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Ancient Aliens – Secrets of the Mummies

Conspiracy / 2 minutes of reading / August 12, 2020 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – Secrets of the Mummies: For thousands of years, in cultures throughout the world, people have practiced elaborate techniques to preserve the human body after death. The ancient Egyptians believed mummification ensured entrance into the next life. Fullscreen Buddhist monks in Japan practiced a shocking self-mummification process that began before death in the hopes of becoming a “living Buddha.” And the Incas consulted the mummified remains of their kings to discuss affairs of state and the future. Ancient Astronaut theorists believe the global practice of mummification is not a coincidence, but proof that highly […]

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Europe in the Middle Ages episode 3 – Peasants and Nobles

History / 2 minutes of reading / August 12, 2020 / By HDclump

Europe in the Middle Ages episode 3 – Peasants and Nobles: Most of the population in the Middle Ages lived on the land – a silent, suffering majority, who as serfs had to do soccage service and pay taxes to the ruling noblemen and were repeatedly exposed to famine and violent conflicts. Fear of bears, wolves and demons or roaming bands of robbers were widespread and today, folktales and legends still give us an insight into the former peasant culture. And yet, it too made a considerable contribution to progress through inventions such as the horse’s harness, the

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Europe in the Middle Ages episode 2 – Monks and Heretics

History / 2 minutes of reading / August 10, 2020 / By HDclump

Europe in the Middle Ages episode 2 – Monks and Heretics: As centres of missionary activity and science, monasteries made an important contribution to progress. Here, not only theology was taught and studied, but medicine, mathematics, astronomy, law and philosophy as well. With the translation of the ancient scripts into Latin, this knowledge was introduced to the western world. However, the monasteries were not only places of devout worship and chastity – intrigues, power struggles and love affairs were not unknown to them either. The Middle Ages were dark in the literal sense of the word: apart from

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Ancient Aliens – The Genius Factor

Conspiracy / 2 minutes of reading / August 10, 2020 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – The Genius Factor: Throughout history, many of the world’s greatest thinkers have helped push civilization forward with their profound insights and extraordinary abilities. But the majority of these master minds say their brilliance comes from a place they don’t understand–and arrives at times they’re not expecting it. Fullscreen In antiquity, people in nearly every culture around the world believed they did not possess genius, but that genius possessed them, like a spirit. Could it be that the forces of inspiration that the ancients attributed to the gods really did emanate from an otherworldly source, as

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Europe in the Middle Ages episode 1 – Knights and Tournaments

History / 4 minutes of reading / August 6, 2020 / By HDclump

Europe in the Middle Ages episode 1 – Knights and Tournaments : Picturesque castles, noble knights, minnesingers and troubadours – these romantic images fire our imagination in the generally accepted conception of the Middle Ages. On the darker side of this world, there are gloomy castle dungeons, torture chambers and bloody raids and power struggles. The courtly culture of the armoured knights formed a caste with its own code of honour in which the art of war and chivalry played an important role and that was ruled by the king. The castles represented a cosmos of their own:

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 17 2020

The Beechgrove Garden 2020 / 3 minutes of reading / August 6, 2020 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden episode 17 2020: In this episode, George provides a greenhouse update and shows the benefits of late-sown cucumbers, while Carole deals with that most persistent of garden pests – the vine weevil. Meanwhile, Brian is cooking up compost at his family garden in Scone. Beechgrove is a hardy annual TV gardening series which sets out to deal with, glory in and celebrate Scottish horticulture and growing conditions. Beechgrove is and always has been a firmly practical, get-your-hands-dirty gardening programme which delights in success but also learns from failures in the garden and never takes itself

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Ancient Aliens – Aliens Among Us

Conspiracy / 3 minutes of reading / August 6, 2020 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – Aliens Among Us: There are those who believe that the evolution of technology is not entirely of our own making. Alternative stream Ancient Astronaut theorists contend that it is by extraterrestrial design that we have become so technologically interconnected–and that we are being watched by beings from beyond our world. Do stories from the ancient past hold evidence of alien overseers? The Book of Enoch describes divine entities called the Watchers descending to Earth to monitor humankind and aid in our advancement. Inca legend states that the god Viracocha created humans and taught

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Ancient Aliens – Mysteries of the Sphinx

Conspiracy / 2 minutes of reading / August 2, 2020 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – Mysteries of the Sphinx: The Great Sphinx in Giza is the largest and most studied monolithic sculpture on Earth, yet it remains one of humanities greatest mysteries. This ancient monolith defies explanation, pre-dates our earliest known civilizations and may hide the secrets of our very origins. While mainstream archeology theorizes that the Sphinx was built around 2500 BC, geological evidence suggests it is much older. If this is true, then who–or what–created the Sphinx? Researchers are now proposing the existence of a second, twin Sphinx on the Giza Plateau. If so, has it been deliberately

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Greek Island Odyssey with Bettany Hughes episode 6

History, Travel / 2 minutes of reading / August 2, 2020 / By HDclump

Greek Island Odyssey with Bettany Hughes episode 6: Bettany travels through the Corinth Canal – a feat of engineering that required the removal of 12 million cubic metres of earth – before heading for her penultimate stop of Corfu, where Count Flamburiari reveals the island’s close connections to Britain. From there, Bettany sails to Ithaca, Odysseus’s home island, finally completing her 1,700-mile voyage across the Greek Islands. However, there’s a startling surprise in store when she is awoken in the night by an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale. Greek Island Odyssey with Bettany Hughes episode

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Ancient Aliens – Forbidden Caves

Conspiracy / 2 minutes of reading / July 31, 2020 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – Forbidden Caves: Could the darkest recesses of our planet contain important information left by our ancient ancestors? Fullscreen And within Earth’s mysterious caves, might we find evidence of otherworldly contact? Throughout human history, some caves have been considered sacred places for spiritual encounter and enlightenment, while others have been feared as true portals to purgatory. What happens in these subterranean spaces that has the power to influence religions around the globe? Could some of Earth’s deepest caverns be secret conduits to supernatural realms? In Charma, India, archeologists recently discovered 10,000 year-old prehistoric artwork of what

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 16 2020

The Beechgrove Garden 2020 / 4 minutes of reading / July 30, 2020 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden episode 16 2020: This week, Carole and George are enjoying a mid-season harvest. Carole reveals the tatties that she planted in containers in the first episode, and George harvests cabbage and blackcurrants at his allotment in sunny Joppa. Meanwhile, Chris checks on the progress of his box blight battle and explains the art of cloud pruning. Beechgrove is a hardy annual TV gardening series which sets out to deal with, glory in and celebrate Scottish horticulture and growing conditions. Beechgrove is and always has been a firmly practical, get-your-hands-dirty gardening programme which delights in success

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Ancient Aliens – Alien Breeders

Conspiracy / 3 minutes of reading / July 29, 2020 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – Alien Breeders: Demonic seduction… hybrid offspring… and strange abductions. In cultures throughout the world, there are tales of intimate encounters with otherworldly beings. But could these stories be more than just mythology? Scientific deconstruction of human genetic makeup has revealed that our origins are not what we once believed. Biologists have determined that early humans mated with several other species of intelligent hominids. Neanderthals, Denisovans, and a third–as of yet unidentified–species may also be represented in our DNA. Is it possible that tales spanning from fallen angels to Greek gods, medieval incubus and succubus to

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