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Archeologists have uncovered a 2,000 year old pit in northern Sudan that filled with ancient statues of the Nubian kings who were known as the black pharaohs. The black pharaohs ruled over a powerful empire stretching along the Nile Valley 2,500 years ago, known as the Kingdom of Kush. The granite statues are highly polished and finely carved, with the name of the king engraved on the back and on the feet of each one. Despite the fact that the pit has never been opened before, many of the carvings were destroyed, with smashed heads and broken feet, revealing that the Egyptians who dug the pit wanted to wipe out the memory of the black pharaohs and their culture.
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One of the strangest mysteries in archaeology are the huge spherical stones of Costa Rica. In the 1930s, banana plantations started here, and workers clearing the forests found over 300 perfectly round stones that range from a few inches to over 8 feet in diameter. The large ones weigh many tons. They are made of solid granite. No one knows how they were cut and polished to such a high luster. There are no Pre-Columbian monuments or ancient cities in Costa Rica, yet someone had to have been there to make these strange spheres. And if they were capable of doing this, why didn’t they create buildings and pyramids, like the Aztecs and Mayans?
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Maybe you like warm weather and hate the cold, or maybe you feel great during a brisk winter day. Scientists think that whether you’ll be happier in Florida or Vermont is encoded in your genes. And if you’re living in the wrong climate for your genetic makeup, it can make you get fat.

Geneticist Douglas Wallace found that these genes are in the cells’ mitochondria, which is passed down through the female line. Researchers think these were once independent bacteria that evolved to become part of the human cell, because they contain a separate string of DNA coding. Mitochondria are important when it comes to taking in and burning calories.
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After reading Poles Ready to Flip and Magnets Can Change Your Mind, and Whitley’s newest Journal, you’ve sent us lots of e-mail about the upcoming magnetic pole reversal on the Earth. Now you can see what a pole shift will look like (and read more about it).

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