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Giant mysterious circle in Africa
1001 mystery

Giant mysterious circle in Africa

The disappearance of the forest reveals a circle with a diameter of 36 to 46 km in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

December 18, 2018
Tunguska event mystery
1001 mystery

Tunguska event mystery

100 years ago, a terrible explosion ripped the dawn sky over the swampy taiga of western Siberia, leaving a riddle to this day still a mystery.

December 18, 2018
Lava paintings in Xinjiang
1001 mystery

Lava paintings in Xinjiang

In a ravine in the northwest of Qinghua district, north of Xinjiang province, archaeologists from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region National Museum have discovered a…

December 18, 2018
Ancient people made iron from meteorites
Archeology

Ancient people made iron from meteorites

Archeologists named each period of history based on the popular materials used by humans at the time. Archaeologists found a lot of bronze artifacts in the Bronze Age.

December 17, 2018
New discovery of the extinction of dinosaurs
Archeology

New discovery of the extinction of dinosaurs

Previously, scientists always believed that Chicxulub crater craters in the Gulf of Mexico were the result of a collision between Earth and Chicxulub and it was this imp…

December 17, 2018
Meteorites make dinosaurs extinct
Archeology

Meteorites make dinosaurs extinct

Scientists have come to the final conclusion that a giant meteorite fell to Earth as the cause of the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

December 17, 2018
Comets destroy the 'monster' ice age
Archeology

Comets destroy the 'monster' ice age

The blocks from the space that hit glaciers in eastern Canada about 12,900 years ago may have completely destroyed the giant mammoth mammoth.

December 17, 2018
Meteors do not destroy all dinosaurs
Archeology

Meteors do not destroy all dinosaurs

US scientists have found evidence that dinosaurs continue to live another 300,000 years after an asteroid hit the earth.

December 17, 2018