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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Unraveling the Secrets of a 48-Million-Year-Old Horse-Like Creature That Mimicked a Badger The 48-million-year-old beast could have resembled a modern-day badger, according to a reconstruction of a wild horse the size of a small dog. Experts named the early equid…
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57,000-Year-Old Wolf Pup Mummy Uncovered in Canadian Permafrost In Yukon, Canada, a perfectly preserved wolf puppy, hidden away for 57,000 years in permafrost and identified by researchers as “the oldest, most complete wolf,” has been discovered in Yukon, Canada. At the Klondike…
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135-Year-Old Message In A Bottle Found In Floorboards – Amazing Victorian Time Capsule A rather incredible discovery occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a woman found a 135-year-old message in a bottle under her floorboards. Everything started in October 1877 when…
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The Sword in the Stone: Unveiling the Italian Origin of a Legendary Tale The sword trapped in stone, only to be freed by a future king’s forceful grip, is an essential part of King Arthur’s mythology. The question of whether there’s a…
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Discovery of 500-Year-Old Incan Mummy in Peru’s Puruchuco Cemetery Thousands of Inca mummies, some of them bundled together in groups of up to seven, have been unearthed from an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in Peru. Believed to…
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Exploring the Mysteries of Sigiriya: Sri Lanka’s Hidden Ancient City Sigiriya (The Lion Mountain) is often considered to be the eighth wonder of the world and an ancient stone fortress used by a king of Sri Lanka as a site…
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