Archaeological Discoveries
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The Megalithic Japanese Pyramid
Another Pyramid in Asia… Why did the ancients build so many pyramids across the world? Near the village of Asuka, Japanese archaeologists di…
Unearthing the Ancient Marble Head of Medusa!
In the ruins of a Roman city in southern Turkey, archaeologists have discovered a marble head of Medusa, somehow spared during an early Chri…
Discovery Of 6000 Yr Old Remains In Megalithic Irish Tomb
This article first appeared in ancient-origins.net and is written by Mark Miller The remains of two apparently prominent people who were amo…
Submerged Greek Village Discovered off the Coast of Greece
A sunken Bronze Age village dating to perhaps 2,500 B.C. has been discovered by researchers diving off the coast of Greece. A diver picks th…
32 Victims of Human Sacrifice at Cahokia Were Locals, Not ‘Foreign’ Captives, Study Finds
The practice of human sacrifice in America’s largest prehistoric city was more subtle and complex than experts once thought, new research su…
Great Blue Hole off Belize yields new clues to fall of Mayan civilisation
Research supports theory that drought and climate conditions reduced Mayans from a regional power to survivors abandoning cities to virtual …
French archaeology students find 560,000-year-old tooth
Two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in south-western France, a discovery praised…
Subterranean river discovered beneath Mexico’s Chichen Itza ruins
Scientists reveal cavity 20 metres below the pyramid of Kukulkan, also known as El Castillo. Experts have discovered that the main pyramid a…
10,000 Year-Old Monolith Discovered in the Sicilian Channel
Hey there fellow Ancient Explorers! A submerged man-made monolith 12 meters (40 feet) in length has been discovered in a shallow bank of the…
Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid
A complex of tombs recently discovered under a pyramid in Peru offers landmark clues to a thousand-year-old pre-Incan culture at Túcume: a p…
Galactic Archaeology reveals surprising fact about stars in our galaxy
A single frame from an animation shows how stellar orbits in the Milky Way can change. It shows two pairs of stars (marked as red and blue) …
2,000 year old Roman Aqueduct discovered
A pair of British amateur archaeologists believe they have found the hidden source of a Roman aqueduct 1,900 years after it was inaugurated …
What lies beneath?
A tantalising clue to the location of a long-sought pharaonic tomb NOTHING has inspired generations of archaeologists like the discovery in …
A glimpse of lost language
In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeolog…
Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest
Deep in the Honduran jungle, in the La Mosquitia valley area, a team of archaeologists unearthed evidence of a lost city, including an effig…
Submerged man-made structures 9,500 years old – Near Dwaraka
Marine scientists in India say an archaeological site off India’s western coast may be up to 9,000 years old.
Cambodia: Behind the discovery of a new Khmer city
A jungle-clad royal city, once the subject of local legend and with links to Angkor Wat, was recently identified to much excitement in Cambo…
Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
The BBC Reports–Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,0…
LIDAR archaeology shines light on Ancient Sites
Airborne laser scanning has revealed the remnants of a vast urban structure in the vicinity of Angkor Wat, a famous temple in Cambodia.
New Nazca Lines uncovered in Peru
High winds and sandstorms in Peru have revealed previously undiscovered geoglyphs in the ancient Nazca Lines. Eduardo Herrán Gómez de la Tor…
Underground Pyramid-shaped Structure Found in Italy
Archaeologists are scratching their heads about an underground pyramid-shaped structure they have been excavating beneath the historic medie…
Ancient Astronaut Theory: Were The Mayans Not Alone?
Spotlight on the Maya Part 1 of 5 The hieroglyphs on an ancient tomb dating back to a Maya king discovered in Mexico have recently been deci…
The Discovery Of The Biggest Mexican Pyramid
This article first appeared in ancient-code.com and is written by Ivan Petricevic Researchers discover immense pyramid in Mexico, larger tha…
Ancient Giant Rings In The Bosnian Mountains!?
Have researchers found 30 million year old giant rings in the Bosnian mountains? According to the local population, it is believed that thes…