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The mysterious Horsemen of Pir Panjal in Jammu and Kashmir

Leman Altuntaş
Arkeonews Net
Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:12 UTC
The Horsemen of Jammu and Kashmir
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Deep within the rugged Pir Panjal range in Jammu and Kashmir, India, lies a captivating mystery known as the Mysterious Horsemen. These ancient stone figures, scattered across secluded sites, have puzzled historians and archaeologists for years, their origins and purpose shrouded in enigma. The craftsmanship displayed in these sculptures is remarkable, raising questions about their creators and the intentions behind their construction.

In the outskirts of Reasi district, specifically in the Gool tehsil, lies the infamous Gora Gali. A Russian expedition team, led by Natalia Polosmak, conducted a general survey of the area due to the presence of man-made and natural water ponds. To their surprise, they discovered an army of approximately 200 horsemen sculptures, arranged haphazardly over an area of 4-5 acres of inaccessible land in the woods. This remote area is uninhabited and difficult to reach from the main road, although a trail built by the army provides some access.

The locals believe that these sculptures were created during the period of the Mahabharata, when the Pandavas resided in the ancient town of Reasi and practiced stone engraving and sculpting. This belief has led to the development of a devta culture among the people, who worship these horsemen as local deities. However, further analysis of the sculptures reveals fewer Indic features and more foreign artistic forms. All these sculptures are believed to date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, a period during which the Gandhara school of art was emerging.
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Netflix film shines light on how Manson Family Murders appear to have been tied to CIA Mind Control Project

John Potash
Covertactionmagazine.com
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:00 UTC
CHAOS: The Manson Murders by Netflix
CHAOS: The Manson Murders by Netflix. [Source: tvinsider.com]

As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O'Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year investigation, revealing a mass of evidence that a CIA doctor — Jolyon West — helped create Charles Manson and his "Family" of murderous young women and men.

Testimony and evidence support that the CIA, through projects such as "CHAOS" and particularly "MK-ULTRA," created the Manson Family and other CIA assets nationwide.

Charles Manson
The man at the center of the storm — Charles Manson. [Source: foxnews.com]

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Ancient auditorium discovered in the Gymnasium of Agrigento, Italy


Freie Universität Berlin
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:08 UTC
Drone photo of the gymnasium uncovered during excavations in Agrigento.
© Thomas Lappi – Monika Trümper, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Classical ArchaeologyDrone photo of the gymnasium uncovered during excavations in Agrigento.
Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During excavations undertaken in March 2025, an international team of researchers led by Professor Monika Trümper and Dr. Thomas Lappi from Freie Universität Berlin uncovered an ancient auditorium that offers unique insight into the education of young citizens of the ancient city.

This auditorium, which forms part of an impressive gymnasium, illustrates the importance attached to both intellectual and athletic training during this period. The second significant discovery was two inscribed blocks that reveal details about ancient social life. The ensemble uncovered by the researchers is the only known example of its kind in the western Mediterranean.

The gymnasium was a site in ancient Greek cities where young men would receive physical and scholarly instruction that would prepare them for their future duties as citizens - a sort of a cross between a fitness center and school in modern terms. From the fourth century BCE onward these cities built massive complexes with racetracks, bathing facilities, and spaces where young men could train and study. The city of Agrigento, which was founded around 580 BCE as the largest Greek colony on Sicily, was also home to a gymnasium. This construction had already been acknowledged in previous research to be remarkably vast, as it is currently the only known example of a complex in the western Mediterranean offering 200-meter long racetracks and a large swimming pool.
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Pharaonic inscription of Ramses III discovered in southern Jordan


Jordan Times
Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:59 UTC
Discovery described as 'significant archaeological breakthrough'.

hieroglyphic inscription
© Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesAn image shows the hieroglyphic inscription bearing the royal cartouche of Pharaoh Ramses III (1186–1155 BC) discovered in the Wadi Rum Reserve in southern Jordan.
AMMAN — A hieroglyphic inscription bearing the royal cartouche of Pharaoh Ramses III (1186-1155 BC) has been discovered in the Wadi Rum Reserve in southern Jordan, marking what officials described as a significant archaeological breakthrough.

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Lina Annab announced the discovery during a press briefing attended by renowned Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass. "The inscription is the first of its kind to be found in Jordan and provides rare, tangible evidence of Pharaonic Egypt's historical presence in the region," she said in a ministry's statement.

"This is a landmark discovery that enhances our understanding of ancient connections between Egypt, Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula," Annab said, adding, "It affirms Jordan's role not only as a crossroads of civilizations but as a cradle of them."
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First Mesolithic (Circa 9000 Years Old) human figurine discovered in Azerbaijan


Azərbaycanca Report
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:40 UTC
Damjily cave
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The first human figurine of the Mesolithic era was discovered in the Damjili cave in Gazakh, the head of the Azerbaijani-Japanese Damjili international archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), PhD in history Yagub Mammadov, told Report.

He noted that similar human figurines have not yet been found in the known Mesolithic sites on the Kura River and its environs, as well as in the Caucasus as a whole.

According to Mammadov, the human figurine discovered in 2023 during joint Azerbaijani-Japanese archaeological research in the Damjili cave was studied in the Japanese museum using various modern laboratory technologies.
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Archaeologists discover ancient altar in Guatemala likely used for child sacrifice rituals

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
Human Events
Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:57 UTC
Teotihuacan altar buried inside a dwelling at Tikal National Park—once the core of Mayan civilization
Lorena Paiz, the lead archaeologist behind the discovery, said the altar was likely used in sacrifice rituals, "especially of children."

Archaeologists working in Guatemala have found a Teotihuacan altar buried inside a dwelling at Tikal National Park — once the core of Mayan civilization. Lorena Paiz, the lead archaeologist behind the discovery, said the altar was likely used in sacrifice rituals, "especially of children."

The announcement came this week from Guatemala's Culture and Sports Ministry. Tikal, a powerful Mayan city-state known for its towering jungle temples, had long battled with the Kaanul dynasty for control of the region, says CBS News. But this new find shows Tikal also had cultural ties with Teotihuacan, a massive city from central Mexico located outside today's Mexico City.
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CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine since 1953

Wayne Madsen
Voltairenet.org
Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
NaziBanderists
© UnknownUkraine's Nazi Banderists
The declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major programs intent on not only destabilizing Ukraine but Nazifying it with followers of the World War II Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera.

The CIA programs spanned some four decades. Starting as a paramilitary operation that provided funding and equipment for such anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR); its affiliates, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), all Nazi Banderists. The CIA also provided support to a relatively anti-Bandera faction of the UHVR, the ZP-UHVR, a foreign-based virtual branch of the CIA and British MI-6 intelligence services. The early CIA operation to destabilize Ukraine, using exile Ukrainian agents in the West who were infiltrated into Soviet Ukraine, was codenamed Project AERODYNAMIC.

A formerly TOP SECRET CIA document dated July 13, 1953, provides a description of AERODYNAMIC:
"The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes. Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized."
The CIA admitted in a 1970 formerly SECRET document that it had been in contact with the ZPUHVR since 1950.

Comment: This complicated web reveals many levels and broad scope of CIA infiltration over decades. It casts a much deeper, darker, longer shadow to the more commonly-known history of Ukraine.

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Human presence in Malta earlier than previously thought


Max Planck Institute
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:25 UTC
Mediterranean Hunter Gatherers Navigated Long-Distance Sea Journeys Well Before the First Farmers.
Hunter-gatherers
© Daniel Clarke/ MPI GEAHunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the first farmers.
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition.

In a paper published in Nature this week, new evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the first farmers. This report documents the oldest true long-distance seafaring in the Mediterranean, before the invention of boats with sails - an astonishing feat for hunter-gatherers likely using simple dugout canoes.

"Relying on sea surface currents and prevailing winds, as well as the use of landmarks, stars, and other wayfinding practices, a crossing of about 100 km is likely, with a speed of about 4 km per hour. Even on the longest day of the year, these seafarers would have had over several hours of darkness in open water," explains Professor Nicholas Vella of the University of Malta, co-investigator of the study.
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'Major' ancient Egyptian town discovered near the Mediterranean Sea

Owen Jarus
Live Science
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:30 UTC
A settlement dating back around 3,400 years has been discovered near the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt.
Buried Town
© Sylvain DhenninPart of the newly discovered Egyptian settlement, which dates to around 3,400 years ago.
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II, a new study finds.

The settlement was found at the site of Kom el-Nugus in northern Egypt, about 27 miles (43 kilometers) west of Alexandria on a rocky ridge between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Mariout. Previously, Egyptologists thought the site was not inhabited until later times, when the Greeks founded their own settlement and necropolis there around 332 B.C., during Egypt's Hellenistic period.

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were studying the Greek one. An unexpected discovery of mudbrick dating to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) revealed the earliest known Egyptian settlement north of Lake Mariout, according to the study, which was published Jan. 23 in the journal Antiquity.

It's not clear exactly how large the settlement was, "but the quality of the remains, their planned organization around a street, could suggest a fairly large-scale occupation," study author Sylvain Dhennin, an archaeologist with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), told Live Science in an email. The street was designed to drain surface water and protect buildings from water erosion.
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CIA files reveal search for Hitler in South America 10 years after his suicide

Richard Pollina
New York Post
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:16 UTC
Adolf Hitler Nuremberg Rally
© ullstein bild via Getty ImagesAdolf Hitler during his speech at the 1935 Nuremberg Rally.
CIA documents show agents were on the hunt for Adolf Hitler in South America for 10 years after the world believed he was dead as Argentina prepares to declassify government files on Nazi fugitives who fled to the country at the end of World War II.

As Soviet troops battled their way into the heart of Berlin on April 30, 1945, Hitler and longtime girlfriend Eva Braun, whom he had married the day prior, killed themselves in his underground führerbunker to avoid capture.

Their bodies were partially burned and buried in a shallow bomb crater. Soviet soldiers later exhumed the remains, which the USSR identified through dental records, and held them in East Germany until KGB agents destroyed Hitler's body in April 1970, preserving only a jawbone and skull that were taken to Moscow, according to MI5.
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