Pretty cool news from the Griffith Institute at Oxford, a Mecca for Egyptology: They have digitized all of Howard Carter's handwritten notes (3500 handwritten cards) taken about King Tut's tomb and put them online. The online database also includes over 1000 photos. I...
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Clay Figurines of Real Dinosaurs with Humans?
I was reminded of the (in)famous Acambaro (Mexico) clay dinosaurs this weekend by a list of famous archaeological hoaxes / conundrums sent to me. In case you had not heard of these before (see pictures below), you can get a nice overview on Wikipedia. Unfortunately,...
Guide to Ancient Astronaut PaleoBabble
I'll be on Coast to Coast AM this evening. This time I decided to do something that will help listeners follow the discussion more easily. I've created a sort of quick guide to my basic responses to a range of ancient astronaut paleobabble. It's a one-stop reference...
Some Chips in the Lolladoff Plate
Most readers have probably not heard of the Lolladoff Plate. It's for serving paleobabble (note the image of the alien on it). Supposedly it's 1200 years old. Here's a picture: I recently came across a couple of good critique of the plate that succeeds in sending it...
Nail From Jesus’ Cross, Suggests Journalist
Oh, those wacky, coherence-challenged archaeo-journalists write the darnedest things! The Bad Archaeology blog has a nice write up this latest archaeo-buffoonery. And I love the term for this sort of journalism in the first paragraph: "churnalism."
Egyptomania
Came across a nice (and fairly lengthy) article on Egyptomania today. A nice sketch. For those PaleoBabble faithful who want solid academic material on the wacky things people think and have thought about Egypt (including pyramidiocy and the "true" symbolic meaning of...
Intelligent Design Usurped by Alien Astronaut Theory?
As many of you will know, I think the intelligent design approach to origins has merit, since it attempts to bring to light the weaknesses of an undirected, random Darwinism. You may also know that I've been saying for years how easy it will be for those who promote...
Pseudo-History in the Classroom
This is the title of another old article I found prepping for teaching. It was written in 1975 -- amazing how much PaleoBabble has been put out since then! Editor's note: Excerpt from the article below: ARE WE descendants of ancient astronauts? Was the flaming...
Fantasy Channel Special on Ancient Astronauts
Well, I guess some of you may have caught last night's Fantasy Channel (what I used to refer to as the History Channel) special promoting the ancient astronaut idea. I didn't watch it since there's nothing new here except better special effects and CGI to help shovel...
Did the Egyptians Need Alien Technology to Build the Pyramids?
No. There are a number of interesting theories as to how the Egyptians could move the stones of the pyramids vertically and from the place they were quarried. The coolest involves simple physics. Check out the website (with video) of this retired construction worker...
More Noah’s Flood Nonsense
This is Paleobabble on several levels. Editor's note: content from the link reproduced here:From The Biblia Hebraica Blog: "Proof" of Noah's Flood Discovered ... Again, originally posted on Dec. 10, 2008: "Proof" of Noah's Flood Discovered ... Again Great news,...