Articles for tag: Archaeological Discoveries, Cosmic Events, extinction and rebirth, Human origins, meteor impact

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Could a Meteor Strike Have Sparked the First Human Civilizations?

Suhail Ahmed

  Around ancient fires, people told stories about the sky tearing open – flames, thunder, and stones that fell like angry stars. Today, geologists and archaeologists are quietly revisiting those tales with lab tools and satellite eyes, asking a startling question: could cosmic impacts have nudged early societies toward cities, kings, and crops? The idea ...

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Could Dinosaurs Have Survived If the Meteor Missed?

Suhail Ahmed

A single bad day 66 million years ago ended the age of dinosaurs, but what if that day never dawned? Paleontologists have long suspected that chance, not inevitability, sealed their fate, and new modeling gives that suspicion teeth. Picture the Late Cretaceous: lush forests, warm seas, and ecosystems stacked with giant herbivores and razor‑smart predators ...