Han purple is an artificial pigment created by the Chinese over 2,500 years ago, which was used in wall paintings and to decorate the famous terracotta warriors, as well as ceramics, metal ware, and jewelry. The pigment is a technological wonder, made through a complex process of...
A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from another species that is currently unknown t...
It is a commonly accepted view in mainstream archaeology that civilization started in Iraq, in ancient Mesopotamia with the great civilization of Sumeria.However, there is an archaeological discovery at the Al Ubaid archaeological site, where many pre-Sumerian 7,000-year-old arte...
If conventional wisdom on the history of the human race is correct, then human civilization is not old enough, nor was it advanced enough, to account for many of the mysterious monolithic and archeological sites around the world. Places like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the Bosnian Py...
Long recognized in the West for its natural and man-made monuments, for its silks and its satins and for its delectable cuisine, China is also credited with inventions and discoveries which continue to influence our world today as they did at their inception.For the better part o...
In the timeless library of human myths and legends, perhaps none are more primal and disturbing than the biblical story of the Fall.Responsible for everything from the demonisation of women to the Church’s pious horror for nature, sex and the body, there is scarcely a life-hati...
The legendary pre-Flood civilizations like Atlantis, Thule, and Hyperborea were said to have been built on highly advanced science and technology, with a possibly direct connection with what is happening now around the world. Sir Francis Bacon, a key leader in the Rosicrucians wh...
The name “King Tut” gives birth to images of powerful royal families of Egypt, of course it does. Tutankhamun was the last great king of his lineage before military rule took over the land, and one of the youngest rulers at that. However, the way we visualize this young king ...
In 1894 the Indian astronomer, Sri Yukteswar, wrote that the cause of the precession of the equinox was the result of our sun’s orbit around another star. He estimated the orbit period at 24,000 years. This long cycle is the same concept as Plato's Great Year, as well as the Ma...
Mexican archaeologists have announced that a years-long exploration of an underground tunnel beneath the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico has yielded thousands of artifacts and may lead to royal tombs.According to a news release on Reuters, the entrance to the 1,800-year-old...
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered an ancient ceremonial center and a circular-shaped pyramid in Miravalles, in the region of Cajamarca in northern Peru.According to a news report in The Epoch Times, the site dates back an incredible 5,500 years. Until now, it was believed th...
Mars Rover Curiosity captured again an interesting artifact on Mars. The latest image shows what appears to be ancient petroglpyphs engraved in a rock.Petroglyphs (also called rock engravings) are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incisin...