Ben Fritz SeidelBronze Age How Did Bronze Age Greeks Know About Monkeys from Asia? greekreporter.com Scientists have debated for years over why Bronze Age wall paintings at the ancient settlement of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini depict …
Ben Fritz SeidelNew England 17th-Century Coins Found in a Fruit Grove May Solve a 300-Year-Old Pirate Mystery smithsonianmag.com - Isis Davis-Marks In 2014, a metal detectorist discovered a 17th-century Arabian coin in an orchard in Rhode Island. In the following years, other treasure hunters …
Ben Fritz SeidelMiddle East Monumental Neolithic Tomb Discovered in Saudi Arabia - Archaeology Magazine archaeology.org - Jessica Esther Saraceni RIYADH, SAUDIA ARABIA—According to a statement released by Taylor & Francis, the remains of a dog and 11 people have been found in a monumental tomb …
Ben Fritz SeidelWest Africa Archaeology in West Africa could rewrite the textbooks on human evolution theconversation.com - Eleanor Scerri Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and used, known as the Middle Stone Age material …
Ben Fritz Seidel19th Century The Taiping Rebellion: The Bloodiest Civil War You’ve Never Heard of thecollector.com - James Newman The Taiping Rebellion, which broke out in 1850, would come to be the bloodiest civil war in human history. Historians estimate it may have claimed up …
Ben Fritz SeidelAtlantis Forget Atlantis. 14 Real Cities That Are Completely Underwater fodors.com - Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Dive into these real-life versions of Atlantis. The legend of Atlantis is an enduring one. Invented by Plato some 2,300 years ago, he claimed that …
Ben Fritz SeidelZoroastrianism : The Origin Of Today's ReligionsBy TheCollectorZoroastrianism was the main faith of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Attributed to the prophet Zoroaster, this Persian religion was a key influence on both Christianity and Judaism.
Ben Fritz SeidelArchaeology The US' lost, ancient megacity verified_publisherBBC Travel - By Jen Rose SmithIn the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle. Pity the event planners tasked with managing Cahokia's wildest parties....
Ben Fritz SeidelArchaeology Archaeologists Discover Lost Egyptian City Said to Rival Pompeii - ExtremeTech ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska A new discovery on the west bank of the Nile, near the iconic Valley of the Kings, has archaeologists buzzing about what may be the most important …
Ben Fritz SeidelEgyptHarvard’s Digital Giza Project Lets You Access the Largest Online Archive on the Egyptian Pyramids (Including a 3D Giza... openculture.com - by Josh Jones Nothing excites the imagination of young history-and-science-minded kids like the Egyptian pyramids, which is maybe why so many people grow up into …
Ben Fritz SeidelVolcanoes Think 2020 was bad? Historians say 536 was worst year ever to be alive United Press International - By Mark Puleo, Accuweather.com April 12 -- You wake up to a dark, dreary, glum-feeling, Monday-type of morning. For the 547th consecutive day. Just 18 months prior, you were a …
Ben Fritz SeidelRoman Empire Barbarian Invasion: The Beginning of the End for Rome? thecollector.com - Jack Crawford According to the account of Prosper of Aquitaine, a contemporary Christian writer whose life was thrown into disarray by Gothic incursions into the …
Ben Fritz Seidel10 Most Long-lived Empires in History — Plus Other Wowing World HistoryBy HowStuffWorksEmpires rise and empires fall. But these superpowers reigned longer than any others. What can we learn from their missteps and achievements?
Ben Fritz SeidelEnvironment Recent research from South Africa is redefining our timeline of human evolution verified_publisherQuartz - Benjamin SchovilleThe Kalahari is a huge expanse of desert in southern Africa, stretching across Botswana and into the northernmost part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. It’s in the Northern Cape that we studied...
Ben Fritz SeidelBefore Christianity, Judaism and Islam, There Was ZoroastrianismBy HowStuffWorksIt's the oldest (and probably most obscure) monotheistic religion. So, how did it influence so many of the better-known ones? And will Zoroastrianism survive? Get to know Zoroastrianism and other interesting religions.
Ben Fritz SeidelAncient Rome New Virtual Experience Will Take You Back 2,000 Years to Visit Ancient Roman Ruins departures.com - Jordi Lippe-McGraw It’s armchair and time travel in one. As the world begins to open up again, there are still places where we can’t travel: back in time. But, one new …
Ben Fritz SeidelThe Hobbit Identity of mysterious 'Hobbits' possibly found Live Science - Charles Q. Choi The extinct human lineage nicknamed "the hobbit" may not be a distant relative of modern humans as previously thought. Instead, hobbits may be …
Ben Fritz SeidelNuclear Energy These 10 Cities Were Once Kept Secret. Some of Them Still Hold Mysteries fodors.com - Pavlo Fedykovych Discover the mysteries of these intriguing secret cities. There are cities that can’t be found on maps. Some are prohibited to enter, some were lost …
Ben Fritz SeidelHistorical Lies That Will Make You Rethink Your Entire EducationBy GrungeHistory has a funny way of repeating itself, especially when the people repeating it aren't exactly telling the full story. Indeed, many of the clean, easy, wholesome "facts" you learned in history class would earn you a big fat F in the decades-long class that is Real Life. Here are a few historical lies that will make you rethink your entire education.
Ben Fritz SeidelMount Etna Enceladus: The Greek Giant That Shakes The Earth thecollector.com - Antonis Chaliakopoulos One of the most important episodes in Greek Mythology was the Gigantomachy, the relentless war between Greek Giants and Gods. The Giants proved …
Ben Fritz Seidelnew movie news 55 Ways You're Picturing History Wrong cracked.com - Cracked Writers Ever since 1978, when it became illegal to teach history in schools, all our knowledge on the subject has come from movies, TV shows, and vague …
Ben Fritz SeidelArchaeology The Murky Origins of an Enigmatic Artifact hakaimagazine.com - Hakai Magazine In 2018, biologists in Ushuaia, Argentina, were scooping sediment from the bottom of the Beagle Channel, 1.5 kilometers from shore, when they …
Ben Fritz SeidelChina Treasures from mystery civilisation could rewrite history of China verified_publisherSouth China Morning Post - Stephen Chen Artefacts discovered in southwestern China suggest that the area was once home to an unknown civilisation whose existence may rewrite the history of …
Ben Fritz SeidelCulture Harriet Cole’s Mysterious Identity Still Stumps Historians verified_publisherAtlas Obscura - Jessica Leigh Hester In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are …
Ben Fritz SeidelWhy You Wouldn't Survive Life In Ancient GreeceBy GrungeOf all the ancient civilizations, there's something particularly fascinating about ancient Greece. Maybe it's the fact that they had such an impact on the world today, helping shape everything from math and science to government and law. Or maybe it's the Greek myths. There's something awesome about a pantheon of gods and goddesses who are pretty much just normal, spiteful, occasionally terrible human beings, but with super powers. Whatever it is, ancient Greece is one of those times and places
Ben Fritz SeidelScience Scientists unlock the 'Cosmos' on the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first computer Live Science - Ben Turner Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism …
Ben Fritz SeidelPersian Culture Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief thecollector.com - Edd Hodsdon Zoroastrianism was the dominant faith of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Developed centuries earlier by the prophet Zoroaster, this Persian religion …
Ben Fritz SeidelBronze Age 'Powerful, maybe even frightening' woman with diadem may have ruled in Bronze Age Spain Live Science - Laura Geggel This is only the sixth known diadem from ancient Spain. Archaeologists in Spain have discovered "one of the most lavish burials of the European early …
Ben Fritz Seidel Flood Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh ancient.eu - Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin by published on 07 April 2016 Send to Google Classroom: About the Author Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, …
