Archaeology & Ancient Civilizations

08/26/2025

"In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln ""Johnny"" Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he ""wasn't enlisting infants,"" and turned him down.
Clem tried the 22nd Michigan Regiment next, and its commander told him the same. Determined, Clem tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed camp duties and received a soldier's pay of $13 a month, a sum collected and donated by the regiment's officers.
The next April, at Shiloh, Clem's drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a minor news item as ""Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer"". A year later, at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front and wielded a musket trimmed to his size. In one of the Union retreats a Confederate officer ran after the cannon Clem rode with, and yelled, ""Surrender you d**ned little Yankee!"" Johnny shot him. This pluck won for Clem national attention and the name ""Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.""
Clem stayed with the Army through the war, served as a courier, and was wounded twice. Between Shiloh and Chickamauga he was regularly enrolled in the service, began receiving his own pay, and was soon-after promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He was only 12 years old. After the Civil War he tried to enter West Point but was turned down because of his slim education.
A personal appeal to President Ulysses S. Grant, his commanding general at Shiloh, won him a 2nd Lieutenant's appointment in the Regular Army on 18 December 1871, and in 1903 he attained the rank of Colonel and served as Assistant Quartermaster General. He retired from the Army as a Major General in 1916, having served an astounding 55 years.
General Clem passed away in San Antonio, Texas on 13 May 1937, exactly 3 months shy of his 86th birthday, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery."

04/09/2025

The woman buried with gold jewelry, clothes, and a mask is called the Lady of Aigai. She was the wife of king Amyntas I of Macedon. The objects buried with her include a number of clay figurines, a silver phiale, and a bronze vessel.

04/09/2025

The most famous 3,000-year-old spaceship-like object that indicates the existence of ancient aliens on Earth is undoubtedly the most famous 3,000-year-old spaceship-like relic unearthed in Turkey in 1973. Zecharia Sitchin was the one who found I object.

The most famous 3,000-year-old spaceship-like object that indicates the existence […]

04/08/2025

Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said: “Last Tuesday I was called to announce the great discovery of a king colossus, most likely Ramses II, made of quartzite.”

The imposing tribute to Ramses the Great, ancient Egypt’s most […]

04/08/2025

This Mountain is in Washington State which has eerie similarities with the Egyptian pyramids.

Tumtum Mountain is a small volcano in Washington, United States. It has a very even, cone-like shape. It is in northern Clark County, at the far end of a flat area called Chelatchie Prairie. The mountain is 2,004 feet (611 meters) high, standing about 1,400 feet (430 meters) above the prairie.

Tumtum Mountain was formed by lava a long time ago, during the Pleistocene period. It is part of a group of volcanoes called the Cascade Volcanic Arc. At about 70,000 years old, it is the youngest volcano in Washington's Cascade Mountains and the one closest to the west.

04/06/2025

Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the province of Pisco, in the Ica Region, on the southern coast of Peru. It is here that the Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello made one of the most mysterious discoveries in 1928. During the excavations, Tello discovered a complex and sophisticated cemetery in the gravelly soil of the Paracas desert.

Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the province of […]

04/06/2025

The submerged Palace of Cleopatra; an Underwater Heritage in Alexandria.

Antirhodos was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt. Antirhodos existed until the year 365 when a massive earthquake believed to have been the biggest in the Ancient Mediterranean, sent off a wave of destruction that reached as far as the shores of Spain. The site now lies underwater, near the seafront of modern Alexandria, at a depth of approximately five metres (16 ft).

In 1996, underwater archaeology in the harbour of Alexandria conducted by Franck Goddio located the island and found that it was on the opposite side of the harbour from where it was placed by Strabo. Goddio uncovered the remains of a relatively modest (90 metres by 30 metres) marble-floored palace, believed to have been Cleopatra's royal quarters. Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 BC-30 BC) was queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. The remains on the island do not seem to date from later than the Ptolemaic period, suggesting the palace may have been abandoned soon after Cleopatra's death and the absorption of Egypt into the Roman Republic.

04/05/2025

What if we have dated the Sphinx and pyramids wrong? What if, these ancient structures predate history as we know it?

What if we have dated the Sphinx and pyramids wrong? […]

04/05/2025

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