Ancient Wonders
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Mars Quakes!
Mars Quakes! Basically, what this new finding tells us is that the chances of microbial life being found on Mars are quite a bit higher now! - Marsquake! Scientists Find New Signs of Rumblings on the Red Planet By Michael D. Lemonick (TimeScience) When space probes first began taking closeup images of Mars in the early 1970s, the pictures revealed what appeared to be a long dead world. Ancient waterways were visible on the surface, but they had been dry for billions of years. Crater-topped volcanoes dotted the planet — some of them a mile or more higher than Everest — but they had stopped erupting eons ago. It all…
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Are These The First Paintings Ever Made By Humans?
Are These The First Paintings Ever Made By Humans? These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever (Gizmodo.com) According to new dating tests, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. They are seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain. And they may change our ideas about humanity’s evolution. Until now, archeologists thought that the oldest art was created during the Aurignacian period, by modern humans. But these are way older, way more primitive than the ones in Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, the 32,000-year-old paintings featured in Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams. According to the latest dating of the charcoal found next to…
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Through The Wormhole…
Through The Wormhole… Our friends at the Long Now Foundation never cease to amaze. You will see what I mean in this segment from Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman… Long Now on Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman is a show on Discovery’s Science Channel that features cosmological and metaphysical questions about science and the universe. Mr. Freeman, as it turns out, is quite the geek. An episode from the show’s second season recently asked, “Can We Live Forever?” Well known scientists such as Michio Kaku and Aubrey de Grey provided perspective on the challenges and research underlying the the science of human…
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Stonehenge Precursor Found?
Stonehenge Precursor Found? We love discoveries like this! And with a name like “the Ness of Brodgar” it can’t help but have an air of mystery and an intriguing long lost history… Stonehenge Precursor Found? Island Complex Predates Famous Site by James Owen for National Geographic News Photograph courtesy Hugo Whymark, ORCA On an island off Britain’s northern tip, new discoveries suggest a huge Stone Age ritual complex is older than Stonehenge. But age is only the half of it. Researchers say the site may have in fact been the original model for Stonehenge and other later, better-known British complexes to the south. First discovered in 2002, the waterside site—called…
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2012 » February
Archive for February, 2012 Blog tour continues: M.J. writes about ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent. …And so, she is leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances. Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts . Your senses will thank you! Here’s an intro to M.J.’s on ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY… A creation that came well ahead of its time, Le Feu d’Issey was launched amidst countless androgynous, unisex releases…
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Visible Only From Above
Visible Only From Above If you’re interested in the mystery of the Nazca lines, you will also find these fascinating - Visible Only From Above, Mystifying ‘Nazca Lines’ Discovered in Mideast By Owen Jarus | LiveScience.com The giant stone structures form wheel shapes with spokes often radiating inside. Here a cluster of wheels in the Azraq Oasis. CREDIT: David D. Boyer They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public. They are the Middle East’s own version of the Nazca Lines — ancient “geolyphs,” or drawings, that span deserts in southern Peru — and now,…
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Did Kubrick Fake The Moon Landings?
Did Kubrick Fake The Moon Landings? Okay, suspend your disbelief for a second and imagine that for political reasons the United States may have needed to cloak the true nature of its lunar program by creating fake landings and moon walks. Now imagine that they would have needed to find the most precocious filmmaker alive in order to do the job. There’s a lot of talk lately about whether or not it’s possible that Stanley Kubrick was hired to direct the fake moon landings. Here’s an article from Reality Sandwich that goes into great detail on the matter. I am still a bit skeptical, but this article has really got…
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The Mystery of Automata
The Mystery of Automata Maillardet’s Automaton “In November of 1928, a truck pulled up to The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia and unloaded the pieces of an interesting, complex, but totally ruined brass machine. Donated by the estate of John Penn Brock, a wealthy Philadelphian, the machine was studied and the museum began to realize the treasure it had been given. This Automaton, known as the “Draughtsman-Writer” was built by Henri Maillardet, a Swiss mechanician of the 18th century who worked in London producing clocks and other mechanisms. It is believed that Maillardet built this extraordinary Automaton around 1800 and it has the largest “memory” of any such machine…
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Ancient Observatories of the Americas
Ancient Observatories of the Americas In the ancient world the observation of stars and celestial phenomenon all of kinds was akin to today’s fascination with high technology. So much so that civilizations went to great lengths to create observatories and structures to sight and track anything sky related. Imagine the sense of wonder and mystery these people must have encountered when simply bothering to look up? If you have not researched Chaco Canyon and the Fajada Butte, we recommend diving down the nearest rabbit hole into these fascinating subjects. Here’s a great place to start on Chaco Canyon, and here is an introduction to Fajada Butte, home of the Sun…
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The Mystery of the Horned Human Skulls
The Mystery of the Horned Human Skulls We’re curious, does anyone have a theory about the mystery of the horned human skulls? Are they a hoax? Extraterrestrial? Belonging to an ancient race of kingly giants? THE HORNED HUMAN SKULLS (from Mythic-Mysteries-Miscellany) Discovered: 1880s Sayre is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 59 miles northwest of Scranton. The exact year is not clear, but during the 1880s a large burial mound was discovered in Sayre. It was reported that a group of Americans uncovered several strange human skulls and bones. The skeletons belonged to anatomically normal men with the exception of bony projections located about two inches above the eyebrows. It…
