Category: Animals

Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered the fossilized exoskeleton of the world’s biggest arthropod. These massive millipede-like animals were the length of a vehicle and most likely inhabited Earth between 359 million and 299 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period. Scientists were already aware of the enormous millipede forebears known as Arthropleura, but […]

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Egyptian temple with 15 mummified falcons, many of them headless and buried around a pedestal. The discovery suggests a previously unknown ritual performed by the Blemmyes, a nomadic people who once inhabited what is now southern Egypt and Sudan. The team of Spanish and Polish archaeologists just published an extensive […]

A Minotaur sculpture with a human torso and a bull’s head was discovered in an Argentine Patagonia lake, with a gigantic mask measuring 1.4 by 1 meter. Six meters from the coast and four meters above the surface, readily visible and even more easily frightened. The submerged monument is a meter, and a half tall […]

Thonis  Heracleion the Lost City: In 1987 maritime archeologist Franck Goddio founded the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine (The European Institute of Underwater Archaeology) in order to concentrate solely on underwater excavations. He has found several important shipwrecks including the San Diego found in the waters of the Philippines and Napoleon Bonaparte’s flagship during his campaign in […]

The Aztecs ritually sacrificed people to appease their gods. They displayed the heads of their dead on enormous, cylindrical racks called tzompantli, constructed using rows of skulls mortared together. The Aztecs used these towers to show off their empire’s might to enemies and invaders. Last week, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced that […]

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Giza pyramids belong to Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, and vandals and thieves looted them a long time ago. The southernmost is associated with Menkaure (Mykerinos, in Greek), the fifth king of the 4th Dynasty. Not much is known about this ruler, and the only source mentioning Menkaure (though not always reliable) […]

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The Gruммan F-14 Toмcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, fixed-wing aircraft мade in the United States. It was the first twin-tail U.S. jet of its kind. After the failure of the F-111B project, the Toмcat was created for the Naʋal Flight Experiмental (VFX) prograм of the United States Naʋy. The F-14 was the first […]