Mars’ Two-Faces and Moons Could Result from an Early Cataclysmic Impact
Mars experienced a single colossal impact during its first 130 million years, the equivalent to the largest body in the today’s asteroid belt slamming...
Ancient Skeletons Could Finally Reveal Origins of The Dead Sea Scrolls
By PETER DOCKRILL
Ever since they were discovered some 70 years ago, the Dead Sea Scrolls have fascinated scholars and historians. But the precise origins...
Stephen Hawking’s Last Theory
With a science paper published after his death, Stephen Hawking has revived debate on a deeply divisive question for cosmologists: Is our Universe just...
ISIS Destroys Ancient Theater, Tetrapylon In Palmyra, Syria Says
Two famous ancient structures in the city of Palmyra have been destroyed by ISIS forces, Syria's antiquities chief says.
The Tetrapylon and the facade of...
Castle of the Sealand kings: Discovering ancient Iraq’s rebel rulers
The Kings of the Sealand sound like they come straight out of a fantasy novel but it’s the name given to a royal dynasty...
Ancient monuments used for mysterious moonlit ceremonies?
Sarah Knapton,
Ancient stone monuments may have been used for mysterious night-time ceremonies, archaeologists believe, after finding that some rock carvings only appear...
How digital technology is taking Mayan culture back to the future
By Mark Brown
More than a century after the British explorer Alfred Maudslay took pioneering photographs and casts of some of the most incredible ancient...
Oldest Maya Calendar Discovered
Buried within the Las Pinturas pyramid in San Bartolo, Guatemala, thousands of painted plaster mural fragments offer a window into ancient Maya civilization. Two...
6 Thanksgiving Myths and the Wampanoag Side of the Story
The Thanksgiving Day Celebration Originated From a Massacre
In 1621, though Pilgrims celebrated a feast, it was not repeated in the years to follow. In...



































