Discovery Discovered

Fossil Discovery: Skeleton discovered from a grave in Venice

As recently as Feb 2009, the researchers exhumed a skeleton from a grave in Venice. The discovery opened up a new horizon in many fields, as it is claimed to be the first known examples of the “vampires” that have been globally referred to in so many modern documents. Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence, Italy discovered the skeleton of a woman with a small rectangular piece of stone block in the mouth. Borrini discovered this strange skeleton while excavating mass graves of the middle aged victims of the Venetian plague of 1576 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice.

Borrini’s amazing discovery of the skeleton has helped the researchers to draw a link between the epidemic (plague) and human belief during those days. It was due to the wanton spread out of the plague, that people had been victimized by death. At the time the woman died, people used to believe that the plague was spread out by the “Vampires”, which did not drink people’s blood, but killed them by spreading out diseases by chewing on their shrouds after they died. According to Borrini, the grave diggers, put the small block of stone in the mouth of the dead women (those who were suspected to be “Vampires”) to stop them killing people by spreading epidemics.

According to the researchers, the belief in the so-called “vampires” had risen probably because of the fact that sometimes blood oozed out of the victims’ mouth while dying, which consequently caused the shrouds to sink inwards. Borrini presented his findings at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Denver, Colorado during the last week of February 2009. He claimed that this might be the first known example of vampire to have been examined forensically.

Interestingly, Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University in Kansas claimed that he had found similar skeletons in Poland. According to him, "claiming it as the first vampire is a little ridiculous". Borrini says that his study includes every detail of the earliest grave and shows archaeological "exorcism evidence against vampires".

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Here’s another very interesting thing that I had discovered from some reliable and valuable sources some years back. Someone had hit the media with an amazing question… “Why is it always that the lightning flashes are seen in zig-zag lines?” Well, a question like this is hardly faced by teachers and parents, I am sure. I personally haven’t yet come across too many kids asking such uncommon question!

So just read on… find why we always see thunder flashes in zig-zag lines. Lightning bolts are flashes that are produced by the high intensity electrical discharges in the atmosphere. Let's start off with an explanation that a lighting flash is a plasma and stripping the electrons off the atoms and molecules! The high intensity electrical discharges are produced due to the friction of the rising hot air with the condensed water particles in the cloud, thereby creating the positive electrical charges, accompanied by the build up of high intensity opposite charges – Negative Charges at the nearest point on the ground. This discharge doesn’t happen until the intensity of charges in the clouds exceeds the optimum limit. In this way a sequence of random discharges occur due to the repetitive crossing of critical limit of the intensity of the charges. The negative charges are discharged in step wise manner from the top of the cloud to its base. This is known as “Leader Discharge”. All the accumulated charges are discharged towards the Earth, which is actually the opposite negative charges and during this course of action reverse flow of electron (negatively charged particles) takes place from the ground towards the cloud, along the same path. The high speed of the high voltage current causes flash, which we call “Lightning”!

This flow and reverse flow of charges are of extreme high speed and are random and cross the atmospheric mediums of varied densities. As it happens randomly and crosses varied medium densities in atmosphere, which make the perception of the lightning in a wavy and zig-zag mode.

Remember, had this atmosphere been a vacuum, we could have seen lightning flashes in perfect straight lines

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A discovery of fact of Pyramid Age!
Sonic Technology used to move the heaviest blocks of stones of Pyramids

The long hunted mystery of the heaviest stone blocks of the myriad Egyptian pyramids has been revealed! I have always wondered as to how those guys could manage to move the heaviest stone blocks that were multiple times heavier than the present day’s locomotive engines. Just a few days back while I was just cleaning my age old book shelf, I came across a news paper (The Times, London) that attracted my attention! “The clue lies hidden in the way an opera singer can shatter a wine glass”, said the researcher Andrew Collins.

According to Andrew Collins the secret laid hidden in using the sound vibrations whether made by raucous, cacophonous sound made by instruments or by making violent strikes of surfaces. Collins said that he had “compelling evidence” that the sonic technology was used to move the heaviest blocks of stones for the myriads pyramids in the ancient Egyptian civilization!

“Arguably the most accomplished engineering feet of the ancient world” as to how the ancient Egyptians built their gigantic pyramids, has long bewildered great minds. Theories that involve ramps, rollers and pulleys have been considered to the most likely explanations! Collins said that some stones that used to weigh up to around 200 tons and measuring up to 9 mts. would have required the strength the strength of over 4000 matured persons to move! Collins published his study on the 10th century civilization in his book “God of Eden” that was released in February, 1998.

Another Arab historian talked about the huge stone blocks of the myriad pyramids. His discovery also encompasses the same theme! The sonic technology was used to move the huge blocks of stones to make those mighty pyramids. According to his documents the stones were being hit with rods, and the ground by stamping of feet and clapping by thousands of people, thus creating vibrations by the sound produced. The severe sound vibration helped defying the gravitation pull of the Earth, thereby making it easy to pull the stones inch-by-inch to the desired destination. They hit upon the bright idea of rolling the huge blocks of pyramid stones on large wooden rollers.

Mr. Collins said: “the ancient Egyptians were able to setup some kind of sustained sound vibrations that enabled the building blocks to defy the gravity. Although simply the leg-end, there are tradition from all round the world to speak of the movement of a stone blocks and the constructions of walls and buildings by sonic levitation.” Although some of the leading Egyptiologists declined be at agreement with the theory, many others researchers believed in the fact that Ultra Sonic technology was used to bring huge stone blocks from distant places to build the pyramids. Jacqueline Pegg, an egyptiologist, kept her study and research work focused on power of sound in her post graduate dissertation at University College, London. Jacqueline said: “I don’t think it’s impossible. If you read the Pyramid texts, it says, when King rises to the heaven, it was always accompanied with great noise, whether clapping or stamping. That could be a metaphor, but they saw sound could do this.”

My view on this is that use of sonic technology to move the mighty pieces of stones is a convincing argument. If sound can crack glass tanks (aquariums) and mirrors, if bomb sound can toss buildings, it’s not impossible that those stone blocks could be moved using cacophonous sound.

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Discoveries of some of the long lost Mayan Cities

Recently discovered ruins of some of the great Mayan cities of the ancient southern Mexico, has stirred up debates across the globe! Guess what! Interestingly the chicles (the modern day's student faves... Chewing Gum) is involved in contributed a lot in this discovery.

The Mayas of the Southern Mexico loved chewing chicles. Evidences are there that one of their heroes, called Kukulkan, who had been worshipped as Lord, used to be highly fond of chewing gum. They used to call them "Chicle", as most people even today call it by this name. The main source of the chewing gum was wild sapodilla trees. They used to make sharp cuts in the bark of the wild wild sapodilla trees and collected the viscous milky white liquid that oozed out of the cuts. when the thick liquid hardened, they became delectable for chewing. Gradually the habit of chewing chicles got spread out through out the Central America and later more widely across the globe. The credit of introducing the chicles in to the modern world actually goes to two American people, named William Wrigley Jr. around 1870s. Later the demand for chewing gums turned out to be really huge and needs were felt to search for the wild sapidilla trees. Good news is that while searching for these wild tress, some of the ruins of the great Mayan cities have been discovered. The discoveries of the ancient Mayan cities helped resolved the longest hunts for the Mayan culture and civilization, but more interesting point hereby is that the hunt for the chicle tree is the root to these amazing discoveries.

A very few consumers of chicles actually know the history of product and it's link with the recent discoveries of the Mayan cities, although chewing the chewing gums has consistently been a part of the popular culture of North America for more than a century, and even the whole world at present. Even I just came to know about the habit of chewing chicles by the pre-Columbian people - the Aztec and Mayans. The extensive research work on this has been by using the historical evidences like documents and engraves. Anthropological, archaeological, botanical, and cultural ecological literature have helped the researchers a lot in this too!

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Fossil discovery fills in the gap in human evolution process!
'We just found the chain of evolution, the continuity through time...’


One very recent discovery has unearthed some big secrets about how human ancestors made the giant leap from one species to another. The findings were reported in the scientific journal "Nature". The fossil discovery in 2006 unveiled how actually the complete chain of human evolution till date are linked together. Scientists have discovered a fossil that is around 4.2 million years old in northeastern Ethiopia. The discovery has proved to be one of the most significant fossil discoveries so far, as it helped the researchers fill the gaps of how the ancestors of human made the big leap from one species to the next advanced one.

This newly discovered fossil is of the species Australopithecus Anamensis that had been found in the region of the Middle Awash, where as many as seven other species close to human in appearance, spanning around 6 million years and three major phases of human development that had already been discovered previously. With this discovery, the scientists got more detailed clue about the link of the gaps between some prehistoric species in the evolutionary process of human. In a telephonic interview from Addis Ababa, the study co-author and Ethiopian anthropologist Berhane Asfaw said, "We just found the chain of evolution, the continuity through time, One form evolved to another." According to the scientists, the species Anamensis is not new, but its location is what helped the scientists to explain the shift from one early phase of human-like development to the next advanced phase. This way the complete chain of human evolution process has been discovered, which is really a path-breaking innovation in the world of science! Until this amazing discovery was made and analyzed, scientists had only the snapshots of human evolution scattered hither and thither all around the world. This is one most vital finding, because it tied up everything with a single chain, making those disorganized snapshots more of a miniature movie of the human evolution. “It’s like 12 frames of a home movie, but a home movie covering 6 million years... The key here is the sequences. It’s about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution,” said study lead author Tim White, co-director of Human Evolution Research Center at University of California at Berkeley.

The modern man falls under the genus "Homo", which is a subgroup of the family of "Hominids". As per the research, What actually evolved into "Homo" might be the genus called "Australopithecus" (once known as “man-ape”), which includes the famed 3.2 million-year-old “Lucy” fossil that was found around mid 70's. The key component for the genus that evolved into "Australopithecus" was "Ardipithecus". What is more imjportant is this newest finding bridges, although not completely, the gap that existed between Australopithecus and Ardipithecus.

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With the advent of Bach FLower therapy, there was a big revolution in the medical world! The Bach Flower therapy (pronounced as 'Batch' ) is one of the most innovative healing modality, which was discovered by a british allopathic Dr. Edward Bach (Pronounced as Batch) - (1886 - 1936) M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H. (Camb.). The discovery was maed around 1930 to
1936. Bach's approach was really quite unique, because that wasn't intended to treat or dignose and cure diseases based on the modern medical techniques. It was rather a very simple system of eliminating the negetive behaviors by considering the patients' personality traits, nature and attitude towards life. Such considerations are made irrespective of your diseases or medical conditions. According to Dr. Bach, the reigning behavioral negativities such as guilty feeling, frustration, and/or jealousy that get accumulated in human mind over a certain span of time are the negetive emotions that make us "emotionally imbalanced", are root cause of all human ailments, as they alters the biochemistry of the patients.

According to Bach Flower Therapy, often any medical condition result from the emotional imbalance emerging directly from the mind or from socio-economic stress. As per Dr. Bach, as soon as your mental condition improves, the psychological trouble gets mitigated and the physical trouble disappears along side. This implies that the patients' nature, their attitude towards life and inimitable surrounding circumstances have vital roles to play in breeding diseases. During the course of his work he as a general phycian he realized that the value of a priceless dictum that said: "There are no diseases or ill-health conditions but only sick (emotionally imbalanced) People!" While treating his patients, the doctor used to study their emotional configuration and their personal traits. He studied many individual personalities and analysed their psychological make-up and carried out a series of scientific tests. he found a co-relation of those negative emotions with the intestinal flora (fluid) or bacterial bowel lining of that particular patient. Dr. Bach noticed that two patients, who are same in age, height and weight, with same background and proficient in same field often react in different way under a same situation. The reason is simple! They have entirely different approaches towards life. Their mind is triggered with their own emotions which different from each other. While prescribing certain dosage of antibiotics to such patients for the same ailment, Dr. Bach observed that the rate of recovery also vary. The inherent nature and the approach towards life cast a great impact in recovery too! The doctor concluded that the nature of a person and the mental configuration plays te most vital role in the process of healing, which is why, according to him consideration those factors are of prime importance while determining the line of treatment.

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