Heracleion, also known as Thonis, was an ancient lost Egyptian city near Alexandria whose ruins are located in Abu Qir Bay. It was known as early as the 12th century BC but its importance grew during the … Read more
Baigong Pipes are a series of pipe-like features found on and near Mount Baigong, about 40 km southwest of the city of Delingha, in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. There are three … Read more
An ancient Egyptian statue Neb-Senu has started to rotate inside a glass display case at Manchester Museum, UK. The 10-inch tall relic dates back to 1800 BC, was found in a mummy’s tomb and has been on … Read more
Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th or during the 16th century, the origin, language, and date of the Voynich Manuscript—named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912—are … Read more
In one of the most remote spots on Earth, separated by more than two thousand miles of ocean from the nearest centers of civilization, is a lone, triangular-shaped island that occupies about 64 square miles of the … Read more