I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

Located in the Southern Ural Mountains of Bashkortostan, the Shulgan-Tash Cave contains extensive Late Palaeolithic rock art. Set within a karst massif near the Belaya and Shulgan Rivers, it features ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

ZURICH, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career ‌on ​his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that ‌humanity owes much of its ...

Scientists from China and Italy have discovered eight caves, each ranging from tens to over 100 meters across, on Mars, possibly carved by ancient water. These "skylights" were spotted in the Hebrus ...

An ancient Martian system of canyons and valleys could be home to archaic life forms, a ground-breaking scientific paper has found. Scientists investigating the Red Planet’s mind-boggling cave system ...

For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

INSV Kaundinya recreation of 5th century ship; inspired by painting from Ajanta Caves Named after the legendary mariner Kaundinya, who is believed to have sailed from India to Southeast Asia in ...

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