History?s amazing secrets and codes?and how to crack them yourself.
This fascinating look at history?s most mysterious messages is packed with puzzles to decode and ciphers that kids can use themselves. Here are the encrypted notes...Read more
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Friday, November 18, 2016 - 21:21
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Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa...Read more
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 21:18
They are the richest family in America that nobody has ever heard of, with a net worth of over $100 billion. Their privately held company has secretly been shaping public opinion and influencing elections for decades--and eliminating...Read more
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 21:17
The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. But this book posits that it is the world’s center for mass brainwashing and social...Read more
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 21:16
In Judaism's Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded Christian scholar Michael Hoffman documents his provocative thesis that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but the newly formalized belief system of the Pharisees, which...Read more
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 17:20
Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans’ French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a “landlady”—or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city’s most lavish...Read more
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 17:18
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers unveils the history you were never taught at school. With a breathtaking sweep spanning Rome to the modern day, popular historian and author Dominic Selwood challenges the traditional version of some of the...Read more
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 17:17
From ancient Egyptian religions to Judaism, Hinduism to Buddhism, Christianity to Islam, as well as many more, Carus analyses each religion in turn to expose their views of the devil and where those views came from.
He takes the...Read more
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 17:16
Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that...Read more
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 17:14
This exciting title from the folks at the Bathroom Readers' Institute contains the strangest short history articles from over 30 Bathroom Readers—along with 50 all-new pages. From the 20th century to the Old West, from the Age of...Read more
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:59
Unlock the key to a universal life-force with the companion volume to the New York Times bestseller The Source Field Investigations
In The Source Field Investigations, David Wilcock illuminated an entirely new understanding of our...Read more
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:58
Reveals the secret language and words of power that enabled the ancient Egyptians to imagine the world into existence
- Reveals ancient Egyptian Mystery teachings on immaculate conception, transubstantiation, resurrection, and
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Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:57
A firsthand, behind-the-scene account of the controversies surrounding modern explorations at Giza
- Investigates the recent scandals at Giza and claims of secret excavations and tunneling inside the Great Pyramid
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Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:55
This meticulously researched and thrilling exploration of the otherworldly will challenge your idea of reality. Mysterious wolf-people, sentient mists, and UFOs…if you've ever heard a curious bump in the night, caught a glimpse of a...Read more
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:54
An investigation of the origins of the Neolithic farming village on Orkney Island
- Reveals the striking similarities between Skara Brae and the traditions of pre-dynastic ancient Egypt as preserved by the Dogon people of Mali
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Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:52
Reveals the Pacific Ur-culture that seeded the ancient civilizations of China, Egypt, India, Mexico, and Peru
- Shows how the Pan diaspora explains the similarities between Gobekli Tepe and Toltec carvings and stone towers in
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Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:51
An in-depth investigation of the mounting evidence that Atlantis was located in the Bahamas and Caribbean, near Cuba in particular
- Explains how Atlantis was destroyed by a comet, the same comet that formed the mysterious
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Saturday, October 29, 2016 - 03:30
Numbers are the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.” –PYTHAGORAS Can Sacred Numerology Really Earn You Money? MAKING MILLIONS: A 500-YEAR-OLD KABBALIST’S GUIDE TO CONQUERING CHANCE is the translation of an...Read more
Friday, October 28, 2016 - 15:28
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as...Read more
Friday, October 28, 2016 - 15:11
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate...Read more
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Greek Mythology
As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. Then, two things happened: either Chaos or Gaia created the universe as we know it, or Ouranos and Tethys gave birth to the first beings.
The Sphinx, an intriguing creature with the body of a lioness, avian wings, and a serpentine tail, is most commonly associated with the Egyptians but could also be found in Greek mythology.
Archaeologists in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, have discovered the tomb of Emperor Xiaomin (birth name Yuwen Jue), the founding emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581).
From Neolithic tablets containing the oldest known system of writing, to a series of letters scrawled on the back of a dead man’s book
In the 14th century, European hygiene during the Black Plague was far from ideal.
Top New Stories
Medieval armor, often depicted as a symbol of invincibility, had its share of drawbacks that made it more perilous than going unprotected.
Myths & Legends
Old ruins and abandoned places have always tickled the imagination. They’ve also been a primary source for local legends across the centuries.
Human Origins
Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC.
Ancient Technology
A family living on the island of Jomfruland just off the southeast coast of Norway recently made a most notable historical discovery.
Ancient Places
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.
Opinion
How old is the Tarot? This is a question that seems easy to answer today. As playing cards, we can confidently map the Tarot to the early 15th century. Mystery solved? Well, it’s not quite that simple.
Our Mission
At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained.
The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe.
We’re the only Pop Archaeology site combining scientific research with out-of-the-box perspectives.
By bringing together top experts and authors, this archaeology website explores lost civilizations, examines sacred writings, tours ancient places, investigates ancient discoveries and questions mysterious happenings. Our open community is dedicated to digging into the origins of our species on planet earth, and question wherever the discoveries might take us. We seek to retell the story of our beginnings.
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