Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says. At the time of the sieges, which both occurred around 701 B.C., the Assyrians controlled a rapidly growing empire that stretched from the Persian Gulf […]
Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the massive stone blocks to build the famous monuments. The 40-mile-long river branch, which ran by the iconic Giza pyramid complex among other wonders, was hidden […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert. The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists, some of whom had found evidence […]
Around four billion years ago, during its Noarchian geologic period, Mars was likely filled with oceans, rivers, and lakes. A new study, analyzing data from a 2017 soil analysis from Gale crater, discovered high levels of manganese, a surprising find as manganese enrichment on Earth often requires oxygen and microbes. The study theorizes that water […]
STORY: Singing and cheers welcomed the return of a long lost statue to this village in western Democratic Republic of Congo. The “Balot” is a symbol of colonial resistance. But it is also a figurehead of ongoing efforts to reverse colonial-era degradation of the forests around Lusanga. The wooden statue was sculpted in the 1930s […]
The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original Star Trek television series — has gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing. The model’s disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when […]
A pilot and explorer who embarked on an $11 million-expedition at sea believes he has solved one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the final resting place of Amelia Earhart’s plane that vanished in 1937. Tony Romeo, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and CEO of Deep Sea Vision, sold commercial real estate to fund […]
Amelia Earhart seated atop the cockpit of the twin-motored, all-metal, Lockheed-Elecktra monoplane, is pictured adjacent to a sonar image of what researchers believe may be the wreckage of her ill-fated flight.Getty Images/Deep Sea Vision Tony Romeo believes he’s discovered Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft. Romeo told BI he captured an image of an aircraft-shaped object on […]
iPhone screen showing various social media apps including TikTok, Facebook and X.Matt Cardy Amy and Ano are identical twins who were split up and sold shortly after birth. They were victims of a child-trafficking market but reunited after finding each other on TikTok. Up to 100,000 babies may have been stolen from the 1950s to […]