Author: h0911

It’s hard to wrap your head around the fact that certain places and phenomenons on this Earth actually exist. They seem like something that would be more fitting from the set of a movie, and this place is no exception! This place is the Darvaza Crater, which is located in Turkmenistan. It’s nicknamed the Door To Hell, and you’ll understand why once you see a few pictures of this phenomenon. It definitely looks like some sort of Hell on Earth. This massive crater is located in the middle of the Karakum Desert which takes up approximately 70% of Turkmenistan. The…

Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of killing her babies. One scientist suspected the real culprit was mutant DNA—and went on a tireless quest to prove it. ​​On a Wednesday morning in August of 2018, Carola Garcia de Vinuesa was on her feet at a paper-strewn standing desk in her light-filled office in Canberra when the phone rang. The caller was a former student in the immunology department at the Australian National University, where Vinuesa worked. She hadn’t known him well, but she knew he was bright. And he had a story to tell. In the span of 10 years, he told…

Whale-sized shonisaurs dominated the ocean 230 million years ago. A fossil cluster offers a fascinating glimpse at how they lived—based on where they died.COURTESY OF GABRIEL UGUETO/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE BERLIN, NEVADA, IS a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound collection of bones hints at an even richer past. The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is teeming with dozens of fossils of ancient marine reptiles. That bone bed is so abundant and weird that researchers have been scratching their heads over it for decades. “There are sites with way more dense occurrences of ichthyosaur skeletons,…

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a cache of treasures—including more than 50 wooden sarcophagi, a funerary temple dedicated to an Old Kingdom queen and a 13-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll—at the Saqqara necropolis, a vast burial ground south of Cairo, according to a statement from the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiques. A 13-foot-long (4 meters) copy of chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead was found in the burial shafts. The name of the papyrus’s owner Pwkhaef is written on it. The Book of the Dead helped guide the deceased through the afterlife. As first reported by Al-Ahram,…

Inside a Buddha statue that is dated back to the 11th or 12th century, there is an impressive secret. There are mummified remains of a monk inside the statue. Erik Bruijn, a Buddhism expert, led a study that determined the mummy belonged to a Buddhist master named Liuquan. He is believed to have belonged to the Chinese Meditation School. The CT scan and endoscopy of the mummified Buddha were carried out by Drents Museum at Meander Medical Centre in the Netherlands. While they knew there was definitely a body inside, they had no idea that the organs had been removed…