Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

A 2,000-year-old tunnel in the Mexican city of Teotihuacan holds ancient mysteries Eleven years after discovering a secret tunnel beneath the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico, Researchers uncovered thousands of ritual objects at the feet of what might be a royal tomb  Guarded by the remains of hundreds of sacrificial bodies, the entrance to the tunnel remained hidden until it […]

9,000-Year-Old Hunting Camp and Iron Age Settlement Uncover in Road Works in Scotland During the construction of a new road in Wigtownshire, Scotland, a treasure trove of objects was discovered in Scotland, according to a study in The Scotsman . A Mesolithic hunting settlement dating back to 7,000 BC, an Iron Age village, and numerous relics spanning thousands of years are […]

Amazing find in East England – 3,000 years old bronze ax with complete wooden handle They encounter the residue of an occupation when archaeologists usually excavate a site. The individuals who lived there may have done so for years, or over many centuries, at most settlement sites. Over time, the material deposited there accumulated and as sites become abandoned, it […]

300 Million-Year-Old Machinery Found In Russia, Experts Say Aluminum Gear Not The Result Of Natural Forces, May Be Extraterrestrial Voice of Russia and other Russian sources say that in Vladivostok, a 300 million-year-old piece of aluminium machinery was discovered. Experts claim it appears that a gear rail is produced and not the result of natural forces. According to Yulia Zamanskaya, […]

Skeleton of ancient ‘birdman’ shaman wearing a costume made from BEAKS found A 5,000-year-old skeleton recently discovered at the Ust-Tartas site in the Novosibirsk area of Siberia has an unusual ornament: a headdress consisting of 30 to 50 bird skulls and beaks that are likely to belong to large shore species such as cranes and herons. As described in a […]

Headless skeletons and burials of skulls discovered in Georgia The Georgian-Polish team of archaeologists discovered two headless skeletons and a burial of a skull during excavations in the ancient cemetery of Beshtasheni in the area of Lower Kartli, south-eastern Georgia. In total, archaeologists found and researched sixteen Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age graves during the excavations carried out […]

Etchings of fighting CAMELS are the earliest ever drawings of the animal in Asia A 5ft (1.5m) long tusk featuring drawings of four camels and a human in a camel suit found in the lower Tom river in western Siberia was discovered by archaeologists. The team thinks that this could have represented how hunters dressed themselves as camels in order […]

Etruscan Tomb Of Child Discovered In Vulci During work at the Casaletto Mengarelli necropolis in Vulci, a new archaeological discovery was made. An intact burial was discovered dating back to the 6th-5th century BC, probably of an Etruscan child. The burial contains a red tufa sarcophagus and is of a deep pit form. The lid, carefully carved from a single […]

Giant Humans Lived In New Zealand 2500 Years Ago, Before Ancient Polynesians A secret team that spent four years tunnelling to the side of a country road in search of a mythical race of skeletons of pre-Polynesian giants skeletons have called off their dig. Last week, RNZ revealed iwi, academics and the landowner were concerned by the anonymous group’s dig […]

A perfectly preserved 500 million years old Trilobite fossil Palaeontologists have discovered what may well be the world’s oldest example of a fossilised eye ever seen, preserved for more than half a billion years. It belongs to the trilobite, a class of once-abundant early arthropods that peaked in the Cambrian Period and lived for more than 270 million years in […]