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Has a "chariot army" been found at the bottom of the Red Sea?
It's apparently quite a popular story to "disprove doubting Atheists" regarding the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites during the Exodus of the Hebrew bible that in the late 1970s, archaeological evidence was found at the bottom of…
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Was there a giant red-haired race in North America?
The other day, I saw a show on the History channel about "giant skeletons" being found in North America. It also said that, for some reason, these findings have been hidden from people, maybe due to them being hoaxes or something else.
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Is the "Face on Mars" an artificial structure?
Is the famous image of a face on Mars a trick of the light or an artificial structure reprinting a face?
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Have edible jars of honey been found in thousand-year-old Egyptian tombs?
A recent xkcd contains the claim that honey has a shelf life that's so long that edible jars of honey have been found in Egyptian tombs several thousand years old.
Image taken from http://www.xkcd.com/1717/, licensed under a CC BY-NC 2.5…
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How old is Judaism?
I've recently read this BBC article which makes the claim that Judaism originated some time around 2000 B.C, if not earlier. I've seen a number of sources which make similar claims (1, 2). Perhaps I'm mistaken, but don't all surviving Jewish texts…
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Is there any archaeological evidence for Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066?
This article by Joshua Berman claims that "The Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain in the 5th century, the Arab conquest of Palestine in the 7th century, even the Norman invasion of England in 1066: all have left scant if any archaeological remains".
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Did the walls of Jericho fall outward?
According to the Associates for Biblical Research, the walls at Tell es-Sultan (the Biblical Jericho) fell outward:
In reality what Kenyon, Garstang and other excavators have found at Jericho correlates precisely with the account in the book of…
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Were there Hungarian speaking Indians in South America?
The following story is a translation from Hungarian, with a lot of discussion in the blog's comments:
http://www.cakravartin.com/archives/south-american-natives-speak-ancient-european-language
The story in a nutshell:
In the 1960s, a guy called…
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Was beer more important than food in the development of organised civilisation?
The conventional story of the origin of modern civilisation places the discovery of agriculture as a major turning point. And this, it is usually claimed, was because organised cities can't grow before they have a reliable food supply from the…
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Do graffiti from travelers at the Abu Simbel temple prove that the temple was only built in the 19th century?
Whilst browsing on the notoriously pseudo historical subreddit called r/CulturalLayer I came across this post, that leads to another post on a popular Russian blogging website called livejournal.
Scrolling through the post, it seems that the author…
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Were the first Americans from Africa?
A 1999 episode of the BBC documentary series Ancient Voices claimed that the first people in the Americas were not the people we call Native Americans, but a much earlier group of Africans who shared a recent common ancestor with Australian…
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Is the Treblinka Archaeology study a hoax?
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination site for Polish Jews between July 1942 and October 1943. Jews were claimed to have been shipped to Treblinka and upon arrival immediately executed by carbon monoxide gas. All together, upwards of 900,000 Jews were…
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Did humans used to be a lot smaller on average?
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Were people shorter in the middle ages?
When talking about human evolution, I've heard several people comment that humans used to be a lot smaller, and that we can tell this by the size of the doors in old houses.
I don't…
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