This core drilling technique looks familiar

Probably nothing

In other news, man made fire is now 400,000 years old. Thank you Brit’s, love cooked food. cnn.com/2025/12/10/sci…

The implications of this are… that ancient people settled in areas that are now underwater. Coastal areas are, and always have been, extremely desirable to humans. Our blurry picture of the past becomes slightly more focused with each submerged site that is found and studied.

Not the only intriguing artifact to come out of the Hohle Fels cave. A Venus idol also was recovered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_… Interesting to see this tiny animal sculpture that in some way feels like an antecedent to Gobekli Tepe

One thing I love about Angkor Wat is that it is a literal hall of records. The outer hall of the structure is the longest bas relief ever made by humans which tells the stories and histories that were most important to the builders. Here, Garuda is shown engaged in a great

rebirthoftheword Sure, could be. I’m open minded to anything, but for me the simplest and most likely answer is just bad ass ancient people who figured out polygonal masonry and metallurgy and farming and boats and cool costumes and went around the world spreading their knowledge being remembered

What if I told you that an ancient cult of Birdmen was the reason why we see polygonal masonry at ancient site around the world, why pyramids around the world are aligned to solstices, why eerily similar flood myths are recounted by ancient cultures around the world?

Archaic Lens What would be the difference between a global civ. and a cult when indeed a lot of things (iconography, architecture, myth etc.) seem to be shared?

One might even say the evidence, as it is today, supports the idea that the people of Gobekli Tepe invented heiroglyphs…

Positive Content Now that's a navel! Archaic Lens

Weird Old World Positive Content Indeed! and Beersheba in the epoch of 4500 BC yields one of the earliest examples of copper smelting ever found anywhere on earth: jpost.com/archaeology/65… My favorite quote from the article: “This study… gives evidence for a theory that there was a clearly defined elite that