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Close-up of the process of harvesting winter ice to make 'air conditioners' for the Emperor at the end of the Qing Dynasty
Old photographs from the late Qing Dynasty depict the busy ice harvest season in Beijing.
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The Cruel History of the Mysterious Illness That Old World People Bring to America
After the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts, the indigenous population fell from 30,000 to just 300 - within a decade.
Science story
Knitting molecular fibers into fabric, British researchers set a record by creating the world's smoothest fabric
Known as the 'poor man's fireworks,' Dashuhua is a 500-year-old firework ritual used in Nuanquan, China, to celebrate the Lunar New Year. For their new achievement, they…
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The world's most enchanting 500-year-old fireworks ceremony
Known as the 'poor man's fireworks,' Dashuhua is a 500-year-old firework ritual used in Nuanquan, China, to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Archeology
The mystery of the 2,000-year-old dog head statue buried under the road surface: the entrance to the 'world of the dead'
A strange dog head statue was discovered just half a meter below the road surface. More interestingly, it led to the larger discovery of a Roman burial complex 2,000 yea…
Archeology
Discovered a mammoth cemetery more than 210,000 years old
Paleontologists have found five fossilized mammoth skeletons from the last ice age in southwestern England.
Archeology
3,600-year-old 'time box' reveals one of humanity's most terrible disasters
An ancient 'timebox' buried from one of the deadliest volcanic disasters in human history has been unearthed on the coast of Turkey, providing 'intriguing' new evidence…
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Close-up of the bizarre anthropomorphic village in Italy
The 32-year-old man used a drone to record an entire humanoid town in Italy.
Archeology
Decipher the mystery of how to preserve the fetus in a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy
Archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences carried out the Warsaw Mummy Project – scanning all the mummies in the museum and discovered the world's first fetal m…
Archeology
1,400-year-old factory creates 'timeless' treasures
Archaeologists in the UK have unearthed an ancient workshop near the world-famous Sutton Hoo boat grave that may have been the source of treasures that astound modern pe…
Oceanography
The 2,000-year-old warship contains more than a hundred species of animals
After being submerged for a long time under the sea, the wreck became inhabited by a diverse and structurally complex biome.
Archeology
The 'unsub' killed the grave robbers
There is an old saying 'Retribution', so are grave robbers really their own lives of unscrupulous actions?
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The old soldier's hat always had a pointed tip, expert: The use is really magical!
A small detail but makes experts say that 'the wisdom of the ancients is too sublime'.
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Is cremation obsolete? The 'new funeral' method was tested in Wuhan
As we all know, birth, old age, sickness, and death are inevitable, even unavoidable in human life, so we can only choose to accept death openly.
Archeology
Laser reveals a series of 'haunted houses' of the Incas, invisible to the naked eye
Archaeologists have identified a series of previously unknown Inca structures hidden within the famous Chachabamba temple complex in Machu Picchu National Park.