A DAREDEVIL is taking in the view from the Great Pyramid in Giza – after illegally scaling the historic site. The Russian and his pals hid from guards at the tourist attraction, waiting for four hours until after closing time before they scaled the …
My main focus will be on an ancient Roman long poem and a set of questions surrounding it. The poem is a didactic (instructional) work on astrology.
by Paul Schroeder. From, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981): Colonel Musgrove: Where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, right?. Indiana: That's exactly what the Nazis are looking for. Major Eaton: Now what does this Ark look like? : Uh… there's …
Very impressive carving that seems to depict an Astronaut holding a tether of some kind. The carving is part of a decorative mosaic of motifs, that decorate the Ieronimus Cathedral in Spain. De-bunkers have claimed that this is …
There were episodes, as well, on the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Walls of Jericho, Moses' Ten Commandments, Moses' Red Sea Miracle, Noah's Ark, The Ark of the Covenant, The Battle of David and Goliath and …
Ptolemy somehow managed to calculate the brightness of stars using knowledge that he had no way of knowing back in 140 BC. In fact, “modern” astronomers didn’t unravel this mystery until the 1700s. So, how’d he do it? This article offers up some down-to-earth reasonable explanations but of course the most interesting one is always, […]
This alternate version claims that Jesus was hard to identify as he could change his appearance so quickly: “Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man.” This shape-shifting explains Judas’ kiss […]
Fun Facts and Images of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It took about 20 years to build the Great Pyramid. It used around 2.3 million blocks of limestone, weighing more than 2 tons each. It is thought that the blocks of limestone …
VATICAN CITY — They filed into the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday reciting a Latin hymn, and then swore an oath on the Bible, pledging secrecy. And then the 115 cardinals were sealed inside to choose from among them the next leader of the Roman Catholic …
Analysis of materials retrieved by NASA’s Curiosity rover has led them to conclude that Mars “could have supported a habitable environment.” NASA tweeted, “Now that we know Mars was habitable, as we continue to explore we’ll learn more about where biosignatures could be preserved.” This image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the first sample of […]
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