What Scientists Found in Russia Has Left People Speechless

Most people think about Vodka and bears when Russia is mentioned. But, there is more to Russia than the stereotypes on the internet. As the world’s largest country, it makes up one-tenth of all the land on Earth! It has a rich history and a vibrant culture. This incredible country is also home to numerous creatures of different species. Over the years, a lot of shocking discoveries were uncovered in this massive country.

Today we’re gonna take a look at some of the most compelling discoveries, one by one. From the genius Martian kid to the oldest wood carving, here’s the video about 15 unsettling discoveries in Russia that nobody can explain!

Mysterious Secrets Of The Last Supper & Leonardo Da Vinci

Today we analyze the Mysterious Secrets Of The Last Supper & Leonardo Da Vinci. In the video below we will analyze these mysterious secrets!

Archaeologists Discover What is Inside Pyramid of Djoser

The Great Giza Pyramids are usually the ones that get all the attention in Egypt. But ten miles south of the Great Pyramids, lies a majestic limestone structure in the heart of the Pyramid Complex of Saqqara, which in some ways, is considerably more significant than any of those at Giza. This pyramid stands as one of the most renowned archaeological sites in the world. It’s quite impressive. Not only for its looming size and intriguing shape – but also its backstory.

Today we will be having a look at the birthplace of the Pyramid Era, going all the way to its core.

The Most MYSTERIOUS Discoveries In Antarctica!

Check out the Most MYSTERIOUS Discoveries In Antarctica! This top 10 list of unexplained mysteries and bizarre things found frozen in ice has some of the most amazing discoveries from antarctica!

SHOCKING Discoveries Found In Egypt That Changes History

Think you know everything about Egypt? Incredible things can be found there. Egypt is often recognized as the "country of pharaohs" due to the prevalence of pyramids there. The Egyptians are famous for their discoveries of golden riches and their mastery of the mummification process.

The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele bearing three versions of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes' 196 BC proclamation near Memphis, Egypt. The top and center texts are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and demons, while the bottom is ancient Greek. The Rosetta Stone can decode Egyptian letters since the three decree copies differ only slightly.

Why Can't Anyone Find Genghis Khan's Body?

Upon his death he asked to be buried in secret. A grieving army carried his body home, killing anyone it met to hide the route. When the emperor was finally laid to rest, his soldiers rode 1,000 horses over his grave to destroy any remaining trace. In the 800 years since Genghis Khan's death, no-one has found his tomb.

What Humans Will Look Like In 1,000 Years

Whatever happens in the next 1,000 years — whether we merge with machines or become them — one thing is certain: The human race is always changing — and the faster we change and branch out from Earth, the better chance we have of outrunning extinction.

Archeologists Unearthed A Coffin In Spain That’ll Change Everything familiar About European History

A coffin might not be a great discovery for archaeologists, but it becomes a big deal when it is about something that can redefine history. The recent discovery of a coffin in Spain is speculated to change the entire European history, which is a one-of-a-kind discovery for them. So, let’s find out about the discovery!

EXTREMELY Rare Whisky Hip Flask Restoration

Restoration of an extremely rare World War 2 whisky hip flask found in a barn yard in the battlefields of Bulge.

12 Most Amazing Recent Finds Of Ancient Artifacts

In this video, we’re going to look at the very best discoveries made recently. Let’s get started!

This Is The Lost World Of Ankarana

At the far northern most tip of Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa, lies the lost world of Ankarana. French scientist Olivia Behra is one of the few outsiders to venture this far, he is a man with a mission, to find out about the unique animals and people that live in this remote place. Rising 300 metres above the surrounding plains are walls of solid rock that enclose forests that have evolved in isolation, cut off from the outside world. Living in its sunken forests are a greater density of lemurs than found anywhere else in Madagascar. Our story follows the lives of the One Eyed Queen and her troop of Crowned Lemurs as they tip toe on the razor sharp rocks, raise youngsters, fight for their territory and venture into the bowels of the earth to drink. Searching hundreds of kilometres beneath the rocks are caves inhabited by blind fish, bats and most mysterious of all, cave dwelling crocodiles. This is the story of a magical landscape and the close relationship between the crocodiles, lemurs and local Ankarana tribes people that live in the shadows of the massif.

Scientist Incredible New Discovery under the Sahara Changes Everything

The Sahara Desert is the largest in the world and experiences one of the harshest climates globally. The desert spans 11 countries and has been an area of interest for climate watches and archaeologists. Over the years, many discoveries have been made under the Sahara that has shaped the perception of mankind and our history. Here are some scientists' incredible discoveries under Sahara that changed everything.

Divers Exploring A 2,300 Year Old Pyramid Have Found The Underwater Tomb Of A Powerful Pharaoh

Although the water looks unappealing, Kristin Romey prepares herself to plunge into the depths. And right above her head, there’s a big clue as to why she’s putting herself through this ordeal. In this part of the north of Sudan, there’s a pyramid — a monument to a long-lost monarch that hints at a kingdom that once held sway over vast swathes of northern Africa. And when Romey and her colleague reach their destination, what they find is truly astonishing.

Deep Sea Diver Captures What No One Was Supposed to See

The majority of our planet is covered with deep, and dark water filled with terrifying creatures and strange things. We might have discovered and explored a good amount but there are still a lot of mysteries down there waiting to be seen!
Let’s explore the strangest and most bizarre things found underwater. From an 11-foot marble crucifix to a rare world war II fighter plane, here are the 15 unbelievable things found underwater!

Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s ‘Unfounded’ Netflix Docuseries ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ as Fiction

They decry Hancock as a flagrant pseudo-archaeologist.

By Vittoria Benzine

This week, the Society for American Archaeology published an open letter to Netflix and the television production house ITN requesting that they re-classify its new series Ancient Apocalypse as a work of fiction rather than a docuseries.

The show centers around bestselling author Graham Hancock’s meagerly substantiated claims about the existence of Atlantis, presenting them in a deceptive cloak of veracity.

“We urge both Netflix and ITN Productions to add disclaimers to the series that its content is unfounded,” the society wrote. “We also request that Netflix develop a policy that balances such false narratives with the presentation of scientific documentaries and accurate reporting.”

Netflix has not yet addressed to the letter publicly.

Flint Dibble, an archaeology professor at Cardiff University, is also among the growing chorus of experts disputing Hancock’s claims. Ancient Apocalypse became Netflix’s second-most popular title just one week after it dropped, on November 10.

According to Dibble, archaeologists have been aware of Hancock’s work for years—he’s published 16 commercially successful novels on everything from the Ark of the Covenant to Egypt’s sphinxes since 1985. “I wouldn’t say that most archaeologists have read Graham Hancock,” Dibble said. “He ignores all of our evidence.”

Still, Dibble started watching Ancient Apocalypse with an open mind. “My hopes, in many ways, were dashed with the series,” he said. As part of his own studies into pseudo-archaeology, Dibble recently read some of Hancock’s work.

“He’s much more aggressive against archaeologists [in the series] than he is in his writing,” he said. “I was actually kind of shocked and dismayed.”

“Perhaps there’s been a forgotten episode in human history, but perhaps the extremely defensive, arrogant, and patronizing attitude of mainstream academia is stopping us from considering that possibility,” Hancock says in the first episode. “I’m trying to overthrow the paradigm of history.”

Archaeologists and their friends in the media are spitting nails about my Ancient Apocalypse series on Netflix and want me cancelled… pic.twitter.com/olWw69IabD

— Graham Hancock (@Graham__Hancock) November 25, 2022

Rather than presenting evidence of Atlantis from its existence, Hancock seeks to amend the legacies of existing ancient sites like the columns atop Gunung Padang in Indonesia, attributing them to advanced Atlanteans who survived their society’s purported destruction by comet.

“Why is there no evidence for this Ice Age civilization when we have plentiful evidence for hunter-gatherers all over the world at this time?” Dibble asked. “The truth is in the trash.” Every living being leaves something behind, but no refuse at all has turned up from Atlantis. “You’re going to clean up all your trash and vaporize it?”

Atlantis’s paper trail through written history is equally scant. Plato made the first-ever mention of Atlantis in his allegorical writings about an ideal city at war with an underwater opponent. Greek and Roman authors hardly took note of the anecdote—there’s no written or oral storytelling that solidifies it as a myth. “It was only with the discovery of the Americas that [Atlantis] started to become much more popular among a colonial viewpoint,” Dibble said.

Archaeologists aren’t necessarily decrying Hancock’s claims themselves. The society’s three principle concerns start with Netflix’s incorrect categorization (likely for the sake of ratings), before citing the show’s anti-intellectualism and racist implications of Hancock suggesting that white Atlanteans actually made the monuments archaeologists credit to indigenous culture. (Some have connected his theories back to problematic Atlantis proponents like the fear mongering 19th-century figure Ignatius Donnelly.)

Hancock often rails against the idea of “big archaeology,” though even some of its foremost voices, like Zahi Hawass and Nicholas Reeves, can’t even agree, let alone conspire.

“Look, these ideas are entertaining,” Dibble said of the fabled underwater society, frequently referenced in fiction from the submerged cities of Númenor in Rings of Power to Talokan in Wakanda Forever.

Ancient Apocalypse, however, crosses a line by claiming its hunches as fact. “I also see a problem with the level of promotion for this, given that it really is aggressively attacking archaeologists,” Dibble said.

Instead, he recommends Netflix’s accurate documentary The Secrets of the Saqqara.

“I wish that they would promote that more than this cheap entertainment. But that’s the way of our world, isn’t it?”

Animals You'll Be Happy Are Extinct

99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone. Species go extinct, while new ones are formed. That's life. There's a natural background rate to the timing and frequency of extinctions: 10% of species are lost every million years; 30% every 10 million years; and 65% every 100 million years.

Here’s a gallery of extinct animals we’ve lost.

Archaeologists have discovered who was buried in the two sarcophagi found under Notre Dame

During excavations at the cathedral in early 2022, researchers discovered two unusual lead sarcophagi dating back centuries.

Two lead sarcophagi discovered buried under the transept of Notre Dame Cathedral last March have begun to reveal their secrets.

The day after the fire that broke out at Notre Dame Cathedral three years ago, archaeologists were called in to survey the damage and help with the long and arduous restoration process. During excavations at the cathedral in early 2022, researchers discovered two unusual lead sarcophagi dating back centuries. However, no one could guess who was buried there.

Now, according to an announcement by French researchers, the sarcophagi contain the remains of two wealthy men, a cleric who may have suffered from the "disease of kings" and a young nobleman whose remains suggest a difficult life.

Eric Crubezy, a professor of biological anthropology at the University of Toulouse III, oversaw the opening of the sarcophagi last month and studied the bones to learn more about the men's age of death and lifestyle.

"The first remains were identified thanks to a plaque that was on his coffin," the professor told Live Science. The brass plaque bears his name, Antoine de la Porte, who died at the age of 83 on December 24, 1710."

De la Porte was a member of the clergy and in charge of the cathedral, according to Crubezy. The cleric financially supported the choir of Notre Dame and for this reason he was probably buried under the central part of the transversal aisle, where members of the elite were buried.

According to a statement from the University of Toulouse, de la Porte's remains are fairly well preserved – including his bones, hair and beard, as well as some textiles. Crubezy stated that the cleric's teeth were in excellent condition, but that there were almost no signs of physical activity on his body, meaning he led a sedentary life. His big toe, however, showed signs of gout, a type of inflammatory arthritis. Since gout can be caused by excessive consumption of alcohol and food, it is often called the "disease of kings."

No plaque was found on the second lead sarcophagus, so its "owner" remains unknown for now. This man was between 25 and 40 years old when he died, but his body betrays a hard life.

"He shows signs of someone who rode horses from a young age and lost most of his teeth in the years and months before he died," Crubezy said.

The investigator also found evidence of reactive bone swelling in the man's skull and spine, leading him to speculate that his death may have been due to chronic meningitis or tuberculosis.

Even more interesting was the posthumous practice of burying the unknown man, nicknamed "Le Cavalier". Although his hair was not preserved, researchers discovered leaves and flowers around his skull and on his abdomen.

"The horseman's skull had been sawed off and his chest had been opened for embalming," the researcher said. "This was common practice among the nobility after the mid-16th century."

The identification of the unknown man depends on when he died.

“If the date of his death is around the second half of the 16th century or early 17th century, we may be able to identify him in the death register we have. If it's earlier than that, we'll probably never know who he was," said Christophe Besnier, the archaeologist who led the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) excavation team, at a December 9 press conference.

In the coming months, researchers will focus on researching the geographic origins and diet of the two men. Final results of these analyzes are expected in early to mid-2023.

Baby cradled in mother’s arm is oldest infant burial in the Netherlands

Dutch archaeologists have discovered a 6,000-year-old Stone Age burial of a woman with a baby cradled in her arm in the central Netherlands city of Nieuwegein. It is the oldest infant burial ever found in the Netherlands.

Nieuwegein is rich with archaeological material from the Swifterbant culture, a Neolithic-era culture who transitioned from hunter-gathering to cattle farming in settlements along the riverbanks and wetlands of what are today the Netherlands between 5300 and 3400 B.C.

An abundance of Swifterbant artifacts and remains, about 136,000 of them (far more than were discovered at the type site in Swifterbant, Flevoland province), have been found under six and a half feet of clay and peat at Nieuwegein’s Het Klooster business park. Artifacts include hundreds of pieces of flint, a grindstone worn to a smooth surface by the second grinding stone used the mill grains and cereals, a striking jet pendant, animal bone chisels and earthenware pottery. The clay and peat have kept the objects and remains in an unusually good state of preservation for thousands of years. One of the pottery vessels still had a layer of food in it.

They also discovered four skeletons which they cut out of the clay en bloc and transported to the Leiden laboratory of RAAP Archaeological Consultancy for careful excavation. One of them was the skeleton of a young adult woman who was 20-30 years old at time of death. When the remains were first unearthed, archaeologists didn’t realize they’d just found the oldest infant burial in the Netherlands. They didn’t realize it was an infant burial period. There was no osteological material immediately visible pointing to the presence of a baby buried with the young woman. It was the woman’s right arm bent at a 90 degree angle with her elbow out that suggested to archaeologists there was something anomalous in that spot. The Swifterbant culture buried their dead with their legs outstretched and arms straight by their sides.

When the remains were excavated in the lab, archaeologists discovered small bone fragments in the crook of the woman’s right arm: pieces of the clavicles, skull, a leg bone, a mandible complete with milk teeth. The teeth were so small they could have belonged to a newborn (there are teethlets in their wee jaws, they just haven’t erupted yet) or a baby up to six months old.

“It really makes an impression when you find little baby teeth buried in clay for 6,000 years and see how similar they are to all those milk teeth that are kept in matchboxes by parents everywhere!” [Dutch broadcaster] NOS quotes [project leader Helle] Molthof as saying.

This is an exceptionally rare discovery. Infants have such soft bones that they disintegrate within months of burial. The waterlogged conditions of this burial, the thick alluvial clay deposits and the peat, preserved these fragile remains for 6,000 years.

The archaeological team hopes to determine whether the adult woman and the baby she was laid to rest cradling are, as one would suspect, mother and child, using DNA analysis.

DNA testing will have to determine whether the woman is the baby’s mother, although there seems to be little doubt that she is, and the sex of the baby. The archaeologists hope the find will tell them more about the burial ceremonies of the Swifterbant people. “We know how they lived, what sort of food they ate, what their houses were like but we don’t know very much yet about how they buried their dead and what happened to the children,” Molthof told the broadcaster.

Isotope analysis will have to show if the woman was born in the area or whether she travelled there at a later date.

Egypt ancient HELICOPTER hieroglyph mystery solved

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.  

The helicopter hieroglyphs is a name given to part of an Egyptian hieroglyph carving from the Temple of Seti I at Abydos. In paleocontact hypothesis circles the hieroglyphs have been interpreted as an out-of-place artifact depicting a helicopter (above the nine short vertical bars) as well as other examples of modern technology.

The "helicopter" image is the result of carved stone being re-used over time. The initial carving was made during the reign of Seti I and translates to "He who repulses the nine [enemies of Egypt]".

It was common in Ancient Egypt for hieroglyphs to be re-carved and re-faced over the years. This process of writing on the same surface more than once is called palimpsest, and it was common practice when a new Pharaoh was establishing a dynasty to write over the hieroglyphs of his predecessors. It is well known that such a process took place at the temple of Seti I in Abydos by his son Ramses II.

This carving was later filled in with plaster and re-carved during the reign of Ramesses II with the title "He who protects Egypt and overthrows the foreign countries.".

Over time, the plaster has eroded away, leaving both inscriptions partially visible and creating a palimpsest-like effect of overlapping hieroglyphs. As with all dates in Ancient Egypt, the actual dates of Seti's reign are unclear, and various historians propose different dates, with 1294 BC to 1279 BC and 1290 BC to 1279 BC being the most commonly used by scholars today.

The Vatican returns three fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures

Pope Francis has decided to send back to Greece the three fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures held by the Vatican Museums.

The first fragment belongs to one of the horses of Athena's quadruped.

More specifically, in a statement, the Vatican described this gesture as a "gift" from the Pope to His Beatitude Jerome II, the Orthodox Christian archbishop of Athens and all Greece, "as a concrete sign of his sincere desire to follow the ecumenical path of truth" .

The Vatican becomes the latest Western state to return its fragments of the Parthenon marbles to the British Museum.

The second fragment is the head of a teenager. It is a face of the sculptures which was outside the nave of the church and brought bread, which was offered during the Panathenaia.

But the Vatican statement shows that the Holy See wanted to make clear that it was not a bilateral decision to return the marbles from the Vatican state to Greece, but rather a religiously inspired donation. The statement may have been made to avoid setting a precedent that could affect other exhibits in the Vatican Museums.

The third fragment is a bearded male head, which belongs to the south metope, where the Centaur Battle was depicted.

This is the second, indirect but important, positive intervention coming from the Italian side in the matter of the return of the Parthenon Sculptures after the definitive repatriation, last June, to the Acropolis Museum, of the "Fagan fragment" from the A. Salinas Museum of Palermo.

The Fagan fragment returned to the Acropolis Museum from the A. Salinas Museum of Palermo.