Recently, an article published on Alessandria Today titled "The Discovery of Nyx: A Lost Civilization in the Heart of Antarctica" gained a lot of attention. According to this article, a civilization called Nyx existed more than 12,000 years ago in Antarctica, which was supposedly habitable before being covered by ice. But how credible is this...
"The Origin of Humans is in Europe, Not Africa.
Since 1939 new investigations at Grotta Guattari, a coastal cave in central Italy, have yielded an almost complete skull and other Neanderthal remains, including 40 attributed to Neanderthals. The innermost and untouched cave deposits have yielded an outstanding amount of mammal bones, including large portions of cranial remains, marking a...
Can you imagine finding the 150,000- to 170,000-year-old bones of animals that lived Ilirksa Bistrica before the last ice age in a cave just a few meters long in the middle of a cliff face? Say a rhinoceros, a red wolf, a porcupine, a marmot... What's more, we could also get hold of tools used by Neanderthals. And to make...
A left femur diaphysis, resembling a bone flute, was discovered in 1995 in the Palaeolithic cave site of Divje babe in Slovenia. The discovery led to two possible explanations: an artefact or a pseudo-artefact. The main surprise was its attribution to Mousterian culture, i.e., Neanderthals, indicating the existence of musical behavior long before...
Nestled in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, Denisova Cave stands as a beacon for humanity's past. For over 200,000 years, this site hosted not one but three significant human groups—Denisovans, Neanderthals, and modern humans—making it a singularly unique location in the study of human evolution. Research led by German scientists from the...
Discovered between 1994 and 1998 in an open-pit lignite mine in Schöningen, Germany, the Schöningen Spears stand as one of the most groundbreaking archaeological finds in human history. At approximately 300,000 years old, these are the oldest completely preserved wooden spears ever uncovered. Crafted from spruce and pine wood, they exhibit...