Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old A rock engraved with ancient marks discovered on a dried-up lakebed in Nevada carries dated as of the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, at least 10,000 years old. The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada’s high desert are similar … Continue reading Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old →

The Nine Mile Canyon in the Utah desert is the world’s longest & oldest ‘art gallery’ Situated in the desert of eastern Utah, The Nine Mile Canyon is the world’s longest art gallery. This canyon is home to tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs over a 40-mile stretch. The canyon’s art was created by … Continue reading The Nine Mile Canyon in the Utah desert is the world’s longest & oldest ‘art gallery’ →

Man who died of constipation 1,000 years ago ate grasshoppers for months One of the worst instances of constipation in the annals of medicine was a native American living in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas between 1,000 and 1,400 years ago. The man’s intestine swelled to six times its usual size due to an … Continue reading Man who died of constipation 1,000 years ago ate grasshoppers for months →

Mysterious message in a bottle found 126 years later hidden inside the wall of Boston building A bottle containing a mysterious 126-year-old note was recently found hidden away inside the wall of a building in Boston. A person living in the Back Bay near Commonwealth Avenue found the bottle tucked into a space between their … Continue reading Mysterious message in a bottle found 126 years later hidden inside the wall of Boston building →

2 Ancient Villages Emerge in Arizona National Park Archaeologists have uncovered a second ancient village in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park that is 1,300 years old. The latest basket-maker village dates between 200 A.D. and 700 A.D., based on the types of pottery found, according to Bill Reitze, the park’s archaeologist. It was discovered in … Continue reading 2 Ancient Villages Emerge in Arizona National Park →

Ancient Native American burial site blasted for Trump border wall construction It was alleged that Sacred Native American burial sites in a national monument were blown up to create President Trump’s border wall. Construction teams in southern Arizona began to blast hills at the National Monument of the Organ Pipe Cactus to clear way to … Continue reading Ancient Native American burial site blasted for Trump border wall construction →

Dino-mite: N.C. museum gets fossils of dinosaurs that apparently died fighting Apparently locked in battle on the plains of modern-day Montana, about 66 million years after two dinosaurs died, an unusual fight over who owns the entangled fossils has become a multimillion-dollar issue that depends on the legal definition of “mineral.” The 9th U.S. Circuit … Continue reading Dino-mite: N.C. museum gets fossils of dinosaurs that apparently died fighting →

Historic Well Discovered Under Mysterious Sinkhole In Boston’s Ronan Park Over the weekend, a mysterious sinkhole was found in Ronan Park by a local, and Archeologist Joe Bagley of the City of Boston announced on Thursday that the sinkhole actually leads to a historical well from the 1800s. According to Bagley, this was discovered by … Continue reading Sinkhole Reveals 19th-Century Well in Boston Park →

Meet “Stuckie” — The Mummified Dog Who Has Been Stuck In A Tree For Over 50 Years Loggers expect to come across some things when they cut down trees. Bird’s nests and things stuck in the branches seem like a given – a mummified dog in the center of a tree, however, does not. But … Continue reading Meet “Stuckie” — The Mummified Dog Who Has Been Stuck In A Tree For Over 50 Years →