Ancient Egypt

11/09/2024

"There is no chance" the San people of South Africa interacted with a living dicynodont—but they may have found its fossils before western researchers.

Deep in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa lies a cave painting that raises eyebrows and ignites curiosity. The depiction of a creature known as the ‘Horned Serpent’ perplexes many. It bears an uncanny resemblance to a long-extinct animal known as a dicynodont, which roamed the Earth million...

11/09/2024

Humans were in the danger zone for more than 100,000 years, scientists found, with as few as 1,280 breeding adults alive.

**The Bottleneck That Nearly Ended Us** At a time when human ancestors roamed the Earth, a cataclysm lurked. Around 800,000 to 900,000 years ago, it’s estimated that only 1,280 humans were left alive. This critical bottleneck meant that 98.7% of the population vanished. Who could have imagined suc...

11/08/2024

These solid, curd-like pieces are more than 3,000 years old.

Imagine entering the afterlife. What would you want with you? Perhaps a cherished family photograph or that beloved novel you can’t put down. For some ancient souls in Xinjiang, it seems cheese was the answer. Yes, cheese. Ancient cheese. This isn’t just any cheese, mind you. Researchers discove...

11/08/2024

This two-legged, 850-pound sauropod was prowling around swamps 210 million years ago.

**The Discovery of Musankwa sanyatiensis** An international team of scientists recently made headlines with an astonishing discovery in Zimbabwe. They uncovered a new species of dinosaur, Musankwa sanyatiensis, with remains dating back an impressive 210 million years. These fossils were found along....

11/07/2024

Mountain Fire Erupts to 14,000 Acres, Leaving Countless Homes in Ashes

The recent Mountain Fire has become a harrowing chapter in Ventura County’s ongoing struggle with wildfires. As flames tore through the Somis and Camarillo areas, residents faced a heartbreaking reality. What would you do if a fire threatened your home? Reported just before 9 a.m. near Balcom Cany...

11/07/2024

The Greek word for this, kynodesmē, translates to "dog tie."

Ancient Greece and Rome had unique practices that might raise eyebrows today. One of these was the kynodesmē, or ‘dog tie.’ Young men would pull back their foreskins and secure them. This, they believed, was necessary for modesty during athletic activities. Imagine a world where pe**le aestheti...

11/06/2024

In 2015, a routine construction project in Borujerd, Iran, led to the unexpected discovery of an ancient aqueduct system hidden beneath the remnants of a historic castle.
This sophisticated network of clay pipes and pottery vessels showcased a remarkably advanced understanding of water management.
The system is believed to date back to the Sassanian period (224-651 AD), though some experts suggest it could be even older.
The materials and techniques used in the aqueduct indicate a high level of engineering skill, challenging our perceptions of ancient technology.

11/05/2024

In 1965 at Mezhyrich, a farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth while in the process of expanding his cellar. Further excavations revealed the presence of four huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters known constructed by pre-historic man. Mezhyrich (Межиріч) is a village in central Ukraine near the point where the Rosava River flows into the Ros.
The huts were built with bones and tusks arranged in a rough circle with a diameter between 6 and 10 m (20 and 33 ft). A hearth typically lied near the centre of the former dwelling, and stone tools and other debris were scattered within and outside the structure. The primary purpose of the mammoth-bone dwellings which were presumably covered with animal skins, was probably shelter from extreme cold and high winds.

11/05/2024

Archaeologists in Turkey unearth massive 3,000-year-old swords from an ancient civilization, raising questions about their warriors and craftsmanship

11/04/2024

Breaking News: Amazing Discoveries at Karahan Tepe, Another Ancient Alien Civilization Still Exists on Earth But We Don’t Know It 😱👽☠

11/04/2024

THE VANISHING CIVILIZATION OF NAVIGATORS 30,000 YEARS AGO...
According to the latest studies of human DNA, the first human civilizations to populate the Americas were the Central and South American peoples. The first colonization took place at least 15,000 to 20,000 years, much earlier than once thought...
But the real revelation is another. This colonization did not come by land, from the Bering Strait, as was once believed. These people came from the sea, using boats. The colonizers came from Siberia and Sundaland (the continent that disappeared due to the thaw, which corresponds to present-day Indonesia and surrounding islands)...
In fact, around 2020 some researchers published the results of the discovery of human remains in Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico. Excavations were started in 2012. More extensive excavations were carried out in 2016 and 2017. The work was published in the journal Nature. What was found in the cave completely revolutionized the opinion of archaeologists. The study, presented by Ciprian Ardelean, an archaeologist at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico), and his colleagues, suggests that people lived in central Mexico at least 26,500 years ago. The professor says, “It takes centuries, or millennia, for people to cross Beringia and arrive in the middle of Mexico.” Later, he adds, “It takes many years of previous presence for them to get there if they came by sea or land.” This means that humans were likely in Central America long before 30,000 years ago...
Another research center has found that the native peoples of Central and South America have not just one ancestor, but have two. As it were, they have a “mother people,” who are identified as “population Y,” and who are the original inhabitants of Sundaland from the distant past, around the time of the Thaw. But they also have a “father people,” who are the Iñupiat, from Siberia...
These discoveries revolutionize from the ground up all archaeological beliefs about the past of the Americas. To whom belonged allore the oldest ruins found in those lands? What past civilization was able to create geopolymers atop the Andes? Who created the gigantic Nazca drawings, and more importantly, for what purpose? And most importantly: if 30,000 years ago people were able to travel from Australia to Central America, what prevented them from going from Central America to Egypt, as several pieces of evidence now seem to indicate?..

11/02/2024

THE ENGINEERS OF 12,000 YEARS AGO...
The rock blocks you see in the photo, weighing several tons and up to nearly 7 meters high, are at least 11,000 years old, according to C14 radiocarbon analysis. They are just a few of the countless pillars that made up the settlement of Göbekli Tepe, on the border between Turkey and Syria. The civilization that built this and similar settlements still has no name. In fact, until recently their existence was completely unknown...
We do know a few things about them, however. They did not practice agriculture, since all the seeds found within Göbekli Tepe are wild, and not cultivated. Nor did they practice animal husbandry, since the very large number of meat remains found (it seems that they had huge feasts) are all from game, and not from farm animals. Moreover, the stylized statues in the center of the stone circles wear loincloths. This means that it must not have been cold at the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction. All these elements suggest that the original settlement may probably be much older than it appears. Perhaps even thousands of years older...
It is not a burial site, since not a single co**se has been found inside. It is not a shrine, since the depiction of even one god or deity does not appear. It does not appear to have been a town or village, since it seems to lack an appropriate water source to quench the thirst of a substantial group of people. What is it then? All over the walls of Göbekli Tepe are engraved hundreds of “snakes” descending from 'above, from the sky. Heavenly beings appear from which these “snakes” emerge. According to astronomers, about 12,000 years ago a swarm of asteroids or comets heavily bombarded the Earth, destroying entire territories on 4 continents. It was a momentous devastation. Most likely, Göbekli Tepe is a “memorial” to the time when “fiery serpents,” or comet fragments raining down from above, destroyed the world...
But if Göbekli Tepe is a memorial to the cataclysm that struck us some 12,800 years ago, where are the cities of the builders? What customs did they have? More importantly, where did they come from?..

10/17/2024

Discovered on Peru’s coast, the elongated skulls of Paracas challenge our understanding of ancient practices. Were they the result of ritual deformation, or ...

10/13/2024

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