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Does Oldest Written Text Reveal a 30,000 year old Cult that Worshipped the Prediction of Eclipses?
... we reported on evidence to suggest that the oldest known writing system was based on geometric form in connection with ... suggests the latter. The recent discovery of Stone Age writing has now produced a new breakthrough – the existence ...
aprilholloway - 21/12/2013 - 07:50
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The Minoan Civilization of Crete: A Great Aegean Culture
... around 3000 BC, that the Minoan civilization emerged. A system of relative chronology for this civilization was ... Stock) Minoan Palaces: Trade Storehouses That Necessitated Writing Whilst it is not certain if the Minoans had a royal ... the palaces as economic centers, the Minoans developed a writing system, so that they could keep a record of what was ...
dhwty - 16/07/2021 - 18:48
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What Makes the Olmec Culture So Unique and Alluring?
... city planning. They were the first known people to use a writing system in the Americas. Another first was the use of ... on the lower half of Stela C. Olmec, Maya, and Aztec writing and calendar systems. (Author provided) The Olmecs ...
JJ Ainsworth - 30/04/2017 - 14:09
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Caught Red-Handed! Law and Order in Medieval England
... code as well. Plenty of sentencing and trials relied on a system of oath taking – where the word of a free man was ... a string of his crimes and “misdemeanors” survived in writing. At first he quarreled with his own mother, seemingly ... rule of the famous Alfred the Great . He established the system of ealdormen and reeves. An ealdorman was the chief ...
Aleksa Vučković - 04/12/2019 - 19:00
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The Legendary Kraken: The Real Animal Behind the Monster
According to Scandinavian mythology, the Kraken is a horrifying giant sea creature said to be one mile long. Stories generally describe it as a terrifyingly enormous octopus or squid like creature that attacks ships. According to some tales, the Kraken was so huge that its body could be mistaken for an island. But is there any chance that a real animal exists behind these scary legends?
bill - 10/06/2020 - 21:32
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Legends of the Unicorn Horn: Cures, Antidotes and Medicinal Magic
... said about its horn, about which an entire mythological system exists. Created around 510 BC. Winged Unicorn at ...
ashley cowie - 25/09/2018 - 19:03
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What Makes Sirius, the Dog Star, So Special?
... Sirius in Millennia of Astronomy and Mythology The Sirius system, located a mere 8.6 light-years away from Earth, stands as the fifth closest known stellar system to humanity. Derived from the ancient Greek Seirios, ... it served as the cornerstone of their entire religious system, with the majority of their deities intricately linked ...
Joanna Gillan - 24/07/2023 - 22:55
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The Curious Phaistos Disc – Ancient Mystery or Clever Hoax?
... similar symbols, thought to be Linear A, an undeciphered writing system used in ancient Greece. Enigmatic Phaistos Disc may be ... been made to decipher the code. It is presumed that the writing is Linear A , a script unconnected to any known ...
lizleafloor - 06/06/2019 - 01:45
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Significant Inscriptions Found in Egypt: From the Earliest Huge Hieroglyphs to Greek-Roman Period Graffiti
... Egypt and are being called greatly significant in Egyptian writing system history. Egyptologist John Coleman Darnell, a ... for how the ancient Egyptians invented their unique writing system.’ He continued, ‘This discovery isn’t ...
Mark Miller - 23/06/2017 - 23:02
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Learning Ancient Greek Helps Dyslexia, Research Suggests
... even as it helps offset dyslexic tendencies. Ancient Greek writing looks surprisingly foreign and yet it has proven to ... favorably to being introduced to a complex linguistic system that was in use more than 2,000 years ago! There are surprising connections between writing and how we think. ( simona / Adobe Stock) The ...
Nathan Falde - 07/03/2021 - 22:00
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Hindu Gods And Their Counterparts: Ubiquitous In A Global Sphere
... of India, which removes it farther from the primitive system than any other influence. Yet the religion of India ... support AO Premium, you support independent thought and writing. Extract based on the book Retaliation of the Cursed ...
Stephen Martin - 02/02/2022 - 19:26
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Sea-Farers from the Levant the first to set foot in the Americas: proto-Sinaitic inscriptions found along the coast of Uruguay
... unwieldy ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic -hieratic 'combo' system of writing. Proto-Sinaitic led to the development of the ... fully developed, 22 character, Phoenician 'international' writing system subsequently used by all West Semitic ...
William James Veall - 24/01/2015 - 11:42
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Earliest Maya Calendar Fragment Found in Guatemala
... University of Texas professor of Mesoamerican art and writing David Stuart, who is lead author of the research, ... time. There was also a 365-day solar year, a larger system called the “Long Count” and a lunar year. The ... and tragedy,” Stuart said, reports Reuters . The Mayan writing system consisted of 800 glyphs and the earliest ...
Sahir - 15/04/2022 - 18:17
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Walking the Waves: Celestial Puns Resolve the Conflicting Accounts of Jesus’ Sea-Walk Miracle
... : that the constellations portrayed hallowed, celestial “writing” that divulged revelations through the medium of ... the zenith. Here, readers are reminded that the cuneiform writing system displayed a vast array of homophones (e.g., to , two , ...
John McHugh - 19/12/2018 - 22:57
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How the Jurchen Tribes Conquered China
... it is not entirely surprising that they adopted their writing system as well. Map of the Liao dynasty which the Jurchen ... (Sven Manguard / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The Khitans altered their writing system to resemble the Chinese script more closely, ...
dhwty - 08/05/2020 - 02:03
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The Top 10 Revelations in Human Evolution in 2021
... in the lowest levels of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. ( University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg ) A ... and American archaeologists exploring the Rising Star cave system in central South Africa discovered something that ... samples taken from 118 Philippine Island ethnic groups. Writing in the journal Current Biology , the scientists ...
ancient-origins - 11/01/2022 - 14:11
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Retaining Ancient Ways: Codex Runicus, How the Runic Script Survived in the Middle Ages
... inscriptions. After the Viking Age, this famous form of writing was altered to compete with the Latin script. ... script is written using a later Medieval form of the runic writing which consisted of 27 letters to match all the ... by the Latin alphabet. It was based on the Younger Futhark system, which contained only 16 letters and was limited to ...
Caleb Strom - 18/12/2016 - 21:55
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Skeptics Washed Away As Lost Civilization Is Finally Identified By Puerto Rican Figures
... suggests to the scientists the presence of “an unknown writing system from a currently unknown pre-Columbian ... engravings: while some experts claimed that the ancient writing system was similar to Sumerian , others felt it was ...
ashley cowie - 16/07/2019 - 18:35
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Manuscript Containing Missing Details of Ptolemy’s Meteoroscope Decrypted
... of the instrument had been unknown until now. Complete system of rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale. In the ... treatment to the pages that was supposed to bring out the writing but in fact just stained them dark brown." Top: UV ... to read, partly due to the thorough erasure of the Greek writing and the presence of the Latin text of Isidore of ...
Sahir - 29/03/2023 - 18:56
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Unearthing Ancient Magic in The Runes –Messages with Hidden Symbols and Powerful Numbers
... between the ages of 150 AD to 1100 AD, and like any writing system, they were used as a reliable form of information ... 1100 AD they were replaced by the Latin writing system with the incoming colonization of Rome. ...
Andreas Kornevall - 03/02/2021 - 20:37