Cosmo-mythologies 1

A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead written on papyrus showing the Weighing of the Heart in Duat where Anubis can be seen on the far ...

La Milpa and Environs

Different parts of the Maya world reached their heights of power and glory at different times. Great city-states such as El Mirador and Ti...

Tuscans 'not descended from Etruscans'

The current population of Tuscany is not descended from the Etruscans, the people that lived in the region during the Bronze Age, a new Ital...

Elamite Jar Burial Transferred to Haft-Tappeh Museum

LONDON, (CAIS) -- Iran’s most intact jar burial, which dates back to the Elamite era, was transferred to the Haft-Tappeh Museum last week. C...

Mysterious Book: Codex Gigas

A huge mysterious medieval book, penned by a Benedictine monk on animal skin with bizarre devilish illustration and incantation. But who h...

Rome and Egypt

One of the most powerful of the ancient states, Rome emerged from a small, rural community in Italy to conquer most of the Mediterranean wor...

The Exodus

Was Ramses the Great pharaoh of the Exodus? The biblical Exodus of the Jews from Egypt is generally thought to date from the reign of Ramses...