Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Himalayan skeleton lake secrecy


The strange circumstances surrounding the events at the remote mountain lake, discovered packed with human skeletons, are avoiding researcher that has looked deeper into the bizarre incident.

The remnants of around 800 human corpses have been located in the distant area of Roopkund Lake, situated about 16,404 feet or 5,000 meters in above sea level in the Indian Himalayas, which up to now the citizen were considered to have been journeyed who had passed away in the storm in about a millennia ago. However, this isn’t what killed the mass of individuals, based on the archaeology news.

This new study has been written by the group of scientists headed by Niraj Rai, the archaeogeneticist at the Lucknow, India, in the Birbal Sahni Institute of the Palaeosciences and it has been published today in Journal Nature. In trying to reply with what really happened at the identified ‘Skeleton Lake’ in over a thousand of years ago. The records in the National Geographic states that during the early 2000s researchers studied DNA from bodies and these broad results identified that the people have been from the South Asian ancestry, which all of them died in the solo event about 800 AD.

The new investigations of the death lake

Mr. David Reich is the geneticist at the Harvard University, and he has been the senior writers/authors of the latest paper, and he stated, “It has been unbelievable,” pertaining to the kind of ancestry, discovered in the third of the folks as “so strange for this portion of the world”.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Finding the Ancients


The prehistoric era of Egypt, the rich record of Nile valley and the enigmatic Pharaohs, are without any doubts are one of the top exciting and amazing aspects of the modern archaeology. It is packed with some millennia of the rich history; this fertile Nile valley has been the topic of some of those greatest attainments in the archaeological world and of its related studies. Right after so many decades and plentiful of excavations, the world is the finest historians and the archaeologists have unearthed the wealth of those amazing objects, monuments and mummies.

One of the best examples of the quarry of the prehistoric Egyptian history is this Tomb of Tutankhamun – this is the pristinely preserved, finest burial of the eighteenth dynasty’s popular boy king. It is discovered in the year 1922, the tomb was the stunning revelation – it has been filled with stuffs of the radiance never seen before.

Up to this day, it’s still thought among the top significant attainments in the archaeological world. And in that term, we are revisiting the tale of the finding of this Tomb of Tutankhamun – then those men who had been the primary witness to the very exceptional glimpse into the ancient Egypt.

Valley of Kings: The Hiding Area of Tomb of Tutankhamun

That moment the prehistoric Egypt and those related archaeological excavations had been mentioned, most of the people rapidly thought of the sphinx, the pyramids, and all of the rest. However, little we know the story after it, and the truth that a tomb of a boy king Tut has been in the really different place – in the Valley of Kings.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The later medieval fierce men


The wild men were firmly rooted in the folklore and with the many roles being played were depicted in artwork during the later medieval era across Europe. The imagery all showed the human with the thick pelt of their hair and their figure appeared in embroidery, paintings, statues, carvings, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and even on the more obscure objects like the bread mold.

Together with the artwork, it is at the fourteenth century the word ‘woodwose’ arrive into use as the means of illustrating a legendary wild man’s figure. The term is an origin of the recent surname ‘Woodhouse’, but the etymology is somewhat not clear – although the ‘wood’ definitely pertains to the forests or woods, the suffix wose having some possible meanings. These two most likely versions of wose are ‘forlorn being’ ‘or the abandoned person’.

The medieval wild man has been illustrated in the sources like Sir Gawain and Green Knight as the hairy beast like of a person, and a woodwose appeared in the artwork of the era as a vicious and bestial creature – although just like Enkidu at the Epic of the Gilgamesh, the wild man may be tamed with the right person (normally the virtuous and pure young woman).

One particular source for myths like the woodwose is the Greek explorer Hanno that had travelled into the western shore in Africa during the fifth century BC. The Hanno illustrated the island filled with the hairy savages – mainly female – called by the natives as gorilla (that is now identified as gorillas) and the other source is Pliny the Elder, the historian, who illustrated one more race of savage of human-like being in India (now identified as gibbons).

Thursday, August 15, 2019

The 2,500 year old shattered jewel has been discovered


The conquests had been. The Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar II, completely demolished the cities he had conquered. He boasted, after beating Egypt, that “nobody or not a solo man escaped” his attack and the archaeological proof showed that he was not exaggerating. From the ruins he had left behind, he had left the states he conquered totally barren. The survivors had been dragged into his state, and the parched earth that at one time had been their home has been left desolate and empty.

“The mixture of the ash layer filled with artifacts, blended with arrowheads, and the very exclusive ornament indicates that there are some kind of destruction and devastation,” the UNC Charlotte instructors Shimon Gibson stated to Haaretz. “Nobody abandoned the golden jewelry and that nobody had the arrowheads in the domestic refuse.”

The Mount Zion is one hill in Jerusalem, situated just exterior the walls of an Old City. Excavations had been carried away there by the global group of examiners from the University of Haifa and Carolina, who had been collaborating on Mount Zion Archaeological Plan, which has been managing for over 10 years. The intention of Mount Zion Plan is to expose, preserve and examine all levels of habitat over the route of Jerusalem’s 3,000 years of history.

The plan has been co-directed by Professor Shimon Gibson, Professor James Tabor and Dr. Rafi Lewis. According to the Eurekalert.org it ‘‘had create numerous important finds related to the ancient town” including some in connection with the Crusaders blockade of the town in 1099 AD.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The Nine Parts of our Human Soul



The thoughts of the human essence have fascinated the humankind for many years now. The cultures from around the world had sought to clarify the spirit and the soul in a fascinating and wide diversity of ways.

Our soul is usually the vital aspect of faith and is has been closely tied to reincarnation, afterlife, and spiritual realms. This means that the notion of our soul is internal to many belief methods and that in lots of instances the explanations and descriptions of our soul are complex and lengthy.

For the non-religious and religious alike the soul remained the symbol of oneself, and the notion of losing or wagering one’s soul was used as the plotline in tales like Faustus for generations. While in some cultures, like the headhunting tribe that is in Indonesia, the taking of the parts of the body thought to house a soul from the enemy is a great prize – concurrently denying their foe with their opportunity to shift to the afterlife and thieving the power of a soul to reinforce their personal family or tribe.

The prehistoric Egyptians had their personal complex ideas regarding what makes the human soul, with the beliefs being involved dividing a soul into 9 parts: Khat, Ba, Jb, Akh, Sahu, Ren, Ka, Shuyet, and Sechem.

The eight from these were immortal, then, will pass into their afterlife and that ninth was the actual physical body that was left behind. All the parts had their personal exclusive functions, and through analyzing these it will then be possible to recognize more about what an ancient Egyptians believed.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Supernatural creatures with their mysterious powers


The fairy rings have a mythical, historical reputation as exposed by the warnings and folklore surrounding them about the globe, but particularly in the Western Europe.

Many places have their personal superstitions surrounding those fairy rings, however, in the most part of the myths involving supernatural creatures or fairies that are either dancing around a ring, or have their ring serving as the portal between our world and the fairy realm. It has been believed that the spheres were created via lightning strikes, shooting stars, or were the witches’ work. These viewpoints persisted in the 19th century, like the notices to not stray in the fairy circle, for you may be transported into the fairy kingdom, and certain doom.

These rings are identified throughout Europe. Traditionally, they were named as “sorcerers’ rings” when in France, and then “witches rings” when in Germany, where they are allegedly most active on the Walpurgisnacht, the night of April 30, where the witches were thought to meet and then hold large commemorations coinciding with the arrival of Spring.


In Scotland it was thought the fairies sits on a mushroom and applied them as a bench for their bazaars, while in Wales a story goes that a mushroom was picked by a fairy folk and aided it as umbrellas or parasols. Until now in Wales, it has been said that the rings denotes an underground fairy community. The Welsh folklore also considered the rings as the place of fortune and fertility, and claims that the crops grown around it and livestock feeding close by will flourish.

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Home of the Dinosaurs


The finding of the uncommon dinosaur nest isn’t that odd in this city of Héyuán that had the population of 3 million inhabitants. There had been numerous findings of dinosaur fossils, particularly the eggs. Based on to the Sun, due to the discoveries, ‘Héyuán had now become known as the "home of dinosaurs" in China.

The first ever major finding of dinosaur eggs has been year 1996, and also near this Dong River, where that schoolboy, Zhang Yangzhe made his finding. In year 2015, some workmen who were laying sewage pipes discovered a batch of more than 40 eggs. In The Daily Mail reported that were ‘‘over 17,000 of them that have been hollow out of the city’’. More than 10,000 of those eggs are now being displayed or stored at the city Héyuán Museum. Its compilations of fossilized ancient eggs are being considered as one of those top extensive anywhere from around the world.

The 65 million years old Triceratops Skull


In the meantime, in the US, one more important dinosaur findings were created by a student, Harrison Duran, the college learner from University of California, has been infatuated with dinosaurs ever since his early childhood, located the portions of the skull of about a 65 million years old Triceratops in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota.

In the Washington Post reported that the cast of a skull will be created and place on the university so that Duran can allocate his finding within the campus community.

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Exploring Ancient Zurich


The 2004 SwissInfo article detailed the 19th century findings of the Bronze and Neolithic Age pile settlements placed on the small islands and the peninsulas submerged in the Lake Zürich, and during 2004 traces of the pre-Roman Celtic, the La Tène culture, agreements had been located on the hill of Lindenhof in the historic core of Zurich. Lindenhof rests atop the relics of the glacier and the top of the hill area consisted of the prehistoric, medieval and Roman remains and this has been listed as the Swiss heritage spot of the national significance.

These towns-like Celtic settlements have been constructed by the primary half of the first century BC; half of the century just before the Romans came, and in year 1747, the second century Roman tombstone has been located at the site, tolerating with the oldest testimony of the Turīcum, the Roman age name of Zürich. The archaeologists considered the Alamanni settled at the place from the fifth century and that this Roman castle situates until the seventh century, when this Ottonian dynasty armored it, but it has been abandoned during the late thirteenth century and those stones were pillaged.

During the year 1798, the people of Zürich pledge the oath into the foundation of Helvetic Republic on Lindenhof and in year 1851, this Masonic Lodge 'Modestia en cum Libertate' in 1771 constructed the masonic lodge and the temple on the part of the southern end of its square.

Some of the archaeological remnants of this pre-Roman Zürich age have been dug out since they are hidden below the dense urban core of the present city of Zürich. However the findings of the Celtic woman and man suggested the world of the ancient people, artifacts, and their tales might exist.