A 3,300-Year-Old Bird Claw Was Discovered By Archaeologists While Digging In A Cave A clawed, flightless bird that went extinct in New Zealand in the late 13th century might be brought back to life, claim scientists at Harvard University. Nearly…
9,000-year-old “Cheddar Man” Shares The Same DNA With English Teacher Of History When Adrian Targett, a retired history teacher from Somerset, walked into his local newsagents yesterday morning, he was startled to see a familiar face staring up at him.…
280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in Antarctica Geologists have discovered 280-million-year-old tree fossils in what is believed to be evidence of the oldest polar forest found in Antarctica. Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee trekked across the…
Ancient Advanced Technology: 2,400-Year-Old Yakhchals Kept Ice in the Desert In case someone ever tries to argue that ancient human civilizations were less advanced when compared to modern-day humanity, we’ve gathered some examples in favour of the ancients. They were,…
Ruins of 3,000-year-old castle discovered in Turkey’s mysterious Lake Van For thousands of years, humanity has been tantalized by the mysteries of ancient civilizations and unknown worlds from the misty past. Our primordial wanderlust has been nurtured by stories of the…
Fossilized teeth dating back 9.7 million years could ‘rewrite’ human history Scientists have announced the shock discovery in Germany of ancient teeth fossils that are nearly 10 million years old, and which they say don’t fit in with our established…
Mystery of ancient Roman sarcophagus containing ‘body of mum’ found buried beneath London An ancient Roman sarcophagus has been excavated from a building site in London. The 1,600-year-old coffin, which was discovered near Borough Market in central London, is thought to…
7.2-million-year-old pre-human fossils challenge modern human evolution theory The first hominin species, a line that eventually leads to humans, may have emerged in Europe 7.2 million years ago and not Africa—the most widely accepted starting point for our ancestors. An…
Archaeologists Discover Paintings of Ancient Egypt in a 2,000-Year-Old Villa in Pompeii A garden of a large ancient villa in Pompeii that was home to stunning paintings depicting the River Nile could hold secrets on how the early Roman Empire was influenced…
A Student Found an Ancient Canadian Village That’s 10,000 Years Older Than the Pyramids The history of humanity is prone to becoming revised whenever new significant archaeological findings are uncovered. It was traditionally believed that the Sumerians, Egyptians, Mayans, etc.…