WEIRD HISTORY
Human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead, researchers say. Houseboats are moored on Lake Oroville reservoir during the California drought emergency in Oroville, California, on 2021 May 25. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images – By Gabrielle …
Archaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artifacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition. ‘A gateway into a liminal world’ … the Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney, built …
The love god Kamadeva prepares to shoot Shiva with a love dart. British Museum/Wikimedia Commons – By Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College 2022 Feb 11 – With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid …
An Egyptian Muslim woman holds candles in front of the Coptic Christian Cathedral in tribute to the victims of a bomb attack in Cairo on 2016 Dec 17. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters – By Paul Rowe, Professor and Coordinator of Political and International …
An Orthodox priest takes part in a rally in protest against an official visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to Kyiv in August 2021. Anna Marchenko\TASS via Getty Images – By J. Eugene Clay, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of …
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), like this one photographed in 2015, can cause geomagnetic storms on Earth. Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA – By Michael Irving 2022 Jan 27 – The Sun is capable of some worryingly powerful outbursts. In ice cores from both ends of …
Credit: Royal Commission for AlUla/AAKSA – Written by Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway network in Saudi Arabia lined with well-preserved ancient tombs. – Researchers from the University of Western Australia have carried out a wide-ranging investigation over the past …
TAX HAVEN An oligarch, a dictator’s aide and a beverage tycoon turned to America’s least populated state to shelter assets, the Pandora Papers show. JACKSON, WY – NOVEMBER 13: People are seen outside Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming, Saturday, 2021 Nov …
The woman who managed weapons on the film set where a gun carried by Alec Baldwin was accidentally discharged, killing Halyna Hutchins, has said boxes of dummy rounds contained live bullets. The Bonanza Creek Ranch (also know as “Daisy Town”) near Santa Fe, …
The horned helmets were initially found by a peat farmer, according to the National Museum of Denmark, where the headgear is housed. – By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Updated 2022 Jan 09 – (CNN) From appearing in the Asterix comic book series, to …
