Noumenal News

THEY came, they saw, they conquered. Or in this case, destroyed.
Diggers at an archaeological site took just minutes to do what the ancient Britons failed to manage.
A Roman fort had withstood the ravages of time and tribesmen until heavy-handed experts mistakenly decided to uncover its secrets with a mechanical excavator.
Hundreds of the buried artifacts at […]

Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.
This is the world in 30 years’ […]

NASA has released the new ultra high resolution pictures of the “face on Mars.” For just a little bit of background, In 1979, scientists studying pictures of the Martian surface noticed that on the Cydonian plain, there stood out, what seemed to plainly be, a giant face staring out into space. Over the years, scientist […]

A Malaysian state has closed down a controversial museum exhibition on ghosts, ghouls and supernatural beings after Islamic clerics declared it was detrimental to Muslims’ faith, newspapers reported yesterday.
The exhibition at the state museum in southern Negeri Sembilan has drawn some 25,000 visitors since it opened on March 10 but it has also attracted criticisms […]

The tiny island lies just off the western shoreline of Lake Berryessa, north of San Francisco. It is an idyllic spot, perfect for relaxation underneath the lone tree that provides shade from the sun. Last week, as people sunbathed and barbecued yards away, there was no clue to the evil that happened there. No clue […]

For centuries, human captives were brought hundreds of miles to be sacrificed at a pyramid in the oldest city in North America, just north of modern Mexico City, an archeologist says.
DNA tests on more than 50 skeletons from the Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacan ruins reveal they were from faraway Mayan, Pacific or […]

Belief in goblins is still persistent in Zimbabwe, fuelled by a desire for quick riches, fame and power. And there are people ready, for a large fee, to “manufacture” them to feed the desires of the gullible.
And sometimes this “manufacture” will involve more than just a cash fee. Rape, mutilation and even murder have been […]

Being called a crone is not generally considered a compliment among older women, but in Wicca it is a term of reverence for the wisdom and power a woman has earned by the final stage of her life.
The stages in a woman’s life reflect the three faces of the goddess in Wicca: the maiden, the […]