Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

A 90,000- year-old bone knife tips unique tools appeared early in Africa The artisan made the knife out of a mammal rib bone, and shaped and sharpened it into a 13cm long knife through a series of steps. Morocco is home to the oldest known bone artefact in the world: a 90,000-year-old knife which, according to a new report, archaeologists […]

800,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Discovered in UK On the storm-lashed beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, one of the fastest-eroding stretches of the British coast, the earliest human footprints found outside Africa, dating from 850,000 to 950,000 years ago, have been discovered. The sea tides that had revealed the prints last May destroyed them within a fortnight, leaving only casts and 3D […]

Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Found Beneath Demolished University Housing On a plot of land earmarked to become University of Cambridge accommodation, an Anglo-Saxon burial ground was found. More than 60 graves that date back to a similar period as the famous Sutton Hoo site, about 400-650 AD, were discovered by excavations at the site. Many of the burials newly discovered include grave goods […]

Stunning eagle sculpture uncovered at sacred Aztec temple in Mexico The discovery of a spectacular 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden eagle in an ancient temple in Mexico has been announced by archaeologists from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The largest statue ever carved in the temple is the Eagle, which measures 106 cm x 70 […]

Ancient Amazonian farmers have fortified valuable land that they have spent years making fertile to protect it Farmers in Bolivia have developed picket defences round beforehand nutrient-poor tropical soils that they have enriched over decades to secure them from social unrest. These long-term methods of soil administration allowed Amazonians to grow demanding crops of nutrients, equivalent to maize and manioc […]

Egyptian dog mummy infested with blood-sucking parasites The first archaeological evidence of bloodsucking parasites plaguing the ancestors of Fido in Egypt during the classical period of Roman rule has been uncovered by a dog mummy. The preserved parasites found in the right ear and coat of the mummified young dog include the common brown tick and louse fly tiny nuisances that […]

Mystery of 2,000-year-old Roman concrete solved by scientists Researchers have unlocked the Roman concrete chemistry that has been resisted the elements for thousands of years. Ancient sea walls constructed by the Romans used lime and volcanic ash concrete to bind to the rocks. Scientists have now discovered that elements within the volcanic material reacted to strengthen the construct with sea water. […]

Mystery of the two-ton, 1,000 year old giant stone ‘jars of the dead’ deepens The discovery of 137 new stone jars of the dead, dating back more than a thousand years ago, deepened Laos’ enduring archaeological enigma. The cup-like carved stones vary in size, reaching a height of up to ten feet (3 metres) and a weight of two tonnes. […]

Bulgarian archaeologists are uncovering more ‘luxury’ Ancient Roman road station in fresh excavations More of what appears to have been a “luxury” ancient Roman road station near the Roman fortress Sostra, located near the present town of Troyan on the road of Via Trajana, the main road used by Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 AD), has been discovered by archaeologists from […]

5000-Year-Old Prehistoric Temple Discovered On Scottish Island On the Scottish Isle of Arran, a huge ‘cursus’ monument, a site for ancient ceremonies, constructed about the same time as Stonehenge, has been discovered. Cursus monuments built during the Neolithic period (4000 B.C. to 2500 B.C.) are long rectangular earthwork enclosures, which means that by modifying the land they are created. Long […]