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Studying Egypt, its monuments, tombs, pyramids, and mysteries hidden beneath the golden sands must be every archaeologist’s dream. But Egypt is big. And its history is even bigger. Even though we’ve…
The Great Pyramid of Giza can look deceptively simple in familiar photographs: a clean triangle on a flat plateau. The sense of scale arrives later, when a person appears at…
When you speak about Peru, you can’t help and mention its incredibly rich history. Whether its ancient cities you want, lost treasures, or mysterious symbols carved on the arid desert…
Elongated skulls have been found all over the planet. No matter what ancient cultures are being studied, it seems that nearly all ancient civilizations had people of elongated skulls in…
The Great Pyramid of Giza is widely described as a royal tomb built for the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu. That interpretation fits the broader archaeological pattern: Old Kingdom pyramids were…
Since the Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the most important statues on Earth, the oldest and most massive one, here are 30 fascinating facts about the Great Sphinx…
The Zapata Footprint is an alleged human footprint embedded in a Permian rock in New Mexico. Referred to by some as the New Mexico track or the Zapata track, a…
The Fawn Hoof Mummy was reported in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, in 1811. The burial was found below the cave floor, with the body seated and wrapped in deerskin, alongside tools…
The documents impounded by the FBI after the death of Nikola Telsa have long remained a guarded secret by the US Government. Tesla is the one who came up with…
Nikola Tesla, born in Smiljan in what is now Croatia, spent his career moving between hard engineering and sweeping forecasts. One of the clearest records of his late-life outlook appears…
Starting around the second century BC, in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India, the ancients decided to create a series of rock-cut caves and monuments that would later be used as places…
Egypt hides many secrets. The modern country we see today was built atop thousands and thousands of years of history and crafted by countless pharaohs and rulers that reigned over…
The earliest description of magnetism was made by the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus in the 6th century BC. However, circumstantial evidence suggests that an ancient Mesoamerican civilization knew about…
When you Google ‘Who Invented the Very First Space Ship‘ you won’t get an answer for one man. That’s because no one person actually invented the spacecraft, but it was…
Why is the Lady of Brassempouy called one of the oldest realistic human faces? The museum record explains its age, ivory, details and the limits of that claim.
The Seven Wonders of the ancient world have been brought back to life in stunning 3D detail, revealing how ancient engineering wonders would have looked when they were completed thousands…
Göbekli Tepe, the early Neolithic stone-circle complex in southeast Turkey, has become a magnet for big claims. The most dramatic is that its carved symbols record a devastating comet event…
The sword of Goujian was crafted more than 2,000 years ago by an exceptional weaponsmith in China. Found more than two millennia later, archeologists were baffled to find that the…
It is a library that not many people have heard about. Located on the Sinai Peninsula, Saint Catherine’s Monastery is home to the oldest continually operating library on the surface…
One of the most powerful weapons appearing in the Avengers Movies, Thanos’s Gauntlet, was most likely inspired by a Catholic Relic. It has been revealed that movie creators may have…
One of the most mysterious cave systems anywhere in the world is without a doubt the Longyou Caves. These are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns located near the village…
According to a study published in Genome Biology, modern-day Africans conserve DNA from an unknown and extinct human species. With help from artificial intelligence, the study demonstrated that African populations…
Archeological excavations in the Amazon have revealed that more than 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers occupied southwestern parts of the Amazon rainforest. This discovery comes as a surprise as it is…
Ask for the deepest hole on Earth and the answer depends on what you mean by a hole. Are you asking about the deepest shaft drilled by people, the lowest…