Mexico
The Codex Seldon, one of just twenty remaining from the Spanish invasion in the 16th Century, is now finally revealing its secrets as scientists are using hyperspectral imaging to see what’s underneath the top layer.
The codex is made from deer hide and covered in plaster. On the plaster is a codex, but scientists have always believed that underneath is an earlier Mixtec codex. The new imaging technique has revealed exactly that – a much older Mixtec codex is now revealed and this is one of the most important discoveries in recent years for Mexican archaeology.Â
With very little original writing in existence, all archaeologists have to go on are Spanish texts, but while some of these were written with great accuracy, most of them were written with extreme bias, rather like the prevailing ideas about queen Cleopatra given to us by the Romans.
This is a very exciting discovery and I await with eagerness the translation of the codex… if they can understand it, that is.
Peru
Has the last and lost vestige of the Inca Empire been found at Vilcabamba?
Before we start I’d like to complain about this article as it uses the name “Columbus” twice. Columbus was a nobody in comparison to others. He did not discover America. He was not the first, and it is shocking that some schools still teach this. At least as far as we know, in modern terms the Vikings were the first to set foot on American soil, at least a thousand years ago. They set up villages and stayed for considerable amounts of time – long enough for there to be recordable archaeology in the landscape in at least two sites. Also it was John Cabot – famous in my home city of Bristol – who was the “first” (post Viking era) to actually set foot on the mainland in 1497. Columbus didn’t even get that far. What Columbus did was set up trade routes from the East Indies that instigated the colonisation of the Americas… and that is nothing like “discovering” the continent. Right, my whinge is over. I can’t write a report without first complaining about something, as you know! 🙂
Tupac Amaru was the last Inca Emperor. After the Spanish lured the more famous Atahualpa to his death many years earlier, you’d think the Inca would have learned their lesson, but they did not. As the Spanish offered the life of Atahualpa in exchange for gold and then subsequently executed him, likewise they offered Tupac Amaru and his wife safety if they surrendered… You know what happened next.
I was always convinced that explorer Gene Savoy had found the site of the last battle many years ago, and now it seems Spanish archaeologists are agreeing with him. The location of the Vilcabamba site fits in with the colonial texts that recorded the last battle with the Inca empire by following the route the Spanish took from Cuzco, again based on the texts. Those texts are about as close as we could get to a modern live recording.
Excavations will now take place at the site, and I am convinced we will soon learn the truth. I am certain a wealth of archaeology will be found there. As soon as we start seeing metal weapons coming out of the ground it will be almost a certainty that the very last moments of the Inca empire will have been found. It is quite an exciting discovery, and it will be extremely emotional, although its taken decades for mainstream academia to catch up with the independent explorers who first claimed the site had been found. Don’t get me started on the arrogance of the established order, we’ll be here all day…
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/07/21/lost-incan-city-last-refuge-warrior-tupac-amaru-found-last-165225
Mexico
Most people think the largest pyramid on the planet is the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau in Egypt.
But it is not.
The largest pyramid ever built – in fact the largest construction ever created on planet earth – is the pyramid of Cholula. The base is four times that of the Great Pyramid and it is nearly twice the volume.
No one knows who built this pyramid, and I have to say the date of 300 BC for the beginning of its construction can only be another guess on the part of archaeologists. By the time the Spanish arrived the pyramid was in the Mexica (Aztec) heartland, but the Mexica never built it, as they did not build so many other pyramids they were occupying. No one knows anything about these pyramids. In fact the Spanish never even knew this particular pyramid was there at all, such was the scale of it – it appeared to be a natural hill.
England
Ironically I visited the Durrington Walls and Woodhenge sites yesterday, while taking a friend on her first tour of the area, including Avebury and Silbury Hill.
Also Ironically this report was released yesterday.
Astonishingly the Durrington Walls site was actually made of huge wooden posts and not stones as archaeologists had previously thought. This brings in a whole different concept to what was going on in the area. I do not believe the “guess” that Durrington Walls was built to house the builders of Stonehenge as there is simply no evidence for that and there never will be.
Previously it was thought that Woodhenge was a wooden counterpart to the larger Stonehenge, but I think it more likely that Durrington Walls was the wooden counterpart, simply because of its size in comparison to Woodhenge.
Either way the archaeologists need to scrap their previous guesses and make more guesses, as they are doing… No doubt there will be more guesses and no evidence to come. It’s rather tiresome to be honest.
After more than twenty years of research I have absolutely no idea what Stonehenge was built for, nor Avebury, nor Silbury Hill, nor Durrington Walls and nor Woodhenge. Anyone who says they do is just lying, and guessing is only adding to the confusion when reports like this come out in the media, because next week there will be another theory. There must be more theories out there now than the years since these sites were built.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3736185/Stonehenge-II-WOOD-Vast-4-500-year-old-timber-circle-built-commemorate-builders-famous-neighbour.html
United States
I must be in one of those moods this week, constantly ridiculing and trying to reinvent archaeology all by myself but, seriously, it’s almost beyond a joke now.
Here’s a quote from this article:
“From everything we’re seeing, we’re very certain it was some sort of ceremonial location. The fact we found no human burials, we found no evidence of mortuary treatment or mortuary ceremonialism — this site really stands out because we really didn’t find any direct evidence of that,” Redmond said. “So it’s a different kind of ceremonialism, a ritualism related to the living — it represents that these people had a rich ceremonial life, a religious life, that wasn’t just involved in burying people.”
I am so sick and tired of this nonsense. If it cannot be explained it’s always “some sort of ceremonial” thing. All skeletons with weird injuries are stated as “must have been a ritual killing”. The facts are these explanations are borne out of the fact that we simply do not understand what our ancestors were doing or what they were trying to convey because we are not looking at them in the correct way – we are looking at them from a modern scientific mind and not trying to understand it from their mind or their philosophy. The archaeologists are taught at university that these things are “ritualistic” in some form or another, so what they do is simply regurgitate those words without actually thinking about it for themselves or coming up with new explanations. I am getting seriously bored of this and tired of this continuous nonsense from mainstream archaeology and science in general. I would much rather they were honest and say, “We don’t know what was going on here”, rather than just guessing and saying this nonsense about “ritual sites”. It’s happening all over the world with so many sites and it is utterly ridiculous. Yes, I’ve said this before, I know.
Most of the time these ideas are driven by preconceived and idiotic conclusions that our ancestors were primitive farmers or hunter gatherers who were trying to understand the stars and measure the seasons. If you are going to take that viewpoint then you will never understand what they were doing, you will always think you are more clever than they were, and you will always come to conclusion that their thinking was based on primitive notions which are based on outdated ideas that were laid down during the arrogant times of the Victorian era; a time when all ancient history was considered to have come from the brains of stupid idiots who struggled to figure out how many days were in the solar year, and they needed to make massive stone monuments just to track the movements of the sun and the moon. To do that you actually need a few sticks stuck into the ground, so any idiot can tell you these ancient sites had a much more advanced purpose. If you take the correct standpoint – that more often than not our ancestors were far more advanced than we are, then you will come to far different conclusions and we will gain a better understanding of the past and where we come from.
I read an article the other day – the link is below – where a stone was found at Mycenae. This stone was not native to the area or in any way similar to the stone used to build the city. So what is the archaeologists conclusion? The stone must have been a part of the throne seat of the famous king Agamemnon! What? I mean, seriously, how do you come to that conclusion? I would like there to be set up an archaeology court, whereby all findings must go through a system of jurisdiction based on the evidence available and the conclusions made by the archaeologists. I can guarantee you that 90% of these conclusions would be thrown out of court, complete with laughter and ridicule. I have no idea how these archaeologists get away with it, and worse still are the media fools who recite a good story rather than doing their job and actually ask genuine questions about what has really been found.
Hopefully I shall be back to reporting on some real genuine findings sooner rather than later, but right now all I seem to be coming across are jokes. How on earth do these people keep their jobs?
http://www.seeker.com/is-this-the-legendary-throne-of-agamemnon-1904059121.html
The World
Neanderthal Species:
Let’s get one thing straight because I am tired of this utter nonsense from the media and some scientists who are finding little bits of “evidence that are slowly changing our views” of our cousins.
Here it is:
Neanderthals were stronger than us, more intelligent than us, more spiritual than us, and better than us in just about every way imaginable.
What they were NOT was aggressive arseholes who went around killing and destroying everything in their path and that is why they died out, both due to rapid climate change and genocide by human beings, and perhaps even other things we don’t know about, like disease.
We share DNA with these incredible creatures, mated with them and created offspring, and that DNA can be clearly found in our own. Our spiritual and artistic skills may well have been inherited from them, which is why we are half the time nice to each other but also go around killing each other. We are a hybrid species…
Next time you think Neanderthal was a dumb animal that was too stupid, take a look in the mirror and say to yourself, “pot calling the kettle black…”
**Stop Press** – Habitation of the Americas 30,000 years older than thought – **Stop Press**
United States
Well stick this one up your nostrils!
Once again I have been proven correct in my theories – first of all that the Indus Valley civilisation is much older than previously thought; that it is at least 10,000 years old and most likely the first ‘civilisation’ – and now evidence has proven human activity in the Americas 50,000 years ago.
You may have to read that again.
Yes, it says 50,000 years.
The “Clovis First” theory had been put to bed a long time ago as evidence was pushing the date back further and further. I have been claiming all along, if you have been bothering to read, that the Americas were inhabited AT LEAST 20,000 years ago, and most likely in South America first. Evidence from Brazil has recently been showing dates of 25,000 years but the data has been ridiculed by the monopoly holders. Now they are going to have a huge problem…
Solid evidence has come to light of human activity in South Carolina dating to 50,000 years ago. This is absolutely mind blowing news, and quite frankly the archaeological discovery of the millennium thus far. So why aren’t we hearing about it on the mainstream news? Go figure! Even the report here is written in the most cautious way possible. And what happens next? – Peer review! No doubt the “peers” will dismiss the findings entirely. There is nothing more damaging to science than the peer review process.
This is absolutely fantastic news. But the science will be ridiculed and the findings brushed under the carpet like the Brazil findings. It’s only a matter of time, however, before the evidence will be louder than those voices. I am so thrilled at this news, and finally some sense at last…
I have always found the idea that “humans left Africa 50,000 years ago and then spread around the world” unbelievably laughable. It’s utterly absurd and now, finally, that idea is being totally destroyed. The history of human beings is nothing but a joke, and Darwinian evolution equally so in so many respects. We need a completely new science. We need to completely rethink the entire evolution of the planet and how things actually function – that things occur in cycles and do not occur as a linear evolution as Darwin maintained. I have always known from childhood that something does not add up – our history is completely and utterly flawed from start to finish. It’s time to start all over again. As my book says – The Evolution has begun…
Read for yourself…
http://www.newhistorian.com/evidence-manmade-fires-well-clovis-culture/6558/?utm_content=bufferef52c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Montserrat
This is the first time I’ve ever reported on this tiny island in the Caribbean, such is the small size and the apparent lack of any historical data prior to the arrival of the colonial British. That’s not to say there wasn’t any history prior to the arrival of the British – of course there was – it’s just that no evidence of this nature has previously been found there.
A few hikers have found some stone carvings on rocks, the first known petroglyphs to be discovered on the island. Despite a lack of understanding as to their meaning, the petroglyphs will give invaluable insight into the history of the island and the surrounding area.
Although the petroglyphs have been given an initial age of between 1,000 and 1,500 years ago, evidence of Amerindian culture on the island stretches back to around 4,000 years ago. These strange rock carvings, however, will provide information that will bridge the gap between its ancient history and the arrival of the British explorers who landed there in 1632.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/03/montserrat-petroglyphs-ancient-stone-carvings-hikers?utm_content=buffere6f25&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
**Breaking News**
Greece
Eighty skeletons found in a mass grave in Greece were all shackled and appear to have been the victims of a mass execution.
All of the victims are of a young age and were bound by the hands with iron shackles, but no clues as to their identity has yet surfaced. However, archaeologists are wondering if these victims were a part of a coup attempt that occurred in 632 BC, carried out by an Athenian noble and Olympic champion named Cylon. Very intriguing stuff indeed…
Dating to between the 8th and 5th centuries BC, the cemetery was unearthed earlier this year but the find has been kept away from public viewing until now. The Falyron Delta Necropolis is located between Athens and the port of Piraeus.
https://www.rt.com/news/354373-ancient-skeletons-greece-cemetery/
