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Archaeologists Found a Medieval Body With a Tumor That Was Growing Teeth – But That’s Not the Whole Story

... That prize has to go to an unidentified woman in Japan who, in 2003, had a teratoma tumor removed from her ...

Mark Oliver - 08/06/2017 - 22:53

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

... account of the 1906 catastrophe in San Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the Peruvian ...

ancient-origins - 13/01/2017 - 22:29

The World’s First 'Mammoth Traps' Found in Mexico?

Anthropologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement on Wednesday that a pair of hunting pits, essentially mammoth traps, were discovered during excavations on land that had been earmarked for a new garbage dump in the neighborhood of Tultepec, just north of Mexico City.

ashley cowie - 08/11/2019 - 13:56

From Magic to Science: The Intriguing Ritual and Powerful Work of Alchemy

... the witches of Europe to the Yin-Yang masters of China and Japan, from alchemists preoccupied with transforming common ...

valdar - 02/12/2015 - 14:49

The Foal That Came in From the Cold After 40,000 Years

... North-Eastern Federal University, and Kindai University in Japan along with a crew from Fuji TV. The Batagai depression ...

ancient-origins - 18/08/2018 - 23:00

The Cost of War: Democracy Comes at a Price – Part 1

... the United States (4,743,826 troops) and the Empire of Japan ( 800,000 troops). The total for the Allied powers ...

Cam Rea - 02/05/2018 - 15:51

Daily Prayers with Decomposing Corpses: Death Chairs at Aragonese Castle

... World The Honorable Death: Samurai and Suicide in Feudal Japan The island of Ischia’s Aragonese Castle. ( CC BY-SA ...

dhwty - 29/05/2018 - 19:01

Dropped Your Bastard Sword? Then Whip Out Your Bollock Dagger

If you find the term ‘bollock dagger’ too crude, you could rightfully call this weapon a ‘kidney dagger.’ But that’s how the Victorians attempted to mask the true nature of this horrendous invention that was recently discovered outside a 13th century cathedral in Belgium.

ashley cowie - 31/03/2022 - 14:33

Descent to the Underworld: The Little-Known Practices and Symbols in Ancient Mythology of the Great Below

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man,” wrote Joseph Campbell wrote of a basic pattern. A heroic journey is a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure to later come home transformed.

MartiniF - 06/12/2016 - 01:51

The Elusive Egyptian Hall of Records and Hopi Lessons of Death and Rebirth

... Causeway for the Great Pyramid of Egypt has been Found In Japan at the city of Kyoto, there is a six-sided stone ...

Thomas O. Mills - 09/09/2016 - 14:47

Snake Oil Has Long Been Deemed A ‘Fake Medicine’, But It’s Not Guilty, It Really Does Cure!

... fatty acid residues. ( CC BY SA 4.0 ) Similar studies in Japan rendered oil from Erabu sea snakes, which belong to the ...

ashley cowie - 13/01/2019 - 18:58

Jenglot: Humanoid Creatures or a Hoax? Creepy Bloodthirsty Beings of the Indonesian Jungle

The jenglot is a creature found in Indonesia. It resembles a tiny humanoid doll, and seems to be a creature from modern times, as the first reports of the jenglot’s existence were made in 1997. Till today, however, it is still unclear if the jenglot is really a supernatural creature or merely a hoax, though many Indonesians believe that the jenglot does have mystical powers.

dhwty - 28/01/2019 - 22:52

North Sea islands with prehistoric inhabitants were wiped out by tsunami

New research presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna has revealed that an ancient civilisation located on a group of islands between Britain and Europe was wiped out by a tsunami about 8,200 years ago, according to a news report in BBC News.

aprilholloway - 02/05/2014 - 23:51

Archaeologists Uncover Preserved Ancient Pottery Workshop in Egypt

Archaeologists digging in the Aziza hills area of the Beheira governate in northern Egypt have recovered the remains a pottery workshop dating to the Graeco-Roman period, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on its Facebook page on July 6th.

Nathan Falde - 12/07/2021 - 22:42

Top Ten Historical and Archaeological Discoveries of 2015

... themselves to death. The practice was also widespread in Japan, starting over 1,000 years ago and continuing until it ...

ancient-origins - 22/12/2015 - 14:53

Chinese Fantastic Beasts: The Taotie Demon Who Eats Humans

A strange animal that preys upon unsuspecting travelers, who devours them but cannot swallow them, may be representative of the human sin of gluttony, as the taotie, a Chinese mythological fantastic beast seems to symbolize. This strange creature has remained consistent through 5,000 years in art, but its origins still puzzle historians.

Ken Jeremiah - 03/05/2019 - 17:09