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Voices of the Dead: The Strange Origins of Eye Idols
Urfa man, known formally as the Balikligöl statue, is the oldest human-size statue of a man discovered in the world to date. He is currently housed in Şanliurfa’s Archeology Museum, Southeast Turkey. Urfa man was discovered in the Old Town section of Şanliurfa, but in antiquity belongs to the same thought world of Göbekli Tepe, a site half an hour away from the museum by car.
Alistair - 09/09/2021 - 01:35
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Skeptics Question Whether Antikythera Start Date Has Been Found
... the Egyptian goddess Isis – was celebrated in both Egypt and Greece. And that isn’t all, that year, the phases ...
Sahir - 16/04/2022 - 00:31
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When Did Humans First Learn to Count?
... math history courses and my research travels in Guatemala, Egypt and Japan, I’ve been especially interested in the ...
ancient-origins - 26/06/2018 - 02:04
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Picts, Gaels, and Scots: Exploring their Mysterious (and Sometimes Mythical) Origins
... tower to talk to God!). Nel and Scota spent their time in Egypt before they left for Spain, leaving at the same time ...
Steven Keith - 19/06/2018 - 20:55
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The Roman Pantheon Had A God for All Seasons - And Then Some
... example, the cults of Isis and Serapis were imported from Egypt. The former was a native Egyptian goddess, while the ...
dhwty - 23/01/2019 - 01:49
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Identifying an Ancient Battle and Dating the Song of Deborah
... the Pharaohs as part of a coalition of seafarers invading Egypt. At approximately 1100 BCE, the Onomasticon of ...
pkoutoupis - 17/07/2014 - 01:22
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The Real History Behind Game of Thrones (Part one)
... to the North African empires of the ancient world, mainly Egypt and Carthage, as well as the Persian empire. Ghiscari ... is the oldest known culture in the world just like Egypt was to Europe during the medieval ages. Screencap in ...
Bryan Hill - 04/08/2015 - 21:22
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The Immortals – A Continuation of Myths and Legends
... Mystical Science of Alchemy Arose Independently in Ancient Egypt, China, India At that moment, the immortal woman ... the man grew old, so he retired to a city somewhere around Egypt. One day while going to the marketplace, the now old ...
valdar - 08/06/2016 - 14:47
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Vandals Decapitate and Steal the Head of Dublin’s 800-Year-Old Crusader Mummy
... Now we typically associate mummies with arid regions like Egypt but the crypt of St. Michan’s has a unique ...
Ed Whelan - 26/02/2019 - 18:27
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Discoveries of Ancient Underground Cities Around the World
... the churches adds to the mystical aura of Lalibela. In Egypt, the Giza Plateau has an enormous underground system ... One of the most impressive underground constructions in Egypt is the Serapeum of Saqqara, a vast subterranean complex ...
Joanna Gillan - 13/05/2023 - 23:01
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The Faravahar: The Ancient Zoroastrian Symbol of Iran
The Faravahar is arguably the best-known symbol of the Persian Zoroastrian faith. This symbol consists of a winged disc with a man emerging from it. The man is shown holding a ring. Whilst the symbol is well known, the meaning behind it is more complicated. The Faravahar was adopted as a secular symbol to represent the modern nation of Iran.
dhwty - 11/01/2021 - 13:55
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The Library of Pergamum: A Contender for the Greatest Library of the Ancient World
... of thought and criticism. In fact, legend has it that Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty halted shipments of papyrus to ... in the name of god in 391 AD, or the Muslim Conquest of Egypt c. 642 AD. If the library was destroyed by Julius ...
Veronica Parkes - 24/02/2017 - 01:58
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23 Wrecks Found in Ship Graveyard in Aegean Sea in Just 22 Days
... Incredibly, the vessels were found to originate in Cyprus, Egypt, Samos, Patmos, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Rome, ... between the Aegean and Black seas, Cyprus, the Levant and Egypt during every phase. The team took representative ...
Natalia Klimczak - 13/07/2016 - 14:48
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Silver Shields: Alexander's Crack Troops Who Betrayed Their New Master
... dynasty, in a war to regain territory lost to Ptolemy of Egypt . During the campaign, however, Perdiccas was ... Shields would finally finish what they had voted for in Egypt. To placate any lingering resentment, the shrewd ... if they didn’t punish Eumenes following his sentence in Egypt. According to Diodorus, Eumenes delivered an eloquent ...
Thanos Matanis - 10/02/2022 - 22:00
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Researchers discover vast ancient gold mines in Spain, the largest of the Roman Empire
... of Ra, the sun god, and a symbol of eternal life. In early Egypt, only kings and priests were permitted to wear it. ...
lizleafloor - 25/11/2014 - 21:48
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The Remote Irish Monastery Where Medieval Christianity Meets Fictional Jedi Spiritualism
Star Wars is many things to many people: nostalgia-tinted staple of childhood memory, space opera extraordinaire, modern day merchandising behemoth. For every starry-eyed fan there is probably a giddy scholar feasting on the many historical ingredients that make up Star Wars’ intergalactic soup. Star Wars is truly a fusion of global myths, legends and history – literary tropes borrowed from classical antiquity, medieval heroic sagas, Eastern philosophies, and 20th-century wars – all repackaged for modern audiences.
ancient-origins - 04/06/2018 - 14:00
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Has the 30,000 year old cave art of Chauvet been decoded?
If it has, then it makes the Da Vinci code look like an old trick used again. Deep in a cave in the Ardeche region of France there is a set of paintings that have left the world stunned and amazed by the skill and quality of the work. Little did anyone suspect of what else lay hidden in the images themselves.
stevem - 13/06/2013 - 08:22
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Why did King Tut Have Possibly the First Three-Part Folding Camp Bed Ever Made?
... camping bed. A model of a two-fold bed from Gebelein in Egypt, dating to the 18th Dynasty, is clear evidence that ... only highlight the magnificent craftsmanship in ancient Egypt, but also provides an insight into the deepest desires ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 02/08/2017 - 23:01
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Ancient Stargate: Can Sakwala Chakraya Unlock Interstellar Travel?
... found on Sakwala Chakraya have been seen at Abu Ghurab in Egypt , and La Puerta de Hayu Marca , Peru. All three ... to process gold from water. The Abu Ghurab site in Egypt (Roland Unger / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Sakwala Chakraya is also ...
Bipin Dimri - 20/05/2021 - 01:54
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Herodotus, Cato the Censor and Josephus: Understanding the Life and Times of Historians of the Ancient World
... Dorian neighbors and had helped pioneer Greek trade with Egypt. The city was, therefore, an international port within ... His eye-witness accounts indicate that he traveled in Egypt in association with Athenians after an Athenian fleet ...
MartiniF - 20/10/2016 - 17:08