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Lost Egyptian city unearthed, oldest 3D map of Europe found, Confederate monument stolen. Archaeologists Uncover Preserved 3,500-Year-Old City They’re Calling The ‘Egyptian Pompeii’ FacebookThe newly-uncovered “lost golden city of Luxor” found in central Egypt. For decades, the 1922 discovery of King Tut’s tomb has reigned as the most important find in all of Egyptology. But now, researchers have found something that rivals it. Archaeologists digging in Luxor recently found the stunningly-preserved remains of a 3,500-year-old city that’s the largest of its kind ever found....

Hidden World War II message uncovered, link between walruses and Vikings’ demise found, oldest Egyptian embalming recipe unearthed. Wildfires In Ireland Uncover World War II Message Hidden For 70 Years Garda Air Support Unit/Irish Air CorpsThe Éire 8 sign in Bray Head. A buried piece of World War II history has been rediscovered thanks to a wildfire that recently burned across Ireland’s eastern coast. The Air Support Unit of the Irish national police (Garda) was flying over Bray Head in County Wicklow in order to assess the damage from the wildfire when they came across the word “ÉIRE” etched into the ground in enormous letters....

Centuries-old stone may solve Lost Roanoke Colony mystery, new study says we didn’t all evolve from one population, unearthed ancient Egyptian sarcophagus contains unknown body. 430-Year-Old Mystery Of The Lost Colony Of Roanoke May Finally Be Solved Thanks To This Stone Brenau UniversityThis stone’s inscription may hold a message from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. “If this stone is real, it’s the most significant artifact in American history of early European settlement,” said Ed Schrader, a geologist and president of Brenau University in Georgia....

Longtime South African hunter Claude Kleynhans was loading a freshly-killed buffalo carcass onto his vehicle when another buffalo surprised him with a deadly charge. Claude Kleynhans/InstagramClaude Kleynhans poses with the body of an African buffalo. For more than 30 years, this trophy hunter killed the wildlife of South Africa. But now one of the animals he’s long hunted has sent him to his grave. On May 22, 54-year-old Claude Kleynhans and his hunting party shot and killed an African buffalo near the Levubu River in South Africa’s northern Limpopo Province....

An armed group took over federal land in Oregon in protest with dubious reasoning. Image Source: Twitter A cadre of white, armed Americans overtook an Oregon federal wildlife refuge on Saturday night. The group claims it is doing so to fight against the so-called tyranny of the federal government, adding that they are not opposed to inflicting violence if the situation calls for it. Militia leader Ryan Bundy went so far as to tell an Oregon paper that the group is prepared to “kill or be killed....

The 42-year-old New Yorker was nonetheless relieved to hear that she had a tapeworm instead of a malignant brain tumor. Mount Sinai Health SystemDoctors were initially convinced that it was a tumor on her left lobe which caused her symptoms. Only once her skull was opened did they find the real culprit. When Rachel Palma started to forget words and accidentally dropped coffee mugs on the floor, she knew something was terribly wrong....

Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its mass. AFP PHOTO/Black Sea MAP/EEF ExpeditionsEnhanced 3D imaging of the remains of the 2,400-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea. A team of European researchers has found a treasure trove of ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea, and one of them is now believed to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck....

Are you a book eater? Have you read all the American classics from Huckleberry Finn to the latest Jonathan Franzen novel? Do you cancel a night out to stay in because there’s no better company than a good book? If so, it’s time to start reading Hispanic literature — even if you have to read it in English. We’re not talking about Cervantes and his infamous Don Quixote here, but modern Hispanic authors you absolutely must add to your reading list....

History didn’t happen in black and white — experience one of the country’s greatest hardships in all its heartbreaking color. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 30 Great Depression Pictures Brought To Life In Stunning Color 55 Harrowing Photos Of The Great Depression In New York City Photos Of The Great Depression’s Forgotten Black Victims...

Scientists hope to use the DNA from a 12,000-year-old extinct cave lion cub, preserved in ice, to bring this extinct species back to life. Scientists hope to clone an extinct species of cave lions from the DNA of a 12,000-year-old cub. Whether you’re a fan of science fiction or not, the genre has a way of predicting the future. The Jetsons may have gotten flying cars wrong, but they did predict video phones....

Jonathan Crenshaw claims that he stabbed Cesar Coronado in self-defense. But Coronado paints an entirely different picture. Miami-Dade County JailJonathan Crenshaw Jonathan Crenshaw may not have any arms, but that didn’t stop him from stabbing a man. Just after midnight on July 10 in Miami Beach, Fla., the 46-year-old homeless assailant stabbed a tourist from Chicago with a pair of scissors — using his feet. Police found the victim, 22-year-old Cesar Coronado, lying on the ground and bleeding from his left arm (reportedly the only place he was stabbed)....

Doctors had to surgically remove two liters of poop when this man’s severe constapation proved to be life-threatening. BMJ Case ReportsThe patient’s abdomen scan showed he was suffering from a potentially life-threatening condition. A man from Melbourne, Australia nearly died because he was so constipated. The 57-year-old was rushed to a hospital in Victoria, Australia for emergency surgery after he was discovered to have some serious blockage. For three days, the man had been exhibiting common symptoms of constipation, including bloating, nausea, and abdominal pain....

Cops use less respectful language when speaking to black drivers than white drivers, a new Stanford study found using computer algorithms. Some have argued that the growing mountain of incidents suggesting ingrained racism within the United States police force are isolated events, hyped up and racialized by the media and liberal activists. A new, intensive study from Stanford University suggests otherwise. Using an impartial computer program that looked at word choice and sentence structure, they found that officers show more respect to white drivers than black drivers during traffic stops....

A New Jersey representative wants to know whether a Lyme disease outbreak in the ’50s and ’70s coincided with a government-sanctioned experiment gone awry, and has passed a bill to investigate. Wikimedia CommonsA bill has reignited a decades-old conspiracy theory regarding government-sanctioned experiments on ticks for biowarfare. As if the country wasn’t already descending into a state of science fiction, the House of Representatives has just quietly passed a bill requiring an investigation into whether the Pentagon weaponized ticks and other insects as biological weapons between the years of 1950 and 1975....

Police say he ran down an 80-year-old and fled the scene. But they didn’t have enough to charge him — until they saw him on the local news. Fox 25Phocian Fitts during his local news interview. The police didn’t have enough evidence to charge their chief suspect in a deadly hit-and-run. Then they saw him willingly admit his guilt without remorse on TV. On June 6 in Allston, Mass., 23-year-old local Phocian Fitts struck 80-year-old Theodore Schwalb as the elderly man made his way through a crosswalk, according to police....

This is the fourth reported sighting of a female anaconda squeezing her mate to death, but the first time it was caught on camera. A photographer in Brazil has captured the first ever photograph of a female green anaconda squeezing her mate to death. Luciano Candisani got more than he bargained for while hunting large snakes in the swamplands of Brazil — a photograph of a mating ritual gone horribly wrong for the male....

Researchers found bones and skulls from 8,000 years ago in a burial ritual that they don’t understand themselves. Sara Gummesson/Antiquity 2018One of the 8,000-year-old skulls found in Sweden. A routine archeologist survey in Sweden has resulted in the discovery of 8,000-year-old bones, skulls, and questions that likely aren’t going to be answered. Before the construction of a new railroad and bridge began, archeologists were brought in to the Kanaljorden site in eastern-central Sweden to search for any artifacts in the area....

Investigators later found that brothers Carlos and Ismael Almada had bought night-vision goggles, grenade launchers, and more for the vicious cartel. TwitterWeapons seized from the New Generation cartel. On eBay, buyers often hunt for hard-to-find items. Ismael Almada was one of them. Except that he was searching for military-grade weapons and accessories — and they weren’t for fun or sport. Almada and his brother, Carlos, used over 50 PayPal accounts to avoid suspicion....

Consisting of the decades before the Civil War, the Antebellum Era was a complicated time period in American history largely defined by brutal slavery in the South. The Antebellum Period was a time of tremendous economic growth in America thanks to the agricultural dominance in the South and the textile booms in the North. But this wealth was largely powered by the suffering of millions of enslaved African Americans who endured torture at the hands of white slaveholders, especially in the Deep South....

The Islamic State will lose Mosul in the coming days, the Pentagon confirmed. This victory, Iraqi government claims, means the end of ISIS. In 2014, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (who Russia claims to have killed in airstrikes on Syria last month) stood in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and stamped it as territory of the ISIS caliphate. Now, that mosque is destroyed, the city of Mosul surrounding it lays in rubble, and the Iraqi government has declared victory over the terrorist group....