Download Our Printable Bookmarks and Support the Importance of Cultural Preservation

Posted on October 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

The mission of AntiquityNOW is to raise awareness of the importance of preserving our cultural heritage by demonstrating how antiquity’s legacy influences and shapes our lives today and for generations to come. Our goal is to illustrate that humankind’s commonalities are stronger than its differences, and to share this knowledge to promote mutual understanding, tolerance and peaceful co-existence among our global family.

You can help support this message by downloading, printing and sharing our high-resolution, printable bookmarks. Continue reading →

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Ancient Maya and the Enduring Taste of Pumpkin Soup

Posted on October 22, 2013 | 4 comments

We at AntiquityNOW love our food! Whether an ancient recipe or using ancient ingredients, these dishes continue to delight the palate and bring ancient times to life.  Here’s one example of how we at AntiquityNOW indulge.

Ancient Maya Pumpkin Soup

Mayan-pumpkin-soupStretching from the Yucatán Peninsula southward into Central America in a series of city-states (c 2500-1900 BCE to BCE-900 CE), the Maya civilization had a profound influence on civilization and its advancement.  Continue reading →

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Ancient History Inspires Modern Creativity for International Archaeology Day

Posted on October 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

IADLogo2013-largeThis Saturday, October 19th, is International Archaeology Day and organizations around the world will be commemorating the event.  Visit the Archaeological Institute of America’s website for information on happenings across the United States and abroad. There’s something for everyone! Continue reading →

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Download AntiquityNOW’s Timeline Bookmark and Become the Talk of the Ages

Posted on October 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

Bookmark for Online Professional PrintingHow long does it usually take chewing gum to lose its flavor?  Bet you can’t beat 5,000 years.  Remember your first computer and how amazing new technology seemed?  What about the world’s first computer from 100 BCE that tracked astronomical patterns?  Are you a sports fan?  Tell me who loved baseball better than the Mesoamericans in 1,400 BCE? Continue reading →

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AntiquityNOW Celebrates International Day of the Girl

Posted on October 11, 2013 | Leave a comment

This year’s theme for the International Day of the Girl is “Innovating for Girls’ Education.” Today we honor women throughout history who paved the way for girls and women to become forces for change in their communities and around the globe. Each of these women, through their refusal to be marginalized, and their tenacity and curiosity, fought for their rights as human beings. They confronted many challenges during times when because of their sex they had little or no rights. Through their steadfast contributions, these women continue to be examples for girls today of how to stand strong and make a difference in their worlds.

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Turn Up the Radio and Name That Ancient Tune: Archaeological Legacy Institute to Launch 24-Hour Indigenous Music Programming

Posted on October 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

UPDATE! Originally posted on August 6, 2013, today we are republishing our post about Indiji Radio, a new indigenous music program by AntiquityNOW’s partner the Archaeological Legacy Institute.  This month ALI is raising funding through a 30-day Kickstarter campaign (ends on October 24, 2013), so we thought we would delve once more into the mystery and beauty of ancient sound with ALI’s President Rick Pettigrew.

IndijiRadioLogoMusic has had a special place in the human experience.  It has defined many a people and given shape to cultures throughout time.  However, unlike ancient paintings and artifacts, music is evanescent, its notes sometimes captured in memory and ritual, but all too often lost in the recesses of time. Continue reading →

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On World Teachers’ Day AntiquityNOW Celebrates Knowledge Through the Ages

Posted on October 5, 2013 | 2 comments

The gift of knowledge comes in many forms.  Today we recognize those people who through the millennia have taught and inspired us, who have found a curious beauty in the unknown and who diligently pursue the truth for the betterment of us all.

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KIDS’ BLOG! How “Thinking Outside the Box” Has Helped Archaeologists

Posted on October 3, 2013 | 2 comments

Girl with Light BulbSuppose that you have a problem to solve, but nothing you’ve tried so far has worked. What would you do?  You could try “thinking outside the box.”

“Thinking outside the box” is a creative way to imagine other possibilities. It involves coming at the problem from a different perspective—one that hasn’t been tried yet.  The “box” is a fun way of picturing the ordinary ways of solving a problem.  It contains all the things that have been tried before.  When you think outside the “box,” you stretch your imagination and explore how else the problem could be solved.  Scientists, philosophers and inventers have all discovered that this method is one of the best ways to figure out the answer to a stubborn problem. Continue reading →

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The Origins of Golf

Posted on September 24, 2013 | 1 comment

golf manThroughout history, several civilizations have used a club and  ball as an entertainment or game. The Romans, for example, played pangea, which according to the Roman scribe Catullus would appear to be the father both of modern hockey and the Celtic games of Shinty and Hurling, both of which use a ball–often played in the air–and stick in very fast-paced field play.[1] Continue reading →

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Fall Fashion Update…From the First Millennium CE

Posted on September 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

As we pull our winter clothes out of storage and prepare for dropping temperatures, melting snow in Norway has given us a window into the cold weather fashions of the ancient past.  Interestingly, those fashions aren’t that different from our own.  Most of us have a favorite sweater we cuddle up in when it gets cold outside; maybe our ancient ancestors did the same thing. Continue reading →

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