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beautiful archaeological things... The Clay Bison of Tuc D'Audobert How beautiful are these 15000 BCE....modeled from clay in cave. Amazing. can still see the finger marks of artists
Read more…A cheerful read for a Sunday morning, or maybe not. If one has bought into the bogus new age grasping for ascension, the singularity, and becoming God, then one should know ones fellow travelers. I am mightily suspicious of the ubiquitous Ray…
Read more…The Ark of the Covenant and The Hill of Tara During 1899 and 1902, members of the British-Israel Association of London came to Co Meath to dig up the Hill of Tara. These ‘British-Israelites’ believed they would find buried there the Ark of the…
Read more…Deep in India’s Ladakh region live the Aryans, perhaps the last generation of pure-blooded people and holders of possibly the only untampered gene pool left in the world. Source…
Read more…Source ~ https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/an-ancient-japanese-shrine-debuts-a-buddhist-robot/ Kyoto, Japan’s ancient former capital, is home to temples, shrines, and imperial gardens. As the birthplace of Japanese tradition, the city attracts…
Read more…The Ancient Middle Eastern Capital City-- Reflection and Navel of the World 1 Professor Stefan Maul, University of Heidelberg Text translated by Thomas Lampert, Ph.D., Berlin, Germany If one compares Akkadian concepts designating "past" and…
Read more…Love this...be great if we could do it :) Source ~ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/ Article by Ed Yong On October 31, 1832, a young naturalist named Charles Darwin walked onto the…
Read more…''Ernest McClain's book constitutes an intellectual breakthrough of utmost significance. It offers a persuasive explanation of crucial passages in texts of world literature—the Ṛg Veda, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Bible, Plato—that have…
Read more…Persia is one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 7000 BC. (Wikipedia) Persian civilization, Achaemenid period, 5th century B.C. Frieze depicting griffin- lion of glazed…
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Saving this here so I can read it later!
https://www.bu.edu/arion/the-enlightenment-gone-mad-i-the-dismal-di...