their descendants could have wandered as far west as North America.
Newman, who is described on ancient-origins.net as a world explorer, megalithomaniac and author, will talk about the Nephilim, the Denisovans and giants in general Friday in a lecture titled “Giantology: Scientific Evidence For A Worldwide Culture Of Giants in Prehistory” at the annual Contact in the Desert conference in Indian Wells.
The conference runs May 30-June 3 with field trips, talks and workshops on UFOs, ancient aliens, forbidden archaeology and more.
Hugh Newman travels the world in search of evidence of ancient cultures.
Courtesy of Hugh Newman
He gave the long and short of giantology in a recent telephone interview from England.
THE DESERT SUN: So, when did giants roam the earth?
NEWMAN: We’re looking at different eras, really. In North America, we’ve got dating that goes back around 10,000 years, right up to the 1900s when giants have been witnessed. It’s quite a large range, but generally, it’s anywhere from around 1000 B.C. to around 900 A.D.
How tall are we talking?
Anywhere between 7-foot – that’s the lower limit of what we call a giant. We have one account of up to 18 feet, but we don’t think that’s for real. Probably about 14 foot.
Would you call the giants a different species of Homo sapiens? In other words, if you did a 23 and Me test of DNA, could you find evidence of giants that could distinguish them from other ancestors?
Not really, no. There is one (piece of evidence) we get. We have elements of up to 3 or 4 percent of Denisovan DNA within some tribes in the northern areas of North America, some of the Algonquin-speaking tribes. So, it’s thought that maybe these tall ancestors came into the Americas a very long time ago.
So, you’re saying the giants weren’t different from ancient humans, just taller?
I believe so, yeah. But we don’t really know because we can’t get access to (many) bones or DNA because of the NAGPRA Act – the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (requiring institutions that receive federal funding to return Native American cultural items to their descendants). Since 1990, it’s been almost impossible to gain access to anything to do tests. It’s one of the reasons we call the book, “Giants On Record” because we had to use the records as the evidence rather than the bones, even though we have many, many academics who actually dug them up and reported them. I personally don’t think they’re alien-human hybrids or anything like that, but, if you look into the legends and oral traditions of the Native Americans, you’ll find accounts of them interbreeding with the star people – people from the sky. There are stories within some of the same tribes that ended up being giants. So, it is quite strange.
Where did most of the giants roam this continent?
Most of the accounts in North America have to do with the mound culture (in which North American communities over a 5,000-year period built earthen mounds for ceremonial and elite residential purposes), based around the Ohio Valley, down the Mississippi (River) and splitting into different parts of the country. Whether they’re the Adenas, who are the earliest (from 500 B.C.E to 100 A.D. in southern Ohio), or the Hopewell (known as the Mound Builders, from 200-500 B.C.) or the Fort Ancient (who built the Alligator and Serpent mounds in Southern Ohio, 1000-1750 A.D.), we have mound culture sites going back to 4,000 B.C. And we have very early evidence of giants in the Southwest that have nothing to do with mounds. We have red-haired mummies found in Lovelock Cave in Nevada (discovered in 1911 and corresponding to Paiute oral history about a tribe of giant cannibals). Also down that way you have the Spirit Cave Mummy (discovered in 1940 east of Fallon, Nevada and linked by DNA to the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone tribe), which is known to be 9,000 or 10,000 years old. So, perhaps these skeletons are that old. Ross Hamilton, who we call the godfather of giantology, was in touch with Vine DeLoria Jr., a Native American scholar and activist, and Vine DeLoria Jr. had access to all these elders who shared their stories going far back … 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. There are stories of mammoths hanging out with giant humans. In fact, one of the stories we feature from Vine DeLoria Jr. is that they herd mammoths like we herd cattle.
There’s a guy who I believe found evidence of giants in Peru. (Brien Foerster, giving a workshop on “Peruvian Elongated Skull People: Human Subspecies or Hybrids?” at 2 p.m. Sunday). Do you know who I’m talking about?
They found these giant long skulls, but they’re not giants. I’ve seen them. They’re standard-sized humans but their skulls are very long. It’s mainly cranial deformation. We have accounts of actual giants being found in South America as well.
There are also stories of the Anunnaki in Southern Africa. (Michael Tellinger will discuss “Vanished Civilizations of Southern Africa: Gold Mining Empire of the Anunnaki — Fossils Of Giants and Extinct Creatures” at 2:30 p.m. Saturday). They were supposed to be giants, too, right?
The Anunnaki actually come from the area of the Bible lands. So, you’re talking about Biblical traditions. There also were the Watchers (described in the Book of Enoch as angels who lived among humans before The Flood) and they were said to be giants. They later gave birth with human females to the Nephilim, who were the well-known giants a lot of people talk about. (Genesis 6:4). There’s not too much evidence of them in south Africa. They may have gone down to south Africa to mine for gold and minerals, and there is evidence down there of giant human beings. The interesting thing about that area is we have a tribe of humans that goes back at least 200,000 years called Homoheidelbergensis. These were known to routinely be over 7 feet tall, and this was reported by Prof. Lee Berger. Also, there was a gentleman called Prof. Francis Thackeray, who had a fossilized bone that was found in South Africa (from) someone who was twice the height of a human being. Homo Heidelbergensis are the early ancestors of the Denisovans, who have emerged more recently from the Altai mountains or Denisova Cave in Siberia. This is really big news at the moment. They found these thick skull fragments and large finger bones and very advanced bracelets, jewelry technology, at least 40,000 years old. The suggestion is they spread from the Denisovans (to) North America and other places. So, there’s a sequence here.
Hugh Newman appears at an exhibition of a 15th century giant sword found in Scotland.
Courtesy of Hugh Newman
You must have a million questions about giants. What do you want to learn most?
Well, there are a couple of things. One is, why is this important chapter in human history being completely and utterly covered up? The other question is, if you look around the world, there’s always a connection between megalithic construction, mound culture-type sites and the giants. That was part of their traditions: building these sites. At Contact in the Desert, I talk about these two things specifically. If you go back to the time of the Bible, and the Anunnaki and the Watchers and the Nephilim, we have stories that recount that they were obsessive megalith builders and stone masons and metallurgists. There is so much mythology about this subject in folklore and oral traditions, and now there is evidence actually emerging that this is actually, genuinely a thing. We have 1,500 newspaper accounts in North America of giant bones and skeletons being unearthed. We have 17 accounts of 7- to 8-foot giants in the Smithsonian’s own scientific annual reports. The Maryland Academy of Science is talking about 9-foot giants. We have universities in Texas finding 36-inch circumference skulls and so on. There’s too much data to ignore that this is reality and the people who try to tell us that this is all sensational newspaper stories or exaggerated measurements are completely wrong.
It seems like giants are always associated with the bad guys. How did that happen? Was it because of Goliath?
It could be. But also a lot of British stories — Gogmagog (last of the Albion giants) and Jack the Giant Slayer — talk about these man-eating cannibalistic giants. You also have cannibalism linked to giants in tons of myths in North America. There were Native American tribes who had to protect themselves from these marauding cannabilistic savage giant tribes.
How did these tribes of giants die out?
They just got bred out of existence, I think. I don’t really know why or how. In North America, the people that lived on that continent before the Europeans arrived were decimated by small pox. Interbreeding and lifestyle changes (have contributed).
You must get a lot of skepticism about this. How do you deal with skeptic people?
We don’t worry about them too much. They always say, “Where are the bones?” We say, “The academics took them away.” I suggest they go and talk to the Smithsonian.
Exploring myths and legends
What: Contact in the Desert, featuring high desert field trips, lectures, workshops and panel discussions on UFOs, ancient aliens, forbidden archaeology and more
Where: Renaissance Indian Wells Resort & Spa, 44-400 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells
When: Pre-registration 9 a.m. Thursday with special events throughout the day. Talks and indoor events from 8:30 a.m. Fri.-Sat., 7:30 a.m. Sunday. 9 a.m. Monday continuously until various times at night. Newman's talk on giants is 10:45 a.m. Friday.
Tickets: Pre-registration through May 29: $270 per person, $490 per couple. $300 per person, $505 at the door, if available, plus separate paid events. All Access passes $1,196 including meals, $876 excluding meals.
Many people have claimed to have found the legendary (and some believe fictional) island of Atlantis. Many areas, both above and below water, have been pinpointed as the exact location of Atlantis. So far, all are wrong. However, an island in a body of water in southern Siberia can lay claim to at least acting like Atlantis – rising up from the bottom of its sea to expose its artifacts and treasures dating back to the Bronze Age, only to be quickly submerged again. The island is Ala-Tei (or Ala-Tey) and its stone graves have been sealed and undisturbed since the time of Genghis Khan, but their time on the surface is too short for archeologists to properly remove their contents before it returns to the abyss. What is the story of this so-called Russian Atlantis?
“This site is a scientific sensation. We are incredibly lucky to have found these graves of rich Hun nomads that were not disturbed by robbers. We discovered 110 burials at the Ala-Tey burial site, which is usually 15 metres underwater.”
Dr. Marina Kilunovskaya from the St Petersburg Institute of Material History Culture leads the the Tuva Archeological Expedition into the Ala-Tey necropolis, which began digging there in 2015. Dr. Kilunovskaya describes the artifacts found in the graves and the unusual clothing and objects found with the remains in her September 2018 paper published in Asian Archeology (read it here and view the many pictures). The Siberian Times this week highlights the urgency in excavating as much as possible from the necropolis before it sinks again.
Genghis Khan
Why is it sinking? Ala-Tey is located in what is called the Sayan Sea, which is actually an artificial reservoir created upstream of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam. Located on the Yenisei River, it’s the largest power plant in Russia and the 9th-largest hydroelectric plant in the world. Construction began in 1963 and the plant became fully operational in December 1985, all under the Soviet Union. The island of Ala-Tey, even though it’s near the shore, is only accessible from mid-May to the end of June when spring flood waters sink it until the following year.
While the Russian Atlantis is above water, Kilunovskaya and her team quickly open the stone graves whose seals have preserved their contents and were so tight that they allowed foa natural mummification of the bodies. One held a young woman well-dressed in a silk skirt with a beaded belt and a precious jet gemstone buckle that may signify she was a princess during the time of the Huns. Kilunovskaya says this indicates the surprising high regard the Huns of central Asia and eastern Europe held their women in.
“Huns cherished women. It wasn’t a matriarchy, yet women – mothers and skilled artisans – were treated with great respect. For nomads a belt was an extremely important part of their clothing, indicating wealth and society rank. They didn’t use pockets, so all key elements of day-to-day life had to be hung on belts – which in case of Huns women were intricately decorated.”
Other artifacts in the graves – mirrors, silk, coins, pottery — came from China and date to the Han dynasty of 206 BCE to 220 CE. Bronze belt buckles, stone weapons and metal knives are also being found.
Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam
Because the power plant is fully operational, Ala-Tey disappears every June as the winter snow melts. Water release doesn’t begin until November and Ala-Tey doesn’t reappear until May. The waters are increasing annually due to climate change and the island could disappear forever. On the other hand, concerns about the safety (there have been accidents and shutdowns) and future of the dam are discussed and the possible destruction of the dam is considered, which would expose Ala-Tey for good. That possibility is a long way off.
One benefit of the annual submersion is that the waters help remove layers of dirt over the graves, making the rush job of the archeologists somewhat easier. However, it’s probably not enough to stave off the inevitable permanent disappearance of the Russian Atlantis.
MYSTERIEUZE GEOGLIEFEN VAN VOGELS IN PERU OPNIEUW GECLASSIFICEERD
MYSTERIEUZE GEOGLIEFEN VAN VOGELS IN PERU OPNIEUW GECLASSIFICEERD
Vivian Lammerse
Een eerder benoemde kolibrie blijkt nu een lijster te zijn…
Tussen 400 en 1000 jaar voor Christus tekenden mensen uit de pre-inca beschaving reusachtige lijnen, figuren en tekeningen van dieren en planten op de grond: de zogenoemde Nazcalijnen. De lijnen en geogliefen zijn te vinden op de woestijnvlaktes in het zuiden van Peru. Waarom deze afbeeldingen in het zand werden gezet, is tot op de dag van vandaag een raadsel. Maar nu doen onderzoekers in een nieuwe studie een poging om het antwoord dichterbij te brengen.
Meer over de Nazcalijnen In het woestijnzand van de hoogvlakte van Peru zijn tientallen figuren van dieren, honderden geometrische vormen en duizenden lijnen terug te vinden. Vermoedelijk zijn deze zo’n 2000 jaar geleden aangebracht door Nazca- en Paraca-indianen. De Nazcalijnen zijn wereldberoemd en staan bovendien op de Werelderfgoedlijst. De lijnen en figuren beslaan een gebied met een oppervlakte van ongeveer 450 vierkante kilometer. De meeste van deze tekeningen zijn zo groot, dat ze het beste te zien zijn vanuit de lucht.
Mysterie Onder de vele figuren die in het zand zijn getekend, bevinden zich ook veel vogels. En daar waren de onderzoekers het meest in geïnteresseerd. Het begrijpen wat deze vogels precies voorstellen is namelijk essentieel om het mysterie van de Nazcalijnen te ontrafelen. Uiteindelijk hopen onderzoekers antwoord te krijgen op die ene vraag: waarom werden de figuren getekend?
Vogels In de studie namen de onderzoekers zestien geogliefen van vogels onder de loep. “Tot nu toe zijn deze tekeningen geïdentificeerd op basis van algemene indrukken of een paar morfologische eigenschappen in elk figuur,” zegt onderzoeker Masaki Eda. Maar dat is volgens de onderzoeker toch echt te gering. “Wij hebben de vormen en maten van de snavels, koppen, halzen, lichamen, vleugels, staarten en voeten vergeleken met die van moderne vogels in Peru.”
Vanwege de lange en dunne snavel, korte benen, drie tenen in dezelfde richting en de lange staart met een langwerpig middengedeelte, wordt de eerder benoemde kolibrie opnieuw geclassificeerd als een lijster.
Afbeelding: Eda M., Yamasaki T., Sakai M. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. June 20, 2019.
Herzien Op die manier lukte het de onderzoekers om een beter beeld te krijgen van de vogels en een aantal ervan opnieuw te classificeren. Zo is een eerder geïdentificeerde kolibrie nu als lijster aangemerkt en een voorheen onbekende vogel benoemd tot pelikaan. Helaas lukte het niet om alle vogels onder te brengen. Zo blijkt dat tekeningen van mogelijke condors of flamingo’s niet voldoen aan de essentiële kenmerken. Maar de tekeningen verschilden teveel met moderne Peruaanse vogels om ze een nieuwe naam te geven.
Aanwijzing Hoewel de opnieuw geïdentificeerde vogels wel in Peru voorkomen, leven ze niet op de plekken waar de tekeningen zijn gemaakt. Zo worden lijsters bijvoorbeeld aangetroffen in bossen op de oostelijke hellingen van de Andes en in het noorden bij de grens met Ecuador, en leven Pelikanen langs de kust. De vraag is dus of de mensen die de figuren hebben getekend zich daadwerkelijk door echte vogels hebben laten inspireren. “Het zou mogelijk zijn dat de mensen die de tekeningen hebben gemaakt tijdens het verzamelen van voedsel aan de kust, pelikanen hebben gezien,” betoogt Eda. “Onze bevindingen tonen aan dat ze exotische vogels hebben afgebeeld, geen lokale vogels. En dit kan een aanwijzing zijn waarom ze de tekeningen maakten.”
Op dit moment blijft het mysterie dus nog onopgelost. Maar wellicht komen we stapje voor stapje dichterbij. Zo zijn soortgelijke vogels teruggevonden op aardewerk en ook in ruïnes van Naszca zijn vogelresten opgegraven. Deze vondsten zouden kunnen helpen bij het identificeren van meer geogliefen waar vogels op staan afgebeeld.
If you’re looking for a place to vacation, you probably go for a location with better weather than you have back home. On the other hand, people looking for a place to move to generally choose a spot that’s just like home. If that’s the way humans think, perhaps extraterrestrials do the same. If the exoplanets currently being discovered are colder than Earth, then it would make sense that travelers from these worlds would settle someplace cold, like Antarctica or Siberia. That may explain why 5,000-year-old art found on never-touched stone-walled graves in Siberia depicts beings that look nothing like humans and were painted using techniques and colors uncommon for that time. Aliens making the place look like home?
“The results of the analysis of the composition of paints used in the funeral rite of Karakol people testify to the ability of the ancient inhabitants of Altai to distinguish pigments by colour and properties.”
That ability is not what Alexander Pakhunov of the Institute of Archeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences was expecting when he was given the opportunity to chemically test the paints used by early and middle Bronze Age artists to paint eleven strange-looking humanoid beings on stone slabs which formed the walls of ancient graves in the Karakol village of the Altai Republic in West Siberia. (View the paintings here.) They were discovered in 1985 and appear to have been untouched since the Bronze Age. The remains looked normal – no elongated skulls – and were painted with what the researchers say was the first usage of polychrome colors (white, red and black) ever found in Siberia. However, what intrigued the researchers was that fact that the paints weren’t made with simple ingredients.
Amazing artwork was found on walls on a stone tomb in Siberia.
Picture: Vladimir Kubarev/IAET SB RAS
These magnificent paintings were found in the Altai Mountains.
Pictures: Vladimir Kubarev/IAET SB RAS, The Siberian Times
Perhaps these figures represent a narrative of a funeral ritual, waiting for a researcher who can read and comprehend it. Vladimir Kubarev/IAET SB RAS, The Siberian Times
It is now clear that some 5,000 years ago the tomb painters knew how to carry a basic chemical reaction in order to create not just a red colour but the precise tone they desired. Pictures: Vladimir Kubarev/IAET SB RAS, The Siberian Times
“Some structures are not typical for natural samples, but are the product of heat treatment. Simply put, the primitive artist heated the mineral to a certain temperature in order to get the colour he needed.”
In an interview with The Siberian Times, Roman Senin, head of the synchrotron research department at Kurchatov Institute, explained that these ancient artists used scientific techniques that were unheard of for those times to create the vivid colors in these paintings. How did they learn these methods?
“We find depictions of elks, mountain goats, but also humanoid figurines that were drawn running around with round horns and halos on their heads. The eleven human-like figures make a single composition, finished with a continuous red line drawn over the images.”
You sent us all this way to teach them how to draw?
If this was a depiction of a funeral ritual, who – or what – was presiding over it? The remains are human, but the beings in the pictures have long arms and those strange heads with stranger headgear. Were the humanoids ETs giving their shivering Siberian friends new techniques from their home planet in return for welcoming them with open arms and warm yak blankets? For the answer to this and more burning questions, we have to wait for more leaks (yes, archeology has joined politics in leaking secret documents) of the study by Senin, Pakhunov and others scheduled to be presented at the 43rd International Symposium on Archeometry in May 2020 in Lisbon.
Ancient artificial islands in Scotland are much older than previously thought. In fact, the islands are thousands of years older which was determined by pottery that was found in Scottish lochs.
All across Scotland, there are hundreds of small man-made islands (or crannogs), specifically in the islands of the Outer Hebrides which are located off the north-west coast of the country. Previously, archaeologists thought that the oldest man-made island dated back to 800 B.C. during the Iron Age and that it was used for approximately 2,500 years.
Crannog
However, a crannog located on the Outer Hebridean island of North Uist has been determined to date back to around 3700 B.C. during the Neolithic Period. This suggested that numerous other islands could also date back to that time period – thousands of years older than previously thought. And now it has been confirmed.
Well-preserved pots from the Neolithic Period located near a different crannog on the Outer Hebridean Isle of Lewis were discovered in 2012 by Chris Murray who was a former Navy diver. With the help from Murray, several other crannogs in the Outer Hebrides were then examined by Duncan Garrow from the University of Reading, UK, as well as one of his colleagues.
They used radiocarbon dating to determine how old the structural timbers and residue from the pots were and they concluded that they were from 3640 to 3360 B.C. Stones and wood were used to create the small islands. In fact, one of the islands that measured 26 by 22 meters was constructed with stones that each weighed up to 250 kilograms. It is believed that these crannogs were used for social gatherings, funerals, or ritualized feasting.
Crannog
Of the hundreds of Neolithic pots that were discovered – some were found on the small islands, while the majority of them were discovered in the water – several of the pieces were surprisingly well preserved. Garrow wrote that the ceramics were intentionally put in the water based on how they were positioned and how many of them were discovered. Additionally, he mentioned that the ceramics pretty much remained in the same spots where they were left since the waters were so calm and stable – just waiting to be discovered over 5,000 years after they were put there.
To put this into an even better perspective, Stonehenge first started being built around 3100 B.C., several hundred years after the man-made islands of Scotland were created.
During an excavation of an ancient temple to Vishnu in the city of Singuali, Madhya Pradesh, Indian archaeologists found something quite strange: a 1,300-year-old brick engraved with the face of a “bearded foreigner” wearing a skullcap. It’s a complete mystery as to who this person was, or why there is an engraving of them on a brick. Even more mysterious, despite the many amazing archaeological finds coming out of this temple—which, according to the Times of India, push the urbanization of this region back to at least 2,000 years—the project has now been unexpectedly and immediately shut down by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the government ministry responsible for overseeing archaeological projects. According to the Times, sources within the ASI say that a “section of ASI officers are apparently uneasy over the puzzling brick engraving.”
This excavation is the first work being done on the site in 150 years, and was apparently going quite well. The team had apparently identified more promising mounds to begin digging in, and were expected to employ over 200 locals as the work progressed throughout the year. The shuttering of the project came as a complete surprise and the justification for it even more surprising. The letter sent by the ASI reads:
“Permission granted for carrying out exploration in landscape archaeological studies on religious architecture of Sidhi/Singrauli districts in favour of Temple Survey project (TSP) stands cancelled due to unauthorized excavations carried out contrary to the permission issued only for exploration.”
The site being excavated was an ancient temple to Vishnu.
If they were digging where they shouldn’t be, it wouldn’t be at all surprising. It would sort of be expected. But, according to an ASI official who spoke to the Times of India under the conditions of anonymity, archaeologists don’t usually need to ask permission to dig once they’ve gotten permission to explore a site. The unnamed official says:
“It is the duty and mandate of an archaeological officer to make excavations of an area where he/she believes that any area that is not protected contains ruins or relics of historical or archaeological importance.”
According to the Times, it seems as though the real reason for shutting the project down is what was being discovered. The “foreign face” engraving is apparently making the ASI uneasy, although the specifics of that uneasiness were left unsaid. Project superintendent Dr Madhulika Samanta described the uniqueness of the engraving:
“This is striking, as it means that a foreigner was allowed into the religious activities of the day. Such examples are extremely rare. Clothes of this type were not worn by people of the region in those days. The drawing on the brick shows the presence of such a person at a Vishnu shrine. The attire and features indicate a resemblance to such things found in West Asia.”
But why would that be cause to shut down the project?
AMong the relics found was a unique statue of the god Vishnu.
The strange engraving wasn’t the only thing found during the excavation. The team also found a statue of Vishnu so unique that there are only a “handful” of similar statues that have been found, with this one being the oldest. Perhaps that’s a clue as to the ASI’s motivations. According to the team, the findings at the site had the potential to “add new chapters to the history of Central India.” According to Dr Samanta:
“The relics indicate the existence of a big city, which is rare in this region for the time. We have found several temples and monasteries of the early medieval period, but hardly any trace of big habitations such as this. There are very few such sites in India.”
One thing is for certain, no matter what the motivations for shutting down this excavation are, it only makes it that much more intriguing.
Ancient Origins Of North Americans Settled - And Hard Evidence Of “Russian” Collusion Unearthed
For at least the last century archaeologists and anthropologists have generally agreed that the first humansarrived in North Americahaving struggled across the icy wastes of Beringia, a vast land mass that bridged the seas between Siberia and Alaska. However, this has always been a ‘good theory’ because nobody was quite sure of the exact origins of these first peoples. Did the first arrivers survive as an unbroken lineage for over 15,000 years, leading to today’s Native Americans, or not, is the question?
Beringia formed about 34,000 years ago and the first humans hunted their way across it more than 15,000 years ago with major migrations of Paleo-Eskimos about 5,000 years who populated the American Arctic region and southern Greenland. However, it has been a thing of debate; if today’s Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene speaking peoples are ‘direct ancestors’ of these ancient wanderers, or are related to later migrations of what are known as Thule people (Neo-Eskimos), about 800 years ago.
The pair of new DNA studies were built around data correlated from “rare fossils on both sides of the Bering Strait ”, which according to Smithsonian Magazine , “help write new chapters in the stories of these prehistoric peoples.” Published in Nature.com, the international team in the first of the two new studies analyzed the “genetic structures of modern and past Paleo-Eskimos and their descendants, who were among the earliest people in North America .”
The team, led by co-author David Reich of Harvard Medical School, compared the genes of “93 living Alaskan Iñupiat and West Siberian peoples remains of 48 ancient humans from the region”, and according to the paper, this confirms that “Yup’ik , Inuit, Aleuts and Na-Dene language speakers from Alaska and Northern Canada inherited some of their genes from Paleo-Eskimos.”
Two Sides Of The Same Genetic Problem
While the first study concentrated on North American genes the second focused on Asian genetic lineages. Also published in Nature, this project had its research team retrieving “genetic samples from the remains of 34 individuals in Siberia, dated between “600 to 31,600 years old.” In this study, a discovery that stood out was made in the DNA of a Siberian individual who died about 10,000 years ago. It contained what the paper says is a “genetic resemblance to Native Americans, more so than any other remains found outside of the Americas.”
Led by David Meltzer, an anthropologist at Southern Methodist University, who coauthored the new study, the researchers in this second paper suggest that during the about 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, during the ‘Last Glacial Maximum’ changing environmental conditions forced about “500 or so Ancient North Siberians” to travel from southern Beringia with folk migrating from East Asia. This mixed nomadic population would give rise to both the lineages that dispersed through Siberia and the first Peoples of North America.
Meltzer wrote, “It doesn’t change the fact that there’s no direct historical descent in terms of the artifacts, but it does tell us that there was this population floating around in far northern Russia 31,000 years ago whose descendants contributed a bit of DNA to Native Americans.”
The two 31,000-year-old milk teeth found at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site in Russia which led to the discovery of a new group of ancient Siberians.
When these two studies are brought together they confirm what has always been suspected, but they also highlight that ancient people migrated both east and west. This became apparent when the scientists tested a relatively modern genome, about 10,000-years-old, that was unearthed near Siberia’s Kolyma River. The DNA was found to be mixture of Ancient North Siberian lineages and East Asian “and similar to that seen in Native American populations - a much closer match than any others found outside of North America.”
Meltzer says, “The Bering land straight… Was open, relatively flat, no glaciers - it wasn’t like you wander through and the door closes behind you and you’re trapped in America” so people flowed in both directions during the Pleistocene.
The studies both published by Nature and are available at the following DOIs:
Top image: Two men found at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site in northern Siberia in Russia date to about 32,000 years ago, providing the earliest direct evidence of humans in the region.
Mysterious Ancient Burial Mound Used for 2,000 Years
Mysterious Ancient Burial Mound Used for 2,000 Years
Researchers have found evidence that an unremarkable prehistoric burial mound near Bordeaux, in southwest France, was re-used by locals for around 2,000 years.
The researchers say what drew people to the mound for two millennia remains a mystery.
The Le Tumulus des Sables site was discovered by chance in 2006, when school children stumbled across human remains in their kindergarten playground.
Credit: Professor Patrice Courtaud, University of Bordeaux
Hannah James, a PhD candidate at The Australian National University (ANU), says it was initially assumed the site was used solely by the Bell Beakers, one of the first cultures to spread out across Europe.
“We now know people were actually coming back to this site and burying their bodies in there again and again, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age,” Ms James said.
“We’re looking at remains from around 3600 BCE, all the way through to around 1250 BCE.
“It’s unusual because it’s not a really obvious or prestigious. It’s a mound about 50 cm deep. It’s not on a hill or an obvious location, so there’s something else about this site which caused people to come back and use it.”
By using radiocarbon dating and analysis of four different isotopes, the team was able to gather more information about the people buried there.
“Carbon and nitrogen tell us about what kind of food they were eating. They were eating food from the land. Strangely it doesn’t look like they were hunting and gathering from the nearby river, or the ocean, which is 10 kilometres away. That doesn’t change over time.”
The evidence shows one individual was born in a much colder climate, like the Pyrenees Mountains to the south.
It’s unclear whether this person migrated to the Le Tumulus des Sables region, or whether their whole skeleton, or single tooth, was brought back and dumped there.
Credit: Professor Patrice Courtaud, University of Bordeaux
According to Ms James, everyone else has “a very local signature”.
“We found a lot of baby teeth, as well as teeth without full roots, which means the person died in childhood, while the tooth was still forming.”
Archaeologists also found a jumble of metal, pottery and animal bones at the site, which made it difficult to identify the human remains.
“All the skeletal remains are really mixed up, and we’re dealing with tiny fragments of bones,” Ms James said.
“We analysed the same tooth each time, to make sure we were looking at different individuals – but the actual number of people buried there could be much higher.”
Climate change is not a good thing in general, but it’s done wonders for fossil hunters in Siberia who make new discoveries as the permafrost thaws. While not many people seem to be moving to that formerly-frozen land these days, it seems it was once a hotbed (warmbed? coolbed?) of early human species activities. While the Denivosan fossils have been getting all of the publicity lately, the discovery of a couple of 31,000-year-old teeth in far northeastern Siberia have been identified as yet another new group of humans to brave the Siberian cold. Could they possibly have been ancestors of Native Americans? Make some hot chocolate and let’s find out.
The archaeological site near the Yana River in Siberia where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.
Photograph: Elena Pavlova/Nature
“These people were a significant part of human history, they diversified almost at the same time as the ancestors of modern day Asians and Europeans and it’s likely that at one point they occupied large regions of the northern hemisphere.”
“These people” are the owners of two tiny milk teeth found in 2001 in an archaeological site near the Yana River in the Sakha province known as the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site. Professor Eske Willerslev, the director of The Lundbeck Foundation Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, helped sort out the human and animal bones and recently did the DNA analysis which convinced him that these were the teeth of a new human group called the ‘Ancient North Siberians’.
“They adapted to extreme environments very quickly, and were highly mobile. These findings have changed a lot of what we thought we knew about the population history of north eastern Siberia but also what we know about the history of human migration as a whole.”
Don’t look back … they may be gaining on us!
Dr Martin Sikora, also from the Lundbeck Centre, and Willerslev co-authored the study published this week in the journalNature. The discovery is exciting because the DNA shows the Ancient North Siberians were more closely related to Europeans than Asians and survived and thrived as “big game hunters of woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.” Furthermore, they seem to be at the top of the pyramid of peoples that eventually spread across east Asia and North America. Were these the long-sought, Bering landmass-crossing direct ancestors of the first Native Americans?
31,000-Year-Old Children's Teeth Reveal New Group Of Humans In Siberia
“[Ancestors of] Native Americans are not the first people in northeastern Siberia as most people, if not everybody, thought.”
Willerslev points out that the Ancient North Siberians, while tough, didn’t survive long enough to be direct ancestors of Native Americans. They were eventually replaced by Ancient Paleo-Siberians, who were themselves replaced about 10,000 years ago by the Neo-Siberians. However, a different DNA analysis of a recent finding of a 10,000-year-old Ancient Paleo-Siberian shows that THEY may be the missing Siberian-to-Native-American link.
“This [DNA] is the first evidence we have, real evidence, of something very close genetically to Native Americans.”
Is this discovery Jeopardy-ready? Not quite. What it shows is that there were a number of very tough and mobile Siberian cultures thriving in that hostile environment as far back as 30,000 years ago when there was still a land mass connecting the two continents. What kept the earlier groups from continuing their eastward march was more likely the ice on the North American side. The DNA of the Ancient Paleo-Siberians is very close to Native American but still no American-supplied tobacco cigar. That fossil is waiting to be found.
This is no reason to root for climate-change-caused melting, but it definitely helps.
Artifacts recovered from the Yana site.CreditSikora et al.
A 9,800-year-old skull fragment recovered from the Kolyma site in Siberia. Its DNA revealed that an unknown population, the Paleo-Siberians, may have been the ancestors of living Native Americans.
Ancient Aliens – The new discovery in Mexico changes everything
Ancient Aliens – The new discovery in Mexico changes everything
A whole host of newly discovered extraterrestrial architecture has been released in Mexico. The finds could be exponential and prove once and for all ancient aliens visited our early ancestors’ thousands of years ago.
These new ancient sculptures depict UFO’s, extraterrestrial humanoid entities, and mysterious texts, and have been the topic of much alien news discussion.
This ancient art appears to depict what many believe to be a human laying on a table surrounded by bizarre creatures with UFO’s in the sky.
The aliens appear reptilian. This may indicate the theory that alien astronauts visited our planet thousands of years ago and interfered with our evolutionary process. This ancient art discovered in Mexico certainly displays numerous unanswered anomalies.
Could this piece of ancient art be proof of the ancient alien theory?
Is it just a coincidence that ancient cultures from around the world recorded similar activities? From UFO sightings to alien abductions, our ancient ancestors spoke of visitors from another world. They always mentioned another race of beings that inhabited our planet long before mankind arose. Could these pieces of ancient art confirm popular conspiracy theories about extraterrestrial beings?
A video uploaded to YouTube discusses questions about the incredible artifacts discovered in Mexico.
Alien Contact in Mexico
Many Ufologists believe this is evidence that the ancient Mexican civilization documented extraterrestrial contact. Alien beings visited the ancient man and an alien intervention was underway. This is essentially the concept of the ancient alien’s theory.
However, there are those who question its authenticity. Due to the artifacts being in almost perfect condition after being discovered, many skeptics say that they cannot date back thousands of years ago.
Take a look at a few other ancient artifacts found in Mexico to see if you believe they could be in reference to alien extraterrestrial visitors.
The ancient alien artifact may demonstrate extraterrestrial life.
So, could this ancient artifact show three aliens inside a UFO?
Alien figures displayed in ancient artifacts.
YouTube image.
The bizarre artifact could tell the story of an alien intervention.
YouTube imagery.
These artifacts are in the typical design style of ancient Mayan culture, which thrived in what is now called Mexico. They display strange figures that many have interpreted as evidence of aliens visiting our planet many thousands of years ago.
Furthermore, a number of other discoveries from Mexico show alien-like beings in astronaut suits and disc-shaped objects flying in the skies.
This ancient sculpture seems to depict a ritual happening. The beings in the art may be humanoid in structure, but certainly are not humans.
Many see these creatures as the typical “Grey aliens” and “Draconic aliens” from pop culture.
What exactly did our ancient ancestors see and hear? Has there been a cover-up about the truth of the history of mankind? Since we do not know the answer, we can only guess.
Michael Halsall, our own alien news writer, is currently asking the same questions. He is currently writing a book about the truth being a cover-up of extraterrestrial life called “You Can’t Spell ‘Alien’ Without ‘A Lie’“.
Not only is there clear evidence of the UFO phenomena, but there is an ever-growing amount of proof that aliens exist.
Just one of many ancient artifacts recently discovered in Mexico.
Antarctica's Origins Update – Part One: Deglaciation Reveals More Amazing Secrets
Antarctica's Origins Update – Part One: Deglaciation Reveals More Amazing Secrets
Rapidly gaining all the elements to create a truly groundbreaking and newsworthy discovery, Guest Author, Satellite Archaeologist, and pioneering Independent Researcher, William James Veall, is poised to enter the history books as he slowly and surely lifts the lid off the icy tomb that has encapsulated the Continent of Antarctica for the past million years or so.
I have tabulated just a few more of the inscriptions and legends exposed by the remote sensing, NASA, and DigiGlobe platforms.
Discoveries of significance follow the table in separate entities, as each needs to be supported by explanatory text and satellite photographs. All symbols, characters and imagery are interpreted within the limitations of the workpiece, which may have been subjected to severe environmental distortions leading to occasional unavoidable misinterpretations.
A selection of newly exposed symbols: Marambio Is. Antarctica.
(Author provided)
Additional to the original hominin portrait from Nelson Island, (see Figure 2(a) below). I have added two new hominin images discovered on Marambio Island. Hominids include all modern and extinct great apes. Hominins are any species of early human that is more closely related to humans than to chimpanzees; this also includes modern humans.
Hominin images, left - right: Figures 2(a), 2(b), and 2(c) – Lucianna.
(Author provided)
An obvious question: do these images, whomsoever carved them, record the remnants of an indigenous population living on Antarctica long before the first emigre's arrived - whether they came 'Out of Africa', or were Minoans, Tamils, Hindus, Egyptians, or Sumerians from Bolivia, et al?
Many of the human head and animal portraits I have exposed are either individually marked with legends or closely associated with inscriptive material, thus, as I have already pointed out in the past, general epigraphy enables a reasonably realistic and logical chronological time frame to be constructed for the artifact in question.
The Hominin with Flowers
Let us study Figure 2(a); without doubt a hominin. Observe the headware - garlanded with a flowered headband, another flower in the hair, and even the associated script is embellished with a flower! See also figure 4(a).
Figure 2(a) (left) and Figure 4(a) (right) - a hominin.
(Author provided)
This is no primitive hominid, but a socially organized Homo sapiens many generations advanced from its ancestors of, say, 100,000 years before. A species that evolved cognitively either by cross breeding or natural selection.
According to current anthropological and genealogical thinking, such hybridization between, for example, the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon would have an overlap time frame of 50,000 - 30,000 years ago, after which time the Neanderthals gradually died out - to be replaced by the artistic, cave painting, Cro-Magnon - who struck and used tools, wove cloth, made jewelry, and may have had an elementary form of speech. The Cro-magnon spanned the era 35,000-10,000 years ago, i.e. about 8,000 BC.
If the headbands worn by Figures 4(a) and 4(b) are accepted as a signature of group identity then, in my humble opinion, one can hypothesize that they fall into the category: homo sapiens australiopithecus (southern apes).
Figures 4(a) (left) and 4(b) (right) – note the headbands.
(Author provided)
A Very Strange, Almost Alien-Like Humanoid
Figure 3(a) is, indeed, a very strange, almost alien-like humanoid with a long elongated skull, large eye sockets set with rather globular eyes - each partially closed by epicanthic eye lids. A light cranial ridge is visible, and the large mouth exposes the same crude and irregular incisors as Figure 2(a).
Figure 3(a) (left) – a strange, almost alien-like humanoid, similar to the elongated skull shown in Figure 3(b) (right). (Author provided) The photograph of the elongated skull, Fig. 3(b) is reproduced with the kind permission of Fine Arts and Facial Reconstruction Artist, Marcia K Moore, Ciamar Studio, USA. Her skeletal silhouette is used as a comparison piece with the unique sculpture discovered on Mariambo Island, Figure 3(a).
There is no visual evidence that the nose is other than flat or non-existent; the profile has a typical receding chin and jawline. Most noticeable is the lack of hair either on the face or over the skull. The fact that there are none of the usual sutures caused by cultural deformation to the cranium, suggests the elongated head is completely natural.
Original examination of the figure showed no obvious facial adornment, however, light highlighting, to improve printout, exposed a familiar 'star' marking on the left cheekbone, thus elevating this hominid into the ranks of hominin.
Additionally, carved into the same workpiece (lower right of the image) is a very indistinct legend, implying by its closeness that it might relate directly to the hominin itself; these two features, the 'star' and the legend, when translated, might help construct a provenance.
Although 'writing' was invented circa 3500 BC, i.e. about 6000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, current thinking suggests simple inscribed trading tokens were in wide use as 'proto money' by the 8th Millenium BC. Also believed by some scientists to be the basic symbols from which the very system of 'writing' evolved. If associated, then Figure 3(a) could date somewhere between 8000 to 7001 BC.
For comparison, the earliest known elongated skulls are Early Neolithic, circa 10,000 BC. Other skulls have been discovered in Egypt, Australia, and Iraq. Elongated skulls from Brazil, for example, are dated circa 7500 BC. (after Dr R. Louise. PhD.)
Many skulls and bones have been discovered over time, but, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time sculptures depicting what hominins actually looked like 'in the flesh' have been discovered anywhere in the world.
Anthropologically speaking, I have some doubts about hominin, Figure 3 (a), which is certainly not of the 'great ape' lineage with its gentle, amphibian-like, globular eyes, epicanthic eyelids and elongated head - great ape heads are rather rounded with small piggy eyes and heavy cranial ridges.
However, both have the ragged protruding incisors in common. Does this suggest a new and different hybrid lineage? If so, what was the original parentage?
Any attempts to untangle the 'Out of Africa' theory and its multiple global migrations and connotations of integration effect is beyond the scope of this update. Satellite imagery can only introduce a suspect situation; it cannot replace a full and proper 'on the ground' forensic evaluation.
‘An Almost Child-Like Quality’
From the many new satellite portraits I have taken over Marambio Island, I have chosen to publish Figure 4(b); this dark toned image has an almost child-like quality. It has a small globular head with short black hair, large expressive eyes, a small round mouth and pointed chin, and, like the hominin in Figure 4(a), it sports a headband carrying a small flower motif.
Left-right: Figure 4(a), Figure 4(b) normal exposure, Figure 4(b) overexposed.
(Author provided)
My visual description, however, may be misleading: 'child-like quality' could also infer that the hominin is small of stature after the likes of the hominid 'Lucy', an Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia 40 years ago.
Lucy was a rather lightly built hominid with a small, globular skull, thin brow ridge, large eye sockets, small mouth with neat teeth, and a short jawline. Her skeletal DNA recorded an age of 3.2 million years.
Is it possible that 'Lucy' and Figure 4(b) are from the same ancestral line, albeit 'Lucy's skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia and the portrait of 'Luciana' (well, why not?) was sculptured from a rock in Antarctica?
There is an alternative hypothesis: Figure 4(a) and Figure 4(b) are each located on the Antarctica Peninsula and wear the same garlanded headband. Could this infer the same group identity, same species and same provenance? The fact that 'Luciana' appears the more 'delicate' of the two might even suggest 'she' is the female of the species, Homo sapien australiopithecus.
Anthropologists believe at one point in time Homo sapiens became socially organized, may have developed a 'closed' form of simple speech, and had symbolic behavior (art) which they used for group identity or communication, e.g. painting themselves with black or red ochre mineral pigments and wearing simple shell 'jewelry' adornment.
If this hypothesis is to be sustained, we must not forget that the creation of a notation system and figurative art could not be achieved without the leap made in the Middle Stone Age (MSA) from the old fashioned Acheulean tool kit to the Mousterian era - which made available, amongst other tools, extremely sharp stone chisels, sometime between 100,000 BC and 40,000 BC.
Hence is it fair to speculate that the indigenous population on Antarctica created their own rock-cut intaglios to which they added a system of 'written' notation? If so, did a colored race of homo sapiens bring this knowledge with them 'Out of Africa'?
The fascinating account of finding two near identical human head portraits; Figure 5(a) and 5(b), one rock carved on Marambio Island, Antarctica, the other standing as a monument far across the oceans on the Yala Beach front, Sri Lanka, as demonstrated in the photo-strip below, placed the Tamils among the earliest explorers to touch down on the Continent of Antarctica more than 6000 years ago.
Left – Right: Figure 5(a), carved on Marambio Island, Antarctica, and 5(b), a monument on the Yala Beach front, Sri Lanka. Figure 5(c) is a drawing of 5(a).
(Author provided)
This important discovery strengthened my hypothesis that the Tamils established a trans-oceanic trading route from Sri Lanka, south along the coastlines of Indonesia to Papua New Guinea, and across the Torres Strait directly on to Australia's Cape York Peninsula.
David Wilcock: Planet X - We Found Something in the Sumerian Kings List and It's Huge!
David Wilcock:Planet X - We Found Something in the Sumerian Kings List and It's Huge!
Discovered in the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, the Ancient Kings List says we are over 266,000 years old.
The Sumerian Epic spirals around the exploration of one of the most curious and fascinating interpretations of the Sumerian Tablets – the story that Tiamat and Marduk were not “gods”, but planets in our early solar system.
This theory accounts for a number of anomalies in our solar system today, such as the Asteroid Belt, Pluto’s strange orbit, the sideways tilt of Uranus, and so much more. With such a unique interpretation, it’s time we truly investigate it and see if there’s any validity to this theory, once and for all.
TOOL TIME Researchers study sediments in Ethiopia where sharp-edged stone tools dating to around 2.6 million years ago were found. Rocks placed over excavated areas protected fragile sediment.
ERIN DIMAGGIO
Discoveries in East Africa of what may be the oldest expertly sharpened stone implements suggest that early members of the human genus, Homo, invented these tools by around 2.6 million years ago, researchers say. But their conclusions are controversial.
New finds at a site in Ethiopia called Ledi-Geraru fit a scenario in which various early Homo groups devised ways to sharpen hand-held stones, assert archaeologist David Braun of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues. Ledi-Geraru artifacts date to between 2.58 million and 2.61 million years ago, the team reports online June 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Another team previously had unearthed sharpened stones that were 2.55 million to 2.58 million years old at Gona, a nearby Ethiopian site (SN: 4/17/04, p. 254). Until now, those were the oldest examples of cutting and digging devices with systematically sharpened edges. Archaeologists refer to these types of artifacts as Oldowan tools because the first examples were found at East Africa’s Olduvai Gorge.
Age estimates for Ledi-Geraru artifacts were determined by where they were found, between a dated layer of volcanic ash and sediment preserving a known reversal of Earth’s magnetic field. Stone tools at Ledi-Geraru “are probably at least 50,000 years older, but could be up to 100,000 years older than Gona artifacts,” Braun says. His team recovered 300 stone artifacts, including sharp-edged rocks and larger rocks from which those implements were struck. Those finds were strewn among 330 fossilized bones of nonhuman animals.
Sharp end
One of the oldest known sharpened tools, unearthed in Ethiopia, is shown here from different angles in photographs, top, and 3-D computer models, bottom.
D.R. BRAUN
Older stone tools have been discovered. For instance, large stone implements found in Kenya at a site called Lomekwi 3, many perhaps best suited for pounding objects, may date to 3.3 million years ago (SN: 6/13/15, p. 6). Contested evidence, based on possible stone-tool incisions on two 3.4 million-year-old animal bones, suggests that Australopithecus afarensis, ancient hominids best known for Lucy’s partial skeleton, butchered animals before the Homo genus appeared (SN: 9/11/10, p. 8). And present-day chimps and monkeys crack open nuts with stones, a sign that such behavior extends far back in primate evolution (SN: 11/26/16, p. 16).
But the Ledi-Geraru artifacts indicate that Homo, which possibly originated around 2.8 million years ago based on a jaw already found at Ledi-Geraru (SN: 4/4/15, p. 8), took stone-tool making to a new level characterized by skilled edge sharpening, Braun’s group argues.
Archaeologist Ignacio de la Torre of University College London, who did not participate in the new study, agrees. “The association of Oldowan tools with early Homomay be best explained by shifts in diet and access to animal meat through scavenging,” he says.
Animal bones unearthed with the Ledi-Geraru artifacts came from creatures such as gazelles and giraffes that would have inhabited open grasslands with few trees, Braun’s team says. That landscape likely presented frequent scavenging opportunities, the researchers suspect. Lucy’s species would have spied fewer fresh animal carcasses, they contend, because the same part of East Africa featured shrubs with occasional stands of trees and forested areas during her time period.
An ability to cut meat and other food with stone tools may have influenced a transition to smaller teeth observed in early Homo specimens, Braun’s group holds.
No stone tools dating to between 3.3 million and 2.6 million years ago have been found, so it’s unclear if Ledi-Geraru artifacts represented a rapid change in toolmaking or an elaboration of earlier techniques, says archaeologist Sonia Harmand of Stony Brook University in New York. Sharp-edged flakes struck from larger rocks have been found at Kenya’s Lomekwi 3, so precursors of Oldowan techniques might have started developing as early as 3.3 million years ago, says Harmand, who directed Lomekwi 3 excavations.
ANCIENT FLYOVER A drone provides a panoramic tour of Ethiopia’s Ledu-Geraru site and the spot where scientists unearthed what they say are the oldest known stone tools with sharpened edges.
Other researchers doubt both Braun’s and Harmand’s conclusions. Ledi-Geraru discoveries add to an increasingly confusing picture of early stone-tool making, says archaeologist Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University in Madrid. Until a detailed analysis of sediment formation at the Ledi-Geraru site is published, he is skeptical of the claim that the newly discovered artifacts were found where they were originally deposited or are as old as reported. Similarly, Domínguez-Rodrigo suspects that Harmand’s Lomekwi 3 artifacts originally lay in much younger sediment before erosion and water moved them down a slope to 3.3 million-year-old sediment. And animal trampling likely created the reported incisions on animal bones from Lucy’s time, he argues.
Ledi-Geraru artifacts were also found on a slope where they could originally have lain in sediment from after 2.6 million years ago, says archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany. Sahle participated in previous fieldwork at Ledi-Geraru with Braun’s group, but isn’t part of the new paper. It’s “simply unwarranted” to tag stone tools excavated at Ledi-Geraru as the earliest Oldowan specimens without a more thorough sediment analysis, Sahle contends. Even the evolutionary identity and age of the Ledi-Geraru jaw initially assigned to Homo are up for grabs, he says.
Microscopic study of Ledi-Geraru sediment indicates that stone artifacts were dropped at the edge of a lake and quickly covered by earth that held the finds in their original positions, Braun says.
For now, scientists’ clashing positions on the reliability and implications of ancient toolmaking evidence also appear held in place, if not etched in stone.
CROWNING ROOTS An analysis of hominid tooth evolution, including specimens from Spanish Neandertals (top row), pushes back the age of a common Neandertal-human ancestor to more than 800,000 years ago. The bottom row shows Homo sapiens teeth.
A. GÓMEZ-ROBLES, ANA MUELA AND JOSE MARIA BERMUDEZ DE CASTRO
People and Neandertals separated from a common ancestor more than 800,000 years ago — much earlier than many researchers had thought.
That conclusion, published online May 15 in Science Advances, stems from an analysis of early fossilized Neandertal teeth found at a Spanish site called Sima de los Huesos. During hominid evolution, tooth crowns changed in size and shape at a steady rate, says Aida Gómez-Robles, a paleoanthropologist at University College London. The Neandertal teeth, which date to around 430,000 years ago, could have evolved their distinctive shapes at a pace typical of other hominids only if Neandertals originated between 800,000 and 1.2 million years ago, she finds.
Gómez-Robles’ study indicates that, if a common ancestor of present-day humans and Neandertals existed after around 1 million years ago, “there wasn’t enough time for Neandertal teeth to change at the rate [teeth] do in other parts of the human family tree” in order to end up looking like the Spanish finds, says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Many researchers have presumed that a species dubbed Homo heidelbergensis, thought to have inhabited Africa and Europe, originated around 700,000 years ago and gave rise to an ancestor of both Neandertals and Homo sapiens by roughly 400,000 years ago. Genetic evidence that Sima de los Huesos fossils came from Neandertals raised suspicions that a common ancestor with H. sapiens existed well before that (SN Online: 3/14/16). Recent Neandertal DNA studies place that common ancestor at between 550,000 and 765,000 years old. But those results rest on contested estimates of how fast and how consistently genetic changes accumulated over time.
With that molecular debate in mind, Gómez-Robles calculated the rate at which eight ancient hominid species evolved changes in tooth shape. That enabled her to gauge how long it must have taken for Sima de los Huesos teeth to evolve after Neandertals diverged from a common ancestor with H. sapiens.
Gómez-Robles used two possible evolutionary trees for the eight hominid species to estimate dental evolution rates. Aside from the Spanish Neandertals and Stone Age H. sapiens, teeth in her study came from African hominids dating to as early as 3.2 million years ago.
Moving back the date of an evolutionary split between Neandertals and H. sapiens appears reasonable based on the new data, says paleoanthropologist Aurélien Mounier of Musée de l’Homme in Paris. The timing of that split could still change, though, if further research modifies the Spanish fossils’ age, he says.
Other Spanish hominid teeth dating to nearly 800,000 years ago display some Neandertal features, supporting the new study’s conclusions, says New York University paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey. But it’s unclear if Gómez-Robles’ contention that hominid teeth evolved at a steady rate will hold true, Bailey says.
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