Abidos was one of the most influential cities in Upper Egypt, with political importance since the 19th Dynasty. The region, with traces of settlements dating back to the Naqada I period, was the most important burial site of the photodynamic period and the first dynasties of ancient Egypt. About five kilometers to the northwest is …
One of the most puzzling legends of the Australian aborigines is that of the ‘Wandjina’, supreme spiritual beings and creators of Earth and humanity. Perhaps the most interesting figurative art painted on rocks and in the caves is the way in which they have represented the Wandjina: White faces, lacking a mouth, large black eyes, …
In 2017, under great secrecy, a statue(reptilian statue of the Horyuji Nara Temple) resembling a reptile’s figure was removed from the exhibition for the visiting public. This happened in Japan, in the temple of Hōryū-Ji Nara, in Nara prefecture in Ikaruga, where it was removed so that it now has unknown whereabouts. The reason for …
La Llorona is a legendary figure with several incarnations. Generally known as ‘the woman who cries’, it is represented as a type of soul in sorrow: an appearance of a woman dressed in white, which appears in lakes or rivers, sometimes at road crossings, who cries at night for her lost children whom she killed. Her crime was …
There are many mythical “languages”, from the language of the witches to the unsuspected symmetries of the Voynich Manuscript. But among all these mythical languages there is one that stands out: the Enochian, the language of the angels. The Enochian comes from the private journals of the mathematician, astronomer and personal occultist of Elizabeth I, Queen …
The Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) is a divinity present in the mythology of numerous pre-Hispanic peoples of Mesoamerica. Among the Aztecs and the Toltecs, this divinity was called Quetzalcoatl, and for the Maya, it was known as Kukulcan. He was a highly revered god who was believed to bring good news and civilization to mankind. Its preeminent role …
A new finding that indicates the existence of 7 million years old primates that walked like humans has put the entire scientific community to debate. It is the only hominoid species that managed to survive the so-called Vallesiene crisis, in which almost all of the mammals in Europe became extinct. But now it has become …
The six-month course at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in the city of Banaras will begin in January. According to BBC reports, the course to treat ghost possession will be led by the faculty of Ayurveda, the ancient Hindu system of medicine and healing. One of the university’s deans told the IANS news agency that a separate unit of Bhoot …
A team of researchers has discovered in Morocco rocks engraved with what appears to be petroglyphs of meteors crashing into the Earth or Martian invaders These engravings suggest that the ancient people of Morocco could have witnessed how these “Martian invaders” attacked the surface of our planet hundreds of years ago. The team of five …
Narmer is a key character in Egyptian history. He was the founder of Dynasty I, and therefore the first pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. This happened approximately in the year 3050 BC, and his reign lasted, according to sources such as Herodotus and Sincelo, for six decades. He was assigned the name Menes as a throne name …