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Bactria - The Bountiful, Sought-after Region of Ancient History
... BC. On display at the Ancient Orient Museum in Tokyo, Japan. (I, PHGCOM / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Bactria: A Key Highway for ...
Aleksa Vučković - 02/10/2021 - 14:43
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Impossible Quest to Have the Perfect Man? The 5 Imperfect Brothers of the Mahabharata
The two major Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, still appear widely in popular folk drama, tales and art all over Southeast Asia with slight adaptations in all the myriad cultures of the region. Scenes from the epics are illustrated in the relief sculptures of temples such as the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Rama temple in Malaysia, and mural painting in Vat Oup Moung, a Buddhist monastery in Vientiane, Laos.
MartiniF - 30/01/2017 - 15:58
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What is a Pyramid doing in the Heart of Rome?
The Great Pyramid of Giza is undoubtedly one of the most well-known icons of ancient Egypt. Nevertheless, similar pyramids are found scattered all throughout Egypt and beyond. Egyptian-style pyramids have been found south of the border in modern day Sudan. These pyramids were built by the rulers of the Kingdom of Kush. In 30 BC, Egypt became a province in the Roman Empire, and the Romans even launched a military expedition into Kushite territory in 23 BC.
dhwty - 10/05/2015 - 05:13
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Dark Mysteries of the Deep: Ancient Divers and their Dangerous Journeys
... activity throughout the world. From the Ama divers of Japan and Korea to the Mayans of Central America to the ...
lizleafloor - 28/07/2015 - 23:59
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Seers, Women of Action: The Sibyls of the Ancient World
Virgil, in his Aeneid, describes Deiphobe, better known as the Sibyl of Cumae, as coming from “a hundred perforations in the rock, a hundred mouths from which the many utterances rush” (43-5, 163). He further describes “her terrifying riddles” (98-99,164) conjuring the enduring image of a Sibyl as a mysterious prophetess sitting in a temple or a cave, uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy.
MartiniF - 22/11/2016 - 02:08
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What Do Astronauts, Atlantis, and Africa Share? The Richat Structure!
... (false color). (NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team / Public domain ) The Science of the ...
Mark Johnston - 21/06/2022 - 18:59
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What Does Alexander the Great Have to Do with Buddhist Imagery?
... Northeastern Asia - like China, the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Siberia, and Vietnam. Indo-Greek territory. ( CC BY-SA ...
Natalia Klimczak - 04/02/2016 - 03:45
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Monumental Mammoth-Bone Structure Built 25,000 Years Ago
... at the "Frozon Woolly Mammoth Yuka Exhibit" in Yokoyama, Japan, would have been much smaller than those found at ...
ashley cowie - 17/03/2020 - 00:04
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The Secret Life of Melusine: Mysterious Mermaid & Serpent Mother of European Nobility
Melusine is the spirit of fresh water, usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down, much like the mythical mermaid. She is also frequently illustrated with two tails. The image of Melusine is so famous and enduring that, perhaps without knowing her by name, we still recognize her image today as the logo for Starbucks Coffee.
MartiniF - 31/03/2017 - 15:25
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Ancient shipwrecks, thousands of years old, may rewrite the history of South East Asia
... of all time Second shipwreck from Mongolian invasion of Japan found on seabed Archaeologists may have located ancient ...
Robin Whitlock - 03/09/2015 - 15:16
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The Fierce Queen of the Illyrians: Teuta the Untameable
Following the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War in 241 BC, the Roman Republic became a dominant naval power in the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, Rome’s control of the seas was not absolute. To the east of Italy, another power was on the rise. This was the Ardiaean kingdom, ruled by an Illyrian tribe that began to threaten Rome’s trade routes that ran across the Adriatic Sea. At the helm of this kingdom was the capable Queen Teuta.
dhwty - 09/12/2020 - 00:09
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Why and How Different Cultures Bury the Dead
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4,000-Year-Old Teeth of Egyptian Papyrus Maker Speak of Hard Work and Chronic Pain
Mendes was once the capital of Ancient Egypt and it was in the necropolis here in the 1970s that archaeologists discovered the remains of a very special, but common woman, who lived around 2181-2055 BC.
ashley cowie - 14/04/2019 - 01:58
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Did Visayan Raiders Plunder the Coast of the Song Dynasty?
... island and even beyond Formosa and continuing to Yokohama Japan' (Isorena, 2004). This stream would have given the ...
B. B. Wagner - 26/06/2020 - 23:13
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The ancient city of Susa in Iran is a worldwide treasure
... was Battlefield Island, off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan. This was used by the Japanese during World War 2 to ...
Robin Whitlock - 11/07/2015 - 04:09
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Drugs in War: A Long, Troubled History
... the Germans who used methamphetamines in World War II. Japan began the industrial production of meth during the war, ... 2020. THE WORLD WAR II “WONDER DRUG” THAT NEVER LEFT JAPAN . Available at: ...
Sahir - 14/06/2022 - 01:42
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The Hidden Mastermind and Warrior Queen Behind an Empire’s Golden Age
The Majapahit Empire was a vast empire on the island of Java from 1293 to 1527 CE, which later became part of modern Indonesia. It was an empire of 98 tributaries, stretching from the island of Sumatra to New Guinea, and it is said to have encompassed what are known now as the majority of Southeast Asia.
MartiniF - 26/01/2017 - 01:06
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Hidden secrets revealed in 1491 world map that may have guided Columbus
... Wikimedia Commons ) Interestingly, the image of Japan on the map is completely wrong. It is mentioned in the ... may have led Christopher Columbus to believe he had found Japan when actually he had arrived in the Bahamas. According ...
Robin Whitlock - 15/06/2015 - 21:40
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Past Life Memories of Children and Past Life Regression: A Case for Reincarnation?
There are times when a person feels like they have been somewhere before or just “knows” things or people without having met them before. Often we write this off as the strange experience of déjà-vu or a coincidence. Imagine that the experience multiplies and an individual says they remember exact details about other people, and places they have never experienced, maybe they can even speak a language never taught to them. Some people claim they have had these experiences - and scientists have taken an interest in their cases.
Alicia McDermott - 18/09/2015 - 00:43
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Dragons: Exploring the Ancient Origins of the Mythical Beasts
One of the most popular and persistent characters of the human mythos is that of the dragon. Whether it is a gold hoarding serpent or fire-breathing giant, dragons continue to fascinate and entertain people around the world. Yet where did the idea of these mythical beasts come from? Nobody knows for certain when or where dragons first entered into the popular culture, although tales of dragons existed in ancient Greece and ancient Samaria. Over the years, experts have put forward a number of interesting theories.
Kerry Sullivan - 07/08/2016 - 21:43