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Archaeology

Dead heads: Turkish site reveals more evidence of neolithic 'skull cult'

carving found on a pillar at Göbekli Tepe
© German Archaeological Institute (DAI)A carving found on a pillar at Göbekli Tepe, apparently showing a figurine holding a head.
Fragments of carved bone unearthed at an ancient site on a Turkish hillside are evidence that the people who spent time there belonged to a neolithic "skull cult" - a group that embraces rituals around the heads of the dead.

The remains were uncovered during field work at Göbekli Tepe, an 11,000-year-old site in the south-east of the country, where thousands of pieces of human bone were found, including sections of skulls bearing grooves, holes and the occasional dab of ochre.

Pieces of three adult skulls recovered from the sitehave hallmarks of being carved with flint after being scalped and defleshed first. Evidence that the latter was not always an effortless affair is found in multiple scrape marks where the muscles once attached to the bone.

But the intentional carvings look very different to other marks on the skulls. "The carvings are very deep lines in the bone and are definitely intended," said Julia Gresky at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. "It's the first evidence we have for carved human skulls anywhere."

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7,000-year-old high altitude ancient site discovered in Peru

High in the Andes
© TimeHigh in the Andes lies the fertile paradise that gave rise to the Incan Empire which, even today, remains a place of almost divine communion between the land and its people.
In the Andes Mountains of Peru, the air is gaspingly thin, the climate harsh. Now archaeologists have evidence that humans lived there full-time at least 7,000 years ago, making themselves at home in a spot twice as high as Denver.

And they were equipped with little more than stone tools.

Scientists once thought that people avoided such inhospitable regions until recently. But the new research adds to a growing body of data that humans resided permanently in the most challenging environments even before basic innovations such as farming.

"I know it's very difficult for me to live there," says archaeologist Randall Haas, co-author of a new study about the Andean settlement and an archaeologist about to join the University of California, Davis. "I cannot imagine if I were the first person to show up there."

USA

US-backed coup of Iran in 1953 reveals true colors of so-called "indispensable nation"

iran revolution
© AFP
Of the many crimes committed by Washington and its faithful British satrapy around the world, the coup that toppled the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadeq, in 1953 is among the most grievous.

The recent release of a tranche of declassified CIA documents, including memos covering the period, are a timely reminder not only of the staggering mendacity of both countries in asserting the right to lecture the world about democracy and human rights, but the extent to which they have wrought so much damage and devastation throughout their respective histories.

Operation Ajax, the name by which the sordid plan to undermine and topple Muhammad Mossadeq's government is known, was undertaken in response to Mossadeq's decision to nationalize Iran's oil resources with a view to husbanding the revenue for the benefit of the Iranian people, rather than allow it to continue to be sucked out of the country by the then British state-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) - forerunner of today's global oil conglomerate BP.

Archaeology

3rd century ruins compared to Pompeii discovered under Rome

rome dog skeleton
© Ministero Dei Beni E Delle Attivita Culturali E Del TurismoA 1,800 year-old dog skeleton was discovered in Rome
A 3rd century site that has been compared to the ancient ruins of Pompeii has been uncovered during construction of Rome's new subway line.

A charred building complete with a 1,800 year-old dog skeleton has been uncovered by archaeologists exploring parts of the city, dug up to make way for the Rome's third subway route, Metro C.

Archaeologists were examining a 10-meter-deep (32 ft) hole near the ancient Aurelian Walls when they uncovered the ruins of a two-roomed building preserved by a fire.

Boat

Adrift at sea: 11-yo Terry Jo Duperrault's escape from 1961 murder plot

child rescued from sea 1961
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In 1961 a freighter sailed around the Bahamas as its crew spotted something incredible in the waters below. It was a young girl, close to death, drifting through the ocean on a tiny cork float. So just how had an 11-year-old child named Terry Jo Duperrault come to be lost alone in the Atlantic Ocean?

After all, little Terry Jo's visit to this part of the world was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for the Duperrault family. In fact, Dr. Arthur Duperrault, a 41-year-old eye doctor from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and his wife Jean, 38, had been saving their money for this trip for a long time.

Of course, the couple wanted to take their three children - Brian, 14, Terry Jo, 11, and Renee, 7 - on a journey that they would never forget. So they chartered a boat, the 60-foot ketch Bluebelle, to take them on a week's holiday from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to explore the islands of the Bahamas.

On November 8, 1961, the ship set sail with the Duperrault family safely on board. One Julian Harvey was the captain of the ship, and he had brought his wife Mary Dene along for the ride, too. For four days, then, the trip went just as the Duperraults had planned.

Control Panel

Soviet censorship: How the USSR controlled culture

soviet tv meeting
© Lev Nosov/RIA NovostiState Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR Chairman Sergey Lapin during a TV management meeting, 1973
Russian authorities are currently discussing blocking the Telegram messaging app, as it can be used by terrorists. We examine cases from the past when the Soviet elite banned different information sources.

The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 while championing freedom, yet one of their first decisions was to limit free speech through harsh censorship. In early November 1917, the Soviet government signed the Decree on Press which prohibited publishing any "bourgeois" articles criticizing the Bolsheviks' authority.

As the years passed political censorship grew stronger, reaching its peak under Joseph Stalin's reign. After his death the state relaxed its stance but censorship remained until Mikhail Gorbachev declared glasnost in the late 1980s.

Disgraced politicians

As the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE) puts it, Soviet censorship had "a different character than the one existing in bourgeois states and aimed only at protecting the interests of the working class." This is a bold statement, especially given the fact the Soviet elite employed censorship for its own bloody gain, most notably during Stalin's Great Purge.

Comment: ...and then the USSR became Putin's Russia, which began broadcasting an alternative point of view that came to threaten Western narratives so much that the West moved to block Russia by sanctioning and isolating it; conducting cyberattacks on its media outlets; and possibly even assassinating its broadcasters.


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The cyclic catastrophism hypothesis - What Juno is telling us

Juno Plume
© Cyclic Catastrophism OrgFig. 1 - The expanded incandescent Jupiter and the plume, known as Juno.
Ancient myths all begin with the creation of Venus out of Jupiter as Aditi (Rigveda), Osiris (Egyptian), Pallas Athene (Greek), Minerva and Venus (Roman) and Quetzalcoatl (Mayan, Mesoamerican). The impact on Jupiter out of which proto-Venus was born, was seen by every creature on Earth some 6,000 years BP because the entire Earth 'cried out'. The implications of this single event are: (1) The impact generated an enormous pulse of gravitation radiation that effected the Earth and the reflection of that energy from local dust is what is currently thought to be the CMB; (2) Jupiter is a solid low density, planet comprising the currently accepted solar system elemental abundances; (3) The terrestrial planets were each born on out of similar impacts on Jupiter and each has a unique age; (4) The original solar system comprised only the giant planets; (5) The currently unexplained excess luminosity of Jupiter and the high temperature of Venus' surface 872 F (467 C) are the result of this impact.

The original solar system comprised only the giant planets which incorporated greatly enhanced concentrations of deuterium. Deuterium enhancements of 1010 observed in Large Dark Nebulae (LDN) and heavy elements detected by Galileo (C, O, S, Ar, Kr and Xe) suggest the giant planets in the solar system accreted slow and cold (20º K) from snowflakes and dust at their current orbits, forming frozen, highly deuterated Methane Gas Hydrate bodies (MGH), together comprising > 300 earth masses of water. Jupiter incorporates the heavy elements as dust grains, which are uniformly distributed throughout the solid planet resulting in Jupiter's high density, 1.33, compared with pure MGH, 0.9 g/cm3. A recent (6,000 years BP) high energy impact on Jupiter triggered a massive nuclear fusion explosion of the local deuterium, which ejected proto-Venus plus the Galilean moons. The impact also expanded the incandescent atmosphere of Jupiter tenfold, initiating a continuous fusion reaction in the impact crater. A hot plasma plume from this reaction, named Juno in Roman myth, originally extended 2 x 106 km from the impact site at 22 ºS Latitude, beyond Callisto, rotating rapidly with Jupiter. It slowly diminished over ~ 5000 years, sweeping over the Galilean moons every eight or nine hours, resulting in the higher densities and temperatures of the inner Galilean moons. The longevity of the plume confirms the high deuterium content of our giant planets, a feature observed in a small number of Large Dark Nebula such as 1689N (Roueff).

Archaeology

Discovery of previously unknown rock scripts in Egypt reveals development of hieroglyphic writing

hieroglyphys el-khawy egypt
© Ministry of AntiquesThe panel was discovered in the village of El-Khawy, 37 miles south of Luxor.
An expedition from Yale University and the Royal Museum of Art and History unearthed some previously unknown rock scripts including huge hieroglyphs dating back to around 5,200 years.

"This newly discovered rock art site of El-Khawy preserves some of the earliest - and largest - signs from the formative stages of the hieroglyphic script and provides evidence for how the ancient Egyptians invented their unique writing system," Egyptologist John Darnell said, phys.org reported.

The scientists also discovered rock art depicting a herd of elephants that was carved between 4,000-3,500 B.C.

Heart - Black

Rosemary Kennedy's sad and dreadful life

Rosemary Kennedy
Rosemary Kennedy
In November 1941 Dr. James Watts carried out a frontal lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy's brain at a facility in upstate New York.

A psychiatrist present at the lobotomy asked Rosemary to tell him stories and repeat the months of the year. The doctor kept scraping away brain tissue until Rosemary could no longer talk.

Only then did Dr. Watts stop.

Following the lobotomy Rosemary could barely walk and knew only a few words. She would spend most of her life hidden away from the world and even her own family.

Such was the price the young Kennedy girl paid because her parents feared her condition would puncture the perfect impression of the relentlessly ambitious Kennedy clan.

Clipboard

Russian intel agent reveals how NATO planned to tear Russia apart

NATO soldiers
© AP Photo/ Mindaugas Kulbis
According to secret documents obtained by a Russian intelligence service, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO planned to split Russia into several smaller parts, a former secret agent told Russia's Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

After the collapse of the USSR, NATO planned to divide Russia into small parts diminishing the state to the size of the medieval Moscow principality, a veteran of the Russian "illegal" intelligence service said during the Vesti v Subbotu ("News on Saturday") program of Russia's Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

The program was dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Directorate S ("illegal" intelligence service) of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR).