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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Lydian Hoard: Met–Turkey Repatriation (1993)Looted Lydian tomb gold left Turkey for the Met, then returned in 1993 after a provenance fight.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAksum Obelisk: Rome, UNESCO, and the 2005 ReturnAksum Obelisk: Rome spoil → UNESCO/Italy–Ethiopia 2005 return—documented restitution, not Ark folklore.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWatson Brake: Middle Archaic Mounds Before Poverty PointSaunders Science Middle Archaic mounds before Poverty Point—documented Indigenous labor, not civilization-rank folklore.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSNERVA / Project Rover: Nuclear Rockets on the GroundProject Rover and NERVA ground-tested nuclear thermal rockets that never flew but almost remade spaceflight.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTiwanaku Calendar StonesUNESCO Gate of the Sun vs Posnansky deep-time calendar. Contested Altiplano sky-clock claims.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kensington Runestone Debate1898 Kensington slab is real. 1362 Norse Minnesota voyage stays contested—not proven colony.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Nephilim of GenesisGenesis Nephilim lines still get read as hybrid giants, not metaphor, across adherent Bible archaeology.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEKlaus Fuchs and Atomic EspionageVenona found Fuchs first. MI5 locked the confession. Old Bailey made it prosecutable without the source.// exhibit added
AVIATIONX-20 Dyna-Soar: The Cancelled Boost-Glide SpaceplaneMcNamara killed X-20 on 10 December 1963 for mission definition—not because boost-glide physics suddenly died.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Sudden Disappearance of the Indus Valley CivilizationAdherent Indus collapse tales borrow Mahabharata weapons imagery and call the end a prehistoric nuclear war.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEOperation AjaxIn 1953 CIA and MI6 ran Operation Ajax to topple Iran's Mossadegh. A declassified history finally said so.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThera / Santorini Eruption Dating: Radiocarbon vs Egyptology (Not Atlantis)Thera/Santorini dating: radiocarbon vs Egyptology offset stays contested—chronology fight, not Atlantis.// exhibit added
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann dug Hisarlik insisting Homer's Troy was real. Academia had called the war pure poetry.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTutankhamun’s Tomb: Carter, Carnarvon, and the Griffith ArchiveTutankhamun’s tomb through Carter, Carnarvon, and Griffith records—documented archive, not curse lore.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGESpycatcher Affair / Peter WrightWright published Spycatcher. Lords and Strasbourg judged injunctions—not every memoir mole claim.// exhibit added
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYLove CanalHooker's buried waste under Love Canal forced evacuations and helped invent Superfund politics.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSAgent OrangeOrange-striped drums marked the herbicide mix whose dioxin still drives Vietnam and VA health fights.// exhibit added
AVIATIONBoeing Bird of Prey: The 1990s Stealth DemonstratorPhantom Works kept Bird of Prey black from 1992–1999, then donated it in 2002 once the tricks were standard.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEThe U-2 Incident (1960)On May Day 1960 a U-2 fell over the USSR. Eisenhower's weather-plane story lasted until Moscow showed the pilot.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEThe Farewell Dossier: Line X and the Tech-Transfer TrapIn 1981 Vetrov handed France about 4,000 Line X docs on Soviet tech theft. Farewell became a NATO trap.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEOperation Ivy BellsNavy/NSA tapped Okhotsk for years until Pelton sold it—Walker is the crypto sibling, not the tap salesman.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEAna Belén MontesDIA’s Cuba analyst pleaded guilty to espionage conspiracy. Twenty-five years. Court verbs only.// exhibit added