Peter Kinney articles

St. Nicholas

Archaeologists in Austria dug up a 1,500-year-old ivory box that is helping unlock the secrets of Early Christianity.

High in Austria’s Carinthian Alps lies Burgbichl, where excavations have exposed stone walls beneath one chapel, a hidden chamber containing a special relic that could change Christianity.
September 12, 2025 Peter Kinney

Archaeologists In Egypt Discovered A New Section Of The Ancient Sunken City Of Canopus

In August 2025, archaeologists announced an amazing discovery in the waters near Alexandria, Egypt: the legendary ancient city of Canopus.
September 12, 2025 Peter Kinney

Historians hate when people bring up these incredibly common "facts" about Ancient Egypt because they're completely wrong.

The real story of Ancient Egypt is far more fascinating than the myths we've absorbed through movies and cartoons. In fact, many of the things we think we know about Egypt don’t hold up under scrutiny. For example…
September 10, 2025 Peter Kinney

The Last Tribe To Resist Roman Rule In Britain

The Caledonians were a fierce confederation of tribes in northern Scotland that resisted Roman control long after everyone else in Britain had been conquered.
September 10, 2025 Peter Kinney
A Geologist

An Australian metal detectorist found a “gold rock” that he couldn’t crack with drills or a sledgehammer. It turned out to be 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite.

A heavy stone fooled even the sharpest prospector’s eye. Instead of wealth, the find turned out to be far older and rarer, holding stories that stretch back billions of years.
September 9, 2025 Peter Kinney
A Clovis person

The big game hunting Clovis culture crossed into Alaska and rapidly colonized North America. So why did they disappear?

Long before cities or highways, the Clovis people ruled wide open land. They hunted giant beasts and left behind clever tools. Strangely, when they disappeared, they left us with riddles that sound more like detective work than history.
September 9, 2025 Peter Kinney

The Evidence That Egypt's Heretical King Akhenaten Was The Biblical Pharaoh Who Raised Moses

One declared loyalty to a blazing sun (henotheistic Atenism), the other to an unseen God. Fringe theories speculate on influence, but mainstream historians reject connections given the chronological gaps and distinct religious traditions.
September 9, 2025 Peter Kinney
Jeremy DeSilva

Did Jean Fouquet Secretly Embed A Stone Age Handaxe In His 15th Century Painting?

In the mid-1400s, a French painter named Jean Fouquet created a remarkable work called the Melun Diptych. Today, it raises an unusual question: could an artist of his time have known about handaxes that were made thousands of years earlier?
September 4, 2025 Peter Kinney
Charles Bennett

Teleportation Is Real And Could Change Your Computers Forever

A word once tied to science fiction is now reshaping laboratories. Scientists are no longer chasing the teleportation of people but of information itself. The recent advances in quantum teleportation raise questions about how computing and communication might evolve in the coming decade.
September 3, 2025 Peter Kinney