Ancient Empires

REALITY ON A HARD DRIVE? Astonishing advances in video game technology has brought us visual extravaganzas like Halo 3. The world of Halo 3 has been fleshed out with arguably the most realistic images a computer can generate. The finished product seems like live action video at times due to the mind bending attention to detail. The video game is barely 30 years old with most of the biggest leaps forward taking place in the last decade. With computer processing and software development... Read Full Story

ANCIENT DNA RESEARCH Craig Venter the world famous and tediously controversial DNA researcher stunned the science community with his announcement that he had created a complex synthetic chromosome. Venter and his team of scientist stitched together laboratory chemicals to create a gene that is 381 genes long and contains 581,000 base pairs of genetic code. The synthetic life form is then placed in the cell work of a bacterium known as Mycoplasma genetailia. Once inserted the... Read Full Story

NAZIS... CHILDREN OF ATLANTIS The world was first placed on notice during the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin that a new and strange ideology had been birthed. Adolf Hitler the "Supreme Fuhrer" the "Father" of the Nazi party and every German citizen, used the 1936 Olympics as his global coming out party. This was the first ever Televised Olympic games and for that matter one of the first ever Televised events. Who were these odd people that demonstrated such bazaar mannerisms and resolute... Read Full Story

IS TIME KEEPING FROM THE STARS? Time keeps on tickin' tickin' away, sings songwriter Don Henley in one of his greatest hits. The marking of time and the references about time permeate every culture on Earth. Where did the keeping or marking of time come from? The answer could be out of this world. Literally. The ancient Sumer are credited with creating the hour, minute and second and we still use the exact same increments today. So, how did the ancient Sumerians come up with... Read Full Story

ANCIENT CROP CIRCLE CONNECTION Doug Bower and Dave Chorley are credited with starting the crop circle phenomenon back in 1978. The two English gentlemen claimed to have used a plank with a rope handle and a stake with a string to create their masterpieces in the middle of the night. That may have worked 30 years ago but today's crop circles are a whole new kettle of fish and chips. The debate over what these grand scale works of art really are, remains a very hot topic not only in... Read Full Story