The Golden Godheads of Human Death Rites
Masks are well ingrained in the social zeitgeist and while their use in ancient rituals and ceremonies across the ancient world is...
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The sciences play a major role today in explaining the unknown and unravelling the hidden and often surprising history of our ancient origins. Archaeology digs into the mysteries which have been buried over the millennia, offering amazing new pieces to the ever changing puzzle of humanity’s past and altering how we interpret it. The fields of paleontology, anthropology, molecular biology, chemistry, and more, point us in new directions of discovery, in an attempt to answer the all-important questions: “Where did we come from” and “Where are we going?”
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Masks are well ingrained in the social zeitgeist and while their use in ancient rituals and ceremonies across the ancient world is...
The greatest of all Sumerian heroes were said to have belonged to the first House of Uruk. For the Sumerians, this House of Uruk was not just another royal house, for them it was one of the greatest Sumerian dynasties ever to have ruled over Sume...
Somewhere in the Negev Desert, Mount Sinai Read More
In 1891, the American geologist and antiquarian William Niven set off on a journey of discovery and exploration through the Mexican state of Guerrero. What he found would change the course of his life forever. He did not just discover a lost city...
Described by Homer and Pindar as ‘fair haired’, one can ask the perturbing question: Was Odysseus a Dane originating from the Baltic Sea and is Troy located on the Gulf of Finland? Since ancient times, Homeric geography has raised doubts an...
In Greece, Alexander the Great is coveted as a national hero; the cluster of royal tombs discovered in 1977 at the archaeological site of Read More
Archaeologists agree, Göbekli Tepe changes everything. This hilltop sanctuary in southern Turkey, probably the World’s first megalithic temple, is like a time capsule that dates back nearly 13,000 years to the most extraordinary time in human ...
One of the most contentious issue in American, if not world archaeology is the validity of the ‘Clovis first’ theory, which is based on the argument that humans first came into America with the opening of a vast ice corridor running from nort...
The rider must have a firm seat when going at full speed over all sort of ground
and must also be able to use his weapons well on horseback. (Xenophon, On Horsemanship Read More
In 1995 a German archeologist named Klaus Schmidt decided to begin work in Turkey at a place called Potbelly Hill, or Göbekli Tepe. He didn't know at the time that he was about to turn the world of archaeology upside down and re-write the story ...
