On August 6, 1945, the world (unfortunately) entered the atomic age.Without warning, a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killed about 90,000 people instantly and injured many others – who then died from radiation sickness. Three days later, a second atomic s...
Why did the Prophet Mohammed start using henna in his later years?Starting after the age of 40, he began to dye his greying beard red to gain a more youthful appearance, as the Prophet Mohammed himself was reported to have NATURALLY red hair when he was young.Most Arabic authorit...
Benjamin H. Freedman was a successful Jewish businessman of New York City who was at one time the principal owner of the Woodbury Soap Company. Starting in 1945, he spent the great preponderance of his considerable fortune, at least 2.5 million dollars, exposing the tyranny which...
An ancient legend speaks of a mysterious door which is located in the vicinity of Lake Titicaca. This door, will open one day and welcome the creator gods of all mankind. These gods will return in their "Solar Ships" and all mankind will be in awe.Strangely such a door seems to e...
We all know the number of pyramids that have been found worldwide. The pyramid building phenomena apparently conquered out ancestor in the distant past who created all kinds of pyramids in all corners of the world. Perhaps the most famous of the pyramids around the world are thos...
The other night my wife and I were attempting to look up our family history, but because we are apparently poor serfs we couldn't find anything. So we went and looked up the lineage of the Queen just for fun and were blown away by what we discovered.We found out that the Queen's ...
Caves play an important role in the story of humanity. In addition to providing shelter for our earliest ancestors, caves were also often considered to be mystical and magical realms. For some cultures, caves are the gateways to the underworld, while others believed that supernat...
Much attention and condemnation has been directed towards the tragedy of the African slave trade, which took place between the 16th and the 19th centuries. However, another equally despicable trade in humans was taking place around the same time in the Mediterranean. It is ...
A study done on the mummified remains of Ramesses III and his son determined that both y-chromosomes belonged to Haplogroup E1b1a (Y-DNA). The pharaoh’s y-chromosome belongs to the most frequent haplogroup among contemporary Sub-Saharan y-chromosomes. — WikipediaAlso anyone w...
Most people are familiar with the story of Atlantis, the legendary sunken city as described by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Till this day, opinion is still divided as to whether this story should be understood literally or taken merely as a morality tale. Further east in ...
1. The unfinished obeliskFor how long and complex human history is, it’s no big surprise to me that it would miss a few major places and events, right? Well we’ll help you fill in the gaps a bit.This obelisk was recently found in Aswan, Egypt, and was ordered to be constructe...
According to researchers who have analyzed the artifact, it is a 100,000-year-old electrical component embedded in stoneIt is one of the artifacts that a few have heard of, yet its characteristics are incredibly interesting. There have been dozens of objects discovered through th...