In the mid-20th century, a team of Mormon explorers including Thomas Stuart Ferguson traveled to Central America seeking to find archaeological proofs for passages in the Book of Mormon describing Bountiful, one of the areas initially settled by an ancient… Continue Reading
Today, January 19, is popcorn day! The Popcorn Board, an alliance of popcorn companies in the United States, has no information on the origins of the day, stating, “Some other individual or organization (with obvious good taste) began this tradition.”… Continue Reading
Thomas Hodgkinson recently reviewed Catherine Nixey’s The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World , for the London Spectator. The book is a look at the transition from the Classical world to Christendom and quite a harrowing one! The publisher’s… Continue Reading
Today in 274 CE, the Roman Emperor Aurelius dedicated a temple to Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. Sol Invictus was a patron of soldiers as well as the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. The Aurelian family (gens Aurelian) was associated… Continue Reading
The several years various archaeologists have been searching the Black Sea. What they found is archaeological gold. Over 50 ships have been found from the Roman to 10th century Ottoman Empire ship to ships from Venice that dates around the… Continue Reading
The Science Daily has announced the discovery of the first copy in the original Greek of heretical Christian scripture. In part the article reads: “To date, only a small number of texts from the Nag Hammadi library — a collection… Continue Reading
Dr. Mostafa Waziry, General Director of Luxor Antiquities talks about the latest discovery in Luxor.
Christie’s auction house is putting THE RIPLEY SCROLL up on the block. This is an illustrated alchemical manuscript, in English and Latin, inscribed on vellum, originating in England from about 1624. The auction house states: A rich and detailed mix… Continue Reading
…forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance… Since 1994 when archaeologists uncovered the 1607 James Fort, researchers have been studying artifacts to learn more about the living conditions in Jamestown. With the 2006 discovery… Continue Reading
When I visited the UK a few years ago, one of my favorite Museums was the Petrie Museum. The Petrie Museum isn’t as well known as the British Museum but it houses over 80,000 artifacts. It is one of the… Continue Reading