8,000 Year Old Civilization on Konkan Coast, India?
Are these man-made structures — walls? Did the coastline of the Konkan, from Shrivardhan in Raigad to Vengurla in Sindhudurg, have human habitation around 8,000 years ago? Did that population have well-developed engineering skills? Was [...]
3,500-year mummy is oldest heart disease case
An Egyptian princess who lived 3,500 years ago is thought to be the first known person to have had heart disease, say experts.
An international team, which analysed the remains of 52 mummies, including that of the princess, claims that she would [...]
Of love and longing for India: a French woman’s journey
Christelle Gourdine, a French national of Guadeloupean and Indian origin, has been fascinated by her Indian roots for many years. But she is surprised and saddened that not many know about the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe’s Indian connection.
Christelle [...]
Calif. utility stumbles on 1.4M years old fossils
A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in Southern California’s [...]
Mallory ‘reached Mt Everest before Edmund Hillary’
Climbers have for decades wondered whether British national George Mallory did reach the summit of Mount Everest with his partner Sandy Irvine in 1929, almost 25 years before Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing.
Now, it seems that the Mount Everest’s [...]
Parched English fields reveal ancient sites
The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside.
From Roman forts to Neolithic settlements and military [...]
Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt’s resorts
Today, it’s a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt’s wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on [...]
Top man-made ecological disasters
10 worst man-made disasters
Chernobyl, Russia: Nuclear power plant explosion
What has come to be acknowledged as the worst ever nuclear power plant accident in history, happened on the 26th of April in 1986 when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant, [...]
Is this UK’s oldest home?
Very Original Features: Is This UK’s Oldest Home? Lake views, period details _ archaeologists uncover UK’s oldest home built 11,000 years ago.
Archaeologists have uncovered the site of Britain’s oldest house, the waterside [...]
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks
Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico’s barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.
The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian shell midden mounds, World [...]
