Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Local farmers discovered carved caves 2,000 years old while pumping water out of five small pools The Longyou Caves are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns on Phoenix Hill, near the Qu River village of Shiyan Beicun, Lingyou County, in the Zhejiang Province of China. The caves were found by the Local “farmers who pumped water out of five small […]

Researchers Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Water Filtration System In one of the world’s most inhospitable environments, the Mayas were able to create a spectacular civilization. It was still something of a mystery how they were able to survive and flourish. American researchers now claim that revolutionary Maya water purification systems supplied them with safe drinking water, which was important to their […]

Biggest circular tomb in the ancient world to open in Rome He was the first Roman emperor who took over from Julius Caesar and established an empire that would eventually spread from the United Kingdom to Egypt, boasting that “I found Rome built of bricks and left it marble” on his dying mattress. But when Emperor Augustus died in 14CE, […]

Archaeologists unearthed 27 sarcophagi in an ancient Egyptian city of the dead. They’ve been sealed for more than 2,500 years According to the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists in Egypt have found nearly 30 sarcophagi believed to have been buried for about 2,500 years. From an 11-meter-deep (36 feet) burial shaft in Saqqara, a large necropolis about 32 […]

Saudi Arabia Opens The Untouched Historical City Of Hegra To Tourists The country has seen the future of Hegra in Saudi Arabia, and it is most probably not in oil. For a nation whose economy is primarily supported by oil production and sales, this is a concern, but the world is evolving in a different direction, a greener direction that […]

Man Who Died of Constipation Over 1,000 Years Ago Ate Only Grasshoppers to Fight Tropical Disease A native American who lived between 1,000 and 1,400 years ago in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas had one of the worst cases of constipation in the medicine annals. Due to infection, the man’s colon swelled to six times its usual size, rendering […]

1,000-year-old cross buried in Scottish field thought to have belonged to king For the first time, the true worth of a 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon silver cross discovered in Scotland in a rare hoard of Viking artefacts has been identified. The intricate decoration has been uncovered by delicate conservation work on the cross and it is now thought that the person who […]

Entire Fossilized Tree Discovered Intact on Greece’s Lesvos Island “The ancient trees of Lesvos were submerged in a sea of volcanic material 20 million years ago in an eruption in the Northern Aegean” The Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark, the former Petrified Forest Geopark of Lesvos, is a founding member of the Geoparks Network that brings tourists to an ancient […]

3,200-year-old fort, site of epic battles in the biblical era, found in south Israel Israel archaeologist has discovered a 3,200-year-old fortress built by the Egyptians and Canaanites, the ancient rivals of the Israelites in the Bible. The fortress was established to keep the newly arriving Philistines out of the region. The defensive structure, called the Galon Fortress, dates back to the […]

In 1850, A Farmer Found A Secret Door In The Sand. What He Saw On The Other Side? Fascinating! A well-maintained secret is hidden among the green hills in a small bay in Scotland. For a century,  No one knew that this place ever existed. It was hidden under the sand by time and weather, but when a terrible storm passed over […]