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Kai-Awase: Elegant Shell Matching Pastime Of The Nobility During Heian Japan
... as ritual objects at times. The ancient Peruvian Moche culture worshipped animals and the sea, and shells were ...
MartiniF - 07/03/2022 - 17:24
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The Magnificent Observatory and Discoveries of Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius is one of the symbols of Gdansk, Poland. He is also one of the three great intellectuals, along with Fahrenheit and Schopenhauer, who were born in this city. During Hevelius’ life, his observatory was known as one of the most important centers for astronomy in Europe.
Natalia Klimczak - 03/02/2016 - 03:43
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The Handle NOT the Wheel Was Our Most Revolutionary Invention, Study
A new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface has claimed that early man’s greatest invention was actually not the wheel but the tool handle! With an impact on transport, agriculture, and industry, the wheel is often hailed as humankind’s greatest scientific revolution, but researchers from the University of Liverpool don’t necessarily agree.
Sahir - 17/03/2022 - 18:02
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Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing ...
ancient-origins - 04/03/2016 - 21:04
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God's War: A New History of the Crusades
... bound by aggression, paranoia, and wishful thinking, and a culture founded on war as an expression of worship, social ...
ancient-origins - 26/03/2016 - 04:15
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American Indian Prophecies
... fascinating work that brings together indigenous American culture, values and spirituality as seen as through Indian ...
ancient-origins - 07/05/2016 - 00:00
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Sacred Geometry
... are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small volume, Miranda Lundy ...
ancient-origins - 14/05/2016 - 02:24
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Homer’s Iliad Casts Doubt on the Aegean Location of Troy
Historian Bernard Jones has spent more than three decades researching the ‘Story of Troy’ and he maintains that Homer’s Iliad is the greatest reference work on the Bronze Age world. Homer describes with great accuracy an infinite number of matters relating to the natural world and the environment of the Greeks and Trojans. He gives flawless accounts of the oceans and the climate, the landscapes, the people and cultures.
Bernard Jones - 20/05/2019 - 19:01
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Anatolia’s Gōbekli Tepe And New Mexico’s Pueblo Bonito – Similar Necropolis Sites?
... in north-western New Mexico, was a major center of culture for the ancestral Puebloans. Here are several large ...
ralph ellis - 13/07/2022 - 21:18
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Narcissus: An Ancient Tragic Story with Many Modern Parallels
... for others. Narcissus’ life has also influenced popular culture for centuries and even provided the inspiration for ...
Molly Dowdeswell - 31/07/2022 - 18:43
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The Sumerian Military: Professionals of Weaponry and Warfare
Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, lies a land once known as Mesopotamia. It was here that humanity found suitable land to rip open and seed. Once the seeds took root, civilization was born.
Cam Rea - 17/06/2016 - 15:53
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Famous Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Remarkable Discoveries
... of an international team led by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
Natalia Klimczak - 22/06/2016 - 14:46
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Mysteries of the Native American Medicine Wheel – Healing, Rituals, and Astronomical Aid
Medicine wheels, known also as sacred circles or sacred hoops, are monuments constructed by certain Native American cultures by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground. The most basic pattern, which is followed by the majority of medicine wheels, consists of a center of stones, which is connected to an outer ring by ‘spokes’. Medicine wheels were, and still are, constructed for healing purposes.
dhwty - 06/07/2016 - 21:50
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A Bible reader's history of the ancient world
... show how scientific archaeology, examination of material culture, and careful reading of primary texts are the keys to ...
ancient-origins - 06/07/2019 - 05:05
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Richard Cassaro
... support of his theory that a spiritually advanced mother culture, lost to history, is behind many of the world's ...
ancient-origins - 03/01/2013 - 08:14
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Silent Victims of Grave Robbers: Children and Mummies Suffer from Extensive Looting in Egypt
... a few millennia. The people who created the unforgettable culture are now buried in the sands of the desert. The number ...
Natalia Klimczak - 10/08/2016 - 03:46
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Ancient Greek Physician Hippocrates and the Medical Revolution
... and philosophical thought. The impact the Hellenic culture had is still felt throughout the world today. ...
Sarah P Young - 24/08/2019 - 14:01
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13th Century Maya Codex, Long Shrouded in Controversy, Proves Genuine
Brown University’s Stephen Houston and a team of leading researchers in anthropology and Maya archeology methodically verify the authenticity of the oldest known manuscript in ancient America.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s.
ancient-origins - 07/09/2016 - 21:44
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Dr John Haywood
... Asia, and the North Atlantic, their violent and predatory culture left a unique imprint on medieval history. The twist ...
ancient-origins - 02/01/2013 - 08:03
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The 751 AD Battle Of Talas Deciding The Fate Of Medieval Central Asia
In the eighth century, as Charlemagne forged his European empire, and the Vikings emerged from the bowels of Scandinavia as the most fearsome raiders of their time, fierce battles raged simultaneously in a landscape, replete with rugged deserts, titanic mountains and endless plains, in a faraway land to the East.
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 23/11/2022 - 17:26