AvatarJulie YoshiokaStoryboardHistorical Artifacts We Still Can't ExplainCurated byGrungeA lot of artifacts, we understand. Things like swords and daggers, we know those were for stabbing and smiting of foes. Other things, though, are less clear, and we're left to try to guess just what was going on in the minds of our forebearers. There's just no accounting for some people, and when we have to look at their lives through the lens of time, it can make for some confusing discoveries. Here are historical artifacts we just have no clue about...
AvatarJulie Yoshioka1 day agoScientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in Chinaverified_publisherNPR - Dustin JonesCave explorers stumbled upon a prehistoric forest at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in South China earlier this month. Sinkholes such as these are also known in Chinese as Tiankeng, or "Heavenly pit." At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the …
AvatarJulie Yoshioka1:031 day agoHow Bite Marks From Dinosaurs Revealed Something Very Interestingtheamazelab - Amaze LabThe researchers say finding the Allosaurus bite marks on the bones of other Allosaurus reveal the large Jurassic predator turned to scavenging and possibly even cannibalism when food was scarce.
AvatarJulie Yoshioka2 days agoSpectacular Ancient Mosaic Discovered in Paphos, Cyprusgreekreporter.com - Patricia ClausA spectacular ancient mosaic floor that was part of a building from the Hellenistic period is among the important finds from excavations carried out …
AvatarJulie Yoshioka4 days agoThe Oldest Intact Shipwreck "Odysseus" was an Ancient Greek Vesselgreekreporter.com - Tasos KokkinidisThe discovery of the ancient Greek shipwreck “Odysseus,” thought to be the oldest of its kind ever found, at the bottom of the Black Sea could change …
AvatarJulie Yoshioka4 days agoScientists answer the centuries old question of how life on Earth beganthebrighterside.news - Joseph ShavitThe missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two …