Category: ARCHAEOLOGY

700-Year-Old Poop Barrels Still Stink, Researchers Say It might not be the most glamorous of archaeological discoveries, but experts were delighted to discover 700-year-old stinking toilets. Human excrement identified as ‘excellent condition’ was found at the site of the 14th century, which has many features of special purpose-built barrel latrines. Amazingly, the mediaeval faeces inside still smell pungent, despite the fact […]

Metal Detectorist Finds Once-in-a-Lifetime Hoard of Rare Ancient Roman Coins An amateur historian using a metal detector in the field of a farmer told how he discovered a once-in-a-lifetime hoard of 2,000-year-old silver Roman coins – worth up to £200,000 ($267,000). He said—I had a good idea what it was — that morning I had found one or two Roman […]

1-Million-Year-Old Artifacts Found in South Africa In the town of Kathu in South Africa’s North Cape province, South African and Canadian archaeologists discovered tens of thousands of Earlier Stone Age artifacts, including hand axes and other tools believed to be up to a million years old. The scientists from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Toronto published […]

Archaeologists Just Found The ‘Crushed’ Pompeii Man’s Skull. It’s Not What We Expected In Pompeii, the skull of a disabled man who died 2000 years ago during the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It was suspected that the 35-year-old man was beheaded by a falling rock as he tried to avoid the eruption earlier this year when his headless body was discovered. […]

Huge UK Archaeology Excavations Project Unearths Prehistoric, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Medieval Sites! A major archaeological project in the United Kingdom has uncovered Anglo-Saxon settlements, a Roman military camp, traces of a medieval village and a wealth of archaeological treasures. That’s a lot for what first seemed like a flat  Cambridgeshire countryside! The Guardian reported that over the winter, more than 200 archaeologists […]

Pit of Amputated Arms in France from 6,000 years ago Suggest War and Trophy-Taking A circular pit with the skeletons of seven people on a bed of severed arms sheds new light on violent conflicts six thousand years ago. Experts suggest that the gruesome discovery tells of a disastrous raid on an East French settlement that would have killed a […]

Israeli archaeologists discover large trove of Islamic gold coins In a recent dig at Yavne, the central Israeli city, a trove of early Islamic gold coins have been discovered, archaeologists said on Monday. The collection of 425 whole gold coins, mostly from the Abbasid era some 1,100 years ago, was an “extremely rare discovery,” said the archaeologists of the Israel […]

Is this an alien skeleton? Bizarre egg-shaped skull unearthed from 4,000 years ago A skeleton found at a site known as Stonehenge in Russia has sparked fresh ideas about the extraterrestrial visitor to earth. When images of the remains were first published, UFO enthusiasts rushed to claim they were proof that aliens had once visited Earth. But archaeologists revealed that […]

Very rare Roman sarcophagus with ‘human’ carving found in Ashkelon, Israel An 1800-year-old Sarcophagus that archaeologists claim the oldest sarcophagus ever found has been unravelled during a building project. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported—but construction workers are now being accused of damaging, and then trying to hide, the massive Roman-era coffin. The workers uncovered the Roman sarcophagus as they built […]

Giant Human Skeleton unearthed in Varna, Bulgaria This year, Bulgarian archaeologists discovered giant skeleton remains located at the Black Sea Bay city known as Varna. In the first reports, they suggested that a man lived in the 4th to the 5th centuries and were quite impressed by the size of the bone found in the area. Due to the size they only […]