Hades, the ruthless God of the underworld, was so feared no one would speak of his name. His myth showed how Ancient Greeks viewed death. No matter how good you were, you went to the underworld. For the Greeks, it was heaven, hell, and limbo combined. The majority of souls would wander aimlessly into a …
Month: December 2017
Josef Mengele was a Schutzstuffel officer and physician in the concentration camps during World War II. Nowadays, his nickname is the angel of death, due to his grotesque and inhumane experiments conducted on twins, who were mostly children. He was interested in utilizing twins for medical research through Verschuer, whom Mengele was an assistant to, …
In 1991, a 5300 year old corpse was found on the alps, who is referred to as Ötzi or iceman. He had been frozen and mummified. This was a very favored discovery for archaeologists, because Ötzi was perfectly preserved. And it helped people to understand human life a lot more. An arrow head jammed …
A favorite beast portrayed in greek mythology, is the half-man half-horse creature, the centaur. They inhabit the mountains and forests of Thessaly. They were said to be primal, they were in tribes, living cozy in caves, and to feed them selves, they usually went hunting for wild animals in armor maid out of rocks and …
Russian roulette was a game which the Russian officer corps played. People wondered why they were so willing to play it, since it was practically suicide. To play the game, they would put one bullet the chamber of a revolver, then soon the chamber. They would then point the gun at each other and pull …
This maritime ghost story has been the most famous for more than 300 years. Captain Cornelius Vanderdecken gambled his salvation to round Cape of good hope in a storm, when he was homeward bound from Batavia. Battling against headwinds for nine weeks, the captain could not make progress. He swore to God that he would …
The courageous and unimaginably strong son of Zeus, was known as Hercules. He strangled to serpents to death in his cradle, and killed a lion before reaching manhood. Hercules’ infidelity caused him to be detested by Zeus’s wife, Hera. Hercules had a peaceful life with his children and wife. However; Hera caused him to have …
This was a female monster with the body of lion, the breast and head a woman, an eagles in Greek mythology. Many times, she is described as the daughter of Echidna and Typhon, or Chimaera and Typhon, or Orthos and Chimaera. Sent by the gods, the sphinx was to plague the town of Thebes. Because …
Mummification is a method of preserving artificially the bodies of the deceased. In Ancient Egypt, they used mummification to respect the dead . The main subject of interest is mummies for those who study it. It depends on the wealthiest of the deceased family of how the body is mummified, although there is no anctient …