Rare Maya Ball Game Stone Marker with Hieroglyphic Text Discovered in Chichén Itzá Archaeologists have discovered a disc-shaped stone marker from the Maya ball game at the archaeological site of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico. It is intact and contains a complete…
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…
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…
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…
Archaeologists from Stanford find an 8,000-year-old ‘goddess figurine’ in central Turkey An 8,000-year-old statuette of what could be a fertility goddess has been unearthed at a Neolithic site in Turkey, according to archaeologists. The figurine, discovered at Çatalhöyük in central…
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,…
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…