Hobbit People
Indonesia boasts beautiful Bali, but what else does this southeast Asian island claim for its fame? Only in 2003 did an Indonesian-Australian team of archaeologists discover a little (no pun intended) revelation – the remains of nine human bodies that were only about 3.3 feet tall. Research shows that these “hobbits” would have weighed about 55 pounds at full size. Seeing as these inhabitants of ancient Indonesia date back 13,000 years, this finding has been called the most spectacular find in paleoanthropology in half a century.
Hobbit People
What Do You Sphinx About This?
Believe it or not, there were a lot more than one sphinx in Egypt. The most famous one is The Great Sphinx of Giza. I like to call it “The Terrifying One”, not because I created that name, but because that’s the translation of the Arabic name – “Abu al-Haul”. The half lion and half human mythical creature was carved out of limestone. Egyptologists believe that Egyptians painted the sphinx in all different colors due to pigment traces that they found. Still, to this day, a lot has not been explored at this site.
What Do You Sphinx About This?