lundi 20 mai 2013

• PREPUNA DVORANA U SOFIJI ZA BOSANSKE PIRAMIDE
  Glavni grad Bugarske Sofia je s nestrpljenjem očekivao dolazak pronalazača bosanskih piramida dr. Semira Osmanagića. Nakon održanih predavanja u Plovdivu i Shumenu pred velikim brojem posjetilaca te niza intervjua za bugarske medije, nije bilo čudo i da svečana dvorana Društva arhitekata u Sofiji (...)
  
  

dimanche 19 mai 2013

• Scott Wolter Trademarked the Hooked X
  Since I was slapped with a cease-and-desist order last week, I’ve been researching the “Hooked X” and Scott Wolter’s claim of ownership. As we’ll see in a minute, he actually has a trademark on the hooked X—well, the words “hooked X” anyway! Yesterday I saw a huge uptick in the number of comments left (...)
  
  
• More False Reports of 300 or 400 Million Year Old “Russian Screws”
  More False Reports of 300 or 400 Million Year Old “Russian Screws” More claims of ancient million year-old Russian fossil screws have appeared on the Internet. For example,ther is the August 13, 2012 “300 Million Year Old Screw Found! Who Built It?,” Disclose TV article (...)
  
  
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  Réforme constitutionnelle : Les parlementaires bosniens en Suisse en quête de modèle
  La Commission juridique et constitutionnelle du Parlement de Bosnie-Herzégovine s'est rendue en Suisse pour une visite de travail de 4 jours, du 14 au 17 mai 2013. Elle entend en effet s'inspirer du modèle fédératif de la Confédération suisse dans le cadre de la réforme constitutionnelle du pays et en (...)
  
  
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  Sarajevo, les institutions culturelles nationales en voie d'extinction
  Samedi 18 mai 2013 des millions de visiteurs se rendront dans les musées lors de la Nuit européenne qui est leur est consacrée. En Bosnie-Herzégovine, cette nuit nous laissera un goût amer car les grands musées nationaux de ce pays sont menacés d'extinction. Alors que l'on commémorera à Sarajevo à (...)
  
  

samedi 18 mai 2013

• On the Development of the Ciudad Blanca Myth
  Before I was so rudely interrupted with A+E Networks’ cease and desist order, I was planning to discuss the Ciudad Blanca story a bit more. So, here is what I originally planned to write yesterday, delayed by one day: On Thursday, I discussed the question (...)
  
  
• Pompeii Streets Photo Essay
  Anyone who has been a reader of these pages for very long knows I have a thing about ancient roads. I can't really explain it, except to say that it interests me that in certain places, a public thoroughfare is built and rebuilt and rebuilt, but remains in the same geographical location for (...)
  
  

vendredi 17 mai 2013

• New Zealand’s Earliest Inhabitants
  OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND—A new study of three groups of skeletons discovered in a cemetery at Wairau Bar suggests that the first group may have come from Polynesia to colonize New Zealand some 700 years ago. The ratio of isotopes in their bones are similar to those found in the Marquesas Islands in (...)
  
  
• China’s First Farmers
  BEIJING, CHINA—An analysis of 5,000-year-old grinding stones suggests that agriculture may have begun in southern China before the arrival of domesticated rice. Huw Barton of the University of Leicester and Xiaoyan Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the preserved starch granules (...)
  
  
• The Nile River’s Fertile Gifts
  ORLANDO, FLORIDA—The number of births for the Kellis community living at Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis 1,800 years ago probably peaked in March and April, indicating that most conceptions took place in July and August, during the annual flooding of the Nile River. “Even though this was a Christian (...)
  
  
• The Bored Viking
  OSLO, NORWAY—Outlines of a left foot and a right foot have been found in the floorboards of the Gokstad Ship, which was discovered in 1880 and is housed at the Viking Ship Museum. The ship had been buried in a grave, but its floorboards were not in place, so researchers don’t know if the carvings (...)
  
  
• A+E Networks Orders Me to "Cease and Desist," Claims Scott Wolter Controls the "Hooked X"
  This afternoon I received a letter from the law firm representing A+E Television Networks ordering me to cease and desist sale of Unearthing the Truth on the grounds that the book could be mistaken for an authorized edition and that its cover violated Scott Wolter’s intellectual property. (...)
  
  
• New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged
  Use of new analysis techniques provides food for thought about how people lived 5,000 years ago.
  
  
• Possessing the Past: The use and abuse of archaeology in building nation-states
  Historical artefacts can be used as a powerful tool to reinforce group identity and forge a nation-state, but their use can have adverse consequences such as the oppression of minorities.
  
  
• New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged
  Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region. They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture -- before the arrival (...)
  
  
• New archaeological area declared near Athens
  The peninsula of Cape Zoster, now called Mikro Kavouri “protects the modern yacht harbor and bathing beaches of Vouliagmeni. Near its base is the ‘laimos’, the low, sandy neck of land on which stood the temple of Apollo Zoster and other near-by ancient buildings. From the ‘laimos’ southward the (...)
  
  
• Saxon skeletons unearthed near Stonehenge
  Archaeologists have discovered six pagan Saxon skeletons dating back over 1,000 years on a housing development site just a few miles from Stonehenge. Six pagan Saxon skeletons unearthed at a housing development site just a few miles from Stonehenge [Credit: Dash24] The discoveries, which also (...)
  
  
• Site provides clearer picture of China's ancient past
  New archaeological discoveries in Yuyao city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, provide a clearer picture of life in China's Neolithic age and confirm that the nation originated the practice of paddy cultivation. The archaeological site of Hemudu [Credit: WikiCommons] Archaeologists are (...)
  
  
• Tamil Brahmi script dating to 500 BC found near Erode
  In a major find that throws evidence to Erode’s connection to Tamil Brahmi era, a research team of Pondicherry University found several pot shells containing Tamil Brahmi letters dating to 500 BC at Kodumanal near Chennimalai. Workshop where ornaments were manufactured [Credit: |Express] A team (...)
  
  
• Cemetery reveals baby making season in Egypt
  The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest. An infant burial from Kellis, Dakhleh, Egypt [Credit: Lana Williams/LiveScience] Researchers made this discovery at a cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt whose burials date back (...)
  
  
• Viking-era coins unearthed by Danish teenager
  Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare coins. Coins from Bohemia, Germany, Denmark and England were discovered during an archaeological dig last year; the coins were originally discovered by a Danish (...)
  
  
• New x-ray system to yield secrets of 'unopenable' scrolls
  Pioneering X-ray technology is making it possible to read fragile rolled-up historical documents for the first time in centuries. Technique works by scanning parchment with x-rays [Credit: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council] Old parchment is often extremely dry and liable to (...)
  
  
• Mike Heiser Lecturing on PaleoBabble and Ancient Alien Myths in Nashville
  Just thought I’d let everyone know that I’ll be speaking in Nashville, TN this coming October at the second “Christian Symposium on Aliens” – otherwise known as Ancient of Days 2013. The event is scheduled for October 3-6. I’ve been assigned … Continue reading (...)
  
  

jeudi 16 mai 2013

• Were Neanderthals Capable of Abstract Thought?
  BARCELONA, SPAIN—Archaeologists are working on obtaining new dates for the prehistoric paintings in Spain’s El Castillo Cave by measuring the rate of decay of uranium atoms in the calcite covering the artwork. The oldest of the paintings is thought to be at least 40,800 years old, about the same (...)
  
  
• Bone Find Reveals Site of Lost Saxon Church
  WALLINGFORD, ENGLAND—Construction workers uncovered a medieval skeleton at a home in southern England. The bones have helped archaeologists pinpoint the location of St. Lucian’s, a Saxon church and one of the oldest in the town. “St. Lucian’s Church pre-dates the Norman Conquest, so this is an (...)
  
  
• Possible Mi’kmaq Site in Path of Proposed Dam Upgrade
  GASPEREAU LAKE, NOVA SCOTIA—Archaeological research and local tradition suggest that an ancestral Mi’kmaq burial ground rests in an area slated for an upgrade to a dam on Gaspereau Lake. The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs has asked Nova Scotia Power for an independent engineering (...)
  
  
• Salvage Excavations Conducted at Oregon Trail Site
  EVANSVILLE, WYOMING—Archaeologists and volunteers have until Sunday evening to conduct salvage excavations at the site of Camp Payne, which guarded Reshaw’s Bridge, an Oregon Trail river crossing, during the 1850s and 1860s. “This is the first military post in this area,” said Carolyn Buff of the (...)
  
  
• Did Archaeologists Find the Lost "White City" of Honduras?
  One of the refrains we hear repeatedly from fringe writers is the claim that archaeologists are unwilling to take folklore, myths, and legends seriously and reject efforts to seek out the truth behind stories of lost cities and vanished civilizations. Well, apparently events are transpiring in (...)
  
  
• DNA analysis unearths origins of Minoans, the first major European civilization
  DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in the region about 4,000 years (...)
  
  
• Light cast on lifestyle and diet of first New Zealanders
  A University of Otago-led multidisciplinary team of scientists have shed new light on the diet, lifestyles and movements of the first New Zealanders by analysing isotopes from their bones and teeth.
  
  
• Sacramento dig unearths Miwok artifacts
  Archaeologists have been huddled along Highway 101 north of Novato for the past month sifting the dirt for clues about how humans survived hundreds of years ago. Sacramento State Archaeological Research Center staff and Caltrans crews dig for Indian artifacts on Thursday, May 16, 2013, along (...)
  
  
• 1,400 year old remains of Nubian soldier found
  Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt, Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eisa said. Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt [Credit: EFE/Egyptian Ministry of (...)
  
  
• Medieval church found beneath Lincoln Castle
  A previously undiscovered church, thought to be at least 1,000 years old, has been found beneath Lincoln Castle. Archaeologist Cecily Spall from FAS Heritage uncovers one of the skeletons [Credit: Lincolnshire County Council] It is believed the stone church was built in the Anglo-Saxon period, (...)
  
  
• Light cast on lifestyle and diet of first New Zealanders
  A University of Otago-led multidisciplinary team of scientists have shed new light on the diet, lifestyles and movements of the first New Zealanders by analysing isotopes from their bones and teeth. Isotopic study sheds light on the diet, lifestyles and movements of New Zealand's first settlers (...)
  
  
• Roman temple dig to restart in Maryport
  The Senhouse Roman Museum will begin its third summer of excavation next month on the site next to the Roman fort. Excavations on site at Maryport set to resume this summer [Credit: Newcastle University] The museum is working in collaboration with the University of Newcastle and the Camp Farm (...)
  
  
• Bad Astronomy Article On Alleged "Tunguska Meteorites"
  Bad Astronomy Article On Alleged "Tunguska Meteorites"Have Tunguska Meteorites Been Found? I Have My Doubts by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, May 6, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/06/tunguska_meteorites_scientist_claims_to_have_rocks_from_famous_impact.htmlYours,Paul (...)
  
  

mercredi 15 mai 2013

• The Ancient Burmese City of Bagan
  BAGAN, MYANMAR—There are some 3,000 temples, monasteries, and pagodas ranging from the ninth to thirteenth centuries in the ancient Buddhist city of Bagan. In 1975, while the country was ruled by a dictatorship, an earthquake leveled some of those buildings. They were restored and even new (...)
  
  
• Underwater Archaeologists Survey French Warships
  LOUISBOURG, NOVA SCOTIA—Underwater archaeologists are investigating as many as ten wrecks of eighteenth-century French warships in the waters off the coast of Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site. The ships sank during the second siege of Louisbourg in 1758. Most of what has survived (...)
  
  
• Warriors-in-Training May Have Killed Dog Companions
  ONEONTA, NEW YORK—The chopped-up bones of 51 dogs and seven wolves have been unearthed at the Bronze Age site of Krasnosamarkskoe in eastern Russia. Dorcas Brown and David Anthony of Hartwick College noticed that the dogs, which ranged in age from 7 to 12, had been butchered in a very precise, (...)
  
  
• The Inferno, the Dome of the Sky, and Ancient Aliens
  In 2003, Dan Brown breathed new life into the claim that Jesus fathered a Holy Bloodline of Grail Kings with his international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, and in 2009 he sparked new interest into claims that the Freemasons were hiding a religious secret amidst the monuments of Washington, (...)
  
  
• TURISTI IZ AUSTRIJSKOG ROTARY CLUBA, OSNOVCI IZ BOSANSKOG PETROVCA, ENGLESKE GRUPE…
  Visoko i Bosanske piramide su na usnama brojnih posjetilaca ovih majskih dana. Austrijski Rotary Club iz Graza je, nakon posjete Inzku i austrijskom ambasadoru, došao u posjet Podzemnom labirintu Ravne. Učenici sedmog razreda Osnovne škole iz Bosanskog Petrovca su po prvi put posjetili Bosansku (...)
  
  
• Mayan Pyramid Crushed—for Gravel
  Archeologists have been horrified to discover that one of the largest Mayan pyramids in Belize has been almost completely annihilated by road crews looking for an easy source of gravel. The 2,300-year-old temple at the heart of the Nohmul complex—at 60 feet, one of the country's tallest (...)
  
  

mardi 14 mai 2013

• Minoans Genetically Related to Europeans
  SEATTLE, WASHINGTON—Analysis of mitochondrial DNA taken from 4,000-year-old Minoan skeletal remains suggests that Minoan civilization was created by the descendants of the first population to reach Crete some 9,000 years ago, when migrating farmers left Anatolia and spread into Europe. “[The (...)
  
  
• Early Hominid Ear Bone Resembles That of Modern Humans
  BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK—Early human ancestors had an ear bone similar to that of modern humans, according to palaeoanthropologist Rolf Quam of Binghamton University. Quam and his team recovered a complete set of the tiny bones from a 1.8-million-year-old Paranthropus robustus, and an incomplete set (...)
  
  
• Construction Crew Destroys Maya Pyramid for Road Fill
  BELIZE CITY, BELIZE—A 2,300-year-old Maya pyramid at the Noh Mul complex in northern Belize has been destroyed by a construction company that used its stones for a road-building project. Heavy equipment was used to dig away at the sides of the pyramid, exposing a narrow chamber at the pyramid’s (...)
  
  
• Film "Piramida istine" na DVD-u
  Nezavisni dugometražni dokumentarni film "Piramida istine" koji govori o bosanskim piramidama i prahistorijskoj civilizaciji poznatoj kao Butmirska kultura, nakon uspješne svjetske turneje konačno je dostupan na DVDu na bh. području. Film autora Saida Sefe već je uspješno predstavljen u kinima širom (...)
  
  
• LOW FREQUENCIES AND INFRASOUNDS ON THE BOSNIAN PYRAMID OF THE SUN
  Professor Paolo DebertolisUniversity of Trieste, Italy I went to Bosnia only for a few days in May 2013 for researching again on archeaoacoustics on the top of the Pyramid of the Sun using new equipment. I've obtained a lot of new interesting results on infrasounds and low frequencies. We found (...)
  
  
• Stunning Astronomical Alignment Found at Peru Pyramid
  An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice. During the solstice, hundreds of years ago, the three would have lined up to frame the pyramid in light. The two stone lines, (...)
  
  
• Lengthy Series on Vallee and Aubeck’s Evidence for UFOs in Antiquity
  Jason Colavito recently produced a series of posts exposing the poor use of data (and perhaps deliberate deception in that regard) on the part of Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck in their book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from … Continue reading (...)