A Byzantine-era shipwreck found off the shore of Israel, loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean, reveals that traders from the West came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, researchers say. A surprise storm? An inexperienced captain? Whatever the reason, the merchant ship, made from fir and walnut trees…
Divers Discover 1,200-Year-Old Byzantine Shipwreck Loaded With Cargo From All Over the Mediterranean
PREMIERING NOW: The Road to the Revolution | The American Story Episode 6
Events such as the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, and many other things led to increasing levels of dissatisfaction in the colonies with English rule. Fundamentally, the king and Parliament began undermining the longstanding rights and liberties of the American colonists. This tension eventually led to the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party,…
The Road to the Revolution | The American Story Episode 6
Events such as the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, and many other things led to increasing levels of dissatisfaction in the colonies with English rule. Fundamentally, the king and Parliament began undermining the longstanding rights and liberties of the American colonists. This tension eventually led to the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party,…
Meditators’ Mental Training Can Cause Mind-Over-Matter Quantum Events Exceeding Non-Meditators’ Ability
Quantum physics confronts the would-be discoverer with one of the most enduring conundrums modern science has to offer, what renowned physicist Richard Feynman described as “the only mystery.” The name it has been given—the double-slit experiment—sounds far simpler that its enigma. This experiment has been made more mysterious now with research revealing a strange connection between…
Meditators’ Mental Training Can Cause Mind-Over-Matter Quantum Events Beyond Non-Meditators’ Ability
Quantum physics confronts the would-be discoverer with one of the most enduring conundrums modern science has to offer, what renowned physicist Richard Feynman described as “the only mystery.” The name it has been given—the double-slit experiment—sounds far simpler that its enigma. This experiment has been made more mysterious now with research revealing a strange connection between…
Victims of 9/11 Foresaw in Dreams, Planned for Own Death Days Ahead of Attacks; Others Precognize Disaster
Reports of precognition and other kinds of extrasensory perception are common around major events in human history, the ones that really resound through the collective psyche—two world wars, 9/11, natural disasters. Oftentimes the visions foretelling the future disaster come in dreams; other times phenomena can manifest while the person is awake at the exact time…
Farmer Discovers ‘Exceptional’ Byzantine-Era Mosaic in Gaza Featuring Beasts, Birds, Stunning Geometry
Last spring, a Palestinian farmer was planting a new olive tree when his shovel hit a hard object. He called his son, and for three months, the pair slowly excavated an ornate Byzantine-era mosaic that experts say is one of the greatest archaeological treasures ever found in Gaza. The discovery has set off excitement among…
Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 Winners Released—Contemplate Circle of Life and Death
September 22, 2022
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“Tour boats had been watching the young whale for days as it slowly moved through the bay, appearing sicker and slower with more shark bites over its body day after day.” The scene was visceral. While making its annual migration north along Ningaloo Reef off Australia’s northwest coast, the fledgling-adult humpback, maimed and ailing, inched…
Italian Council Paying People $15,000 to Come Live on This Balmy, Beautiful Island in the Mediterranean
If life on a balmy island in the Mediterranean sounds enticing, the region of Sardinia is looking to lure new neighbors to come live there—and they’re paying you to move in. To curtail a dwindling population, the second largest island in the Mediterranean, next to Sicily, has earmarked 45 million euros for people buying or…
Soldiers Exhume 1,500-Year-Old Byzantine Convent With Breathtaking Mosaic Floor in Military Zone in Israel
A decades-old discovery of ruins of biblical significance was re-excavated this past summer, after being reburied once previously, in a joint Israeli military-antiquities conservation undertaking. Twenty years ago, a pair of Israeli researchers unearthed an ancient ecclesiastical site at Horbat Hani, in the foothills east of the then fledgling upscale settlement of Soham. Located here…
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