All posts tagged with ancient history
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-(Natural News) The empire whose citizens drank together stayed together. The Wari Empire might have endured for centuries thanks to chicha, an ancient type of beer this Peruvian civilization drank regularly and copiously during festivities. The former occupants of what is now modern-day Peru, the Waris enjoyed peace and harmony in their corner of South America for […]
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-(Natural News) Nearly 13,000 years ago, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere got clobbered by a fragmenting comet. New evidence found by University of California Santa Barbara researchers suggested that the extreme impact event also affected the weather and ecology of the Southern Hemisphere. The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) Impact Hypothesis proposed that the comet strike triggered climate […]
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-(Natural News) Archeologists found an ancient estate with a vineyard at Zur Natan in central Israel. This vineyard was once owned by a wealthy Samaritan 1,600 years ago. Ancient Greek vineyard was once owned by “Master Adios” A Greek writing, which reads “Only God help the beautiful property of Master Adios” was found in a […]
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-(Natural News) A recent study in the online journal PNAS has debunked a previously known fact about Neanderthals. The report revealed that the archaic human species did not have hunched backs; instead, they stood upright just like modern humans. The posture of Neanderthals was similar to modern humans For the past years, scientific data on the […]
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-(Natural News) Many animals, like the great apes, are known to use tools to accomplish certain tasks. And so, contrary to popular perception, what makes humans truly special is not the utilization of tools in general, but the practice of creating and using small tools. This is according to a study published in the Evolutionary […]
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-(Natural News) The still-raging Syrian Civil War wrecked much of the ancient city of Aleppo. However, it lives on in declassified photographs taken by American spy planes during the early decades of the Cold War. The CIA recently released black-and-white images taken by a U-2 recon aircraft that flew over Middle Eastern countries during the 1950s and […]
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-(Natural News) Near the Israeli city of Beersheba in the Negev Desert, researchers unearthed the remains of a Jewish settlement from the time of the Second Temple. The site contained subterranean passages that served as storage spaces for supplies in the same vein that modern-day preppers hide stockpiles of essentials. In addition to the hidden tunnels, the ancient […]
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-(Natural News) The mummified remains of cats, dogs, falcons, and mice haunted a recently discovered tomb in Egypt. Experts believed that the animals were not the coterie of favored animals that got buried with their late owners. Instead, the animals were sacrificed and preserved as consecrated offerings to the dead. Inscriptions found in the burial […]
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-(Natural News) Researchers finally dared to explore the grisly fates of the occupants of a tomb in Deir el Bahari, Egypt. They believed that the 60 mummies in the “Tomb of the Warriors” were soldiers who fell in battle during turbulent times in ancient Egypt. First discovered during the 1920s, the Tomb of the Warriors got sealed […]
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-(Natural News) In Peru, researchers unearthed a 15th-century burial site that held the remains of hundreds of children and juvenile llamas. Both human and animal occupants of the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site were believed to be victims of a mass sacrifice for an ancient religion. The human remains numbered more than 140 and included both boys […]
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