September 2008

Mysterious Neolithic People Made Optical Art
Discovery Channel - USA
Little is known about these people -- even their name is wrapped in mystery. Archaeologists have named them "Cucuteni-Trypillians" after the villages of

London's magical past
Times Online - UK
There have been stories through the centuries of secret treasure and underground passages of stone that link otherwise unrelated buildings. ...

Mayan Marvel
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
Underground rivers and caverns have long been known to exist in this part of the peninsula, but the entrance to the cavern at Rio Secreto was shrouded by ...

The Death Star
By noreply@blogger.com (Scott)
The mystery began in 1967. A US military satellite was launched to detect Soviet nuclear tests which the Pentagon believed were secretly taking place on the dark side of the Moon. Instead, the satellite picked up evidence of explosions ...

Frightening New Footage from The Day The Earth Stood Still
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... updates do seem to jive with actual government procedure. I like that they closed down all the streets and shoved him in a super-secret underground bunker.

Ancient Roman-Christian Amulet From England Is A Fake
AHN - USA
London, England (AHN) -- Experts say a rare Roman-Christian artifact found in the English town of Shepton Mallet in 1990 is actually a fake. ...

More see ancient site
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
The site has produced 20000 human artifacts, 956000 animal bones and 1.4 million plant Meadowcroft artifacts include man-made objects of stone, animal bones ...

Hubble Finds an Ultra-Bright Mystery Object, Outside Any ...
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA
So basically the object emitted light in spectra unknown for stellar explosions. Could it have been an artificial structure out there in the black? ...

Hubble finds mysterious object SCP 06F6! What is it?
iTWire - Australia
Hubble saw this mysterious object brighten for about one hundred days, peak in brightness, but then fade over the second one hundred days. ...

For sale: ram's horns encased in 500-year-old tree
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
... which plays out in central Utah over a 500-year span, is true, if the curling desert ram's horns wholly embedded in an ancient juniper are any proof.

Caves are calling
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
As mentioned on the California Cavern Web site, there are no bathroom breaks while underground. What made things tougher was carrying my camera gear in

A look at Fulford Cave near Eagle
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
Despite the damage to the cave, it remains a dazzling sight for spelunkers. The 12th longest known cave in Colorado, Fulford is an underground world ...

Rare Artifact Found In Surf
The Dispatch - Ocean City,MD,USA
By Shawn J. Soper, News Editor OCEAN CITY – A large section of what is likely a fairly ancient wooden vessel was discovered in the surf at 43 rd Street this

Second stone throws open a new debate with destiny
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The anonymous claims centre on a second cave said to exist close to where a lifeboat crew discovered a cave house on the Arbroath coastline last month. e ...

10 unsolved riddles
By Nico(Nico)
1 - The mystery of the explosion at Tunguska in 1908. 2 - The move to Easter Island in the gigantic heads carved in stone. 3 - The disappearance of planes and boats in the so-called "death triangle of Bermuda." ...

Vanishing ice proving deadly for walruses
WWF International - Gland,Switzerland
Following the recent reports of polar bears swimming for their lives off Alaska, clear evidence has emerged in far-eastern Russia of how vanishing ice in ...

Galaxy secret in dance of dwarfs
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
The faintest of these 18 dwarfs could also provide a new window into the mysterious dark matter — something optically invisible — detected only through its

Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula delight
Martinsburg Journal - Martinsburg,WV,USA
But whether they are commercially developed sites or mysterious, silent reminders of a past civilization, the ruins of the Yucatan are compelling. ...

In Afghanistan, French archaeologists uncover ancient city
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Poor villagers who once looted the site now help excavate walls and artifacts at what they call the City of Infidels. By Matthew Pennington, Associated ...

Ancient gold wreath found in Greece
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Researchers say the artifacts have been removed from a grave a long time ago and reburied near a goddess Eukleia shrine in the city's marketplace.

Mound to mound, a tour of the Midwest traces ancient civilizations
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Nearby an ancient sun calendar has been reconstructed on the site where its remnants were found: an enormous ring of tall tree trunks stuck in the ground, ...

Ancient Turkish city waits to be unearthed
Newspost Online - Baroda,India
An ancient city in western Turkey, discovered by smugglers of ancient artifacts at an illegal excavation six years ago and recovered with soil by officials, ..

Cave house gains new occupants
Scotland Courier - Dundee,Scotland,UK
The two “gorillas” have declined to be identified, in keeping with the continuing sense of mystery surrounding the cave house. Their spokesman—the man who

Tunguska Event - 100 Year Mystery
By makbhkiow(makbhkiow)
Due to the mystery as to the cause of the Tunguska Event, it has become a fertile field for science fiction. According to John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, in their book The Fire Came By [3], the explosion created a "pillar of fire" ...

“”The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
By Sanket Pardeshi
Well, the crew of the SS Gaines Mill observed an explosion over the water shortly after the Mariner had taken off. They headed toward the site and there they saw what looked like oil and airplane debris floating on the surface. ...

“”First Map of the Gamma Ray Universe Produced
By Eliza Strickland
The going theory is that the bursts are tied to the explosive deaths of massive stars, but exactly what types of stars and how the explosions are triggered remains a mystery [National Geographic News]. Already, the Fermi telescope has ...

Large Haudron Collider could spell doomsday for Earth!
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Earthquake rumour triggers panic in AP Professor Otto Rossler, from the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen in Germany, is one of the scientists mounting ...

New Satellites for GLONASS
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia
... military, civil and experimental aircrafts; marine and river ships; cars and railway vehicles; equipment for geodesic and land surveys, and etc

Cosmic connections: Imperial scientist locates the origin of ...
Imperial College London - London,UK
It comes from an ancient chondrite rock, common in Karin asteroids, which was formed in space at the birth of the solar system. Chondrite meteorites often ...

Mysterious Angels
Nolan Chart LLC - Warrenton,VA,USA
Let's explore the mystery of angels and what they have done and are currently doing in both our lives and in the universe. by Timothy K. Perry Angels are ...

~~Mysterious Beauty: Sunrise on Mars
Examiner.com - USA
Mars Phoenix Lander and your earth-bound humans, welcome to September and another calendar month that you didn't think you would have to explore mysterious ...