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The best AO articles from the same week last year .... View this email [in your browser]( [logo-en] [Sign up]( | [Premium Discounts]( | [Contact](mailto:info@ancient-origins.net?subject=A%20year%20ago%3A%20What%20was%20trendy%20on%20Ancient%20Origins) [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Who Were the Ancient People that Built the Remarkable Megalithic Tombs of Malaga? Thousands of years ago, a series of megalithic tombs were built in the breathtaking landscape of Malaga in Spain. The magnificence of the constructions attracts thousands of tourists every year. The stone-made tombs still hide many secrets, including the origins of what is now Antequera province. These prehistoric megalithic constructions allow modern people to step into a unique atmosphere of ancient mystery and intrigue dating back 5,000 years... [Read More...]( The Amazing Story of Yasuke: The Forgotten African Samurai Samurai are among the most enduring symbols of Japanese cultural heritage, thus unsurprisingly, most samurai were Japanese. There are, however, examples of non-Japanese who became samurai as well. The most famous western example is the English sailor William Adams (1564-1620) who came to Japan in 1600 and was able to rise through the ranks to eventually become a samurai. But one of the most surprising examples would probably be an African by the name of Yasuke who was made a samurai... [Read More...]( [Ancient Origins Premium]( Face of a Pictish Male Who was Violently Murdered 1,400-Years-Ago is Reconstructed in Incredible Detail A team of Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Highlands of Scotland, were amazed to discover a superbly preserved skeleton of a Pictish man at the entrance. With the help of technology, scientists managed to successfully reconstruct the face of the man, who was violently murdered in around 600 AD. A group of archaeologists excavating a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire in Scotland, couldn’t believe their eyes when they discovered the ancient skeleton buried in a recess of the cave... [Read More...]( Have Researchers Discovered What Caused the 16th Century Mexican Epidemic That Killed Over 80% of the Population? A pair of recently published studies point the finger at a deadly form of salmonella as the cause of millions of deaths in a 16th century Mexican epidemic outbreak. This cocoliztli (pestilence in Nahuatl) occurred from 1545-1576 and took the lives of between 7 and 18 million people – leading some researchers to draw parallels with the Black Death that struck Eurasia in the 14th century. The journal Nature reports that the native population of Mexico was around 25 million when Hernando Cortés... [Read More...]( 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...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( 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