Talgua Cave, known also as the ‘Cave of the Glowing Skulls’, is a cave located in the Olancho Valley, which is situated in Catacamas, a municipality in northeastern Honduras. The cave’s name may be said… Read More "Unveiling Talgua Cave: The Glowing Skulls of Honduras’ Past"
Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he shot in occupied Prague during the autumn of 1942. Commissioned to celebrate the long history… Read More "Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? | History Today"
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Are you going to celebrate Halloween on October 31? If so, you may already know it originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. During Samhain, lighting bonfires and wearing… Read More "Why Are Apples So Important During Halloween?"
A new study by an international team of scientists has found evidence that ancient elephant fossils recovered in the Kashmir Valley of South Asia were butchered by archaic human ancestors. This would have happened between… Read More "Elephant Fossils Show Evidence of Ancient Animal Butchery in India"
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
Helen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually for a legal historian, she had a keen eye for the human dramas not entirely… Read More "What Makes Good Historical Fiction?"
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Since their initial discovery in 1927, scientists have identified 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs across over 130 miles of desert. These geoglyphs are smaller and older than the Nazca lines. Geoglyphs… Read More "AI Discovers Hundreds Of Unusual Nazca Geoglyphs In The Desert"
How Old is Beer?
By Daniel Strain/University of Colorado Boulder Oktoberfest, the German beer festival, kicked off this week in Munich. To mark the occasion, Travis Rupp, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Classics, tackles the question: “How old… Read More "How Old is Beer?"
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
On 27 October 1924 the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic came into being as part of the Soviet Union, four years after a group of Muslim modernisers had formed an unholy alliance with a cohort of… Read More "Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road"
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Over the years, numerous intriguing and valuable Viking Age artifacts have been discovered worldwide. Some of these finds are well-known and displayed in museums for public admiration, while others remain… Read More "Unusual Viking Secret Hidden Underground In California Reminds Of A Similar Discovery In Colorado"
Mammoths became extinct on mainland Alaska just under 12,000 years ago. Or at least that’s the current consensus. This timeline supports the argument that the arrival of humans at the end of the last Ice… Read More "Alaskan University Offers the Curious a Chance to Adopt a Mammoth"