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The Crooked Spire: Kicked Over by the Devil?
Saint Mary and All Saints, an Anglican parish church in Chesterfield, England is better known locally as The Crooked Spire for one very obvious …
Miners Strike Ice Age Gold Finding Two Beasts of Beringia in Yukon
The Yukon state government in the far north of Canada has announced that some miners have made significant discoveries in the permafrost. While …
Creek Tribes Were Decimated by Disease but Thrived Through Skin Trade
The Native American Creek (Muscogee) tribes of the Southeast were actually an allied nation that came into existence in relatively recent history so …
Bloodsucking Baobhan Sith, Satan, and Dracula all Have Their Origins in Sumerian Vampires
Many folktales, stories, and myths around the world begin with folk “straying from the path” and meeting beautiful females, only to discover that …
Diprotodon: The Massive Marsupial that Roamed Australia 5.3 Million Years Ago
Today, Australia contains many wild and wondrous animals, and not much has changed over the past millions of years. The diprotodon is an animal that …
After Life-Long Search, Detective Finds Lost Chief of Scottish Clan: ‘The Buchanan’ is its First Chief in 337 Years
After over three centuries without ancestral leadership, the Clan Buchanan welcomes John Michael Baillie-Hamilton Buchanan, 60, who owns Cambusmore …
Arch Enemies: Family Feuds and Damnatio Memoriae on Rome’s Arcus Argentariorum
In the Eternal City every monument tells a story. The Colosseum, funded from the sack of Jerusalem, stands as a potent symbol of Rome’s imperial …
Hidden Underworld of the Giza Plateau is Finally Brought to Light
A vast network of underground chambers and water tunnels have been discovered beneath several of the world’s most well-known pyramids, including the …
Nomads Set Up the World’s Oldest Brewery in Israel 13,000-years-ago
A new study published in the <i>Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports</i> suggests beer brewing practices existed in the Eastern Mediterranean over five …
Medieval Science Fiction Existed – Here’s What it Looked Like
Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “ children of …
At Peace or in War, the Apache Indian Tribes Have Been a Proud People
The Apache Indian tribes believed in a time when there were many birds, beasts and monsters but no sun. The night showed no stars nor moon. The world …
Discovery of the Earliest Drawing – By at Least 30,000 years
What is a symbol? This is a tough question to answer when tasked with analyzing the earliest graphic productions. What we might today interpret as …
800 Ancient Egyptian Tombs Discovered at Middle Kingdom Necropolis
The Ministry of Antiquities and the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt have announced the discovery of over 800 ancient tombs, including some …
Forgotten Kings and Queens: The Lost Gypsy Dynasty of Scotland
We have all heard of Scotland’s legendary 14th century King Robert the Bruce and the powerful Stewart dynasty of the 16th and 17th centuries; these …
Kickapoo Nation Was Scattered and Driven South from Michigan to Mexico
Not long after Europeans came to North America, Native American tribes from the East began moving west toward the Great Lakes. Around the mid-17th …
Arene Candide: Ice Age Cave Reveals Rituals to Say Goodbye to Our Dead 12,000 Years Ago
Broken stones buried 12,000 years ago have been found at Arene Candide, a cave that was used as a graveyard during the last Ice Age.<p>In the …
The Spearhead Mound: Interpretation of a Forgotten Adena Burial Site
The people of the Adena Culture were some of the first to construct burial mounds and earthworks in the Ohio River Valley. Early Adena sites date to …
Should We Thank or Blame the Ancestors? Ancient Farmers Stop the Ice Age
Millennia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to grow rice. They began to raise …
Three 500-year-old Holy Statues Damaged in Botched Restoration Job
2018 is the year of tasteless restoration jobs and now, the latest victims are three 15th century wooden statues of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin …
Bon Echo Provincial Park: Shaped By Three Diverse Personalities and an Ojibwe Trickster
Bon Echo Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, is well known for Mazinaw Lake, the seventh-deepest lake in Ontario. The southeastern shore of the lake …
The Celestial Monsters and Demonic Wizards Of The French King’s Surgeon, Ambroise Pare
Sometimes we lie in bed at night and think about our increasing mortgage repayments, getting that new car, or that idiot beside you at work, but …
Unveiling the Secret Behind the Rosslyn Chapel’s and Dornoch Cathedral’s Green Men’s Missing Teeth
Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel came under the world spotlight in 2003 after Dan Brown featured it in his bestseller, <i>The Da Vinci Code</i> . A hitherto unseen …
Christian Basilica, and now Possibly a Roman Pagan Temple Found in a Turkish Lake
The foundations of a massive submerged ancient church in Turkey are suspected to have been built on top of an even greater treasure, an older Roman …
Ancient Greek Myth in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Medusa, The Minotaur and More?
The upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey game gives players a glimpse at the mythology of ancient Greece. How big of a step the creators have taken …
The Nomadic Survival Tactics of the Shoshone Tribe
The Shoshone Tribe would better be described as a nation or a people than a tribe. They are scattered over a big area in three main groups in three …
Experts in Mexico Finally Declare the Grolier Codex is the Real Deal
Mexico's National Institute of History and Anthropology has announced that a controversial document, previously known as the “Grolier Codex”, is …
20 Million Artifacts In Latin America’s Largest Museum - Gone - In Blazing Inferno
Saint Christopher's Palace in the Quinta da Boa Vista park, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil had served as residence for both the Portuguese and …
Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, Where Ancient Siksika Tradition Meets Modern Exploration
The First Peoples of Canada are justly proud of their heritage and culture. The history of the Siksika people and the related Blackfoot people is …
House of Taga: Trinian Island’s Unique Megalithic Construction
According to legend, Taga will survive as long as at least one of the stone ‘ <i>latte’</i> of his home remains standing.<p>The House of Taga is located near …
4000-Year-Old Ural Necropolis Reveals Migrant Horse Breeders Died Very, Very Young
For several decades scientists of South Ural State University (SUSU), together with international colleagues from the USA and Germany, have been …