M.J. Rose

We hope that you are having a wonderful start to the new year. Please enjoy a little summary of our universe – perhaps it will help you put things into perspective as you endeavor to wrangle 2014!

“The Story of Everything: In two mind-blowing hours, Hawking reveals the wonders of the cosmos to a new generation. Delve into the mind of the world’s most famous living scientist and reveal the splendor and majesty of the universe as never seen before. See how the universe began, how it creates stars, black holes and life — and how everything will end….”

(From Knowledgeoftheday.org)

Stephen Hawking’s Universe – The Story of Everything (2010) from Luis Ribeiro on Vimeo.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE MUSEUM OF MYSTERIES!

And now for some more mysteries…

From gold funeral masks, nearly identical religions, obelisks with hieroglyphics, and so much more, the astounding similarities of the Incan/pre-Incan and Ancient Egyptian cultures is not to be denied. How did two cultures separated in antiquity by a vast ocean co-evolve in so many inexplicable ways? The following article delves into a huge list of coincidences that will no doubt stun you while also convincing you that there simply had to be some sort of connection between these cultures. Was there a seafaring global mother culture such as Atlantis that informed the customs, architecture, and religions of both the Incans and the Egyptians?

The Mystery Of Twin Cultures On Opposite Sides Of The Atlantic

“The ancient Egyptians (in Africa) and the ancient pre-Incas/Incas (in South America) evolved on opposite sides of the globe and were never in contact; yet both cultures mysteriously possessed the same strikingly identical body of ancient art, architecture, symbolism, mythology and religion. The Victorian-era scholars, faced with this enigma, concluded that both cultures must have been children of the same Golden Age parent civilization, “Atlantis.” Today, Egyptian/Inca parallels are not only being ignored by American and Western scholars, they’re being suppressed.

Many baffling and unsolved similarities link the ancient Egyptians and the ancient pre-Incas/Incas – even though both cultures evolved on opposite sides of the planet, separated by oceans.

Victorian-era scholars, faced with this enigma, believed both cultures inherited the same high wisdom from the same exceedingly older source—a shared “parent civilization” now lost to history. For the Victorians this common parent hypothesis explained the parallels well. These Victorian scholars called this common parent “Atlantis,” following Plato and the Classical historians…”

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There are many compilations of abandoned places – but we think this is one of best. Beautifully creepy and varied, all of these photographs illustrate the ultimate fragility of our attempts to create human environments, and the tenacity of mother nature as she devours those attempts over time…

Click here to see all 38 of them.