A handful of Allied warships sunk off the Indonesian coast in 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea and other operations have all but disappeared. The Battle of the Java Sea was one of the largest fought on the Asian stage of World War II, between Allied and Japanese forces. It took place on Febru
The ancient Romans may have built structures that acted as seismic protection screens long before physicists were aware of metamaterials or transform optics. This is what French researchers suggest in their study Role of nanophotonics in the birth of seismic megastructures . In it they state that t
An unprecedented investigation using new generation radar technologies should soon be carried out inside the tomb of Tutankhamun, in Egypt, in order to verify the possible presence of unknown cavities there. Tutankhamuns burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. The news rekindles the sus
New analysis shows that bones from one of the sites, called Kostenki 11 , are more than 20,000 years old, making it the oldest circular structure of its kind built by humans and discovered in the region. The bones probably came from animal burial grounds. The circle was hidden by sediment and now, o