Daily Archives: May 27, 2012
10 Reasons We Should Fear the Singularity
2 Ancient Black Magic Curses Discovered
Two ancient curses dating back 1,600 years depict a deity with snakes coming out of its head. This deity may be none other than the goddess Hekate, the Queen of the Crossroads. Invocations in the curses resemble those used for her.
Bone Flute Proves Music 40,000 Years Ago
Music was flourishing in Europe in 40,000BC – millennia before Beethoven or the Beatles.
European’s earliest ancestors were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity more than 40,000 years ago, a study has shown.
Evidence of the musicians was unearthed in Germany in the form of primitive flutes made from bird bones and mammoth ivory.
World’s Largest Chocolate Sculpture
Qzina Specialty Foods has broken the world record for the world’s largest chocolate sculpture by building a replica of the ancient Mayan temple – the Kukulcan pyramid of Chichen Itza in Mexico. The sculpture which weighs a whopping 18,239 pounds surpasses the previous record of 10,736.5 pound set in Italy in 2010.
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