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Remember those massive crystals mentioned by Jules Verne in his book Journey to the Center of the Earth? Well, it turns out they are real. In present-day Mexico, beneath the…
The first cultures of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands while domesticating wild plants to grow food, effectively terraforming various regions of the Amazon rainforest, according to a…
Some 25,000 years ago, an ancient group of people hunted Mammoths. They fed off them and used their skin to create clothes. The bones that were left were not thrown…
Scientists have found evidence of lush forests where life thrived, existing in Antarctica more than 90 million years ago. None is perhaps as mysterious and beautiful as Antarctica of all…
The Japanese national Space Agency (JAXA) made its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft—in orbit around Ryugu—bomb the asteroid orbiting the sun at around 300 Million Kilometers from Earth to dig up some material…
Apollo 13 never landed on the Moon. Yet its astronauts travelled around the lunar far side at one of the most dangerous moments in the history of spaceflight, briefly out…
What if everything around you isn’t real? Imagine for a second that the planet we live on, the solar system, our galaxy, and eventually the entire universe we see as…
Researchers have discovered what is now considered the oldest known wooden construction on the planet’s surface, an ancient well thought to have been crafted more than 7,000 years ago. An…
Thousands of years ago, for reasons we are still unable to understand, cultures worldwide erected massive pyramids of all shapes and sizes. Although the most famous pyramids are located in…
About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a gigantic scar. Around 200 million years older than any other site on the planet’s surface,…
What if thousands of years ago, long before the first ancient civilizations developed and walked the surface of our planet, there was a highly advanced ancient civilization on Earth? It…
Archeological excavations in Egypt have revealed the presence of a rare buried Sphinx made of limestone. An archaeological mission in Egypt has recently reported the discovery of a rare Sphinx…
A new map made of data from radar, imaging, and predictions has revealed Antarctica’s unprecedented view. Not only has the new map revealed what Antarctica looks like beneath the ice,…
Around 44,000 years ago, modern humans were already great artists. Although we have discovered many fine ancient art examples, it has been long debated as to what cave art was…
It may not be close to as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza. However, a kind of pyramid structure recently excavated in Peru has revealed stunning details about human…
The method of embalming or treating the deceased body that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification. Using distinctive methods, the Egyptians extracted all moisture from the body, leaving only…
Ancient Greece is generally acknowledged as the seminal culture that served as the basis for Western civilization. Greece’s culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which spread it…
Some 12,8000 years ago, when relatively developed ancient cultures already populated the Earth, our planet went through a kind of “global reset” as an asteroid smashed into the Earth, causing…
One hundred seventy cairns totaling nearly 17,700 cubic feet—500 cubic meters—of stones were intricately placed by humans more than 5,500 years ago. The exact purpose of the site remains an…
Since it landed on the red planet in November 2018, NASA’s InSight mission has detected more than one thousand Marsquakes successfully. The lander has offered us unprecedented insight into Mars.…
According to a scientific study, the Milky Way may be full of alien civilizations that have already visited Earth. Although there’s a massive debate on UFOs right now, the truth…
Egypt is a land with an incredible history. The land of Pharaohs, pyramids, and golden sands is perhaps every archeologist’s dream. Yet, beneath the desert sands scorched by the immense…
Asteroid Ryugu, formally identified as 162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo Group. The space rock was discovered in 1999 and is strangely shaped…
The Great Pyramid of Giza is a monument like no other. It has survived (according to mainstream history) for more than 4,500 years since its completion, withstanding the forces of…