Gruesome Medicine, Ancient Medicine, Effective Medicine

Sometimes I wonder why we think in terms of ancient people as ancient, a euphemism for inferior.

The Lost Queen Nefertit

Or maybe not so lost.

Building The Great Pyramid Revealed

A very interesting look as to how the Great Pyramid may have been built.

Inside an 850 Year Old Kings Tomb

I have to admit, I know nothing about Erik the Holy. However, whenever we open up a tomb og any age, we are bound to find something of note. 

Via The Local, a Swedish news outlet

Scientists pried open the 850-year-old casket of King Erik the Holy on Wednesday, hoping to find out more about the king, his crown, and his eating habits. 

Among the bones was a small pouch containing what is believed to be the king's collarbone, which Åstrand said has clear evidence of a sword strike.

"Legend has it the bone damage was a fatal blow from when he was killed on ascension in 1160. Others think he was taken captive and beheaded a week later. Either way, the sword hit his collarbone, and the marking is quite visible," he explained.

And more pictures can be found here.

Challenges Of What Is Know about the Humans' Arrival in the Americas

The following excerpt is from a recent NY Times article.

Researchers here say they have unearthed stone tools proving that humans reached what is now northeast Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago. Their discovery adds to the growing body of research upending a prevailing belief of 20th-century archaeology in the United States known as the Clovis model, which holds that people first arrived in the Americas from Asia about 13,000 years ago.

“If they’re right, and there’s a great possibility that they are, that will change everything we know about the settlement of the Americas,” said Walter Neves, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of São Paulo whose own analysis of an 11,000-year-old skull in Brazil implies that some ancient Americans resembled aboriginal Australians more than they did Asians.

Up and down the Americas, scholars say that the peopling of lands empty of humankind may have been far more complex than long believed. The radiocarbon dating of spear points found in the 1920s near Clovis, N.M., placed the arrival of big-game hunters across the Bering Strait about 13,000 years ago, long forming the basis of when humans were believed to have arrived in the Americas.

The point being is that the more we look at the history of human travels across the globe, the more we realize what little we actually know. Sadly, the old truths continue to be taught as gospel.

The rest of the article can be found here. 

The Truth(?) Behind the Lost Ark

At some point I would have to touch the Ark

Mystery of the Zulu Dawn

Marius and The Rise of the Roman Empire

Ancient Mega-Structures of the Deep

The Cocaine Mummy

Cocaine and nicotine (tobacco) found in the mummy's of Egypt.... plants from a continent not discovered for over 1,000 years after the demise of the Egyptian Empire. Trade between the Egyptian and Native Americans?

First Out of Africa- The Tribes of the Andaman Islands

Some of what I have shown you in the past, you may or may not have heard about. I can almost guarantee you that you have not heard of the isolated tribes of Andaman Islands.

"Cities" Of the Amazon Rain forest

Sunken Civilizations- Lost Cities of Antiquity

I have posted items on this topic before, but I think the topics, ideas, and potential history shown in the below video represent one of the most misunderstood and least known eras of human history. 

Black Mummy From the Green Sahara

All I have to say is wow. I have to say, I watch and read my fair share of history, and I am hardly surprised. But this, the below video, floored me. I just have never heard of the culture mentioned or more importantly their influences across all of Northern Africa well before the time of the Great Egyptian monarchies. Just sit back and enjoy this one.

The US Before The Great Depression

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Rapa Nui Mysteries Explained

Expanding yesterday's look into the many question about Easter Island.

The Mysteries of Easter Island

Easter Island is such a fascinating place. Not that the land experienced anything different over others settled by and cultivated by some form of human civilization. It is just the enigmatic statues that stare out through time as to say we saw a part of your growth here, but whatever that story we will never tell.

The below video provides just a glance at that world and marries the island's past partially with its present. 

The Ancient World Of Athens

Yet another look at the ancient Mediterranean states with Ms. Hughes.

And Who Would Have Thought in the Desert

Yes, you probably know that Egyptian's were master ship builders, but I thought the allusion was warranted.