The Clovis people have first arrived in the Americas about 15,000 years ago. Researchers have just found evidence that people visited a cave in Mexico 30,000 years ago; however, who they were and where they came from remains a mystery. Archaeologists have constantly discovered stone tools that suggest human presence between 11,000 and 13,000 years…
An ancient ocher mine discovered in submerged caves on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula has given insights into the lives of some of the first inhabitants of the Americas. Scientists from the Quintana Roo Aquifer System Research Center (CINDAQ) found a Civilisation 8000 Year Old Mayans in a complex of underwater caves in the Yucatan peninsula (Mexico)….
Time has a habit of slowly erasing the fragile traces of history. Where the dry sands of the Roswell desert in New Mexico preserve faint traces of a metal object that fell to Earth 86 years ago in 1947, the unforgiving limestone rocks and frequently harsh wet weather of Lanillar in Mid-Wales have eroded all traces of…
During the cold war, the US and the Soviet navy had been encountering strange sounds from the dept of ocean off the coast of Norway. Both superpowers put huge efforts into hiding their submarines, and into detecting the other side’s submarines, and as a result, there were huge advances in the technology required for listening…
Julia is the name given to the unknown source of a sound recorded on March 1, 1999. It was recorded on the eastern equatorial Pacific using an autonomous hydrophone array. Heard for many thousands of kilometers, the source of the sound has been largely dismissed as an iceberg running aground somewhere off of Antarctica. It’s…
The Himalayas, mountains, and hills are included among India’s most calm and attractive places. Many people who are bored of their monotonous lives want to spend a few weeks in the lap of a beautiful region. They want to investigate and record some of the most unusual and spectacular moments they will remember for the…
Archaeologists in Switzerland have come across a genuinely baffling, yet potentially significant, discovery buried within an ancient grave: a 3,500-year-old bronze hand with a gold cuff around the wrist. Nothing like this has ever been unearthed in this part of Europe, so the researchers are not exactly sure what they are dealing with. It certainly…
Lake Superior, the largest of the North American Great Lakes, is also the largest freshwater lake globally by a surface area believed to have first been inhabited 10,000 years ago. However, there exist copper mines upon many of the lakes islands, which many researchers have concluded to be prehistoric. A sophisticated array of tunnels litters…
The burial of a 1.5-year-old child, whose bones show evidence of smallpox, who was buried in the early-colonial Huanchaco cemetery in Peru. (Image credit: Gabriel Prieto/Huanchaco Archaeological Program) A 16th-century cemetery in Peru holds the remains of two toddlers whose skeletons still show the devastating impact of smallpox in the early-colonial period. The rare find may…
When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. A Smithsonian Institution geologist now thinks he has discovered fresh evidence in Maryland that might change the course of the country’s history. The story of the first Americans has enthralled scientists and the general public alike, frequently leading to contentious debates. Geologist…
