Ancient World
An underworld connection: Ancient people may have created cave art while hallucinating!
Stone age people may have deliberately ventured into oxygen-depleted caves to paint while having out-of-body experiences and hallucinations, according to a new study. By analyzing cave paintings from the Upper…
Fossilized fish discovered on the high-altitude Himalayas!
The mystery of Orion: Why are so many ancient structures oriented towards Orion??
In the 19th century, when astronomers started to observe the skies through their primitive telescopes, they were perplexed by the fact that almost all ancient monuments, megalithic stones, and archaeological…
The face of Zlatý kůň, the oldest modern human to be genetically sequenced
Neanderthals: The oldest art in the world wasn’t made by humans
One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they…
Four-legged prehistoric whale fossil with webbed feet found in Peru
A 95-million-year-old Sauropod skull discovered in Australia
Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies
40,000-year-old star maps with sophisticated knowledge of modern astronomy
In 2008, a scientific study revealed an astonishing fact about the palaeolithic humans ― a number cave paintings, some of which were as old as 40,000 years, were actually products…