According to recent summations of MesoAmerican Calendar Theory there is no “great cycle” in the Mayan calendar. So all the hype leading up to December 21, 2012 essentially wasted a great deal of energy among the ignorant, the profane, and ….
Year: 2012
Most people are vaguely familiar with the widespread belief that the Roma or Romani (often called Gypsies or Travelers) are descended from an ancient people who lived in what is now northwest India or eastern Pakistan. But the lack of ….
The prospect of changing our calendar system is not appealing for most people. The economic cost of changing our annals (yearly notations) in historical documents and on monuments would reach into the billions of dollars. And, actually, that could be ….
An August 2012 article on the Economist ponders the mysteries of why we have money today. It is a question easily answered by many theories, none of them really satisfying. The problem is that every theory put forth so far ….
Archaeologists working in Orkney have uncovered a large complex of structures (buildings and walls) that they believe represent a religious center for a widespread community or culture dating to the period of roughly 3300 BCE to 2300 BCE. The length ….
There’s nothing quite so romantic as the idea of digging up a lost civilization no one had previously known about. It happens to archaeologists all the time — in fiction. But in reality most of the “lost civilizations” of the ….
Gobekli Tepe most likely was not a temple, as archaeologists first proposed when they announced the site in 2008. Sadly, archaeologists tend to lump every stone surface they cannot explain into the category of temples, shrines, and altars. This is ….
In every society when times get tough people start holding back some of their resources, depriving their societies of the full contributions they can make. In a normal period of general economic stability this process has little direct impact on ….