Egypt has announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during
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The recent discovery of an ancient tunnel leading to Cleopatra's lost tomb has left archaeologists and the general public
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Roughly 250 to 300 million years ago, long before the rise of dinosaurs, Earth was a vastly different place. Towering ferns and ancient trees dominated dense swampy forests. In the skies above, it wasn't birds or bats that ruled the air—it was giant insects, unlike anything we see today. Among the most impressive of these ancient fliers was a dragonfly-like creature with an astonishing wingspan of up to 2 feet (over 60 cm). While often compared to modern dragonflies, this prehistoric giant belonged to a different group called Meganeura. These enormous flying insects lived during the Late Carboniferous and Early...
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On September 19, 1991, two hikers found a frozen corpse in the Austro-Italian Alps. At the time, they had no way of knowing how historic their find was, as it
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In the frozen wilderness of Siberia, where time seems lost in the cold winds and the thousand-year-old ice, there is a story that has lain dormant for millennia — a story about a giant creature, trapped between time… and absolute silence. In 1900, by the icy Beresovka River, a group of hunters accidentally discovered something strange. They found neither treasure nor ancient relics, but the intact body of a woolly mammoth. Not only did it retain its complete shape, but it also carried with it timeless mysteries. The animal did not lie like ordinary corpses. It sat sideways, its head...
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In 2006, deep in the Xinjiang desert in northwest China, a group of archaeologists made a discovery as puzzling as it was fascinating. While excavating an ancient necropolis known as the Yanghai Tombs, near the city of Turpan, they came across an extraordinarily well-preserved Iron Age mummy. Initially seemingly just another archaeological find in the region, this discovery soon revealed secrets that challenged conventional accounts of the ancient cultures of Central Asia. The mummified body, identified as that of a man around 45 years old, rested in Tomb 90 of the archaeological site. What most caught the scientists' attention was...
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In 1938, the Soviet Academy of Sciences organized a large-scale expedition called the Khwarezmian Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition , led by
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Göbekli Tepe is turning the history books upside down, and this latest revelation is no different. Pulled from the shadows of prehistory, this astonishing 12,000-year-old megalithic artifact...
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In the world of the macabre and the unusual, few exhibits have captured the public's imagination and horror like the head
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While it might look strange, this style was actually common in ancient Meopotamia, although this marks the first time one has been found in Kuwait or the Arabian Gulf.
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