Some days ago, the news broke that an ancient city by the name of Mehendraparvata had been discovered by a team of archaeologists that used state-of-the-art technology to map Cambodia's Siem Reap region. As reported at that time, the remains of this long-lost city have spent the past 1,200 years hidd... [read more >>] An ancient city estimated to have been built some 1,200 years ago has recently been discovered by a team of Australian archaeologists. Commenting on their findings, the archaeologists explain that the city of Mahendraparvata has spent the past millennium hidden beneath the forests towering over Cambodia&#... [read more >>] Women get menopause because of men's preference for younger women, biologist Rama Singh has concluded after spending numerous hours analyzing this phenomenon.
Apparently, menopause is not at all common in the animal kingdom. Quite the contrary, there are some who say that only human females enter men... [read more >>] The quest for Amelia Earhart's aircraft took a rather unexpected turn when philanthropist Timothy Mellon decided to file a lawsuit against TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery).
Timothy Mellon claims that the long-lost aircraft was discovered back in 2010, and that TIGHAR ch... [read more >>] Ötzi the Iceman's death was most likely not an accidental one, researchers say. Apparently, Ötzi was ambushed, shot with an arrow and hit in the head.
The brain damage caused by the head blow was probably what killed him, new evidence suggests.
Scientists with the European Academy of Bolz... [read more >>] A case report published in a recent issue of the Journal of Emergency Medicine details how a 19-year-old man ended up in a coma after drinking a quart of soy sauce. Word has it that the teenager drank so much soy sauce on a dare, and that he started feeling ill not long after. In just two hours after he had... [read more >>] The Egyptian city of Heracleion fell off the map some 1,200 years ago. Archaeologists suspect that it ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea after an earthquake had struck Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria.
However, bulletproof evidence in support of this theory is still lacking.
Its remains were di... [read more >>] A couple of days ago, the Wright Brothers found themselves taken out of history books. On Wednesday, the Connecticut Senate announced that, since historical evidence indicates that the original aviation pioneer was Gustave Whitehead, it would be common sense that he be credited with this achievement. The ... [read more >>] As it turns out, US explorers have had a rather busy weekend. Long story short, they might have discovered impressive amounts of gold resting at the bottom of the ocean in the waters off South Carolina's coast.
For the sake of accuracy, it need be said that they didn't actually find any gold in ... [read more >>] “God's bathtub” has allegedly been found by researchers in Australia. The “bathtub” is said to contain water that has somehow remained untouched by climate change or other human activities, hence the fact that it strikes people as stunningly clear and pristine. Before anyone g... [read more >>] |
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