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Bronze Age Discovery: Amazing 3000-year-old settlement gives up wheel!

Bronze Age Discovery: Amazing 3000-year-old settlement gives up wheel!

Complete Bronze Age wheel believed to be the largest and earliest of its kind found in the UK has been unearthed The 3,000-year-old artefact…

Bronze Age Settlement 3000 Years Old (Part 2): ‘Must Farm, UK’ dig site give up more amazing artifacts!

Bronze Age Settlement 3000 Years Old (Part 2): ‘Must Farm, UK’ dig site give up more amazing artifacts!

Archaeologists said they were “thrilled” to find the well-preserved wooden box inside one of the roundhouses worked on a wooden platform as …

Mystery of the Mummy from KV55: Dr. Zahi Hawass

Mystery of the Mummy from KV55: Dr. Zahi Hawass

Akhenaten, Egypt’s first and only monotheistic Pharaoh, has intrigued Egyptologists for centuries. Has the Egyptian Mummy Project finally fo…

Rockwall – An American Secret

Rockwall – An American Secret

A rectangular wall found more than 100 years ago in Texas, may be an antediluvian remnant.   Most people living in Rockwall Texas do not eve…

Snowden Explains Why We Miss Aliens’ Messages: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Snowden Explains Why We Miss Aliens’ Messages: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Edward Snowden said that encryption is probably the only thing stopping us from talking to aliens. He joined Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk …

The Lost Cycle of Time

The Lost Cycle of Time

Ancient cultures around the world spoke of a vast cycle of time with alternating Dark and Golden Ages; Plato called it the Great Year. Most …

The Secret Sphinx Tunnels!?

The Secret Sphinx Tunnels!?

There have been rumours of passageways and secret chambers surrounding the Sphinx and during recent restoration work several small tunnels h…

40,000-year-old stone bracelet from Denison Cave is oldest ever found

40,000-year-old stone bracelet from Denison Cave is oldest ever found

Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsmanship of prehistoric jewellery. <Mad…

Unearthed: A Friars’ Leather Shop

Unearthed: A Friars’ Leather Shop

Greyfriars excavation, Oxford, England (Courtesy Oxford Archaeology) An excavation in Oxford, England, conducted by Oxford Archaeology in ad…

12,000-year-old grave of Shaman woman unearthed in Galilee

12,000-year-old grave of Shaman woman unearthed in Galilee

Bones of a prehistoric woman discovered in a burial site in the Hilazon cave in northern Israel. (Naftali Hilger) Well-preserved burial site…

Bronze Age Necropolis Unearthed In Siberia

Bronze Age Necropolis Unearthed In Siberia

These compelling images show ancient burials in Staryi Tartas village, in Novosibirsk region, where scientists have studied some 600 tombs. …

Search for Another King Under a Parking Lot Begins

Search for Another King Under a Parking Lot Begins

<Historical texts indicate that after his death in 1135, King Henry I was interred in front of the high altar of Reading Abbey (shown here).…

Gateway to Ancient Greek God’s Compound Uncovered?

Gateway to Ancient Greek God’s Compound Uncovered?

<The bronze mask of Pan discovered near Hippos is unusually large compared to other such bronze masks of the Greek God that date from the sa…

‘Wand’ discovered in cave is found to be 6,000 years old!

‘Wand’ discovered in cave is found to be 6,000 years old!

The lead object was the first of its kind found in the Eastern Mediterranean region. A nondescript cave in Israel was the location of a majo…

Ancient Shrine That May Hold Buddha’s Skull Bone Found in Crypt

Ancient Shrine That May Hold Buddha’s Skull Bone Found in Crypt

A skull bone of the Buddha was found inside this gold casket, which was stored in a silver casket within the stupa model, found in a crypt b…

Lost Royal Treasure of 17th Century Marbles Reclaimed

Lost Royal Treasure of 17th Century Marbles Reclaimed

Many Faces of PowerAs drought depleted Poland’s Vistula River (map), tons of looted 17th-century marble artifacts—including this stonework p…

Archaeologists open lid on ‘Plain of Jars’ mystery

Archaeologists open lid on ‘Plain of Jars’ mystery

The Plain of Jars in northern Laos is home to a 2000-year-old mystery. Photo: AFP ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE Australian National University (AN…

5,000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs found in Australia?

5,000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs found in Australia?

According to research, these hieroglyphs were first sighted in the 1900’s and there are about 250 stone carvings that have been part of the …

Rare Representation of Neolithic Human Rediscovered

Rare Representation of Neolithic Human Rediscovered

An all-but-forgotten Neolithic human figurine that was originally found at the ancient settlement of Skara Brae in Scotland in the 1860s, ha…

Archaeologists Are Spotting Ancient Ruins in Cold War Spy Photos

Archaeologists Are Spotting Ancient Ruins in Cold War Spy Photos

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow-Up features a wayward London fashion photographer called Thomas who unwittingly documents a murder. …

Did Ancient Earth Have More Than Two Magnetic Poles?

Did Ancient Earth Have More Than Two Magnetic Poles?

Earth’s magnetic field is more complicated than we thought! Most of us don’t often think about Earth’s magnetic field, but without it, human…

Four Human Skeletons Appear In Ancient Shop Near Pompeii

Four Human Skeletons Appear In Ancient Shop Near Pompeii

June 24, 2016 Skeletons found in a shop near the Porto Ercolano at Pompeii. The find was recently announced by the Archaeological Superinten…

Ancient Unknown Underwater City With Large Columns And Sarcophagus Discovered Off Marmara Sea

Ancient Unknown Underwater City With Large Columns And Sarcophagus Discovered Off Marmara Sea

In the Roman era there was a busy sea trade in this region, these new findings just verified that thesis. An amateur diver has discovered an…

Roman coins unearthed in Devon prompt historians to redraw map of the empire

Roman coins unearthed in Devon prompt historians to redraw map of the empire

Credit:  Article by Jess Staufenberg – Independent.com  (6-23-2016) The boundary of the Roman Empire and its influence in Britain are being …