Rediscovered in 1903, The linear Elamite was one of the oldest syllabus systems along Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs (4200 years). It remained untranslatable until 2022 when a team led by French archeologist and epigraph François Desset finally deciphered it after 18 years of work.r/Damnthatsinteresting307 pts11 comments1w agoDownload
Gallery6Human skulls as war trophies and ancestor relics: The chilling headhunting traditions of the Dayak, Ifugao, and Asmat tribes.r/Damnthatsinteresting3.0K pts77 comments1w agoNSFWDownload
Video2:38A Bugatti Chiron accelerating to 417kph (260mph) on the German autobahnr/Damnthatsinteresting19.2K pts2.7K comments1w agoDownload
This photo shows how butcher shop front looked like during the Victorian era (before the invention of the refrigerator). Photo circa 1890s-1900sr/Damnthatsinteresting2.5K pts109 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:15Grass-carrying wasp (Isodontia mexicana) storing paralysed grasshoppers in its nest chamber for its young to feed on after they hatch.r/Damnthatsinteresting7.8K pts353 comments1w agoDownload
The shadow of second highest mountain in the world K2, projected into China across hundreds of miles. Photo by Chris B. Warnerr/Damnthatsinteresting5.8K pts27 comments1w agoDownload
A shop in Cadiz, Spain displaying traditional outfits worn by Nazarenos, clarifying it's not the KKKr/Damnthatsinteresting13.5K pts670 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:28Stained glass looks completely different when refracted sunlight projects nearby, giving the refracted light an almost holographic effect.r/Damnthatsinteresting5.6K pts37 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:07The Red Sky in Indonesia Caused by Forest Fires Set to Clear Land for Palm Oil Plantationsr/Damnthatsinteresting18.9K pts505 comments1w agoDownload
This is Red Beach in China. It's located within one of the world’s largest wetland and reed marshes, where the red Suaeda salsa plant covers the ground. The plant sprouts green in the spring, shifts to a fiery red in the fall, and turns deep purple in winter.r/Damnthatsinteresting2.7K pts26 comments1w agoDownload
The amount of CO from fires in Indonesia right now.r/Damnthatsinteresting793 pts45 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:57This is Spiny butterfly ray, an IUCN listed globally endangered species.r/Damnthatsinteresting28.3K pts266 comments1w agoDownload
NASA’s “Black Marble”: Earth’s cities glowing at night, visualized using nighttime observations from the Suomi NPP satellite. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens)r/Damnthatsinteresting236 pts11 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:48Grape bonsai by Georgian master Alexander Meskhi, who has been growing bonsai for over 30 yearsr/Damnthatsinteresting11.9K pts106 comments1w agoDownload
Gallery5We found a Mindo Harlequin Toad (declared extinct in 1989)r/Damnthatsinteresting9.7K pts159 comments1w agoDownload
Gallery5What a vinyl record groove actually looks like under an electron microscoper/Damnthatsinteresting11.9K pts389 comments1w agoDownload
In 2011, a New Zealand man fell on the nozzle of a high pressure air hose; it pierced his left buttock & rushed air into his body at 100 lbs per sq inch. He survived, but was inflated "like a balloon" to twice his normal size with the air separating his fat from his muscles & compressing his heart.r/Damnthatsinteresting12.9K pts659 comments1w agoNSFWDownload
The Colossus of the Apennines (Italy, 16th century) is a 35 foot tall stone sculpture. It has rooms inside, a fireplace designed to blow smoke from the giant's nostrils, and even a system of pipes that made the giant appear to sweat and cry real water.r/Damnthatsinteresting4.2K pts30 comments1w agoDownload
Video1:01Ogoh Ogoh Parade in Bali, Held Evening Before Nyepir/Damnthatsinteresting6.9K pts191 comments1w agoDownload
A bizarre bulbous-shaped skull discovered inside an ancient funerary urn in Catamarca, Argentina. Archaeologists confirmed the dome-like shape is the result of 'erect tabular deformation' applied to infants between the 3rd and 12th centuries AD.r/Damnthatsinteresting5.2K pts122 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:28A Live Reenactment of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, on Its 70th Anniversaryr/Damnthatsinteresting3.0K pts123 comments1w agoDownload
Gallery2Scientists may have found the real night sky behind Van Gogh’s The Starry Nightr/Damnthatsinteresting6.1K pts134 comments1w agoDownload
Video1:11BBC Archive footage shows people buying new London homes with £50 deposits (roughly £1300 today).r/Damnthatsinteresting10.8K pts546 comments1w agoDownload
Video1:53Dr Asif Hasan receives Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award, after 35 years and over 4000 operations as a heart surgeon.r/Damnthatsinteresting8.1K pts227 comments1w agoDownload
Gallery4The Church of Saint George in Ethiopia is a 13th-century church carved out from a single solid block of limestone without a single brick, mortar joint, or structural timber. It's still an active place of worship and pilgrimage.r/Damnthatsinteresting9.3K pts136 comments1w agoDownload
Gallery8Theyyam, an ancient Ritualistic art form of Kerala, India, it features performer who embody divine spirit and Gods through trance like dances and fire rituals.r/Damnthatsinteresting13.8K pts313 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:18These eeire hole clouds are a phenomenon called fallstreak holes.r/Damnthatsinteresting1.8K pts63 comments1w agoDownload
Video1:07Healthy coral healing a sick piece of coral just by touching itr/Damnthatsinteresting2.4K pts33 comments1w agoDownload
The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain.r/Damnthatsinteresting63.8K pts180 comments1w agoDownload
In 1975 a 250 million fossil found in South Africa’s Oliviershoek Pass, showed a protomammal; Thrinaxodon (prob. in sleep) with a Broomistega sleeping together sharing the same borrow. The Fossil has been named "Triassic cuddle".r/Damnthatsinteresting1.4K pts36 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:17A water buffalo can hold its breath underwater for about 5 minutes .r/Damnthatsinteresting5.6K pts150 comments1w agoDownload
Video1:35Zooming in on the Moon and Saturn using an Orion XT8 Dobsonian telescoper/Damnthatsinteresting22.2K pts487 comments1w agoDownload
Microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper (photo credit: Ole Bielfeldt)r/Damnthatsinteresting13.3K pts247 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:24Yellowish, acrid smoke from forest and land fires blankets Central Kalimantan, Indonesiar/Damnthatsinteresting1.1K pts82 comments1w agoDownload
Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He had one recorded loss in 300 recorded matches and was known for his strength and grappling skills.r/Damnthatsinteresting33.1K pts1.0K comments1w agoDownload
Gallery4This is Verrückt in Kansas City, the world’s tallest water slide when it opened in 2014, standing 168 feet tall. Designed by Jeff Henry and John Schooley, neither had formal engineering credentials. It was permanently closed after 10-year-old Caleb Schwab died on the ride in 2016.r/Damnthatsinteresting10.1K pts1.2K comments1w agoDownload
Video1:52Colossal squid pulled up to the surface on a line caught toothfish off the D'Urville Sea in 2008. The first video of a live mature specimen.r/Damnthatsinteresting1.3K pts132 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:08The 700-year-old Mount Huashan Plank Walk in China, often considered the world’s most dangerous trail.r/Damnthatsinteresting2.7K pts155 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:36A pink-looking dolphin spotted off the coast of Omanr/Damnthatsinteresting241 pts24 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:29A man who saved his own life by performing the Heimlich maneuver on himselfr/Damnthatsinteresting18.7K pts364 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:24The way different species of moss look close upr/Damnthatsinteresting21.9K pts110 comments1w agoDownload
Video0:15Portrait of Ekaterina Volotskaya by Gavriil Yakovlev (1855–1856), showcasing incredibly realistic lace and silk. Housed at The Hermitage Museum.r/Damnthatsinteresting1.9K pts13 comments1w agoDownload
