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1. Infrared Reveals a Wife Swap in a Prominent Medieval Religious Book

   Some good old-fashioned swinging? Medieval photoshopping? Not quite, but scientists have discovered something about Francis I of Brittany that he would surely have preferred to have kept secret.

   Sahir - 18/05/2021 - 19:02

2. The Lost and Coveted Treasures of King Solomon

   In the Hebrew Bible, the third king of Israel, Solomon, is depicted as a wise, powerful, and immensely wealthy king, who ruled between 965 BC and 925 BC.  It is written that he reigned over a prosperous empire and commissioned magnificent palaces and fortresses in Jerusalem, also building the first temple to store the legendary Ark of the Covenant, a gilded case believed to hold the original Ten Commandments as handed down to Moses by God.

   ancient-origins - 15/11/2015 - 20:55

3. Extreme Heat Followed by Downpours Once Characterized ‘Hothouse Earth’

   New research has found that the so-called hothouse Earth periods in our planet’s remote past were actually periods of extreme hot dry temperatures, hotter than today by 20-30 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius), followed by rain deluges hundreds of miles wide that could offload as much as a foot (30 centimeters) of rain in just a few hours. In hothouse Earth periods burning heat would have been cyclically followed by massive precipitation, a new study published by Harvard University suggests.

   Sahir - 09/11/2021 - 17:57

4. Earliest-known Human Engineered Hybrid Animals Identified in Mesopotamia

   A super-powerful animal known as the ‘kunga’ was the first-known human-engineered hybrid of two animal species, reports a new study published in Science Advances. The researchers conducted a genome-sequencing study on equine skeletons found at a 4,500-year-old burial site at Umm el-Marra in northern Syria.

   Sahir - 15/01/2022 - 13:54

5. Silver Coin from Henry VII’s Reign is Oldest English Coin Found in Canada

   Newfoundland is a large island off the east coast of Canada. Recently archaeologists discovered a silver coin there which was minted during the reign of the first monarch of the House of Tudor, Henry VII. This is likely to be the oldest English coin ever found in Canada, if not the entire continent of North America.

   Sahir - 13/11/2021 - 21:57

6. Farmer Digs Up Stone Egyptian Stele Saluting Sixth Century BC Pharaoh

   Recently, a farmer ploughing his field in Egypt’s Ismailia Governorate dug up something massive and historically significant. The unnamed farmer was shocked to realize the heavy object he’d uncovered was not a large rock. It was actually a huge stone Egyptian stele that contained hieroglyphic writing in an ancient language.

   Nathan Falde - 21/06/2021 - 21:35

7. Marduk: Babylonian King of Gods and Reportedly Liberator of the Jews

   Most people have heard of Zeus, Odin, or Jupiter, but not many have heard of Marduk. Born to the mother and father of all Babylonian gods, Marduk clawed his way to the top becoming the head of the Babylonian Pantheon. He fought against his mother and father to help mankind hold back the forces of chaos, his likeness brought both peace and pestilence to the lands surrounding Babylon, and he even helped the Jews rebuild their temples in biblical times.

   Veronica Parkes - 17/08/2018 - 02:04

8. 168 New Geoglyphs Discovered, Adding to the Enigma of Peru’s Nazca Lines

   A fresh set of 168 geoglyphs have been discovered by researchers in Peru’s intriguing Nazca Lines UNESCO World Heritage Site. The newly found drawings depict humans, camelids, birds, orcas, cats and snakes as well as simple lines and geometrical patterns.

   Sahir - 14/12/2022 - 17:53

9. Details of 586 BC Babylonian Destruction of Jerusalem Revealed in Fire Analysis

   A team of Israeli archaeologists recently completed a study of a large building that was apparently obliterated by fire during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 586 BC.

   Nathan Falde - 29/07/2023 - 14:35

10. Where Was the Mysterious Kingdom of Yam?

    ... the six cataracts of the Nile, and even further west in Chad. Featured image: Ancient Kingdom of Yam. Photo source: ...

    dhwty - 13/03/2016 - 03:55

11. Reading Between the Lines: Decrypting the Scripts of the Minoans and Mycenaeans

    Pick up a book in a language you have never learned. Read the first couple pages. See if you can understand any aspect of the culture between its covers. It is difficult, isn't it? It remains so until you learn to crack the code.

    But what happens when you cannot crack the code? What happens when there is no frame of reference by which you can understand this new, unlearned language? What happens when the book in your hand goes unread and its contents are forgotten?

    Riley Winters - 04/06/2017 - 13:54

12. Does Ötzi the Iceman Have History’s Oldest Hand-Poked Tattoos?

    Over five millennia have passed since Ötzi the Iceman was struck down by an arrow from an unknown assailant in the frigid northern regions of the Alps. But still the ancient frozen body has secrets to reveal.

    Now researchers in Tennessee claim to have unraveled the enigma surrounding Ötzi’s magnificent tattoos: they suggest that Ötzi likely crafted them himself, employing a technique called “hand poking” wherein a sharp handheld tool repeatedly pierces the skin.

    Sahir - 16/03/2024 - 16:53

13. Metallurgy Prowess Revealed by World’s Oldest Swords Discovered in Turkey

    A selection of ancient swords, discovered at the Turkish archaeological site of Arslantepe, are believed to be the first and oldest swords in the world. Dating back to the Early Bronze Age, these 5,000-year-old arsenic-copper swords are part of a cache of nine swords and daggers from the famed Arslantepe mound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey’s Matalya.

    Sahir - 13/03/2023 - 17:52

14. Omm Sety – A British Woman Whose Life Was Lined by Reincarnation and Connected to a Pharaoh

    When Dorothy Eady arrived to Egypt for the first time, it was obvious to her that she had been there before. But her last visit near the Nile may have taken place thousands of years earlier.

    Natalia Klimczak - 25/06/2016 - 00:46

15. The Chartres Cathedral – A Sacred Site for Ancient Druids and Christians

    The monumental Chartres Cathedral hides within its walls stories which connect the world of ancient Druids, the cult of the Divine Feminine and Christianity. It is located on a leyline linking Glastonbury, Stonehenge, and the Pyramids of Egypt. For centuries it has been one of the symbols of French Christianity.

    Natalia Klimczak - 07/03/2016 - 00:46

16. Living Robots That Can Reproduce Created by US Scientists

    In a staggering new breakthrough that appears to be straight out of the pages of science fiction, scientists have created the first-ever living robots that can self-replicate. The team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and Harvard University have published their living robots research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

    Sahir - 30/11/2021 - 17:57

17. Inside Etemenanki: The Real-Life Tower of Babel

    If there was a tower of Babel, it was Etemenanki: a massive, stone ziggurat at the center of Babylon built to be a passageway up to heaven. The Babylonians didn’t see their tower of Babel as a failure. As far as they were concerned, they really had made a stairway that they could walk up to go see the gods – and it really worked.

    Mark Oliver - 10/05/2018 - 18:57

18. Massive Monumental Cemetery in Eastern Africa Challenges Ideas of Monumentality

    ... Pfeiffer, Lawrence B. Conyers, Steven T. Goldstein, Austin Chad Hill, Anneke Janzen, Carla E. Klehm, Mark Helper, Purity ...

    ancient-origins - 22/08/2018 - 02:01

19. Cretan Footprints Challenge Darwin’s Out of Africa Theory, Says Study

    The evolution of human bipedalism is supposed to be 4 million years old, beginning with primates, which caused the separation of the first hominids from the rest of the four-legged apes.

    Sahir - 18/10/2021 - 22:45

20. Can You Name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are seven awe-inspiring monuments of classical antiquity that reflect the skill and ingenuity of their creators. The list, comprised by ancient Greek historians, covers only the monuments of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions – the known world for the Greeks at the time.

    Joanna Gillan - 03/07/2019 - 01:26

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