Category: Archeology – Paleontology – Ancient Greece

‘Ancient Greeks have travelled to Polynesia’ claims study from Nors Sigurd Josephson, Universitätsverlag C. WINTER Heidelberg

Here we present the cover words of the book “Eine archaisch-griechische Kultur auf der Osterinsel” (An Archaic Greek Culture at the Easter Island), 1999, by Nors S. Josephson which is the evolution of his first book on the matter “Greek Linguistic Elements in the Polynesian Languages: (Hellenicum Pacificum),  1987 Continue reading “‘Ancient Greeks have travelled to Polynesia’ claims study from Nors Sigurd Josephson, Universitätsverlag C. WINTER Heidelberg” →

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Handicrafts and artworks from Greece were found in the ruins of ancient Niya, China

The archeological site known as Niya (hereafter referred to as the Ruins of Ancient Niya), which lies deep in the Takla Makan Desert on the southern rim of the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, has been called the Pompeii of the East, owing to Niya having been buried, quite suddenly, as had ancient Pompeii ages earlier. Or so it seems, for no one really knows what caused the residents of Niya to abandon their city in such a panic that they even left their dogs tethered in front of their houses, apparently fleeing for their lives from some unknown-to-us, impending calamity. Continue reading “Handicrafts and artworks from Greece were found in the ruins of ancient Niya, China” →

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Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought, study finds

Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than any other such event previously documented. Continue reading “Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought, study finds” →

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Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia?

In Aulis, it was perhaps a fair wind that had to be secured by Iphigenia’s sacrifice, but in ancient Kydonia, on the Kasteli hill of Chania in Crete, it was an earthquake and the chthonic deities that, according to the customs and “logic” of the time, needed to be placated by the ancient Kydonians resorting to human sacrifice(s)… Continue reading “Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia?” →

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