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Posted On: Jun 28th, 2016 at 09:32

Mexico It’s not particularly ‘news’ when it’s declared that the Maya were interested and tracked the planet Venus, but this finding proves categorically that one of their observatories was specifically designed to track the 584-day path of the planet. In modern terms it’s a bit like sending a probe to Mars that has a specific … Read More

Posted On: Jun 26th, 2016 at 21:14

Peru Another site I have been fortunate to have visited, Huaca Pucllana in Lima, Peru, was home to the Wari Empire which rose to prominence in the 7th Century. Five hundred years later the empire had disappeared, but it seems the Wari did not alter the genetic uniformity of the local population. Genetic studies of … Read More

Posted On: Jun 17th, 2016 at 12:25

India Hooray! Finally some of my own “theories” are becoming fact! I have said all along the Indus Valley civilisation is much older than the 5,000 years given to it thus far, and I have suggested it is probably at least 10,000 years old, and most likely the oldest civilisation in the world… I also … Read More

Posted On: Jun 10th, 2016 at 17:16

Jordan An absolutely remarkable discovery in Petra has unveiled a hitherto unknown and very large structure using satellite imagery.  It’s one of those cases of something hiding in plain sight of everyone, and it is situated less than half a mile from the well-known World Heritage structures at Petra. The structure was most likely a … Read More

Posted On: Jun 7th, 2016 at 00:57

India It’s not very often I get to combine my two favourite things, but it appears that curry is much older than was previously thought, and in fact was first “invented” by the Indus Valley Civilisation. New research has found that the base ingredients for “kari” were prevalent in two sites in the Indus Valley … Read More

Posted On: Jun 1st, 2016 at 12:33

India The world’s first tsunami defences, thought to be 6,000 years old (4000 BC), have been discovered in the Dholavira archaeology site in Kutch, Gujurat state. The defensive wall was first thought to be exactly that – a defensive wall against invaders, but recent exploration of the site determined that the defences were far too … Read More

Posted On: May 31st, 2016 at 12:17

China The secret garden inside China’s Forbidden City, closed for nearly a hundred years, is expected to open to the public in 2020.  When the “last emperor was removed in 1924” the garden was closed to the public. Amazingly, “the Garden itself was built by the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty as part of … Read More

Posted On: May 25th, 2016 at 12:41

Egypt The sunken cities of Egypt clearly show how rapidly coastal locations can be swallowed by changes in the earth’s climate, namely that of sea rise. For me, it also gives a lot of credence to the story of Plato’s Atlantis. If Atlantis existed as long ago as Plato said, and it was swallowed by … Read More

Posted On: May 22nd, 2016 at 12:59

Malaysia Sungai Batu is considered to be the oldest site in south-east Asia. Dating to around 535 BC, Sungai Batu was a centre for iron smelting and was likely the only place in Malaysia that had such a capability at that time. That means it was a major trade hub and likely the most important … Read More

Posted On: May 16th, 2016 at 02:26

United States I would like to reiterate a point I’ve been making on this page periodically and for many years. I am of the opinion, after more than twenty years of research, that the Americas were populated AT LEAST 20,000 years ago, and that South America is most likely to have been inhabited before North … Read More

Posted On: May 11th, 2016 at 12:05

Nepal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-35981287

Posted On: May 10th, 2016 at 14:28

Mexico / Canada A little 15-year-old boy genius has found an entire Maya city by studying the stars! It’s a hypothesis I believe very strongly – that many sites around the world are in fact mirrors of the stars above, and many places can be easily correlated to the heavens – the pyramids at Giza, … Read More

Posted On: May 10th, 2016 at 12:44

The World… or is it just mostly Europe? Another “Eurocentric” write-up by someone who clearly has no real clue about ancient sites. The Temple of the Sun (Huaca del Sol) from the Moche culture in Peru is the largest adobe brick structure in the world and never gets a mention anywhere, not to mention its … Read More

Posted On: May 6th, 2016 at 23:58

Egypt Pharaoh Akhenaton (14th Century BC; 18th Dynasty) was the first human being in history to preach the idea of monotheism, and once his kingdom was destroyed and his name erased from history it would be more than a thousand years before the idea of a single god would become prevalent. Akhenaton was married to … Read More

Posted On: May 1st, 2016 at 10:16

India In Karnataka sits a small island in the middle of the river Cauvery that was once the armoury of the Tiger of Mysuru (Mysore), Tipu Sultan.  Srigangapatna was an island where weapons were made and a fort built by the Tipu Sultan – the ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in the 18th Century … Read More

Posted On: Apr 30th, 2016 at 18:18

Peru Yet another baffling report that claims some answers have been given from satellites in space. In Nazca there are many puquios – spiralling walkways that lead down to aqueducts. I was fortunate to have walked down one of these back in 2005, get into the aqueduct and clamber through to the next puquios, quite … Read More

Posted On: Apr 25th, 2016 at 18:00

India A temple has been discovered off the coast of Chennai in India, and is thought to be around 2,000 years old. Divers have found a ten-metre wall, stairs and carved stone blocks in 27 feet of water, and the ruins are more than 800 metres from the current shoreline. As for the rest of … Read More

Posted On: Apr 24th, 2016 at 12:49

Egypt It is hard to imagine that such large discoveries still await us all around the world, what with all of our technology, especially Lidar that is revealing so much, but it is suggested that only 10% of the world’s antiquities have been uncovered thus far. In Egypt an entire necropolis has been discovered at … Read More

Posted On: Apr 23rd, 2016 at 12:26

Brazil One of the little publicised aspects of South American archaeology is the idea that very large civilisations had already previously existed and were gone long before Europeans arrived and decimated the indigenous populations, mostly through foreign diseases with which the natives had no natural defence. We are all familiar with the Nazca lines in Peru, … Read More

Posted On: Apr 22nd, 2016 at 13:03

Tibet Our lives would not be the same today if it wasn’t for the ancient Silk Road, meandering its way across Asia for thousands of miles. It was a trade route where goods were exchanged between east and west, and it shaped modern trade methods and gave us goods we would otherwise never have seen. … Read More