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Etzanoa: One of the largest lost cities in North America unearthed in Kansas

Michael D'Estries
MNN.com
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Native American city Etzanoa
© William S. SouleWichita grass huts, similar to the one shown in this undated photo, were thought to number in the thousands in the Native American city of Etzanoa.
Like any good story of discovery, the journey that led archaeologist Don Blakeslee to uncover one of the largest lost cities in North American history began with a fresh look at centuries-old documents.

In 2013, scholars at UC Berkeley revisited a series of maps and texts written in 1601 by Spanish conquistadors about a failed expedition into the Great Plains region of the United States in search of gold and other treasures. Instead, the explorers detailed the discovery of a massive settlement of nearly 2,000 grass huts with an estimated 20,000 occupants.

Whereas earlier translations muddled the exact site of this city, labelled on the map as Etzanoa, the Berkeley researchers were able to interpret the accounts and accompanying maps with greater accuracy.
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A 'mind-blowing' few weeks for neolithic discoveries near Newgrange, Ireland


thejournal.ie
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:09 UTC
The area still has much to reveal
newgrange new mounds drought
Recent weeks have been some of the most exciting in years for Irish archaeologists studying the area around Newgrange in Co Meath.

You might expect the area - a Unesco World Heritage Site - to be so well documented that everything of note has turned up, but it has yielded yet more fascinating discoveries.

First, drought conditions in the area started to reveal shapes in fields, suggesting the presence of previously unknown enclosures or henges right on the footsteps of Newgrange.

Mythical Ireland's Anthony Murphy and Ken Williams of Shadows & Stone photography found two henges using a drone, located right beside Site P, an already documented site. Murphy described it as a 'mind-blowing'.


Comment: Everything's 'opening up'!

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2 + 2 = 4

The UN's role in exporting the feminist agenda

Janice Shaw Crouse
The American Thinker
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:57 UTC
the UN
The Left's route to promoting their radical agenda around the world is engineering the enactment of a United Nations treaty that contains their distorted "women's rights" policies that can then be used to impose their alien feminist views on third world nations. I know this from my experience of more than 20 years at the UN -- including working as an NGO delegate advising official delegates plus being an official U.S. delegate appointed by President George W. Bush to two sessions, The Children's Summit (2002) and the Commission on the Status of Women (2003). I've learned that whatever the theme of the session and whether it's an official or NGO meeting. And this week, March 13 - March 24, the UN is holding its 61st annual Commission on the Status of Women.

Comment: Jens Stoltenberg and Angelina Jolie join forces in NATO intervention to promote "gender equality"

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Huge 2,000 year old library discovered during excavation on church grounds in Germany

Alison Flood
Guardian
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:48 UTC
cologne library ancient
© Hi-flyFoto/Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne'Really incredible' ... the site of the second-century library discovered in Cologne.
The remains of the oldest public library in Germany, a building erected almost two millennia ago that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls, have been discovered in the middle of Cologne.

The walls were first uncovered in 2017, during an excavation on the grounds of a Protestant church in the centre of the city. Archaeologists knew they were of Roman origins, with Cologne being one of Germany's oldest cities, founded by the Romans in 50 AD under the name Colonia. But the discovery of niches in the walls, measuring approximately 80cm by 50cm, was, initially, mystifying.

"It took us some time to match up the parallels - we could see the niches were too small to bear statues inside. But what they are are kind of cupboards for the scrolls," said Dr Dirk Schmitz from the Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne. "They are very particular to libraries - you can see the same ones in the library at Ephesus."

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Child of Neanderthal and Denisovan identified for first time

Ian Sample
Guardian
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:00 UTC
denisova cave altai mountains
© Ruslan Olinchuk / Alamy Stock PhotoDenisova Cave in the Altai mountains, Siberia, where the only known Denisovan remains were found.
A small piece of bone found in a cave in Siberia has been identified as the remnant of a child whose mother was a Neanderthal and father was a Denisovan, a mysterious human ancestor that lived in the region.

Researchers made the discovery when they examined DNA extracted from the bone and found that it contained chromosomes from a Neanderthal female and a Denisovan male. It is the first time that the offspring of such a coupling has been identified.

"If you had asked me beforehand, I would have said we will never find this, it is like finding a needle in a haystack," said Svante Pääbo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "And then we stumbled across it. I was very surprised."

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Former US ambassador claims Israel tried to assassinate him in 1980

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:40 UTC
John Gunther Dean
© AP Photo/Jacques BrinonJohn Gunther Dean
John Gunther Dean, now 92, and a former American ambassador to five countries, has long maintained that Israel was behind his attempted assassination on August 28, 1980, in a suburb of Beirut, which was attributed to a rightwing Lebanese group. Dean and his wife and daughter and son-in-law were in a motorcade and narrowly escaped serious injury.

Dean said that he was targeted because he was doing something regarded as antithetical to Israel's interest: consulting with the Palestine Liberation Organization and its head, Yasser Arafat, at a time when such contacts were the third rail in US politics. He was also outspokenly critical of Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

A new book offers backing to Dean's claim. But while that book has been highly-publicized, the question of whether Israel attacked our ambassador has gotten no attention in the press. That is not a surprise; for Dean has asserted that the case itself was never thoroughly investigated by the U.S. government.
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Project Cannikin: When the US created a magnitude 6.8 earthquake with a 5 megaton nuclear warhead


Strange Sounds
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
Project Cannikin
Project Cannikin
So you don't buy that earthquakes can be man made? This is evidence from 60 years ago! It was detonated at least 6000 feet into the ground (roughly 2000 meters). This footage is from Project Cannikin, which was a proof-test for the 5 megaton warhead to be used on the Spartan missile system. Researchers were fearful of such a large device being detonated underground, so the testing was moved to way out in the middle of nowhere on the Amchitka penninsula in Alaska. The effect on the ground was necessary, and predicted, to see its pulse effect.

Seismic recordings of the test registered a magnitude of 6.8 on the richter scale as a direct result of the detonation. Over 1,000 after shocks with magnitudes as greater than 4.0 on the richter scale were recorded within the first 30 days following the blast.

The energy produced by the detonation caused the surface of the island directly above the device to rise 25 feet. Large portions of the coastline collapsed into the sea for a stretch of two-miles from ground-zero. The beach and ocean floor in the near vicinity, the Cannikin site were permanently raised 5 feet.

Comment: While much of the extreme changes in weather patterns and the increase in earthquake and volcanic activity are likely correlated with other happenings in our solar system, that doesn't mean nefarious players on earth haven't been involved in insane attempts to modify the weather or to hone the use of earthquakes as a weapon of war: Also check out SOTTs monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - July 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Obama's Legacy: He married the liberals to the neocons

Patrick Armstrong
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:39 UTC
Obama and McCain
When President Bush decided to attack Iraq in 2003 there were enormous protests in the United States and around the world. Not, of course, that they stopped the attack or even slowed it, but people did protest in large numbers. When Obama - "leading from behind" - and some NATO members decided to attack Libya in 2011 there were, as far as I know, no protests anywhere. Nor were there protests as wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and a secret war in Syria dragged on for nearly his whole eight years.

The surface explanation is that Obama, as a Democrat, the First Black President, an "intellectual" and a Nobel Prize winner, got the free pass that Bush as a Republican and an "incurious idiot" did not get. But there was another factor at work, I believe.

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Joseph Pearce: Putin and Solzhenitsyn

Joseph Pearce
The Imaginative Conservative
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:33 UTC
Putin and Solzhenitsyn
The recent film, The Death of Stalin, should be shown to all those millions of millennials in the United States who still harbor romantic delusions about communism. According to the findings of a poll, as reported in the Washington Times last year, almost a third of millennials expressed an admiration for Karl Marx and almost a quarter admired Lenin. The same poll showed that millennials are far less likely than previous generations to have a negative view of communism. Only thirty-six percent said they had a "very unfavorable" impression of an ideology which has killed tens of millions of people in the past century. As tragic and comic as this ignorance is, it is no more tragic and comic than the ignorance of those who insist of conflating contemporary Russia with the Soviet Union, seeking thereby to reignite the Cold War with its nuclear doomsday option of Mutually Assured Destruction, the acronym of which is quite literally and appropriately MAD!

As a means of exposing those who insist of seeing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a reincarnation of Josef Stalin, it would be good to look at Putin's relationship with the great Soviet dissident and anti-communist hero, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose centenary we celebrate this year.

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Archaeology

"Trepanation": Analysis on the occupants of the 'cursed' Egyptian sarcophagus released


RT
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:53 UTC
'cursed' Egyptian sarcophagus
© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has released details about the skeletons found inside the mysterious sarcophagus unearthed in July and opened despite all the warnings about the ancient curses it might unleash.

The ominous black granite sarcophagus, dating back to up to the 4th century BC, was excavated in Alexandria to the protesting cries of Twitter doomsayers everywhere, and was found to contain no curses - at least, no readily-evident ones. Instead, inside were three skeletons floating in icky dark fluid (which an impressive number of people want to have a sip of).

On the more scientific side, the skeletons have now been studied by a team of scientists from the Antiquities Ministry, who have determined their age, gender and other details. While not really the stuff of a fresh 'Mummy' reboot, the findings are still interesting. They've been posted, along with photos of the bones, on the Antiquities Ministry's Facebook page.

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