J. W. Barlament

They really need little introduction. The Venus figurines, as they’ve come to be called, are some of the most famous relics from our...

The story of agriculture is simple and obvious. The people of the Fertile Crescent, having been hunter-gatherers for hundreds of...

Just this year, a new discovery made it even clearer that astronomy is about to revolutionize archaeology. The island-city of Motya, just...

It’s no secret that various systems of astronomy and astrology have been practiced by cultures across the globe for thousands of years....

Ancient pagan gods seem to strike modern people as exceptionally petty. The myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans are often found...

The idea that ancient cultures could “steal” each other’s myths, rites, or gods is very prevalent these days. It’s easiest to point to...

Nostalgia seems a more prominent phenomenon now than ever. Crucially, it might be coming on quicker, too. History seems like it’s been...

John Koenig’s “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” has been serving up the Internet slews of new, completely self-made words, since 2009. Most...

The history of men making myths from the stars is already known to be an ancient one. And yet, most people can’t fathom half of its true...

Doesn't the ordinary life just sound so much better on paper? Spend your first years in a brilliantly bright new life. Leap into the...

The Magdalenian Mystery: We in today’s techy age tend to forget just how similar our ancestors were to modern men. It’s understandable,...

Our ability to know our limitations is, in and of itself, a limitation. Mankind is a mass of lazy bastards with a sprinkling of...

The world of today is a suffocating thing. Modernity has humanity in a chokehold, and the collective mind of mankind is starting to...

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is filled to the brim with invented words of unexpected poignancy. Every once in a while, however, it...

Introduction- Prehistoric man is an enigma to his modern progeny. We tend to think of life in the distant past as an unenviable thing;...

As intimidating of a thought as it may be, it is undeniably true. We can never know everything. Our insatiable desire for knowledge will...

We all tend to use the terms "knowledge", "intelligence", and "wisdom" interchangeably. But should we? Of course not. I would not have...