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Scientists have identified Bavaria’s oldest Mithraeum beneath Regensburg, dating to 80–171 AD, placing Mithras worship decades before the city’s main fortress. Fragmentary evidence—coins, altar remains, and ritual pottery—reveals a wooden sanctuary used for communal feasts central to the cult. This early date reshapes understanding of the frontier, showing organized religious …
Haunting Casts Preserving Pompeii Victims’ Final Moments 2,000 Years Ago Go on Display in a Solemn New Exhibition Christian Thorsberg – Correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine March 16, 2026 The plaster casts of more than 20 victims of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. are now on display in a permanent …
Readers of Covenant of the Iron Cross will recall the infamous Nazi Gold Train featured in the book, and its rumored possession of Empress of Russia Catherine the Great’s fabled Amber Room. Well, it seems news has broken that it may have been found—in the actual vicinity of where it’s …
New research suggests the sarcophagus’ occupant, previously known only as “the horseman,” is Joachim du Bellay, a French Renaissance poet who died in 1560. When excavations at Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral unearthed a pair of lead coffins hidden beneath the church’s nave in early 2022, archaeologists immediately recognized the sarcophagi’s significance. …
A team of researchers say they have found the “strongest statistical evidence yet that Planet 9 is really out there” in the solar system after studying a population of distant, unstable objects that cross Neptune’s orbit. When it comes to discovering planets, finding them around other stars is actually a …
Nasa says it will be a harmless flyby by the giant rock, one of several near-Earth objects slated to swing by the planet this week. An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7m miles (2.7mkm) of Earth on Friday. Don’t worry: there’s no chance of it hitting …
