Ancient Stories and Facts

Buried under about a thousand years’ old worth of stone and sand, the Blue J is a prehistoric Puebloan resolution in New Mexico that is just only starting to reveal its secrets. For over 4 decades, the archaeologists had been slowly revealing the houses, plazas and some other buildings remains in the construction way back in the 11th century. However, thanks to the advancing technology, latest data about the settlement had just been carried to light, informing that the settlement had been much bigger and more influential when compared with the previous thought. This Ancestral Pueblo people or the Ancient Pueblo peoples were the prehistoric Native American civilization who inhabited the southern Utah, northern New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, and the southwestern Colorado. They dwelled in the series of structures, with the pit houses, cliff dwellings and pueblos, and styled so that they can lift the entry ladders during the enemy attacks, that has been provided with security. Archaeolo...

The 40,000 years old “Mungo Lady” with the equally prehistoric remains of the Mungo Man, discovered close by in 1974, twofold scientific estimation about how long the Aboriginal people had been called the Australia home. The finding taught us the Aboriginal history extended back to the time when their only humans in the Europe were the Neanderthals, and the people have not yet reached the Americas. The cultural, political and the scientific, reverberations still resonated until now.  Lake Mungo has been an icon, not just to Australians, but into the larger world. The dunes border line the dried-out shore contains the continent’s matured known human remaining, and some of those earliest archaeological tracks of Aboriginal people. The remarkable combination of the environmental and cultural heritage altered the national conversation about the deep link to the country of the Aboriginal people. It makes sure the Lake Mungo and some other relict lakes within the Willandra area were insc...

Nearly everyone has heard about the tale of King Midas, a legendary king that turned almost everything he touches to gold. However, how much fable and how much of reality is there about this character? Is there really one King Midas? When there is one, what do we recognize about him? The Legend of this Golden Touch King Midas is one protagonist of one of the well known fable of antiquity. It’s a tale that had been reminded by countless of artists and writers, but, this Roman poet Ovid has been that one that gave that full shape to King Midas during his Metamorphoses play. In that play, Ovid told the tale of Midas, the king of Phrygia, the son of Cybele and Gordius. Based on a version of the myth, after Orpheus death, Dionysus left Thrace. The matured teacher Silenus, who as usual drunk, accompanied Dionysus, but was lost along their way and has been picked up through Phrygian farmers, who had led him to King Midas. This king, who had initiated into a cult of Dionysus has been surprised...

The civilization of Maya was the Mesoamerican civilization which was placed in Central America. Maya civilizations beginnings have dated back to 2nd millennium BC. But, about 9th century AD, the civilization of Maya failed. However, it was the cities of Maya of southern lowlands that had been abandoned gradually. Whilst the precise reason for the strange decline of Maya is still not clear, some more competing theories have been developed by scholars from the available archaeological proof. History of Maya The word ‘Maya’ has been the modern collective word not used by indigenous populations themselves. Not like the other indigenous Mesoamerica populations, the Maya were intensifying in a geographical area that corresponds to the current area of the southern Mexico, northern Belize, Guatemala, and in western areas of El Salvador and Honduras. However, the area can be split to 3 sub-regions, and each with its personal cultural and environmental differences. These are Yucatan Peninsula, ...