The mysterious Voynich Manuscript: What you need to know
Medieval texts falling apart don’t usually spark much online debate, but the Voynich Manuscript, which is very strange and hard to understand, is an exception. The text, written in a…
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Machu Picchu: Ancient DNA sheds new light on Lost City of the Incas
Machu Picchu originally functioned as a palace within the estate of the Inca emperor Pachacuti between 1420 and 1532 CE. Before this study, little was known about the people who lived and died there, where they came from or how they were related to the inhabitants of the Inca capital of Cusco.
Scientists discover a mysterious ‘giant’ heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon
Researchers have uncovered a strange hot spot on the back side of the moon. The most likely culprit is a rock that is very rare outside of Earth.
Fossilized fish discovered on the high-altitude Himalayas!
Scientists that are studying the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, have found fossilized fish and other marine creatures that have been embedded in the rock. How did so many fossils of marine creatures end up in the high-altitude sediments of the Himalayas?
The Theopetra Cave: Ancient secrets of the world’s oldest man-made structure
The Theopetra Cave was home to humans since 130,000 years ago, boasting numerous archaic secrets of human history.
Treasure hoard containing 1000 coins uncovered in eastern Poland
A large treasure hoard deposited in a ceramic jar has been uncovered near the village of Zaniówka in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
Oldest reference to Norse god Odin found in Danish treasure
Runologists from the National Museum in Copenhagen have deciphered a god disc found in western Denmark which is inscribed with the oldest known reference to Odin.
Archaeologists found more than a hundred mysterious giant figures in the Nazca desert
The 168 new geoglyphs represent humans, camelids, birds, orcas, felines and snakes.
Scientists accidentally discovered life under 3,000 feet of ice in Antarctica
Animal life was not what scientists were expecting to find in the pitch-black seawater beneath almost half a mile of floating Antarctic ice, but it seems to have found a…
2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in the submerged Egyptian city
Doum nuts and grape seeds have been discovered in wicker jars found in the ruins of Thônis-Heracleion.
