Science

D. Hein, 49, from Glastonburn, has gone viral after creating drawings in fields commissioned by various companies. The artist used a geodesic laser scanner to accurately calculate the size and shape of the drawings and planks to flatten vegetation.

But now it has stopped working because of “crazy UFO fans”. According to the Briton, the number of alien fans increased a lot after some book came out, which said that drawings in the fields are created by aliens and are able to heal people. As the artist said, these fans bring people suffering from Parkinson’s disease and jump in there in hopes of a cure, which is basically exploitation of gullibility.

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Archaeologists have discovered a buckle depicting a snake-like creature eating a frog. This bronze artifact may belong to the symbolism of a previously unknown pagan worship. The buckle was “spotted” by a metal detector during excavations near the village of Lany, about three dozen kilometers west of Prague.

According to Jiří Maháček from Masaryk University, almost identical objects were found in the FRG, Hungary and Bohemia. Thus, scientists have encountered traces of a cult that united several Central European regions in the early Middle Ages, even before Christianity arrived there.

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A tsunami wave that struck Europe over 8,000 years ago may have wiped out the Paleolithic inhabitants of northern Britain. Known as Storegga, this natural disaster coincided with a dramatic decline in the local population.

In the Middle Stone Age, the population of northern Britain was only of the order of a thousand people. Most of them presumably lived in small coastal settlements, right in the path of huge tidal waves.

Archaeological evidence shows that around 8200 years ago the number of settlements across Northwest Europe declined sharply. This was due to a prolonged drop in temperature across the continent, although some researchers have doubted that coastal communities were significantly affected by these climatic changes.

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Archaeologists have discovered an impressive ancient fortification in the Khaybar Oasis in the northern Arabian Desert. The structure, at least 4,000 years old, had walls that stretched for more than 14 kilometers. Between 2250 and 1950 B.C., the period to which the discovery relates, there were several oases in the area, which were inhabited by a sedentary population.
No such walls have ever been found in Khaybar before, apart from the famous Islamic fortress in the center of the vast river valley.

According to the researchers, the oasis has not attracted scientific interest for a long time because its landscape has changed dramatically over the past four millennia.

The team managed to determine the original size of the structure: length of about 14.5 km, thickness of 1.7-2.4 meters, height up to 5 meters. However, less than 50% of the original length has survived to our days.

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Archaeologists have found another pair of ancient Egyptian mummies with golden tongues in Oxyrinha, about 160 kilometers from Cairo. Thus, the total number of such specimens reached 16, all at the same site.

Since the early 19th century, many papyrus fragments and other artifacts have been found at Oxyrhynchus, but the most intriguing remain the tongues of gold. In Roman times, they were placed in the mouth of mummies, convinced that such a ritual would help the deceased in the other world. After all, the Egyptians considered the yellow metal “the flesh of the gods”.

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