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Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.Now a Mexican archaeologist using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish Inquisition says a series of caves he has explored may be the place where the Maya actually tried to depict this highway through hell.

In 2000, Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago went to the Sahara looking for dinosaur bones. Instead he found the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people. Here, Dr. Sereno is working to stabilize the skull of a woman of a nomadic culture knowns as the Tenerians, who lived in the area in Niger from 6,500 to 4,500 years ago, when rains fell and lakes dotted the Sahara.

A big fish, called Tong Shi, was shot in Guangzhou China. There are akeletons of human being in its belly, after the fish was cut off.Months before many people missed in the lake. People think the swimmers are not careful. Until a child of a senior official was eaten in July 2008, this secret was found.This child and his 3 friends rented a boot. They jumped in water together but the child sank suddenly into water. His friend tried to pull him out but failed. The senior official ordered polices to find out the reason.

Afghan workers are seen digging the baked earth on the heights of Cheshm-e-Shafa in the Balkh province. Centuries-old shards of pottery mingle with spent ammunition rounds on a wind-swept mountainside in northern Afghanistan where French archaeologists believe they have found a vast ancient city lost to historical record.

The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old.