Rare 17th-Century book on alien life discovered
Published in 1698, the book offers a unique look into how people from the time perceived the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Discovered by bookRead More…
Month: May 2022
‘Something weird’ happening with the universe, says NASA
Data from the Hubble Space Telescope has highlighted a discrepancy with regard to the expansion of the cosmos. There is certainly a lot that we don’tRead More…
For 12500 Years Old Rock Paintings Found In Amazon Rainforest
The “Sistine Chapel” was discovered in the Colombian Amazon, in a remote and wild region. Archaeologists in the Amazon were taken aback by an iRead More…
Did You Know that Tutankhamun Was Buried in Not One but THREE Golden Sarcophagi?
The discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922 by Howard Carter and his archaeological team was highly significant due to the intact nature oRead More…
Treasure-Filled Portuguese Shipwreck Found In Desert Coastline Of Namibia
The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates lurking off Africa some five centuries aRead More…
The Visual Chill of the Cold War Is More Relevant Than Ever
BUDAPEST — Since opening in 1896, the Kunsthalle (Műcsarnok) of Budapest has been the most prestigious and largest exhibition venue in the country.Read More…
Ancient Hittite Farmers Paid Taxes in Barley and Wheat
A team of archaeologists from the United Kingdom and Germany has carried out an archaeobotanical analysis of plant remains recovered from the 3,500-yeRead More…
Crocodile Stone Yields New Clues about Ancient Zapotec City of Lambityeco
An international team led by Field Museum archaeologists Gary Feinman and Linda Nicholas recently unearthed a carved stone crocodile at an excavation Read More…
NASA InSight lander is running out of power
The space probe, which landed in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars in 2018, is now in its final months. Known as InSight (which stands for ‘InterioRead More…
Discovery of an Industrial Brewery in Ancient Egypt Rewrites the History of Beer
To archaeologists, understanding the building of the Pyramids at Giza is a matter of scaling up the labor system seen earlier at sites like Abydos. Read More…