Ancient Rock Art Might Have Been Made by Aliens, NASA E-Book Suggests

Is this evidence of alien contact? UFO aficionados are in a spin after NASA appeared to suggest ancient rock art may have been planted by aliens. The NASA e-book titled Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication, which was issued earlier this week, details efforts in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. It has since been taken down without explanation. But many insist it contained a real eye-opener. The 330 page book, edited by the director of Interstellar Message Composition at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Dr Douglas Vakoch, allegedly made the extraordinary suggestion that unusual ancient patterns gouged into rocks “might have been made by aliens”.

What really happened to the Mayans?

Many civilizations in history have had their ups and downs, but few that have vanished as suddenly and as thoroughly as the Mayan culture.

What went wrong?

The answer to this question may have tried many scientists. The latest research shows that a great culture, which flourished for centuries in many respects, destroyed climate change and social action, not a disaster, such as volcanic eruptions, storms or disease. Faced with terrible, long-lasting drought, the Mayans were simply picked up their belongings and moved.

Maya civilization reached its zenith between the 300th and 600 in AD. In this so called. classical period of Guatemala, through Belize to the Yucatan rises the 60-odd cities where there were between 60 and 70 thousand inhabitants. They built a shrine, playgrounds and complex systems, water storage, discussed philosophy, enjoy the first hot chocolate in the world and have developed a highly accurate astronomical calendar that some misinterpreted and concluded that predicts the end of the world in December 2012. Agriculture also flourished - the slopes of the hills are transformed into terraces that nourish all growing population.

But then came the decline that lasted more than two centuries. By the 1100th sometimes advanced cities become desolate. Why did the Mayans migrated and where did they go?
 

Complex reasons

When you are in the 19 century archaeologists began to excavate the ruins srednjoameričke first appeared in numerous theories about the causes of catastrophic failure May. However, new studies reveal that these reasons were numerous and complex - from war to drought and famine.

According to the latest research, presented in the new issue of the journal Science, climate change played a key role in this process, and the Maya themselves were partly responsible. Drought caused problems in agriculture and the instability that resulted in the war and the fall of the big cities. Following the political decline occurred is another great drought which prevented the recovery of civilization.

This theory is not new, some scientists are already some evidence substantiated. However, a new study researchers have so far the most accurate weather analysis and scale droughts recorded in the caves, and they tried to agree on the whole mosaic of stories about the collapse of the Maya.

An international team led by Kenneth Douglas, an anthropologist from Pennsylvania State University took samples of stalagmites in a cave York Baluma which was discovered near the ancient Mayan settlement. Stalagmites, which are formed by deposition of minerals in the water that drips from above, grow faster in more rainy years. Therefore, they are good indicators of climate conditions. One of the collected samples is so large and old that shows what were the weather changes in the past two centuries.

The study authors write that their analysis found that the early classical period of May was unusually wet, wetter than the previous thousand years. During this period, the 440th to 660, the population grew and cities have sprung up. All the important achievements of the Mayan civilization was in the 200-year Tinak. If stalagmites reveal that these two centuries was actually an anomaly. "Mayan systems were based on samples of time in which there was plenty of rain," said Kenneth, adding: "When they changed more samples could not be maintained."

Distrust and instability

Religious and political system based on the Mayan belief that the rulers directly communicate with the gods. When these communications are not created rain and harvest, have been developed tension. For example, in only 25 of 750 to 775th 39 warring rulers ordered the same number of stone monuments that bear witness to the conflicts, wars and strategic alliances. But circumstances have in time become even more difficult. From the 1020th the 1100th region swept longest drought in 2000. With her yields have fallen, and performed famine, pestilence, and emigration. Until the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th Ages of May in the interior fell by 90 percent, and many cities were already abandoned.

Human impact on climate

Scientists believe that the Mayans themselves partly caused by climate change and drought. "The region lived tens of millions of people who build cities and farms at the expense of forests," said climatologist Benjamin I. Cook. His computer simulations have shown that deforestation interrupted the natural cycle of the flow of moisture from the soil into the atmosphere and reduce moisture locally catastrophic for five to 15 percent. When this is added the natural trend, it is clear that the situation was untenable. Cook warns us that something similar could happen today. 

Why did the Maya have recovered?

According to a survey in August in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released a Billy Lee Turner Mayan civilization ceased to exist even after the fall of the city even after the arrival of the conquistadors. "In this area there are still Mayan people. Their culture and traditions have held, however, cities are not, "said Turner, who is considered to be one of the few historical examples of similar evictions so radical Cambodian city of Angkor Wat in the 15th century. 

In Rome, dug the place where Julius Caesar was killed

On the Field of Mars Rome Spanish archaeologists have unearthed the exact place where Julius Caesar was murdered. During excavations at the site of the first stone theater of Pompeii scientists have found that the plate was cemented by no means associated with the interior architecture and a monument of its kind to one of the greatest men of antiquity. Experts say that this panel, three meters wide and two tall, placed at the murder scene during the reign of Caesar's heir Octavian emperor Augustus.

Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin

Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not. According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. ”

Under al-As and subsequent Muslim rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian tribesmen, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Nor is such a course of action implausible. History is laden with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage—starting with Islam’s prophet Muhammad himself, who destroyed Arabia’s Ka‘ba temple, transforming it into a mosque. The only question left is whether the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt is “pious” enough—if he is willing to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt’s first Islamic conqueror. However, while book-burning was an easy activity in the 7th century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was not—even if Egypt’s Medieval Mamluk rulers “de-nosed” the latter during target practice (though popular legend still attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon). Now, however, as Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sheikhs” observes, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids can be destroyed. ” Daniel Pipes provides several examples, from Medieval Muslims in India destroying their forefathers’ temples, to contemporary Muslims destroying their non-Islamic heritage in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Malaysia, and Tunisia While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself—deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran—was destroyed under bin al-As’s reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar’s command. Asking “What is it about Islam that so often turns its adherents against their own patrimony?

Much of this hate for their own pre-Islamic heritage is tied to the fact that, traditionally, Muslims do not identify with this or that nation, culture, heritage, or language, but only with the Islamic nation—the Umma. Currently, in what the International Criminal Court is describing as a possible “war crime,” Islamic fanatics are destroying the ancient heritage of the city of Timbuktu in Mali—all to Islam’s triumphant war cry, “Allahu Akbar! This sentiment was clearly reflected when the former Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef, declared “the hell with Egypt,” indicating that the interests of his country are secondary to Islam’s Accordingly, while many Egyptians—Muslims and non-Muslims alike—see themselves as Egyptians, Islamists have no national identity, identifying only with Islam’s “culture,” based on the “sunna” of the prophet and Islam’s language, Arabic.

It is further telling that such calls are being made now—immediately after a Muslim Brotherhood member became Egypt’s president. In fact, the same reports discussing the call to demolish the last of the Seven Wonders of the World, also note that Egyptian Salafis are calling on Morsi to banish all Shias and Baha’is from Egypt.

In other words, Morsi’s call to release the Blind Sheikh, a terrorist mastermind, may be the tip of the iceberg in coming audacity. From calls to legalize Islamic sex-slave marriage to calls to institute “morality police” to calls to destroy Egypt’s mountain-like monuments, under Muslim Brotherhood tutelage, the bottle has been uncorked, and the genie unleashed in Egypt.

Will all those international institutions, which make it a point to look the other way whenever human rights abuses are committed by Muslims, lest they appear “Islamophobic,” at least take note now that the Great Pyramids appear to be next on Islam’s hit list, or will the fact that Muslims are involved silence them once again—even as those most ancient symbols of human civilization are pummeled to the ground?

Found traces of the lost land

Not far from the coast of Great Britain, were found traces of a vanished civilization. Britain's Atlantis, and an estimated sank about 8,000 years ago. Missing part of the mainland, according to British researchers, was once located in the heart of Europe. But gradually it has eaten the North Sea. Leading British universities have made models of flora and fauna of the country disappeared, and came to the conclusion that the living conditions were very pleasant. On the vast territory of 800,000 square kilometers, lived only a few tens of thousands of people. The reason for the disappearance of civilization as global climate change on Earth.

The wars for women and because women

Mankind is faced with a "concern masculinization", with a growing surplus of men. What is correct: the war for women or war because women?

Both, because they are less and less. For a few years men will be in some Asian countries engage in wars for acquiring life companion.

Who (above) wins, it girl!

Are we to puzzle and seductive history once again draws attention to its unsolved repetition?

In India, the biggest deficiency: 160 million souls of women! Will the second most populous nation on the planet go into conquest other countries and bringing the men chosen for their subjects?

When he refused, served the cunning: they were invited to the annual feast in honor of the god Neptune, and the signal by the Romans seized the girls entrants.

The plague of abortion
Kristof Gijmoto who follows developments in relation to population has recently been re-warned of the threat "worrying masculinization" of countries like India and China, especially due to the interference of parents and relatives in the future sex of the newborn. How? As soon learn that to be born a girl, resort to abortion.
Some demographers believe that the lack of adult women in the next five decades as a cause pervasive effects of which I have the climatic fluctuations. Existing data are frightening.
Nature has established a kind of "sexual seesaw", where men predominate slightly: for every 100 female births are born every year 104-106 men. Any noticeable departure from such a balance can only be interpreted as unnatural causes.
In China, the most outstanding discrepancy: 120 men versus 100 women, and in some areas is the first for ten more. The same phenomenon is rapidly spreading to other parts of the world, such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia - 115 in 100 In Vietnam, the somewhat milder - 112 to 100
The new scourge of humanity in 1990. said the Indian Nobel Laureate for Economics Amartya Sen in today's famous book, "More than 100 million women are missing." In the meantime, the backlog has increased to 160 million in India. So much, in fact, the unborn souls of women excluded from life. Why?
Prevailing three factors: a love of a centuries old sons, the decline of fertility and, perhaps most important, involvement in sex selection due to modern technology and tools. In India alone, according to the respected scientific journal "The Lancet", aborted every year around half a million female embryos!
Living with multiple husbands
Even if in the coming ten years the ratio of the sexes back into a natural routine, the men would be faced with a shortage of women for marriage. Only later will not go before the registrar, but shall increase the brotherhood bachelors.
Some foresee a growth in the number of women with multiple husbands (polyandry) and tourist trips to satisfy sexual instincts, the other much darker indicate prediction that communities with excess males stir up some kind of sexual wars. Which will come to pass?
Particularly alarming is the warning sounded two political scientists, Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Bera, who wrote several years ago that Asian countries with excess male heads threaten the West. In concluding writes that such societies can only be managed in an authoritarian manner, suppressing the violence inside and transferring it outside its borders.
Mara Hvistendal in "unnatural selection" represents a different view, pointing out that the previously unfounded. India is, in fact, put a deep democratic roots, despite the gender imbalance. In any case, she says, a society in which men outnumbered are not "pleasant place to live." They are often volatile, sometimes violent.
Although the deliberate abortion banned in China and India, is incredibly difficult to enforce.
There is no "silver bullet", says Christoph Gijmoto, who believes that the most urgent make sure that the appearance of properly presented, especially in developing countries.
If sex selection of the future be identified with cancer, prejudices about women's cigarettes, and ultrasound and abortion of matches. Nowadays, however, must not neglect the women's rights, including the free will of each individual to end an unwanted pregnancy.
Can nature (evolution) to offer itself out?

British wanted to change Hitler sex

Scientist Brian Ford "discovered" alliance plan: the British had a bizarre plan to end World War II by Adolf Hitler would have turned into a woman.

The British had a bizarre plan to end World War II by Adolf Hitler would have turned into - a woman. The idea of ​​genius worthy of the famous television character Black Ader, stated Professor Brian Ford from the University of Cardiff in his book "The secret weapon: technology, science and the pursuit of victory in World War II." As written by one of the founders of popular science, the British government seriously considered the leader of the Reich that undergo gender reassignment. The idea was that the Fuhrer secretly spiced foods female hormones to be so downtrodden of his aggressiveness.

Their research showed the great importance of sex hormones and they are already used in therapy in London - Professor Ford said, and conveyed "Daily mirror". - The plan could easily be implemented in practice because they are British spies were in a position to "solten" Hitler's food. He had a taster of the test food before him, so it was not possible to poison him. But the hormone is different. They act only if they take months, and probably nobody would have realized that they were in the food.

If we are to believe the professor, the Allies did not unusual shortage of ideas for the fight against the Nazis. Some suggested that the boots of German soldiers prayer glue so they stuck to the ground, while others believed that the bomb should dress up in - canned fruit.

Atlantis found?

Geologists who have studied the seafloor for one oil company stumbled on an unusual sight. The landscape area of 10,000 square kilometers of which is estimated to be 56 million years old! Many bears an uncanny resemblance to the long-lost Atlantis.

Scientists have never seen something like that - in the deep ocean landscape 56 million years old!

The northern part of the Atlantic is hiding in the depths of our ancient landscape, which has drawn the river valleys and peaks of what were once mountains. Geologists, who until this discovery while collecting data for an oil company, said that the landscape of age about 56 million years, and many have immediately brought in connection with Antlantis.

"It seems the way the maps look like small places on the coast, and is located at a depth of two kilometers and occupies about 10,000 square kilometers, how we've managed to discover," said Niki White, who was the team of researchers.

Scientists are convinced that the landscape of the area where today Scotland and Norway, and has so far found that consisted of eight major rivers and rich flora and fauna. They are convinced and will find numerous fossils of various animal species that have lived then.

"The main question is how the 2.5 million this year managed to rise above the landscape of the country, and then fall into it. In geological terms, this is a very short period to do so, "revealed White, adding that in theory with the most fans as the reason for all states that magma is on the field in the interior.

The temperature of magma has created a huge fiery crest, which simply collapsed due to high heat.
It is this detail will be the main guiding principle because geologists have never encountered anything like it and expose the reasons for such phenomena could bring a lot of answers to questions about Earth's interior.

Discovered the tomb of the Mona Lisa?

Archaeologists at the monastery of Saint Ursula in Florence dug up a skeleton that is believed to have belonged to Lizzie Gerardin del Djokondo who was supposedly the model for Leonardo's image.

Mystery of the most famous smiles in the world may not yet resolved, but archaeologists say they have found the body of the famous Mona Lisa. The monastery of Saint Ursula in Florence, they had unearthed a skeleton that is believed to have belonged to Lizzie Gerardin del Djokondo who was supposedly the model for Leonardo's image.

Scientists have a few years ago based on historical records come to the conclusion that Liz last two years of his life (the 1542nd year) spent in the monastery of Saint Ursula in Florence and is buried there.

On the first view of the skull and pelvis, the skeleton probably belonged to a woman - said anthropologist Giorgio Grupioni.

Archaeologists will take DNA from the bones and compare it with the remains of Lisa's children, who were buried in a separate grave. Scientists hope that will restore her face and compare it with what the Mona Lisa painting.