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The Golden Stick: Cuzco’s Divine Foundation Myth and The Scientific Connections
Tahuantinsuyo, in ancient Quechua language, is the name indicating the Inca Empire, one of the largest of the South American continent, much more than the Aztec and Maya Empire. In 1532 BC, the Inca Kings ruled over a geographical region including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. It was an extensive territory inhabited by different communities. Among them, the national group Q’eros had a very special role, because of the characteristics of their mythological traditions.
Armando Mei - 19/11/2016 - 02:00
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Beyond Violence: Examining UK Viking Families and their Artifacts
... The Icelandic Viking Settlement Challenging the History Books New study shows Viking women accompanied men on voyages ...
ashley cowie - 29/10/2020 - 16:32
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Iron Age Europe: 2000 Years Of Change Rolls Across The Continent
The Iron Age is the name given to the third and last division of the Three Age System. The beginning and the end of the Iron Age varies according to region. Indeed, even in Europe, the Iron Age occurred at different times depending on the area of the continent one is looking at. As its name suggests, this age was characterized by the emergence of iron as the main tool-making material.
dhwty - 08/11/2021 - 13:57
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Women Gladiators: Sensational Spectator Sport For Roman Audiences
... he took degrees in Classics. He is author of over 150 books and articles. He is former History Editor for the ...
Paul Chrystal - 10/07/2023 - 21:47
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Germanicus and Agrippina: The Golden Couple, Parents of the “Mad” Emperor Caligula
Roman Emperor Caligula fell severely ill six months into his rule. When he recovered, he abandoned the toga for silk gowns and often dressed as a woman. He also declared himself as a living god. Caligula’s illness was widely credited by contemporary historians as a turning point to his madness. In contrast, Caligula’s parents, Germanicus and Agripinna, were the ‘Brad and Angelina’ of Ancient Rome.
MartiniF - 20/06/2016 - 20:56
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Living Close To The Bone – A Day In The Life Of A Hunter-Gatherer
... history of both Greece and Rome. He has written 17 books including Greek Mythology: Gods and Heroes Brought to ...
Robert Garland - 19/01/2024 - 20:04
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Phryne, The Ancient Greek Prostitute Who Flashed Her Way to Freedom
... and famous lovers, what immortalized Phryne in the history books is undoubtedly her famous trial. Athenaeus writes that ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 18/02/2017 - 13:58
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When In Rome: Legends - Fact Or Fiction, Does It Matter?
... history of both Greece and Rome. He has written 17 books including Roman Legends Brought to Life Top Image : ...
Robert Garland - 11/09/2023 - 19:49
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Who Pulled the Sword from the Stone? The Truth of the Swords of King Arthur
This spring a new movie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, is to hit the big screens. Staring Charlie Hunnam as the fabled warrior, the film title suggests that the central theme is Arthur’s legendary sword.
Graham Phillips - 08/02/2017 - 13:50
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Golden Years: Metal Coating Techniques Used 2000 Years Ago Outshine Modern Methods
... accomplishments should be ignored. Instead, our history books should applaud the ancients’ accomplishments and ...
aprilholloway - 11/08/2017 - 02:01
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Venturing Into The Symbolic Landscape Of Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest
... To be published in 2022. Jim Willis is author of eleven books on religion and spirituality, he has been an ordained ...
jim willis - 21/01/2022 - 20:02
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The Golden Age Of Islamic Astronomers
... and history of astronomy. She is the author of several books including Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through ...
Dr Marion Dolan - 08/03/2023 - 20:28
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More than a Goddess of Love: The Many Other Aspects of Aphrodite
The Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, has a very distinctive image in classical arts. In 458 BCE, the playwright Aeschylus, in his play Agamemnon, used the name of Aphrodite to denote “beauty, charm, and grace”. Her birth from the sea in a bas-relief dating from 470 to 460 BCE depicts her as a grown woman fully aware of her charms. No other Greek goddess was sculpted emphasizing her physical beauty as frequently as Aphrodite.
MartiniF - 24/09/2016 - 02:04
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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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The Iron Army: Assyria - Terrifying Military of the Ancient World - Part I
Before the famed Persian Empire, whose borders spanned from India to Thrace, there was another empire—the Assyrians. The Assyrian Empire, while much smaller than the future Persian Empire to come, made up for its lack of territorial mass with a well-greased, organized fighting machine.
Cam Rea - 29/10/2016 - 02:37
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Monks, Hermits and Ascetics: The Little-Known History of Women in Desert Asceticism
Theodoret of Cyrrhus (423–457) tells us that when little girls played games in forth-century Syria, they played monks and demons. One of the girls, dressed in rags, would reduce her little friends into giggles by exorcising them. This glimpse into a Syrian childhood scene points to the prestige of the monk figure and may serve as a preview to what must appear in this modern age as a somewhat strange theme in the setting of Christian hagiography—the woman monks of the deserts.
MartiniF - 23/08/2016 - 16:29
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Foundations of Stone – Part II : Investigating the Megalithics of West Virginia and the Connection to the Pleiades
Several mounds of the Charleston works featured these cup marked stones. Along the Elk River North of Charleston, Norris excavated a conical mound 50 feet (15 meters) broad and five feet (1.5 meters) high, the top of which was strewn with “flat rocks mainly bearing one or more circular holes from 1 to 2 inches in diameter and nearly as deep similar to the cavity in the larger end of an egg shell”.
Jason Jarrell - 22/09/2016 - 01:21
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Ancient Pedigree of the Open Championship: Golf’s Long History and Hidden Beginnings
... Liz Leafloor References “ Links plays into the record books”. BBC News, 2009. [Online] Available at: ...
lizleafloor - 19/07/2018 - 14:17
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Strolling Through Augustan Rome With Roberto The Roman
... history of both Greece and Rome. He has written 17 books including Roman Legends Brought to Life Top Image : ...
Robert Garland - 25/09/2023 - 18:02
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Zep Tepi and the Djed Mystery: The Book of the Dead and Fallen Civilizations—Part II
Chapter XVII of the Egyptian Book of the Dead highlights an indisputable detail: ritual formulas hid proofs of prehistoric events. They were handed down orally, and after millennia they inspired the ancient civilizations, reduced to primeval state by planetary disasters which occurred between 25,000 and 8,000 BC. The ancestral story was told with extraordinary effortlessness, using very simple concepts, but extremely effective.
Armando Mei - 09/08/2016 - 01:41