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Hammer

Out of place and time: Was this alleged 'Oopart' hammer made 100 million years ago?

100 Millian yr. Old Hammer?
Replica of the London Hammer as presented in a slide by Dr. Doug Newton of the non-profit organization Trinity Creation Studies. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Oopart (out of place artifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that seem to show a level of technological advancement incongruous with the times in which they were made. Ooparts often frustrate conventional scientists, delight adventurous investigators open to alternative theories, and spark debate.

A hammer was found in London, Texas, in 1934 encased in stone that had formed around it. The rock surrounding the hammer is said to be more than 100 million years old, suggesting the hammer was made well before humans who could have made such an object are thought to have existed.

Much mystery surrounds the so-called "London Hammer." Many have contested claims that the hammer is so old.

Comment: There certainly are many strange artifacts that seem to be laying about either upon our Terra soils, within soils, rock or underwater. In this case, without a good chain of custody of the evidence (100 million years seems a leap), it is difficult to say. However there are many stories from people like Michal Cremo that describe unusual Ooparts.

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Eye 2

A brief history of collective punishment: From the British Empire to Israel and the Palestinians

gaza wreckage
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As old as war itself, collective punishment has long been the most damning and destructive weapon of all. Not satisfied with engaging combatants alone and directly, historically, it has fueled state reprisal against families, communities and entire populations in a drive to "win" a given conflict, military or otherwise, at all costs.

With roots that trace, literally, to the start of time, reprisal has evolved as modern warfare became more proficient and popular resistance more prevalent. Nowhere has collective punishment proved more evident and efficient than it has in the West where it has long run the gamut from civil sanctions, to population displacement, to political penalty, to imprisonment, to outright slaughter. Of late, it has grown more subtle, yet no less pernicious, through state censorship that seeks to control the narrative of the day.

In the American Civil War, during his "march to the sea", General Sherman ordered his troops, when faced with any resistance from guerillas, to "enforce devastation more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility." In doing so, his troops targeted non-combatants causing more than one-hundred million dollars in property damage. Today that destruction would be valued at more than one-and half billion dollars.

The strategy known as "hard war" was defined by widespread destruction of civilian supplies, infrastructure and property, which disrupted the South's economy and transportation networks. Foragers, known as "bummers", seized food from local farms for the Army while they destroyed railroads, manufacturing and agricultural infrastructure in the South.

Archaeology

Researcher thinks China's pyramids encode astronomical alignments

Emperor Wu of Han burial
© Gulio MagliEmperor Wu of Han ruled from 141 to 87 BC, and was placed in a burial mound nearly 250 metres long.
Much like Egypt's pharaohs, the emperors of China's Western Han dynasty had a thing for being buried inside pyramids - although less recognisable than the iconic ones we know from places like Giza.

Scattered along the outskirts of Xi'an along the banks of China's Wei River, the sides of these burial mounds align with the cardinal points. At least, some do. Others are twisted to face a different direction, and Italian researcher Giulio Magli thinks he knows why.

Magli is what you might call an archaeoastronomer - a researcher who looks at the relationship between ancient architecture and celestial arrangements.

He argues the explanation behind two distinct patterns of orientation among the tombs of the Western Han emperors might have to do with how some family traditions chose a different way to show how powerful they were.

Emperor Wu of Han ruled from 141 to 87 BC, and was placed in a burial mound nearly 250 metres long. (Gulio Magli)

Comment: A recent study revealed the strong possibility that many famous examples of prehistoric cave art and neolithic megaliths were created to document the astronomical positions of cometary bodies which brought cyclical catastrophes to Earth. Is it possible that at least some of these alignments were intended to encode something similar? It's notable that the Chinese have a long history of documenting and tracking comets and that they were well aware of the disaster they wrought.

There's also the possibility that they were encoding Earth's precession in order to draw attention to one of the possible drivers for these cometary bodies, see: See also:


Play

James Corbett's "The WWI Conspiracy": A New World Order

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In the first two parts of this series we have seen how the WWI conspiracy came to be. But more important by far is the question of why it happened. For what purpose was such carnage released upon the world? What did the First World War mean? Discover the hard truth about the First World War this week on The Corbett Report as we conclude The WWI Conspiracy.

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Meteor

3,700 years ago, cosmic airburst may have wiped out part of the Middle East

Cosmic airburst
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Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land called Middle Ghor, north of the Dead Sea, say archaeologists who have found evidence of the cosmic airburst.

The airburst "in an instant, devastated approximately 500 km2 [about 200 square miles] immediately north of the Dead Sea, not only wiping out 100 percent of the [cities] and towns, but also stripping agricultural soils from once-fertile fields and covering the eastern Middle Ghor with a super-heated brine of Dead Sea anhydride salts pushed over the landscape by the event's frontal shock waves," the researchers wrote in the abstract for a paper that was presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting held in Denver Nov. 14 to 17. Anhydride salts are a mix of salt and sulfates.

"Based upon the archaeological evidence, it took at least 600 years to recover sufficiently from the soil destruction and contamination before civilization could again become established in the eastern Middle Ghor," they wrote. Among the places destroyed was Tall el-Hammam, an ancient city that covered 89 acres (36 hectares) of land.

Whistle

Before Assange, Manning and Snowden, there was Dr. David Kelly

Dr. David Kelly
© Getty ImagesDr. David Kelly
Dr. David Kelly was an unassuming man in an age of political grandstanding - a soft spoken weapons expert in an age of weaponized rhetoric. Having worked for both the United Nations and the British government as a high level weapons inspector, he briefly became a household name when after a 2003 visit to Iraq, Dr. Kelly concluded that the government in Baghdad was telling the truth regarding its inability to produce weapons of mass destruction and the non-existence of WMD stockpiles.

In an article published by the Guardian newspaper in 2003, the following was written about what turned out to be Kelley's final weapons inspecting mission to Iraq:
"An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as the Iraqis have continued to insist.

The conclusion by biological weapons experts working for the British Government is an embarrassment for the Prime Minister, who has claimed that the discovery of the labs proved that Iraq retained weapons of mass destruction and justified the case for going to war against Saddam Hussein.

Instead, a British scientist and biological weapons expert, who has examined the trailers in Iraq, told The Observer last week: 'They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis said they were - facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons'".

Comment: PTB: Inconvenient truths = inconvenient lives.


Info

Extinct Denisovan people may have colonized Earth's highest plateau in Tibet 30,000 years ago

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© National GeographicA team excavates at the Nwya Devu site on the Tibetan Plateau.
People were living 4,600 metres above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau at least 30,000 years ago, a new study has found.

That makes it the earliest known human occupation at high altitude anywhere on the planet.

Archaeologists have long wondered when humans moved up to the "roof of the world", which also happens to be one of the least hospitable places on Earth, but hard evidence has been scant.

Now researchers from China, the US and Russia have found some.

Wedding Rings

Inscription on ancient ring confirms that it belonged to Pontius Pilate

historical site
© Global Look Press / Gil Cohen MagenWorkers from the Israeli Antiquities Authority work in the Herodium fortress.
The name of Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ according to Christian scripture, has been deciphered on a bronze ring discovered some 50 years ago near Bethlehem.

The ancient ring was found in the late 1960s during an archaeological dig at the site of the Herodion fortress, built by Herod the king of Judea.

His name was deciphered on the ring after it, and thousands of other finds, were handed over to the team currently working on the historical site. Pilate was an infamous Roman governor of Jerusalem in the years 26 to 36 who also allegedly ran Jesus' trial.

Archaeology

Eight colorful mummies discovered near the White Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt

The roughly 2,500-year old mummies were buried near the White Pyramid at Dahshur, built by a pharaoh who reigned 3,800 years ago.
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In blue, brown and green tones the cardboard of the sarcophagus still kept intact the face of the person who inhabited the coffin for nearly three millennia. Egyptian archaeologists have found eight graves with their respective mummies housed in boxes that have retained the vivacity of the original colors.
Eight mummies were discovered during excavations near a pyramid in Dahshur, Egypt, the country's Ministry of Antiquities announced today. Dating from the Late Period (664-332 B.C.), the mummified remains were each covered in painted cartonnage (a sort of paper-maché made from plaster and papyrus or linen) and buried in a limestone sarcophagus.

Only three of the mummies were in good condition, according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

The discovery was made during excavations near the White Pyramid of Amenemhat II, a 12th Dynasty pharaoh who died in the early 19th century B.C. The pyramid, one of several built at the necropolis at Dahshur, has been mined for its white limestone blocks and heavily looted, and little of the monument remains today.

People 2

Study suggests multiple episodes of inter-breeding between Neanderthal and humans

Comparison of a Neanderthal skull (left) with that of a Homo sapiens.
© Nathan HoltonComparison of a Neanderthal skull (left) with that of a Homo sapiens.
A pair of researchers at Temple University has found evidence that suggests Neanderthals mated and produced offspring with anatomically modern humans multiple times-not just once, as has been suggested by prior research. In their paper published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, Fernando Villanea and Joshua Schraiber describe their genetic analysis of East Asian and European people and how they compared to people from other places. Fabrizio Mafessoni with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology offers a News and Views piece on the work done by the pair in the same journal issue.

In recent years, scientists have discovered that early humans moving out of Africa encountered Neanderthals living in parts of what is now Europe and Eastern Asia. In comparing Neanderthal DNA with modern humans, researchers have found that there was a least one pairing that led to offspring, which is reflected in the DNA of humans-approximately 2 percent of the DNA in non-African humans today is Neanderthal. In this new effort, the researchers have found evidence that suggests there was more than one such encounter.

Comment: Recent studies show that humans also interbred with Denisovans as well as an unknown species.

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