by 70Seven | Aug 8, 2019 | 8,000 BC
Casually listed in the catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) is this beautiful bowl from Syria. Dated at 8,000 BC. How did they make this and with what? “Using only stone and sand to shape and polish objects, Neolithic stoneworking reached...
by 70Seven | Jun 2, 2017 | 8,000 BC
In the Indian state of Chhattisgarh the cave paintings of Charama caused a stir in 2014 when archaeologist JR Bhagat approached the Times of India newspaper with a story about aliens and UFO’s. He feels that parts of the cave paintings there depict visitors from...
by 70Seven | Jun 1, 2017 | 9,000 BC
Dated at 9000BC, the oldest obsidian (volcanic glass) bracelet comes from Turkey, the site of Asikli Hoyuk. The bracelet is almost perfectly regular. The symmetry of the central annular ridge is extremely precise, to the nearest degree and nearest hundred micrometers....
by 70Seven | Jun 1, 2017 | 9,000 BC
Latitude: 38° 20′ 56.40″ N Longitude: 34° 13′ 48.00″ E Dated at 9000BC (Stone Age), the settlement of Asikli Hoyuk is one of several amazing places that defy belief. It is straight from a Flintstones cartoon. The ancient Neolithic settlement...
by 70Seven | May 13, 2017 | 5,000 BC
The wheel is an invention that changed the world. It has always been accredited to the Sumerians, but in recent years much older wheels have been uncovered. It is now accepted that the invention of the wheel came about at the same time in Sumeria, Egypt, Switzerland,...
by 70Seven | Apr 25, 2017 | 1,900 AD, 2,000 BC
The Acámbaro figures were uncovered in 1944 by a German immigrant and hardware merchant named Waldemar Julsrud. He stumbled upon the figures while riding his horse and hired a local farmer to dig up the remaining figures, paying him for each figure he brought back....
