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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 ASTRONAUTSCrystal Skulls: Tool Marks Behind the Ancient-Origin StoriesA quartz skull donated to the Smithsonian in 1992 set off an investigation into its supposed ancient origins.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCyrus Cylinder: British Museum Object and Political AfterlivesBM Cyrus Cylinder is Achaemenid foundation text—Charter of rights is modern afterlife, not cuneiform fact.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYVioxx WithdrawalMerck called Vioxx safe and blamed the comparison drug for heart attacks, until its own trial ended sales in 2004.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBAE Al-Yamamah and the SFO HaltSFO halted Al-Yamamah for security; Lords upheld it; OECD called the halt a Convention crisis.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTiwanaku Calendar StonesUNESCO Gate of the Sun vs Posnansky deep-time calendar. Contested Altiplano sky-clock claims.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSJonathan Pollard Espionage CaseNavy analyst pleaded guilty to delivering national defense information to Israel. Life sentence. Court verbs only.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Sudden Disappearance of the Indus Valley CivilizationAdherent Indus collapse tales borrow Mahabharata weapons imagery and call the end a prehistoric nuclear war.
HEALTH & MEDICINEEdgewood Arsenal Human ExperimentsFor decades Edgewood Arsenal dosed soldiers with chemicals and drugs. GAO later admitted the scale.
ESPIONAGELockheed A-12 Oxcart and BLACK SHIELDCIA's A-12 flew BLACK SHIELD from Kadena—29 missions—then yielded to the SR-71 path. Histories are declassified.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Orchard / Al-Kibar (2007)White House 2008 and IAEA 2011 treat Al-Kibar as a covert reactor Syria should have declared.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESIce Wall Antarctica and The Final Experiment 2024An ice rim is said to bound a flat earth, and a 2024 Antarctic trip is offered as a test of that claim.
ESPIONAGEOperation MockingbirdMOCKINGBIRD was a secret 1963 CIA wiretap on two newsmen; Bernstein wrote that wider CIA press ties were played down.
The Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentFor 40 years the Public Health Service told Black men it treated their "bad blood" while it withheld syphilis treatment.
ALT HISTORYVindolanda Tablets: Everyday Writing on Rome’s Northern FrontierVindolanda ink-on-wood tablets: birthday invites and strength reports—empire paperwork, not Wall romance.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Fishbowl / Starfish PrimeStarfish Prime: planned EMP test. Paper trail: Hawaii damage, dead satellites.
HISTORICAL EVENTSAgent OrangeFor years the VA denied that Agent Orange made Vietnam veterans sick, until Congress wrote the link into law in 1991.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Walker Spy Ring and the Navy Crypto CollapseWalker’s ring sold Navy crypto keying to Moscow for years. Pelton sold Ivy Bells—sibling wound, not the same sale.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Face on Mars and Viking ImagingViking 035A72 looked like a face. NASA’s 1976 caption called shadows. MGS and HiRISE returned a mesa.