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Largest Headhunting Massacre from Neolithic China Unearthed
Evidence of the bloodiest decapitation and head-hunting in Neolithic Asian history, has been unearthed from China, from 4,100 years ago. In total, 41 skeletons were recovered, all belonging to women and children. Archaeologists recovered an additional four skulls belonging to men from a pit outside the house, and cultural remains too in the form of pottery and bone-rock tools.
Sahir - 10/11/2023 - 18:03
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Why Ghosts Haunt England at Christmas but Steer Clear of America
A few years ago, the Downton Abbey Christmas special featured a ouija board which communicated a message from a dead character. American reviewers were extremely puzzled by this incursion of the supernatural, while British reviewers found it unexceptional. Indeed, few bothered even to mention it. Why?
ancient-origins - 19/12/2016 - 03:45
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The Vulture Stone of Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Pictogram?
... to perceive the vulture stone relief as an iconography of horror as if the head of the man were the playing of an ...
Alistair - 27/10/2015 - 23:44
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Augmented Reality Monolith At Ancient English Site Confuses UK Press
As the global fad continues, low-grade reflective monoliths have been discovered in the UK at Dartmoor, the Isle of Wight and Glastonbury Tor. The latest report grabbed by the tabloids is that Britain’s fourth monolith has been found at the Merry Maidens stone circle in Cornwall. However, unlike some coverage suggests, this monolith doesn’t and never did exist. Not physically anyway.
ashley cowie - 14/12/2020 - 22:03
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Farmer Digs Up Stone Egyptian Stele Saluting Sixth Century BC Pharaoh
... civil war from spreading. But to the pharaoh’s shock and horror, the Egyptians successfully recruited Amasis to become ...
Nathan Falde - 21/06/2021 - 21:35
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Romania’s Enigmatic Trovants: Living Rocks That Grow and Move!
... So trovants aren’t technically alive, this isn’t some horror movie waiting to happen. However, these rocks do ...
Tracy McLoughlin - 16/06/2022 - 14:45
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Journeys to the Underworld – From Ancient Greece to Hollywood
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Haunting Tales: Exploring 4 of the Most Famous Ancient Ghost Stories
... great mystery and wonder, yet is capable of spawning great horror. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship ...
Lex Leigh - 04/06/2023 - 18:52
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Mummies have had a bad wrap – it is time for a reassessment
... (1932) starring Boris Karloff, is the classic mummy horror movie. In this film Imhotep, an Egyptian priest who ...
ancient-origins - 28/10/2015 - 02:55
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Krampus: The Terrifying Christmas Devil Who Punished Naughty Children
... They are especially distraught about the 2015 comedy / horror film centered on the Christmas Devil. “The Krampus ...
Kerry Sullivan - 06/12/2022 - 21:55
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The Crime of Sandby Borg: Site of a 1,600-Year-Old Tragedy in Sweden
... Oxides ) In 2017, researchers trying to piece together the horror story of the massacre, unearthed a gold Roman coin ...
Mark Miller - 21/08/2018 - 14:06
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Coniraya: The Inca Fertility God Who Dressed Like a Bum
... to Coniraya who then explained everything, to everyone’s horror. It seems that even a benevolent creator god who ...
Daniel Gauss - 11/07/2022 - 23:00
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The Strange Death and Afterlife of King Edmund Part 2: Did the Martyred Saint Rise from the Grave to Kill a Viking King?
... Rhodes James (better known as the ghost and supernatural horror story writer M.R. James) subsequently expressed ...
Charles Christian - 22/09/2017 - 01:59
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Relic Cults: Why Dead Saints Were So Important in the Middle Ages
... between the earthly and the divine, they transformed the horror of death into a symbol of hope by representing eternal ...
Meagan Dickerson - 17/06/2021 - 19:02
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Author Details Institutionalized Murder and Violence in Ancient Rome
... she urges readers to: “think for five seconds about the horror of being trapped in a bag with a terrified dog, and ...
ashley cowie - 30/03/2021 - 22:56
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She Brings Bad News: The Scary Slavic Household Spirit Called Kikimora
... Afraid Humans like to be scared sometimes. This is why horror books and movies are so popular. In ancient times, ...
Natalia Klimczak - 07/10/2016 - 00:56
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Two Sides to Every Story: The North American Martyrs Shrines and Indigenous/ Roman Catholic Relations – Part II
... quote from The Relations, “The Hurons have an extreme horror of our doctrine. They say it causes them to die and ...
Joachim Brouwer - 24/04/2018 - 01:51
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City of the Dead: The Mysterious Village of Dargavs, Russia
... Moscow-based film company to choose the location for their horror film in 2018. Although shooting was cut short when a ...
Bryan Hill - 12/07/2018 - 17:00
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Homunculus: The Alchemical Creation of Little People with Great Powers
Although science has made much progress in the last century, there are still numerous ethical issues that need to be addressed by the scientific community. One such issue is that of the creation of artificial life. For some, this is the logical progress of scientific knowledge; for others, this is a realm that should not be intruded by human beings. Concepts relating to the creation of artificial life such as genetic engineering and human cloning are relatively modern scientific ideas.
dhwty - 05/03/2019 - 01:36
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Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned?
... as was the persecution of Christians, but are such horror stories ascribed to Nero based on fact, or has history ...
dhwty - 25/03/2023 - 21:54