Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Scientists find 40,000-year-old bracelet made by something other than our ancestors Scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old in what is quite an incredible finding. This makes it the oldest jewellery piece ever found, and the extent of its sophistication has taken archaeologists aback. The bracelet was discovered near Russia’s border with China and […]

We Just Found Out This Haunting Russian Statue Is 11,600 Years Old The oldest wood carving in the world has just gotten older. Until last week, The Shigir Idol, a totemic sculpture that stands 2.8 metres (~9.2 feet) tall, was believed to be about 9,500 years old. The Siberian Times reports that new testing by German researchers now shows that it […]

The Mystery of the 500-Million-Year Old Dorchester Pot It’s an object that few have heard of, maybe because it’s easy for you to be unfamiliar with such products. A small bell-shaped vase with a small opening on its top is the Dorchester pot. The length of the pot is around 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) high, 16.5 cm (6.5 inches) in […]

10,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Style Monolith Found in Mediterranean Sea Remains of Atlanteans? A colossal 10,000 year-old monolith in the Mediterranean has been discovered by researchers. According to authors Zvi Ben-Avraham from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Tel Aviv and Emanuele Lodolo from the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) in Trieste, Italy, the mysterious structure […]

ANCIENT EROTICA Pornographic Pompeii wall paintings reveal the raunchy services offered in ancient Roman brothels 2,000 years ago The amorous activities of ancient Italians have been revealed by wall paintings in a historical Pompeii brothel. The ‘Lupanar of Pompeii.’ are decorated with   Centuries-old wall paintings showing explicit sex scenes. Before the Roman city was famously wiped out by a volcanic […]

Ancient Artwork Found Under 2,000-Year-Old Volcanic Ash In an ancient Pompeii bedroom, archaeologists have found a fresco depicting a sensual scene between a sensual woman and a swan. The watercolour scene has retained its brilliant detail and colour despite being buried under the ash of the infamous Vesuvius eruption for almost 2,000 years. The Swan is an embodiment of the Roman […]

‘The day the dinosaurs died’: Fossilized snapshot of mass death found on North Dakota ranch A fossilised snapshot of the day about 66 million years ago when an asteroid hit Earth, fire rained from the sky and the ground shook far worse than any current earthquake, is captured in new studies. It was the day that almost all life on […]

Headless skeleton discovered in a well in a Roman Cemetery A headless and legless skeleton at the bottom of a well in the centre of a Roman cemetery was found by archaeologists. The well dates from the first or second century, so it slightly predates the nearby Roman cemetery. We presume, with the facts on display, that the man died […]

Scenes of 4th century chariot racing revealed in Cyprus mosaic A 36-foot mosaic floor displaying scenes of ancient chariot races in the Roman hippodrome has been discovered by archaeologists. This magnificent artefact was found in the Akaki village outside the capital, Nicosia, dating back to the 4th century, making it the only one of its kind in Cyprus and one […]

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Roman Wine Barrels in Champagne Archaeologists have been able to further study how these vessels were built, what they were made from and the part they played in the ancient wine trade by studying several perfectly preserved Roman-era wine barrels found in Reims. The three barrels were found as part of an archaeological dig in 2008, along […]