The international mission is expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus that sparked the coronavirus pandemic, has killed more than 1.6 million people.

Get ready for some spectacular archaeological claims. Move back the “zero point of world history,” proclaim researchers working at a location not far east of what’s been famously regarded as the earliest monumental site. Ashley Cowie reports the facts behind the assertion, and the local mayor’s prediction that Karahan Tepe will surpass Gobekli Tepe as […]

Childhood pictures reveal the humble origins of a self-made online shopping tycoon from Burnley who landed an eye-watering £830million payout after his firm’s share price soared this week.

The second-largest pre-European settlement in North America is yielding more of its secrets thanks to drone-based imaging, says Ashley Cowie. Despite some issues, a video presentation about Etzanoa gives more details. Elizabeth Dohms-Harter offers an eye-opening article behind her assertion that Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds Connected People to Spirits. The amazingly rich prehistory of “a sculpted […]

The resignation of Nora Dannehy may set off alarm bells about Attorney General William Barr's efforts to influence the investigation.

Independent archaeologist Warren P. Aston has looked into some odd grass-covered mounds and thinks he’s somewhat figured them out. Here he provides a nutshell summary of an “interim paper” on this peculiar matter. As with so much in archaeology, dating these features is a problem, and there’s a new refinement to this general line detailed […]

A mere twelve days ago we broke the story on the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) with a cycle of 157 days, and the consensus remains it’s not you-know-who, Nicole Karlis says the origins of these FRBs may belong to a mysteriously elusive object found deep in the cosmos. Another mystery from outer space concerns […]

Seemingly at least a third of the archaeological efforts being published online produce anomalies, challenges to “given” mainstream assumptions. A major example of this is “pushbacks” in dating for advances by our predecessors. Ashley Cowie covers an astounding find and interpretation showing ancient Mesoamericans had a profoundly earlier and more advanced understanding of geography than […]

Leave it to Ancient Origins to break some amazing news about the history of mankind. While this may not have the sex appeal of Göbekli Tepe nor Gunung Padang, it’s an astonishing conclusion from the Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, giving us a glimpse as to how we may, or may not have, hybridized. […]

Clyde Winters isn’t sure about the answer to that question, but shows us some of the suspect mountains. There’s also a History video that manages to cram most of the Ancient Aliens speculators into a short time space, and a longer Beyond Science offering about the Piri Reis map that was both fun and worthwhile. […]