A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is the oldest volcanic rock ever found A lonely meteorite that landed in the Sahara Desert in 2020 is older than Earth. The primaeval space rock is about 4.6 billion years old and is the oldest known example of magma from space. Its age and mineral content hint that the rock originated … Continue reading A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is the oldest volcanic rock ever found →

Enigmatic footprints, once thought to belong to a bear, linked to unknown human ancestor Ancient footprints reveal a mysterious relative of humans who may have lived at the same time and in the same area as the famous human ancestor “Lucy” in Tanzania. Strangely, these enigmatic tracks possess an unusual cross-stepping gait where one leg … Continue reading Enigmatic footprints, once thought to belong to a bear, linked to the unknown human ancestor →

3600 Year Old Pits Full Of Giant Hands Discovered In Egypt Archaeologists Discovered An astonishing discovery occurred in the fall of 2011 when a team of archaeologists working in the palace of ancient Avaris, Egypt, found the remains of 16 human hands in four graves in the compound. Two of the pits, located in front … Continue reading 3600 Year Old Pits Full Of Giant Hands Discovered In Egypt Archaeologists Discovered →

Fossilized monkey teeth help fill six million year gap in evolution Researchers have used fossilized teeth found near Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya to identify a new monkey species — a discovery that helps fill a 6-million-year gap in primate evolution. UNLV geoscientist Terry Spell and former master’s student Dawn Reynoso were part of the … Continue reading Fossilized monkey teeth help fill six million year gap in the evolution →

200,000-Year-Old Bedding Found in South Africa May Be World’s Oldest Archaeologists studying the interior of a cliffside cave in South Africa have found what may be the world’s oldest bedding, reports Cathleen O’Grady for Science magazine. Dated to more than 200,000 years ago, the grass bedding—discovered in the Lebombo Mountains’ Border Cave—was placed atop layers … Continue reading 200,000-Year-Old Bedding Found in South Africa May Be World’s Oldest →

Ancient Mural Paintings Of Nubian Pyramids Depict Giant Carrying Two Elephants And Giant Kings Almost every culture that prevails around the world talks consists of ancient accounts that narrate the tales of giants living on the Earth. One more addition to such accounts is the ancient mural painting in the Nubian pyramids that portrays a … Continue reading Ancient Mural Paintings Of Nubian Pyramids Depict Giant Carrying Two Elephants And Giant Kings →

Ancient Human Relative, Australopithecus sediba, “Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape” An international team of scientists has discovered a two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae from an extinct species of ancient human relative. New lower back fossils are the “missing link” that settles a decades old debate proving early hominins used their upper limbs to … Continue reading Ancient Human Relative, Australopithecus sediba, “Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape” →

Female pharaoh’s temple reveals teamwork of Egypt’s ‘ancient masters’ The artists and sculptors of ancient Egypt may not be household names like Michelangelo, Raphael, or Caravaggio, but a new study of a female pharaoh’s temple suggests they had a lot in common with their Renaissance brethren. Instead of being solo artisans, sculptors worked in teams, … Continue reading Female pharaoh’s temple reveals teamwork of Egypt’s ‘ancient masters’ →

Ancient Walls of Benin Were Four times longer than walls of china In Benin, the capital city of present-day Edo State stood the walls of Benin (800 – 1400AD) which are the longest ancient earthworks in the world and apparently the largest man-made structure on earth. The walls are a set of earthworks comprising of banks and … Continue reading Ancient Walls of Benin Were Four times longer than walls of china →