Spanish conquest

Anchor believed to belong to a ship of the Spanish Conquistadors. Source: INAH

20 December, 2019 - 19:01 Ed Whelan

Artifacts Thought to be of Spanish Conquistador’s Fleet Found

Marine archaeologists may have found artifacts linked to the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. They have discovered anchors on the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico. These finds are believed to have belonged to...

7 November, 2014 - 21:34 lizleafloor

Newly discovered ancient village changes history of Colombia

A surprising archaeological discovery in Central Colombia is challenging existing theories on ancient lives and settlements in what is now Bogota. A buried pre-Colombian town was detected as an...

Myths & Legends

The stele dubbed by some as the “astronaut of Casar” is exhibited in the Caceres Museum, Caceres, Spain. Source: Left; Alberto del Barrio Herrero / CC BY-SA 2.0, Right; verpueblos

The Astronaut of Casar Is An Unsolved Mystery, But Can We Explain It?

Some artifacts seem to be easy to misunderstand or are not well understood at all and this leads to wild theories. One of the biggest curiosities on display at the Caceres Museum in Caceres, Spain is a stele or upright stone slab that originally stood at the southern end of the cemetery in the nearby village of Casar.

The Epic of Gilgamesh Unveiled: Searching For a Way to the Home Planet

A Pilgrimage of Thought: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Last of the Siberian Unicorns: What Happened to the Mammoth-Sized One-Horned Beasts of Legend?

Batman Existed in Mesoamerican Mythology and His Name Was Camazotz

The Real Story of Medusa: Protective Powers from a Snake-Haired Gorgon

Human Origins

Snow White a Disney story based on real historical events.

The Truth Behind 5 Disney Movies That Are Based On Real Histories

Many of us grew up watching Disney movies and their tales of fairy princesses and evil queens are undeniably a part of the modern zeitgeist.

Ancient Anomalous Human Skeletons: Humanity Could be Much Older Than We Think

Are the Distinctive Kalash People of Pakistan Really Descendants of Alexander the Great’s Army?

Return of the Ancient Gods: The Resurgence of Paganism

The Nephilim: Giant Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man?

Reconstructing Jesus: Using Science to Flesh out the Face of Religion

Ancient Technology

The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First? Part 1

Much of modern science was known in ancient times. Robots and computers were a reality long before the 1940´s. The early Bronze Age inhabitants of the Levant used computers in stone, the Greeks in the 2nd century BC invented an analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism. An ancient Hindu book gives detailed instructions for the construction of an aircraft –ages before the Wright brothers. Where did such knowledge come from?

The Evidence is Cut in Stone: A Compelling Argument for Lost High Technology in Ancient Egypt

Ten amazing inventions from ancient times

Abydos carvings

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world’

1,200-year-old telephone, amazing invention of the ancient Chimu civilization

Ancient Places

Adam’s Calendar: Oldest Megalithic Site in the World?

Adam’s Calendar is controversially suggested to be the oldest man-made structure in the world. Sometimes referred to as "African Stonehenge", it predates both Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza...

More than a Dozen Mysterious Prehistoric Tunnels in Cornwall, England, Mystify Researchers

World’s Oldest Surviving Amphitheater Preserved at Pompeii

Homer’s Iliad Casts Doubt on the Aegean Location of Troy

Competing for the Title of the Oldest House in England - Luddesdown Court and Saltford Manor

Ten Precariously Situated Cliffside Constructions from the Ancient World

Opinion

Floki and the Viking Discovery of Iceland

The Vikings’ next step out into the Atlantic – the discovery and settlement of Iceland – is one of the best documented events of the Viking Age. Medieval Icelanders were fascinated by genealogy, not only because, as emigrants

Messiah on Temple Mount: Are We Nearing the End of Time?

3 Problems to Remember When Trying to Find Atlantis

Naupa Iglesia: An Egyptian Portal in the Andes?

The Nephilim: Giant Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man?

Mount Shasta: Spirits and Danger on a Sacred California Mountain

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