The Newgrange passage tomb is one of the earliest and most elaborate Neolithic monuments in Ireland, but several hundred others are found throughout the country. Ancient genetic material extracted from human bones buried in Ireland’s famous Newgrange tomb come from…
The excavations also revealed two brick beer cellars, which are thought to have belonged to an inn at the site. The remains of what may be the oldest theater in London, dating to the start of Queen Elizabeth’s reign in…
Hitler had a micropenis, medical records suggest. History buffs know that Adolf Hitler had an undescended testicle, but a new review of his medical records suggests that der Führer also had other genital problems, including a condition called a micropenis.…
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) map of the newly discovered temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy. A hidden temple was recently discovered in an ancient Roman city that’s mostly still underground. The temple was once part of the city…
Ancient Roman baths unearthed, Nazi diary with tales of stolen gold found, 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site demolished.Construction Workers In Switzerland Uncover A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Bath While Building A Spa Kantonsarchaeologie Aargau/Samuel MuehleisenA section of the Roman bath’s remains discovered in Baden,…
Fragments of the dead sea scrolls photographed in a lab in Jerusalem, Israel in 2012. The Dead Sea Scrolls are made up of tens of thousands of manuscript fragments — mostly made of parchment, or animal skin. Now, scientists are…
Flowers, signs and balloons are left near a makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the spot where he died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, on May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The protests that have engulfed American cities…
There might be billions of dollars worth of treasure stolen by the Nazis under a 16th century palace in southwestern Poland. A diary that was in the possession of a secret society for decades after the end of World War…
An aerial view of the Tel Arad fortress that stands in what was once the Kingdom of Judah. More than 2,700 years ago, worshipers at a “holy of holies” shrine in Israel may have gotten high on weed. Researchers discovered…
A proposal to cut the Titanic’s telegraph machine free of the shipwreck was just approved in federal court. A federal judge has given a salvage company permission to cut open the hull of the RMS Titanic in order to retrieve…
Mammoths congregated here during the last ice age, when it was on the shores of Lake Xaltocan. Researchers have found a “graveyard” of about 60 mammoths ahead of the construction of an airport just outside Mexico City, according to the…
