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  1. Eri: Mythical King and Founder of the Igbo

    The Igbo are a large ethnic group located around Nigeria with a fascinating origin story. Having lived throughout northwestern Africa for many years, the Igbo’s origins can be traced back nearly 6000 years. Because of their long existence, many subgroups of the Igbo population believe that Igbo lineage can be traced back to an ancient king named Eri, who is often referred to by the Igbo as a “sky being” with supernatural or god-like powers in addition to his monarchic position.

    Lex Leigh - 19/04/2022 - 18:58

  2. Tripping through Time: The Fascinating History of the Magic Mushroom

    ... stones. Credit: Dr Richard Rose Magic Mushrooms in Western Society It wasn’t till the late 1950s that the Western civilized world got introduced to psilocybin. R. ...

    Robert Brusco - 01/02/2017 - 19:57

  3. Ten Stunning Yet Little Known Ancient Treasures Across Africa

    ... the region of Tripolitania, which is situated in the north western part of Libya. This town sits on Libya’s border ... the old caravan trade route between Marrakech and the Sahara. It consists of a group of buildings built entirely of ...

    aprilholloway - 03/11/2015 - 20:42

  4. Ten Mysterious Rock Art Examples from the Ancient World

    ... at least during a certain period of time, among these Western Archaic people.  Treasure Hunters Damage Ancient ... Reveal Evolution of Human Life on the Edge of the Sahara Tassili n'Ajjer has been described as the finest ... Oldest Rock Art in North America A set of petroglyphs in western Nevada dated in August 2013 to between 10,500 and ...

    Joanna Gillan - 21/01/2024 - 17:00

  5. Timgad: The Wonderfully Preserved Algerian Pompeii

    ... Roman ruins in Algeria, Timgad can thank the sands of the Sahara for its survival. It is such a remarkable site to ... Roman ruins in Algeria, Timgad can thank the sands of the Sahara for its survival. It is such a remarkable site to ... of its four gates, one for each cardinal direction. On the western side of the old city, the gate was replaced by a ...

    dhwty - 13/08/2018 - 14:03

  6. Kasivaki: An Ancient Tongan Game That Was More Than Underwater Rugby

    ... pottery and early settlement of the islands of the western Pacific. The first kings of Tonga had established ... development of an indigenous South Pacific imperialism. Western Eurasia produced Roman emperors, great Persian kings ... Ocean. In the same way that the desert cultures of the Sahara defined themselves by the whole desert and not ...

    Caleb Strom - 06/12/2021 - 17:57

  7. Charting New Territories: 8 Pioneering Ancient Expeditions That Reshaped the World

    ... Algeria: Iconographic Evidence of Roman Expeditions in the Sahara Ill-fated ship of ill-fated explorer reportedly found ... and some were cultural, hostile tribes not used to western explorers.  Along the way, they discovered Lake ... the African continent.  5.Lewis and Clark- Opening Up Western America In a world of cars and planes it is hard to ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 31/03/2023 - 18:54

  8. The Stone Age: The First 99 Percent of Human History

    ... lives in trees. Stone Age Oldowan stone tool from the western Sahara. (Locutus Borg / Public Domain ) Around 2 million ...

    Caleb Strom - 09/09/2019 - 14:06

  9. 2,300-year-old Punic Vessels uncovered in ancient shipwreck

    ... group of people, the Punics. The Punics were a group of western Semitic-speaking peoples from Carthage in North ... a rule of the hinterland in Northern Africa and trans-Sahara traderoutes. In later times one of these clans ... empire in Iberia, possibly having a foothold in western Gaul. Like other Phoenician people their urbanized ...

    aprilholloway - 05/05/2014 - 03:53

  10. Ancient DNA Data Fills in Thousands of Years of Human Movement and Genetic Adaptation in Africa

    ... Africans . Their sample included 3 individuals from the western Cape of South Africa (~2,300-1,200 years before ... years ago. The later spread of agriculturalists from western Africa had a major impact on those earlier ... in southern Africa. However, the new data suggests that western Africa may also harbor substantial ancestry from a ...

    ancient-origins - 11/04/2019 - 01:30

  11. The Earliest Humans Swam 100,000 Years Ago, and Included Neanderthals

    ... Dinosaur-Eating Galloping Crocodiles Once Existed in the Sahara Desert Ancient Sharks and Crocodiles’ Nemesis: Man ... they are swimming. By 8000 BC, in the Cave of Swimmers in western Egypt, small red figures swim. 7,000-year-old rock ... of swimmers in the Cave of the Swimmers, Wadi Sura, Western Desert, Egypt. (Roland Unger/ CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Another ...

    ancient origins - 31/12/2022 - 00:45

  12. Egyptian Authorities Push Back on Cleopatra Portrayal

    ... mission, and an employee at the Taposiris Magna temple in western Alexandria. Martinex said that despite the existence ...

    ashley cowie - 30/04/2023 - 14:01

  13. Just a Few Men Controlled Reproduction in Prehistory and Dominate World Genetics Today

    ... in Europe about 4,000 years ago is the ancestor of half of Western European men, Dr. Tyler-Smith told The Telegraph . ... reproduction and dominating the population. Half of the Western European population is descended from just one ... of male populations happened in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, South Asia, and East Asia between 8,000 and ...

    Mark Miller - 28/04/2016 - 21:53

  14. First Neanderthal Remains Discovered in Serbia Reveals Human Migration History

    ... they are still relatively rare in the Balkans, compared to Western Europe and the Middle East. This is the first ... Neanderthals  were a group of ancient humans who lived in western Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch. Their earliest ...

    ancient-origins - 28/04/2019 - 18:57

  15. The Man Who Stopped a Desert Using Ancient Farming

    ... within the Sahel, a semi-arid region sandwiched by the Sahara Desert in the north and the Sudanian Savanna in the ... Across the Globe The Ancient Tuaregs, Lost Lords of the Sahara New Study Indicates that Europe Owes Ancestry and ... farming technique which has been used traditionally in the western part of the Sahel, which includes Burkina Faso. In ...

    dhwty - 20/11/2021 - 00:17

  16. Worst River Nile Flooding in Over a Century Threatens Sudanese Pyramids

    ... years have visited the pyramids because of international western sanctions on the Khartoum government, and many of ...

    Ed Whelan - 09/09/2020 - 14:04

  17. Experts Claim Artifact Ceremonially Returned to Nigeria is Fake

    ... artifact believed to have been stolen from Nigeria's south-western Ife city that was seized by customs officers at the ...

    ashley cowie - 02/03/2020 - 21:43

  18. Multiple Studies Say Cultural Heritage at Risk Because of Climate Change

    ... Drought Stones Pass Messages of Warning to Europeans Sahara Climate Change Linked to 1000-Year Southeast Asian ... and Saipan in 2015) (photographs by J. Carpenter, Western Australian Museum). ( Antiquity Publications Ltd ) ... remains emerge from a melting glacier at Tsengel Khairkha, western Mongolia, a site that has yielded evidence of ...

    Nathan Falde - 02/11/2022 - 00:00

  19. Elmina Castle and its Dark History of Enslavement, Torture, and Death

    ... Commons ) The beginning of Elmina Castle Located on the western coast of present-day Ghana (the former gold coast), ... "Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions." - UNESCO World Heritage Centre. ...

    Bryan Hill - 23/07/2018 - 21:43

  20. Sea Monsters in the Desert? Remains of Cuddly Sea Cow Discovered in Egypt

    ... Michigan , ancient Sirenia once swam in what is today the Western Desert of Egypt. The 2012 paper explains that ... million years ago) in what is today the Fayum area, in the Western Desert, southwest of Cairo. What this new discovery ... of Egypt is usually filled with images of the dry Sahara Desert , it’s important that we peek over the water ...

    ashley cowie - 20/10/2020 - 00:01

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