The Merovingians: ‘Do-Nothing Kings’? JamesHoare Fri, 04/25/2025 – 09:26 Source link Read More "The Merovingians: ‘Do-Nothing Kings’?"
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent research indicates that ancient Homo sapiens may have gained significant advantages from the use of sunscreen, tailored clothing, and cave habitation during the period of magnetic North Pole shifts over… Read More "How Did Homo Sapiens Survive The Magnetic North Pole Shift 41,000 Years Ago? Sunscreen, Clothes, And Caves Helped Them"
A circle of corroded bronze, measuring 12 inches (30cm) across, adorned with golden shapes, was unwittingly discovered in 1999 in Nebra, Germany, now famously coined the Nebra Sky Disc. More than 3,600-years-old, it is widely… Read More "Legendary Nebra Sky Disc Creation Method Has Been Discovered"
In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Ida Hayward was recording something extraordinary: the arrival in the UK of hundreds… Read More "Wool Aliens of the British Empire"
A. Sutherland– AncientPages.com – In Norse mythology, Vafthrudnir is recognized as a wise frost giant, Jötunn, renowned for his vast knowledge and profound wisdom. Odin, the chief of the Norse gods, voluntarily hanged himself for… Read More "Norse Frost Giant Vafthrudnir Who Was A Mastermind Of Riddles"
Ancient Romans reportedly ingested the brains of a bream called the dreamfish to get high, and modern scholarly studies have confirmed the toxicity and hallucination-inducing qualities of the Sarpa salpa bream. Hallucinogenic fish live in… Read More "Romans Are Said to Have Ingested Fish Brains That Caused Hallucinations"
The Affair of the Sausages
The Reformation in Switzerland began quietly. On the evening of 9 March 1522, the first Sunday in Lent, what one historian has called ‘the ostentatious eating of sausages’ took place in the parlour of Zurich… Read More "The Affair of the Sausages"
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Over a century after the Villa of the Mysteries was discovered, a significant fresco has been uncovered, offering new insights into the mysteries of Dionysus in classical antiquity. This discovery… Read More "Large Fresco Depicting The Procession Of The Wine God Dionysus Found In Pompeii"
Scattered over 700,000 square kilometers (270, 271 sq mi) in the southern Pacific Ocean are the Tonga islands. On one of the 176 islands that make up Tonga, there stands one of the strangest megalithic… Read More "The Megalithic Gate of Ha-amonga a Maui"
‘The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages’ by Shane Bobrycki review
Early medieval history is a crowded field. Despite the small source base, which only grows meaningfully in terms of archaeological data, the period has enjoyed the sustained interest of a large (and, until recently, growing)… Read More "‘The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages’ by Shane Bobrycki review"