Usermontu’s Knee Screw Baffles Experts: 2,600-Year-Old Medical Marvel
A team of experts, including (from left) BYU professor C. Wilfred Griggs, Utah county medical doctors Bruce Mcliff and Richard Jackson, and San Jose, Calif., Dr Grady Jeeter,…
Study of Atacama Skeleton Slammed as Scientifically Flawed and Unethical
University of Otago-led international collaborative research calls into question the ethics of skeletal and genomic analysis surrounding research into the much publicized “Atacama mummy.” University of Otago…
The Grand Canyon
We left Zion National Park via the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel. Bored and blasted through the sandstone cliffs above Pine Canyon this amazing engineering feat blows the mind. Construction…
Why Graham Hancock thinks everything we know about human prehistory is wrong
His ‘contrarian’ theories about lost civilisations and hidden numerical patterns feature in a new Netflix series. But how much is true? I’ve been talking to Graham Hancock…
This incredibly preserved 4,000 year old wagon made of just oakwood, unearthed in Armenia.
Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia Incredibly Preserved 4,000-Year-Old Oakwood Wagons Unearthed…
Where the West Actually Meets the East—The Tarim Mummies
Ancient Rome and China were on opposite sides of the world as far as both civilizations were concerned. Although both cultures were aware of each other’s existence…
Ancient Persians Used Refrigerators in the Middle of the Desert Before Anyone Else Did
These days, everyone takes refrigeration technology for granted. They open their fridge or freezer doors and take out a food or drink item of their choice, then…
110-Million-Year-Old Toothless Dinosaur Species Elaphrosaur Discovered in Australia
110-Million-Year-Old Toothless Dinosaur Species Elaphrosaur Discovered in Australia Is anyone a fan of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’? We know, it’s random, but the main dragon was…
Piri Reis Map – How Could a 16th Century Map Show Antarctica Without Ice?
On October 9, 1929, a German theologian named Gustav Adolf Deissmann was cataloguing items in the Topkapi Palace library in Istanbul when he happened across a curious parchment located…
Exeter Cathedral door hole could be world’s oldest cat flap
BBC Records show payments to carpenters dating around 1598 A hole in a door at a cathedral is thought to be the world’s oldest cat flap. The…