Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

Anglo-Saxon warlord found by detectorists could redraw map of post-Roman Britain In Berkshire, archaeologists have discovered a warrior burial that could change historians understanding of southern Britain by during the early Anglo-Saxon period. Archaeologists from the University of Reading imagine reported—The burial, set on a hilltop near the commanding view of the Thames valley and surrounded by a high-status warlord of the […]

Roman Fort Excavation in England Reveals Lost Road and Ancient Mine Archaeologists in Cornwall have discovered the ruins of a suspected ancient mine and a Roman road complete with cesspits and old military buildings. Experts digged near a Calstock Roman fort in 2007 but found a previously unknown collection of deep pits connected with arched tunnels. The team from the […]

Buried in the sand for a millennium: Africas roman ghost city Today we invite you to visit Algeria and explore Timgad, a forgotten Roman city on the edge of the Sahara desert, which has been under the sand for almost a thousand years. Positively obscure compared to the international notoriety of Pompeii, this ancient town is one of the best remaining examples […]

The human skull that challenges the Out of Africa theory This is the discovery of a skull that could change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, a shepherd discovered a small opening in an area called Chalkidiki in Petralona, Northern Greece, which became visible when a thick covering of snow finally […]

The Rome of America: What Lies Under Teotihuacan? – The Real City of the Gods It was one of the first large cities in the Western Hemisphere, the Huge. And its origins are a mystery.   About a thousand years before the gradual arrival in central Mexico of the Nahuatl-speaking Aztec, it was built by hand. But it was the […]

Finding North America’s Lost Medieval City At the time of its existence, this city was larger than Paris or London and housed about 30,000 citizens.  This is around the size of Juneau Alaska today (if you include the surrounding boroughs). If this estimate is correct, It was the largest city in the United States until the 1780s, when the population of […]

300 Million Year Old Machinery Found In Russia Voice of Russia and other Russian sources report that in Vladivostok a 300 million-year-old aluminium machinery has been discovered. Experts claim that a gear rail seems to be manufactured and not the result of natural forces. According to Yulia Zamanskaya, when a Vladivostok resident lighting the fire on a cold winter evening, he […]

The Ghost Ships of San Francisco: Dozens of Wrecks Buried Beneath City Streets Under the city of San Francisco, California there is a graveyard of ships. These ships date from the mid-19th century when the Gold Rush took place in California. Many ships with gold prospectors arriving in San Francisco simply did not return to the ports they came from […]

More than 9,000-year-old decapitated head discovered in Brazil Scientists made a ghoulish new find beneath limestone slabs in a cave in Brazil: the decapitated skull covered with amputated hands. These 9,000 years old bones may be evidence the oldest known case of ritual decapitation in the New World and raise new questions about how this grisly practise began in the Americas, the scientists […]

Archaeologists in California Unearth a Large Sphinx—From the Set of ‘The Ten Commandments’ A great Egyptian culture emerged from a sandy stretch of the coast of central California in 1923 like a mirage. A double line of 21 sphinxes flanked a grand boulevard on the wind-purple dunes near Guadalupe’s small farming village. The boulevards lead to an important entrance door […]