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Earliest known iron artifacts come from outer space

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Phys.org - 8/19/13

Earliest known iron artifacts come from outer space

These are meteoric iron beads (center), including the tubular lapis lazuli (blue), carnelian (brownish/red), agate, and gold beads that they were originally strung with. Credit: UCL Petrie Museum/Rob Eagle 

Researchers have shown that ancient Egyptian iron beads held at the UCL Petrie Museum were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather than iron ore. The objects, which trace their origins to outer space, also predate the emergence of iron smelting by two millenia.

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Oldest Rock Art: Nevada Petroglyphs May Be North America's Most Ancient Carvings

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Huffington Post - Megan Gannon, 8/14/13

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Researchers found that petroglyphs discovered in western Nevada are at least 10,500 years old, making them the oldest rock art ever dated in North America.

On the west side of Nevada's dried-up Winnemucca Lake, there are several limestone boulders with deep, ancient carvings; some resemble trees and leaves, whereas others are more abstract designs that look like ovals or diamonds in a chain.

The true age of this rock art had not been known, but a new analysis suggests these petroglyphs are the oldest North America, dating back to between 10,500 and 14,800 years ago.

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Giant Maya Carvings Found in Guatemala

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National Geographic - 8/07/13, Ker Than

Mysterious Pentagram on Google Maps Explained

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Yahoo.com - LiveScience, By Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor August 3, 2013

Mysterious Pentagram on Google Maps Explained

Conspiracy theorists, start your engines: On the wind-blown steppes of central Asia, in an isolated corner of Kazakhstan, there's a large pentagram etched into the Earth's surface. And now an archaeologist has revealed the source of the mysterious structure.

The five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, located on the southern shore of the Upper Tobol Reservoir, shows up vividly on Google Maps. There are almost no other signs of human habitation in the area; the closest settlement is the city of Lisakovsk, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) to the east.

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'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field

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BBC News - 7/14/13

An illustration of how the pits would have worked
An illustration of how the pits would have worked
 
Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world's oldest lunar "calendar" in an Aberdeenshire field.
 
"Warren Field stands out as something special, however. It is remarkable to think that our aerial survey may have helped to find the place where time itself was invented."

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'Temple of the dead' discovered in Peru

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USA Today - Dan Vergano, 6/27/13

After months of secret digging, antiquity officials in Peru announced Thursday the discovery of an ancient tomb filled with golden treasure, three queens and the servants who accompanied them into the afterlife some 1,200 years ago.

"Unusual and rare, we don't see female high-status rulers in the art of the Wari very often," says archaeologist Christina Conlee of Texas State University in San Marcos, who was not on the discovery team. "To find an unlooted tomb like this one is a big deal."

Amazing Atlantean Acoustic Technology Deep Inside The Great Pyramid

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The Mystery of Stonehenge, Ancient Petroglyphs and Crop Circles

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Source: Ancient-Origins.net - 5/13/13, By Geraldine

Stonehenge, Ancient Petroglyphs and Crop Circles

There are many theories about the origins and functions of Stonehenge. Only through exploring the significance of the electromagnetic universe do we begin to understand the implications of this great stone megalith. Revelations have appeared via another great mystery, crop circles but in a formation so obtuse it was largely bypassed.

In 2009 at Manton, Wiltshire, UK, a stand alone pattern appeared. A peculiar stark design, it attracted little in the way of analysis going largely unexplored.

Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a "Special Place"

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National Geographic - 6/21/13, Rachel Hartigan Shea

Revelers at a Celtic summer solstice celebration at Stonehenge.

Each year revelers like these travel to Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice. Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic

One of our discoveries in 2008 was on the avenue that leads out of Stonehenge. As you are moving along the avenue away from Stonehenge, you are looking toward where the sun rises on the midsummer solstice. If you turn 180 degrees and look back toward Stonehenge, that's where the sun sets on the midwinter solstice. Underneath the avenue, we discovered a natural landform, formed in a previous ice age, where there are grooves and ridges that by sheer coincidence are aligned on that solstitial axis.

We think that long before Stonehenge this location was already a special place. These hunters and gatherers may have been the people who first recognized this special feature in the land where the earth and the heavens were basically in harmony.

Huge Mysterious Structures Found Middle Of Gobi Desert

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Source: Altering-Perspectives.com - 6/11/13

It's located in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, north of the Shule River, which crosses the Tibetan Plateau to the west into the Kumtag Desert. It covers an area approximately one mile long by more than 3,000 feet wide.

The tracks are perfectly executed, and they seem to be designed to be seen from orbit.

Perhaps it's some kind of targeting or calibrating grid for Chinese spy satellites? Maybe it's a QR code for aliens? Nobody really knows.”
 

Another similar pattern of lines is located approximately 20 miles west of the first pattern.

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