There is a meadow called “Devil’s Cemetery” not far from the village of Kova in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. The meadow is covered with remnants of birds and animals that for some reason do not decompose.

Men can commit insane acts for the sake of love, while women are able to do crazy things to avoid consequences. Humans have been taking great efforts for ages to design something that could help them enjoy sex and prevent pregnancy.

Unlocking This Cipher Wasn't Self-Evident; Algorithms and Educated Guesses

By RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now

The Hypocrisy of American Slavery

By Frederick Douglass

In 1852, , invited to give speech in Rochester, Douglass delivered the following indictment of a a nation celebrating freedom and independence, while keeping slaves.

(The 20th Century)

By Howard Zinn

Roosevelt didn’t come up with all those progressive programs on his own

by Sarah Anderson

By Jeff Schult

The media is freaking out about young people "hooking up." That's what we did in the '70s, and we turned out great!

Art or Bust : The Hohle Fels Venus.

By Morgan Meis

Move over horse head, water bird, and lion man. At 36,000 years old, a busty broad unearthed in a cave in Germany is now the oldest sculpture ever found. Indeed, Busty beats those other sculptures, also discovered in a Southern German cave and carved from mammoth bone, by around 5,000 years.

Nevine El-Aref admires some of the artefacts unearthed by Spanish archaeologists over 12 decades of excavations in Egypt

Hanna Braun

Since biblical times Jewish communities lived in Arab lands, in Persia, India, East and North Africa and indeed in Palestine. With the destruction of the Temple and the final fall of their state in 70 AD many Jews were taken out of Judea and hence to Rome and the Diaspora. Many poorer Judeans, however (such as subsistence farmers), were able to stay in Palestine. (Some of them had converted to Christianity and were one of the earliest Christian groups.)

By Hans Vogel

Is Europe headed for a new Middle Ages? On the basis of some disquieting signs, I should say it is indeed. Politically, it seems to be in the midst of a process of further disintegration.

The greatest builder in Christian antiquity was one of history's greatest politico-religious murderers, Jill Kamil discovers

Ancient Egyptian concepts of this world and the next are the focus of this spring's major exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, writes David Tresilian

Death Valley, California

Is there proof that giants once lived and raised families in North America? Stories and newspaper accounts attest to amazing discoveries of huge elaborate caves and mines, gold spears and polished granite inscribed with mystical symbols. Witnesses have reported their discoveries to the Smithsonian Institute and have been promised compensation. Yet, the Smithsonian, archaeologists and other scientists are silent as to the discoveries and have hidden all evidence that is contrary to Darwinian theory of evolution.

When an incumbent British consul-general helped himself to a vital piece of ancient Egyptian art, few could have guessed it would take almost 200 years for its worth to be fully appreciated. Jenny Jobbins visits the recreated tomb of Nebamun

by Robert Singer

The following Glossary, abbreviations and essay will help the reader understand how Theodor Herzl on August 29, 1897 predicted that within fifty years there would be a Jewish state.

by Robert Singer

The following Glossary, abbreviations and essay will help the reader understand how on an unemployed High School drop out becomes the Chancellor of Germany.

How did the ancient Egyptians import goods by sea or travel to the fabled Land of Punt in search of gold, ebony and leopard skins? Nevine El-Aref finds out

Shortly after World War II the polish professor Lolladoff showed a strange stonedisk to the english scientist Dr. Karyl Robin-Evans. Lolladoff claims to have bought the disk in Mussorie (Northern India) and that it is supposed to be from a mysterious people called the "Dzopa" who had used it for religious rituals.

Intact wooden and limestone sarcophagi housing dozens of mummies have been discovered inside the Sixth-Dynasty tomb of Sennedjem in the Saqqara necropolis, reports Nevine El-Aref

Can a 1924 document charging German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt with cheating to secure the Nefertiti bust for Germany guarantee its return to Egypt? Nevine El-Aref investigates

by Babu G. Ranganathan

I am not African-American. I am Indian-American. I was born in India but I lived most of my life here in the United States and I am a proud citizen of this great country.

by Steven Conn

Since the economic crisis we're now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being offered are being routinely compared to the New Deal. Republicans in particular have been quick to pronounce the New Deal a failure as a way of justifying their opposition to the new stimulus package and any other federal response to our new Great Depression.

The historical importance of the Palermo Stone has long been overshadowed by the famous Rosetta Stone, but Jill Kamil says it is now being reconsidered as a legitimate historical record of ancient Egypt

The costume of a butcher – the robe and the mask – is strongly associated with horror. The costume of the so-called Plague Doctor used to terrify people even more. A person dressed as the Plague Doctor was an unmistakable sign of imminent death.

Studying and restoring a part of Egypt's ancient history at Karnak Temples was the task of the Franco-Egyptian Research Centre of Karnak in 2008, Nevine El-Aref reports

By Gaither Stewart

(Rome) When Italian Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer (1922-1984) spoke from the platform adorned in red banners raised on Piazza San Giovanni in Rome, red flags bearing the hammer and sickle waved over the great cathedral square.

Thought this was interesting take on money from the Texas State Historical Association about fiat money:

Japanese art is brought to Egyptians by a Swedish, Giovanna Montalbetti and photographer Sherif Sonbol are intrigued

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. writes that something like a whiff of Pearl Harbor is in the air today, "a prescience of an imminent awakening."

What Puritan witch-hunter Cotton Mather called the 'invisible world' is real to many Americans.

By David Klinghoffer

French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the world's most important thinkers, was born 100 years ago last Friday, and France has been celebrating, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Tarahumara Indians of the Sierra Madre are a separate nation, inside Mexico. They have never signed a Peace Treaty with Mexico. This region of the Sierra is theirs and this is why they call it the Sierra Tarahumara. Their world is approximately 500 miles by 300 miles, from sea level to over 8,000 feet. There are five canyons, each deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon in the USA. Thousands of smaller canyons weave through the Tarahumara nation making travel by car impossible, except for a few, very rough, dirt roads.

And why we're so obsessed the Führer's sex life.

By Ron Rosenbaum

Somebody make it stop. This incessant fixation on Hitler's sexuality, on his alleged perversity. I think it's fair to say that the very apex of cultural stupidity in our era is the compulsive conjunction of Hitler and sex.

Sometimes deprecated and often misunderstood, Byzantine civilisation is the subject of this winter's major exhibition at London's Royal Academy, writes David Tresilian

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body.

Forty-five tribes have populated Egypt's deserts for millennia and yet their existence remains a mystery to the country's urban masses. The Characters of Egypt Festival aims to showcase their ways of life. Injy El-Kashef was there

By Robert Fisk

Let us now praise famous men. And after yet another U.S. presidential candidates’ debate of awesome sterility – not to mention their shameless refusal to tackle the real, bloody issues that confront America – I’m referring principally to one of the first journalists to understand war and, so far as he could, to check his sources: Thucydides.


Nothing Changes in da GOP Ignorant Crime Syndicate

The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

5,000 year old priestess found

The body of a strikingly tall 5,000-year-old woman with an artificial golden eye has been discovered in Iran.

Archaeologists said the woman was a female soothsayer or priestess and would have transfixed those around her with her eyeball, making them believe she had occult powers and could see into the future.

A programme is in place to protect the sacred site of Abydos, as Nevine El-Aref finds out

In 1922, among the shrines and chests piled in the treasury room of Tutankhamun's tomb, the bodies of two prematurely born babies were discovered inside an undecorated wooden chest, writes Nevine El-Aref

And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

The queens of ancient Egypt are spending the summer in Monte Carlo. Nevine El-Aref joins them

An ancient tablet shows the idea of the resurrection of a messiah after three days was part of Jewish tradition before Jesus's birth, it is claimed

Laura Knight-Jadczyk

One hundred years ago today, on the night of 30 June and 1 July, one of the most extraordinary events in modern history occurred.

The mystery, which took place 100 years ago, on June 30, 1908, not far from the Tunguska River in Russia’s Siberia, still remains unraveled. Many compare the power of the Tunguska catastrophe with the nuclear explosion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, although there were not so many casualties, since the meteorite or whatever it was fell down in the uninhabited area.

By Richard Savill

The most complex, "mind-boggling" crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the USA have discovered that some of the Hindu temples, dating back as far as the 7th century, had musical pillars.