May 24, 2012

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Possible New Lead in Peking Man Fossil Mystery

Peking Man Skull (replica) presented at Paleozoological Museum of China

The memories of a World War II-era Marine have renewed hopes of solving one of the greatest archaeological mysteries — the whereabouts of the lost Peking Man fossils, international scientists said.

Where did Columbus land?

Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus

Almost from Day One, however, there has been debate on where that first footprint was made. Nobody has been able to decisively say which island in the Bahamas was the site that ended Columbus’s failed quest for a route to Asia.

What Protected The Tomb Of Tutankhamun From The Time Of His Death Until The Discovery In 1922?

Painted walls in the burial chamber.

The actual location of the tomb in the Valley could be considered to be one of the most remote and uninviting places in all of Egypt. Doubtless these factors were taken into consideration when it began to be used for burials in the first place.

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The USS Scorpion

Taken by an employee of the U.S. Department of Defense uploaded from Wikimedia Commons

The Scorpion was discovered by a naval oceanographic research ship called the MIZAR (T-AGOR11). Parts of her broken hull were photographed in 10,000 plus feet of water, roughly 400 miles southwest of the Azores.