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The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSNewark Earthworks and Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes (UNESCO 2023)UNESCO 2023 Hopewell + Octagon lease politics: ceremonial geometry, not lost-race golf-course overlay.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.
ESPIONAGEThe Gehlen Organization: From Nazi Intel to the BNDThe United States used Gehlen’s wartime eastern-front organization; that bargain was not a public alliance.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGunung PadangNatawidjaja and Hancock call the Gunung Padang retraction suppression. The journal says the dated soil was not man-made.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDMax Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion (1987)On 22 November 1987 a Max Headroom mask took WGN and WTTW off the air. The FCC hunted. Nobody was charged.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBritain calls the removal lawful by firman and the 1816 purchase. Greece calls it a taking from the building.
FINANCE & BANKINGBre-X Minerals Busang FraudBusang sold as world-class gold. Freeport's 8-K carried Strathcona salting. OSC charged Felderhof—and lost.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Lydian Hoard: Met–Turkey Repatriation (1993)Treated as a legitimate purchase, the Lydian tomb goods came from looted Uşak tumuli and returned to Turkey in 1993.
HEALTH & MEDICINEGuatemala Syphilis ExperimentsFrom 1946 to 1948, U.S. researchers deliberately infected Guatemalans with STDs. A commission later said so.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTheranosTheranos promised blood tests from a finger prick. WSJ reporting and Holmes's trial turned the pitch into fraud.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSDendera “Light Bulb” Reliefs vs Egyptological ReadingDendera crypt reliefs as objects—adherent lamp vs Waitkus lotus/Harsomtus; no science sneer, no grid baptism.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Galarza Twelve: Spain's 1976 Partial UFO File ReleaseBenítez says General Galarza told him UFOs were not from Earth. Ballester Olmos says the twelve files hid nothing.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSRosetta Stone: Decipherment Engine and Repatriation DebateBritain’s title claim is the 1801 treaty. Reading the stone is not a return order.
FINANCE & BANKINGBernard Madoff and the SEC's Missed WarningsThe statements showed trades that were not trades, and the SEC exams did not catch it.
ESPIONAGERadio Free Europe PsyopsRadio Free Europe went live on 4 July 1950 under a private cover while CIA money kept the transmitters hot.
FINANCE & BANKINGWirecardThe cash in Wirecard’s published accounts was not in the banks the company had named.
AVIATIONLockheed CL-400 Suntan: Liquid-Hydrogen Spyplane That Wasn'tSuntan spent real LH2 money, then died on logistics—SP-4404 records the kill, not a flown fleet.
SURVEILLANCEXKEYSCORE Public SlidesTraining slides went public in 2013. NSA answered on-record. PCLOB later published redacted oversight. Stick to those.