On September 1, 1859, the Sun spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles amounting to the energy of 10 billion atomic bombs towards the Earth, causing telegraph communications to fail, literally shocking operators, and causing systems to catch fire. Northern Lights were reported as far south as Cuba and Hawaii, allowing witnesses to read newspapers by the light of the auroras alone.
How did the ancient Egyptians look like 2,000 years ago? Did they have dark skin and curly hair? A Virginia-based laboratory has successfully recreated the faces of three mummies using their DNA.
The 223 megalithic stones in the complex may have been used for prehistoric stargazing.
There was a strange and seemingly unique burial that took place in a village in Britain sometime in the third or fourth centuries AD. In 1991, while archaeologists were excavating…
A new type of feathered dinosaur, the biggest yet known with wings on its arms, has been unearthed in China. The Zhenyuanlong, as it is known, is coated in feathers…
An excavation in an eight-foot-deep pit yielded two ancient coffins and a collection of funerary vases.
The history of Earth is a fascinating tale of constant change and evolution. Over billions of years, the planet has undergone dramatic transformations, shaped by geological forces and the emergence of life. To understand this history, scientists have developed a framework known as the geological time scale.
Scaphism was an ancient Persian method of execution and torture used during the Achaemenid Empire (modern-day Iran). It involved trapping the victim between two boats or shells, with their head, hands, and feet protruding. The victim was then left to rot, exposed to the elements, insects, and scavenging animals.
Homo capensis: presumed hominid with a large brain and an IQ of 180. It would have maintained a world hegemony since ancient times. Researchers like Dr Edward Spencer have exposed…
The world’s oldest known library was founded sometime in the 7th century BC, in ancient Iraq.
