Tag: Discovery

Archaeologists in southern Sweden made a surprising discovery while digging for an ancient settlement - a vast Viking Age cemetery with over 100 graves and ship-shaped mounds. Petra Nordin, an archaeologist at Sweden's National...

Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, two high school students from Louisiana, have made headlines in the math community for discovering multiple new solutions to the Pythagorean theorem. Their journey began when they found an...

Archaeologists in Peru recently made a fascinating discovery at the Pañamarca archaeological site – a 1,300-year-old throne room adorned with murals that depict a female Moche ruler. The Moche civilization thrived in northern Peru...

An amateur mathematician and former Nvidia employee recently discovered the largest prime number known to date, surpassing the previous record by over 16 million digits. Prime numbers, which are only divisible by themselves and...

A metal detectorist in Germany recently unearthed a rare hoard of almost 3,000 Roman-era coins in the Westerwald mountain range, far from any known settlements of the time. The discovery was made near the...

Fifty years ago, a groundbreaking discovery was made in the Afar region of Ethiopia that revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. A partial skeleton of a human ancestor who lived 3.2 million years ago...

The centuries-old mystery surrounding the origins of explorer Christopher Columbus is on the verge of being solved. After years of speculation, Spanish scientists have finally confirmed that his remains are indeed buried in a...

Scientists recently made an incredible discovery deep beneath the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island. They found what they described as a "fossilized fingerprint" of a chunk of seafloor that sank into Earth's mantle about...

Archaeologists made a remarkable discovery of a 4,000-year-old tomb in Egypt belonging to "Idi," a governor's daughter from the Middle Kingdom period. The tomb contained two coffins, one inside the other, adorned with intricate...