An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus
The New York Times is reporting that archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an altar to a deity predating Zeus on Mount Lykaion in Arcadia. Before Zeus hurled his first thunderbolt from Olympus, the...
View ArticleApologetics
I think most Pagans today are probably aware of Christian apologetics. Apology is from the Greek word for “defense” (apologia). Apologetics are as old as orthodox Christianity and they are as popular...
View ArticleThe Thera Eruption – New Evidence
I read an interesting story in the New York Times this morning, Killer Tsunamis. We’ve all seen on TV how terrifying tsunamis can be. How much worse must it have been for Bronze Age peoples who had no...
View ArticleTemple of Isis
Exciting news from Alexandria: They have pulled a pylon of the temple of Isis from the harbor, where it ended up after earthquakes in the fourth century. The pylon is red granite from quarries in...
View ArticleA New Odin?
This has been called the Odin from Lejre. Roskilde Museum revealed him on Friday November 13.
View ArticleAncient cat goddess temple found in Egypt
An ancient cat-goddess temple thought to belong to wife of king who ruled in 3rd century B.C. was recently unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt.
View ArticleThe Sphinx Protected by Walls
Exciting discoveries made in Egypt that go to show how much more might lie buried in the sand or beneath the waves, bits and pieces of a vibrant Pagan world long lost to history.
View ArticleThe Headless Vikings of Weymouth
Though we’ll never know the particulars, we know there were fifty-one young Norsemen who never came home from a raid in Saxon England, and fifty-one mothers who waited in vain for word of their sons....
View ArticleA Native American Girl Among Vikings
Our ancestors were here first, and it was the sleek longship, the steed of the waves, that plowed the New World’s waters, not Spanish caravels. It was not Rodrigo de Triana who sighted the Americas...
View ArticleDid the Vikings use crystal ‘sunstones’ to discover America?
Stephen Harding, University of Nottingham Ancient records tell us that the intrepid Viking seafarers who discovered Iceland, Greenland and eventually North America navigated using landmarks, birds and...
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