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An Old Watercolor Purchased For $200 At An Estate Sale Turns Out To Be A Lost Salvador Dalí Worth Up To $40,000

An antiques dealer stumbled upon the watercolor at a house clearance sale in Cambridge, England — and his hunch that it was a lost Salvador Dalí was just proven true.

By Ainsley Brown • Aug 4, 2025

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An Old Watercolor Purchased For $200 At An Estate Sale Turns Out To Be A Lost Salvador Dalí Worth Up To $40,000

An antiques dealer stumbled upon the watercolor at a house clearance sale in Cambridge, England — and his hunch that it was a lost Salvador Dalí was just proven true.

By Ainsley Brown • August 4, 2025

Elephant Bird: The Extinct 1,700-Pound Creature From Madagascar That Was The Largest Bird To Ever Live

Before they died out roughly 1,000 years ago, elephant birds could grow up to 10 feet tall and laid the largest eggs ever documented.

By Bernadette Giacomazzo • Aug 3, 2025

Elephant Bird: The Extinct 1,700-Pound Creature From Madagascar That Was The Largest Bird To Ever Live

Before they died out roughly 1,000 years ago, elephant birds could grow up to 10 feet tall and laid the largest eggs ever documented.

By Bernadette Giacomazzo • August 3, 2025

Scientists In Australia Just Discovered A New Giant Stick Insect That’s 15 Inches Long And Weighs Almost As Much As A Golf Ball

In the high-altitude Australian rainforest, researchers identified a new species dubbed Acrophylla alta — and it may be the country's heaviest insect.

By Austin Harvey • Aug 1, 2025

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Scientists In Australia Just Discovered A New Giant Stick Insect That’s 15 Inches Long And Weighs Almost As Much As A Golf Ball

In the high-altitude Australian rainforest, researchers identified a new species dubbed Acrophylla alta — and it may be the country's heaviest insect.

By Austin Harvey • August 1, 2025

An Archaeology Student Digging In The Scottish Isles Just Found A Stone Head From The Viking Era

Archaeology student Katie Joss found the 900-year-old carving at the historic Skaill Farm settlement on Rousay, one of Scotland's Orkney Islands that's known as the "Egypt of the north" due to its wealth of centuries-old treasures.

By Ainsley Brown • Aug 1, 2025

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An Archaeology Student Digging In The Scottish Isles Just Found A Stone Head From The Viking Era

Archaeology student Katie Joss found the 900-year-old carving at the historic Skaill Farm settlement on Rousay, one of Scotland's Orkney Islands that's known as the "Egypt of the north" due to its wealth of centuries-old treasures.

By Ainsley Brown • August 1, 2025

Archaeologists Unearth A 5,500-Year-Old Canaanite Blade Workshop In Southern Israel

"Only exceptional individuals knew how to produce the Canaanite blades. This is clear evidence that already at the onset of the Bronze Age, the local society here was organized and complex, and had professional specialization."

By Kaleena Fraga • Aug 1, 2025

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Archaeologists Unearth A 5,500-Year-Old Canaanite Blade Workshop In Southern Israel

"Only exceptional individuals knew how to produce the Canaanite blades. This is clear evidence that already at the onset of the Bronze Age, the local society here was organized and complex, and had professional specialization."

By Kaleena Fraga • August 1, 2025

Paleontologists Just Identified A Previously Unknown 95-Million-Year-Old Plant-Eating Dinosaur

After a chance oil discovery in 2017, excavations revealed the 95-million-year-old bones of a dinosaur dubbed Astigmasaura genuflexa.

By Austin Harvey • Jul 31, 2025

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Paleontologists Just Identified A Previously Unknown 95-Million-Year-Old Plant-Eating Dinosaur

After a chance oil discovery in 2017, excavations revealed the 95-million-year-old bones of a dinosaur dubbed Astigmasaura genuflexa.

By Austin Harvey • July 31, 2025

Archaeology Students In Missouri Just Uncovered An Historic Pioneer Homestead That Was Built In The 1830s

In some of their final days of excavation at a Springfield dig site, these 20 undergrads helped unearth the foundation of the William Townsend house, a pioneer home built upon his arrival in the area in 1832.

By Ainsley Brown • Jul 31, 2025

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Archaeology Students In Missouri Just Uncovered An Historic Pioneer Homestead That Was Built In The 1830s

In some of their final days of excavation at a Springfield dig site, these 20 undergrads helped unearth the foundation of the William Townsend house, a pioneer home built upon his arrival in the area in 1832.

By Ainsley Brown • July 31, 2025

A Pennsylvania Museum’s ‘Knockoff’ Rembrandt Painting Is Actually Authentic — And It May Be Worth Millions

When Portrait Of A Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, it was believed to be an original Rembrandt. A decade later, it was declared a forgery — but it may actually be authentic after all.

By Natasha Ishak • Jul 31, 2025

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A Pennsylvania Museum’s ‘Knockoff’ Rembrandt Painting Is Actually Authentic — And It May Be Worth Millions

When Portrait Of A Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, it was believed to be an original Rembrandt. A decade later, it was declared a forgery — but it may actually be authentic after all.

By Natasha Ishak • July 31, 2025

A Signature Made By Moses May Have Just Been Uncovered Among 3,800-Year-Old Inscriptions In Egypt

Independent researcher Michael S. Bar-Ron claims to have found the Proto-Sinaitic signature of Moses at the site of an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine on the Sinai Peninsula.

By Austin Harvey • Jul 29, 2025

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A Signature Made By Moses May Have Just Been Uncovered Among 3,800-Year-Old Inscriptions In Egypt

Independent researcher Michael S. Bar-Ron claims to have found the Proto-Sinaitic signature of Moses at the site of an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine on the Sinai Peninsula.

By Austin Harvey • July 29, 2025

Puppies Found In Ancient Chinese Tombs Were Used As Sacrifices In Lieu Of Humans

"If it's not your puppy and if you're living in a society where you don't have the same assumptions of dogs and cuteness... it's a cheaper investment."

By Natasha Ishak • Jul 29, 2025

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Puppies Found In Ancient Chinese Tombs Were Used As Sacrifices In Lieu Of Humans

"If it's not your puppy and if you're living in a society where you don't have the same assumptions of dogs and cuteness... it's a cheaper investment."

By Natasha Ishak • July 29, 2025