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7,000 Year Old Megalithic Site In South Asia Located Near Hyderabad

The most significant archaeological findings of 7,000-year-old megalithic site that served as an astronomical observatory has been found in Muduma village of Mahbubnagar in Telangana, India.

It is one of its kind of megalithic site in South Asia located near Hyderabad.

The team of archeologists described it as  ''the only megalithic site in India, where a depiction of a star constellation has been identified''. 

Prof KP Rao,History Professor of University of Hyderabad who has been conducting research at the site for the past 12 years said that usually they come across depiction of either sun, moon or few stars in the ancient paintings or rock bruisings. Depiction of a constellation of stars has so far not been noticed anywhere in India. It may be noted here that this depiction is the earliest sky chart noticed anywhere in south Asia so far.

This megalithic site which is expected to be around 3,000-years-old, there are 80 Menhirs (standing stone) which are of 10 to 12 feet high and around 2,000 smaller stones which are 30-60cm tall are arranged in alignment.

 One of the surprising details discovered at the site is a depiction of the constellation known as Ursa Major, which is formed from small cup-sized pits carved into a standing stone. The group of about 30 cup-marks were arranged in the same shape in which Ursa Major can be observed in the night sky with the naked eye. 

 Prof KP Rao also said the arrangement might be related to death rites and those who constructed the site seem to have some belief in orienting these monuments in particular direction.


Two Rare Ancient Long Swords of 6th century found in Japan

Two swords of early sixth-century tomb were found in the Shimauchi district of southern Kyushu in EBINO, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.


Two rare and unique swords have been found in a 1,500-year-old underground tunnel tomb designated no. 139 in a burial site, excavated by Ebino education board between 2014 and 2015.

One is the longest sword ever excavated from ancient tombs in Japan, and another's hilt is covered with ray skin, making it the oldest ray-decorated item found in East Asia.



Once retrieved from the tomb, the swords were passed to the Gangoji Institute for Research of Cultural Property in Nara, for scientific analysis and conservation work. The Institute revealed that the long sword had a wooden pommel and a precious textile covering the opening of the scabbard known as tate nishiki, a warp-patterned textile. 

The sword is 142cm long, but would have been about 150cm in its original condition. This is the longest sword ever retrieved from an ancient tomb in Japan. 

According to Heritage of Japan, underground tunnel tombs were a type of burial practice unique to the Kofun period in Japan’s history (250 to 538 AD).  

 
They were either stone-lined chambers in the top of mounds and entered from the top, or they were constructed on the ground under the mound and entered from the side through a tunnel called yokoana chamber. 

The interiors were usually simple, but the individuals buried inside were often found accompanied with precious treasures and grave goods. 

Tatsuya Hashimoto, an associate professor of archaeology at Kagoshima University Museum said that the swords suggest there was a powerful person in southern Kyushu, who would have directly served someone in the upper rank close to the Yamato king, and would have gone overseas in charge of foreign politics.

It appears the swords originated from the ancient Yamato kingdom who rules Japan during the Kofun period (3rd – 7th centuries). 

The Nine Unknown Men- The fascinating story of Ashoka’s Nine Unknown Men

The Nine Unknown Men is considered to be World's most powerful society who protects the knowledge which includes Time Travel, propaganda and psychological warfare etc which are harmful to the mankind.


This powerful secret society was founded by Emperor Ashoka of India in 273 BC after a bloody KALINGA battle that took the lives of 100,000 men. After the Kalinga War, Ashoka understood the extent of damage the world has to endure if power goes into the wrong hands and hence, formed a secret society consisting of Nine men.

The Nine men were each given one book to guard. Each of the books contained supreme knowledge which could help mankind into evolving but if in wrong hands, the knowledge could destroy humanity in the whole world.

The knowledge of past and present as well as natural science was vowed to secrecy. Henceforth and for next 2000 years that followed, all the knowledge that was developed was hidden in these secret books.

It is to be believed that each book contains the information which are as follows-

First Book- Propaganda which deals with techniques of propaganda and psychological warfare.The most dangerous of all sciences is that of molding mass opinion, because it would enable anyone to govern the whole world.

Second Book- Physiology which explains how to kill a person simply by touching him or her, known as the “the touch of death,” simply by the reversal of a nerve impulse. 

Third BookMicrobiology which focused on microbiology and biotechnology.

Fourth Book- Alchemy which deals with alchemy and transmutation of metals. According to another legend, in times of severe drought, temples and religious relief organizations received large quantities of gold from a secret source.

Fifth Book- Communication which contained a study of all means of communication, terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Alluding then that the Nine Unknown Men were aware of alien presence. 

Sixth BookGravity which focused on the secrets of gravitation and actual instructions on how to make the ancient Vedic Vimana, like Vaiminika Shastra on aerospace technology. 

Seventh Book- Cosmogony which contains knowledge of cosmogony and matters of the universe. 

Eighth Book- Light which deals with light including the speed and how to use it as a weapon.

Ninth Book- Sociology this ninth and final book discussed sociology. It included rules for the evolution of societies and the means of foretelling their decline.


For More Information-

Sources

> Pauwels, Louis, and Jacques Bergier. "The Nine Unknown Men - Sub-Figura Vel Liber Caeruleus." Excerpts from 'The Dawn of Magic'Bibliotecapleyades, n.d. Web. 20 Sept. 2016. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/bluebook001.htm 

> Swancer, Brent. "The Mystery of the Nine Unknown Men." Mysterious Universe. Mysterious Universe, 10 Nov. 2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2016. http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/11/the-mystery-of-the-nine-unknown-men/ 

> Ancient Explorers Staff. "India's Ancient Illuminati: The Nine Unknown Men." Ancient Explorers. Ancient Explorers, 2016. Web. 20 Sept. 2016. http://ancientexplorers.com/blog/indias-ancient-illuminati-nine-unknown-men/

> Baidya, Sankalan. "20 Interesting The Nine Unknown Men." Facts Legend. Facts Legend, 10 Apr. 2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2016. http://factslegend.org/20-interesting-the-nine-unknown-men-facts/ 

> Ancient Origins
http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/mysterious-secret-society-ancient-india-and-nine-unknown-men-ashoka-006714?page=0%2C1  

Qizai- The only Brown Panda! in the World

Qizai, means ‘the seventh son’ was the only Brown panda abandoned by his mother at 2 months old was found as a weak and neglected cub in a nature reserve in Qingling Mountains in Central China. Apparently, his mother disappeared into the jungle, but one thing is sure – she was black and white.

The brown panda is rare as only seven have been spotted in the Qinling region in the last 25 years. 


Qizai is the seventh brown panda bear and he’s being raised at the Foping Panda Valley in the Shaanxi province in China. Qizai which translates to “the seventh son,” is a happy and loving gentle animal who like other panda bears loves to feast on bamboo. 


His keeper He Xin describes Qizai as "gentle, funny and adorable."Other pandas use to eat Qizai's bamboo. "He is slower than the other pandas, but he is also cuter," says He Xin. 

Qizai now weighs more than 220 pounds and eats around 44 pounds of bamboo every day. 

Therefore, the fact that Qizai has a brown and white coat is even more intriguing. Scientists guess that it’s due to some genetic mutation. Despite his tough childhood, Qizai, now at age 7, has turned into a fine specimen, and Chinese experts are planning to find him a mate. 

Being able to observe and study the appearance of his child, researchers would get a step closer to solving brown fur’s mystery.


Sixty Eight Year Old Snooty - The Oldest Manatee Living In Captivity

Oldest manatee, Snooty (68 years old) enters Guinness World Records 2017

The Guinness World Records recently announced that Snooty,68 years old is now the world's oldest manatee living in captivity. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which monitors manatee populations, the oldest wild manatee in Florida was 59 years old with the next oldest having reached 48 years of age.

Manatees are also known as sea cows and can weigh over 3,000 pounds. Most manatees living in the wild die before they reach the age of 10. Algae blooms, fishing debris and boat strikes threaten these gentle giants, which are listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Snooty was born on July 21, 1948 was brought to South Florida Museum as an 11-month-old calf in 1949. He lives in South Florida Museum is located at 201 10th Street West in downtown Bradenton.

Snooty's long lifespan is due to the controlled environment he lives in. He lives in a 60,000-US-gal (230,000-litre) pool with two other manatees. He's more interested in people. 

Manatees population had significantly dropped due to increase in use of marine life by humans, but they are currently protected. Earlier most manatees use to die before they reach the age of 10.  

 

New fossil autopsy say that "Lucy" fell from tree

Lucy, an ancient ambassador of a prehuman species called Australopithecus afarensis, fell from a tree in Ethiopia nearly 3.2 million years ago, killing one of humankind's most famous ancestors, believe researchers at the University of Texas based on a detailed digital examination of the fossil.


Some of the damage to Lucy’s 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton most likely occurred when she fell from a height of 13 meters or more, say paleoanthropologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues.

 Kappelman was the lead author of the study on Lucy.

Bone breaks from head to ankle fit a scenario in which Lucy dropped the equivalent of least four to five stories, landing feet first before thrusting her arms out in an attempt to break her fall, Kappelman says.

Tellingly, the ancient female’s right shoulder blade slammed into the top of her upper arm bone, Kappelman says. The shoulder end of Lucy’s arm bone displays sharp breaks, as well as bone fragments and slivers forcibly driven into the shaft.



 Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson, who helped find the bones in the 1970s, told the Times that it was more likely that the fractures occurred long after her death, as her skeleton was buried under sand rather than a tree fall.
Paleoanthropologist Tim White of the University of California said that Cracks and breaks throughout Lucy’s skeleton occurred after her death.

Bone cracking was caused by fossilization and by pressure on fossils embedded in eroding sandstone. Fossilization-related breakage much like Lucy’s including extensive shoulder-joint damage appears on the bones of a variety of non climbing animals, including gazelles, hippos and rhinos.

Giant Mysterious World’s Oldest Man-made Sphere unearthed in forest in Bosnia

The giant ball of rock (or) the ‘stone ball’ was discovered by Bosnian archaeologist Semir Osmanagic  near the town Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The giant ball of rock has radius of between four and five feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres) and is extremely iron rich.

Semir Osmanagic said that it is the heaviest man-made ball in the world. 

The phenomenon of stone balls has been linked with ancient civilisations around the world with the most famous being the stone spheres of Costa Rica.

Semir Osmanagic believes that the sphere proves the existence of an advanced lost civilisation dating back more than 1,500 years ago.

 Dr Osmanagic, is known as "the Bosnian Indiana Jones" .


The phenomenon of stone balls has been linked with ancient civilisations around the world with the most famous being the stone spheres of Costa Rica. 

In total there are around 300, weighing up to 15 tonnes, which are believed to have been created by the now extinct Diquis culture, potentially making them up to 1,500 years old. 

It is unclear how they were created but it is believed they were first sculpted from a local stone before being hammered and polished with sand.

According to his fellow researcher Dr. Sam Osmanagich, the region used to have many more of the spheres well into the 20th century. Many were apparently destroyed in the 1970s due to rumours there was gold hidden in the middle of them.

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