The National Aeronautics and Space Administration () has confirmed the discovery of 6,000 exoplanets, which are existing…
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Science & Technology
In South Africa, a large-toothed sawfish has washed up on the riverbank; it hasn’t been seen here in 26 years.
Experts speculate that the enormous fish likely died due to a predator attack. The sawfish, which resembles a guitar in shape, has not been spotted in this region since the…
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Science & Technology
People returned to Pompeii after the tragedy and lived there for another 400 years.
The ancient Roman city of was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Before this tragic event, the city was home to over 20,000 people. Despite the…
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Researchers at the Cyprus Institute (CyI) have uncovered a hidden male portrait that has been concealed for centuries beneath the famous painting by Titian, Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”) from…
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Leonardo da Vinci is well-known for his experiments with the substances used in the ground and base composition of paints. A new discovery by scientists has focused on identifying a…
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Design & Architecture
The Secrets of the “Night Watch”: Something Unexpected Discovered in Rembrandt’s Painting
Thanks to advancements in cutting-edge technology, scientists now find it easier to hunt for unexpected surprises in the chemical composition of “The Night Watch” (1642). Recently, a team of researchers…
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Who was Christopher Columbus? His name is well-known to everyone since school days. The first association that springs to mind when he is mentioned is America. Indeed, Columbus’s discovery of…
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A surprise at a depth of 2.5 km: an underwater drone discovered a 16th-century ship near Saint-Tropez.
A 16th-century trading vessel has been discovered by researchers using an underwater drone at a depth of 2,567 meters. This marks the deepest find of its kind in French territorial…
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A pile of gold and silver: tourists discovered a treasure weighing 7 kg in the mountains of the Czech Republic.
The government of the Czech Republic recently announced an extraordinary discovery made by travelers in the Krkonoš Mountains. A group of tourists stumbled upon a 15-pound treasure that included 598…
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The ancient city of Los Abuelos (translated from Spanish as “ancestors”) is nestled deep within the jungle, located 21 kilometers from the archaeological site of Waka, in the northern department…
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The Maghreb was inhabited much earlier than previously thought, according to archaeologists.
A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona and the National Institute of Archaeology in Morocco may have just rewritten history. Their recent discovery at the archaeological site of…
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Archaeologists have uncovered a massive 3,000-year-old settlement during excavations at the Escaut Valley business park in the municipality of Onnen. They believe this settlement may have served as an important…
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In the sands of Egypt, scientists have discovered the tomb of a mysterious warrior pharaoh.
According to Professor Joseph Wegner, an Egyptologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who leads the archaeological excavations, tombs of pharaohs are now found extremely rarely. Researchers are unsure which pharaoh…
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The secret underground passages from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook have finally been discovered! They were hidden beneath the Sforza Castle in Milan. A team from the Polytechnic University of Milan,…
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Near the recently discovered tomb of the pharaoh, scientists have uncovered another one.
A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission led by Pearce Litherland from the University of Cambridge recently shared exciting news about a rare discovery. Near Luxor, researchers stumbled upon the tomb of…
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Humans settled in the African tropics as far back as 150,000 years ago, leaving scientists astonished.
An international team of researchers has uncovered the oldest evidence of human presence in the tropical forests of Africa. This groundbreaking discovery indicates that these regions were inhabited as far…
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The girl turned out to be a boy: the secret of the skull of “Cleopatra’s sister” has been revealed.
The Octagon, built at the end of the 1st century BC, was a monumental eight-sided mausoleum made of white marble, standing 13 meters tall. Dr. Keil examined the skull and…
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Such discoveries happen once in a hundred years: a luxurious private bath has been uncovered in Pompeii.
Archaeologists have uncovered a lavish private bath in the city of Pompeii, buried nearly 2,000 years ago under layers of volcanic rock and ash. Researchers studying the ancient Roman site…
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Researchers led by Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has spent 20 years searching for Cleopatra’s burial site, have announced a significant discovery. The team believes that the queen found her…
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A sword dating back to the 9th or 10th century was discovered by museum employee Szczepan Skibiński while swimming in the Supraśl River. This rare artifact is one of the…
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A discovery dating back around 7,000 years has taken archaeologists by surprise. It seems that the model for this ancient sculptor was an alien. Researchers uncovered the head of the…
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Despite 50 years of excavations, archaeologists continue to uncover surprises about the Terracotta Army. Researchers discovered a richly adorned figure in the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in China’s…
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For decades, it was believed that the first alphabet was created by the ancient Egyptians. However, a shocking new discovery has called this assumption into question, pushing back the timeline…
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In Mexico, a massive Mayan city has been unexpectedly discovered. What allowed such settlements to withstand the test of time?
The city, discovered by chance in the southeastern state of Campeche, has been named Valeriana, after the nearby lagoon. Archaeologists uncovered pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting different areas, and amphitheaters.…
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The discovery by archaeologists from France and Saudi Arabia sheds light on the gradual transition from a nomadic lifestyle to urban living thousands of years ago. The ruins of a…
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According to a new study, the altar stone of the monument—a central blue stone weighing six tons—likely traveled over 700 kilometers. For more than a century, archaeologists have known that…
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Farmer Mehmet Emin Sualp, while planting seedlings in his field in the village of Salkaya, unexpectedly stumbled upon an ancient mosaic floor measuring 84 square meters. Remarkably, it is well-preserved.…
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They were filming a movie about Indiana Jones there: a ground-penetrating radar discovered a secret tomb in Petra.
In the city of Petra, Jordan, beneath the rock-hewn temple of Al-Khazneh, researchers have uncovered a two-thousand-year-old unknown tomb containing the remains of 12 individuals along with burial artifacts. Scientists…
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Design & Architecture
Unknown children’s engravings by William Blake, dating back 250 years, have been discovered in Oxford.
The childhood works of William Blake (1757-1827) had long been hidden from researchers at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University. The artist bequeathed his engravings to the library in 1809.…
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“An Aquarium in Stone”: A Roman mosaic featuring dolphins has been discovered in England.
The ruins of Viroconium are located in the English village of Wroxeter. Founded in the late 1st century AD, this city was the fourth largest in Roman Britain, with a…
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Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) are closing in on the discovery of the room where the Last Supper took place over 2,000 years ago. It is believed to…
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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced the discovery of an 1,800-year-old ring featuring the image of the goddess of war and wisdom in an ancient quarry. The ornament, likely…
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Breaking news: archaeologists have discovered a long-lost altar in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have made an astonishing discovery. In Jerusalem, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site believed to be where Jesus Christ was…
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About a year ago, builders laying a water pipeline in a field stumbled upon what has been dubbed the “Tomb of Cerberus.” The scientific community was taken aback by the…
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A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington has made a groundbreaking discovery. It turns out that an ancient river, long dried up and buried beneath the…
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A rare artifact has been accidentally discovered in the collections of the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library in Hamburg, Germany. For many years, a papyrus containing text in…
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A team of archaeologists from the University of Córdoba (Spain) has uncovered ancient sherry preserved in a rare form within a Roman tomb. The oldest wine in the world, discovered…
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Older than Machu Picchu: a 4000-year-old temple and theater have been uncovered in Peru.
According to a team of researchers from the Archaeological Project of Cultural Landscapes Ukupé, a recently discovered temple and theater are approximately three and a half millennia older than Machu…
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The teacher found a stone with ancient writing in the garden. The artifact is 1600 years old.
While working in his garden in Coventry, England, a 55-year-old geography teacher stumbled upon a small rectangular stone. It was later revealed that this artifact is over 1,600 years old.…
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Researchers have suggested that selected works of the Brothers Grimm ended up in a university collection due to the post-war relocation of library holdings. How did these books remain hidden…
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In Italy, an opulent beach villa belonging to Pliny the Elder has been uncovered; it is 2000 years old.
The discovery is located 15 kilometers from Naples, in the Campania region. Builders constructing a children’s playground and recreational area were the first to stumble upon the ruins of a…
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Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest example of woodworking, created nearly half a million years ago. This remarkable find provides clear evidence that ancient Stone Age humans began…
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Researchers from the University of Alcalá and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have shed light on a discovery that dates back to the 19th century. They confirmed that this pair…
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During excavations in the small town of Nordlingen in southern Germany, archaeologists uncovered an astonishing piece of ancient weaponry. An incredibly rare Bronze Age sword has left even experts in…
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For a long time, it was believed that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America, having reached its shores in 1492. However, in the 1960s, researchers stumbled upon a…
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A team of scientists has discovered a new blood type in a 68-year-old woman from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe. The researchers recently announced their finding at the congress…
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The flower with “glass-like” petals has been named Spiranthes hachijoensis, honoring the genus Spiranthes and Hachijo Island (Tokyo Prefecture), where it was discovered. The white-pink petals of this previously unknown…
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The uncut diamond weighs an astonishing 2,492 carats. It was discovered 500 kilometers from Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, by workers from Lucara Diamond, a company specializing in diamond exploration…
