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Ancient Sex Curse Revealed: May Your Penis Hurt When You Make Love!

Curse tablets in the ancient world are like Facebook posts today—they were everywhere, created by almost everyone, and can still be found in the strangest of places. They could be broadly vague or incredibly specific; they could be politically, economically, or emotionally driven. They could be simple requests for vengeance or complex strategies for pain and suffering. Curse tablets were the slam-books of ancient Greece and Rome.

Riley Winters - 24/02/2018 - 18:48

Archaeologists are Stumped: Why were Ancient Shark Hunters in Peru Buried with Extra Limbs?

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a rather perplexing burial site dating back 1,900 years, in which the ancient inhabitants of a fishing village were buried with bonus body parts, including one shark hunter who was buried with two extra left legs.

aprilholloway - 16/04/2018 - 18:49

Breathtaking Scenery and Fascinating Traditions Connected to the Five Great Mountains of China

... regarded as sacred, based on it being mentioned as such in oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty. More than 30 ...

dhwty - 18/07/2016 - 03:49

The Sui Dynasty: 37 Years, Two Emperors and One Grand Canal

... The Wonders and The Terrors of the Qin Dynasty Reading Oracle Bones and Writing the Future in the Shang Dynasty The ...

dhwty - 25/05/2018 - 01:52

Who Made the Petroglyphs on the Mysterious Dighton Rock?

... and future. Some of the images he identified were: An Oracle and butterfly (the future), a horse and a beaver ...

Alicia McDermott - 20/12/2015 - 14:52

Scotland's St. Kilda Inhabited in the Bronze Age, New Discovery Reveals

New evidence has emerged which shows that the Scottish archipelago of St Kilda was inhabited, or at least visited, around 2,000 years ago.

ashley cowie - 14/02/2021 - 21:55

Holy Yet Cursed Medieval Well Unearthed in England

... London Building Still has Drinkable Water First Ancient Oracle Well to Apollo unearthed in Athens Members of Rainhill ...

Alicia McDermott - 05/11/2016 - 20:43

Have Archaeologists Discovered the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Greece?

... role in the Percy Jackson book series. The Thracian Oracle: Has the Famous Sanctuary of Dionysus Been Found? New ...

Sahir - 17/10/2022 - 22:56

Theseus: The Greek Hero That Slayed the Minotaur

... general Cimon, in accordance to a command given by the Oracle at Delphi. ‘Theseus and Achelous’ (1659-1660) by ...

dhwty - 09/09/2018 - 23:06

Heavily Seasoned: Why did the Ancients Like Salty Wine?

... that could be added to the mix though. What Is the Oracle of Delphi and How Did She Prophesize? Treatment of ...

Kurt Readman - 26/06/2021 - 19:00

3,000-Year-Old Pacopampa Tomb Reveals Religious Rites of Ancient Peru

A team of archaeologists from Peru and Japan have discovered a circular grave in northern Peru that is approximately 3,000 years old, and maybe even older. The Pacopampa tomb and burial site contained the body of an ancient priest, along with several ceremonial items that were buried with him to aid his transition to the next world.

Nathan Falde - 28/08/2023 - 22:53

The Acropolis Of Athens: A Golden Age Legacy

... that Has Endured for Over 2,500 Years First Ancient Oracle Well to Apollo unearthed in Athens Columns of the ...

Sarah P Young - 03/08/2019 - 14:06

The Amazing Study of CEMI Field Theory and Why It’s Important to Our Wellbeing

... the understanding of the laws of the universe, the Oracle of Changes (I Ching), and the complex acupuncture ...

Walter Cruttenden - 14/01/2019 - 13:58

Ancient Comet ‘Atlas’ Measures Half the Size of the Sun and it’s Back!

A huge icy space rock, comet ‘Atlas’, is currently in the constellation Ursa Major in the northern sky passing through the orbit of Mars, but it’s on a trajectory with our Sun and it will get progressively brighter as it reaches its closest point at the end of May, if it doesn't fragment that is.

ashley cowie - 02/04/2020 - 14:00

Secret Stash of Lethal Poisons Hidden in 17th Century Book. Was This Really an Assassin's Cabinet?

When photos of the faux-book first began to circulate online it was considered a hoax. The image was featured on the ArtefactPorn subreddit and commenters quickly denounced it as a fake, a mere cabinet of curiosities (as in not a disguised book), or a genuine artifact but one that was not as old as it claimed. All of these allegations were proven wrong. Popularly called the Assassin’s Cabinet of Poison, it was originally bound around the year 1600. The pages of the book were then glued together to form a large block.

Kerry Sullivan - 20/03/2017 - 17:58

Antichrist: The Deceiver, Betrayer and Herald of the End of Times

The Antichrist. The name itself is enough to instill dread into the hearts of all devout Christians as well as others. It is a name that was ever connected to the negative, the malicious, and the fundamentally anti-Christian. And indeed, the Antichrist is a seldom mentioned but very malevolent entity from the Christian Bible. But the concept of a primordial, all-encompassing evil entity that threatens Christ and his devoted flock, and all of humanity was present for a very long time.

Aleksa Vučković - 02/01/2021 - 17:57