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Posted On: Aug 13th, 2018 at 15:20

India What I mean by the headline is this – 70,000 visitors a day paying an entrance fee – Rs 50 for Indians and a staggering Rs 1100 for foreign tourists (around £10 – India has a way of getting back what we stole from them!) Anyway, my point is this – with that much … Read More

Posted On: Aug 12th, 2018 at 17:01

Russia The title speaks for itself… a three-month-old foal has been found perfectly preserved in permafrost in Siberia, and will provide a surprising amount of information to scientists in the coming years. DNA testing will certainly add to the wealth of knowledge already obtained regarding the origins of horses, their habitat, and their spread throughout … Read More

Posted On: Aug 5th, 2018 at 13:39

India Delhi to be precise. Although human occupation stretches back to the second millennium BC, artefacts suggest the city that is now Delhi only dates to 300 BC during the Mauryan era, a long time after the kingdom of the Pandavas, talked about extensively in the Mahabharata. The archaeological survey of India (ASI) has excavated … Read More

Posted On: Aug 3rd, 2018 at 12:25

England Just a note as a response to the news that 10 of the 25 bodies found near Stonehenge had Welsh DNA… NO, it does not mean the Stonehenge builders were Welsh! For god’s sake, when will this nonsense stop? How can you come to a conclusion like that? If I dig up a body … Read More

Posted On: Aug 2nd, 2018 at 14:47

India / Andaman Islands The brutality from British rule in India is rarely exposed in western sources, and certainly not taught in schools, but the British were responsible for the deaths of millions of Indians during their control of this vast and beautiful country. The legacy of British rule has left positive traces all over … Read More

Posted On: Aug 1st, 2018 at 00:31

Egypt It’s about time indeed… the tide is turning again. This revelation may have profound ramifications in the scientific world for the entire future of the study of ancient structures. Of course, this isn’t a new theory – amateurs and theoretical archaeologists like myself have been coming up with these ideas for years, but what’s … Read More

Posted On: Jul 23rd, 2018 at 15:58

Eurasia Interestingly, after yesterday’s complex post and the ongoing genetic debate on the origins of the Indus Valley culture and thus modern-day Indians, a new study into the genetic migrations of the Steppes has produced some interesting results. But let’s jump straight to the argument. The main cultures of the Steppes have been the Scythians, … Read More

Posted On: Jul 22nd, 2018 at 16:45

India One of the most hotly debated questions in history – and one of the most complex – is Indian migration, the origins of Sanskrit, the DNA of the Indus Valley civilisation and, ultimately, the answer that all modern Indians are seeking. People have argued and fought over this question for a long time, but … Read More

Posted On: Jul 19th, 2018 at 15:17

The World There is no longer any “may”, “maybe”, “might have”, or any other kind of remark related to “possibly”. It’s time to simply stop wondering and just accept – the world was a much different place in the past to the one we believe it was. And we have religion to ultimately blame for … Read More

Posted On: Jul 16th, 2018 at 14:33

Scotland The driest and best summer I have ever experienced in the UK has brought some super things along with it. Not only have we just witnessed the best World Cup ever, but the lack of precipitation has revealed many hitherto unknown archaeology sites across the country. I hope we have many summers like this … Read More

Posted On: Jul 14th, 2018 at 13:04

**Breaking News** Africa / The World Is it correct that sometimes we have the right to blow our own trumpets when our own theory could finally be taken seriously? After all the ridicule I have faced over many years I think the answer is yes! Those of you who actually follow my posts and the … Read More

Posted On: Jul 13th, 2018 at 21:16

**Breaking News** Ireland The persistent heatwave over the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland that has led to numerous records being broken has also uncovered ancient sites that were previously unknown. This large henge has been discovered at the Newgrange site in the Republic of Ireland, and is thought to be around 4,500 years old, … Read More

Posted On: Jul 12th, 2018 at 00:08

**Breaking News** China Stone tools 2.12 million years old have been found in China, pushing evidence of human ancestors outside Africa back by another 270,000 years. The previous record was in Georgia, 1.85 million years ago. Georgia is relatively close to Africa compared with China. This is one small step forward for our history books, … Read More

Posted On: Jul 11th, 2018 at 13:30

Philippines I’m honestly sitting here laughing, thinking how those poor researchers are scratching their heads and wondering yet again how to stretch and manipulate Darwin’s evolution, and the dates hominins and humans left Africa. When is someone going to finally stand up and say, “Perhaps we need to scrap these theories and start again?” But … Read More

Posted On: Jul 10th, 2018 at 16:28

Greece A subject right up my lions gate – the Mycenaeans, my favourite of all ancient European cultures, and certainly the most fascinating. First, I’m here yet again to expose another error – the second picture in this article says, “Grave Circle B”. Well, first of all that clearly isn’t a circle, and neither is … Read More

Posted On: Jul 9th, 2018 at 14:54

Sweden After the interesting article I posted a couple of days ago regarding research carried out by Maritza Villavicencio into the ancient Peruvian elite and that women held much higher positions of power than we currently believe, here we have a similar situation in Sweden. A body, once assumed to be a male warrior simply … Read More

Posted On: Jul 8th, 2018 at 15:30

Italy A background story of Pompeii and Herculaneum and their destruction by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD is not required here as everyone should know this story, and if you don’t – look it up! And shame on you too! Pompeii itself is without doubt the best preserved ancient city in the world and its … Read More

Posted On: Jul 7th, 2018 at 12:09

Peru A ten-year study by Maritza Villavicencio suggests that women in ancient Peru weren’t just “priestesses” – high ranking in the religious elite – but were powerful monarchs who wielded immense power. The article makes the point so there’s little for me to say, but I happen to agree with Maritza, since the annual procession during … Read More

Posted On: Jul 6th, 2018 at 13:40

Iraq Look inside a fox burrow and what do you see? An ancient port, fifteen feet (5m) deep and the size of more than nine Olympic swimming pools. Even Alice in Wonderland didn’t find such wonders down the rabbit hole. That is exactly what happened in southern Iraq when archaeologists looked inside a fox hole … Read More

Posted On: Jun 28th, 2018 at 13:32

Turkey Continuing from the most recent post about Ziyaret Tepe, this article complements the previous one with more detail about the dam and the frantic excavations. But it’s not just the famous Assyrian city that will be lost – up to 500 ancient sites will also be gone. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/archaeologists-discovered-an-ancient-assyrian-city-only-to-lose-it-again