Science

The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell

There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 400m underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.


January 16, 2011
Science

Just Discovered: A 2,500-year-old Recipe For Celtic Beer

An archeobotanist has figured out how they made beer in 500 BC. With a ditch in the back yard, some barley seeds, and some henbane, you too can drink up like the ancient Celts.


August 9, 2010

Specialised Drill Robot To Unlock The Final Secrets Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza

Like a massive stone puzzle, the Great Pyramid has refused to give up all of its secrets. One of the last are two shafts out of the “Queen’s Chamber”. Purpose? Unknown, even to this day. Robots to the rescue.


July 16, 2010
Cars

18th-Century Ship Exhumed At World Trade Centre Site

Earlier this week, workers excavating the site of the future World Trade Centre unearthed an ancient wooden plank. Then another. Then an entire row, comprising what remains of a 9m long wood-hulled vessel, over 200 years old.