Sixty ancient shipwrecks found in the Black Sea

Scientists who took part in an expedition of marine archaeology, called Black Sea Maritime Archaeological Project, have found ships used in antiquity at the bottom of the Black Sea. The wrecks, which include vessels from the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, were spotted by researchers who had been studying the effects of climate change along the coast of Bulgaria. "Some of the ships we discovered had only been seen on murals...

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The Ghost Of Dorothy Durant

In 1665, a bright 16-year-old schoolboy named Bligh suddenly became depressed and withdrawn. His friends, observing the change without being able to find the cause, attributed it to laziness, an aversion to school, or to some other motive which he was ashamed to avow. He was led, however, to tell his brother, after some time, that a ghost was troubling him. Twice a day, while walking to and from school through a field...

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550 million-year-old creature mystery solved

A Dickinsonia fossil was first described in 1947. Scientists believe that they have finally worked out what type of creature 'Dickinsonia' actually was. Resembling a strange cross between a fungus, a lichen, a worm and a jellyfish, this peculiar organism was first described back in 1947 and has remained something of an enigma ever since. Dickinsonia lived hundreds of millions of years ago on the sea floor and ranged in size...

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Mysterious Medieval grave on channel island puzzles archaeologists

Archaeologists excavating a historic religious retreat have found the grave of a medieval porpoise. The unusual discovery, was made after three weeks digging on the small island of Chapelle Dom Hue off the coast of Guernsey. ,  The team found evidence of a grave due to a change in the soil and unearthed a skull and other skeletal remains, but were left puzzled when it became clear they were not human. Quite why the...

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Bimini Road Bahamas

One of the most famous attraction in the Bahamas is Birmini road,an ancient underwater pathway discovered in 1930s.The mysterious path makes many wonder if it is remnants of the mythical lost land of Atlantis. The Road consists of a 0.8 km (0.50 mi)-long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular limestone blocks. Bimini is an island in the Bahamas, part of a chain of islands 50...

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Manananggal

An artist's rendering of Mananggal The Manananggal (sometimes confused with the Aswang) is a vampire-like cryptid creature of the Philippines, an evil, man-eating and blood-sucking monster.  Appearance: It is described as hideous, scary, (usually) female, and it is also capable of severing its upper torso and sprouting huge bat-like wings to fly into the night in search of its victims. The word manananggal comes from the Tagalog...

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Did the Babylonians invent Trigonometry?

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon The Ancient Babylonians had known about Pythagoras' theorem over 1,000 years before he was even born,academics in Australia say. The groundbreaking claim is based on a new analysis of a 3,700-year-old clay tablet known as 'Plimpton 322' which is inscribed with a demonstration of Babylonian mathematics. According to researchers at the University of New South Wales, the tablet shows a highly sophisticated...

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Tomb of 'China's Shakespeare' discovered

Many of Tang Xianzu's plays are still performed today.  The tomb of legendary Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu has been unearthed in Fuzhou. Famous for writing the popular Ming Dynasty play 'The Peony Pavilion', Tang is widely celebrated as one of China's most distinctive playwrights and has often been referred to as 'China's Shakespeare'. The precise location of his tomb had long remained something of a mystery, but now, following...

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