All sizes | Description of the Holy Land. Sumerian Artifacts - JASON MARTELL'S RESEARCH - Ancient Astronauts, Anunnaki. The Cave City of Vardzia. The Cave City of Vardzia is remarkable. Situated in the European country of Georgia at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia it has an over eight hundred year history. Yet you would be forgiven for wondering why such a place was built in the first place. The words why and how spring immediately to mind. 1185 saw a woman, Tamar, on the throne of Georgia. This was a first for the country and extremely unusual in the Europe of the twelfth century. The Mongol empire had been inexorably expanding and little Georgia was under threat constantly. Desperate times lead to desperate measures and to help her people avoid the Mongol onslaught, Tamar commanded that an underground sanctuary be built. The queen (seen left on a mural from inside the monastery) was twenty five years old when the construction work began and had been on the throne only a year.
On the outside of the hidden monastery the land of the mountain was extremely fertile. The city escaped the Mongols triumphantly. Ancient World. Viking Ships. Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed (6/13/2008) Archeology. Archeology - Atlatl.com - Learning About Primitive Atlatl and Dart Weapon Systems - Atlatl Bob, Maker of Replica Atlatls.
Over 12,000 years ago, hunters tracking herds of the last ice age across the frozen tundra of what is now the state of Alaska became the first immigrants to enter the North American continent. These hunter-gatherers brought with them a weapon that reigned supreme among them and their descendents for thousands of years to come, the Atlatl. It was the first true weapon system developed by humans, originating in Europe over 30,000 years ago and spreading to every corner of the globe that humans occupied. In fact the Atlatl and Dart were used and improved upon for so long by our ancient ancestors that, comparatively speaking, the Bow and Arrow can be considered a recent development in projectile technology.
So powerful and effective was the Atlatl that scientist and scholars speculate that it, along with the overkill tactics so common to the human race, caused the extinction of the woolly mammoth in North America before the end of the ice age. Pueblo Architecture. Oldest English Royal Bones – Queen Ædgyth’s 1000 year old Skeleton | History and traditions of England. A Thousand Year Old Royal Skeleton The oldest bones which are confirmed as being those of an English royal have been identified this week. The skeleton uncovered in January 2008 in Magdeburg Cathedral was thought to be Queen Ædgyth’s, and the coffin was labelled as such, but it had been moved more than once, and confusion was entirely possible. Scientific tests confirmed that the skeleton was indeedthe Saxon Princess, Ædgyth’s, bones. Statue of Queen Ædgyth / Eadgyth from Magdeburg Cathedral This article is about Ædgyth / Eadgyth / Edith, who she was, her life and times, and the tests which confirmed her remains were definitely the earliest-known royal bones from an English house.
Ædgyth’s Ancestry and Family Ædgyth was the daughter of the Saxon King, Edward the Elder, and granddaughter of the best-known Saxon King, Alfred the Great. Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871AD to 899, and the only King in England or Britain to be accorded the suffix “the great”. Ædgyth’s Marriage. ARROWHEADS -- How To Make Your Own. Stone Ages. Ancient History. Archeology.