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Mistletoe, Holly, and Yuletide Cheer: Weaving Nature into Ancient Christmas Customs
... united the circular-shaped evergreen branches with god's love, something said to have no beginning or end. A door ...
Joanna Gillan - 26/12/2023 - 13:57
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Instructions of Shuruppak: 4,600 Years Ago, A Sumerian King Instructed His Son on How to Behave
... Whistling Island of La Gomera The 4,000-Year-Old Sumerian Love Poem and the Sacred Ritual of Marriage Ziusudra is ...
dhwty - 04/01/2017 - 03:51
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La Quintrala: Flaming Redhead Serial Killer Evaded Capture
In the world’s history of aristocracy, abuse of power was always a distinct possibility, and quite a few female landowners built up a macabre reputation based on torture, imprisonment, and abuse. In Imperial Russia there was Darya Saltykova. In Hungary, the notorious Countess Báthory. In North America, there was Madame Blanque. And a woman of equally ill repute left her own mark on Chile - Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer – better known as La Quintrala.
Aleksa Vučković - 25/08/2019 - 23:04
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Väinämöinen: The Finnish Deity and Hero Who Inspired Tolkien to Create Gandalf and Tom Bombadil
J.R.R. Tolkien created remarkable stories that inspired Peter Jackson to make incredible movies. But it was his knowledge of literature and old legends which inspired the writer to use stories of gods and heroes to create iconic fictional figures such as Gandalf, Tom Bombadil, and many other characters. One of the most fascinating of his inspirations came in the form of Väinämöinen, the Finnish god of magic, who had some amazing legends surrounding him long before Tolkien dreamed up his famous fictional world.
Natalia Klimczak - 27/01/2017 - 19:54
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Cadmus: The Amazing Tale of the First Greek Hero and It’s Horrible End
Out of all the pantheons, the exuberant deities of the ancient Greeks are perhaps the most iconic of all. For generations, imaginations have been enflamed and inspired by the sumptuous mix of high fantasy and human imperfection the gods of Olympus present, as they cheat, deceive, and contrive in the name of their own personal ambitions and animosities. One of these larger-than-life characters is Cadmus, a lesser well-known but equally fascinating character of the divine drama, and Greece’s first mythical hero.
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 10/08/2022 - 18:58
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French Wine With a Hint of Rome Revealed By Ancient Grape DNA
Seeds of grapes used in the production of wine, found in archaeological sites across Europe, have been genetically tested and tell a story of continuity from ancient Rome until this very day. It seems some the wine drunk by Romans and that quaffed through the Middle Ages and on to modernity would have been produced with very similar grape varieties to those being used today. Such has been the continuity of use of grape vines through the ages.
Ed Whelan - 12/06/2019 - 02:02
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The Plague of Athens Killed Over a Quarter of the City's Population
... and lived to tell the tale, were capable of providing love and care to their family members. Infection fortunately ...
Sahir - 03/01/2023 - 13:59
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A 700-Year-Old Murder Mystery: Who Bludgeoned the Bocksten Man to Death and Why?
Around 700 years ago, a young man, who has come to be known as ‘Bocksten Man’, was struck three times on the head, then tossed into a peat bog and impaled with three wooden poles to prevent his body rising to the surface. What is the story behind the grisly ending to this young man’s life, and why were his killers so determined to keep his body from ever surfacing?
dhwty - 07/03/2017 - 13:59
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Were Bizmoune Cave Shell Beads A Form Of Ancient ID?
Humans were adorning their persons to make fashion statements 142,000 to 150,000 ago, according to a new analysis of the sea snail shell jewelry beads found in Morocco’s Bizmoune Cave.
Sahir - 22/11/2021 - 23:57
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10 Sacred Masks for Hunting, Ritual, Shame and Death
... preserve the image of honored or eminent people. Romantic Love: The Evolution of Courtship Rituals Foundation Rituals ...
ancient-origins - 21/05/2019 - 23:03
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Inscriptions on Song Dynasty Tombs Narrate the Captivating Tale of an Ancient Chinese Couple
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of two 800-year-old tombs that narrate the story of an ancient Chinese couple. The tombs were found in a construction site in Qingyuan County, in China's Zhejiang province.
Theodoros Karasavvas - 21/11/2017 - 23:01
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Man and Bird Join Forces: The Unique Tradition of Cormorant Fishing
... Japan. ( PhotoerNgo /Adobe Stock) King James I and His Love of Cormorants In Europe, cormorant fishing was not a ...
Aleksa Vučković - 09/10/2020 - 21:55
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Will Indiana Jones Battle the Nazis Again in Upcoming Computer Game?
... “may hold some clues.” Here at Ancient Origins, we love nothing more than hidden clues. From Nazis to the Ark: ...
ashley cowie - 14/01/2021 - 17:37
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Are We in Tyrannical Times? Has Plato’s Terrible Prediction Come True?
... Class System and Social Engineering Revealed I, for one, love political philosophy. This topic has allowed our society ...
Van Bryan - 15/03/2018 - 17:55
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Baffling Stone Structure Unearthed in Rural Italy
A recent discovery in Italy has left archaeologists scratching their heads. A stone structure of unknown purpose has been unearthed near the town of Torreano, near Udine in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. Despite being initially identified as a burial cist, further excavations have revealed no human remains, leaving researchers at a loss to explain its original use.
ashley cowie - 27/03/2023 - 18:54
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Archaeologist Accidentally Discovers Lost Temple of Thutmose I, Hidden in Plain Sight for 50 Years
Thousands of stone blocks that were “hiding” for ages in storage near Luxor proved to be the remains of the temple of Thutmose I, which has been searched for by archaeologists for some time. A Polish Egyptologist named Jadwiga Iwaszczuk was the one who identified the fragments of the temple, which had previously been misidentified.
Theodoros Karasavvas - 03/07/2017 - 23:02
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Bedazzling Treasures of Yuya and Tjuyu: K46 and the Golden Road to Nobility – Part I
Queen Tiye stands head and shoulders above all the Great Royal Wives of ancient Egypt. Though it is said that her background was that of a commoner, she rose to prominence mainly due to her resourceful parents, Yuya and Tjuyu. Persons of obviously no mean ability, the combined efforts of these two nobles ensured that Egypt enjoyed a time of unprecedented prosperity during the reign of their son-in-law, Amenhotep III.
anand balaji - 26/11/2018 - 17:17
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Finding the Lost Mother of Cleopatra VII - Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt
There is no inscription or papyrus to confirm who the mother of Cleopatra VII was, but the information that exists about her and the world of the Ptolemaic period suggest that it was Queen Cleopatra V Tryphaena. Otherwise, the girl who grew up a half orphan, wouldn't have had a chance to create such an incredible life.
Natalia Klimczak - 12/06/2023 - 18:53
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Archaeologists make rare find of Egyptian sphinx paws in Israel
A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have made a surprising discovery in Hazor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site north of the Sea of Galilee in Israel: the paws of an Egyptian sphinx. The finding has left historians perplexed as to how it got there.
The ancient artefact contained a hieroglyphic inscription with the name of King Menkaure, otherwise called Mycerinus, who was a pyramid-building pharaoh who reigned more than 4,000 years ago during the Old Kingdom.
aprilholloway - 11/07/2013 - 03:01
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Bees, Not Neanderthal Florists, Dropped Pollen in Iraq’s Shanidar Cave
At Shanidar Cave in the Zagros Mountains of the Kurdish region of Iraq, excavations in the 1950s unearthed the remains of a Neanderthal who had apparently been placed on a bed of flowers after his death.
Nathan Falde - 01/09/2023 - 14:53