Old European culture

Wow...This turned out to be even cooler than I thought it was when I first saw it:  Proto Slavic word for man, čelověkъ, is derived from Pro...

How old is the Irish (Gaelic) language? Why am I asking this? Because there is something very interesting in the Irish language, which can ...

Ancient Greek, ὄνος (ónos) = ass, donkey... According to Wiktionary , etymology = uncertain. Perhaps from Pre-Greek... Hmmmmm...I wonder wha...

Today I came across this paper: " Kissik, Düru and Udannu " and in it, I read this: "deities worshipped in the city Udannu: t...

(In Mesopotamia) "There are flies that bite like bulldogs everywhere. . . The flies are awful; one black web of them this morning; in o...

Perun, Slavic thunder god wielded an axe... Thor, Norse thunder god, wielded a hammer... Both Slavs and Norse wore axe (hammer) protective a...

Sanskrit इष्टि ("ishti") - 1. Wish, desire. 2. A sacrifice, any sacrificial rite...  This is the essence of "sacrifice"...

This is a wall painting from the 3rd century BC tomb of Si-Amun at Gebel al-Mawta in the Siwa Oasis in Egypt...It depicts seated Si-Amun, a...

A stone slab from Gobekli Tepe (10,000 - 8,000 BC), with a carving depicting a woman in a birth giving position.  Ceramic shard with...

How did the Mesolithic hunter gatherers get the idea to start eating wild grains? Well my guess was that year after year they watched herds ...