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Mysterious L-shaped structure found near Egyptian pyramids of Giza baffles scientists
An enigmatic L-shaped structure found underground near the pyramids at Giza may be an entrance to a mysterious deeper feature below it. Using remote sensing techniques, archaeologists in Egypt ha...
The IRA, MI6's not so secret army, remains the global hallmark in personal and political treachery
Anyone who thinks they understand the Irish Troubles has not a clue what they are talking about, Declan Hayes writes. While the dying Bobby Tohill, once one of the IRA's top Belfast assassins pri...
Undersea scans of 'Gateway to Europe' reveal astonishing detail of sunken landscape
The first ever hi-resolution archaeological underwater scans of the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia have revealed the remains of an astonishing network of streams, rivers and other geologic...
Unprecedented evidence humans occupied 'lava tubes' could fill in gaps in the archaeological record
People who lived in the Arabian Peninsula thousands of years ago went underground when they wanted to beat the heat, new research shows. People who lived in the Arabian Peninsula thousands of yea...
It's written in the stars - Assyriologist solves archaeological mystery from 700 BC in Iraq
Ancient symbols on a 2,700-year-old temple which have baffled experts for over a century have been explained by Trinity Assyriologist Dr Martin Worthington. The sequence of 'mystery symbols' were...
Odessa massacre 10 years on... Western media silence covers up NATO incrimination
Ten years ago this week, a shocking and brutal massacre was perpetrated by supporters of the NATO-backed Kiev regime in Odessa. At least 42 men and women were murdered on May 2, 2014, when the Tr...
Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the government of Qatar to continue the transfer of money to Gaza, in a secret letter sent to the Qatari leadership in 2018 and only seen by a handful of p...
https://www.sott.net/article/491193-Top-Secret-In-a-2018-letter-Netanyahu-asks-Qatar-to-fund-Hamas
Rare Roman dodecahedron found in England, purpose continues to baffle archaeologists
Roman dodecahedra are something of an enigma: there is no known mention of these 12-sided, hollow objects in ancient Roman texts or images. First discovered in the 18th century, around 130 dodeca...
Roman snail dye found in UK for first time, and it's beautiful
A rare dye made from snails for the robes of the Roman elite almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed at a cricket club. The chunk of Tyrian purple, roughly the size of a ping pong ball, was dug...
https://www.sott.net/article/491188-Roman-snail-dye-found-in-UK-for-first-time-and-its-beautiful
Experts say that the Stone of Destiny was a doorstep
The Stone of Destiny's recorded links to Scottish royalty date back almost 1000 years, and its origins are shrouded in mystery, with legends linking it to biblical heroes and ancient Egyptian pha...
https://www.sott.net/article/491088-Experts-say-that-the-Stone-of-Destiny-was-a-doorstep
7000-year-old settlement discovered in Serbia
A field campaign provides important new insights into the Late Neolithic period in Southeastern Europe. Together with cooperation partners from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia), the N...
https://www.sott.net/article/491046-7000-year-old-settlement-discovered-in-Serbia
Cranky to the end: Ancient scroll claims Plato spent his la...ng to music, criticized slave-girl flautist's 'lack of rhythm'
One of history's most influential philosophers, Plato was known for his theories on politics, poetry, knowledge and ethics. And, thanks to a newly discovered scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius, we n...
Israel's complex relations with Iran
While the mullahs' rhetoric is clearly anti-Israeli, relations between the two countries are far more complex than one might think. There are in fact two opposing groups in Iran, one intent on do...
https://www.sott.net/article/491034-Israels-complex-relations-with-Iran
FLASHBACK: Israel-Saudi Arabia: Netanyahu promotes normalisation with new map erasing Palestine
Illustration shown by Israeli prime minister at UN includes occupied West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a new map erasing Palestine during hi...
Russia's "Fourteen Points" for a European Security Policy: Why was Moscow's 2009 proposal rejected?
In 2009, Russian President Medvedev (President from May 7th, 2008 to May 7th, 2012) called for a new European security policy known as "Fourteen Points" as a new security treaty to be accepted to...
La Colonisation: French history of death, torture and indescribable violence in the pearl of its evil empire
Many issues arising from France's colonial crimes in Algeria have still not been resolved Every year, Algeria remembers the colonial crimes committed by France against the Algerian people. The No...
'We have provided everything possible for their freedom': H...e USSR helped France's most important colony stick it to Paris
Demining, energy cooperation, irrigation, metallurgy, children's summer camps made the history of the friendship between Algeria and the Soviet Union In early 2024, Moscow announced that it inten...
1052: The Magic Box with the Red Eye
Comment: Through A Glass Darkly is Cynthia's substack. Just below the opening sentences, Cynthia adds three quotes, two from Col. Fletcher Prouty's The Secret Team and one from Douglas Valentine'...
https://www.sott.net/article/490918-1052-The-Magic-Box-with-the-Red-Eye
DNA from ancient graves reveals the culture of a mysterious nomadic people
Hundreds of genomes shed light on the marriage habits and social norms of the Avar people of central Europe. Most people know about the Huns, if only because of their infamous warrior-ruler Attil...
'Extraordinary': George Washington's 250-year-old cherries, full wine bottles, found buried at Mount Vernon , USA
The forgotten cherries were supposed to be served on George Washington's dinner table, but became a time capsule instead, sitting untouched since at least 1776 Archaeologists found something incr...
Study suggests human occupation in Patagonia prior to the Younger Dryas period
Archaeologists have conducted a study of lithic material from the Pilauco and Los Notros sites in north-western Patagonia, revealing evidence of human occupation in the region prior to the Younge...
What Happened to America's Anti-Fascist Traditions?
Americans once took great pride in the defeat of the Nazi scourge that threatened to run roughshod over the 20th century and beyond. Under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, America mobilized ...
https://www.sott.net/article/490861-What-Happened-to-Americas-Anti-Fascist-Traditions
The history of the Oak Island Money Pit
Oak Island, located in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, is a small 140-acre island which has been the subject of an ongoing treasure hunt since 1795. The earliest human occupation of the region dates bac...
https://www.sott.net/article/490826-The-history-of-the-Oak-Island-Money-Pit
Moon 'may have influenced Stonehenge builders'
The possibility that Stonehenge aligns with the positions of the Moon - as well as the Sun - is being investigated by a team of experts and organisations including the Royal Astronomical Society....
https://www.sott.net/article/490775-Moon-may-have-influenced-Stonehenge-builders
Mysterious circular monument discovered in France
The mysterious monument site appears to have been occupied across multiple historical periods. Archaeologists have discovered an unusual horseshoe-shaped monument and a collection of weapons and ...
https://www.sott.net/article/490745-Mysterious-circular-monument-discovered-in-France
'Unusual' burned remains of Maya royalty marked the rise of a new, 'foreign' military leader, study reveals
In an ancient Maya temple-pyramid in Guatemala, archaeologists recently discovered the scorched bones of at least four adults who were likely members of a royal lineage. The burning signaled a de...
BEST OF THE WEB FLASHBACK: The dark origins of the Davos Great Reset
Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab's so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or hi...
https://www.sott.net/article/473603-The-dark-origins-of-the-Davos-Great-Reset
'Incaprettamento': Neolithic Europe's 2,000 year 'tradition' of sacrificing women by tying them up and burying them alive
New research has identified over a dozen murders where women were traditionally sacrificed in Neolithic Europe across a period of 2,000 years. The murder of sacrificial victims by "incaprettament...
Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city
Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Archaeologists say the frescos are among the finest...
https://www.sott.net/article/490524-Pompeii-Breathtaking-new-paintings-found-at-ancient-city
The Milky Way illuminated ancient Egypt's goddess of the sky
Astronomical simulations and ancient Egyptian texts show the Milky Way was linked to the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut. This fits within multicultural myths about our home galaxy. The broad ba...
https://www.sott.net/article/490516-The-Milky-Way-illuminated-ancient-Egypts-goddess-of-the-sky
'Intriguing' evidence of female mobility during the 630AD Christian Conversion Period
Recent discoveries of exceptionally well-furnished 7th-century female burials - such as those from Trumpington (CA 343) and from Harpole (CA 395) - have drawn increasing attention to a phenomenon...
Roman cavalry parade helmet recreated
Working alongside the British Museum conservators who excavated and conserved the assemblage, staff and volunteers at Leicestershire Museums studied the helmet to produce reconstruction drawings ...
https://www.sott.net/article/490412-Roman-cavalry-parade-helmet-recreated
Newly discovered prehistoric henge reveals centuries-old sacred Christian site in Lincolnshire
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire. The study is published in the Journal of Field Arch...
Archaeologists probe claims of giant skeletons in Nevada caves
Discoveries included a 15-inch sandal that had been worn down as well as massive handprints across the walls Archaeologists have long been baffled about claims that a long-lost group of giant hum...
https://www.sott.net/article/490393-Archaeologists-probe-claims-of-giant-skeletons-in-Nevada-caves
A 130,000-year-old stingray sand sculpture maybe the world's oldest animal art
This is 90,000 years before cave paintings started to emerge in Europe. At first glance, this might just look like strangely symmetrical rock. However, researchers have recently taken a deeper lo...
A circular building with six towers of the Achaemenid period discovered in Iran
Archaeologists have uncovered an almost circular adobe building with six towers, built in the 6th century BC, near Birjand in South Khorasan. Excavations in the largely unexplored Khorasan began ...
Links between elusive Denisovans and China's 150,000-year-old 'dragon man' found in new study
They remain one of the most elusive groups of humans to have walked on earth. Evidence from the DNA traces left by Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, probably travelled to th...
NATO's illegal 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia 'a huge tragedy' - Putin
The West's military action was completely unacceptable, President of Russia has said on 25th anniversary Russia's president Vladimir Putin has said that the US-led NATO alliance had started a war...
https://www.sott.net/article/490196-NATOs-illegal-1999-bombing-of-Yugoslavia-a-huge-tragedy-Putin
Human activity on Curaçao began centuries earlier than previously believed
New research co-led by Simon Fraser University and the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management (NAAM Foundation) in Curaçao extends the earliest known human settlement of Cura�...
4,000-year-old teeth highlight the harm agricultural diets have had on humans over the centuries
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have recovered remarkably preserved microbiomes from two teeth dating back 4,000 years, found in an Irish limestone cave. Genetic analyses of these microbiom...
Plant material on obsidian blades on Rapa Nui suggests settlers there visited South America and returned
A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in Chile reports evidence that early settlers on the island of Rapa Nui sailed to South America, interacted with people living there ...
BEST OF THE WEB: The ruins of Yugoslavia: How Russia learned that NATO poses a serious threat
The alliance's strikes on Belgrade in the spring of 1999 forever changed relations between the West and Moscow On the evening of March 24, 1999, student Elena Milincic was at home with her sister...
Artist tattooed himself to solve mystery tools and technique used on Otzi the iceman 5,300 years ago
A man who died around 5,300 years ago was tattooed using methods fascinatingly similar to modern ones. Ötzi the Iceman, whose exceptionally mummified remains were found decades ago in a glacier ...
'Honey glazed venison': The surprisingly sophisticated live...the stilt-house, marshland dwellers of England 3,000 years ago
A major report on the remains of a stilt village that was engulfed in flames almost 3,000 years ago reveals in unprecedented detail the daily lives of England's prehistoric fenlanders. Must Farm,...
8,200-yr-old rice pollen found in China may be oldest evidence of rice cultivation yet
Through studying pollen substances discovered in mud, a recent Chinese research project has interestingly uncovered that ancient people in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, may have started consuming ri...
7,000-year-old canoes reveal early development of nautical technology in Mediterranean
The discovery of five "technologically sophisticated" canoes in Italy has revealed that Neolithic people were navigating the Mediterranean more than 7,000 years ago. The canoes date from between ...
Intriguing artificial cranial deformation discovered in Viking women
A recent study delves into the discovery of three women from Viking-Age Gotland who underwent skull elongation. This investigation sheds light on the fascinating tradition of body modification pr...
19thC European battlefields were plundered for dead soldier...r dentistry, bones for sugar and fertilizer, new study reveals
The plundering of European battlefields for the teeth of fallen soldiers to make dentures was a 'major phenomenon' until as late as the 1830s, a new study has said. Soldiers' front teeth were col...
Ancient humans underwent population bottleneck, climate upheaval, and mass migration, 900,000 years ago, new study reveals
Some 900,000 years ago, humans nearly went extinct. According to the results of a genomics study published last year, modern humanity's ancestors were reduced to a breeding population of barely 1...
British warship identified off Florida coast nearly 300 years after it sank
The HMS Tyger ran aground in 1742 and its crew escaped in a dramatic sea voyage The remains of a British warship that ran aground and marooned hundreds of crew members on an uninhabited island ne...