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![Another Ariamanus Statue Found: The Evil Spirit of Mithraic Religion](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2628.jpg?v=1702464129)
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Another Ariamanus Statue Found: The Evil Spirit of Mithraic Religion
It is rare when a new find creates renewed interest in an old subject. Here, the new find is a leontocephaline (lion-headed) figure of unknown provenance, weighing 5.8 kg and 37 cm in height with a width of 14 cm. Its base is partially broken...
![Hawaiian Legend: The Menehune | Finding Bigfoot](/uploads/kraked/6/6-2817_ci_preview.jpg)
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Hawaiian Legend: The Menehune | Finding Bigfoot
The Finding Bigfoot team gathers as much information as they can about the legendary Menehune of Hawaii. Watch full episodes of Finding Bigfoot | https://www.animalplanetgo.com/finding-bigfoot/ Subscribe to Animal Planet: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=animalplanettv...
![Finding Minnesota: Pipe Maker Keeps Sacred Tradition Alive](/uploads/kraked/6/6-3036_ci_preview.jpg)
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Finding Minnesota: Pipe Maker Keeps Sacred Tradition Alive
John Lauritsen reports on how a Minnesota pipe-maker is breathing life into a Native American tradition (3:34). WCCO 4 Weekends – April 22, 2018
![Religion in the Ancient World](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2235.jpg?v=1718367123)
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Religion in the Ancient World
Religion (from the Latin Religio, meaning 'restraint,' or Relegere, according to Cicero, meaning 'to repeat, to read again,' or, most likely, Religionem, 'to show respect for what is sacred') is an organized system of beliefs and practices...
![Pizarro and Atahualpa: The Curse of the Lost Inca Gold](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2878.jpeg?v=1690658823)
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Pizarro and Atahualpa: The Curse of the Lost Inca Gold
In November 1532 CE, Francisco Pizarro led a group of about 160 conquistadors into the Inca city of Cajamarca. The illiterate and illegitimate son of an Extremaduran nobleman and an impoverished woman, Pizarro had spent his entire life on...
![Lost Treasures From Iraq: Revisited & Identified](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/9695.jpg?v=1630985402)
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Lost Treasures From Iraq: Revisited & Identified
For how long do we build a household? For how long do we seal a document? For how long do brothers share the inheritance? For how long is there to be jealousy in the land(?)? The Epic of Gilgamesh, chapter 10, Tablet X. I have...
![Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17691.jpg?v=1698802568)
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Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
Ibn Sina and Biruni were two of the most outstanding thinkers to have lived between ancient Greece and the European Renaissance. These two giants of a lost era of enlightenment were born in Central Asia about the year 980. For six hundred...
![How the Rabbit Lost His Tail](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18579.jpg?v=1709554498)
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How the Rabbit Lost His Tail
How the Rabbit Lost His Tail is a Sioux legend, part origin myth and part didactic tale, explaining why the rabbit looks as it does, why the owl is a night bird, and how one should treat a member of one’s family and also one’s community...
![Lost Civilisations of Anatolia: Göbekli Tepe](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3847.jpg?v=1718443923)
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Lost Civilisations of Anatolia: Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe is the world's oldest example of monumental architecture; a 'temple' built at the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1995 CE when, just a short distance from the city of Şanliurfa in Southeast Turkey...
![Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden](/uploads/kraked/6/6-855_ci_preview.jpg)
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Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are shown to have been in Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. They were made by the Assyrian King Sennacherib.