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    Scientists Declare Shroud of Turin Is Likely Authentic

    Scientists Declare Shroud of Turin Is Likely Authentic The Shroud of Turin is one of the most fascinating objects on earth, and it received quite a bit of attention recently after Italian scientists suggested its authenticity… (HuffPost) “A series of experiments conducted by Italian researchers indicate the Shroud of Turin is likely authentic, but the team has not yet reached a definite conclusion. Decades of research on Jesus’ proposed burial cloth have revealed an array of conflicting ideas surrounding the shroud’s authenticity. However, researchers from Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development believe their findings undermine previous theories that the shroud was faked in the medieval…

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    The Case Of The Missing Madonna

    The Case Of The Missing Madonna Any reader of M.J.’s books is going to appreciate a real life art caper! Lucas Cranach the Elder, called “one of the strangest Renaissance artists in Germany” is back in the headlines after a few centuries at rest. His painting, “Madonna Under The Fir Tree,” has hung in a Polish cathedral for over 400 years. At least 60 of those years, however, the work was stolen and replaced with a fake. This summer the original was mysteriously returned, after negotiations between authorities and the church. Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski told the Art Newspaper: “The story of how the ‘Madonna under the Fire Tree’…

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    Apollo 20: Did NASA Go Back? And What Weirdness Did They Find?

    Apollo 20: Did NASA Go Back? And What Weirdness Did They Find? More about the moon… Do you know about the claim that an alien body was found intact inside a giant mothership on the moon? There’s of the female so-called “Mona Lisa” extraterrestrial. Apparently there was a clandestine moon mission called Apollo 20, during which the astronauts found and explored the alien space ship and brought this frozen alien back to earth… I am very torn on this Apollo 20 stuff. Some of it seems so real – the Soviet and American flag on the astronaut’s console, the way the frozen alien’s face is slightly decomposed around the mouth…

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    How The Moon Was Born

    How The Moon Was Born Our moon is a true enigma that baffles even modern astronomers - How The Moon Was Born world-mysteries.com “How scientists believe our moon came into existence. Several mechanisms have been proposed for the Moon’s formation 4.527 ± 0.010 billion years ago, some 30–50 million years after the origin of the Solar System. These included the fission of the Moon from the Earth’s crust through centrifugal force, which would require too great an initial spin of the Earth, the gravitational capture of a pre-formed Moon, which would require an unfeasibly extended atmosphere of the Earth to dissipate the energy of the passing Moon, and the co-formation…

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    The mystery of the ancient lenses and other lost technology

    The mystery of the ancient lenses and other lost technology Was magnification technology in use in Egypt in 3300 BC.? How about telescopes in ancient Greece?… Lost Technology of the Ancients: The Crystal Sun Robert Temple reconstructs the wholly forgotten story of light technology in ancient civilisation. Dating back to at least 2600 BC in Old Kingdom Egypt, but unknown to archaeologists and historians, a science of optics and a sophisticated technology for the manufacture of lenses was widespread and fundamental in ancient times. “The ancient Greek Pythagoreans of the 5th century BC believed that the sun was a gigantic crystal ball larger than the earth, which gathered the ambient…

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    Beautiful Planetary Alignment Due This Year in Giza

    Beautiful Planetary Alignment Due This Year in Giza This image via . While this beautiful planetary alignment of Mercury, Venus and Saturn is really going to occur later this year, it won’t line up over the Giza pyramids. This image is presently all over the internet – but the way the alignment is presented over the pyramids is false. The geometry is wrong. is what it will look like. Isn’t it interesting how 2012 seems to be the year for all sorts of interesting ? Makes one wonder if the Mayans were on to something? I think the pyramids are a celestial calendar – built as a language to indicate…

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    Ancient Sacrifice of an Army of Men

    Ancient Sacrifice of an Army of Men From ScienceDaily — A fractured skull and a thighbone hacked in half. Finds of damaged human bones along with axes, spears, clubs and shields confirm that the bog at Alken Enge was the site of violent conflict. Macabre Finds in the Bog at Alken Enge, Denmark: Skeletal Remains of Hundreds of Warriors Unearthed “It’s clear that this must have been a quite far-reaching and dramatic event that must have had profound effect on the society of the time,” explains Project Manager Mads Kähler Holst, professor of archaeology at Aarhus University. For almost two months now, Dr Holst and a team of fifteen archaeologists…

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    Curiouser and curiouser…The rover embarks on its wonderful science adventure.

    Curiouser and curiouser…The rover embarks on its wonderful science adventure. We recently landed on Mars. The science involved to pull off this massive endeavor is mind bending. Here’s a video of where all the bits and pieces of the craft and skycrane landed, and a self portrait the Curiosity took of itself once it was marsbound… (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Emily K. Editor on 11 Aug 2012 | Ancient Wonders &Audio & Video &Mysterious News &Science & Research &Uncategorized | Comments (0) Comments are closed. Trackback URI | Connect With M.J. Copyright © M.J. Rose, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy

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    The earth lodge at the Ocmulgee Mounds

    The earth lodge at the Ocmulgee Mounds …an ancient Indian mound has a secret hidden chamber inside… Ancient astronomical observatory unearthed in Georgia was doomsday clock? by GARY DANIELS “About two hours south of Atlanta, archaeologists unearthed an ancient Indian mound which had a secret hidden chamber inside. Inside this secret chamber was a circle of fifty seats and an altar in the shape of a hawk or eagle. Known as the Ocmulgee Earthlodge, new evidence proves this earth-covered building was a sophisticated piece of engineering with precise astronomical alignments that likely served as an astronomical observatory. It also appears to have served as a type of doomsday clock forewarning…

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    The Elephant Bazaar and Other Historical Gems…

    The Elephant Bazaar and Other Historical Gems… Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, The New York Public Library is mapping history! - By Matt Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian – The New York Public Library “One hundred years ago, a building-sized elephant stood across the street from the Coney Island Cyclone. The “elephant bazaar,” which once occupied the area on the North side of Surf Avenue, was an exciting discovery for The New York Public Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, which, with the aid of a generous three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is busy transforming NYPL’s historical paper map and atlas collections…

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