The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, is a 1,600-year-old jade-green Roman chalice that changes color depending on the direction of the light falling upon it. The glass chalice had baffled scientists ever since its acquisition by the British Museum in the 1950s….
1,600-Year-Old Ancient Roman Goblet Shows Evidence of Nanotechnology That Causes Cup to Miraculously Change Color
Thrift Store Employee Stumbles On Ultra-Vintage Leather Jacket Dating Back to Red River Natives in 1800s Canada
Experts in vintage clothing at a UK thrift store stumbled on an amazing discovery in a shipment: a handmade, hand-embroidered leather jacket believed to have ties to indigenous Red River Canada. Alice Leadbetter, head of marketing at Glass Onion vintage store in South Yorkshire, told The Epoch Times, “When I held the jacket I was…
This 800-Year-Old Castle Built in a Cave on a 400-Foot Cliff Was Totally Untouchable—Until This Happened
Nestled in the mouth of a yawning cave, halfway up a steep, 400-foot cliff in southwest Slovenia, Predjama Castle once stood an impregnable fortress before an invading army of the Hapsburgs. The 800-year-old structure, so local legend goes, was once occupied by a renegade robber knight named Erasmus, who met his unceremonious end while doing…
Weather Photographer of the Year 2022: Spectacular Photos Celebrate Nature’s Mystic Moods
November 2, 2022
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In response to thousands of entries from 119 different countries, judges from the Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) have announced the 2022 winners of its annual Weather Photographer of the Year competition, and the images are nothing short of breathtaking. This was the RMS’s 7th edition of the competition and the winners were awarded the cash prizes…
Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2022 Shortlist Revealed: Kung Fu Squirrels, Monkeys ‘Doing CPR,’ and More
There’s nothing like the wild antics of animals to make us crack a smile and laugh. Featured here are some of the funniest comedian creatures caught on camera—in our books at least—to hopefully make your day. Wildlife photographers from across the globe have gone to great lengths to bring you: a monkey apparently performing CPR…
Woman Nearly Dies From Cancer, Sees Scenes Outside Her Body, Returns—And is Miraculously Cured
On Feb. 2, 2006, Anita Moorjani lay in the intensive care unit of a hospital in her home city of Hong Kong. She was in a coma. Her eyes were swollen shut, and her breathing was labored. With open lesions dotting her skin, massively enlarged lymph nodes, and organs failing, her frail body had been…
Lead Into Gold: How the Ancient Quest of Alchemy Sprang Up in Egypt, China, India in Parallel
It is evident that congruent quests unfolded in tandem in ancient India, China, and Egypt thousands of years ago. These civilizations all sought to transform lead or other elements into gold and attain immortality by manipulating and purifying myriad types of matter. Though their aims and procedures correspond in interesting ways, their specific alchemical procedures…
4 Women Depart UK for Antarctic to Run World’s Most Remote Post Office—and Count Penguins—for Winter
An all-female team of four is getting ready to travel 9,000 miles from England to Antarctica on a mission to reopen the world’s most southerly, and most remote, post office and museum. Besting 4,000 other candidates for the coveted posts, the women will station at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula, a historic…
Did Ancient Peoples Really Live Longer Than 200 Years? Moses, the Taoist Masters, and Many Others May Have
It isn’t just biblical figures who were said to have lived to the seasoned age of 900 or older. Ancient texts across many cultures attest to lifespans most modern people would find impossible to fathom. Some claim this to be a mistranslation or that the numbers are allegorical—but contrary to the naysayers, some historians have…
First-Ever Election Day Total Lunar Eclipse to Rise in US on November 8—And It Won’t Happen Again Until 2394
For the first time in American history, a total lunar eclipse will occur on election day come November 8, 2022. A total lunar eclipse—not to be confused with a partial or penumbral lunar eclipse—occurs when the entire lunar sphere is blocked out by the Earth’s shadow. This happens about twice a year on average, but…
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