In 1993, Russian archaeologists discovered an intriguing find in the Ukok plateau near the Russia-China border. They had got information about a grave robbery. Digging at the grave site they stumbled upon a giant block of ice.

The team, led by Dr Natalya Polosmak of Novosibirsk’s Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, began melting the block.

They found the mummified body of a 25-year-old princess known as the Siberian Ice Maiden. Polosmak and her staff found the princess had tattoos!

Her well-preserved body revealed an ancient culture’s rituals. …

In the year 165 CE, returning Roman soldiers from a campaign in Parthia (modern-day Iraq) began complaining of fever, swollen throat, diarrhea, vomiting, and coughing.

Sounds familiar?

They were the symptoms of an ancient pandemic known as “plague” at the time. The said illness, dubbed as the Antonine plague or Galen’s plague, changed the course of Roman history.

During the outbreak of this disease, the Roman Empire was at its peak of military and economic power. The pandemic triggered a chain of events that may have contributed to the Roman Empire’s downfall. When we think of the reasons behind the…

In 2012, Barack Obama likened climate change deniers to the Flat Earth Society when speaking to a crowd at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland.

Obama says in his speech:

“We’ve heard this kind of thinking before. Let me tell you something. If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail — they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society.They would not have believed that the world was round.”

While the comparison appears to be sound, what he said was historically incorrect. …

A few days ago, a friend of mine called to complain about a business presentation that didn’t go as planned. He mentioned that one of the new hires made a vital mistake during the presentation, but his team leader didn’t intervene.

My friend said: “The team leader just sat during the presentation doing nothing. Kept checking his phone. Like Nero, he played the fiddle when Rome burnt. I may lose this deal.”

“I’m sorry to be a nitpicker,” I said, “But Nero didn’t play the fiddle when Rome burned. …

In 1975, an earthquake jolted Spiti Valley, India, in the Himalayan foothills. To clear the area, the Indian government dispatched two soldiers from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, an Indian paramilitary force. One soldier made an unexpected discovery while digging.

It was a mummy of a man sitting in a crouched position, his teeth still intact. The remains appeared to be old and well preserved. A scroll was nearby, but it disintegrated as soon as they held it. The soldiers were confused and alerted the authorities.

This discovery caught the attention of scientists. They contacted the local monastery in Gue village…

We perceive Mongols as bloodthirsty conquerors who laid waste to civilizations across Eurasia. Rising from the humble grasslands of Mongolia, the nomadic Mongols forged the world’s largest contiguous empire.

When the dust settled, the Mongols realized it was international trade, transferring knowledge, and encouraging a world free of religious strife that helped them conquer minds, not brute force. This resulted in the Pax Mongolica, a century of peace in Eurasia from mid 13th to mid-14th century. As you might expect, we base the term on Pax Romana, or Roman peace during Rome’s peak power.

Pax Mongolica sowed the seeds of…

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered two mummies with golden tongues in February of this year. You can check their original images in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities’ Facebook post.

Wait, did I read that right?

“Golden Tongues!”

This find sparked my curiosity. What is the significance of golden tongues? This was not the first time mummies with golden tongues were unearthed. Archaeologists have previously discovered them in mummies, according to Jennifer Houser Wegner, curator of the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, which houses such mummies.

But this was a one-of-a-kind find. …

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably attempted the most popular writing tips, but they didn’t exactly work out. You wrote every day and completed the 30-day writing challenge of writing at least one piece per day. You polished your headlines and researched the most popular topics to write on.

And then….. crickets!

The views were not as good as you had hoped. People did not take the time to read the article.

After all the work, it’s a letdown.

But why is that? What went wrong, and where did it go wrong? The problem wasn’t with the advice; it was…