Tuesday, July 23, 2019

The Vikings did not just pop up in Canada for some visits, they dwelled for centuries


The ledger spoke to the ARSTechnica regarding the findings from this bog and he states that it included the “bronze cloak pin, the soapstone spindle piece, rivets, and iron nails,” that makes it clear to the archaeologists that this “Norse were here.” The stone tools discovered at the site, thought was fitting into these Beothuk people, are considered to have been carried by natives revisiting the traditional hunting site to scavenge metal tool and assets left behind by these European fishermen.

Everything about the place required re-thinking

This radiocarbon dating carried out by Ledger and together with his colleagues has been published in PNAS and suggested the Viking voyagers arrived in the Newfoundland as beginning as 910 AD, then may have left in as late since 1145 AD. It denotes that the Norse voyagers stayed even much longer than the archaeologists or historians presently believe and one more another ‘really’ attracting aspect of the plan is that this indigenous occupation of this site begun between “710 and in 1130 AD” and in between “1540 and in 1810 CE”. There were limited ways or means where on it can account for a particular over-laps and a suspected answer is the “cultural interaction.”


There are charts of insects and seeds starting from the left to the right the: Eanus maculipennis, the S. metallica, with A. quadrata, and Pycnoglypta sp., and the dock seeds or (cf. R. aquaticus). The Pollen from left to the right: the H. lupulus –kind, Juglans, and the cereal-kind.

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The Mars Rat



After a moment, even some who had been primarily interested with his work grew dissatisfied with Waring. In reply to the increasing criticism, he then blackout his website and moved out from the public view in the year 2017.

In the defense of Waring, the cursory assessment of the photographic proof, he analyzed does appear to reveal the imagery he claimed to see. And also, he is barely the one to report the anomalies on Mars, where at initial glance all appears to have been cleverly designed.

At different times, space aficionados dispensing over photographs takes on the Martian exterior have identified the objects that appear like rusted machinery, carved stone figures, broken pottery, bones, skulls, statues of people and animals, and helmets.

And of course, there is the wicked Face on Mars. The particular image, that has been captured from the space by Viking 1 orbiter by 1976, helped seed the whole cottage business of researchers looking (and usually claiming to find) proof of ancient ruins being left behind by the prehistoric but now extinct society.

Pareidolia VS Paranoia

These individuals who identified these oddities are not silly, nor are they merely making things up just to get attention. Lots of them have legitimate technical or scientific credentials. But despite of their background or training, or the innocence of their intentions, those men and women can be falling victims to the phenomenon called as Pareidolia. This mark describes the drive of a human brain to look for meaningful designs in every kind of visual images, also to actually witness such patterns even though when they are not there.

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Surprising things that should be known about the Celts


1. They worshipped a massive number of Goddesses and Gods 

There were about hundreds of goddesses and gods in the pantheon of Celtic, and some of which were so recess that only a solo tribe or even clan worshipped them. These Druids, who lead with religious ceremonies, had been in charge of rites that included sacrifices. These ceremonies might normally take place at the shrines in normal locations like the streams and hilltops, but there were even some secret rituals which would be performed in the hidden sacred groves. These druids were very vital within the Celtic society as it served as teachers, lore-keepers and judges.

2. Celtic women can become warriors too

Not like with the many ancient cultures, there are so many accounts of ladies who had been warriors in this Celtic society. One was the female warrior Boudicca who infamously combated to prevent those Romans from attacking her territory. When Boudicca was finally defeated, Boudicca committed suicide through drinking poison instead of submitting to those Romans. There are so many other contemporary records of women that participated in and even pilots of their battles. The Romans discovered the idea of female battlers really shocking, and the authors Posidonius and Strabo mutually illustrated an island of the Celtic women where those would not risk for their fear of death.

Lots of the Roman records of the Celts were propaganda styled to provoke an imagery of wild savages, mutually to excuse their crashed towards the people who fought such as wild animals and in making their victories into them more glorious. But aside from this propaganda and also fearmongering there had been elements of truth that the Celts were terrible in battle, and that exercise of headhunting to be specific was something that must help to nurture the image of those barbaric people who continue just like the wild animals. It must be remembered in this case of the Celts that history has been written by those victors. It has been simple for these Romans to remove the accomplishments of the complex society, mainly when they themselves were trying to shun from the headhunters.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Palace Increases From the Waters


Last year, the drought, led to the wreck re-emerging and it prompted archaeologists start the project to record and save the ruins. There had been fears that the kingdom would deteriorate or it would become damaged.

The plan team consisted of the German and the local Kurdish experts. This has been led by the doctors, Dr. Ivana Puljiz and Hasan Ahmed Qasim, Ph.D, as the combined project in between the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization and the University of Tübingen,” base on the Kurdistan 24. These two team leaders had also been helping to unearth the Bronze Age city at the Northern Iraq at the peak of the warfare towards the Islamic State.

There was a photo of the terrace wall of the western part of Kemune Palace.

This palace is thought to be until to 3,400 years of age and the archaeologists had been shocked at what this kingdom has been revealed. From the initial investigation of this place, it is anticipated that it initially stood until 65 feet or 22 meters high. This has been constructed out of the mud bricks, which was widely bring into use in constructions of every kind during the Age of Bronze in the age of the Ancient East.

Most of the walls are around 2 meters or 6 feet thick and the whole building was designed so well. According to the CNN Travel, “The terrace wall of the mud bricks was then later added to even out the building, adding-up to the striking architecture.”

Monday, June 24, 2019

Ironing out the Press Headlines from the Archaeological Reality



What must be stated is that this isn’t the initial time this more prehistoric dating of these crannogs had been presented. In year 1996, the Professor of the Archaeology at the Edinburgh University, Dr. Ian Armit, published the seminal book, “Archaeology of the Skye and Western Isles wherein he wrote down “In places like this Outer Hebrides of the Scotland, timber had been unavailable from Neolithic age and onwards. As an outcome, the total stone crannogs sustaining Drystone architecture had been very common there.”

Moreover, in year 2011, the professor, Dr. Jean-Denis Lepage advertised one of the top user friendly architectural record books ever advertised, the British Fortification through the Reigns of Richard III: The Illustrated History. With this magical journey illustrating the prehistoric relationship with the stones, it’s written there; “Archaeological evidences at the Crannogs in western Isles showed evidences that they were applied during the different periods in between 4000 to 2000bc.

The latest report stated:

“The research had demonstrated the extensive occurrence of Neolithic crannogs at the Outer Hebrides, ultimately confirming different scholarly speculation regarding the probability of their existence.”

The pioneers such as Dr. Lepage and Dr. Armit, in year 1996 and year 2011 respectfully, having no doubts be thrilled of this new research and which has been scientifically verified - for the primary moment - that crannogs were really a widespread trait of the Neolithic, and being built as first as 4000 BC, and with the evidences of radiocarbon way back up to the timeline.

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Female Druids, the gone ministers of the Celts



At the medieval Irish myths they were known as Bandorai or Banduri. Their survival was confirmed by prehistoric, Roman and Greek writers. But who are those legendary female Druids?

These Druids were the prehistoric religious leaders, researchers and scientists of Celtic community. For centuries now, there was a mutual misconception that the Druids were only guys or male. However, many historical records testified to the facts that there were women among their positions.

The wise among the Celtic society

The word ''Druid'' came from an Indo-European remark ''Deru” that means ''true” or “the truth''. This word has progressed to the Greek word ''drus'', which means ''oak''.

These Druids were the brainy elite. Being the Druid was their tribal function however, there were also astronomers, magicians, astrologers and poets. It took nineteen years to achieve the necessary skills and knowledge in alchemy, law, the sciences, medicine, and a lot more. They prepared judicial processes, intellectual life, had skills to cure people, and had in developing techniques for war. They had been the oasis of wisdom with a high respect in their society.

Roman records of the Druidesses


This Gaius Julius Caesar had become fascinated with Druids. He inscribes down that they were theologians, philosophers, and scientists, and acquired skills that was exceptional. According to the experts in Caesar's records, the great Roman chief was well informed about the female Druids. Sad to say, lots of the Roman authors ignored women in common, so it isn’t easy to locate references to them in the historical texts. But, Strabo wrote down regarding the team of religious ladies who lived on the isle near Loir River. In the ‘Historia’, Augusta there is a description of Diocletian, Aurelian and Alexander Severus, who talked their problems with their female Druids.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Saving the blessed Fortingall Yew


Alarmingly, because of the its present condition of poor health, the coordinator Catherine Lloyd states, “one day the prehistoric yew will just keel over, and this would happen in about 50 to 300 years more”. In response with “The minister yew tree plan, is the 10-year program operating in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, which will bury seedlings from Fortingall Yew at the different kirkyards in Angus and Perthshire, and also at Royal Botanic Garden. In year 2020 they are hoping to have victoriously identified around twenty churchyards that will accept the latest saplings.

This Tayside Biodiversity Community Partnerships and the Eco-congregation Scotland, planted the first ever tree at the Megginch Castle, nearby Errol, in this month, however Loyd told the reporters that this sapling “will not be from a Fortingall Yew” and also she added, “the actual origin of the tree cannot be identified without the DNA test” and this is important since the scientists only wanted to work with the saplings from an original Fortingall tree.”

Message to the ancient souvenir collector


Due to the characteristics of the Ancient Origins platform, a probability should be quite high which at least one from the person reading this will have the branch, a piece or needle of the bark from the blessed tree sitting, gathering dirt and dust on the mantelpiece. Standing by, the writer is taking this concluding part to talk openly, the way your parents obviously failed in doing so.

Even though you think obtaining the part of the old tree improved your spirituality, your connection to nature and your overall individuality, in the cold reality you’re a baffled lowly materialist. Depart from things as you discover them!