No, it isn't the plot for the next Indiana Jones movie: According to a research paper published on the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, scientists have discovered that an Iron Man sculpture found by a Nazi expedition in Tibet is of extraterrestrial origin. The Nazi archeologists found the Iron Man in a remote region of Tibet and brought it to Germany in 1939, … [Read more...]
More on the Lost Mayan City of Mirador in Guatemala
On the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
I recently found this documentary, made in 2006, called "Occupation 101". It's an up close look at the Palestinian story behind the Israeli occupation of their homeland. It is what the news media doesn't show. International journalists rarely, if ever, travel into the West Bank and Gaza Strip to talk to the people trapped there. It's a shocking and brutal world these people are … [Read more...]
Lost City Revealed Under Centuries of Jungle Growth
Hidden for centuries, the ancient Maya city of Holtun, or Head of Stone, is finally coming into focus. Three-dimensional mapping has "erased" centuries of jungle growth, revealing the rough contours of nearly a hundred buildings, according to research presented earlier this month. Though it's long been known to locals that something—something big—is buried in this patch of … [Read more...]
The World’s First Temple: Gobekli Tepe
At first glance, the fox on the surface of the limestone pillar appears to be a trick of the bright sunlight. But as I move closer to the large, T-shaped megalith, I find it is carved with an improbable menagerie. A bull and a crane join the fox in an animal parade etched across the surface of the pillar, one of dozens erected by early Neolithic people at Göbekli Tepe in … [Read more...]