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Dyeus Pater—The Original All-Father of the Gods
The ancestors of the Indo-European peoples looked up into the sky and saw a father, a cosmic patriarch with authority over the realm of daylight. Many Indo-European pantheons contain gods associated with sky that have pre-eminence among the other gods. The Greeks had Zeus. The Romans had Jupiter. In Hinduism, Dyaus originally had a similar role to Zeus. Scholars have used these deities to attempt to reconstruct the original sky god of proto-Indo-European religion, Dyeus.
Caleb Strom - 02/01/2019 - 23:02
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Camel Milk, The Ancient Liquid Gold Superfood, is Rising in Demand
A U.S. farm is struggling to supply rising demand for bottles of their ancient nomadic survival juice - camel milk. But at $12-$16 a pint, consumers pockets are getting humped.
ashley cowie - 29/05/2022 - 18:57
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Bubbling Brews and Broomsticks: How Alewives Became the Stereotypical Witch
"Brewing", "herbs," "broomsticks," "woman." When one hears these words together, most often the assumption is that the person in question is a witch. Yet brewing has a very human meaning as well, one that revolves around the avarice of alcohol and its never-ending demand by consumers. It was from this alcoholic context that the trade of alewives arose, women in the Middle Ages through the early modern period who brewed and sold alcohol as a means of income.
Riley Winters - 16/07/2021 - 02:01
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Ancient Civilisations Are Over 350,000 Years Old
Well, that's a controversial statement, isn't it? Mainstream science is not waiting for controversial theories or any other paradigm shift that endangers their institutions.
Buildreps - 26/12/2015 - 13:48
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Archaeologists recreate Elixir of Long Life recipe from unearthed bottle
... milk, which was drunk by the kings of ancient Sumer. In the Hindu religion, the gods would harness a milk ...
aprilholloway - 19/06/2014 - 03:10
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Researchers Say New Find of Khipu Strings May Help Unravel the Inca Record-keeping System
Archaeologists have discovered a collection of khipu (quipu) —a system of colored strings and knots people used to record various matters and send messages in the pre- and post-colonial eras in Peru—and are studying them in possible connection to an Inca invasion of southern Peru in the late 15th century.
Mark Miller - 04/01/2016 - 21:49
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The ancient song recreated from 3,400-year-old cuneiform tablets
In 2014, scholars from the University of California at Berkeley brought to life the ancient sounds of Mesopotamia following the decryption and study of a set of ancient cuneiform texts that date back 3,400 years, according to a report on WFMU.
aprilholloway - 25/07/2014 - 03:56
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Clergyman claims angels have no wings
Most depictions of angels show a blond-haired woman in a white gown with feathered wings and a glowing golden halo, but is this what angels really look like? According to ‘Angelogist’ Father Renzo Lavator in Rome, the answer is no. Lavator has claimed that real angels don’t have wings and are not physical beings as tradition suggests, but are instead entities comprised almost entirely of light.
aprilholloway - 23/12/2013 - 21:43
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Eight of the Oldest Temples in the Ancient World
Since the earliest days of human civilization, humans have worshipped gods and built temples in their honor. Today, many of these impressive structures are still standing, a testament to the ingenuity of our most ancient forebears. Studying or visiting one of these temples gives us fascinating insight into what our ancestors believed and how they lived their lives. Here are eight of the oldest temples in the world and who built them.
Robbie Mitchell - 05/01/2023 - 13:54
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Where Did The Shardana, Warrior Mercenaries Of Egypt Originate?
A 13th-century BC inscription of Ramesses II reads: “The unruly Sherden whom no one had ever known to combat, they came boldly (sailing) in their warships from the midst of the sea, none being able to withstand them,” referring to a group of mercenaries, called the Shardana / Sherden, famed to be the greatest of all warriors.
Willem McLoud - 14/06/2023 - 17:28
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Hidden Women of History: Ennigaldi-Nanna, Curator of the World’s First Museum
“It belongs in a museum.” With these words, Indiana Jones, the world’s best-known fictional archaeologist, articulated an association between archaeologists, antiquiti
ancient-origins - 03/06/2019 - 01:38
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Intellectual, Code Breaker, Blasphemer: George Smith and the Ancient Chaldean Account of Genesis
George Smith was born in 1840 in London to poor parents, and consequently left school at the tender age of fifteen to take up an apprenticeship with Messrs Bradburry and Evans, a firm of engravers situated not far from the British Museum. Young George worked hard and saved his wages to buy all the latest works about Mesopotamia, the Land Between the Rivers.
tedloukes - 16/06/2016 - 15:02
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Unmasking Ugarit’s Mysterious Asiatic King-God Commanding The Habiru
A temple of the god, Baal, built in the ancient city of Ugarit, nowadays called Ras Shamra, on the north-eastern shores of the Mediterranean coast of Syria, date back to the beginning of the Middle Bronze Period (c. 2000 BC). The Baal worshipped here was Baal Sapan (Baal Zephon), the Baal of Mount Sapan, a celebrated peak in the Amanus, also called Hazzi.
Willem McLoud - 26/04/2023 - 18:13
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Giants In Canaan: Anakim, Rephaim And Nephilim
In the biblical tradition, the enigmatic Nephilim, or Fallen Ones, are mentioned in two very different contexts. The first mention appears in Genesis 6 and refers to the period before and after the deluge, with the Nephilim apparently residing in Mesopotamia (even though this is not explicitly stated). They are described as the offspring of the ‘Sons of God’ and the daughters of men, as ‘mighty men of renown’. Although it is not directly said, the word ‘Nephilim’ is often translated in this passage with ‘Giants’.
Willem McLoud - 21/12/2022 - 21:21
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Are the Tărtăria Tablets Actually Written in Hungarian?
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found writing that dates back 5000 years. This writing, found inscribed in clay, is called the Tărtăria Tablets by M.R. Reese. Reese makes it clear for Ancient Origins that the Tărtăria Tablets, or Vinča Turdas tablets, were discovered by Nicolae Vlassa.
Clyde Winters - 14/04/2017 - 14:01
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Giza, The Time Keeper of the Ages: Alignments, Measurements, and Moon Cycles
... Sumerian Clay tablet made with a cylinder seal. ( Source ) Sumer clay tables were made couple of hundred years before ...
Andras Goczey - 12/08/2016 - 14:51
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The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization: The Quantum Evolution of Consciousness
... development of pyramids and civilization in ancient Egypt, Sumer, South America, and Asia beginning in 3115 BCE In each ... between humans of the 6th Wave in ancient Egypt, Sumer, South America, and Asia and the cave painters of the ...
ancient-origins - 26/08/2016 - 16:12
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The Cataclysm of Easter Island - The Strange Rongorongo Script (Part 2)
Little is known of this strange script which includes pictographic and geometric shapes; often the figures are of a birdman with his arms and legs in various positions. The script was written in the unusual boustrophedon pattern of writing where the successive lines are read (“as the ox plows”) alternately left to right and then right to left.
davidchildress - 09/07/2013 - 12:06
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AI Model Is Solving 4,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Translation Mysteries
Archaeologists just got infinitely smarter. AI is now successfully predicting lost passages of ancient texts, meaning 4,500-year-old cuneiform tablets, with missing sections, can now read.
A deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) engine has been built that can predict what “should” come next, in broken lines of text, just like when you punch a word into a search engine and the auto-predict function kicks in.
ashley cowie - 21/09/2021 - 14:49
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The Anu and Ancient Seers in the Rig Veda
The oldest of the Vedas, a large body of ancient literature and scriptures of Hinduism, the Rigveda contains poetic and mythological origin stories involving gods and their descendants.
In Hindu mythology, Angiras are celestial beings and descendants of gods, who watch over humans and protect sacrificial fires. The Angirasas are among the oldest families of Rishis (Seers) in the Rigveda. In this text, Agni, god of fire, is sometimes referred to as Angiras.
susan - 06/05/2015 - 04:14