Ancient Civilizations
The Radioactive Guardian of the Egyptian Afterlife
The pyramids were old for most of Egyptian history. Of the three great kingdoms that this old and powerful civilization spawned, it was the Old Kingdom who were known as the pyramid…
Unpicking the Old Testament: The Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Bible is a massively misunderstood text. Many will insist on the literal truth behind the stories, and many more will dismiss the entirety of the text as fantasy. But both sides…
Ragnarok: What Can We Learn from the Doom of the Gods?
In the 13th century in Iceland a poet and a scholar named Snorri Sturluson wrote two great masterpieces, texts which cast a shadow to this day. In his Poetic Edda and his…
The Kóryos, and the Bronze Age Need for Murderers
The Bronze Age was a time of immense upheaval for Indo Europeans. As these people came together and took giant steps towards society and civilization there was much to be learned, and…
Chavin de Huantar: Do You Want To Meet a God?
Ask the average person about pre-Columbian South America and you would almost certainly hear about the Inca. This mountain kingdom which carved itself a loose empire that runs the length of the…
Hawaii and the US: A Deal with the Devil
Hawaii was the last of the fifty states to join the United States of America. And, were you to dig a little deeper, it might seem strange that it did. There is…