Cecilia Bogaard

Jan 14, 2025 | ancient-origins.net | Cecilia Bogaard

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For those looking to taste out of the box,  chicha—a fermented beverage from Latin America—may not be the obvious choice. The drink encounters some resistance, largely due to the fermentation process associated with it, which involves chewing starch-rich ingredients—such as corn and yuca—before spitting them into a container to ferment.

Oct 31, 2024 | ancient-origins.net | Cecilia Bogaard

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In a remarkable fusion of software technologies and human imagination, we are now able to experience disparate worlds simultaneously. Seamlessly intertwined, the past meets the present and cultures collide through immersive and extended reality. The possibilities are endless, as demonstrated by the innovative projects pioneered by OurWorlds.

Oct 24, 2024 | ancient-origins.net | Cecilia Bogaard

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... These days, town halls tend to equate unsanctioned graffiti with vandalism, identifying it as a costly “problem” or eyesore. All too often local administrations prioritize the quick removal of graffiti, following the lead of the now defunct broken windows theory, proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, which claims that visible disorder such as graffiti encourages further crime.

Sep 5, 2024 | ancient-origins.net | Cecilia Bogaard

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mammoths became extinct on mainland Alaska just under 12,000 years ago. Or at least that’s the current consensus. This timeline supports the argument that the arrival of humans at the end of the last Ice Age, around 14,000 years ago, played a pivotal role in their demise.

Sep 3, 2024 | ancient-origins.net | Cecilia Bogaard

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When you delve into news related to historic reconstructions, one name consistently emerges: Cícero Moraes. His remarkable talent has brought faces from the distant past back to life, including Mary Magdalene, Saint Anthony of Padua, the Woman of Pumapungo, and even the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.