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For those who follow the stories of the ancient Sumerian tablets first discovered in the 1800s, you know that gold is central to the story. The Anunnaki, extraterrestrials from another planet, mined for precious gold in southern Africa when they arrived on Earth. The element has unique qualities that make it invaluable for many reasons; from jewelry to electrical components, to insulation used in space travel. Today, scientists have made a big leap in unlocking the potential of 2D gold, thousands of years later.

Now, researchers from the University of Leeds in the U.K. have created the world’s “thinnest gold” only two atoms in thickness. It’s so thin; they consider it 2-dimensional. They say it’s a “landmark achievement” in nanomaterials with potential in the medical and electronics industries.

“The previous reported thinnest unsupported 2D gold nanosheets have a minimum thickness of 3.6 nanometers,” Sunjie Ye, lead author of the study, told Newsweek. “Our work represents the first fabrication of freestanding 2D gold with a sub-nanometer thickness, that is, we have brought 2D gold to sub-nanometer scale, which is a new focus of nanotechnology.”

“Gold is a highly effective catalyst. Because the nanosheets are so thin, just about every gold atom plays a part in the catalysis. It means the process is highly efficient,” Stephen Evans, a researcher from Leeds who supervised the study, said in a statement.

“Standard benchmark tests revealed that gold nanoscale sheets were ten times more efficient than the gold nanoparticles conventionally used in industry. Our data suggests that industry could get the same effect from using a smaller amount of gold, and this has economic advantages when you are talking about a precious metal,” said Evans.

According to the article, the flexible 2D gold might be used to “develop artificial enzymes” for such technologies as water filtration and improved medical diagnostic tests.

The advanced use of gold in this manner is new to science in 2019. On the other hand, if you subscribe to the story of the Anunnaki from the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia, it could be a throwback to technology thousands of years old. According to Ancient Astronaut theory, the Anunnaki genetically engineered the first man, or “Adamu” as slaves for their gold-mining operations some 450,000 years ago. The gold was needed for the technology to save the home planet, which was falling into environmental ruin.

If we put aside skepticism for a moment and consider this to be true, could humans learn how to use gold for advanced technology to save our own environment in the future?

Related: Why Was Gold So Important To The Ancient Anunnaki?

Much of the wisdom of these ancient beings was passed along to modern humans, but why not the technology associated with gold? For example, some of the system of mathematics and measurements we still use originated in ancient Mesopotamia. Consider that the hours and minutes that define our daily lives, based on the number 60, came from the ancients.

Related: Did the Anunnaki reveal keys to the universe in the first system of mathematics?

Zecharia Sitchin (1920 – 2010), the famous (or infamous, depending on your view?) author who expounded on the story of Anunnaki for years, was quoted in the New York Times in 2010 as the paper explored his ideas. Many people consider it bunk, but to Sitchin and a growing audience, the tablets aren’t just myth but record actual events.

This is how Mr. Sitchin explains what scientists attribute to evolution. He says the aliens’ cities were washed away in a great flood 30,000 years ago, after which they began passing on their knowledge to humans. He showed a photograph of a woodcarving from 7,000 B.C. of a large man handing over a plow to a smaller man: Ah, the passing on of agricultural knowledge. Anyway, he said, the Nibiru-ites finally jetted home in their spacecraft, around 550 B.C.

“This is in the texts; I’m not making it up,” Mr. Sitchin said, finishing his coffee. “They wanted to create primitive workers from the homo erectus and give him the genes to allow him to think and use tools.”

Today, humans are indeed thinking and using tools, but we still clearly have far to go before we could really be considered an advanced civilization. At least the use of 2D gold seems to be another small step in the right direction.

For a discussion of the Anunnaki and their quest for gold on Earth, as told in the Sumerian tablets, watch this video from Universe Inside You below

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The Island of Sardinia, west of the Italian Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea, holds many ancient secrets. Today, ancient astronaut theorists are most interested in the monumental tombs and other sites that seem to indicate a race of giants who used advanced technology. If not giants, it’s still unexplainable using conventional historical timelines and conventional thinking.

Evidence of giants includes the so-called “Giants of Mont’e Prama,” 40-50 ancient stone sculptures created by the Nuragic civilization of Sardinia. Some of the ‘giants’ stood over nine feet tall and weighed over 800 pounds, carrying shields and masks. They are said to date before the 8th century BC, which if accurate, means they predate Greek sculptures as the oldest examples of Colossi (giant sculptures) ever found in the Mediterranean.

Megalithic researcher, and explorer, Hugh Newman, shared his video (see below) of these strange oversized sculptures found in Sardinian farmland in March 1974. A farmer made the find while plowing a field when he struck on the stones. Hundreds of thousands of fragments were carefully reassembled to reveal giants and small versions of megalithic towers called nuraghe. These towers gave the Nuragic civilization its name.

Newman also discusses the newspaper account of an eight-foot skeleton unearthed on the island at Porto Torres, supposedly dating to 4,000 years ago. In the next video, he discusses giant-sized bones found by another farmer plowing a field.

Take a look at these bizarre robot-like sculptures from MegalithomaniaUK below.

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Next, Newman travels to the Giant Tombs, hundreds of collective tombs built by the Nuragic civilization all over the island during the Bronze Age.

The largest tomb is called the Coddu Vecchiu and dates back to 2000 BC. A 100-foot tall carved ‘entrance’ rock that marks the trapezoidal burial chamber behind it. The entrance rock has a smaller semicircular doorway carved out at the base considered “a symbolic passageway for the spirits of the dead.”

The limestone and granite megalithic blocks are enormous, weighing tons and carefully assembled with some stones individually carved into curving shapes.

Take a tour of the Giants’ Tombs from MegalithomaniaUK below:

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In the third video, we take a look at the most impressive site of all, the sacred Well of Santa Cristina. The name is misleading, coming from the well’s proximity to a country church dedicated to her in the 1200s.

According to Atlas Obscura:

“The well is composed of an elliptical enclosure surrounding a trapezium-shaped opening in the ground, with stairs leading down to a circular, domed subterranean chamber that housed the spring. The Nuragic religion seems to have involved a lot of symbolic representations of fertility, and included a cult of water that invoked the various feminine aspects of the divine.”

A round opening in the ceiling allows sun and moonlight to shine down upon the spring, particularly at the equinoxes. Like stone monuments across the globe in Peru and Egypt, the stonework used here is precision-cut and has to be seen to be believed. Inside the shrine, the walls are perfectly smooth, curving, and in some cases use interlocking shapes.

What technology was used? We currently have no idea.

What happened at the shrine? There is no recorded history.

The opening to the shrine forms a perfect trapezium shape while aerial shots of the well show a curving formation, that brings to mind the Hindu Shiva-linga.

While we still have no concrete proof that giants roamed Sardinia, these ancient monuments give us a sense of wonder. How did ancient people create these shrines using enormous boulders cut with near laser perfection? Why do similar finds appear all over Earth when global travel was supposedly impossible at that time? What technology was used? It all remains a mystery that defies traditional ways of thinking.

See the Well of Santa Cristina from MegalithomaniaUK below:

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Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen these days, and most people have at least one they believe in. From the moon being made of cheese and the Twin Towers going down in flames on 9/11 after planes crashed into them to crop circles and more, there are often good reasons why the conspiracies make the rounds as believable theories.

Probably some of the most prevalent conspiracy theories abound about the moon, a topic that’s regained some fuel since the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11’s landing on the moon recently passed. However, some of the most infamous theories just have bizarre reasonings behind them – here are some of the most prevalent.

The Alien conspiracy theory and random things on the moon

Amid an elaborate NASA coverup, aliens allegedly live on the moon. And Scott C. Waring, self-proclaimed UFO expert and author of the website ET Database, claims to have proof in various photos and videos. He also claims that NASA has since deleted the files proving aliens exist on the moon. He’s made dozens of claims, such as finding alien cities, and wreckage proving alien civilizations lived there some millions of years ago. The most bizarre about this claim that he made in 2013 is that he says the “moon is not real.”

According to the report:

“The evidence that NASA deleted is not just a UFO, but is also 100% evidence that the moon is not real, but actually an alien space station.”

Waring claims that the moon isn’t real because it is instead a huge alien space station disguised to look benign. Just recently, he claimed that he found various structures hidden inside craters that appeared blue and purple in color. However, the images are highly zoomed and processed.

Other random objects supposedly found on the moon includes one found by Richard Hoagland, who claims a photo contained shards of something that “no geological phenomenon” could explain. So it must, of course, be alien in origin. However, this image was also highly processed, and the original photo showed a light spot.

The moon is just a big cheese wheel

It’s more than obvious that the moon is not made of cheese, but this has become a popular myth that’s retold time and time again – and has been for millennia. In fact, one of the earliest known citations of this myth dates back all the way to the 1500s in a book of famous quotes by the author called, “The Proverbs of John Heywood.”

If the moon were made of cheese, we’d know it by now. With the manned moon landing, the umpteen thousands of photographs, video, and images from various satellites – including the Chinese module that landed on the dark side of the moon, we know for sure it’s not made of cheese. Besides, do you really think there are a big cow and a dairy manufacturer “big enough” to make it out in space?

The theory that the moon will turn green (or is green cheese)

This is a variation of the “moon is made of cheese” conspiracy theory. But, as it turns out, the word “greene” was used, which refers to the age of the cheese, and not the color. Recently however a rumor went around that it would turn green – in color. According to the report:

“The planets aligned and caused an eerie glow.”

According to the rumor, the moon was supposed to turn green in 2016 on April 20 and May 29, and it would have been the first time it did so since 1596. But, it didn’t.

A full moon causes us to go crazy

Popular myths related to full moons range from the “it could have a correlation” to the downright bizarre. For example, some people who work in the medical industry say that emergency rooms are busier during full moons, including the increase in birth rates, suicides, and epileptic seizures. Other people believe that crimes are committed at an exponential rate during full moons, or that people just generally become wilder.

There is no statistical data to back up any of the claims, but people tend to believe them anyway.

Supermoons cause natural disasters

In spite of data to the contrary, people tend to believe that more natural disasters happen during supermoons than at any other time. They believe this because of the way supermoons orbit the earth. They orbit closer, which is what makes them appear to be so large on the horizon. As a result, their gravitational pull tends to be stronger – this is what causes the tides to change during this time.

However, there is zero evidence that natural disasters are increased according to all the USGS data compiled on the rumored phenomenon.

The “moon landing never happened” conspiracy

Probably the biggest conspiracy theory of all is that the moon landing was faked. Some people think it was completely staged, and filmed in a closed set. Even former United States military officers believe the landing was faked. Bill Kaysing, a writer for a NASA rocket manufacturer and former U.S. Navy officer, wrote a book about his “inside knowledge of a government conspiracy to fake the moon landings” in 1976. Many of today’s conspiracy theories about the landing come from that book, according to the report.

According to those who believe the conspiracies, some photos show many anomalies in the film that prove the landing was faked. Such as the U.S flag that the astronauts planted flying in the wind when there wasn’t any. Or that there were footprints left (without water) by the astronauts but not by the lunar module itself. Or that there aren’t any stars visible in the photos.

Legitimate conspiracy theory explanations

However, as seemingly legitimate these questions are, there are also legitimate answers. For example, NASA sewed a metal rod into the flag so it would fly that way. And you don’t need water to make footprints because friction can cause the same effect – not to mention that the lunar module had its weight more evenly distributed, so it wouldn’t have left prints as the astronauts did. Oh, and you know how when you stargaze in the middle of the city, but only see a very few? This is because of the “washed out” effect from city lights. This is the same effect the sun had on the stars in the background of the photographs that made it appear there weren’t any.

For all of the theories that abound, the most prevalent are those about the moon landing and aliens. NASA, of course, refutes all the claims, but it makes you wonder why the organization would delete photos or video of anything, especially after someone makes those claims. Could they be hiding something? Or are the collective imaginations of millions just running wild with conspiracy theories?

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