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2,500-Year-Old ‘Language Machine’ Is Finally Decoded
... Indo-European language that emerged in Bronze Age South Asia. Over time it became the sacred language of Hindus by ...
ashley cowie - 15/12/2022 - 21:56
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Photographic Marvels: 12 Stunning Historic Palaces You Need to See to Believe
... the towering castles of Europe to the elegant palaces of Asia, these historic buildings offer a window into the past ...
Joanna Gillan - 19/02/2023 - 18:00
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Scientists Plan to De-Extinct the Dodo!
... to have originated millions of years ago in Southeast Asia, after sea levels rose the dodo existed in isolation. ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 15/03/2023 - 00:51
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10 Supernatural Powers from the Deities of World Mythology
... all the various mythologies of our world. From Europe to Asia, Africa and the Americas, both ancient and modern ...
Aleksa Vučković - 08/04/2023 - 18:52
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From India and Taiwan to Tibet, the Living Assist the Dead in their Passage
Many people see death as a rite of a passage: a journey to some new place, or a threshold between two kinds of being.
ancient-origins - 09/11/2023 - 17:56
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Bone Slips Excavated in Central China Linked to Ancient Fortune-Telling
... were wildly popular in ancient China and in other parts of Asia as well. Ancient Japanese Queen Himiko may have Burned ...
Nathan Falde - 08/02/2024 - 21:49
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Horses as Symbols of Power in History and Mythology
There are many hypotheses regarding history of the domestication of the horse. Horses first appeared in Paleolithic cave art around 30,000 BC. These were wild horses that were hunted for their meat. However, it is disputed exactly how and when the horse first became domesticated.
valdar - 18/05/2016 - 03:38
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Iceman Inheritance : Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression
The iceaan inheritance is the most glaring admission about the european's attempt to dominate the world through racism.there are a large number of books on this subject but the writers tend to hedge on the subject by inferring that in spite of the atrocities and the racism brought to this world by the caucasian race,they have given the world some order,some technology and arts and letters of lasting benefit.what the authors of these books do not take into consideration is that in spite of the contributions that benefit the world,eur
ancient-origins - 27/05/2016 - 20:55
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7,000-Year-Old Ceramic Fragment with Signs, Symbols and Swastika May Be One of the Oldest Examples of Writing
While excavating the ancient Roman site of Ad Putea in modern Riben, Bulgaria, researchers made a startling discovery – an artifact that they believe may be one of the earliest attempts of writing in the world. This intriguing piece was found in a previously unknown settlement that lay below the Roman site.
Alicia McDermott - 29/08/2016 - 21:55
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The Eerie Remains of an Ill-Fated Ship That Still Preserves its Cargo Beneath the Mud
... that time. The Amsterdam was made to travel from Europe to Asia and carry goods like spices, textiles, tools, and other ...
Natalia Klimczak - 15/10/2016 - 03:52
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She Met the Devil, Escaped a Dragon, and Survived Several Attempts on Her Life: The Remarkable Story of St. Margaret of Antioch
... that the Antioch of St. Margaret is Antioch in Pisidia (in Asia Minor) as opposed to Antioch on the Orontes (in Syria). ...
dhwty - 24/04/2017 - 14:00
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What Comforting Items Did Vikings Have That Are Still the Height of Luxury Today?
By ThorNews
In the largest and most richly equipped Viking burial mounds discovered in Norway there are usually found beds and several types of bird feathers and down from pillows and duvets, including eagle-owls’ feathers. This demonstrates that wealthy Viking aristocrats slept as they lived: quite comfortably.
ancient-origins - 10/01/2018 - 01:50
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Five Surprising Things DNA has Revealed About our Ancestors
... humans and Neanderthals lived together in Europe and Asia, but until recently the nature of their cohabitation was ...
ancient-origins - 20/02/2018 - 13:57
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Venice: A New History
La Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike. Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either facile travel guides or fusty academic tomes. In Venice, renowned historian Thomas F. Madden draws on new research to explore the city’s many astonishing achievements and to set 1,500 years of Venetian history and the endless Venetian-led Crusades in the context of the ever-shifting Eurasian world.
ancient-origins - 07/03/2020 - 15:32
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Could Resurrecting Mammoths Help Stop Arctic Emissions?
If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash landed in some desolate part of the African savannah. But the chilly temperatures and the presence of six-ton shaggy beasts with extremely long tusks would confirm you really were in the Pleistocene epoch, otherwise known as the Ice Age. You’d be visiting the mammoth steppe, an environment that stretched from Spain across Eurasia and the Bering Strait to Canada.
ancient-origins - 13/05/2018 - 01:55
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Temple of Heaven and Its Sacrificial Altar Where Blood Was Spilt for Bountiful Harvests
... the Temple of Heaven Architecture and planning across East Asia show a profound influence from the symbolic layout and ...
Mark Miller - 20/12/2018 - 13:55
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Were the Anunnaki the Architects of the Towers and Tombs of the Giants of Sardinia?
... century BC Egyptian texts — who may have originated from Asia-Minor. Density map of nuraghes on Sardinia per square ...
Freddy Silva - 16/07/2019 - 00:30
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.
ancient-origins - 10/08/2019 - 02:04
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The Stunning Vat Phou Temple Tells Secrets of Laos' Past
... sites, amongst the most renowned in Southeast Asia . One of the most significant and important is Vat ...
Ed Whelan - 01/01/2020 - 12:42
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Ancient Equestrian Tactics Used Against New Foe
Police forces around the world are deploying horses to maintain social control as communities begin to crack under the pressure of social restrictions.
ashley cowie - 04/05/2020 - 22:55