Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house Rare books worth more than £ 2.5 million that were stolen in a daring Mission Impossible-style heist from a warehouse in West London were discovered hidden under the floor of a house in rural Romania. The recovery of 200 books, including the first editions of major works by Galileo and […]

Hawaii’s shifting sands reveal petroglyphs that may have been carved by aboriginal settlers Hawaii’s shorelines are famous surf spots that are world-renowned. But more than just white waters and barrels, breaking waves produced, but washing away the sands to unveil the outlines of ancient forms that were carved into the bedrock. Americans came across a number of petrogyphs on holiday […]

Ancestral Puebloans Used 11,550 Turkey Feathers to Make This 800-Year-Old Blanket For a turkey, there are more uses than the centrepiece of your Thanksgiving feast. Researchers suspect that for ancient Pueblo Indians in the American Southwest, who domesticated the bird but didn’t eat it the flightless fowl held deep significance. An 800-year old feather blanket from southeast Utah, one of the […]

Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Settlement That May Predate 12,000-Year-Old Gobekli Tepe Göbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey was named the world’s oldest temple at about 12,000 years old. It is several millennia older than the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge, constructed in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel. But should Göbekli Tepe, which in July became a Unesco World […]

Hundreds Of Roman Gold Coins Found In Theater Basement How did an ancient Roman golden coin treasure remain hidden for centuries, never to be found 150 years ago, even during the construction of an Italian theatre? Only in 2018, during renovations of the basement area of this exact theatre, archaeologists hit the absolute jackpot when they stumbled upon an amphora […]

Farmer discovers a huge hoard of more than 4,000 ancient Roman coins in Switzerland A hoard of more than 4,000 bronze and silver coins dating back to ancient Rome, discovered this summer in the orchard of a fruit and vegetable farmer, has been identified as one of the biggest treasures of this kind found in Switzerland. Ueken, in Switzerland’s the northern […]

Ecuador Expose the Skeletons of an Ancient Race of Giant Humans – 7 Times Bigger Than Modern Humans According to a research team led by British anthropologist Russell Dement, remarkably tall skeletons discovered in the Ecuador and Peru Amazon regions are being studied in Germany. Will these remnants show that a race of tall people lived deep in the Amazon […]

1,600-Year-Old Elongated Skull with Stone-Encrusted Teeth Found in Mexico Ruins A 1,600-year-old skeleton of a woman who had mineral-encrusted teeth and an intentionally elongated skull was recently unearthed by archaeologists in Mexico – evidence that indicates she was part of the upper class of her society. “While discovering deformed remains is not unusual for archaeologists, the new skeleton is one […]

Ancient Superhighways: 12,000-Year-Old Massive Underground Tunnels From Scotland To Turkey Is it true that, thousands of years ago, ancient societies were interconnected? The answer is a big yes, according to thousands of underground tunnels stretching from North Scotland into the Mediterranean. Although the reason behind these sophisticated tunnels remains a mystery, many experts assume that massive 12,000-year-old network was created […]

The World’s Largest Rock Art Petroglyph is this carving of giraffe in Niger, Africa For thousands of years, giraffes have captivated humans with their long necks and their lanky gait. Rock carvings, estimated to be 9,000 years old, in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, reflect the earliest known human contact with a giraffe. Some of the most striking examples […]