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Ancient Viruses Awakened: Could They Trigger the Next Pandemic?

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.
The Hidden Depths of Giza: A Discovery That Could Rewrite History

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?
Ancient Psychedelics: Did Shamans Unlock the Secrets of the Universe?

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.
Forbidden Prophecies and Apocalyptic Texts: What Do the Lost Writings Warn Us About the Future?

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?
The Hidden Blueprint in Rosslyn Chapel’s Window of Wonder

1 month ago | ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ashley Cowie

Located on a picturesque hilltop six miles south of Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh, is one of the world’s most mysterious and misunderstood buildings - Rosslyn Chapel. This tiny Scottish church came under the world’s spotlight after Dan Brown’s 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code connected it with the mystery of the Holy Grail.
Why Did Ancient Cultures Build the Same Structures Across the World?

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.
How Did They Know? Ancient Predictions That Came True

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?
What If Mythology Is Just History We Forgot?

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.
The Bible’s Lost Books-What Were We Not Meant to Know?

1 month ago | ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ioannis Syrigos

The Bible is one of the most influential and widely read books in human history. However, what many people don’t realize is that the version we have today is the result of centuries of editing, translation, and deliberate exclusion of certain texts. These so-called "lost books" of the Bible raise fascinating questions: What do they contain? Why were they left out? And what were we not meant to know?
Forsaken by their Gods, Four Ruins of the Oldest Temples in the World

2 months ago | ancientoriginsunleashed.com | Ashley Cowie

On Orkney, the archipelago of the north coast of Scotland, ancient temple sites such as the Ness of Brodgar and Barnhouse Settlement, stone circles like Ring of Brodgar and Standing Stones of Stennes, were built between 3200 BC and 2500 BC. Being born and raised in the region of the earliest outdoor temples in the world, inspired historian Ashley Cowie to take a look at four of the oldest temple structures in the world.