We found it in 2017. Nine years later nobody has looked inside. Three separate teams using three different detection methods confirmed a 30 metre space above the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid. What do you think we are going to find inside?

9/ A few more photos to close out the thread.

Fanged human faces appear in Olmec sculpture in Mexico and in the San Agustín statues in Colombia. Thousands of miles apart, no demonstrated contact, same idea rendered in stone. Either it travelled or two cultures reached for it independently. Which is stranger?

Look closely at these 4 pics at Gobekli Tepe. How many partially buried T-Pillars do you see? Many people are disturbed to learn that there has been NO attempt to excavate any of these Pillars in the last several years. They’ve could unearth them TODAY if they wanted to. But for reasons unknown, they’ve been left to gather dust. What carved depictions are waiting to be seen on these pillars? How are we supposed to learn anything from them when they haven’t been excavated? Make this anti-archaeology make sense….??

Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets are sitting in museum storage, unread. Not missing, or lost. Just never opened, because almost nobody can read the script. How can anyone claim a complete understanding of Mesopotamia when most of their writing has never been read?

¿Cómo es posible que civilizaciones separadas por océanos usaran exactamente la misma tecnología de precisión milimétrica? ​Lo que ves en estas imágenes no es simple casualidad. Se trata de una técnica de ingeniería de hace miles de años que sigue desconcertando a los expertos hasta el día de hoy. ​Desde Rusia, Francia, Egipto y Angkor en Camboya, hasta Tiwanaku en Bolivia y Ollantaytambo en Perú, culturas que supuestamente jamás tuvieron contacto aplicaron un sorprendente sistema estructural idéntico. Tallaron la piedra con una precisión extraordinaria para crear juntas de unión o encastres tipo "cola de milano". En estas cavidades, insertaban grapas de piedra, cobre o bronce que mantenían los bloques firmemente unidos. ​Esta genialidad arquitectónica aumentaba la resistencia de las construcciones, permitiéndoles soportar el paso de los siglos y los peores terremotos. ​¿Se trata del mayor caso de desarrollo independiente de la historia, o un "arquitecto universal" brindó estos conocimientos a diferentes civilizaciones en la antigüedad?. MundosOcultos

JUST IN: Major archaeological study reveals Neanderthals were “far more advanced” than previously believed, with woodworking skills comparable to modern humans.

Huge megalith discovered recently near Ayacucho, Peru 📷Rumi Alegria

This is an artifact I have never seen before. It is a 3-eye effigy pottery container from the Spiro, Oklahoma mounds. It is ~800 years old. The 2nd picture of it is a Creative Commons (3.0) photo by Sailko taken in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

An elongated skulled mummy on display in Wari, Peru 📷 Rumi Alegria

Similar in appearance to those seen at Gobekli Tepe, Menorca’s limestone T-shaped Taulas weighs approx 60 tons

𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐈 o cuchillo ceremonial (1000-1476 d.C.) hecho en oro representando a Naylamp, dios fundador Lambayeque. Presenta tocado de forma semicircular con diseños de olas estilizadas y figuras triangulares; cuelgan dos aves de sus extremos. Incrustaciones de turquesas en los ojos, orejeras, alas, debajo de los pies y espalda del personaje. Técnicas: Embutido, laminado, recortado, soldado, incrustación, repujado, trefilado. Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú. 10mil.pasos

The Iraq Museum was looted over three days in April 2003. Around 15,000 objects went, and the storerooms were opened with keys and glass cutters by people who knew exactly what was in them. The famous pieces came back because they were traceable. The uncatalogued material did not. What was in it?

The spiral groove on Petrie's drill core has been disputed for 140 years. Stocks argued sand could produce it. The 1980s drilling study found sand did not reproduce the marks on ancient cores, and harder abrasives came closer. Nobody has settled which. Why is this still open?

The reddish "outer layer" of this block in Peru is breaking away, revealing what appears to be a different type of stone beneath it. On the adjacent rock (left) the reddish layer is thinning near the top, as if it had been plastered on, but this is stone... not plaster.

Around 1,000 years ago, Cahokia buried 1,196 stone points in Mound 72, including wildly notched and serrated forms that look more ceremonial than practical. In the middle is the four-inch Birdman Tablet, found near Monks Mound.

In much of the world, archaeology runs on funding that does not exist. Objects leave sites because a single piece can be worth more than a year's income. The context goes with it, permanently. What would it cost to make protecting a site pay better than looting it?