What we have with the Boorong is a proof of concept that star lore can be used to guide disparate populations to a specific site for a multitude of spiritual and practical reasons.

I suspect these may have been filled with a liquid that could reflect and catch the starlight as in a mirror

Israel’s well-funded archaeological programme expands in lock-step with the growth of her illegal settlements, providing subtextual legitimacy for the Likud party’s aim of restoring her biblical borders. Take a closer look behind the confident archaeological headlines, however, and you often find evidence ranging from the tenuous to the spurious.

Travelling at night, ancestral and totemic spirit constellations would pass overhead

Look at how clever our inferiors were,’ we say, as we die, fat and unhappy, waving our iPhones around for signal.

The bluestones of Stonehenge ‘sing’ when hit with rocks. In Western European tombs and mounds, resonances tend to cluster around the 110–122 Hertz range, the same as a baritone voice

If you slap some of them with the palm of your hand, they vibrate like a tuning fork

After more than two decades helming the august New England Journal of Medicine, outgoing editor-in-chief, Dr Marcia Angell, said in the January 2009 New York Review of Books that ‘it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.’ Science is now so riddled with corporate self-interest and falsified

evening of August 28th, 1859