Deep under the streets and buildings of Rome is a maze of tunnels and quarries that dates back to the very beginning of this ancient city. Now, geologists are venturing beneath Rome to map these underground passageways, hoping to prevent modern structures from crumbling into the voids below. In 2011, there were 44 incidents of…
Although some people might find the idea of love with a machine repulsive, experts predict that as the technology advances and robots become more human-like, we will view our silicon cousins in a friendlier light. As the future unfolds, robots will fill more roles as family caregivers, household servants, and voice-enabled avatars that manage our…
The terms ‘forbidden history’ and ‘forbidden archaeology’ are encountered more and more often, from newspapers all over the planet to online articles and more recently in TV programs! Both terms originated from the unhappy archaeologists who witnessed their discoveries being ignored or truncated to fit the official lies. Today, I want to present you another chapter of…
The discovery of DNA in a 400,000-year-old human thigh bone will open up a new frontier in the study of our ancestors. That’s the verdict cast by human evolution experts on an analysis in Nature journal of the oldest human genetic material ever sequenced. The femur comes from the famed “Pit of Bones” site in…
VALID research or vandalism? Egyptian authorities are in uproar after two German students scraped away some ancient writing to “prove” the Great Pyramids are 20,000 years old. Supporters of the popular story that the Pyramids are evidence of a lost civilisation from the dawn of time consider the reaction all part of an ancient conspiracy.…
British researchers, reporting in the journal Time & Mind: the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, may have cracked the mystery of why the builders of Stonehenge chose to haul some of its giant bluestones 320 km away from Wales to Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge, a famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England. Their pilot study is…
A British company has demonstrated a prototype device capable of stopping cars and other vehicles using a blast of electromagnetic waves. The RF Safe-Stop uses radio frequency pulses to “confuse” a vehicle’s electronic systems, cutting its engine. E2V is one of several companies trying to bring such a product to market. It said it believed…
U of A paleontologist Philip Currie displays the pristine, near-complete skeleton of a baby Chasmosaurus, a relative of the Triceratops, he found in Alberta’s badlands. Philip Currie has made some spectacular and rare fossil finds while dino hunting in Alberta’s badlands, so when he says a discovery ranks among the best of his career,…
Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters file An example of India’s vast appetite of gold, a worker at a jewelry showroom in Kolkata displays idols of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, left, and Hindu goddess Lakshmi. By Chander Bhan and Alexander Smith, NBC News The Indian government on Friday began digging for treasure near an ancient temple…
Paleontologists announced today the discovery of a new predatory dinosaur that lived in what is modern-day Utah around 100 million years ago. An artist’s reconstruction of Siats meekerorum. Image credit: Jorge Gonzales. “This dinosaur was a colossal predator second only to the great Tyrannosaurus rex and perhaps Acrocanthosaurus in the North American fossil record,” said…
Bright, brighter, brightest: these views of Comet ISON after its closest approach to the sun Nov. 28 show that a small part of the nucleus may have survived the encounter. Images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/GSFC Talk about the Comeback Kid. After Comet C/2012 S1 ISON rounded the sun yesterday afternoon, professional astronomers…
Scientists used modern forensic techniques to analyse ancient remains Bones were discovered in a deep cave, and had been stripped of meat Neanderthal family, including a child of two, were killed and eaten Killers believed to be from a neighbouring tribe A group of Neanderthals killed and ate their fellow ancient humans, including young children,…
