Huge Ancient Sarayini Underground City Is Twice As Large As Previously Thought The ‘world’s most advanced’ ancient underground city, kitted out with modern stoves and cellars, has been unearthed for the first time. Turkish archaeologists discovered the long-lost complex that is…
490-Million-Year-Old Trilobites Could Solve Ancient Geography Puzzle Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography. Trilobites are extinct…
Sumerians Built A Huge ‘Anti-Drought Machine’ To Save Ancient City Of Girsu From Destruction In ancient city Girsu, located near the modern city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, revealed through a recent excavation by the British Museum, that ancient Sumerians…
More Than 3,000 Roman Coins And Gems Unearthed At Italy’s ‘Pompeii Of The North’ Italian archaeologists have unearthed 50 unique jewels during ongoing excavations at Claterna, the ancient Roman site known as the ‘Pompeii of the North’. Along with the…
Is the 20 million year old Wolfsegg Iron an artificially made artifact? The 20 million-year-old Wolfsegg Iron, also known as the Salzburg Cube, is a small piece of iron that was found within a block of coal in the town…
Maya Sculpture Discovered in Mexico at Chichén Itzá Archaeological rescue work ahead of the Maya Train construction has turned up another remarkable find in Chichén Itzá – a well-preserved sculpture of a Maya warrior head, in a helmet shaped like…
China’s Headless Skeletons Reveal The Largest Headhunting Massacre In Neolithic Asia Headless skeletons from a 4,100-year-old massacre in China are from victims of the largest known ‘headhunt’ from Neolithic Asia. Ancient headless skeletons recovered from mass graves in China are the remains…
Unexpected Underwater Discovery Of 50,000 Ancient Coins Off Sardinia Hints At Hidden Shipwreck A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia’s coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins. Italy’s culture ministry…
Unveiling History: Sensational 4,000-Year-Old Grave Discovery in Norway Archaeologists report unearthing an extremely important 4,000-year-old grave in Norway. It’s a sensational discovery and the most unique Stone Age finds in Norway in the last 100 years, says Morten Ramstad at…
Oldest Known Spearthrowers Found At 31,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site Of Maisières-Canal Archaeologists in Belgium have demonstrated that spearthrowers were used for launching projectiles armed with tanged flint points at the Early Upper Paleolithic site of Maisières-Canal around 31,000 years ago. Humans…