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Tattooed Scythian warriors, descendants of the Amazons? (Part Two)

There was a time of transition during which women and men still existed as equals in society and the Amazons are a compelling example

Tattooed Scythian warriors, descendants of the Amazons? (Part One)

The Greeks described Scythians as an amalgamation of many peoples overlaying a very ancient culture that existed around the Black Sea

World’s oldest stone tools and weapons (2.5 million years ago) found in Ethiopia

The sharpened tools date from over 2.5 million years ago

Batman existed in Mesoamerican Mythology and his name was Camazotz

And was this mythical Death-Bat inspired by real giant vampire bats?

Hidden Women of History: Ennigaldi-Nanna, Curator of the World’s First Museum

The museum, over 2,500 years old, was centered on cultural heritage, and it is thought to have perhaps had an educational purpose

Lost Artifacts of the Great Pyramid: The Mysterious Case of the Dixon Relics

In 1872, after Dixon and his colleague Dr. James Grant chiseled their way into the sealed Queen’s Chamber shafts of the Great Pyramid

Scientists find possible traces of “Lost” Stone Age settlement beneath the North Sea

Doggerland once covered a vast swath of land between what is now the east coast of England and the European mainland

Hasankeyf no more: Turkish government submerges 12.000-year-old town

From a Byzantine bishopric to an Arab fortress and an outpost in the Ottoman Empire

Cretans navigated the seas 130,000 years ago

Archaeologists found the oldest indications of seafaring and navigation in the world, in an area called Plakia on Crete

5.600-year-old Mummy reveals oldest Egyptian embalming recipe ever found

Fred proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for more than 1.500 years longer than scientists believed

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