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A recently published study has revealed new clues about three ancient, skulls discovered in Croatia, two of which were extremely elongated, adopting a nearly alien look. It is believed that…
An ancient Egyptian desert, once a vast ocean, guards the secret of one of the most remarkable transformations in the evolution of life on planet Earth. Egypt is known as…
The Pyramid of Ahmose marked the end of the Egyptian Pyramid Building era It was the last pyramid of Egypt, built more than 1,200 years after the Step Pyramid The…
Archeologists have reported exploring the 3,000-year-old city beneath Gath. The massive fortifications, buried beneath a previously excavated settlement in Southern Israel, most likely inspired Biblical traditions about Goliath and other…
In 2019, archaeologists reported pottery fragments from Real Alto on Ecuador’s Pacific coast. Radiocarbon analysis dated the material to roughly 4640–4460 BC, placing it near the early Valdivia tradition. The…
The sub-valley of Mexico is home to what was once the largest ancient city in pre-Columbian America. Home to around 150,000 people, the ancient city of Teotihuacan is shrouded in…
The Great Sphinx has real tunnels, shafts and cavities. What it does not have—at least not in the published archaeological record—is a confirmed “subterranean world” or a hidden Hall of…
Ancient Egypt is not all about Pyramids, mummies, and secrets hidden beneath the sands. In fact, the land of the Pharaohs, throughout its extensive history, has given the world a…
Unlike the Egyptian Pyramids, which supposedly served as tombs where the kings were ‘buried’ inside the monuments, the Pyramids of Sudan have a key difference: the tombs of the pharaohs…
Even though humankind has managed to explore and map distant worlds like mars or even the Moon, only a small area of our planet’s oceans has been explored. It’s perhaps…
There’s a massive trench surrounding the oldest step pyramid in Egypt, the Pyramid of Djoser, and an expert has now claimed it may have severed as a kind of 3D…
The solar system we live in gets stranger and stranger by the day. According to a new study presented at Seattle’s 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference, Saturn’s large moon Titan is…
Ancient Egypt is home to many interesting and striking things. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptian civilization was one of the greatest cultures to ever live on Earth, leaving…
It’s no secret that there are pyramids scattered across the globe. There are thousands of pyramids all over the planet. But what about Europe? If you turn to the Balkans,…
Although we have successfully landed on the Moon and explored its surface the best way possible, the Moon, its origin, and history remain a profound enigma to humans. We know…
Some 5,000 years ago, artists in Siberia drew some of the most sophisticated artwork the region has ever seen. The ancient artists were depicting humanoid figurines with strange halos and…
Astronomers have found a strange, humongous, deep-mass structure beneath the largest crater in our solar system; the Moon’s South Pole Aitken basin. There, researchers discover an anomaly with a massive…
An odd but significant discovery has been made in Siberia, shedding light on the customs and religious practices of people who lived in the region some 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists…
For the last few years, the internet has been bombarded and flooded by tabloids reporting on the UFO phenomenon. Suddenly, it is all right to speak out loud about the…
Exploring the solar system is a massive feat for humankind. But we are good at it. In fact, we seem to be better equipped and willing to explore what lies…
In 2018, the entire planet rang like a bell. Seismometers around the globe recorded the mysterious phenomena, and experts were left stunned. Only now do we know what happened and…
We agree; the Great Sphinx of Giza is a unique, stunning statue that may very well predate the Pyramids themselves. Cut from the bedrock, the original shape of the monument…
Humankind is on the verge of exploring the entire solar system, paving the way for colonization. Mars was the first planet Earth attempted to explore in our journey to expand…
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…