WEIRD HISTORY
Analysis: President makes appeal to Ukraine’s military to abandon its ‘drug-addicted, neo-Nazi’ leaders. Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news Putin references neo-Nazis and drug addicts in bizarre speech to Russian security council – video – Andrew Roth in Moscow Last modified on 2022 Feb 26 …
Seated group of Ainu men. – By Alexei Muraki, Updated 2020 Apr 25 – It is generally suggested (through archeological and genetic evidence) that the Ainu (or the ancestors of the Ainu) originated in southern Siberia or somewhere in Central Asia. From …
Indigenous peoples of Siberia – By Alexei Muraki An ethnic Ainu from Russia (Sakhalin) Knows about human genetics and history Updated Jan 26 Who were the Paleo Siberians? – Paleo-Siberians, or Indigenous peoples of Siberia, generally refers to the indigenous population of Siberia, …
Human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead, researchers say. Houseboats are moored on Lake Oroville reservoir during the California drought emergency in Oroville, California, on 2021 May 25. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images – By Gabrielle …
Archaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artifacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition. ‘A gateway into a liminal world’ … the Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney, built …
The love god Kamadeva prepares to shoot Shiva with a love dart. British Museum/Wikimedia Commons – By Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College 2022 Feb 11 – With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid …
An Egyptian Muslim woman holds candles in front of the Coptic Christian Cathedral in tribute to the victims of a bomb attack in Cairo on 2016 Dec 17. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters – By Paul Rowe, Professor and Coordinator of Political and International …
An Orthodox priest takes part in a rally in protest against an official visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to Kyiv in August 2021. Anna Marchenko\TASS via Getty Images – By J. Eugene Clay, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of …
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), like this one photographed in 2015, can cause geomagnetic storms on Earth. Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA – By Michael Irving 2022 Jan 27 – The Sun is capable of some worryingly powerful outbursts. In ice cores from both ends of …
Credit: Royal Commission for AlUla/AAKSA – Written by Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway network in Saudi Arabia lined with well-preserved ancient tombs. – Researchers from the University of Western Australia have carried out a wide-ranging investigation over the past …
