The medieval kingdom of Makuria ranged over parts of what is now Sudan and Egypt. Its capital was Dongola, a Sudanese site on the Nile River where archaeologists have been digging since the 1960s. They previously found a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/Found-A-Massive-Medieval-Cathedral-From-a-Forgotten-Nubian-Kingdom/British comedian Chris McCausland is blind. On the TV show Would I Lie To You? he tells the story of that time he had a neighbor who ignored him... or so he thought. This is really funny, but it also shows us ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/The-Neighbor/A farm near Amesbury, in Wiltshire, UK, hosted a particularly unusual contest in 1883. Two men battled it out to decide who could work better- a laborer who had been drinking beer, or a laborer who only had water. Mr. W....
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/The-Contest-to-Decide-Which-is-Better-Beer-or-Water/🤹🏾♀️ pic.twitter.com/BrwAEA6SSV— Zaila Avant-garde (@Basketballasart) April 17, 2021 Zaila Avant-garde, 14, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee. She's a true Renaissance woman because spel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/This-National-Spelling-Bee-Winner-Holds-3-World-Records-for-Basketball-Dribbling/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Historians have determined the current number of living descendants </span><a href="https://www.livescience...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/The-Da-Vinci-DNA-Cracked/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oh, dear! A new epidemic has hit multiple bird species in North America. Birds across the United States have been hit wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/Why-Are-Birds-Dying/<p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/07/hiroshige-shadow-puppets.html" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Utagawa Hir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/Hiroshige-s-Shadow-Puppet-Guide/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I, too, would love a big cat to greet me during my everyday commute. Just outside Shinjuku station, a billboard hosts a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/Big-Cat-In-Shinjuku/The 19th century was a unique time for archaeology, with wondrous treasures being unearthed all over the world and sent back to the discoverer's home country (or sponsoring country) to be kept in a museum. Museums became...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/The-Tiara-of-Saitapharnes/UFOs are easy to explain -they are unidentified flying objects, and are unidentified because we don't know what they are. There are often several possible explanations; we just don't know which one is correct. However, w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/09/A-Brief-Cultural-History-of-UFOs/
