Archaeological Site in Peru Is Called Oldest City in the Americas
Archaeological Site in Peru Is Called Oldest City in the Americas A complex of American pyramids that may be older than the pyramids of Egypt stands on a high, dry terrace overlooking a lush river valley in the Andes Mountains of Peru. These structures are remnants of the ancient city of Caral, which some have …
An American King Tut’s Tomb of the Arkansas Valley
An American King Tut’s Tomb of the Arkansas Valley During the height of its looting in the winter of 1935, the Spiro site—located in northeastern Oklahoma just 10 miles west of Fort Smith—was catapulted to fame by a headline published in the Kansas City Star (December 15, 1935) proclaiming it “A ‘King Tut’ Tomb in …
Grave robbers almost destroyed one of the most important archaeological sites in Oklahoma
Grave robbers almost destroyed one of the most important archaeological sites in Oklahoma A miner’s pickaxe punched a hole through a wall of hard-packed soil 18 inches thick by drilling into a mound of earth on the banks of the Arkansas River in far eastern Oklahoma. The air hissed as it rushed to fill a hollow …
Man-Made or Natural? Mysterious, Giant Face Discovered on Cliff in Canada
Man-Made or Natural? Mysterious, Giant Face Discovered on Cliff in Canada A mysterious, “large” face on the cliffside of an island in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve has recently been re-discovered by a man who has been searching for the face for over two years, according to government agency Parks Canada. Hank Gus of …
Advanced 1,50,000-year-old pipework found under Chinese Pyramid
Advanced 1,50,000-year-old pipework found under Chinese Pyramid Who could have built such a complex structure 150,000 years ago, at a time when the man had barely started using fire? The Baigong pipes are one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world. They can be found inside a badly-eroded pyramid standing on top of Mount …
Researchers Discover a 2 billion-year-old nuclear reactor in Africa
Researchers Discover a 2 billion-year-old nuclear reactor in Africa In June 1972, nuclear scientists at the Pierrelatte uranium enrichment plant in south-east France noticed a strange deficit in the amount of uranium-235 they were processing. That’s a serious problem in a uranium enrichment plant where every gram of fissionable material has to be carefully accounted …
Scientist Finds Hidden Portraits Underneath Mona Lisa
Scientist Finds Hidden Portraits Underneath “Mona Lisa” Forget everything you know about the most famous painting in the world: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503–17). According to French scientist Pascal Cotte, who has analyzed the painting by reflecting light technology for over 10 years, the Mona Lisa hides another portrait underneath. According to the BBC, the …
A $26M Cimabue masterpiece was found in an elderly woman’s kitchen
A $26M Cimabue masterpiece was found in an elderly woman’s kitchen A missing masterpiece of the 13th century was sold for nearly 24.2 million Euros (26.8 million dollars), just months after it was found hanging in a French kitchen. “Christ Mocked,” by the Florentine painter Cimabue, sold for more than four times the pre-sale estimate …
Prehistoric teeth fossils dating back 9.7 million years ‘could rewrite human history’
Prehistoric teeth fossils dating back 9.7 million years ‘could rewrite human history’ In Southwestern Germany, a team of researchers discovered teeth that were millions of years old and presumably belonged to an ancient Euro-Asian primate last September. Yet after the discovery was made public, controversy opened up about the interpretation of our earliest existence. News …
Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old
Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old A rock engraved with ancient marks discovered on a dried-up lakebed in Nevada carries dated as of the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, at least 10,000 years old. The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada’s high desert are similar …