Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Why Were These Teenagers Chosen as Human Sacrifices at an Ancient Mesopotamian Cemetery?
Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...
Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials
University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...
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The mystery of Bomigo: an island of divine laws, sacred goats, and unwavering traditions
In the vast Keta Lagoon, nestled within the Anloga Municipality, lies Bomigo, an island steeped in mystery and ancient ...
Sacrificed teens discovered in ancient Mesopotamian burial site
A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...
Greek Reporter1d
The Troubled German Poet Who Truly Worshipped Greece
Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...
Ireland’s neolithic passage tombs were not just the burial place of the elite – new research
Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...
Greek Reporter6d
Themistocles: The Fall of a Great Ancient Greek General and Statesman
Themistocles will always be lauded as the great general who pushed the Persians out of Greece with his strategy in the Battle ...
The Associated Press on MSN6d
Greenlanders embrace pre-Christian Inuit traditions as a way to proudly reclaim ancestral roots
The Inuit have survived and thrived for generations in one of most remote, vast and rugged places on Earth, hunting for seals ...