Myths About the Pleiades Star Cluster Span Back 100,000 Years
The Pleiades are among the most remarkable asterisms. You may wonder what exactly an asterism is – a characteristic, easily recognizable group of stars, which may belong to one or…
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Ancient Civilizations
Discover the world’s most mysterious ancient civilizations, from lost cities and megalithic structures to forgotten knowledge and unsolved archaeological puzzles.
Was Nikola Tesla Really Obsessed With The Ancient Pyramids?
Besides the obvious patents and inventions we have all heard of, Nikola Tesla had many other interests that would surprise you, and one of his apparent obsessions was the Egyptian…
How Did The Ancient Romans Keep Track Of Time?
Ancient Romans divided the day into daytime and nighttime but the way they measured time was different. The day consisted of twelve hours. Depending on the season, the duration of…
How Did People Have Fun in the Middle Ages?
How did people have fun in the Middle Ages? There was no single medieval experience. A noble household, a market town, a monastery and a farming village had different calendars,…
Why Do Statues of Egyptian Pharaohs Have Broken Noses?
Scientists have noticed that many ancient Egyptian pharaoh statues lack noses. At first, it was attributed to the fact that the nose is an outstanding part of the face. The…
How Roman Emperors Were Turned Into Gods In Ancient Rome
After the death of a Roman emperor, it was time for his apotheosis. This was the name of the complex, lengthy, and slightly strange procedure for the funeral of the ruler,…
Why Is 536 Considered The Worst Year in Human History?
If you think that in 2019, 2020, 2021, everything was bad – the coronavirus, the ruble, oil, and the entire world economy in general – you should probably know that…
The Handbag Of The Gods: An Unexplained Symbol Depicted in Ancient Monuments Worldwide
More and more convincing evidence found over the last two or three decades proves that humanity is a species with amnesia. Countless discoveries around the globe make us question everything…
Did A Massive Comet Impact Destroy an Advanced Civilization on Earth 13,000 Years Ago?
As the best-selling author and researcher Graham Hancock explains in his book “Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization”, at the end of the last Ice…
Fast Food In Ancient Rome; What Was the Roman Thermopolium?
Many today believe that the concept of snack bars, semi-finished products, and fast food, in general, is a result of modern living conditions – the busy work schedule of some…
Unwritten Mystery: Is The Babylonian Tablet of Shamash Proof of Advanced Ancient Technology?
Shamash is the ancient Mesopotamian God of the Sun, justice, morality, and truth, known for his kindness and generosity. He is the twin brother of the goddess of heaven, Inana…
Extracting Free Energy From The Air; Nikola Tesla’s Great Dream
On the night of July 10, 1856, Nikola Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan (then part of the Austrian Empire, and today in Croatia). His father was a…
Here Are 8 Factors That Led To The Collapse of The Western Roman Empire
On the border between the 4th and 5th centuries, after almost 500 years of hegemony in the ancient world, the Western Roman Empire collapsed. Historians have repeatedly tried to systematize…
Here Are 5 Myths About Cleopatra That Will Surprise You As Untrue
An untouchable beauty, a devoted lover, she fell victim to the enviers and villains of the strong men she loved. Such is the “canonical” image of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra,…
How an Ancient Babylonian Map of Jupiter Helped Rewrite History
Babylonian astronomers calculated the motion of the planet Jupiter using an idea that led to integral calculus. This is a mathematical method that Europeans did not reach until the 14th…
5 Serious Misconceptions About Vikings
Imagine that I ask 5 random people on the street about what the Vikings were like. In my opinion, in most cases, I will hear notions of brutal warriors with…
The Roman Colosseum: From Cruelty to Perfection
The Roman Colosseum – one of the most impressive ancient structures known to modern man. When built in antiquity – an arena of cruel entertainment, which took the lives of…
Nazca and the Geometry for the Gods; Interpretations of the Enigmatic Geoglyphs
Why do humans deify objects, individuals, or nonexistent subjects of their imagination? Why did ancient cultures create and build impossible structures to commemorate such entities? From the largest ancient monuments…
Chavin de Huantar: The Ancient Peruvian Citadel You Likely Never Heard Of
Chavin was an ancient native culture from the northern mountainous part of present-day Peru, which existed in the period 1200-300 BC. It was named after the archaeological site of Chavin…
Here Are 8 Ancient Egyptian Obelisks the Roman Empire Took From Egypt
Ancient Egyptian obelisks are a hallmark of Rome. There is no other city in the Christian world that boasts as many as 13 monolithic granite obelisks. Eight of them were…
Caral – the Ancient Pyramid City of Peru Explained in 7 Facts
“Sometimes I’ll pick up the “heart of the jungle” fossil on my bookshelf, or pull out my old field notebooks from my desk drawer, warped by Amazonian rains and the…
10 Ancient Monuments You Probably Didn’t Know Are Oriented Towards the Solstices
Across continents, builders used sunrise and sunset as architecture’s simplest ruler. The solstices mark the year’s turning points: the longest and shortest days, when the Sun rises and sets at…
Chiribiquete and the Painted Walls of the Amazon
Chiribiquete is not a ruin in the usual sense. It is a living landscape, a vast protected region in the Colombian Amazon where sheer stone walls rise out of the…
5 Ancient Egyptian Solar Ships You Probably Didn’t Know Existed
For ancient Egyptians, the perpetual cycle of the coming and setting of the Sun is comparable to the cycle of life and death. Thus, each morning the Sun rises in…