Carvings especially make lasting “stone pages.” They can reveal much about ancient law, revolutions and wars, and personal insights into first contact between continents. Even environmental reports can survive for thousands of years. Sometimes, archaeologists find inscriptions unlike any they’ve ever seen before. 10 Philip’s Pillar Central Bulgaria was once home to several Roman forts. The Sostra Fortress has been excavated since 2002 by the National Museum of History. In 2016, the same team investigated a Roman road station nearby and stumbled upon a large artifact....

Today, few ancient examples survive because their construction of wood and organic material decayed quickly. Of those that remain, many are elegantly engineered machines, resembling cybernetics more than peg legs. Other ancient prostheses are shrouded in mystery, and our knowledge of them has only come through legend. 10 Cairo Toe Dated between 950 and 710 BC, the “Cairo toe” is the oldest prosthesis in the world. Archaeologists discovered this artificial big toe on a female mummy near Luxor....

There are many animals we instinctively know not to mess with. Here’s list of some animals you may not know are dangerous, gross or generally hostile to us two-legged pig-monkeys. Mess with them at your own peril! 10 Animals That Use Bizarre Methods To Kill Their Prey 10 Hairy Frogs Perhaps the most metal animal ever, the hairy frog doesn’t just look like the type of amphibian that’d be first into the mosh pit at a Slayer gig, but it has a very interesting defence mechanism when it feels threatened....

10 The Ghost Dance In 1870, the Ghost Dance, a Native American religious movement, was believed to restore tribal life. Supposedly, the buffalo would return to the Plains, the dead would rise, and all white men would vanish from the land. The movement was enthusiastically received by Native Americans, specifically the Lakota, and spread to California and Oregon over the years. As word of the ritual reached neighboring white communities, officials felt threatened by the ceremonies, believing that the Lakota intended to start a war....

10Jessica Lynn KeenSolved After 18 Years The defrosting of the Jessica Keen case was owed not to one individual or new evidence but to a change in Ohio law nearly two decades after the crime took place. In 1991, Jessica Keen, a high school honor roll student interested in drama and music, was living at a counseling center and home for teens in Columbus. On March 15, she was waiting at a bus stop when she was abducted and taken to a nearby graveyard....

While you might second guess these unique pet products, hang on. If you think about it, even the inventor of the flea collar must have been fed up with pesky flea scratches. So they created a way to rid their pets of fleas and prevent them from coming back. Pet parents everywhere were skeptical that a collar could solve their four-legged friend’s flea problem, but now they’re practically a necessity....

A few of them radically changed the history of their country, while others ended up only as footnotes. Many were competent and intelligent. Others were cruel and lazy. Some of them were quite fascinating and a tad bit strange to boot. 10 Toghon Temur Established in 1271 by Genghis Khan’s grandson, the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty controlled China for almost an entire century. Although the Mongol emperors adopted some Chinese customs and really weren’t radically different from their Han predecessors, their policies discriminated against ethnic Chinese and favored Mongols....

But thousands of clowns meanwhile are just honest performers, carrying on a comedy tradition that goes back millennia. 10 Contraries There have been examples of clowns throughout history, but one of the stranger ones were the contraries who hailed from the Cheyenne tribes of North America. These warriors had to communicate exclusively using opposites. For instance, if they wanted to answer “yes” to a question, they might shake their head....

10 Yamagishi Society Status: Active Chicken farmer Miyozo Yamagishi built a rural community in 1952 to accommodate those who felt alienated and disillusioned by Japan’s growing industrialization. Since its inception, the Yamagishi Society has grown to several thousand adherents in Japan and around the world. Members live together in little communes and work in a mainly agricultural setting. The society supports itself by selling vegetables and dairy products. Members share everything and all items are free inside the commune....

10 Jackie Gleason Claimed That Richard Nixon Showed Him Alien Corpses In 1973, famed veteran comic Jackie Gleason claimed to have had a most unusual and exasperating experience. According to his second wife, Beverly, Gleason told her of a top secret tour by Richard Nixon where Gleason was shown corpses of extraterrestrials. Gleason, who owned an estate in Florida near the Nixon vacation home, was one of Nixon’s golfing partners. They had become close, apparently close enough for Nixon to divulge top secrets to Gleason....

In 1862, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne wanted to test the popular theory that the face was directly linked to the soul. He had already done some work applying electric shocks to patients’ damaged muscles and he reasoned that if he could apply electric currents to a subject’s face he could stimulate the muscles and photograph the results. One problem was that while it was easy to activate physical responses with electric shocks, most people relaxed immediately the jolt had passed through, too quickly for a camera to record it....

10 Tiwanaku SS officer Edmund Kiss spent time in Bolivia in the 1920s, becoming friendly with Austrian adventurer and rubber maker Arthur Posnansky. Posnansky was involved with excavating the ancient city of Tiwanaku in the Altiplano region, characterized by its massive stone blacks and elaborate carvings, and he despised the local people. Also unwilling to believe that the ruins were built by the indigenous Aymara people, Kiss developed a wild theory that the city was actually built by wayward Nordic Atlanteans one million years ago; they subdued the local inhabitants before erecting the spectacular city....

This is certainly not exclusive to video games. But as a relatively new medium, they have come under extreme scrutiny in the media due to the violence portrayed in many games. However, most media—from books to movies—was analyzed by the public when first introduced. The more unfamiliar something is, the more frightening it can be. In the same way, the more immersive media has become, the more concerned people have felt over its effect on the human mind....

Nauman was educated at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of California, Davis, and became part of the burgeoning California art scene in the late 1960s. His Self Portrait as a Fountain showed him spouting a stream of water from his mouth. Nauman tested the idea of art as a stable vehicle of communication and the role of the artist as revelatory communicator It was Serra’s first film and features a single shot of a hand in an attempt to repeatedly catch chunks of material dropped from the top of the frame....

10 The Suburban Chernobyl Many know that Madame Curie’s work led to her untimely demise, but few know the lasting effects that the radiation exposure has had on her belongings. Currently, her notebook is so radioactive that it must be stored in a lead box. To be able to view her personal belongings, you need protective clothing and a liability waiver. This is not at all surprising because Curie literally walked around with hunks of polonium, radium, and uranium in her pockets....

In most cases, the governments that chose the locations on this list were correct: the islands were ideal places to establish penal institutions. Except for a couple of these island prisons, escape was rare. In almost all other instances, only a handful of prisoners, at most, and, usually, only one or two, were able to successfully flee from the often stark, vile, and dangerous prisons to which they had been consigned....

10 ‘Wife A Poker Jinx, So Spouse Asks Divorce’ In 1910, this straightforward headline from The San Francisco Call was the actual reason that one woman gave a judge for needing a divorce. Mrs. Alma Olsen was a religious woman who refused to stop praying, despite claims by her husband that her prayers “hoodooed” his luck and caused him to be unable to support his family. In a surprise twist, Mrs....

10 Aaron Swartz At age 14, Aaron Swartz had already created a fundamental tool of the Internet: RSS, or the software that allows one to subscribe to online information. Born in 1986, Swartz proved to be a pivotal player during the early stages of the Internet despite still being a teen. Besides his various interests on the Internet, Swartz became a key figure in Internet activism, often hacking systems so that their information could be public....

Historians and scholars are still uncovering the truth about ancient Greece, and as they do, they are correcting some of the misconceptions that have cropped up around the ancient Greeks and their myths in the last 2,000 years. Here are ten of them. 10 There Was Never A Trojan Horse The Trojan War was supposed to have taken place during the Bronze Age, when “tens of thousands of Greek warriors” marched on Troy to rescue the captured Helen of Sparta....

Some try to fight this problem by addressing some of the more common errors at the beginning of the term. Listed below are ten of the most popular misconceptions about how psychology works, as well as an explanation as to why they are not true. It’s hard to turn on a television these days without seeing a crime drama in progress—and in most of these dramas, psychological profiling of criminals has become a staple technique for catching serial killers and other violent criminals....