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The best Ancient Origins articles for this week. Enjoy! [logo4fixed] View this email [in your browser]( [Top10Banner] [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [image?cs_ema...]( Zecharia Sitchin and the Mistranslation of Sumerian Texts [img3]( In a previous 2-part article, the authors wrote about the faulty associations of the Sumerian deities known as the Anunnaki as they are portrayed in the books, television series, and other media, which promotes Ancient Astronaut Theory (hereafter “A.A.T.”). The article traced the portrayal of the Anunnaki popularized by A.A.T. back to Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles book series, and pointed out that Sitchin’s version of the Anunnaki appear nowhere in ancient Sumerian literature... [Read more...]( 6 Discoveries that Show the Pre-Columbian Americas Traded Across the Oceans [img3]( Ancient civilizations look ever-more advanced with each passing year as new discoveries continue to showcase just how sophisticated they truly were. Yet, the idea that our ancestors were able to make extended sea journeys still seems far-fetched for some people. Despite the fact that, thousands of years ago, the Phoenicians could live for months on their boats and navigate flawlessly with the stars. Indeed, any of the great ancient cultures had access to hundreds of large, sophisticated... [Read more...]( An Unbreakable Story: The Lost Roman Invention of Flexible Glass [secret-text]( Imagine a glass you can bend and then watch it return to its original form. A glass that you drop but it doesn’t break. Stories say that an ancient Roman glassmaker had the technology to create a flexible glass, ‘vitrium flexile’, but a certain emperor decided the invention should not be. Flexible glass is allegedly a type of unbreakable glass that was invented during the Roman period. Man-made glass (as opposed to a naturally occurring one such as obsidian) is widely accepted to have been invented by the Phoenicians... [Read more...]( Has the King Arthur Gene Been Traced? [img3]( If stories of King Arthur and his knights are based on real people their DNA markers should still be with us today. New DNA research has perhaps found the King Arthur gene. R1b-L513 is a DNA Celtic tribal marker just discovered in January 2011. Now, Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) from Houston, Texas with lead researcher Mike Walsh, have confirmed this DNA strand connecting men’s Y DNA Chromosome pattern with about 400 ancestral families who were related... [Read more...]( [banner_0]( Scientists Find 280-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Forest…in Antarctica [img3]( A team of geologists have discovered remnants of a 280-million-year-old fossil forest in Antarctica. They suggest that the trees of the forest survived through periodic extremes of total darkness and uninterrupted sunlight. The Independent reported Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are behind this impressive discovery. The two scientists trekked across the Transantarctic Mountains during the continent’s summer, between November and January... [Read more...]( Yorkshire’s First Woodhenge May have Served as an Ancient Sauna [alchemical]( A team of archaeologists from Yorkshire have uncovered a 4,000-year-old “woodhenge,” thus a wooden circle that some now believe might have been used as a sauna. The circular monument – that once stood magnificently on the horizon and was visible from many miles away – was hiding for hundreds of years under farmland before it was recently spotted in aerial surveys. For the past 90 days, however, researchers have been working really hard to discover what they speculated to be East Yorkshire’s first woodhenge (a Stonehenge type structure made from wood instead of stone) at Little Catwick Quarry, near Hornsea, as The Yorkshire Post reports . And they weren’t wrong... [Read more...]( Explainer: The Gods Behind the Days of the Week [img3]( When the Germanic-speaking peoples of western Europe adopted the seven-day week, which was probably in the early centuries of the Christian era, they named their days after those of their own gods who were closest in attributes and character to the Roman deities. It was one of those peoples, the Anglo-Saxons, that brought their gods and language (what would become English) to the British Isles during the fifth and sixth centuries AD. In English, Saturday, Sunday... [Read more...]( [banner]( Tomb of Prominent Queen and Wife of Tutankhamun Could Soon Be Unearthed [img3]( Egyptologists may be on the brink of making a major discovery in the Valley of the Kings – they believe they are on their way to unearthing the tomb of a famous ancient Egyptian royal. Although excavations are only in the early stages, well-known archaeologist Zahi Hawass believes that a tomb is waiting to be unearthed at the site. But if he’s correct in what he’s pondered to Live Science , the proposed tomb may belong to the ancient queen Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's wife. Ankhesenamun was a... [Read more...]( 15th Century Monk Built This Stone House to Find Solitude [infant-dna]( St. Daniel was completely devoted in his quest to contemplate spiritual and religious issues through a life of solitary contemplation. He really did not want to be disturbed in this endeavour and found a novel solution. St. Daniel the Hesychast (known in Romanian as Daniil Sihastrul) is a saint who is venerated in the Romanian Orthodox Church. This saint lived in the Principality of Moldavia (the territory of which is today divided between Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine) during the 15 th century. This was a period of time when the Ottomans were campaigning against the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. The saint was involved to a certain extent in this conflict, as he was the spiritual guide and counsellor of the Moldavian ruler, St. Stephen the Great... [Read more...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( You Might Like [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2017 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( Stella Novus Limited - Ancient Origins. 61 Saint Assam's Park, Raheny, Dublin 5, D05 W3C8, Ireland. Stella Novus Limited | 61 Saint Assam's Park | Raheny | Dublin 5 | D05 W3C8 | Ireland | +353 876 087 916 [Unsubscribe]( | [Report spam]( Sent with [ActiveTrail](?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=List&utm_campaign=NormalEnglish) software