Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone previously believed.

The discovery of submerged stone circles and Stone Age tools on the Isle of Skye reveals that humans occupied what is now northern Scotland about 11,000 years ago.

The finding indicates that these people braved a volatile landscape of glaciers and fluctuating coastlines in northern Scotland, venturing much farther north than experts once believed.

"This is a hugely significant discovery which offers a new perspective on the earliest human occupation yet known, of north-west Scotland," Karen Hardy, a prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Glasgow, said in a statement. Hardy and colleagues published a study of two archaeological sites on the Isle of Skye in the Journal of Quaternary Science in April.

Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a recent Facebook post in April.

The tomb was found at the Saqqara archaeological site in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. The tomb belonged to a prince named "Userefre" or "Waser Ef Ra," the son of King Userkaf.

Userkaf was the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from the early 25th century BC until the mid-24th century BC.

The door was "adorned with hieroglyphic inscriptions detailing the prince's name and titles," according to the Facebook post.

Here's what vintage typesetting, defense software, and the Apple Lisa have to do with a ubiquitous computing feature.

It is a slow, myocardialrhythm. Like a heartbeat or the glowing pulse of a traffic light at midnight, it's a hypnotic beat that's all too familiar.

From Microsoft Word to Google Docs, the blinking cursor is a companion that compels us throughout text documents and text messages and naughty Google searches.

When we falter in our prose, the blinking cursor is there to patiently ask "What's next?"

The blinking cursor is not just some 1970s invention of yesteryear — it oriented millions of people in the digital world. It's why and how the words you're reading right now were created.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archeologists discovered large portions of a monumental relief that depicts the ruler of the Assyrian empire from the seventh century BC along with two important deities and other figures.

The relief was carved on a massive stone slab 5.5 meters long and three meters high and weighing approximately 12 tons. The find is extraordinary for the researchers not only for its size, but also for the scenes depicted.

"Among the many relief images of Assyrian palaces we know of, there are no depictions of major deities," states the head of the excavations in the North Palace, Prof. Dr Aaron Schmitt of the Institute of Prehistory, Protohistory and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology.

'Construction started in the 1700s and there are all sorts of little hidden passages,' Rep. Moore said in a viral video of the secret passageway

Under the floorboards of the U.S. Capitol lie hidden staircases and passageways left over from the iconic building's original construction in the 18th century, a viral video posted by Republican North Carolina Rep. Tim Moore shows.

"Construction started in the 1700s and there are all sorts of little hidden passageways. As you saw, I just pulled this cover up, and you can see," Moore said in a video posted to his official congressional X account on Friday, showing a secret door in the floor of the Capitol.

The U.S. Capitol's construction was commissioned in 1793, with President George Washington laying the cornerstone that same year. The original building was completed in 1826, with various expansions made across the decades, such as a visitor center that opened in 2008.

Juan de Lara (University of Oxford), has just released part of his groundbreaking work on how the Parthenon was illuminated. The article, out now in the Annual of the British School at Athens, is brought to life here through an accompanying video (see video below). He is joined in conversation by Professor of Classical and Comparative Art at UCL, Jeremy Tanner, who asks the questions.

How did you come to develop this research project?

The Parthenon has always held a special allure for me, perhaps due to its central role as a reference point in the history of art and architecture. I've long been fascinated by spaces that no longer exist, and by the challenge of imagining how they might have felt. Given my background in 3D modelling and CGI, this project offered a unique opportunity to explore that question.

Are the kinds of lighting effects we see in the Parthenon exceptional among Greek temples, or can we see your reconstruction as a kind of model for visual experience in Greek temples in general?

Based on the data I have been able to gather, the visual experience of each temple — as well as the rituals performed within it — varied significantly depending on the deity being worshipped, the origin of the cult, and the temple's geographical context. However, from the fifth century BCE and as we move into the Hellenistic period, there is a marked increase in a conscious staging of the religious experience.

Xi Jinping will visit Russia at the invitation of Vladimir Putin and will attend the celebrations marking victory over Nazi Germany.

Historians seldom completely agree with one another even on some of the most important events of the past. There are different views on various historical events, such as World War II (WWII). With new documents being declassified and new excavations at the sites of the main battles, we are likely to see new theories and hypotheses emerging that will feed more discussions and offer contrarian narratives of the most devastating military conflict in the history of humanity.

However, there is a clear red line between looking for new facts and deliberately trying to falsify history. The former is a noble quest for truth and understanding, while the latter is a deplorable attempt to revise past events in favor of political goals or personal ambitions.

As VE Day approaches, Western officials, pundits and journalists are widely seeking to exploit the 80th anniversary of Nazism's defeat for political purposes. European leaders have threatened state attendees of Russia's grand May 9th victory parade with adverse consequences. Meanwhile, countless sources draw historical comparisons between appeasement of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s, and the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to strike a deal with Moscow to end the Ukraine proxy conflict.

As The Atlantic put it in March, "Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich" - a reference to the September 1938 Munich Agreement, under which Western powers, led by Britain, granted a vast portion of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. Mainstream narratives of appeasement state that this represented the policy's apotheosis - its final act, which it was believed would permanently sate Adolf Hitler's expansionist ambitions, but actually made World War II inevitable.

Appeasement is universally accepted today in the West as a well-intentioned but ultimately catastrophically failed and misguided attempt to avoid another global conflict with Germany, for peace's sake. According to this reading, European governments made certain concessions to Hitler, while turning a blind eye to egregious breaches of the post-World War I Versailles Treaty, such as the Luftwaffe's creation in February 1935, and Nazi Germany's military occupation of the Rhineland in May the next year.

In reality though, from Britain's perspective, the Munich Agreement was intended to be just the start of a wider process that would culminate in "world political partnership" between London and Berlin. Two months prior, the Federation of British Industries (FBI), known today as the Confederation of British Industry, made contact with its Nazi counterpart, Reichsgruppe Industrie (RI). The pair eagerly agreed their respective governments should enter into formal negotiations on Anglo-German economic integration.

Representatives of these organisations met face-to-face in London on November 9th that year. The summit went swimmingly, and a formal conference in Düsseldorf was scheduled for next March. Coincidentally, later that evening in Berlin, Kristallnacht erupted, with Nazi paramilitaries burning and destroying synagogues and Jewish businesses across Germany. The most infamous pogrom in history was no deterrent to continued discussions and meetings between FBI and RI representatives. A month later, they inked a formal agreement on the creation of an international Anglo-Nazi coal cartel.

Nearly two centuries after its prominent placement in Paris' Place de la Concorde, the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk continues to yield remarkable insights into ancient Egyptian history and royal propaganda.

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, a French Egyptologist and specialist in hieroglyphic cryptology at the Catholic University of Paris, has recently identified seven previously undocumented inscriptions near the obelisk's summit. This significant discovery, made during a renovation in December 2021, sheds new light on the monument's original purpose and the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II.

The scaffolding erected for the restoration provided Olette-Pelletier with an unprecedented opportunity to closely examine the higher sections of the obelisk, revealing hieroglyphs that could be read horizontally - a departure from the traditional vertical orientation. This new perspective allowed him to discern hidden messages embedded within the existing inscriptions, employing a sophisticated form of hieroglyphic cryptography designed to conceal their meaning.

According to Olette-Pelletier, only a handful of scholars worldwide possess the expertise to decipher this "3D" form of reading.

The documents will likely include Nazi-linked bank accounts and records documenting the use of Nazi 'ratlines'

Argentina is set to declassify all government-held files relating to Nazi fugitives who fled and settled in Argentina after World War II, according to reports.

The documents will likely include Nazi-linked bank accounts and archival records detailing the use of Nazi "ratlines" which were monetary and logistic pathways Nazis used to escape justice and flee Argentina following the war.

Guillermo Alberto Francos, Argentina's interior minister, made the announcement Tuesday, the Buenos Aires Times reported citing DNEWS.

It is estimated that up to 10,000 Nazis and other fascist war criminals escaped justice for Holocaust atrocities by fleeing to Argentina and other Latin American countries.