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  • Reply to: Little Human Subspecies: Where’s the Evidence?   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: dhoward8816

    How are the modern African people referred to as “pygmies” related to these finds?

  • Reply to: The Final Insanity of Al Capone: Was Notorious Gangster Haunted by a Hapless Victim?   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    Howard: There is no such title as mayor of the U.K.
    Try again and give the name as opposed to the title.

  • Reply to: The Hidden Identity of the Woman Glorified as Athena: Her Link to the Pre-Flood World   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Bruce Nowakowski

    I agree completely.  if anyone in the Bible were the ancestors of the Greeks it would be the line of Japath.  His son Javan (yawen)  is the Hebrew word for Greece (and isn’t too far off from Jove which is the Latin/Roman  Counter part to Zeus. 

  • Reply to: Invisible Blue: The Color That Ancient People Could Not See   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: AlanP

    How we see and describe colour is as much a linguistic and cultural thing as anything. Celtic colours, as in previous comment, do not match quite with modern English. Even older English colours from Saxon and Norse, which survive in adjectives for animals, are different to modern perceptions – a ‘brown’ cow is called ‘red’, a ‘white’ horse is ‘grey’, a ‘grey’ cat is’blue’, etc.

     

    In Russian there are two colour names which are used for what we call blue, similar to the difference perhaps between red and pink. Russians have no problem telling the difference, I can’t always get it right which is very frustrating!

  • Reply to: More Than A Game: The True History Of Ouija Boards   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Meshkiangkasher

    Even a former Catholic should know better. Demons are very real, and there’s no such thing as harmless interaction with them.

  • Reply to: 10th Century Forgotten City Unearthed in Ethiopia, Once Thought to be ‘Home of Giants’   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Zucchini

    Hi All,

    These are my thoughts once I made a mistake of believing that The Biblical Book Enoch was more like Greek Mythology than an Biblical Account but, after getting the impression, I better go back and Study the Sacred Book; I came to realize how wrong I was about This Biblical Text.

    I've read been read the Bible and have read The Holy Book on my own accept during Bible Study and when I read of the Giant's mentioned in Book of Number's and Joshua/Judges, I originally believed that those Giant's only lived in The Promise Land Canaan.

    It never occurred to me that Giant's were said to exist all over the World. Upon reading Enoch it helped me to understand there was more to those Stories and so I know longer view Enoch or any other story shared by our Ancient Ancestors as Myth's.

    It is not all that odd for me to believe Giant's made their Home in Ethiopia as well thanks to our Greek Cousins let's Identify them as The Titan's The Greek Stories testified to their existence.

    I think these that Titan's Stories should be explored a little more than with an dismissive attitude of Not an chance these Titans never walked the Earth their just Myth's.

    That's all I wished to address about the Ancient Race of Giant's living in Ethiopia so until next time, Everyone!

  • Reply to: Petroglyphs Sun Writing Of The Gods: Cosmological Orientation Of Fremont Indian Rock Art   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Zucchini

    Hi All,

    Learning something New is beginning to sound more like an adventure of a sort and this is the closest I can come to make an comparison.

    I hadn't heard of The Fremont Indigenous Tribe in Utah. Are they still around are did early interactions with Europeans subsequently wipe them out?

    There's another interest within this article; that caught my eye which was the reference to the Humanoid figures etched in the Petroglyphs where we get Sun Writing of the gods originate.

    I'm just going to share this and leave it be...

    According to Enoch 1 The Book of Watchers (Enoch was once in The Bible but, then was removed from the Sacred Book Man's decision), The Creator addressed 200 Fallen Angel's apart of a Sub-group The Watchers for Behaving as though They Were God.

    So to learn that these Petroglyphs in Utah carved by the Fremont Indigenous Tribe depict Solar deities with Headdress for me that is confirms Enoch 1 about the Watcher Angel's. Too the human eye studying those figures are gods.

    Since reading Enoch most intriguing I've noticed many articles shared on Ancient Origins regarding diverse Subject's pertaining to Ancient gods seemingly confirming much of Bible Book's Enoch & Jubilees.

    All in all this is an exciting update of what our Ancient Ancestors that left notes for us to get a picture of what the World was like in those Ancient Day's. An with that until next time, Everyone, Goodbye!

  • Reply to: Study Shows Neanderthals Had Capacity To Produce And Understand Speech   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Ravi Sadana

    It seems this research study on Neanderthals’ status is tendentious and iffy. No personal criticism intended, how can you deduce a capacity for language from an old bony skull? There are no tissue-residues or nerve-residues in the skull.  How many skulls were studied?  Neanderthal race is a typical object that has been maligned.  Why? How do we know the impossible conditions they managed to survive? They were smarter than we can imagine. Let’s stop patting the modern man on the back. Look at the mess he’s in today.

    Neanderthals didn’t die out or vanish; like all races they were absorbed.

  • Reply to: Invisible Blue: The Color That Ancient People Could Not See   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    The traditional Scottish Gaelic for blue (gorm, pronounced gor-om) is more accurately describable as blue-green. Grass is gorm (or blue-green). Green (uaine) is more yellow-green.

    Dearg is red and was also pink, but not for red hair, which is rufous (ruadh - where the Scottish name 'Roy' comes from). Grey hair (liath) is also different from grey (glas).

    Our colour perceptions are part cultural and part physiological. When I say our family car is blue, my wife says it is green. What best fits it is gorm. Technically, we're both right.

  • Reply to: Study Shows Neanderthals Had Capacity To Produce And Understand Speech   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: SpinResistant

    Interesting piece of research, but presented in a manner that almost invites over-interpretation. Demonstrating a capability for language cannot prove the presence of language. Many human children who lack speech.due to disease clearly have the bone structures that should enable it. Parrots presumable have the necessary physical structures that permit speech, but do not as a species have language. If a group of diamond prospectors found a baked-bean can amongst the rocks, they could no doubt physically prove that it was capable of containing.diamonds, but this would hardly demonstrate that it ever had contained diamonds. Conversely, humans are capable of language without speech, for example written script or sign language, so the absence of the appropriate bone structures to support speech would not necssarioly rule out language capability in a species.

    The critical issue as the authors concede, remains the cognitive capabilities of Neanderthals and it is difficult to see how the presence or absence of appropriate patterns of brain organisation could ever be established in Neanderthal populations without physical evidence of actual language use such as examples of preserved writings.

  • Reply to: Micro-Laser Study Reveals Hardships In Little Foot’s Life   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    From the article, it would seem that the skeleton was (illegally) smuggled out of South Africa.

    "to facilitate an evolutionary leap to Homo sapiens"
    Another article trying to convince us of evolution.................Yawn.

  • Reply to: Zarathushtra - The Revolutionary Iranian Prophet and First Philosopher in History   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Mahbod Khanbolouki

    Archeological evidence: “Archaeological evidence is usually inconclusive regarding questions of religion. However, a Russian archaeologist, Viktor Sarianidi, links Zoroaster to circa 2000 B.C.E. based upon excavations of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated to circa 2200–1700 B.C.E.”

    “Indo-Iranian religion is generally accepted to have begun in the late 3rd millennium B.C.E. (e.g., the Soma cult), but Zoroaster himself already looked back on a long religious tradition. The Yaz culture, an early Iron Age culture in the Afghan-Turkmen-Iranian border area (c. 1500-1100 B.C.E.), is considered a likely staging ground for the development of East Iranian and early Zoroastrian practices.”

    “The teachings of Zarathustra (Zoroaster) appeared in Persia at some point during the period 1700-1800 BCE. His wisdom became the basis of the religion Zoroastrianism, and generally influenced the development of the Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian philosophy.”...”According to the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (page 409), the chronology of the subject and science of philosophy starts with the Indo-Iranians, dating this event to 1500 BC”...”The Oxford dictionary also states, "Zarathushtra's philosophy entered to influence Western tradition through Judaism, and therefore on Middle Platonism." … “The works of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism had a significant influence on Greek and Roman philosophy.”

  • Reply to: Micro-Laser Study Reveals Hardships In Little Foot’s Life   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    Are Neanderthals a complete evolutionary dead end if some of their genes live on in us?

    I would think not.

  • Reply to: Changes in Human Hunting Practices May Explain Human Brain Development   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Caesar A. Mendez

    I really can’t believe  that Homo Sapiens ever developed the populations to exterminate the great herds of Megafauna that roamed the ‘Ice-Age’. Humans may have played a part but they weren’t the whole reason. I agree that our thinking power would of improved via better hunting stratgies & communications skills.  As far as shrinking brains are concerned it just maybe that our brains simply developed better ‘wiring’; having a “Big" head literatly would prove a bit awkward. And that thinking power would of switched from a hunting strategy to mathematical problem solving as humans developed from hunters to farmers & then to builders. Look at humanity’s greatest creation so far the electronic calculator/brain; a smart phone has now more computing power than those early computers that filled a large room. So ends my 'rant’.

  • Reply to: Mythological Sea Serpents And Lake Monsters Versus Scientific Sharks And Surviving Dinosaurs   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Zucchini

    Hi All,

    I'm hoping these Subjects that I attempt to discuss goes on through to all of the audience.

    I think the Greeks-Romans reported seeing species of that Super Shark Megalodon swimming in The Mediterranean In The Ancient Past.

    Part's if this title with the article reminds me of the line in The Wizard of Oz Lion's, & Tiger's, & Bear's Oh My...

    I would have to say at this point in time I don't believe these stories are Myth's. I agree with what was stated in this article that people back in the day were still seeing these animals before they went fully extinct but word of mouth isn't enough of proof about these creature's.

    I may have mentioned in previous discussions my pique interest in Unsolved Mysteries; it's been a hoot to come across article's within Ancient Origins that touch on a few Topics addressed in Unsolved Mystery episode's.

    There's this one Unsolved Mystery that dealt with the disappearance of an British Surveyor in down in Brazil. His name is Colonel Percy Fawcett.

    According to the Mystery series Percy was dispatched to the Amazon to perform his task of Surveying apparently, He Surveyed both from The Boat along the Amazon River and in The Amazon Rainforest itself.

    Percy was an due diligence type of Man an He was known doing meticulous notes while on his Surveyor Job's that he did on behalf of The British Government. It was from Percy that reported on seeing a 60 foot long Anaconda deep within the Amazonian Rainforest but, most intriguing he brought back reports of seeing other animals believed to all be extinct as well.

    It's no surprise that nobody believed Him they simply put it down to the Brazilian Jungle got to him and he simply hallucinated.

    Well Percy handled the disbelief of his fellow countrymen as well would be expected what with the 60 foot long Anaconda and living Sauropods that were possible Dipolodicus?
    That's No joke!

    Percy decided to go back to the Brazilian Jungle in order to bring back proof of something He saw in The Amazon. Before Percy left there were two brilliant decisions he made First, He said if No one heard from Him after a certain amount of days Nobody was to come looking for Him the only other person that left with him was His Own Son.

    The Second thing, Percy did was too leave all of his Notes from exploring and Surveying Brazil, The Amazon and The Amazon River with his Good Friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    As predicted Percy and his Son were never heard from again but, Sir Doyle took his best friends' Surveyor Notes' which was all about his expedition within The Amazon and turn it in to an Book The Lost World, the character dubbed The Challenger were based on Percy Fawcett.

    Getting back to that 60 foot long Anaconda I'm inclined to believe Percy Fawcetts Account the Expedition took place in Brazil 1905-1907, the other reason why I believe Percy. I think it was five years ago, I watched an Smithsonian Documentary on the incredible Find of the Titanoboa in Columbia, it's skeletal remains.

    Finding most of Titanoboa Skeleton remains the scientist realized this thing could grow to 45 feet in length. The scientist searched in similar ecosystems of Brazil and Venezuela in order too see Titanboas World.

    Percy Fawcett felt he was looking at a 60 foot long Anaconda but, what if Fawcett actually saw a Living Titanoboa instead?

    Here's how I see it Percy was sent too Brazil too do a Job in The Amazon Survey It.

    Percy didn't set out too see Living Titanoboa's and perhaps a few living Sauropods believed to have been Dipolodicus He was there when Know one was looking for them so it was all by happenstance.

    As for Lake Monster's the only three or rather four I became familiar with was Canada's Oogo-pogo alongside another mysterious creature watched since The First People an there Ancestors settled in Canada witnessing the two animal's on numerous occasions.

    Then there was Lake Champlain home of Champy monster, lastly The Loch Ness Monster's or Nessie; but, I've since learned other Lake's containing these Lake animals is a global thing so either the whole world is delusional or there really are Lake Monster's possibly that could be Pleosaurs it still comes down to the rule of not looking for them and seeing them by chance.

    Surviving Dinosaurs well I did touch on the possibility of Dipolodicus still existing in 1905-1907; they're probably gone now but, in that era you never know what was or isn't extinct.
    There are five probable sprace clusters of surviving dinosaurs in Africa.

    They've been spoken of in The Congo, and Cameroon. The first is from the Sauropod Family Living Brontosaurus and Ceratopsians Triceratops/Stryacsaurus however in The Congo and Cameroon Brontosaurus are Mokelembe & The Triceratops/Stryacsaurus No Goubou.

    Mokelembe is as describes growing to lengths of 30-45 feet, it's said they are aggressive and very territorial and some of the Natives has witnessed Mokelembe kill Hippopotamus but, not eat them. The Pygmies from the Congo not only have killed Mokelembe but, once ate one but, something was wrong with the meat even cooked it made a lot of people sick so the Pygmies simply kill them the way Mokelembe kills Hippopotamus.

    No Goubou like Mokelembe are highly aggressive and very territorial they've killed people but don't eat them and the Natives as well the Pygmies observed No Goubou kill elephants.

    Now it's recently reported that No Goubou's aren't seen as much these days so they very well maybe gone now.

    Mokelembe tends to turn up like clock work All of the Natives state Mokelembe comes from an underwater Cave.

    In the 1920's the rumors of Mokelembe being possible Living Brontosaurus that the Smithsonian launched and expedition to the Congo while at a singular village interviewing the people word came to them that a herd of Mokelembe were going through another Village but, the only way to reach the spot was by train.

    Tragically due to a sudden storm there was a massive mudslide that derailed the train many of the Smithsonian Expedition were either killed or Severely Wounded so they never got the chance too see them but, Natives in The Congo and Cameroon still report seeing them from time to time.

    Then there are reports of the Pterasaurs spotted flying over Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa Pterandons the Natives call Kamanto other's Ropens & Silvas all pose a danger to people they do attack but, what's really interesting is that all three of these living bird's that flew with the time of the dinosaurs it is said that they somehow glow in the dark.

    There is a ytube video about an soldiers experience during World War II when he encountered the Kamanto in 1944, on second thought all honestly as long Japan was entrenched in Papua New Guinea; I'm surprise they didn't get a chance to kill those Terror Bird's after all, the Japanese Soldier carried Steele Samurai Swords.

    I think that is all I have to share for now when I remember something if great significance then I'll stop by with this article and Share It.

    So until next time, Everyone, Goodbye!

  • Reply to: Changes in Human Hunting Practices May Explain Human Brain Development   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    The Australian megafauna die-off roughly coincided with a drying of the continent and a rise in bushfire prevalence, although it has been academically linked to human activity.

    One thing is for sure, the marsupial mega-herbivores did not target nutritionally-poor gum leaves like small modern koalas do. Sheoaks and kurrajongs are far better trees for browsing, but they are more susceptible to fire.

    Hence, the takeover of Australian woodlands, in particular, by relatively inedible fire-harnessing eucalypts would not have been helpful to megafauna survival. Exactly when human activity with fire management and promotion started is not well understood, but it could well have been a response to climate-induced mega-fauna loss and the need to hunt smaller prey more often or, even, exclusively. Was that transition seamless? Of course, no one really knows.

  • Reply to: Changes in Human Hunting Practices May Explain Human Brain Development   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    It is probably more likely that human brain size will shrink from reading articles like this...

    Nature is not melting down. To assert that it is leads me to conclude that the author has no better understanding of climate than of hunting.

    Larger animals may be slower, but they were far more dangerous than adding a bit more carbon dioxide to our current atmosphere will ever be.
    If anything was guaranteed to make one think it was physical danger. And if it didn't, evolution took care of it in the most basic manner by ensuring such things changed if the species was to survive.

    It may well be that the earliest members of our genus did not hunt all that often, preferring to scavenge a fresh kill in much the same way hyenas will do, by driving off the successful predator.

    As civilisation advances, the distance between those who understand hunting and those who write articles like this only grows.

  • Reply to: Crimes And Conspiracies Continue At Ancient Caral Site In Central Peru   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Army of Nobunaga
    Law

    I can tell you live in America. As a filmmaker I suggest going to Peru with a camera. I travel to Peru and South America constantly and have a second home in Mexico. Most Americans don't grasp the complete lawlessness of other countries. I say this not disparaging the other countries because there you have to find ways to get around and create your own law…. and that suits me.

    Mark-Andrew these people in Peru are not worried about history. They are worried about surviving. Take a camera and go open some eyes. And if you do take or hire someone that knows the lay of the land there for your safety.

     

    cheers

  • Reply to: Why did our brains stop expanding?   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: ledom

    Our brains stopped expanding because women couldn’t give birth to babies with larger heads.

  • Reply to: Where the West Actually Meets the East—The Tarim Mummies   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: tony34

    The Plaid pattern in their clothing also resembles what Slavs have and their DNA is also what Slavic people have and ancient chariot of the Eurasian steppe of the Scythians.

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