July 30, 2013 - The idea that cancer is a modern disease is a common misconception — one that the fossil record reveals to be untrue, as explained in this excerpt from The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery.

I have one point-of many-that I hope you can clarify. During which age did the current Great Year begin? I thought that any given Great Year would begin in Leo and then begin again at the next Leo-25,800 years later. I realize you mentioned that the Age of Aquarius is considered the midpoint ...

January 8, 2021 - Ancient cultures believed in a Grand Cycle. The Great Year. This cycle created high ages of enlightenment and low ages of darkness.

The ancient toe from a human relative in South Africa could have important implications for modern medical research.

December 27, 2010 - Though often thought of as a modern disease, cancer has always been with us; where scientists disagree is on how much it has been amplified by modern civilization.

The recent discovery that malignant neoplastic lesions date back nearly 2 million years ago not only highlights the antiquity of cancer in the human lineage, but also provides remarkable insight into ancestral hominin disease pathology. Using ...

Like a human body, the cells ... or else cancer or other illesses may result. Sincerely Nassim · ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wow, man! Your page is really cool. Where do I start? I'm a young Aquarius looking forward to the gradual onset of the Seventh Age with excited ...

3 weeks ago - The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity ...

November 14, 2016 - Cancer is widespread today, but it doesn’t appear to have been in the ancient world. Why not?

3 days ago - The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools. Other organic commodities were adapted for use as tools, including leather and vegetable fibers; however, due to rapid decomposition, these have not survived to any great degree. About 50,000 years ...

January 29, 2024 - The term Great Year has more than one major meaning. It is defined by scientific astronomy as "The period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, or about 25,800 years". Ptolemy reported that his teacher Hipparchus, by comparing the position of the vernal equinox against ...

July 20, 1998 - Paleolithic Period, ancient cultural stage of human development marked by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. Traditionally, it has been considered to have begun with the Pleistocene Epoch 2.58 million years ago; however, tool discoveries made in 2015 suggest that it may have begun ...

July 28, 2016 - The earliest evidence of cancer in the human fossil record has been discovered in South Africa, say researchers.

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This mini‐review chronicles the history of cancer ranging from cancerous growths discovered in dinosaur fossils, suggestions of cancer in Ancient Egyptian papyri written in 1500–1600 BC, and the fi...

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The time the Planetary Equinox regresses over a full 360º · There are 12 Zodiac Archetypes that are each of the 12 Astrological Ages. We are moving from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. The Precession of the Equinoxes is caused by the differential between the gravitational forces ...

Plants rich in starch helped early humans to thrive even at the height of the last Ice Age, researchers say.While the evidence around meat eating is clear, the role of plant foods is less understood. Animal bones can last millions of years and still show cuts made by human butchering tools, ...