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Aerial remote-sensing of a large region of Mexico has revealed hundreds of ancient Mesoamerican ceremonial centers, including a large one at an important site for the ancient Olmec culture that is known for its colossal stone heads. The remote-sensing method, called lidar, pinpointed 478 ceremonial centers in areas that were home to the ancient Olmec […]
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Own Your Own Piece of Ancient History – Buy an Iron Age Hillfort!
October 26th, 2021 
Wake Up Fools Incredible as that may sound, it’s no less than the truth. What’s on offer for a guide price of £100,000 ($138,000) is a freehold on Hembury Fort Cross, a multivallate Iron Age hillfort with 38.8 acres (0.16 km2) of woodland thrown in, in the English county of Devon. A ‘multivallate’ hillfort is a well-defended settlement […]
Shen Yun Bridges Ancient With Modern: Consultant
October 24th, 2021 Wake Up Fools ESCONDIDO, Calif.—Shen Yun Performing Arts once again opened successfully at the California Centre for the Arts, Escondido, on Oct. 23, with many audience members pleased to narrate their joyful experiences. “I thought, aside from the artistic beauty, it was amazing,” said program manager Preeti Carollo, who attended New York-based Shen Yun with her family. “It […]
Ancient Crusader Battle Campsite Discovered in Israel Is a First
October 24th, 2021 Wake Up Fools A highways expansion project in the Tzipori Springs area in Galilee in Israel has uncovered fascinating evidence of a 12th-century Crusader battle camp. Exploratory excavations undertaken by a team of archaeologists before road widening work on the highway linking Nazareth to the Mediterranean Sea has found the campsite. Nimrod Getzov and Ianir Milevski of the […]
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No Comments »Corpse Recycling at Gobekli Tepe: The True Purpose of its Ancient Stone Circles?
October 24th, 2021 Wake Up Fools The following essay is an extract from Stone Circles Explained by Stephen Childs, in which the author offers some original theories regarding the purpose of stone circles. Covering sites from around the world, including Gobekli Tepe, Stonehenge and Avebury, the book theorizes on the various reasons for why prehistoric stone circles were built. Here Childs […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, circles, corpse, göbekli, purpose, recycling, stone No Comments »New Ancient Middle Eastern Chronology Unlocks Hidden History Of Egypt and Mesopotamia
October 19th, 2021 Wake Up Fools In the academic study of the ancient world, chronology or timeline is of the utmost importance. This is especially true for the ancient Middle East. When events in Egypt are to be correlated with events in Mesopotamia, the single most important factor is the selection of the right chronology among all the possibilities, for if […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, chronology, eastern, hidden, history, middle, unlocks No Comments »The Aphrodisiacs that Spiced Up Sex Lives in the Ancient World
October 17th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Sex is a primal urge humans share with animals. In the ancient world, human fertility had implications for safety and prosperity. However, as the search for birth control methods went hand in hand with the search for aphrodisiacs, the need for sex obviously went beyond mere biology and reproduction. Humans devised several means to titillate […]
Roman Concrete In Ancient Tomb Reveals Secrets To Its Resilience
October 12th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Among their many talents, the ancient Romans were pioneers in the art of concrete making and construction. The quality of Roman concrete used to build their aqueducts, tombs, bath houses, piers, amphitheaters, and homes was so good that many of these structures still stand today, defying the expected ravages of time. Scientists seeking to unlock […]
The Assyrian, Persian And Greek Conquest Of Ancient Egypt
October 9th, 2021 Wake Up Fools During the eighth century BC, ancient Egypt was experiencing turbulent times. The country was split with a pharaoh ruling in Lower Egypt, but powerful priests of Amun were ruling Middle and Upper Egypt. The Nubian Kingdom took advantage of the split in Egypt. Piye (744-714 BC) an ancient Kushite king of Nubia, regarded his campaign […]
Excavations at Historic Doliche, Turkey Reveal Ancient Religious Diversity
October 7th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Located in southeastern Turkey just north of the city of Gaziantep, the village of Doliche (Dülük) at first glance seems small and unremarkable. But it is one of the oldest human settlements in the world, with a history that traces back thousands of years. Archaeologists have been busy performing excavations at Doliche for quite some […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, doliche, excavations, historic, religious, reveal, Turkey No Comments »Derbent: Contested Ancient City Stronghold on the Silk Road
October 5th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Nestled between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the Russian city of Derbent and its famed citadel tells the story of ancient power struggles to control the Silk Road trade route which stretched between Western Europe and Asia. Remembered by many as the oldest city in Russia, nowadays the battle continues for control of […]
Feisty Grandma Keeps Ancient Indian Martial Art Alive
October 5th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Kalaripayattu, also known as kalari, believed to be 3,000 years old, is the oldest surviving Indian martial art. It originated in the southern state of Kerala, India. Intertwined with Hindu religious beliefs, this ancient Indian martial art carries with it the wonders of spiritual healing, and religious salvation. Al Jazeera reports how a great-grandmother in […]
Ancient Humans Bred Dangerous Cassowaries 18,000 Year Ago for Their Lunch
October 4th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Roughly 18,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in New Guinea loved nothing more than a good fried egg and a lump of roasted bird meat. And to enjoy these treats more easily, they turned to bird breeding. They bred one of the deadliest birds on the planet: the Cassowary, with its terrifyingly sharp claws. The term “poultry […]
Ancient Humans Bred Dangerous Cassowaries 18,000 Years Ago for Their Lunch
October 4th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Roughly 18,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in New Guinea loved nothing more than a good fried egg and a lump of roasted bird meat. And to enjoy these treats more easily, they turned to bird breeding. They bred one of the deadliest birds on the planet: the Cassowary, with its terrifyingly sharp claws. The term “poultry […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, cassowaries, dangerous, humans, lunch, their, years No Comments »Arizona’s Tuzigoot National Monument: Ancient Legacy of the Sinagua People
October 3rd, 2021 Wake Up Fools The Tuzigoot National Monument is a small national monument located in the Verde Valley, in the southwestern US state of Arizona. The monument contains the ruins of an ancient pueblo village built by the Sinagua people. The pueblo was built around 1000 AD and was occupied for four centuries before its abandonment. During the 20th […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, Arizona, legacy, monument, national, sinagua, tuzigoot No Comments »Bactria – The Bountiful, Sought-after Region of Ancient History
October 2nd, 2021 Wake Up Fools Bactria was one of the more important historic regions of the ancient and classical world. A central point of more than one defining political event, Bactria experienced thousands of years of important classical history. Empires and kingdoms came and went, but many key cultures were forced to reckon with Bactria. It had a defining impact […]
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October 1st, 2021 Wake Up Fools The ancients were cleverer than some people today assume. They didn’t have rockets or electricity, at least no indisputable proof has been found of such technologies, but they did come up with technology that we don’t usually associate with the ancient world. The yakhchal (meaning ice pit) was a type of ancient refrigerator built in […]
Ancient Hippocratic Surgery Found In The ‘Golden’ Jaw Of A Greek Warrior
October 1st, 2021 Wake Up Fools The remains of a decapitated 13th-century warrior were discovered in Greece in the 1990s. Now, his unique “gold-threaded jaw” is revealing Hippocratic ancient surgery secrets from 5th-century-BC Thracian Greece. Professor Anagnostis Agelarakis from Adelphi University in New York discovered the Byzantine warrior’s jaw in 1991 at the Polystylon fort archaeological site in Western Thrace, Greece. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, found, golden, greek, hippocratic, surgery, warrior No Comments »Enhance Your Memory with this Ancient Greek Memorization Technique
September 30th, 2021 Wake Up Fools In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne was the personification of memory. In ancient Greece, prior to being written down, stories were recounted orally. Due to that, memory played an important part in the life of an ancient Greek storyteller. Thus, it is not too surprising that the concept of memory was given the form of the goddess […]
Mesopotamian Superpowers Laying Waste To The Ancient Near East
September 30th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Call it Canaan, the Levant or the Ancient Near East; the region has always had a troubled history of warfare and invasions. For 400 years from 732 to 332 BC, this region incorporating Philistia, Judea and Israel has been the epicenter of the battlefields between the superpowers of Mesopotamia; the Assyrians (732 to 604 BC); […]
DNA Analysis of Spain’s Segorbe Giant Reveals Ancient Ethnic Cleansing
September 28th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Genetic experts have completed a full sequencing of a DNA sample obtained from a 1,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in 1999 in an ancient Islamic cemetery near the village of Segorbe, Spain, which is located a short distance inland from the Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia. Nicknamed “the Segorbe Giant” because of his unusual height (74 inches […]
Ancient Ancestors Walking All Over Clovis First Academics
September 28th, 2021 Wake Up Fools 21st Century man is very conscious of the carbon footprint he leaves behind, but footprints of people who lived about 23,000 years ago have just walked all over modern man’s Clovis First Theory. The Clovis First Theory insists that the very first people to enter the Americas were Paleolithic hunters who followed game animals across […]
Ancient Siberians Bred, Bought and Traded Arctic Dogs
September 27th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Genetic breeding programs in the ancient Arctic required fresh DNA from faraway places. Therefore, long-distance trade routes rang with the barks and howls of horny Arctic dogs as they marched northwards to play away from home. Approximately one million people, representing about 9% of the total population in the Arctic, belongs to one of 40 […]
Ancient Tales of Wisdom: The Stone in the Road
September 24th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Ancient tales of wisdom remind us of the traditions and moral values that have been treasured all over the world. We hope the stories and messages in our Tales of Wisdom series help uplift the hearts and minds of our readers. “The Stone in the Road” is a short tale that tells of the eventual […]
8 Ancient Chinese Inventions the West Had Not Imagined
September 23rd, 2021 Wake Up Fools According to the statistics provided by the World Economic Forum, nowadays China can boast its position as the world’s second largest spender on scientific research and development, yielding only to the United States. Yet, surprisingly enough, China is not only a producer but also an inventor of a great many things and even technologies that […]
The Roots Of Modern Science In Ancient Kemetic Egypt
September 23rd, 2021 Wake Up Fools In the modern Western world, science and religion have changed places in terms of which is regarded as ‘reality’ and what is most likely ‘just a fantasy’. In Medieval times religion was considered the true fundamental reality and science was theoretical, the fantasy world of eccentrics, philosophers, and dreamers. Yet there was a time when […]
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet: Ancient Medicines, Remedies and Tinctures That Worked
September 22nd, 2021 Wake Up Fools When those unfortunate moments occur in life that require medical assistance, one should be thankful to be alive today and not even as far back as the last decade. Common ailments like halitosis may be treated with a fluorine based antibacterial toothpaste, but in historical times elephant bile was a great remedy. For less common […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, cabinet, Medicine, medicines, Nature, remedies, tinctures No Comments »Ritual Tools Used to Honor Goddess Hathor Found in Ancient Egyptian Temple Mound
September 20th, 2021 Wake Up Fools A team of archaeologists recently tunneled into an ancient temple mound in Kafr El-Sheikh, north of Cairo in Egypt. Surrounding a stone icon depicting the goddess Hathor, a collection of rare ancient, ritual artifacts has now been unearthed. Archaeologists digging at the ancient Egyptian site of Tel al-Fara, in the Kafr El-Sheikh province north of […]
Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Japanese Ancestry
September 20th, 2021 Wake Up Fools The archipelago nation of Japan has been occupied since the Upper Paleolithic period (36,000 BC), and dual genomic Japanese ancestry has been the dominant theory, up until now. A new study carried out by Trinity College Dublin, published in the journal Sciences Advances , has completely changed this narrative, pointing to a tripartite Japanese ancestry, […]
Melancholia: How Ancient Societies Grappled to Understand and Treat Depression
September 19th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Depression is a serious mental disorder and a state of being that troubles many people all over the world. It is not a condition to be taken lightly – it can weigh down on a person immensely and can even claim lives. It is a state of extreme sadness, of apathy and lethargy, and an […]
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