Australia’s oldest rock painting: A kangaroo from 17,300 years back in time
The oldest known painting in the country was found in Australia in a rock shelter. The figure is the outline of a kangaroo, filled with lines, painted under a rocky…
Ancient World
8,000-year-old rock carvings in Arabia may be the world’s oldest megastructure blueprints
Middle Eastern hunters engraved to-scale plans of their 'desert kite' traps into rocks some 8,000 years ago.
The Sibiu Manuscript: A 16th-century book precisely described the multi-stage rockets!
The idea of knowing that events unfolding in the present were foretold in the distant past has always been an inspiring thought. What if there exists a confirmed instance of a prophecy from the past that accurately corresponds to our current circumstances, supported by compelling evidence in an ancient text unearthed many decades ago?
A new discovery on a 3,700-year-old ancient tablet rewrites the history of mathematics
On a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, an Australian mathematician found what might be the oldest known example of applied geometry. The tablet, known as Si.427, includes a field plan that…
Ancient fish fossil reveals evolutionary origin of the human hand
An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins.
Who built the Chankillo – the oldest solar observatory in the Americas?
The Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex is a prehistoric site (250-200 BC), located on the north-central coast of Peru, in the Casma Valley, comprising a set of constructions in a desert landscape…
Inuit snow goggles carved from bone, ivory, wood or antler
Thousands of years ago, Inuit and Yupik people of Alaska and northern Canada carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood to create snow goggles.
Unveiling the legends of Dáinsleif: King Högni’s sword of eternal wounds
Dáinsleif – King Högni's sword that gave wounds that never healed and could not be unsheathed without killing a man.
Ancient Greek Derveni Papyrus: Europe’s oldest surviving book
The first book of the western tradition is recorded on papyrus about 2400 years ago.
Scientists claim that there is another world under Antarctica’s ice
In January 2013, The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) Project had made a strange discovery that revealed the existence of enormous wetlands beneath the ice of western…
