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Deep dives into the sites, texts, and objects that still don't add up.

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Ireland · Orkney

The Note in the Stone

Newgrange rings like a wind instrument near 110 Hz and Maeshowe pulses at 2 Hz.

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Peru · Paracas

What the Paracas Skulls Remember

In 1586 the Collaguas said they bound babies’ heads to match the volcano they came from.

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Mesopotamia · Baghdad Battery

Battery or Spell Jar? Rereading the Baghdad Battery

Found among magic bowls, the Baghdad Battery differs from its scroll-jar cousins exactly where a cell would.

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Peru · Nazca

The Nazca Figures Their Makers Never Saw Whole

Stakes and rope explain how the Nasca drew a 134-metre condor. No one on the ground could ever see it whole.

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Mali · Dogon

What the 1950 Dogon Paper Really Says About Sirius

We read the 1950 paper and the 1931 astronomy article its own footnote cites. Much of the star lore leads there. The water spirits do not.

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Mesopotamia · Sumerian King List

241,200 Years: What the Sumerian King List Counted

Its pre-flood kings were a later addition, yet every version we checked counts their reigns in the same 3,600-year blocks.

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Andes · Sacsayhuamán

The Joint Nobody Could Measure at Sacsayhuamán

The giant blocks are limestone, not the tested andesite, and no one has shown how joints this tight were cut at full scale.

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Anatolia · Göbekli Tepe

The Geometers Who Came Before Farming

The triangle is one trace of a Stone Age planning craft. Where it was learned is unknown.

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