29 Apr Things: Old Viking Parliaments, Courts And Community Assemblies By ashley cowie History & Tradition 0 Ancient governmental terminology such as monarchy, oligarchy and democracy have been used for more than 2,000 years and have Greek and Roman origin, but in Early Germanic societies Read More
01 May Aristophanes and Euripides: The Comedy and Tragedy of Fifth Century BC Greek Women By MartiniF History & Tradition 0 Euripides (circa 480 – 406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of Classical Greece - the other two being Aeschylus, the ‘Father of Tragedy’ who, among many others wrote Agamemnon (458 BC) and Seven Against Thebes (467 BC) Read More
04 May Diseases and Pandemics in Ancient Rome By victor labate History & Tradition, Health & Well-being 0 During antiquity, Rome was an international metropolis, a melting pot bustling with people from all four corners of the empire. The city had impressive marble structures towering over overcrowded buildings called insulae... Read More
06 May Göbekli Tepe: Enoch’s ‘Art of Building’ Hidden in the Bowels of the Earth By jim willis History & Tradition 1 From its initial discovery in 1994, ancient Anatolia's Göbekli Tepe has closely guarded a mysterious secret. Although the secret has been scrutinized and probed in great detail, the answer still remains elusive. Read More
08 May Sacred Moots: Scone of Scotland and Tara Hill of Ireland By ashley cowie History & Tradition 1 While the Medieval Norse world was judicially controlled by circular open-air assemblies called Things, at mounds called thingstead or thingstow, early Medieval Britain was peppered with moot, mote, and mute hills. Read More
11 May Ancient Alchemists and Modern Scientists: In Search of Creating the Homunculus By Roberto Volterri History & Tradition 0 To mimic the Creator and create life ex nihilo – almost from nothing – has been the ambition of some men, none more so than [Anchor] Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541) Read More