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Has a fifteen year old from Canada discovered a hidden Mayan city?
Recent news stories have reported on the discovery of a lost Mayan city by William Gadoury, a 15-year-old from Canada.
According to these reports, Gadoury noticed a correspondence between the locations of Mayan cities and Mayan constellations (the…
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Are there textual deviations between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament?
This article claims:
Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has increased the faith of
Bible-believers. Why? Because they prove that the hand-copied texts
that have come down from the Masoretic scribes are accurate. ...
... The Dead Sea Scrolls,…
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Were pyramids of glass found under the Bermuda Triangle?
Making the rounds is this story about glass pyramids underwater at the Bermuda Triangle. They're claiming they were discovered by an oceanographer but they I find no mention of this story in popular press and no actual scientific articles…
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Is this "ancient Hebrew leather manuscript" seized by police in Turkey authentic?
Some time ago there was news of a manuscript stolen from a Syrian museum, seized from smugglers in Turkey. There are many other articles about this as well.
Turkish police seize ancient manuscript from smugglers —Suspects in central Kırşehir…
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Did the Ancient Egyptians use twenty-sided dice?
Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time
Many centuries before Dungeons & Dragons was even a glimmer in the eye of Gary Gygax, ancient Egyptians were rolling a d20 die.
Metropolitan Museum
Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed…
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Was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle responsible for the Piltdown Man hoax?
Was the genius behind Sherlock Holmes also behind one of the most infamous forgeries in history?
source:roystoncartoons.com
In what could be described in retrospect as basically a shallow grave near the village of Piltdown, Charles Dawson and…
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Has Noah's ark been discovered in Turkey?
I found this website claiming that noah's ark has been found. Is there any archaeological or historical evidence to support or deny this claim?
Related Question: Could a Great Flood have happened?
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Has carbon dating indicated that live humans are 4000 years old?
A friend of mine told my wife that carbon dating is unreliable because it has been performed on live humans and indicated that the test subject(s) are 4000 years old.
Is there any truth to this claim? I'm having a hard time finding anything about…
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Have giant human skeletons been found?
This article shows a diagram of the remains of human giants. The tallest one being 36 ft. (1097.28 cm.) This seems like a pretty large claim for an article that doesn't state any sources. Could there be any legitimacy to these claims?
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Were technologically advanced artifacts found at the Durupinar "ark" site?
My social media stream lately has been awash with claims about items supposedly discovered at a site discovered by Turkish army captain Llhan Durupınar in 1959 that is believed by some to be the final resting site of Noah's Ark.
As a resident in…
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Is the fossil KNM-ER 1470 evidence that other dating methods other than the fossil record are inaccurate?
The skull was originally dated to be almost 3 million years old. This led Richard Leakey, the son of famed archeologist Louis Leakey to comment, "Either We toss out this skull or we toss out our theories on early man. It simply fits no previous…
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Does the Hueyatlaco site show human habitation in Mexico >50,000 years ago?
Wikipedia says:
Hueyatlaco is an archeological site in Valsequillo, Mexico. After excavations in the 1960s, the site became notorious due to geochronologists' analyses that indicated human habitation at Hueyatlaco was dated to ca. 250,000 years…
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Were "ancient nanostructures" found in the Ural Mountains in 1991?
This article tells a fantastic story of mysterious nanoscale artifacts found in the Ural Mountains in 1991.
These manufactured coils were initially discovered during geological
research associated with the extraction of gold in the Ural…
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Are results of carbon dating cross referenced by other methods?
Creationists make the claim that a global flood has messed up the precision of radiocarbon dating and hence, it cannot be relied upon. But if it is consistently cross-referenced by other methods, then the claim doesn't quite work.
I wonder if there…
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Were the remains of 215 indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old, found at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada?
According to many reports this week, a mass grave was found in Kamloops, BC, containing the remains of at least 215 indigenous children. For example: "Indigenous groups call for Canada to identify graves after remains of 215 children found"…
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