Atheists Just Terrified The Whole World With This!

The legendary Pool of Siloam, steeped in biblical significance, emerges from the shadows. In an unprecedented endeavor, the ancient pool is undergoing a full excavation, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for visitors to bear witness to the unveiling of this sacred site. Join us as the mysteries of the Pool of Siloam are unraveled before our very eyes, rewriting the narrative of our collective past.

The well-known biblical Pool of Siloam will at long last be exposed for the very first time as part of a comprehensive excavation, and guests are free to observe the work while it is done.

The Feared Kukri! (What You Need To Know)

The Kukri, one of the most feared weapons of the battlefield, and the blade of choice for the famous Gurkha soldiers! But what is a Kukri knife, why is the Kukri shaped the way it is, and how did the Kukri come to be? The Kukri is not only a weapon, but a tool of great utility, and an important cultural icon of Nepal. This video delves into the Kukri knife and its story!

Iranian DNA History

In the video below we will be exploring the DNA history of Iranian people. Enjoy!

Once You See This Painting You Can't Unsee It

This piece is called Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. One of the most famous and controversial paintings in the world. In the center of the painting is the five-year-old princess, Infanta Margarita Teresa. To her left and right are her ladies-in-waiting (meninas) and the rest of her entourage surrounds her. Don José Nieto Velázquez stands in the backlit doorway, ascending or descending the stairs on the back wall. We can also see two hazy figures staring back at us. This is King Philip IV of Spain and Queen Mariana. To the left of the painting is the artist himself, Diego Velázquez. But what is he painting? The answer to this question is still a mystery more than 350 years later.

Velázquez depicts a bright future in the idealized depiction of Margarita who was the only living heir at the time. But the reality was much more bleak.

Top 10 Biblical Archaeology Finds of 2022

The frequency with which the land of Israel unveils new archaeological finds supporting the Bible never ceases to amaze. And 2022 was no exception! In today’s video, Brent and Chris from the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology recap last year’s amazing discoveries.

What Just Happened Inside The Tomb Of Cleopatra Shocked Scientists

For years, researchers have been fascinated by the search for Cleopatra's Tomb, which has generated various ideas. Archaeologists keep looking at the mysterious signs to find out where the famous Egyptian queen was laid to rest and now it has been solved. So, did Cleopatra get her wish to be buried next to Antony, the man she loved? Is the Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra together there, waiting to be found? Above that what terrifying has been discovered at Cleopatra’s tomb? Join us in this video as we look into the most popular ideas and try to figure out where this ancient treasure is hidden.

One of the biggest problems for historians and researchers looking for Cleopatra's Tomb is that the facts as they have always been told aren't certain.

For example, Cleopatra is said to have died in Alexandria, but there are different stories about whether she was in her room or in her grave at the time. Even how she died has been called into question. There were no first-hand reports. The story about the Asp came from later literary writers, and it's not clear if the truth was hidden because it was written by the Romans after they won.

Shocking Discovery About Mysterious Neanderthal Population Will Blow Your Mind

Today, we're going to discuss a groundbreaking discovery that has left scientists and researchers worldwide in awe. We're talking about the mysterious Neanderthal population and the shocking revelation that has rocked the scientific community to its core. This discovery is not only a game-changer in our understanding of human evolution, but it also has the potential to change how we think about ourselves as a species. So, sit back and get ready to have your mind blown as we take a closer look at this incredible discovery and its implications. Trust us, and you won't want to miss this!

Creepy Men Throughout History

Whispers of creepy men have reverberated through the corridors of time, echoing tales of terror that curdle the blood. From the malevolent shadows of history, they emerge—men so strange, so creepy, that their very names inspire unease. Take Vlad III, a tyrant whose bloodthirsty reign seems to step right out of a horror film, or the original Dr. Frankenstein, whose dark experiments blurred the lines between science and madness. A man with such a stare that even you couldn't survive, and that stare came from Grigori Rasputin. These are some of history's scariest men, those who dared to plumb the depths of the human condition in the most unsettling of ways. So, who is the creepiest of all time? Answer that for yourself...

Graham Hancock - People Don't Know Updated the Great Pyramid Internal Ramp Theory

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Modern Humans Out of Afrika 86,000 Years Ago, Upending Evolution

A recent find of 86,000-year-old human bones from a cave in Southeast Asia suggests that attempts to leave Africa were unsuccessful. According to the study, the new data indicates that before the last successful expansion, modern humans made several attempts to grow.

However, if this was an unsuccessful Out of Africa attempt, how is it possible that modern humans arrived in a very remote cave located high on a mountain in Southeast Asia? This appears to be yet another effort to maintain a theory that is becoming more and more implausible. In fact, compared to Eurasia, Africa has a weaker paleontological foundation for the theory of human evolution.

Afro-Eurasia is the name given by some geographers to the super-continent that includes Eurasia and Africa, just like North and South America are frequently regarded as one continent because they are separated by a narrow man-made canal. Therefore, what has been recently referred to as "African multi-regionalism" is actually "Afro-Eurasian multi-regionalism."

The Oldest Sphinx Statuette Discovered at Giza: But How Old Is It?

Experts agree the dump was created in the 4th dynasty of the Old Kingdom – that certainly seems to be the case – and whilst it does contain a variety of finds from the reigns of Khufu and Khafre, the 1970s lead archaeologist Karl Kromer believed the dump also contained earlier finds from dynasties 1 to 3. Clay sealing expert Maira Torcia Rigillo would go on to analyse some of the finds and also agreed. There was also evidence for possible pre-dynastic activity, as seen in the decoration on some of the pot sherds.

Kromer’s 1978 excavation report is often quoted and last week I finally found a copy, a fantastic, detailed and well-illustrated 170-page publication on the Kromer Dump, packed with details, photographs, drawings, cross sections and interpretations.

Inside the dump, in Trench F, Kromer discovered what he called the oldest Sphinx statuette ever discovered in Egypt, and by Sphinx we mean with the body of a lion and head of a human. But why does it have no pharaonic headdress? Why does it have no beard? Why doesn't it look like any pharaoh we know of? In this video we investigate!

The Unique History and relatioship between Turks and Koreans

Many Countries have Bilateral relations, but two countries with a particual relation would be Turkey and South Korea, despite their geography these two nations or rather People have been in contact for more than decades. Watch the video to find out more!

Elephant burial about 6 million years old discovered in Florida

Paleontologists have discovered an ancient elephant ancestor cemetery.

Archaeologists and volunteers excavate the gomphothere graveyard in northern Florida, covering the fossils in plaster casts to protect them. (Image credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace, CC BY)

In northern Florida, huge bones from an old "elephant graveyard" that was once a river have been discovered.

These long-extinct creatures were related to modern elephants by the genus gomphotheres, and their fossils date to the Miocene epoch, some 5.5 million years ago.

"It was very exciting because this gave us the opportunity to not only see what an adult [gomphothere] would have looked like, but also to very carefully document each and every bone in its skeleton," said Jonathan Bloch, a vertebrate paleontology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History who co-led the excavation. "That's exciting from a scientific perspective if you're trying to understand the anatomy of these animals and something about their biology and evolution," Bloch said to Live Science.

The collection of gomphothere bones was found by researchers in 2022 at the Montbrook Site, a large-scale excavation site close to Gainesville. Although there had previously been some gomphothere bones discovered, the team was taken aback when a volunteer discovered the remains of an extremely huge person.

Illustrations of three extinct species within the Gomphotherium genus: G. simplicidens, top left; G. productum, top right; and G. calvertense, bottom. (Image credit: Florida Museum image by Merald Clark, CC BY)

"I started coming upon one after another of toe and ankle bones," recalled Dean Warner, a retired chemistry teacher and volunteer at Montbrook. What turned out to be the ulna and radius (long arm bones) began to be exposed as I dug more.

A total of one adult and at least seven young gomphotheres' complete skeletons were ultimately discovered by the team. According to the experts, the adult is about the same size as a current African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and stands 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall to the shoulders. This astounding size establishes a local record for the largest gomphothere.

“In addition to being significantly larger than any of the other people that we have seen, the bones were also in the exact same position as if the animal had just laid down and passed away”, according to Bloch.

Illustrations of the different gomphothere genera, including Rhynchotherium (bottom left), whose remains were found in Florida. (Image credit: Pedro Toledo, CC BY)

The animals probably didn't pass away all at once, but rather hundreds of years apart. The adult, according to the researchers, drowned here, while the other animals were probably washed away by the water after they perished and gathered in a river bend. Bloch described the accumulation as a "bonejam," a logjam being the result of too many loose logs blocking a river.

The shape of their tusks and body size serve as characteristic identifiers of species in the gomphotheres' family. According to the researchers, the tusks of the extinct Montbrook animals exhibit a distinctive enamel banding that indicates these species belong to the genus Rhynchotherium. These elephant ancestors previously flourished in broad savannas throughout Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas millions of years ago. A 2020 study published in the journal Paleobiology found that as temperatures began to cool in these regions around 14 million years ago, grasslands gradually began to replace savannas. Competition for scarce resources after the arrival of mammoths and elephants eventually drove gomphotheres to extinction about 1.6 million years ago.

Archaeologists and volunteers excavate the gomphothere graveyard in northern Florida, covering the fossils in plaster casts to protect them. (Image credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace, CC BY)

According to the researchers, the new finding will aid in the better understanding of the surroundings and lives of these ancient proboscideans. The greatest specimen will eventually be on display; Bloch and his team intend to put the fossils from the adult gomphothere together and position it next to the enormous mammoth and mastodon skeletons now on show at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

We have a lot to gain from these experiences, and Bloch expressed excitement about carrying them out in the future.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinc...

Fossils of "fish lizards" from some of the largest animals known to have existed were discovered in the Swiss Alps

Giant, ancient sea reptiles' fossils have been discovered in the high Swiss Alps, an unexpected location.

According to a recent study, the fossils belonged to three ichthyosaurs, which may have been among the biggest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. The extinct animals were comparable in size and weight to modern sperm whales, reaching 80 tons and 65 feet (20 meters) in length.

This is the thickest ichthyosaur tooth found so far.

About 250 million years ago, these "fish lizards" initially formed in the ocean. They had small heads and elongated bodies, somewhat resembling dolphins. They appeared after more than 95% of marine animals were wiped off during the Permian mass extinction. However, the enormous ichthyosaurs went extinct 200 million years ago, and only the smaller, more dolphin-like species persisted until 90 million years ago.

The discovery was described in a research that was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in April 2022.

So how did the skeletal remains of enormous marine animals, including one longer than a bowling alley, end up at a height of 9,186 feet (2,800 meters)?

Those rock formations were the lagoon floor some 200 million years ago.

We believe that the large ichthyosaurs entered the lagoon after following schools of fish. The fossils may also have come from stray animals who perished there, according to research co-author Heinz Furrer, a former curator at the Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich.

Study coauthor Heinz Furrer is pictured holding the largest ichthyosaur vertebrae.

However, heaps of rock layers first appeared around 30 to 40 million years ago as a result of the folding of the Alps, which started 95 million years ago when the African tectonic plate started to push on the European tectonic plate. The fossils were "tectonically deformed," or driven to a rock formation at the summit of a mountain, by the tectonic plate movements.

According to lead study author P. Martin Sander, professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bonn in Germany, "you kind of have to be a mountain goat to access the relevant beds." Inconveniently, they don't appear below 8,000 feet (2,438.4 meters), much above the treeline.

The lack of fossil evidence for these animals, despite the fact that they previously dominated the seas, has left paleontologists puzzled. However, the ichthyosaur fossils have revealed new details about these mysterious, extinct creatures.

One massive tooth

Three distinct ichthyosaurs left behind fossils. The difference between the two was roughly 65 feet (20 meters), while the other was 49 feet (15 meters). The largest ichthyosaur tooth ever discovered, however, is the most intriguing discovery connected to these fossils.

The largest specimen from an ichthyosaur with a full skull to date was 20 millimeters and came from a creature that was over 18 meters (59 feet) long, according to Sander. "This is huge by ichthyosaur standards: Its root was 60 millimeters in diameter," he said.

Although most of the larger ichthyosaurs were toothless, scientists believe they fed on cephalopods like squid by suction. Scientists are aware that smaller ichthyosaurs had teeth.

Using their teeth to ensnare prey like gigantic squid, huge ichthyosaurs with teeth were probably similar to sperm whales and killer whales of the present.

The tooth, however, poses a problem because the crown was broken off. Because of distinctive characteristics, such as the infolding of dentin in the tooth root, experts are certain that the tooth belongs to an ichthyosaur, although they cannot be certain that the tooth's size corresponds to the animal's size.

The blue whale, which weighs 150 tons and may grow to 98 feet (30 meters) in length, doesn't have any teeth since, in their opinion, being large and being a predator (with teeth) don't align. Instead, it removes microscopic aquatic organisms through filtration.

Sperm whales, which can grow to be 65 feet (20 meters) long and weigh 50 tons, hunt.

Therefore, Sander concluded, "marine predators probably can't get much bigger than a sperm whale."

Giants in the mountains

The fossils were initially found during the 1976–1990 geological mapping of the Alps. Furrer recalls holding the fossils in his hand as a doctorate student at the University of Zurich. Furrer was a member of the original team that extracted the fossils from the rocks known as the Kössen Formation.

The fossils were virtually forgotten throughout time.

But recently, more ichthyosaur fossils been surfaced, according to Furrer. Therefore, it appeared worthwhile to us to also conduct a more thorough analysis of the Swiss discoveries.

Although ichthyosaur fossils have been discovered all over the world, North America has produced the majority of the large species' remains. The range of these specimens is widened by their discovery in contemporary Switzerland.

Some of them may grow to be as big as blue whales, the biggest animals on earth, according to earlier evidence.

"In Nevada, we see the beginnings of true giants, and in the Alps, the end," Sander added. "Only the medium-to-large-sized dolphin - and orca-like forms survived into the Jurassic (Period)," which lasted from 145 to 201 million years ago.

Sander ponders whether there are still "giant sea creatures hidden beneath the glaciers." But these remains close an information gap about these enormous marine lizards.

The fact that we know so little about these enormous ichthyosaurs despite the exceptional size of their bones amounts to a tremendous embarrassment for paleontology, according to Sander. "We anticipate meeting this challenge and locating new, superior fossils soon."

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/28/world/i...