The Kalasasaya and lower temples at Tiwanaku. The Ponce Monolith is shown aligned with the Kalasasaya main door. At equinoxes, the sun shines into the monolith. Located in Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, the ancient city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, making it one of the highest urban centers […]

THERE ARE PLACES IN THE world so strongly devoted to a particular religion that it is incredibly hard to believe that they have been shaped by any other faith. Afghanistan is one of those places, a country so devoutly Islamic that it seems that Islam has been around since the beginning of time – However

But X-ray scans have revealed that this grapefruit-sized lump is a 30,000-year-old mummified ground squirrel from the ice age. A gold miner found the mysterious fur ball in 2018 in the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City, Yukon, according to the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. “It’s not quite recognizable until you see these little hands

The famed lost city of Atlantis may have been found in a rather unlikely place – the Sahara Desert. According to a YouTube clip uploaded earlier this week that’s found a massive audience online, the remains of the ringed city Plato spoke of in the fourth century BC can be found in the African country

When Mt. Vesuvius erupted near Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 C.E., the volcanic ash left the bodies of the victims frozen in time. Although the city of Pompeii is striking in itself, the bodies of Pompeii victims give a morbid window into the people who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago. Every

2,000-year-old Sphinx discovered in ancient Egyptian temple A sandstone statue of a sphinx was discovered in an ancient temple in Aswan, Egypt, as workers were trying to lower the groundwater level, and experts believe it’s more than 2,000 years old. A sphinx is a mythical creature created by the Egyptians with the head of a

The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922. This seal was actually a seal to King Tut’s fifth shrine. The king was buried in a series of four sarcophagi, which were in turn kept inside a series of five shrines. This unbroken seal stayed 3,245 years untouched. The late discovery of Tut’s tomb resulted from

The sudden advancement of the Vinca culture during the Neolithic age remains an enigma but an even more curious subject are their thousands of figurines with triangle-shaped heads. Are they merely depictions of ancient deities or were the Vinca artists influenced by unnatural events? In the beginning, the Vinca culture was considered a cultural site

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Pyramid-shaped structures have been a fascinating and mysterious subject of study for researchers across the world. Found in various prehistoric civilizations, these remarkable architectural achievements have led some to believe in conspiracy theories about a lost antediluvian civilization. However, anthropological evidence and cultural analysis have provided more grounded explanations for the construction of these structures.