A Gardner's Discovery Solves The Stonehenge mystery

The Stonehenge mystery solved by a gardener is making news headlines this week, and it makes many people wonder why a gardener is solving a Stonehenge mystery that eluded archaeologists and historians. There are many mysteries surrounding the Stonehenge. This week’s so-called amazing discovery is discussing the question as to whether Stonehenge was once a complete circle or not. According to a Slate report on Sept. 4, “dry weather and a short hose may have revealed one of the prehistoric monument’s secrets.”

While many people have always believed that Stonehenge used to be a complete circle (before someone needed a few of the stones for something more useful), historians were not quite as convinced.

“Historians have long debated whether Stonehenge was a full or incomplete circle, with some arguing a lack of stones in the south-west quadrant is proof it was never complete,” reports the BBC. “Previous scientific techniques such as geophysics failed to find any evidence.”

But who needs archeologists or historians to solve one of the mysteries of Stonehenge if you have a gardener? According to a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the journal Antiquity, “a chance appearance of parchmarks” discovered by a gardener provides evidence that Stonehenge was once a complete circle.

The “parchmarks” were discovered by gardener Tim Daw whose job was to water the grass around the stones during the driest weeks of the summer. In July of last year, gardener Daw had to use a water hose that did not reach the south-west quadrant of Stonehenge.

Coincidentally (or was it?) this was also the part where there was a gap in the otherwise Stonehenge circle. Daw recalls the moment when he noticed something that apparently had eluded historians so far:

“I was standing on the public path looking at the grass near the stones and thinking that we needed to find a longer hosepipe to get the parched patches to green up. A sudden light-bulb moment in my head, and I remembered that the marks were where archaeologists had looked without success for signs that there had been stone holes, and that parch marks can signify them. I called my colleague over and he saw them and realised their possible significance as well. Not being archaeologists we called in the professionals to evaluate them. I am still amazed and very pleased that simply really looking at something, that tens of thousands of people had unwittingly seen, can reveal secrets that sophisticated machinery can't.”

The Stonehenge mystery solved, or at least one of the mysteries, by a gardener instead of archaeologists is somewhat hard to believe. Wouldn’t historians have taken a closer look at those missing spots during the past decades and maybe even dug up some of the grass which might explain the signs of dry patches? However, archaeologists are apparently stunned by the gardener’s keen observation and admit that they were unable to discover what Tim Daw did by merely looking at the site. In September's issue of the journal Antiquity, British archaeologist Mike Pitts explained the impact that the gardener's discovery has on the scientific community and Stonehenge:

"This is a wonderful piece of serendipitous research, highly productive and promptly published. If anyone remained unconvinced that new, targeted excavation at Stonehenge is needed, surely any doubts must now be dispelled?"

Video. Stonehenge mystery solved

Life on Mars

Is there Life on Mars? Some new Curiosity pictures seems to confirm that perhaps life was present on Mars year Ago!
How do you can explain the Lizard walking on the Martian soil?
Or the Brontosaurus stuck in the Martian soil?
And what about the Mars rat.
All the pic in the Gallery are credited by Nasa and appear in the official archive of the photos taken by Curiosity on the Martian soil.
It could be an optical illusion but who knows. Maybe Mars was populated log time ago from strange creatures.

There is comprehensive evidence for life on Mars if you know where and how to look for it. It seems one can find everything from animals to fossils, bones, skulls and even carved or manufactured objects. They can be found in some of the images beamed down from the Mars Rover Curiosity. Unfortunately NASA seem to be over compressing most of the images that are free to download from their website but some of the large panoramic TIF files are of good quality and are at 200 DPI. (Dots per inch)

These are the ones to go for. The animals in the main are dead and look freeze dried in Gale Crater. Mummified in the extreme cold nights that in go down to about minus 60 but the days are hot. Up to 70 degrees or more. There are very conflicting views about the temperatures on Mars mainly caused by people using averages witch are quite misleading. As for the air on Mars we are told that there is only 0.5% oxygen. Personally I think more like 5% in some areas unless the surviving creatures have adapted to breath Co2 or Hydrogen. This may explain why most of the living creatures found so far are small rodents and reptiles. They can survive on very low quality air and can burrow to avoid freezing.

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I don't know if life or Mars was present or not. The same question is posed by David Bowie song below:

Video. David Bowie Life on Mars

 

Gobekli Tepe: The temple that should not exist

Gobekli Tepe (trad: round hill - navel) is an archaeological site located about 18 km north-east
from the city of Şanlıurfa in modern Turkey, near to the Syria border, in which was found the oldest example of a stone temple, dating back to 9600 BC and that is undermining all the standard believes about the origins of Human civilization.

Göbekli Tepe is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge but it was built much earlier and not with blocks of stone roughly cutted but with limestone pillars finely sculpted in bas-relief. They are still visible parade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, wild boar!

The Complex dates back to seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza, and it is the oldest known example of monumental architecture. Around 8000 BC the site was abandoned deliberately and voluntarily buried with earth brought by man.

Archaeologists continue to dig and discuss its meaning. Göbekli Tepe and other sites in the Middle East are changing our ideas about a turning point in human history: the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter-gatherers were transformed into sedentary farmers.

The site is located on an artificial hill about 15 meters high with a diameter of about 300 m, situated on the highest point of elevation of a elongated shape which dominates the surrounding region, between the Taurus Mountains and the Karaca Dag and valley where the city of Harran. The site used by man would have had an extension from 300 to 500 square meters.

So far, less than a tenth of the site has been excavated. This gives an idea of ​​the awe inspired in the temple to the pilgrims who gathered here 7,000 years before the construction of Stonehenge.

The Gobekli Tepe discovery

Gobekli Tepe was first identified in 1963 by a turkish-American research group. They noticed several piles consisting of fragments of flint, a sign of human activity in the Stone Age. The site was later rediscovered thirty years later by a local pastor, he noticed some odd shaped stones protruding from the ground.

The news came to the head of the museum of the city of Şanlıurfa, who contacted the ministry, who in turn got in touch with the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul headquarters.

The excavations were begun in 1995 by a joint cooperation between the Museum of Şanlıurfa and the German Archaeological Institute under the direction of Klaus Schmidt. The latter was working in the previous year some archaeological sites in the region. In 2006 the excavations went to German universities of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe.

The excavations brought to light a monumental megalithic sanctuary, consisting of an artificial hill bordered by stone walls rough dry. They were also found four circular enclosures, bordered by huge limestone pillars weighing over 10 tons each, probably plucked with the use of stone tools. According to the Director of the archeological site, the stones pricked up and arranged in a circle symbolize an assembly of men.

The more interesting discovery concerns about 40 stones disposed to form a T high as five feet. The limestone blocks, weighing five tons, were brought here from a nearby quarry even if the wheel or domesticated beasts of burden were not yet introduced.

Most of them are engraved and they show the different types of animals (snakes, ducks, cranes, bulls, foxes, lions, boars, cows, scorpions, ants). Some recordings were voluntarily canceled, perhaps to prepare the stone to receive new ones. There are also decorative elements such as patterns of dots and geometric patterns.

Geomagnetic surveys have indicated the presence of other stones, almost 250 still buried in the ground. Another T-shape stone, extracted only half the quarry, was found about 1 km far from the site. It has a length of about 9 m and was probably intended for the sanctuary but from some reason was abandoned.

There are also some isolated sculptures, in clay, very ruined by time, which probably represent a boar or a fox. Comparisons can be made with statues of the same type found in the sites of Nevali choirs and Nahal Hemar.

The sculptors had to do their work directly on the plateau of the sanctuary, where they were also found stones unfinished and bowl-shaped cavity in the rock clay, a technique already used during the Epipaleolithic to get clay for sculptures or the clay binder used in the masonry.

In the rock there are also phallic representations, maybe go back to later periods, finding comparisons in Sumerian and Mesopotamian cultures (sites of Byblos, Nemrik, Helwan and Aswad).

Until now, 45 of these stones have been dug, but there are indications that there is much to discover. Geomagnetic surveys imply that there are hundreds more standing stones, just waiting to be brought to light. Gobekli Tepe would have been an extraordinary site. A kind of Turkish Stonehenge.

Several factors make of Gobekli Tepe archeology an isolated and unique case.
The first is its age. Radiocarbon dating shows that the complex is at least 12,000 years ago, perhaps even 13,000 years old.

This means that it was built around 10,000 BC. Gobekli Tepe is thus the oldest complex site constructed by Man in the world. It is so old that it precede the time when it is believed Man become sedentary. Gobekli comes from a part of human history that is unimaginably distant, deep past of hunter-gatherers.

How did cavemen build something so ambitious? The archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, thinks that bands of hunters would have gathered sporadically at the site, during the decades of construction, they lived in tents made of animal skin and kill the local game for food. The many flint arrowheads found around Gobekli support this thesis, but also support the dating of the site.

This revelation, that Stone Age hunter-gatherers could have built something like Gobekli, radically changes our view of the world, because it shows that the life of the ancient hunter-gatherers in this region of Turkey, was far more advanced than we ever conceived. It is as if Gods came down from heaven  and Gobekli had been built with their own hands.

Gobekli Tepe as a Constellation representation

The particular arrangement of the complex of Gobekli Tepe is also the arrangement of the main stars of the constellation of the Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters, called by the ancient Romans Vergilie) that count different stars visible at naked eye in the constellation of Taurus.

A few years ago, archaeologists found at Cayonu a pile of human skulls. They were found under a slab altar, dyed with human blood. No one is sure, but this may be the first evidence of human sacrifice: one of the most inexplicable human behavior, which could have developed only in the face of a terrible societal stress.

Experts are debating the evidence of Cayonu. But what no one denies is that human sacrifice took place in this region, including Palestine, Israel and Canaan. Archaeological evidence indicates that the victims were killed in huge death pits, children were buried alive in jars, others were burned in large jars of bronze.

These are almost incomprehensible acts, unless you think that the people had learned to have fear of Gods, because they had been driven out of paradise. So he tried to propitiate the wrath of heaven. This savagery may, indeed, be the key to a final solution, baffling mystery. The amazing stone friezes of Gobekli Tepe are preserved intact for a bizarre reason.

Long ago, the site was deliberately and systematically buried with a colossal work together with all its wonderful stone carvings. Around 8000 BC, the creators of Gobekli buried their realization and their glorious temple under thousands of tons of earth, creating the artificial hills on which the Kurdish shepherd walked in 1994. The reason that led the ancients to bury forever the temple of Gobekli Tepe remains a mystery.

Best UFO Evidences. Top 10

The best UFO evidences in the Video below. There are, according to the film, 10 best evidences to take UFO seriously into account.

The film features Stanton Friedman, Mac Tonnies, Don Ledger, Nick Pope, Bruce Maccabee, Col. Charles Halt, Brad Sparks.

Enjoy the best UFO evidences!

Ancient Alien Pics and Video Gallery

Ancient Aliens theory is a theory which has been developed recently based on numerous discoveries of ancient artifacts that seem to support the hypothesis that ancient aliens have visited the earth at the dawn of human civilization.

Traces of the theory of alien ancient astronauts seem to find in ancient cultures. In particular, in the Sumerian culture and in the Old Testament there are traces of Men descending from Sky with special powers etc ....

The Yonaguni Monument

The Yonaguni Monument is a massive rock monument discovered off the coast of Yonaguni island.   There is a debate about whether the site is completely natural, is a natural site that has been modified, or is a manmade artifact but the pics are very clear! It seems unlikely the natural origin of those one for example:

Yonaguni Monument Discovery 

The sea off Yonaguni is a popular diving location during the winter months owing to its large population of hammerhead sharks. In 1987, while looking for a good place to observe the sharks, Kihachiro Aratake, a director of the Yonaguni-Cho Tourism Association, noticed some singular seabed formations resembling architectonic structures. Shortly thereafter, a group of scientists directed by Masaaki Kimura of theUniversity of the Ryūkyūs visited the Monument.

The formation has since become a relatively popular attraction for divers in spite of the strong currents. In 1997, Japanese industrialist Yasuo Watanabe sponsored an informal expedition comprising writers John Anthony West and Graham Hancock, photographer Santha Faiia, geologist Robert Schoch, a few sport divers and instructors, and a shooting crew for Channel 4 and Discovery Channel. Another notable visitor was freediver Jacques Mayol, who wrote a book on his dives at Yonaguni.

The Yonaguni Monument 

Tool marks and carvings have been discovered upon the stones (and documented) which indicate that they have were constructed rather than being natural stone structures.

Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist from Japan’s Ryukyus University, Japan has been studying and mapping the site for over 15 years and believes that the site is over five thousand years old – but was sunk during an earthquake two thousand years ago.

Others have estimated that the structure is far older – including Teruaki Ishii, professor of geology at Tokyo University who determined that the submergence occurred at the end of the last ice age – which was around ten thousand years ago (over twice as old as the pyramids in Egypt) – If this is the case, then our history books would have to be revised to take into account an advanced Eastern culture, more advanced than any early Western culture.

Here are more pics and videos about Yonaguni Monument:

Mayan Prophecy The End of the World Revealed

According to Mayan prophecy the end of the world should be scheduled for December 21, 2012.

The denial, for those who still needed it, comes precisely from the same holders of the mournful prophecy: the Maya.

A group of archeologists who were investigating a buried city in Guatemala have unearthed for the first time a house adorned with Mayan murals. Alongside the paintings are the remain of calculations made by some mayan astonomers who refers of period of time far beyond the alleged fateful date December 21, 2012. The house belonged to a scribe, is one of thousands of buildings Xultún, a huge Mayan city (31 km wide) discovered about a century ago but still largely buried. The team of archaeologists led by William Saturno began to study it in 2010.

source: nationalgeographic

Strange structures on the Moon. NASA confirms indirectly

NASA has confirmed, but only accidentally, what many people have suspected for long time, namely Moon's Ruins of mysterious civilizations. In the picture below, taken at the NASA Ames Research Center, if we zoom the picture on the table, we can clearly distinguish two structures on the Moon that are not necessarily natural. 

We can clearly see a square shaped building, and on the right a triangular structure or maybe a bridge on the Moon. The Man in the foreground is Anthony Colaprete and works at NASA www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/colaprete.html.  Could those structures on the Moon be made by civilizations? It 'a very intriguing mystery. Below there is also a Video of the strange structures on the Moon.

Video of the Strange Structures on The Moon visible on a NASA picture

Nicolas Cage is a Vampire

Is Nicolas Cage a Vampire? This is not a new Twilight novel but this is according to a US antiquities who shows the evidences to those who accuse him of madness. A yellowed picture which depicts a man dressed in nineteenth century. Nicolas Cage a Vampire.

Mayan Temple. Beam of Light related to Mayan Calendar

The well-known Mayan calendar that stirs the expectations about the year 2012 finds its counterpart in a mysterious beam of light appeared in a picture of a Mayan Temple.

The photo of the light beam emerging from the Mayan Temple is really impressive and supplies, if anything were needed, the legend about the Maya and the end of the world.

The reader can judge the photo of the light beam emerging from the Mayan Temple.

The Mysterious Origins of Man

A very beautiful film on the Mysterious origins of the civilization and one of our greatest mysteries: Man's origins. The film sounds as a scientific investigation about some evidence that the academic community has quietly ignored on the origins of Man. 

Area 51. No UFO. Declassified CIA documents reveal

The CIA has declassified the operation that served to remove any trace of the secret project. In 1963 a secret invisible aircraft has been developed in the secret Area 51.

The CIA created Area 51 in 1955 to develop and test some secret military projects in the isolated desert of Nevada. More than 50 years later, the base officially does not exist yet, and will not appear on U.S. government maps.

In the fifties and sixties The Area 51 was the center of the Oxcart project, which aimed to set a spy plane that was supposed to take the place of the U-2, which became famous in the early years of the Cold War for photos in strategic locations of enemies that could be triggered by high fees.

During the approximately 2,850 flight ultra secret tests, many people managed to see the same strange (for the time) figures of futuristic aircraft.

Unrecognizable even to air traffic controllers and pilots of commercial aircraft, sightings of shiny titanium aircraft contributed to the growing rumors of a hypothetical presence of aliens (UFO, unidentified flying objects) in the Area 51.

As a result of the project was produced Archangel-12 or A-12, the first true invisible to radar airplane, according to several experts.

The A-12 is capable of flying at 3,220 km / h and cross the continental United States in 70 minutes and at the same time taking pictures sharp enough to detect an object of 30 cm from a height of 27 thousand meters.

Here are some photos (credit National Geographic). Click on a photo to start slideshow.

Mystery of full moon ritual

A VEIL of mystery hangs over what onlookers have labelled a “bizarre full-moon ritual” which took place in the Baakens Valley in Port Elizabeth last weekend.
Early last Sunday morning residents from nearby South End were awakened by “strange noises” coming from the valley.
According to reports a group of about 15 people – including men, women and children – clad in white robes were dancing and chanting around a “massive fire” in the valley near Fort Frederick.
One resident, who asked not be named for fear the group might be “satanists”, said the group appeared to be in a trance and was praying in a “strange language”.
Several residents, including some from the Bridgewater townhouse complex in South End, called the police and, while the group “quietened down for a while”, they later became rowdy again.
The resident said he saw a police vehicle stop about 50 metres from the group, switch on its lights and sirens and then depart.
Captain Rassie Erasmus of the Flying Squad confirmed that one of the unit’s vehicles had responded to a complaint early on Sunday. He said the responding officer had noted the activity as “a possible satanic ritual”.
However, Erasmus said, no action was taken as the group had not harmed any humans or animals.
They also were not trespassing, as the valley was a public area.
Municipal spokesman Kupido Baron said it was illegal to make a fire in the Baakens Valley as it was a protected area. However, by the time police arrived at the scene the fire had already been put out.
The exasperated resident decided to go personally and ask the group to quieten down.
He said they were so engrossed in their activities that they only noticed him when he touched one of them on the arm.
“They were praying in a weird language and seemed to be in a trance.”
Their white robes, he said, had an emblem on that “looked like a combination of a cross and a star”.
He said although the chanting had initially sounded violent, the group was quite calm.
When he told them they were disturbing the peace, they said they had done “this kind of thing” on six occasions and wanted to know why he was only complaining now.
“I think we can expect them when the next full moon appears.”

Another resident, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said he had heard the noises several times in recent months and had informed the police and the fire department about it.
Theodore Petrus, an anthropology lecturer at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, said the full moon was significant as “there are many cultures, sects and religious groups that attach ritual significance to natural phenomena such as a full moon”.
However, the gathering was not necessary sinister. Petrus said several Zionist sects used white robes, although the symbolism described on the robes was unfamiliar to him.
He said the group could have been engaging in a religious practice.
“Just as the police would not enter a church during a normal service, I suppose they applied the same principle in this case.
“More conclusive evidence is required before any accusations are made about the group being involved in any illegal or violent activities.
“The chanting may have sounded violent, but it may be that the group was using loud intonation as part of their expression during the ritual.”
Weekend Post approached several Christian churches, mainstream and otherwise, in an effort to find out who was behind the moonlight gatherings.
All denied being involved in the rituals. Mashato Moshaba, a national spokesman for the Zion Christian Church, said it was definitely not a Zionist gatherin
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UFO or pterodactyl over Argentinian lake?

The object, photographed by a fisherman near San Rafael over an artificial lake called El-Nihuil, was, according the the newspaper Los Andes, witnessed by more than one person.
Mr Pino, 44, from San Rafael, fishes on the lake and told Los Andes that he often goes down to the water to watch the swans. On Saturday last week, however, he noticed a strange object hovering over the lake and took a series of photographs on his mobile phone.
He said: "I was excited and I do believe life must exist on other planets."

Shortly after Mr Pino approached the newspaper, a second witness - Christian Figueroa - claimed that he and his father saw the object while travelling past the lake in a bus. "We froze (with shock)," he said.
Mr Rafael also told Los Andes that he had noticed several strange phenomena in recent months in the area. He described an incident when a range of hills around the Atuel river were illuminated by several bright white flashes which he did not believe were caused by lightning. He described them as similar to very powerful camera flashes.
Members of UFO and cryptozoology communities are both claiming ownership of the object with some saying that it could be an unknown creature or a Pterodactyl - a flying dinosaur that last lived on Earth 66 million years ago.

See the Photo

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Mystery figure shocks cameraman

Do You believe in Ghosts? Even you believe or not how to explain the mysterious apparition in a picture taken by the BBC journalist Chris Sandys?

Here's the original article appeared on BBC NEWS.

BBC journalist Chris Sandys has said he is at a loss to explain a mystery apparition that appeared on a photo. Chris, 30, was photographing at the reputedly haunted Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and captured the image on his camera.
"It was a bizarre formation of light showing a mystery figure in a doorway," he said. "I am sure it was not caused by sunlight or dust in the air.
"I checked again and looked in the doorway but I could see nothing."
He went on: "As a BBC employee I wouldn't dare doctor an image or I would lose my job."
Chris, who works for BBC Gloucestershire's website, was photographing in an attic never before opened to the public.
Museum Director Sarah Parker said: "We are truly flabbergasted by the image.
"We have graffiti from soldiers previously billeted in the attic rooms from the 19th and 20th Century and perhaps this is one of them or even one of Jenner's servants.
"We have always thought of the 'ghosts' as being metaphoric, but maybe we need to think again."
The museum is dedicated to Dr Jenner, who lived in the house from 1785-1823.
It was from the Grade II listed building that he pioneered his world-changing vaccination against smallpox.

You can find the photo here

Mystery At Coral Castle

Coral castle is a mysterious megalithic structure created by the Latvian Edwar Leedskalnin in Homestead, Florida. The structure consists of numerous stones some of which weigh several tons. The structure is considered mysterious mainly since it was assembled by a single man (it was just a meter high and 39 and weighed 52 kg) and without any external help. Leedskalnin has kept the secret techniques used and this has led to the formulation of several hypotheses on methods he used. It was suggested the use of an anti-gravitational system or based on "harmonic sound waves," according to others on the magnetism.

Some kids who have assisted in the work said that were used hydrogen balloons to lift the blocks. Very are also credited the hypothesis that Ed would have used the
magnetic grid of the planet. Leedskalnin said of know the secret of the ancient Egyptian pyramids and to have applied this knowledge in the construction of Coral castle. In reality, there are photographs that show Leedskalnin use quite common techniques, such as hoists and pulleys, but it is thought that would not have supported the weight of larger blocks. However, the mysterious aura has helped to make Coral Castle a goal for tourism, to visit which Leedskalnin required a ticket to go in. To all intents and purposes Coral castle is not a real building, but rather a romantic garden surrounded by a fence of stone and a small building. Many structures are present within particularly fascinating. There are sundials for the calculation of time, a hole on a obelisco perfectly aligned to the star Polar, a table of rock shaped like a heart with a flower planted in center (which was the table had flowers all year), in an armchair stone weighing a tonne, a "fountain of the moon" that
represents the phases of the moon. The input port consists of a monolith weighing 9 tons, built in the middle with a perfect balance such that it is sufficient to push with a finger on the monolith to move it.

In 1986, the port was blocked, and a group of engineers was responsible for repair. After having lifted the blockade it was discovered that Leedskalnin had used the bearing of an old truck as a pivot. The castle was also equipped with a power station and a self air-conditioning, in addition to other electrical systems.