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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeVesuvius carbonized Herculaneum scrolls in 79 CE. The 2023 Vesuvius Challenge is finally reading them.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSDerinkuyu Underground CityDerinkuyu's Cappadocian levels could hide thousands underground behind stone doors and ventilation shafts.// exhibit added
FINANCE & BANKINGHalliburton / KBR Nigeria Bonny Island FCPAKBR pleaded guilty to Bonny Island FCPA bribery in 2009. The docket is Nigeria LNG—not an Iraq meme.// exhibit added
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGuantanamo Camp Delta LogsDoD denied Camp Delta SOPs in FOIA; WikiLeaks published them; SOUTHCOM called the 2004 manual valid.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSBorobudur Restoration Politics: UNESCO’s Mega-Conservation ProjectUNESCO Borobudur mega-restoration (1970s–80s) + WH List 592—documented conservation politics.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCyrus Cylinder: British Museum Object and Political AfterlivesBM Cyrus Cylinder is Achaemenid foundation text—Charter of rights is modern afterlife, not cuneiform fact.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSSanta Susana Field LaboratorySRE cladding melt, two-month AEC venting, unfinished Area IV consent orders—DOE paperwork vs “contained” PR.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCaral-Supe and the Norte Chico CivilizationUNESCO Caral-Supe: third-millennium Andean urbanism. Documented digs—not civilization-rank folklore.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACERoswell Crash and Cover-UpWas July 1947 debris near Roswell a craft, or Project Mogul's cover story that never quite stuck?// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAnyang Oracle Bones and the Shang ScriptAnyang oracle bones + Yinxu WH—documented Shang script; mature Chinese writing, not mysticism.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEProject West Ford: Copper Needles in OrbitLincoln Lab lofted copper dipoles to bounce X-band. The belt worked briefly; NASA still tracks the clumps.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEProject Sunshine Human Tissue CollectionACHRE and AEC transcripts: Sunshine’s Sr-90 assay ran through infant bone networks under SECRET cover.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEProject A119Project A119 studied detonating a nuke on the Moon as a Cold War flex. The paper trail survived.// exhibit added
FINANCE & BANKINGPre-9/11 Put Options and Insider-Trading ClaimsAdherents cite Poteshman's 2006 paper on odd pre-9/11 put volume as informed trading written in tape.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSPalomares Broken Arrow (17 January 1966)Chrome Dome collision over Palomares spilled four B28s. Officials said safe. DNA: Pu scatter, bomb months at sea.// exhibit added
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Popeye Weather ModificationPopeye seeded Indochina clouds in secret. Senate 1974 forced the sortie paper out.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSEbla Tablets: Discovery, Archives, and the Biblical ControversiesPaolo Matthiae's digs at Ebla pulled palace tablets that still spark biblical name-matching fights.// exhibit added
ALT HISTORYChavín de Huántar and the Lanzón GalleryUNESCO Chavín + Stanford acoustics put the Lanzón gallery on pilgrimage paperwork—not serpent-contact lore.// exhibit added
FINANCE & BANKINGGalleon / Raj Rajaratnam Insider TradingSDNY wiretaps and a 14-count verdict sank Galleon’s tip network—docket, not tabloid.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSCongo Uranium and the Manhattan PipelineSengier parked Congolese ore on Staten Island. Nichols bought it. DOE: ~two-thirds of Manhattan's uranium.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSChurch Rock Uranium Mill Spill (16 July 1979)Largest U.S. uranium-mill liquid spill by volume hit Navajo lands the year TMI owned the cameras.// exhibit added
SURVEILLANCECarnivore and DCSNetIn July 2000 the FBI admitted Carnivore, a packet sniffer built for court-ordered internet wiretaps.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCahokia MoundsUNESCO Cahokia = Mississippian metropolis. Documented Indigenous city—not lost-race authorship.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSBenin Bronzes Repatriation: 1897 Loot to 2022 Transfer AgreementsThe 1897 Punitive Expedition emptied Benin City. Germany's 2022 pledge covered about 1,130 bronzes.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEAngkor After LiDAR: The Hydraulic City ReassessedEvans lidar + UNESCO: greater Angkor as hydraulic urban complex—documented remote sensing, not temple-only mystique.// exhibit added