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The best Ancient Origins articles for this week. Enjoy! [View web version]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 11 Ancient Remedies that Effectively Treat Modern Ailments With innovations appearing in our lives seemingly every day it seems that new breakthroughs in science are the only ones we trust. New is always considered better. With this prevalent thinking those who espouse the wisdom of the ancients are ignored and perhaps even ridiculed – right up until the point when modern science backs them up. Sometimes looking to ancient knowledge as a source and then checking with modern science can yield useful results. Several thousand years ago, people knew how to use frankincense to cure several ailments.... [Read more...]( A Quarry Is Actually A 3D Map Of The Ancient Egyptian Underworld, Suggests Polish Scientist --------------------------------------------------------------- Ancient Egyptians are well known for their creation of vast architectural structures which penetrate the skies and each one required a thorough understanding of the universal dynamics of breadth, width, and height. But now, a scientist suggests that a huge trench dug around the nation’s oldest step pyramid means the architects were also 3D... [Read more...]( Long Frozen Organisms in the Arctic Awakened, Hinting at Life on Other Planets --------------------------------------------------------------- In recent years, researchers have reawakened life in frozen organisms in the Arctic permafrost, bringing them back to life. These studies are now challenging accepted ideas as to the resilience of lifeforms, indicating the future of the environment after global warming , and even the chances of life on other planets. They have revived moss and even worms that... [Read more...]( Suggested Weekly Video [AFRICAN GOLD | The story of Mansa Musa, the Richest Man In History]( MULAN: More than a Movie | 5 Facts About the Real Mulan Story Desert Diver Discovers Submerged Treasure Beneath 2,300-Year-Old Kushite Pyramid A team of archaeologists ‘diving’ in the sweltering deserts of northern Sudan, once the land of Nubia, have discovered artifacts and ‘gold leaf’ in a 2,300-year-old submerged tomb belonging to a pharaoh named Nastasen who ruled the Kush kingdom from 335 BC to 315 BC. A key difference between the pyramids discovered in northern Sudan and the more famous pyramids at Cairo in Egypt is that the pharaohs were buried beneath them, rather than within them. For this reason, George Reisner, a Harvard Egyptologist, first visited Nuri over a century ago and discovered burial chambers... [Read more...]( DNA Shows Biblical Philistines Came From Europe --------------------------------------------------------------- New research on Philistine DNA reveals that the Biblical enemies of the Israelites were newcomers to the region in the 12th century BC. Where did they come from? Their genes suggest Southern Europe. An international team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Leon Levy Expedition, retrieved and analyzed, for the first time, genome-wide data from people who... [Read more...]( Have the Ancient Origins of Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster Been Identified on Film? --------------------------------------------------------------- A Scottish filmmaker has published evidence of the “true nature and origins" of the 1450-year-old mystery of the Loch Ness Monster, which he discovered within a mysterious 7th century text. Ashley Cowie presents Scottish Television’s The People’s History Show and currently features on Discovery Channel's Expedition Unknown in an episode with explorer Josh Gates hunting for Scottish... [Read more...]( Archaeologists Believe 3200-Year-Old Hittite Temple Was a Functioning Lunisolar Calendar Yazılıkaya is a 3,200-year-old building that was known to have been central in religious ceremonies in the capital city of the ancient Hittite Empire , but according to a new scientific theory, it might have served as a working calendar and a sacred clock. In Turkish, Yazılıkaya means "inscribed rock" and while this expansive Bronze Age site with its incredible incised carvings has been studied for several decades, a team of experts now proposes that it was a functional tool serving as a time keeping device . A massive 3D shadow-clock, if you will. French archaeologist Charles Texier... [Read more...]( The Ancient Maya Apparition Who Showed the Way to Xunantunich --------------------------------------------------------------- The ancient Maya civilization was one of the most remarkable of all the many Mesoamerican cultures, not only because they wrote books and were lovers of chocolate, but also because many of their ruins and temples are still being discovered. Central America is fortunate to have many of their incredible remains and one of the most striking of these is Xunantunich, situated in Belize... [Read more...]( 3,000-Year-Old Phoenician Shell-Dye Factory Linked With The Temple --------------------------------------------------------------- Shards of Phoenician pottery excavated fifty years ago from an archeological dig in Tel Shikmona located south of Haifa, in Israel, have revealed that this mysterious Biblical-era stronghold was actually a Phoenician shell-dye factory, and might have manufactured items for the Temple. Dating back to the Iron Age (11th to 6th century BC)... [Read more...]( Most Convincing Evidence Yet that Mars Supported Life A lot of intriguing evidence has been collected over the years in support of the idea that life once existed on Mars. No definitive proof has been found, in the form of indisputable fossil evidence, for example. But it is known that Mars was once a watery world, and the existence of liquid water on the surface of a planet is the primary requirement for life to evolve. Ample evidence has revealed that water once ran across the Martian landscape freely and in multiple locations. Liquid water can be found even now on Mars, at significant depths below the planet’s surface... [Read more...]( You Might Like [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Copyright 2019 Ancient Origins - Stella Novus Limited, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to our newsletter list. 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