A tiny, 48-million-year-old primate Horse Looked Like a Badger

A tiny, 48-million-year-old primate Horse Looked Like a Badger

A tiny, 48-million-year-old primate Horse Looked Like 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 ‘Propalaeotherium voigti’ after it was discovered in an oil pit in Messel, near Frankfurt, in southern Germany, in …

Scientists discover hundreds of thousands of animal, and human bones in Saudi Arabia cave

Scientists discover hundreds of thousands of animal, and human bones in Saudi Arabia cave

Scientists discover hundreds of thousands of animal, and human bones in Saudi Arabia cave Although hyenas look and hunt like canines, they’re members of the mongoose family and therefore more closely related to a cat. However, just like dogs, hyenas have an affinity for hiding bones — it’s just that they can tend to go …

Well-Preserved Cave Lion Cub Found to be a 28,000-Year-Old Female

Well-Preserved Cave Lion Cub Found to be a 28,000-Year-Old Female

Well-Preserved Cave Lion Cub Found to be a 28,000-Year-Old Female A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every one of her whiskers. Researchers in Sweden claim the cub, nicknamed Sparta, is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever uncovered …

Tajik Buddha in Nirvana – the Largest in the World: 42 feet long and 9 feet high

Tajik Buddha in Nirvana – the Largest in the World: 42 feet long and 9 feet high

Tajik Buddha in Nirvana – the Largest in the World: 42 feet long and 9 feet high In the past, while Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan destroyed two immense statues of Buddha, art historians in neighboring Tajikistan meticulously restored a huge reclining Buddha from the same period. The world’s largest “Buddha in Nirvana.” Tajikistan carefully preserves the …

The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant Finally Revealed

The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant Finally Revealed

The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant Finally Revealed There’s a huge chalk image of a man with a powerful erection and no clothes on his ʙuтт located in the hills of Dorset, England. After centuries of speculation, the origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant may finally have been determined, according to a recent …

1,400-year-old coins found in a piggy bank in ancient city of Hadrianopolis

1,400-year-old coins found in a piggy bank in ancient city of Hadrianopolis

1,400-year-old coins found in a piggy bank in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis Archaeologists unearthed a collection of 10 coins believed to date back nearly 1,400 years, retrieved from what appears to be a piggy bank in the ongoing excavations at the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in Karabük’s Eskipazar district, Türkiye. Excavations started in 2003 …

Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after a re-examination of a mummified teen mom who died in childbirth

Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after a re-examination of a mummified teen mom who died in childbirth

Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after a re-examination of a mummified teen mom who died in childbirth Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after re-examining the mummified remains of a teen mom aged just 14–17 who died in childbirth more than 1,500 years ago. What makes the find both horrifying and extraordinary at the …

Wounds on Colonial-Era Skull Examined in Indonesia

Wounds on Colonial-Era Skull Examined in Indonesia

Wounds on Colonial-Era Skull Examined in Indonesia A possibly enslaved woman may have been executed with a sharp weapon in what is now the Papua province of Indonesia, a new study finds. Only the skull of the victim is available for analysis, but it revealed that the woman was between 26 and 42 years old …

Carbon-Based Paleolithic Paintings Found in France

Carbon-Based Paleolithic Paintings Found in France

Carbon-Based Paleolithic Paintings Found in France A paper was published this month by researchers at the Center de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, revealing that the first carbon-based cave art has been found in Dordogne’s famous Bison Cave. Researchers Ina Reiche, Yvan Coquinot, Antoine Trosseau, and Anne Maigret have published their findings from the …

Archaeologists discover a hidden Maya burial chamber in the walled enclosure of Tulum

Archaeologists discover a hidden Maya burial chamber in the walled enclosure of Tulum

Archaeologists discover a hidden Maya burial chamber in the walled enclosure of Tulum Archaeologists from the National Insтιтute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered a hidden Maya burial chamber concealed within a cave at the archaeological complex in Tulum, Quintana Roo. The discovery, sealed off by a mᴀssive rock deep inside Mexico’s walled city …