Archaeology is a religion for illuminated individuals, however if you cross the Gods you will suffer the consequences. Many men have risked their lives in pursuit of historical relics, many have never...
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Spectacular Caves From Around the World
The UK offers lots of scenic views and one of these is the natural wonder - Fingal's Cave. It is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
The island of...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Fantastic Lava and Explosions
The explosive nature of these fascinating geological mountains provide us with a time line of earth's past, they create chains of living and breathing islands, and they cause deathly destruction to...
Friday, March 20, 2009
A Love Remembered
When I was a child living in the mountains with my mother, the medicine woman of our village, I was able to learn many things and one of those many lessons taught to me by her and the wild animals was...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Versailles in France
Image Source Versailles was initially within the possession of the family of Gondi, a family of wealthy and influential parliamentarians in Paris. The Gondi family welcomed Louis XIII to hunt within...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Greek Statues: The Classic Forms of Kourous, Kritios Boy, and Discobolus
Susan Parker has written a comparative discussion of three famous Greek statues, providing not only beauty, but insight into the culture of the time in which they were created.Thousands of years after...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Egyptian Art and Greek Mosaics
This essay explores the differences and similarities between Greco-Roman Byzantine art, and ancient Egyptian paintings, in both their subject matter and rendering. Ancient Egyptian art had a very original...
Exorcism Skull Found in Italy
March 10, 2009—Among the many medieval plague victims recently unearthed near Venice, Italy, one reportedly had never-before-seen evidence of an unusual affliction: being "undead."The partial body and...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Mysterious Sailing Stones
One of the most famous landmarks in Southwestern United States is Death Valley. This vast desert is also the home to one of the greatest mysteries of the ages.
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In an area known as the...
Monday, March 9, 2009
TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS
The traveling exhibition, TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS, is coming to a city near you.
King Tut was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty during the period of Egyptian history...
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Famous Bactrian Gold From Afghanistan
Most of what we know of Afghanistan's countryside is filled with images of war and strife. The pictures of our soldiers dying in a country that years ago used US resources to minister to Afghan mujahedeen's...
Monday, March 2, 2009
Only on the Nile River
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The Nile River is located on the continent of Africa and is the longest river in the world. It has two main tributaries, the Blue Nile and the White Nile and is 4,135 miles long. The Nile...
