Archaeology News

20/11/2022

36-Million-Year-Old Whale Fossil Found In Peruvian Desert

Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient whale that inhabited the seas 36 million years ago, found last year in a Peruvian desert. “We have presented the....

20/11/2022

Fake it Till You Make it: ‘Divine’ Maya Kings Exaggerated their Greatness

In the hieroglyphic records they left behind, the rulers of the Classic Period Maya city known as Tamarindito bragged about their exalted status as “divine lords” chosen by the gods to rule....

20/11/2022

Sacra di San Michele, Italy 🇮🇹

20/11/2022

Mpuluzi Batholith: A 200-million-year-old ‘giant’ footprint discovered in South Africa

Did a giant alien race come down to live on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago? The evidence around the world says yes, giants existed. This footprint is massive....

19/11/2022

Sutton Hoo Ship Burial And Famous Helmet That Could Belong To Raedwald, King Of All The Kings Of Britain

The royal burial site at Sutton Hoo, a few miles from the Suffolk coast, East England, is the most famous of all Anglo-Saxon sites. It is mainly known for its....

19/11/2022

Egyptian Elite Sarcophagi and Unique Gold Treasures Unearthed

In Egypt, archaeologists have revealed a number of tombs that contain sarcophaguses. They also found a treasure trove of grave goods and other funerary figurines at the location. The sarcophagi, in particular, are....

19/11/2022

Queen Anhapou and a unknown woman at Cairo Museum, Egypt.

19/11/2022

FRAGMENT OF BOAT MODEL AMONG NEW FINDS AT BAHRA IN NORTHERN KUWAIT

A KUWAIT-POLISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION (KPAM), WORKING WITH ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE CENTRE OF MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW, HAVE UNCOVERED A FRAGMENT OF A BOAT MODEL AMONG NEW FINDS....

18/11/2022

Tomb Of Pharaoh Seti I Is The Largest Tomb In The Valley Of The Kings

How big the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I? it is huge indeed! The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I the largest tomb and the longest tunnel ever found in any place....

18/11/2022

El Tajín, The Lost City of a Mysterious People

In recent decades many lost cities have been uncovered by archaeologists or explorers. One of the most mysterious is the ancient city of El Tajín in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.....

18/11/2022

Natufian Woman found buried beside a puppy.
At a prehistoric site in northern Israel, a woman was discovered buried beside a pup; her hand resting upon the dog. The burial dates back to 12,000 years ago and adds to evidence of dog domestication in prehistoric times.

18/11/2022

Father discovered a medieval English gold coin worth a record $875,000 on the first day he tried out his new metal detector

When his children were born, Michael Leigh-Mallory gave up his passion for metal detecting. Now, 10 and 13, they encouraged him to take up the hobby again. On the first....

17/11/2022

The oldest submerged city: A 5000 old sunken perfectly designed city in southern Greece

There is a little village called Pavlopetri, in the Peloponnesus region of southern Greece, where a nearby ancient city dating back 5,000 years resides. Pavlopetri – Laconia This is however....

17/11/2022

The Hidden Identity of the Woman Glorified as Athena: Her Link to the Pre-Flood World

Here is that woman in all her splendor, reconstructed in the imitation Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, based on the original in her ancient temple atop Athens’ Acropolis —the high place of the....

17/11/2022

Discovering an approximately 3500-year-old burial mask from the tomb of Djehuty, Karnak, Egypt in 2004.

16/11/2022

Egyptian pharaoh was executed on the battlefield, mummy reveals

A CT scan of the skull of Seqenenre Taa II, whose facial wounds suggest a violent battlefiend death. (Image credit: Sahar Saleem) Egyptian pharaoh Seqenenre Taa II may have died on....

16/11/2022

Homunculi: Did the “little men” of ancient alchemy exist?

The practice of alchemy stretches back to ancient times, but the word itself dates only from the early 17th century. It comes from the Arabic kimiya and an earlier Persian....

16/11/2022

Mummy feet appear in the sands of Saqqara, it is said to be more than 4500 years old.🖤

16/11/2022

Enigmatic Bronze Hand Holds First Basque Script Ever Discovered

A linguistic expert has decoded curious symbols on a 2,100-years-old bronze hand that was discovered last year at an Iron Age castle in Spain. The symbols represent the “earliest” text....

15/11/2022

Giant 146,000-Year-Old Human Skull Found In China Raises Questions On Evolution

Scientists have discovered a huge fossilised skull that was wrapped and kept hidden in a Chinese well, nearly 90 years ago, and this discovery makes them question the trajectory of....

15/11/2022

Unravelling the Lesser-known Laser-sharp Cuts of Megalithic Japan

A hurdle in the way of many Western researchers of megalithic Japan is the mystique that surrounds the history of the combined 6,800 islands that piece together the archipelago of....

15/11/2022

The remains of a Roman aqueduct in Patara, Turkey.
An inverted siphon, it carried drinking water for over 22km!

15/11/2022

Ancient scrolls charred by Vesuvius could be read once again

US scientists say it may be possible to decipher words using new x-ray technique When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 it destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, their inhabitants....

14/11/2022

4,800-year-old Fossils of Young Mother Cradling Her Baby Discovered in Taiwan (video)

Discovering ancient artifacts and ruins is no easy feat, to say the least, but the sad reality we live in dictates that most of these findings don’t really make their....

14/11/2022

Finding the Lost City of Heracleion: Encountering Myth Under the Waves

The city of Heracleion was swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt nearly 1,200 years ago. It was one of the most important trade centers in the....

14/11/2022

Trapp Lodge is one of the most beautiful and historic places in Vermont. This is the site of the former home of the Trapp family, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria and inspired the hit film. "Sounds of music".

It was built in 1945 by Werner von Trapp, the fourth child of Captain Georg von Trapp and his first wife.

14/11/2022

New Evidence Ancient Chinese Explorers Landed in America Excites Experts

John A. Ruskamp Jr., Ed.D., reports that he has identified an outstanding, history-changing treasure hidden in plain sight. High above a walking path in Albuquerque’s Petroglyph National Monument, Ruskamp spotted....

13/11/2022

Mother Found Still Cradling Baby After 4800 Years

It is a fitting discovery as Mother’s Day approaches. Archaeologists have uncovered the ancient remains of a young mother and an infant child locked in a 4,800-year-old embrace. The mother....

13/11/2022

Amazing Prehistoric Forest Submerged Under Water Thousands Of Years Ago Re-Emerges On Welsh Beach

A unique forest submerged under water 6,000 – 8,000 years ago has re-emerged along the Welsh coast. Dozens of tree stumps, trunks, and root systems become visible at low tide....

13/11/2022

Bronze depiction of Nimrod/Herakles and the serpent-entwined apple tree from Byblos, Lebanon, 1st Century AD.

13/11/2022

Ancient Chinese tomb dating back 2,500 years uncovered to shed light on obscure kingdom

Archaeologists in Luoyang, central China, unveiled a 2,500-year-old tomb they’ve been excavating since 2009. The tomb contained copper bells and ceremonial pots. It is the largest site of around 200....

12/11/2022

600-YEAR-OLD COIN MAY BE OLDEST FOUND IN CANADA

A GOLD COIN DISCOVERED WITHIN NEWFOUNDLAND’S SOUTHERN COAST MAY BE THE OLDEST COIN FOUND IN CANADA. The coin was uncovered at an undisclosed archaeological site (to protect the location from....

12/11/2022

Red-Pink Granite Sarcophagus of Ramses II’s Secretary Found at Saqqara

The pink-red granite sarcophagus of Ptahmweia, a royal secretary during the reign of Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) of the Nineteenth Dynasty, has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis. This is....

12/11/2022

Statue of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ca.1333-1328 BC, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom.

12/11/2022

Fossilized Leg of Dinosaur Ripped Off by Catastrophic Asteroid Impact Found

Scientists now know that a massive Yucatan asteroid struck the earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ultimately causing most species of dinosaur to go....

11/11/2022

Khentkawes I: The Mysterious Mother of two Kings of Egypt and a Forgotten Ruler of the 4th Dynasty

Queens of Ancient Egypt played significant roles throughout history both in life and in death, but the attention is usually given to striking noble women such as: Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, Nefertari,....

11/11/2022

Giant, ancient human remains-According to reports, scientists in Bulgaria have discovered unusually large remains

According to ancient legends once he walked the Earth giant race of people who built the giant pyramids and buildings as a divine temples. Their existence also tells the story....

11/11/2022

Statue of Sun Tzu in Yurihama, Tottori, in Japan.

11/11/2022

Cultural restitution: Artefacts returned to Iran after legal battle

After a 40-year journey, a collection of ancient artefacts has been returned to the National Museum of Iran, closing the latest chapter in the era of cultural restitution. The 51....