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Top 10 Unusual Ancient Weapons

Mankind always has, and always will, fight wars. And in order to fight said wars, man needed weapons. Using whatever skills and resources they had, man built tools that would slash, smash, pierce and tear their enemies. http://listverse.com/2011/12/10/top-10-unusual-ancient-weapons/
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Stone Age Timelines

Human prehistory and the Stone Age… a timeline critique (4th edition - October 2012) by A.O. Kime for information on 'renting' this article, see Rent-a-Article In the 1820’s, in order to address the prehistory of mankind more clearly, it was thought necessary to divide it into time periods, thus a ‘three-age’ system of the (1) Stone Age , (2) Bronze Age and (3) Iron Age was adopted. While this system is still more-or-less in common use today, refinements were inevitable and the Stone Age, so immensely long, was later subdivided into three major periods as follows:
http://www.religionfacts.com/big_religion_chart.htm The ReligionFacts " Big Religion Chart " is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart . Yes, of course this is impossible. Our comparison charts are not a substitute for reading about religions, talking with religious adherents, etc.

The Big Religion Comparison Chart: Compare World Religions

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Mythology

Paranormal, UFOs, Cryptids and Unexplained Phenomena

I came across several interesting stories recently while reading about Jewish mysticism and rituals. I decided to look further and discovered references to the 'Dybbuk'. To my surprise, much of what is described in Judaism and the Kabbalah in relation to spirits and possession correlates directly and more precise to the spirit rescue work that I have recently undertaken. I would like to share some of this with you... A dybbuk (pronounced "dih-buk") is the term for a wandering soul that attaches itself to a living person and controls that person's behavior to accomplish a task. http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/02/dybbuk-possession.html
The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal , named after Ashurbanipal , the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire , is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh . Due to the sloppy handling of the original material much of the library is irreparably jumbled, making it impossible for scholars to discern and reconstruct many of the original texts, although some have survived intact. The materials were found in the archaeological site of Kouyunjik (ancient Nineveh , capital of Assyria ) in northern Mesopotamia . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Ashurbanipal

Library of Ashurbanipal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaim%C4%81nika_Sh%C4%81stra Title page of the English translation of Vyamanika Shastra published in 1973 The Vaimānika Shāstra ( वैमानिक शास्त्र , lit. " shastra on the topic of Vimanas "; sometimes also rendered Vimanika, Vymanika ) is an early 20th century Sanskrit text on aeronautics obtained by psychic channeling and automatic writing . It makes the claim that the vimānas mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics were advanced aerodynamic flying vehicles, similar to a rocket .

Vaimanika Shastra

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Chilam Balam

Copy of the Book of Chilam Balam of Ixil in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City The so-called Books of Chilam Balam [ pronunciation? ] are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving important traditional knowledge in which indigenous Maya and early Spanish traditions have coalesced.
Samarangana Sutradhara is an encyclopedic work on classical Indian architecture ( Vastu Shastra ) written by Paramara King Bhoja of Dhar (1000–1055 AD). In 83 chapters, subjects treated are town planning, house architecture, temple architecture and sculptural arts together with Mudras (the different hand poses and the poses of the body as well as the postures of legs), the canons of painting, and a chapter on the art of mechanical contrivances, the yantras (chapter 31). Here are some verses from Samarangana Sutradhara, which describes characteristics a "sthapati" i.e. architect (based on translation by Punya Mishra). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarangana_Sutradhara

Samarangana Sutradhara

Hinduism - Puranas

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/#puranas Sacred-texts home Journal Articles: Hinduism OCRT: Hinduism Buy CD-ROM Buy books about Hinduism Vedas Upanishads Puranas Other Primary Texts Epics Mahabharata Ramayana Bhagavad Gita Vedanta Later texts Modern books The Vedas
One of the most fascinating questions about the Temple Mount after the Islamic occupation in 638 CE is connected with the Dome of the Rock. Important scientific research conducted by Ya'akov Ofir holds that the Dome of the Rock was built in 691CE for the Jews as their “last house” of prayer by their ally Abd el-Malik, the Umayyad ruler of Damascus, who also controlled the land of Israel in those days. The Jews who built the house believed that their redemption had already come. Ofir's conclusion is that the Dome of the Rock is a Jewish building. Abd el-Malik was at war with the Abbasid Arab kingdom which controlled Arabia and Iraq. According to Ofir and others, Abd el-Malik was actually a follower of the Jewish faith. http://www.templemountfaithful.org/Newsletters/2001/5761-11.htm

The Riddle of the Dome of the Rock

The Knights Templar were created by the pope to escort and protect "tourists" going to the Holy Land, and to fight Muslims there. There were originally only a handful, but there were thousands by the time they were disbanded in the 1300's. They were the first bankers. A person could deposit money at one Templar institution, receive a voucher, and turn it in at any other Templar institution.

What did the Knights Templar Do

The Temple Mount - Jerusalem 101

The Time Between 70 AD and 638 AD When the Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 there were no buildings on the Temple Mount to destroy. The Christians had left the Temple Mount in ruins, and even used it as a garbage dump. The temple was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans.
Sacred-texts Sacred Time Origins of World Religions This is a timeline which gives the history of sacred texts, as well as a few other relevant events. Of course, not all of the dates in this timeline are accurate; some are entirely conjectural.

Sacred Texts Timeline

By Mary Sutherland, author of Living in the Light Continued Chapter Four - Tunnels and Entrances to Shambhala Agharta (Argarti) is said to be the mysterious under ground kingdom located in Asia and linked to the other continents of the world by a gigantic network of underground tunnels. Although some have been destroyed due to world cataclysms, many are still left today and are in use.

In Search of Shambhala, Agharta, Inner Earth , Hollow Earth, subterranean passages and tunnels , aliens, ufos Mary Sutherland, author of Living in the Light, Hollow Earth Theories and the Search for Shambhala

A Timeline of World Civilizations for Mythology

Mythology seeks to explain the world and thus reflects the culture, events, and history of the societies that create the stories handed down as myths. Egypt’s Nile River and its cycle of overflowing its banks leaving fertile ground as it receded became the basis for Egyptian religion that demanded that the people help the gods prevent anything from interfering with the cycle. Myths form around the founding of cities, including Athens and Rome — about 10,000 to 2,500 years ago, respectively — and the founding of civilizations, including the creation myths passed down in virtually every culture. Chinese and Native American myths account for astrological occurrences as well as for more earth-bound events such as the Toltec invasion of the Mexican city of Teotihuacan in 900 CE. The myth of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, grew from this victory.

I am having a bit of a crisis having discovered that much if not most of the history and religion I have learned is either false or borrowed or both. by technicalbeat Jan 23

This is fascinating, something I pondered during my teaching years. Is there a way to print it out for a hard-copy" by madlonlaster Nov 15