Curiosmos

Ancient Civilizations

Could There Have Been a Civilization Before the Ice Age?

byIvan PetricevicJune 6, 2025

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The Global Serpent: Why Snake Symbolism Appears in Every Ancient Culture

byIvan PetricevicJune 6, 2025

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Forged by the Heavens: Ancient Iron from the Stars

byIvan PetricevicJune 5, 2025

Cosmic Phenomena

The Great Attractor: What force is pulling our galaxy across the universe?

byIvan PetricevicMay 28, 2025

Ancient Civilizations

Ram in the Thicket and sunrise rituals in ancient Ur

byIvan PetricevicMay 27, 2025

Ancient Civilizations

Could There Have Been a Civilization Before the Ice Age?

June 6, 2025

Editor's Picks

The Global Serpent: Why Snake Symbolism Appears in Every Ancient Culture

June 6, 2025

Editor's Picks

Forged by the Heavens: Ancient Iron from the Stars

June 5, 2025

Cosmic Phenomena

The Great Attractor: What force is pulling our galaxy across the universe?

May 28, 2025

Ancient Civilizations

Ram in the Thicket and sunrise rituals in ancient Ur

May 27, 2025

Inca quipu writing. An edxample of what Quipu look like. Wikimedia Commons.

Editor's Picks

Inca quipu writing may have preserved ancient climate records in knotted strings

May 27, 2025

A room in the deep interior of the underground city of Derinkuyu. Depositphotos.

Ancient Civilizations

A virtual soundscape reveals how Derinkuyu may have sounded 2,000 years ago

May 26, 2025

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What the Voyager Golden Record says about us—if aliens ever see it

May 24, 2025

Ancient Civilizations

Was there an unknown ancient civilization in the Amazon?

May 24, 2025

Why are pyramids everywhere? This is a beautiful photo of the Great Pyramid at sunset.

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Why are pyramids everywhere? A global pattern or universal logic

May 23, 2025

An illustration of an repeating space signal coming from deep space.

Cosmic Phenomena

This repeating space signal is coming from deep space — and no one knows why

May 23, 2025

This is Yonaguni, the underwater structure off the coast of Japan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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The underwater structure off the coast of Japan — natural or engineered?

May 22, 2025

The Ancient Ruins of Nan Madol. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Ancient Civilizations

This ancient artificial island in Micronesia still defies archaeology

May 22, 2025

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The structure under Antarctica that satellites keep detecting remains a scientific mystery

May 21, 2025

An illustration of a UFO probe contorlled by superadvanced AI.

Alien Theories

The mysterious orbs pilots keep seeing — and no one can explain

May 20, 2025

Editor's Picks

The desert lines that only make sense from the sky — and we still don’t know why

May 20, 2025

An illustration of a USO. scientists are hunting for alien technology.

Alien Theories

How scientists are hunting for alien technology in Earth’s oceans

May 17, 2025

An illustration of the gods who descended from the stars.

Ancient Civilizations

The gods who descended from the stars and the civilizations that believed them

May 17, 2025

Ancient Civilizations

This sunken structure is older than the pyramids and no one agrees on who built it

May 17, 2025

Cosmic Phenomena

Why some scientists now think Earth was seeded by life

May 16, 2025

An illustration of the lost desert city of Loulan.

Editor's Picks

The lost desert city of Loulan once thrived on the Silk Road before vanishing into sand

May 15, 2025

Remains of the ancient city of Chan Chan within the walls.

Ancient Civilizations

The forgotten empire of Peru that existed before the Inca — and left no writing behind

May 13, 2025

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The vanished supervolcano that may have changed human history

May 10, 2025

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Scientists mapped a forgotten continent — and it’s hiding under Europe

May 10, 2025

Before Machu Picchu, there was this: Chan Chan. Wikimedia Commons.

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Before Machu Picchu, there was this — and almost no one remembers it

May 9, 2025

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Chankillo is the oldest surviving astronomical observatory on Earth

May 9, 2025

Two large Minoan storage jars stand intact amid the ruins of Akrotiri. The vessel on the right is decorated with circular red and black motifs, while the one on the left appears restored and patched. Their preservation shows how well the volcanic ash sealed the site.

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Before Pompeii: The Minoan city a volcanic eruption tried to erase

May 8, 2025

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What ancient myths have in common and why it matters

May 8, 2025

Ancient Civilizations

What if the first civilizations were older than we think?

May 7, 2025

The ancient stone rings that predate writing. An illustraton of the so-called Senegambian stone circles. Curiosmos.

Curious Lists

The ancient stone rings that predate writing — and may have mapped the sky

May 6, 2025

An image of the Sphinx, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Great Pyramid of Giza in the middle. Shutterstock.

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Did the Garden of Eden point to Egypt — and was the Great Pyramid the Tree of Life?

May 6, 2025

The most famous ancient stone with animal motifs - the Vulture Stone. Credit: The Human Origin project

Ancient Civilizations

These ancient temples predate the pyramids — and no one knows what their symbols mean

May 6, 2025

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