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British scientists have claimed to have found the oldest Islamic Koran text ever. Even the person who wrote this Koran could know the Prophet Mohammed.
Slovenian archaeologists announced on July 21 that they have found the other half of a single wooden boat dating back 2,000 years to the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana.
On July 23, scientists have discovered fossils of four-legged snake species in Brazil, the only specimen to date, sparking the assumption that the ancestors of reptiles…
Although often considered only an obstacle for people to bypass or jump over a wet rainy day, puddles can play a much more important role in our lives. The first factor…
Researchers have found a 70-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile in Mount Talkeetna, Alaska, shaped like a Loch Ness monster.
Fish lizards are a giant dolphin reptile that lives in the sea 248 million years ago and went extinct 25 million years ago.
The cause of the ill-fated 19th-century British expedition leaving the ship stuck in the thick ice in the Arctic and forced to eat each other to survive remains a myster…
Recently, the results of DNA analysis of extinct animals that have been carried out on a large scale have shown that mammoths and other giant creatures that once lived i…
A skeleton has been excavated from the site dubbed Russia's Stonehenge and inspired many new ideas about aliens visiting the Earth.
A series of 16th-century cannons were discovered on the seabed off northwestern Ireland when the wreck of the Spanish ship was exposed after major storms over the past t…
The construction of ancient Egyptian temples began with a groundbreaking ritual like modern humans.
Archaeologists discovered 8 million dog mummies at the grave honoring the ancient Egyptian dog god Anubis.
On June 16, Mexican scientist Guillermo Bernal of the Maya Cultural Research Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) said that after six decades of…
Archaeologists claim to have discovered the first evidence of artificial pollution, thanks to plaque on the teeth of an old Stone Age man, 400,000 years ago.
Scientists found animal footprints in the Archosauriforms reptile group, suggesting they prospered before and during the Great Extinction.