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Skeleton provides evidence that confirms historical events mentioned in the Norwegian Viking Sagas
Image credit: The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research The location and contents of the well are mentioned in Sverre’s Saga, a…
The World’s Oldest Writing
In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Baby…
ALASKA: Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site
Some years ago, a team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made fr…
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
(Credit: Martin Frouz and Jirí Svoboda) Three ~31,000-year-old skulls from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic. For the next five thousand…
Curious Discovery: ‘Demon Traps’ Found in 17th-Century English House under restoration
English archaeologists have discovered “demon traps” under the floorboards of one of Britain’s most important historic houses. Consisting of…
An interesting tale of a lustful woodland fellow: The ‘Wild Man’. An introduction to a little known deity of the European Middle Ages
Photo Credit: © Suffolk County Council Artifact What is it?Spoon finial or knop CultureMedieval European Dateca. A.D. 1300–1400 MaterialGild…
The Ides of March: The assassination of Julius Caesar and how it changed the world
La Mort de César (ca. 1859–1867) by Jean-Léon Gérôme Spurinna was a haruspex. His calling was vital, if a little unusual, requiring him to s…
Prophecy Of The Oldest Tree In Wales: The Legend Of The Angelystor Yew
The Llangernyw Yew is the oldest tree in Wales. In ancient the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, North Wales stands one of the world’s oldest tr…
The View From Space Hinted at a New Viking Site in North America. Archaeologists check it out.
A “high-tech Indiana Jones” may have just done what no one else has been able to for 55 years: find a second Viking settlement in North Amer…
Beads Found in 3,400-year-old ‘Nordic Graves’ Were Made by King Tut’s Glassmaker
An elaborate glass bead with amber embedding found in a 3400-year old Danish grave turns out to have come from ancient Egypt. (Credit: Rober…
There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Travis Rathbone) As a nomadic cultural historian, my subjects have led me in wi…
Was an ancient ‘Vimana’ really unearthed in 2012??
An ancient “flying machine” (or parts thereof) reportedly were discovered in a cave in Afghanistan and retreived in 2012, and the news was …
Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life
Rosetta’s comet in August 2015, when it was closest to the sun and when most of the glycine was detected. Ingredients crucial for the origin…
Dragons, aliens, bugs? Scientists may have solved the mystery of the desert’s ‘fairy circles’
A fairy circle in the Western Australian outback. Researchers report the discovery of fairy circles in the western Australian outback that a…
Tutankhamun’s dagger ‘originated’ from outer space.
According to a revised study, the dagger that once belonged to Pharaoh Tutankhamun has a curious extraterrestrial composition. Researchers s…
Searching for the next Dead Sea Scrolls ahead of thieves: Dust to dust as archaeologists and volunteers keep up the pace.
One day in 2009, rumors of an extremely rare archaeological artifact began circulating the antiquities black market: a papyrus bearing 15 li…
Mysterious Mass Graves Hold Prisoners of Bloody 17th-Century Battles of the English Civil Wars
Two mass graves holding an estimated 1,700 skeletons were found underground at the southern tip of Durham University’s Palace Green Library.…
Scientists Finally Crack The Code Of The Ancient ‘Phaistos Disk? They say ‘Yes’…
Minoan art, Crete, Phaistos Disc, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium B.C.), Side A: Fired clay, It has …
Count St. Germain – The Man and the Mystery
He was a mysterious person who refused to discuss his origin, fortune, and civil status and we know him first of all as Count de St. Germain…
2,300-Year-Old Pure Gold Crown Forgotten Under Pensioner’s Bed
An elderly man was stunned when he discovered that a box of trinkets he inherited from his grandfather contained an ancient Greek crown made…
Black Death maps reveal how the plague devastated medieval Britain
Areas of the UK heavily affected by the Black DeathAntiquity/University of Lincoln An in-depth analysis of pottery shards has revealed the “…
DNA test results confirmed: Paracas skulls are not human – Further testing planned
Photo Credits: Marcia K. Moore Who were these mysterious beings? Did they evolve separately on Earth?What caused them to have such drastic d…
Vitrified wall at Ste-Suzanne (Mayenne) in Scotland: The hill fort – Top O Noth, Aberdeenshire mystery
The hill fort ‘Tap O Noth’ lies on a hill top in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Along the fort is a vitrified wall, a wall heated to such an inten…
Ancient Device for Determining Taxes Discovered in Egypt
The nilometer was used to predict harvest (and taxes) linked to the rise and fall of the Nile River Stone steps uncovered at the ancient por…