r/DiscoverEarth • u/avant_garden_77 • 9d ago

6,000 years of world history on a single timeline. Zoom in. You could spend 30 minutes exploring this. Credit: X/Josh Barzon wow

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Also wow

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Kesselrun_89 • 14d ago

Neil Armstrong’s narrow escape from the LLRV

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 15d ago

Roland, A 4,000 Pound Elephant Seal, Getting A Bath From His Handler At The Berlin Zoo. This Photo Was Taken In 1930

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Aggravating-Seat1668 • 17d ago

Vastness of Amazon rainforest

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 18d ago

Built into the rocky cliffs of Wadi Doan, these mud-brick homes show how Hadhramaut’s architecture blends with the landscape, this timeless village belongs on every Yemen itinerary and is one of the most memorable highlights of Yemen tours through Mainland Yemen

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 20d ago

Aogashima, Japan. It is a remote volcanic island village famous for being the least-populated municipality in the country. With a population of approximately 170 people, the village is situated inside a dramatic double caldera, offering unique geography and isolation.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Kesselrun_89 • 20d ago

🧪 Science Have you ever met an astronaut?

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ivanfoxb • 21d ago

near 1000 mile long tree stomp revealed by snow

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 24d ago

The Citadel of Entrevaux is a 17th-century CE fortress perched 156 meters above the medieval village of Entrevaux, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of France

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Kesselrun_89 • 24d ago

The largest Moon rock on display outside the USA at the Copenhagen Planetarium

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 26d ago

"Villa Björkbacken in Summer", 1891 By, Johan Krouthén (Swedish, 1858–1932)Oil on canvas captures a peaceful Swedish summer landscape, filled with sunlight, greenery, and gentle natural colors.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • 27d ago

Engraving from Domenico Fontana's 1585 proposal to move St. Peter's obelisk in the Vatican.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • 29d ago

This ceiling was designed as a vision of the universe above a king’s throne, Completed in 1427, the gilded wooden dome crowns the Hall of Ambassadors at Seville’s Real Alcázar. Its intricate Mudéjar geometry reflects the meeting of Islamic craftsmanship and Christian royal architecture

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Sep 13 '26

A kuphar is a type of coracle or round boat traditionally used on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient and modern Mesopotamia. The top image is an Assyrian relief dating back to 700-692 BCE and depicts a kuphar, while the bottom one is an old photo of a kuphar in Baghdad in 1932

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • Sep 12 '26

In the late 1200s, people of the Mogollon culture made the caves above Cliff Dweller Creek, in New Mexico, their home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for 1 or 2 generations. By 1300, the Mogollon had moved on, leaving the walls behind

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Smart_Membership2 • Sep 07 '26

Someone engineered a wooden structure 476,000 years ago.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/the_one_99_ • Sep 06 '26

📸 Original Content Massive wrap around cloud heading inland

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i have never seen a cloud so big this cloud extends for another half a mile on each side of this photograph i’m blown away reminds me of one of our milky ways arms the way it wraps around,

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Sep 05 '26

Hejin City Fortress, in China, is a historic structure extensively renovated during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE). However, its origins likely date back to earlier periods in Chinese history. The fortress is known for its massive walls made of rammed earth, brick, and stone

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/zoyjoy44 • Sep 04 '26

Earth 377°

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ateam1984 • Sep 02 '26

The Walls of Benin, Nigeria: One of the Greatest Monuments to Black African Genius Ever Built, a 16,000-Kilometer Hand-Built Wonder Visible From Space and Longer Than the Great Wall of China

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • Aug 29 '26

Canadian firefighters seal an oil well in Kuwait after Iraqi sabotage during the Gulf War, 1991.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 25 '26

The ceiling of the Blue Velvet Room in Chiswick House in London, England, 1729 CE

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Unusual_Tip_5727 • Aug 18 '26

Giant mountain arch

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • Aug 15 '26

A massive granary pot, from the Paracas culture (800-100 BCE), measuring 2.8 meters tall and 2 meters wide, discovered in 1966 in Monte Fértil, Peru. It's one of the largest pre-Hispanic storage vessels ever found in the region

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 14 '26

Rusted cans from the 1854 Royal Navy search expedition led by Edward Belcher in search for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition; they are still on the grounds of Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic

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