Archeology
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Divers Explore Mayan Hellmouths
Who’s got two thumbs and wants to get all up in some sacred Mayan pools once believed to be portals to the underworld where offerings were dropped down to appease the evil forces waiting below? These guys! Steering clear of crocodiles and...
Podcast: Super-Awesome Juice
What Happened to the Lost Race of Supermen?
Discover Magazine has a very intriguing story: In 1913 two farmers uncovered a skull in South Africa that still has paleontologists scratching their heads. The so-called Boskop Man was first thought to be a distinct genus while some argued...
Voynich Decoded?
The Voynich manuscript, a mysterious medieval document that has confounded the best cryptographers for centuries may finally have been cracked. A researcher studying the manuscript suggests that the secret coding may be anagrams created by...
Mayan Elder: Enough with this 2012 Nonsense
As the Hollywood and occult hype machines spin into overdrive about the proposed end of the world on December 21st, 2012, at least one person who may or may not know something about it says it’s all bunk. According to an AP story, Chile...
CSI Cairo
It took 2,500 years but investigators finally cracked the case of out what killed an Egyptian woman. What makes this particularly interesting is how recent DNA extraction techniques made it possible to extract fragments of tuberculosis...
Massive Feet of the Jordan Valley
Archeologists have been unearthing massive structures in the Jordan Valley that appear to be shaped like feet when viewed from the sky. The ancient structures, that date back to the 12 Century BCE, were apparently used as rallying point...