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UCLA research on Easter Island finds meaning

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Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of some of the Moai stone monoliths found on Rapa Nui, better known to Westerners as "Easter Island." Here’s the truth [so far].

Here’s what readers will learn when reading this story: Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of some of the Moai (giant stone statues) stone monoliths found on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

• The scientists analyzed soil in the vicinity of two of the Moai statues and found traces of banana, taro, and sweet potato, according to research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
• These traces indicate the statues could have been used to celebrate the crop fertility of soils in the region.
• The famed stone monoliths that tower over the island of Rapa Nui—colloquially known as Easter Island—have puzzled scientists for centuries.
• But archeologists and soil scientists studying the ancient Moai now believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of the famous statues.
• Clues in nearby soils suggest the statues may have been placed there to celebrate the fertility of crops in the area.

Remote island research is the best kind of work

For more than three decades, Jo Ann Van Tilburg of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) has studied the origins of the Moai along with Rapanui artist Cristián Arévalo Pakarati and other members of the local community.

They recruited soil scientist Sarah Sherwood, of the University of the South in Tennessee, to analyze the soil the base of two statues found peculiarly perched upright in the Rano Raraku quarry on the eastern part of the island, where most of the more than 1,000 Moai statues originated.

Moai create energy field around Easter Island

(The scientists suspect that work in the quarry began around A.D. 1455). The team analyzed soils at the foot of two of the structures, which archeologists believe were erected by or before A.D. 1510 to A.D. 1645, and found chemical evidence of common food crops.

The soils revealed traces of foods like taro, banana, and sweet potato, according to research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. More

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Mexico: Zapotec 'Cloud People' tomb found

(NewzTech20) The "Cloud People" (Be'ena'a) of Mexico [AI podcast mode starts at ]

• IN THIS STORY: Mexican officials are calling the discovery of a Zapotec (Be’ena’a) tomb one of the country’s greatest archeological discoveries of the last decade.
• The tomb, dated to 600 C.E., features colorful murals that experts hope they can soon decipher.
• Other architectural highlights within the tomb include friezes and carvings in doorposts.

(WDRB News - Official) Mexico unveils 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb and colorful mural

Tomb features colorful murals that experts hope they can soon decipher (Lelia Valduga/Getty)

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Mexican Pres. Lopez Obrador and Sheinbaum

Officials are lauding a newly unearthed tomb, tucked into the Central Valley of Oaxaca [pronounced \wah-hah-kah\] in Mexico [Mesoamerica], as the greatest archeological find made in the country in the last decade.

 

Dated to 600 C.E.—a pre-Hispanic [Pre-Columbian era, pre-arrival of Spain and European Conquistadors] period during which the Zapotec culture ruled the region—experts believe the architectural and cultural meanings they can extract from the find will reveal unknown elements of Zapotec life 1,400 years ago.

Claudi Curiel de Icaza (INAH)

“This is an exceptional discovery due to its level of preservation and what it reveals about Zapotec culture: its social organization, its funerary rituals, and its worldview, preserved in the architecture, and mural paintings,” Mexico’s Secretary of Culture Claudi Curiel de Icaza said in a translated statement from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

The tomb features sculptural elements and mural paintings that contain symbols often associated with power and death, while friezes and tombstones bear inscriptions which appear to reference calendars.

Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum in front of MX flag

“This is the most important archeological discovery in Mexico in the last decade due to its level of preservation and the information it provides,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said at a press conference, according to INAH.

The murals and architecture start at the entrance to the antechamber. An owl, which symbolized night and death for the Zapotec people, covers the painted face of a lord. Experts with INAH believe that the portrait may be of the ancestor to whom the tomb was dedicated. His descendants may have hoped that he would serve as an intercessor with deities. More

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Who are the "Zapotecs," the "Cloud People," how did they build underground?

Zapotec civilization funerary art

The Zapotec civilization (the Be'ena'a or "The people who came from the clouds," circa 700 BC–1521 AD) is an advanced indigenous pre-European (pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic, pre-invasion) civilization that flourished in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica (part of North America above Central America, mostly comprised of modern Mexico). Archaeological evidence shows that their culture, now replaced by Mixtec culture, originated at least 2,500 years ago. The Zapotec archaeological site at the ancient City of Monte Albán has pyramids, monumental buildings, ball courts, tombs, and grave goods, including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Albán was one of the first major cities in Mesoamerica. It was the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of the territory which today is known as the Mexican state of Oaxaca [1, 2]. The Zapotecs are their modern Mexican descendants. More

• Mitla, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico

Mitla: the Sacred Underworld, Mexico

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• Tim Newcomb, popularmechanics.com, Jan. 29, 2026, via MSN; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Pyramid Review: Exploring Mexican sites

(Pyramid Review) Yaxchilan: The most inaccessible archeological site in Mexico, Jan. 29, 2026

Yaxchilan necropolis ruins (Wikipedia)

Yaxchilan (yacht-chee-lan) is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, near Guatemala (named after the Buddha Gautama plus the word mala or religious beads*). In the Late Classic Period, Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta River, with Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks") as its major rival [1]. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the Usumacinta region demonstrate clear differences that mark a clear boundary between the two kingdoms [1]. More: Yaxchilan, Mexico

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Mexico built world's largest pyramid

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• *How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Rick Fields)

Buddhists came to California and Mexico BEFORE Christianity? Yes, according to American Edward Payson in a miraculous book published more than a century ago:

• An Inglorious Columbus; or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan discovered America in the fifth century, A.D. (Edward Payson Vining, 1847-1920)

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Cave 5K years older than Gobekli Tepe

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Skull: Native face of 'Kennewick Man'

Kennewick Man: 'most important' face revealed after 8,500 years (Cicero Moraes).

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Meet the Kennewick Man: Face of "most important" ancient Native American revealed after 8,500 years

Strong and resilient ancestor of current residents

The face of one of the most significant skeletons ever unearthed in North America has been reconstructed for the first time -- more than 8,000 years after the man's death.

The individual, known as the Kennewick Man, was approximately 40 years old when he died during the early Holocene period, which started roughly 11,700 years ago following the conclusion of the last major ice age.

Columbia River, Washington, USA

His remains were discovered along the banks of the Columbia River in 1996, close to Kennewick City in Washington state, from which he derived his name.

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The find represented one of the most intact specimens from this era and offers proof of Native American habitation in the region for more than 8,000 years. The skeleton has been pivotal in academic discussions surrounding the earliest inhabitants of the North American continent.

Scientists have now created a reconstruction of his living facial features using his skull, providing insight into the man's history, reports the Express US.

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce People

Lead researcher Cicero Moraes described the reconstruction as depicting a "strong and resilient man," whose characteristics reflected "a life marked by continuous physical effort and survival."

He continued: "First, the skull is analyzed using known averages of soft-tissue thickness and anatomical guidelines to position key features such as the eyes, nose, lips, and ears. More

Ireland's prehistoric site, Europe's largest?

We've more and older archeology than England?

It seems that ancient Irish tales of "hollow hills" (underground caverns in mountains, as in Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" where ogres and supernatural beings dwell) are true. There are hillforts throughout the Emerald Isle. And the largest ever found in Northern Europe has just been uncovered, and it's massive.

Ireland discovery: the largest site ever

What, our pre-Christian roots go way back?

A vast prehistoric settlement hidden in the hills of County Wicklow is forcing archaeologists to rethink how people lived in Ireland more than 2,700 years ago.

What began as a closer look at a single hillfort has revealed a sprawling complex of ramparts, houses, and enclosures that specialists now say may be the largest clustered village ever identified in Ireland and Britain.

The scale of the discovery, and the suggestion that it could be the biggest prehistoric site of its kind in Northern Europe, is already reshaping debates about when urban-style living first emerged on the Atlantic edge of the continent.

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The Wicklow hill that turned into a mega‑site

Baltinglass hillfort archeological site (monumentalireland.ie)

The story starts with a familiar landmark in the Irish landscape, a hillfort in Baltinglass that locals have long known as a dramatic feature above the County Wicklow countryside.

Archaeologists had catalogued it as one of several prominent fortified sites in the region, but new survey work has shown that the hilltop is only the core of a much larger complex.

What once looked like a single enclosure now appears to sit within a dense cluster of prehistoric houses and additional earthworks that extend across the slopes and surrounding ridges. More

• Cassian Holt, Morning Overview via MSN (msn.com/AA1Ts3), Jan. 2, 2026; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Native Americans older than Clovis, Oregon?

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Oldest depiction of Creation discovered

A relief from the Ain Samiya goblet depicts cosmic order emerging from chaos (Regular Sigg)

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World’s oldest depiction of Creation discovered

(The Telegraph) The earliest depiction of the creation of the universe has been found on a 4,300-year-old silver goblet discovered in the West Bank, Palestine.

The vessel shows “before and after” scenes with a human-chimera figure confronted by a monstrous snake [naga in Buddhism], before the snake is subdued and the Sun takes its place in the sky, held aloft by two deities.

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Archaeologists say the images are an allegory for Order triumphing over Chaos at the beginning of time. The Sun is shown moving across the heavens in a celestial “boat of light.” It is the oldest known depiction of the formation of the cosmos and predates the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish – which was recorded on stone tablets – by more than 1,000 years.

“The goblet does not tell of a violent struggle between gods [devas and asuras], but of a peaceful process of cosmic ordering,ˮ said Daniel Sarlo, co-author of the paper about the discovery for the Luwian Studies Foundation, a non-profit research group based in Switzerland.

“It shows how the Sun is born, banishes chaos, and renews the world.”

Order over Chaos

The artifact, which is 3.1 inches (7.9 cm) high, is known as the Ain Samiya goblet, and was found in the 1970s near Kafr Malik in the West Bank.

It dates from 2650 to 1950 BC and until now, experts thought it was linked to the Enuma Elish, which recounts the struggle between the younger gods and the monster of primordial chaos. More

Israeli PM admits Jews didn't come from Israel

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Great Chinese Empire: Terracotta Army

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Mary Magdalene: key to salvation?

Was Mary Magdalene the real key to salvation? Ethiopia’s Gospel reveals all

Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene

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What if everything we thought we knew about Mary Magdalene was only half of the truth? Hidden deep within Ethiopia’s ancient Christian monasteries lies a secret gospel—one that portrays Mary Magdalene not as a sinner, but as a divine teacher, a priestess, and a cornerstone of salvation.

In this powerful historical deep-dive, we uncover Ethiopia’s lost Christian texts and oral traditions that preserved a radically different image of Mary.

Who wrote the first Bible?

Who wrote the FIRST Bible? Ethiopia's shocking claim

I'll teach the other apostles what they don't know

Forgotten by the West but honored in Africa, she emerges not as the woman saved by Christ, but as the one chosen to carry his deepest wisdom.

From the mysterious Book of Mysteries to the sacred teachings of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, this documentary challenges mainstream theology and explores a spiritual truth too dangerous for Rome to keep.

Could Ethiopia’s hidden gospel restore Mary Magdalene’s rightful place in the story of salvation? Unlock the secrets. Reclaim the history. And discover the woman who changed everything.

Who changed God's name?

They changed God's name - Ethiopia's Bible reveals the truth

REFERENCES

• Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church. Cambridge University Press, 1928.
• Cowley, R.W. Ethiopian Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
• Levine, Amy-Jill. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. HarperOne, 2006.
• Shoemaker, Stephen J. Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion. Yale University Press, 2016.
• King, Karen L. The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. Polebridge Press, 2003.
• Tadesse, Tsegaye. Ancient Christianity and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Addis Ababa University Press, 2011.
• Isaac, Ephraim. The Ethiopian Church: Ancient Christianity in Africa. The African Studies Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, 1997.
• Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion Archives, Axum (restricted access, reported findings by scholars visiting in 1960s and 70s). Oral testimonies from monastic elders recorded by Ethiopian historian Aleqa Taye, early 20th century.
• Acts of Philip and Gospel of Mary (Nag Hammadi Codices).

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• African History; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Travel to Mexico is best for this family

• We love the Mexicans and our their land of Meh'hee'ko

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New secrets of King Tut's tomb found

A British archaeologist believes he has uncovered a wealth of secrets in King Tut’s tomb — including a hidden chamber

Inside King Tut's secret chamber, Egypt

Move over, Harry Potter — there’s quite possibly a new “chamber of secrets” in town, and in legendary Egyptian boy-king [Pharaoh] Tutankhamun’s tomb.

British archeologist and Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves (news.nationalgeographic.com) has recently put forth a groundbreaking theory that the famous burial site — discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 — contains not one but two hidden chambers.

Even more interestingly, he thinks Queen Nefertiti, whose burial site remains a mystery, is inside one of them.

Reeves bases his theory on high-resolution scans of the tomb’s walls and history. Indeed, three thousand years ago, intruders discovered Pharaoh Horemheb’s sarcophagus after they barged through a false wall adorned with a painted scene — walls with similar decorations and architectural features to those in Tutankhamun’s tomb. More

• Tutankhamun Valley of the Kings, Nefertiti hidden burial rooms archaeology, Howard Carter, Nicholas Reeves

Persian Empire didn't die, it became Iran

(Phils Guide to the World!) F*@K the mainstream media: I went to IRAN to see for myself!

(Planet Move) Iran like we’ve never seen it: Real life inside the world’s most sanctioned country

Visiting the COLDEST (Yakutsk) then the HOTTEST place on Earth in Iran: Lut Desert

Dasht-e Lut or Lut Desert, Iran

(Eli from Russia) June 21, 2025: LUT DESERT. I've just visited the coldest place on Earth Yakutsk located in the Yakutia (Sakha) Republic in Siberia, and my next destination is...the HOTTEST place on Earth! Let's see what the hottest place looks like and what is more difficult to endure, cold in Russia or Middle Eastern heat in Iran (West Asia) once known as the Persian or Achaemenid Empire.

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• 00:00 Heading from the coldest to the hottest place of the world
• 04:45 Sand dunes and yardangs of the desert
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• 09:44 The remnants of ancient Karavan Sarai
• 11:16 This is only the beginning of adventures in Iran...

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