horticulture

Ancient banana cultivation site at Wagadagam, Mabuyag. Source: Australian National University

15 August, 2020 - 03:15 ashley cowie

Australia’s First People Were “Hunter-Banana Cultivators”

Archaeologists from the Australian National University excavating at Wagadagam, on the island of Mabuyag, in the western Torres Strait, have published new evidence of early Indigenous communities...

The squash in this photo had not been grown for hundreds of years. Native Americans revived it after finding seeds in a pot 800 years old.

11 November, 2015 - 00:46 Mark Miller

Native Americans revive squash from seeds found in an 800-year-old pot

Some Native Americans found squash seeds in a pot about 800 years old and revived the plant for the first time in centuries. The seeds from the large, bright orange squash have been distributed to...

Myths & Legends

The stele dubbed by some as the “astronaut of Casar” is exhibited in the Caceres Museum, Caceres, Spain. Source: Left; Alberto del Barrio Herrero / CC BY-SA 2.0, Right; verpueblos

The Astronaut of Casar Is An Unsolved Mystery, But Can We Explain It?

Some artifacts seem to be easy to misunderstand or are not well understood at all and this leads to wild theories. One of the biggest curiosities on display at the Caceres Museum in Caceres, Spain is a stele or upright stone slab that originally stood at the southern end of the cemetery in the nearby village of Casar.

Batman Existed in Mesoamerican Mythology and His Name Was Camazotz

The Powerful Symbol of the Swastika and its 12,000 Year History

The Epic of Gilgamesh Unveiled: Searching For a Way to the Home Planet

Solid Muldoon: Petrified Prehistoric Man was an Elaborate and Daring Hoax

The Sumerian King List still puzzles historians after more than a century of research

Human Origins

Snow White a Disney story based on real historical events.

The Truth Behind 5 Disney Movies That Are Based On Real Histories

Many of us grew up watching Disney movies and their tales of fairy princesses and evil queens are undeniably a part of the modern zeitgeist.

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

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

The human skull that challenges the Out of Africa theory

The Comet that Changed Civilization – And May Do Again

Return of the Ancient Gods: The Resurgence of Paganism

Ancient Technology

The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago

It was a few years ago that a Greek-American archaeological team made a startling discovery – they found the oldest indications of seafaring and navigation in the world, in an area called Plakia on...

150,000-Year-Old Pipes Baffle Scientists in China: Out of Place in Time?

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

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world’

Ten amazing inventions from ancient times

Secrets Behind the Creepy Plague Doctor Mask and Costume

Ancient Places

The magnificent Boat of Khufu, Solar Boat Museum, Giza

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

Perhaps this is not the first time that the reader will have heard of how in 1954 the Great Boat of Khufu was discovered, practically intact, at the southern face of the Kheops Pyramid, and how it is believed by the majority to have had cultic significance, although opinions vary within scientific circles. One belief was that the Sun sailed in such a vessel during the day, crossing over to another during the night hours.

Adam’s Calendar: Oldest Megalithic Site in the World?

World’s Oldest Surviving Amphitheater Preserved at Pompeii

Competing for the Title of the Oldest House in England - Luddesdown Court and Saltford Manor

Island in the Clouds: Is Mount Roraima Really A ‘Lost World’ Where Dinosaurs May Still Exist?

A New Japanese Emperor Takes To The Chrysanthemum Throne

Opinion

Floki and the Viking Discovery of Iceland

The Vikings’ next step out into the Atlantic – the discovery and settlement of Iceland – is one of the best documented events of the Viking Age. Medieval Icelanders were fascinated by genealogy, not only because, as emigrants

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

3 Problems to Remember When Trying to Find Atlantis

Naupa Iglesia: An Egyptian Portal in the Andes?

The Nephilim: Giant Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man?

Mount Shasta: Spirits and Danger on a Sacred California Mountain

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