Much like the mystery of the lost city of Atlantis, the Egyptian Thonis-Heracleion had been lost somewhere between myth, history, legend and reality until its discovery in 2000. Now sunken underwater, the city which occupied the land that is now known as Alexandria was home to some of the most phenomenal ancient Egyptian temples and religious rites.
On September 8, French President Francois Holland is scheduled to inaugurate Institut du Monde Arabe’s exposition ‘Osiris, Egypt’s Sunken Mysteries’, which takes the visitors through the “nautical procession of Osiris from Thonis-Heracleion to Canopus that accompanied the god each year on his passage to the hereafter,” as described on the expo’s official website.
Yeah. That doesn’t sound remotely ritualistic.
About a faked Mars mission.
1978 was also the year of Damien: Omen II, the disappointing follow-up to the 1976 thriller about a pint-sized Antichrist. As to this tweet of a private school billboard retweeted by horror/SF director Guillermo Del Toro, I’m sure it’s not what it looks like.
Speaking of premodern, here’s a story for you.
In 2000, Luciano Faggiano faced plumbing and sewage issues on the property he had purchased in order to start a trattoria, a casual eating establishment, in Lecce, Italy. Figuring it would be a quick fix, he opted to find and repair the trouble himself, with the help of his two older sons.
Digging beneath the building, the family soon discovered a subterranean world, “tracing back before the birth of Jesus: a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar. His trattoria instead became a museum, where relics still turn up today,” writes an article in The New York Times .
This is like something out of a particularly outlandish Dan Brown novel. Or a really cool dream. I’m not sure yet.
In 2013, construction crews in the city of Nevşehir, in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, were demolishing low-income housing ringing a Byzantine castle when they unearthed something astonishing: entrances to a massive underground city.
Dating to at least Byzantine times, the vast network of tunnels and rooms had been carved into volcanic ash rock called tuff that gives Cappadocia—famed for its otherworldly “fairy houses,” cave churches, and evocative geologic formations—its singular terrain.
It’s not the first underground city to be discovered in the region; there are some 250 known subterranean dwellings of various sizes hidden within the fantastical landscape. The two biggest are Kaymakli and Derinkuyu; the latter is estimated to have been able to house up to 20,000 people.
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There’s also a strange bit of symbolism: the Grey has a disk atop his forehead (or at his crown chakra, if you prefer) and the building above looks very much like one of the stealth aircraft many researchers believe were engineered using alien technology. But only from the air.
But do note also that this “Grey” can also only be made out from the air- you’d have no idea what you were looking at at ground level. Bonus factoid: Qinetiq was originally a firm located in Waltham, Ma, my very own backyard.
And this? It’s not what it looks like.
I know they all look like a giant circular object burned their way through clouds, often leaving edges so clean they look like they drawn with a compass. I know this is one of those phenomena that no one saw or even heard of until fairly recently (like “fireball season”). That as recently as 2011 the National Geographic couldn’t explain them.
Never mind that we’ve heard divergent, unsupported explanations such as ice crystals in the atmosphere or jets. It doesn’t even matter this precise phenomenon was reported at O’Hare Airport during a mass UFO sighting.
It’s not what it looks like.
I mean, do you think a flying saucer would have something like cloaking technology or something? What are you, a wacky, zany, off-the-wall “conspiracy theorist”?
Pow-zim-zam-zang, Charlie Brown! Lay off the wacky weed already! Ha-cha-cha!