Mainstream academic archaeologists and historians only have themselves to blame for the popularity of weird theories gobbled up by an ignorant and interested public. So says “renegade archaeologist” Dr. Lynn Heather. She’s largely right, and the lesson could be extended to other fields. Jim Harold’s interview with the controversial author of Evil Archaeology: Demons, Possessions, […]
Bradley Lepper tells how the Muskingum County, Ohio, Brush Creek Mound tablet came to be famous. Excavator John Everhart claimed it possessed inscriptions that were “chiefly Greek, commingled with Phoenician and Etruscan,” and therefore decidedly ancient. A fast internet search indicated that some have seriously tried to decipher the characters. But they were actually carved […]
What’s more fun than annoying a professor from Radford University? Watching him go full “Well, akshully…” at Amazon Basics: News. Whoops, I mean The Washington Post. What better target than a show on The Travel Channel hosted by Megan “I Compared Steven Spielberg To A Nazi” Fox. Well Dr. David S. Anderson, what were you […]
Folks need to understand the government is obligated to share with the people. Private corporations and contractors, as Keith Kintigh explains, thumb their noses as the joke known as the Freedom Of Information Act. It goes for saucers, sasquatch, and everything else vaguely historical being kept under wraps with legal and constitutional acrobatics. If that’s […]
An archaeologist in Kansas believes that he has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery after claiming to have unearthed a long-lost civilization in the Midwest.
While this may not say “The quick brown mammoth jumped over the lazy sabre-toothed tiger”, Ivan Dikov finds the markings on this ceramic slab to be notable if not extraordinary. Ashley Cowie also took a peek at this 8,000-year-old Slab Holding The “Oldest Writing” Ever Discovered, but she’s on the fence if these markings are […]
A new archaeological volume on the massive Newark Earthworks built in the Hopewell Tradition in Ohio has been released with interesting contributions from two researchers who separately compare Newark to the enigmatic Nazca lines of ancient Peru and the Pueblo wonders of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The Nazca archaeologist cosmically pondered the universality of […]
Brian Phillips hits every stop along the Extraterrestrial Highway, and all points weird on his road trip through the ruins of the American Southwest. Let’s just say after Brian’s swallowed by the rabbit hole, he learns Waze isn’t worth a damn when navigating those twisty passages. Still feeling wanderlust? Take a slow boat across the […]
Sorry Robert Bauval, the pyramids of Giza probably don’t correspond with Orion’s belt. Cygnus aligns far better than mighty Orion according to Rodney Hale and Andrew Collins’s latest inquiry. Oh well, at least Nazca’s tarantula still has a connection with the most recognizable constellation. Back on Earth we tour New York City with Rob Schwarz, […]
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