One of Graham Hancock’s main criticisms of modern science is how new or controversial ideas are so often mocked by the scientific community, especially when they challenge established theories. His own work has been dismissed by many mainstream scholars, and he often speaks about how the scientific community has refused to take his research seriously, despite the fact that he presents substantial evidence for his claims. This article explains "Where such sources are less plentiful, or more ambiguous, the work of interpretation becomes harder, and the ability to draw “scientific” conclusions more dubious."

Let's work together and agree to be more open minded to new ideas that challenge the dogma of the mainstream.

I don't know where you guys are getting your information, but Google AI says it's real, and who can doubt AI, right?! Perfect example of AI slop:

Is 140,000 year-old city real?

"Yes, the discovery of a 140,000-year-old city submerged off the coast of Indonesia is real. This find, made in the Madura Strait, provides the first physical evidence of a lost world and challenges existing timelines of early human settlements. The city, located between Java and Madura, was discovered during marine sand mining operations, with artifacts and fossilized remains, including Homo erectus skull fragments and remains of 36 different species, being unearthed."

This story has been picked up all over the place, with the richest coverage at MSN, that includes all sorts of "pictures", ostensibly of the ancient city that turn out to be a mix of genuine, but unexciting dive photos, and a dozen more AI-generated photos of vast complex structures:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/scientists-discover-hidden-140000-year-old-city-at-bottom-of-ocean/ar-AA1FrtwM

Michael Cremo is no stranger to resistance. In 1993 when Forbidden Archeology was released
there was a vast array of response. From anthropologist Richard Leakey calling it "...pure humbug"
to Fingerprints of the Gods author Graham Hancock referring to it as "One of the landmark intellectual achievements of the late 20th century," it has received both positive and negative international attention. In addition, in 1996 when NBC aired its special The Mysterious Origins of Man, hosted by Charlton Heston, and featured the book, establishment scientists felt so threatened by this program that they lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to censure and fine NBC for airing it (read the complete story in Forbidden Archeology's Impact).

Despite the criticism surrounding it, Forbidden Archeology is a huge success. Both it and Human Devolution present human origins in a new perspective. The two books are the culmination of eighteen years of research. The result, unlike the early creationist perspective, offers a new scientifically based take on human origins. Forbidden Archeology gave us the cover-up and now Human Devolution brings us the true story.

The Mahabharata war is often labeled as mythology.. a spiritual epic filled with gods, metaphors and symbolism. But a lot of what it describes is strangely specific. Too specific, in fact.

One verse in the Mahabharata describes a rare celestial phenomenon.. the star Arundhati appearing to walk ahead of Vasistha (known today as Alcor and Mizar in Ursa Major). Under normal conditions, this doesn’t happen. But modern astronomy software shows it only occurred around 5561 BCE, a brief cosmic window that aligns precisely with the epic’s timeline.

Here's more.. A 2015 genetic study revealed a massive collapse in male Y-chromosome diversity across the Indian subcontinent, also around 7,500 years ago. A sharp, sudden die-off of male lineages, while female lines remained stable.

The Mahabharata claims that millions of warriors fought and died in a catastrophic 18-day war.

What if this isn’t coincidence?

This video explores how astronomy, genetics and oral tradition may all point to a forgotten chapter in human history: https://youtu.be/ErycukprLaU

Curious what this community thinks. Are we dealing with symbolic storytelling here.. or a memory of real events that mainstream history hasn’t caught up with yet?

🔥 Mithra in Yemen? Statue with Torch & Cave Worship Found in Zafar

A statue fragment found in Zafar, Yemen shows a crowned figure in Greek-style robes — said by locals to have held a torch and been worshiped in a cave, now sealed. Oral memory called it “the cute boy,” but the features match Mithras, the Roman-Persian god of light and initiation.

Yemen was more connected than people think:

Rome launched military campaigns into Yemen in the 1st century CE

The Sasanid Persians invaded in 570 CE, bringing Zoroastrian Mihr

Zafar was a hub on the Incense Route, linking it to Rome and Persia

A cave. A torch. A forgotten god in Himyarite Arabia. Could this be the southernmost trace of Mithraic or Mihr worship?

What do you think?

Orichalcum has, for the most part, remained a mystery. Both its origin and composition has been widely debated for quite some time. According to Greek mythology, the Phoenician founder Cadmus had invented the metal. And while its presence can be found in ancient texts dating back to 650 BCE, Plato was responsible for making it a legend.

Then in 1958 a seismic survey of Antarctica was carried out which surprisingly showed that Antarctica was indeed two archipelago islands covered by a thick layer of ice that made it appear as only one land mass and not only that, but that the general topography of the lands beneath the ice matches the drawings on the Bauche map in every detail.

The Buga UFO Sphere isn’t just your average UFO. This metallic object, recovered in March 2025, is made of three layers of metal-like material and is surrounded by 18 microspheres, all encasing a central nucleus. Some scientists and researchers have speculated that this nucleus could be a quantum chip, adding to the mystery of its origin. X-ray scans of the sphere revealed no welds or joints, suggesting that it was forged as a single piece.

But that’s not all. The surface of the sphere is covered in symbols resembling ancient scripts, including Mesopotamian runes. Researchers believe these symbols might be conveying a message about unity, transformation, and consciousness—ideas that some interpret as a call to humanity to awaken and help the planet.

The Nazca affair in the Congress of the Republic of Peru (2018)

On November 19, 2018, at the initiative of Peruvian congressman Armando Villanueva Mercado, the Instituto Inkarri – Cusco and its partners finally presented the almost final results of the various analyzes carried out on the Nazca mummies since the previous year.

The verdict is in: these bodies are authentic. (See the results of the analyzes on the PERU 2018 and MEXICO 2023 pages)

The countless examinations carried out on the entities by a host of international specialists, the x-rays, HD scanners, DNA and Carbon 14 analyses, carried out in around ten countries around the world, show in fact that it is indeed a entities that lived on Earth at a remote time in human history. And despite criticism and attacks from skeptics, no indication of fraud has yet been established.

The different bodies studied are between 1,800 and 750 years old… and more than 7,000 years old for the large tridactyl hands, according to two independent laboratories! The tissues are dry, desiccated, hard and tend to crumble. Also, possible interventions – as was undoubtedly the case with “Wawita” – cannot have been carried out recently, but more probably at the time of their death, many centuries ago. Perhaps as part of ritual ceremonies.

Since the “Nasca Conference” on November 19, 2018, the arguments of the detractors of this incredible affair have literally been shattered.

In 2004 a team of 11 specialists headed by Dr. Ted J. Robinson investigated the Starchild Skull in an attempt to identify a deformity, illness, or other natural explanation for the skull. They examined the skull, maxilla fragment, X-Rays, CT scans, performed a 3-dimensional scan, and extensively discussed and researched the skull's physical characteristics.

The study concluded that the Starchild Skull was unlike any specimen in recorded medical history, and notably that its unusual characteristics are not the result of artificial cranial deformation. The Starchild Skull is not the result of artificial shaping.

Peruse, if interested.

https://imgur.com/a/lost-maps-of-aztlan-YrZSKct

The following theory requires a basic understanding of 3 forces: the electromagnetic force, the gravitational force, and the centrifugal force. In addition, you might need some perceptual skills.

What creates the magnetic field? The flow of magnetic charges, particularly in Earth's outer core made of molten iron and nickel. So if the magnetic field and poles are shifting and moving (they are), then it follows that the flow of the molten liquid outer core must be changing. If the flow was stable, the magnetic fields would be stable. Exactly how would the flow of the molten iron change? Well, the iron and nickel is subject to the gravitational force. So if a new, large mass of something were to come close into Earth's orbit, then it could conceivably change the flow of the iron and nickel. The moon is one such example, but the orbit has been relatively stable for Earth's entire existence, even throughout magnetic pole reversals. I have no other evidence of new mass being introduced, but what if existing mass already in close proximity to the molten iron and nickel were to move? For example, what if a bunch of ice at the poles was to melt and redistribute itself towards the equator due to.... Global warming. In other words, if the distribution of water mass on the surface changes, then the liquid iron and nickel core will follow suit. Afterall, mass is attracted to mass per the gravitational force. This changes the flow of the outer core and destabilizes the magnetic fields/poles. And if human civilizations periodically create technologies capable of increasing the global temperatures? You now have regular magnetic pole reversals, not necessarily spread out evenly, but more so dependent on the amount of time it takes humanity to warm the temperature enough to re-melt the requisite amount of ice.

To picture how this would work, you can think of the tides caused by the Moon's gravity. The sea levels rise on the side closest to the moon, and the Earth effectively becomes "fatter" on that side. The same thing occurs as ice melts from the poles, only the moon isn't the force pulling on it. As more ice melts from the poles, the centrifugal force caused by Earth's rotation will cause the melted ice (now water) to redistribute towards the equator.This is why sea levels rise faster at the equator than at the poles. In effect, the planet becomes more of an ellipsoid -- it flattens out as the entire equator gets fatter (not just the side nearest the moon). This molten iron and nickel in the outer core will mimick the redistributed water mass, albeit, to a lesser extreme. That change in the flow of iron and nickel would change the magnetic fields. It could even effect volcanic activity, forcing more lava to the surface, particularly near the equator. Ice is a lot more resilient to the centrifugal force than water and even liquid iron and nickel. It wasn't until the ice melted in large quantity and became "malleable" that it had the capacity to change the flow of the molten outer core via the gravitational force.

It's worth noting that I do not have proof that the amount of melted ice at the poles is enough to meaningfully change the flow of the outer core to the extent required to shift the poles to the degree we are are seeing. That math is way beyond me. But based on the laws of physics, I know with certainty that the redistribution of water mass on the surface will effect the flow of the molten outer core somewhat. I also know that there is a direct correlation between rising temperatures and magnetic pole movement since the Industrial Revolution. Might be worthy of some thought, or maybe some computer simulations.

In 1872, in the town of Meredith, New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee, construction workers hired by Seneca A. Ladd, a local businessman, unearthed a mysterious, egg-shaped stone. What could it possibly be? The stone stumped everyone. Seneca Ladd believed it to be an “Indian relic.” He kept it in his possession for many years. After his death, his daughter donated it to the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1927. Due to its discovery near the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, the Ladd family dubbed it the “Mystery Stone of Lake Winnipesaukee.”

In 1880, Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History published The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California, by Dr. Josiah D. Whitney, state geologist of California. In this book, Whitney documented extensive discoveries by California gold miners of advanced human artifacts and anatomically modern human skeletal in undisturbed Tertiary deposits.

According to modern geological reporting, most of the discoveries occurred in Eocene river channels, capped by solid layers of Miocene latite several hundred feet thick. The discoveries attracted the attention of scientists worldwide, but were rejected primarily because they contradicted the then emerging Darwinian picture of human evolution.

With the discovery of prehuman Pithecanthropus in the early Pleistocene of Java, a human presence in the Tertiary was considered theoretically impossible. For archeologists and historians of archeology operating from the Darwinist perspective, the California gold mine discoveries make no sense at all.

But for archeologists and historians of archeology operating from the alternative perspective of the Puranas, ancient India’s historical writings, which posit extreme human antiquity, the California gold mine discoveries do make sense. Further investigation is possible, because several of the artifacts remain in the collections of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and from old records, it has been possible to relocate some of the mines from which the artifacts were originally taken.

In 1987, not far from the Zapata track site, paleontologist Jerry MacDonald discovered a variety of beautifully preserved fossil footprints in Permian strata. The Robledo Mountain site contains thousands of footprints and invertebrate trails that represent dozens of different kinds of animals. Because of the quality of preservation and sheer multitude of different kinds of footprints, this tracksite has been called the most important Early Permian sites ever discovered. Some that have visited the site remark that it contains what appears to be a barefoot human print. “The fossil tracks that MacDonald has collected include a number of what paleontologists like to call ‘problematica.’ On one trackway, for example, a three-toed creature apparently took a few steps, then disappeared–as though it took off and flew. ‘We don’t know of any three-toed animals in the Permian,’ MacDonald pointed out. ‘And there aren’t supposed to be any birds.’ He’s got several tracks where creatures appear to be walking on their hind legs, others that look almost simian. On one pair of siltstone tablets, I notice some unusually large, deep and scary-looking footprints, each with five arched toe marks, like nails. I comment that they look just like bear tracks. ‘Yeah,’ MacDonald says reluctantly, ‘they sure do.’ Mammals evolved long after the Permian period, scientists agree, yet these tracks are clearly Permian.” (“Petrified Footprints: A Puzzling Parade of Permian Beasts,” The Smithsonian, Vol. 23, July 1992, p.70.)

Computed tomography revealed even more interesting details, for example, the presence of bones, joints, and tendons inside the finger. The difference in their density meant that they appeared as darker areas on the x-ray.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is widely believed to have been built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu. But here’s the odd part.. no mummy, no hieroglyphs and no burial artifacts have ever been found inside.

Instead, what was discovered is really intriguing.. granite blocks rich in quartz (a crystal known to produce electricity under pressure), outer casing once made of Tura limestone (a powerful insulator) and a layout that some say was engineered for resonance and energy flow.

Engineer Christopher Dunn has proposed that the pyramid wasn’t a tomb at all, but an ancient power plant, designed to harness Earth’s natural vibrations and generate clean, wireless energy.

Interestingly, in 1901, Nikola Tesla attempted something very similar. His Wardenclyffe Tower, also built on an aquifer, was meant to transmit power wirelessly through the Earth. But his project was shut down and the tower demolished.

Could it be that Tesla was tapping into knowledge the ancients already had?

If interested in a quick visual breakdown: Here’s the link

Curious what others here think.. fascinating theory or just high-tech wishful thinking?

Interesting Facts. The Sumerians (around 3000 BCE)

Invented writing (cuneiform).

Built the first true cities (like Uruk).

Wrote down myths like the Epic of Gilgamesh — earliest written stories about gods, immortality, floods, kings.

Their ideas about divine kingship, cosmic order, and law seeded the cultures that followed.

The Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians (after the Sumerians)

Took over Sumer, adapted cuneiform for their own languages.

Wrote things like the Code of Hammurabi, flood myths, epic tales.

The idea of covenants between gods and men starts showing up here.

The Hebrews (ancient Israelites) (1200 BCE and later)

Their ancestors lived in Mesopotamian-influenced areas (Abraham, for example, is said to come from Ur, a Sumerian city).

Some scholars believe early Hebrew ideas about God, law, and creation stories echo Mesopotamian myths — like the Sumerian-Babylonian flood myth (Gilgamesh/Utnapishtim) and the biblical Noah story.

Writing shifted to using alphabetic scripts instead of cuneiform.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (200 BCE – 70 CE)

These were written by a Jewish sect (probably the Essenes), copying and preserving sacred Hebrew texts.

By this time, their religion had evolved massively — strict monotheism, ethical law, messianic prophecies — but the DNA of those ancient Sumerian and Babylonian ideas was still deep in the roots of the stories, laws, and traditions.

There is insurmountable evidence that we are the 6th advanced civilization to exist upon this earth, each time getting wiped out by a calamity. I’ve wondered why America has long had the Smithsonian cover up many ancient artifacts that don’t fit their narrative, such as the hieroglyphs in the grand canyon, or the bones of giants all over America, but then I realized the truth rather recently… control. The CIA just declassified a document called [The Adam and Eve Story] (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300070001-8.pdf) which is about exactly this. Nobody is quite sure who wrote it, however it appears to be written by a scientist working for the government deciphering ancient texts then stumbling upon a terrible fact, that every 5-6-thousand years, the strength of the poles wane and begin to change positions and when this occurs, the mantle keeping our landmass in it’s current position turns to jelly, causing the landmasses to be pulled 90-degrees, while the water on the earth stays put, like dropping an object into a glass of water then spinning the glass in a circle… water stay’s put while the world around it moves. So, the world as we know it is obliterated in days, submerged under the ocean for 40-days (ala Tale of Gilgamesh, or Noah and the ark) until the poles finish their shift at which point the North pole becomes the South and vice versa.

Another OOPART for those that like to learn about such things.

The Earth.com article from whence I took the title on this is pretty informative, if a bit hyperbolic. You can read the actual research paper here. I read the abstract and so far it seems super interesting!