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How Gaul ‘Barbarians’ Influenced Ancient Roman Religion

... rebellions, as threatening the belief system of another culture can have drastic effects, and the Gauls were already ...

Riley Winters - 24/09/2020 - 20:59

Discovery of Lost Citadel May Prove the Existence of King David

... Buildings that are associated with ancient Israelite culture in the highlands have been excavated. This is the ...

Ed Whelan - 03/05/2018 - 13:56

“Veni, Vidi, Scripsi”: The Literary Conquests of Gaius Julius Caesar

... likely somewhat "accurate" descriptions of the Gallic culture of ancient Britain before the region's later ... regarding the exact nature of their purpose within Gallic culture. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, an account written by ...

Riley Winters - 31/10/2017 - 12:57

Holocene Extinction, Anthropocene Extinction, or Merely the Dust in the Wind?

The Holocene extinction is considered by most scientists to be Earth’s sixth mass extinction event that has been occurring since the last ice age 11,700 years ago. But what exactly does it mean and what is the cause?

B. B. Wagner - 27/07/2021 - 19:04

Treasures Looted from Okinawa During WW II Returned Eight Decades Later

... up in the artifacts and the history. This is what makes a culture. And without it, you’re taking away their ... collection of artifacts that highlight Japan’s rich culture and history is finally in the hands of its legitimate ...

Nathan Falde - 18/03/2024 - 21:44

Roman Historian’s Cleopatra’s Pearl Story: Is It Fact or Fiction?

“Cleopatra’s Pearl” is a story told by the Roman author Pliny the Elder in his famous long-read book Natural History. According to this tale, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, drank a goblet of vinegar after a priceless pearl was dissolved in it. Pliny claims that this was done by the Egyptian queen in order to win a bet that she had made with her lover, Mark Antony of Rome. Scholars are uncertain as to whether the story of Cleopatra’s pearl did happen.

dhwty - 01/09/2021 - 22:48

Elite Iron Age Scythian warrior discovered with bronze arrowhead embedded in his spine

... and Central Europe, the Iron Age began with the Halstatt culture , one of the earliest European Celtic societies which ... between 800 and 500 BC. This was followed by the La Tene culture (500 BC to 1 BC), named after an archaeological site ...

Robin Whitlock - 10/06/2015 - 15:00

Unknown Assyrian Symbols Solved as ‘Tag’ of Sargon II

Ancient symbols on a 2,700-year-old temple which have baffled experts for over a century have been explained by Trinity Assyriologist Dr Martin Worthington. The sequence of ‘mystery symbols’ were on view on temples at various locations in ancient city of Dūr-Šarrukīn, present day Khorsabad, Iraq, which was ruled by Sargon II, king of Assyria (721-704 BC).

ancient-origins - 07/05/2024 - 14:17

Archaeologists uncover an imaginary creature among the Nazca lines of Peru

... temple complex of Cahuachi, a major center of the Nazca culture, based from 1 AD to about 500 AD in the coastal area ... the lines, although it is known that the previous Paracas culture also made geoglyphs. National Geographic says there ...

Mark Miller - 30/04/2016 - 22:04

Rock-Cut Banquet Rooms Found At The House of Muses, Zeugma

... poetry and music,” which all reflect education and culture. But perhaps the greatest show of education, wealth, power, and the resulting “culture” was the feast, hence, the two dining room chambers ...

ashley cowie - 26/07/2021 - 18:38

Giant Face-like Rock Formations and a Rock Shrine Found in Bulgaria

... “This was the first European civilization. Not a culture but a civilization. These were the people who were ...

Mark Miller - 01/04/2016 - 14:56

Coniraya: The Inca Fertility God Who Dressed Like a Bum

... Beyond the Mists of Time: The Mysterious Timoto-Cuica Culture of the Venezuelan Andes In other retellings of his ...

Daniel Gauss - 11/07/2022 - 23:00

The awesome, terrible, and unknowable creator gods through history

All throughout history people have invoked gods of various kinds, including incomprehensibly strange creators. Crediting an almighty god as the creator of the universe is an acknowledgement that the universe is so complex and beautiful that only a being much greater than human could create it.

Mark Miller - 02/01/2015 - 12:09

Skin Color Didn’t Matter to the Ancient Greeks and Romans

... Prejudice (also by Snowden), prejudice specific to black culture was not a large piece of the ancient Roman world. Not ... out citizenship based solely on the needs of their own culture. Incorporation benefited the Roman Empire, while ... or even tertiary, basis for discrimination in classical culture, and it certainly was not a prominent factor in ...

Riley Winters - 30/12/2017 - 14:32

Neolithic Chinese Had a Special Relationship with Hares

Researchers in China have found evidence that Stone Age people had a close relationship with hares. While they never domesticated them as they did with dogs, it appears that humans changed the behaviors of these small mammals.

Ed Whelan - 12/05/2020 - 00:02

Grime's Graves: 5,000-Year-Old Flint Mine Opens a Window to the Past

Grime's Graves is a spectacular Neolithic flint mining site located near Thetford Forest, Norfolk, in the East of England. Beginning around 5,000 years ago, and continuing for an entire millennium, Stone Age peoples mined ‘floorstone’ flint beneath more than 10 meters of chalk. They used only deer antlers to create more than 400 shafts. When they finished with a shaft, they back-filled it, leaving the crater-filled landscape that we see today.

dhwty - 25/11/2016 - 22:03

How Anglo-Saxon England Made the Radical Change to Christianity

... Christianity had a huge impact on Anglo-Saxon society and culture. Arguably the most important source of information ... beliefs of its people, but also in the areas of politics, culture, and society. As an example, Christianity brought ...

dhwty - 14/12/2019 - 13:45