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Iron Age ritual activity has been discovered  at the Bruchhauser Steine, a prominent rock formation in the hilly Sauerland region of western Germany. It is

At https://phys.org/news/2026-06-giant-fan-east-antarctica.html ... which is derived from a press release, or abstract of the article in the journal Nature Geoscience but see the full article

The Altar Stone at Stonehenge is a 6 ton sandstone lump of rock that is now thought to have originated in NE Scotland. That is

Around 350,000 years ago, during a cool climatic period in the region, a huge eruption occurred on what is now the north island of New

At https://spaceweather.com ... June 1st 2026 ... and the story continues at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/06/nasa-confirms-75000-mph-meteor-boston/ .... a  meteor exploded over eastern North America, with possibly as much

At https://phys.org/news/2026-06-years-el-mirn-cave-uncover.html  ... archaeologists have been sifting through thick sediment in El Miron cave over the last 30 years. It is in Cantabria, in Spain.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/neolithic-advanced-dolomite-plaster-builders-jerusalem/  ...... plaster can be made from heating up limestone, or a more resilient plaster can be made using dolomite, a distinct form of

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/alaska-teeth-fossils-reveal-new-mammal/   ... fossilised teeth discovered in Alaska's far north have revealed a mammal species that lived during the Cretaceous period. More evidence that early

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/a-42000-year-old-asteroid-crater-in-south-korea-created-a-hidden-lake-where-ancient-life-may-have-later-emerged/ .... this one caught my eye because of the date assigned to the Hapcheon Impact Crater in South Korea - 42,000 years BP.

At https://sciencex.com/news/2026-05-mars-interstellar-visitor-astronomers-thought.html ...  a Chinese spacecraft orbiting Mars captured images of comet 31/ATLAS. The interloper showed up unusual chemistry. The comet had a much higher

At https://phys.org/news/2026-05-mars-reveals-zwan-wolf-effect.html ...   NASAs MAVEN mission has been looking at how the solar wind  affects Mars - and how it interacts with its thin atmosphere

At https://phys.org/news/2026-05-indigenous-australians-world-astronomers-knowledge.html ... this appears to be a case of mainstream astronomers not listening properly or indigenous people being prompted. Aborigines may well have been

William sent in a link to https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/mysterious-fossils-found-across-the-us-could-prove-famous-bible-story-true/ar-AA23KrCM ... mysterious fossils found across the US could prove the Biblical flood really did happen. Basically, the story revolves

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/dinosaur-bone-inside-collagen-intact-found/ ...  dinosaur remains are usually found in rock. The rocks are sedimentary in nature, muds and sands and limestones. They are in effect,

Those Neanderthals are beginning to look very much like humans and not so much like grunts as the great and the good thought not so

William sent in another link to a video. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/the-broch-builders-of-the-far-north-scotland-s-iron-age-tower-civilisation-and-the-world-rome-never-conquered/vi-AA23OQiE?ocid...

Three years after the Tonga submarine volcanic eruption scientists are still sifting through data. It seems the volcano behaved in the opposite way to what

At https://phys.org/news/2026-05-archaeologists-reveal-secrets-prehistoric-human.html ... Crannogs, or artificial islands created in Scottish lochs, and found in loughs in Ireland and other parts of NW Europe, were thought

William sent in a link to another MSN video. This one concerns a galaxy just 280 million miles after Big Bang occurred. An exraordinary finding

At https://phys.org/news/2026-04-pampas-patagonia-dna-reveals-south.html ... it seems nowadays that genetic information is becoming more and more centred on regionality. Instead of a study of random DNA from