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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

The 'Bones of the Buddha' found (PBS)


  • The Buddha did not have a "tomb" but rather various stupa mound sites that served as repositories of his cremation ashes and relics divided among the major rulers of his day.
Bones of the Buddha (S12, E6) premiered July 23, 2013 (NR) The mystery surrounding the bones [actually the cremation remains and relics or Śarīra] of the Buddha dates back more than 100 years ago, when British colonial estate manager William Peppe set his workers to the task of digging up a mysterious "hill" (actually an ancient, buried stupa) in Northern India. Peppe had no idea what they would find a little more than 20 feet below the surface. They unearthed an astonishing discovery: a huge stone coffer, containing five reliquary jars (urns) and more than 1,000 separate jewels and gold and silver ornaments.

(TSOL) Ritual cremations with stupas for chakravartins or buddhas do not leave piles of bones

Gandharan Buddhist (Greco-Buddhist) art
PBS is dedicating a full evening to the Buddha [in the summer of 2013], anchored by an intriguing new Secrets of the Dead episode called "Bones of the Buddha."

This documentary presents a convincing collection of evidence that suggests an amateur archeologist discovered a portion [1/8th] of the historical Buddha’s sacred relics more than a century ago.

Bones of the Buddha first aired Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 10:00-11:00 pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

Preceding Bones of the Buddha is a rebroadcast of The Buddha, acclaimed filmmaker David Grubin’s documentary about a royal [Central Asian] prince who fled the opulence of the palace more than 2,500 years ago.

Journeying on his quest for enlightenment for six years, he witnessed human suffering for the first time and had a great awakening, that eventually led to the establishing of a new religion, Buddhism.

American Buddhist Richard Gere narrates the two-hour film airing Tuesday July 23, 2023, 8:00-10:00 pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

The mystery surrounding the bones (cremation remains) of the Buddha dates back more than 100 years ago, when British colonial estate manager William (Willie) Peppe and his workers began digging at a mysterious hill in Northern India.
Burned bone fragments survived cremation?
Peppe had no idea what they would find just a little more than 20 feet below ground.  They unearthed a stupa that contained an astonishing discovery: a huge stone coffer, containing five reliquary jars full of
  • more than 1,000 separate jewels
  • carved semi-precious stones
  • gold and silver treasures
  • ash and bone fragments.
One of the jars bore a Sanskrit inscription which, when translated, stated the jar contained the remains of the historical Buddha himself.

Doubt and rumors of forgery have overshadowed this remarkable find, dividing Buddhist scholars for more than 100 years. Many believe the whole thing could be an elaborate hoax. Others insist the burial mound on Peppe’s estate is one of the final resting places of the leader of one of the world’s great religions, a [Scythian, Indo-Sakan] sage who died attained final-nirvana and passed away nearly 2,600 years ago.

For doubters, suspicion focuses on a key figure from the time, disgraced forgerer German archeologist Dr. Anton Führer.

Renowned historian Charles Allen sets out to solve this extraordinary mystery once and for all.  Is the little-known monument in Northern India really the Buddha’s burial mound enshrining his relics in a coffer tomb? Is this find genuine?  And if it is, who created it and when?

Allen begins his journey in England at the home of Neil Peppe, the grandson of William Peppe. From there he travels 4,000 miles to Birdpore House in India, built by the Peppe family in the 1840s.

Precious artifacts (Bones of the Buddha | PBS)
The mysterious hill known as Piprahwa where the tomb was found sits on the northern edge of the Birdpore estate.

Allen traces Peppe’s steps to authenticate the find, uncovering how the discovery became shrouded in scandal and where the Piprahwa ashes and bones reside today.
Photo of Brahmi script inscription (PBS)
But is the inscription on the jar stating “these are the relics of the Buddha – the Lord [Bhagwan]” genuine?

Allen meets with Prof. Harry Falk at Germany’s oldest institute of Indology, the world’s leading authority on ancient Indian languages, to authenticate the ancient Brahmi script.

Though Falk’s findings may finally clear William Peppe’s name and resolve the mystery surrounding his find, Allen must still unravel who built the mound and buried the remains of the Buddha with a treasure of artifacts 2,600 year ago.
Bones of the Buddha is an Icon Films Production for THIRTEEN in association with WNET, ARTE France, and National Geographic Channels. Executive producer for Icon Films is Harry Marshall. Executive in charge for WNET is Stephen Segaller. Executive producer for WNET is Steve Burns.  Coordinating producer for WNET is Stephanie Carter.

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

World's largest pyramid in Mexico, not Egypt

Great Pyramid of Cholula: largest pyramid in world (Travel Landscapes Destinations)
USA's massive pyramids


El Mirador (which is Spanish for "The Lookout," "The Viewpoint," or "The Belvedere") is a large pre-Columbus Middle and Late Preclassic (1000 BC–250 AD) Maya settlement in Mesoamerica, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, Guatemala.

It is part of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin of northern Guatemala [1]. El Mirador is considered to be the most important complex of ancient cities from the Preclassic period.

Cholula Pyramid, Pueblo, Mexico, size of a mountain, topped by an imperial Catholic church
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It features causeways and pyramids, among which the pyramid of La Danta stands out, one of the tallest and most voluminous in the world [likely the world's largest even bigger than Cholula in Mexico, Giza in Egypt, but maybe not as large as the Bosnian Pyramid or the mountain Gunung Padang in formerly Buddhist Indonesia or the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple, which is a pyramid called Borobudur].

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The site is estimated to comprise some 800 cities, and the location of La Danta was the epicenter of trade, religious ceremonies, and the royal residence of rulers. Furthermore, the city was interconnected with others via 13 causeways, representing its power over the other Mayan cities in the region [2].

El Mirador has white roads measuring 40 meters wide and between 2 and 5 meters high, forming what researchers consider the world's first highway system or superhighway [3]. More

Sunday, February 15, 2026

CIA's remote viewers found Ark of Covenant

The CIA conducted remote view experiments in 1980s in secret Project Sun Streak (CIA).
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CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim
Written CIA documented proof (CIA)
Declassified CIA documents claim that the mystical "Ark of the Covenant" was located by a psychic decades ago in the geopolitical Middle East as part of one of The Company's (the Central Intelligence Agency’s) experimental, secret projects in the 1980s.

The Ark of the Covenant was thrust back into the spotlight as globetrotting archaeologist Indiana Jones attempted to uncover the artifact in Steven Spielberg’s 1981 Oscar-winning Raiders of the Lost Ark [of the Covenant].

According to Jewish and Christian tradition, the gold-plated wooden chest housed the two tablets bearing the Ten Commandments, which the God Yahweh (Jehovah, the false deity known as the Demiurge by the ancient Gnostics), in later Christian theology, gave to someone allegedly named Moses between the 13th and 16th centuries BC.

The CIA conducted experiments as part of the secret Project Sun Streak with individuals known as “remote viewers,” a class of government-trained and authenticated clairvoyants, who have demonstrated that with practice they can project their awareness (expand their conscious ability) to receive information about faraway objects.

There is abundant CIA experience and evidence (but no credible public scientific confirmation) that remote viewing is really able to do what remote viewers know it can do. Those not read into projects generally regard it as pseudoscience until public peer-reviewed research by gatekeepers in academe allow the public to believe in it.

The CIA is not waiting for that. It conducted successful experiments in the 1980s as part of the secret Project Sun Streak (CIA)

In a remote viewing session conducted according to established protocols on Dec. 5, 1988, Remote “Viewer #32” was tasked with identifying the coveted Ark, according to CIA documents recently circulating on social media.

The documents were first declassified in August 2000. As part of the stringent protocols, remote viewers are not told what object they are being tasked to find. More

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Mexico: Zapotec 'Cloud People' tomb found

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

Monday, October 27, 2025

Dinosaur 'mummy' discovered in US


I found a dinosaur mummy!
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Fox 32 Chicago) Paul Callistus Sereno (born Oct. 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new [announced] dinosaur species [and many more unannounced] on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco, and Niger (Africa) [1]. One of his widely publicized discoveries includes a nearly complete specimen of Sarcosuchus imperator — commonly referred to as SuperCroc — found in Gadoufaoua, located in the Tenere desert of Niger. More

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Wall 80x bigger than Great Wall of China


(Motech) A wall 80 times taller than the Great Wall of China was just found in Siberia
  • Where was Greater Tartary/Tartaria?
    This is not the only super wall far bigger than the massive Great Wall of China, east of Siberia and west of the United States (in formerly Russian Alaska). There is an underwater ridge discovered with Google Earth.
Gornaya Shoria megaliths

Blocks or natural perfect right angles?
The Mountain (Gornaya) Shoria megaliths are rock formations found within the Shoria Mountains (Gornaya Shoriya, Russian Горная Шория) region in the southern part of Kemerovo Oblast in southern Siberia, Russia [1][2].

The Gornaya Shoria megaliths, also known as the Surak-Kuilum megalithic complex and by other names, form the ridge crests and summit of Mount Kuylyum (Kuilum, Kulyum, Russian Горна Куйлюм), 3,947 feet (1,203 meters) in elevation.

Giants are unreal, except this one
The base of this mountain is located 8 km from the village of Orton (Russian Ортон). Mount Kuylyum is part of the Kulyum-Surak granite massif in the Shoria Mountains.

The ridge crests and summits of this massif range in elevation between 2,297 and 3,947 feet (700 and 1,203 m) [3].

Articles claim these rock formations are gigantic prehistoric human-made blocks or megaliths [4]. 

Geologic mapping of the ridge crests and summit of Mount Kuylyum by geologists, conducted in the late 1990s, identified these rock formations as denudated prepared ridges (Russian Денудационные отпрепарированные гребни и гряды), which are ridges created by the natural and differential erosion of local bedrock [5].

[So nothing to see here; please go away.] More: Gornaya Shoria megaliths
  • Motech; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, August 8, 2025

Found: Lost civilization in Mexico

The country of Texas, rebel Mexican territory

In the Tlayócoc cave in Mexico, traces of a mysterious civilization from over 500 years ago have been discovered.

This find is the result of a cartographic expedition led by Yekaterina Katiya Pavlova and Adrián Beltrán Dimas.


During the expedition in the Tlayócoc cave, Yekaterina Katiya Pavlova and local guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas came across a hidden chamber. There, they found items that may indicate the existence of a lost civilization from more than 500 years ago. This discovery has sparked the interest of scientists from around the world.
Mysterious artifacts in the cave
Among the finds were shell bracelets, a large snail shell, and fragments of stone disks resembling pyrite mirrors. According to INAH (the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History), these objects may have been used for ritual purposes.

Archeologists discovered symbols on them that could be related to ancient beliefs.
Miguel Perez, an INAH archeologist, emphasizes that the discovery is of great importance for understanding the culture and symbolism of pre-Hispanic (before Spanish conquest) societies that inhabited the Sierra de Guerrero.

The findings may help interpret their cosmology and rituals related to fertility and creation.

History of the Sierra de Guerrero region
The Sierra de Guerrero region, where the discovery was made, was inhabited by the Tlacotepehaus ethnic group during the post-classic period, between 950 and 1521 AD. The area was abandoned due to extreme weather conditions, which made life difficult for its inhabitants.
Symbolism and significance of the artifacts Cuauhtemoc Reyes Alvarez from INAH suggests that the symbols on the bracelets may be related to cosmology concerning creation and fertility.

Caves might have been perceived as portals to the underworld or sacred spaces connected with divinity.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Pyramids found in Poland...and Bosnia?

USA has pyramids, but no one seems to know it.
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Polish archaeologists have found two megalithic tombs over 5,500 years old that teach us more about the burial practices and engineering abilities of one of Europe’s earliest agricultural societies.

The structures—sometimes called “Polish pyramids” or “giants’ graves” due to their triangular, monumental shape—were uncovered in the village of Wyskoć, in General Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park in the Wielkopolska province.
The discovery was made by archaeologists from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań during a field survey regularly conducted using remote sensing technology.

The tombs, whose existence was confirmed through excavations, were constructed by the Funnelbeaker Culture, a Neolithic society characterized by pottery and monumental burials.

The new findings are the second of their kind to be identified in the Wielkopolska region, the first being in 2019. More: archaeologymag.com

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Mexico's Sphinx, hieroglyphs, pyramids

Sphinx and pyramid, artist's rendition of what might have been | myloview.com
What does Great Sphinx of Giza represent? Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx
The ancient Egyptians preferred the androsphinx
The Sphinx before and after excavation (with touch ups and refinements), circa 1926

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4. -- Mexican Boy Scouts exploring the wildest parts of the State of Guerrero discovered ruins which experts believe will lead to unearthing another buried city in this republic.

The members of the expedition, which was working under the patronage of the Minister of Education, found themselves a few days ago on one of the highest mountain ranges in Guerrero.

Nearby were numerous mounds, varying in size. Digging into one of the largest mounds, the Boy Scouts found an enormous stone head like that of the Egyptian sphinx.
They did not uncover the body, which is believed to be immense. Authorities say the stone head has extraordinary similarity to the archaeological treasures found at Gizen [Giza], Egypt.

The eyes of the image are deep cavities. Nearby was unearthed a huge round stone covered with hieroglyphics.

Nubia (modern Sudan) has more pyramids.
The many small mounds in the district under exploration are believed by government experts to be the summits of a series of pyramids.

The stone head which was uncovered is thought to have been that of some God [ruling deity], carved by the Indians [Indigenous people] in ancient times and surrounded by pyramids.

The Mexicans built giant pyramids on temples?

The head of the image is about 10 feet long and proportionately wide.

Alfonso Caso, a lawyer; Luis Fabela an architect, and Señor Escobar, a guide, will leave here in a few days to survey the district and begin excavation work on a limited scale.



Sphinx, ancient discs, and bracelets: Enigmatic finds in Mexico
Egypt: The Great Sphinx of Giza in 1858, mostly buried and preserved by sand.

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(Paranormal Research Paul Stonehill) April 25, 2025: ...has revealed an archaeological treasure that could rewrite... ...the total to 14 registered archaeological pieces... ...Archaeological Problems in Guerrero, Mexico...

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