Tagged with Archeology

Digging Religion

Ginnie Jester
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Archeologists are excavating a site that could prove what we think we know about the development of human civilization to be wrong. (more)

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Out-of-Body Experiences and New World Monumental Earthworks

Marlene Dobkin de Rios
de rios coverthumb.jpgShamans are able to transform themselves into powerful animal figures whom they send to do their bidding, to rectify evil or redress harm caused to their clients. The effigies of animals and birds found in the massive earthworks of the Americas represent these shamanic familiars. (more)
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Sumerian Economics

Peter Lamborn Wilson
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About 3100 BC, writing was invented at Uruk, Sumer. Writing both is and represents the new "Creation" ideology. It wipes out the oral tradition of the Stone Age and erases the collective memory of a time before hierarchy. In the text we have always been slaves. (more)

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Underground Temples

Kal Cobalt
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In northern Italy, one man has helmed the creation of nine intricate, interlocked temples one hundred feet underground. (more)

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Seriously Odd Archeological Mysteries

Preston Peet
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Did Viking explorers reach the Incas in Peru? How much commerce passed between ancient India and the Roman Empire? What do submerged ruins off the coast of Israel reveal about the world's first major port? These mysteries and... (more)

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