Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

This is one of the “Cracked Eggs” that you can find in the Bisti De Na Zin Wilderness Area The Bisti Badlands look more like a dreamscape than a landscape in northern New Mexico. Totem poles of sandstone rocks, or hoodoos, reach haphazardly into the bright blue sky, some so crooked that it’s incredible that even the smallest gust of […]

1,900-Year-Old Roman Village unearthed in Germany Archaeologists have found the ruins of a 1,900-year-old Roman fort that once housed 500 troops in what is now Germany. The fort was found in the town of Gernsheim, which is situated in the German state of Hesse along the Rhine river. During the first to third centuries, researchers knew the area was the […]

800,000-year-old footprints of earliest northern Europeans discovered Archaeologists reported the discovery, around 800,000 years ago of a collection of footprints left by a group of adults and children. The prints were first found and recorded in May 2013 on the foreshore at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England. We were not sure what we were seeing at first but as we stripped any […]

The tomb of Mayan “God-King” discovered in Guatemala, his status determined by the carved jade mask At the site of the Mayan city of Waka in northern Guatemala, the tomb of an ancient ‘god-king’ has been found. Ceramic analysis of site-based artefacts has been provisionally dated to between AD 300 and 350. A stunning painted jade mask was included, which […]

17th-century HMS London gun carriage lifted from Southend seabed A gun carriage has been recovered from the wreck of a warship which exploded and sank in the Thames estuary in 1665. The London went down off Southend-on-Sea in Essex, killing 300 crew. It is the first complete carriage to be raised from the ship, which is lying about 65ft (20m) […]

2700-year-old Cannabis found in an Asian grave is still totally smokeable. Cannabis is as old as fossils. It has been used for thousands of years by diverse minority groups around the world with distinct positions in various cultures. A hemp rope dated back to 26,900 BC was found in Czechoslovakia a decade ago and was linked to the commercial practises […]

Stonehenge mystery solved? Prehistoric French may have inspired it and other European megaliths Human beings must leave behind us a legacy when we pass on. For some, this might motivate a whole region to create huge rock formations such as Stonehenge. New research indicates that the megaliths of ancient Europe were not individually conceived, but that all were inspired by […]

Ancient Germanic lord unearthed in a 1,500-year-old tomb with a circle of six women around cauldron In Germany, a spectacular, ancient tomb has been discovered. Archaeologists discovered what they believed to be the ancient German tomb of a 1500-year-old German lord. Six female skeletons grouped in a circle were found in the same rare ancient German tomb. Researchers have proposed that the […]

Archaeologists discover ancient Rome may have been much larger than previously believed A house found in the central district of Ancient Rome can prove that the city was considerably larger than previously thought. The rectangular house was found on the Quirinal Hill between modern via Veneto and Termini train stations and may date back to the sixth century BC. It […]