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The unique skull of an extinct, enormous "thunderbird" has been discovered by archaeologists.
The Australian Outback once trembled beneath a ball. He was bigger than one person and five times heavier than Cassobary. For over a century, scientists have known these giants (called dromaeosaurus) only from scattered and often cut bones. The crushed skull that appeared in 1913 led to wild assumptions about what Zenonis Newton, the last of the string, looked, fed, and squealed. Now, the newly excavated skull bones have been transformed by blowing one from the dry bed of Lake Carabona.
By Francis Dami8 months ago in History
The Oak Island Money Pit: History, Theories, and the Flooded Trap That Changed Everything
It started with the sound of a shovel striking earth. What followed would become the longest-running treasure hunt in modern history — filled with mystery, death, obsession, and one maddening, elusive promise: that somewhere beneath Oak Island, something extraordinary lies buried.
By Rukka Nova8 months ago in History
📚 The Library of Ashurbanipal: The World’s First Great Archive of Knowledge
📚 The Library of Ashurbanipal: The World’s First Great Archive of Knowledge 📜Part I: Discovery Amid Ruins In the mid-1800s, long before archaeology had matured into the scientific discipline we know today, the deserts of northern Iraq were largely unexplored by Europeans. One such explorer was Austen Henry Layard, a British adventurer with a deep fascination for the biblical cities of Nineveh and Babylon. In 1849, while excavating near the village of Kuyunjik, Layard uncovered massive ruins buried under mounds of earth. These ruins belonged to Nineveh, the ancient capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire — a city that had once been one of the most powerful urban centers in the ancient world.
By Kek Viktor8 months ago in History
🏺 Göbekli Tepe: The Temple That Rewrote Human History
🏺 Göbekli Tepe: The Temple That Rewrote Human History I. Discovery and Location Göbekli Tepe, which translates from Turkish as “Potbelly Hill,” sits quietly in the dry, rolling hills of southeastern Turkey, near the modern city of Şanlıurfa. Though it had long appeared on maps as a minor mound — a common sight in the region — its true significance wasn’t understood until the mid-1990s. In fact, for decades, local farmers and researchers assumed the mound was a simple Bronze Age burial site or a ruined Byzantine outpost. But in 1994, the German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, who had worked at nearby Neolithic sites, re-examined the mound and recognized that the flint tools and carved stones scattered across the surface pointed to something far older and more significant.
By Kek Viktor8 months ago in History
⛏️Nabta Playa: The 7,000-Year-Old Stone Circle of the Nubian Desert
⛏️Nabta Playa: The 7,000-Year-Old Stone Circle of the Nubian Desert Discovery and Location Nabta Playa lies hidden deep within the Nubian Desert, an arid and inhospitable region in southern Egypt, close to the border with Sudan. This vast desert landscape today is characterized by harsh winds, blazing sun, and seemingly endless sand dunes, but approximately 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, this area was dramatically different.
By Kek Viktor8 months ago in History
THE HISTORY OF OUR REGULAR SPICE: NUTMEG
NUTMEG: A unique spice with a lush history. INTRODUCTION: The nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans) is a tall, evergreen species originally from Southeast Asia. Prior to the late 1700s, it was found only in one part of the world—a small cluster of northeast Indonesian islands in the Banda Sea, hair of the Moluccas—historically referred to as the Spice Islands. Characterized by a dense canopy of leathery, dark green ovate leaves, the tree also bears small, bell-shaped yellow blossoms and distinctive pale-yellow, pear-like fruits. Its fruit is pale yellow and shaped like a pear, enclosed in a fleshy outer covering When fully ripe, the outer layer splits open along a natural seam, revealing a glossy, purple-brown seed roughly 2–3 cm long and 2 cm wide. Surrounding this seed is a vibrant red, lacy membrane known as the aril. From this single fruit come two different spices: nutmeg, which is made by drying the seed, and mace, which is derived from the aril.
By Shawon Hasan8 months ago in History
Andalusia: The Forgotten Beacon of Civilization
The Forgotten Glory of Andalusia: A Legacy of Civilization, Now Overshadowed It is a historical fact that when the streets of Europe were overflowing with filth and plagued by disease—when people in many European cities were compelled to wear high wooden clogs just to avoid stepping in their own waste—Andalusia stood as a beacon of cleanliness, culture, and unparalleled development. In that golden era of Islamic Spain, not only did every Muslim household boast a private bath, but a well-structured sewage and drainage system also existed—an advanced infrastructure that was centuries ahead of its time and of anything found in Europe.
By Ikram Ullah8 months ago in History
