Picture this: you’re walking through a museum, staring at ancient cave paintings and weathered artifacts, when a thought hits you like lightning. These weren’t just people who hunted mammoths and discovered fire. They were complex human beings with desires, relationships, and identities that might challenge everything we think we know about sexuality and gender throughout ...
For millennia, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained among the most enigmatic puzzles in history. Over 2.3 million stone blocks, each averaging two tons, how did an ancient civilization without modern machinery move and assemble? A long-lost branch of the Nile buried for millennia may have been the secret road used ...
Archaeologists have found a wealth of old secrets in the sun-baked plains of central Turkey, including a royal tomb containing the remains of a close relative of the fabled King Midas. Announced by Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nudi Ersoy, the finding has rocked the archaeological community with new understanding of the mysterious ...
Modern researchers have only recently started to piece together the vivid blue adorning ancient Egyptian tombs, sculptures, and jewelry over millennia. Originally created about 3100 BCE and lost to time by the Renaissance, this pigment known as Egyptian blue is the first synthetic color used in humans Now, a group of Washington State University researchers ...
Finding a 1,000-year-old Viking arm-ring made of gold, beautifully created by tying eight gold rods in a row, metal detectorist Ronald Clucas would cause waves in the field of archeology in a peaceful spring morning in 2025. The relic was discovered on the Viking trading post Isle of Man, the piece of art provides an ...
In an amazing turn of events, a large-scale land reclamation project in Indonesia has resurrected a lost world, rather than only sand. While workers were building off an artificial island off Java, they dragged 6,700 fossils from the seafloor, including two skull fragments of Homo erectus, our ancient human predecessors. These 140,000-year-old fossils expose a ...
Whales have long been hunted for their meat, blubber, and bones; but, when did people first start using these oceanic giants? According to a ground-breaking study, Paleolithic hunter-gatherers along the Bay of Biscay were creating sophisticated tools from whale bones long before organized whaling ever started 20,000 years ago. These revelations, buried for decades in ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
