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... Norse gods. According to Sturluson, Gylfi was told that a man from Midgard named Mundilfari (thought to translate as ... and the moon. Mundilfari married his daughter, Sol, to a man named Glenr (‘Opening in the Clouds’). The Norse gods ... on their journey. In the Poetic Edda , it was said that a man named Svalinn accompanied Sol in her chariot and held a ...
Molly Dowdeswell - 12/10/2022 - 14:50
78,000 years ago someone buried a young child in a cave. Now, researchers say that child’s grave in Kenya is the earliest known example of a deliberate human burial by modern humans in Africa. The discovery of the child’s grave sheds new light on formal burials and how people treated their dead during Africa’s Middle Stone Age period.
Alicia McDermott - 05/05/2021 - 16:00
A Roman slave burial ground has been found near what was once a great ancient villa in Britain. Many of the graves are very unusual, and they provide a glimpse into the impact of Rome on the local Briton’s culture and beliefs.
Ed Whelan - 19/01/2020 - 19:05
... the farmer’s property in 2009. Daily Sabah reports the man, who has not been named by the media, was initially ...
Alicia McDermott - 19/08/2018 - 13:57
Claims of ‘cracking the code’ of the Voynich manuscript have lost their sheen somewhat over the last few years, with weak cases being presented from all and sundry. This attempt, described confidently in a research paper and presented in a press release by a UK university seems to have solid backing.
Gary Manners - 15/05/2019 - 17:34
Am Fear Liath Mor, known also as the Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, or simply as the Greyman, is the name ... ) By Wu Mingren References Dunning, B., 2012. The Grey Man of Ben MacDhui. [Online] Available at: ... Hall, J., 2006. The Cryptid Zoo: Big Gray Man (Fear Liath Mor). [Online] Available at: ...
dhwty - 04/07/2016 - 14:40
A team of American and Spanish scientists relocated to China to jump European laws and they have created the world’s first human-monkey embryo, in the next step in the controversial breeding of animals for the human organs program.
ashley cowie - 02/08/2019 - 22:40
When you hear the word genocide, your mind may immediately go to the Holocaust by the Nazis during the Second World War. Very few know that the first genocide of the 20th century that almost led to the extinction of two nations of Southwest Africa – Herero and Namaqua – and this one was also done by the Germans. But let’s take things from the beginning.
Giannis Baltzois - 25/09/2021 - 05:02
A marvelous collection of Roman bronze artifacts that were unearthed in the year 2020 by detectorists in Yorkshire, England, is set to be auctioned next month. The rare Roman bronze collection, includes a bust of Marcus Aurelius, a statuette of Mars and a horse-headed knife handle.
Prisha Aug - 23/04/2021 - 14:52
It had long been believed that the now-extinct Neanderthals walked differently and had a different posture than modern humans. This was based on comparative anatomical studies between ancient Neanderthal skeletons and human spines dating to the 19th century and beyond. A new study has now turned these beliefs on their head by adjusting the samples used to conduct this comparative analysis.
Nathan Falde - 05/03/2022 - 13:38
Modern humans first left Africa and migrated to Eurasia between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. But a fossilized skeleton with surprisingly human-like characteristics found in central Turkey suggests that ancient human ancestors of Homo sapiens journeyed in the opposite direction much earlier.
Nathan Falde - 04/09/2023 - 18:42
... replica would also have hosted bloody battles that pitted man-against-man, man-against-beast, and animal-against-animal. Amazingly, the ...
Nathan Falde - 25/03/2021 - 01:04
... . Facing obliteration, the Romans looked to the only man whom they felt could save them—Camillus. The Romans ...
Marc Hyden - 01/11/2023 - 21:56
... about 260 feet (80 meters) from the grave of a Celtic man who was discovered in 1903 during construction of the ... Scottish and Irish in origin.” Because the man and woman had been buried within the same decade, and so ... it probable that they knew each other. Because the man and woman had been buried within the same decade, and so ...
ashley cowie - 31/07/2019 - 05:53
... agree that the main character of the flood story is a man named Manu Vaivasvata. Like Noah, Manu is described as a ... to say about Manu: “There lived in ancient time a holy man / Called Manu, who, by penances and prayers, / Had won ... is given as such, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of ...
dhwty - 30/04/2015 - 03:48
... sunken ships, to enormous megalithic stones, mysterious man-made ditches, the oldest known examples of cave art in ... had the capacity and inclination for art. 8. Mysterious Man-Made Ditches Predate Amazon Rainforest A study published ... The results revealed that the DNA of the “Ust’-Ishim Man” contained 2% DNA from Neanderthals, roughly the same ...
aprilholloway - 25/12/2014 - 12:12
... they have no need to be purified by fire. Tollund Man – the preserved face from Prehistoric Denmark and the ...
Gisele Santos - 30/10/2015 - 02:43
Little is known about the origins of manikins- small anatomical sculptures thought to be used by doctors four centuries ago- but now advanced imaging techniques have offered a revealing glimpse inside these captivating ivory dolls.
ancient-origins - 30/11/2019 - 23:00
In the Albanian port city of Durrës, archaeologists have made a sensational discovery: a 1600-year-old Roman indoor pool, a first of its kind in the area. This find happened whilst Albanian archaeologists were excavating the site for a future school building, and stumbled upon the ruins of ancient villas once inhabited by Roman elites.
Sahir - 17/05/2024 - 17:12
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Queen Boudicca had every reason to hate the Romans – by 60 AD, the lands of the Iceni clan of Britain had been captured, her people had been killed or taken as slaves, she was publicly beaten and her daughters raped – but Boudicca, the Celtic warrior queen, would eventually leave the Romans quaking in their boots, at least for a time.
aprilholloway - 13/09/2014 - 00:11