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A Congressman and the Mummies of Nasca: When pseudoscience is worse than a horror movie

Luca — 2019-02-19T17:47:13Z

Article written by Luca, member of the Sociedad Secular Humanista del Perú; the original in Spanish is published on the website http://descreidos.utero.pe/.
The congressman Armando Villanueva seems not to desist on his extravagant project of Law that seeks to declare of historical and cultural interest the investigation of the "mummies of Nasca". As many will remember, the congressman made the arrangements for a lecture that was held in one of the halls of the Congress of the Republic. (…)

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The radioactive skeletons of Mohenjo Daro.

Nali — 2018-05-12T22:08:47Z

Mohenjo Daro and Harappa were the two main cities of the Indus Valley civilization in India, or more exactly in present-day Pakistan. Take a tour with this video.
This civilization preceded those of Egypt and Mesopotamia before disappearing around 1500 BC. The cause of this disappearance seems to be a soil become unfit for cultivation. The town of Mohenjo Daro was abandoned, and the site was repopulated centuries later.
During excavations by archaeologists in the 1920s, 37 skeletons, (…)

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OOPArt? The Dorchester Pot

Nali — 2014-12-14T17:50:40Z

First, sorry if my English is not perfect, this is a translation of my original French article.
The "Dorchester pot" is a so-called "OOPArt", which means "Out Of Place Artefact". It's a manmade object found in a place it's not supposed to be, mainly because of anachronism. The “out of place" can be because of date, like the discovery of a picture of an ancient man fighting a dinosaur, or geographical, like an Egyptian mummy found in Sweden. Or both.
The Dorchester pot is a metallic (…)

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