The Longest Night of the Year and the Spiritual Meaning of Winter Solstice

The longest night of the year is traditionally a time of spiritual significance when we can reflect, restore and find spiritual guidance for our lives. At the Winter Solstice, the sun is at its lowest point in the sky. On this, year's longest night, dormancy, darkness and cold reign. However,…

5 Ways Geniuses Think Differently from Everyone Else

Geniuses may have more gray matter than the rest of us. However, what really makes geniuses different from the average person is not so much what they think, but the way they think. By following the thinking strategies of the greatest minds, we too could have moments of creative inspiration.…

5 Stone Monuments of Unknown Origin That Puzzle the Scientific Community

The reason why these five stone monuments were constructed still remains unknown. Why did people do the things they did in the past? Historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists have sought the answer to this question for decades, but often without much success. Finding proof to support a theory is perhaps the…

3 Archaeological Discoveries That Challenge Mainstream History

New archaeological discoveries show us that history may not be exactly as we learned in school. Rather than thinking about history as a picture, try visualizing it as a puzzle that lacks all of its pieces. For centuries, researchers have been trying to put together a consistent timeline of history,…

5 ‘Impossible’ Engineering Marvels of the Ancient World

Through the engineering marvels of the ancient world, we learn the most about the civilizations that existed thousands of years ago. Structures that consist only of one stone can be traced all the way back to the Neolithic era. So-called monolithic structures are what their name suggests, one large rock…