Back in 2006, two locals were assembling their cattle on their property close to Eromanga in the south-western part of Queensland when they found very significant dinosaur bones. And now, 15 years after Robyn and Stuart Mackenzie made the discovery, the Eromanga Natural History Museum has officially announced that the skeleton belonged to the largest dinosaur that ever roamed Australia and is one of the biggest in the entire world.

The dinosaur, which has been named, “Australotitan cooperensis”, is nicknamed “Cooper” because it was found close to the Cooper Creek. This new gigantic sauropod species is said to be one of the top 15 biggest dinosaurs in the world. This long-necked dinosaur lived between 92 and 96 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.

It measured between 5 and 6.5 meters in height (16.4 to 21.3 feet) and between 25 and 30 meters long (82 to 98.4 feet). Additionally, the researchers estimated that it would have weighed between 50 and 70 tonnes. Now that’s massive!

Mrs. Mackenzie, who is a palaeontologist that runs the Eromanga Museum, stated that when she found the first bones belonging to the dinosaur, she had no idea how significant they were, “It wouldn’t have entered our mind that we were about to deal with an animal that was the largest in Australia and one of the largest in the world.”

Dr. Scott Hocknull, who is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the Queensland Museum, described the exceptionally long work they did to finally be able to properly identify this large dinosaur, “It’s taken this long because it’s such a painstaking piece of work, you’ve got to take the bones out of the ground, you’ve got to prepare the fossils, and then you’ve got to study them and compare them against all other species of dinosaurs worldwide,” adding, “This is huge, this is a fantastic beast. Imagine something the size of a basketball court walking around on land.”

Mrs. Mackenzie is optimistic that more significant discoveries like “Cooper” are just waiting to be made. “There’s dozens of sites, there’s dozens of dinosaurs potentially out there that will need preparation and then research after they’ve been dug up,” she noted.

Dr. Hocknull went a step further by saying that there are potentially even larger dinosaurs waiting to be unearthed, “One of the questions that I’m always asking is what ate the plant eaters?” “We know that Australotitan — or Cooper — was a plant eater, so what was marauding around trying to eat these guys? We don’t have any evidence of that just yet.” “That’s exciting because it means that there must be another big story out there.” The study was published in PeerJ where it can be read in full.

Pictures of the bones and images of what “Cooper” would have looked like can be seen here.

An animated reconstruction of Australotitan cooperensis, better known as Cooper.

( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )

Scott Hocknull and Robyn Mackenzie with Cooper's fossilised humerus, and a model of what it looked like.

( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )

An animation of Cooper standing alongside the dig site and next to the earth mover used to uncover the skeleton. 

( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )

Palaeontologist and Eromanga Natural History Museum director Robyn Mackenzie with Cooper's fossilised bones.

( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )

The animals was so large it is considered a titanosaur, which were previously only discovered in South America.

(Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum)

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08-06-2021 om 18:20 geschreven door peter  

Erich von Daniken: Ancient Flying Machines of the Sky Gods Described in the Holy Hymns of Sumer

Erich von Daniken: Ancient Flying Machines of the Sky Gods Described in the Holy Hymns of Sumer

Researcher and prolific author Erich von Daniken reveals some startling discoveries within the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer known as the Holy Hymns where ancient flying machines are written along with space stations that orbit our planet. Mr. von Daniken takes us a on a journey around the world, pinpointing significant sites, records of which can be found in many of world’s holy texts and artefacts.

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31-05-2021 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

Huge “highway” emerges from the Pacific Ocean: a lost civilization?

Just a few days ago, after the tide had dropped sharply, a “huge highway” of the Pacific Ocean appeared from the seabed.

The images went viral immediately and theories about a lost civilization were not long in coming.

On the shores of the Russian island of Sakhalin a huge stone road emerged from the waters. Although it did not last long on the surface, it was enough for hundreds of photographs to be taken.

Is this an artificial work or a product of nature? Although there was no time to analyze it, everything indicates that it is a man-made construction.

Huge highway in the pacific ocean

The mysterious apparition surprised the inhabitants of the island in the extreme east of Russia, very close to the Japanese archipelago.

This was announced by the Institute of Alternative History and Archeology in a publication on its website.

He also explained that, through Google Earth , many other underwater formations can be found on the same coast, a little further north.

The island of Sakhalin is the largest in the entire Russian Federation and borders the Japanese islands to the south. It is located in the Ring of Fire , known for having the most important subduction zones on the planet. This causes that, generally, it receives strong seismic and volcanic activity.

Obviously, some skeptics claim that this is most likely the natural reason for the mysterious structures. However, this would only explain its “formation”, but not its creation.

To begin with, the formations that the institute mentions are further north.

 In addition, when observing the huge road it can be seen that it is very similar to those created by ancient man , but eroded by the obvious action of the sea.

Possible lost civilization

For that reason, many people have requested that a formal geological or archaeological investigation be made of this mysterious structure. Although no institute of traditional archeology has come forward.

It should be noted that, not far from that area, on the Japanese coast, are the mysterious underwater structures of Yonaguni .

According to different researchers, these sunken constructions belonged to the lost civilization of Mu .

The huge road along the Sakhalin coast also reminds the Bimini road , the possible Atlantean remains found in the Caribbean Sea.

So far not much is known about the huge road, other than that it is quite unusual and that its appearance was short-lived.

• As long as one of the traditional institutions is not pronounced, speculation will continue. The only good thing is that since there are so many images taken at the moment, there is no possibility that they hide the fact or want to deceive us by changing their shape.

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31-05-2021 om 01:34 geschreven door peter  

There have been several prehistoric species that have been found recently, so let’s take a look at four of them.

The remains of a 95-million-year-old dinosaur found in Eromanga, Queensland, are believed to be from an entirely new species. Robyn Mackenzie, who is a Director and Palaeontologist for the Eromanga Natural History Museum, told 9News.com.au that “…it’s most probably going to be the nation’s youngest dinosaur.” She went on to say that this presumably new species was a type of plant-eating dinosaur called a sauropod.

So far, the researchers found vertebrae bones but are hoping to find more as they continue to dig around the site. A picture of the bone can be seen here.

Robyn Mackenzie, Director and palaeontologist for the Eromanga Natural History Museum, holds up a dinosaur bone. 

(Dan Llewellyn/Eromanga Natural History Museum)

Dinosaur bone was seen sitting on top of the ground. 

(Eromanga Natural History Museum)

Another Eromanga dig site pictured in May, 2019. 

(Eromanga Natural History Museum)

 

(Not the sauropod found in Queensland)

Moving over to an Egyptian desert now, the remains of numerous fish that lived 56 million years ago were able to survive in hot water. The ancient fish lived in waters that reached temperatures of around 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). The fossils belonged to over 12 groups of bony fish that included percomorph acanthomorphs (this group includes bass, bluegills, and walleye), moonfish from the Mene genus, bonytongues, and hatchetfish.

Over 60 bones belonged to the Mene – a genus that is still around today and lives in certain areas of the Pacific and Indian oceans. To put this into better perspective, the seasonal average water temperature of the Pacific Ocean is anywhere between 43 and 87 degrees Fahrenheit (6 to 31 degrees Celsius) and the Indian Ocean’s seasonal average temperature is between 68.7 and 86.4 degrees Fahrenheit (20.4 to 30.2 degrees Celsius).

Pictures of the fish can be seen here.

The moonfish Mene (pictured) was the most common fossil found at the site, with more than 60 specimens discovered

A modern day Mene, which lives in the Pacific and Indian oceans in tropic and subtropic regions

A percomorph, a member of the same group that includes familiar Michigan species such as walleye and perch, from Ras Gharib A

Paleontologists from Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (pictured) helped excavate the area

The fossils were found in dark-gray shale in a site in the Eastern Desert known as Ras Gharib A, roughly 200 miles southeast of Cairo

Now onto a much colder area, the first ever fossil of an amphibian was unearthed in Antarctica. Named Micropholis stowi, this salamander-sized amphibian lived during the Early Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago).

The Micropholis stowi was about the size of a salamander.

The majority of Micropholis stowi fossils have been found in South Africa so the one found in Antarctica is pretty significant in regards to learning how they were able to adapt to high-latitude environments. When this species was alive, Earth had a large landmass called Pangea which brought Antarctica and South Africa much closer together than they are today. Furthermore, it’s possible that they had similar temperatures which would make sense for the amphibian to travel from one place to the other and that it was probably great at adapting to many different types of habitats. A picture of the Micropholis stowi remains can be seen here.

And finally, a rare fossil belonging to an extinct marine reptile was found in the Havarim Stream in Israel’s southern Negev Desert and dates back approximately 70 million years. Researchers uncovered 16 vertebrae, a jawbone, and additional bones beneath a rock in the stream. It is believed that the remains were from a type of Mosasaurus that once inhabited the Tethys Ocean which is no longer present. They became extinct along with the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago.

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30-05-2021 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Viking Sailboat in Utah Desert at 6,000 Feet Elevation, This Changes History

Ancient Viking Sailboat in Utah Desert at 6,000 Feet Elevation, This Changes History

We find evidence of a Viking sail boat in Utah by Fry Canyon about 1200 years ago.

Is this really Viking History? Let us know what you think in the comments section and thanks for stopping by.

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30-05-2021 om 20:27 geschreven door peter  

The Strangest Historical Events, Megalithic Structures and Archeological Discoveries

Erich von Däniken takes us beyond the myths and legends which have shaped our view of history, to present an alternate view of historical events, megalithic structures and archeological discoveries.

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29-05-2021 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

Forget the Nazca lines! Huge spiral covering 100,000 square metres found in India's Thar desert may be largest drawing EVER made, experts say

• A father-and-son team discovered evidence of lines by scouring Google Earth

• They were confirmed after a drone flight over the Thar desert near Boha village

• The authors say the largest line spirals inwards and is over seven miles long 

• This makes it the single largest geoglyph ever discovered, larger than any individual line or drawing at the site of the famous Nazca Lines in Peru

By RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE 

A huge spiral covering 100,000 square metres discovered in the Indian desert may be the largest drawing ever made, according to experts, who say it dwarfs the Nazca lines in South America.  

The spiral artwork is made up of a series of small geoglyphs covering an area of about a million square feet in the Thar desert in India, first spotted on Google Earth by Carlo and Yohann Oetheimer, a father and son research team from France. 

Nazca lines in Peru are a group of geoglyphs etched into a 380 sq mile area of desert sands dating back to at least 500 BCE, featuring figures of animals and plants. 

While the South American geoglyphs are more plentiful, with up to 300 characters, and cover a larger area, a line in India is significantly larger than any one Nazca line. 

The lines make up four distinct symbols, created by scraping sand and silt near the village of Boha, with the largest single symbol 2,374ft long and 650ft wide, made of a single seven and a half mile line spiralling inwards. 

Study authors, not affiliated with any institution, say the lines may be at least 150 years old, but can't say anything more specific, adding their meaning is lost to history and they need to visit to study determine any dating.

The study authors wrote in their paper: 'Three memorial stones positioned at key points, give evidence that planimetric knowledge has been used to create this elaborate design'

Huge spirals discovered in the Indian desert may be the largest drawing ever made, according to experts, who say they dwarf the Nazca lines in South America

WHAT ARE GEOGLYPHS? 

The duo searched through images on Google Earth showing the desert for unusual features.

In the images they found eight possible sites, eventually discounting seven of them as being natural features.

The pair took a drone to the region in 2016 and flew it over the site.

During the drone flight they found seven of eight predicted sites were actually just furrows dug for failed tree plantations.

They found that the eighth site, near the village of Boha, had four distinct symbols, made up of 20 inch wide lines of varying length and complexity. 

At the centre of the selection of geoglyphs is a symbol 2,374ft long and 650ft wide, made of a single seven and a half mile spiralling line. 

South-west of this mega-spiral is a second line that repeatedly bends back on itself to form a grid of parallel lines, the team explained. 

There are also a pair of smaller geoglyphs to the north and south-west, but they are both heavily eroded. 

Despite the work being carried out by independent, researchers, 'the report is convincing,' says Daniela Valenzuela from the University of Tarapaca in Chile. 

The Nazca lines in Peru cover a wider area than the Thar lines, but the individual figures and lines are smaller, with the longest labyrinth line 2.7 miles long.

The lines can't be seen from the ground, according to the researchers, with Valenzuela saying 'this may be significant'. 

Adding that it may imply that their significant came from the act of creation, not later viewing by future people. 

The study authors wrote in their paper: 'Three memorial stones positioned at key points, give evidence that planimetric knowledge has been used to create this elaborate design.' 

Planimetric elements in geography are features independent of elevation - roads, rivers, lakes and buildings.

The lines make up four distinct symbols, created by scraping sand and silt near the village of Boha, with the largest single symbol 2,374ft long and 650ft wide, made of a single seven and a half mile line spiralling inwards

Study authors, not affiliated with any institution, say the lines are at least 150 years old, but can't say anything more specific, adding their meaning is lost to history.

'These artefacts allow us to envisage hypothetical modalities of edification,' the authors wrote. 

'We collected indicators of antiquity suggesting that these lines may be at least 150 years old and possibly linked to the Hindu memorial stones surrounding them. 

'The lack of visibility from the ground raises the question of their function and meaning. So far, these geoglyphs, the largest discovered worldwide and for the first time in the Indian subcontinent, are also unique as regards their enigmatic signs.' 

In the case of the Nazca line geoglyphs, they were likely created by people removing the black topsoil to reveal light-coloured sand hidden underneath. 

The spiral artwork is made up of a series of small geoglyphs covering an area of about a million square feet in the Thar desert in India, first spotted on Google Earth by Carlo and Yohann Oetheimer, a father and son research team from France

The lines can't be seen from the ground, according to the researchers, with Valenzuela saying 'this may be significant'

Geoglyphs span large land tracts located between the towns of Palpa and Nazca, and some depict animals, objects or compact shapes.

Often, the composition of a geoglyph cannot be fully realised at ground level. Only when one is high enough in the air can they discern the shapes.

For this reason the intricacies of the designs were not fully realised until aeroplanes were invented and the artwork was seen from the sky.

'We will need to go to India in the near future in order to complete our research and have a precise dating, in order to understand their function and meaning better. For now, the dating is hypothetical,' Carlo Oetheimer told MailOnline. 

The findings have been published in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia.

WHAT ARE PERU'S MYSTERIOUS 'NAZCA LINES'?

Geoglyphs span large land tracts located between the towns of Palpa and Nazca. Some geoglyphs depict animals, objects or compact shapes; others are only simplistic lines.

The Nazca people lived in the area from 200 to 700 CE. Some of the designs are believed to be created instead by the Topará and Paracas people.

Most of the lines are formed by a shallow trench with a depth of between four inches (10cm) and six inches (15cm), made by removing the reddish-brown iron oxide-coated pebbles that cover the surface of the Nazca desert and exposing the light-colored earth beneath.

This sublayer contains high amounts of lime which has hardened to form a protective layer that shields the lines from winds and prevents erosion.

An aerial view of a spiral-tailed monkey figure in Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines, located some 240 miles south of Lima. No one knows why the Pre-Inca Nazca culture made the figures and lines, some of them miles long

Paul Kosok, from Long Island University, is credited as the first scholar to seriously study the Nazca Lines.

He discovered that the lines converged at the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

Along with Maria Reiche, a German mathematician and archaeologist, Kosok proposed the figures were markers on the horizon to show where the sun and other celestial bodies rose.

Source: UNESCO 

Read more:

• New enigmatic geoglyphs in the Indian Thar Desert: The largest graphic realizations of mankind? - ScienceDirect

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28-05-2021 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

A gigantic spiral geoglyph found in India’s Thar Desert is believed to be the largest on the entire planet and is much bigger than Peru’s famous Nazca Lines (one line in India is much larger than any of the Nazca Lines). The Nazca Lines cover an area that is wider than those in the Thar Desert, but the figures and lines are smaller in size.

It was researchers Carlo and Yohann Oetheimer who noticed the humungous geoglyph in India by searching the area with Google Earth images. In total, they found eight locations with possible geoglyphs but were able to debunk seven of them due to being furrows that were dug in the ground for planting trees. The eighth one, however, couldn’t be discounted so they decided to fly a drone over the site (which is close to the village of Boha) and confirmed the gigantic spiral geoglyph.

The spiral drawing is made up of several small geoglyphs. The four symbols contain lines measuring 20 inches wide with different lengths. Located in the center is the largest symbol that measures 2,374 feet in length and 650 feet in width that was made of one inward spiraling line that is 7.5 miles.

NASA satellite image of the Thar Desert.

Located to the north and south-west are two smaller geoglyphs but they have sustained a lot of erosion over the years. Also to the south-west is a grid with parallel lines that was formed by another line that bends backwards numerous times. The Thar Desert geoglyph covers an area of nearly 100,000 square meters.

Since the geoglyph lines can’t be seen from the ground, Daniela Valenzuela, who is from the University of Tarapaca in Chile, weighed in on the discovery by stating, “this may be significant”.

The authors of the study wrote in part, “’Three memorial stones positioned at key points, give evidence that planimetric knowledge has been used to create this elaborate design.” Planimetric elements include rivers, lakes, roads, and buildings. “These artefacts allow us to envisage hypothetical modalities of edification.”

Peru’s Nazca Lines

While not much history is known about this giant geoglyph, what is known is that it was created at least 150 years ago. There may be a connection with the Hindu memorial stones that are located around them although that hasn’t been definitively proven yet. The study was published in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia where it can be read in full.

Pictures of the Thar Desert geoglyph can be seen here.

Huge geoglyphs etched into the Thar Desert. (Carlo Oetheimer and Yohann Oetheimer / Archaeological Research in Asia )

The Hindu memorial stones located around the Thar Desert geoglyphs suggest an advanced form of mathematics, design and planimetry related to the glyphs near them. (Carlo Oetheimer and Yohann Oetheimer / Archaeological Research in Asia )

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28-05-2021 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

They open a mummy in Israel and discover that it is not human (Video)

Scientists have found a 3,000-year-old mummy in Israel and have discovered by opening and studying it that it is not human

Two ancient Egyptian sarcophagi were believed to contain human remains. One of them was thought to be a mummified child, as it has the appearance of a “little human.”

However, the CT scan revealed a surprise inside. The mummies were not, in fact, human.

One of them was a bird that represented the god Horus and the other “infantile” mummy was full of mud and grains in the shape of the god Osiris.

For many decades, these two ancient sarcophagi had been part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum and, although their origins are unknown, official museum records suggest that they contained mummified hearts.

But when a team of CT archaeologists scanned the 3,000-year-old “bird and child” mummies at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, the remains of the infant mummy were found to be a votive offering to Osiris, the Egyptian god of God. death and lord of the underworld, in the form of a doll full of clay and grains.

The two mummies date between 2,500 and 3,000 years, and according to a report in the Daily Mail, Rambam’s director of medical imaging, Dr. Marcia Javitt, said the smaller mummy was “bird-like.”

It also contained a mummified bird, probably a falcon, which was symbolic of Horus, the ancient Egyptian god of royalty and the sky.

The larger of the two mummies resembled “a little boy” and it turns out that it was actually a handmade plant material doll representing the god Osiris, and this artifact according to Ron Hillel of the Haifa museums is known as a “Grain mummy” or “corn mummy”.

In ancient Egypt, when a mummy was placed in his tomb, mummified artifacts and animals were also added to symbolically protect the mummified remains and his soul’s journey to the afterlife.

The researchers said it is possible that these two mummies were buried in a “Pharaoh’s Tomb,” as an offering to the gods on behalf of the deceased.

Guardians of a deceased Pharaoh?

Dr. Javitt said that the ancient Egyptians mummified numerous animals including: cats, crocodiles, fish as votive offerings and food for the afterlife, but birds had a very important role after death in ancient Egypt.

They were thought to be “protective” beings, so he often placed mummified birds and bird-shaped artifacts inside the tombs of the pharaoh.

And while Dr. Javitt makes it clear that he is not saying that this mummified bird definitely came from the tomb of a pharaoh, he said “it is conceivable that it has something to do with that kind of story.”

The team of researchers combined conventional computed tomography with state-of-the-art dual-energy computed tomography, also known as “spectral CT,” which is a density-revealing computed tomography scan.

Dr. Javitt said: “With mummies, the bones become less dense, the tissues become dehydrated, and it is nothing like scanning a living animal, human or other creature, because the tissue relationships are very different.

However, dual-energy CT allowed the researchers to measure the atomic number of tissue that is not dependent on hydration or condition – “it’s elemental,” Dr. Javitt said.

This new research has revealed a lot about how these two ancient mummies were made, and it is known that they symbolically helped the soul of a deceased Egyptian after death.

Because the ancient Egyptians believed in the immortality of the soul, the moment of death was considered a temporary interruption in a journey, rather than what it is today: the cessation of life.

And to ensure the continuity of life after death, people paid homage to the gods during and after their life on earth.

However, what these two mummies represented is only part of the story and Dr. Javitt and her counterparts at the museum told the press that they plan to return to work next week with the specific goals of determining the origin of the couple. of mummies.

And to solve the mystery of exactly for which soul they were designed to protect the mummies of children and birds, the doctor said that she and her team will work as “anatomical and archaeological detectives” until all the remaining questions are answered.

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26-05-2021 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

Astonished archaeologists: “Giants’ tombs found in Crimea” (Video)

During archaeological excavations in the Crimea , experts made the discovery of a necropolis of the Byzantine Empire where the tomb of a giant was .

While reconstruction work on the Mithridates staircase in Kerch continued, archaeological excavation work began in the area simultaneously.

This revealed up to 100 square meters of a necropolis, which had burials of people who one visited the temple of John the Baptist .

To date there are 27 burials discovered , some of children and twin burials. In addition to other elements, such as bronze pendants or bracelets.

Even in one of the burials they managed to find felt clothes . This was very helpful as it allowed them to date the find .

Tomb of a giant in the necropolis

The find itself was rare and became much more bizarre when they found a burial box that was over 2.30 meters long . When they uncovered it, they found what appeared to be the skeleton of a giant.

Considering the standard physique of the locals in the past, finding a skeleton of a man who was over six feet tall is at odds with the data.

The remains were examined by the team’s anthropologist, who hopes to give an estimate of the age of the person buried there.

Complicated excavation

The excavation work has been slow due to the difficult terrain, which is mixed . In ancient times, garbage was simply thrown on the ground.

Then, in the Middle Ages , the necropolis was created over all the ancient remains. For this reason it has been difficult for archaeologists to give an exact interpretation of the origin of everything found.

At the moment, the experts are in negotiations with the diocese of Kerch-Feodosia to be able to extract the remains found and examine them better.

Experts continue to investigate the origin of the mysterious skeleton and the reason for its abnormal size. In addition to finding an explanation for its origins.

The existence of giants is common in different ancient cultures, despite the fact that traditional archeology tries to keep these types of finds hidden. But discoveries like the one in Crimea show us that they existed.

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23-05-2021 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

Caves “built by giants” in South America: A new perspective?

For a decade, one of the greatest mysteries that exist in South America has been a network of giant caves that science has not been able to explain; theories speak of great giants … however, now the scientific community could have found its “logical explanation.”

It is not the first time that strange caves have been talked about in South America. In 2010, Amilcar Adamy , the geologist at the Brazilian Geological Survey, began investigating the stories about a mysterious cavern in Rondonia, northwestern Brazil.

Adamy not only found the entrance to a grotto; He came across a network of giant caves that surprised him.

Caves made by giants?

These strange gigantic “burrows” had already been discovered in different countries of South America. Some were so huge and well built that many were connected through tunnels . 

The caves, known to science as “paleoburrows,” are between 8,000 and 10,000 years old . None of the currently known geological processes can explain its formation.

The first find about these mysterious tunnels was in 1930 . It was crystal clear that the paleoburrows were an archaeological structure.

The locals told the experts that these caves had been excavated thousands of years ago by their giant ancestors .

The structure of the Rondonia cave is huge and continues to be the largest known in the entire Amazon. In fact, it is twice the size of the largest found in Brazil.

Currently around 1,500 paleoburrows have been found , only in southwestern Brazil. The smallest measure around 1.5 meters in diameter and the largest exceed 4 meters.

Despite the complexity of their constructions, and that the natives of these areas have legends that they were artificially built, the scientific community has found a “new explanation.”

The scientists explanation

Researchers have found “a clue” that could give you a more credible version of the formation of the caves.

Grooves in the surface of eroded granite, basalt and sandstone, which were identified as “claw marks of a huge and very ancient creature .”

The grooves, for the most part, are shallow and parallel to each other. These marks are smooth, although some show irregular shapes produced by “broken claws.”

This explanation could be the piece necessary to solve the mystery. In addition, it would lead the investigation towards one of the most important questions of paleontology and the megafauna that existed on the planet.

In the Pleistocene period , from about 2.5 million years to about 11,700 years ago, where were the burrows of these colossal creatures?

According to the size of the structures and the supposed claw marks that they left on the walls, experts say that these are burrows of some animal of that megafauna.

Specifically, they believe they are the homes of giant ground sloths or giant armadillos.

According to this new research, there never was a geological process. There is no way that it generates long tunnels of circular or elliptical section that branch or rise and fall.

In addition, they are sure that the claw marks “eliminate” the possibility of human intervention .

It is, to say the least, strange that the scientific community has so drastically changed opinion about these caves. In addition, they are totally ignoring the legends of the natives of the areas. Could we be in the presence of another omission of ancient history?

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22-05-2021 om 01:57 geschreven door peter  

Etana, the king “Anunnaki” who ruled on Earth 1,500 years (Video)

According to historians there is a “list of the Sumerian Kings” where it is mentioned that one of them ruled for 1500 years … about 5000 years ago.

The Sumerian King List mentions the “King of God,” who came as a guest of honor in a ” flying ship in the shape of a shield,” landing in a whirlwind of flames at the back of his Royal Palace.

When the history of the Sumerian Kings is analyzed, especially of this “King of God”, we can discover some aspects that the scholars of the traditional current of history have not been able to answer.

The Sumerian Kings

Sumeria has always been a topic of debate for experts. The theory of the ancient astronauts affirms that there was the beginning of all civilization and humanity.

In a deep study of Sumeria , a variety of stories can be found where powerful deities that came from heaven are named. Encounters with gods and a technology not known on Earth before modern civilization discovered it.

In their mythology you can find events that can be interpreted as proof that there was extraterrestrial contact in ancient times. When you read that powerful gods once landed on Earth.

And that in a corner of Mesopotamia civilization began, all this can be seen in the List of the Sumerian Kings:

After “royalty descended from heaven” it was found that there were 5 cities   on the Sumerian Kings list, and that their 8 kings ruled 241,000 years .

“After royalty descended from heaven, royalty was in Eridu. In Eridu, Alulim became king; ruled for 28,800 years »

The list of the Sumerian Kings is an ancient stone tablet in the original Sumerian language, where “the ancient rulers” and how they came to Earth are clearly established. They are described as powerful kings who ruled the Earth for tens of thousands of years.

King Etana, “1,500 years of government”

Traditional archeology regards this list as simple mythology. History and the antidiluvian kings who ruled for thousands of years are not recognized.

However, this does not mean that they did not exist or that it is only a legend. The Sumerian Kings list describes how one of the kings, Kingship was transported by the gods, in the same way it could be transported to any ancient city.

The confirmation of these texts could be found in the Ashurbanipal library, where there are some ancient texts that mention “King Etana”.

Etana was the Sumerian King of the city of Kish, mentioned in the list of the Sumerian Kings. He reigned after the great flood, being the successor to Arwium, son of Mashda.

Etana is also mentioned in an enigmatic list, being considered as “The shepherd who ascended to heaven and consolidated all foreign countries.” But what is most surprising is the time he ruled; 1560 years.

The list mentions that Etana was the 13th King of the Kish dynasty . The first dynasty to rule after the great universal flood .

How is it possible that a single man has ruled for more than 1500 years? Who were these kings? Etana continues to be denied as someone “real” to traditional archeology. Still, the Sumerian texts are accurate and leave no room for imagination.

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15-05-2021 om 22:58 geschreven door peter  

A very rare fossil showed three different creatures in the middle of eating. This unique fossil from the early part of the Jurassic Period showed that a large marine creature (perhaps a shark) bit down on a squid-like creature that was already in the middle of feasting on a crustacean.

While the largest predator lived, the crustacean and the squid-like creature (called a belemnite) weren’t as lucky as their 180-million-year-old remains ended up at the bottom of a German sea. The remains were found in a small quarry that is located close to the town of Holzmaden in the southwestern part of Germany.

The fossil is incredibly rare as Christian Klug, who is the curator of the University of Zurich’s Palaeontological Museum and a professor at its Palaeontological Institute as well as the lead researcher of the study, told Live Science that it is one of around “10 specimens of belemnites with [well-preserved] soft tissues worldwide.” This specific species of belemnite was called Passaloteuthis laevigata and it had 10 arms measuring about 3.5 inches in length with two rows of arm-hooks (400 of them in total).

A possible shark may have bit the belemnite that was eating a crustacean.

Additionally, the fossil coined a new term called pabulite in reference to the “leftover” meal that was never digested by the predator and the remains ended up being fossilized. This referenced the belemnite that the larger creature (possibly a shark) chomped down on.

The researchers explained this type of “incomplete predation” by noting that the shark probably aimed for the belemnite’s soft and squishy areas on purpose as its pointy hard tip (called a rostrum) is very difficult to digest; therefore, the predator would have intentionally “bit off the soft parts, which were poorly protected.”

While it’s unclear as to what actually bit down on the belemnite, it very well could have been a Jurassic Period shark called Hybodus hauffianus as they were known to have eaten belemnites. Other big creatures may have preyed on it, like the large predatory fish Pachycormus and Saurorhynchus, an ichthyosaur called Stenopterygius, or a marine crocodile named Steneosaurus.

The belemnite was feeding on a crustacean.

This fossil is a perfect example of how predators can quickly turn into prey for other creatures as Klug explained, “Predators tend to be happy when they are eating, forgetting to pay good attention to their surroundings and potential danger,” adding, “That might explain why the belemnite got caught, but there is no proof for that.” (Pictures of the fossil can be seen here.)

This illustration shows what might have happened 180 million years ago, with the shark (Hybodus hauffianus) biting the belemnite, which had been chomping on the crustacean (Proeryon). Notice that the belemnite (Passaloteuthis laevigata) holds the crustacean's molted exoskeleton in its arms. 

(Image credit: Klug et al. Swiss J Palaeontol (2021); (CC BY 4.0))

The fossilized remains of the belemnite (Passaloteuthis bisulcata) and the crustacean (Proeryon). Notice all the tiny hooks that covered the belemnite's arms (right). 

(Image credit: Klug et al. Swiss J Palaeontol (2021); (CC BY 4.0))

An illustration of the fossilized remains. Notice the belemnite's rostrum (left) and its large hooks (right). 

(Image credit: Klug et al. Swiss J Palaeontol (2021); (CC BY 4.0))

The fossil (left) and illustration (right) of the Jurassic shark (Hybodus hauffianus) that ate way too many belemnite rostra, which likely led to its death. Notice (C) the magnified drawing of the rostra. 

(Image credit: Klug et al. Swiss J Palaeontol (2021); Photo by R. Böttcher (Copyright Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart); (CC BY 4.0))

The study was published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology where it can be read in full.

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15-05-2021 om 18:09 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Underground City In Egypt Is Being Kept Hidden From The World

Beneath the pyramids of Egypt lies a lost underworld of catacombs, hewn chambers and cave tunnels that have remained unexplored for hundreds of years. They are alluded to in ancient texts and Arab legends, but have been left unexplored until recent times.

They have now been rediscovered and investigated for the first time. What exactly does this subterranean realm tell us about the pyramids, their relationship to the stars and the mythical origins of Egyptian civilization?

In 2008, a team of researches headed for Hawara, Egypt (55 miles south of Cairo), to investigate this lost subterraneanlabyrinth, described by many classic authors like Herodotus and Strabo.

The legendary temple was said to contain 3000 rooms full of hieroglyphs and paintings.

The Belgian-Egyptian expedition team brought the highest level of ground penetrating technology to scan the sand of Hawara and solve the enigma.
The Mataha expedition (Mataha = labyrinth in Arabic) confirmed the presence of the underground temple just south of the pyramid of Amenemhat III.

The aptly named Labyrinth of Egypt has been referenced to by many ancient writers who claim it to be truly monumental in dimensions and possibly the key to proving the existence of a lost civilization preceding the ancient cultures associated with that area today.

Some even say it holds some of the keys to explain the true history of mankind.

The Mataha Expedition results were published in the fall 2008 scientific journal of the NRIAG and the results were exchanged on the public lecture at Ghent University.

Shortly thereafter, Dr Zahi Hawass Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (Egypt) asked for a stop to communicating the results owing to the Egyptian National Security sanctions. The researchers waited patiently for Dr. Hawass to make the findings public.

It never happened. So, the team set up a website and posted their findings.

The Mataha Expedition’s discovery is extraordinary but no further attempts have been made to investigate the Labyrint.

There is an article called The Egyptologist, the Sphinx and the cover-up which goes into things in much more depth.

But to cut a long story short a clampdown on excavations at many archaeological sites in Egypt and the inconsistent attitudes of Dr Zahi Hawass on the existence of tunnels and cavities within the Giza Plateau suggest a hidden agenda is being played out.

Here is a full-length documentary called FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY: The Lost Caves of Giza which explores in great details the mysteries and controversy surrounding these lost caves:

Is this another case of governments and the elite not wanting us to know the truth about the history of the world? There are so many questions that remain unanswered…What secrets does this legendary giant underground complex contain? Could this be the most important discovery in human history?

Here is an animation that has been created to show what the caves may once have looked like:

It is vital that the Labyrinth will once again be brought to daylight and presented to humanity.

For how many years will the Labyrinth and all its secrets be forgotten this time? Only an informed public can make a difference. If enough people demand to know what is going in Egypt in these ancient caves then eventually the Government will have to listen.

By Kasim Khan, Team Spirit

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15-05-2021 om 16:32 geschreven door peter  

11 Mysterious Ancient Underground Worlds That Remain Unsolved To This Day

Ancient myths and legends tell of several mysterious underground cities filled with secret chambers, passages shrines and tombs.

Many of these remarkable underground worlds remain shrouded in mystery because we have not been able to locate them yet. There are also fascinating very old underground tunnels, caves and cities that have been discovered, but the history behind them remains unsolved because we have no idea who built them and for what purposes.

In this article, MessageToEagle.com has put together a list of 11 most mysterious underground ancient worlds that remain unsolved to this day. Some of them are real. Some haven’t been found yet and perhaps some are never meant to be located…

1. Mysterious Enormous Underground Labyrinth Of Egypt

The lost labyrinth, full of hieroglyphs sculpted for eternity in its endless stone walls is believed to contain all knowledge of ancient Egypt.

What secrets does this legendary giant underground complex contain?

Could this be the most important discovery in human history?

The Labyrinth of Egypt has been described by a number of ancient writers such as Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny. This legendary complex, named the “Labyrinth” by the ancient Greeks was legendary complex is believed to be an enormous collective tomb of the twelve kings who built it and a resting place for sacred crocodiles

A research team was able to prove that the Labyrinth exists, but this amazing discovery was never heard of because the Egyptian government opposed the outside world should learn about the findings. 

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2. Shin-Au-Av: Secret Ancient Underground City Hidden Beneath Death Valley

The idea that there could be a secret 5,000-years-old underground city hidden somewhere beneath Death Valley, California is fascinating.$According to those who entered the subterranean tunnels and visited this marvelous place the city was once inhabited by an unknown race.

Did an ancient lost civilization once live in a secret underground city below the Grand Canyon?

Will the mystery of the lost subterranean city ever be solved?

Ever since an intriguing article reporting the discovery of a great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon appeared in the Arizona Gazette in 1909, scientists have debated whether the story is true or a hoax. Several alternative history authors and researchers, among them David Hatcher Childress believe the discovery did occur and this is yet another archaeological cover-up. 

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4. Highly Sophisticated Underground City Of Derinkuyu – Who Were The Master Builders?

In 1963, approximately 50 miles (30 km) south of Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey, Omer Demir stumbled across a deep hole (in Turkish: derinkuyu) that led to a steep path leading deeper down to passages, niches amd shafts dug into the bedrock.

After intensive excavation, it became clear that Derinkuyu was an entire city complex built in that hole beneath the surface.

The community had a most sophisticated infrastructure and the accommodation built there was obviously meant for long periods of time.

What kind of tools did the builders use?

If we assume that the entire complex was built using tools that exceeded the capabilities of the Turks of the period, so who were the builders of the underground city of Derinkuyu? 

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5. Ancient Lost City Found Beneath Missouri: Yet Another Archaeological Cover-Up?

It is a remarkable discovery! This ancient lost city could be several millions of years old!

Did giants inhabit the nameless and forgotten city discovered beneath Missouri?

What happened to the very large human bones that were unearthed? Are we facing yet another archaeological cover-up?

On April, 1885 a very interesting article appeared in The New York Times. Readers were informed that Mr. David Coates, the Recorder of the City of Moberly, and Mr. George Keating, City Marshal discovered an ancient wonderful lost city beneath Missouri. The city was found at the bottom of a coal shaft 360 feet deep, which was being sunk near Moberly in Randolph County, Missouri.

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6. Something Ancient And Unknown Is Hidden Inside A Huge Underground Structure In Japan: Mystery Of Mt. Tsurugi Deepens

While excavating at the mountain, scientists came across something ancient and unusual hidden deep inside an underground structure. Soon, all excavations were stopped.

Is an ancient unknown civilization or a priceless prehistoric treasure buried beneath Mt. Tsurugi?

Mt. Tsurugi, also known under the local name “Ken-zan”, is regarded as a sacred place.

In 1936, Takane and a group of archaeologists started to excavate at Mt. Tsurugi. The project continued for three years. During a period of three years, they dug up and found several stone artifacts, paving stones, a brick arch, and evidence of tunnels. The discoveries helped lend credibility to Takane’s theory that ancient people modified the peak of Mt. Tsurugi in order to hide something significant. 

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7. Secret Ancient World Buried Under The Vast Taklamakan Desert

Ancient people believed that once you entered this place there was no way out.

A very long time ago, there were houses and temples here. Today, everything is buried under the sand.

Precious ancient relics are hidden deep under the “Sea of Death”, or the Taklamakan desert.

Archaeologists are beginning to discover some of the secrets that have been hidden in this mysterious region. Still, it seems that we are only scratching the surface and only time will tell what more wonders are waiting to be unraveled.

The Taklamakan desert is the largest desert in China and it is also considered to be the world’s second largest shifting-sand desert covering an area of over 33, 700 square kilometers (over 13,000 square miles). In Uigur language, Takla Makan means ‘you can get into it but can never get out’ and that is why the desert is also called ‘the Sea of Death’. 

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8. Hyperborea Or Atlantis Ruins: Underground Secrets Of The Sacred Lake On The Arctic Circle

Some researchers believe that the ruins of an ancient observatory and mysterious rock inscriptions in Russia’s Northwest are vestiges of the ancient Hyperborea civilization, a sacred land similar to Shambhala or Atlantis.

Lake Seydozero – “the sacred lake” in the language of the indigenous Sami people – is one of the most mystical places in Russia’s Northwest and the Kola Peninsula.

It is protected by Kuiva the Giant, “old man, giant, wizard” – a gigantic figure impressed on a rock.

The figure is visible as a 100-meter silhouette on the cliff of the mountain Kuivchorr. 

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9. Sioux Indians’ Story Of An Underground Kingdom And White Horse Encounter With Unknown Subterranean Beings

There is a strange story among Sioux Indians about an old man of their tribe whose name was the White Horse. One day, while participating in bison hunting in areas of today’s California, the White Horse found an unusual opening in the rock. He followed this opening and suddenly he found himself in a long tunnel-like passage.

He slowly continued to move through the tunnel until he noticed very weak, greenish light in the depths of the passage. Still walking through the tunnel, the White Horse encountered two strangers; a white skin man and a woman with golden-blond hair, both sitting in the middle of a large hall….

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10. Mystery Of The Strange Underground Pyramid In Italy

Deep beneath the city of Orvieto, Italy, there are a series of underground structures connected by tunnels. According to sources, during the 6th- 4th centuries BC, the town of Orvieto was a culturally and economically developed Etruscan city.

A strange pyramidal structure – the function of which remains a mystery – was discovered beneath the historic medieval town of Orvieto, Italy by an international team of archaeologists led by Prof. David B. George of St. Anselm College and co-director Claudio Bizzarri of PAAO and colleagues.

Excavations conducted at Coriglia near Castel Viscardo, a town located at the southwest edge of Umbria approximately eight miles northwest of Orvieto, southwestern Umbria, Italy, concentrate on a series of pyramidal hypogea beneath the city of Orvieto as well as a survey of Etruscan tombs in Castel Georgio. 

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11. Three-Eyed Lama’s Encounter With Giants & Ancient Extraterrestrial Beings In A Secret Underground World

Is a secret ancient underground world hidden in Tibet? What did the three-eyed Lama encounter while passing through countless underground corridors, halls and stairways?

Who were the mysterious subterranean beings who spoke to the Lama and what extraordinary knowledge did they reveal to him?

In his autobiographical novel “The Third Eye”, T. Lobsang Rampa Lama spoke about visiting remarkable underground structures such as caves, created by nature and man-made tunnels and cavities that were located under the Palace, the residence of the Dalai Lama in the Potala , in the Tibetan capital Lhasa.

Passing through countless underground corridors, halls and stairways, he went to a huge niche. “At the center of the niche was black house. Its walls were covered with strange symbols and diagrams. Inside the house, there were three open sarcophagus made of black stone, decorated with paintings and mysterious inscriptions.

One of the abbots, pointing to those who lay in the sarcophagus, said: “My son, look upon these. They were gods in our land in the days before the mountains came. They walked our country when seas washed our shores, and when different stars were in the sky. Look, for none but Initiates have seen these.”

Did Rampa Lama witness deceased individuals of extraterrestrial origin? Were these beings those who later became worshipped as gods?

According to Rampa Lama, these individuals were ancient giants. 

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14-05-2021 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

Gigantic man-made underground complex: “1 million years of history erased”

A new find could change human history completely. Some civilization created the largest underground complex ever seen … a million years ago.

It is not the first time that an ancient underground complex has been discovered in the world, but its colossal size has shown that it is totally artificial .

However, that is not the most surprising of all. Studies have shown that the rocks date back over a million years , which is driving scientists crazy.

A million-year-old underground complex?

The mainstream academics reached a consensus; mankind was born about 12,000 years ago.

However, a large number of findings have led us to think that there is a distant past that we do not know .

The problem is that most of these discoveries have not been endorsed by traditional archeology , as they would alter the already established historical canon .

This has caused more researchers to look at the history of civilization in a different way. With a more open mind.

One of these experts is the geologist and director of the Director of Research for Natural Sciences of the Independent University of Ecology and Political Science in Moscow, Dr. Alexander Koltypin .

In his extensive career he studied various ancient underground structures, focusing primarily on the Mediterranean. There I identify many similarities between them, in this way he understood that they were connected . Forming a colossal underground complex.

What is most surprising about this place are the extreme geological characteristics . These demonstrate a very great possibility that they have been artificially constructed .

This would be further proof that adds to a list that will extend considerably, showing that advanced civilizations s inhabited the Earth makes million years .

How was it concluded that they date back millions of years? Archaeologists in the region often date sites by looking at settlements there or nearby.

This underground complex is built on existing prehistoric structures .

Prehistoric constructions

Koltypin wrote the following on his web portal:

“When we examined the buildings… none of us, not for a moment, had any doubt that these structures are much older than the ruins of Canaanite, Philistine, Hebrew, Roman, Byzantine and Roman cities and colonies. Other cities and settlements that are in approximate dates ».

The geologist managed to accurately record the characteristics of different ancient sites. This helped him compare every detail , leading him to an alternate story. One that contradicts the canon of traditional history .

On his way near the Hurvat Burgin ruins , in the Adullam Grove nature reserve , Israel, Koltypin felt a déja vù. He felt the same as when he climbed the rocky city of Cavusin, in Turkey.

Rectangular cutouts, artificial underground structures and megalithic rubble. It was all part of a large underground megalithic complex that collapsed due to erosion.

Another point to keep in mind is that not all parts of this huge complex are underground . Some are high above the surface, such as the ancient stone city of Cappadocia in Turkey, which is also part of the complex.

Thus, it is estimated that the deposits in northern Israel and central Turkey appeared after erosion of a few meters.

According to their estimates, such a depth of erosion could hardly be formed in less than 500,000 to 1 million years .

In this way, part of the complex came to the surface because of the Alpine orogeny, or mountain formation.

A connection that contradicts history

Koltypin says there is evidence to support that construction in Antalya, Turkey, is more than 1 million years old. Despite the fact that official studies date it only to the Middle Ages.

But for the researcher, this is impossible. The result of the movement of the earth’s crust over the centuries led to parts of the underground complex sinking into the sea.

This is similar to that observed in several megalithic ruins, which is clear evidence of the deep connection of ancient sites that in the past, formed a single giant prehistoric complex.

Numerous megalithic blocks that weighed tens of tons could have been linked to underground complexes from the distant past.

This is another evidence that these underground complexes are geographically related.

Finally, Koltypin points out that the way certain stones fit into parts without cement, the ceilings, columns, arches and doors seem to be far beyond the work of simple men with chisels.

“Constructions made by the Romans or other civilizations seem primitive compared to these.”

Is it possible that advanced civilizations existed millions of years ago? These underground complexes could totally change the history of mankind, but orthodox scholars refuse to accept this kind of evidence.

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14-05-2021 om 00:23 geschreven door peter  

Archaeologist claims to have found a pyramid hidden under the sands of Saqqara

An Egyptian archaeologist believes to have discovered the site of a new pyramid after scanning the Saqqara desert.

Filled with tombs, the site served as a necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis and is home to numerous pyramids, including the world-famous Step Pyramid of Djoser .

Dr. Vasko Dobrev has spent the last three decades researching this area just 30 kilometers from the world famous pyramids of Giza.

A few months ago, his findings were revealed during the documentary Opening Egypt’s Great Tomb , broadcast in the UK on Channel 5.

“I have traveled more than 400 miles north of Aswan, but this is not a tourist visit , “ said Tony Robinson, host of the documentary.

“Dr. Vasko Dobrev has been working in the desert outside Cairo for the past 30 years and is in search of a new pyramid.”

“Often we only think of the famous pyramids of Giza , but this place called Saqqara has the first pyramid and many more.”

“The pyramids here spanned six centuries of Egyptian history, but one dynasty of pharaohs, in particular, chose to build their magnificent tombs at Saqqara,” he added in his introduction.

Dr. Dobrev surprised Robinson by explaining how numerous pyramids could be hidden under the sand.

There are about 120 pyramids around Egypt. The pharaohs built pyramids here because Saqqara is exactly opposite the Egyptian capital, Memphis, ” said Dobrev.

Do you see this little pyramid? This is Pepi II, his father is here, his great-grandfather is behind him and the whole family is close by ».

The pair then headed to the top of a flat plateau where Dr. Dobrev believes to be the site of an undiscovered pyramid.

“Maybe we have [under us] the pharaoh Userkare, he didn’t reign for long, maybe three or four years. He couldn’t finish a 52-meter-high pyramid in three years.”

“He may only have had time to create the base of the pyramid,” the archaeologist told Robinson.

“We are at a good height, we discovered that all the pyramids in Saqqara are at the same level.”

He then revealed the evidence to support his claim. Dr. Dobrev noted that the georadar had found something potentially artificial hidden under the sands:

So there is a kind of pyramid level and we have his father in the north, his son is there and his grandson is behind us. But we have something else, the new technology, geophysics, shows something with right angles.

“This is not done naturally, we have a kind of square here, 80 by 80 meters, which is exactly the size of the pyramids of that period.”

Beyond this revelation – which is several months old – there is still no indication of future plans to excavate the area where the alleged pyramid would lie.

However, with the recent push to investigate and unearth the secrets of the Saqqara necropolis, there could be hope that we will soon learn more about it.

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11-05-2021 om 23:51 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Civilisations: Six Great Enigmas That Baffle Mainstream Scholars

We stand today at an unprecedented turning point in human history. In recent years two versions of ancient history have formed. One, we shall call ‘alternative’ history, the other we shall refer to as ‘official’ history.

The former ponders over a variety of anomalies and tries to make sense out of the corpus of evidence, i.e., the pyramids and timelines, why they were built, by whom and when. The latter conducts digs, catalogues pottery shards, and tries to defend its proposal there are no enigmas, and virtually everything is explained.

At one point perhaps as late as fifteen years ago these two camps seem to be engaged in an informal dialogue. That all changed after, 1) the Great Sphinx redating controversy caught Egyptologists off guard and, 2) the impact of Chris Dunn’s book The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt at the end of the last decade.

There is no more dialogue and no more polite, gloves on debate. The proponents of ‘official’ history have taken an increasingly political and ideological approach to the issue. They now do little more than offer pronouncements of the historical ‘truth’ on the one hand, and denounce of all those who dare challenge officialdom on the other. In this context we offer evidence that our ‘scholars’, the gatekeepers who control our institutions of ‘higher learning’, refuse to consider.

1. The Great Pyramid – Precision Engineering

This colossal structure, the last of the seven ancient wonders and the largest stone building in the world, still provokes awe, controversy and a plethora of theories that inspire bitter debate to this day. Instead of going over the well-established mysteries, we would like to shine new light on this important enigma that appears out of place in ‘Stone Age’ Egypt.

The real challenge the Great Pyramid still poses to us in the opening decade of the Third Millennium is the physical plant itself. Theorists have gone on endlessly speculating about how it was built and the metaphysical, cultural and religious significance and/or symbolism behind its construction. Though several authors have offered tantalising possibilities, none have been conclusively proven.

The mystery remains unsolved.

To begin with, the massive size – the staggering volume and weight of the building blocks – remain problematic. With an estimated 2.3 million blocks with a weight of about 4 million tons, the pyramid is two-thirds the mass of the Hoover Dam. The sheer size and the numbers of blocks that had to be quarried and moved into place, presents numerous architectural, construction and engineering headaches.

These issues have been raised time and again, yet are still unsettled. It is time to move on and define the even more difficult issues. We consider the core ‘hard’ problems to be those that reflect precision engineering and assembly line manufacturing accomplished on a massive scale. The primitive tools scenario concocted by Egyptologists does not explain the following tasks:

1. Creating precision-cut casing blocks weighing 16 tons, fitted together and held by a super-glue mortar that maintained a tight seal forming a nearly seamless shell.
2. Leveling the 13-acre limestone bedrock base to a degree of accuracy only recently achieved with laser technology.
3. Squaring the base to True North with minimal deviation.
4. Excavating the ‘Descending Passage’ 350 feet into solid bedrock at a 26-degree angle while keeping the tunnel arrow-straight for its length.
5. Bringing the massive 48-story pyramid together around complex internal structures, retaining the true shape to enable the builders to form the apex. (These internal structures include four enigmatic ventilation shafts and a coffer in the King’s Chamber that is too large to have been moved through the opening. It shows evidence of having been cut with a jewel-tip saw.)
6. Extensive usage of different types of machined granite inside the Great Pyramid chambers.

The father of modern Egyptology, Sir Flinders Petrie, marvelled at the precision and size of the casing blocks. He carefully measure the blocks and found that “the mean thickness of the joints are .020 and therefore, the mean variation of the cutting of the stone from a straight line and from a true square, is but .01 on length of 75 inches up the face, an amount of accuracy equal to most modern opticians’ straight-edges of such a length.”

The modern international engineering firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Menendhall conducted a forensic analysis of the Great Pyramid. Their findings are evaluated in an article published in Civil Engineering.

The pyramid was oriented with its major sides either north-south or east-west. This in itself was a remarkable undertaking, given the accuracy to which it was done, because the Egyptians had to perform the work using astronomical or solar observations – the compass had not yet been invented. The dimensions of the pyramid are extremely accurate and the site was levelled within a fraction of an inch over the entire base. This is comparable to the accuracy possible with modern construction methods and laser levelling.1

The summary speaks volumes between the lines. The problems with the Descending Passage are numerous. For starters the tunnel is less than 4 x 4 feet, enough for no more than one excavator wielding a hammer-stone at any given moment. How would our proposed digging crew negotiate the space in the suffocating darkness once they had dug down 50 feet and more? In addition how would the 26-degree angle be set and maintained without lights or levels? The lack of carbon deposits on walls and ceiling indicate that torches were not used.

Once again, Petrie measured the passage and found an amazing accuracy of .020 of an inch over 150 feet and a mere .250 inch over 350 feet of its constructed and excavated length. We submit that this passage with its smooth surfaces, squared shape, and accurate angle could not have been tunnelled with primitive tools and methods.

The Great Pyramid remains the world’s greatest wonder and ancient enigma. We suggest researchers should pay more attention to these details and ask about the materials used inside the Great Pyramid, especially near the ventilation shafts. We now have two doors blocking a very important shaft, the one that pointed to the star Sirius in 2450 BCE.

2.The Origin Of Dogs – Biogenetic engineering

Now we turn to a mystery that nearly equals the pyramid, though it is a little known conundrum hidden in the mists of remote antiquity. Let us start with a simple question that appears to have an obvious answer: what is a dog? It turns out geneticists in the past decade have shown the answer is not so obvious. In fact, generations of anthropologists, archaeologists and wildlife biologists turned out to be dead wrong when it came to the origins of “man’s best friend”.

Prior to DNA studies conducted in the 1990s, the generally accepted theory posited that dogs branched off from a variety of wild canids, i.e., coyotes, hyenas, jackals, wolves and so on, about 15,000 years ago. The results of the first comprehensive DNA study shocked the scholarly community. The study found that all dog breeds can be traced back to wolves and not other canids. The second part of the finding was even more unexpected – the branching off occurred from 40-150,000 years ago.

Why do these findings pose a problem? We have to answer that question with another question: how were dogs bred from wolves? This is not just difficult to explain, it is impossible. Do not be fooled by the pseudo-explanations put forth by science writers that state our Stone Age ancestors befriended wolves and somehow (the procedure is never articulated) managed to breed the first mutant wolf, the mother of all dogs. Sorry, we like dogs too, but that is what a dog is.

The problems come at the crucial stage of taking a male and female wolf and getting them to produce a subspecies (assuming you could tame and interact with them at all). Let us take this one step further by returning to our original question, what is a dog? A dog is a mutated wolf that only has those characteristics of the wild parent, which humans find companionable and useful. That is an amazing fact.

Think about those statements for a moment. If you are thinking that dogs evolved naturally from wolves, that is not an option. No scientist believes that because the stringent wolf pecking order and breeding rituals would never allow a mutant to survive, at least that is one strong argument against natural evolution.

Now, if our Paleolithic ancestors could have pulled off this feat, and the actual challenges posed by the process are far more taxing, then wolf/dog breeders today certainly should have no problem duplicating it. But like the Great Pyramid, that does not seem to be the case. No breeders have stepped up to the plate claiming they can take two pure wolves and produce a dog sans biogenetic engineering techniques.

The evolution of the domesticated dog from a wild pack animal appears to be a miracle! It should not have happened. This is another unexplained enigma.

3. Mohenjo Daro – Civil Engineering

Since indoor plumbing did not arrive in modern societies to any extent until the 20th century, and urban planning has still not been adopted much to this date in history, what we find in the ancient city of Mohenjo Daro is anomalous indeed.

This city in the Indus Valley was built on a grid system about 4,500 years ago, obviously planned out and drawn up before the first brick was laid. It had houses, some with indoor plumbing, a granary, baths, an assembly hall and towers all made out of standard size bricks. The streets were about eight to ten feet wide on average, and were built with well-engineered drainage channels.

Mohenjo Daro was divided into two parts; the Citadel was on the upper level and included an elaborate tank called the Great Bath that was made of fine quality brickwork and drains. The Great Bath was 40 feet long and 8 feet deep, a huge public facility by any standards. A giant granary, a large residential building, and several assembly halls were also on this upper level.

The Great Bath was made watertight by the use of two layers of brick, lime-cement and then finally sealed with bitumen (tar). The bath included a shallow section for children.

We should wonder how an ancient culture of which nothing is known, not even their language, created this sophisticated city at a point in time many thousands of years ahead of the curve? Civil engineers do not crawl out of thatched-roof huts able to draw up plans for a complex urban environment. We need to address the following question to archaeologists and historians:

1. Where are the cities that demonstrate the path of urban development, social and technical organisation, leading to Mohenjo Daro?
2. How do you explain the sudden emergence of a complex society when 99.99% of the rest of humanity were living primitively?

These issues cannot be brushed aside with some arrogant pretence that the questions have already been addressed and answered by digging up and labelling pottery shards and other artefacts. We have been and are being overly indulgent with our “soft sciences” regarding their cavalier assertions about having all the answers. In fact, they have very few, so why are they throwing stones at independent researchers from behind glass towers?

Extraordinarily little is known about the Indus Valley civilisation that once spanned nearly a thousand miles with other cities matching the description of Mohenjo Daro.

We file this under our list of great enigmas and challenge orthodox scholars to prove differently as with the first two of our mysteries.

We note that the Indus Valley civilisation was contemporary with the Great Pyramid. It is often said this was one of the first three civilisations, having a written script that has never been deciphered. Now we turn next to the mother of all civilisations, Sumer.

4. Sumeria – The Source Of Civilisation

Are we missing something or are our historians looking at our earliest civilisations through a strange and distorted lens? Like Egypt and the Indus Valley, the biblical ‘Land of Shinar’ – the birthplace of Abraham – was a brutally hot, largely barren, empty desert with a mighty river cutting a swath through it. Does this sound like the magnet that would attract late Stone Age tribes to hunker down and pull wonders out of a hat?

In fact, historians thought Shinar was a piece of biblical fiction until the mid-19th century, but now they know everything about it with complete certitude that we, the unwashed masses, dare not question. Nonetheless, we encourage readers to maintain an attitude of healthy skepticism and dare to question ‘official history’.

As is the case with the culture that built the cities of the Indus Valley, no one knows who the ancient Sumerians were or where they came from. They called themselves ‘the black-headed ones’ and spoke a strange language that was unrelated to the languages of the Semitic tribes in the region. Some linguists note a similarity between the Sumerian language and that of the Basques, another anomalous culture.

We find it curious that any primitive peoples would choose the rigours of a hostile desert environment to settle in and build a civilisation. Why not a gentle river in a forested mountain valley? Especially in light of the fact that Sumeria contained very few resources, no forests, no minerals, not even the rocks that were plentiful in Egypt.

How are we to explain the fact this mysterious culture managed to invent all of the core components of civilisation under such restrictive conditions? It occurs to us that a culture would need minerals like copper, gold, silver and tin immediately available to experiment with over the course of generations in order to create process metallurgy. There is nothing simple or accidental about making the connection between raw ores, the metals they contain, and how to reduce them out of their native state using high heat.

Nevertheless, the Sumerians not only figured out geology, how to obtained the ore, knew the levels of heat needed and how to build kilns to achieve it, they also took very different metals and created the first alloy, bronze. As metal-smiths were performing these feats, other citizens were apparently creating the wheel, building cities, ziggurats, inventing writing, movable type, the ox-drawn plow, cereal crop agriculture, and advanced mathematics, to mention the most notable of their innovations.

Something is wrong with this picture. Most human beings were counting using their fingers, if at all, hunting animals and gathering plants for their meals. Yet, we find the Sumerians in classrooms learning the principles of the sexigesimal math system. Yes, the very same 60-base system we use today to keep track of hours, minutes and seconds. This advanced system was the first to reveal that a circle has 360 degrees and can be subdivided using 60, 30, 15, 12, etc., all fractions of the root number.

5. Teotihuacán – Anomalous Technical Evidence

Teotihuacán, in Mexico, is an immense, even overwhelming archaeological site, oriented along a twin axis. In the 1960s a team of archaeologists and surveyors mapped out the entire complex in great detail. The resultant map revealed an urban grid centred around two principal, almost perpendicular, alignments.

From the Pyramid of the Moon at the north end, the complex extends south along the Avenue of the Dead beyond the Ciudadela and Great Compound complexes for about 3.2 kilometres. To this north-south axis we must add an east-west alignment that led from a point near the Pyramid of the Sun to a spot of prime astronomical significance on the western horizon.

Anthony Aveni, an astronomer-anthropologist, discovered that on the day the Sun passes directly overhead in the spring of the Northern Hemisphere (May 18), the Pleiades star cluster makes its first annual predawn appearance. It was at this point on the western horizon that the Pleiades set, and the builders aimed the east-west axis.

Additionally, the Sun also sets at this point on the horizon on August 12 – the anniversary of the beginning of the current Mesoamerican calendar cycle (5th Sun) – determined by a consensus of academic and independent scholars to have begun on August 12, 3114 BCE.

It is very clear Teotihuacán was laid out according to a set of alignments that reflected celestial, geographic, as well as geodetic relationships. Walking along the avenue from one pyramid to another, up the steps to the top, and surveying the site from a multitude of angles, one is struck by the sense of being in the middle of some vast geometric matrix.

Teotihuacán was the first true urban centre in the Americas. At its peak around 500 CE, it boasted a population of an estimated 200,000. George E. Stuart, archaeologist and the editor of National Geographic magazine sums up our ignorance:

We speak of it with awe, as we do the pyramids of Egypt, but we still know next to nothing about the origins of the Teotihuacános, what language they spoke, how their society was organised, and what caused their decline.2

As for one the most anomalous of artefacts on the planet, in the 1900s archaeologists discovered a sheet of mica in the upper tiers of the Pyramid of the Sun. This was no ho-hum pottery shard to catalogue and file away in a dusty box, yet that is about how archaeologists treated the find. To anyone with even a smattering of technical knowledge, discovering a large sheet of mica in an ancient pyramid site comes as a shock. In fact, it is one of the great ‘smoking guns’ that turn archaeologists mum.

Mica is an inflammable and non-conductive mineral that grows in fairly weak plate-like structures. It is not at all useful as a structural building material. NASA uses it as a radiation shield in space vehicles. Mica is also utilised in electronic components and microwave ovens, and it is a good shield for electromagnetic radiation, like radio waves. Like the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of the Sun has a subterranean cavity under the middle of the pyramid. A large pyramid with layers of thick mica would be an excellent EMI shield.

Its placement in the complex raises questions that we could only answer today after the development of electronic, atomic and space age technologies.

Thick sheets of mica were also found by archaeologists about 400 meters down the avenue from the Sun Pyramid, these precision-cut sheets were of considerable size: 27.5 meters square. They were located under a rock-slab floor of a complex now called “the Mica Temple”.

What possible reason could the builders have had for including a layer of mica in any structure? It was obviously not decorative. To add greatly to the growing mystery, the particular mica used was traced to Brazil. Now we are getting in deep.

How would a supposedly indigenous “Stone Age” culture know that mica existed 3200 kilometres away in the jungles of Brazil? Not only that, how did they transport these large sheets over that long distance intact without wheeled vehicles? Surely not via relay teams on foot travelling overland! No large seagoing boats or ports have ever been found in ancient Mexico.

6. High Technology In Stone Age Peru

Lake Titicaca borders Bolivia and Peru in the Andes. The highest large lake in the world, there are many signs it was once exposed to the ocean. Megalithic structures like the Gateway of the Sun in Tiahuanacu, Bolivia, also indicate a long lost past. The gateway was carved out of one solid block, the hard way to make a gate.

Moving northward near Cuzco, Peru, we find even more large, impressive and mysterious structures. Here we find walls built with complex jigsaw type megalithic blocks similar to the more familiar walls found at nearby Machu Picchu. Some of the megalithic structures contain complex cut-rocks weighing over 100 tons; a few were joined together by bronze clamps. Some of the bronze had obviously been poured in place, a skill not available in pre-Columbian Peru.

Like Sumer, the high Andes is an unlikely location for Stone Age cities, evidence of advanced technologies, and seminal agricultural discoveries. It is well established that the region around Tiahuanco, at 12,500 feet elevation, had been turned into a highly productive agricultural zone. That was achieved by the building of dikes, dams, canals and raised beds that created microclimates which protected the plants from frost.

We have attempted to show our planet is full of ancient wonders and mysteries that have yet to be solved. You can find more information as well as our theories on who and what created these enigmas in our books, The Genesis Race (by Will Hart) and Ancient Gods and Their Mysteries: Will They Return in 2012 AD? (by Robert Berringer).

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Arabian cult may have built 1000 monuments older than Stonehenge

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From 1.8 million years ago, earliest evidence of human activity found

Scientists discover what our human ancestors were making inside the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa 1.8 million years ago.

Paul Ratner

 

Inside the Kalahari Desert Wonderwerk Cave

Credit: Michael Chazan / Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Researchers find evidence of early tool-making and fire use inside the Wonderwerk Cave in Africa.

• The scientists date the human activity in the cave to 1.8 million years ago.

• The evidence is the earliest found yet and advances our understanding of human evolution.

One of the oldest activities carried out by humans has been identified in a cave in South Africa. A team of geologists and archaeologists found evidence that our ancestors were making fire and tools in the Wonderwerk Cave in the country's Kalahari Desert some 1.8 million years ago.

A new study published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews from researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Toronto proposes that Wonderwerk — which means "miracle" in Afrikaans — contains the oldest evidence of human activity discovered.

"We can now say with confidence that our human ancestors were making simple Oldowan stone tools inside the Wonderwerk Cave 1.8 million years ago," shared the study's lead author Professor Ron Shaar from Hebrew University.

Oldowan stone tools are the earliest type of tools that date as far back as 2.6 million years ago. An Oldowan tool, which was useful for chopping, was made by chipping flakes off of one stone by hitting it with another stone.

An Oldowan stone tool

Credit: Wikimedia / Public domain

Professor Shaar explained that Wonderwerk is different from other ancient sites where tool shards have been found because it is a cave and not in the open air, where sample origins are harder to pinpoint and contamination is possible.

Studying the cave, the researchers were able to pinpoint the time over one million years ago when a shift from Oldowan tools to the earliest handaxes could be observed. Investigating deeper in the cave, the scientists also established that a purposeful use of fire could be dated to one million years back.

This is significant because examples of early fire use usually come from sites in the open air, where there is the possibility that they resulted from wildfires. The remnants of ancient fires in a cave — including burned bones, ash, and tools — contain clear clues as to their purpose.

To precisely date their discovery, the researchers relied on paleomagnetism and burial dating to measure magnetic signals from the remains hidden within a sedimentary rock layer that was 2.5 meters thick. Prehistoric clay particles that settled on the cave floor exhibit magnetization and can show the direction of the ancient earth's magnetic field. Knowing the dates of magnetic field reversals allowed the scientists to narrow down the date range of the cave layers.

The Kalahari desert Wonderwerk Cave

Credit: Michael Chazan / Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor Ari Matmon of Hebrew University used another dating method to solidify their conclusions, focusing on isotopes within quartz particles in the sand that "have a built-in geological clock that starts ticking when they enter a cave." He elaborated that in their lab, the scientists were "able to measure the concentrations of specific isotopes in those particles and deduce how much time had passed since those grains of sand entered the cave."

Finding the exact dates of human activity in the Wonderwerk Cave could lead to a better understanding of human evolution in Africa as well as the way of life of our early ancestors.

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07-05-2021 om 01:49 geschreven door peter