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2 weeks ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
In 2014, a team of French and Russian scientists unearthed a 30,000 - year - old giant virus from Siberia’s frozen tundra - a pathogen dubbed Mollivirus sibericum. Dormant since the Ice Age, it was revived in a lab, infecting amoebas with eerie efficiency. Fast forward to 2025, and the stakes are higher than ever. Cyclical climate change is accelerating permafrost melt, releasing ancient viruses into a world already scarred by pandemics like COVID - 19.
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3 weeks ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
Imagine standing on the Giza plateau, gazing at the pyramids, unaware that beneath your feet lies a labyrinth stretching 6,500 feet wide and plunging 2,100 feet deep—a hidden world that could unravel everything we know about ancient Egypt. In early 2025, researchers pierced the earth with cutting-edge tech, unveiling vast structures defying ancient engineering. Are we staring at Atlantis’ ruins, a mythical Hall of Records, or even alien tech?
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3 weeks ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
For millennia, humans have sought to pierce the veil of reality, chasing glimpses of the divine, the cosmic, the unseen. From the Amazon’s tangled jungles to the rocky caves of Spain, ancient shamans turned to psychedelics - potent plant brews like ayahuasca - to fuel their visionary quests.
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4 weeks ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
Imagine a world where angels fall to teach humanity forbidden secrets, where the dead rise to judge the living, and oracles whisper of empires drowning in fire - all scribbled in ancient texts too radical for the Bible’s pages. These are the "forbidden prophecies" - apocalyptic writings buried by time and orthodoxy, pulsing with visions of cosmic chaos and cryptic hope. What grim futures did they foresee, and do their shadows fall on our world today? Why were they silenced?
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1 month ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
Picture this: a pyramid pierces the Egyptian dawn, its shadow stretching across sands older than memory. Thousands of miles away, another rises from Mexico’s jungles, eerily similar, as if whispering secrets across an ocean it never crossed. In England, Stonehenge’s silent stones guard a solstice, while Senegal’s circles echo the same ancient rhythm. Mesopotamia’s ziggurats climb toward the heavens, mirrored by Cambodia’s stepped temples half a world away.
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1 month ago | 
ancient-origins.net | Ioannis Syrigos
Vampires sinking fangs into pale necks, werewolves howling under a full moon, zombies clawing their way from graves—these creatures haunt our nightmares and flicker across screens, modern icons of terror. But their roots stretch far beyond Hollywood, deep into the shadows of ancient cultures. For adults who revel in the macabre and the mysteries of history, the origins of these horror staples reveal a fascinating tapestry of human fears, beliefs, and the eternal dance with death.
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1 month ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
Throughout history, there have been individuals and civilizations that seemed to possess an uncanny ability to foresee events long before they happened. Some of their predictions were written in ancient texts, passed down through oral traditions, or hidden within cryptic prophecies. At times, these forecasts were so specific and accurate that they have baffled scholars, historians, and scientists alike. How did they know?
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1 month ago | 
historicmysteries.net | Ioannis Syrigos
When we hear the word "conspiracy," we often think of improbable theories, shadowy figures, or wild speculations. However, history reveals that some conspiracies aren't just theories—they're documented facts. Here are eight astonishing historical conspiracies that, against all odds, turned out to be true. Historic Mysteries is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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1 month ago | 
ancient-origins.net | Ioannis Syrigos
ioannis Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What if everything we’ve been taught about the dawn of civilization is a lie—or at least a half-truth? Picture this: more than 10,000 years ago, while the last Ice Age glaciers retreated, a sophisticated society flourished—cities of stone rising from the earth, astronomers charting the heavens, engineers bending nature to their will.
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1 month ago | 
ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos
What if the thunderous clash of the Titans wasn’t a wild fantasy conjured by ancient poets, but the last reverberation of a brutal war—chieftains locked in a struggle so fierce it scarred the earth, their true names swallowed by the abyss of time? Envision Hercules, sweat-soaked and mortal, his twelve labours not the stuff of divine whimsy but the gritty triumphs of a warrior-king, his legend bloated through centuries of whispered retellings around flickering fires.
