When an archaeological team excavated ancient tombs of the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period (771 to 476 B.C.), they discovered a long sword covered with mud. When the team gently wiped off the mud, they found that it was engraved with the Chinese words “King Yue Goujian’s personal sword.” This major archaeological discovery caught the ...
Which came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since the first English colonists arrived on the island in 1627 to encounter what they thought was a herd of wild European pigs. A recent discovery by an SFU archaeologist is shedding new light on the matter. Christina ...
Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than 100 1000-year-old massive stone jars possibly used for the dead. These are one of archaeology’s enduring mysteries. Experts believe they were related to the disposal of the dead, but nothing is known about their original purpose and the people who brought them there. The ...
A Curtin University researcher has solved a nearly 100-year-old riddle by discovering that Egyptian desert glass was created by a meteorite impact, rather than atmospheric airburst, in findings that have implications for understanding the threat posed by asteroids. Published in the leading journal Geology, the research examined tiny grains of the mineral zircon in samples ...
In the 19th century, a book claiming to be the lost religious text of ancient Slavic tribes started gaining global attention. Known as the Book of Veles, it was later declared to be a forgery. However, this has not stopped certain groups from propagating the text as an authentic ancient relic. The Slavic Book of ...
The chrome plating on the Terracotta Army weapons made of bronze — once thought to be the earliest form of anti-rust technology — derives from a decorative varnish rather than a preservation technique, a new study finds co-led by UCL and Terracotta Army Museum researchers. The study, published in Scientific Reports, suggests that the chemical composition ...
Many mystical religions have always suggested that human beings are basically bundles of energy. As such, the possibility that some people might drain out other people’s vitality always remained a possibility. Now, a scientific study suggests that this might actually be true. Draining energy In an experiment conducted by biologist Olaf Kruse from the University ...
A recent scientific study of a few sandstone terraces and blocks of andesite, an extremely hard volcanic stone, has shown that the Tiwanakans may have used geopolymer technology to manufacture the stones for their temple. Conventional history tells us that ancient Tiwanakans, the people who lived around Tiahuanaco on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, never knew ...
Though the idea of reincarnation might seem new to the Western world, a look into the history of Greece shows us that it is not so. Ancient Greek philosophers used to speculate about reincarnation and held some interesting notions about how it happened. Greek reincarnation The belief of reincarnation apparently came into prominence in Greece ...
In spirituality, Akashic records are considered to be a record of all human events. The records not only pertain to human actions, but also words, intent, thoughts, and emotions. The term Akashic is derived from the Sanskrit word “Akasha,” meaning sky or ether. The name “Akashic record” was popularized by theosophist Helena Blavatsky in the ...
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