Meganeuropsis: The Giant Prehistoric Insect with a 65 cm Wingspan Meganeura the largest Flying Insect Ever Existed, Had a Wingspan of Up to 65 Cm, from the Carboniferous period. Its name is Meganeuropsis, and it ruled the skies before pterosaurs,…
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Fossilized Insect Found Preserved in Opal, a Rare 4–7 Million-Year-Old Discovery A piece of opal from Java Island, Indonesia, holds some remarkable cargo: a stunningly preserved insect that may be at least four to seven million years old. Amber has…
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Ancient Irish DNA Reveals Secrets of Newgrange and Neolithic Ireland In the earliest periods of Irish history, archaeologists and geneticists led by those from Trinity have shed new light. The amazing findings of this study include an adult male genome…
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Britain’s Hidden Stone Age Rock Art Discovered in Northern England They have been found where the earth meets the sky, high up on the moorlands of northern England, a mysterious series of strange and ancient carvings hewn into the rocks…
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Ancient Germanic Lord Buried with Six Women Discovered in Germany In Saxony-Anhalt, close to Brücken-Hackpfüffel Archaeologists have discovered the complex grave of a Germanic lord or prince who lived 1,500 years ago during the Great Migration. Experts claim that for 40…
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3,000-Year-Old Olive Tree in Crete Still Produces Olives Today One day about 3,000 years ago, at a time when the Minoan civilization still ruled over Crete and long before the rise of Classical Greece, an olive fell to the ground…
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Ancient Salome Burial Cave in Israel Reveals Rare Pilgrim Treasures Ahead of opening a burial cave dedicated to Salome, the midwife of Jesus, to the public, archaeologists have recently uncovered a number of priceless artifacts from its courtyard, the Israeli…
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Experts Examine Newly Discovered Leonardo da Vinci Drawing of Jesus Italian scholars credit a recently found drawing of Jesus Christ to Leonardo da Vinci. Biblical figure’s red chalk drawing has been locked in a private collection for decades. Art historians…
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Prague Astronomical Clock: 600-Year-Old Medieval Wonder Still Ticks One of the most compelling of landmarks in the Czech Republic is the Astronomical Clock in Prague. Legend dates the clock back to the 15th century when Hanus, a clock master with…
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Rare 17th-Century Shakespeare Book Discovered in Spanish Library BBC News reports that John Stone of the University of Barcelona has found a 1634 printing of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a play written by William Shakespeare with John Fletcher, a house playwright for…
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