Did World War Zero Wipe Out The Mysterious Sea People Civilization?
The whereabouts of the homeland or homelands of the so-called Sea Peoples have been endlessly debated. The “Sea People” is an ancient civilization still shrouded in mystery and their true history has been endlessly debated. Very little is known about this who they were and where they came from. Their nationality remains a mystery as […]
Skeleton provides evidence that confirms historical events mentioned in the Norwegian Viking Sagas
Image credit: The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research The location and contents of the well are mentioned in Sverre’s Saga, a chronicle of one of the kings of Norway, and one of very few historical manuscripts describing events in the Norwegian Viking age and medieval period. Scholars have questioned the chronicle’s trustworthiness as a […]
The World’s Oldest Writing
In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were more sophisticated than previously believed. The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had […]
ALASKA: Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site
Some years ago, a team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. (Credit: Colorado. edu) A team of researchers led by […]
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
(Credit: Martin Frouz and Jirí Svoboda) Three ~31,000-year-old skulls from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic. For the next five thousand years, all samples analyzed in this study — whether from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Austria, or Italy — are closely related, reflecting a population expansion associated with the Gravettian archaeological culture. Analyses of ancient […]
Curious Discovery: ‘Demon Traps’ Found in 17th-Century English House under restoration
English archaeologists have discovered “demon traps” under the floorboards of one of Britain’s most important historic houses. Consisting of carved intersecting lines and symbols, the witch marks were found in a bedroom at Knole, a huge, stately home in Kent which is considered one of the country’s most precious historic houses. Acquired by the Archbishops […]
An interesting tale of a lustful woodland fellow: The ‘Wild Man’. An introduction to a little known deity of the European Middle Ages
Photo Credit: © Suffolk County Council Artifact What is it?Spoon finial or knop CultureMedieval European Dateca. A.D. 1300–1400 MaterialGilded silver FoundSuffolk, England Dimensions1.06 inches high, 0.52 inches wide, 0.30 inches thick *One of the most common mythical figures of the European Middle Ages among both rich and poor was the lustful woodland deity known as […]
The Ides of March: The assassination of Julius Caesar and how it changed the world
La Mort de César (ca. 1859–1867) by Jean-Léon Gérôme Spurinna was a haruspex. His calling was vital, if a little unusual, requiring him to see the future in the warm entrails of sacrificial animals. At the great festival of Lupercalia on the 15th of February 44 B.C., he was a worried man. While priests were […]
Prophecy Of The Oldest Tree In Wales: The Legend Of The Angelystor Yew
The Llangernyw Yew is the oldest tree in Wales. In ancient the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, North Wales stands one of the world’s oldest trees. This beautiful yew was planted in a small churchyard of St. Dygain’s Church sometime in the prehistoric Bronze Age. It is about 4,000-tear-old and it is still growing. Being the […]
The View From Space Hinted at a New Viking Site in North America. Archaeologists check it out.
A “high-tech Indiana Jones” may have just done what no one else has been able to for 55 years: find a second Viking settlement in North America, the Washington Post reports. “Typically in archaeology, you only ever get to write a footnote in the history books, but what we seem to have at Point Rosee […]