On what day was Jesus actually born? What year? Does the timing matter? Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25, but virtually all Christians know that day isn’t the real birth date of the messiah. While that is certainly the case, has the birth date of...
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Templeton Foundation Funding Search for Alien Spacecraft … Really
The Templeton foundation has awarded $200,000 to astronomer Geoff Marcy (UC-Berkeley) to see if he can detect alien spacecraft passing in front of distant stars. Before you laugh, Marcy is easily the most famous astronomer among those detecting extra-solar planets....
The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism: ET Flunked Astronomy
That's the title of a new, freely accessible scholarly paper on the Antikythera mechanism you can find here. Here's the abstract: The Antikythera Mechanism is a fragmentarily preserved Hellenistic astronomical machine with bronze gearwheels, made about the second...
Ancient Egyptian Astronomers Recorded Eclipse of Binary Star Algol – 3000 Years Before Modern Astronomers
Here's a comprehensible summary of this recent academic paper that proposes Egyptian astronomers successfully recorded the eclipse period of a distant star. Here's an excerpt of the summary: Egyptian astronomers used what they learnt to make predictions about the...
Antikythera Mechanism Report
Thanks go to Charles Jones at Ancient World Online for posting this "pre-print" article, "The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism" (due to the size, it is best to right-click and "Save File As"; you will also have to re-size the file in Adobe Reader, since the images...
Cuneiform Astronomy: The Planets in Mesopotamian Cuneiform Sources
I get asked all the time, "How do you know Sitchin is wrong about aliens in Sumerian tablets?" Short answer: Because I get my information from the actual ancient scribes. Here's one example among many that could be offered. It' s a free PDF paper (28 pp) on the...
A Christmas Suggestion from PaleoBabble
Some of you may have heard me make mention on Coast to Coast AM about "astral prophecy" and its relationship to Revelation 12 and the star of Bethlehem. Here's an excellent video on that idea. Not expensive either. I watched it recently. The only thing I'd change...
Antikythera Mechanism Rebuilt – Replica Works Perfectly
This is pretty cool. So what does this ancient machine do? "In short, Antikythera's user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the movements of...
Recent Scholarly Article on Antikythera Mechanism
The major scientific journal Nature published an article on the famous Antikythera Mechanism in 2006. You can access the article as a PDF file here. For a bibliography on the mechanism, check out this page at the very cool website devoted to it. Editor's note:...