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View this email in your browser What Was Life Like in Sumer, History’s First Civilization? Life went through some incredible changes when the first cities were built. Up until then, nearly every person had to work as a farmer or a hunter, moving from place to place in a constant struggle to survive. All that changed about 7,000 years ago, when Sumer, the first civilization, began. For the first time in human history, people moved into the safety of a walled city. For the first time, they didn’t have to hunt or farm. They could become builders, astrologers, and teachers... Read more... Maya: Science Only Acknowledges Now What Ancient Sages Knew About Reality 5000 Years Ago Maya is a word which is very familiar to the western world, but very few know what it actually means. It is a word which was used by the rishis (sages) of ancient India to describe the nature of this universe of changing forms. The rishis have always been telling us that matter is not as real or as solid as we think. It is only an illusion projected by our senses. They called It “maya” or the magical creative power of the “Brahman”. Read more... Piecing Together the Origins of Ancient Near East Names in Scotland Thinking of Scotland, as I do from the somewhat similar mountains of northern India, which has been my home for nigh on twenty years, I do so from a rather Indian perspective; I think of families, clans, and tribes living on land that they consider to be their ancestral land. However, they have an understanding, kept alive in stories from both manuscript and memory, that those same ancestors had themselves migrated from their ancestral lands in a far off past... Read more... Pick Your Poison: The AK-47 of the Ancient Near East The Scythian bow was the AK-47 of the Ancient Near East and the weapon of choice to dominate the battlefield. Even though the bow was uniquely designed to deliver the utmost damage, the arrow itself was even nastier! Scythians created their arrowheads for maximum penetration of the opponent’s armor. Beyond that, Scythian arrowheads were extremely poisonous. But before we pick our poison, we must pick our point. The Scythian arrowhead, also known as a “Scythian point,” was a trilobate... Read more... New Discoveries at Tiwanaku & Puma Punku: The Lost Statue of Viracocha and Secret Rooms of Hidden Artifacts In December 2017 myself and fellow megalithic researcher JJ Ainsworth stayed in Tiwanaku for a few days to thoroughly explore the sites of Tiwanaku and Puma Punku looking for any anomalies or things we’d previously missed. I have visited the area ten times over twelve years, and was part of the Ancient Aliens TV show in an episode focussed on the mystery of Puma Punku, but had never had more than one day to explore the complex. This time I had four days. Read more... Horses, Cows and Celestial Creatures at the Dawn of Civilizations When I think of the Aryans of the ancient times, I think of Central Asia, the steppe, a horse culture that could enable their language, Sanskrit to spread, at a gallop, so to speak, westward and south, to form the basis of virtually every European and many subcontinental languages in the millennium before Christ. The domestication of the horse on the steppe was perhaps the principle driving force behind Sanskrit’s spread to the west. Today, both Europe and much of Asia have retained an equestrian culture... Read more... Cornish Barrow Dig Uncovers 4,000-year-old Human Burial An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) has hailed her excavatio

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