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New evidence reveals a 25,000-year-old center of magic, healing and ritual in Australia

Oguz Buyukyildirim
Arkeonews Net
Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:28 UTC
Cloggs Cave reconstruction
© Arkeonews NetArtist’s reconstruction created by the author for illustrative purposes; it does not depict a documented scene from Cloggs Cave.
For at least 25,000 years, people entered Cloggs Cave carrying plants.

They did not appear to bring the grasses solely for food, warmth or ordinary domestic work. Instead, new microscopic evidence suggests that whole plants were deliberately gathered, transported into the secluded cave and burned in repeated, low-temperature fires — activities that strengthen the interpretation of Cloggs Cave as a place reserved for ritual specialists, healing practices and spiritual power.

Located in GunaiKurnai Country in southeastern Australia, Cloggs Cave preserves one of the continent's longest archaeological records of relationships between people and plants. A new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology examined phytoliths — microscopic silica structures formed inside plants — preserved in deposits spanning approximately 25,000 years.

The results point toward something far more complex than a shelter where people simply cooked, slept or sought protection from the weather.
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Ancient Rome's strange hair law: Long locks out, bald heads in

Leman Altuntaş
Arkeonews Net
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:12 UTC
Bald vs Long Haired
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In late antique Rome, a bad hair day could become a legal matter. In AD 416, emperors Honorius and Theodosius II prohibited long hair inside Rome and its surrounding districts — at roughly the same time that an influential philosopher was portraying bald men as healthier, wiser, and altogether more trustworthy.

The unusual connection between Roman hairstyle laws and the ancient Eulogy of Baldness is examined by historian Javier Arce in a study published in the journal Pyrenae. His research suggests that Rome's long-hair ban was not simply an eccentric attempt to regulate personal grooming. It formed part of a wider struggle over status, public order and the growing popularity of fashions associated with peoples the Romans called "barbarians."

Rome's 1,600-year-old long hair ban

The law was issued on December 12, AD 416, from Ravenna, where Emperor Honorius was then based. It ordered that no one be permitted to wear "longer locks" within the sacred city of Rome.

Long hair was not the only target. The same legislation prohibited clothing made from animal skins, even when worn by enslaved people. Free individuals who ignored the order faced legal punishment, while enslaved offenders could be sentenced to public labour. The regulation also applied beyond the city walls to neighbouring regions.

At first glance, the law appears to have been directed at foreigners — particularly Goths, Franks or other Germanic groups traditionally depicted with long hair and fur garments. Arce, however, identifies a problem with that explanation.

If the law was aimed only at foreign residents, Rome would have needed to contain such a large and visible "barbarian" population that their appearance had become a major urban concern. Arce proposes a more plausible alternative: Roman citizens themselves had begun copying foreign hairstyles and clothing.

The imperial government may therefore have been trying to stop Romans from looking too much like the people who had recently challenged — and in some cases defeated — the empire.
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A chorus of poets: On the possible existence of multiple Homers

Henry Power
Literary Hub
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:37 UTC
portraits of homer iliad odessey
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Henry Power Considers Theories on the Authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Dawn touches the sky with her rosy fingers, and I realize that I forgot to put the bin out. I turn on the radio, and the news is full of stories about powerful men with fragile egos catapulting the world into chaos, and about human beings who endure under impossible circumstances. The stories are familiar from two poems I first read when I was eight years old, written (or so I was told) by a blind man named Homer. I have thought about those poems every day since. Homer is already on my mind as I drag the bin onto the street, and Homer will still be on my mind when night comes, the tamer of gods and men.

I teach literature at a university, so it's impossible to escape Homer in my working life: echoes of the Iliad and the Odyssey can be found everywhere in the literature of the English-speaking world, and beyond. But I see their traces everywhere, not just in the poems and novels I discuss with my students. Two thin-skinned colleagues square up to each other in a faculty meeting; I don't anticipate actual violence, but I do have a vision of Achilles reaching for his sword after being provoked by Agamemnon. Protesting students have pitched their tents on the hill outside my office window; I see Hector and his troops camped out on the plain, ahead of tomorrow's fighting. My son calls to ask when I'm getting back, and whether there's anything he can eat; I think of Telemachus, patiently waiting 20 years for his father's return.

It's extraordinary to think that a single poet could provoke such different responses — but we're not talking about a single poet.
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Underwater ruins off Louisiana have revived the theory of a 12,000-year-old lost city

BeckhamLangford
msn
Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:54 UTC
Underwater ruins
© FreepikUnderwater ruins off Louisiana have revived the theory of a 12,000-year-old lost city.
Federal scientists investigating submerged terrain off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana have documented seafloor features consistent with ancient shorelines and river channels that existed when sea levels were far lower, raising pointed questions about whether humans occupied those lands as early as 13,000 years ago. The research, carried out through NOAA's Paleolandscapes expedition and supported by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management survey mandates, has given new life to long-debated claims of a "lost city" beneath the Gulf of Mexico. No confirmed artifacts or built structures have been recovered so far, but the geophysical data now in hand has narrowed the search area enough to make targeted verification possible for the first time.

Why submerged Gulf shorelines demand attention right now

The tension is straightforward: offshore energy leasing in the Gulf is expanding at the same time that federal law requires protection of possible archaeological sites before drilling can proceed. Under the National Historic Preservation Act, the Section 106 compliance process applies to archaeological resources on the outer continental shelf, and the Department of the Interior outlines those responsibilities across its public-facing policy pages. That means every lease block where geophysical surveys flag potential cultural features triggers a review that can delay or redirect industrial activity.
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The strange death of James V. Forrestal, the first US Secretary of Defense

Hua Bin
Hua's Substack
Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:58 UTC
Did Israel start its serial assassination campaigns of its American opponents much earlier than we assume?
James V. Forrestal
© Hua's Substack
I have always enjoyed reading a wide variety of books on somewhat arcane subjects. Many are triggered by references from other books, and they form a sort of chain reaction.

Around 10 years ago, I read Webster Griffin Tarpley's book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, my first exposure to alternative 9/11 theories of what truly happened in 2001.

Tarpley's book led me to David Ray Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11.

I subsequently read perhaps 30 books on the subject such as Kevin Ryan's Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects, Chris Bollyn's Solving 9/11: The Deception That Changed the World, Jim Fetzer's The 9/11 Conspiracy - the Scamming of America, and more.

Griffin's New Pearl Harbor further led me to Peter Dale Scott's The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War as well as his books on the drug trade, particularly his 2010 book American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan and the 2003 book Drugs, Oil, and Wars: the US in Afghanistan, Columbia, and Indochina.

Peter Dale Scott's books motivated me to explore the subjects of JFK assassination and drug trade, which included many books such as James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Alfred McCoy's The Politics of Heroine: CIA Complicity in Global Drug Trade, and Gary Webb's Dark Alliance: the CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.

Two books were particularly intriguing among the many on the subjects: Michael Collins Piper's 1994 book Final Judgement: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy and Salvador Astucia's Opium Lords - Israel, Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination.

Piper was among the first to connect the JFK assassination to Mossad as Kennedy was adamantly opposed to the Israeli nuclear weapons project and therefore became a threat to Israel to be eliminated.

This theory has been further supported by French historian Laurent Guyenot in his books JFK to 9/11: 50 Years of Deep State and The Unspoken Kennedy Truth.

Salvador Astucia, in turn, developed the thesis that Israel used drug-related interest to carry out the assassination, fingering the hitmen as French-Corsican heroin traffickers and associates of Meyer Lansky, the head of Jewish mafia in the US.

One obscure reference by Astucia in his book led me to a book written by David Martin in 2019 The Assassination of James Forrestal, subject of this article.

(By the way, I am planning to write on the US state-sponsored narco trade at some point with the information learned from the reading list. It is the height of iron that the US is the original and ultimuate Narco State while it labels Venezuela under Maduro as such.)
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Bizarro Earth

'They used axes to spare the ammo': How modern Ukraine's Nazi heroes massacred civilians during WWII


RT
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:55 UTC
ukraine nazi
© archiwa.gov.plTens of thousands innocent Poles were massacred in Volyn. To this day, the torturers are still not condemned
The Second World War is usually seen as a confrontation between giant military alliances. However, in reality, many smaller separate conflicts unfolded within this epic war, and the struggle between peoples and countries was often conducted without compromise or mercy. One of the darkest and least-known pages of the Second World War is the Volyn massacre - an ethnic cleansing carried out by pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalist groups in the Volyn region, which is now almost entirely part of Ukraine.

Volhynia has historically been a border zone. These swampy forests were part of Russia in the Middle Ages and later became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - the Polish state in its heyday. The partitioning of Poland brought Volhynia into the Russian Empire. After the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War, Volhynia was once again part of an independent Poland. In short, this region, although a bit of a backwater, has changed hands often.

Comment: Notably similarly insidious elements are still present and hold great sway in modern day Ukraine: West turns a blind eye to march honoring Nazis in Kiev: Ukraine may not be a fascist state, but it has a fascism problem

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Mr. Jones and the 'Holodomor' Red Pill - What Happened During Stalin's Famine?



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Black Magic

'Crimes against humanity': The CIA's sickest secret may finally be exposed

RT Investigations
RT
Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:33 UTC
cia mk ultra mind control collage composite
© RT Investigations
New MKULTRA hearings have reopened questions about victims, destroyed files, and experiments America never answered for

A decorated US Air Force serviceman with no history of violence suddenly abducted, raped and murdered a three-year-old girl.

When a search party found Jimmy Shaver wandering near San Antonio, Texas, he appeared to be in a trance, unable to explain where he was or how he had gotten there. After his arrest, he reportedly failed to recognize his own wife when she visited him in jail. Until the moment he was executed four years later, Shaver insisted he had no memory of committing the crime for which he had been sentenced to death.

More than seventy years later, some researchers believe his case may have been linked to one of the CIA's darkest Cold War programs: MKULTRA, the covert project that sought to manipulate, erase and ultimately control the human mind through drugs, hypnosis and psychological experimentation.
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Uncovering three new kings of Assyria

Lisa Prevost
Yale University
Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:11 UTC
A new study co-written by Yale's Eckart Frahm provides evidence that the ancient kingdom of Assyria had three more kings than previously thought.
Fragment of a cuneiform tablet
© The British Museum and the Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeFragment of a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a royal grant from 762 B.C.E., issued in the name of a newly discovered Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria. Rm 75, obverse.
Imagine, if you will, that an industrious scholar has unearthed credible evidence of a missing monarch in the accepted historical line of succession of the British crown.

Another Elizabeth who ruled for a brief period, perhaps. Or a Charles III who preceded the current king, effectively making him Charles IV.

Such a finding would shake up the popular understanding of how the crown has been passed down over the ages and leave scholars with a whole new set of questions about the British monarchy.

New research into the ancient Assyrian kingdom promises to be similarly disruptive for the world of Assyriologists. A study by Yale's Eckart Frahm and Alexander Johannes Edmonds, of the University of Münster, in Germany, provides evidence for three previously unknown Assyrian kings who ruled for brief periods in the 10th and 8th centuries B.C.E.

The study, "Three New Kings of Assyria," appears in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.

The discovery of what look to be three additional kings during the last stage of Assyrian history, known as the Neo-Assyrian period, "came as a surprise — no one expected there would be room for any new and unknown rulers during this time," said Frahm, the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The new study builds on previous research by Frahm, one of the world's foremost experts on the Assyrian empire, which described evidence of one of the three kings.

"But as Edmonds and I demonstrate in our research, three such rulers have been hiding in the shadows, in some poorly preserved cuneiform documents published some time ago but not properly understood," Frahm said.
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Declaration of Independence copy seized by British navy in 1776 uncovered in London's National Archives

Elmira Aliieva
NBC News
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:51 UTC
copy declaration of independence london archives
© Shivansh Gupta / PA via Getty ImagesA rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence discovered at the National Archives in London.
Listed simply as "another paper" in the Royal Navy inventory, the Declaration remained buried in British archives for 250 years.

A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence lost for 250 years has been discovered in London, where it is the only known example of its kind outside the U.S.

Printed in Exeter, New Hampshire, just days after the Declaration was adopted on July 4, 1776, the document was intended to spread news of American independence throughout the American colonies.

The early copy remained tucked away in Britain's National Archives until a volunteer cataloging records from the American Revolutionary War came across it in May among the papers of Royal Navy captains.

Only 11 copies of the so-called Exeter printing are known to survive, and until this discovery, none had been found outside the U.S., Britain's National Archives said in a news release Thursday.
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"Studebaker!": The rise and fall of a US industrial dream and a forgotten alliance

Tamer Mansour
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
Studebaker/McGovern/Russian general
© UnknownStudebaker • Ray McGovern • Russian General
Despite geopolitical disagreements and the fading of history, human connection and a shared memory of the losses and cooperation during the war — symbolized by the American "Studebaker" truck — can transcend the decades and bring people together.

A Russian general who had driven "Studers" through the mud of a war that ate his generation whole gave an American stranger a bear hug because the stranger understood, in Russian, what had been lost and what had been shared.

There is a moment, small and human, that cuts through decades of geopolitical noise like a blade through fog. In April 2015, in Moscow, Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who spent 27 years briefing American presidents, attended a ceremony hosted by the Russians. This event marked the 70th anniversary of the Meeting on the Elbe. In April 1945, American and Soviet troops joined hands on a bridge in Germany, realizing together that the war was nearly over.

McGovern had recited Nekrasov's devastating anti-war poem in both Russian and English. When he stepped back from the podium, a towering Russian general, chest armored in medals, approached.

The general spoke no English. But he took McGovern by the shoulders and said the one word in his vocabulary that bridged the two worlds: "Studebaker! Studebaker!" And then came the Russian bear hug.
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