Top 10: Best weapons of WWII In the middle of the 19th century, the gun Gatling was first developed in Chicago and, although in that period it was not automatic, it was becoming a weapon that changed the nature of war forever. In the First World War, machine guns were used to devastate and were an important contributor to the […]
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This Ancient Human Brain Remained Almost Perfectly Intact For 2,600 Years Archaeologists were shocked in 2008 when they found a human brain dating from the Iron Age. The finding seemed to challenge basic biology; human brains, like any other soft tissue, usually decline shortly after death. But now, scientists have found out how 2,600 years of this brain remained intact. […]
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Horrific Japanese Crimes in WWII That History Forgot World War II struck devastating blows everywhere it took place, but the Pacific Theater was where nations fought the longest campaigns of the war and witnessed some of the most gratuitous cruelty in history. Between 1937 and 1945, the Empire of Japan reached out into a dozen countries with what appeared at […]
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German Ship Sunk During World War I Found Off Falkland Islands The wreck of one of World War I’s most famous German warships is located on the seafloor in the Falkland Islands, where it sunk more than 100 years ago in a battle with British warships. On 8 December 1914, the battle-cruiser Scharnhorst sunk, including German Adm. Maximilian Graf von […]
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Century-Old Little Girl Found In Coffin Under San Francisco Home Identified Researchers announced that the 19th-century body of a little girl found last year in a small metal casket under a San Francisco home was identified. The girl was Edith Howard Cook, two-year-old, who died on October 13, 1876, six weeks short of her third birthday, said the charity Garden […]
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7 Billion-Year-Old Stardust Is Oldest Material Found on Earth Older Than The Sun Life periods of planets. We come to life as space-flowing pieces of dust and gas meet each other and collapse and heat up. For millions or milliards of years, they burn and then die. Once they die, they pitch out into space the particles that formed in […]
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An enormous Kauri swamp log unearthed by Kaikohe is around 40,500 years old and could bring new light on a mysterious global event that might have had a dramatic impact on the climate of the planet. During excavation for a new geothermal power station near Ngāwhā Springs the log, which is 16 m long and weighs 60 tonnes, was found. […]
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FIRST GREEK HELMET DISCOVERED NORTH OF THE BLACK SEA IN RUSSIA The agency RIA Novosti reported that a Corinthian helmet was found in a grave dated from the 5th century BC in the Taman Peninsula, south-west of Russia. It is the only such helmet found from the north of the Black Sea. Corroded after 2500 years of burial and thus […]
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According to NASA scientists, the star used by ancient Egyptians as their North Star has just been discovered to be a part of a pair of binary stars that periodically eclipse each other. The astronomical observations of the team were published in the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Research Notes on 31 Oct 2019. Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), […]
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How Scientists Resolved the Mystery of the Devil’s Corkscrews Devil’s corkscrew is one of America’s strangest and most mysterious land formations. Fossils come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s fairly simple to figure out what sort of organism a fossil is from, other times, it’s less clear. The weathering of the native sandstone reveals so often fossiled […]
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