Potter’s field on Hart Island in the Bronx, New York, has experienced an influx of burials during the coronavirus pandemic. (Shown here on April 9, 2020.) The coronavirus is not only controlling how we live, but increasingly what happens after…
A team of scientists has found an alignment that occurs between the rising sun and a major street in Turin that was constructed around 28 B.C. Scientists in Turin, Italy, have discovered that a couple of days each year, the…
Artificially deformed skull of an adult woman. Permanent binding during childhood caused the elongation of the braincase and depressions in the bone. Over decades, dozens of artificially deformed “alien-like” skulls that are more than 1,000 years old have been unearthed…
Mysteries of ancient humans’ love for ostrich eggs unlocked, history of Nazi camp on British soil revealed, remains of prehistoric rainforest in Antarctica discovered.Bronze Age Humans Risked Death To Steal And Decorate Giant Ostrich Eggs British MuseumTwo ancient ostrich eggs…
Explorer George Murray Levick was both excited and shocked to discover the extreme sexual displays he saw among Antarctic penguins. Antarctic Heritage Trust/AFP/Getty ImagesGeorge Murray Levick became obsessed with studying the Adélie penguins during the expedition. In 1910, the daring…
Concealing the saint’s remains likely prevented them from being destroyed during the Reformation. Archaeologists have identified the bones of one England’s earliest saints. The remains were found hidden behind a church wall in the southern part of the country. Her…
The sword was mistakenly thought to be medieval. It is now thought to come from eastern Anatolia and to be about 5000 years-old – one of the oldest swords ever found. A keen-eyed archaeology student made the find of a…
She wrote the world’s first computer program — in 1837. She discovered ancient sea monsters buried in her backyard. She cancelled the chemical tearing our ozone layer apart. You might not know their names or faces, but these pioneering women…
Even after his death, the government took great care to hide the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. His clothes were promptly burned at dawn and his cell was immediately scraped and whitewashed. Wikimedia CommonsAn illustration of the Man…
Archaeologists have discovered a 14th-century cesspit that underwent an extreme makeover over the centuries, transforming from a receptacle for human excrement into a fashionable cellar with a latrine. Since discovering the cesspool in London at the end of 2019, archaeologists…
These 99 million-year-old discoveries represent “the only known dinosaur age cave survivors.” Lenka Podstrelená, Sendi et al. Gondwana Res 2020 (Copyright Elsevier 2020)The two species likely descended from a common ancestor, before the supercontinent of Gondwana drifted apart. An international…