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Two prior attempts to find the suspected secret chamber proved to be inconclusive. Researchers are returning to King Tutankhamun’s tomb one more time. An Italian research team from the Polytechnic University of Turin has recently announced a plan to search for a secret chamber inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb using advanced ground-penetrating radar technology. “It will be a rigorous scientific work and will last several days, if not weeks,” said Franco Porcelli, the project’s director and a professor of physics at Polytechnic University, to Seeker....

Though Wayne Williams was convicted in two cases, who was behind the rest of the Atlanta murders that left at least 28 dead from 1979 to 1981? In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a mysterious killer terrorized Black communities in Atlanta. One by one, Black children and young adults were being kidnapped and turning up dead days or weeks later. These grisly cases would later become known as the Atlanta Child Murders....

Experience the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 — likely the single largest event of the original hippie era — and the other early years of the British Woodstock. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 69 Woodstock Photos That Will Take You To The 1960s’ Most Iconic Music Festival 29 Monterey Pop Festival Photos That Epitomize The “Summer Of Love”...

At one point, over 1,000 people called Kolmanskop home, and participated in its booming industry – until everyone left. WikimediaThe town of Kolmanskop is hardly recognizable after the desert swept in. Zacharias Lewala was working as a railway laborer in the harsh edges of the Namib desert in South-Western Africa. The region was 530 miles southwest of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, in a harsh and arid desert area that is now known as the “Sperrgebiet”, or Forbidden Zone....

Pro-removal groups argue that the monuments represent the city’s racist past while opponents claim that we can’t simply erase history. On Monday morning, the city of New Orleans took down the Battle of Liberty Place monument, the first of four Confederate memorials scheduled for removal following more than a year of debates and protests on the matter. At approximately 2 a.m. on Monday — under cover of darkness, outfitted with helmets and tactical vests, and covered by police snipers on nearby rooftops for protection — workers began removing the Battle of Liberty Place monument....

The turtle has since been euthanized, and now Robert Crosland is facing legal trouble. Salt Lake TribuneRobert Crosland, the teacher in question. The science teacher who made headlines earlier this year after feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of his students has been charged. Robert Crosland has been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty, which means he could face up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $5,000....

On February 25, 2000, Adnan Syed was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Syed was later sentenced to life in prison — despite the fact that there was no physical evidence. True crime has always had a sizable share of fans, but the genre’s modern pop-culture resurgence arguably began with Sarah Koenig’s Serial podcast in 2014, which explored the conviction of Adnan Syed for the perplexing murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999....

Often cast aside as boring, magnified sand opens up an incredible new and diverse world of the granules that compose our favorite destinations. Source: The Daily Mail Sand. For some, it conjures images of tropical beverages and pristine waters. For others, it’s little more than a ubiquitous pest. Either way, we seldom think of those little granules unless we’re surrounded by them. Source: Blogspot Source: Science Of Sand Source: Zzeretlekmagyarorszag...

Ancient Chinese dog sacrifices unearthed, oldest North American DNA found, dinosaur with bat-like wings discovered. Puppies Found In Ancient Chinese Tombs Were Used As Cheap Sacrifices, In Lieu Of Humans Archaeological Research in AsiaA sacrificial pit in Zhengzhou. Long ago, human and animal sacrifices were a predominant ritual in many cultures. Now, researchers have found that puppies as young as six months old were sacrificed and buried — sometimes alive — in human tombs during China’s ancient Shang Dynasty....

From azure caverns to crystal-bedded lakes, find your inner explorer with these 21 photos and facts about the world’s most incredible caves. At some point in their childhood, many people have gone on field trips to old mining tunnels, but only a lucky and adventurous few have ventured into the azure caverns and over the crystal-bedded subterranean lakes of the world’s most stunning caves. These places hold a visual bounty for explorers of all stripes, be they those who actually make the descent or those who prefer the safety of photographs....

From New York City’s most feared creature to an insect that can kill you with its feces, these house bugs are beyond horrifying. Public DomainA close up of a House Centipede. No matter what kind of home you live in; whether it’s an apartment, a house, or a tent in the woods, you’re not alone. The world has roughly 10 quintillion individual insects in it, which collectively outweigh the humans by a factor of 300, and more than a few of them live right in your home....

From flytraps to butterworts, these incredible carnivorous plants feed on everything from insects to mice to stay alive. As a way to cope with life in environments ridden with poor soil quality, carnivorous plants have evolved to supplement their diets with animal organisms. While most of these plants capture, kill and consume insects, some have been known to eat small rodents like mice. Here are five types of carnivorous plants that will leave your head spinning....

A 2008 study led by the Smithsonian Institute found that likely all the 13 life-size quartz crystal skulls are likely fakes. YoutubeThe legend of the crystal skulls started with the 1924 Mitchell-Hedges Skull, a.k.a. the “Skull of Doom.” In 1924, British adventurer Frederick Mitchell-Hedges led an expedition to Lubaantun, an ancient Mayan city deep within the Yucatan jungle in modern-day Belize. There inside a Mayan pyramid, his adopted daughter, Anna, found one of the most mysterious objects in archaeology: a crystal skull fashioned out of a single solid piece of clear quartz....

The teleocrater adds a new wrinkle into the story of how dinosaurs evolved. It’s long been assumed that the creatures who lived before dinosaurs looked fairly similar to their evolutionary successors. But new laser scan findings suggest that wasn’t the case. In fact, if you want to get an idea of the animals roaming the Earth 245 million years ago, you don’t have to go much further than the zoo....

The fossil is positioned in a way that suggests the entire skeleton may be preserved within the hill. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology/PA NewsThe dinosaur’s fossilized skin may be able to help scientists determine what hadrosaurs really looked like. A newly-discovered fossil, researchers say, could be an incredibly rare discovery: a complete hadrosaur skeleton. According to The National, the exposed fossil of the large, plant-eating, duck-billed species was found sticking out of a hillside at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada....

Known as the “Co-Ed Killer,” Edmund Kemper brutally murdered at least 10 people in California during the 1960s and ’70s. The signs were there from the beginning. As a boy, Edmund Kemper killed animals, decapitated his sisters’ dolls, and invented disgusting games. And at age 15, he even murdered his grandparents. But when Kemper later confessed to killing six female hitchhikers, as well as his mother and her best friend, the police didn’t believe him at first....

One-of-a-kind photos from El Colacho, the centuries-old Spanish festival in which men dressed as the devil leap over babies. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: La Tomatina Festival: Inside Spain’s Bizarre Tomato-Throwing Festival This Spanish Town Pelts A Monster With Turnips During The Jarramplas Festival 29 Astounding Images Of American Presidents As Young Men 1 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 2 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 3 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 4 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 5 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 6 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 7 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 8 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 9 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 10 of 28ESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 11 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 12 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 13 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 14 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 15 of 28GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images 16 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 17 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 18 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 19 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 20 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 21 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 22 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 23 of 28GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images 24 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 25 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/GettyImages 26 of 28CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images 27 of 28Denis Doyle/Getty Images 28 of 28Like this gallery?...

The skeleton was discovered in Pień, Poland with a sickle across her throat and a padlock on her toe. Miroslav Blicharski/AlexsanderDuring a time known as the “18th-Century Vampire Controversy,” superstition surrounding vampires peaked in Eastern Europe, leading to countless deaths and odd burials. Archaeologists working at a site near Pień, Poland recently unearthed a fascinating relic of 18th-century Eastern Europe’s vampire craze. In a small graveyard, they found a woman’s body that had been buried with a sickle placed across her neck and a padlock on the toe of her left foot....

Running out of options, J. Edgar Hoover turned to Gregory Scarpa for assistance in the infamous “Mississippi Burning” murder case. New York Daily News/Getty ImagesGregory Scarpa outside one of his homes on Staten Island. In 1964, the Ku Klux Klan, riding high on a string of murders, killed three civil rights workers in what would famously become known as the “Mississippi Burning” murders. The Klan buried their bodies in a dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi, sparking a nationwide man hunt....

Jacques Piccard stood behind his work, so much so that he took a seven-mile dive into the ocean in it. Wikimedia Commons Jacques Piccard was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1922 and studied at the University of Geneva. His father Auguste Piccard was an engineer and inventor whose early work focused primarily on helium balloon flights. Auguste twice held the record for the highest altitude ever reached by a man in a hot air balloon....