In West Java, Indonesia, buried inside what appears to be a mountain is what is perhaps one of the most incredible mysteries - and discoveries - that archaeology has to offer. What at first appears to be a mountain, named Gunung (Mount) Padang, ...
The Nine Muses of Ancient Greece
The Nine Muses of Ancient Greek Mythology were those who inspired the greatest art, music, poetry, and even scholarship in mortal men (and women). It was their divine voices who whispered into the ear of the artists, speaking the words of inspiration ...
The Birth of Modern Astronomy
The birth of Modern Astronomy marks a radical, momentous shift in our understanding of the world, the universe, and reality. It was the work of early astronomers and scientists (such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler) that completely transformed our ...
World Prehistory
The study of World Prehistory covers the vast period of time from the first emergence of a human-like species on planet Earth, our most distant ancestor species, more akin to primates than modern humans, following the developments through multiple ...
The Three-Age System
Within the study and elucidation of history, an important concepts to understand is that of the division of history into certain key phases of the development of humanity and human civilization. One such system is that known as the Three-Age System ...
The Great Flood — The Babylonian Flood Myth
The world is abound with traditions of a Great Flood. We have the Sumerian version Great Flood, three separate versions of the Babylonian Flood Myth, the Hindu Flood Myth, the Greek Flood Myth, and the Biblical (which is actually descendant of the ...
Eriu :: A Great Goddess of the Feminine Trinity of Ancient Ireland
Eriu was a goddess of ancient Ireland. She is often seen as a personification of the land of Ireland itself, as it was after her that this small island of the northeastern Atlantic - the furthest western periphery of Europe - was ultimately ...
Indo-Aryan Peoples
The Indo-Aryan People, also known as the Indic People are a diverse ethnolinguistic group native in modern and ancient times to the Indian subcontinent and South Asia. However, the Indo-Aryan people are not native entirely native to the land of ...
The Ancient Egyptian Creation Story
The Ancient Egyptian creation story is one of the oldest known to us, predating the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible codified maybe c.650 BCE) by more than two thousand years. There are certain similarities - though important distinctions also - between the ...
The Celtic Creation Myth
We know precious little about the religious and mythological doctrines of the ancient Celtic peoples. From the beginning the Celts have been mysterious, hidden half-seen in the mists of oblivion that surround them, heroic, proud, mighty, and ...