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Koalas: Dreamtime Legends, Ancient Symbols, and their Dangerous Prehistoric Ancestors
The koala is a major draw for Australian zoos and wildlife parks. They are featured heavily in Australia-related advertisements, cartoons, and soft toys. If one were to name the animal most closely associated with Australia, it is very likely that the koala or the kangaroo would be mentioned. The koalas’ teddy bear-like face and the virtual absence of a tail, together with their stocky build and their long legs, give them a bear-like appearance. Therefore, they are also commonly referred to as “koala bears” or “native bears”.
MartiniF - 15/06/2016 - 15:52
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Was the Garden of Eden a Real Place?
Mention the Garden of Eden to a group of friends and you are likely to get as many suggestions on its true location as people you ask, plus a fair number who will deny that it was ever a real place at all. Places that have been claimed as the true whereabouts of mankind’s original home include numerous sites in Iraq and around the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Iran, Anatolia, Armenia, Turkey, Jerusalem, east Africa – and even the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, and Jackson County, Missouri.
David Millar - 06/06/2016 - 15:50
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The Achaean League’s Struggle and Beginnings of Federalism
The Achaean League was a confederation of Greek city states based on the Peloponnese Peninsula. There were, as a matter of fact, two Achaean Leagues in Greece’s history. The original Achaean League was formed during the 5th century BC but was dissolved in the following century. The second Achaean League was formed during the 3rd century BC and lasted until the 2nd century BC.
dhwty - 06/05/2020 - 14:03
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Omm Sety – A British Woman Whose Life Was Lined by Reincarnation and Connected to a Pharaoh
... who asked her for support. She published several books on her own, but also joined the works of other ...
Natalia Klimczak - 25/06/2016 - 00:46
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Ancient Secrets Come into Sight: The Pineal Gland, Pine Cone Symbolism, and the Third Eye
There is an enigmatic gland which seems to be hidden away in the human brain that has fascinated people for centuries. Depictions of pine cones and sacred eyes have been linked to this mysterious biological feature and can be found in ancient cultures around the world.
Alicia McDermott - 03/11/2016 - 02:24
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De-faced Skulls and Babies Were Buried in Viking Homes
... Gunnhild Rothe, a historian of religion and the author of books on the Norse religion is quoted saying ”The deceased ...
ashley cowie - 05/05/2020 - 01:57
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Peking Man and China’s Paleontological Nationalism
At the beginning of the 20th century, a team of international paleontologists prepared to excavate a cave located in a limestone formation known as Dragon-Bone Hill, a few hours outside of Beijing. The Cave of Zhoukoudian had traditionally been the haunt of dragon bone collectors, eager to find remnants of a legendary creature that had been celebrated in Chinese mythology for centuries.
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 20/05/2022 - 19:00
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Mathematical Genius or Mesmerizing Magician? The Psychomagic of Scotland's Ancient Lost Wizard
... was so affected by these ideas that he later wrote books about body language, human gestures, and social ... his study of chiromancy (palm reading) and a trilogy of books on divination, collectively titled the Liber ...
ashley cowie - 17/07/2017 - 18:59
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Northern Cross and the Birth of Shamanism: A Southeastern Mystery Story - Part II
... in what is now our backyard. Jim Willis is author of nine books on religion and spirituality, he has been an ordained ...
jim willis - 16/05/2017 - 23:10
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Money Does Not Stink: The Urine Tax of Ancient Rome
... wrote about Vespasian’s unpopular tax in their history books saying that when Titus complained about it, his father ...
Bryan Hill - 12/07/2015 - 14:30
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Cork Harbor Rock Structure Declared A Stone Age Tomb
Ever since the discovery of a stone dolmen on the eastern shore of Cork Harbor in southern Ireland many years ago, archaeological opinion has been divided over the exact nature of the Carraig á Mhaistin stone. New research now seems to prove that it is a Stone Age tomb, as many experts have always believed.
Sahir - 19/10/2022 - 22:55
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Gobekli Tepe Archaeoastronomy and the Second Hill of Osiris
... website, www.invisibletemple.com Freddy Silva’s other books exploring ancient temples and the role played by sacred ...
Freddy Silva - 05/11/2021 - 17:08
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Was Comic Book Hero Superman Influenced by the Ancient Egyptian God Horus?
... Dorta, S. Greek Mythology and Modern American Comic Books: How the Heroes of the Ancients Influenced the ...
dhwty - 03/04/2015 - 14:47
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A Drink Fit for Goddesses: Beer and Mankind in Ancient Mythology
It is widely known these days that beer is one of the oldest beverages human beings have ever produced. Beer-related items and activities familiar to us today can be traced back to the ancient world. Evidence of early beer brewing has been confirmed by findings at the Sumerian settlement of Godin Tepe in modern-day Iran, which indicates that production of beer dates back possibly further than 3500-3100 BCE.
MartiniF - 10/09/2016 - 01:58
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Experts Have Found the True Age of Machu Picchu
... minimal organic matter has been left behind. Most history books state that Machu Picchu was built by Pachacuti in ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 04/08/2021 - 00:01
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Rising to the Challenge: Innovative Civilizations Advanced Through Climate Change
... Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Near East , Andromeda Books, Oxford, 2004. Roux, Georges, Ancient Iraq , Penguin Books, London, 1992 "The Origins of Ceramic Technology at ...
Rob Mcroberts - 19/10/2017 - 18:56
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The Plague that brought down mighty empires is thousands of years older than thought
... Phys.org, reporting on the new research , wrote that the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Bible tell of a ...
Mark Miller - 25/10/2015 - 03:09
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Medieval Remedy Could Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
... How Did Doctors Treat Infections? Medieval Medical Books Could Hold the Recipe for New Antibiotics Medieval ...
Ed Whelan - 29/07/2020 - 21:49
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Cyrus the Great’s Last Campaign: Who Killed Cyrus? - Part II
According to the popular Greek historian Herodotus, Cyrus went on his last campaign to subdue the Massagetae, a tribe located in the southernmost portion of the steppe regions of modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan around 530 BCE, where he would die in battle. But did he?
Cam Rea - 06/10/2016 - 01:58
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Shamanic Explorations of Supernatural Realms: Cave Art - The Earliest Folklore
“The neuropsychological and ethnographic evidence that I have adduced strongly suggests that, in these subterranean images, we have an ancient and unusually explicit expression of a complex shamanic experience that is informed by altered states of consciousness.”
—David Lewis-Williams, A Cosmos in Stone
nrushton - 17/11/2016 - 02:09