The mysterious board game, called senet, dates back around 3,500 years, according to researchers from Maastricht University The Ancient Egyptian ‘board game of death’ (Image: Walter Crist/The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology) An ancient Egyptian‘board game of death’ has been uncovered…
Named as 50-year-old Balakrishnayya, the man feared he would pass on the virus to his family and to those living in the village of Srikalahasti in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Balakrishnayya took his own life in the holy…
The spiral patterns that appear prominently in the rock carvings are thought to be a symbol among ancestral Pueblo peoples for the sky or the sun. The Pueblo people created rock carvings in the Mesa Verde region of the Southwest…
This photo by a satellite operated by DigitalGlobe, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, shows Iran’s Imam Khomeini Space Center on Feb. 5, 2019, shortly before a Safir rocket launch that was later determined to be a failure. Iran’s space program…
Angie and Aaron Rush have been forced to sell their home and move in with family to cover medical bills after sons Tristen, five, Caison, three, and Carter Rush, seven months all face a cancer battle (Image: Gofundme) Three brothers…
These 30 “curse tablets” meant for the dead show what lengths Athenians would go to hex their enemies. Jutta Stroszeck/German Archaeological InstituteTablet curse containing incantation against the newlywed Glykera, focusing on her vulva, by someone jealous of her marital bliss.…
An image from NASA’s Cassini probe, taken Sept. 23, 2006, shows a pair of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Saturn’s most Earth-like moon looks a bit less likely to host life, thanks to quantum mechanics, the weird rules that govern subatomic…
The man had been in there far too long, John Struczynski thought. Twenty minutes had elapsed since he had entered the shower facility in the Emirates Lounge for business and first-class passengers at Birmingham International Airport, in the West Midlands…
When Lendrum was apprehended in June 2018, he was carrying rare falcon eggs strapped to his body in a custom sling. Two grinning men pose for a video camera in front of a helicopter: “We’re going on a tour,” one…
The newly discovered “Yaravirus” contains genes that have never been seen in any other viruses. Our planet is teeming with mysterious microbes. Now, in the waters of an artificial lake, scientists may have discovered one of the most mysterious of…