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Pyramids Discovered Under Water Off Coast of Cuba, Might be Atlantis The remains of what may be a 6000-year-old city immersed in deep waters off the west coast of Cuba was discovered by a team of Canadian and Cuban researchers. Offshore engineer Paulina Zelitsky and her husband, Paul Weinzweig and her son Ernesto Tapanes used … Read more
Lyuba the mammoth arrives in UK for Natural History Museum exhibition She was plucked from the Siberian permafrost where she has hidden for 42,000 years. But the world’s most complete mammoth will go on show at London’s Natural History Museum at the end of this week. Lyuba the baby mammoth measures 33inches (85cm) tall and … Read more
Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by lack of intelligence, but interbreeding, study shows They are often depicted as dim-witted evolutionary losers, but Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by their lack of brains, a new study suggests. Instead, it is more likely that they disappeared 40,000 years ago because of interbreeding and assimilation with … Read more
The 2,500-year-old baby grave that still contains a toy rattle made of clay In a mass grave in Poland, tiny urns containing the remains of babies cremated two and a half millennia ago were uncovered. Archaeologists discovered the remains of thousands of settlers buried in 150 graves, or ‘pit tombs,’ while excavating a cemetery in … Read more
Goblet tricks suggests ancient Romans were first to use nanotechnology A Roman goblet could be an 1,600-year-old example of nanotechnology, according to experts. The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is made of dichroic glass and appears green when lit from the front and turns bright red when a light is shone on it from behind. The chalice, which is … Read more
Revealing the Secrets of Heracleion: An Ancient Egyptian City Lost for 1,200 Years Emerges from the Depths The ‘lost city of Atlantis has eluded explorers for centuries and is almost certainly the stuff of myth. Staggeringly, though, an ancient city that is Atlantis in all but name has emerged from under the sea near Alexandria … Read more
Legendary Viking Sunstones Did Exist: Viking Sagas Were More Truthful Than We Realized Ancient lore has suggested that the Vikings used special crystals to find their way under less-than-sunny skies. Though none of these so-called “sunstones” have ever been found at Viking archaeological sites, a crystal uncovered in a British shipwreck could help prove they … Read more
A 5,000-year-old wooden boat used by the pharaohs is discovered by French archaeologists French archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old wooden boat in an expedition in Egypt, it has emerged. The significant discovery was made in Abu Rawash, west of Cairo, the antiquities ministry in Egypt said. Mohammed Ibrahim, the antiquities minister, said: ‘It goes back … Read more
The Ancient Underwater 5,000-year-old Sunken City in Greece is Considered to Be the Oldest Submerged Lost City in the World Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago — … Read more
Incredible Discovery: Amateur Detectorist Unearths Rare 1,700-Year-Old Roman Coin Collection An amateur metal detector enthusiast discovered a huge haul of more than 10,000 Roman coins on his first-ever treasure hunt. The silver and bronze ‘nummi’ coins, which date from 240 to 320 AD, were discovered last month in a farmer’s field near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Nick … Read more