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The best AO articles from the same week last year .... Problem viewing email? [Click here]( to view it online. [Ancient Origins Logo]( This Week ... a Year Ago [The Fiji Mermaid: What Was the Abominable Creature and Why Was It So Popular?]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Celestial Maps of Gegham Mountain: The Unique Rock Art of Armena [Celestial Maps of Gegham Mountain: The Unique Rock Art of Armenia]( In the volcanic Gegham and Vardenis Mountains of Armenia, architect Suren Petrosyan discovered unique and mysterious astrological rock art paintings. Experts have different opinions on the creation chronology of the rock art paintings found in the basin of Lake Sevan and along the slopes of Mount Aragats. Some think these rock art paintings were created in the third to second millennium BC, others claim about the fifth to fourth millennium BC, and there are researchers who date them to 10th millennium BC. It is not surprising, since the study and chronology of rock art paintings is very difficult... [Read More]( The Egyptian Goddess Isis, Found in India [The Egyptian Goddess Isis, Found in India]( One of the great, largely untold adventure stories of late antiquity is the journey to the East, from Egypt’s Red Sea ports, across the open ocean for 40 days and 40 nights, to the legendary entrepôt of Musiris, on India’s southwestern or Malabar coast, in what is now modern state of Kerala. This was a great feat of navigation, a technological leap forward comparable to the discovery of the Americas or Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe... [Read More]( Archaeologists Speculate Shackled Skeletons Were Slain Comrades of Greek Coup Leader Cylon [Archaeologists Speculate Shackled Skeletons Were Slain Comrades of Greek Coup Leader Cylon]( Archaeologists are speculating that 36 skeletons bound in irons and buried ignominiously in a mass grave were comrades of Cylon, who tried but failed to become the tyrant of Athens in a 632 BC coup. The mass grave dates to between 650 and 625 BC, according to the style of two small vases found among the 80 skeletons in the grave in a large, ancient cemetery near Athens. The Greek culture ministry called the time “a period of great political turmoil in the region.” Cylon was a nobleman and Olympic champion who consulted the oracle at Delphi, who he thought had told him to seize the Acropolis of Athens in 632 BC... [Read More]( The Monumental and Mysterious Silbury Hill [The Monumental and Mysterious Silbury Hill]( Silbury Hill is a prehistoric site located near Stonehenge and Avebury (a Neolithic henge monument) in the southwestern English county of Wiltshire. Silbury Hill has been measured to be 30 m (98.4252 ft.) tall and 160 m (524.93ft.) in width, thus making it the largest artificial earth mound from Europe’s prehistoric period. This structure was constructed mainly of chalk that was excavated from the surrounding area. Today, Silbury Hill is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site known as ‘Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites’... [Read More]( You Might Like [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [www.Ancient-Origins.net](#) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google Plus]( [Linkedin]( Copyright [©] 2017 [Ancient Origins](- [Stella Novus Limited](, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to our newsletter list. If you do not wish to receive our newsletter emails in the future, please [unsubscribe]( here. Stella Novus Limited - Ancient Origins. Blair House, Upper O'Connell Street, Ennis, Clare, V95FD1V, Ireland.