Thee Stranger News: December 2020

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Thee Stranger News (December 31st, 2020)

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, 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

* "He’s back: LA’s enigmatic ‘Jetpack Man’ spotted AGAIN soaring thousands of feet over California coast, FAA remains baffled" (2020-12-25, rt.com/usa/510707-la-jetpack-man-video/) [archive.is/xVKL1]

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* "Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees" (2020-12-24, by National Research Council of Science & Technology, via phys.org/news/2020-12-korean-artificial-sun-world-sec-long.amp) [archive.is/GV5p7]

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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]

* "Researchers identify over 109,000 impact craters on moon" (2020-12-26, news.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-26/Researchers-identify-over-109-000-impact-craters-on-moon-WwKMEAqBC8/index.html) [archive.is/ibVHW]

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Ancient News

* "Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2020" (2020-12-26, ancient-origins.net/news-general/top-10-archaeological-discoveries-0014720) [archive.is/TLXHi]

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* "Why Christmas is Held on December 25th" (2020-12-26, ancient-origins.net/news-general/why-christmas-held-25th-december-001161) [archive.is/Fjbld]

* "Jesus’ Birthplace And The Holy Land’s Ancient Pilgrimage Routes" (2020-12-24, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/jesus-birthplace-0014714) [archive.is/iNPXW]

* "Ancient Eulogia Token Depicts An Unusual Nativity Scene" (2020-12-25, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/nativity-scene-0014715) [archive.is/Egwkw]

- image caption: An ancient token depicting the Nativity scene from the Israel Museum.

* "An Ox, an Ass … a Dragon? Sorry, there were no Animals in the Bible’s Nativity Scene" (2020-12-24, ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/no-animals-bible-nativity-scene-009313) [archive.is/f63NQ]

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* "Be Merrie All: Medieval Christmas Celebrations" (2020-12-23, ancient-origins.net/history/christmas-0014710) [archive.is/g9IOx]

* "The Ancient Origins of Santa Claus" (2020-012-24, ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-origins-santa-claus-001137) [archive.is/wFabj]

* "The Holly and the Mistletoe: Ancient Roots of Christmas Symbols" (2020-12-22, ancient-origins.net/news-general/ancient-roots-christmas-customs-001162) [archive.is/N5GiK]

* "Saturnalia: The December Festival of Joy and Merriment in Ancient Rome" (2020-12-17, ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/saturnalia-ancient-rome-004963) [archive.is/mWIxC]

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* "More Hope For 'The True Holy Nail'?" (2020-12-24, ancient-origins.net/news-general/holy-nail-0014711) [archive.is/p6s2N]

* " 'Nail from Christ's crucifixion' is found inside box inscribed with 'Jesus is King' in a hidden chamber of Czech monastery" (2020-12-22, dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9079801/Nail-Christs-crucifixion-inside-box-inscribed-Jesus-King-Czech-monastery.html) [archive.is/VlQON], synopsis:

A secret chamber was discovered beneath a monastery in the Czech Republic.

Archaeologists found an ancient wooden box adorned with a gold plate.

The plate was inscribe with the letters 'IR' that translates to 'Jesus is King'.

Inside the box was a six-inch nail that allegedly comes from Christ's cross.

Experts are set to have the nail verified for authenticity sometime next year.

- image caption: Archaeologists working in the Milevsko monastery in the Czech Republic unearthed the six-inch long piece of nail inside a box adorned with a 21-karat gold cross. The box was built between 260 and 416 AD and is inscribed with the letters 'IR,' which translates to 'Jesus is King'

* image (2020-12-21, https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/archeologove-zrejme-nasli-v-milevsku-cast-hrebu-z-kristova-krize/1973973) [archive.is/1UxXj], caption: On December 21, 2020, an exceptional archaeological discovery, one of the rarest Christian relics, a box with a cut off part of the nail from the Right Cross (pictured), the cross on which Christ died, was presented in the Milev Monastery in Písek.

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* "Archaeologists find 1,000-year-old Christian jewellery mould" (2020-07-21, swissinfo.ch/eng/archaeologists-find-1-000-year-old-christian-jewellery-mould/45917948) [archive.is/QrgPG]

- image caption: The mould is just 9 centimetres long.

* "Does This Ancient Mold Depict Christ Or Odin? You Decide" (2020-07-25, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/christ-or-odin-mold-0014027) [archive.is/GKAE5]

- image caption: Engravings on the back side of the artifact with the raven symbol at the top.

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* "Excavating Pompeii" (video, 2020-12-27, newsus.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-27/Excavating-Pompeii-Wygr3u3JFS/index.html) [archive.is/khfJk]

* "Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii" (2020-12-26, reuters.com/article/italy-pompeii/archaeologists-uncover-ancient-street-food-shop-in-pompeii-idUSKBN2900D3) [archive.is/2C2eA]

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* "New Tech Reveals Origin Of Egyptian Mummies’ Skin Color" (2020-12-17, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/egyptian-mummies-0014687) [archive.is/0rnal]

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* "Lost Great Pyramid Relic Surfaces In A Cigar Box in Scotland!" (2020-12-17, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/pyramid-relic-0014685) [archive.is/1t2a2]

* "Great Pyramid: Lost Egyptian artefact found in Aberdeen cigar box" (2020-12-16, bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55315623) [archive.is/tlb9e]

* "Lost artefact from Great Pyramid of Giza found in cigar box in Aberdeen; Wooden fragment from at least 3000BC discovered by chance by Egyptian university researcher" (2020-12-16, theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/16/lost-artefact-from-great-pyramid-of-giza-found-in-cigar-box-in-aberdeen) [archive.is/5usGU]

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* "3300-year-old baboon skull may tell of mysterious ancient kingdom" (2020-12-15, sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/3300-year-old-baboon-skull-may-tell-mysterious-ancient-kingdom) [archive.is/VthYR]

* "Baboon Skull Could Lead to the Long Lost Land of Punt" (2020-12-17, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/baboon-skull-0014683) [archive.is/DV1M4]

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* "New Evidence Suggests Early Humans HIBERNATED In Caves, Like Bears" (2020-12-21, ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/human-hibernation-0014700) [archive.is/LHDc0]

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* "How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC) // Prehistoric Europe Documentary" (2020-01-26, youtube.com/watch?v=DECwfQQqRzo) [archive.is/DZKhQ]

* "Human and cervid osseous materials used for barbed point manufacture in Mesolithic Doggerland" (sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X20304697) [archive.is/crwQV]

* "Ancient European Hunters Carved Human Bones Into Weapons Scientists suggest 10,000-year-old barbed points washed up on Dutch beaches were made for cultural reasons" (2020-12-21, smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-european-hunters-carved-human-bones-weapons-180976570/) [archive.is/N9AwC]

* "Stone Age Peoples Made Bone Arrowheads - From Human Bones!" (2020-12-22, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/bone-arrowheads-0014706) [archive.is/YO1t2] [begin excerpt]:

Revealing the Lost Secrets of Doggerland

Approximately 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, rising sea levels fed by melting glaciers submerged the land bridge that once connected the British Isles with mainland Europe, which scientists have named Doggerland. Little did anyone realize that archaeological treasures were lying buried on the bottom of the North Sea as a result of this deluge, in the form of artifacts left behind by hunter-gatherers who roamed the area during the last Ice Age.

These treasures remained hidden and inaccessible for thousands of years, until human ingenuity intervened. The 20th century invention of deep sea mechanical dredgers allowed engineers to scoop out tons of material from the bottom of the North Sea, which was then used to rebuild and refortify the eroding shoreline of the Netherlands.

Mixed in with the muck were an impressive collection of fossils and human-crafted artifacts, fascinating remnants that could potentially reveal new details about the lost nomadic lifestyle of the hunter-gatherers who populated Stone Age (Mesolithic Era) Doggerland. These artifacts were found scattered across Dutch beaches, where they were eagerly harvested by archaeologists, anthropologists, fossil hunters, and other interested parties. Among these artifacts were some small, sharp, pointed weapons that had been crafted from bone, presumably for placement on hunting tools like arrows, spears, and harpoons.

The bone points in themselves weren’t an eye-opening discovery, since similar pointed weapons had been found at other sites in Europe and Asia. The difference was that instead of being excavated during scientific explorations, they’d simply appeared almost as a form of refuse, casually and haphazardly strewn across the North Sea beach sand by dredging operations. Perhaps because of the way they’d been discovered, over the years little serious research had been performed to investigate their properties.

That is, until the Leiden University research team of decided to apply sophisticated molecular measuring techniques to determine the animal sources of the recovered arrowheads. These techniques can identify specific protein markers or signatures that are unique to each animal species, including human beings.

The scientists weren’t sure if proteins would remain intact and un-degraded in bones that had been sunken in undersea mud for thousands of years. As it turns out, proteins can stay intact inside bones that have been preserved in this unique way, and when the Leiden researchers analyzed the bone points closely they discovered something unexpected. While most of the points were made from the bones of ancient red deer , a species common to the Doggerland region during the Mesolithic Era, two of the pointed weapons tested were found to have been carved from human bone fragments. [end excerpt]

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* "Miners Strike Ice Age Gold Finding a Mummified Wolf Cub" (2020-12-23, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/mummified-animal-0010722) [archive.is/HPIeA]

- image caption: Mummified wolf cub found in Yukon.

- image caption: In 1993, Sam Olynyk, Lee Olynyk and Ron Toewes found at Last Chance Creek, near Dawson City, the then most complete and best-preserved specimen of a mummified extinct animal in Canada, the Equus lambei or Yukon horse.

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* "Spectacular Ice Age rock paintings found in Colombian rainforest; Archaeologists have discovered tens of thousands of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans in a remote area of Colombia. Some now-extinct animals are depicted, meaning the art is likely more than 12,500 years old" (2020-12-21, dw.com/en/spectacular-ice-age-rock-paintings-found-in-colombian-rainforest/a-55960718) [archive.is/VSzCN]

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* "Ancient DNA Is Changing How We Think About the Caribbean; New research delivers surprising findings about Indigenous people in the region before contact with Europeans" (2020-12-23, nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opinion/dna-caribbean-genocide.html) [archive.is/Ovxo7]

* "DNA Study Rewrites Caribbean Population History" (2020-12-24, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/caribbean-dna-0014712) [archive.is/zM9do]

- image caption: The Caribbean Ceramic Age people had a different genetic profile, most similar to Arawak-speaking groups in northeast South America, and this is the type of pottery they created.

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* "Craniums and Controversies of the Chachapoya Cloud Warriors" (2020-12-16, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/chachapoya-0014682) [archive.is/VXZ3d]

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* "Hard Evidence of Neolithic Little People In Scotland, Hawaii, Indonesia…" (2020-12-25, ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/little-people-0014716) [archive.is/luB72]

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* "Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology | Adrienne Mayor" (2020-03-07, Long Now Foundation, via youtube.com/watch?v=czj-7G6JzbQ) [archive.is/prm0B]

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* "Latvia’s Enigmatic Virtaka Cliff and Mysterious Gauja River Petroglyphs" (2020-12-26, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/virtaka-cliff-0014719) [archive.is/7DhUF]

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* "Famous Dogs in History, from Ancient Greece until Today" (2020-12-24, ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/famous-dogs-0014713) [archive.is/Xk9Bm]

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* "Spitalfields Roman Woman Reveals London’s Multicultural, Morbid Past" (2020-12-16, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-woman-0014681) [archive.is/mDZtg]

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* "Medieval treasure trove ‘belonging to princess’ found in cornfield following tip off from village priest" (2020-12-21, thefirstnews.com/article/medieval-treasure-trove-belonging-to-princess-found-in-cornfield-following-tip-off-from-village-priest-18571) [archive.is/My0jp]

- image caption: The medieval riches are rumoured to have belonged to a Ruthenian princess and sister-in-law of 12-century Polish king Bolesław the Wrymouth were discovered in the small village of Słuszków. Atlas of Wrocław Architecture, ed. J. Harasimowicz

* "The Polish Princess, The Priest and the Treasure" (2020-12-22, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/princess-treasure-0014707) [archive.is/WJHsE] [begin excerpt]:

This rare 12th century treasure hoard included coins and jewelry belonging to a famous Ruthenian princess, who was the sister-in-law of the medieval Polish ruler , Bolesław the Wrymouth, who commanded over the whole of what is today Poland between 1107 and 1138 AD. A First News article says researchers at the Polish Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, at the Polish Academy of Sciences, call the discovery “extraordinary.” Their reason for choosing this specific word is because of the bizarre circumstances leading up to the discovery. [...]

Over 6,500 silver coins placed in linen pouches were found strewn among silver ingots: gold rings and wedding bands . The archaeologist said one pot was “filled to the brim with denarii,” Roman silver coins that were minted from around 211 BC. A Cyrillic inscription on one of the rings was translated to “Lord, may you help your servant Maria,” and this was what identified the hoard as belonging to the Ruthenian “Princess Maria,” sister-in-law of 12-century Polish king Bolesław the Wrymouth. This is why researchers at the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences are calling the find “one of the most intriguing treasures in Poland.” [end excerpt]

- image caption: A pot was found filled with Roman denarii. (Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

- image caption: The discovery was made by archaeologist Dr Adam Kędzierski from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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* "Names of warriors from the Temple of Jaguars in Chichen Itza deciphered" (2020-12-19, theyucatantimes.com/2020/12/names-of-warriors-from-the-temple-of-jaguars-in-chichen-itza-deciphered/) [archive.is/odbu3]

* "Maya Elite List Deciphered At The Temple Of Jaguars" (2020-12-22, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/temple-jaguars-0014705) [archive.is/O8ljr]

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* "Earliest Evidence of Hardcore Horseback Riding in China" (2020-12-21, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/horseback-riding-china-0014701) [archive.is/IzEaV]

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* "Surprise Discovery of a Headless 'Buddha' Statue Beneath Chinese Apartments" (2020-12-19, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/buddha-statue-0014694) [archive.is/279kr]

* "Huge Headless Buddha Statue Found Propping Up Apartment Block In China" (2020-12-10, archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/12/huge-headless-buddha-statue-found.html) [archive.is/VyAn9]

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* "Revealing The Hellenistic Origins Of Jaffa, The Holiest Port" (2020-12-19, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/jaffa-0014696) [archive.is/bMaul]

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* "French customs seizes 27,000 looted archaeological artefacts; The “priceless” pieces were found at a Frenchman’s Belgian home and the “collector” in question now faces huge fines and a prison sentence" (2020-12-17, connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-customs-seizes-27-000-looted-archaeological-artefacts-found-at-collector-home-in-Belgium) [archive.is/6I8rq]

* "French Treasure Hunter Caught With 27000 Illegal Artifacts In Belgium!" (2020-12-19, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/illegal-artifacts-0014693) [archive.is/j7szT]

- image caption: A rare hollow copper Roman dodecahedron like this one was also found in the “thief’s” home in Belgium.

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* "A Sacred Light in the Darkness: Surprising Winter Solstice Illuminations at Spanish Missions" (2020-12-19, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/winter-solstice-illuminations-021133) [archive.is/YEMdj]

- image caption: The 2007 midwinter solstice illumination of the main altar tabernacle of Old Mission San Juan Bautista, California.

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* image showing Megalithic Baalbek in Lebanon

* "San Francisco's bizarre history of (literally) moving houses" (2020-12-17, sfgate.com/local/article/San-Francisco-bizarre-history-of-moving-houses-15803776.php) [archive.is/7HP2J]

- image caption: "Biggest Moving Job on Record." The Newton J. Tharp Commercial School being moved in San Francisco in 1913.

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Miscellany & Errata

* "Your complete guide to UFOs, mysterious deaths and space-time anomalies in Russia" (2020-03-30, rbth.com/history/331919-ufo-anomaly-dyatlov-mystery-russia) [archive.is/uCxji]

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* "Monolith mania moves to San Francisco after mysterious GINGERBREAD structure spotted" (2020-12-26, rt.com/usa/510780-san-francisco-gingerbread-monolith/) [archive.is/bz17f]

* "Ephemeral edible: gingerbread monolith appears on San Francisco hilltop, then collapses; Christmas day sweet sighting in Corona Heights park attracted visitors who took pictures and even took a bite" (2020-12-26, theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/26/gingerbread-monolith-san-francisco-hilltop-collapses) [archive.is/Dwgz9]

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* "A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon; The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?" (2019-08-05, wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/) [archive.is/T2xxh]

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* "13 Scientists Say—in a Real Journal!—There's a Black Hole at the Center of Earth; They're trolling us ... we think. But how the hell did this get published?" (2020-09-28, popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a34166354/black-hole-center-of-earth-fake-study/) [archive.is/Daeqm]

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Curiata

* "Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer" (2020-11-20, youtube.com/watch?v=-hlQHYtncww) [archive.is/l95rU]
* "How The F Does a Mushroom Play Eurorack Modular Synthesizer? I try my best to explain" (2020-12-19, youtube.com/watch?v=SKUNk8AQ-54) [archive.is/A34FY]

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* "Crows Are Self-Aware and 'Know What They Know,' Just Like Humans; Almost no other species has that kind of higher intelligence" (2020-09-28, popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34165311/crows-are-self-aware-like-humans/) [archive.is/UsgKa], synopsis:

In a study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds of firing sensory analytical neurons.

Crows can do jobs, share knowledge, and even ritualistically mourn their dead.

What this new study suggests is still being interpreted in the scientific community.

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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Thee Stranger News (December 24th, 2020)

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

* "Researchers Have Achieved Sustained Long-Distance Quantum Teleportation; The breakthrough, made by researchers at Caltech, Fermilab and NASA, among others, is a step towards a practical quantum internet" (2020-12-17, vice.com/en/article/93wqep/researchers-have-achieved-sustained-long-distance-quantum-teleportation) [archive.is/RC2Sd]

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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]

* "Something out there? Scientists may have detected radio emissions from a distant exoplanet for the first time ever" (2020-12-17, rt.com/news/509938-radio-signal-exoplanet-detected/) [archive.is/lUHq7]

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* "Massive ‘dark vortex’ storm on Neptune just changed direction without warning and scientists don’t know why" (2020-12-17, rt.com/news/509959-neptunes-dark-vortex-sudden-change/) [archive.is/PIFTf]
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* "Japan's space agency finds ample soil, gas from asteroid" (2020-12-15, AP newswire, via sfgate.com/news/article/Japan-space-agency-finds-ample-soil-gas-from-15802123.php) [archive.is/OghNj]

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Ancient News

* "Carbon-14-dated dinosaur bones are less than 40,000 years old" (newgeology.us/presentation48.html) [archive.is/LXYQh] [begin excerpt]: Researchers have found a reason for the puzzling survival of soft tissue and DNA fragments in dinosaur bones - the bones are younger than anyone ever guessed. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating of multiple samples of bone from 8 dinosaurs found in Texas, Alaska, Colorado, and Montana revealed that they are only 22,000 to 39,000 years old.

Members of the Paleochronology group presented their findings at the 2012 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Singapore, August 13-17, a conference of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). [...]

Dr. Thomas Seiler, a physicist from Germany, gave the presentation in Singapore. He said that his team and the laboratories they employed took special care to avoid contamination. That included protecting the samples, avoiding cracked areas in the bones, and meticulous pre-cleaning of the samples with chemicals to remove possible contaminants. Knowing that small concentrations of collagen can attract contamination, they compared precision Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) tests of collagen and bioapatite (hard carbonate bone mineral) with conventional counting methods of large bone fragments from the same dinosaurs. "Comparing such different molecules as minerals and organics from the same bone region, we obtained concordant C-14 results which were well below the upper limits of C-14 dating. These, together with many other remarkable concordances between samples from different fossils, geographic regions and stratigraphic positions make random contamination as origin of the C-14 unlikely".

The theoretical limit for C-14 dating is 100,000 years using AMS, but for practical purposes it is 45,000 to 55,000 years, depending on the type of equipment. The half-life of C-14 is 5730 years. If dinosaur bones are 65 million years old, there should not be one atom of C-14 left in them.

Clearly something is wrong with the conventional wisdom about dinosaur bones, but it has been hard to reach the public with the information. Despite being simple test results without any interpretation, they were not allowed to be presented in conference proceedings by the 2009 North American Paleontological Convention, the American Geophysical Union in 2011 and 2012, the Geological Society of America in 2011 and 2012, and by the editors of various scientific journals. On one occasion, they were allowed to display a poster (newgeology.us/Carbon-14 comparison.pdf) [is.gd/a8JPq5]. The information was finally published in an online journal on January 3, 2020 (researchopenworld.com/the-search-for-solutions-to-mysterious-anomalies-in-the-geologic-column/) [archive.is/Clelg], presenting the Carbon-14 data from dinosaur bones alongside similar data from other material in the geologic column. [...]

Many dinosaur bones are not petrified. Dr. Mary Schweitzer, paleobiology researcher and professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University, surprised scientists in 2005 when she reported finding soft tissue in dinosaur bones. She started a firestorm of controversy in 2007 and 2008 when she reported that she had sequenced proteins in dinosaur bone.

Critics charged that the findings were mistaken or that what she called soft tissue was really biofilm produced by bacteria that had entered from outside the bone. Schweitzer answered the challenge by testing with antibodies. Her report in 2009 confirmed the presence of collagen and other proteins that bacteria do not make. [...]

Schweitzer wondered why such materials are preserved when all the models say they should be degraded. She coauthored a paper published in 2014 proposing that there is a role for iron in preserving proteins in fossil tissues (royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.2741) [archive.is/p4uk6]. However, iron is not always present in dinosaur soft tissue. Jasmina Wiemann coauthored a paper published in 2018 proposing a different solution to the problem: polymerization of proteins in oxidative settings (nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07013-3) [archive.is/JtB9o]. A 2019 report in Science magazine explained more about these findings (science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/176) [archive.is/6ZQ4g] (science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/176.full) [archive.is/GK4wc], showing that although the protein structure in selected dinosaur bones was changed, their organic material is apparently original. Yet the associated brown and black bones and residues constitute only a portion of the preserved organics in dinosaur bones, as described by Brian Thomas (http://newgeology.us/Preserving%20organics%20in%20deep%20time.pdf) [is.gd/gRx8m5].

However it is preserved, if the original organic material in dinosaur bones is less than 55,000 years old it could reasonably be expected to contain measurable Carbon-14, and so it does. For years, until their access was blocked, the Paleochronology group had AMS laboratories conduct Carbon-14 tests on dinosaur bones. The tests yielded dates in the range of 22,000 to 39,000 years before present. [end excerpt]

- The Data: Carbon-14 in dinosaur bones (newgeology.us/Dinosaur%20radiocarbon%20data.docx) [is.gd/fjOCd1]

- View laboratory reports: UGAMS-11752,a (newgeology.us/UGAMS-11752,a.pdf) [is.gd/GlNW8c]; UGAMS-9891,9893 (newgeology.us/UGAMS-9891,92,93.pdf) [is.gd/5A0vji]; UGAMS-8824 (newgeology.us/UGAMS-8824a.pdf) [is.gd/CjDn2i]; UGAMS-7509a/b (newgeology.us/UGAMS-7509a,b.pdf) [is.gd/QadZdd]; UGAMS-04973a (newgeology.us/UGAMS-04973a.pdf) [is.gd/fzQ2Lk]; UGAMS-02947 (newgeology.us/UGAMS-02947.pdf) [is.gd/ToBkHf]; UGAMS-03228a,b (newgeology.us/UGAMS-03228a,c.pdf) [is.gd/vaPfvR]; GX-32678 (newgeology.us/GX-32678-AMS.pdf) [is.gd/gbrnpG]; UGAMS-01935/01936/01937 (newgeology.us/UGAMS-01935-37.pdf) [is.gd/V0bQtJ]; GX-32739 (newgeology.us/GX-32739.pdf) [is.gd/fXfJVY]; GX-32372 (newgeology.us/GX-32372-AMS.pdf) [is.gd/uhRlNS]; GX-32647 (newgeology.us/GX-32647.pdf) [is.gd/tUPskd]; GX-15155-A,-A-AMS (newgeology.us/GX-15155-A-AMS.jpg) [archive.is/CACEb]; AA-5786 (newgeology.us/AA-5786.pdf) [is.gd/2gjCaS].

* "Original Cartilage and Evidence of DNA Preserved in 75 Million-Year-Old Baby Dinosaur" (2020-03-02, news.ncsu.edu/2020/03/duckbill-dna/) [archive.is/aTxvM]

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* "Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost" (2012-03-06, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309767/) [archive.is/UbBPf]

* "Russian Scientists Revive 32,000-Year-Old Flower" (2012-02-23, sci-news.com/biology/article00194.html) [archive.is/tNHK]

* "Scientists Revive 32,000-Year-Old Plant Right Out of the Pleistocene" (earthlymission.com/scientists-revive-32000-year-old-plant-siberia-permafrost/) [archive.is/GK8FP] [begin excerpt]: The researchers first attempted to germinate mature seeds recovered from the fruit. When these attempts failed, they turned to the fruit itself and were able to culture adult plants from placental tissue. The team grew 36 specimens from the tissue. The plants looked identical to modern specimens until they flowered, at which time the petals were observed to be longer and more widely spaced than modern versions of the plant. Seeds produced by the regenerated plants germinated at a 100% success rate, compared with 90% for modern plants. Scientists are unsure why the observed variations occur.

According to Robin Probert of the Millennium Seed Bank, the demonstration is “by far the most extraordinary example of extreme longevity for material from higher plants” to date. It is not surprising to find living material this old, but is surprising that viable material could be recovered,” she added.

The reasons for the success of the experiment can be manyfold. The Russian scientists involved speculated that the tissue cells were rich in sucrose which acted as a preservative. They also noted that DNA damage caused by gamma radiation from natural ground radioactivity at the site was unusually low for the plant material’s age and is comparable to levels observed in 1300-year-old lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) seeds proven to germinate. [end excerpt]

- image caption: The revived plant at full blossom stage.

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* "The intriguing past of Przewalski's horse" (2020-12-16, news.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-16/The-intriguing-past-of-Przewalski-s-horse-WgzADos4ko/index.html) [archive.is/FtbDw]

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* "A 500-Year-Old Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Is Even More Terrifyingly Humongous Than Previously Thought, Archaeologists Find; Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Huei Tzompantli tower, but archaeologist are unearthing its ruins" (2020-12-16, news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-weiwei-cockroach-1932795/amp-page) [archive.is/wK2la]

- source (gob.mx/cultura/prensa/arqueologos-localizan-el-costado-este-y-la-fachada-externa-de-la-torre-de-craneos-del-huei-tzompantli-de-tenochtitlan) [archive.is/kXgF5]

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* "In which direction did megaliths spread?" (q-mag.org/in-which-direction-did-megaliths-spread.html) [archive.is/XXgH6] [begin excerpt]:

The megalithic empire

...But how are we to present this other, so much different, facet of the history of Europe? The “humans of the megaliths” left practically nothing besides their enormous blocks of stone to signal their passage on Earth!

Should we be surprised that for a long time their fate hadn’t aroused anybody’s interest? To the peasant, a dolmen in the middle of his fields was merely a hindrance, associated with some superstitious fear. Didn’t the Middle Ages see in them the work of the Giants which the Bible incidentally mentions? Many a best-selling author threw in some extra-terrestrial levitation technicians. In the XIX century, these works were considered to be posterior to the Roman period, because Caesar did not mention them. [end excerpt]

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The English acquired a new history and a new church in 1534 CE.

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* "Ravenna and Chronology" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-ravenna-and-chronology.html) [archive.is/DyZLt]

- Part 1 (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=ravenna-and-chronology-1-37-heinsohn-1-june-2020.pdf) [is.gd/UGa7rI]

- Part 2 (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=ravenna-and-chronology-38-68-heinsohn-amended-1-june-2020.pdf) [is.gd/lW92tq]

- Part 3 (https://q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=ravenna-and-chronology-amended-69-100-heinsohn-1-june-2020.pdf) [is.gd/mCJlYQ]

* "Polish Origins" (2018, by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-polish-origins.html) [archive.is/QmXSr], full report (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=q-mag-gunnar-polish-origins-101818.pdf) [is.gd/K7gZSQ]

* "Were there really no people in Poland between 300 and 600 AD?" (2020-07-07, by Gunnar Heinsohn, via q-mag.org/were-there-really-no-people-in-poland-between-300-and-600-ad.html) [archive.is/06Z9r], full report (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=gdynia-poland-1st-millennium-7-july-2020-final-version-heinsohn.pdf) [is.gd/pZ9YEZ]

* "Justinian's correct date in 1st Millennium chronology" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, via q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-justinians-correct-date-in-1st-millennium-chronology.html) [archive.is/OgAxv], full report (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=q-mag-gunnar-justinian-052219.pdf) [is.gd/7k91Pi]

* "St Paul: did he live once, thrice or not at all?" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/st-paul-did-he-live-once-thrice-or-not-at-all.html) [archive.is/zQv0M], full report (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=gunnar-saint-paul-did-he-live-once-thrice-or-not-at-all-heinsohn-november-2020.pdf) [is.gd/L1vc0i]

* "Augustus and Diocletian - contemporaries, or three centuries apart?" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-augustus-and-diocletian-contemporaries-or-three-centuries-apart.html) [archive.is/KPSq4], full report (https://archive.is/o/KPSq4/https://www.q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=q-mag-augustus-and-diocletian-heinsohn-061619.pdf) [is.gd/ZIUc4n]

* "Rome and Jerusalem - a stratigraphy-based chronology of the Ancient World" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/rome-and-jerusalem-a-stratigraphy-based-chronology-of-the-ancient-world.html) [archive.is/0MwFP], editor's note: We have asked Gunnar Heinsohn to write a summary of his resurrections of ancient empires, that are slowly deleted from our history books, and connect these results to his work on AD stratigraphies (published in Q-MAG.org) to give us a rough estimate of the years since the beginning of the Bronze Age that can be substantiated with archaeology.

Gunnar has, since 1987, rediscovered the supposedly untraceable Chaldaean cradle of civilization in land of Kal, the indigenous name of the so-called Sumerians, dated some 1600 years earlier but unknown before the 1860s. Ninos, the first “world ruler” mentioned by the Greeks he has identified with Nimrod and Naram Sin of the Bible and the Old Akkadians respectively (pic.: Stele of Naram Sin of Akkad, Musée du Louvre, Paris). The deleted Empire of the Medes, Indo-Aryan horse breeders, he has tracked down in the Mitanni, no less Indo-Aryan horse breeders that were unknown before the late 19th century. The powerful Scythians - competing with the Medes for domination – he sees in the Qutheans trying to take over the Near East some 1600 years earlier.

He claims that he can even pin down the time and context of the Exodus or King David’s battle for Jerusalem that scholars have pushed aside as mere fairy tales.

JERUSALEM AND ROME is a very brief text. Yet, we believe that it contains enough challenging material to reconsider the past of our civlization.

- full report (q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=q-mag-gunnar-jersualem-rome-092819.pdf) [is.gd/O49mYq]

* "Hadrian Umayyads in Jerusalem" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-hadrian-umayyads-in-jerusalem.html) [archive.is/XFAXi], full report (https://q-mag.org/_iserv/dlfiles/dl.php?ddl=28-09-justice-for-jewish-and-arab-jerusalem-28-september-2020-heinsohn.pdf) [is.gd/duJXLd]

* "Sarmatians, Huns and Khazars were they one and the same Confederation?" (by Gunnar Heinsohn, q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-sarmatians-huns-and-khazars.html) [archive.is/sPEAb], full report (q-mag.org/_media/gunnar-corr-khazars-huns-011715.pdf) [is.gd/UX0drc]

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* "How December 25 Became Christmas" (2020-12-18, biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/how-december-25-became-christmas/) [archive.is/toGhL]

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Miscellany & Errata

* "Ex-CIA boss Brennan says Pentagon’s declassified UFO videos are ‘eyebrow-raising,’ advises ‘to keep an open mind’ " (2020-12-18, rt.com/usa/510096-cia-ufo-brennan-open-mind/) [archive.is/Av8pC]

* This article was published in response to Israel’s former space security chief saying America and Israel had been in contact with aliens....nice try aliens

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Natural formations, or channels cut into the rock at an oasis?

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

THEE STRANGER NEWS (December, 2020)

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

* "Aquatic robot powered by light, rotating magnetic fields developed" (2020-12-10, xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/11/c_139580505.htm) [archive.is/Ce8Q5]

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* "Breakthrough Optical Sensor Mimics Human Eye" (2020-12-09, farsnews.ir/en/news/13990919000249/Breakhrgh-Opical-Sensr-Mimics-Hman-Eye)) [archive.is/BNP5E]

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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]

* "Exoplanet Around Distant Star Resembles Reputed 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System" (2020-12-12, farsnews.ir/en/news/13990922000111/Explane-Arnd-Disan-Sar-Resembles-Reped-'Plane-Nine'-in-Or-Slar-Sysem) [archive.is/QeAEf]

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Ancient News

* "Mining giant's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves 'inexcusable': parliamentary report" (2020-12-10, xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/10/c_139578731.htm) [archive.is/Wk1dn]

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* "Climate change has revealed a huge haul of ancient arrows in Norway" (2020-11-25, newscientist.com/article/2260700-climate-change-has-revealed-a-huge-haul-of-ancient-arrows-in-norway/) [archive.is/Gi3dm]

* "Melting Ice in Norway Reveals Ancient Arrows; Finds from reindeer hunts span 5,000 years, from the Stone Age to the medieval era" (2020-11-27, smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/melting-ice-norway-reveals-ancient-arrows-180976411/) [archive.is/eqkCO]

* "Interpreting archaeological site-formation processes at a mountain ice patch: A case study from Langfonne, Norway" (2020-11-25, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959683620972775) [archive.is/KtHf8]

- image caption: Figure 4. Examples of arrows found at Langfonne. (a) F62, the nock end of an arrow, radiocarbon-dated to 5910–5750 cal yr BP. Found in the scree in front of ice patch A. (b) F166, radiocarbon-dated to 3980–3830 cal yr BP. Found on the ice in the lower part of ice patch A. (c) F110, a partially preserved arrow shaft in four fragments, scattered in the scree. Radiocarbon-dated to 2310–2130 cal yr BP. Found in the scree at the upper southern edge of ice patch A. (d) F106, radiocarbon-dated to 1270-1170 cal yr BP. Found in the scree between ice patch A and B. Scale is 50 cm.

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* "Archaeologists unearth 5,000-yr-old bronze ware in Xinjiang" (2020-12-11, xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/11/c_139581942.htm) [archive.is/lrXiK]

- image caption (xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/11/c_139581942_3.htm) [archive.is/KmLG0]: Photo taken on Nov. 6, 2020 shows the remnant of a bronze ware dating back more than 5,000 years at the Tongtiandong archaeological site in Jeminay County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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* "Why Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago" (2013-12-18, livescience.com/42048-halleys-comet-linked-to-ancient-famine.html) [archive.is/0stRO] [begin excerpt]: A piece of the famous Halley's comet likely slammed into Earth in A.D. 536, blasting so much dust into the atmosphere that the planet cooled considerably, a new study suggests. This dramatic climate shift is linked to drought and famine around the world, which may have made humanity more susceptible to "Justinian's plague" in A.D. 541-542 — the first recorded emergence of the Black Death in Europe.

The new results come from an analysis of Greenland ice that was laid down between A.D. 533 and 540. The ice cores record large amounts of atmospheric dust during this seven-year period, not all of it originating on Earth. [‪Photos of Halley's Comet Through History]

"I have all this extraterrestrial stuff in my ice core," study leader Dallas Abbott, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, told LiveScience here last week at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Certain characteristics, such as high levels of tin, identify a comet as the origin of the alien dust, Abbott said. And the stuff was deposited during the Northern Hemisphere spring, suggesting that it came from the Eta Aquarid meteor shower — material shed by Halley's comet that Earth plows through every April-May.

The Eta Aquarid dust may be responsible for a period of mild cooling in 533, Abbott said, but it alone cannot explain the global dimming event of 536-537, during which the planet may have cooled by as much as 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius). For that, something more dramatic is required.

Ice core data record evidence of a volcanic eruption in 536, but it almost certainly wasn't big enough to change the climate so dramatically, Abbott said.

"There was, I think, a small volcanic effect," she said. "But I think the major thing is that something hit the ocean."

She and her colleagues have found circumstantial evidence of such an impact. The Greenland ice cores contain fossils of tiny tropical marine organisms — specifically, certain species of diatoms and silicoflagellates.

An extraterrestrial impact in the tropical ocean likely blasted these little low-latitude organisms all the way to chilly Greenland, researchers said. And Abbott believes the object responsible was once a piece of Halley's comet. [end excerpt]

* "Ruth Dwyer: the comet of 536 AD and the Ravenna mosaics; 'Something unusual seems to be coming at us from the stars...' (Cassiodorus)" (q-mag.org/ruth-dwyer-the-comet-of-536-ad-and-the-ravenna-mosaics.html) [archive.is/mNzYm]: Prof. Ruth Dwyer, professor of Art History and Film at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada (emerita) discovered in the famous mosaics of Ravenna a depiction of contemporanous phenomena attending the comet of 536 AD and the ensuing catastrophes of the reign of Justinian. She shows her findings in this video, drawing additonally on the sacred Hymns of the kontakion of Romanos Melodos (Romanus the Melodist), Earthquakes and Fires.

* "The Comet of 536 and the Ravenna Mosaics" (2013-01-27, youtube.com/watch?v=t4WBALFPmw4) [archive.is/IggkW]: The second video by Ruth Dwyer in the Ancient Symmetria series. She discusses how the Ravenna Mosaics depict life in Justinian's Empire before, during and after the Comet of 536.

This paper was presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 10-14 Sept. 2014, Istanbul Technical University.

To see all of her videos, go to www.ruthdwyer.com

- [comment]: The comet that destroyed Britain came from north to south and split into three pieces around north central England near Hadrian's wall. A smaller piece destroyed Britain, Ireland was also affected. The main impacts were actually in Brazil and another hit Bolivia and Mexico was also affected.

Rome heavily and actively edited out this history from written record. Justinian declared it heresy to suggest that heavenly bodies fell from the sky and refused to send aid, which in turn caused mass starvation and a mad max type dystonia in the British Islands. The Dark Ages followed.

Nevertheless some written accounts did survive, French and Norwegian in particular...The Norwegian accounts being beyond papal reach. It is estimated that over 2 million died in the British isles alone, and countless millions died indirectly across the globe. The accounts say that it was like daylight in the dead of night as Britain burned, and that was from accounts across the channel and Norway. A true apocalypse.

- [comment]: A comet was said to have virtually wiped out the thriving society in post Roman Britain. That was in 562 AD and taking into account the timescale it’s plausible that further debris was still hitting earth. Now dismissed as just legendary, the comet/asteroid passed over the British isles and most likely made landfall in Bolivia. It left the “badlands “ which were uninhabitable for over a decade and is clearly referred to in contemporary writings in France.

If so the Saxons merely walked into land in recovery and uninhabited. Any survivors would have been in no position to repeal such an influx of Saxon settlers.

More importantly it rewrites “dark age” history of Britain and should be investigated properly, not merely dismissed by archaeologists who seem to just want to ignore it.

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* "Enormous Cone Head Of Paracas Peru: Lost Human History Revealed" (2020-03-29, youtube.com/watch?v=JnERUZNqwbc) [archive.is/AFvnZ]

* "Paracas Long Skull" (2020-12-05, facebook.com/groups/TheHistoryoftheancientWorld/permalink/2824007507876635/) [archive.is/bbj79]:

During the 1920 s, Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello discovered a series of graves in Paracas, Peru. The contents of the tomb left specialists perplexed as countless elongated skulls recovered from graves. Since then, more elongated skulls have been found in the region, raising numerous questions about these mysterious people.

For more than five years, experts like Brien Foerster have tried to solve the mystery behind the elongated skulls. Although much progress has been made in their understanding, the journey has been very difficult.

After countless studies and research, we began to discover more about these mysterious skulls. Some DNA analysis showed that the elongation present in Paracas skull was not the result of artificial skull deformation, but genetics. Some of Paracas skulls have a cranial volume that is up to 25 % larger and 60 % heavier than conventional human skulls. While artificial head deformation can change the shape of the skull, it cannot change its volume. But there's not all left, studies conducted on enigmatic elongated skulls have revealed that they were not native to the region possibly migrated from Eurasia more than 2500 years ago.