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Italian and Danish scientists have successfully decoded the DNA of two Pompeii people - a city devastated by the volcano Vesuvius 2,000 years ago, famous for its shockin…
Located just off the coast of the Gulf of Finland from the Baltic Sea, Fort Alexander stands tall in the sea filled with secrets and a history spanning decades.
The Mayan pyramids are not only tombs to bury the remains of kings and nobles, but also contain many precious objects from jade and stingray bones.
A mysterious extinct creature that once baffled scientists has finally found its place in the tree of life.
Fortune telling and feng shui had a great influence on the lives of the ancients. Surely you and many people have heard about feng shui. It is the attachment of the old…
In an unlikely location in the archaeological site of Palenque - Mexico, the noble and mysterious Maya queen rests in a tomb full of treasures.
The tombs of early Egyptian pharaohs often contained simpler burial items than later generations due to the customs of each era.
According to calculations by scientists, an ancient tree of the cypress family (Fitzroya cupressoides) called Alerce Milenario in Chile may have lived for more than 5,00…
To capture Tire, Alexander the Great turned an entire island into a peninsula.
The first Mars citizen operating group, Curiosity, has just made the first official statement about a structure resembling a mysterious man-made door on the red planet.
Cleopatra was the only person of that time who could speak Ancient Egyptian and read hieroglyphs.
An unexpected discovery reveals ancient artwork that was once part of an Iron Age complex beneath a house in southeastern Turkey.
The Latin alphabet and many other languages are not simply the result of a whim.
It turned out that the ancient Egyptians also had to think about the reason for leaving work to apply for leave. What's interesting is that they give very familiar reaso…
There have been many records of objects that resemble today's UFO depictions. Do UFOs really exist?