Alien Megastructure Update
One of the premier telescope arrays in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is focusing its antennas on an anomalously blinking star, thanks in part to speculation that the star called KIC 8462852...
Controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete nearly 6m years ago
by Matthew Robert Bennett And Per Ahlberg
The human foot is distinctive. Our five toes lack claws, we normally present the sole of our foot flat to the ground, and our first and second toes...
Ancient ‘House of the Dead’ discovered in Wiltshire
A ‘House of the Dead’ has been discovered in Wiltshire dating back 5,000 years by University of Reading archaeologists and students, and could contain the ancestors of those who lived around Stonehenge and Avebury.
As...
Ancient Civilization Lies Frozen Beneath Antarctica? Atlantis?
JENNIFER HALE
Rumors of a hidden city have been floating about for years, as conspiracy theorists and even some scientists claim the freezing continent is actually the home of the legendary Lost City of Atlantis. One...
Excavations in Turkey’s Southeast Reveal 10,000-year-old Belief in Afterlife
An excavation in the Dargeçit district of the southeastern region of Turkey, which will soon be left under the reservoir waters of the Ilısu Dam, has revealed crucial information about the North Mesopotamian people’s...
Humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought
Ewen Callaway
Ancient humans settled in North America around 130,000 years ago, suggests a controversial study — pushing the date back more than 100,000 years earlier than most scientists accept. The jaw-dropping claim, made in...
Scientists decide to bury 5,000-year-old lost city in Pakistan
Mohenjo Daro is threatened by the baking temperatures of the Indus Valley and the threat from tourists and terrorists
Archaeologists are trying to save the remains of a nearly 5,000-year-old city in Pakistan by burying...
Ancient Maya May Have Foreseen Meteor Showers
By Kimberly M. S. Cartier
Using state-of-the-art computer models, an amateur historian and a professional astronomer have found evidence that many important societal events recorded in Mayan hieroglyphic inscriptions may coincide with outbursts of meteor...
How Ancient Star Maps Gave Rise to Modern Astronomy
by Starre Vartan
Scientists have incredibly advanced tools to look at the stars today, but in the era before light pollution, star-gazing was much easier and simpler for the average person—just step outside at night....
America’s First Immigrants: DNA Links Native Americans, Indigenous Canadians To First Ancient Migration
By Elana Glowatz
DNA proves that Native American and indigenous Canadian groups along the northern Pacific Ocean have been living there for more than 10,000 years.
Scientists did a genetic analysis on people from the...