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Charles Fort: Pioneer in the Search for Scientific Anomalies or Anti-dogmatist who Collected Bizarre Stories?
... read about a whole range of subjects, including science, art, philosophy, and economics. It was here that he found ...
dhwty - 25/03/2016 - 13:50
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Volcano-blasted Herculaneum Roman Soldier Tells His Ancient Secrets
Archaeologists in Italy are studying the remains of a Roman soldier who was thrust face-first into the sand at Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted on October 24th 79 AD. The presence of this particular Roman soldier suggests hundreds of ancient Romans fleeing the eruption of Vesuvius were only minutes away from being rescued on a boat, but they all perished.
ashley cowie - 11/05/2021 - 22:56
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The Dramatic True Story Behind Disney's Mulan
... character of Mulan has remained a very popular motif in art and literature. She appears as a heroine of more than 10 ...
Natalia Klimczak - 29/05/2020 - 16:38
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Thaumas and Electra: Unity of the Wonder of the Sea and Sparkling Light Bears Jason’s Tormentors
In Greek mythology, Thaumas is believed to be an ancient sea god and further is regarded to be the personification of the wonders of the sea. Although little is known today about this mysterious sea god, he was mentioned by a number of Greek and Roman writers during the Classical period and from these ancient sources we derive our current understanding of this god.
dhwty - 27/11/2018 - 13:44
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Ancient Environmental DNA Reveals Thriving 2-Million-Year-Old Life on Greenland
A “breakthrough” has been made in understanding the history of our planet. Studying ancient environmental DNA a team of researchers has now tracked and mapped the evolution of biological communities that existed some two million-years-ago (Mya).
ashley cowie - 08/12/2022 - 13:37
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A First-Ever Find in Egypt: 4,000-Year-Old Funerary Garden at Tomb Entrance
The Djehuty Project, led by research professor, José Manuel Galán, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden- the first such garden ever to be found- on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt. The discovery comes during the 16th year of archaeological excavations which are sponsored this year by Técnicas Reunidas and Indra.
ancient-origins - 05/05/2017 - 01:54
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The Gadianton Robbers: Organized Crime in the Ancient Americas
The Gadianton robbers were a band of robbers in the ancient Americas according to the Book of Mormon. This dangerous group operated as a ‘secret combination’, a term used to describe various malevolent secret societies. The Gadianton robbers were much feared and have been held responsible for the destruction of the Nephites and the Jaredites, two of the four major groups of people believed by the Latter Day Saints to have settled in the ancient Americas.
dhwty - 11/02/2019 - 18:47
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8,000-Year-Old Rock Carvings Are Earliest Scale Diagrams By Prehistoric Architects
... Wadi az-Zilliyat, Saudi Arabia as discovered during rock art survey, view from the north. (SEBAP & Crassard et al. ...
Nathan Falde - 19/05/2023 - 14:54
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Holy Conversations: The Impact of the Mysterious Book of Soyga
The Book of Soyga, or the Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor, was written in the sixteenth century as a possible treatise on magic. The illustrious occultist John Dee of the court of Elizabeth I owned one of only two known copies, perhaps one of the reasons why it serves pertinent to research on Renaissance magic and alchemy. Not unlike his own work on the Enochian, or Angelical, alphabet, the Book of Soyga appears to contain another sort of alphabet—possibly a variation of Hebrew with alchemical symbols encoded
Riley Winters - 15/06/2015 - 00:17
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Early Medieval Europe – Dark Age Death Practices Spread Quickly
A new study suggests that Europe has been ‘global’ for over a millennium. The evidence for this claim comes from a set of shared cultural practices spread over a wide area in early Medieval Europe. The researcher behind the study demonstrates that new ideas could actually spread rather quickly during the so-called Dark Ages.
Alicia McDermott - 21/01/2021 - 00:00
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Mysterious skull found in Australia Could Rewrite History
Australia may need to revise its history books after the mysterious skull of a white man found in New South Wales was found to date back to the 1600s, long before the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770, who is believed to have been the first European to reach the East Coast of the continent.
aprilholloway - 03/07/2013 - 11:43
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The Ancient Golden Treasure Rewriting Danish History (Video)
A remarkable chance discovery in the Danish village of Vindelev is revolutionizing our understanding of early Norse history. Two old school friends, armed only with a metal detector, stumbled across a treasure trove of more than 20 gold artifacts, weighing nearly a kilo. These items, hidden for close to 1,500 years, have unveiled a captivating glimpse into the past.
Robbie Mitchell - 10/06/2023 - 15:08
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Selling Sex: Wonder Woman and the Ancient Fantasy of Lady Warriors That Goes Back Millennia
When the film Wonder Woman is released in early June, it will surely join the blockbuster ranks of other recent comic book-inspired film franchises.
ancient-origins - 30/05/2017 - 14:00
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Anubis and Xolotl: The Remarkable Resemblance of the Death Dog Gods
... Johns, C. 2008. Dogs: History, Myth, Art . Harvard University Press Dennis-Bryan, K. and Morgan, ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 01/06/2021 - 18:48
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A Patriarchal Portrait of a Witch: Warning of Witchcraft in the Female Wiles
Early modern Europe was a period of patriarchy, in which men were in control and women only truly had a say in the household affairs. Power and regulation lay in the hands of men, while the care of the children and the making of food and drink lay with the women.
Riley Winters - 08/08/2017 - 14:01
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Devils or Angels? Defining the Dark Entities of Christianity’s Past
Devil or angel? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. The concept of demons is an old one, harking back to the confiscation of pagan nature deities by the Roman Empire, which turned them into something more sinister and evil than may have originally been intended. Angels are as old as religion itself, appearing in the earliest of writings of Abrahamic traditions, including fallen angels who mated with human women and defied the will of God, and thus were kicked out of the heavenly realm to roam the wastelands of Hell.
Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman - 25/08/2016 - 01:50
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A 400-Year-Old ‘Carbon Colossus’ Heralds Hope for Amazonia
At a staggering 88 meters tall, a 400-year-old tree found in the Brazilian Amazon has been declared the region’s largest tree. Researchers are now trying to figure out how it grew to such heights.
Alicia McDermott - 20/09/2019 - 14:01
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Teen Mummy was Buried with Bridal Trousseau in Ancient Thebes
Archaeologists have found the bejeweled mummy of a teenage girl in a coffin filled with ancient treasure, which may have been her trousseau, near Luxor, Egypt. The remarkable find dates back over 3,500 years. This discovery was made in an important necropolis and is providing a new perspective on life and death in ancient Egypt during the XVII Dynasty.
Ed Whelan - 25/04/2020 - 19:05
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Massive Cemeteries with Strange Burials Excavated at Medieval Monastery in Sudan
Archaeologists have officially announced that four large cemeteries were unearthed near the remains of a medieval Christian monastery in Sudan. At least 123 individuals have been excavated so far, while some of the burials included corpses laid to rest in very odd ways.
Theodoros Karasavvas - 20/01/2017 - 03:53
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A 700-Year-Old Murder Mystery: Who Bludgeoned the Bocksten Man to Death and Why?
Around 700 years ago, a young man, who has come to be known as ‘Bocksten Man’, was struck three times on the head, then tossed into a peat bog and impaled with three wooden poles to prevent his body rising to the surface. What is the story behind the grisly ending to this young man’s life, and why were his killers so determined to keep his body from ever surfacing?
dhwty - 07/03/2017 - 13:59