Take a look at these two statues, both from the ancient Olmec civilisation of Central America. One looks negroid, the other a bit Chinese. Plenty of other Olmec statues look as if they depict people from other parts of the world because these …
An artist's impression of the Druid superclub Stonehenge may have originally been used as a venue for ancient ravers, according to new academic findings. Dr Rupert Till, a musicologist at Huddersfield University, argues that the acoustics of the Stone Circle would have made it an …
Why is it that almost any archaeological discovery in the Holy Land turns supposedly reputable scholars into media whores? Read this story carefully: ROME (Reuters) – A team of Franciscan archaeologists digging in the biblical town of Magdala in what is now Israel say they …
Nicky Woolf’s post below persuaded me to take a look at Steve Taylor, discoverer of the “Ego Explosion” that sent mankind on its downward spiral 6,000 years ago. On closer inspection, it turns out that only some races were affected by this disaster. Other peoples …
Time for another sip from the deep well of wisdom that is Echan Deravy, the Scots-born, Japanese-based mystic who is leading the “Earth Pilgrims” project. Echan is proud of his Celtic ancestry. And why not? For he believes that the Celtic magic represented by the …
Coming, Fall 2008 – Earth Pilgrims, the beginning of a documentary series about a global pilgrimage to sacred sites featuring the world’s most respected environmental gurus and “alternative” thinkers. This is fancy stuff: a very slick website, and contributors such as the much-admired Jain monk …
Graham Hancock has exciting news. His “author of the month” for September will be Patrick Geryl, who believes that the apocalypse supposedly prophesied by the Mayans in 2012 will indeed engulf us all. Here’s Patrick: In How to survive 2012? I reveal the immense cataclysm that …