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a piece of rock with a lizard on it's back end sitting on a black surface

Every once in a while archaeologists and sometimes regular people, make some remarkable discoveries. Stunned, they are often unable to explain what it is they’ve found, how it came into existence, …

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a man standing next to a large stone bath tub

Above is a sarcophagus from Egypt, likely made of limestone on display in a courtyard of the Vatican Museum. Likely taken by Emperor Caligula when the Romans took over Egypt. Above is an exceptionally well carved Sphinx, likely a Roman work of course heavily influenced by the earlier dynastic Egyptians, carved out of granite most...

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a hand reaching out from between two large stone structures, with one opening to the other

Egyptologists have done an amazing job of piecing together the history of Dynastic Egypt, but what they have failed to properly explain are the presence of certain anomalies, such as drill holes that we find in profusion, in hard stone such as rose granite (above) at many of the ancient sites. In modern times we...

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the pope is standing next to a statue with an arrow pointing up at it and then looking

The wisdom of the ancient philosophers is valuable information that humanity especially needs now. It is good to know that some of these lessons will really change one's life for the better or lead to deep reflection.

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three rocks with drawings on them and the earth in different directions, all painted white

The largest of the artifacts found at La Maná, Ecuador, is a torso-sized engraved granite boulder with mortar-filled engraved lines and inset polished stones. The engraved contours are both shockingly familiar and strange, representing the continents of the world in what must be the oldest map known to humanity, a global rendering from the Pleistocene.

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a rock with chains attached to it in a glass case

Every year archaeologists increasingly find artifacts that are difficult to explain! Some of them are not only difficult, sometimes even impossible. Indeed, thousands and millions of years ago, our ancestors did not know how to produce metal, they did not have modern technologies that would allow th

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