Soaring nearly 120 meters above the desert floor in a remote section of ancient Anasazi territory known as Chaco Canyon stands an interesting natural structure called Fajada Butte. Along a narrow ledge near the top of the hill is a sacred Native American Read More …
Ancient Greeks were terrified of the living dead and restlessly tried to control and fight them off with necromancy, explain the archeologists in charge of the excavations in an ancient cemetery near the city of Kamarina, Sicily. The ancient Greeks Read More …
The Nimrud lens Whatever its origin, as ornament, as magnifying lens or part of a telescope, the Nimrud lens is the oldest lens in the world. Looking at it evokes mystery and wonder. However unusual this object seems at first, Read More …
Have you ever heard of the phenomenon called peat tanning? This is a condition that occurs when a corpse is placed in a swamp containing humic acids. The peat tanning acts as a natural preserver of dead bodies. The skin Read More …
The most famous Egyptian ruler was actually a rather insignificant figure in the history of Egypt. In November 1922, in the Egyptian Valley of Kings, both the Egyptologist Howard Carter and amateur archaeologist George Herbert Carnarvon stumbled across a hidden Read More …
These Pre-Olmec figures are not only strange looking, but provide proof that our ancestors possessed knowledge of magnetic properties. How was is it possible for them to have such knowledge? The statues of the so-called fat boys were found in Read More …
We consider cities to be abandoned when the local population has fled and everything is left in oblivion. Some reasons for fleeing were wars, migrations of the masses, or natural disasters. Such an abandoned city becomes a “time capsule,” perfectly Read More …
Societal sensibilities, as well as moral evolution have been evolving throughout the whole history of the human race. A perfect example of this would be that 8000 year ago it wasn’t particularly strange to see someone’s head on a pike. Read More …
Art is something that has always been attributed only to Homo sapiens. The earliest evidence of art dates back to more than one hundred thousand years ago and was found in a cave in Blombos, South Africa, and it was a Read More …
The large Shigir Idol is the oldest wooden monument on the planet. It dates back to approximately 11 000 years ago to the Holocene – the line between the last Ice Age and the modern era. “The latest research provided Read More …
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