Category: Ancient History

Completed in 1900, the Pont Alexandre III bridge is a breathtaking icon of Paris’s Belle Époque, embodying the opulent Beaux-Arts architectural style. Spanning the Seine …

The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), a striped marsupial predator once native to Tasmania, mainland Australia, and New Guinea, is immortalized in two poignant …

Discovered on February 13, 1961, by Mike Mikesell, Wallace Lane, and Virginia Maxey near Olancha, California, in the Coso Mountains, the Coso Artifact is a …

Nestled at 1500 North Liberty Street in Independence, Missouri, the Vaile Mansion, completed in 1881, stands as a masterpiece of Second Empire Victorian architecture. Built …

Rising 449 feet (137 meters) above the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth, the Old Man of Hoy is a dramatic sea stack on the …

In a stunning breakthrough, researchers from the University of Chicago and UC San Diego have discovered metastable materials that behave opposite to normal physics, challenging …

In his 1976 book The Twelfth Planet, Russian-American author Zecharia Sitchin proposed a controversial theory that the Anunnaki, deities from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, were extraterrestrials …

Nestled in County Meath’s Boyne Valley, Newgrange is a prehistoric passage tomb dating to around 3200 BCE, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian …

In a stunning discovery from 2020, glacial archaeologists uncovered a 1,300-year-old arrow lying on the surface of the melting Langfonne ice patch in Norway’s Jotunheimen …

In a remarkable fusion of nature and science, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have transformed spinach leaves into functioning human heart tissue, a breakthrough …