Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Inside an ancient Polish salt mine that has underground lakes, fully carved chapels, and chandeliers made of salt. This beautiful Polish salt mine can be found deep underground and resembles a fairy-tale palace with azure lakes and stunning chapels packed with sparkling chandeliers carved entirely of salt. The site in Wieliczka, near Krakow in Poland, has been going strong for […]

Treasure worth over $1 million found in the Rocky Mountains after a 10-year search A treasure hunter from New Mexico revealed that his chest of gold, jewels and other valuables worth over $1 million has been found. Ten years ago, when he revealed that he had hidden a chest somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, Forrest Fenn gained a cult following. […]

2700-YEAR-OLD ‘WEED STASH’ FOUND IN ANCIENT TOMB AND STILL GOOD Cannabis is almost as old as dinosaurs. For thousands of years, it has been used by different ethnicities around the world playing various roles in different cultures. A decade ago, a hemp rope dating back to 26,900 BC was discovered in Czechoslovakia and was related to the economic activities of […]

Lost City Discovered in Amazon Rainforest Linked to Legendary White Skinned ‘Cloud People’ of Peru The secrets of a legendary tribe may be unlocked by a forgotten city discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest. Little is known about Peru’s Cloud People, an ancient, white-skinned civilization wiped out in the 16th century by disease and war. But now in a remote mountainous […]

Ancient pyramid discovered in Antarctica An Antarctic mountain with a remarkable, pyramid-like shape, with countless theorists contemplating its origins, is suddenly internet-famous. Some are wondering if the rocky, pyramidal structure was built by an ancient civilization, while others are pointing into outer space, speculating about alien involvement. But the Occam’s razor, the belief that the simplest theory is generally the […]

The Giant 10-Million-Year-Old Fossil Tree in Peru Reveals Surprises About Ancient History A giant tree fossil discovered in Peru has provided researchers with a new image of how the environment has evolved over the past 10 million years in the Andes mountains. Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found the fossil buried in a cold, grassy plain during […]

Century-Old Little Girl Found In Coffin Under San Francisco Home Identified Inside a 19th-century metal casket under a San Francisco home, the body of a young girl found last year was eventually identified nearly 141 years after she died. KTVU reported—The child was two-year-old Edith Howard Cook, who died six weeks shy of her third birthday on Oct. 13, 1876. […]

A prehistoric Atlantis in the north sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5mt tsunami 8200 years ago A prehistoric “Atlantis” in the North Sea may have been abandoned 8,200 years ago after being struck by a 5m tsunami. The wave was formed off the coast of Norway by a catastrophic subsea landslide. The tsunami over-ran Doggerland, […]

UK Dig Discovers 9,000-Year-Old Remains They knew it was a site of historical significance when archaeologists started digging the fields in 2010, but even they were shocked by the wealth of ancient finds their trowels unveiled. A hoard of 400 Roman coins was found west of Didcot in Oxfordshire in 1995, suggesting that the land had been settled for centuries. […]

The world’s most Amazing Meteorite found The Fukang Meteorite is the name given to a meteorite that has been found in China. Fukang Meteorite belongs to a class of stony-iron meteorite known as Pallasite, which can be identified by fragments of olivine crystals embedded in an iron-nickel matrix. According to one study, the slices of such a meteorite, when illuminated […]