Guido Reni, The Death of Cleopatra 1598
Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria and came to reign in 51B.C.and was of 17 years of age..
Cleo is by far one of the most ever famous queens of all times in ancient Egypt. Her story of love and death is very famous and she ruled Egypt and made it quite powerful at the time.
The last days and death of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Antony died a slow death after an initially unsuccessful suicide attempt by way of a stab wound to the abdomen.
It is argued that Cleopatra (and her two servants) probably committed suicide through poisoning, rather than the bite of an asp (viper) as is popularly believed.
Death occurred very rapidly and the bodies showed no recognisable snake bite wounds. Fatal viper bites are characteristically associated with prominent, swollen and haemorrhagic wounds.
Cobras may cause rapid death in spite of minor bite wounds, but in order to kill three adults, the snake would have to be large. Legend has it that the reptile was smuggled to Cleopatra in a small basket of figs, which would not have been possible with a large snake.
According to the Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley, she sustain who would have happened in the room, how the snake entered, where the snake would have gone and still more.
As per the historical records, Cleopatra died in Alexandria at around 30 BC and there was no historical evidence for her prior illness. The decision to die in front of the female servants created a practical note that even in her death she required a chaperone.
Egyptian Mummy Portrait: Head of a Woman 130 - 160 AD Painting
Long before realistic portrait painting developed in Europe in the Renaissance, Roman-Egyptian artists did striking likenesses in wax on limewood.
Dating from the later period of Roman rule in Egypt, shortly before the birth of Christ, the painted mummy portraits are among the most remarkable products of the ancient world, a fusion of the traditions of pharonic Egypt and the Classical world.
They are historical and cultural objects of outstanding importance and beauty, superb works of art that represent some of the earliest known examples of life-like portraiture.
Though the subjects of the portraits believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner, with their fashion of dress and adornment signaling their status in life.
Despite their ancient history, these portraits speak to the modern eye with a beauty and intensity that would be lost to portraiture until the Renaissance.
Nazca (Nasca) Lines
Nazca Lines are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from the air.
Ranging from geometric patterns to “drawings” of different animals and stylized human-like forms. The ancient lines can only be truly taken in, their forms discerned, from high in the air, leaving generations mystified as to how these precise works could’ve been completed long before the documented invention of human flight. Are the lines signs left by an alien race?
Landing strips for UFOs? Relics of a ancient people far more advanced—capable of human flight—then previously imagined?
Excavations in the surrounding mountains are uncovering extraordinary clues about the people who made them and why. A long since vanished people, called the Nasca, flourished here between 200BC and 700AD. But the harsh environment led them to extreme measures in order to survive.
King Solomon’s Ring
The legend of King Solomon’s Seal, of the wondrous signet ring which he received from heaven, is common to Judaism, to Christianity and to Islam.
King Solomon’s Seal, whose base is on the ground and whose tip reaches heaven, symbolizes a harmony of opposites, whose significance is manifold as much as it is multi-cultural.
It reflects the cosmic order, the skies, the movement of the stars in their spheres, and the perpetual flow between heaven and earth, between the elements of air and fire.
The Seal, therefore, symbolizes super-human wisdom and rule by divine grace.
A magic ring called the “Seal of Solomon” was supposedly given to Solomon and gave him power over demons. The magical symbol said to have been on the Seal of Solomon which made it work is now better known as the Star of David. Asmodeus, king of demons, was one day, according to the classical Rabbis, captured by Benaiah using the ring, and was forced to remain in Solomon’s service.
Seal of Soloman
Death Mask of King Tut.
The death mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun is made of gold inlaid with colored glass and semiprecious stone. The mask comes from the innermost mummy case in the pharaoh’s tomb.
The emblems on the forehead (vulture and cobra) and on the shoulders (falcon heads) were symbols of the Two Lands of Upper and Lower Egypt and of divine authority. The vulture Nekhbet and the cobra Wadjet protected the pharaoh.
The Egyptian vulture. The Egyptian vulture is a tool-using bird. Egyptian vultures are specialists in egg-eating. They are among the only known birds in the world to use stones as tools. They will repeatedly strike at an abandoned ostrich egg with stones, then use their beak to enlarge the hole and penetrate membrane.
In ancient Egypt the vulture is considered to be nearer to God who is believed to reside above the sky.
The Egyptain Cobra. The ancient Egyptians worshipped the cobra and used it as a symbol on the crown of the pharaohs. It is used as a protective symbol, the Egyptians believed that the cobra would spit fire at any approaching enemies.
It is also called asp.
He was buried in three coffins, all fitted one inside the other. Tutankhamun’s mummy is still in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Of all the monuments in the world, Stonehenge is considered to be the most ancient. It is believed to have been built in 2500 BC.
Some consider Stonehenge to be an altar for sacrifices, whereas others consider it as a tool for astronomy. During the 18th century, some proposed the theory that Stonehenge served as a site for gallows.
The circle has been aligned to coincide with the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset. The southerly and northerly rising of the moon is also seen.
The architecture of Stonehenge has taken into account mathematical and geometrical considerations. The construction is structurally engineered to perfection.
Of the 900 stone rings present in the British Isles, Stonehenge is the most renowned.
Whatever the original purpose of Stonehenge, it certainly would have been a magnificent ancient temple, a place of spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance.
Jordan Codices
70 metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history.
This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity.
Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if verified, they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.
Adding to the intrigue, many of the books are sealed, prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book Of Revelation.
The books were discovered five years ago in a cave in a remote part of Jordan to which Christian refugees are known to have fled after the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD. Important documents from the same period have previously been found there.
Initial metallurgical tests indicate that some of the books could date from the first century AD.
The prospect that they could contain contemporary accounts of the final years of Jesus’s life has excited scholars – although their enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that experts have previously been fooled by sophisticated fakes.
The tiny booklet, a little smaller than a modern credit card, is sealed on all sides and has a three-dimensional representation of a human head on both the front and the back. One appears to have a beard and the other is without. Even the maker’s fingerprint can be seen in the lead impression. Beneath both figures is a line of as-yet undeciphered text in an ancient Hebrew script.
Astonishingly, one of the booklets appears to bear the words ‘Saviour of Israel’ – one of the few phrases so far translated.
Unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, the lead codices appear to consist of stylised pictures, rather than text, with a relatively small amount of script that appears to be in a Phoenician language, although the exact dialect is yet to be identified.
The debate over whether these booklets are genuine and, if so, whether they represent the first known artefacts of the early Christian church or the first stirrings of mystical Kabbalah will undoubtedly rage for years to come.
‘The initial information is very encouraging and it seems that we are looking at a very important and significant discovery – maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology.
Mitchell-Hedges skull - skull of Love
Mitchell-Hedges – who discovered it together with his adoptive daughter Anna – we find the following information about the Skull, as told to him by the Mayans, made of pure rock crystal and according to scientists it must have taken over 150 years, generation after generation, working all the days of their lives patiently rubbing down with sand an immense block of rock crystal until finally the perfect skull emerged.”
He then goes on: “It is at least 3,600 years old and according to legend was used by the High Priest of the Maya when performing esoteric rites.”
In theory, based on where it was found, the Crystal Skull is probably a Mayan artifact dating back to 1,600 BC. Ever since it first came to light it has been surrounded by speculation, and many theories have been proposed as to its true origin.
Many experts have attributed it to civilizations even olderthan the Maya, maybe even Altantis, and long-since disappeared into the mists of time, whilst other theories consider it to be handed down from an alien civilization
Modern production methods would unavoidably have caused the crystal to break, due to the heat and vibrations created. Another mystery lies in the fact that the skull contains three prisms and two lenses. In order to achieve this using modern technology, zero gravity conditions would be necessary.
Elements of the 13 crystal skulls legend
The basic elements of the 13 crystal skulls legend is that at a pivotal time in humanity’s history, the 13 crystal skulls will be reunited to awaken a new era - transforming from an old paradigm into a new world.
When the 13 skull come together it will release information that we can’t even imagine. Some say they are complex computers containing universes of knowledge.
Some believers in the paranormal claim that crystal skulls can produce a variety of miracles.
Machu Picchu
The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham, are one of the most beautiful and enigmatic ancient sites in the world.
While the Inca people certainly used the Andean mountain top (9060 feet elevation), erecting many hundreds of stone structures from the early 1400’s, legends and myths indicate that Machu Picchu (meaning ‘Old Peak’ in the Quechua language) was revered as a sacred place from a far earlier time.
A secret ceremonial city. Two thousand feet above the rumbling Urubamba river, the cloud shrouded ruins have palaces, baths, temples, storage rooms and some 150 houses.
Building blocks weigh 50 tons or more yet are so precisely sculpted and fitted together with such exactitude that the mortarless joints will not permit the insertion of even a thin knife blade.
The skeletal remains of ten females to one male had led to the casual assumption that the site may have been a sanctuary for the training of priestesses and /or brides for the Inca nobility.
One of Machu Picchu’s primary functions was that of astronomical observatory. The Intihuatana stone (meaning ‘Hitching Post of the Sun’) has been shown to be a precise indicator of the date of the two equinoxes and other significant celestial periods.
Shamanic legends tell that when a sensitive person touches their forehead to the Intihuatana stone it opens their vision to the spirit world. Intihuatana stones were the supremely sacred objects of the Inca people.
The Intihuatana stone. Machu Picchu, Peru.
Machu Picchu is on ley lines. One school of thought believes that these lines carry positive or negative energy. It is also believed that where two or more lines converge, you have a place of great power and energy.
It is believed that many well-known sacred sites, such as Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor, Sedona sit at the convergence of several magical lines.
World oldest Pyrimids found ……
Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest pyramids - on the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil. Like the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, the South American ones seem to have been built for religious purposes.
Dating from 3000BC, the oldest of the Brazilian pyramids predate the earliest Egyptian example by several hundred years.
The construction techniques were also markedly different, each Egyptian pyramid being built in one operation, while the Brazilian ones were each built in several phases, possibly over many decades or even centuries.
And, unlike the Egyptian stone pyramids, the Brazilian ones were built exclusively of sea shells. For years Brazilian prehistorians had thought that the sites were simply immense piles of domestic rubbish from settlements.
The archaeologists estimate that originally there were around a thousand Brazilian pyramids - some apparently 5,000 years old.
Archaeological research is now even showing that some of the Brazilian pyramids - like their Mexican counterparts - had structures on top of them, although the Brazilian examples are up to 3,000 years older than the ones in Central America.
“Our new research shows that Brazil’s prehistoric Indians 5,000 years ago were more sophisticated than we had thought and were capable of producing truly monumental structures,” said Professor Edna Morley, the director of the Instituto do Patrinionio Historico e Artistico National (National Heritage Institute) in Santa Catarina where most of the Brazilian pyramids have been discovered.
