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The Great Altar of Pergamon—Attalid marble of the second century BCE, famous for its Gigantomachy frieze—stands today as a reconstructed monument inside Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum, under the custody of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
The Spirit Cave burial (Nevada), long dated ~10,600–10,700 years old, sat in museum/scientific custody while the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe sought repatriation under NAGPRA. After tribal-permitted ancient DNA work, Moreno-Mayar et al. (*Science*, 2018) showed closer relatedness to present-day Native Americans than to other global populations — undermining “Paleoamerican unrelated race” talking points. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced return of remains and funerary
The Mesha Stele—also called the Moabite Stone—is a black basalt monument inscribed in Moabite for King Mesha in the ninth century BCE. It was found at Dhiban (ancient Dibon) in 1868, shattered soon after in a crisis of Ottoman pressure and local resistance, then reconstructed in Paris from recovered fragments and a papier-mâché squeeze.
In 2012 JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Investment Office Synthetic Credit Portfolio produced multi-billion-dollar losses (the “London Whale”). The Senate PSI March 2013 case history and January/September 2013 OCC and Federal Reserve consent orders and civil money penalties document risk-governance and supervisory failure.
In the 1960s, looters emptied tombs near Güre / Uşak (western Turkey). The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired hundreds of Lydian precious-metal and wall-painting pieces (the so-called Karun / Lydian Hoard) through the New York market. Turkey sued; in September 1993 the Met agreed to return 363 objects, which went to Turkish museums (later centering on Uşak). Early U.S. museum–source-country settlement that predates the better-known Euphronios accord — perfect Pack 3 provenan
Soviet *aktivnyye meropriyatiya* named influence operations beyond classic espionage. U.S. Active Measures Working Group reporting entered presidential paperwork via a 1983 FRUS memorandum on State Special Report No. 110; CIA CSI’s INFEKTION study documents one AIDS-origin disinformation campaign; Mitrokhin/ISC and a 2019 State disinformation report supply custody and continuity without turning the phrase into incense.
Former MI5 officer Peter Wright’s Spycatcher memoirs triggered UK confidence litigation, an Australian High Court refusal to enforce foreign secrecy interests (1988), House of Lords rulings on lifelong duty versus futile continuing injunctions after worldwide publication, and ECHR Article 10 review of injunction timing. Memoir allegations are not judicial findings.
The April 1961 Bay of Pigs landing failed within days. CIA Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick’s October 1961 Survey of the Cuban Operation blamed Agency planning and capability; DDP rebutted; FRUS Vol. X and Pfeiffer Official History Vol. V, released via NS Archive FOIA, make that internal fight public.
Disk models cast Antarctica as a circumferential ice wall; in December 2024 pastor Will Duffy’s The Final Experiment took flat- and globe-leaning YouTubers to Union Glacier (14–17 Dec) to observe a 24-hour sun—press recorded Jeran Campanella’s 'sometimes you are wrong' remarks while ice-wall geography claims persist in movement media.
From 1956 to 1971 the FBI ran COINTELPRO, a set of covert programs that used informants, forged mail, and smear tactics to disrupt domestic political groups—later exposed by stolen Media, Pennsylvania files and the Church Committee.
In April 2009, Niels H. Harrit, Steven E. Jones, and co-authors published “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe,” reporting red/gray chips they interpret as unreacted nanothermite.
On 11 September 2001 BBC World (and CNN) aired reports that World Trade Center Building 7 had collapsed or was collapsing before the ~17:20 EDT fall. BBC Editors blogs by Richard Porter (2007) deny advance scripts and frame any premature report as error amid wire confusion. NIST’s NCSTAR 1A attributes WTC 7’s collapse to fire-induced progressive collapse, not explosives. The Archive documents the timing claim and both institutional replies under contested/L2 without baptizing “BBC knew demolition” or dismissing the timing as trivial.
A major flat-Earth faction reads Genesis 1, Job, and Psalms as a literal vaulted firmament over a stationary plane; public voices include Rob Skiba (TestingTheGlobe; FEIC; d. 13 Oct 2021), pastor Dean Odle, Edward Hendrie’s The Greatest Lie on Earth, and Zen Garcia’s Firmament (2016).
ECHELON names the Five Eyes signals-intelligence sharing architecture whose existence European Parliament investigators treated as real in 2000–2001; Snowden-era disclosures later clarified related collection systems without retiring the older controversy.
Bought by Wilfrid Voynich in 1912, the illustrated cipher manuscript resists decipherment; carbon dating places parchment in the early 1400s while claims range from herbal code to hoax.
The 9/11 Commission Report, Hearing 12 timeline corrections, Rutgers Team 8 NEADS/FAA audio monograph, and USAF *First 109 Minutes* reconstruct Otis/Langley scrambles and notification failures. Stand-down claim literature treats corrected timelines and early NORAD misstatements as evidence of deliberate non-response. Contested/L2 HOLD: document both without baptizing a stand-down order or sneering timeline gaps.
For decades the U.S. Army exposed soldiers to chemical agents and drugs at Edgewood Arsenal and related sites; GAO and DoD reviews later acknowledged the testing programs and ongoing health questions.
On 18 October 2019 Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, WEF, and the Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a published pandemic tabletop with a fictional coronavirus scenario. January 2020 joint recommendations followed. Adherent readers treat timing and partners as proof COVID-19 was planned. Hosts describe preparedness simulation. Contested/L2 dual-refuse applies.
Gunung Padang in West Java is a megalithic hill site whose excavation claims of very deep, very old anthropogenic layers sparked fierce peer-reviewed dispute—treat the stones as real and the extreme dates as contested science.
Puma Punku is a Tiwanaku-related megalithic complex in Bolivia famous for precision-cut andesite H-blocks; archaeological literature documents the stonework while rejecting default ancient-astronaut shortcuts.
In the Baghdad museum world of the late 1930s, German archaeologist Wilhelm König described ceramic jars fitted with copper cylinders and iron rods set in bitumen. He suggested they could have functioned as galvanic cells—ancient batteries, perhaps for electroplating. Popular science and alternative-history media later treated the jars as proof that Parthian or Sasanian workshops ran electrical technology centuries before Volta.
Duncan Campbell's BBC Secret Society Zircon episode (1986–87) was withheld on national-security grounds; AG injunctions, Special Branch OSA searches including BBC Glasgow, and a Commons Speaker/injunction privilege fight followed. BBC institutional history, Hansard, and Campbell's New Statesman PDFs document the process spine. Contested/L2 HOLD—living-person care; no invented conviction caption.
CIA Office of Security Projects MERRIMAC (Washington-area infiltration of dissident groups, ~1967–1971) and RESISTANCE (campus/police liaison collection) appear in Church Book III beside CHAOS. Rockefeller Commission and Family Jewels document facility-protection framing versus domestic collection on Americans.
Found by French soldiers near **Rosetta (Rashid)** in **1799**, the trilingual decree (hieroglyphic / Demotic / Greek) passed to Britain under the **1801** Capitulation of Alexandria and entered the British Museum (**1802**). **Thomas Young** advanced Demotic/phonetic work; **Jean-François Champollion** announced the hieroglyphic breakthrough (**1822**). Separate modern track: Egyptian scholars…