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1. The Ancient Beginnings of the Art of Shadow Puppetry

   In his Republic, Plato mentions a cave in India with an inscription from the second century BCE. The inscription refers to a shadow play performance where puppets of humans and animals were manipulated by a puppeteer in that cave. The fire behind the puppets casts shadows of them and, according to Plato, they are seen as a form of reality by the fettered audience. This story illustrates Plato's discussion on the illusory nature of all perceptions.

   MartiniF - 08/09/2016 - 02:25

2. The Mahabharata: Unforgettable Lessons in An Indian Epic of Family Fighting

   ... Krishna on the right, Cirebon wayang glass painting, Java, Indonesia. (Gunawan Kartapranata/ CC BY SA 3.0 ) Life Off the ...

   dhwty - 03/06/2018 - 18:45

3. Seers, Women of Action: The Sibyls of the Ancient World

   ... of Java who Predicted the Dutch and Japanese Occupation of Indonesia The Biblical Witch of Endor: Contacting the Spirit ...

   MartiniF - 22/11/2016 - 02:08

4. Lines On A Wild Cow Bone May Be 120,000-Year-Old Symbols

   ... however, it is no match with the shell dug up in Trinil, Indonesia, in the 1890s by Dutch geologist Eugene Dubois. ...

   ashley cowie - 04/02/2021 - 17:50

5. Unique Painting of Extinct Giant Sloth Discovered in Madagascar Cave

   A team of scientists exploring a cave in western Madagascar have discovered an ancient painting which they are calling the “only known drawing of an extinct giant lemur” that once lived in the island’s remote western forests until at least 1,000 years ago.

   ashley cowie - 03/07/2020 - 19:23

6. Creating Prehistoric Culture: Were the First Artists Women?

   ... notions. ‘Gua Tewet, the tree of life,’ Borneo, Indonesia. ( Luc-Henri Fage/Public Domain ) People like Dean ...

   Natalia Klimczak - 21/08/2016 - 03:50

7. How Much Evidence is Enough to Declare a New Species of Human from a Philippines Cave Site?

   ... diminutive  Homo floresiensis  from Flores in eastern Indonesia, most recently dated between 60,000 and 100,000 ...

   ancient-origins - 18/04/2019 - 14:00

8. Ancient Persian Inscriptions Link a Babylonian King to the Man Who Became Buddha

   ... stands on right. Bas-relief panel at Borobudur, Java, Indonesia. ( Wikimedia Commons ) Darius, a military ...

   Harvey Kraft - 04/05/2015 - 01:13

9. Fifty Years Ago, at Lake Mungo, the True Scale of Aboriginal Australians’ Epic Story was Revealed

   ... land bridge to present-day southern New Guinea and eastern Indonesia, and people and animals could, at times, walk to ... the Asian continental shelf from the islands of eastern Indonesia, a region known as Wallacea – into Sahul would ...

   ancient-origins - 08/07/2018 - 22:56

10. 4th Year Anniversary Winners

    ... Bronze Yearly Douglas Heger US Bronze Yearly Graeme Dinnen Indonesia Bronze Yearly & Book Jodi Stettenbenz US Bronze ...

    ancient-origins - 12/02/2017 - 16:52

11. Pleistocene Epoch: Humans, Welcome to Earth

    The Pleistocene epoch is a geologic epoch which began around 2.6 Mya (Million years ago) and came to an end around 11,700 BP (Before Present). It is characterized by lower sea levels than the present epoch and colder temperatures. During much of the Pleistocene, Europe, North America, and Siberia were covered by extensive ice sheets and glaciers. The Pleistocene was an important time because it was when the human genus first evolved.

    Caleb Strom - 19/10/2018 - 23:02

12. New Study Reveals Where Homo erectus Took Their Final Stand

    ... members of their group met their fate in Central Java, Indonesia. So many years later, we are finally discovering ...

    Alicia McDermott - 18/12/2019 - 18:00

13. Tasty Treasures: 3,000 Plants, Spices, and Fruits Found on 15th Century Norse Shipwreck

    ... dill, and nutmeg. Some of these spices originated from Indonesia, indicating that King Hans had a vast trade ...

    Joanna Gillan - 11/02/2023 - 17:57

14. 'Hobbits' did exist and were a separate species

    I am sure many of our readers are fans of The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien, which means that you would have heard of the Hobbits, a race of dwarf humanoids playing a major role in the events of these books.

    johnblack - 19/04/2013 - 10:19

15. New Evidence that Ancient Humans Crossed Significant Sea Barrier

    ... one of the world’s most prominent marine barriers in Indonesia and later bred with modern humans on their way to ...

    aprilholloway - 20/10/2013 - 06:23

16. Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

    ... in liberalized Mongolia to its similar rise in Africa and Indonesia. In doing so, she offers a sophisticated analysis ...

    ancient-origins - 26/10/2018 - 19:59

17. Using genetics to unravel our ancient past

    ... in Siberia extending to the hot and tropical forests of Indonesia. But their most important contribution to the ...

    aprilholloway - 25/04/2013 - 13:24

18. Tracing ‘Hobbits’ DNA in modern humans

    ... our genes. Herawati Sudoyo of Eijkman Institute said that Indonesia has been a place that many ancient humans were ...

    johnblack - 31/10/2013 - 11:23

19. Researchers claim Flores bones do not represent new species of 'Hobbit' human

    ... fragmentary skeletal remains from the island of Flores in Indonesia yielded what was called "the most important find in ...

    aprilholloway - 07/08/2014 - 02:49

20. Ancient Expressions: The World’s Oldest Works of Prehistoric Art

    ... mainly in Europe, until the discovery of cave art in Indonesia, and sculpture and cave art in Africa. The term ...

    ashley cowie - 09/11/2018 - 16:34

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