‘Discovery of a lifetime’: Stone Age temple found in Orkney is 800 years older than Stonehenge – and may be more important

  • The site contains 100 buildings, forming a ‘temple precinct’
  • Stonehenge may not have been the centre of Neolithic culture after all
  • It could take decades to fully explore and examine

Magical World of Ice Caves

“Where you have lava tubes or limestone passage ways below the ground, occasionally a rare form of cave evolves – the ice cave. Strange, mysterious and often dangerous they are often difficult to get to and so not seen by huge amounts of people. Take a short tour in to the magical world of the ice cave.”

VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY

Oldest Known Mattress Found; Slept Whole Family

The mattress—which consists of layers of reeds and rushes—was discovered at the bottom of a pile of bedding made from compacted grasses and leafy plants. The bedding had accumulated at the Sibudu Cave site in KwaZulu-Natal (map) over a period of 39,000 years, with the oldest mats dating to 77,000 years ago.

 

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