Are the ‘Chachapoya Clouds Warriors’ of ancient Peru descendants of Europeans?
At 4,000 km upriver you reach the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and there lived the people of the Chachapoya, also called “The Warriors of the Clouds.” There is…
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Celtic woman found buried inside a tree ‘wearing fancy clothes and jewellery’ after 2,200 years
Archaeologists believe she did minimal physical labor throughout her lifetime and ate a rich diet.
A 95-million-year-old Sauropod skull discovered in Australia
Fossil from fourth-ever discovered specimen of a titanosaur may reinforce theory that dinosaurs traveled between South America and Australia.
The London Hammer – a 400 million years old intriguing OOPArt!
Discovered in Texas, in 1936, the London Hammer was embedded in a limy rock concretion originating from the Cretacious rock formation 400 million years ago! The 6-inch-long hammerhead consists of 96.6% iron and has not rusted since its discovery!
Bronze age artifacts used meteoric iron
Archaeologists had long been puzzled by iron tools dating thousands of years before iron smelting developed, but no, there was no precocious smelting, geochemists have concluded.
10 fascinating facts about Obelisks
Obelisk, a tall, four-sided, tapered monolithic pillar, which ends in a pyramid-like shape. In the capitals of the countries in all over the world, you can see this tall, inscribed…
Algol: Ancient Egyptians found something strange in the night sky that scientists only discovered in 1669
Colloquially known as the Demon Star, the star Algol was linked to the winking eye of Medusa by early astronomers. Algol is actually a 3-in-1 multiple stellar system. A stellar…
Stone Age child found buried with feathers and fur in Finland
An archaeological excavation in Majoonsuo, Outokumpu, eastern Finland, yielded an astonishing find: a Stone Age child interred with feathers and fur. On a gravel road in a forest, the archaeological…
Ancient mechanisms: Did giants build this Japanese megalith weighing hundreds of tons?
A place like this is perfect fodder for conspiracy theorists, who might beckon to the fascinating idea that ancient giants could have created such huge and complicated monolithic structures.
10 most mysterious discoveries made in the eternal ice of the Arctic and Antarctic
Whether it’s traces of extraterrestrials or unexplained natural phenomena, the Arctic regions of eternal cold continue to disturb the minds of researchers and theorists.
