First mother-daughter burial from Roman times in Austria discovered
Visualization of the findings – a: double burial; b and c: location within the burial ground; d: 2 gold pendants, found as grave goods; e: Documentary photo of the two individuals; f: Documentation photo of the horse (data: City of Wels, basemap.at, OpenStreetMap, …
Assyriologist claims to have solved archaeological mystery from 700 BC
Late 19th century drawings of the eagle and bull symbols published by French excavator Victor Place. Credit: New York Public Library Ancient symbols on a 2,700-year-old temple, which have baffled experts for more than a century, have been explained by …
Evidence of ancient earthquake found in Jerusalem
The storage vessel after restoration – Photo: Dafna Gazit Israel Antiquities Authority. Medicine: Joseph Bocangolz A team of researchers with the Israel Antiquities Authority has found evidence of a strong earthquake occurring in the city of Jerusalem …
Why dozens of North American bird species are getting new names: Every name tells a story
A Townsend’s Solitaire, one of the species to be renamed. Credit: Jared Del Rosso, CC BY-ND This winter, tens of thousands of birders will survey winter bird populations for the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count , part of an international …
Captive Goffin’s cockatoos found to dunk hard bread to improve its texture
Credit: Biology Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0411 A pair of veterinary medicine researchers at Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, in Austria, has found that some captive Goffin’s cockatoos prefer to dunk their hard bread …
The bird turns itself into an umbrella, luring its prey towards death in search of safety
African black herons have a very unique hunting technique – they use their wings to form an umbrella, which not only reduces glare but also makes their prey, the fish, feel false security. Called “veiled eating”, …
Scientists have turned dead birds into drones
In 2021, a strange conspiracy theory emerged in America. Conspiracy theories promoted by Gen Z – the generation of people born from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s – claim that birds do not exist and that what we are seeing are actually devices…
Ancient Egyptian architecture is very famous for its temples of legendary gods and mascots of the ancient Egyptians.
Ancient Egyptian architecture is very famous for its temples of legendary gods. The Egyptians then believed that the gods appeared on Earth in the form of certain animals. If they honored and worshiped these animals…
Ancient Bricks’ Iron Oxide: A Strange History of the Earth’s Electromagnetic Field
The Earth’s magnetic field surged mysteriously in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) from 1050 to 550 BC, new research shows. Several factors combine to create this invisible magnetic field around our planet, including the molten rock at its core. This flow …