5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid For more than 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a notorious cuneiform clay tablet that reveals that in the past the impact case of so-called…
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The Mythical Benben Stone: Unveiling the Landing Site of Egyptian God Atum The Benben Stone is an entity found in ancient Egyptian mythology. The legendary stone was once kept in a shrine within the compounds of the temple of the…
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Geologist Urges Swift Repatriation of Mungo Man, a 40,000-Year-Old Discovery Forty years after Mungo Man was unearthed in the dunes of western New South Wales, the geologist who made the discovery is urging the NSW government to speed up repatriation…
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Mystery Of The Faceless Woman Found In A 1,000-Year-Old Royal Grave Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 1,000-year-old grave containing the remains of a woman and man. The most curious aspect of this discovery is that the woman’s face is missing.…
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Exploring Nine Mile Canyon: World’s Longest and Oldest Art Gallery in Utah’s Desert Situated in the desert of eastern Utah, The Nine Mile Canyon is the world’s longest art gallery. This canyon is home to tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs…
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An Astonishingly Small Stone Carving That Has the Power to Change Art History A discovery by researchers at the University of Cincinnati is upending the way we think about the development of Western Civilization. More than one year after discovering the 3,500-year-old…
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17th-Century Vasa Warship Pulled From Icy Baltic Sea Is Almost Perfectly Preserved In the 1620s, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered the construction of a new warship to protect his citizens. The warship was named Vasa and its construction was hurried as the Swedes…
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Axe-Wounded Visby Warrior Brought to Life Over 600 Years Later A medieval warrior’s skull, recovered from a mass grave outside Visby, a city on the Swedish island of Gotland, has been brought to life by a digital artist. Killed in…
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2400-Year-Old Ancient Bunkers and Nuclear War Shelters Found in India In recent times, India has strengthened its reputation through some phenomenal finds made in several caves in the Bihar region. India is one of the oldest cultures in the world.…
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Scientists discover 43 million-year-old fossil of a four-legged whale Scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps trace the transition of whales from land to…
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