Medusa, a beautiful young woman who was forbidden to be married. She was one of the priestesses of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war. Athena was also a symbol of purity, therefor sex was not allowed. When Medusa was in her room one day, Poseiden began to develop a lust for her, and began …
In 264 BC, the Gladiatorial games began. During these games professional fighters fought each other for show . Two men would go in a group and attack each other. These fights usually took place in amphitheaters, especially the famous colosseum. They gladiatorial games were most likely introduced from Etruria. They were originally funeral games. In …
AMUN-RA. Amun was important throughout the history of ancient Egypt. He had a mans body with the head of a ram, he wore an ostrich plumed hat. Amun was one of the most powerful gods in ancient Egypt. He was known as the King of all Gods. His powers grew as the city of Thebes …
During one of the French soldiers occupations of Egypt in July 15 1799, they discovered a stone with three different columns of writing. Each column of the Rosetta Stone was written in different languages, Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic, and Greek. The stone had puzzled scholars for centuries. It was the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, few people …
The story of the minotaur is an old myth from ancient Greece. He had a bulls head with the body of a man. His mother was Queen Pasiphae of Crete, King Minos’s wife. King Minos had to sacrifice a bull to Poseiden on sometimes, and one day when Posieden gave King Minos the most precious …
The Keres were the opposite of the Greek mythological spirit Thanatos, The god of peaceful kind of death. The Keres were demons or female spirits of violent or cruel death, murder, accident or ravaging disease. They were agents of Moros, the demon god who drove people to their unavoidable destruction, and the fates, who measured …
Between Bermuda, San Juan in Puerto rico and Miami, is 500000 of square miles of sea where ‘hurricane alley’ is. In Spanish and Portuguese galleons lie millions of pounds of treasure sunken in this area. The currents at ‘hurricane alley’ are strongly affected by the Gulf stream, which flows northeasterly from the tip of Florida. …
The historical Salem Witch Trials that made people hysterical, all began with a group of girls that claimed they were possessed by the devil. A special court took place to hear the cases. The first woman who was accused of witchcraft during the trials, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. The community was frightened. By …
Tutankhamun was the son of whom was believed as Akhenaten and Kira. He was born in ancient Egypt and grew up to become the twelfth king of the eighteenth dynasty. When he became pharaoh he was only at the age of nine or ten, he married his half sister Ankhesenamun. With his wife he had …