They ruled the vast grasslands of Eurasia for a thousand years, striking fear into the hearts of the ancient Greeks and Persians. But they left no cities or settlements behind, only massive grave mounds, called kurgans, dotting the steppes from… Continue Reading
Northeast Laos is home to one of the world’s most wondrous archaeological sites: the Plain of Jars. The awe-inspiring site is littered with thousands of enormous 2,000-year-old stone jars nestled among unexploded Vietnam-era bombs. The site largely remained a mystery because… Continue Reading
Check out the video of a beautiful Hindu Temple that’s under water near Bali. http://pparihar.com/2015/12/10/5000-years-old-underwater-hindu-temple-at-bali-indonesia/
The Sami people (also Sámi or Saami), traditionally known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of… Continue Reading
Pioneering X-ray imaging has allowed scientists to begin to unravel the mysteries of the Herculaneum “library” – the scrolls that were preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. They were discovered among the ruins of a villa… Continue Reading
As a photographer, I am fascinated by old photographs. Recently photos by William Sanders will go on show for the first time in London. These photos are from the late 1800s and show life in Shanghai. These photos give you… Continue Reading
With Samhaim hard upon us with its various celebrations including the ritualized begging-with-an-edge called “trick or treating” (essentially repurposed wassailing), the New York Times has regaled us with accounts of a related custom called “Raggamuffin Day” (which J.G. Frazier would… Continue Reading
The BBC recently ran a piece on the 1920’s a decade of unprecedented technological and cultural change that was the backdrop for Aleister Crowley’s grand experiment, the establishment of the Abbey of Thelema, a Thelemic community located on the island… Continue Reading
Correspondences, Volume 4 is now online with a review of Henrik Bogdan and Jan A.M. Snoek’s Handbook of Freemasonry. You can find it here: http://correspondencesjournal.com/volume-4/ Correspondences site states their functioning here: “Correspondences is an international, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the academic study… Continue Reading
A group of humans migrating out of Africa some 40,000 to 70,000 years ago mingled with an as-yet unknown branch of humanity, researchers say. Modern humans originated about 150,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa. However, scientists have long debated… Continue Reading