• THE COSO ARTIFACT

    Someone asked me the other day… why continue writing incendiary articles if it just fosters controversy and hate in the comments. I responded: Post anything on the Internet, you’ll get hate in the comments. Also… (rubs hands together evilly) YOUR RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION GIVES ME STRENGTH. The Coso Artifact was discovered near Olancha, California by some folk who were prospecting for geodes on February 13th, 1961 – a Monday, if you’re interested. They found what appeared to be a 500,000 year old geode (allegedly dated by an accredited geologist) containing a man-made object. The “man-made” object in question was a spark plug. Yeah. Spark plug found inside a half a million…

  • The James Ossuary

    Today I have chosen to discuss the “James Ossuary”. The infamous bone box was obtained by an antiquities collector in the 1970’s from an unknown source in Jerusalem, and left in a cellar for nearly 30 years, until the owner asked a renowned expert to decipher the inscription on the ends. The inscription translated to say the ossuary belonged to James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. The box was then offered to a museum in Canada, for display for a period of time. The owner claimed no knowledge of the context in which the ossuary was obtained at source, nor realisation of the historical and archaeological importance of the…

  • The Origins of the Wheel

    The word wheel comes from the Old English hwēol, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’ and Greek kuklos ‘circle’.The oldest known wheel found in an archaeological excavation is from Mesopotamia, and dates to around 3500 BC, a relatively late chapter in the story of the development of human civilisation really.One of the reasons why the wheel was invented only at this point in history (The Bronze Age) is du [...]