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The Viking program can be considered the first truly effective one in the global space exploration efforts of Mars. The spacecraft Viking 1 and Viking 2 consisted of orbital stations…
For more than 150 years, people have not stopped trying to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. There is no definitive evidence that someone tried to answer us until now. Nevertheless,…
If you look at the northwest part of the sky after sunset (southwest in the northern hemisphere), you will find one bright point of light that stands out easily in…
The Moon Landing – Stanley Kubrick’s greatest film. This is one of the many jokes about the landing of American astronauts on the Moon and all the conspiracies around it…
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, NASA went through its golden age. Robotic devices were sent to nearby planets and men were flying to the Moon! The agency had…
The real history of piracy is larger than the familiar Caribbean cast. Blackbeard, Anne Bonny and Captain Kidd were real people, but their reputations were shaped by court records, naval…
What do you imagine when you hear the words “ice age”? I bet that makes you think of mammoths and saber-tooth tigers, right? In real life, however, the ice age…
Roman emperors did not all wield power in the same way. Some built durable institutions; some stretched the empire’s borders; others changed the terms on which Rome governed, worshipped, or…
In Southern Peru, hundreds of geoglyphs adorn the surface of the Nazca Desert. Protected from the dry climate, these ancient creations represent the most popular heritage of the mysterious Nazca…
Eye captivating obelisks built by ancient Egyptian kings still cause awe and wonder among Egyptologists, architects, and visiting tourists from around the world to this day. However, many people are…
Finding life outside of Earth and more specifically, in the Solar System, has always captivated the human mind. For centuries, we have been staring at the stars in search of…
Ancient Rome was much more than emperors, philosophers, and gladiatorial battles. The Romans left us many mysteries and had traditions that are rarely written about in textbooks. As a matter…
When it comes to the historical significance of Peru’s ancient cultures, we usually mention the Incas and their wondrous achievements. Besides them, there are numerous other unfairly forgotten cultures. I…
Stones are inanimate objects. They are not living organisms. They have no biological processes. They cannot move, they cannot breathe, and they cannot reproduce. At least, this is what we…
In the sandstone shelters of Arnhem Land, researchers have documented a body of rock art that immediately catches the eye for its scale and its strangeness: towering red human figures,…
Voyager 1 and 2 – perhaps one of NASA’s greatest achievements although it happened more than 40 years ago. In 2019, NASA revealed their new plans for the now quite…
The history of Cholakova Mound began at the beginning of our century when the team of archaeologist Georgi Kitov excavated a burial mound, which immediately aroused the interest of scientists:…
Malta’s Ggantija Temple Complex is an absolute wonder of ancient architecture that has survived thousands of years to reach us in its almost original state. Located on the Maltese island…
Did you know that there are more than 200 discovered Moons in the Solar System? Most of them orbit around the largest planets of Saturn and Jupiter, while Venus and…
The Vatican city is one of the locations in Italy that draw the largest number of tourists yearly. The heart of the Catholic Church and also the smallest sovereign state…
The fortress-temple complex of Sacsayhuaman, located at the borders of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, is yet another testimony to the advancement of the Inca civilization and their…
As a child, Jean Champollion was a miracle. He learned to read at an incredibly early age and mastered language after language. When he grew up, he achieved things that,…
I have been saying that a fine line divides mythology from facts for quite some time now. And honestly, I believe that. There are things out there that we cannot…
People love conspiracy theories. Even more, we all love mysterious items of unknown origins that give us a reason to debate and make theories. And when the subjects are artifacts…