The Most Deadly Gunslingers of the Old West
By James R. Coffey.
The gunslingers of the Old West have become as famous as any figures in American history. In fact, names like Jessie James, Wyatt Earp, and Billy the Kid are more easily recognizable that the names of many U.S. Presidents. [...]
America’s Peace Ship
By Lawrence Wittner.
Is there an emotional connection between the oceans and the pursuit of peace? For whatever reason, peace ships have been increasing in number over the past century.
Probably the first of these maritime vessels was [...]
The Roman Class System and Social Structure
By Michael Anderson.
At its beginning, Rome was a group of egalitarian tribes living in proximity to each other on the hills surrounding a swamp that would become the Forum. Over time, the population grew steadily as new groups [...]
World’s oldest weather report found could revise bronze age
By Alton Parrish.
An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt may be one of the world’s oldest weather reports—and could provide new evidence about the chronology of events in the ancient Middle East.
A new translation of [...]
1,300-year-old Egyptian mummy had tattoo of Archangel Michael
By Gene J. Koprowski.
CT scan 3D visualisation of the mummified remains of a Sudanese woman, to show the organs. (TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM)
Infra-red reflectography of the tattoo found on the mummified remains of a Sudanese [...]
A Bombshell for the History of Discovery and Priority in Science
By Dr Mike Sutton.
Patrick Matthew’s book, revealing his discovery of natural selection, was cited in the literature before 1858 by three naturalists who played key pre-1858 roles in facilitating and influencing Darwin’s and Wallace’s [...]
Uknown civilizations: Nan Madol
Research by Jaime Ortega.
One of the most fantastic and the real-life archaeological sites in the world is Nan Madol. Recently, around a wave of controversy and debate, particularly in connection with the publications to its [...]
Unknown Civilizations: Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuamán (also known as Saksaq Waman) is a walled complex near the old city of Cusco. Some believe the walls were a form of fortification, while others believe it was only used to form the head of the Puma that [...]
Unknown Civilizations: Aratta
Research by Jaime Ortega.
In southeastern Iran, a sudden change in the course of the Halil Roud River recently revealed traces of a 5000 year-old civilization on the Iranian Plateau that had been hidden until then. More than [...]
Native American city on the Mississippi was America’s first melting pot
By Alton Parrish.
New evidence establishes for the first time that Cahokia, a sprawling, pre-Columbian city situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, hosted a sizable population of immigrants.
Cahokia was an [...]
10,000 years on the Bering land bridge: Earliest Americans in Beringia
By Alton Parrish.
Genetic and environmental evidence indicates that after the ancestors of Native Americans left Asia, they spent 10,000 years in shrubby lowlands on a broad land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska. Archaeological [...]
John Boehner Is Not the First GOP House Leader to Experience Dissention Within His Own Party
By Rich Rubino.
John Boehner is experiencing a difficult tenure as U.S. house speaker. Boehner was re-elected to the post by his Republican colleagues with just 220 votes in 2013, just six more votes than the 214 necessary to be re-elected. [...]
The 10 Most Intriguing Mysteries of Lost Civilizations
By Stephen Wagner.
HOW CAN WE know who we are if we don’t know where we come from? It is clear from many fragments of evidence, traditions and lore that we have an incomplete picture of the earliest days of human civilization. It’s [...]
Along the Path of Alexander the Great
By Chad Pillai.
I just completed an audio book on “Alexander the Great” by Jacob Abbott during my daily commute to work and it provided me time for reflection on his career and mine and how I have traveled along his path. [...]
Interactive map reveals your genetic history
By Alton Parrish.
A global map detailing the genetic histories of 95 different populations across the world, showing likely genetic impacts of European colonialism, the Arab slave trade, the Mongol Empire and European traders near the Silk [...]
America’s only clovis skeleton reveals clues to origins of native Americans
By Alton Parrish.
They lived in America about 13,000 years ago where they hunted mammoth, mastodons and giant bison with big spears. The Clovis people were not the first humans in America, but they represent the first humans with [...]
The Axial Age – Man Becomes a Philosopher
By Michael Anderson.
The Axial Age or Axial Period, as its sometimes called, was the period of antiquity circa 800 B.C. to 200 B.C. characterized by human thought directed toward understanding man’s place in the world. That [...]
JFK could have been impeached in 2nd term, says author
By Alton Parrish.
President Kennedy’s marital infidelities, secret medical treatments and covert actions put him in political peril after he escapes 11/22/63 assassination attempt in Bryce Zabel’s new alternate-history novel.
If [...]
History: Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations
By Filip Spagnoli.
Women in Chicago arrested for wearing bathing suits.
WOMEN IN CHICAGO BEING ARRESTED FOR WEARING ONE PIECE BATHING SUITS, WITHOUT COVERING THEIR LEGS 1922
Here’s a similar image from somewhere else (looks like [...]
Vladimir Putin is Just the Latest Bully in the Thousand Year Struggle for Ukrainian Nationhood
By Ian Reifowitz.
Who are the Ukrainians? More fundamentally, are there Ukrainians? These questions of national identity stand at the core of the struggle for Ukrainian independence that protesters are waging right now in Kiev’s [...]