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Discovery of 3,000-Year-Old Philistine Cemetery May Change History
A team of researchers have unearthed the first known cemetery of the Philistines in southern Israel, which may reveal the origins of the famous Hebrew Biblical villains, who made up one of the tribes of Sea Peoples. Due to the discovery, many answers have finally been found regarding these mysterious people.
Natalia Klimczak - 12/07/2016 - 00:48
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Scythian Tactics and Strategy: Devastating Guerilla Archers - Part I
... 300 BC. Public Domain When one examines the Scythian lifestyle, one can easily gain an understanding of the type ...
Cam Rea - 30/08/2015 - 01:00
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Mongolian Giant Camels and Hominins Coexisted 27,000 Years Ago
... Spectacular photographs shed light on the ancient nomadic lifestyle of Mongolia According to the Frontiers blog article ...
Sahir - 28/03/2022 - 18:59
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1,000-year-old tooth plaque sheds light on ancient lives
Researchers from the University of Zurich and the University of Oklahoma have analysed the dental plaque from 1,000-year-old skeletons in a medieval cemetery in Germany.
johnblack - 25/02/2014 - 00:42
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Andreas Vesalius: The Medieval Physician Who Loved Dissecting Humans
Andreas Vesalius was a physician and anatomist who lived during the 16th century AD. Up until this point of time, the standard authority on anatomy was the work of Galen, a 2nd / 3rd century Greek physician and surgeon in the Roman Empire. But Galen’s religious beliefs preventing him from cutting open a deceased human being. However, Vesalius did not share the same beliefs and his willingness to dissect humans marked the start of a new phase in the study of human anatomy.
dhwty - 03/10/2016 - 00:54
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Important Moche Ceremonial Rooms Discovered in Peru
... culture was sophisticated and their art expressed their lifestyle, with detailed scenes of hunting, fishing, ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 13/01/2018 - 13:53
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Can Traditional Chinese Face Reading Provide Insight on Your Future, Health, and Character?
面相 (‘miàn xiàng’, or less accurately as ‘mien shiang’) is a type of Chinese divination that relies on the observation of a person’s facial features. Apart from divining an individual’s future, practitioners and advocates of Mian Xiang believe that this practice may be used to determine a person’s character. Due to this, it has been widely used in the past, from parents seeking brides for their sons, to the selection of suitable candidates for Imperial positions.
dhwty - 27/04/2017 - 18:58
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Windover Bog Bodies Resetting Human Habitation Timeline In America
... when people who were beginning to follow an agrarian lifestyle sought to impose their way of life onto a reluctant ...
jim willis - 06/09/2021 - 21:50
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First humans in Florida lived alongside giant animals
Recent research has confirmed an old theory that the first humans in Florida lived alongside giant animals that have since become extinct. A geologist made the proposal a century ago following the discovery of numerous fossils at Vero Beach in the early 1900s, but this theory was met with resistance until it was recently proven by bone analysis.
Mark Miller - 01/01/2015 - 00:49
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Following the Boom and Bust of the Roman Economy
... , and the grain for bread were all important for the Roman lifestyle. Agriculture remained central to the Roman economy ...
Caleb Strom - 23/07/2020 - 18:58
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Despite His Divine Artworks, Michelangelo Had A Dirty Secret
... Condivi explained that Michelangelo led an unhygienic lifestyle. “When he was more robust, he often slept in his ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 13/07/2022 - 01:54
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Carved Stones May Indicate Neolithic Settlement on Scottish Isle!
Archaeologists in Orkney believe they “might” have discovered another 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement in the Bay of Skaill, beside the world famous Skara Brae. Thought to date to around 3,000 BC, the newly discovered “suspected” Neolithic site was discovered in the far north of Scotland on Mainland Orkney. Costal erosion revealed ancient animal bones and what might be a carved stone, in ground dating back to 3,100 BC.
ashley cowie - 12/02/2021 - 17:50
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Rare First Temple Period Toilet Discovered In Jerusalem
A First Temple-era private toilet has been unearthed in Jerusalem. While in itself the toilet is an exceptionally rare find, surrounding it evidence was unearthed of a rich fruit garden within a “lush” royal residence.
The term “toilet humor,” describes a whole set of jokes and puns about the human bodily functions and even extending into sex. This fact indicates that in today’s society toilets are most often associated with the dirty and lowly, but in history, the very opposite was the case.
ashley cowie - 06/10/2021 - 14:28
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Mysterious Underground Labyrinth in Scotland May Have Originally Been a Druid Temple
... The main goal for this gentleman’s club was a hedonistic lifestyle connected with spending time with women, drinking ...
Natalia Klimczak - 07/03/2016 - 21:55
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Easter Island Inhabitants Ate Rats as Major Part of Their Diet
... diet. However, it may reflect the fact that their lifestyle, beliefs, traditions and diet may have been focused ...
aprilholloway - 27/09/2013 - 23:46
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Beni Hammad Fort: Ruins Attest the Dreams of a Medieval Algerian Islamic Dynasty
... Beni Hammad Fort. Available at: https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/beni-hammad/ Beni Hammad Fort: Ruins Attest the ...
dhwty - 07/08/2018 - 13:54
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Archaeologists Found a Medieval Body With a Tumor That Was Growing Teeth – But That’s Not the Whole Story
Digging up a graveyard in Lisbon, Portugal, archaeologists found the remains of a woman who had died sometime between the 15th and 18th century. They can’t be sure what killed her, but it may have been the thing that was growing inside of her womb. Because this woman had an ovarian tumor – and it had grown teeth.
Mark Oliver - 08/06/2017 - 22:53
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Prehistory Decoded at Gobekli Tepe: From a Cataclysmic Event Dawns the Origin and Perhaps the End of Civilization
... potent mix of religion and agriculture propelled this new lifestyle outwards into the Eurasian and African continents. ...
Martin Sweatman - 12/04/2019 - 18:45
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Cancer Deaths Were Far Less Prevalent in Ancient Egypt
... Ancient Egyptians died younger but that modern western lifestyle choices have led to increasing instances of cancer. ...
Ed Whelan - 26/06/2018 - 13:57
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Earliest Neolithic Boats Found in Mediterranean Date Back to 5,000 BC
Archaeologists and historians from prominent institutions in Spain and Italy have recently published their findings on five ancient dugout canoes retrieved from La Marmotta, an Italian archaeological site nestled in the Mediterranean basin. Through comprehensive scientific analysis, the researchers determined that these vessels date back over 7,000 years, marking them as the earliest Neolithic boats discovered in the area.
Nathan Falde - 20/03/2024 - 21:48