Who is ‘Shimon’? 2000-year-old stone receipt unearthed in Jerusalem
These days, most receipts are made of paper, but about 2,000 years ago, an important financial record was recorded on a much heavier material: stone.
Discovery
Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost
Researchers have isolated viable microbes from melting permafrost after tens of thousands of years.
The mysterious Dropa Tribe of the high altitude Himalayas
This unusual tribe was believed to have been extraterrestrial because they had strange blue eyes, almond-shaped with double lids; they spoke an unknown language, and their DNA did not match any other known tribe.
Real life dragon: Australia’s largest flying reptile discovered
Paleontologists at the University of Queensland, Australia, have stumbled upon what seems to be the closest thing to the real-life dragon and it is as magnificent as it sounds.
Cache in Chinese mountain reveals 20,000 prehistoric fossils
The fossil ecosystem reveals how life recovered after the most devastating mass extinction on Earth.
Skull 5: An 1.85-million-year-old human skull forced scientists to rethink early human evolution
The skull belongs an extinct hominin that lived 1.85 million years ago!
Scientist theorizes worlds with underground oceans support and conceal life
One of the most striking discoveries in planetary science in the last 25 years has been the presence of oceans beneath layers of rock and ice in our solar system. These worlds include ice satellites of big planets like as Europa, Titan, and Enceladus, as well as distant planets such as Pluto.
2,000-year-old iron age and Roman treasures found in Wales could point to an unknown Roman settlement
A metal detectorist stumbled upon a hoard of Roman coins and Iron Age vessels in the Welsh countryside.
Amazing things you didn’t know about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics!
The ancient Egyptians used a way of writing called hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs were pictures. The hieroglyphs represented sounds in the same way that our letters represented sounds. There were more…
