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Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: construction excavator uncovering a medieval wooden cog hull in Tallinn. Panel 2: magnifying glass over oak tree rings dated 1370 to 1374. Panel 3: Baltic map tracing Lithuanian oak to Tallinn outfitting. Panel 4: Estonian Maritime Museum tent and Lootsi cog placard.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: ERR.

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Tallinn Lootsi cog’s oak traced to Lithuanian coast, 1370s

ERR: Lootsi 8 cog found spring 2022; Dendrochronologia — Lithuanian oak winters 1370–72 lower hull, upper/galley 1373–74, local Tallinn finishing; moon rings; ship rats. Pop-history archaeology only.

September 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color archaeology comic. Panel 1: dense jungle. Panel 2: green LiDAR scan revealing hidden ruins. Panel 3: cartoon plazas and pyramid. Panel 4: carved stela marked 849 CE.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Smithsonian Magazine / INAH.

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LiDAR finds Minanbé, a roadless Maya city hidden in Campeche jungle

Smithsonian / INAH: ~40-acre Late Classic site in Calakmul Biosphere; Río Bec pyramid, 14 stelae; one dated 849 CE. Pop-history archaeology only.

September 19, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color archaeology comic. Panel 1: weathered temple stone. Panel 2: green laser scan grid. Panel 3: newly revealed ship silhouettes. Panel 4: six colored badges for shipbuilding traditions.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Arkeonews / International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.

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Laser scans reveal 23 more ship carvings on a 3,000-year-old Cyprus temple wall

Arkeonews / IJNA 2026: Kition Kathari Temple 1; Braun, Barnes & Manolova; six morphological ship groups; graffiti added across Late Bronze–Early Iron Age. Pop-history archaeology only.

September 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: ancient New Kingdom fortress silhouette on the Nile Delta. Panel 2: complete young male horse in a deliberate honorific burial pose. Panel 3: alabaster and limestone harness pieces nearby. Panel 4: modern archaeologists uncovering the Tell Al-Abqain war-horse find.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: CBS News.

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Egypt dig finds ~3,000-year-old honorific war-horse burial

CBS Ahmed Shawkat: Tell Al-Abqain Nile Delta New Kingdom fortress; complete young male horse; harness pieces; SCA quotes. Pop-history archaeology only — no modern politics.

September 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: ancient walls labeled Troy VI with a marketplace square in front. Panel 2: Late Bronze Age Wilusa agora stalls and traders. Panel 3: new settlers rebuilding houses around the old central square as Ilios or Ilion. Panel 4: modern archaeologists uncovering Troy’s earliest agora.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Archaeology Magazine.

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Troy’s earliest agora unearthed before Troy VI walls

Archaeology Magazine, Sept. 15: Late Bronze Wilusa marketplace; revived ~80–90 years after collapse as Ilios/Ilion; Reyhan Körpe; Turkish Ministry + Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Pop-history only.

September 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: night lightning over Hadrian’s Villa amphitheater ruins. Panel 2: marble slab carved FVLGVR SVBMANIVM. Panel 3: cartoon fulgur conditum ritual burying consecrated lightning. Panel 4: modern archaeologist discovering the inscribed stone in daylight.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Archaeology Magazine.

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Marble FVLGVR SVBMANIVM marks lightning ritual at Hadrian’s Villa

Archaeology Magazine, Sept. 14: amphitheater-area slab; Summanus nocturnal lightning; fulgur conditum burial rite; Fabio Giorgio Cavallero; Alberto Samonà, Ministry of Culture. Pop-history only.

September 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: limestone cave mouth labeled Bianfu Cave Yunnan. Panel 2: glowing forearm radius fossil with skull fragments and teeth. Panel 3: scatter of 1360-plus stone tools and mammal bone fragments. Panel 4: misty karst timeline from about 190000 to 70000 years ago for site use.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: National Geographic / Nature.

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Bianfu Cave yields first Denisovan forearm bone in Yunnan

National Geographic: radius plus skull fragments and teeth ID’d by collagen protein (no DNA); ~167k–134k ya bones; site use ~190k–70k ya; 1360+ tools; two Nature papers Sept. 9.

September 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: three giant Devil’s Arrows standing stones near Boroughbridge. Panel 2: Brimham Rocks quarry 11 miles or 18 kilometers west. Panel 3: isotopic fingerprinting of zircon and apatite crystals. Panel 4: Aldborough Battle Cross revealed as a carved segment of a missing Arrow, folklore devil as garnish only.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Archaeology Newsroom / Proc. Royal Society A.

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Devil’s Arrows gritstone traced 11 miles to Brimham Rocks

Archaeology Newsroom, Sept. 9: isotopic fingerprinting of zircon and apatite shows ~25-tonne Neolithic pillars came from Brimham, not glaciers; Aldborough Battle Cross is a missing Arrow segment.

September 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-history comic. Panel 1: Mars surface with decorrelation stretch. Panel 2: Dstretch plug-in chalkboard. Panel 3: Baja cave yellow figure appears. Panel 4: Angkor Wat chamber with 200-plus revealed paintings.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: PetaPixel / NASA JPL.

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A Mars photo trick helps find faded rock art on Earth

PetaPixel, Sept. 9: NASA JPL decorrelation stretch inspired Jon Harman’s Dstretch; Baja yellow figure; 200+ Angkor Wat paintings by Noel Hidalgo Tan.

September 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color unexplained-space comic. Panel 1: radio dishes find Cloud-9 near M94. Panel 2: Hubble searches and finds no stars. Panel 3: RELHIC chalkboard starless dark-matter relic. Panel 4: friendly failed-galaxy character with five billion solar masses note.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: NASA Science / Hubble.

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Hubble confirms Cloud-9, a starless dark-matter relic

NASA: the first confirmed RELHIC — a gas-rich failed galaxy near M94 with no stars inside, about 14 million light-years away.

September 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color conspiracy-as-unexplained-archaeology comic. Panel 1: cartoon excavators in colorful jackets at a Beartooth dig under orange sunset peaks. Panel 2: a glacier map stamped SHOULD NOT EXIST with a big red X. Panel 3: a bright Clovis point base glowing in a dark hearth pit. Panel 4: a comic stamp reading lightning and lottery twice.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Mountain Journal, Sept. 6–7, 2026.

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Beartooth dig: Clovis hearth find in a place that ‘should not exist’

Mountain Journal, Sept. 6–7: Scott Dersam’s alpine team uncovered a subsurface Clovis point base in an ancient hearth high near Yellowstone — ice maps said humans shouldn’t have been there.

September 7, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color unexplained-space comic. Panel 1: Saturn north hexagon vs south question mark. Panel 2: Hubble catches a 10-sided south-pole wave. Panel 3: scientists ask why now. Panel 4: hexagon and decagon characters waving across the rings.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: NASA Science / Hubble, Sept. 2, 2026.

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Hubble tracks a new 10-sided wave at Saturn’s south pole

NASA, Sept. 2: OPAL images reveal a strengthening decagon — a geometric twin mystery to the famous northern hexagon. Unexplained nature, not a plot.

September 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color archaeology comic. Panel 1: colorful dig site with a huge statue face-down in a road. Panel 2: cartoon ancient VIP in a diagonally wrapped tunic. Panel 3: Roman road crew using the broken statue as paving. Panel 4: museum spotlight and WHO WAS THIS tag.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Popular Mechanics, Sept. 4, 2026.

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A 7-foot statue spent centuries face-down in a Roman road

Popular Mechanics: Harvard-Cornell dig at Sardis finds an imposing figure reused as pavement—identity lost, style still puzzling.

September 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-archaeology comic. Panel 1: dig site sister to Gobekli Tepe. Panel 2: 70 cm stone human riding a leopard, composite sculpture 11,000 years. Panel 3: T-shaped pillars and paved stones. Panel 4: clipboard opening new questions about earliest human history, entertainment tone.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: The Debrief / Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

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An 11,000-year-old leopard rider turns up at Karahan Tepe

The Debrief: Turkey’s Culture Ministry says a 70-centimeter composite sculpture of a human on a leopard was found on a bench in a circular room at Göbekli Tepe’s sister site.

September 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color unexplained-nature comic. Panel 1: a small forested island floating on teal Williston Reservoir, 140 by 70 meters. Panel 2: a satellite map with an X, island missing. Panel 3: the same treed raft reappearing 30 km away near Ospika. Panel 4: a ranger clipboard, driftwood and peat, high water since 2012, do not climb.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: BBC News.

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A forested island on Williston Reservoir vanished, then drifted 30 km

BBC: a ~140-by-70-meter raft of trees on British Columbia’s Williston Reservoir disappeared from satellite, then showed up Monday near Ospika. BC Hydro says driftwood and peat, not a mystery navy.

September 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel cute folklore comic with cartoon stand-ins, not real faces. Panel 1: dusk on an Indiana County farm, two short hairy cartoon figures about three and a half feet tall playing near a tree line. Panel 2: a Westmoreland rural road at evening, a five-foot charcoal-grey cartoon creature running up a hillside. Panel 3: a friendly cartoon close-up of a dome-shaped head with no visible neck, long arms, a flat nose with flared nostrils, and small dark eyes. Panel 4: a folklore file cabinet labeled UNCONFIRMED.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: PennLive, Aug. 25, 2026.

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Mini-Bigfoot reports land in two southwest Pennsylvania counties

PennLive, Aug. 25: two shorter, hair-covered figures at play on an Indiana County farm and a charcoal-grey runner in Westmoreland — folklore filings, not proof.

September 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color cryptid comic: a hiker photographs a hunched figure in a glacial pond, the figure turns with a strange look, a researcher wades through mud to recreate the vantage, a split panel shows a small furry sasquatch versus a skinny-dipper.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Gray/KOLD, Aug. 29, 2026.

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Syracuse Figure pond photos spark Bigfoot-or-skinny-dipper debate

Gray/KOLD on a hiker’s Aug. 10 Onondaga County bog shots of a hunched figure, a BFRO recreation that pegs it near 4'9", and the juvenile sasquatch vs. swimmer theories.

August 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel mystery comic: a rare-book dealer with a strange codex, unidentifiable plants on a page, cryptologists at a blackboard, a Yale vault labeled still unread.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: History.com, May 27, 2025.

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The book nobody can read is still unread

History.com on the Voynich Manuscript: 15th-century vellum, an unknown script, and six centuries of failed decipherment sitting in a Yale vault.

August 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT