16th Century Gothic Boxwood Carvings: Unveiling Mysteries with X-Ray Technology New research and cutting-edge scientific imaging have revealed that each carving is an intricate three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Knowing how the carvings were made only raises more questions about what motivated…
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Mount Roraima: Myths, Mysteries, and the Cloud-Covered Tepui of the Gods Mount Roraima is located on a high plateau at the junction of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana. It was carved from a single, monolithic, gigantic piece of rock with sides…
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42,000-Year-Old Fossil Trees Reveal Earth’s Last Magnetic Field Reversal and Its Cataclysmic Effects Humans today take Earth’s magnetic North Pole for granted. But for the planet’s history, the direction of its magnetic field has shifted. A new study suggests that…
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17th-Century Skeleton of Scandinavian Girl Found with Bird Skull in Mouth: A Mysterious Burial in Poland When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child…
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Exploring Possible Neandertal Hunting Tactics: The Chough Bird Strategy Juan Negro crouched in the shadows just outside a cave, wearing his headlamp. For a brief moment, he wasn’t an ornithologist at the Spanish National Research Council’s Doñana Biological Station in…
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Ancient Ram Head Statues Discovered on Egypt’s Avenue of Sphinxes near Karnak Temple Three giant statues of ram heads — at least one of which had a cobra on top — have been discovered south of Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egyptologists announced. …
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Amethyst Seal Discovery in Jerusalem Reveals Possible Biblical Persimmon from Second Temple Period Archaeologists working in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered an ancient seal carved out of amethyst, which may show the biblical persimmon plant, one of the ingredients…
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Rare Roman Statues Discovered at Norman Church Ruins During HS2 Excavation in England Archaeologists in central England working on the HS2 project have uncovered a set of incredibly rare Roman statues whilst excavating a Norman Church in Stoke Mandeville. In the final…
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Scientific Evidence Shows Humans Didn’t Evolve from a Single Pair 200,000 Years Ago Those headlines give the impression that science has produced evidence to support the story of Adam and Eve. But the study they rest on does not demonstrate anything…
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Archaeologists Stunned by Discovery of 5,000-Year-Old ‘Scottish Pompeii’ Settlement Duncansby Head lighthouse marks the most northeasterly point of the British mainland. It’s almost 880 miles from Land’s End in the southwest of England. Just beyond here are the Orkney islands, over 70 of them,…
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