The Ethiopian Bible Scam

 

Matt Whitman, 'Amazon is Selling Fake Bibles (The Ethiopian Bible Scam)',   Aug 26, 2026

"Fake AI slop Ethiopian Bibles on Amazon's bestselling Bible charts. If you have interest in books that aren't a part of the core-66 biblical canon, don't get tricked by scammers".

https://youtu.be/_BW11fRz188?si=zMPYfnAzDtm61qWK.

Unburied Flood Victims

 Good point:  

The US Durupinar Expedition's "Rock Scanner" Finds "Petrified Wood" Rock

"Died Suddenly" (@DiedSuddenly_ 15/9/2016) writes

" Died Suddenly is proud to be an official partner of this world-shaking scientific study".

 But, ah, ... "This one came back as haematite", uh-oh. Guess they don't learn much about rocks in US schools... 

Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_
Possible Petrified Wood identified at the Durupinar Noah’s Ark Site. ..

Possible Petrified Wood identified at the Durupinar Noah’s Ark Site.

They are taking the sample in for further testing, and begin core drilling into the boat site in September. pic.twitter.com/bT0WR5EWGH

— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) September 1, 2026

.. They are taking the sample in for further testing, and begin core drilling into the boat site in September. 5:38 PM · Sep 1, 2026 · 32.1K Views

So the US expedition's off to a good start, with full MAGA-professionalism. 

US Biblical Literalists Go to Turkey to Sit on a Rock and Fantasise.

                

   US Biblical literalist Lauren Witzke  

This stridently racist, xenophobic MAGA-christin lady seems to've bought new blue jeans and a new Meryka-meryka top to join an archaeological project in Turkey: (@LaurenWitzkeDE 15 Sept 2026)

Earlier this year in a landmark decision, Turkish officials voted unanimously to give a group of American Christians permits to study the remains of Noah’s Ark.

It’s been the greatest pleasure of my life to be a part of one of the most important scientific expeditions in world history (sic). American exploration in the Mountains of Ararat where creation (sic) began anew.

It’s been so surreal. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s all real. The Bible is real, the global catastrophic flood happened… and the researchers and scientists at Noah’s Ark Scans are going to prove it to the world.

The Durupınar investigation is a joint project between Noah’s Ark Scans and Prof. Dr. Cenker Atila, Professor of Archaeology at Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey, who serves as President of the project./

GPR and ERT scans are finding organized corridors and patterns, and what appears to be a massive vessel beneath the surface with 3 tiers or layers.

Soil samples consistent with decomposing wood.

This is NOT a rock formation. Keep in mind it’s over 4000 years old and buried in mudflow.

Please consider chipping in to help us make the evidence irrefutable, and bring down the demonic teachings of evolution and Darwinism.

"GPR and ERT scans are finding organized corridors and patterns..." No, they are not. They are more likely finding fissures in a rock slab. Drawing outlines on a printout with a sharpie does not change the evidence - just the extent of your self-delusion. Duh.

"....and what appears to be a massive vessel beneath the surface with 3 tiers or layers", er, n-o-o-o.... It shows a slab of rock.

"Soil samples consistent with decomposing wood". Or donkey shit, bat shit, decomposing dead grass, actually anything with organic carbon in it [actually READ the report with the understanding high school sciences gave you]. 

"This is NOT a rock formation"  It sure as hell is not wood.

"Keep in mind it’s over 4000 years old and buried in mudflow". That all-American 'dating' comes from what?

Her illustration of this bowl-shaped round-bottomed vessel with no keel is from 2017 not a 2026 expedition:

Note the research agenda "to make the evidence irrefutable, and bring down the demonic teachings of evolution and Darwinism". The Noah's Ark story is related to neither of those things. What do they teach them in US schools? Critical thinking apparently not a lot.

It's the Fault of the Illuminati and their Bicycles?

Guess which site this is about?
I_Am_CyberSmith ( @I_Am_CyberSmith 6:13 PM Sep 9, 2026)

The Turkish government has closed part of the site off.

The Illuminati don't want us to learn about the Previous Cycles.

If we knew how they did It before, we might stop them from doing It again.

Archaeologists used to be independently wealthy aristocrats, answerable to nobody. But now, they are people like @internet_hottie with modest means, dependent on grant money, in a field that doesn't directly produce any revenue. This makes them vulnerable to institutional capture.

They know they will lose funding if they tell us the truth about Atlantis, Nephilim, and the Mudfloods that buried Tartaria.

Where could one even begin to address this?

Another Pseudoarchaeology get-together

Quest for Ancient Civilizations Austin 2026 "The Quest for the Future — The Future is Ancient".

Quest for Ancient Civilizations brings together researchers, authors, and explorers in a 3-day conference on lost civilizations, forbidden archaeology, and the questions mainstream research won't touch — in one room, with an audience that actually wants the answers (Austin, Texas USA, October 16–18, 2026). "Featuring the voices rewriting history: David Hatcher Childress; Randall Carlson; Billy Carson; Dan Richards (DeDunker); Hugh Newman; JJ Ainsworth; Drew Brophy; Duncan Trussell; Kurt Metzger; Tyler Engle; Dr. Heather Lynn; Brent Pella; Enrique Chaug; James Vieria + More TBA".

The Great Flood

 

When you listen to the hancockian and other pseudoarchaeologists, what strikes me is the number of folk who talk about "the Great Flood" as though it was a real, geologically-tested, historical global event that really happened. What's more, they never qualify that phrase, they seemingly do not even conceive that there might be a reason why many of their potential listeners do not share that conclusion. For them, the event is seen as a foundational, universally accepted baseline. For example US YouTuber Jimmy Corsetti  writes several times of the site at Gobekli Trepe (admittedly in the same country as Mt Ararat!) as potentially the site of THE altar that Noah built when the Ark came to rest (Genesis 8:5-21). Because their algorithms, podcasts, and books cross-reference each other as objective fact, they genuinely lose the cognitive perspective required to realize that mainstream science views the global deluge myth as entirely unsupported by any evidence.  

Google n-gram of Google-Book content also gives food for thought, the mentions of this myth-as-event increases dramatically after 1987. It is odd that there was rather a low incidence of use of the term when it was more 'mainstream' in the nineteenth century (possibly other terms such as "Noah's Flood" supplemented that). 

This is pretty shocking. What could be causing it? There are a number of (unrelated?) reasons. A lot of it is due to influence from the USA. The Anglophone "alternative history" market is structurally, financially, and rhetorically dominated by American cultural exports. 

In Europe, the ground was prepared by related processes. In particular chanbges in the book market (away from more serious literature to ephemeral train-station paperbacks) and the blossoming of the New Agey approach to the world that grew from beginnings in the late 1970s and 1980s, developing the "Earth Mysteries" movement. By 1987–1988, this movement crossed over from radical counter-culture into mainstream British publishing.

Unlike in the US, where climate anxieties were largely academic or simply dismissed, Europeans were led to change their views in the mid-eighties. Although climate change and related threats had been discused in Europe since the late 1960s (Silent Spring) the threat was seen as rather an abstract situation that "someone" would have to deal with eventually. But when the explosion of the Soviet-built Chornobil in April 1986 suddenly blanketed Europe in radioactive fallout, a whole continent experienced an overnight, invisible environmental cataclysm. Arguably this led to an abrupt shift in thinking about humanity's vulnerability to sudden, invisible, global ecological ruin. This seems to be one of the roots of a vein of neo-cataclystic (apocalytic) fears - into which the pseudoarchaeologists like Hancock tapped. One corollory of this was the increasing prevalence to see ancient myths not as religious dogma, but as historical warnings. "The Great Flood" stopped being viewed as an ancient Sunday-school story and was re-interpreted through a secular, ecological lens: it became the ultimate archetype of a highly advanced society destroyed by planetary upheaval. 

In the US, there had long been attempts to get the Biblical account of the human past accepted as absolutely literal events, though until the late eighties this was largely confined to fundamentalist Christian circles (for example under the banner of "Creation Science). In June 1987, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Edwards v. Aguillard that teaching "creation science" (sic) in public schools was unconstitutional because it advanced a specific religion. This legal loss seems to have forced a massive, highly funded intellectual migration. Creationist organizations could no longer use standard educational channels, so they heavily shifted resources toward pop-science literature, alternative documentaries, and alternative geology books too promote their pseudoscientific views. This included encouraging seeing the Biblical deluge myth instead as a real "historic, global cataclysmic event".

As in Europe, in the late eighties there was greater interest in New Age and related ideas and this period marks the birth of modern mass-market alternative history to cater for the massive, commercially viable demographic of consumers hungry for books that validated ancient wisdom over traditional, mainstream history and geology. In this period too, the conceptual framework for pseudoarchaeology transitioned from ancient astronauts (the fading 1970s Chariots of the Gods era) to Earth-based cataclysms.Writers and researchers in the late 1980s realized that audiences were weary of UFO explanations but deeply responsive to ideas of lost human greatness. By treating the Great Flood as a purely physical, geological event caused by crustal displacement, comets, or ice age melting rather than the wrath of God they made the myth palatable to a secular, scientifically literate but conspiratorially minded public. This laid the exact structural groundwork that writers like Graham Hancock stepped into in the early 1990s.