Archive - Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

10 Facts About Numidia, the Berber Kingdom That Outwitted Rome

Few people know that Numidian cavalry played a decisive role in breaking Hannibal at Zama, fighting alongside Roman cavalry.

Oct 14 • Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

Friday the 13th Didn’t Curse the Templars - A King Did

On the morning of 13 October 1307, royal officers across France opened sealed orders from King Philip IV.

Oct 13 • Aris Manus

The Halloween Story Everyone Gets Wrong: What Samhain Really Says About the Otherworld

Before pumpkins, plastic masks, and bowls of candy, there was a darker autumn threshold in Ireland

Oct 11 • Aris Manus

The Enigmatic Etruscans

The Etruscan civilization flourished from the eighth to the first centuries BCE.

Oct 9 • Mary Naples

The Shepherd: A Book Read and a Public Reading Refused

A close reading of the Muratorian Fragment shows why the Shepherd of Hermas could be valued for instruction and still be denied public reading in…

Oct 5 • Aris Manus

Could 4 Ezra’s Eagle Predict the Future?

When the Lion Speaks

Oct 3 • Aris Manus

September 2026

Could an Ancient Carving Reveal the Voyage Behind Jason and the Argonauts?

Could the Golden Fleece be more than a myth?

Sep 30 • Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

15,000 People Came to Reykjavík’s Harbour for Two Books & One Had Eight Missing Leaves.

In 1971, a Danish naval ship returned two medieval manuscripts that Iceland had pursued for decades.

Sep 29 • Aris Manus

Jude Quoted It as Prophecy but Most Bibles Left It Out

The Book of Enoch survived at Qumran, remained part of Ethiopian Scripture, and still sits outside most Bibles.

Sep 22 • Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

The Flood Story The Bible Cut: Qumran’s Book of Giants

Genesis gives the flood four compressed verses of prelude; Qumran’s Book of Giants and the Book of Watchers preserve the indictment the giants…

Sep 20 • Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

There Was No Single Book of Norse Mythology

How anonymous poems, Snorri's thirteenth-century handbook, and later retellings became a modern canon

Sep 18 • Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

The People Rome Left Behind

“The Romans left Britain” is one of those sentences that sounds clearer than the event it describes.

Sep 15 • Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

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