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…
First Modern Humans in Europe: Arrival 10,000 Years Earlier Than Believed Some 30 years of archaeological and other types of scientific research around the ancient artifacts and human remains in the Grotte Mandarin, located in the Rhone River Valley in…
350-Year-Old African Remains Found in Portugal’s Stone Age Site A team of researchers has found an African man buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira, Portugal. The man lived just 350 years ago. Researchers have found an African man…
Dinosaur Dance Floor in China: Largest Late Cretaceous Footprint Site Discovered In China, researchers have found many dinosaur footprints in an area of 1,600 square meters described in the literature as a “dinosaur dance floor.” So far, 8 kinds of…
Lost Maya City Discovered in Volcano Crater: Lake Atitlán’s Hidden Archaeological Marvel A lost Mayan city that collapsed inside a volcano crater has been explored by a team of archaeologists. In the Late Preclassic period—400 BC to AD 250—there was…
