A team of Spanish archaeologists has found 60 mummies buried in two tombs in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor. The tomb of the Vizier Amenhotep-Huy in Luxor, Egypt. The newly discovered chambers are connected to the tomb of Amenhotep-Huy,...
“Nothiпg else like this has beeп foυпd.” Oпe of the archaeologists excavatiпg the Gribshυпdeп, led by Swedeп’s Lυпd Uпiversity, explores some of the ship’s timbers. (Image credit: Brett Seymoυr) Α 15th-ceпtυry...
Just when we think we’ve seen it all, Mother Nature surprises us with a beautiful creation. If you have ever seen “Games of Thrones” you will surely think that these armadillo lizards are a perfect miniature version of the dragons...
Iп the year 79, the Romaп city of Pompeii was “obliterated” wheп the volcaпo Vesυviυs erυpted, killiпg aboυt 2,000 people. Αrchaeologists foυпd maпy Petrified bodies wheп excavatiпg this place. Αrchaeologists...
Since 2008, Two-Headed Sharks have been popping up and experts have been trying to figure out the problem. Though two-headed sharks may sound like something from one of those B-list movie productions, they are real. Even more perplexing...
Last Friday, French archaeological agency INRAP shared new insights regarding two sarcophagi unearthed during pre-restoration assessments at Notre Dame in March. In partnership with the University of Toulouse, INRAP announced they’ve...
One of the new Nazca lines. Photo courtesy of Yamagata University. Once again, a team of archaeologists from Japan’s Yamagata University have discovered new Nazca Lines, this time announcing that they’ve spotted 168 previously...
A display of items found 200 years ago at the Upton Lovell burial site near Stonehenge. All photos courtesy University of Leicester. Archaeologists at the University of Leicester have just re-examined five 4,000-year-old tools like...
Microscopic remains of 7,000-year-old cotton are the earliest such fibers to have been found in the ancient Near East, offering new insights into the ancient village of Tel Tsaf in Israel. Among the mud-brick architectural structures...
An autonomous underwater vehicle named Hugin is sweeping Lake Mjøsa in Norway for unexploded World War II munitions dumped there between the 1940s and 1970s. Piloted by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
While examining land earmarked for a housing development northwest of Copenhagen, the Danish capital, archeologists have discovered the remains of a skeleton along with a flint axe and animal bones believed to date back more than 5,000...
When looters broke into a burial cave in Israel’s Judean Lowlands in the 1980s, they set off a chain of excavations that continue to this day. First came a prolonged dig led by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) that labelled the...
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An unprecedented light detection and ranging (LiDAR) survey of 650 square miles across northern Guatemala’s Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (MCKB) has discovered 964 previously unknown ancient Maya settlements beneath the brush, dating...
The human story behind one of History’s most sensationalized maritime cold cases is coming to light. Parks Canada, the agency overseeing wreckages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, has completed its latest excavations of the former...
Experts are reevaluating prehistoric Pleistocene-era sites in Brazil previously believed to have been home to ancient humans. It turns out, the 50,000-year-old stone tools discovered in excavations are probably the work of capuchin...
Megasthenes (early 3rd century B.C.), who served for 10 years as ambassador of the Seleucid king Nikator at the court of Chandragupta Maurya, describes in detail in his book titled ‘Indica’ the existing Brahmanic and Sramanian...
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