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1. The First Prophets: Inside The Minds Of The World’s Oldest Religious Founders

   "Let us be quiet, that we may hear the whispers of the gods." This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson hints at the subjective experience of religious revelation - the revealing of a higher truth to a messenger by a supernatural deity. Religion is one of humankind's oldest and most important developments, and it has been studied from many perspectives: sociological, neurological, anthropological, and through evolutionary psychology.

   Jonathon Perrin - 17/04/2020 - 23:38

2. Libraries: The Legacies Of Ancient Bibliophiles

   ... many of the ancient libraries in the Near East and Egypt were attached to sacred temple complexes, while in ...

   ashley cowie - 14/06/2021 - 20:41

3. Omens in the Ancient World

   ... in the interpretation of omens as recorded in the ancient Egypt Book of Dreams . Although omens foretold future events, ...

   dhwty - 10/03/2014 - 22:07

4. Resurrecting Ancestry: Genetic Revelations Beyond Israelites

   ... Revealed by New Tech The Merneptah Stele: Proof Ancient Egypt Knew of the Israelites Can We Fulfill Ezekiel’s ...

   Dr. Eran Elhaik - 16/04/2024 - 01:07

5. Homer: From Oral Tradition to Canon

   ... collapsed and left little proof of it ever existing. Egypt was so badly weakened that it never again regained its ... located at the ancient Greek colony of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. Among the manuscripts found were the Iliad and ...

   pkoutoupis - 09/05/2014 - 00:51

6. 360° Tour inside the Great Pyramid of Giza (Video)

   ... to Tell Us? Top image: Stairway inside the Great Pyramid, Egypt. Source:  witthaya / Adobe Stock. By Joanna Gillan ...

   Joanna Gillan - 28/07/2023 - 20:58

7. Long Before Face Masks, Islamic Healers Tried to Ward Off Disease With Talismans

   ... seal of Solomon . 11 th century talismanic scroll from Egypt. (Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain ) Quranic ...

   ancient-origins - 02/06/2020 - 06:00

8. Asia Minor: Atlantis, Asteroids And The Birth Of Athena

   ... from hieroglyphs written in the Temple of Neith in Sais, Egypt, and seek to write about or study climatic events ... BC.  Despite the fact that at that time (9500 BC) both Egypt and Athens (who are the main protagonists in the ...

   Nicholas Costa - 18/12/2023 - 17:26

9. Tiny Animals Discovered in Lost Lake Beneath 3500 Feet of Ice in Antarctica

   Scientists drilling into Mercer Lake, a Subglacial Antarctic lake locked beneath 3500 feet (one kilometer) of ice have discovered the ancient carcasses of tiny animals including “water bears,” in a finding scientists described as “fully unexpected”.

   ashley cowie - 20/01/2019 - 13:55

10. The Age of Discovery: A New World Dawns

    ... Asia, Southeast Asia, India, and China. Ibn Battuta in Egypt. ( Public Domain ) Voyages to Unknown Lands One of the ...

    dhwty - 27/01/2020 - 23:02

11. Prehistoric Humans are Likely to Have Formed Mating Networks to Avoid Inbreeding

    Early humans seem to have recognized the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to avoid it, new research has found.

    ancient-origins - 08/10/2017 - 02:00

12. 7,000-Year-Old Ceramic Fragment with Signs, Symbols and Swastika May Be One of the Oldest Examples of Writing

    ... into the linear writing of Sumer and the hieroglyphs of Egypt 2,000 years later started here.” Limestone tablet ... the writing of Ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. It could prove that the first ever instance of written ...

    Alicia McDermott - 29/08/2016 - 21:55

13. Chinese Man with Fused Knee used a Prosthetic Leg with a Horse Hoof Tip 2,200 Years Ago

    ... World War II bombing raid. Earlier in history, in ancient Egypt, people also made prosthetic toes . Featured image: The ...

    Mark Miller - 12/01/2016 - 21:40

14. Mansa Musa: The Richest Man in History

    ... so rich and extravagant in his spending that he disrupted Egypt’s economy just by passing through! Born in the 1280s ... to descriptions of his time with the sultan of Cairo in Egypt. The extravagant wealth of Mansa Musa I also placed ...

    Kerry Sullivan - 07/01/2021 - 21:17

15. A Unique Mixture of Afro-Cuban Religious Rituals or Witchcraft? The True Story Behind Santeria

    ... Practices in Ancient History Foundation Rituals of Ancient Egypt: Elaborate Rites Conducted to Protect Great Monuments ...

    Natalia Klimczak - 14/03/2017 - 00:53

16. Year Zero: Ancient Indian Text Includes Oldest Recorded Zero Symbol

    Scientists claim to have traced the earliest example of one of the most significant conceptual breakthroughs in arithmetic to an ancient Indian text, known as the Bakhshali manuscript. The specific manuscript has been housed in one of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford since the very early days of the 20^th century.

    Theodoros Karasavvas - 14/09/2017 - 19:00

17. Breastfeeding Beliefs: From Invincibility to Universal Creation

    ... is evident in the respect paid to them. In ancient Egypt, despite belonging to the servant class, wet nurses ...

    dhwty - 01/12/2018 - 18:50

18. 1500-Year-Old Magic Bowls Inscribed with Spells Seized in Jerusalem Raid

    During a raid on a private home in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) seized a large cache of stolen or illegally excavated archaeological treasures that were destined to be sold on the black antiquities market. Among the items recovered were three magic incantation bowls, which would have been made sometime between the fourth and eighth centuries AD.

    Nathan Falde - 10/03/2022 - 00:59

19. Lost and Found Evidence of Extreme Size Life Forms Everywhere!

    ... of dwarves can be found in historical records from ancient Egypt and the most famous of these is Seneb, depicted here ...

    Kelly Bell - 27/09/2022 - 18:54

20. Dying to Live Forever: The Reasons behind Self-Mummification

    Sunada Tetsu (1768-1829) was arguably the most famous individual who successfully mummified himself. Early in life, he was not religiously inclined. He loved a prostitute in Akagawa, Tsuruoka’s pleasure quarters, and although the incident’s specifics are unclear, one day he fought two samurai over the girl. They drew their swords, and he killed them.

    Ken Jeremiah - 02/06/2015 - 21:49

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