The 'Bones of the Buddha' found (PBS)

Secrets of the Dead: Bones of the Buddha (full documentary of Willy Peppe's find, HD)

• 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.

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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.

• Behind the Scenes GALLERY | Bones of the Buddha | PBS

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.

• Gandhāran Buddhist texts: The Schøyen Collection includes fragments of canonical sutras, Abhidharma, Vinaya, and Mahāyāna texts, most manuscripts written in Brahmi (Indic) scripts, while a small portion is written in Gandhāri/Kharoṣṭhī script.

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.

• Bones of the Buddha | Episode | Secrets of the Dead | PBS

Lumbini Ashoka pillar, Fuhrer's fraud?

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(The Epic History Vibe) Archeologists dug beneath the Buddha's alleged birthplace (Lumbini): This is what they found, Buddhist Emperor Ashoka's pillar (usually topped with a lion capital). Dr. Ranajit Pal convincingly explains that Nepal had next to nothing to do with Buddhism. The Buddha came from Shakya Land (Gandhara, Saka Land, Indo-Scythia, Central Asia, modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, the northwest frontier of India (Maha Bharat, an empire pieced together by King Asoka, centuries after the Buddha lived and taught on the subcontinent that was not a country but territories, maha-janapadas, disputed "footholds of family clans" like the Sakas/Shakyas from Kapilavastu/Kabul, Bamiyan (with the world's oldest and largest Buddhist statues), Tillya Tepe, Mes Aynak, and other sites of Early Buddhism).

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Non-Jonesian Indology, Alexander

Why forger Dr. Fuhrer lied and deceived the world is obvious, for fame and academic advancement. Why India or Buddhists continue to believe and promote his fiction seems to have more to do with politics and foolishness, ignorance about the truth with the Buddha's actual homeland being a little farther to the west in ancient Gandhara, Afghanistan, and places like formerly Buddhist Pakistan that were ransacked and ruined by Muslim invasions during the rise of Islam. Dr. Pal failed to make a sufficiently convincing argument to his colleagues in the fields of history and archeology to settle the question. All he showed was that Dr. Fuhrer was a fraud and many British archeologists were taken in or continue to act as if what Fuhrer asserted were true. See the documentary Bones of Buddha to see what these mistakes have led to with the loss of priceless Buddhist treasures, now sitting in someone's house, under his bed, in England because archeologists say the stupa (Buddhist reliquary mound) they were pulled from during an unscientific excavation (at Piprahwa) probably wasn't one of the eight or nine stupas the historical Buddha's relics (relics associated with the Buddha) were first deposited, as the ancient texts tell us.

There is Buddhism in Nepal today though it is alleged by officials to have a Hindu majority

• British fraud in Archeological Survey of India: Dr. Anton Führer
• Pillars of Indian Buddhist Emperor King Ashoka
• Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander (Dr. Ranajit Pal)
• Terai lowlands of Nepal
• The Epic History Vibe; Bones of the Buddha, PBS; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sickly Ariana Grande: "I'm a literal witch"

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Although formerly Catholic Big Aryan drew criticism for impolite interactions with reporters and fans in 2014 [407], she dismissed those reports as "weird, inaccurate depictions" [3]. Rolling Stone wrote: "Some may cry 'diva,' but it's also Grande just taking a stand to not allow others to control her image" [408]. In July 2015, the diva sparked controversy after being caught on surveillance video in a doughnut shop licking other peoples' doughnuts that were on display and saying, "I hate Americans. I hate America. This is disgusting," supposedly referring to the tray of doughnuts [409] and not the fat Americans who eat them. She subsequently apologized because of her strong backbone and sticking to her convictions, which are not really present. Public image my @ss! More I'm not Satanic [just because I sold my soul, which is not even a thing, so don't say that. And I don't have progeria, because I don't even know what that is, and I don't look like an old lady just out of a concentration camp, and if you say so, that's racist or antisemitic or one of those. Whatever, I don't care what you think!]

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The secret rituals that run our world

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(Modern Intuitionist) Some of the most powerful and influential groups in American and European society seem to have at least one thing in common: participation in the occult.

We find evidence of ritual and symbols in many places. But why? What is the occult? Why are such symbols so widespread and how can we investigate what they mean? These are some of the questions we'll explore in this video.

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CHAPTERS

• 00:00 - The strange world of the occult
• 00:56 - The Catholic Church and the doctrine of transubstantiation
• 02:17 - What does the word “occult” mean?
• 02:50 - Dr. Richard Spence on the nature of occultism
• 03:44 - Bohemian Grove
• 06:12 - Skull and Bones: Yale University's secret society
• 07:59 - The 2004 presidential election
• 12:41 - "Tilting the luck plane"
• 14:09 - What are rituals?
• 15:00 - The creation of money as a symbolic ritual
• 17:11 - What is the “dollar” really?
• 20:07 - Three key symbols explained
• 22:13 - The first symbol: the power of intent
• 28:06 - The second symbol: the journey
• 31:32 - The third symbol: convergence

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• Modern Intuitionist, Feb. 7, 2026: The secret rituals that run our world; Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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.

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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

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LYRICS: "Exhume to Consume"

Grimly I dig up the turfs/To remove the corrupted stiffs/Trying to contain my excitement/As I desecrate graveolent crypts.../Fingers claw at coffin lids/Eager festal exhumation/Hugging your wry, festered remains/With posthumous joy and elation.../Body snatched, freshly interred/Whatever takes my fancy/To satisfy my gratuitous pica/My culinary necromancy.../Scrutinized then brutalized/My forensic inquisition is fulfilled/My recipe is now your epitaph/Be it fried, boiled, or grilled...//I devour the pediculus corpse/Whetting my palate as I exhume/The festering stench of rotting flesh/Makes me drool as I consume...//CHORUS: Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Weeping tissue is stripped/Pus dribbles from my lips/Pulverizing this pustular chaff/Butchering up morgue's makes me laugh...//Ulcerated flesh I munch/Rotting corpses are my lunch/On bones I love to crunch (on the badly decomposed)/Shriveled innards I lick/The corpse's head I kick/Crumbling shreds I pick (eat the stiffs)//[Guitar solo: morbid melody for the deceased with salt to taste]//Rancid flesh, slaughter the dead/--Caskets exhumed.../Corpses disinterred, graves disturbed/--To consume...//Bereaved relatives are not amused/As on their dear departed I feverishly consume...//Slavering worms, decomposure burns/Corrosion born, as bacteria gnaw//Desecrate.../Precipitate....(from the muddy grave)/Macerate.../Eviscerate...//Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Saponified fats, nibbled by rats/--freshly exhumed.../Deep down six feet is where I like to eat/--Human flesh to consume...

White American pervert digs up corpses

For sale online from "deadshitdaddy" Gerlach

(BorisT.) Metalhead Jonathan Gerlach, 34, from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, arrested for stealing more than 100 human remains in repeated burglaries from a historical graveyard named Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon Borough and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Yuck! Did he also listen to pop or rap or ska?

Metal leads to madness and disinterring corpses? It might for some given the lyrics of such bands as Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Exhumed, Avenged Sevenfold, Septic Flesh, and even old-time punk rockers T.S.O.L. It may start as a joke -- or hardcore fandom/fanaticism about horror movies -- but who knows who might take it literally or as a suggestion?

Gerlach, as passionate as a ghoul about death

WIKI: In January 2026, Jonathan Gerlach of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with burglary, abuse of a corpse, and the desecration and theft of venerated objects stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery. Authorities had been investigating vandalism and theft of 26 mausoleums and underground vaults from the cemetery that began in fall 2025. Gerlach was caught leaving the cemetery at night with a sack containing the mummified remains of two children, three skulls, and various loose bones. An investigation of his house in Ephrata revealed over 100 pieces of human bones stolen from the cemetery (Source: Man stole hundreds of skulls and bones from Mount Moriah Cemetery, authorities say).

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Priceless relics of the Buddha found

Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D.

Bones of the Buddha is a documentary about the British excavation of one of the eight stupas (Buddhist burial mound and reliquary found in Piprahwa, now India, near the border with Nepal) where the historical Buddha's cremation remains (sarira or relics) were placed after the Buddha's final nirvana (parinibbana). More

• Ranajit Pal's Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander makes sense of the ancient history of proto-India and India and sheds light on the real motives of Alexander the Great in his Gedrosian expedition.

What treasure was in the stupa?

(Doug's Dhamma) William Claxton Peppe excavates on his land in India

Bones of the Buddha: full documentary puts this monumental find in context

• Charles Allen; Bones of the Buddha (documentary); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

250K-year-old tools found in MX cave

There are many super-ancient human and alien mysteries throughout the Americas.

250,000-year-old tools in Mexico?! | Hueyatlaco mystery

(Awakened Epochs) What if humans arrived in the Americas not 12,000 years ago but 250,000 years ago? This is the forbidden story of Hueyatlaco, a Mesoamerican archeological site in central Mexico that mainstream history tried to erase.

Discovered in the 1960s and excavated by Smithsonian-backed archeologists, Hueyatlaco revealed stone tools buried beneath volcanic ash dated between 250,000 and 800,000 years old.

When scientists published their results, careers were destroyed, artifacts were confiscated and vanished, and armed men shut down the dig and hounded the participants.

From vanished bones displayed at the Smithsonian, to uranium-series dating, diatom analysis, and eyewitness accounts of suppression, this case challenges everything we think we know about the ancient peopling of the Americas.

Could humans or something like humans, have been in Mexico long before Homo sapiens sapiens supposedly left Africa? Or was this prehistory deliberately buried?

Watch as Awakened Epochs uncovers one of the most controversial and important archeological enigmas of all time.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 – Intro: The mystery of Hueyatlaco
• 01:05 – A carved fossil [green] bone and a vanished artifact
• 01:57 – Smithsonian and US Geological Survey join the excavation
• 02:30 – Shocking dates: 22,000 to 800,000 years old
• 03:06 – Suppression, missing evidence, and harassment
• 03:42 – Independent dating confirms the impossible
• 04:12 – Skeptics, flooding theory, and stratigraphy tests
• 04:47 – Diatom analysis and the case for ancient occupation
• 05:35 – Eyewitnesses, footprints, and local legends
• 05:52 – Other evidence: Mastodon bones and white sands footprints
• 06:15 – Outro: suppression or the truth of human origins?

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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

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  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