A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom!Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience. Tune-in online [is.gd/kJ1EUt].
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
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Futurism & Strange Science
* "Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion" (2020-10-14, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, psfc.mit.edu, via energy-daily.com/reports/Superconductor_technology_for_smaller_sooner_fusion_999.html) [archive.is/K4g1I] [begin excerpt]:
Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS) sparked a new vision for achieving practical fusion energy. This approach, known as the high-field pathway to fusion, aims to generate fusion in compact devices on a shorter timescale and lower cost than alternative approaches.
A key technical challenge to realizing this vision, though, has been getting HTS superconductors to work in an integrated way in the development of new, high-performance superconducting magnets, which will enable higher magnetic fields than previous generations of magnets, and are central to confining and controlling plasma reactions.
Now a team led by MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) and MIT spinout company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has developed and extensively tested an HTS cable technology that can be scaled and engineered into the high-performance magnets. The team's research was published on Oct. 7 in Superconductor Science and Technology. [end excerpt]
- image caption: The assembly designed for the third SULTAN cable test features two 3-meter VIPER HTS cables in parallel and connected with a copper joint at the bottom; cryogenic helium and electrical current are injected at the top. once installed in SULTAN. The outer superstructure provides structural support to react the enormous lateral electromechanical body loads generated within the cables during testing. A unique aspect of this design, provided by the materials and the trapezoidal extension at the mid-plane, is the ability to axial strain the cables during testing to better replicate the conditions that would be experienced by VIPER cables within a high-field magnet.
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* " ‘Clean, limitless’ power, generated by ‘miracle material’ graphene in major breakthrough, but there’s a catch" (2020-10-06, rt.com/news/502681-clean-limitless-power-graphene-catch/) [archive.is/TXz7v]
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* "ESA's force-feedback rover controlled from a nation away" (2020-10-13, Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at ESA, esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Automation_and_Robotics/Human_Robot_Interaction_Lab2, via robodaily.com/reports/ESAs_force_feedback_rover_controlled_from_a_nation_away_999.html) [archive.is/gvT76]
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* "Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own" (2015-08-15, updated 2016-10-19, express.co.uk/news/world/565315/Scientists-at-Large-Hadron-Collider-hope-to-make-contact-with-PARALLEL-UNIVERSE-in-days) [archive.is/ew6gu]
* "Scientists create artificial, ‘living aneurysm’ outside the human brain in extraordinary first" (2020-10-27, rt.com/news/504677-scientists-recreate-living-aneurysm/) [archive.is/yltMu]
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* "Researchers create first ever artificial HUMAN TONGUE in latest 3D printing breakthrough" (2020-10-27, rt.com/news/504697-researchers-recreate-surface-human-tongue/) [archive.is/9yND0]
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* "China to include quantum technology in its 14th Five-Year Plan" (2020-10-21, news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-21/China-to-include-quantum-technology-in-its-14th-Five-Year-Plan-UM1KUlk80M/index.html) [archive.is/0xXG6]
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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang, and can still be observed today, says Nobel winner; Sir Roger Penrose: 'The Big Bang was not the beginning. There was something before, and that something is what we will have in our future' " (2020-10-06, telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/06/earlier-universe-existed-big-bang-can-observed-today/) [archive.is/cJEKV]
Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang, and can still be observed today, says Nobel winner; Sir Roger Penrose: 'The Big Bang was not the beginning. There was something before, and that something is what we will have in our future' " (2020-10-06, telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/06/earlier-universe-existed-big-bang-can-observed-today/) [archive.is/cJEKV]
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* "Astronomers solve riddle of ‘impossible’ galaxy made of 99.99% dark matter" (2020-10-14, rt.com/news/503443-astronomers-unravel-dark-matter-puzzle/) [archive.is/nzwbI]
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* "Signs of planet forming around nascent star upends understanding of world creation timelines" (2020-10-08, rt.com/news/502907-baby-planet-spotted-still-forming/) [archive.is/ZyBUq]
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* "Australian researchers develop new sensor to help detect Earth-like planets" (2020-10-22, xinhuanet.com/english/2020-10/22/c_139459309.htm) [archive.is/q2vrU]
* "Astronomers catalogue 1,000 worlds that can ‘see’ Earth – and are candidates for possible COLONIZATION" (2020-10-23, rt.com/news/504357-astronomers-catalogue-worlds-earth-visible/) [archive.is/JSRAS]
* "Scientists discover 24 ‘superhabitable’ planets that might be BETTER for life than Earth" (2020-10-05, rt.com/news/502624-planets-better-life-than-earth/) [archive.is/lgqVw]
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* "Extremely rare TIME BOMB star system discovered breaking all the rules 8,000 light years from Earth" (2020-10-12, rt.com/news/503214-extremely-rare-time-bomb-star/) [archive.is/fbTQC]
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* "NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon" (2020-10-26, nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sunlit-surface-of-moon/) [archive.is/aUYId]
* "NASA discovers WATER spread out across Moon’s sunlit surface" (2020-10-26, rt.com/news/504630-nasa-water-sunlit-moon-surface/) [archive.is/Cyodj]
* "NASA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon; This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places, said NASA" (2020-10-26, telesurenglish.net/news/NASA-Discovers-Water-on-Sunlit-Surface-of-Moon-20201026-0024.html) [archive.is/mRjoo]
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* "Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield, Protecting Their Atmospheres" (2020-10-15, nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html, via terradaily.com/reports/Earth_and_Moon_Once_Shared_a_Magnetic_Shield_Protecting_Their_Atmospheres_999.html) [archive.is/GWOnh]
* "Magnetic fields on the moon are the remnant of an ancient core dynamo" (2020-10-16, GFZ Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre, gfz-potsdam.de/, via moondaily.com/reports/Magnetic_fields_on_the_moon_are_the_remnant_of_an_ancient_core_dynamo_999.html) [archive.is/gzx1A]
* "Moon's magnetic crust research sees scientists debunk long-held theory" (2020-10-08, curtin.edu.au, via moondaily.com/reports/Moons_magnetic_crust_research_sees_scientists_debunk_long_held_theory_999.html) [archive.is/VuqDv]
[begin excerpt]: Australian researcher and study co-author Dr Katarina Miljkovic, from the Curtin Space Science and Technology Centre, located within the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University, explained how the new research, published by Science Advances, expands on decades of work by other scientists.
"There are two long term hypotheses associated with why the Moon's crust might be magnetic: One is that the magnetisation is the result of an ancient dynamo in the lunar core, and the other is that it's the result of an amplification of the interplanetary magnetic field, created by meteoroid impacts," Dr Miljkovic said.
"Our research is a deep numerical study that challenges that second theory - the impact-related magnetisation - and it essentially 'debunks' it. We found that meteoroid impact plasmas interact much more weakly with the Moon compared to the magnetisation levels obtained from the lunar crust.
"This finding leads us to conclude that a core dynamo is the only plausible source of the magnetisation of the Moon's crust." [end excerpt]
---* "Asteroid Bennu is covered in ‘carbon-bearing, organic material’ consistent with ingredients for LIFE, says NASA" (2020-10-09, rt.com/news/503025-asteroid-bennu-covered-ingredients-life/) [archive.is/eVp6t]
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* " ‘Life on Venus’ plot thickens as new discovery suggests NASA may have found life-indicating gas in 1978, they just forgot" (2020-10-01, rt.com/news/502212-life-on-venus-plot-thickens/) [archive.is/H2fXd]
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NEO Watch
B612 Foundation [b612foundation.org] to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.
* "FIVE asteroids due to buzz Earth in ONE DAY, as scientists claim space rock once robbed up to 60% of planet’s atmosphere" (2020-10-01, rt.com/news/502223-five-asteroids-one-day-nasa/) [archive.is/bQepl]
* "FIVE asteroids en route to Earth in just FOUR days" (2020-10-05, rt.com/news/502594-five-asteroids-en-route-towards-earth/) [archive.is/uW657]
* "NASA asteroid hunters spot flurry of new space rocks headed towards Earth, after identifying mysterious new ‘minimoon’ " (2020-10-12, rt.com/news/503221-asteroid-statue-liberty-minimoon-explained/) [archive.is/geyRj]
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Ancient News
* "Facing the Facts: Just How Accurate Are Facial Reconstructions?" (2019-02-18, ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/facial-reconstructions-0011507) [archive.is/2GmlW]
* "Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right" (2020-04-29, theconversation.com/archaeologists-have-a-lot-of-dates-wrong-for-north-american-indigenous-history-but-were-using-new-techniques-to-get-it-right-129422) [archive.is/kOvTZ]
* "Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world' " (2017-06-15, siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/beavers-teeth-used-to-carve-the-oldest-wooden-statue-in-the-world/) [archive.is/LQuTr] [begin excerpt]:
The moment of the discovery. 2.70 meters high marble statue of the hellenic Goddess Hestia unearthed in Bouleuterion of Aigai, 2017.
* (2020-10-24, facebook.com/megalithicmarvels/posts/994428601038887) [archive.is/6Kyca]: Hidden away in the mountains in between the much more popular megalithic sites of Saqsaywayman & Machu Picchu lies the lesser known Tarawasi (Tarahuasi) site which features this polygonal mortarless wall - one of the greatest #megalithicmarvels in all of Peru.
Megalithic Barabar caves in India
* "Archaeologists find over 800 ancient tombs in north China" (2020-10-22, xinhuanet.com/english/2020-10/22/c_139458913.htm) [archive.is/en0iu]
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Miscellany & Errata
* "WATCH: Colorful fireball blazes across Puerto Rican skies as Google Loon project sparks hundreds of UFO reports" (2020-10-22, rt.com/news/504292-puerto-rico-fireball-ufo-google-loon/) [archive.is/LsT5t]
* "Close encounters of the blurred kind: Popstars Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato report contact with ALIENS" (2020-10-22, rt.com/usa/504245-miley-cyrus-demi-lovato-alien-ufo/) [archive.is/ab3hL]
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Curiata
* "Scientists Find Evidence That Your Brain Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field" (2019-03-18, livescience.com/65018-human-brain-senses-magnetic-field.html) [archive.is/g1LZI]
* "Sixth sense? Scientists claim to have discovered FIRST animal organs that can ‘see’ magnetic fields" (2020-10-01, rt.com/news/502231-eyes-mammals-see-magnetic-fields/) [archive.is/qKdDp]
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* "Mysterious green fireball lights up Mexican skies, rains fire on northern state" (2020-10-07, rt.com/news/502778-fireball-lights-mexico-night-skies/) [archive.is/xDTgd]
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* "World’s largest ‘explosion’ could have been caused by iron asteroid entering and leaving atmosphere" (2020-04-30, siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/worlds-largest-explosion-could-have-been-caused-by-iron-asteroid-entering-and-leaving-atmosphere/) [archive.is/Ap9AA] [begin excerpt]:
Scientists give startling theory for 1908 Tunguska Event in Siberia which had force of 185 Hiroshima bombs.
For decades experts have been baffled by the shattering detonation which wiped out more than 80 million trees over a remote area of the then tsarist empire.
Explanations have focused on a meteor exploding in the atmosphere, a meteorite striking the surface, or a comet composed mainly of ice, yet apart from the wholesale destruction at ground level in an unpopulated area, there is only minuscule evidence of a space object.
In a major new contribution to the scientific debate, Dr. Sergei Karpov, leading researcher at Kirensky Physics Institute in Krasnoyarsk and his peers, argue ‘that the Tunguska event was caused by an iron asteroid body, which passed through the Earth’s atmosphere and continued to the near-solar orbit’.
It was 100 to 200 metres (328 to 656 feet) in diameter. [...]
If the Tunguska space object consisted of iron, it could explain why there are no iron droplets at the epicentre: they simply couldn't reach the planet's surface because of the speed of the space body in the atmosphere and its surface temperature exceeding 'several thousands of degrees Celsius. [end excerpt]
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* "Comet’s final run over Solano County" (2020-07-23, timesheraldonline.com/2020/07/23/comets-final-run-over-solano-county/) [archive.is/6g8ek]: The comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE can be seen under the rainbow of the Mother Earth sculpture in Fairfield. The comet was spotted by astronomers using the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope on March 27 and will be visible to a keen eye, just below the Big Dipper in the northwestern sky for the next few days.
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Ancient News
* "Facing the Facts: Just How Accurate Are Facial Reconstructions?" (2019-02-18, ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/facial-reconstructions-0011507) [archive.is/2GmlW]
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* "The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago" (2019-10-25, ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ancient-navigation-00963) [archive.is/T2kZD]
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* "Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right" (2020-04-29, theconversation.com/archaeologists-have-a-lot-of-dates-wrong-for-north-american-indigenous-history-but-were-using-new-techniques-to-get-it-right-129422) [archive.is/kOvTZ]
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* "DNA of pre-historic puppy, found in Yakutia, to be analyzed in Denmark; Scientists want to find out whether the puppy was a dog, a wolf or their common progenitor" (2020-10-12, tass.com/science/1211285) [archive.is/r7hnP]
* "Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists" (2019-11-25, siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/amazingly-preserved-puppy-with-its-whiskers-eyelashes-hair-and-velvety-nose-intact-puzzle-scientists/) [archive.is/aIehq] [begin excerpt]:
Fedorov's words echoed the excited tweet by the Swedish scientists who said: ‘Dave Stanton* is working on this specimen together with Pontus Skoglund**.
‘It's 18k years old! So far, we have sequenced it's genome to 2X coverage. But we still can't say if it's a wolf or a dog. Maybe it's the common ancestor? More sequencing needed!’
The assumption is that this can be a puppy of either a wolf, a dog, or the so-called wolfdog/early dog, a transitional stage from a wolf to a dog.
The puppy was christened Dogor which in Yakut means ‘Friend’ but in English plays beautifully into a question of what is it, a Dog or…..? [end excerpt]
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*Dave Stanton is from Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History.
**Pontus Skoglund (born 3 March 1984) is a Swedish population geneticist, currently at the Francis Crick Institute and formerly at Harvard Medical School.
Gray wolves and dogs diverged from an extinct wolf species some 15,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Last summer, research reported in Nature Communications pushed likely dates for domestication further back into the past, suggesting that dogs were domesticated just once at least 20,000 but likely closer to 40,000 years ago.
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Studying the Idol, he believed the tool is consistent with its markings, 'for example when making holes more circular', said Svetlana Panina, head of the archaeology department at Sverdlovsk Regional Local History Museum.
The idol was put on a stone basement, not dug in the ground, said Zhilin.
It stood like this for around 50 years before falling into a pond, and was later covered in turf.
The peat preserved it as if in a time capsule. [end excerpt]
- image caption: 'This is a masterpiece, carrying gigantic emotional value and force'. Pictures: The Siberian Times, Svetlana Savchenko
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* "Group thinks it has found proof of 10,000-year-old, Ice Age culture in Straits of Mackinac" (2020-10-14, freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/14/straits-mackinac-ice-age-culture-native-american-tribes/5978992002/) [archive.is/aXEH1]
* "Ancient stone patterns in Straits of Mackinac add new wrinkle to Line 5 pipeline debate" (2020-10-15, AP newswire, via greatlakesnow.org/2020/10/ap-ancient-stone-patterns-straits-mackinac-line-5-pipeline/) [archive.is/cU3NX]
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* "Ancient ‘megasites’ may reshape the history of the first cities; Some early urban areas may have been spread out and socially egalitarian" (2020-02-19, sciencenews.org/article/ancient-urban-megasites-may-reshape-history-first-cities) [archive.is/P2MGn]
- image caption: Farmland in Ukraine now covers most of an ancient settlement called Nebelivka that some researchers consider to be one of the earliest known cities. Here, Nebelivka’s site plan is superimposed over where it once stood.
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* "Archaeologists Say 'Bulgarian Atlantis' Older Than The Pyramids" (2020-10-25, rferl.org/a/archaeologists-say-bulgarian-atlantis-older-than-the-pyramids/30908943.html) [archive.is/VP7hl]
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* "The role psychedelics played in the origins of Western civilization" (2020-10-24, kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/ancient-greece-psychedelics-mental-health-therapy/brian-muraresku-psychedelics-greeks-romans-christians-immortality) [archive.is/BeLBm]
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* "What Happened in Eden? Alternative Translation Tells a Very Different Story" (2020-02-17, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/garden-of-eden-021833) [archive.is/HOH8s]
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* "6,500-year-old copper workshop shows ancient Beersheba was a hub for cutting-edge tech; The furnace used to process copper purchased from present-day Jordan may have been a local invention, but even if the technology was imported, Beersheba played an "important role in the global metal revolution," says Professor Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University" (2020-10-13, israelhayom.com/2020/10/13/6500-year-old-copper-workshop-shows-ancient-beersheba-was-a-hub-for-cutting-edge-tech/) [archive.is/ALNgh]
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* "TeslaPyramids.com - Egypt's Pyramids are a series of resonant transformers harmonically balanced to the electrical condition of the Earth" (teslapyramids.com/) [archive.is/wwV9I], [archive.is/2FqLo]
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* "Teenage Girl’s Skeleton Discovered Beside Meidum, a Bizarrely Shaped Ancient Egyptian Pyramid" (2019-02-14, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/meidum-pyramid-0011476) [archive.is/lPWud]
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* "2,000 year old mummified ‘sleeping beauty’ dressed in silk emerges from Siberian reservoir" (2018-06-22, siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/2000-year-old-mummified-sleeping-beauty-dressed-in-silk-emerges-from-siberian-reservoir/) [archive.is/NL1z1]
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* "6 Ways Roman Engineers Were Way Ahead of Their Time" (2020-10-10, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/roman-engineer-0014380) [archive.is/PMZWe]
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* "Rare Coin Celebrating Caesar’s Assassination Might Fetch £5 Million" (2020-10-10, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/assassination-coin-0014381) [archive.is/AS0Ia]
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* "Study finds 2000-year-old brain material in Vesuvius victim" (2020-10-08, news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-08/Study-finds-2000-year-old-brain-material-in-Vesuvius-victim-UpDxliAY0M/index.html) [archive.is/pQkAh]
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The moment of the discovery. 2.70 meters high marble statue of the hellenic Goddess Hestia unearthed in Bouleuterion of Aigai, 2017.
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* "The Glastonbury Giant: Who Did the Mystery Bones of A Nine Foot Skeleton Belong To?" (2019-02-07, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/glastonbury-giant-0011444) [archive.is/dxucf]
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* "Giant Cat Geoglyph Found Near the Mysterious Nazca Lines" (2020-10-17, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/cat-geoglyph-0014413) [archive.is/coeCV]
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* " ‘Astounding new finds’ suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight"(2020-02-27, sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/astounding-new-finds-suggest-ancient-empire-may-be-hiding-plain-sight) [archive.is/nYvy1]
- image caption: eotihuacan was once a bustling, cosmopolitan metropolis, the center of an empire whose reach may have extended 1000 kilometers away to the Maya region.
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* "The Ancient Pyramid City of Túcume" (2020-10-20, heritagedaily.com/2020/10/the-ancient-pyramid-city-of-tucume/135885) [archive.is/jtKWt]
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* "Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters Maya imported zeolite and quartz to filter drinking water" (2020-10-22, University of Cincinnati, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201022151741.htm) [archive.is/kZoif], synopsis: Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to new research. A multidisciplinary team of anthropologists, geographers and biologists identified quartz and zeolite, a crystalline compound consisting of silicon and aluminum, that created a natural molecular sieve. Both minerals are used in modern water filtration.
* "Ancient Maya water purification system developed over 2,000 years ago in Guatemala 'would still work today', study shows" (2020-10-26, dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8879775/Archaeology-Ancient-Maya-water-purification-developed-Guatemala-work-today.html) [archive.is/bXia3], synopsis:
US experts discovered evidence of the system in Tikal's Corriental reservoir. They found quartz and zeolite — which are still used today in filtration systems. Such minerals could filter out heavy metals, microbes and toxins from water. The team traced the crystalline compounds to ridges 18 miles to the northeast.
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* (2020-10-24, facebook.com/megalithicmarvels/posts/994428601038887) [archive.is/6Kyca]: Hidden away in the mountains in between the much more popular megalithic sites of Saqsaywayman & Machu Picchu lies the lesser known Tarawasi (Tarahuasi) site which features this polygonal mortarless wall - one of the greatest #megalithicmarvels in all of Peru.
- [comment]: look at the difference in craftsmanship between the rocks on top and the rocks on bottom. What if the older civilizations we know of actually inherited these abandoned structures and added on to them? You would have to otherwise assume that these younger generations lost the ability to "carve" which to you is a simple technique. Also you must acknowledge the fact that they didn't have iron, or any hardened metals. So carving large numbers of stones that are extremely hard to such precision would be more difficult than you could imagine.
- [comment]: I am deeply impressed with the technology this picture represents. However, it doesn't scare me like this one below, of a moment in time and an interrupted activity.
And then there is this one, clearly showing the depth of the mud flow that interrupted the smoothing going on.
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* "Why is the global climatic cataclysm of the sixth century virtually unheard of?" (2014-02-19, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/why-global-climatic-cataclysm-sixth-century-virtually-unheard-001360) [archive.is/zTkQ2]
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* "Boy, 11, finds ‘1,000 year old message’ written in runes on pendant made of mammoth bone" (2018-07-15, siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/boy-11-finds-1000-year-old-message-written-in-runes-on-pendant-made-of-mammoth-bone/) [archive.is/023uK]:
Pavel Yakovlev makes ‘great scientific discovery’ near his village in Yakutia.
‘If it is confirmed that this bone found in Namsky district is genuine, it will be a great scientific discovery for the republic.'
The fifth grade student discovered the ‘jewellery’ decorated with ancient Turkic runic inscriptions.
The four words are believed to be in the Orkhon-Yenisei type script.
Such writings are normally found in rock art in Yakutia, also known as Sakha Republic, the world’s coldest region and the largest within the Russian Federation.
Academic Ninel Malysheva said: 'Runes rarely occur on such things as talismans and amulets.
‘If it is confirmed that this bone found in Namsky district is genuine, it will be a great scientific discovery for the republic.
‘A comprehensive study is now required involving paleontologists, archaeologists and Turkologists.’
Studies on exact dating and decoding the inscription are underway at the Museum of Writing, part of the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU).
One theory is that the words express ‘good wishes’, but scientists hope to find the exact meaning.
Pavel’s village is some 100 kilometres north of Yakutsk, the regional capital, and the world’s coldest city.
Another example of Turkic runes in Yaktutia is the so-called Petrov inscription.
It is a writing made using ocher some 200 km from Yakutsk.
It is known as the most northerly rune inscription in the world.
Researchers in the middle of the last century believed that the inscription indicated the location of medieval treasure.
A literal translation is said to read: 'Pearls of the tribe Az.’
Such Turkic scripts date back 1,000 years or more. |
The Old Turkic script - also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisei script - is the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates during the 8th to 10th centuries.
The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early 8th century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition by Nikolai Yadrintsev.
These Orkhon inscriptions were published by Vasily Radlov and deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893.
This writing system was later used within the Uyghur Khaganate.
Additionally, a Siberian variant is known from 9th century Yenisei Kirghiz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian alphabet of the 10th century. Words were usually written from right to left.
Yakut runic letters are the least studied in Siberia.
They provoke heated discussions among the linguists and Turkologists.
But most new finds of inscriptions are made in Yakutia.
Now the total number all Yakutian finds is close to 90.
Most runic inscriptions of Yakutia have not yet been deciphered.
- [comment]: With Gokturkic reading:
"Edec ökuv ag bol" . Last two words mean in Turkish/Turkic "becomes white/become good"
Edec I think possibly means "something being used" pointing two talisman itself.
Okuv, possibly something connecting to "O kim"; meaning whoever in Turkish/ic
So meaning: Whoever uses this becomes good.
My take as a Turk living in Turkey
- [comments thread]:
Those look more like futhark than anything else....
They are not Futhark, they are Orkhon which was used to write Old Turkic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet
odins country is calles “land of az”. One more connection between vikings and turks
Read Snorri Sturlasson: Odin was a Tyrk, his people was called Tyrker, he came from Tyrkland.
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* "Viking King Buried With a Pillow and Fine Silk, New Study Confirms" (2020-10-09, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-burial-textiles-0014376) [archive.is/8RDc4]
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* "Enigmatic symbols and carvings in man-made cave in England confound experts" (2014-12-16, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/enigmatic-symbols-and-carvings-man-made-cave-england-confound-experts-002457) [archive.is/aYiyn]
- image caption: The mysterious and elaborately carved walls of Royston Cave.
- image caption: Plate I from Joseph Beldam's book The Origins and Use of the Royston Cave, 1884 showing some of the numerous carvings.
* "Drolleries of the Middle Ages Included Comical Yet Sinister Killer Rabbits and Erotic Art" (2019-04-06, ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/drolleries-0011705) [archive.is/XLjXp]
* "Hereford Mappa Mundi: Legendary Cities, Monstrous Races, and Curious Medieval Beasts" (2020-10-09, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/hereford-mappa-mundi-020328) [archive.is/PugRS]
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Megalithic Barabar caves in India
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- map caption: The fossil found on the exact same site in Germany as several other Archaeopteryx skeletons.
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Dr Denis V. Axenov-Gribanov, a leading specialist at the same institute, said: 'One of the features of Siberian caves is that they are rather cold, only 2 to 4C.
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Selenite Treasure Chest 💎 How cool is this massive Selenite formation
Photo by: Celestial Groove Collection
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