A huge Stone Age monument has been discovered in Poland, and researchers report the site is 360 feet in diameter, making it three times larger than Stonehenge. It is believed the site was used by Neolithic people for at least 250 years, with new features added to it along the way. Ancient Origins notes: “The site was first spotted by a paraglider, in 2015, at Nowe Objezierze near Cedynia, which is in northwest Poland, not far from the German border. In 2016 the archaeologist Marcin Dziewanowski, while investigating satellite images on Google Maps, confirmed that there was an ancient enclosure…
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YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvAvN5xn5oY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Deep in the heart of northern Kansas, researchers excavated farmland that used to be under the ocean and ended up finding a brand new species of shark that lurked beneath the surface around 91 million years ago. During the middle to the late Cretaceous period, the region of the United States we know now as the Great Plains was submerged under the North American Western Interior Seaway, with Mitchell County, Kansas lying at the edge of the eastern boundary of the water. Just as the oceans are teeming with life today, so too did the…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/x_7eHqWOrKA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Archaeologists made a fascinating find in Norway recently by uncovering not just one ancient Viking boat grave, but two. And the mysterious bit is that the man and the woman in the double grave were buried 100 years apart. Vikings often buried important members of their society inside boat graves, which is a mound that covers a longboat. Some of these boats have even been recovered and are currently on display in Denmark at the Viking Ship Museum. In addition to the bodies of the deceased, Vikings would bury items they believed a person would need…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xX2iv4SyNHg?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Of all the possible ways the Neanderthals may have gone extinct, it turns out that it may have been as simple as a common childhood affliction that ultimately spelled their doom. Illness is part of being human, no matter how much we don’t like it. It helps build up our immune systems and makes us grateful when we are healthy. Unfortunately, there are some illnesses that some humans can’t overcome, but we have survived as a species because most of us at least overcome the common stuff. Neanderthals, however, were not so fortunate. An ear infection…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dm_7AEycc8k?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 A team of researchers from Yamagata University, along with IBM researchers, has found 143 new Nazca Lines in Peru with the help of A.I. technology. One small geoglyph of a ‘humanoid’ was found using A.I technology alone for the first time. Among these never-before-seen formations are some strange and fascinating images. Some larger ones can only be spotted from the sky. Masato Sakai, a cultural anthropologist at Yamagata University, and his team worked with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in the U.S. They were able to train the A.I. to scan satellite imagery of…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/8i6Yf8gSVec?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 It’s a common stereotype that extraterrestrials may have green skin color, from green Martians to the Egyptian god Osiris, depicted with greenish skin. Ancient Celtic mythology often depicts the Green Man, dating back before the Roman Empire. And, in 12th century England, there is the story of the curious Green Children of Woolpit. This story appears to have been based on real people who may have descendants today. The story is woven together from accounts by two famous English chroniclers, William of Newburgh, a monk from the Augustinian priory of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, a monk…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/maaX8VvOOtQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Salango is located on the coast of central Ecuador, and archaeologists recently made an astonishing find there: Two infants who had been buried approximately 2,100 years ago wearing “helmets” made from the skulls of other children. According to Live Science: “The archaeologists who excavated the burials between 2014 and 2016 recently published the details of their findings in the journal Latin American Antiquity. “The team says this is the only known case in which children’s skulls were used as helmets for infants being buried. The scientists don’t know what killed the infants and children.” What exactly is…
For 1,400 years, the ancient Assyrian empire dominated the Middle East ruling an area stretching from Turkey to Egypt and east to Iran through what is today Northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq. And then it all fell apart because of a megadrought caused by climate change. The Assyrians were truly a superpower of the time, excelling in warfare, art, politics, and economics. Considered the first real empire in history, the Assyrians armed themselves with iron weapons, making their armies a formidable foe unmatched on the battlefield. As such, the Assyrians easily and swiftly conquered lands to add to their dominion.…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/1qW256pUdYg?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Bigfoot may or may not be real, but there is a living relative of the giant ape thought to be Bigfoot already living among us known as the orangutan, according to scientists who studied the ape’s genetic code. There have been countless Bigfoot sightings for hundreds of years, and the mystery of Bigfoot continues to be popular around the world today as scientists remain puzzled about just exactly what kind of creature people are seeing out in the wilderness. One likely explanation is that people are misidentifying living animals such as bears, which also walk upright,…
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/In0wnzO0Sko?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Even those who know little about world history have likely heard of Merlin the Magician. The mythology which has been built up around him has endured for centuries, even though most have no idea exactly where the character of Merlin came from. Also, was Merlin benevolent or malevolent? So where exactly did the legend of Merlin start, and how exactly is he connected to King Arthur? According to a fascinating article found on the website Ancient Origins, the story of Merlin is a complex one filled with contradictions and mysteries: “The powerful wizard is depicted with…
