4,800-Year-Old Mother and Baby Fossil Embrace Unearthed in Taiwan It is a fitting discovery as Mother’s Day approaches. Archaeologists have uncovered the ancient remains of a young mother and an infant child locked in a 4,800-year-old embrace. The remarkable find…
Archaeologists uncover 4,500-year-old mummified woman near ancient city in Peru The remains of a 4,500-year-old mummified woman buried near one of the most ancient cities of the Americas have been found by archaeologists in northern Peru. Dr Ruth Shady Solís said the…
Archaeologists Unearth Prehistoric Village of First Farmers in Israel It is a rich and fertile land where agriculture is supposed to have started before spreading around the world. Now archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric village that may have belonged to…
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,…
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…
Archaeologists Unearth Tomb of Genghis Khan in Mongolia’s Khentii Province Construction workers employed in road building near the Onon River in the Khentii province of Mongolia, have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of many dozens of human corpses…
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…
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…
A 5,000-year-old wooden boat used by the pharaohs is discovered by French archaeologists French archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old wooden boat in an expedition in Egypt, it has emerged. The significant discovery was made in Abu Rawash, west of Cairo,…
The Ancient Underwater 5,000-year-old Sunken City in Greece is Considered to Be the Oldest Submerged Lost City in the World Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that…