Egtved Girl’s Unique 3,400-Year-Old Style Of Dress One of the most significant finds of the Bronze Age, the remains of a teenage girl discovered in Denmark, is starting to give up her secrets. Found in a large burial mound back in 1921, she was named the Egtved girl for the town in Denmark where she was laid … Read more
A 40,000-year-old Bracelet Discovered in Siberia May Have Been Crafted by an Extinct Human Species A unique green stone bracelet discovered beside ancient human remains in a Siberian cave is ‘the oldest ever found’ dating back around 40,000 years, say Russian experts. The intricate modern-looking piece of polished jewellery – perhaps belonging to a prehistoric … Read more
Roman Gladiators were mostly Vegetarian, Drank Sports Drinks from Bone and Ashes Roman gladiators had a diet that was mostly vegetarian, according to an analysis of bones from a cemetery where the arena fighters were buried. The study has been carried out by academics from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and the University … Read more
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