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,…
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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.
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.
Medieval sword found on seabed was likely lost during naval battle
Evidence of a naval engagement from the Crusades has been discovered in the form of a medieval sword located off Israel's Hof HaCarmel coast, which has been estimated to have been lost approximately 900 years ago.
The mystery of the undisturbed burial chamber inside Egypt’s little-known Dahshur pyramid
Having worked long and hard, archaeologists finally uncovered a previously unknown pyramid. Still, the most exciting part was the discovery of a secret passage that led from the pyramid’s entrance to an underground complex at the very heart of the pyramid.
Uncovering a Bronze Age barrow cemetery in Salisbury, England
A new residential housing development in Salisbury has revealed the remains of a major round barrow cemetery and its landscape setting.
