Many ancient mysteries writers are in awe of how ancient cultures managed to align buildings – especially pyramids – perfectly aligned north/south. They could not have used compasses (magnetic north is not true north) and their mapping skills were certainly not that advanced. The same authors will point out the many alignments with solstices and…
Author: Robert Bast
Before the True Arch: A Journey Through the History of the Corbel Arch
The corbel arch, a testament to early architectural ingenuity, stands as a gateway to civilizations past. This unique construction technique, where horizontal courses of stone or brick project inwards until they meet, predates the true arch and served as a crucial stepping stone in structural development. Its story, spanning continents and millennia, whispers of adaptation,…
Recurrent and Gifted Knowledge
Historians are keen to assign the invention of an idea to the first person (or culture) we have on record as mentioning it. Even if that mention suggests that they received the idea from somewhere else. Ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic brew, is a combination of two plants native to the Amazon rainforest: the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the…
Return of the Killer Comet in 4672 AD
More than a decade ago I tried to find a comet that could cause a doomsday in 2012. Because we didn’t know of one actually heading toward us, I looked at all the historical comets and tried to find on that could be returning, finally settling on Caesar’s Comet. While even NASA cannot predict the…
Watchers in the 21st Century: Henry Kissinger
Kissinger made the news recently because he achieved 100 years of age. And then again when he died in November 2024. A far more unique achievement was that he advised (to some degree) all of the US presidents from Nixon through to Trump. Even people who didn’t follow politics knew of him. While most people…
Oldest Statues and Carvings of Men – They Are Holding Their Penis
It almost feels like some kind of elaborate multi-millennial prank. Imagine the look on their faces when they dig this up, thought some Neolithic artists. Last year this carving was discovered at the the site of Sayburç in Turkey. It is dated to the ninth millennium BC, and is found next to communal and residential buildings:…
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
By many measures, this Rothschild heir is not worth mentioning. He seemingly is very good at losing money, he parties hard, and he married a page 3 (topless) model. Not exactly someone who might secretly rule the planet. But then again, from what is publicly known: And very, very interesting (for us) is that his…
Ancient Monuments that Never Were
We have clear evidence that some ancient sites were conceived or planned long before they were built. And that the building of the greater site took hundreds and sometimes thousands of years. Given that humans and their cultures are fragile and mortal, there is great potential for a site to end up incomplete. Graham Hancock…
The Evolution of Monotheism
This is from the point of view that religion was originally a response to the meteor storm cataclysm of 12,000 years ago, and that it was controlled by the same line of people right through until at least Egyptian times and possibly Greek times. If religion was controlled by one entity – the scientists who…
Demonstrating Superiority. Shock and Awe?
Regardless of whether you are a miner or a missionary, you can’t just turn up unannounced and expect a friendly reception. One false move and there is the likelihood of being attacked or killed. Presuming you are without the backing of troops, that means arriving somewhere, not knowing the local language, and needing to show…