The whereabouts of the homeland or homelands of the so-called Sea Peoples have been endlessly debated. The “Sea People” is an ancient civilization still shrouded in mystery and their true history has been endlessly debated. Very little is known about this who they were and where they came from. Their nationality remains a mystery as […]
Image credit: The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research The location and contents of the well are mentioned in Sverre’s Saga, a chronicle of one of the kings of Norway, and one of very few historical manuscripts describing events in the Norwegian Viking age and medieval period. Scholars have questioned the chronicle’s trustworthiness as […]
In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were more sophisticated than previously believed. The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had […]
Some years ago, a team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. (Credit: Colorado. edu) A team of researchers led […]
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