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How Successful Was the Mongol Empire? (Video)
... Mongolica: When the Mongols Brought Peace to Europe and Asia When Mongols Met Samurai: The Two Failed Mongol ...
Robbie Mitchell - 26/01/2024 - 20:00
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Mithridates VI of Pontus: The Poison King of Pontus and Aggravation to Rome
... was a famous king of Pontus, a Hellenistic kingdom in Asia Minor of Persian origin. Mithridates lived between the ...
dhwty - 17/05/2016 - 03:31
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Theano – A Woman Who Ruled the Pythagoras School
... was born on the island of Samos, near the coast of Asia Minor. During the 82 years of his life (582 – 500 BC), ...
Natalia Klimczak - 26/05/2016 - 03:51
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Himyarite Kingdom: The Forgotten Empire (Video)
... the Mediterranean, East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. This facilitated robust economic activity, evidenced by ...
Robbie Mitchell - 16/03/2024 - 19:54
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Santorini Eruption: New theory Says ‘Pyroclastic Flows’ Caused Devastating Bronze Age Tsunamis
Take the ferry to the beautiful Greek islands of Santorini and you will sail into a truly unique landscape forged by a cataclysm towards the end of the Bronze Age. From either the north or south your ship will leave the brilliant blue seas of the Aegean and enter a natural harbor flanked by majestic cliffs. Ferries pass between the large island of Thira and the smaller island of Thirasia, while straight ahead a small island in the center of the natural harbor, Nea Kameni, looks like a molehill surrounded by mountains.
ancient-origins - 10/11/2016 - 14:41
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Understanding Ganesha: Legendary Wise Hindu God who Removes Obstacles, Ensures Success
... new networks of exchange and money circulation throughout Asia in the 10th century CE. It was during this time that ...
MartiniF - 12/06/2017 - 15:32
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The Lost World of Cham: The TransPacific Voyages of the Champa
... The mysterious Cham, or Champa, peoples of Southeast Asia formed a megalith-building, seagoing empire that ...
ancient-origins - 12/07/2020 - 04:25
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The Ascension of Gilgamesh: Did the Epic Hero Actually Exist?
The Epic of Gilgamesh is widely recognized and frequently a required reading for world literature courses. The poem is considered a masterpiece in its own right, not just because it is the earliest piece of Western Asian epic poetry. Written 4,000 years ago, the poem tells the story of a hero contending with gods and demons, as well as grappling with issues that still confound us today: how to deal with the grief of a deceased loved one and the purpose of existence.
Kerry Sullivan - 14/09/2017 - 13:57
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Christkind: How Does this Christmas Gift-Bringer Differ from Santa Claus?
... period by Saint Nicholas (a 4th century Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor). Saint Nicholas is said to have brought gifts to ...
dhwty - 24/12/2021 - 00:48
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How to get to Australia … more than 50,000 years ago
... has never been connected by dry land to Southeast Asia. But at the time that people first arrived in Australia, ...
ancient-origins - 25/05/2018 - 23:00
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The Shameful History of Human Zoos: Displaying ‘Exotic Foreigners’ Only Stopped 60 Years Ago
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the shocking display of human beings of various ethnicities was in vogue in the West, especially in the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Germany. One of the factors contributing to the popularity of these human zoos was that they exhibited ‘exotic’ peoples from different parts of the world, which had great appeal to the masses during that period.
dhwty - 01/02/2019 - 18:56
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Rare Ancient Buddhist Text Discovered In Doomed Temple Super-Complex Near Kabul
... at a key location on the famed Silk Road connecting Asia and the Middle East. Now, if you ask people to name the ...
ashley cowie - 29/07/2019 - 23:02
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Did a Common Childhood Illness Take Down the Neanderthals?
A 21st century nuisance for parents may have proved deadly to early man.
It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals, and why did Homo sapiens thrive even as Neanderthals withered to extinction?
ancient-origins - 19/09/2019 - 23:07
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The Atlantis Ring: Ancient Myths and Mysticism Converge
... was a majestic continent island larger than Libya and Asia combined that birthed a mighty people with wonders and ...
B. B. Wagner - 20/10/2019 - 18:55
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Britain’s First City Discovered and Inhabitants Built Stonehenge
Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery near England’s famous ancient site of Stonehenge – Britain’s first ever ‘city’, AND its inhabitants were the builders of the world’s most iconic stone circle.
The discovery of a large settlement was made at Blick Mead archaeological site which is just a mile or so away from Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The archaeological site, also known as Vespasian’s Camp, dates back to the last Ice Age, to about 6,000 BC.
Ed Whelan - 03/11/2019 - 20:10
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Roman vs Britons Battle of AD43 Never Happened Says Academic
An archaeologist has been accused of ´inventing´ an AD 43 battle after digging up skeletons of an ancient Britonic tribe.
It was recorded as the ´massacre´ of a tribe of Britons in Dorset’s Maiden Castle by a Roman legion, by archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s, but now a Professor of Archaeology at Bournemouth University believes the entire war story was a figment of his imagination.
ashley cowie - 26/12/2019 - 23:11
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Which Mysterious Macedonian Royal Was Buried At Amphipolis?
... at the apex of the mound gazing south-eastwards towards Asia and a succession of tomb chambers were burrowed into the ...
Andrew Michael Chugg - 24/07/2020 - 15:56
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Does Newfoundland Have the Oldest Intact Ancient Ships in the World?
... to exert its hegemony over the nations of south east Asia. A sub-objective of that initiative was to create a ...
Ron Ryan - 31/10/2020 - 20:43
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Old tools found in China go back earlier in time than previously believed
In a publication on the Journal of Human Evolution, Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhnm Xing Gao and Fu-you Chen have investigated the presence of large blade technology in East Eurasia.
ancient-origins - 14/03/2013 - 16:07
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Ancient Ancestors Walking All Over Clovis First Academics
... bigger than the word ‘bridge’ implies, that connected Asia and Siberia to Alaska. This migration took a long time. ...
jim willis - 27/09/2021 - 16:31