7.2-million-year-old pre-human fossils challenge modern human evolution theory The first hominin species, a line that eventually leads to humans, may have emerged in Europe 7.2 million years ago and not Africa—the most widely accepted starting point for our ancestors. An…
A Student Found an Ancient Canadian Village That’s 10,000 Years Older Than the Pyramids The history of humanity is prone to becoming revised whenever new significant archaeological findings are uncovered. It was traditionally believed that the Sumerians, Egyptians, Mayans, etc.…
Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists Archaeologists have unearthed human remains under a Florida mall that may be some of the earliest colonists in what would become the United States. The excavation began this…
Orichalcum, the lost metal of Atlantis, may have been found on a shipwreck off Sicily MYSTERIOUS red-gold metal ingots linked to the mythical civilisation of Atlantis have been recovered from an ancient shipwreck. MYSTERIOUS metal ingots linked to the mythical…
4,000-year-old skeletons of mother and child found in in Qinghai locked in embrace Victims of an ancient earthquake that had once struck the Chinese community of Lajia are now on display at the Lajia Ruins Museum. The ruins of Lajia…
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…
1,600-Year-Old Elongated Skull with Stone-Encrusted Teeth Found in Mexico Ruins Archaeologists in Mexico have recently uncovered a 1,600-year-old skeleton of a woman who had mineral-encrusted teeth and an intentionally elongated skull – evidence that suggests she was part of her…
Polish Archaeologists Discover One of the Oldest Cases of Skull Surgery in NE Africa Poznań archaeologists working in Sudan unearthed one of the oldest known cases of trepanation of the skull in North East Africa, dating back roughly 7,000 years.…
Scientists discover remains of Hobbit human that stood only 3ft high and lived 700,000 years ago in Indonesia An international team of researchers has just announced the discovery of 700,000-year-old remains that are related to a tiny species of human…
Florida sinkhole discovery suggests humans lived in America 1,500 years earlier than previously thought The discovery of stone tools found in a Florida river show that humans settled the southeastern United States far earlier than previously believed—perhaps by as much…