Certain currents in modern ceremonial magick are steeped in Qabalah, which in turn developed to tease out hidden, arcane information from the Torah. So news about characters depicted in the Torah should at least be of passing interest, yes? And… Continue Reading
PLOS ONE recently published a research about the an example of abstract designs executed by Neanderthals. The Astract says: “Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in central France, made more than 57±3… Continue Reading
Haven’t posted much about archaeological finds in a while so… “Stretching 280 feet below the Earth’s surface in Turkey’s Cappadocia region is a web of tunnels and cave-like dwellings that once housed 20,000 people. “The ancient city, Derinkuyu, lay abandoned for decades until, in… Continue Reading
Y’all might note that we are devoted antiquarians, so yr probably not surprised that we got unduly excited about the news that the remains of the quasi-mythical Viking settlement Jomburg may have been discovered in Poland. One account begins: “Start… Continue Reading
Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research announced that researchers from the Institute of Archeology of Mérida (IAM-CSIC) working at the site of Casas del Turuñuelo (Badajoz) have uncovered the remains of five anthropomorphic reliefs from the 5th century BC, artifacts of… Continue Reading
Coptic Magical Papyri Podcast presents the “Magic in the Byzantine World” episode, presented by Michael Zellman-Rohrer. “The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt is a five-year research project (2018-2023) based at the Chair of… Continue Reading
The Spirit Box podcast recently interview Peter Mark Adams about the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7QD1msTBWs. The posted description says: “Today we welcome back the one and only Peter Mark Adams! In his new book Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of… Continue Reading
LiveScience posted an article about the discovery of a papyrus scroll featuring texts from the Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light. The article begins Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters)… Continue Reading
TheArchaeologist.org just posted a video about discovering the the tomb Of Egyptian God Osiris. What’ll the fine next? The tomb of Nuit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSZ9dIYivI&t=14s. Here’s another take on this story: “Claims of the discovery of the tomb of Egyptian god Osiris… Continue Reading
Antiquity Magazine recently ran a piece on the oldest piece of narrative art created by homo sapiens sapiens. An excerpt reads: “A wall relief, comprising five figures carved on a bench in a communal building dating to the ninth millennium… Continue Reading