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Anti-Aging Technology Will Help Indiana Jones ‘Time Travel’ Back to 1944 to Battle Nazis

Micah Hanks·November 22, 2022

Actor Harrison Ford will be time-traveling back to 1944 to fight Nazis with the help of anti-aging technology in the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones film series.

Summer Solstice 2022 Continues an Ancient and Mysterious Astronomical Tradition

Micah Hanks·June 21, 2022

Today marks the arrival of summer solstice 2022, resulting in the longest day of the year and heralding the arrival of summer.

Archaeologists from the University of Helsinki have found ancient friendship ornaments

Archaeologists Have Found Ancient Friendship Bracelets, Revealing the Roots of this Tradition

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry·May 10, 2022

Whether it’s a matching shirt or necklace, or our favorite video games, we love to share physical objects...

The Substitute for the Drake Equation in Extraterrestrial Space Archaeology

Avi Loeb·March 23, 2022

The likelihood of us finding extraterrestrial technological objects depends on our willingness to look for them, and not just on whether the extraterrestrials had sent them.

Four Legged Snake is a Fake

Christopher Plain·November 22, 2021

A fossil of a four-legged snake initially thought to be an evolutionary missing link has turned out to...

New AI Genome Analysis Finds Unknown “Ghost” Ancestor in Eurasian DNA

Raquel Santos·November 3, 2021

New findings show how AI could help explain the features of an unrecognized "hybrid" teenage girl who lived 50,000 years ago.

Study Finds Disinformation is Being Used to Manipulate Western Media… Like it Has Been Doing for Centuries

Micah Hanks·September 20, 2021

Researchers at Cardiff University say Western Media is being steered by Russian propaganda, but archaeology reveals it is a practice with ancient roots.

Ancient Tablet Displays Pythagorean Theorem 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras was Even Born

Liam Stewart·August 12, 2021

A 4000-year-old tablet displays a form of geometry from Babylon, thousands of years before the math was thought to have been discovered.

The Antikythera Mechanism Still Challenges Our Ideas About the Past

This ancient computer and other anachronisms from early times leave us with more questions than answers.

Ryan Sprague and Jane Moore·April 1, 2021

This ancient computer and other anachronisms from early times leave us with more questions than answers.

New Stonehenge Study Reveals Previously Undiscovered Acoustic Properties

Acoustic archaeologists think some ancient monuments were designed with sound in mind.

Christopher Plain·February 24, 2021

A recent study at Stonehenge is helping us understand why acoustic archaeologists think that some ancient monuments were designed with sound in mind.

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Anti-Aging Technology Will Help Indiana Jones ‘Time Travel’ Back to 1944 to Battle Nazis

Summer Solstice 2022 Continues an Ancient and Mysterious Astronomical Tradition

Archaeologists Have Found Ancient Friendship Bracelets, Revealing the Roots of this Tradition

The Substitute for the Drake Equation in Extraterrestrial Space Archaeology

Four Legged Snake is a Fake

New AI Genome Analysis Finds Unknown “Ghost” Ancestor in Eurasian DNA

Study Finds Disinformation is Being Used to Manipulate Western Media… Like it Has Been Doing for Centuries

Ancient Tablet Displays Pythagorean Theorem 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras was Even Born

The Antikythera Mechanism Still Challenges Our Ideas About the Past

This ancient computer and other anachronisms from early times leave us with more questions than answers.

This ancient computer and other anachronisms from early times leave us with more questions than answers.

New Stonehenge Study Reveals Previously Undiscovered Acoustic Properties

Acoustic archaeologists think some ancient monuments were designed with sound in mind.

Acoustic archaeologists think some ancient monuments were designed with sound in mind.

Whistleblower David Grusch Says U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

Craft Retrievals of Non-Human Origin?

That UFO Episode

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