The United States Lost Ancient Megacity of Cahokia: A Historical Rewrite The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri. This…
Mathematical Breakthrough Unlocks New Clues to the Universe’s Deepest Mysteries A grand challenge in modern theoretical physics is to find a ‘unified theory’ that can describe all the laws of nature within a single framework — connecting Einstein’s general theory…
800-Year-Old Burials Uncovered in Peru: Gas Workers’ Remarkable Discovery Gas pipe workers have discovered the remains of eight people, who were buried alongside musical instruments and food in Peru 800 years ago. Bodies of adults and children had been covered…
Gate to Temple of Zeus Unearthed in Magnesia, Turkey Archaeologists have been excavating Magnesia for decades. The ancient Greek city in Turkey’s Aydin province is home to two temples: one dedicated to Artemis, and the other, to Zeus. Archaeologists found…
The Valley of Balls: Kazakhstan’s Mysterious Massive Stone Spheres Close to the town of Shetpe in Western Kazakhstan lies the Valley of Balls – or Torysh, as it is known in Kazakh. It consists of numerous ball-like rock formations strewn across…
Babylonians Used Advanced Maths to Predict Jupiter’s Path 1,400 Years Before Calculus Analysis of an ancient codebreaking tablet has revealed that Babylonian astronomers had calculated the movements of Jupiter using an early form of geometric calculus some 1,400 years before we thought…
1,300-Year-Old Wooden Ski Pair Discovered in Norwegian Ice The long-lost ski of a pair used more than 1,300 years ago has been discovered on a Norwegian mountaintop. The first ski was uncovered in 2014 and seven years later, the Digervarden…
Unveiling the Azores’ First Settlers: Evidence of Human Inhabitance 700 Years Earlier A group of international academics discovered evidence that people inhabited islands in the Azores archipelago 700 years earlier than previously thought. The group explains their research of sediment cores taken…
Scientists Unveil ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ 16-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Water Bear in Amber Scientists have discovered a new species of tardigrade almost perfectly preserved in 16-million-year-old amber. Also known as water bears, the creatures are a group of microscopic invertebrates that are best known…
5,000-Year-Old Yamnaya Burial Mounds Unearthed in Serbia Researchers, including Polish archaeologists, discovered tall men’s bones covered with red dye in two burial mounds in Vojvodina (northern Serbia). These bones probably belonged to people who had come there almost five thousand…
