WHEN THE EAST MET THE WEST

Rudyard Kipling famously opined that “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet”. He was obviously referring to the post-renaissance materialistic philosophy that started to take hold in the west while the spirituality [...]
Cultural Shifts Of An Ancient Society Examined Through The Subtleties Of Its Everyday People

Cultural Shifts Of An Ancient Society Examined Through The Subtleties Of Its Everyday People

Who are you? A parent? An artist? A veteran? There are lots of different aspects of identity, and it takes more than just one to make you you. Ancient people were just as complex, but until recently, archaeologists didn’t have a clear [...]
Fau Archaeologist Involved In Groundbreaking Discovery Of Early Human Life In Ancient Peru

Fau Archaeologist Involved In Groundbreaking Discovery Of Early Human Life In Ancient Peru

A-tisket, A-tasket. You can tell a lot from a basket. Especially if it comes from the ruins of an ancient civilization inhabited by humans nearly 15,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene ages. An archaeologist from [...]
Something ODD Happened Around 50,000 Years Ago

Something ODD Happened Around 50,000 Years Ago

The Daily Journalist. Something odd happened in the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic, around 50,000 years ago. Modern humans and their immediate ancestors had been using tools for a few million years prior, but the repertoire [...]
Neo-religionism Of The Post Ideological Russia

Neo-religionism Of The Post Ideological Russia

By Anis Bey.   (Refeudalisation of Europe – I Part) The lonely superpower (US) vs. the bear of the permafrost (Russia), with the world’s last cosmopolite (EU) in between. Is the ongoing calamity at the eastern flank of the EU a conflict, [...]
The Origins Of Mongolia's Nomadic Horse Culture Pinpointed

The Origins Of Mongolia’s Nomadic Horse Culture Pinpointed

According to new research, nomadic horse culture — famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes — can trace its roots back more than 3,000 years in the eastern Eurasian Steppes, in the territory of modern Mongolia The [...]
Archaeogenetic Findings Unlock Ancestral Origins Of Sardinians

Archaeogenetic Findings Unlock Ancestral Origins Of Sardinians

The Daily Journalist.   The island of Sardinia is remarkable for the fact that an exceptionally high proportion of the population is seemingly descended from people who have occupied it since the Neolithic and Bronze Age, between 8,000 [...]
History of Mokele Mbembe And Expeditions To Africa

History of Mokele Mbembe And Expeditions To Africa

The Daily Journalist. Numerous expeditions have been undertaken to Africa in search of Mokèlé-mbèmbé. During these, there were some sightings that have been argued by cryptozoologists to involve some unidentified dinosaur-like creature. [...]
Archaeological Team Seeks Mary Jane Kelly's, Jack The Ripper's Last Victim True Identity

Archaeological Team Seeks Mary Jane Kelly’s, Jack The Ripper’s Last Victim True Identity

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name “Jack the Ripper” [...]
Surprising Discovery Of Mayan Precious Jewel: "Like Finding The Hope Diamond In Peoria"

Surprising Discovery Of Mayan Precious Jewel: “Like Finding The Hope Diamond In Peoria”

The Daily Journalist. To say that UC San Diego archaeologist Geoffrey Braswell was surprised to discover a precious jewel in Nim Li Punit in southern Belize is something of an understatement. “It was like finding the Hope Diamond [...]
Europe and the Eastern Soul

Europe and the Eastern Soul

By Juan Manuel De Prada.   I am reading these days “Europe and the Eastern Soul”, a book from a completely forgotten author, Walter Schubart (1897-1942) that I strongly recommend, as it will help to better understand the Russian [...]
Old Engravings Confirm Ancient Origins of Pointillist Techniques

Old Engravings Confirm Ancient Origins of Pointillist Techniques

The Daily Journalist.   A newly discovered trove of 16 engraved and otherwise modified limestone blocks, created 38,000 years ago, confirms the ancient origins of the pointillist techniques later adopted by 19th and 20th century artists [...]
Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave

Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave

The Daily Journalist. Excavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted by Bedouins in the [...]

UNEARTHING THE ARTIST BEHIND THE PERSONA

In my European travels I marvel at famous works of art and praise the genius of portrait artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt or Velasquez without a thought given to their subjects. Obviously [...]
The Forgotten Battle of the First Gulf War

The Forgotten Battle of the First Gulf War

By John Gennace.   David J. Morris. 2004. Storm on the Horizon: Khafji – The Battle That Changed the Course of the Gulf War. New York: Presidio Press. In Storm on the Horizon: Khafji –The Battle That Changed the Course of [...]
38,000 Year Old Engraved Image Discovered, Earliest Graphic Image Found In Western Europe

38,000 Year Old Engraved Image Discovered, Earliest Graphic Image Found In Western Europe

The Daily Journalist. An international team of anthropologists has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image, above, in a southwestern French rockshelter—a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western [...]
Scientist Finds Advanced Geometry No Secret To Prehistoric Architects In US Southwest

Scientist Finds Advanced Geometry No Secret To Prehistoric Architects In US Southwest

The Daily Journalist. Imagine you are about to plan and construct a building that involves several complicated geometrical shapes, but you aren’t allowed to write down any numbers or notes as you do it. For most of us, this would be [...]
US-Pakistan Relations after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The Bush and Clinton Years

US-Pakistan Relations after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The Bush and Clinton Years

By John Gennace.   Background and Introduction The U.S.-Pakistan relationship has been characterized by many ups and downs since the 1950s; with neither side proving capable of distinguishing itself in developing a stable, long-term [...]
Preserved Fortification, Donkey Stables Dating To King Solomon Discovered

Preserved Fortification, Donkey Stables Dating To King Solomon Discovered

The Daily Journalist. Intact defensive structure, livestock pens provide insight into complexity of Iron Age copper production Some believe that the fabled mines of King Solomon were located among copper smelting camps in Israel’s [...]
Presidential Transition Day: Some Interesting Stories

Presidential Transition Day: Some Interesting Stories

By Rich Rubino. Protocol dictates that the outgoing President leaves a note to be read by his successor upon taking office. This practice began when Ronald Reagan left a note for his successor George H.W. Bush, admonishing him: “Don’t [...]