Author: Mary JL

Serene ethereal beauty, raw royal power, and evidence of artistic virtuosity have rarely been simultaneously captured as well as in this breathtaking, nearly life-size statue of the pharaoh Menkaure and a queen from c. 2490–2472 B.C.E. Smooth as silk, the meticulously finished surface of the dark stone captures the physical ideals of the time and…

Many amazing archaeological discoveries have been made in the Land of The Pharaohs. Still, it is not often archaeologists can find nearly intact burials filled with the most extraordinary ancient treasures left untouched for three thousand years. The Egyptian couple Yuya and Tjuyu were not particularly important historical individuals. They gained historians’ attention because they…

In Brittany’s fairy folklore, there is a frightening spirit Ankou (“death”). Ankou is the personification of death and a soul harvester. He is the Angel of Death and Death’s servant. Ankou is portrayed as an exhausted skeletal figure with flowing white hair. His head is able to turn at a 360-degree angle, to symbolize his…

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An interesting piece of fossil of extinct human species suggests climate change contributed to the evolution and unexpected anatomical changes that previously were attributed to sex. The skull of Paranthropus robustus who walked the earth at roughly the same time as our direct ancestor Homo erectus was discovered in the fossil-rich Drimolen cave system in…

A marble head of the Roman emperor Augustus was unearthed in the Italian town of Isernia, located in the region of Molise, a mountainous Italian region with a stretch of coastline on the Adriatic Sea. The team of researchers led by archaeologist Francesca Giancola, made the discovery while excavating the ancient city walls. The buried…

Researchers have solved one of the biggest mysteries regarding flying reptiles (pterosaurs) that dominated the skies during the Age of the Dinosaurs and included the largest flying animals ever. Pterosaurs spread around the world during the time of the dinosaurs. They usually appear in books and movies, but, for more than 200 years, until today,…

In the summer of 2016, astronomers saw a star in the Cygnus constellation 2,500 light-years away flash to life, as though prepared to explode in a fiery supernova. The star dimmed back to normal the next day, with no fuss or kaboom. The strange pattern repeated itself within a few weeks: the star abruptly brightened,…

Something will happen far above your head during the time you read this article that many scientists did not believe until recently. According to NASA, a magnetic gateway will open, linking the Earth and the Sun at a distance of 150 million kilometers. Hundreds of thousands of high-energy particles will travel through this gap until…