The Secret History of The Glow-in-the-Dark Civil War Soldiers I’ve never heard of this phenomenon! It’s completely bizarre… The Mystery of the Glow-in-the-Dark Civil War Soldiers BY LAUREN DAVIS (IO9.COM) The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh left 16,000 soldiers dead and 3,000 soldiers wounded, and some of those wounded soldiers are part of an odd mystery. Some of the soldiers had eerily glowing wounds, which healed more quickly than the non-glowing wounds. So what strange battlefield science was at work? It took two days and nights for the medics to reach all of the wounded soldiers in Shiloh, and some of the soldiers noticed that their wounds glowed in…

A Brief History of the Apocalypse It begins here, but where does it end? (Click here for the complete “history”) - ca. 2800 BC According to Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts (1979), an Assyrian clay tablet dating to approximately 2800 BC was unearthed bearing the words “Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common.” This is one of the earliest examples of the perception of moral decay in society being interpreted as a sign of the imminent end. 634 BC Apocalyptic thinking gripped many ancient cultures, including the Romans. Early in Rome’s history, many Romans…

8,000 years of civilization, exposed What if our ancient ancestors left behind more than just megalithic pyramids and temples? Using high technology, a group of archaeologists has found evidence of our past that has nothing to do with structures left behind – think footprints. A recent article in Nature reports on the finding… Satellites expose 8,000 years of civilization Archaeologists develop large-scale method to identify ancient human settlements. by Virginia Gewin Mounds of earth covering ancient human settlements, such as Tell Brak in northeastern Syria, can now be analysed remotely using satellite imagery. Hidden in the landscape of the fertile crescent of the Middle East, scientists say, lurk overlooked networks…