Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Ice Age art discovered in Amazon rainforest: ‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ In Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia, in the Amazon rainforest, an eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art depicting animals and humans was discovered. The 12,500-year-old work of art, dubbed the Sistine Chapel of the Ancients, was unearthed by a British-Colombian team of archaeologists under the leadership of José Iriarte, […]

Ancient Atomic Bombs Formed Desert Glass? Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the founder of the atomic bomb, was lecturing at a college seven years after the nuclear testing in Alamogordo, New Mexico, when a student asked whether it was the first atomic test performed. “Yes, in modern times,” he replied. The sentence, enigmatic and incomprehensible at the time, was actually an […]

6th century AD tomb yields the longest sword from ancient Japan In a 1,500-year-old underground tunnel tomb in southern Kyushu, Japan, two rare and unique swords have been found. One of them is the longest sword ever discovered in an ancient Japanese tomb, while the other has a hilt that is the oldest ray-decorated item found in East Asia, wrapped […]

2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found – Complete with Rider And Horses An Iron Age chariot has been discovered buried in a village in Yorkshire for the second time in two years. The find was made at a construction site where more than 200 houses are being constructed in the town of Pocklington, England. Archaeologists are preparing to fully excavate the discovery as […]

Unique 1000-year-old helmet discovered in Bobruisk river port Photos and videos of a unique helmet found in Bobruisk have appeared. And questions, is it not a fake The helmet found on the banks of the Berezina in the port of Bobruisk will be transferred to the city museum, said Alexei Batyukov, director of the Museum of History of Mogilev.  “This is a […]

5,000-year-old stepwell found in Dholavira, said to be largest in India In one of the largest Harappan cities, Dholavira, in Kutch, a 5,000-year-old stepwell has been discovered, which is three times bigger than the Great Bath at Mohenjo Daro. Located in the eastern reservoir of Dholavira by experts working with IIT-Gandhinagar from the Archaeological Survey of India, the site represents […]

Researchers Confirm: The Largest Pyramid In Mexico Has Been Found An immense pyramid, much bigger than the Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun, was found by researchers in Mexico. It is 75 metres in height and has been studied by experts from the National Institute of History and Anthropology. It is found in the Tonina Acropolis, Chiapas and is possibly about […]

The World’s Oldest Art May Be This 430,000-Year-Old Zigzag on a Shell On the banks of the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, a remarkable fossil finding was discovered by 19th-century physicist Eugene Dubois: the bones of what seemed to be an ancient human, surrounded by animal fossils and shells. Excavated in the 1890s, the site gained fame as the home […]

Turkish bombing damages 3,000-year-old temple in Syria ‘3,000 years of civilization destroyed in an airstrike,’ ex-head of Syria’s antiquities department says of destruction at Ain Dara Syria’s Department of Antiquities and War Monitor said on Sunday that a 3,000-year-old temple was destroyed in a Turkish air attack on a Kurdish militia in the north of the country. Dating back to […]

Stunning 13th century tiled floor uncovered below Bath Abbey In finding a beautiful tiled floor under Bath Abbey in the 13th century, archaeologists made a “once-in-a-lifetime find” Around two metres below the current abbey floor level, the vividly coloured tiles were discovered and have not been seen in 500 years. They give a unique glimpse of what would have looked […]