Eastern Front Battlefield Relics – The Amount Left Behind is Incredible The war on the Eastern Front, known to the Russians as the “Great Patriotic War”, was the scene of the biggest military confrontation in history. Over the course of four years, more than 400 Red Army and German divisions have clashed in a series of operations along a front […]
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A Cave in France Changes What We Thought We Knew About Neanderthals The stone rings found inside the French cave were probably built by the Neanderthals 176,500 years ago. The study says that the structures are the oldest known human constructions, possibly altering the way we think about our ancestors. The team led by archaeologist Jacques Jaubert of the University […]
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Angry Alaskans burned a village to the ground and executed 28 inhabitants by tying them up and knifing them in the head ‘in a feud over a darts game’ in the mid 17th Century Archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a 350-year-old massacre that happened during a war that may have started over a dart game. The discovery reveals the gruesome […]
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Mummified monk revealed inside 1,000-year-old Buddha statue Every day scientists and excavators continue to discover weird and unexpected things. We have been witnessing unheard and unseen things which are coming into existence in the present era. Such things seem weird to mankind to believe, but excavators along with their findings are providing staunch proofs. Scientific studies have confirmed that an […]
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Humans did not drive Australia’s megafauna to extinction – climate change did The land that we now call Australia was populated between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago with gigantic creatures of all kinds, like kangaroos twice the size of man and dragon-like goannas. And according to a new study, for tens of thousands of years early humans probably coexisted alongside […]
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A 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site Was Just Deliberately Destroyed in Australia During the iron ore mine expansion this last weekend, a culturally important archaeological site has been destroyed in Western Australia. With state approval, the mining company responsible for the incident revealed the weak and bigoted conservation laws of Australia. On Sunday mining explosions destroyed the Juukan 1 and the Juukan […]
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A Perfectly Preserved 32,000-Year-Old Wolf Head Was Found in Siberian Permafrost You wouldn’t know what you might encounter during a casual stroll in Siberia. Local resident Pavel Efimov was walking along the Tirekhtyakh River in the Russian Republic of Sakha when he came across something bizarre: a severed wolf’s head. But when they were examined more closely by researchers, they found […]
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The Night Witches: The All-Female World War II Squadron That Terrified The Nazis The women of the Soviet Air Forces’ 588th Night Bomber Regiment — better known as the Night Witches — have no radar, no machine guns, no radios, and no parachutes. They had only one map, a compass, rulers, stopwatches, torches and pencils. Yet over the course of four […]
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Bull dies in agony at Spanish fiesta after flaming torches are strapped to its horns A bull died a horrible death at a Spanish fiesta after organizers strapped burning torches in front of a baying crowd onto its horns. The terrified half-ton animal got confused and ran head-first into a wooden post-dying in the collision instantly. Foios, a small town […]
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In the early 20th century, 33 striking portraits of native American culture Photographer Edward Curtis embarked on a journey in 1900 that would inspire the work of his life: he decided to accompany anthropologist George Bird Grinnell on a trip to Montana to photograph the Sun Dance, a practice of the Blackfoot Indians. He travelled to Arizona from there, photographing the […]
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