Secret operations by leading scientists in Nazi Germany lead to the discovery of one of the most biggest and mysterious wonder weapons – Die Glocke or in English, “The Bell”. But what made “The Bell” so wondrous? Well, the brightest scientific minds were working on anti-gravity theories which were very popular during World War II. […]
The cave where the bones were found. Photo: Egnoka/Wikimedia Excursionists hiking up a mountain in the Lazio region were stunned last week after they came across the suspected skeleton of an ancient Roman child while exploring a cave. The bones were found inside a shattered Roman clay jar, or anfora, which the hikers noticed […]
A proposed perennial plate tectonic map. Present-day plate boundaries (white lines), with hidden ancient plate boundaries that may reactivate to control plate tectonics (yellow lines). Regions where mantle lithosphere heterogeneities have been located are given by yellow crosses. Credit: Russell Pysklywec, Philip Heron, Randell Stephenson This changes the widespread view that only interactions at the […]
Hannibal crosses the Alps on an elephant. Credit: Nicolas Poussin Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast have recently released results that may have answered one of ancient history’s greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross the Alps? Hannibal was the Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian […]
The Vikings’ ships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of the European Dark Ages. Without these great ships the Viking Age would never had happened and the success of the Vikings would never have been as far-stretched. Unfortunately, very few remains of Viking ships have been discovered. One Viking ship that can provide us […]