A 2,000-year-old Shoe Discovered in a German Bog A leather shoe that was lost in a bog for 2,000 years was found by archaeologists who believe it may have slipped off the owner’s foot when they accidentally stepped in the…
Florida’s Windover Bog Bodies: Predating the Egyptian Pyramids and Potentially Rewriting Ancient American History There is a fascinating ancient underwater cemetery in Florida, North America. It is called Windover Pond, and it is 8,000 years old. Windover Pond is older…
Could Ancient Peruvians Really Know How To Melt Stone Blocks? If a Spanish craftsman could carve stone to look like this in today’s world, why not the ancient Peruvians? The idea of plant matter melting stone seems improbable, yet theories…
Ancient Human Footprints Unearthed: Tracing the Journey of Early Migration in Saudi Arabia Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest human footprints ever found in the Arabian peninsula. They are believed to be around 120,000 years old and lie at the site…
Vast DNA Analysis of Hundreds of Vikings Reveals They Weren’t Who We Thought A fascinating DNA study of more than 400 Viking skeletons has just re-written history. Today we know with certainty some Vikings were not those who we previously thought. Scientists…
Naqsh-e Rustam: Ancient Persian Tombs of Achaemenid Kings Naqsh-e Rustam is one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring ancient sites of the Achaemenid Empire, consisting of the colossal tombs of Persian kings dating back to the first millennium BC. It…
Inside the 13th century Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland which contains 2,000 rooms and a chapel The Wieliczka salt mine has a long history, dating back to the Middle Ages when it was known as Magnum Sal, or Great Salt.…
6000-Year-Old German Burial Chamber Destroys Egalitarian Ideologies Valuable stone axes found at a 6,000-year old hilltop burial site in Germany have suggest Neolithic societies were not as egalitarian as once thought, experts said. The two weapons were found at the Hofheim-Kapellenberg site 140…
Female warrior was buried with legs wide apart in the ‘riding position’ 2,400 years ago Valerii Guliaev, the head of Don expedition, announced the first results of the examination on the 6th of December at the session of Academic Council…
A 3.8-million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors A “remarkably complete” skull belonging to an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago has been discovered in Ethiopia. This is the first time a skull belonging to…