This video will show the entire history of India from 29th century BC to 2016. Due to their extreme timescales, the Indus Valley and Vedic periods cannot be shown every year, although every year is shown from 413 BC.
Katana VS Longsword - The Sad Truth!
In today's video we take a deep dive into the truth of which sword is better, a Katana or Longsword. This is a hotly debated topic and by that I mean a bunch of neckbeards online are mad that weebs exist.
Mysterious Doors That Can Never Be Opened
If you saw a door, what do you do? You open it! But the doors we want to talk about in this video are different. Because these doors should NEVER be opened. These are 20 mysterious doors that can never be opened!
In 1836, a Worker Followed an Old Drain and Found Secret Treasure at the End
There are crimes that require meticulous planning, perfect timing, and exceptional intelligence. However, the unique incidents we're about to share with you don't fall into any of these categories. True to the motto "opportunity makes the thief", some valuables were almost ridiculously easy to steal. You want to know how a simple construction worker managed to calmly walk into the belly of a high-security bank? Or how to become a millionaire with stolen fast food? Then grab something to nibble on, sit back, and be sure to watch today's video to the end!
The Island of Secrets
A remote Mauritian island is being quietly transformed into a military hub for India's navy. That’s what we found using satellite pictures, shipping data, financial documents, and images from a barely accessible island about 1100 km north of Mauritius. The Island of Secrets also shows how the construction project on Agaléga has the potential to uproot the lives of its 300 residents in order to make way for a military facility.
Residents worry that what happened on the Mauritian island of Diego Garcia in the 1960s will happen to them. The Mauritian government responded to this film by restating its position that there is “no agreement” with India to set up a military a base in Agaléga. It said that construction work on the island is designed to improve “inadequate infrastructure facilities”. The government also stated that it has no intention of displacing people living on the island. India’s Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to our request for comment.
Lost Chapter of a 2000-year-old Bible Revealed with Terrifying Information About Human Origins
The Bible is basically a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are holy in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. It is an anthology, which is a collection of texts that were originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek.
The Entire History of Neolithic Britain and Ireland (4000 - 2500 BC)
The entire history of Neolithic Britain and Ireland from the migration and rise of the first farmers to the fall of their civilisation.
Who were the first farmers of the British Isles? Where did they come from and why did they migrate to these islands? And why did they build all those incredible megalithic monuments that we see in the landscape today?
This documentary covers the history of the Neolithic in Britain from around 4000 BC to the arrival of the Bell Beaker people in about 2500 BC.
We will look at the first farmers of Europe and their migrations across the continent, as well as their interactions with the Mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers who were already there.
And we will dispel some of the biggest popular misconceptions about these amazing people.
The History of the Ottoman Empire (All Parts) - 1299 - 1922
The Ottoman Empire was founded circa 1299 by Osman I in northwestern Asia Minor, south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. The Ottomans crossed into Europe in 1352, moving their capital to Adrianople in 1369. They expanded in Asia Minor by annexing many small Turkic beylics.
They conquered Constantinople in 1453, and then expanded deep into Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. The Ottoman territory increased exponentially under Sultan Selim I, who assumed the Caliphate in 1517 as the Ottomans defeated the Mamluks of Egypt and annexed western Arabia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Within the next few decades, much of the North African coast became part of the Ottoman realm. Slowly after many wars and internal problems, the Ottoman sultanate started to crumble. See the entire story in this video!
World's earliest python identified from 47 million-year-old fossil remains
Together with his colleague Hussam Zaher of the University in São Paulo, Senckenberg scientist Krister Smith described the world's oldest known fossils of a python. The almost completely preserved snakes with a length around one meter were discovered in the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Messel Pit" and are about 47 million years old. The new python species, Messelopython freyi, was named in honor of paleontologist Eberhard "Dino" Frey of the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe. The study was published today in the scientific journal Biology Letters.
Reaching a length of more than six meters, pythons are among the world's largest snakes. Today, various species of these constrictors are found primarily in Africa, Southern and Southeast Asia, and Australia. "The geographic origin of pythons is still not clear. The discovery of a new python species in the Messel Pit is therefore a major leap forward in understanding these snakes' evolutionary history," explains Dr. Krister Smith of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt.
The new python species Messelopython freyi described by Smith and his Brazilian colleague, Dr. Hussam Zaher, is the oldest known fossil record of a python anywhere in the world. "According to our findings, these snakes already occurred in Europe at the time of the Eocene, over 47 million years ago. Our analyses trace their evolutionary history to Europe!" adds Zaher.
However, the large constrictor snakes subsequently disappeared from the European continent for quite some time. Fossils of this snake family did not appear again until the Miocene—between 23 and 5 million years ago. "As the global climate began to cool again after the Miocene, the pythons once again disappeared from Europe," says Smith.
Contrary to the primeval python from Messel, modern pythons live in complete spatial separation from their anatomically very similar relatives, the boas. "However, in Messel, both Messelopython freyi as well as primitive boas such as Eoconstrictor fischeri lived together in the same ecosystem—we therefore have to revisit the thesis that these two groups of snakes competed with each other, making them unable to share the same habitats," explains Smith.
The snake's scientific name is a combination of the locality where it was found and the snake's family. The specific epithet of the newly discovered fossil is owed to Prof. Dr. Eberhard Frey of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe. "Eberhard Frey bears the nickname "Dino' for a good reason—he is world-renowned for his exacting studies of fossil reptiles. By naming a new species after him, we wanted to honor his accomplishments in the field of paleontology," adds Smith to explain the fossil's naming.
A 70-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Giant Predator Fish Was Found in Argentina
A giant 70 million year old fossil of a fish that lived amongst dinosaurs has been discovered in Argentine Patagonia, a team of researchers said on July 2020.
Argentine paleontologists "found the remains of a predator fish that was more than six meters long," the researchers said in a statement.
The discovery was published in the scientific journal Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.
The fish "swam in the Patagonian seas at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when the temperature there was much more temperate than now," the statement said.
"The fossils of this carnivorous animal with sharp teeth and scary appearance were found close to the Colhue Huapial lake" around 1,400 kilometers south of the capital Buenos Aires.
This fossil belonged to the Xiphactinus genus, "amongst the largest predatory fish that existed in the history of Earth."
"Its body was notably slim and ended in a huge head with big jaws and teeth as sharp as needles, several centimeters long."
Examples of this species have been found in other parts of the world, "some of which even have preserved stomach contents," said Julieta de Pasqua, one of the study authors.
Previously, the Xiphactinus had only been found in the northern hemisphere, although one example was recently found in Venezuela.
Patagonia is one of the most important reservoirs of fossils of dinosaurs and prehistoric species.
Dinosaur fossils from 76 million years ago with intact skin in Canada
Researchers in Canada have discovered parts of what they believe to be a full "dinosaur mummy" lodged in a hillside, the University of Reading in the United Kingdom announced last week.
The two exposed fossils, a foot and part of a tail clad in fossilized skin, are believed to belong to a juvenile duck-billed Hadrosaur dinosaur that died somewhere between 77 million to 75 million years ago, roughly 10 million years before dinosaurs went extinct, researchers said. Scientists began excavation of the site to remove the entire remains from the hill.
“It’s so well preserved you can see the individual scales, we can see some tendons and it looks like there’s going to be skin over the entire animal,” Brian Pickles, a paleontologist and ecology professor at the University of Reading, told USA TODAY. “Which means, if we’re really lucky, then some of the other internal organs might have preserved as well.”
If the remains are in as good of shape as Pickles hopes, it would be one of the best preserved dinosaur fossils ever discovered and would provide scientists with a clearer picture of what the dinosaur looked like when it roamed the Earth.
In the best case scenario, the creature’s stomach contents might be preserved, allowing scientists to determine the animal’s last meal, Pickles said.
'Perfectly preserved'
A member of a field team led by Pickles, paleontologist Caleb Brown of Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum and scientists the University of New England in Australia first spotted the fossil poking out of a cliffside while on a scouting trip for an international field school last year at the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.
“It’s hard to imagine. This animal died 76 million years ago. It’s been perfectly preserved since then and it just happened to be just starting to erode out of this cliff when we were walking by,” Pickles said.
"This animal probably either died and then immediately got covered over by sand and silt in the river," Pickles said. "Or it was killed because a river bank fell onto it."
Hadrosaur fossils are common in North America, but finding juveniles is rare.
“Dinosaurs actually grew quite quickly so finding juveniles in the fossil record is important because it can tell us a lot about how their lives progressed,” Pickles said.
Pickles estimates the dinosaur to be about 13 feet long, around the length of a car. Adult Hadrosaurs were about 32 feet long, Pickles said.
It’s too early to identify the exact species. Scientists will need to analyze the skull, Pickles said. Even then, the skull may look different than anything in the record since the animal was still in its developing years.
Other discoveries
Other dinosaurs have been found with pieces or extensive amounts of skin intact before. A small Psittacosaurus in Germany was found with much of its skin and tissue, including its cloaca (functionally, an anus) preserved.
And a Borealopelta displayed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum was found with much of its skin intact in Canada a few years ago, the Atlantic reported.
But the dinosaur in Germany was rather small, and the some of the Borealopelta remains were missing. The Hadrosaur being unearthed in Canada may be the largest and most complete.
Pickles said the team expects to have carved out a block containing the skeleton from the hill by the end of next summer.
Then it will be transported to a lab where a team will use finer tools to surface the animal before it's ultimately displayed at the Royal Tyrrell dinosaur museum.
Chinese Archaeologists Shocked Us With This Tomb Discovery
Chinese archaeologists once shocked when they found an ancient tomb inside with an intact female corpse, the skin was even elastic like a living person. What is even more shocking is that this female body is also wearing a long robe with thousands of pearls, proving that the identity of the owner of the ancient tomb is extremely noble.
According to KK News, everyone knows that the long robe is a garment worn only by emperors in the past. Anyone who dares to put on this shirt without permission, if discovered, will face disaster, even being killed by the nine clans.
However, in the 1970s, Chinese archaeologists caused a stir when they unearthed a coffin with a female corpse in a long robe in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia.
This female corpse is even still intact, the skin still has the elasticity of a living person. All of this made the archaeologists at that time extremely surprised and curious about the identity of the female owner of the ancient tomb.
Opening the ancient tomb, shocked to see the female corpse’s skin is still elastic like a living person, the body is extremely noble. Archaeologists were shocked and surprised when they discovered that the owner of the ancient tomb was wearing a long robe, the body was intact, the skin was still elastic like a living person.
In fact, if the body inside the coffin was a man, it would make sense to wear a dragon robe, since he was probably the emperor of some ancient dynasty. But women wearing long robes are difficult to understand, making many people skeptical, is this the tomb of Vo Tac Thien – the only female emperor in Chinese history?
However, the female owner of the ancient tomb was not Vo Tac Thien, because archaeologists later determined that this was an ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty. This tomb is extremely large, 45m wide from east to west, 105m long from north to south, with an area of about 5,000m2. The giant tomb, wearing a long robe, and a golden phoenix mandarin hat – all these prove that the owner of the tomb had a very noble status when he was still alive.
In addition, on the hand of the owner of the tomb is also a gold ring, a gold ring. Her feet wear a pair of embroidered red shoes. When examining the body of the owner of the ancient tomb, experts also discovered that there were blood stains on her thigh. Why there are blood stains on the tomb owner’s body is still a mystery that experts have not been able to answer, according to news site 163.
However, what makes experts most surprised and curious is still the long robe with thousands of pearls that the owner of the ancient tomb wears. Apparently, in ancient times only emperors were allowed to wear long robes, so why would the female owner of this tomb dare to violate taboos?
Finally, after the research process, archaeologists have also found the answer in the epitaph inside the ancient tomb. It turned out that the owner of this tomb was a Qing princess – Princess Vinh Hien – the 3rd daughter of Emperor Kangxi and the daughter who was loved by this king the most.
According to KK News, the princess’ mother is Vinh Phi Ma Giai Thi – a “song concubine” loved and spoiled by Khang Hy.
However, no matter how much favor he was with his father, as a princess, Vinh Hien could not avoid having to marry for political purposes and for the stability of the country.
Accordingly, when she was only 9 years old, Princess Vinh Hien had to celebrate the engagement ceremony with Orgon, son of Ba Lam District King Eqier – the leader of Inner Mongolia.
When the princess was 19 years old, she officially became a mother and left the capital to her husband’s house in the Inner Mongolian steppe. Because of this political marriage, in order to compensate for her beloved daughter, Kangxi gave her the title of Princess Gu Luan Vinh Hien – a title that is only reserved for princesses born by the queen.
Fortunately, Vinh Hien and Wu’s marriage is very happy. In the 6th year of Ung Chinh (1728), Princess Vinh Hien died of illness, at the age of 56. In recognition of the princess’s contributions to the country, Emperor Ung Chinh gave her a precious pearl-encrusted long robe. This honor in history, only Princess Vinh Hien has received enough to see how noble her position in life was. The princess’ eldest son then built for her mother a massive mausoleum for her to rest in the middle of the vast steppe.
This Massive Tunnel in South America Was Dug by Ancient Mega-Sloths
Researchers have found several colossal burrows in South America that are so huge and neatly constructed, you'd be forgiven for thinking humans dug them as a passageway through the forest.
Turns out, they're far more ancient than they look, estimated to be at least 8,000 to 10,000 years old, and no known geologic process can explain them. But then there's the massive claw marks that line the walls and ceilings - it's now thought that an extinct species of giant ground sloth is behind at least some of these so-called palaeoburrows.
"I didn't know there was such a thing as palaeoburrows," lead researcher behind the latest study, Heinrich Frank from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, told Andrew Jenner at Discover.
"I'm a geologist, a professor, and I'd never even heard of them."
Researchers have known about these tunnels since at least the 1930s, but back then, they were considered to be some kind of archaeological structure - remains of caves carved out by our ancient ancestors, perhaps.
Fast-forward to 2010, when geologist Amilcar Adamy from the Brazilian Geological Survey decided to investigate rumours of a peculiar cave in the state of Rondonia, to the north-west of the country.
The structure was huge, and according to Jenner, it's still the largest known palaeoburrow in the Amazon, and is twice the size of the second largest palaeburrow in Brazil.
Adamy had gone to investigate the tunnel, determined to attribute it to some kind of geologic process, but once he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't think of any natural process that would create such a deliberate-looking structure.
"I'd never seen anything like it before," Adamy told Jenner. "It really grabbed my attention. It didn't look natural."
A few years later, Frank found his own strange cave, thousands of kilometres away in the town of Novo Hamburgo. Once he knew what to look for, he found hundreds of them scattered across the Brazilian landscape.
There are now more than 1,500 known palaeoburrows that have been found in southern and southeastern Brazil alone, and there appear to be two different types: the smaller ones, that reach up to 1.5 metres in diameter; and the bigger ones, that can stretch up to 2 metres in height and 4 metres in width.
It wasn't until Frank started climbing inside them that he realised the extent of these tunnels, which can extend for up to 100 metres, and occasionally branch off into separate chambers.
When he looked up at the ceiling, he got his first big clue about what could be behind their construction - distinctive grooves in the weathered granite, basalt, and sandstone surfaces, which he's identified as the claw marks of a massive, ancient creature.
"Most consist of long, shallow grooves parallel to each other, grouped and apparently produced by two or three claws," Frank and his team explained in a 2016 paper.
"These grooves are mostly smooth, but some irregular ones may have been produced by broken claws."
The discovery seemed to answer one of the long-standing questions in palaeontology regarding the ancient megafauna that roamed the planet during the Pleistocene epoch, from about 2.5 million years ago to 11,700 years ago: Where were all the burrows?
As Frank and his colleagues explain, it's estimated that about half of the mammalian species on Earth right now are classified as semi-fossorial - meaning they spend some time inside burrows, but have to go outside to feed.
Around 3.5 percent of living species are completely fossorial, which means they spend all their lives underground.
Considering all the world's species have evolved from more ancient versions of themselves, it stands to reason that similar proportions of fossorial and semi-fossorial species would have existed around the time of the Pleistocene megafauna.
But despite the abundance of fossilised remains proving the existence of these creatures, for centuries, researchers could not identify any evidence of burrows - something that was likely a combination of burrows collapsing over thousands of years, and researchers not knowing what to look for.
Based on the size of the structures and the claw marks left in their walls, researchers are now confident that they've found the megafauna burrows, and have narrowed down the owners to giant ground sloths and giant armadillos.
"There's no geological process in the world that produces long tunnels with a circular or elliptical cross-section, which branch and rise and fall, with claw marks on the walls," Frank told Discover.
"I've [also] seen dozens of caves that have inorganic origins, and in these cases, it's very clear that digging animals had no role in their creation."
Below is a summary of how the various tunnel diameters match up to known species of ancient armadillos and sloths:
The researchers suspect that the biggest palaeoburrows were dug by humungous South American ground sloths from the extinct Lestodon genus.
But despite these creatures stretching up to 4.6 metres (15 feet) and weighing roughly 2,590 kg (5,709 pounds), a single ground sloth would have spent much of its lifespan dedicated entirely to constructing tunnels as large and extensive as the palaeoburrows are.
And why bother? Frank and his team aren't sure if the extensive caverns were used to escape the climate, predators, or humidity, but told Jenner at Discover that all of these explanations seem unlikely, as a much smaller burrow would have suited those purposes just fine.
It could be that several individuals inherited the burrows over generations, and kept adding to the structure to make it enormous, but that's something the researchers will need to confirm with further observations.
With so many questions left to answer, let's just appreciate the fact that the sheer scale of things so 10,000 years ago was ridiculous, and we really just want a time machine so we can curl up with a giant sloth in its Narnia-esque mansion.
Rare Ancient Peruvian Death Mask Found Off Florida Coast
The mask is made mainly of copper, although it also contains traces of gold, silver and iridium — a material which is found in meteorites.
An ancient Peruvian death mask was found on Melbourne Beach, off the coast of Florida in the United States, ex-MIT professor and Army Ranger Mike Torres said, adding that the artifact is believed to be about 10,000-12,000 years old.
The yet-to-be-officially-dated metal mask was smelted by an ancient South American civilization long before European contact, Torres stated, explaining that it would be considered an early example of human metalworking.
"They had to, at one point, figure out blast furnaces," he said. "It took serious thought to smelt this... That changes things, and may change the way we perceive ancient Peruvian cultures."
The mask is made mainly of copper, although it also contains traces of gold, silver and iridium — a material which is found in meteorites.
Torres charged that the mask was likely stolen by Spanish tomb raiders, from a tomb in the South American country. “To contain iridium, it came from a very very important or royal tomb and was likely on its way back to Spain as a gift to royalty.”
The Peruvian artifact is part of a funeral headpiece from a pre-Incan civilization in the country, the archaeologists told Fox 35 news.
Torres is a member of a crew of researchers, who have been combing through an area believed to be the location of a major and significant treasure haul — which the group estimates to be worth some US$4 million — that is buried in the region, a News 6 WKMG report says.
"There are not many examples of this in the world today," Torres explained, regarding the new breakthrough of the crew’s decade-long expedition.
The ranger’s employer, Seafarer Exploration Corporation, declares that the lost treasure was aboard a Spanish vessel which sank — on a voyage to Spain from Cuba — in the early 1700s.
The group says finding the entire treasure would be, arguably, the most extraordinary historic archaeological find in the past century, adding that the mask is a major link in a “debris trail” that could locate the haul.
Seafarer Exploration Corporation — and Torres — and the state of Florida will be allowed to retain and split the haul 80%-20%, respectively.
Torres claims the find would be placed in a collection and preserved for public viewing.
Petrified Opal Tree Trunk Situated In Arizona Its About 225 Million Years Old
What happened to the wood that made it that way in the beautiful petrified trees in the forests of Arizona? They believe that petrified wood is so old that in the prehistoric period it has emerged. But do you know how petrified wood was made? This guide will show you how. What is petrified wood and how is it formed?
Fossil wood is considered to have grown when the material of the plant is buried by sediment. When the wood is buried deep in the muck, it is protected from decay caused by exposure to oxygen and organisms.
Because the wood is stored in deep water, the minerals in the groundwater flow through the sediment, replacing the original plant material such as silica, calcite, and pyrite.
Even very expensive minerals can infiltrate wood-like opal. The result is a fossil made from the original woody material, which often shows preserved details of tree bark, wood, and cellular structures.
This is probably the most popular petrified park in the world. The Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook in northeastern Arizona has established millions of years ago. About 225 million years ago, this was simply a lowland with a tropical climate with a dense forest.
Rivers made by tropical rainstorms washed mud and other sediments. This was where you would find giant coniferous trees 9 feet in diameter and towering 200 feet lived and died.
Fallen trees and broken branches from these trees were buried by rich river sediments. Meanwhile, volcanoes nearby erupted numerous times and the ash and silica from these eruptions buried the area.
Eruptions caused large dense clouds of ash that buried the area and this quick cover prevented anything from escaping and of course, nothing can also move in, even oxygen and insects. In time, the soluble ash was dissolved by groundwater through the sediments. The dissolved ash became the source of silica that replaced the plant debris.
This silication process creates petrified wood. Aside from silica, trace amounts of iron, manganese and other minerals also penetrated the wood and this gave petrified wood a variety of colors. This is how the lovely Chinle Formation was made.
So how was this area discovered? Millions of years after the Chinle Formation were created, the entire area was dug and the rocks found on top of Chinle have eroded away.
What was discovered was wood here was much harder and resistant to weathering compared to the mudrocks and ash deposits in Chinle. Wood that was taken from the ground surface as nearby mudrocks and ash layers washed away.
The park covers 146 square miles. It’s dry and often windy, but the elevation of 5400 feet means that it’s not as hot as desert areas at lower altitudes, and it’s mostly covered in the grass rather than cacti and other desert plants.
Of course, the big attraction here is the petrified trees, which grew here about 225 million years ago when this part of Arizona was at a much lower elevation near the shores of a large sea to the west.
As well as the trees, many fossilized animals such as clams, freshwater snails, giant amphibians, crocodile-like reptiles, and early dinosaurs have been found here.
The silica in the logs crystallized into quartz, but often iron oxide and other minerals were mixed in, producing extraordinarily beautiful kaleidoscopic patterns and colors.
The petrified trees are often so attractive that a whole industry grew up around hauling them out from where they lay and cutting them up to make decorative furniture, wall displays, bookends, and other items. Theft from the park has always been a problem, and it’s estimated that around 12 tons of fossilized wood are stolen each year.
Gigantic Roman mosaic discovered under a farmer’s field in Turkey
A giant poolside mosaic featuring intricate geometric patterns has been unearthed in southern Turkey, revealing the far-reaching influence of the Roman Empire at its peak.
A giant poolside mosaic featuring intricate geometric patterns has been unearthed in southern Turkey, revealing the far-reaching influence of the Roman Empire at its peak.
The mosaic, which once decorated the floor of a bath complex, abuts a 25-foot-long (7-meter long) pool, which would have been open to the air, said Michael Hoff, a University of Nebraska, Lincoln art historian and director of the mosaic excavation. The find likely dates to the third or fourth century, Hoff said. The mosaic itself is an astonishing 1,600 square feet (149 square meters) — the size of a modest family home.
"To be honest, I was completely bowled over that the mosaic is that big," Hoff told LiveScience.
The first hint that something stunning lay underground in southern Turkey came in 2002, when Purdue University classics professor Nick Rauh walked through a freshly plowed farmer's field near the ancient city of Antiochia ad Cragum. The plow had churned up bits of mosaic tile, Hoff said. Rauh consulted other archaeologists, including experts at the local museum in Alanya, Turkey. The museum did not have funds to excavate more than a sliver of the mosaic, so archaeologists left the site alone.
Last year, with a new archaeological permit for the site in hand, museum archaeologists invited Hoff and his team to complete the dig.
So far, the researchers have revealed about 40 percent of the mosaic. The floor is in "pristine" condition, Hoff said in a university video about the dig. It would have fronted an open-air marble swimming pool flanked by porticos.
The mosaic itself is composed of large squares, each sporting a unique geometric design on a white background, from starburst patterns to intertwined loops. It's the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey, which was thought to be rather peripheral to the Roman Empire, according to Hoff. The existence of the mosaic suggests that Antiochia ad Cragum was far more influenced by the Romans than believed, Hoff said.
The Mongol Destruction of Baghdad
The most devastating Mongol attack in history. After demolishing the Order of Assassins, Hulagu Khan leads an enormous Mongol army against the great city of Baghdad. The Abbasid caliph has angered the Mongols, and his people will suffer for it. Few will survive the wrath of the Khan.
Most mysterious and darkest secrets of the Vatican archives
In today’s video we will be exploring the most mysterious and darkest secrets of the Vatican archives. Enjoy!
Archaeologists found a coffin in Spain that will change everything known about European history!
In recent news, In a recent discovery that has sent shockwaves through the archaeological community, Gonzales, an archaeologist working in Spain has made a remarkable discovery: a 2,000-year-old coffin containing the remains of a wealthy Roman woman.
The coffin, which was found in the ancient city of Cartagena, is thought to date back to the 1st or 2nd century AD and is decorated with intricate carvings and inscriptions.
The woman's remains, which were well-preserved thanks to the dry climate of the region, showed signs of a high status and luxurious lifestyle. She was adorned with gold and pearl jewellery, and her coffin was made of marble and adorned with intricate carvings and inscriptions.
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15 Mysterious Doors That Can Never Be Opened
We’ve all heard stories of haunted castles or pirate’s buried treasures. But what if I told you there are places like that today in real life? Some are hidden and secret, some are protected by military. From a hotel designed to kill its guests, to Pablo Escobar’s post-mortem surprise, here are 15 Mysterious Doors That Can Never Be Opened.
