An Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Built
An Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Built Stones weighing up to fifteen tonnes were hauled down the Nile on wooden boats to a man-made port. For centuries it has been one of the world’s greatest enigmas: how did a primitive society with little technology build the Great Pyramid of Giza …
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied The remains of 108 Aboriginal people who died about 42,000 years ago will be reburied in outback Australia, years after they were first dug up without permission. These include the remains of Mungo Man, which was famously discovered in 1974 and helped rewrite Australia’s history. The decision …
Early Bronze Age Ax Heads Discovered in England
Early Bronze Age Ax Heads Discovered in England Metal detectorists have made a “remarkable” discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire. Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire, said the finds could be about 4,000 years old. “I knelt down and dug it up, then realised it …
Man discovers alien creature’s corpse washed up on Australian beach
Man discovers “alien” creature’s corpse washed up on Australian beach A weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discoloured beast of a myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week. And though it’s anybody’s guess the idenтιтy of the stranded corpse, experts contacted …
Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans?
Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans? Our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now, Earth is the only world known to harbour life, and among all the living things on our planet, we ᴀssume Homo sapiens is the …
Skeleton of Roman mercenary and medieval remains found buried in Wales
Skeleton of Roman mercenary and medieval remains found buried in Wales The 1,700-year-old skeleton of a Roman mercenary has been unearthed next to a newly-built road in the Welsh countryside. Archaeologists discovered the mercenary buried with his sword alongside Iron Age farming tools, ancient burial sites, and the remnants of roundhouses. A total of 456 skeletons …
Judahite Elite in Jerusalem Drank Wine Flavored With Vanilla 2,600 Years Ago
Judahite Elite in Jerusalem Drank Wine Flavored With Vanilla 2,600 Years Ago Analysis of smashed wine jars in Jerusalem houses destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E. finds unexpected flavour in jars that the rich reused In the year 586 B.C.E., the Babylonians laid waste to Jerusalem in a fury at the rebellion by King …
Stolen Darwin journals returned to the Cambridge University library
Stolen Darwin journals returned to the Cambridge University library A pair of Charles Darwin’s iconic notebooks have been returned to their rightful home more than 20 years after they were mysteriously stolen. The contents of the notebooks include the naturalist’s first doodle of the “tree of life,” which he sketched out decades before formulating his …
Turkish experts find 4 Umayyad epigraphs in the ancient city Knidos
Turkish experts find 4 Umayyad epigraphs in the ancient city Knidos Four inscriptions made of marble and limestone from the Umayyad period have been unearthed during the archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Knidos in the western province of Muğla’s Datça district. The excavations have been carried out in the ancient city under the …
Genetic Study Tracks Warriors from Mongolia to Hungary
Genetic Study Tracks Warriors from Mongolia to Hungary Less known than Attila’s Huns, the Avars were their more successful successors. They ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. We know that they came from Central Asia in the sixth century CE, but ancient authors, as well as modern historians, have long …