Oldest American artefact unearthed : Nature News
From the page: Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.
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From the page: Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.
when I visited Greece a few years ago this story of an ancient city predating Plato's writing had been handed down for generations. whether the world believes it or not, the locals do believe it. atlantis appears to be lost in the mists of time. it does make you wonder... more
From the page: "A disused stone quarry on the Greek island of Crete which is riddled with an elaborate network of underground tunnels could be the original site of the ancient Labyrinth, the mythical maze that housed the half-bull, half-man Minotaur of Greek legend."
And yet during this same period there was this hippie holy dude wandering around that made zombies come out of the ground, and when he died no historians thought enough to write about that. What happened to those zombies anyway? ... more
From the page: "'Bluestonehenge' found by archaeologists less than two miles from world-famous prehistoric monument"
No Geneva convention back then...and Vikings couldn't very well complain about excessive brutality.
"It is possible that during the fourth century A.D., when Christianity was gradually becoming the governing religion in the Roman Empire, there were still a number of inhabitants in Sussita who remained loyal to the goddess of love and therefore wished to hide and... more
mental note:... buy metal detector after work...
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From the page: "Central and western Europe's first farmers weren't crafty, native hunter-gatherers who gradually gave up their spears for seeds, a new study says."Instead, they were experienced outsiders who arrived on the scene around 5500 B.C. with... more
From the page: "Hidden beneath a four-ton slab of rock and surrounded by ancient carved symbols of prehistoric power, a spectacular high-status potentially royal tomb, dating back 4,000 years, has been discovered by archaeologists in Scotland. "