10 Things You Should Know About Chiribiquete: the Sistine Chapel of Amazonian Rock Art
One of the most impressive National Parks on Earth is Chiribiquete, dubbed the Amazonian Sistine Chapel thanks to its 70,000...
5 Ancient Egyptian Solar Ships You Probably Didn’t Know Existed
For ancient Egyptians, the perpetual cycle of the coming and setting of the Sun is comparable to the cycle of...
The Ancient Worship of the Sun; 5 Ancient Civilizations That Venerated It
Thousands of years ago, cultures around the globe worshipped the sun. This is no surprise since the sun is the...
10 Things You Should Know About Ancient Egypt’s First True Capital, the Lost City of Thinis
There are many ancient cities that have been lost to the "sands of time," and Egypt's first true capital, the...
10 Things You Should Know About Phosphine in Venus’ Atmosphere
Earth is the only place in the entire universe where life exists. That is according to our best knowledge of...
How The Largest Pyramid on Earth Compares to Egypt’s Great Pyramid
The most famous pyramid on the planet's surface is, without a doubt, the Great Pyramid of Giza. According to Egyptologists,...
The Biggest Discovery Inside the Great Pyramid is Still a Profound Mystery
The Great Pyramid of Giza is, without a reason of a doubt, one of the most studied ancient monuments on...
Unwritten Mystery: Did Ancient Egyptians Really Use “Ramps” to Build the Pyramids?
Of all the problems concerning the pyramids, their construction is the most puzzling. Even Roma writer Pliny, who condemned the...
Unwritten Mystery: Did Ancient Civilizations Know the Secrets of Levitation?
The more we explore our planet, the more mysteries we encounter. Thousands of years ago, countless ancient civilizations called the...
5 Things We Think Are Unique to “Modern Society” But Already Existed in Ancient Rome
When we think about ancient civilizations and cultures, many of us wrongly believe that these ancient societies were far from...
15 Things You Should Know About Voyager 1, Mankind’s First Interstellar Spaceship
There a spacecraft so far away in space it has become the first humanmade object to reach interstellar space. It...
Unwritten Mystery: 5 Things You Should Know About Ancient Egypt’s Lost City of Thinis
Egypt's ancient monuments are demanding. They necessitate attention and have been "fed" with the admiration and praise of people through...
5 Epic Ancient Flood Stories That Predate Noah’s Great Flood And You Probably Never Heard About
Noah's story of the great flood was assumed to be the earliest story until the Epic of Gilgamesh began to...
5 Things You Should Know About the World’s Oldest Anatomical Atlas
Have you ever wondered what the world's oldest anatomical atlas is? More than 2,200 years ago already, medicine was being...
10 Things You Likely Didn’t Know About Serapeum of Saqqara and Its Sacred Api Bulls
The Serapeum of Saqqara has remained a mystery since its re-discovery in 1850. It is the cemetery of the personified...
10 Curiosities You Probably Didn’t Know About Peru’s 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines
Despite over 80 years of study of the Nazca Lines, the geoglyphs have remained a mystery to researchers who have...
Stonehenge Was Able to Amplify Sound and Contain it Within
According to new research, the megaliths' original configuration amplified the sonance generated inside the stone circle and contained it as...
Göbekli Tepe the Source of All Megalithic Monuments Including Stonehenge?
The geometric complexity of Göbekli Tepe, considered by experts the oldest temple in the world, is a wonder to scientists...
What if Tools Used to Build Ancient Monuments Were Never Lost?
Thousands of years ago, humankind erected mind-boggling ancient structures. Many of these monuments have fascinated humankind for centuries. When discussing...
7 Fascinating Ancient Aztec Artifacts You Probably Didn’t Know Existed
Archaeology is a tool used by mankind to peer into the past. It helps write history, and from time to...
Tenochtitlan: 10 Facts About the Ancient Aztec Capital You Probably Didn’t Know
Tenochtitlan, the great capital of the Mexica (as the Aztecs referred to themselves), became one of the most important cities...
10 Things You Should Know About Mustatils, the Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Stone Monuments of Arabia
More than seven thousands years ago, during a time when Arabia was not such a vast desert as it is...
There’s An Extraordinarily Strange Theory of “Immortals” Circulating the Internet
A strange conspiracy theory suggests that some people are immortal and that they've found the elixir of immortality. Well, they...
3 Important Reasons the Diary of Merer Isn’t Evidence of How the Great Pyramid Was Built
The pyramid building fever is thought to have begun in Egypt during the Third Dynasty reign of Djoser. He is...