5 Mythical Heroes we all want to be like

The salt and pepper of any religion, mythology or folklore is represented by legendary figures, known to us, mortals, as heroes; and with all the fascinating legends and myths, it’s really hard to choose just five of them, which is why there will probably be an epic sequel to this.
Heracles

Heracles or Hercules (meaning glory of […]

Science ABC - how the pyramids were built?

I’ve always been fascinated by pyramids; the Egyptians, the Aztecs, Mayans were three very different cultures and civilizations, from different parts of the world but they were all fascinated by this tipe of ‘building’. What is it that made them almost fanatical about building pyramids? Is it the geometric perfection of the structure? Or did […]

Earliest jewish gold scroll found in Austria

The University of Vienna is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. Recently, archaeologists that work there found an amulet inscribed with a Jewish prayer in a Roman child’s grave, dating for almost two milleniums, from the 3rd century.
They found it in the Austrian town of Halbturn. This amulet has a very big historical importance […]

Evidence of Ice Age hunters: hand axes

An amateur Dutch archaeologist named Jan Meulmeester made a startling find which pleases scientists: an amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old. He found them in an area about 13km off Great Yarmouth.
Jan Meulmeester diggs regularly for mammoth bones and fossils in marine sand and gravel delivered the […]

Saber-toothed Cat

It is largely believed that the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon is a fierce strong and very dangerous predator. With the Tyrannosaurus rex it is regarded as a nearly flawless killing machine. The upper canines which are built like knives support that theory.But an Australian study, published recently in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of […]

New Light Shed On The ‘Hobbit’

Homo floresiensis (”Man of Flores”, nicknamed Hobbit) is the name for what may be a species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times. It is a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeletondoes and it does not have a chin and it has a low twist in the […]

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