Archaeological Discoveries
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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…
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 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…
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…
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 …
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…
Update: New Finding Adds to the Mystery of this Ancient Astronomical Computer
May 23, 2016 The mechanism was discovered in 1901 in an ancient shipwreck near Crete. Its origins still remain a mystery, but it is believed…
3,700-year-old Egyptian scarab seal found by Israeli birdwatcher!
The seal, found near the Tel Dor archeological site near Mount Carmel, belonged to a senior Egyptian official of the Thirteenth Pharaonic dy…
Wealthy 3,600-year-old Trading Hub Found in Gaza
Gold, jewelry and Aegean imports found in Tel el-Ajjul, the town that may have sheltered the Hyksos fleeing Egypt, show the inhabitants were…
Decorated Human Jaw Unearthed in Mexico
CORVALLIS, OREGON—Live Science reports on the ongoing study of a 1,300-year-old carved and painted human mandible discovered in a ceremonial…
Britain’s Atlantis: Scientific study beneath North Sea could revolutionise how we see the past
Archaeologists are searching for the lost tribes of prehistoric Britain – at the bottom of the North Sea. In a unique and ground-breaking op…
World’s largest asteroid impact zone found in Australia
Australian scientists have uncovered what is believed to be the largest asteroid impact zone ever found on Earth, in central Australia. A te…
Archaeologists Find Sunken Egyptian City
In an article written by ABC News back in June of 2001, they make mention of an ancient Egyptian city that was discovered 6.5 km off of mode…
The Mysterious big circles of Jordan and Syria
In the 1920s, a mustachioed British commander named Lionel Rees set out across the deserts of what would become Jordan. Snapping some of the…
Are there ‘oceans’ hiding inside the Earth?
The chance discovery of a mystery rock wrapped inside a diamond has made scientists question how our oceans formed – and what might be lurki…