pseudoarchaeology

The Dropa Stones: The 716 Discs That Never Existed

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A Qing-dynasty jade bi disc on display in a museum — a genuine Chinese bi disc of the kind the alleged Dropa discs are often compared with; no verified Dropa disc has ever been photographed

About 4 min readIn 1938, the story goes, archaeologists in a remote Chinese mountain range found 716 stone discs engraved with the tale of aliens who crash-landed 12,000 years ago. No museum has ever held the discs, no expedition has ever been traced, and the paper trail leads somewhere else entirely.

The Bosnian Pyramids: The Hills of Visoko and the Claim That Divided Archaeology

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Visočica hill at Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the steep tree-covered hill that Semir Osmanagić calls the Pyramid of the Sun

About 4 min readSince 2005, a businessman has claimed that a cluster of hills above the Bosnian town of Visoko are the largest pyramids on Earth — older than Giza. Geologists who have studied the hills say they are natural. The argument has not ended.