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
June 2, 2011 by admin
Filed under Ancient Religions
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bizarre Underground Hair Museum
The world of collections, and “party ” collectors are wide and varied. Thus, in the world, probably not such a subject, which would not object to collecting in one form or another. And in Turkey, in Avanos, in Cappadocia, lived a potter named Chez Galip (Chez Galip), whose studio is located in the basement of [...]
Disturbing fairy tale black and white photos
Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. Miwa Yanagi is a Japanese photographic artist. Miwa Yanagi creates an elaborate, thoroughly thought out, and often costly staged event using female models ranging in different ages. These female models may display ages quite different from their own in the [...]
Cup from the skull – the glamor of the Stone Age
A kapala (Sanskrit for “skull”) or skullcup is a cup made from a human skull used as a ritual implement (bowl) in both Hindu Tantra and Buddhist Tantra (Vajrayana). Especially in Tibet, they were often carved or elaborately mounted with precious metals and jewels. A skull cup is a drinking vessel made from an inverted [...]