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KOH KER PYRAMID Dr. Sam Semir Osmanagich, Ph.D. at Koh Ker Pyramid The Koh Ker complex of the temples is located in Northeastern Cambodia.. This is the conventional story: “Army General Jayavarmal separated from the central government in million-city Angkor, from which his uncle ruled with the entire Khmer Empire. Jayavarmal built a complex of the temples, proclaimed as the King while Koh Ker becomes the capital city. The history remembers him as the King Jayavarmal IV.” My arrival to Cambodia had for a goal not only the visit to the Angkor Archaeological park with many temples, but also to visit the Koh Ker pyramid. After I saw many temples, I arrived at the conclusion that the Koh Ker pyramid is the only true, real pyramid on the Cambodian lands. It seems that it has nothing in common with the other pyramidal temples, largely decorated with Hindu symbols. Koh Ker is 115 km away from the Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. Archaeological park Angkor is visited by several...

IN 1938, HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS of Bayan-Kara-Ula on the borders of China and Tibet, a team of archaeologists who were conducting a routine survey of a series of interlocking caves stumbled upon what is probably one of the most intriguing and controversial finds known to man. At first glance, no one paid much attention to the lines of neatly arranged graves, which contained the skeletons of what must have been a race of beings with spindly bodies and large heads. The archaeologists concluded that the caves had been the home of a hitherto unknown species of ape. But the presence of graves quickly made the scientists change their minds. While studying the skeletons one of the members of the team stumbled on a large round stone disc, half-buried in the dust on the floor of the cave. The disc looked like a Stone Age record! There was a hole in the center and a fine groove that was a continuous spiraling line of closely written characters. Sadly, the writings were indecipherable; s...

ONE OF MANKIND’S OLDEST FASCINATIONS has been with the concept of flight. Recorded history cites the 1780s as the period when the human race, through the combined efforts of two Frenchmen (the Montgolfier brothers), rose to the air in a hot air balloon near Paris. In the decades that followed, heavier-than-air flight was considered to be the ultimate challenge. But despite theories afloat at the time which said we took to the skies as early as the 13th century AD, it wasn't until the Wright brothers made their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 that powered flight became a reality. But researches into the hoary secrets of aviation believe that the knowledge of flight existed among ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, Peru and Columbia. However, India was perhaps the torchbearer of that glorious tradition, which many still consider a myth. Emperor Ashoka (304–232 BC) , also known as Ashoka the Great, is believed to have started a "Secret Society of...

PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS? We live in strange times. I’m sure every generation since the beginning of the human race has heard this said often, but for us today, it is truer than ever before. Why is this so? Well, besides the obvious things, such as the Earth having such a huge population now, and our seemingly almost runaway technologies, something else is happening, as well. Moreover, this strange something else has to do with science and religion. Furthermore, it is “something” that I never thought I’d see. Since the earliest days of science and the invention of the scientific method, the two have always been at odds. They have been and still often are diametrically opposed in many ways when it comes to what constitutes our universe, how it was created, and not only our place in it, but that of the existence of a creator of it all, as well. Right from the beginning, it seemed science diverged from religion, challenged fundamental religious beliefs, redefining them, or even...

As historical mysteries go, this is one of the bigger and stranger ones. Scientists have tried to unravel the odd events of the Younger Dryas period for years. Even now, researchers are in an ongoing struggle to find the cause or causes of the event, and are still struggling to do so, even as this article is being written. What was this Younger Dryas conundrum all about? Well, an event took place near the close of the last glacial age, when the Earth was finally warming and the glaciers in North America and Eurasia were in full and rapid retreat, and had been for millennia by that point in time. Then, suddenly and dramatically, around 12,800 years ago, the inexplicable happened. The weather abruptly reversed its warming trend and a little ice age, now known as the Younger Dryas ensued. Temperatures plummeted. The equivalent of a “nuclear winter” set in. Glaciers began to advance once more and the Earth became cold! Also at about this time, the major mega fauna of North America ...