A sleepy California town known for Danish pastries, windmills and quaint European charm is now drawing attention for a much darker mystery lurking beneath its streets. Solvang, a tiny Central Coast community about an hour north of Santa Barbara, is home to a sprawling network of underground tunnels that have sparked years of speculation — … Read more
Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo. The site, known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is located in a remote valley in Cyprus, and the uncovered artifacts are believed to date back 2,700 years. A team of German experts initially began excavating in the area … Read more
These two went from trail walkers to treasure hunters. Two hikers stumbled across a mysterious treasure worth thousands, if not millions of dollars — and experts are baffled. The pair was walking along a trail in the Krkonoše Mountains in northeastern Czech Republic in February when they noticed an aluminum box sticking out of a … Read more
An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by archaeologists in the United Kingdom while a highway was being built. The Suffolk City Council described the site as a “Late Bronze Age settlement and cremation cemetery” that dates back 3,000 years; they shared the information in a press release dated mid-April. In Britain, the Bronze Age … Read more
Welcome to Jurassic Parkway. Paleontologists recently discovered lines of strange indentations inside a quarry in England were actually dinosaur footprints from millions of years ago. The discovery was made after a site worker reported “unusual bumps.” A nearly 500-foot path roamed by the massive prehistoric creatures was discovered in Oxfordshire, near London. Massive dinosaur tracks … Read more
What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits” a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It consists of “a cotton textile dyed purple which sandwiches one or two layers of a whitish material made mainly of the mineral huntite,” according … Read more
A tomb of a medieval Catholic saint was recently opened last month for research – and the condition of her body stunned those who found her. In an Aug. 28 press release translated from Spanish to English, the Diocese of Avila announced the recent opening of the tomb of St. Teresa of Jesus. The saint, also known … Read more
Their romance turned into a total nightmare after a shocking discovery revealed they were more than lovebirds — they were siblings. Throughout her childhood, a running joke between Victoria Hill and her father was that she might be the mailman’s child. After all, the pair were nothing alike. Shrugging it off as a genetic mystery, … Read more
An ancient cemetery with more than 300 tombs of mummies has been unearthed in Egypt in a discovery that scientists have since dubbed the “City of the Dead.” Archaeologists have spent five years digging at a site once located on the hill near the modern Mausoleum of Aga Khan III. The burial grounds reportedly span … Read more
A newly discovered archaeological site may provide evidence of Biblical truth. Researchers in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient military base that may provide clues of a battle ground for God’s army against Assyrian soldiers who came to conquer the Holy Land around 2,700 years ago, per a Sunday report in the Daily Mail. As the … Read more
Four decades after the death of Marvin Gaye, new music from the late artist could be on the horizon. The surprise news comes thanks to a Belgian musician named Charles Dumolin, who hosted the R&B legend at his Ostend home for a time. Dumolin has revealed a never-before-seen collection of costumes, letters, notebooks and dozens … Read more
Panamanian archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,200-year-old tomb filled with golden treasures and victims of human sacrifice. The Ministry of Culture of Panama (MiCultura) published a Spanish-language press release about the discovery on Mar. 1. The tomb, which was found in the Coclé Province of Panama, was built and dedicated to a lord between the years 750 and … Read more
NEW YORK — On a recent Sunday afternoon, the divers arrived on a thin strip of sand at the furthest, watery edge of New York City. Air tanks strapped to their backs, they waded into the sea and descended into an environment far different from their usual terrestrial surroundings of concrete, traffic and trash-strewn sidewalks. … Read more
Nursing homes and their residents were on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19. But despite how vulnerable nursing home residents are to severe illness and death from the disease, most of them never received lifesaving drugs — including Paxlovid, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in May this year, after more than … Read more
The embattled younger brother of Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes was allegedly involved in a previous incident at the same Kansas City-area bar in which he is accused of sexually assaulting its owner. Jackson Mahomes, who was arrested for aggravated sexual battery earlier this month, was previously booted from Aspen’s Restaurant and Lounge in Overland … Read more
New research provides evidence that positive relationship events play an important role in romantic attachment avoidance. The findings, which have been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, indicate that positive relationship events in everyday life predict decreases in romantic avoidance over time. Attachment theory describes how people bond with others and maintain … Read more