The Stone Pyramids of Prehistoric Japan
In Japan one can find an
ancient stone pyramid. It is a beautifully shaped monolith, about six and a half
feet tall and twelve feet at the base, practically lost in the thick forest
growth on the slope of a hill near the town of Ena, in central Honsu, largest of
the Japanese islands. Cut from a single, massive block of gray granite, the
object was a pyramidian, a smaller version of the Great Pyramid and its
full-size cousins. This trignon, as they call it, might have passed for the...
Archaeological finds at Bosnian Pyramid siteSummer excavations at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mt. Visocica yielded results, but not the kind an entrepreneur turned amateur archaeologist was looking for. Semir Osmanagic, a US businessman of BiH origin, has invested large amounts of his own money in a personal quest to unearth what he says are Europe's first pyramids. His claims have not yet been corroborated. Instead, an archeological team said over the summer that it has unearthed significant artefacts from a more recent era. These i...
Mystery Surrounds Leavenworth's Underground City
Copyright © KCTV5.comSome Leavenworth residents have been unknowingly walking around above an underground city, and no one seems to know who created it or why. Windows, doors and narrow paths beneath a title company at South Fourth and Delaware streets lead to storefronts stretching several city blocks and perhaps beyond. There are also several vaults around town. Some of have them been used forbreweries."They were stores of some type. We just don't know what they were selling,...
Ancient Rainforest Revealed in Coal Mine
Scientists exploring a mine have uncovered a natural Sistine chapel showing not religious paintings, but incredibly well preserved images of sprawling tree trunks and fallen leaves that once breathed life into an ancient rainforest. Replete with a diverse mix of extinct plants, the 300-million-year-old fossilized forest is revealing clues about the ecology of Earth’s first rainforests . The discovery and details of the forest are published in the May issue of the journal Geology. “We’re...
Hidden Gobi Desert relics found
A number of rare relics have been unearthed in the Gobi Desert including statues, art, manuscripts and the personal belongings of a Buddhist master. The artefacts date back to the 1930"s when many monasteries were looted and destroyed."Rare Buddhist treasures, not seen formore than 70 years, have been unearthed in the Gobi Desert.The historic artefacts were buried in the 1930s during Mongolia"s Communist purge, when hundre...
Gold coin horde found in JerusalemA hoard of more than 250 gold coins -- believed to be 1,300-year-old Chanukah money -- was exposed December 11 in Jerusalem as part of excavations that the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting in the Giv‘ati car park in the City of David, in the walls Around Jerusalem National Park.The excavations at the site are being carriedout on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority and are underwritten by the ‘Ir DavidFoundation. View: Full Arti...
NASA Images Discover an Ancient Bridge between India and Sri Lanka!
Space images taken by NASA
reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri
Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam?s Bridge is made
of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.
The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals
that it is man made.
The legends as well as Archaeological studies reveal that
the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a
primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the...
Mysteries of Glastonbury Tor
Glastonbury Tor is a place of legend, intrigue and mystery; a conical hill in the Somerset landscape it has been the subject of many tales ranging from it being the entrance to the Underworld to a global energy point ofcrossing ley lines."The Tor at Glastonbury is a natural 520’ conical hill set in the Somersetlandscape, its legends and accolades are many ranging from a faerie hill, the Entrance to the Underworld of King Gwyn A...
4,000-year-old flowers found at grave site
Proof has been found for the first time ever that pre-historic people would have placed flowers at the graves of their deceased. A bronze age dig site near Perth yielded a bunch of meadowsweet blossoms placed at one such grave."For thefirst time ever there is proof that pre-historic people placed bunches of flowers in thegrave when they buried their dead, experts have said. . Archaeologists have discovered a bunch of meadowswee...
Tsunami Uncovers Archeological Mystery
by
Anna Maria Nicholson
Mahabalipuram, India () The
destructive capacity of last year's tsunami wiped life from Earth in numbers
that defy comprehension. Each one gone dramatically altering other lives -
friends and families in a chain wrapped countless times around the world. Towns
and villages and possessions obliterated. In many parts, the very presence of
human beings simply erased, as if they were never there. The tsunamis took a
great deal away, but in one tiny corner, t...
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