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Lost Techs of Ancient Rome and Renaissance England

29/07/2013 06:13
By Thomas L. McDonald One of the more persistent myths is the idea of continual progression: man advances, building on the great wisdom of those who came before. This notion of movement towards an achievable ideal is one of the more charming delusions of liberalism. I really do wish it were true,...

New Theory on Why Stonehenge Was Built

29/07/2013 06:06
Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer A site near Stonehenge has revealed archaeological evidence that hunters lived just a mile from Stonehenge roughly 5,000 years prior to the construction of the first stones, new research suggests. What's more, the site, which was occupied continuously for 3,000...

The World's First Temple

29/07/2013 06:04
by Sandra Scham Turkey's 12,000-year-old stone circles were the spiritual center of a nomadic people. At first glance, the fox on the surface of the limestone pillar appears to be a trick of the bright sunlight. But as I move closer to the large, T-shaped megalith, I find it is carved with an...

'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field

29/07/2013 06:00
Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world's oldest lunar "calendar" in an Aberdeenshire field. Excavations of a field at Crathes Castle found a series of 12 pits which appear to mimic the phases of the moon and track lunar months. [Read more] ...

Afterlife Is Real - Neurosurgeon Says He Has Proof Of Heaven And Advanced Higher Life-Forms

28/07/2013 06:57
26 July, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - What happens after death? Is there really an afterlife? Is death just and illusion and do we continue our existence in a parallel Universe? These questions have been debated since the dawn of our own existence. A majority of all ancient philosophers, pagans and...

Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses

28/07/2013 06:54
Annuna (Anunnaki) - An's children. Christopher Siren says An may have been the main god of the Mesopotamian pantheon before 2500 B.C. The Annuna lived on Dulkug or Du-ku, the "holy mound". [Read more] ...

Early Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia

28/07/2013 06:52
In ancient Mesopotamia, the facts of nature were attributed to the workings of divine forces. Thus, there were many gods and goddesses, including 4 creator gods. The forces of Taimat and Abzu, who had emerged from a primordial chaos of water, created the 4 creator gods. The ancient Greek story of...

Fast Facts About Mesopotamia

28/07/2013 06:48
Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers. (Hippotamus -- river horse -- contains the same word for river potam-). Ancient Mesopotamia generally refers to the area of modern Iraq. [Read more] ...

Inventions and Discoveries of Ancient Greek Scientists

28/07/2013 06:45
By N.S. Gill Here is a chronological list of the major ancient Greek scientists that focuses on the inventions or discoveries attributed to them, rightly or wrongly, especially in the areas of astronomy, geography, and mathematics. N.B.: Some of the scientists were contemporaries, so inventions of,...

Earth's Origins and a 'Hidden Flux'

21/07/2013 17:01
It’s widely thought that the Earth arose from violent origins: Some 4.5 billion years ago, a maelstrom of gas and dust circled in a massive disc around the Sun, gathering in rocky clumps to form asteroids. These asteroids, gaining momentum, whirled around a fledgling solar system, repeatedly...
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