The strange, striking relics unearthed at China's famed Sanxingdui site have long invited wild speculation, with some fringe forums and tabloids even floating the idea of alien artifacts. A newly confirmed discovery from the site won't settle those rumors — because in a very literal sense, part of it really did come from outer space. A Mysterious Object From Pit No. … [Read more...] about Archaeologists Found an Ancient Weapon Not of This Earth
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A Bizarre Discovery Has Revealed the Secrets of the Roman Empire’s Most Shocking Spectacle
Long before a lion ever roared inside a Roman amphitheater, an entire military and legal apparatus had already spent weeks moving it across the empire — and a new study of Roman law is the first to map out how that system actually worked. A Legal Trail Historians Had Overlooked Rosa MarÃa Carreño Sánchez, a researcher at the Lucio Anneo Séneca Institute of Classical … [Read more...] about A Bizarre Discovery Has Revealed the Secrets of the Roman Empire’s Most Shocking Spectacle
The World War I Shelter Hidden in the Cliffs of Monte Cristallo
High on the vertical rock faces of Monte Cristallo, in Italy's Ampezzo Dolomites, sits one of the most improbable buildings in the Alps: a small stone-and-timber shelter wedged directly into the cliff at roughly 2,760 meters (about 9,050 feet). Known today as the Buffa di Perrero bivouac, it dates back to World War I, when Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops fought one another … [Read more...] about The World War I Shelter Hidden in the Cliffs of Monte Cristallo