Author: Daniel Tom

Cairo — Egyptian archaeologists have revealed another massive haul of priceless artifacts from the Saqqara Necropolis, a bountiful site near Cairo that likely still holds untold secrets. On display Monday were dozens of newly-discovered, beautifully decorated coffins or sarcophagi, still sealed up with their owners mummified inside, along with dozens of bronze statues. Monday’s big reveal,…

Even just in the Milky Way galaxy, there are more than 300 million exoplanets that could have life on them. This means that 300 million planets are likely to have the right conditions for life, even life with a lot of complexity, to grow on their surfaces. Are there no other people in the universe?…

Turkish drone maker Baykar is planning to complete the construction of its manufacturing plant in Ukraine in two years, its chief executive Its Bayraktar TB2 drone gained so much prominence with the public that Ukrainians composed a song about it and some allies launched unprecedented crowdfunded campaigns to buy more.   After the company became…

Image is of an SR-71 Spy Plane, the only plane that came close to what the Avro 730 would have been like in terms of speed. Aahh, the dear old SR-71 Blackbird, subject of my first-ever article for 19FortyFive. Arguably the crowning achievement of aerospace engineering genius Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and his legendary Skunk Works…

A clever way to find a previously overlooked population of dwarf galaxies could answer questions about how supermassive black holes grow so big.   In dwarf galaxies, the light of young stars competes with the emission from a growing black hole.Original image by NASA & ESA/Hubble, artistic conception of black hole with jet by M.…

Airmen from the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron and soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment unload two AH-64 Apache helicopters from a C-17 Globemaster III. AiirSource covers events and missions from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. / /   Video

Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BC containing the oldest golden artifacts ever discovered near the modern-day city of Varna. But it was not until they reached grave 43 that they realized the real…

Queen Nefertiti was the most powerful woman of her time and one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious historical people. There is still much we don’t know about her and her sudden disappearance after being elevated to near-equal status by King Akhenaten. As previously mentioned on Ancient Pages, Queen Nefertiti was of the eighteenth dynasty, fourteenth…

Israel’s Merkava is Simply the Best… and Even in a Museum – Often described as one of the absolute best tanks in the world, the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF’s) Merkava IV is the latest in a series of main battle tanks (MBTs) that were first developed for the IDF in the 1970s, and which remain the backbone of…

On October 24, 1946, the first image of the Earth could be taken. For this, a camera mounted on the rocket that belonged to the German arsenal during World War II was used. The V2 rocket used was the 13th launch of a US space project, in which they replaced the explosive warheads of several…