Originally published October, 2013, still relevant, their blog has just gotten way bigger! One of the most exciting things to learn about is just how smart and talented our earliest forefathers actually were. I just started a book with my six year old on people around the world and Read more…
Nazca Lines – Spider (Photo credit: CB Photography)
One of the very cool things I’ve learned in the past year or so is just how small of things that the ancients could see. The first time I heard about this ability was when I learned about the Nazca Lines of Peru. These are actually huge, shallow ditches carved out of the desert plain. The pictures we can still see are of a sorts of things including a monkey, condor and this spider.It’s impossible to see on the picture I found for my post, but if you click on the spider picture I got from the the Wikipedia page, you will see that one leg has a long bend that extends far beyond the carefully carved legs on the rest of the drawing. (more…)
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? II Kings 20:20 When I was a girl Read more…
Yesterday I was reading the book Window on the World to my kids about the country of Oman. Although this book is almost 20 years old, it still has a lot of good info on people that you don’t usually hear about. Much to my surprise, I learned that this Read more…
[pick your favorite pronunciation: at-lah-t’l, ott-lottle, or atl-atl from the Aztec] It’s been 200 years since your family returned to dry land and started repopulating the world. The dragons, elephants, and other really big animals have been busy having babies as well. Your clan is travelling to some pleasantly lonely location where you plan to settle Read more…
I ran into a page on the Stone Balls of Costa Rica a few weeks ago and thought they were really cool. It is so much fun studying these things out with you! Even Wikipedia has a nice page on these rocks, so it’s not just the UFO and Bible fanatics who know Read more…
Ancient technology Friday!!I know how much we all love to hear about how smart our great, great great…. grandparents actually were, so here’s today’s installment. I was looking around for something else and ran into this page with excellent pictures of intact crystal eyes on Egyptian statues. Scroll down to Read more…