Hope the owner isn’t still looking for this apparently Middle Eastern Bronze Age artifact. Ed Whelan’s article doesn’t mention whether this single “sport” came from a stratified deposit, but based on the fact the amateur archaeologists were looking for World War II vintage stuff, it could really have been deposited anywhen in the last 30 […]

Weeks into an investigation of the origins of the FBI's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Attorney General William Barr said Friday that the probe has provided more questions than answers due to the “inadequate” and in some cases inconsistent answers he's been given from the officials involved.Asked during an interview with Fox […]

This is a juxtaposition we might not have come up with on our own.  Ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts describe “automaton warriors” used to guard treasures and antiquities. These “automatons” were essential warriors controlled through a spiritual connection. Spiritual Robots–who knew? But where were these ghostly security guards when Grave Robbers Destroyed Noses On Statues […]

Cue the Indiana Jones theme, true believers, because archaeologists have been struck by lightning twice in the past coupla days! First off, Ed Whelan has the scoop on some spelunkers finding the holy of holies for Mesoamerica. It’s like finding a hidden church that’s been abandoned during mass! Heading west towards China, Peter Dockrill’s crowing […]

Tobias Churton may exaggerate that Erich von Daniken initiated rather than latched onto and accelerated “a trend that continues to this day,” and we know that “channellers” and “Contactees” were spreading their “‘mission’ of alleged ‘spacepeople’” well before Chariots of the Gods appeared in 1968. But the rest of this article is an eye-opening look […]

The tale of Dr. Aris Poulianos is less about upsetting the anthropological apple cart, since 300,000 year old Homo sapiens have been found in Morocco, 2 million year old stone tools found in China, and the contention over 130,000 year old broken mammoth bones from California are causing enough agita, but what passes the Duck […]

Micah Hanks and Nick Redfern take turns examining some ufological mysteries. Hanks attacks one of the most controversial and humanly important components of the UFO phenomenon. He’s ambivalent toward the alien abduction question: something “real” is happening to sincere abductees; other explanations do not adequately dismiss the phenomenon; yet what abductees relate of their experiences […]

We’ve all been there – can’t sleep and you don’t want to lean over to check your phone and see what time it is because you know it’s not time to get up. Then you look at the phone – insomnia kicks into full gear. Can’t sleep! The mind then wanders off by itself as […]

Anyone with a strict American education will swallow the lie that nobody knew the world was round ’til 1492. It’s time to start expanding your mind, as a round Earth has been old hat since time immemorial. To the best of our knowledge the ancient Egyptians didn’t cross the Atlantic, despite Thor Heyerdahl’s best intentions, […]

Ashley Cowie tells a straightforward story about an apparent Australian numismatic find, but the coin should be rotated 90 degrees to the right to show its portrait naturally. Cowie’s speculation as to its origin seems far more likely than it being a leftover of Phoenician colonists. The “possible Aten sun symbol” on the Tjuringa Sacred […]