The dinosaur eggs, mainly classified as Placoolithus tumiaolingensis, are about 85 million years old, meaning they were laid around a time when the global climate was changing. The post Researchers In China Just Directly Dated Dinosaur Eggs For The First Time Ever — And They Could Reveal New Insights About The Cretaceous Period appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Archaeologists have made a revealing discovery at the ancient Sogdian palace of Sanjar-Shah in Tajikistan, uncovering fragments of a unique mural depicting priests performing an elaborate fire worship ceremony. This remarkable find provides unprecedented insights into religious practices along the Silk Road and represents the first known depiction of Sogdian fire worship outside funerary contexts. The extraordinary wall painting, discovered during excavations in 2022-2023, shows a procession of four priests accompanied by a child approaching a large stationary fire altar beneath an ornate arch. Dr. Michael Shenkar from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who led the research published in Antiquity, describes this as "a rare addition to Sogdian visual culture, previously confined to funerary contexts." The palace at Sanjar-Shah, located 12 kilometers east of the famous Silk Road city of Panjikent, served as the residence of the last ruler of this influential Sogdian civilization during the 8th century. The Sogdians were master traders who dominated commerce along the Silk Road for centuries, creating a sophisticated urban culture that bridged East and West. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyHistoryAncient TraditionsRead Later 

For 139 years, many tried in vain to find the F.J. King, eventually earning it a reputation as a "ghost ship." But now, a group including more than a dozen citizen scientists and community historians have succeeded where countless others could not. The post Underwater Archaeologists Just Found A 144-Foot Schooner That Sank In Lake Michigan During A Storm In 1886 appeared first on All That's Interesting.

The palace, the Villa Regia, was carried off in pieces by invading Swedes in the 17th century, but many of the pieces were inadvertently lost in the Vistula River. The post Remnants Of A 17th-Century Polish Palace Looted By Sweden Were Just Recovered From A River In Warsaw appeared first on All That's Interesting.