The Origin of the Pyramids
The most famous pyramids are the Egyptian — huge structures built of brick or stone, some of which are among the world’s largest constructions. They are shaped as a reference to the rays of the sun....
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Turkish airstrikes against Kurdish forces have partially destroyed a 3,000-year-old temple in northern Syria located near the village of Ain Dara, in Afrin, according to a monitoring group and the...
View ArticleFimbulvetr (or fimbulvinter)
In Norse mythology, Fimbulvetr (or fimbulvinter), commonly rendered in English as Fimbulwinter, is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök. Fimbulvetr comes from Old Norse, meaning “awful,...
View Article11,300-Year-Old Temple Found in the Armenian Highland
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic-era temple with three almost-intact stelae similar in form to the famous and controversial Göbekli Tepe. The ancient temple was unearthed in the Ilısu...
View ArticleLittle Armenia
Little Armenia is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. The name comes from the large number of Armenian-Americans who live in the area and also from the large number of Armenian stores...
View ArticleHayk, the Armenian Patriarch
Urartu is a geographical region commonly used as the exonym for the Iron Age kingdom also known by the modern rendition of its endonym, the Kingdom of Van, centered around Lake Van in the historic...
View ArticleAyn Rand, Red Indians and Arabs
Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; 1905 – 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum to a Russian-Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint...
View ArticleA 90,000-Year-Old Hybrid between a Neanderthal and a Denisovan
A study published in Nature on August 22 analyzed the piece of bone and discovered that the ancient girl that the fragment belonged to was a never-before-discovered hybrid of two ancient human...
View ArticleThe Man and the Bull
The Spanish Supreme Court has recently delivered a historic verdict banning all activities relates to bull torture at the “Toro de la Vega” festival, thus saving countless animals from great suffering....
View ArticleRebirth of an Old Nation
The Independence Day of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Անկախության օրը) is the main state holiday in Armenia. This date is celebrated on September 21. This is the second independence of Armenia. The...
View ArticleThe City of Dilijan
Dilijan (Armenian: Դիլիջան) is a spa town and urban municipal community in the Tavush Province of Armenia. Hiking, mountain biking, and picnicking are popular recreational activities. Usually called...
View ArticleThe “Schindler of Iran”
Abdol Hossein Sardari (1914 in Tehran – 1981 in Nottingham) was an Iranian diplomat. He is credited with saving thousands of Jews in Europe, and given the title “Schindler of Iran”. His first step to...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Stories of Muslims Who Saved Jewish People During the Holocaust
May 1909 Grand Sheikh Salim al-Bishri of Egypt issued a Fatwa or religious decree condemning Turkish Muslims for massacring 30,000 Armenians in Adana, a major city in the Ottoman Empire. Sheikh...
View Article“The Three Pashas”
The Assyrian genocide of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire and the Simele massacre of 1933 have been recognized by the State of California recently. The decision was made unanimously, with both Democratic and...
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14000 years old bisons sculpture
Modeled out of clay from the walls of the cave, the bisons stand next to each, propped up against a small boulder in the darkness. Although they stand at a diminutive 18 inches tall by 24 inches long,...
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The Origin of the Pottery in the Near East
The pottery of ancient Tell Halaf of Mesopotamia and my ceramics Pottery Neolithic Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper...
View ArticleAshvini – Sagittarius and Gemini
Ashvini Ashvin, Ashwin or Ashwan, also known as Aswayuja, is the seventh month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, the Vikram Samvat, the solar calendar where it is known as Aipassi and the solar India’s...
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Skara Brae (Scotland)
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement that is older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, it has been called the “Scottish Pompeii” because of its excellent preservation. It gained UNESCO...
View ArticleNeanderthal Child Eaten by a Giant Bird
Until recently, the oldest human fossil remains ever discovered in Poland were three molars found in Cave Stajnia, in the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland. Those molars were estimated to be between 42-52,000...
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