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1. How Have Ancient New Year’s Traditions Influenced Festivities Today?

   January 1st, New Year’s Day, is often ushered in with fireworks and festivities beginning on December 31st. Although this practice is the norm in many places around the world, not every culture has celebrated the start of a new year in this way, or necessarily on January 1st. There are many ways to honor the new year and several of them are based on ancient traditions.

   Joanna Gillan - 31/12/2020 - 20:07

2. Sodom & Gomorrah - Scientific Evidence

   The Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah is one of greatest mass destructions caused by God. The question remains, is it a true story or not? Biblical Archaeologists believe that it is a true story, but either internal earth gasses or the impact of an asteroid has always substantiated their reasoning. We have already analysed the story from Bible’s perspective. Now we will investigate the story from science’s perspective to see where the truth may lay.

   johnblack - 19/04/2013 - 16:55

3. Pleasure, Procreation, and Punishment: Shocking Facts about Sex and Marriage in the Ancient World

   ... the couples never met before the marriage ceremony. In Sumer and Babylonia, marriage was simply viewed as a way to ...

   valdar - 21/06/2016 - 14:31

4. Hollywood resurrects Noah's Ark, but did they get it right?

   The new film Noah starring Russell Crowe as the man chosen by God to collect pairs of animals on Earth and gather them into a massive ark has just hit cinemas around the world. But has Hollywood got it right? 

   aprilholloway - 16/12/2013 - 02:56

5. Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Math

   Christian Yates /The Conversation

   ancient-origins - 26/09/2017 - 02:03

6. The Axis Mundi: Sacred Sites Where Heaven Meets Earth

   What do Mount Fuji in Japanese culture, the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, Mecca in Islam, and the Black Hills for the Sioux all have in common? They are all examples of a belief in the axis mundi – a perceived center of the world, where Heaven and Earth are connected. This concept is also known by other names, including the ‘world tree’, the ‘world pillar’, and the ‘cosmic axis’.

   dhwty - 19/01/2018 - 22:52

7. The Mythical Lamassu: Impressive Symbols for Mesopotamian Protection

   Lamassu are human-headed, eagle-winged, bulls or lions that once protected cities in Mesopotamia. They were believed to be very powerful creatures, and served both as a clear reminder of the king’s ultimate authority and as symbols of protection for all people.

   Natalia Klimczak - 16/02/2016 - 03:53

8. Indian Civilization Applied Advanced Nanomaterials to Their Pots 2500 Years Ago

   Researchers in India have made an amazing discovery. They have found evidence for the earliest known carbon nanotubes. These are tiny materials, known as ‘nanomaterials’, that have several applications. This discovery is helping researchers to better understand the sophistication and advanced technology of the ancient civilization in Tamil Nadu in southern India.

   Ed Whelan - 22/11/2020 - 13:56

9. The Epic of Gilgamesh Unveiled: Enlightenment and Source of Religions

   ... without mercy on Earth from the beginning of time, to Sumer , through to Rome. Same gods, different names). The ...

   Gordon Board - 19/05/2019 - 22:58

10. New Research Provides First Peek at Ancient Mesopotamian Drug Use

    Medical usage? Ritual practice? Or perhaps the drugs served both purposes? Researchers are asking what the recently recovered psychoactive drug residues from ancient Mesopotamia mean. But not everyone is happy that scholars want to know more.

    Alicia McDermott - 21/04/2018 - 01:42

11. Ancient Architecture, Ancient Alcohol, Ancient Religion and the End of Our World

    ... started here, in Turkey, rather than down south at Sumer many thousands of years later as traditional history ...

    jim willis - 07/10/2019 - 22:18

12. The Age of Confusion: Mass Manipulation & Propaganda - Part One

    Ancient Origins is dedicated to breaking through the miasma of encrusted misconceptions that stand between any researcher and the truth concerning our real origins. Books such as 'Forbidden Archeology' and many others have recently emerged to clear the clutter of assumptions made by tenured establishment scholars with certain agendas.

    susan - 22/09/2013 - 13:23

13. Turkey’s Catalhöyük: A Victim of Climate Change

    ... Anatolia, having spread out from Göbekli Tepe and then to Sumer, Egypt, and beyond. Obsidian mirrors. Çatalhöyük, ...

    jim willis - 02/03/2020 - 23:40

14. Buried Beneath the Sand, The Ziggurat of Jiroft May be Largest and Oldest of its Kind in the World

    The Ziggurat of Jiroft, known also as the Konar Sandal Ziggurat, is an ancient monument located in Jiroft in the southern Iranian province of Kerman, a place that some say is Iran’s cradle of civilization. This ziggurat was discovered in 2002, and it has been reported that it is the second ziggurat to be found in Iran, the first being the Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat. According to some sources, the Ziggurat of Jiroft is the largest and oldest structure of its kind in the world.

    dhwty - 10/12/2016 - 00:55

15. Bones Reveal Story of Three African Slaves During Spanish Colonialism

    Despite the infamy of the transatlantic slave trade, scientific research has yet to fully explore the history of the enslaved Africans brought into Latin America.

    ancient-origins - 01/05/2020 - 13:57

16. Oldest Gaming Tokens Found in Turkey

    Archaeologists have found a set of gaming tokens in a grave at Başur Höyük in southeast Turkey dating back to at least 3000 BC, making them the earliest gaming pieces ever found and confirming that board games likely originated and spread from the Fertile Crescent regions and Egypt more than 5,000 years ago.

    aprilholloway - 16/08/2013 - 09:57

17. The Bird and the Serpent: From the Neolithic Goddesses to Ancient Chinese Symbols of Nobility and Benevolence

    Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, in his book Proserpina, calls himself “the gentle and happy scholar of flowers”. A large part of his work is an attempt to connect nature, art and society. To prove this, he attempted to show that species can and do symbolize the ethical qualities of mankind, representing man’s states of good and evil, as well as the timeless human belief of destruction or redemption. The bird and the serpent are Ruskin's major examples of these associations.

    MartiniF - 22/07/2016 - 23:42

18. The 12,000-year-old ancient Mesopotamian town of Hasankeyf set to submerged by new dam

    ... and which have hosted human civilization since ancient Sumer, now sustain the local population through agriculture. ...

    aprilholloway - 23/02/2014 - 01:19

19. New Statues and Fresh Insights from Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe

    Remarkable new discoveries are coming out of the ground in southeast Turkey, bringing both Gobekli Tepe (9600 BC) and Karahan Tepe (9400 BC) back into the spotlight. Located just 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe is part of the Taş Tepeler (Stone Hills) project. While excavations began in 2019, the site has been known to archaeologists since 1997.

    Hugh Newman - 02/10/2023 - 18:54

20. 3,500-Year-Old Gemstones from Kuwait Shed Light on One of the Oldest Civilizations in the Middle East

    A group of Danish archaeologists from Moesgaard Museum discovered some fascinating 3,500-year-old gemstones and the remains of a jewelry workshop in Kuwait. They hope that this discovery will provide new information about a historical period which has been mostly lost in the sands of time.

    Theodoros Karasavvas - 25/01/2017 - 22:58

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