King Tut’s Cosmic Scarab Brooch And Dagger Linked To Meteorite’s Crash 28 Million Years Ago The fascinating story of the origins of a component in Tutankhamun’s scarab brooch has been furthered this week. It has been established that some of the…
Mystery Of A 5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave In Poland Reveals A Family Tragedy When a mass grave containing 15 women, children and young men who lived 5,000 years ago was found in a southern Polish village, a mystery surrounded their demise.…
Liquid blood and urine have been found inside a prehistoric 42,000-year-old foal A 42,000-year-old foal discovered frozen in Siberian permafrost contained a surprise: the oldest liquid blood on record. This is the second time that a defrosted Ice Age animal…
Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth Her name is Yuka: an ancient woolly mammoth that last lived some 28,000 years ago, before becoming mummified in the frozen permafrost wastelands of northern Siberia. But now that icy tomb is no longer the…
Egyptian Archaeologists Discovered The Tomb Of A Priest Dating Back More Than 4,400 Years In Saqqara Egyptian archaeologists discovered the tomb of a priest dating back more than 4,400 years in the pyramid complex of Saqqara south of the capital…
17th-Century Warship Wrested From Icy Baltic Sea, Near-Perfect Condition During the 1620s, Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus ordered the construction of a new warship to serve his people’s defense. The warship picked the name Vasa and its construction was hurried as…
A Greek Farmer Stumbled on a 3,400-Year-Old Tomb in His Olive Grove While Parking His Car When you live in an area that’s been home to ancient civilizations, sometimes you stumble on remarkable pieces of long-forgotten history. That’s what happened…
Timeless Beauty: Journey into the Past with a 30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Encased in Pristine Amber Embedded within a clear piece of amber, a small praying mantis sits at attention, frozen forever in time. The piece, which measures just slightly…
A 1,800-Year-Old Roman Signet Ring Engraved With The Goddess Of Victory Found In A Field In Somerset An amateur treasure hunter used a metal detector to unearth a 1,800-year-old gold Roman signet ring in Somerset. Pest control officer Jason Massey,…
A German Farmer Was Just Awarded Almost $1 Million for an Ancient Roman Bronze Found on His Property Nine years ago, in the fields of Lahnau, Germany, archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery – a Roman bronze sculpture hidden beneath the…