Accompanied by researcher Kathleen Cain in 1986-1987 and wife Katie in 1988, I hit the trail to confirm the authenticity of flat ogham, which archaeology ignores, throughout the Irish countrysides and in the National Museum in Dublin. This is another indictment of the failures the institution of archaeology to play it straight with the public. How can we trust their peer review when dogma blinds authority?

Accompanied by researcher Carl Lehrburger, Old News cameras capture the timelapse of a dramatic equinox sun dagger crossing a wall of Circle of Life petroglphs, some of which were apparently engraved precisely to honor, perhaps celebrate the equinox at noon. The event is highly suggestive of the Navajo legend of Changing Woman, a powerful force in the creation myths shared or modified to one degree or another by several native cultures in the American southwest.

Pyramidology, an obsession in Great Britain in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, helped usher in the hybrid science of archaeoastronomy, though you won't read about this in the Wikipedia article. Judging past practices as pseudoscience using modern sensitivities, the collaborative authors have banished this, nonetheless, formative genesis reported here.

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Citing articles from The Atlantic Monthly in January 2000 and from the 1925 Kansas Historical Society Collections, anecdotal, archaeological and ethnographic accounts suggest Celtic sailors may have left genetic fingerprints in America before 1200 CE.

Authors Martin Brennan and Chas Clifton visit a solar observation site in southeastern Colorado, marking an ancient Celtic cross quarter date, ending spring and beginning summer. A thin ledge in front of a large circle carved on the sandstone cliff is the only place to witness the peculiar May 5 sunrise within a 3-sided notch defined by the horizon and a dramatic rock overhang. This year, clouds obscured first light, but the sun does an encore appearance along the edge of the cliff face minutes later.

KRMA TV, Channel 6 in Denver, premiered Scott Monahan's ground-breaking documentary "History on the Rocks" on May 7, 1985. The broadcast led to stories in the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and by the Associated Press, and 1987 television news reports by Bob McNamara on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and by Eve Savory on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Sunday Report.

Experts dispute which Europeans first explored North America and when they first arrived. With excerpts from Scott Monahan's 1985 Denver PBS documentary "History on the Rocks" Canadian Broadcasting Company science reporter Eve Savory interviews diffusionist proponent Dr. Barry Fell. Fair use doctrine applies, copyrighted materials exchanged. Much of the footage used in the CBC report was provided by this author.

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A series of petroglyphic symbols representative of sounds in the ancient Shahri tribal language spoken on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula has turned up on heavily patinated rocks in southeastern Colorado. While their meaning is unknown, there can be no doubt the writing found in the heartland of the United States matches the writing on rocks in Dhofar, Oman. An authority from the port of Salalah, from which frankincense was trafficked in ancient times, vouches for the authenticity of the matching inscriptions, literally halfway around the world. This vignette is a postscript to the hour and a half documentary, Old News.