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đźŽSanxingdui Mask and the Lost Civilization of Shu in Ancient China
🪨 The Earth Opens – A Discovery Beneath Sichuan's Soil In the summer of 1929, the course of Chinese archaeology was forever altered when a humble farmer named Yan Daocheng, while digging an irrigation trench near the small village of Sanxingdui in Guanghan, Sichuan Province, struck something solid just beneath the surface. What emerged was not stone or wood but smooth, polished jade—an intricately carved object unlike anything local villagers had seen. The discovery passed quietly at first, filed away as a strange curiosity. But it hinted at something enormous and long-buried under the rolling plains of western China.
By Kek Viktor7 months ago in History
UK Travel Firm Collapses
A major travel company in the United Kingdom has collapsed, leaving thousands of people without their holidays and many travelers stuck abroad. The sudden closure shocked customers and the travel industry. This collapse has raised questions about how safe it is to book holidays with smaller travel firms and what protections travelers really have.
By Farhan Sayed7 months ago in History
The lead scientist was shocked when a 520 million-year-old fossil was found with its brains and guts still intact.
Around 520 million years ago, the Cambrian period was a time of experimentation. Sea life was experimenting with every body plan imaginable, looking for combinations that would function.
By Francis Dami7 months ago in History
🌍Ancient Mystery of the Costa Rica’s Giant Stone Spheres
Hidden beneath the dense canopy of Costa Rica’s southern jungles, scattered across ancient settlements, plantations, and riverbanks, are objects so precise and enigmatic that they’ve stirred the imagination of archaeologists and adventurers alike for nearly a century. These are the DiquĂs Spheres—massive stone balls, some nearly perfect in their roundness, weighing up to 15 tons and measuring over 2 meters (6.5 feet) in diameter.
By Kek Viktor7 months ago in History
🦜The Giant Parrot of Ancient New Zealand
Long before humans ever stepped foot on the islands of New Zealand, a peculiar world of towering birds, reptiles, and primitive mammals thrived beneath the canopy of vast subtropical forests. Among them was a creature that, until recently, no one ever imagined existed: a parrot the size of a child. This was Heracles inexpectatus—an ancient giant that stood nearly a meter tall, weighed around 7 kilograms (15 pounds), and belonged to one of the most intelligent bird families on Earth.
By Kek Viktor7 months ago in History
Oil price rise risks adverse shock to global economy business live
The global economy may be adversely affected by the rise in oil prices. Economists, policymakers, and financial markets have been concerned about the potential for economic disruptions as a result of energy cost inflation since the recent rise in global oil prices. The threat of a new negative shock to the global economy, which could derail the fragile recovery from the pandemic and exacerbate inflationary pressures in both developed and emerging markets, looms large as oil continues to trade above $90 per barrel. Oil prices are expected to rise in 2025 as a result of a number of factors. The ongoing tensions in the Middle East and supply disruptions in nations such as Venezuela and Libya are key examples of geopolitical instability. Crude benchmarks have risen as a result of tightening global supply caused by these developments. Simultaneously, strong demand from growing Asian economies, particularly China and India, has placed additional upward pressure on prices, as industrial production and transportation fuel consumption rebound.
By GLOBAL NEWS7 months ago in History
⛏️260–320 million year old Gold chain found in Illinois coal
In the early 1940s, a woman named Mrs. Myrtle Craft of Morrisonville, Illinois, experienced something completely unexpected during an otherwise ordinary day. She was breaking up a lump of coal to use in her stove when, to her astonishment, a small gold chain approximately 10 inches long fell out from the center of the coal. Given that coal forms over millions of years through the slow compression and fossilization of ancient plant matter, the discovery of a man-made gold object embedded in the middle of a coal lump was nothing short of astonishing. According to reports at the time, Mrs. Craft showed the coal and the chain to her neighbors, and word of the bizarre finding quickly spread. What made the event even more compelling was that the chain had apparently left a distinct impression in both halves of the broken coal, suggesting that it had been completely encased inside the mass long before it had hardened.
By Kek Viktor7 months ago in History
400 million year old modern hammer found in rock
In the summer of 1936, near the small town of London in central Texas, a curious object was discovered that would become the focus of intense debate among archaeologists, geologists, creationists, and skeptics for decades to come. It all began when Max Hahn, a local resident, and his wife were walking along a creek near Red Creek in the region of London, Texas—not to be confused with the city of the same name in England. During their walk, they noticed a strange, heavily weathered rock with a piece of wood sticking out of it. Intrigued by its odd appearance and unusual composition, they brought the rock home and later broke it open with a hammer and chisel. Inside the rock, they discovered what appeared to be a man-made hammer — complete with a wooden handle and a metallic head.
By Kek Viktor7 months ago in History
⚡The Baghdad Battery: an ancient jar generated electrocity
In the dusty heart of Iraq, not far from the site of the ancient city of Ctesiphon, a strange and controversial artifact was uncovered in the 1930s that would go on to stir decades of debate in archaeological and scientific circles. This small, unadorned object—a clay vessel with a copper cylinder and an iron rod—would become known as the Baghdad Battery, a name that would electrify imaginations around the world. The artifact was discovered during excavations at Khujut Rabu, a village near Baghdad, and was eventually examined by Wilhelm König, an Austrian archaeologist who was at the time the director of the National Museum of Iraq. König believed that the object, which dated to roughly between 250 BCE and 250 CE, may have been used as a kind of galvanic cell—a primitive battery that could generate electrical current.
By Kek Viktor7 months ago in History
