Author: Daniel Tom

Ankhesenamun was born around 1348 BC, during the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty and fourth year of the гeіɡп of her father Akhenaten. The greatest and best sources that we have about her life are various гeɩіef and paintings, mostly depicting not her гeіɡп but the гeіɡп of her parents. tһгoᴜɡһoᴜt the queen’s life, Egypt was, uncharacteristically, a…

One of the most magnificent and valuable ancient treasures of its time is the Bactrian Hoard. Discovered in the graves belonging to six wealthy Asian nomads, five women, and one man, the 2,000-year-old Bactrian treasure consists of more than 20,000 objects, including golden rings, coins, weарoпѕ, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, weарoпѕ, and crowns. These beautiful ancient…

Astronomers have finally confirmed the status of asteroid 2020 XL5, discovered in 2020, as the second near-Earth Trojan. It was captured by the Earth 600 years ago and will be with our planet for another 4,000 years. It is more than one kilometer in diameter – it is larger than the first Trojan asteroid, whose…

The Beechcraft Starship 2000 was the epitome of luxury personal transport for the wealthy. An extremely beautiful design that ultimately failed. This is now a very rare aircraft and you’d be lucky to see one in person in your lifetime.   Design and Background The usual Starship was to be a successor to the King…

In ancient Greek mythology, Medusa is the most famous of three monstrous sisters known as the Gorgons. The earliest known record about the story of Medusa and the Gorgons can be found in Hesiod’s Theogony. According to this ancient author, the three sisters, Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa, were the children of Phorcys and Ceto and lived…

Dan Brown wrote The Da Vinci Code, inspired by Henry Lincoln and his two co-authors’ The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail . The Norwegian researcher Harald Boehlke was inspired by the same book. Lincoln’s tantalizing bait was religion and sacred geometry—specially the sacred pentagram. In the opening scene of The Da Vinci Code, Dan…

Scientists find proof of previous universes in the night sky, namely the leftovers of black holes from a previous universe. According to New Scientist, the concept is based on something known as conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC). What it means is that our universe, rather than beginning with a single Big Bang, goes through continual cycles of…

In a galaxy next to our Milky Way, astronomers have discovered what they are calling a cosmic “needle in a haystack” – a dormant black hole that seems to have been formed without the explosion of a dead star. Researchers said on Monday that this black hole differs from all others known in that it…

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the brother of Zeus, the sky god and chief deity of ancient Greece, and of Hades, the god of the underworld. When the three brothers deposed their father, the kingdom of the sea fell to Poseidon. Thus, he was the ruler of the sea and the sky, and therefore it…

Ever since they entered service in large numbers with different militaries in the 1940s-50s period, helicopters have been an indispensable tool of war and peace. Whether it is casualty evacuation, troop transport, disaster relief or airborne fire support; helicopters are at the centre of it all. The technology used in helicopters has grown to such…