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Posted On: Oct 22nd, 2016 at 15:21

Israel This incredible discovery in the Hilazon Tachtit Cave in Israel has produced a highly detailed shamanic grave of a 45-year-old woman who died some 12,000 years ago. The woman was from the Natufian culture, which existed between 12,500 to 9500 BC. The article states the Natufian period was from 15,000 to 11,500 BC but that … Read More

Posted On: Oct 18th, 2016 at 09:45

Scotland The now well-known Ness of Brodgar site on the Orkney Islands has produced yet another mystery. Below a “rubbish dump”, archaeologists have found a large structure, 33ft (10m) long and 13ft (4m) wide, and suspect it may be a burial chamber. That is, at this point however, just speculation. Personally I have never come across … Read More

Posted On: Oct 16th, 2016 at 13:28

Russia Quite an astonishing find in Khakassia, Siberia, has produced a 4,500-year-old grave of a ‘noble’ woman from the Okunev culture. As the article states, these people were those most closely related to the Native American Indians who populated north America across Beringia. In other words, it was ascendants of the Okunev who were the first … Read More

Posted On: Oct 9th, 2016 at 11:16

Hungary / Turkey He was the most powerful of all the Ottoman Empire’s leaders, and now his tomb has apparently been discovered in Hungary. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (Suleiman I), who reigned from 1520 until his death in 1566, was the longest running sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman’s had finally crushed the Roman … Read More

Posted On: Oct 8th, 2016 at 10:31

Cyprus One of the richest bronze age graves ever found in Cyprus has been discovered in Hala Sultan Tekke. The grave contains a wealth of goods, from Mycenaean pottery to Egyptian gold, and is a testament to the importance of Cyprus as a trade hub in the ancient world. The grave dates to between 1500 to … Read More

Posted On: Oct 6th, 2016 at 12:52

The first draft of The Guru has been completed and now the editing process is under way. I have just written a brief synopsis which can be viewed here: https://www.stephenmaybury.co.uk/books/the-guru/  

Posted On: Oct 1st, 2016 at 10:06

Nine “lost” cities… Not really lost though… https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/08/lost-cities-1-babylon-iraq-war-history-mankind-greatest-heritage-site https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/09/lost-cities-2-search-real-troy-hisarlik-turkey-mythology-homer-iliad https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/10/lost-cities-3-muziris-india-kerala-ancient-port-black-pepper https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/11/lost-cities-4-pompeii-roman-preserved-disaster-vesuvius-volcano-second-extinction https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/12/lost-cities-merv-worlds-biggest-city-razed-turkmenistan https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/15/lost-cities-6-thonis-heracleion-egypt-sunken-sea https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/16/lost-cities-6-angkor-wat-nasa-technology-khmer-megacity https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/17/lost-cities-8-mystery-ahokia-illinois-mississippians-native-americans-vanish https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/18/great-zimbabwe-medieval-lost-city-racism-ruins-plundering  

Posted On: Sep 30th, 2016 at 10:16

India / Pakistan This report just makes me pretty annoyed! Written by an American reporter, supposedly to teach Americans about the British involvement in the near civil war that started in India during partition, it practically blames the Indians themselves for what happened. The truth is the British hastily drew up maps to partition India, … Read More

Posted On: Sep 29th, 2016 at 17:18

Bulgaria A tiny gold ‘bead’, just 4mm in diameter, may be the world’s oldest gold artefact and may predate the current oldest gold artefact – found in 1972 and also in Bulgaria – by 200 years. The site in southern Bulgaria, near the town of Pazardzhik, dates to between 4600 and 4500 BC – 6,600 years ago. … Read More

Posted On: Sep 28th, 2016 at 12:47

Greece It’s been long debated whether the ancient Greeks practiced human sacrifice or not. The later Romans certainly did, and so did many others, including the ancient Israelites and Mesoamerican cultures in central and south America. No proof, however, has ever come forward about the ancient Greeks and sacrificial rituals involving humans. Sure, animal sacrifice … Read More

Posted On: Sep 27th, 2016 at 11:47

Serbia Several graves unearthed in eastern Serbia have been found to contain metal scrolls that were inscribed with magic spells. The spells, carved into gold and silver and wrapped in lead, could be used to invoke either good spirits or even demons. Some people may find that a little primitive but I am well aware, due … Read More

Posted On: Sep 24th, 2016 at 13:29

Georgia Archaeologists have been stunned by laboratory results which have proven some writing, thought to be the oldest in Georgia, is actually the third oldest writing ever found in the world. The writing dates to the 11th or 10th centuries BC, making it 3,000 years old. The site of Grakliani Hill, where the writing is located, … Read More

Posted On: Sep 22nd, 2016 at 09:16

Americas Here we go again. I have to repeat myself a lot, mainly for those who perhaps don’t actually read my posts, that I am of the opinion the Americas were populated many thousands of years before the typical model of the peopling of the Americas, and that the south was populated long before the north. Once … Read More

Posted On: Sep 21st, 2016 at 12:05

It was one of those moments… Just now I was walking in Lancaster town centre and was walking past a charity book shop. I rarely go into charity shops these days, but as I passed the door and reached the end of the shop I stopped dead in my tracks for some reason. I looked … Read More

Posted On: Sep 19th, 2016 at 14:20

Israel / Egypt Does part of a carved statue found in Tel Hazor in Israel – the only significant Egyptian writing found from the second millennium BC in the Levant – finally disprove the Biblical exodus, and thus the Israelites claim to the land of Israel? In the Biblical exodus, 600,000 men (plus women and … Read More

Posted On: Sep 17th, 2016 at 13:45

Greece Back to the Antikythera mechanism… I was lucky enough to see the Antikythera mechanism last October during my archaeology tour of Greece, and I have to say it’s much smaller than one might imagine. The pieces look immensely complex and designing and engineering the entire piece can only have been the work of a … Read More

Posted On: Sep 16th, 2016 at 13:12

Peru The world’s oldest indigo fabric has been found at the Huaca Prieta site, just north of Trujillo in northern Peru, and dates to 6,200 years ago (4200 BC). In Egypt similar colours only date back 4,400 years (2400 BC) , and the oldest know use is in the Middle East around 5,000 years ago. … Read More

Posted On: Sep 13th, 2016 at 10:39

China Flood “myths” are rife all over the world and in every culture. Most scholars once thought that the myths were exactly that – myths – but it’s always been obvious to many, including myself, that these old stories, passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, were talking of real events. One … Read More

Posted On: Sep 12th, 2016 at 09:23

Germany Scientists have always been puzzled as to how our Paleolithic ancestors made rope… Now the answer has been revealed – in southern Germany a 40,000-year-old rope-making tool has been discovered in Hohle Fels cave. A very handy ice-age tool indeed… http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/rope-making-tool-germany-04047.html

Posted On: Sep 9th, 2016 at 15:15

Peru Staying in Peru, an amazing discovery of a chamber at Machu Picchu has brought much interest about what it contains, but it seems the Peruvian authorities are blocking any excavation work. Thierry Jamin, who has found the entrance, has used electronic equipment to determine that there is a chamber behind the rock-covered entrance, and … Read More