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From the powerful civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, to the fearsome yet sophisticated society of the Vikings, the ancient world was a surprising and challenging place. Here we feature some of the most seminal and influential events and people throughout history, that have helped shape the world we know today.

The Twists And Turns Of Religion: Shaman, Priest And Promised Messiah
21 May, 2021 - 19:25 Tobias Churton

The Twists And Turns Of Religion: Shaman, Priest And Promised Messiah

The world of late antiquity was extremely suspicious of novelty, anything, that is, that made claim to serious attention. Every innovation, whether of thought or technique, had to be justified in...
Prophecy has had a strong influence since ancient times
21 May, 2021 - 14:58 Mary Mount

Prophecy Through the Ages: Society, Power and Legend

“Prophecy is an emanation sent forth by the Divine Being through the medium of the Active Intellect, in the first instance to man's rational faculty, and then to his imaginative faculty.” -...
Epistemology of Ancient Lost Technology
19 May, 2021 - 17:36 Dr. Benjamin B....

Epistemology of Ancient Lost Technology

What is “lost knowledge”? As human civilizations arise and develop, they accumulate knowledge. That knowledge has many forms, from the pragmatic to the theoretical. In most cultures, there is a...
The Tripitaka Koreana: A Vast Trove of Buddhist Woodblock Wisdom
18 May, 2021 - 15:00 dhwty

The Tripitaka Koreana: A Vast Trove of Buddhist Woodblock Wisdom

The Tripitaka Koreana is a collection of Buddhist texts, laws, and treaties originally created during the 11 th century by the Korean kingdom of Goryeo. The Tripitaka Koreana was carved onto...
Telesilla, Warrior Poetess From Argos, Who Manned-Up On The Battlefield and Bedroom
17 May, 2021 - 21:39 MartiniF

Telesilla, Warrior Poetess From Argos, Who Manned-Up On The Battlefield and Bedroom

An ancient oracle told by a Pythian priestess says, “ But when the time shall come that the female conquers in battle, driving away the male, and wins great glory in Argos, then many wives of the...
Ancient Egyptian Painter Left Behind His Palette and The Paint Has Survived!
15 May, 2021 - 18:55 Alicia McDermott

Ancient Egyptian Painter Left Behind His Palette and the Paint Has Survived!

When compared to later, more naturalistic Classical art of the Greeks and Romans, ancient Egyptian art has been described as blocky, static, abstract, and formal. But that doesn’t mean that the...
Hernan Cortes: The Conquistador Who Beat the Aztecs
15 May, 2021 - 15:01 dhwty

Hernan Cortes: The Conquistador Who Beat the Aztecs

Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries AD. He is best remembered for his expedition against the Aztec Empire centered in Mexico. This was part of the...
The Ancient Language Of Sacred Sound: The Acoustic Science Of The Divine
14 May, 2021 - 20:51 david elkington

The Ancient Language Of Sacred Sound: The Acoustic Science Of The Divine

It is an astonishing fact that, from the end of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and the settlement of Europe, a massive building program took place that was to transform Europe in a hitherto unsuspected...
Chivalry and The Order of the Golden Fleece
13 May, 2021 - 15:01 dhwty

Chivalry and The Order of the Golden Fleece

The Order of the Golden Fleece is an order of chivalry that was founded by Philip III, the Duke of Burgundy, on the occasion of his marriage to Isabella of Portugal in the 15 th century. Through the...
Léon Bakst's vision of cosmic catastrophe. Stat Russian Museum
12 May, 2021 - 20:31 Marco M. Vigato

Bronze Age Cataclysmic Comet Responsible For The Sea People

The Late Bronze Age collapse of the 12th century BC is one of the greatest and most enduring puzzles of Mediterranean archaeology. A cosmopolitan age, perhaps one of the first true episodes of...
Representation of a historical femme fatale
12 May, 2021 - 02:09 ashley cowie

Femme Fatale: The Ancient Sex Crafts of History’s Most Alluring Women

The seductress, or femme fatale (French for “Deadly Woman”), is one of the oldest female archetypes and although there has been great diversity in "how" she has been portrayed, she has some core...
The Roots Of Catoptromancy in Ancient Persian and Central American Sources
10 May, 2021 - 20:22 Dr. Benjamin B....

The Roots Of Catoptromancy in Ancient Persian and Central American Sources

“ Thus television... has a prehistory in the domain of oriental folk-lore ,” wrote Berthold Laufer in 1928 in an article with the delightful title, The Prehistory of Television . Television was quite...
Margery Kempe: Medieval Mystic and ‘Heretic’ Heroine
10 May, 2021 - 13:35 Meagan Dickerson

Margery Kempe: Medieval Mystic and ‘Heretic’ Heroine

Margery Kempe was, for the first 40 years of her life, an ordinary woman. Born into a middle-class family in 14th century East Anglia in England, she is remembered today for her remarkable later life...
“His Face Was Radiant”: Pulling Back The Veil On The Mystery Of Moses’ Shining Face
7 May, 2021 - 21:05 Jonathon Perrin

“His Face Was Radiant”: Pulling Back The Veil On The Mystery Of Moses’ Shining Face

One of the Bible’s most enduring exegetical enigmas has to be the strangely shining semblance of Moses . The Book of Exodus relates how after the great Hebrew lawgiver receives the Ten Commandments...
The Hussites and the Hussite Wars were inspired by the desire for religious reformation and the ideas of Jan Hus.
7 May, 2021 - 02:00 dhwty

The Hussites and the Hussite Wars: Religion, Heresy and Reformation

The Hussites were members of a pre-Reformation Christian movement that originated in Bohemia, in the modern-day Czech Republic. Named after Jan Hus, whose teachings were followed by the Hussite...
The Giant of Antrim, Ireland: Biblical Titan or Colossal Hoax?
6 May, 2021 - 12:48 Jim Vieira

The Giant of Antrim, Ireland: Biblical Titan or Colossal Hoax?

The image and descriptive article of the purported Irish petrified giant of Antrim, have made the rounds on the internet as proof of the existence of ancient giants for several years. Renown authors...
Sumerian Etana Translated As Biblical Enoch
3 May, 2021 - 22:09 Willem McLoud

Sumerian Etana Translated As Biblical Enoch

The Biblical Enoch corresponds to a remarkable degree with the figure of Etana in Sumerian tradition. It seems reasonable to assume that they belong to the same original tradition handed down in the...
The Blind Bohemian General: Czech Hero Jan Zizka and the Hussite Wars
3 May, 2021 - 18:31 dhwty

The Blind Bohemian General: Czech Hero Jan Zizka and the Hussite Wars

Jan Zizka is best remembered for his involvement in the Hussite Wars, during which he became the leader of the Taborites. A Bohemian general, who lived between the 14 th and 15 th centuries, Zizka...
How Two Jewish Rabbis Respected and Protected the Ka'bah of Islam
2 May, 2021 - 22:57 Rabbi Allen Maller

How Two Jewish Rabbis Respected and Protected the Ka'bah of Islam

Before I can explain Ibn Kathir’s account of the two rabbi who protected the Ka’bah, I have to relate something about the Jews in Arabia in the five centuries before the birth of Prophet Muhammad. In...
Statue of Horus, Temple of Horus at Edfu (CC0)
30 April, 2021 - 20:18 jim willis

Out Of Egypt I have Called My Son: The Jesus-Horus Debate

On the west bank of the Nile River, south of Luxor, lies the ancient city of Edfu. There stands a great temple dedicated to the god Horus, always pictured with the head of a falcon. The temple was...
Medieval Sex and Scandal: Consistory Courts and Morality in Medieval England
30 April, 2021 - 18:41 Meagan Dickerson

Medieval Sex and Scandal: Consistory Courts and Morality in Medieval England

In the 21st century, most people would consider their intimate and sexual relationships to be a private matter. In the Middle Ages however, the division between private and public areas in the lives...
The Statue of Socrates at the Academy of Athens. Work of Leonidas Drosis (d. 1880). (C messier/CC BY SA 4.0) Background: This NASA image shows Earth from space. The image is a combination of data from two satellites.
30 April, 2021 - 15:01 Caleb Strom

Was Socrates in Space? A Question of Ancient Spaceflight

The ancient Greeks are credited with having made many early advancements in science and mathematics which influenced later western civilization. Aristarchus of Samos proposed an essentially...
Famous Gaunches Mummies Drenched In Dragons’ Blood Like A Stradivarius Violin
29 April, 2021 - 15:34 Gustavo Sanchez...

Famous Gaunches Mummies Drenched In Dragons’ Blood Like A Stradivarius Violin

From 1494 to 1496, the island of Tenerife was beset by a military invasion. The conquerors and soldiers of the Castilian kingdom of Castile and Aragon deployed numerous troops to subdue the hardened...
The Enigmatic Pilgrim at the Alchemical Palace of Palombara
26 April, 2021 - 16:04 Roberto Volterri

The Enigmatic Pilgrim at the Alchemical Palace of Palombara

In the heart of the Esquiline Hill in Rome, third century AD Emperor Licinius Gallienus enjoyed the tranquility of the Horti Liciniani , a luxurious complex of ancient Roman villas with large gardens...

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