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30 October, 2013 - 00:43 aprilholloway

Tattooed Maori head returns to New Zealand from British Museum

It’s not every day that someone receives a tattooed mummified head as a gift, but this is exactly what happened when Maori elders and New Zealand officials met with officials from Guernsey museum in...

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Myths & Legends

Legendary Black Knights: Mysterious Medieval Entities of Neutrality

Black Knights began to appear in history during the Middle Ages. Since the 13th century, a series of legends mentioning the mysterious Black Knights emerged. Although the Black Knights were said to...

The Thirteen Legendary Treasures of Britain

The Dogon’s Extraordinary Knowledge of the Cosmos and the Cult of Nommo

The Norse Legend of the World Tree - Yggdrasil

The Time I Met The King of the Faeries

The Real Story of Medusa: Protective Powers from a Snake-Haired Gorgon

Human Origins

Did Ancient People Really Have Lifespans Longer Than 200 Years?

It isn’t only biblical figures who lived to well-seasoned ages of 900 years or more. Ancient texts from many cultures have listed life spans most modern people find simply and literally unbelievable.

Footprints, Fairies and even a Foreskin: 10 Bizarre Relics from History

The Time I Met The King of the Faeries

Zecharia Sitchin and the Mistranslation of Sumerian Texts

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

Ancient Technology

The Man Who Stopped a Desert Using Ancient Farming

Desertification is a serious problem facing numerous countries in the world today. Various measures have been taken to counter the negative effects, with some providing better results than others. A farmer in Burkina Faso looked to his ancestors and came up with an innovative solution.

Han Purple: A 2,800-year-old artificial pigment that quantum physicists are trying to understand

Catapult: The Long-Reaching History of a Prominent Medieval Siege Engine

Ancient Chinese Earthquake Detector Invented 2,000 Years Ago Really Worked!

The Evidence is Cut in Stone: A Compelling Argument for Lost High Technology in Ancient Egypt

The revolutionary invention of the wheel

Ancient Places

Pavlopetri: 5,000-Year-Old Town Discovered Underwater in Greece

Nothing sparks the imagination of history enthusiasts quite like underwater discoveries, ranging from sunken cities to the millions of shipwrecks still unexplored on the seabed. The bottom of the...

Ten enduring mysteries of the Longyou caves

The tragedy of Queen Ankhesenamun, sister and wife of Tutankhamun

The Great Boat of Khufu: The ‘Black Box’ to the Construction of the Pyramids

The 9,000-year-old underground megalithic settlement of Atlit Yam

The Great Serpent Mound of Ohio, the Largest Earthen Effigy in the World

Opinion

Unearthing Ancient Magic in The Runes –Messages with Hidden Symbols and Powerful Numbers

The etymology of the word “rune” means: “to carve, or to cut.” In Low German the word is “raunen.” As the runes were cut and carved into wood, metal or stone, the word “rune” was analogous to the rune letters themselves.

Petroglyphic Features of Portable Rock Art

The Northern Mysteries Current: Futhark and Mystery Schools of the Viking Age

Was There Ever a Trojan War?

Floki and the Viking Discovery of Iceland

Messiah on Temple Mount: Are We Nearing the End of Time?

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