ancient civilisations

Picture this: Khagan of theGokturks. 1,500-year-old gold buckles depicting ruler 'majestically sitting on a throne' discovered in Kazakhstan By Tom Metcalfe published about 19 hours ago The ornaments contain the earliest known depiction of a Göktürk "khagan," who probably lived in the sixth...

This is a superb article that sets the mind on several flights of wonder: ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ The Tigris: The river that birthed civilisation By Leon McCarron 2nd August 2023 Reaching the source of the Tigris is not an easy task. Where a dirt road ends, a small path leads over...

ANCIENT MAGICAL TEXTS TO BE STUDIED IN UNPRECEDENTED DEPTH BY CADRE OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS CHRISTOPHER PLAIN·JUNE 30, 2023 A team of German university professors has set up a specialized center dedicated to researching and understanding ancient magic and magical texts, with a focus on the...

Archaeologists have unveiled the first known sculptures of human figures made by the Tartessos peoples, a lost civilization that flourished in southern Spain some 3,000 years ago that has been linked to the myth of Atlantis. According to researchers, they are likely depictions of gods and...

A YouTube look at the facts and fancy of human sacrifice in terms of Biblical Molech: As it's in Hebrew with a text translation, I wonder is this historically accurate and therefor truely interesting, or is this part of some kind of weird conservative Christian group's attempt to tarnish...

"Roughly translated as “the flashing” or “something that flashes”, Te Lapa is described as a blinking pulse of light that emanates from islands, yet is virtually unknown to science and completely unexplained. The strange effect was first mentioned in Western literature in the early 1970s when a...

As this deals with the more Anthropological aspect of Archaeology and Pseudo-Archaeology, I reckon it belongs here rather than in Earth Mysteries. What Archaeologists Really Think About Ancient Aliens, Lost Colonies, And Fingerprints Of The Gods It’s no secret that far more people watch TV...

A lot of history to be rewritten if this proves accurate.

Not quite so momentous as the rediscovery of Metropolis - see Lost & Found thread in Fortean News for that - but I see the bbfc has just passed Caligula uncut at 18. http://sbbfc.co.uk/Caligula_Case_Study.asp I plan to watch it with my favourite horse. 8)

I remember reading somewhere years ago that an egyptian wall painting showing some gifts being given to one of the early Pharoahs "quite clearly shows a juvenile mammoth". I can't remember exactly where I read it though. Anyone got any Ideas?

news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... -nile.html Link is dead. The first portion of the story (only) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080314015418/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/060719-gold-nile.html

Last night, on National Geographic Channel, I managed to catch part of a cracking documentary, 'Descent into Hell', about a subterranean oracular temple, built by ancient Greeks about 500bc, only to be filled in and sealed off by the Romans, several hundred years later. It was introduced and...

I thought this was interesting: http://www.bigeye.com/sexeducation/israelites.html

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/698/hr1.htm

http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/ancientamerica.htm The earliest people in the Americas were people of the Negritic African race, who entered the Americas perhaps as early as 100,000 years ago, by way of the bering straight and about thirty thousand years ago in a worldwide...

maya people i just saw a documentrey on the maya people and how they died out. they linked it to that of a major drought, can any one suggest any sites/books/videos to hunt down so i could get some more evidance on this? *is fairly new to all this fortean stuff, still dosent know where to look...

By Shasta Darlington ROME (Reuters) - For centuries scholars have debated whether Caligula, the Roman empire's eccentric third ruler, was a megalomaniac who dared to defy the gods or a maligned emperor whose caprices were exaggerated after his death. Now a group of archaeologists digging...

This is an old interest of mine, although it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on this MB before. New ideas on old Greek mechanism. Begins: WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the...

Riddle of the... I thought there was some report about a hollow room under the paws of the Sphinx (maybe an Edgar Cayce vision) and that the existance of it had been confirmed by science. Does anybody else remeber this and if any excavation has been attempted?

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There have been quite a few threads on this forum regarding the pressures that drove the development of early civilisations. According to this Amos Nur, a Stanford University professor, earthquakes may have been an important factor in historical change. The article states: 'Nur's research on...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/01/1017206183365.html The article is too long to quote, but in summary it concerns a Roman villa in Herculaneum, partially excavated, which turned out to house the only intact library to have survived from the ancient world. Around 1800 papyri were...

This thread has been spun off from the discussion of Graham Hancock's Flooded Kingdoms series: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/flooded-kingdoms-graham-hancock.2261/ Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age (C4 last night), presented by Graham Hancock. ... I think it's a fascinating...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1763000/1763950.stm Who else thinks it may be a good idea for a new MB topic for discussion of ancient civilisations, archaeology, artifacts, and new discoveries?