Thoth is the God of wisdom, reading and writing. He was thought to be successor of the Sun God, Ra. He is almost always illustrated as a human with a head of an Ibis bird. According to ancient legends, Thoth Read More …
According to one of the many Mongolian legends, the first descendants of the Gods built a beautiful wealthy city which was home to sages, merchants, brave soldiers, and skillful craftsmen. The city was built back in the time when waters Read More …
This is a case of a very interesting mental experiment in which a group of volunteers had to create a fictional character and then try to communicate with it. The experiment was directed by the mathematician, A.R.G. Owen and supervised Read More …
Museums are far from the boring places you might think they are. Our ancestors knew very well about the art of love and sex and liked to leave for us scenes not only from their everyday lives, battles and priests’ Read More …
In June, 1992, near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, a man named Wu Anai, decided to pump the water out from one of the locally known caves revealing the first of many man-made caves in the region. Read More …
The largest medieval manuscript in the world, Codex Gigas, or the Devil’s Bible, is a source of very mixed feelings – it possesses a certain charm but, at the same time, the grim illustrations look creepy, even scary. It is Read More …
Since the middle of the 1st century BC, a period of degradation was in full force, and along with it, came an epoch of limitless sexual freedom. The reasons for this degradation were civil wars that hit the economy hard. Read More …
The Assyrian state is believed to be the first empire in the history of mankind. The country, existed until 605 BC when it was destroyed by the combined forces of Babylon and Medea. The Birth of Assur In the 2nd millennia BC, Read More …
Many are wrong to think that the oldest melody is the “Seikilos epitaph” from ancient Greece. The melody, written with words and musical notes upon a headstone, not far from Ephesus, dates back only 200-100 years BC, so it’s actually Read More …
Arkaim was lucky! In earlier times, a territory with such an incredible archeological monument would have been destroyed without second thought. But at the time when the ancient city was discovered there was already a law protecting the site. Archeologists Read More …
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