Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was a theoretical physicist and the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project, in which the first modern atomic bombs were developed and tested. He is called the ‘father of the atomic bomb’, When he first created the atomic bomb and witnessed its explosion, he quoted the ancient Bhagavad Gita, exclaiming, “I have become the Destroyer of Worlds.” Years later, during a classroom lecture, one of his students asked if the atomic test at Alamogordo was the first nuclear blast in history. Oppenheimer responded, “Yes, in modern times,” indicating he perhaps believed that nuclear reactions, both natural and artificial, might have occurred in antiquity. Is this possible?
DR. KEN JEREMIAH is a television presenter and has written several books about religions, mummification, and spirituality, including Remnants of a Distant Past. He may be contacted at [email protected].
The exciting discovery of a 16-meter-long (52.5 ft) ancient papyrus found in a sarcophagus in Egypt's Saqqara region has now been unveiled. A papyrus of this size and quality had not been discovered in over a century. The restored artifact that dates back to 50 BC and contains passages and images of the Egyptian Book of the Dead has now been put on display at the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, Cairo for all to see.
Ted Loukes is an independent researcher in the field of ancient civilizations. His book Moses and Akhenaten: Brothers in Alms grew from a single page blog post to a two and a half year project that incorporated several field trips to Egypt herself. Ted is our Ancient Origins tour leader to Egypt.
If there is a single event that made Sparta’s military legend a seminal moment it is the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, when the Spartan King Leonidas’ made his famous reply: molon labe (come and take them), to the Persian king Xerxes’ demand that the Spartans lay down their arms. Yet what is the historical background to this legendary event.
Myke Cole has had a colorful and varied career, with service in war and crisis response with the CIA, the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and the ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence). He is the author of The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy and Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
The existence of Egypt’s New Kingdom dream manuals indicate private individuals in need of advice or healing had a sleep-over at the local temple, taking advantage of specialized priests who could both incubate and interpret their dreams. This had been an important part of Egyptian religion and magic. It was for example a key part of the funeral rites, especially of the elite, where the priests were adapt at using secret, magical techniques to raise the required dream, featuring the ghosts.
Mogg Morgan is a practitioner-cum-scholar of all aspects of occultism. He was a Wellcome research student at Oxford. He has been exploring the connections between the popular magick of ancient Egypt and its continuation/crossover with the living magical traditions of the middle East, and the Kaula/witchcraft of south Asia and beyond.
Since the very beginning of biblical study the nephilîm have been the topic of great controversy. Who are they and what do they represent? Are they biblical monsters or are they something more? And why does the brief mention of them in the Book of Genesis show resemblance to other mythologies? Petros Koutoupis is fluent in the language of Greek, and has been a self-taught student of Septuagintal Greek and Biblical Hebrew; with additional knowledge in
Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Akkadian grammar. He is the presenter of the podcast: Digging up the Past
