Julie Majid, Author at petsnpals.co

Temples and Cult Installations Found Near Jerusalem Reveal a Religious Battleground

January 27, 2026 by Julie Majid

New discoveries expose rivalry beneath sacred ground.

For generations, Jerusalem’s religious past was framed as a slow march toward dominance by a single tradition. Recent excavations are unsettling that story. Archaeologists working in hills, valleys, and border zones around the ancient city are uncovering shrines, temples, and cult spaces that suggest competition rather than consensus. These sites overlap in time, geography, and ritual purpose. The evidence points to a contested sacred landscape where belief systems coexisted, clashed, and borrowed from one another. What emerges is not a unified religious center, but a volatile spiritual frontier.

How Climate Change Is Forcing Wildlife Into Human Spaces

January 26, 2026 by Julie Majid

Animals are crossing boundaries humans assumed were permanent.

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Across the world, animals are turning up in backyards, parking lots, and city canals, not as novelty sightings but as warning flares. Heat, drought, and storms are remapping where food and water still exist, and the map keeps shrinking. Officials record more calls, more collisions, more conflict, and more rescues, yet the drivers stay easy to dismiss until they show up on your street. The unsettling part is how quickly normal borders stop working and how few safe options remain.

What Archaeologists Just Found Beneath the Tower of London Changes What We Know About Black Death Mortality

January 26, 2026 by Julie Majid

Burials below the fortress are rewriting plague history.

For centuries, the Tower of London symbolized power, punishment, and royal authority, not mass death. Yet recent excavations beneath its grounds have exposed graves that complicate everything historians assumed about who suffered during the Black Death. These findings suggest plague mortality did not spare elites as neatly as records imply. Archaeologists are now piecing together physical evidence that challenges written accounts, burial customs, and class assumptions. What lies beneath the Tower forces a reexamination of how medieval London endured catastrophe.

The Brain’s Sharpness Timeline May Be Very Different Than We Thought

January 26, 2026 by Julie Majid

New evidence is quietly unsettling decades of certainty.

For years, charts, textbooks, and self help wisdom have insisted the brain peaks early, then slides into steady decline. That story shaped careers, education, and how people judge their own mental stamina. But a growing body of research from neuroscience labs and aging studies is poking holes in that timeline. New data suggests mental sharpness may arrive, fade, and return in ways that feel unfamiliar and unsettling. The question now is not when decline starts, but whether we have misunderstood the entire arc.

New Evidence Shows The World Is Nearing Tipping Points

January 26, 2026 by Julie Majid

Signals once debated are now appearing simultaneously.

For years, climate tipping points were treated as abstract thresholds that might matter someday. That distance is shrinking fast. Multiple Earth systems are now showing stress at the same time, measured not in models but in real world loss. Ice is thinning, oceans are warming, and ecosystems are losing their ability to recover between shocks. Scientists tracking these signals warn the danger lies in overlap. When several systems weaken together, consequences accelerate beyond human timelines. The uncertainty now is not if limits exist, but how close we are to crossing them.