Ancient Mysteries
17 articles
Resilience, not hype: what we are getting wrong about “AI”
And why we should fear AI centralization more than AI itself
Evidence Of 9,000-Year-Old Flowers In Bad Dürrenberg’s Shaman Burial
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists continue to explore the fascinating Bad Dürrenberg shaman burial with great care and…
Enigma Of The Natsiliani – Magical Birthmark Protecting People And Animals But Beware Of Its Dangers
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Do you perhaps have a birthmark? Many people do, and today we’re so…
Burned Alive for a Debt: The Knights Templar, the Pope Who Knew They Were Innocent, and the Curse That Came True
On a tiny island in the Seine River, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights…
The Truth Behind 11 Of Your Favorite Historical Movies
Kenneth Taylor, an American pilot portrayed in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, called the movie "a piece of trash;…
This Mysterious Coin Was Used To Pay For A Bus In Leeds. Now It’s Been Identified As A 2,000-Year-Old Phoenician Coin
Experts have now confirmed that the coin, featuring the god Melqart on one side and a pair of…
They Were Here Before Us: The Ancient Traditions That Remember a World Before Adam
In 1872, British Museum curator George Smith made a discovery that would shake Victorian England’s understanding of biblical…
Complexity Thoughts: Issue #78
Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time
2,000-Year-Old Ruins Of A Roman Forum Were Uncovered During Hotel Renovations In Downtown Barcelona
The key discovery was an extensive series of stone slabs for flooring and roadways that were laid in…
The Art of Flourishing: Aristotle's Blueprint for the Good Life
Ancient Wisdom - Week 9
Have we crossed the threshold where shocks no longer stay local?
Interdependence reshapes risk
This research paper claims Giza pyramids are 12,000 years old
António Ambrósio, an independent researcher who describes himself as trained in Egyptology through Barcelona’s Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim…
A Harvard-Trained Physicist Maps Heaven to the Edge of the Observable Universe
Michael Guillén, a physicist who has taught at Harvard University and worked as a science editor at ABC…
Is “complexity” always in the eye of the beholder?
Is complexity in the system, or in the fit between the system and our description of it?
If GPS Went Dark, What Would Fail First?
GPS is commonly treated as a way to find a route or track a delivery. In critical infrastructure,…
If Jupiter Disappeared Would Earth Face More Asteroid Hits?
Jupiter dominates the Solar System’s architecture. At about 318 times Earth’s mass and orbiting far beyond Mars, it…
If Earth Vanishes What Happens to the Moon?
If Earth disappeared instantaneously, the first thing that would not happen is a crash. The Moon is not…