Terry Herbert was out on a friend’s farmland in South Staffordshire, England, with his metal detector when he discovered the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found-1,500 gold and silver weapon fittings. “This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries. [It is] absolutely the […]

Many of the Maya pyramids in Mexico could have been built to create “raindrop” music to honor the gods. The sounds of footsteps on the pyramids’ steps and platforms begin to sound like raindrops falling into a bucket of water as pilgrims reach the top of the structures. “Most if not all Maya pyramids were […]