Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Egypt unveils 59 ancient coffins in major archaeological discovery The discovery of 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins that were buried more than 2,500 years ago was announced by archaeologists in Egypt. On Saturday, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours, opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media. […]

17th-Century Warship Pulled From Icy Baltic Sea Is Almost Perfectly Preserved In the 1620s, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered the construction of a new warship to protect his citizens. The warship was named Vasa and its construction was hurried as the Swedes waged war in those years with the now-historic bi-confederation entity reigned by one monarch–the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After its creation, […]

Poseidon Mosaic Discovered In Central Turkey A rare mosaic depicting the ancient Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, was unearthed by archaeological excavations in the southern Turkish province of Adana’s Yumurtalık district. It is thought to date from the 3rd or 4th century B.C. In the frigidarium (large cold pool of a Roman bath), part of the ancient bath at […]

World’s Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine Remains Sealed Since the 4th Century The origin of man’s wine romance seems to predate written history because no one is really sure when people began to get drunk. Archaeology may not be aware of the exact date that people first began growing grapevines, but the theory is that early people may have climbed […]

Mysterious Secret Tunnel Discovered Under Ancient Pyramid in Mexico It seems that we make amazing discoveries at different ancient sites, such as Mexico’s Teotihuacán when we embrace advanced archaeological technologies. Just recently, in the ancient city of Teotihuacán, northeast of Mexico City, archaeologists reported discovering a hidden tunnel created under the famous Pyramid of the Moon. In Teotihuacán, the Pyramid […]

Scientists may have found one of the oldest Christian churches in the world Initial results of a scan obtained by muon radiography of the underground space in the Derbent fortress of Naryn-Kala were published by NUST MISIS scientists and institutional collaborators. The theory of archaeologists is more likely to be accurate about the use of the building as a Christian […]

Meet “Stuckie” — The Mummified Dog Who Has Been Stuck In A Tree For Over 50 Years 20 years after it was wedged in when “chasing a raccoon” a Mummified dog was discovered inside a tree trunk. The hunting dog, appropriately called Stuckie, was found by loggers chopping up the chestnut oak in Georgia, US, in a hollow stretch 28ft up […]

King Tut’s coffin to be restored for the first time since it was discovered The outermost coffin that once contained King Tutankhamun’s body had never left the 3,300-year-old grave after it had been laid to rest for the first time. Even after the tomb was found by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, the wooden coffin remained in the Valley of […]

Abundant liquid mercury, mica, and pyrite found in tunnels beneath the pyramids At the end of a tunnel below a Mexican pyramid, an archaeologist found liquid mercury, a discovery that might suggest the presence of a king’s tomb or a ritual chamber well below one of the most ancient cities in the Americas. Mexican researcher Sergio Gómez revealed on Friday […]

Computer Dating to 87 BC Found Aboard Ancient Greek Shipwreck A shipwreck from the days of ancient Greece has created an impressive treasure that shows that the Greek civilization of the time was much more advanced than we ever thought, around 87 BC. It is assumed that the ship was a merchant vessel 131 feet long, and it wrecked off […]