Rosalia Lombardo: The mystery of the “Blinking Mummy”
Even though mummification is still practised in some distant cultures, it is uncommon in the Western world. Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old girl, died in 1920 from an intensified case of…
The incredible discovery of a 20-meter-long Viking ship in Norway using georadar!
Ground-penetrating radar has revealed the outline of a Viking ship in a mound in southwest Norway that was once thought to be empty.
Predynastic site emerges from the sand: Nekhen, city of the Hawk
Nekhen was a busy city on the western bank of the Nile in predynastic ancient Egypt, long before the pyramids were built. The ancient site was once called as Hierakonpolis,…
The mysterious Egyptian sistro that could open portals and change climate?
For some, the sistro acts as the entrance and exit from one place to another used by the gods (portals), since it appears near the ‘false doors’ of ancient Egyptian…
Acharya Kanad: An indian sage who developed atomic theory 2,600 years ago
Modern science credits the atomic theory to an English chemist and physicist named John Dalton (1766-1844). However, not many people are aware that a theory of atoms was formulated approximately 2500 years before Dalton by an Indian sage and philosopher named Acharya Kanada.
The Hammersmith Nude Murders: Who was Jack the Stripper?
Jack the Stripper was a copy cat killer who terrored London between 1964 and 1965, imitating the infamous London serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Jack the Stripper, however, did not…
16 ancient cities and settlements that were mysteriously abandoned
Civilizations rise and fall in the blink of a cosmic eye. When we unearth their ancient settlements decades, generations, or centuries later, sometimes we find that they were abandoned after…
What secret lies behind these exceptionally preserved fossils with a “golden” shine?
A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, which was long thought to be the source of the shine. Instead, the golden hue is from a mix of minerals that hints at the conditions in which the fossils formed.
Scientists follow a ‘yellow brick road’ in a never-before-seen spot of the Pacific ocean
The path to the Emerald City might travel along the ocean’s bottom. The crew (researerchers) of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus caught sight of a strange-looking formation while studying an area…
Melting ice reveals a lost Viking-era pass and ancient artifacts in Norway
Years of warm weather have melted most of the snow and ice, revealing a mountain route that regular humans walked for over 1,000 years—and then abandoned some 500 years ago.
