No need to hit us on the head with the Pope hammer – we’re alive and posting news briefs in 2023!
- Egypt may have the Pyramids of Giza, but Iraq has the Ziggurat of Ur – an incredibly well-preserved engineering achievement that towers over the ruins of an important ancient city.
- Denying the past? Ohio History Connection under scrutiny for banning Graham Hancock from Serpent Mound.
- Archaeologists find 15,700-year-old stone projectiles in Idaho, possibly rewriting how, and when, Ice Age humans in Asia and the Americas interacted.
- Shrinking pollinator populations could be killing 427,000 people per year.
- If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?
- Was Earth terraformed by Martians?
- A drug to treat aging may not be a pipe dream.
- Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment, brain scientists say.
- Tourists evacuated from ancient site of Petra after flash flooding.
- Image(s) of the Day: Satellite views of the Egyptian pyramids, Nile, Cairo and Suez.
Quote of the Day:
A worthy New Year’s resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose.
Robert Brault