The celts built Stonehenge, and all the other megaliths.     Of course, that depends on how you define "celt".

For decades, the definition was based on an arbitrary (and false) idea of an aryan race who invaded and conquered/assimilated/engulfed any indigenous western europeans.   Later on that aryan label was re-named "proto-indo-european", ( Read more... )

early reference to "london" as a place name.

Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk

The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant. This has been shown by a new study carried out by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. The study, which has been published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, supports ( Read more... )

Seafaring intelligence, over 1 million years ago. Oops!

"Now a far more complex picture is emerging. Ancient apemen, who might have been thought to lack the nous for global conquest, appear to have done the trick almost a million years earlier.

One of the major tenets of human evolution, the story of our world conquest, is now urgently in need ( Read more... )

The Gobekli Temple:

" 'Gobekli Tepe changes everything,' says Ian Hodder, at Stanford University.
David Lewis-Williams, professor of archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, says: 'Gobekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world.'
As Reading University professor Steve Mithen says: 'Gobekli Tepe is too ( Read more... )

We know that through the interglacials, advanced civilizations have existed before... how many times?   That our ancient ancestors were sharp, intelligent, not bumbling cavemen.  That we are not the height of all human history -- we are merely a stream amongst many.    But then, this is the pagan view.

Many scholars are coming around, though:

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 What happened to the hominids that were smarter than us? 

Ancient memories in the myths...

"...As if the Boskop story were not already strange enough, the accumulation of additional remains revealed another bizarre feature: These people had small, childlike faces. ... Boskop has a face that takes up only about one-fifth of his cranium size, closer ( Read more... )

Underground towns with hydraulic engineering.

There are few alive on earth capable of pulling this off today.

off with their heads.

51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit?
Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men-their heads stacked neatly to the side-have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England, according to carbon-dating results released earlier this month.