by Pam Uher

Created on: April 22, 2008   Last Updated: March 10, 2009

Strange and amazing archaeological digs have given rise to mythical modern adventurers like Indiana Jones, Laura Croft and Benjamin Gates. These characters have captured the imagination of several generations and evoked a renewed interest in archeology and ancient history. This has been a great money boom for movie makers, movie theaters, toy manufacturers and story tellers.

The tales are of course fictional and far from the truth or any reality, right?

Perhaps that is a wrong supposition, as it is said life is stranger than fiction. Most legends, myths and tall tales are based upon some truth that usually has been embellished and exacerbated over time.

Archaeological digs present almost daily new information about what we believe to true and what we believe to be fiction. The truth is out there'. As the X-Files used to say and it is quite amazing!

The Vatican in Rome and the most significant archaeological organization in the world, The Smithsonian Institute (which is a federal agency) have been in control of some of the most fabulous archaeological digs and finds in modern times. Unfortunately, as some films have portrayed, these organizations have kept from the public some of the most amazing archaeological discoveries for various reasons. They have at times contrived to control people and write history their way for their purposes, fearing the truth would threaten the socio-political credibility of governments and the religious veracity of "the church".

There is credible documentation concerning the Smithsonian's complicity is truth alteration and suppression beginning in 1881, when John Wesley Powell and Cyrus Thomas (both with the Smithsonian) rejected the Dispersion of Culture theory and adopted the Isolationism Theory. This war of academic schools of thought fought vehemently over the heritage of the Native Northern American Indigenous Tribes and their non-involvement with South American civilizations.

Take a look at just 3 amazing archaeological digs that may enlighten you as they give new possibilities to history the way we thought is was.

Archaeological digs involving ancient mounds in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Western Tennessee and many other areas along the Mississippi River Valley have uncovered advanced cultures that pre-date the North American Indian Nations by 100's of years. These digs have also revealed that the mound-builders had contact with very amazing people. Some of the finds in the burial mounds were of extremely tall

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