The well-known “runes” used by medieval Scandinavians made up a syllabary known as Futhark from its first seven letters. It…
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Viking Runes: More Ancient than Imagined
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Ice Puzzles
This is being written in the summer blast furnace of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, but it’s winter in Antarctica…
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Ancient Metals
Our current civilization would not exist if four principle inventions had not occurred: agriculture, the wheel, writing and metallurgy. In…
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An Angry Planet?
Could the people of planet Earth have recently become the guests who overstayed their welcome? Over-population, pollution of the air,…
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Circular Logic
“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in…
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Bacon, Shakespeare & the Spear of Athena
William Shakespeare, we are told, was born of illiterate parents, schooled only in grade school, and apprenticed as a butcher’s…
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Who Were the Earliest Americans?
In Atlantis In America: Navigators of the Ancient World Ivar Zapp and I proposed that when the identities of the…
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Folk Archaeological Traditions in India
In July 2, 2005, I flew overnight from Los Angeles to London’s Gatwick airport. I took a Thameslink train from…
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Probing the Depths of Human History
The other night we were watching a rerun of the History Channel’s report on “Japan’s Underwater Pyramids” (History’s Mysteries). An…
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Secrets of the Pyramid of Kukulkan
It is a curious fact that the ancient pyramid building civilizations still puzzle us. Why did they choose to construct…
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