In 1991, scientists discovered a fungus named Cryptococcus neoformans at Chernobyl complex that contains large amounts of melanin – a pigment found in the skin which turns it dark. Later it was discovered that the fungi could actually "eat" radiation.
Every city has their haunted house, real good ones that provide great services. Denver in this case is no exception to this rule. Here are some of the best haunted…
Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old sanctuary in the Netherlands that marks the solstices and equinoxes, and was also used as a burial ground.
Why she disappeared from history entirely in the twelfth year of Akhenaten's reign? There will never be another record of Nefertiti. She vanished without a trace.
Sa-Nakht is a pharaoh, but not an ordinary pharaoh that we think of when we hear about ancient Egypt. Sa-Nakht is distinguished as the first pharaoh of Egypt’s Third Dynasty. However,…
The technique called portable X-ray fluorescence has helped Egyptologists identify changes and adjustments to details of tomb decoration that are invisible to the human eye.
The figurine dates to the Neolithic period, when ancient people first started to develop farming communities in Italy.
Paris, France’s capital, a city that’s known for its love of fashion, romance, and culture, hides a dark secret under its streets. The Catacombs, where six million dead Parisians are…
Researchers claim an inscription on a 1,100-year-old breastplate discovered in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria is one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text.
A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age.
