Stan Gooch & the Neanderthal Legacy

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By OANA R. GHIOCEL, M.A. & ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. — On the 13th of September 2010, in a Swansea, South Wales hospital, an embittered and reclusive man, hailed as a genius by some, yet marginalised by many mainstream scientists and academics, passed away at the age of seventy-eight.1 In his later years Stan Gooch [...]

A New Theory for the Great Pyramid: How Science is Changing Our View of the Past

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By EDWARD F. MALKOWSKI Of all the chambers in the Great Pyramid, the subterranean chamber is the largest, as well as the most mysterious. It is 46 feet long, 27 feet wide, hewn into the limestone bedrock, and difficult to describe. The descending passageway’s entrance to the subterranean chamber is near the floor at the [...]

The Mayan Calendar and 2012: Why Should We Care?

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By JOHN MAJOR JENKINS — In my own process of studying the Maya and their traditions, I moved progressively into deeper water with time. Twenty-two years in, I can report back to newcomers that the implications of the Mayan calendar are staggering, its connection to other cosmologies around the globe is deep, and its most [...]

The Maya, Archaeology and 2012

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By JIM REED — “All was mystery, dark, impenetrable mystery, and every circumstance increased it.” So wrote 19th century explorer John Lloyd Stephens after journeying through the rainforests of Mesoamerica in search of cities long shrouded under a dense canopy of vegetation. Today, some of the mystery has been dispelled. Their great cities, their architecture [...]

Was There a Civilisation X?: Evidence Indicates There Was

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By EDWARD F. MALKOWSKI — Atlantis: everyone knows the name and almost everyone knows that the name refers to a mythical, sunken island continent in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a story told by the Greek philosopher Plato sometime during the 4th century BCE. Whether or not Atlantis existed has been a matter of conjecture [...]

What was the Sphinx?

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By ROBERT TEMPLE — There has never been a satisfactory answer to what the Sphinx actually is or was. Anyone who goes to Giza can see for himself or herself that there is something ‘wrong’ with the Sphinx. It only takes an instant. The body is gigantic and the head is just a pimple. The [...]

Arkaim: Russia’s Ancient City & the Arctic Origin of Civilisation

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By VICTORIA LEPAGE — Vast shadowy forces are moving in Central Asia – or rather in the greater region we call Eurasia – which may change the face of our global society and civilisation forever. Even as the balance of geopolitical forces is shifting inexorably in favour of the Eurasian superpowers – principally Russia, China, [...]

The Lost Lands of Mu and Lemuria: Was Australia Once Part of a Sunken Continent?

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By BRIAN HAUGHTON — Lemuria and Mu are interchangeable names given to a lost land believed to have been located somewhere in either the southern Pacific or Indian Oceans. This ancient continent was apparently the home of an advanced and highly spiritual culture, perhaps the mother race of all mankind, but it sank beneath the [...]

The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012

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BY JOHN MAJOR JENKINS — Twentytwelvology. You won’t find it in Webster’s dictionary. Not yet. But believe me, before this decade is out, we’ll have that as well as plenty of 2012 -isms and -ographies. “The 2012 Phenomenon” was recently the subject of a paper written by anthropologist Robert K. Sitler.1 The sub-title of his [...]

Who Built the Moon? An Interview With Christopher Knight

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Many New Dawn readers will know of British writer Christopher Knight from his first book The Hiram Key, which he co-authored with Robert Lomas and published in 1996. Quickly becoming a best seller, The Hiram Key was acclaimed a classic in the field of alternative history, going on to influence a generation of researchers among them The Da Vinci [...]