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13 January, 2021 - 00:57 dhwty

Hachiman: Deified Emperor, War God, Protector Of The Japanese People

Hachiman is a Japanese Shinto deity who is often considered to be the god of war. Although he is worshipped as a Shinto god, Buddhist elements were incorporated into this deity, following the arrival...

The star chart painting on the ceiling of the Kitora Tomb, Asuka, Japan

19 July, 2015 - 14:21 Robin Whitlock

Kitora Tomb Star Chart is Declared the Oldest in the World

The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs have announced that a star chart discovered in ancient Asuka in the country’s Nara Prefecture, is based on much older celestial observations made in China,...

Myths & Legends

In summer Tunisia's Chott el Djerid salt lake is almost entirely dried up, as seen in this photo from May 2021, but many believe that beneath this sand lies the remains of Tunisian Atlantis. Source: Kais photographies / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Theory of the Tunisian Atlantis - Beneath the Sands of Africa!

Ever since the age of the classical antiquity, there was a widespread myth of the fabled, sunken city of Atlantis. A true ancient metropolis that was in many ways the epitome of advanced civilization.

Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula?

Russian Atlantis: Tomb Raider’s Invisible City of Kitezh was a REAL Place

The Living Dead: Chinese Hopping Vampires

Legendary Locks: Can Hair Act as a Sixth Sense, Protecting us from Danger?

The Three Fates: Destiny’s Deities of Ancient Greece and Rome

Human Origins

A Wa'a Kaulua (double canoe) of Hawaiian Nobility of the 18th Century. Polynesia was inhabited by skilled seafarers.

Where Did the Polynesians Really Come From?

Oceania was the last region to be settled by humans and the last part of Oceania to be settled by humans was Polynesia. Polynesians are famous for their voyages to remote islands in distant parts of the Pacific. Using outrigger canoes, they founded a society across islands stretching in a triangle from the Hawaiian Islands to Easter Island to New Zealand

The Takenouchi Manuscripts and the Story of Humanity Never Told

Legendary Locks: Can Hair Act as a Sixth Sense, Protecting us from Danger?

The Water of Life: Alcohol as Medicine Through the Ages

Reading the So-Called Sumerian Seals Relating to Gods from Outer Space

Garden of Eden Depicted in Ancient Greek Religious Art

Ancient Technology

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

Oopart (out of place artifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that seem to show a level of technological advancement ...

A Japanese Fan Became a Deadly Weapon in the Right Hands

The hydraulic telegraph of Aeneas – long-distance communication of antiquity

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

Adobe Brick Building Used In Peru As Early As 5,000 Years Ago

Anatolian Neolithic Weavers At Çatalhöyük Used Trees to Make The Oldest Cloth

Ancient Places

The Beauty of Loulan and the Tattooed Mummies of the Tarim Basin

Loulan was discovered in 1980, but it was 3800 years ago that she died on the trade route known as the Silk Road. The natural dryness and salty soil preserved her and over two hundred other mummies,...

The Theory of the Tunisian Atlantis - Beneath the Sands of Africa!

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

It Looks Like a Laser Cut But What Really Split the Ancient Al Naslaa Rock?

Archaeologists Discover 800-year-old Rope-bound Mummy in Peru

The Pazzi Conspiracy: How A Florentine Family Failed And Was Banished

Opinion

Detail; Byzantine Alexander Romance, Venice, 14th century.

Fact or Fiction? The Obscure Origins of the Greek Alexander Romance

The Greek Alexander Romance, often referred to as a ‘pseudo-Callisthenes’ production, is in one form or another one of the most influential and widely read books of all time; it has birthed a whole literary genre on Alexander the Great and his campaigns across the Persian Empire.

Was there a Common Writing System used by Pacific Islanders?

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

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

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