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Stone Symbols, Distant Civilizations: What Does the “H” Mean?
What if consuming sacred mushrooms was seen as entering the spirit realm, not escaping reality?
Scientists uncover the earliest known case of human relative cannibalism—an 850,000-year-old butchered child's bone, reshaping our understanding of Homo antecessor behavior 👇
Cannibalism Traced Back 850,000 Years ancienthistoryx.com/cannibalism-tr…
Breaking: Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas! A free AI tool that helps historians reconstruct ancient Roman inscriptions. Trained on 176,000+ texts, Aeneas finds linguistic and cultural parallels, cutting error rates nearly in half. Historians say it’s already reshaping how we…
Where Our Alphabet Was Born: The Kilamuwa Stele This inscription is a stunning example of the early alphabet that eventually gave rise to the one we use today. It's the Kilamuwa Stele, written in Phoenician or a closely related script, dated to ca. 830 BCE. Kilamuwa was king of…
BREAKING: A “bird prophecy” tablet has been unearthed in Kayalıpınar, ancient Šamuḫa, once a major Hittite religious center. Found in a burnt archive from the reign of King Ḫattušili III (c. 1267–1237 BC), alongside seals of the king, Queen Puduhepa, and their sons. The site…
Global Pyramid Architecture This comparative visual highlights the widespread emergence of pyramid structures across distinct civilizations, spanning from the early 4th millennium BCE in the ancient Near East to the first millennium CE in Mesoamerica and Southeast Asia. Despite…
🚨 Newly Deciphered Sumerian Tablet in Istanbul Depicts the Storm God's Captivity A Sumerian tablet preserved in Istanbul has recently been deciphered, revealing a rare mythological episode in which the Storm God (Iškur) is taken captive. This unique narrative reflects ancient…
🚨 Neanderthal DNA Linked to Brain Structure Disorder A new study suggests that Chiari malformation type I, a condition where the brain bulges out of the skull, may be influenced by genes inherited from Neanderthals. CT scans show that affected individuals have a smaller,…
Did you know that the Bajau people of Southeast Asia have evolved to live underwater? For over 1,000 years, this seafaring group has lived in stilt houses and survived by diving. Scientists discovered their spleens are 50% larger than average—an adaptation that boosts oxygen…
Breaking News | Peru, ca. 1000 BCE Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old polychrome mural with sculpted reliefs in northern Peru. The 3 m-tall painted wall features red and yellow geometric motifs and an anthropomorphic figure linked to Cupisnique iconography.…
How much did Hellenistic philosophy influence the development of Christian doctrine?
Is the myth of Egypt’s afterlife justice system—heart weighed against a feather—just moral propaganda for state control?
