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Vikingship on Ungst (Unstphoto/CC BY-SA 4.0) — 14 Apr 2023

5,000 Years of History Still Standing In Scotland’s Shetland Isles

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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Ultima Thule meaning "farthest Thule", was the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman cartographic literature, while modern interpretations of this place include the islands of Saaremaa (Ösel) in Estonia and the Norwegian...
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Vikingship on Ungst (Unstphoto/CC BY-SA 4.0) — 14 Apr 2023

5,000 Years of History Still Standing In Scotland’s Shetland Isles

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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Ultima Thule meaning "farthest Thule", was the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman cartographic literature, while modern interpretations of this place include the islands of Saaremaa (Ösel) in Estonia and the Norwegian...
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Environment around the La Brea Tar Pits, with Columbian mammoth herd in the background, by Charles Knight (1921) (Public Domain) — 06 Mar 2023

Tracking The Old Ways Of Ice Age Megafauna Hunters

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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While mammoths were hunted by early human populations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, the primary cause of their extinction was changing climate, and disease. During the last Ice Age, in north-west South America, Clovis culture hunters...
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Environment around the La Brea Tar Pits, with Columbian mammoth herd in the background, by Charles Knight (1921) (Public Domain) — 06 Mar 2023

Tracking The Old Ways Of Ice Age Megafauna Hunters

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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While mammoths were hunted by early human populations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, the primary cause of their extinction was changing climate, and disease. During the last Ice Age, in north-west South America, Clovis culture hunters...
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Utagawa Hiroshige's Sailing Boats at Arai (Public Domain) — 24 Feb 2023

Did Ancient Japanese Fishermen Reach South America 5,000-Years-Ago?

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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The notion that pre-Columbian cultures from Europe, Africa, or Asia sailed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to discover America, is a popular theory backed by numerous books and television documentaries. While most of these claims seem...
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Utagawa Hiroshige's Sailing Boats at Arai (Public Domain) — 24 Feb 2023

Did Ancient Japanese Fishermen Reach South America 5,000-Years-Ago?

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

0

The notion that pre-Columbian cultures from Europe, Africa, or Asia sailed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to discover America, is a popular theory backed by numerous books and television documentaries. While most of these claims seem...
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Umbrian-sienese anonim - Hercules at the crossroads (Public Domain) — 15 Feb 2023

Encountering Liminal Deities At Crossroads, Where Veils Are Thinnest

By ashley cowie

Mythology & Mystery

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In antiquity every village, town or city had a central crossroads, probably marked by the largest statue, fountain, temple or cathedral in the area. This is not by chance. Since prehistory crossroads have served communities as both functional and...
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Umbrian-sienese anonim - Hercules at the crossroads (Public Domain) — 15 Feb 2023

Encountering Liminal Deities At Crossroads, Where Veils Are Thinnest

By ashley cowie

Mythology & Mystery

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In antiquity every village, town or city had a central crossroads, probably marked by the largest statue, fountain, temple or cathedral in the area. This is not by chance. Since prehistory crossroads have served communities as both functional and...
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Singular Roman soldier gazing over the glens ( serpeblu / Adobe Stock) — 18 Jan 2023

Remnants Of Roman Roads And Fortresses In Scotland

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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The Romans occupied what is today Britain between the late first to mid-fifth centuries. To move their legions from one place to another, they built over pre-existing trackways to form the foundations for the Roman road system that would enable...
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Singular Roman soldier gazing over the glens ( serpeblu / Adobe Stock) — 18 Jan 2023

Remnants Of Roman Roads And Fortresses In Scotland

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

2

The Romans occupied what is today Britain between the late first to mid-fifth centuries. To move their legions from one place to another, they built over pre-existing trackways to form the foundations for the Roman road system that would enable...
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Saint Michael’s Mount in Cornwall (Public Domain) — 09 Jan 2023

Channel Island Hopping In Search of Illusive Ictis

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Saint Brendan’s Isle, Hy-Brasil and the Isle of Avalon are three of the many fabled islands that were once believed to have existed off the coastline of Britain. These were traditionally difficult islands to find, not only because they were all...
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Saint Michael’s Mount in Cornwall (Public Domain) — 09 Jan 2023

Channel Island Hopping In Search of Illusive Ictis

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Saint Brendan’s Isle, Hy-Brasil and the Isle of Avalon are three of the many fabled islands that were once believed to have existed off the coastline of Britain. These were traditionally difficult islands to find, not only because they were all...
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Spanish guerrilla resistance to the Napoleonic French invasion of Spain at the Battle of Valdepeñas (Public Domain) — 02 Jan 2023

Guerrilla Warriors Who Overthrew History

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Guerrilla warfare is a particular type of combat that is generally fought by trained civilians fighting for freedom from oppression and independence, rather than an official military unit. History is peppered with famous guerrilla warriors or...
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Spanish guerrilla resistance to the Napoleonic French invasion of Spain at the Battle of Valdepeñas (Public Domain) — 02 Jan 2023

Guerrilla Warriors Who Overthrew History

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Guerrilla warfare is a particular type of combat that is generally fought by trained civilians fighting for freedom from oppression and independence, rather than an official military unit. History is peppered with famous guerrilla warriors or...
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Recovered in Bolivia in 1932 the “Bennet monolith” is often referred to as the “Pachamama stela” and is believed to depict the Earth Mother goddess (Pavel Špindler/ CC BY-SA 3.0) — 21 Nov 2022

Transformation Of Andean Earth Goddess Pachamama Into The Virgin Mary

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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The blessed Virgin Mary has a long and dignified reputation within the Catholic church ever since her first appearance in the Biblical narrative of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26), where she is described as a first-century Jewish woman living in...
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Recovered in Bolivia in 1932 the “Bennet monolith” is often referred to as the “Pachamama stela” and is believed to depict the Earth Mother goddess (Pavel Špindler/ CC BY-SA 3.0) — 21 Nov 2022

Transformation Of Andean Earth Goddess Pachamama Into The Virgin Mary

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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The blessed Virgin Mary has a long and dignified reputation within the Catholic church ever since her first appearance in the Biblical narrative of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26), where she is described as a first-century Jewish woman living in...
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Deriv; Solar Eclipse and Milky Way (Wikipedia, Hdwallpaper), and Mary Magdalene ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) — 02 Nov 2022

Mankind Is Mesmerized By Millennia Of Moon Mysteries

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Over millennia humankind has been mesmerized by the moon, speculating as to what exactly the moon is and only in early-2022 a team of astronomers suggest the moon may have “formed immediately, in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth...
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Deriv; Solar Eclipse and Milky Way (Wikipedia, Hdwallpaper), and Mary Magdalene ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) — 02 Nov 2022

Mankind Is Mesmerized By Millennia Of Moon Mysteries

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

0

Over millennia humankind has been mesmerized by the moon, speculating as to what exactly the moon is and only in early-2022 a team of astronomers suggest the moon may have “formed immediately, in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth...
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Attirampakkam stone tools (Ophelia S/ CC BY-SA 4.0) — 23 Sep 2022

Blades of Destiny: The Ancient Tools And Weapons That Crafted History

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

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It is widely accepted that Homo sapiens were the first species to develop effective tools, but humans were not the first primate to make or use stone tools. That achievement belongs to an unidentified species that hunted and fished along the shores...
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Attirampakkam stone tools (Ophelia S/ CC BY-SA 4.0) — 23 Sep 2022

Blades of Destiny: The Ancient Tools And Weapons That Crafted History

By ashley cowie

Archaeology & Science

0

It is widely accepted that Homo sapiens were the first species to develop effective tools, but humans were not the first primate to make or use stone tools. That achievement belongs to an unidentified species that hunted and fished along the shores...
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