Search Results for: precolumbian

• Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head and Pre-Columbian Contact theory

  Posted in History, Out-of-place artifacts on Feb 19, 2021

  Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head is a small terracotta figurine of presumed Roman origin, discovered by Jose Garcia Payon in Mexico in 1933, during the excavation of a funerary offering in the pre-Hispanic settlement of Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca, almost forty miles northwest of Mexico City.

• Svetlana Balabanova’s drug mummies and Egyptian transoceanic travel

  Posted in Geography, History, Out-of-place artifacts on Oct 23, 2020

  The incredible findings such as the presence of cocaine and THC in Egyptian mummies and in Peruvian ones caused a sensation: these in fact date back to a long time before "discovery" of America by Christopher Columbus ...