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| Monday, May 18 |
| · | Ancient Elite Island With Pyramid Found in Mexico (0) |
| · | German efigy of 'Venus' may be the oldest yet found (0) |
| Sunday, May 03 |
| · | "Dark Age" Temple Found in Turkey (0) |
| · | Ancient Egyption Temples Found at Gateway Fortress (0) |
| Saturday, April 18 |
| · | Female "King" Ruled in Canaan (0) |
| Sunday, April 12 |
| · | Council calls in 'ghostbusters' (0) |
| Thursday, March 26 |
| · | Crusaders' Tunnels Found Near Palace on Island (0) |
| Thursday, March 12 |
| · | Ancient Cult Chapels, Egyptian Noblewoman's Tomb Found (0) |
| · | Remains of Shakespeare's first theatre found (0) |
| Thursday, February 26 |
| · | Cornish language extinct, says UN (0) |
| · | Oldest English words' identified (0) |
| Thursday, February 19 |
| · | "His and her" gates to Hell (0) |
| Friday, February 13 |
| · | Henry VIII love letter to Anne Boleyn (0) |
| · | Fertility god does the trick (0) |
| · | "Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus (0) |
| Friday, January 23 |
| · | Mysterious ghostly orbs perplex researchers (0) |
| · | New UFO witness reopens 1970s mystery of the 'Welsh Roswell' (0) |
| · | Ancient Persians 'gassed Romans' (0) |
| Wednesday, January 14 |
| · | Hitler and the secret Satanic cult at the heart of Nazi Germany (0) |
| · | Drink coffee, and see ghosts (0) |
| · | DNA could reveal when and where Aincient books were made (0) |
| Friday, January 09 |
| · | UFO blamed for destroyed British wind turbine (0) |
| Wednesday, December 31 |
| · | The Christmas Star Mystery (0) |
| Sunday, December 21 |
| · | Alexander the Great's "Crown," Shield Discovered? (0) |
| · | Magnetic-Shield Cracks Found; Big Solar Storms Expected i n 2012 (0) |
| Tuesday, December 16 |
| · | Teacher claimed Santa isn't real! (0) |
| · | Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb (0) |
| · | Near-death experiences are real and we have the proof, say scientists (0) |
| · | Mystery Pyramid Built by Newfound Ancient Culture? (0) |
| Thursday, November 06 |
| · | Damaged Egyptian "Mecca" To Be Restored (0) |
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A 2,000-year-old underground chamber has been discovered in Israel's Jordan Valley. The largest human-made cave in Israel, the 1-acre (0.4-hectare) space is thought to have begun as a quarry. In subsequent centuries it may have served as a monastery, hideout for persecuted Christians, or Roman army base, experts say. Archaeologists working in the valley found the cave this past March when they came across a hole in a rock face. As they were about to enter, two fearful-looking Bedouins appeared and warned the team that hyenas and wolves inhabited the cave. But science prevailed, said team leader Adam Zertal, and once underground, "our eyes opened to see something unimaginable." The archaeologists peered into a huge hall lined with 22 thick pillars—giving the "impression of a palace," added Zertal, of the University of Haifa in Israel. "We didn't have much light—it was complete darkness," he said. But "even with the torches, we saw how glorious it looks." Etched into those columns were 31 Christian crosses, Roman letters, a Zodiac sign, and what looks like the Roman army's pennant—all of which surprised the researchers. "It surely was not just a quarry," Zertal said...
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A witches' coven is claiming religious persecution after they were banned from using a social centre for a Halloween gathering. The Crystal Cauldron group had booked Our Lady's Social Club in Stockport for the group's annual Witches Ball, reports the Daily Telegraph. But when high priestess Sandra Davis went to pay for the booking she was told it had been blocked by the the Roman Catholic church. Mrs Davis, 61, had hoped to attract up to 150 people to the social evening offering a buffet dinner and music from an Abba tribute band. But she was told by the manager that the Diocese of Shrewsbury, which owns the centre, had refused permission for the group to use it. "It makes you think that there is still a little bit of that attitude from the past of the Catholics wanting to burn witches," she said. "I thought we had made progress, that we could accept other people's religious paths." Mrs Davis, who has 11 grandchildren, gave up her former job in a forklift truck company to set up the Crystal Cauldron, where she is known as Amethyst Selmeselene. The Reverend John Joyce, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Shrewsbury, which owns the centre, said that it was out of the question for a pagan group to use its facilities. "Parish centres under our auspices let their premises on the understanding users and their organisations are compatible with the ethos and teachings of the Catholic church," he said...
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We know they dominated sea trade in the Mediterranean for 3,000 years. Now DNA testing and recent archaeological finds are revealing just what the Phoenician legacy meant to the ancient world—and to our own. "I am a Phoenician," says the young man, giving the name of a people who vanished from history 2,000 years ago. "At least I feel like I'm one of them. My relatives have been fishermen and sailors here for centuries." "Good, we can use some real Phoenicians," says Spencer Wells, an American geneticist, who wraps the young man's arm in a tourniquet as they sit on the veranda of a restaurant in Byblos, Lebanon, an ancient city of stone on the Mediterranean. The young man, Pierre Abi Saad, has arrived late, eager to participate in an experiment to shed new light on the mysterious Phoenicians. He joins a group of volunteers—fishermen, shopkeepers, and taxi drivers—gathered around tables under the restaurant awning. Wells, a lanky, 34-year-old extrovert, has convinced Saad and the others to give him a sample of their blood. "What will it tell you?" Saad asks. "Your blood contains DNA, which is like a history book," Wells replies. "Many different people have come to Byblos over the centuries, and your blood carries traces of their DNA. It's going to tell us something about your relationships going back thousands of years." Wells has no doubts about the power of the new genetic techniques he is bringing to our understanding of ancient peoples. Nor does his bespectacled colleague standing beside him on the veranda, Pierre Zalloua, a 37-year-old scientist with a dark goatee and an intense passion for his Lebanese heritage. The two men hope to find new clues to an age-old riddle: Who were the Phoenicians?...
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Thousands of years before the Joker gassed comic book victims into a grinning death, Phoenician colonists on the island of Sardinia (map) were forcing smiles on the faces of the dead. Now scientists say they know just how the ancient seafaring traders created the gruesome smiles some 2,800 years ago—not with a toxic gas like Batman's nemesis but with a plant-based potion. And someday that plant might be used to Botox-like effect, perhaps reducing rather than adding smile lines, the researchers speculate. By the eighth century B.C., Homer had coined the term "sardonic grin"—"sardonic" having its roots in "Sardinia"—in writings referring to the island's ritual killings via grimace-inducing potion. Elderly people who could no longer care for themselves and criminals "were intoxicated with the sardonic herb and then killed by dropping from a high rock or by beating to death," according to the new study. For centuries the herb's identity has been a mystery, but study leader Giovanni Appendino and colleagues say they have discovered a sardonic grin-inducing compound in a plant called hemlock water-dropwort. The white-flowered plant grows on celery-like stalks along ponds and rivers on the island, now part of Italy...
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Darting silently in formation, the mysterious glowing orbs light up the night sky. Some say these orange lights even weave in between each other with the precision of a synchronised flying team from some far corner of the universe. Clusters of more than 100 have been spotted across Britain and even Holland, leaving onlookers with an eerie sense that, for all the mystifying beauty of the strange objects, they may have just witnessed an armada of invading UFOs. Stunned: Families in Lincoln spotted glowing orange spheres grouped together in the sky on Sunday night. Witnesses reported seeing the lights flying in an apparent formation, dodging and darting around each other before disappearing. The most recent sighting was on Sunday when they were seen in two locations, Merseyside and Lincoln. Days earlier a similar phenomenon was spotted over Cambridgeshire, where one witness claims each was as big as a house. The sightings have prompted defence officials to check their logs and sent UFO fans into orbits of excitement. Engineer Paul Slight, 54, took photos on his mobile phone of the strange objects hovering over Lincoln at 10.30pm while he was cycling home after a day out with friends. 'There were 26 of them at first, dodging and darting in between each other like they were playing a game,' he said. 'After that, seven more arrived and weaved through the crowd of lights like strange kinds of aircraft. After five minutes of moving around, they hung in the air for a second then shot off into the sky and disappeared.' A spokesman for nearby RAF Cranwell said the base was closed at the weekend so the lights could not be attributed to its aircraft. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence is examining claims that the Merseyside lights were connected to an exercise involving HMS Daring, docked in Liverpool. An ex-military source claimed the lights were dropped by jets to simulate the path of a missile in order to test the warship's radar systems...
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