Many Faces of Power As drought depleted Poland’s Vistula River (map), tons of looted 17th-century marble artifacts—including this stonework pictured against a power plant—surfaced this month. The revelation helps solve a centuries-old mystery and crowns one archaeologist’s three-year quest for Warsaw’s lost royal treasures. The sculpted fountains, columns, and other marbles on the muddy bottom […]
The Plain of Jars in northern Laos is home to a 2000-year-old mystery. Photo: AFP ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE Australian National University (ANU) are shedding light on an ancient civilisation after unearthing an Iron Age burial ground in Laos’s mysterious ‘Plain of Jars.’ Throughout central Laos – a South East Asian country landlocked by Vietnam, Cambodia, […]
According to research, these hieroglyphs were first sighted in the 1900’s and there are about 250 stone carvings that have been part of the local folklore of the area for over a century, so it’s not something that has been discovered recently. Media coverage of the discovery has been minimal, which is when you think […]
An all-but-forgotten Neolithic human figurine that was originally found at the ancient settlement of Skara Brae in Scotland in the 1860s, has been rediscovered amongst a collection of artifacts being kept at the Stromness Museum. The artifact was identified by Dr. David Clarke, who was conducting research on Skara Brae when he came across it […]
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow-Up features a wayward London fashion photographer called Thomas who unwittingly documents a murder. Hidden in the blurred background of one of his most recent photographs is a detail so obscured by shadows and foliage that, at first, Thomas does not even see it. Only after he repeatedly blows up the […]
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