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Remote islanders invented binary number system before famous mathematician
Mangareva is home to just 2,000 inhabitants. The island is a tiny 18 square kilometres and is located halfway between Easter Island and Tahiti. Yet on this small, remote island, the ancient inhabitants were more mathematically advanced than the rest of Europe when they invented a numerical system for trading.
aprilholloway - 17/12/2013 - 04:03
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8,000-year-old "Brunstad Man" Stone Age Skeleton May be Oldest Ever Found in Norway
... site were recorded painstakingly in order to create a 3-D computer model of the area. Archeologists dig at Stokke ...
lizleafloor - 19/02/2015 - 00:49
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600-Year-Old Royal Ship of Henry V Found Buried in Hampshire River
A wooden shipwreck believed to be one of King Henry V’s greatest ships has been tentatively identified in the River Hamble in southern England. The 600-year-old warship, known as the Holigost (Holy Ghost) was commission by the king in his war against France.
aprilholloway - 12/10/2015 - 21:46
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The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
... Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, ...
ancient-origins - 14/10/2017 - 00:32
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I.F.O. Flying Objects Identified?
... by Dr. Roberto Volterri is a real manual that, through computer technology, will try to reveal the nature of ancient ...
ancient-origins - 29/06/2019 - 04:38
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Battle Reenactors Slashing Criminals and Innocents
... battle ax . On Wednesday night, Ben Ball , 36, was playing computer games and relaxing in his Michigan apartment, when ...
ashley cowie - 12/11/2019 - 13:57
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What Did Ancient Egypt Really Look Like? A Visual Tour (Video)
... in time and see it for ourselves? Thanks to amazing new computer models the past is being brought back to life. The ...
Robbie Mitchell - 27/04/2023 - 20:53
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Early humans probably walked in a different way
... than what was initially thought. Using sophisticated computer algorithms and models as well as live data from ...
ancient-origins - 23/03/2013 - 15:59
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Milky Way may contain 60 billion habitable planets
... team of scientists came to this conclusion after extensive computer simulations of cloud behaviour on the planets ...
aprilholloway - 07/07/2013 - 02:04
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New form of matter created by scientists using light
When we talk about matter we normally have in our minds something of substance that we can touch and hold. However, scientists at Harvard and MIT have questioned our beliefs about matter and the way we perceive light by discovering a way in which photons (a particle representing a quantum of light) can be used to form molecules.
johnblack - 28/09/2013 - 04:38
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Scans Reveal Archangel Michael Tattoo on Mummy's Thigh
In 2014, a team of scientists in London carried out high-tech scanning on eight Egyptian mummies from the British Museum, uncovering fascinating information about them, including the revelation that one of the female mummies apparently has a tattoo symbolizing Archangel Michael on her inner thigh.
Joanna Gillan - 09/12/2019 - 17:58
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More than fifty ancient Greek inventions brought to life through incredible reconstructions
... of Heron, ancient war machines, and the famous analogue ‘computer’ of Antikythera, covering the period from 2,000 BC ...
aprilholloway - 04/08/2014 - 22:51
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560,000-year-old tooth found by student may be one of the oldest human remains in France
... the excavation. It was then examined with the aid of a computer and subsequently sent to a laboratory. The tooth is ...
Robin Whitlock - 29/07/2015 - 21:29
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Library in Stone: The Ica Stones of Professor Cabrera – Part II
... development from the primitive single cell organism to the computer expert. The visitor can thus retrace the mechanism ...
WalterJoergLangbein - 12/09/2016 - 21:50
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
... oceans. Guided by cutting-edge science, innovative computer-mapping techniques, and the latest archaeological ...
ancient-origins - 28/09/2019 - 15:06
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Irish Sporting Games: A Big Event 1,000 Years Before Greek Olympics
Like in Greece, pre-historic Irish history was threaded together with tales of giants, gods and goddesses battling for supremacy over earth, and humans. But did you know it was the latter, not the former, that gave birth to the first organized sporting games? The Greeks are credited with inventing the shower, automatic doors, computers, cartography, and sports stadiums. However, what they are not getting any longer is a shred of credit for having created the first sporting games. That gold medal goes to Ireland.
ashley cowie - 11/08/2021 - 15:00
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Scientists unravel mystery spinal condition of King Richard III
... at the University of Leicester, created both physical and computer-generated replicas of the king’s spine by ...
aprilholloway - 31/05/2014 - 03:33
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Stone Age Enlightenment & Sacred Numbers in Megalithic Monuments
... a development engineer with degrees in systems science and computer-aided design. After decades of technical and ...
ancient-origins - 13/08/2018 - 18:10
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Roman Mosaic Depicting The Iliad Discovered in “Oh Wow Moment”
... a very clear crop mark, as if someone had drawn on my computer screen with a piece of chalk! This really was the ...
Sahir - 27/11/2021 - 13:57
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5,000-Year-Old Deer Carvings Discovered In A First for Scotland!
... Curious Case of the Rocky Valley Labyrinths ‘Unbiased’ Computer Software Learns To Decipher Australian Rock Art The ...
ashley cowie - 01/06/2021 - 14:49