Ancient Mysteries & Alternative History

vinitjain · vinitjain

Dionysus or Dionysos the Greek god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus to the Romans. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace - as well as the patron deity of agricul...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming or Going Forth By Day. The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842. The Books were text initia...

vinitjain · vinitjain

For thousands of years rumors and reports have circulated that somewhere beyond Tibet, among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of Central Asia, there lies an inaccessible paradise, a place of universal wisdom and ineffable peace called Shambhala. Legends say that only the pure of heart can live i...

vinitjain · vinitjain

An old Chinese saying says, treat death as life. In China, rulers took this saying very seriously. After death they were buried with lavish supplies of dishes, food, silk and musical instruments. In earlier times living things such as wives, servants, or pets were also buried with the Emperor, ofte...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Lemuria was an ancient civilization which existed prior to and during the time of Atlantis. Physically, it is believed that Lemuria existed largely in the Southern Pacific, between North America and Asia/Australia. Lemuria is also sometimes referred to as Mu, or the Motherland (of Mu). At its pea...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Bimini is an island in the Bahamas, 55 miles east of Miami, Florida, approximately 7 miles long and 1/3 mile across at its widest point. Its modern inhabitants are descendants of West African slaves imported by Spain and Britain beginning in the mid-16th century. They replaced the resident Caribs,...

Eddy_P · Eddy_P

Egyptian Hieroglyphs depict and describe a computer cd tray, along with the form of a compact disk itself. The Old Testament documents and describes computer parts. The contents of four specific mid 1990s cd-roms are documented and described in many ancient texts. A common link is Egypt: Solon, an...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Akhenaten (often alt: Akhnaten, or rarely Ikhnaton) meaning 'Effective spirit of Aten', first known as Amenhotep IV (sometimes read as Amenophis IV and meaning 'Amun is Satisfied') before his first year (died 1336 BC or 1334 BC), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is especially no...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, discovered in 1996. Dr. Zahi Hawass, with his Egyptian team, have found around 250 mummies dating to several different periods in history. The site dates to Greco-Roman Egypt, where the ruin of a te...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Rosetta Stone is 3 feet 9 inches long and 2 feet 41/2 inches wide - (114x72x28cm). It is dark grey-pinkish granite stone (originally thought to be basalt in composition) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Beca...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Isis is the feminine archetype for creation - the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She has gone by many names and played many roles in history and mythology - as goddess and female creator. Her name literally means female of throne, i.e. Queen of the throne. Her original headdress w...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Several stone sculptures recently found in central Mexico point to a previously unknown culture that likely built a mysterious pyramid in the region, archaeologists say. Archaeologists first found the objects about 15 years ago in the valley of Tulancingo, a major canyon that drops off into Mexi...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near the Dead Sea. Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Es...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid, the site head said on Sunday. The mummies were the first to be found in the sand-covered desert rock surrounding the mud-brick Lahun pyramid, believed to b...

vinitjain · vinitjain

A long line of hospital staff wraps around the corridor outside a small conference room in New York to catch a glimpse of the precious cargo. Inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion. Another body -- a prince no less -- is a few rooms down in a computer tomography s...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ancient artifacts remain a mystery, including those of a people that inhabited the Indus valley on the...

vinitjain · vinitjain

HE WAS A charismatic stage clairvoyant and mentalist who came to the attention of the Nazi Party during its rise to power in early 1930s Germany. Erik Jan Hanussen might have had genuine psychic gifts, but he used his fame and powers of persuasion to increase his own wealth and his standing in the corri...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The literal translation of the word 'Aborigine' is: the people who were here from the beginning. It is not synonymous (doesn't have the same meaning), as the word 'indigenous' as this means originating in an area (latin: indigena = in (in) + ginere (be born) in a particular place. There is no written r...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Along with superstars like Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, and Shia LaBeouf, the newest Indiana Jones movie promises to showcase one of the most enigmatic classes of artifacts known to archaeologists, crystal skulls that first surfaced in the 19th century and that specialists attributed to vari...

vinitjain · vinitjain

“It was 1972, and at the Robson family home in Hexham, only ten minutes walk away from where the legendary Wolf of Allendale had roamed the woods, the two young Robson brothers dug up two small, carved stone heads whilst they were tending the garden. Several nights after the discovery of the stone head...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The battle-scarred face of a medieval knight who was killed some 700 years ago has been revealed with the help of forensic skills employed in popular TV shows such as CSI. The skeleton of the warrior, who was killed at the time of Scotland's Wars of Independence with England, was discovered under the f...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Entombed at the moment of attack, a fossil serpent and sauropod are the first solid proof that prehistoric snakes ate dinosaurs, a new study says. Found in India, the well-preserved dinosaur-nest scene boasts several fossils: a nearly complete snake, a newly emerged dinosaur, and two unhatched e...

vinitjain · vinitjain

A disused stone quarry on the Greek island of Crete which is riddled with an elaborate network of underground tunnels could be the original site of the ancient Labyrinth, the mythical maze that housed the half-bull, half-man Minotaur of Greek legend. An Anglo-Greek team of scholars who undertook a...

vinitjain · vinitjain

A group of 'undersea archaeologists' have become the latest to claim they have uncovered the lost city of Atlantis. The scientists - who have refused to identify themselves - have released a series of images taken beneath the Caribbean. They insist the snaps show what appear to be the ruins of a city t...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday. A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader’s has turned out to be t...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Genghis Khan was perhaps the greatest and most ruthless conqueror the world has ever know. More than three million people may have died during the bloody creation of his empire. During his twenty year reign Khan subdued the Russian princes; his army conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Korea, South-East...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The loss of a small 47 gm ancient Hindu brass-like metal idol of extreme antiquity called the Kalpa Vigraha has caused the American Central Intelligence Agency considerable anxiety. This unusual disclosure was made recently by a retired CIA agent on condition of absolute anonymity. Firstly, wha...

mysticnakaq · mysticnakaq

Peru, Land of Inkas, MysticalLandDiscovers the Mysticism of AyacuchoDiscovers the Mystery of the Jarjacha and PishtacoDiscovers your Future across the Sheet of CocaDiscovers the Kindness of the Medicinal PlantsDiscovers the Energy and Magnetism of these LandsTo write to: mysticnakaq@hot...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The word 'mummy' is not of Egyptian origin, but is derived from the Arabic 'mumiyah,' which means 'body preserved by wax or bitumen'; This term was used because of an Arab misconception of the methods used by the Egyptians in preserving their dead. A mummy is a corpse whose skin and flesh have been pre...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The interior of the Earth, some believe, is home to strange races of technologically advanced beings. Who are they and where are the hidden entrances to their subterranean cities? Many readers of the paranormal and the unexplained are familiar with the theory that the Earth is hollow. The idea is ba...

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	Unexplained Mysteries of Dionysus (Preview) Dionysus or Dionysos the Greek god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus to the Romans. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace - as well as the patron deity of agricul...	vinitjain	0	6149	Feb 15, 2011 by vinitjain
	Mysteries of The Book of the Dead (Preview) Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming or Going Forth By Day. The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842. The Books were text initia...	vinitjain	0	3431	Feb 15, 2011 by vinitjain
	Unexplained Mysteries - Shambhala Mountains (Preview) For thousands of years rumors and reports have circulated that somewhere beyond Tibet, among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of Central Asia, there lies an inaccessible paradise, a place of universal wisdom and ineffable peace called Shambhala. Legends say that only the pure of heart can live i...	vinitjain	0	4674	Dec 28, 2010 by UGG Outlet
	The Underground Army of terracotta warriors (Preview) An old Chinese saying says, treat death as life. In China, rulers took this saying very seriously. After death they were buried with lavish supplies of dishes, food, silk and musical instruments. In earlier times living things such as wives, servants, or pets were also buried with the Emperor, ofte...	vinitjain	0	4364	Dec 14, 2010 by vinitjain
	Unsolved Mysteries of Lemuria (Preview) Lemuria was an ancient civilization which existed prior to and during the time of Atlantis. Physically, it is believed that Lemuria existed largely in the Southern Pacific, between North America and Asia/Australia. Lemuria is also sometimes referred to as Mu, or the Motherland (of Mu). At its pea...	vinitjain	1	5256	Nov 22, 2010 by Coyote
	Unsolved Mysteries of World - Bimini Road (Preview) Bimini is an island in the Bahamas, 55 miles east of Miami, Florida, approximately 7 miles long and 1/3 mile across at its widest point. Its modern inhabitants are descendants of West African slaves imported by Spain and Britain beginning in the mid-16th century. They replaced the resident Caribs,...	vinitjain	0	4228	Aug 31, 2010 by vinitjain
	Computer Technology Found Documented in Ancient Texts (Preview) Egyptian Hieroglyphs depict and describe a computer cd tray, along with the form of a compact disk itself. The Old Testament documents and describes computer parts. The contents of four specific mid 1990s cd-roms are documented and described in many ancient texts. A common link is Egypt: Solon, an...	Eddy_P	1	2850	Jul 25, 2010 by Eddy_P
	Unexplained Mysteries - Pharaoh Akhenaten (Preview) Akhenaten (often alt: Akhnaten, or rarely Ikhnaton) meaning 'Effective spirit of Aten', first known as Amenhotep IV (sometimes read as Amenophis IV and meaning 'Amun is Satisfied') before his first year (died 1336 BC or 1334 BC), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is especially no...	vinitjain	0	4108	Jun 23, 2010 by vinitjain
	Bahariya Oasis - Valley of the Golden Mummies (Preview) The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, discovered in 1996. Dr. Zahi Hawass, with his Egyptian team, have found around 250 mummies dating to several different periods in history. The site dates to Greco-Roman Egypt, where the ruin of a te...	vinitjain	0	3408	Jun 23, 2010 by vinitjain
	The Rosetta Stone (Preview) The Rosetta Stone is 3 feet 9 inches long and 2 feet 41/2 inches wide - (114x72x28cm). It is dark grey-pinkish granite stone (originally thought to be basalt in composition) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Beca...	vinitjain	0	3766	Jun 23, 2010 by vinitjain
	ISIS - goddess of fertility and motherhood (Preview) Isis is the feminine archetype for creation - the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She has gone by many names and played many roles in history and mythology - as goddess and female creator. Her name literally means female of throne, i.e. Queen of the throne. Her original headdress w...	vinitjain	1	20751	Jun 6, 2010 by wolf_girl554
	Mystery Pyramid Built by Newfound Ancient Culture? (Preview) Several stone sculptures recently found in central Mexico point to a previously unknown culture that likely built a mysterious pyramid in the region, archaeologists say. Archaeologists first found the objects about 15 years ago in the valley of Tulancingo, a major canyon that drops off into Mexi...	vinitjain	0	4440	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Dead Sea Scrolls Shocker (Preview) Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near the Dead Sea. Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Es...	vinitjain	0	4582	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Cache of mummies unearthed at Egypt's Lahun (Preview) Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid, the site head said on Sunday. The mummies were the first to be found in the sand-covered desert rock surrounding the mud-brick Lahun pyramid, believed to b...	vinitjain	0	3968	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	CT scans reveal mummies' long-lost secrets (Preview) A long line of hospital staff wraps around the corridor outside a small conference room in New York to catch a glimpse of the precious cargo. Inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion. Another body -- a prince no less -- is a few rooms down in a computer tomography s...	vinitjain	0	3799	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Decoding the script of the ancient Harrapan culture (Preview) The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ancient artifacts remain a mystery, including those of a people that inhabited the Indus valley on the...	vinitjain	0	3877	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Hitler’s Psychic Prophet (Preview) HE WAS A charismatic stage clairvoyant and mentalist who came to the attention of the Nazi Party during its rise to power in early 1930s Germany. Erik Jan Hanussen might have had genuine psychic gifts, but he used his fame and powers of persuasion to increase his own wealth and his standing in the corri...	vinitjain	0	5003	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Unexplained Mysteries - Australian Aboriginals (Preview) The literal translation of the word 'Aborigine' is: the people who were here from the beginning. It is not synonymous (doesn't have the same meaning), as the word 'indigenous' as this means originating in an area (latin: indigena = in (in) + ginere (be born) in a particular place. There is no written r...	vinitjain	0	5738	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Unexplained Mysteries of the Crystal Skulls (Preview) Along with superstars like Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, and Shia LaBeouf, the newest Indiana Jones movie promises to showcase one of the most enigmatic classes of artifacts known to archaeologists, crystal skulls that first surfaced in the 19th century and that specialists attributed to vari...	vinitjain	1	5356	May 22, 2010 by jannylon
	Unexplained Mysteries - Curse of the Hexham Heads (Preview) “It was 1972, and at the Robson family home in Hexham, only ten minutes walk away from where the legendary Wolf of Allendale had roamed the woods, the two young Robson brothers dug up two small, carved stone heads whilst they were tending the garden. Several nights after the discovery of the stone head...	vinitjain	1	4078	May 22, 2010 by jannylon
	Face of mystery medieval knight finally revealed (Preview) The battle-scarred face of a medieval knight who was killed some 700 years ago has been revealed with the help of forensic skills employed in popular TV shows such as CSI. The skeleton of the warrior, who was killed at the time of Scotland's Wars of Independence with England, was discovered under the f...	vinitjain	0	2815	May 19, 2010 by vinitjain
	Unexplained Mysteries - Snake Caught Attacking Dinosaur—First Fossil Proof (Preview) Entombed at the moment of attack, a fossil serpent and sauropod are the first solid proof that prehistoric snakes ate dinosaurs, a new study says. Found in India, the well-preserved dinosaur-nest scene boasts several fossils: a nearly complete snake, a newly emerged dinosaur, and two unhatched e...	vinitjain	0	2206	Mar 12, 2010 by vinitjain
	Has the original Labyrinth been found? (Preview) A disused stone quarry on the Greek island of Crete which is riddled with an elaborate network of underground tunnels could be the original site of the ancient Labyrinth, the mythical maze that housed the half-bull, half-man Minotaur of Greek legend. An Anglo-Greek team of scholars who undertook a...	vinitjain	0	3281	Dec 28, 2009 by vinitjain
	Lost city of Atlantis discovered? Grainy images show city-like formations at the bottom of the Caribbean (Preview) A group of 'undersea archaeologists' have become the latest to claim they have uncovered the lost city of Atlantis. The scientists - who have refused to identify themselves - have released a series of images taken beneath the Caribbean. They insist the snaps show what appear to be the ruins of a city t...	vinitjain	0	3189	Dec 28, 2009 by vinitjain
	Fresh doubts over Hitler's death (Preview) Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday. A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader’s has turned out to be t...	vinitjain	0	3360	Oct 1, 2009 by vinitjain
	Search for the Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan (Preview) Genghis Khan was perhaps the greatest and most ruthless conqueror the world has ever know. More than three million people may have died during the bloody creation of his empire. During his twenty year reign Khan subdued the Russian princes; his army conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Korea, South-East...	vinitjain	0	3698	Aug 2, 2009 by vinitjain
	Unexplained Mysteries of THE KALPA VIGRAHA (Preview) The loss of a small 47 gm ancient Hindu brass-like metal idol of extreme antiquity called the Kalpa Vigraha has caused the American Central Intelligence Agency considerable anxiety. This unusual disclosure was made recently by a retired CIA agent on condition of absolute anonymity. Firstly, wha...	vinitjain	1	11435	Jan 26, 2009 by Anonymous
	MYSTICISM EN PERU - JARJACHA (Preview) Peru, Land of Inkas, MysticalLandDiscovers the Mysticism of AyacuchoDiscovers the Mystery of the Jarjacha and PishtacoDiscovers your Future across the Sheet of CocaDiscovers the Kindness of the Medicinal PlantsDiscovers the Energy and Magnetism of these LandsTo write to: mysticnakaq@hot...	mysticnakaq	0	2069	Jan 23, 2009 by mysticnakaq
	Unsolved Mysteries of Egypt Mummies (Preview) The word 'mummy' is not of Egyptian origin, but is derived from the Arabic 'mumiyah,' which means 'body preserved by wax or bitumen'; This term was used because of an Arab misconception of the methods used by the Egyptians in preserving their dead. A mummy is a corpse whose skin and flesh have been pre...	vinitjain	0	8106	Oct 9, 2008 by vinitjain
	Secrets of the Hollow Earth (Preview) The interior of the Earth, some believe, is home to strange races of technologically advanced beings. Who are they and where are the hidden entrances to their subterranean cities? Many readers of the paranormal and the unexplained are familiar with the theory that the Earth is hollow. The idea is ba...	vinitjain	0	4024	Sep 15, 2008 by vinitjain
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