Ogmin/ancient history

"At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world."

"Archeologists have uncovered Martin Luther's household waste, including beer mugs, toy marbles and a child's crossbow. The find is being shown in a new exhibition that casts the religious reformer's private life in a new light."

"Compared to Stonehenge, Britain's most famous prehistoric site, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.

Never mind circular patterns or the stone-etchings, the people who erected this site did not even have pottery or cultivate wheat. They lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers."

"Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like arranging themselves into hierarchies of skill, age, wealth, competence, experience, whatever. We can deny it if we want, but we all know that when the chips are down and the anarchists have formed the anarchists' association, the first thing they do is elect a governing committee."

Everything Maya; archaeological sites, astrology, art and culture both ancient and modern. Amazing how little most Americans know about the cultures, mythology and religions of those who lived here for thousands of years before our ancestors arrived. Get educated.

Papers on Mayan Archaeology

United Nations of Roma Victrix represents the all encompassing power of Rome in the ancient world. United and Romanized, through conquest, or absorbed through its culture, Rome still stands today as a legacy to the achievement of mankind, and its failures.

The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology