Articles by Jenny Williamson

This year, we’ve found one of the most metal and wild Yuletide goddesses yet – Frau Holle. Human sacrifices, spindles in yer vag, plague, starvation, caves of offerings [...Read More...]

Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded two thousand years ago. It’s the home of some of the most iconic Mesoamerican monuments in [...Read More...]

The Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest, largest, most sophisticated Bronze Age civilizations we know about today. Roughly 80 cities and towns have been unearthed [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Ancient origins: Was the Mohenjo Daro ‘Massacre’ Real? John Roach: “Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro,” National Geographic George [...Read More...]

For over a thousand years, the ancient Egyptians sent their ships out to trade with a fabulous kingdom. They dragged their ships from the Nile to the coast of the Red Sea, [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here are some documentaries we found useful: Here’s that image of Queen Ati and King Parahu we talked about: Here are more sources that helped us write [...Read More...]

Perched on a cliff at the edge of the world in the remote Orkney Islands, the ancient village of Skara Brae is a picturesque and dramatic sight. Carved into an ancient [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s a really informative documentary on Cahokia: And here is a video of some people playing Chunkey! Our sources include, in no particular order: [...Read More...]

Hundreds of years before European contact, the biggest city in North America was located along the Mississippi River. At its peak, perhaps 15,000 people lived there—and [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First off, here are some pictures of the site at Gobekli Tepe: Here’s a picture of the single female figure found at the site (in Layer II): And [...Read More...]