5,000-Year-Old Medical Treatise, Including Neurosurgery This remarkable papyrus, bought in 1862 by the American Egyptologist Edwin Smith in Luxor, Egypt, is an ancient Egyptian surgical treatise. It is the oldest known medical document; written in the Middle Egyptian hieratic script, it contains 377 lines of text on the recto (front) and 92 on the verso (back). It is a textbook […]
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The Sumerian King List Spans For Over 241,000 Years Before A Great Flood Out of the many incredible artefacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing Sumerian cities once stood, few have been more intriguing than the Sumerian King List, an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from […]
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5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Artifacts From Space Discovered By Archaeologists This may be old news to some, but for many, it won’t be. A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science in December of 2013 found that the earliest known (according to the study) iron artefacts that date back to circa 3200 BC, from two burials in northern Egypt were made […]
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Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago Australian Aborigines have long been cast as a people apart. Although Australia is halfway around the world from our species’ accepted birthplace in Africa, the continent is nevertheless home to some of the earliest undisputed signs of modern humans outside Africa, and […]
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Alexander the Great’s Tomb: All the Claims in One of History’s Greatest Mysteries For over 2,300 years, researchers and historians have been trying to locate Alexander the Great’s Tomb, which remains one of the world’s greatest mysteries even to this day. There are several attestations that go back to the Roman era, as historians of the time recorded the visits […]
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The 300,000-Year-Old Nanotechnology Artifacts Of Russia An Oopart (out of place artefact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that, given their level of technology, are completely at odds with their determined age based on physical, chemical, and/or geological evidence. Ooparts often are frustrating to conventional scientists and a delight to […]
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Officials Ignored The Sunken City Of Atlantis For 10 Years Because It’s ‘Out Of Time And Out Of Place’ Just over a decade ago, a team of explorers were working on an exploration and survey mission off the western coast of Cuba when their sonar equipment picked up a perplexing series of stone structures lying some 650 metres below the […]
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The Forbidden History Of Ancient China: Aryan Mummies And Hundreds Of Pyramids Hitler regarded individuals who were 6ft. 6in. and taller as being closest genetic relatives of the original proto-Aryan tribes from central Asia from which the Caucasian people and civilizations are said to have descended. Recent discoveries of hundreds of ancient mummies in Asia are forcing a re-examination of […]
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King Tut Was Eastern European, According To The DNA Results Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, have reconstructed the DNA profile of King Tut, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III. Researchers discovered that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group known as haplogroup R1b1a2. More than 50 per cent of all men in Western Europe belong to […]
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Graham Hancock: A Mysterious Ancient Pyramid In Indonesia Is Rewriting History The archaeological establishment is scrambling to find some reason to reject and pour scorn on the extraordinary consequences of the excavations now taking place at Gunung Padang in Indonesia. Since its first exploration by archaeologists in 1914 the site was thought to be a natural hill with 2500-year-old megalithic […]
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