1+ week, 2+ day ago   (264+ words) A massive, tree-covered island mysteriously emerged in a remote Canadian reservoir before vanishing from sight just weeks later. Now, the phantom floating landmass has been found again — about 20 miles from its last known location. The floating island on British Columbia’s…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (786+ words) Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous rock called lapis tiburtinus — now known as travertine — and float the cargo downstream on rafts to…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (639+ words) A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head and lived some 95 million years ago. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, it is the first species of Spinosaurus to be identified…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (599+ words) A remarkably well-preserved Roman sarcophagus has been unearthed in Hungary’s capital, offering a rare window into the life of the young woman inside and the world she inhabited around 1,700 years ago. Archaeologists with the Budapest History Museum discovered the limestone…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (543+ words) Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new analysis of dozens of burials. Related video from 2023: Supposed 3,000-year-old…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (586+ words) The German submarine captain saw his target’s silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo. It was the last anyone would see of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (709+ words) The mundane work of clearing grass and stones in a backyard has led to the discovery of Denmark's largest known hoard of Viking Age silver. The finder, a man based in the northern Danish municipality of Rebild who wishes to…...