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Virtual Reconstruction Reveals Secret to Ancient Sundial
... Peace," is an altar in Rome dedicated to Peace, the Roman goddess, and commissioned in 13 BC to honour the return of ...
aprilholloway - 01/01/2014 - 03:54
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Archaeologists find two ancient caryatids guarding tomb at Amphipolis
... Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis. The ...
aprilholloway - 07/09/2014 - 23:43
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Tragedy as militants bomb 2,700-year-old Nineveh Wall in Iraq
... become an important religious center for worship of the goddess Ishtar. Under the reign of King Sennacherib (704 – ...
aprilholloway - 01/02/2015 - 22:05
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The Ancient Kingdom of Champa: An Enduring Power that Lasted over 1500 years in Southern Vietnam
... According to Cham tradition, the founder of Champa was a goddess known as Po Nagar. Legend said that Po Nagar was ...
dhwty - 29/10/2015 - 13:49
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Doors of Valhalla: An Esoteric Interpretation of Norse Myth
Imagine yourself at the World Tree, Yggdrasil. You sit on one of its gigantic roots. Urd's Well is in sight and maybe you can see the Norns, the weavers of fate. The colours of a Rainbow touch the Well's shore. Your eyes follow the colours of the Bifrost Bridge high into the sky. Twelve specks of white light appear. Do you see the Aesir? Doors of Valhalla presents an exegesis of Voluspa, Havamal, and Lokasenna.
ancient-origins - 08/10/2016 - 03:37
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The Enchanted Sex-Word of Scotland’s Secret Seduction Society
... persuasion and love (or desire) was so important that a goddess, Peitho, personified ‘persuasion’ and ...
ashley cowie - 22/05/2017 - 23:01
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Intriguing Coptic Tombstone Belonging to a Little Girl Discovered in Luxor
... open-air museum. Numerous Statues of Sekhmet, The Lioness Goddess of War, Unearthed in Egypt Tjayasetimu, the child ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 26/10/2017 - 22:45
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Look Up at the Super Blue Blood Full Moon Jan. 31 – Here’s What You’ll See and Why
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Hunting South American Gold
... while water and the moon were symbols of the goddess and by casting male gold votives into receptive ...
ashley cowie - 28/02/2018 - 15:09
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Tomb of Kaires the ‘Keeper of the Secret’ and the Pharaoh’s ‘Sole Friend’ Unearthed in Egypt
... complexes of kings Sahure and Neferirkare, priest of the goddess Hathor, mistress of the sycamore, in Cusae (a city in ...
Ed Whelan - 12/10/2018 - 13:57
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Neo-Assyrian ‘Divine Procession’ Discovered in Hidden Tunnel, Turkey
... Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of fertility. The largest of these is 1.1 meters (3.6 ...
Sahir - 11/05/2022 - 14:30
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Ivanka Trump’s Family Is Making Egypt Great Again
... a hitherto unknown queen who was named after an ancient goddess of the same name from 3,000 BC. Also this week, Egypt ...
ashley cowie - 24/11/2022 - 21:58
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Cult of the Captured Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
... ancient Greece when women ruled supreme? Inspired by the Goddess Demeter herself and drawing on this Neolithic past, ...
ancient-origins - 18/04/2023 - 21:56
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Myriad of Cultic Offerings Unearthed at Kythnos Temple Complex
... the site have been linked to the worship of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, with her daughter Persephone. ...
Sahir - 09/06/2023 - 22:55
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Why These Brick Lions That Once Protected Babylon Feel Alive (Video)
The brick lions that once guarded Babylon's streets hold a unique vitality. These imposing creatures, sculpted from individual bricks, bear a profound significance. In contrast to our contemporary admiration for lions, the Babylonians, coexisting with these formidable beasts, regarded them with fear.
Robbie Mitchell - 28/09/2023 - 20:54
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Avalon: Island of Apples
... a closer look needs to be taken at a Celtic god and goddess closely associated with the Celtic Otherworld, namely ...
Willem McLoud - 01/04/2024 - 22:16
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The Crowns of the Pharaohs
In Ancient Egypt, the gods and kings (pharaohs) were depicted with a crown, which, according to Egyptologists, were also taken into the grave for the afterlife. These crowns however have never physically been found, neither inside nor outside graves. Have these crowns really existed or did grave robbers take them all?
Willem Witteveen - 23/06/2013 - 11:54
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Archaeologists Find Proof that early Hittites entered Europe
... remained in Asia. Archaeologists discovered iron god and goddess statues, bitumen, tin and ceramic pieces in two ...
aprilholloway - 01/11/2013 - 05:31
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The Magnificent Ishtar Gate of Babylon
... magnificent gate, which was dedicated to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, was once included among the Seven Wonders of ...
Joanna Gillan - 16/10/2023 - 15:16
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Sumerian Mythology: A Collection of Ancient Sumerian Myths and Epics
The relationship and search for God, gods, or goddesses is one of civilized man’s earliest preoccupations. Our place in the universe is anything but certain and with that uncertainty comes the need for explanation and a yearning for understanding. It has always been the enigma of man to explain, theorize, or pontificate upon that which the obvious solution evades us. This book is a collection of varying myths and epics of the Ancient Sumerian civilization. The Sumerian culture is deeply rooted in myth and mystery.
ancient-origins - 16/01/2016 - 01:54