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Forged hoax of a furry trout displayed at Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, Ocean City, Maryland, USA. By Ryan Somma. Source: CC BY-SA 2.0.
13 JUN 2025 · 6 MIN

Something Fishy Going On: Rumors of the Furry Trouts

Things are gonna get quite fishy—or rather furry—in this most curious story time of an article. Let us first dive deep into the reflective waters of North America’s lakes and rivers where…

Zeus (Jupiter) observing the world of mortals from above, as eagles drive his chariot. By Flemish engraver Jan Sadeler I after Maarten de Vos. Circa 1585. Source: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
11 JUN 2025 · 8 MIN

When Zeus ‘Ate’ The Creator to Become Supreme God 

Zeus’s rise to ultimate power wasn’t just forged by thunderbolts and battles with Titans—it was an act of divine transcendence, rooted in an ancient Orphic tradition often overshadowed by Hesiod’s Theogony. Hesiod’s…

Manx National Heritage/Simon Park
3 JUN 2025 · 3 MIN

Rare Viking Gold Arm-Ring Discovered on Isle of Man

A metal detectorist’s sweep across a field on the Isle of Man uncovered a treasure that gleams with history: a 1,000-year-old Viking gold arm-ring, its eight gold rods expertly braided by a…

Underwater
26 MAY 2025 · 2 MIN

140,000-Year-Old Fossils Unearthed in Indonesia’s Madura Strait

Near Indonesia’s shores, in the deep Madura Strait, researchers have found evidence of an ancient civilization. Among the fragments of Homo erectus are also the bones of Komodo dragons, buffalo, deer and…

Tomb in Peru
24 MAY 2025 · 4 MIN

Chachapoya Tomb Unearths Ancient Rituals in Peru’s Kuélap

Archaeologists have made a big discovery high up in the foggy Andes of northern Peru. They found an old tomb in the style of a chulpa at the ancient city of Kuelap.…

Roman goddess of Victory
21 MAY 2025 · 2 MIN

Ancient Roman Victory Relief Found at Vindolanda Fort

On the windswept hills close to Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, at the Vindolanda fort, archaeologists have found a stone relief of Victoria, the goddess of victory. This sarcophagus, completed around AD…