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According to Anatoly Fomenko’s New Chronology, history as we know it was fabricated by Christian scholars. Discover why he believes it and why he’s not 100 percent crazy. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS/Getty ImagesAnatoly Fomenko delivers a lecture to students of Lomonosov Moscow State University. 1972. Almost everything you thought you knew about history is wrong. The Roman Empire emerged in the late Middle Ages, not the eighth century B.C. In fact, Ancient Rome, Greece, and Egypt as we know them didn’t exist at all....

“Who are these collectors that fork out considerable sums for the art of a man who caused murder and cruelty beyond imaging?” Wikimedia CommonsAdolf Hitler at his Berghof residence in the Bavarian Alps. 1936. Nuremberg’s Auktionshaus Weidler is holding an auction unlike any other this weekend, as more than 30 autographed paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler will be offered up to the highest bidder. The pieces are largely comprised of watercolor paintings and range from around $150 for a drawing of a little town’s monastery to $51,000 for a landscape painting of a village by a lake, The Washington Post reported....

The study’s analysis revealed that a huge decrease in annual rainfall and a drop in humidity contributed to the drought that ended Mayan civilization. Laslovarga/Wikimedia CommonsTikal, an ancient Mayan city that dates from 800 B.C. to 900 A.D. Many theories have been explored to try and explain the collapse of the Maya civilization. For years, evidence trying to prove these theories had been inconclusive – until now. The Maya Empire, located in what is now present-day Guatemala, was a cultural epicenter that excelled at agriculture, pottery, writing, and mathematics....

Ernest Withers made a name for himself as an iconic Civil Rights photographer. But, within the FBI, he made a name for himself as a reliable informant. Library of CongressErnest Withers captured the moment when Martin Luther King Jr. rode the first desegregated bus. It is now common knowledge that the FBI under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover did its best to discredit and subdue the Civil Rights Movement. The Bureau’s underhanded tactics ranged from slandering the movement’s supporters, shielding those who violently protested it, and recruiting insiders to betray their fellow activists....

In 1967, prosecutor Jim Garrison accused Clay Shaw of conspiring with government agencies to assassinate President John F. Kennedy — but many believe it was all for media attention. Less than a year after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963, an official government investigation into his death found that Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had acted alone. That didn’t sit well with Jim Garrison, then the district attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana....

A contentious figure in the art world for years, money troubles caused Judith Ann Braun to leave the art world. She’s back, and her work is even better. Source: Tumblr While finger-painting may seem childish to some, artist Judith Ann Braun uses her fingers to create incredible artwork and murals that are anything but. Braun, who has been quite the force in the art world for decades, ditches traditional brushes and other tools that put a distance between the artist and the art and uses only her fingers and charcoal dust to paint beautiful pieces that have been displayed in a number of reputable museums and galleries....

Marquis de Sade is known as the father of written eroticism. What many don’t know is that the nobleman’s life was more sadistic than his work. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Peter Kürten — The Sadistic Crimes Of The Vampire Of Düsseldorf Meet Charles Ng, The Sadistic Serial Killer Brought Down By His Own Shoplifting Addiction...

According to Mexican legend, La Llorona is the ghost of a mother who killed her children — and causes grave misfortune to all near her. Patricio Lujan was a young boy in New Mexico in the 1930s when a normal day with his family in Santa Fe was interrupted by the sight of a strange woman near their property. The family watched in curious silence as the tall, thin woman dressed in all white crossed the road near their house without a word and headed for a nearby creek....

Michael Malloy was a down-on-his-luck drunk during the Great Depression when he was targeted for murder as part of a life insurance scam. The only problem was, he wouldn’t die. Wikimedia commons.Tony Marino’s speakeasy, where the “Murder Trust” hatched their plan to kill Mike “the Durable” Malloy. It did not go as planned. Michael Malloy was like a lot of down-on-their-luck, unemployed men in New York City during the Great Depression....

The elephant died for being, well, an elephant. Thankfully, the death of Murderous Mary the elephant doesn’t seem to be in vain. Wikimedia Commons She went by Big Mary. For years, Mary worked for the Sparks World Famous Shows traveling circus, where she entertained towns from coast to coast. That all came to a crashing halt in 1916, when the town of Erwin, Tennessee arrested Mary for murder and hanged her from a crane in front of a crowd of spectators....

The coroner in the case is calling for the sale of laxatives to be regulated. 9News28-year-old Claudia La Bella At 28 years old, Claudia La Bella weighed just 77 pounds when she was admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia in 2014. She had severe pain in her abdomen and was dangerously dehydrated. She died on June 29 of that year. For two years, La Bella pretended to have terminal ovarian cancer to justify taking up to 800 laxative tablets a day....

The lake of sewage ended the game early as the stadium officials scrambled to figure out how to stop it. A spring training game at Dodgers Stadium was brought to a screeching halt on Tuesday when a sewage leak began pouring raw sewage on the field. The Dodgers were at the bottom of the fifth inning in their game against the Angels when a water main burst, resulting in a sewage leak....

It might be gross, but if you had the same problem that these people had, you would have wanted the comb as well. Bernardo Arriaza, Universidad De TarapacáOne of the combs in question, roughly 3 inches in length with 61 tines on each side. Researchers in South America have discovered that the often ornately constructed ancient combs that they keep finding had a fairly unsavory purpose: delousing. National Geographic reports that a recent study has found that the double-sided combs unearthed in archaeological digs in northern Chile were indeed used to get rid of lice....

From flying saucer rides to domestic living on the lunar surface, these gorgeous retrofuturism illustrations show how previous generations thought the future might look. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Out-Of-This-World Space Colonies As Imagined By NASA In The 1970s–And Today Google Earth Images From The Past And Present Paint A Grim Future Photo Of The Day: An Emaciated Polar Bear Reveals Its Species’ Grim Future...

Intricately-designed and highly fashionable, this Ancient Roman shoe reveals a lot about how footwear functioned in Rome. RedditThis 2,000-year-old shoe was found in a well at the Saalburg ancient Roman fort in Germany. Fashion isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Ancient Rome, but this 2,000-year-old shoe discovered in Germany proves otherwise. In the 19th century, a Roman fort in Saalburg, Germany was discovered and excavated....

The iron face mask was found among remnants of a fortified structure dated to Ancient Rome’s imperial period. It firmly suggested Hadrianopolis was an important, distant military outpost. Ahmet Ozler/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe Roman face mask was dated to the early third century A.D. Named after Roman emperor Hadrian, it’s no wonder that the ancient city of Hadrianopolis has become a treasure trove of Roman relics. While archaeologists have found invaluable remnants there before, they’ve just unearthed an 1,800-year-old face mask made of iron — that was once worn by a Roman cavalry soldier....

As the Batagaika crater grows larger, it will continue to unearth ancient forests that will have disastrous effects. Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the NorthThe Batagaika crater, otherwise known as the “doorway to the underworld.” Known to locals as the “doorway to the underworld,” one of the biggest craters in Siberia is now growing even larger, causing it to unearth enormous ancient forests that will speed up climate change in the process....

The two monks named in the inscription, Yunjiang and Zhiming, are said to have spent 20 years collecting these relics of the Buddha. Archeologists have discovered a chest in central China which claims to contain the remains of the Buddha, who is said to have died 2,500 years ago. Live Science reported that villagers from the Gongchi Village in Jingchuan County, China found a box with an inscription that claims that it contains the collected remains of Siddhārtha Gautama, the man known as the Buddha and the founder of Buddhism, while repairing roads in the area....

The Manzanar Relocation Center was one of ten Japanese concentration camps that the United States government created during World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor fueled mass paranoia in the United States, paranoia that led to the development of domestic concentration camps not long before the U.S. would take part in liberating similar camps abroad. Share Flipboard Email Over the course of just a few years, the U.S. federal government forced 120,000 people of Japanese descent into these camps in an attempt to quarantine and surveil them....

Researchers Reconstruct Face Of Leprosy Victim 500 Years After Her Grisly Death The City of Edinburgh CouncilThe reconstructed face of the Scottish woman who died of leprosy some 500 years ago. When researchers in Edinburgh, Scotland found the skull of a woman who died there of leprosy some 500 years ago, all they had were bones. But with the help of a forensic artist, we can now see what her face actually probably looked like before she finally succumbed to the horrific disease....