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Ashley Cowie

Ashley Cowie is a distinguished author known for his four non-fiction books and more than 2,000 articles on archaeological and scientific topics. His work spans documentaries, books, and podcasts, and he has produced and hosted projects for major networks including Discovery Channel, NBC, PBS, and STV. Currently, Ashley hosts the History Fuzz podcast and is engaged in filming archaeological documentaries in the Andes of Colombia.

Website: https://historyfuzz.com/

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13 September, 2024 - 12:30 ashley cowie

Podcast: History Fuzz: Episode 02: Professor Stephen Lekson. Chaco Pt 1. America's most controversial meridian

In this latest episode of our podcast, we delve into the intriguing concept of the Chaco Meridian, a north-to-south alignment that traverses the southwestern United States and is marked by the...

30 August, 2024 - 12:30 ashley cowie

Podcast: History Fuzz: Episode 01: Professor Giulio Magli. Intentionality vs Chance in Archaeoastronomy

In this episode, I interview Professor Giulio Magli, a leading astrophysicist and archaeoastronomer who heads the Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Milan. Magli, a prominent...

29 August, 2024 - 13:30 ashley cowie

Podcast: History Fuzz: Episode 00: Ashley Cowie. Introduction. Delineating the Show Themes, Structure, and Schedule

Ancient Origins Premium is now featuring select episodes of the History Fuzz Podcast hosted by historian, adventurer, author, broadcaster, Ashley Cowie! Each episode will be featured bi-weekly and...

‘Democritus’ (1630) by Johannes Moreelse. There have certainly been some strange and funny events in history. Source: Public Domain

21 June, 2024 - 23:00 ashley cowie

Hilarious Events from Napoléon’s Petite Package to Pythagoras’ Fear of Farts

Hilarious Events from Napoléon’s Petite Package to Pythagoras’ Fear of Farts History is often presented in grey, rather dry terms, but when you do a bit of digging, our past is full of remarkable...

20 June, 2024 - 15:13 ashley cowie

Image of Egyptian High Priest’s Daughter Likened to Marge Simpson

After is discovery in 2023, Reddit readers have just picked up on the depiction of a character resembling Marge Simpson on the inner lid of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus. The coffin,...

Vikings had many rituals. Source: tiagozr / Adobe Stock

22 April, 2024 - 17:31 ashley cowie

Viking Blots, Beserkers and Barbaric Blood Eagles

Famed for their ruthless fighting skills and brave exploring, little is written about Viking religion and their day-to-day ritual practices which were arguably a more central component in Norse...

Representation of an Inca sun god. AI-generated. Source: NorLife / Adobe Stock

29 March, 2024 - 15:55 ashley cowie

Revisiting the Solar Path of the Inca Creator God

The high priests of the Inca Empire of ancient Peru used their sacred texts, known as the Codes of Sacred Geography, to build sacred community centers ( wakas ) along 42 long-distance ceque lines...

Left; A cacao tree with fruit pods in various stages of ripening. Right; Ripe cacao ready to pick. Source: Left, Public Domain, Right, Pantira/Adobe Stock

9 March, 2024 - 13:54 ashley cowie

Scientists Map the Genetic Evolution of Cacao to Chocolate

Researchers have mapped the ancient dispersal of the cacao or cocoa plant from South America to Central America. Not only did they discover the plant was a central commodity in ancient trading, but...

Images of the latest tiny alien claim circulating in Colombia. Source: Social Media/Nazca Mummies

8 March, 2024 - 00:08 ashley cowie

Colombia Joins Mexico Publishing “Tiny-Alien” Nonsense

Only two months after scientists in Peru revealed the public had been hoaxed into believing two “dolls” were in fact alien corpses, headlines are now touting more alien-nonsense. This time, a fetus...

A pit filled with heat stones from the rescue excavation in Heimberg. Source: Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern / Guy Jaquenod

21 February, 2024 - 16:46 ashley cowie

Bronze Age Pits in Switzerland Reveal Secrets of Clay Production

Ahead of a new road building project in Switzerland, archaeologists excavated what they assumed was a Roman settlement. However, it was only when they discovered a series of pits filled with hearth...

Flint dagger found at the Bigarello Copper Age necropolis site in Lombardy, Italy Source: YouTube Screenshot/ArchaeoReporter

17 February, 2024 - 16:37 ashley cowie

Early Copper Age Tombs Unearthed From Italian City

Archaeologists in Italy are celebrating the excavation of a Copper Age burial site near the city of Mantua. Not only are the finely crafted blades and items of jewelry found there revealing ancient...

Building blocks reclaimed from the ruins of the Roman legion base at Tel Megiddo. Source: IAA

14 February, 2024 - 21:22 ashley cowie

Archaeologists Unearth Largest Roman Legion Base in Israel

Archaeologists excavating at the foot of Tel Megiddo in Israel have uncovered “the largest Roman base” ever discovered in the country. Here, during the Roman occupation of Judea, a colony of highly-...

The project team at the start of work at the end of 2018 in the University Library's manuscript collection with (from left) Markéta Preininger, Korshi Dosoo and Edward O. D. Love. Source: Gunnar Bartsch / Universität Würzburg

9 February, 2024 - 13:25 ashley cowie

Translated Egyptian Magical Texts Map Human Emotions

After five years of research two German scientists have published translations of a collection of Egyptian magical texts. Cutting through the love spells, curses and protection rituals, this work...

Left; One of the Herculaneum scrolls that are being deciphered. Right; Text from the Herculaneum scroll Source: Vesuvius Challenge

6 February, 2024 - 21:15 ashley cowie

AI Tool Deciphers Herculaneum Scroll, and It’s All About Pleasure!

A team of student researchers have combined 3D-mapping and AI to decipher a Greek scroll that was encased in ash during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The philosophical musing reveals Greek...

The Roman funerary bed during excavations in London and a reconstruction of the bed. Source: MOLA

5 February, 2024 - 21:56 ashley cowie

“Flat-Packed” Roman Funerary Bed Found in London

In 2019 I wrote a news article on Ancient Origins about the UK’s first “flat-pack” medieval home. Now, archaeologists in London have announced their discovery of an incredibly well-made, and...

Panoramic photograph of the rocky shore platform on the Larache area coast of Morocco where the 90000-year-old footprints were found. The area delimited by the dotted red line corresponds to the footprint discovery zone. Source: M. Sedrati, et al/Nature

2 February, 2024 - 16:22 ashley cowie

90,000-Years-Old Footprints Discovered On Moroccan Beach

85 human footprints dating to 90,000-years-ago have been found on a beach in Morocco. But how did they get there, and what were the people doing? In 1964, when Margaret Fishback Powers wrote the...