"Must have been made with a lost ancient technology (Ancient space lasers?)"

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Il Disinganno (The Release from Deception) by Italian artist Francesco Queirolo, completed in 1759 after seven years of labour. The subject is a man (representing a fisherman or human frailty) being freed from a tangled net by a winged angel. It is carved entirely from a single block of marble. Today it is in the Museo Cappella Sansevero in Naples, Italy.

Dunning -Kruger in Action: "Overwhelming Evidence" (Give us More Money)

Lauren Witzke @LaurenWitzkeDE 11/11/2026 (with a statement by Dr Cenker Atila):

Witzke: "The Noah’s Ark Project is the most attacked study in archeological history. Had we been studying the Titanic, nobody would have even blinked an eye.

It’s because of the implications of Noah’s Ark being proven real that you see secular scientists become completely unhinged.

It’s because it proves that Darwinism is a lie, it proves we can’t evolve outside of our kind, and it proves that we aren’t a product of evolutionary apes from millions of years ago.

It means every single human on earth can trace their ancestry back to the eight survivors on Noahs Ark, less than 5000 years ago.

Equally disturbing is the statement by the "lead archaeologist":

Atila: "[...] I don't think it is possible for so many things to be just coincidence. In my opinion, these wood fragments are very very old and belong to ancient times. After seeing all this, people should, errr...  decided for themselves, what to believe".   

Let's get this straight, there is a geomorphological surface structure in Turkey that "looks like a boat". Geologists say it is a product of freak geological processes. Far to the south there are several old folk stories of an angry sky-god who wanted to destroy mankind, but the hero of the story made a big boat and saved himself. Blondie here wants us to believe that the Good Old Americans have come all the way from Christian-nationalist Trumpland, poked their imperialist noses in and shown us "how it is done". The hill "is" a boat and (therefore) proves that the old angry sky-god stories are true, the fables' heroes are (the same) historical person. Anybody see the faulty logic there? 

True believer

Most people in the world do not believe that the Jewish Book of Genesis is real history (or of single authorship), most of us do not believe the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh or that of Atrahasis are actual literal history, the Jewish Book of Enoch is apocalyptic analogy, not a chronicle. Some backward people in rural America may have other views, but to "prove" that they are the ones who are right needs a bit more than a weird-shaped grassy knoll in a valley.

Dr Atila needs to grasp the nettle, his job is to fully explain the structure of archaeological elements of that hill - and to do that, he needs to get to grip with its environmental (including geological, geomorphological and sedimentary elements). Most archaeologists conducting a university-sponsored international collaborative project would START with that. The site-formation processes of this site with its odd relief need to be modelled, tested and then set out clearly. How does a putative wooden structure transmogrify into an upstanding bank of earth and cliffs with a steep slope behind and a domed area in the middle? What is the pedological process here? This is a fundamental question in establishing "this heap of earth and stones was a boat (we've proved it)". 

The other starting point for any project that is (like this one) TEXT-DRIVEN would be at the OUTSET to get a full source-critical analysis of the texts he is building on (for what else is this nonsense about "coincidences"? - what coincidences, with what? "Cubits"? Is he sure?).

It is not his job to grab a lot of foreign money and simply shrug his shoulders and say "I've made a heap of the data; after seeing all this, people should decide for themselves, what to believe". That is not archaeology, that's dilettantism. 

Durupinar Scam: "Noah's Ark" Built of Twigs and Branches?

The Durupinar project team have released via Fox News (of course) a picture of the "ancient wood" found in a borehole "30 m down and 1-2m in". Here it (allegedly) is - plus cloyingly sentimental twee picture of some praying folk. Note the tree rings. This looks for all the world like a branch or root, not a fragment of a worked plank.

Andrea Margolis, 'Noah's Ark site yields first look at charred wood fragments recovered deep below soil' Fox News  November 10, 2026 

"The Tartaria Mystery: Uncovering History's Greatest Hidden Civilization"

'The Tartaria Mystery: Uncovering History's Greatest Hidden Civilization' by Everhart Clare (2025 Independently Published)

"What if everything you've been taught about human civilization is an elaborate deception? Journey into the heart of history's most compelling enigma, a lost empire so advanced, so magnificent, that its very existence challenges everything we think we know about our past. The Tartaria Mystery invites you to explore a world of architectural marvels, suppressed technologies, and earth-shattering discoveries that have been hidden from public view... until now. Prepare to Discover: The truth behind the mysterious "mud flood" that may have buried an entire civilization; Breathtaking architectural wonders that defy conventional historical explanation; Evidence of advanced free energy technology that could revolutionize our understanding of ancient capabilities; The fascinating connection between Tartarian star forts and lost knowledge; Archaeological findings that mainstream historians don't want you to know about."

This is another of a tedious run of pseudoarchaeology books  that is merely a reworked compilation of one of the internet's wierdest (and most incomprehensible) tropes under the guise of "suppressed history." By weaponizing the classic "everything you've been taught is a lie" guff, the text immediately alienates genuine scientific enquiry in favour of disruptive and mind-addling conspiratorial sensationalism.

The foundational claim of a globally dominant, technologically advanced "Tartarian Empire" completely lacks any corroborating stratigraphic or textual evidence. Instead, the narrative misinterprets early modern maps, transforming a standard geographic regional label into an imagined lost civilization.

Furthermore, invoking a cataclysmic "mud flood" to explain architectural basements reveals a profound ignorance of basic urban stratigraphy and architectural history. Real-world archaeological findings demonstrate that these buildings were simply constructed with intentional English basements or affected by standard urban grading changes.

The book’s sensationalized promotion of "free energy tech" embedded within star forts pushes the narrative entirely out of historical debate and into science fiction. In reality, star forts are well-documented military defensive structures designed specifically to counter gunpowder artillery, not act as wireless power stations.

Framing the consensus of mainstream historians as an active deception is a manipulative tactic designed to bypass the rigorous demands of peer review. True archaeology relies on falsifiable data, peer-reviewed analysis, and the proper contextual and source-critical examination of sources such as physical artefacts rather than algorithm-driven confirmation bias. For a serious discipline dedicated to uncovering the actual human past, books like this offer nothing more than a fantastical distraction from real historical achievements.

US Conservative "christian" on Getting the Right Date: Getting the Date Right

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What happens when an "archaeological" team
(I use the term loosely in the case of @noahsarkscans) chooses their spokesperson by how decoratively her blonde hair cascades and how many Christian colours makeup she uses rather than knowledge of dating techniques.  

Dr Cenker Atila's "Durupinar Noah's Ark Scans" project has done some boreholes and got some samples they say is "wood" from some layers or other of this site. After (one hopes) getting the required export licences, they have gone for C14 testing at four labs:

1) "The official Turkish lab"

2) "One here in Switzerland" (export licence)

3) "One in Florida" (export licence)

4) "Maybe a fourth one, I see in the news about a French lab..." (export licence)

There is a very revealing dialogue here. There seems to be no official statement by Dr Attila himself. 

Andrew Jones: And so, you know, the with carbon 14 you if you get  the same results from all four labs, that's really exciting news because just one, uh okay, it's great, but you want to  back that up with another independent lab from the first results. And so, we're, you know, doing four of them. 

Lauren Witzke: Yeah. And a lot of people have a lot of spec.. like uh skepticism around carbon 14 dating because you know it's like "oh I  sent this and they said it was millions and millions and years old" and they just like automatically assume that everything's millions and millions of years old.* Well Dr. Dr. Cenker Attila told me that there is [sic] ways to calibrate it so to make sure that they get that date accurate and when we have it sent to four different labs I mean one of them's got to get it right, right you know and I am interested to see what the different lab results come back if any of them come back millions and millions of years old.** Dr. Cenker did tell me he believes that the wood is about uh it's a little over 4,000 years old. He said  just based on his examination of it.*** Um, now we won't know for sure until the lab results come back, but that is why we sent it to four different places, three  or four different places because of the skepticism around carbon 14 dating. Um, and a lot of these I don't even think the labs know what they're studying. We didn't tell them, "hey, this is Noah's ark. Like, tell us like...."; they have no idea what they're looking at. Yeah, they have no [snorts] idea what they're looking at. [...] 

Andrew Jones: The professor found these in one area when he..... So, it's about 8 to 9 m down, about 30 ft , and it was on the west profile side. So, and he says it's 1 to 2 m in. But, uh, in fact, he's going  back soon. He said he thinks he can get some more samples. Oh, this is great. [...] 

Host: "what what could another explanation be for this wood if it's not the Ark?"

I guess they do not teach much about radioactive decay in US schools.

 

What Ms Witzke said:

* "a lot of people have a lot of scepticism around carbon 14 dating" only among thicko US Young Earth Creationist/ Biblical fundamentalists (Witzke has called herself a 'flat-earther' too). Because absolute dating methods based on radioactive decay [and indeed the very existence of certain long half-life isotopes in themselves] push the ticking clock back well beyond the date the Pentateuch assigns to the beginning of Everything. Their scepticism is born of ignorance and a failure to see the so-called "Books of Moses" for what they quite clearly are when seen in context.  

** "I mean one of them's got to get it right" Radiocarbon dates cannot be treated the cherry-picking way Lauren Witzke and Andrew Jones assume, if there is statistically significant variation you cannot simply accept the one that fits your preconceived notions and ignore the rest... duh.   

"if any of them come back millions and millions of years old" if you read books that say a Jewish sky-god created everything in six days (including the urethra - anyone who's had a kidney stone will immediately reject the idea of "intelligent design") then you might not be aware that C14 dating has an upper limit beyond which the results are not worth trying to get (40k years or so as I recall). NO C14 dates will be "millions of years". Sheer invented nonsense showing the uninformed amateurism of the people involved here. 

 

*** "Dr. Cenker did tell me he believes that the wood is [...] a little over 4,000 years old. He said  just based on his examination of it".  I certainly hope our archaeological colleague said no such thing and he is being grossly misquoted here. Since such statements make him look foolish, one wonders why he's not releasing his own statements. On the other hand, if he (a classicist and pottery specialist) did say what Witzke reports, it would explain a lot that is puzzling about this project. 

**** "about 8 to 9 m down [...] on the west profile side [...] 1 to 2 m in" (sic). This it seems can only refer to the bloke hammering a tube (one presumes) into the vertical cliff on the west side of the site. No contour map of the surface relief or profiles have been published, even at this late stage of the project, but to judge by the height of the man on the ladder, the cliff itself must be c. 8m tall here, so the tested samples were taken from "1 to 2 m in" from the base. But it is precisely here that there is a semi-conical talus layer ... material that has come down from above, burying whatever was lying there - such as [for example] fallen trees. The Durupinar team need to immediately clarify the PRECISE stratigraphical context of the samples (and doing a fake 'blind test' - not telling the laboratories that information will potentially hamper the pre-clean process). 

Hammering away blindly like a mad thing

A cynic however might observe from the way this group releases "information" to their audience that getting some tempting half-results that "we need more money to be able to take better samples and get better dates" might be the aim here all along. This whole "project" looks less like real research and more like a fundraising drive by the self-appointed "Guardians (sic) of the Ark". In which case, why would a Turkish university archaeologist be lending his name to it? 

The 'Cart Ruts' of Malta

 

Malta’s famous cart ruts, deep parallel grooves carved into the limestone, have puzzled people for years. Fringe theorists call them prehistoric, made by "ancient high technology", evidence of the wheel or long lost machines in Ice Age Europe, traces of an alleged prediluvian civilisation. Others see them as the work of later ancient societies. A detailed study by archaeologist Joel Grima from the University of Malta, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports and discussed in a recent Ancient Architects video, takes a close look at 2,628 of these ruts. Using digital surveys, excavations and careful analysis, the research points to most of the network forming during Phoenician, Punic and Roman times.

Great Zimbabwe

(Robin Des Taxes 🇫🇷) The largest city in sub-Saharan Africa that existed before colonization was the capital of Great Zimbabwe, built between the 11th and 15th centuries: it reached a height of 11 m.

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