Amazing Totem Pole

Totem pole is massive carvings from big trees, mostly Western Red Cedar, from cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The meanings of the figures on totem poles are as different as the cultures that build them. Totem poles may narrate familiar legends, clan lineages, or famous events. photo [...]

Religion does not always correlate with ethics

The Sedlec Ossuary

The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The Sedlec Ossuary is artistically decorated between 40,000 and 70,000 human skeletons. Thus it is also known as the Church of Bones or as [...]

Bizarre Tarim mummies

The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BCE to 200 CE. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin, although the evidence is not totally conclusive. Research into the subject [...]

Bizarre dentist tools from the past

Thеsе things lооk scаrу and еvеn mоrе painful thаn thе actual оnеs. These are some very scary looking dental tools from long ago. They were very crudely made and not something I would want stuck into my mouth. But again,  in those days they didn’t have much choice. That’s really scary.

Archaeologists find 120m tunnel leading to ‘funeral chambers’ deep below ancient Mexican city

It has taken technology almost two millennia to break one of the greatest secrets of the ancient Americas. Archaeologists have discovered ‘a recreation of the underworld’ at the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico thanks to a radar device.  Researchers have only advanced 7 metres along the tunnel but the radar has revealed it to [...]

Temples of arms

American sculptor Al Farrow over 30 years creating models of temples of different religions of the bullets and firearms. Al Farrow was born in New York, lives and works in California. His work is in many important public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the di Rosa [...]

Hallstatt culture – the “white gold” and floral skulls

The Hallstatt culture was the overriding centered European culture from the 8th to 6th centuries before Christ (European ahead of time Iron Age), acquiring out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century before Christ (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of Central Europe by the La Tène culture. By the 6th century BC, [...]

Bizarre Rat Temple

Karni Mata was a female Hindu sage born in the Charan caste and is worshiped as the incarnation of the goddess Durga by her followers. She is an official deity of the royal family of Jodhpur and Bikaner. During her lifetime, she laid the foundation stone of two of the important forts in Rajputana. She [...]

World’s oldest human remains

Israeli archaeologists have discovered human remains dating from 400,000 years ago, challenging conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, the leader of excavations in Israel said. Avi Gopher, of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology, said testing of stalagmites, stalactites and other material found in a cave east of Tel Aviv indicates that eight [...]

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