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Remains from the funerary pyre of Philip II. (Macedonian Heritage / CC BY-SA 3.0)

20 December, 2019 - 22:30 David Grant

Orphic Masks and Burial Rituals: Unmasking King Philip II of Macedon

That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come. Homer The ancient Greek world was steeped in superstition and...

11 October, 2014 - 12:58 lizleafloor

The eerie masks that preserve history and breathe life into the dead

Masks are one of the few things on the earth that connect all of humanity throughout time. We have created masks since our very beginnings in order to disguise, protect, or entertain. They have been...

Myths & Legends

The Menehune of Hawaii – Ancient Race or Fictional Fairytale?

In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune are said to be an ancient race of people small in stature, who lived in Hawaii before settlers arrived from Polynesia. Many scholars attribute ancient structures...

Achilles’ Shield: What’s the Meaning of the Iliad’s Most Symbolic Object?

The ancient origins of the legendary griffin

The Milesians: Mythic Origins of the Ancient Irish

The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?

Unravelling the Roots of Hera, the Wrathful Goddess of Marriage

Human Origins

Photo of Zecharia Sitchin (left)(CC0)Akkadian cylinder seal dating to circa 2300 BC depicting the deities Inanna, Utu, and Enki, three members of the Anunnaki.(right)

Zecharia Sitchin and the Mistranslation of Sumerian Texts

In a previous 2-part article (1), the authors wrote about the faulty associations of the Sumerian deities known as the Anunnaki as they are portrayed in the books, television series, and other media, which promotes Ancient Astronaut Theory (hereafter “A.A.T.”).

Rh-Negative Blood: An Exotic Bloodline or Random Mutation?

3: The Perfect Number - Trinity Symbolism in World Religious Traditions

Ancient Anomalous Human Skeletons: Humanity Could be Much Older Than We Think

Melancholia: How Ancient Societies Grappled to Understand and Treat Depression

They’re Alive! Megalithic Sites Are More than Just Stone

Ancient Technology

8 Ancient Chinese Inventions the West Had Not Imagined

The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria

They’re Alive! Megalithic Sites Are More than Just Stone

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Vimanas: Greater Understanding on a Hotly Debated Topic

The South-Pointing Chariot: This Ancient Chinese Invention Led Armies In a Unique and Impressive Way

Ancient Places

El Caracol Observatory at Chichen Itza (Wright Reading/CC BY-NC 2.0) and Composite 3D laser scan image of El Caracol from above

Advanced Engineering Discovered at the Maya Observatory at Chichen Itza

In 1526, the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo arrived on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and found most of the great Maya cities deeply eroded and unoccupied. Many generations removed from the master builders, engineers, and scientists who conceived and built the cities, the remaining Maya they encountered had degenerated into waring groups who practiced blood rituals and human sacrifice.

The Judean Date Palm: Extinct Tree Resurrected from Ancient Seeds

The Lost Tomb of Imhotep?

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Do not Underestimate the Etruscans: Art and Culture of their Own

Opinion

3: The Perfect Number - Trinity Symbolism in World Religious Traditions

The concept of a Trinity or triadic nature of the divine has been a part of our psyche for thousands of years, and has appeared in creation tales, myths, religious writings and holy texts the world over. Yet to this day, the Trinity is always thought of as having its origin in Roman Catholicism—most notably at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, the first ecumenical council of Christian bishops where the consensus of beliefs was decided upon for all of Christendom, including the Trinity as the three-fold nature of the persona of God.

They’re Alive! Megalithic Sites Are More than Just Stone

The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?

Astonishing Human Heads: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part I

The Great Salt Lake Enigma: Science Shows Anomalies – Evidence of a Global Flood?

Titans Under the Earth: Evidence for The Tall Ones, and the Mounds of Pennsylvania

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Orphic Masks and Burial Rituals: Unmasking King Philip II of Macedon

The eerie masks that preserve history and breathe life into the dead

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