Zoomed in photograph of the dragon mummy. From the No. 47 Bulletin of Office of the Shōsōin Treasure House.

Hidden Identity of the ‘Dragon’ Mummy Revealed At Last

On this year 2025’s Father’s Day weekend, the film live adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon has dazzled audiences everywhere. The movie’s cutting-edge visual effects conjures the amazing imagery and magic of dragons, which in turn, has renewed peoples’ deep fascination for these mythic creatures with fresh hot energy. The film even soared to

The “epicenter” of Zapotec Guiengola, with the surrounding area being revealed by LiDAR as a vast walled city. Source: Cambridge University Press.

Mexican Zapotec “Fortress” Revealed by LiDAR as a Large City

A new study of a Zapotec site in Mexico may have finally revealed its purpose. A team using LiDAR to analyze the complex have revealed a large post-classical city. The site of Guiengola is well known to Mexican archaeologists. Built by the Zapotec, an indigenous pre-Columbian culture who lived in the Valley of Oaxaca in

The newly discovered pyramid in Sector F of the Chupacigarro settlement on the outskirts of the sacred city of Caral-Supe. Source: Ministry of Culture for Peru.

Pyramid Found in Peru May be Older than Ancient Egypt

A team of archaeologists and researchers have found something in the valley holding Peru’s, (and South America’s) oldest civilization. A new pyramid has been found in the Supe valley, home to the truly ancient Caral culture, and it may be older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. The Caral were among the very first civilizations

The route traced by the central tunnel of the Incan labyrinth, which links Coricancha, the Temple of the Sun, to the Incan fortress of Sacsayhuaman. Inset, Jorge Calero and Mildred Fernández who found the tunnel, using centuries-old clues. Source: Lima Gris.

Hidden Incan Labyrinth Discovered Under Peruvian City of Cusco

Something long rumored but hitherto unknown has been found in the heart of the Incan empire. For centuries stories existed of a secret tunnel network, an Incan labyrinth underneath their mountain capital of Cusco. Now, archaeologists Jorge Calero and Mildred Fernández have announced that they have turned rumor into reality. Using ground penetrating radar they

The Oxus statue has been tentatively described as a “monster with trumpet” but the truth is we know almost nothing about this lost civilization. Source: PHGCOM / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Oxus Civilization, the Kingdom that Vanished

The high Bronze Age saw the first emergence of complex cultures. Successive innovations in agriculture had produced a food surplus, perhaps the first meaningful one in history, and these foodstuffs could support the first cities. These complex urban centers appeared in four different places, developing alongside each other essentially at the same time along what

A smaller example of a vimana known as “Pushpaka” (Tej Kumar Book Depo / Public Domain)

Vimana: Ancient Hindu Flying Machines Hidden in Plain Sight?

Those who go looking for evidence of UFOs will often end up finding what they are looking for. In a world filled with recording devices anyone with an inbuild bias towards the presence of unknown flying objects will find plenty of shaky footage which cannot be easily explained, and so therefore must be aliens. In