Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

When the Smithsonian discovered an ancient Egyptian colony in the Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful and inspiring locations in the United States, 277 miles (445 kilometres) long, up to 18 miles (28 kilometres) wide and 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) deep. The Hopi Indians think that this is the gateway to the afterlife. Its sheer immensity and mystery attracted more […]

Skeletons found in London archaeology dig reveal noxious environs News reports and the anxiety of social media may make us feel that life in Britain today is tough, but the remarkable findings of a recent archaeological excavation have provided a salutary reminder that it was so much worse a few centuries ago. Archaeologists working on a burial site at the […]

Homeowner Uncovers Ancient Roman Villa During Renovations One of the largest and most complex Roman villas in Britain has been discovered by a homeowner laying electrical cables in his garden in south-western England in Wiltshire. The elaborate ancient house was discovered by a rug designer, Luke Irwin, when he laying power cables under his farmhouse in order for his children to play table […]

3,500-year-old child burials unearthed at the ancient Egyptian work site In Gebel el Silsila, the site of a former Egyptian quarry, dated 3500 years ago, a team of archaeologists in Egypt have discovered four ancient child tombs. The findings give new insights on what life may have been like at this ancient work site. Several fascinating discoveries have occurred in the […]

A 3.8-Million-Year-Old Skull Puts a New Face on a Little-Known Human Ancestor A 3.8 million-year-old African skull offers researchers an insight into the evolutionary history of humans, a new study suggests. The discovery reveals what may have looked like the face of a possible ancestor of the species that is known as Lucy – a famous Ethiopian skeleton discovered in […]

America’s first settlers may have arrived 130,000 years ago Surprisingly ancient stone tools and animal bones have recently emerged at a site in California. If the discoverers are correct, the remains point to the presence of humans or some ancestral species in the Americas 130,700 years ago. This is a whopping 100,000 years earlier than study had suggested until now. On the Cerutti […]

Adam’s Calendar: Oldest Megalithic Site in the World? Adam’s Calendar is contested to be the world’s oldest man-made structure.  Often referred to as “African Stonehenge,” it predates dates back to 1,000 years before Stonehenge and the Grand Pyramid of Giza. Located in Mpumalanga, South Africa,  it is a standing stone circle has a diameter of approx  30 metres and is believed by […]

Graeco-Roman Industrial Site, Graves Found In Egypt’s Al-Amriyah A collection of Greek and Roman artefacts was discovered by the archaeological mission of Alexandria Antiquities, which works in Al-Amriyah site in Tuba Metwah, Northern Cairo. The Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General Mostafa Waziri reported that “the finding was unique because the site was used for industrial and commercial purposes.” Waziri added […]

These 120,000-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia About 120,000 years ago a small group of Homo Sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake in what is now northern Saudi Arabia and was also frequented by camels, buffalos and elephants bigger than any species seen today. The people may have hunted the big mammals but did […]

Melting Ice Has Revealed Artefacts From a Lost Viking Highway in Norway A patch of ice is melting at an average altitude of approximately 1,800 metres in Norway’s Jotunheim Mountains. It’s called the Lendbreen ice patch and has been frozen during the year for decades, accumulating each year a new layer. In the last two decades, though, the ice has […]